Chapter 85 Hanging Yangzhou
Looking at the giant trebuchets lined up in front of the barracks, Tan Fengyi frowned and said, "How many people's houses have you demolished this time?" ”
"Didn't I demolish people's houses this time?" Wen quickly shook his head and denied it, he always felt that Tan Fengyi's temper was a little irritable today, and Pan Mei was kicked off the altar when he said a wrong word. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info If you talk nonsense, the end will definitely not be too good, women every few days of the month, will it be like this?
"Last time I was in Zezhou, didn't you say that the swing arm of this trebuchet is very demanding, and ordinary wood is difficult to do?" Tan Fengyi wondered.
Wen smiled lightly, shook the feather fan and said proudly: "Four hundred and eighty temples in the Southern Dynasty, how many buildings are in the smoke and rain." ”
"You're tearing down the temple?" Tan Fengyi said coldly.
Hearing Tan Fengyi's tone become cold, Wen Cai remembered that this demon girl studied under Emei Shitai, and she would definitely be disgusted by such a thing as demolishing the temple, so she quickly put away her smug mood and said: "The Taoist temple has also been demolished a lot." ”
The southern direction is densely populated, and it is naturally the primary place for the spread of Buddhism and Taoism, and the national policy that Zhou Shizong Chai Rong has been implementing is to destroy Buddhism and extinct the Tao. This national policy left many temples and temples in the south completely deserted, and the wood used to build these temples and temples was undoubtedly some fine wood, which provided Wen with materials that could build thousands of trebuchets.
"You deserve hell." Tan Fengyi snorted coldly.
"You also know that those temples and Taoist temples, if they continue to be barren, they will collapse and decay, I am also considered a waste use, Buddhism does not pay attention to self-sacrifice for others, this is also a kind of ah!"
A hundred years of war, there will naturally be many uninhabited villages, but the south is not like the north of Zezhou, where the population is dense, some ownerless houses, will also be taken advantage of the opportunity to occupy, since there are already people inhabited, whether it is my own industry or not, I don't plan to pursue these things, after all, the house is used to live, as for whether it is their own industry, what does it matter, anyway, there is no owner, can play a role, it is better than being barren and collapsed, but the temple and Taoist temple will not be occupied, and it will collapse and decay in the end, It is better to play the last surplus value.
"Qubble." Tan Fengyi snorted coldly.
Women will always make some petty temperaments, and beauties are even worse, although I don't know if Tan Fengyi took the wrong gun today, but Wen always feels that she is very angry, so it's better to mess with less.
Ordinary women make some small temperament, which can be regarded as a fun thing, and can even be used as flirting to mediate the body and mind, but a woman with superb martial arts and even a strong identity background, then her small temperament is no longer an interesting thing, but a very fatal thing, Pan Mei paid a heavy price because she said a wrong sentence.
"Report to the commander, the trebuchet has been commissioned." Zheng He trotted forward a few steps, and after standing still, he raised his hand and saluted.
Seeing Zheng Hexing's military salute, he showed a knowing smile when he heard it, it was this kind of little thing that made him not forget where he came from, otherwise after a long time, he would eventually forget it, maybe he only thought it was a dream.
"Standard trebuchet, trial launch." Wen ordered.
"No." Zheng He saluted in response. Then he waved a red flag in his hand a few times.
With the waving of the flag in Zheng He's hand, a trebuchet under the altar began to enter a working state, a huge swinging arm, under the traction of several soldiers, pressed down, reloaded, and a soldier held a fire fold, ignited the lead, and signaled that it could be fired.
Boom!
Airplanes.......!
The rocker arm made a sound, and after shaking violently back and forth, the powerful force drew a beautiful curve towards Yangzhou City with the ammunition in the basket.
Shi Shouxin and Pan Mei quietly stepped forward from under the altar, and saw the ammunition fired by the trebuchet draw a curve in the sky, falling into the surging moat water in front of Yangzhou City, splashing a huge wave.
Pan Mei and Shi Shouxin seemed to hear the rebels on the city wall of Yangzhou, and let out bursts of ridicule.
Shi Shouxin said helplessly: "Wen Shuai, although our army's trebuchet is much farther than the rebels' throwing distance, this is not up to the requirements, and the more important thing is that the divine thunder has not exploded!" ”
It is not surprising that Shi Shouxin has no confidence, the Shenlei explosives package made by Wen this time is very different from the one used in Zezhou before.
Wen shook the feather fan lightly and said, "Take it easy, don't worry." Didn't Your Majesty ask us to attack Yangzhou? We have not fulfilled our edict very well and successfully launched the first attack on Yangzhou City. ”
Hearing such a shameless explanation, Shi Shouxin's mood at the moment was extremely complicated, he was happy that Wen did not let 30,000 soldiers go to death, but he was very angry about His Majesty's decree and such a perfunctory implementation.
"Wen Shuai, how can military affairs be so casual." Shi Shouxin said in a stiff tone.
"Rest easy." Wen said soothingly.
These four words are very familiar! Shi Shouxin's heart is shrinking.
"Report to the marshal, standard trebuchet, ammunition weighs 280 catties, the projection distance is 630 steps, and the ammunition lead has not exploded in the water." Zheng He reported the data.
"Reduce the weight of the ammunition, calculate the ammunition leads, retest." Wen commanded.
"No." Zheng He danced the red flag in his hand again.
With the dance of the flag, the trebuchet began a new round of action.
"Wen Shuai, the ammunition this time seems to be a little different from that in Zezhou?" Standing on the altar, Shi Shouxin could clearly see the Divine Thunder Explosives bag on the trebuchet below.
"Well, it's a little different, this explosives bag, in fact, it doesn't matter whether the shell is installed or not, when I was in Zezhou, the reason why Ben Shuai added a stone shell was to increase weight, and secondly, to protect the ammunition lead, in the air or after landing, don't extinguish, so if you don't add a stone shell, it's the same if you add other shells." Wen explained slightly.
"But you didn't add that combustible drink this time?" Shi Shouxin could obviously see that this time there was only an explosives pack, and there was no addition to the alcohol pack.
"Someone wants to be Guanyin Bodhisattva, and he doesn't allow Ben Shuai to burn Yangzhou, what can I do." Sniffing at Tan Fengyi, she snorted lightly.
Tan Fengyi glared fiercely.
Seeing this, he immediately turned back to Pan Mei and said: "General Pan, you can thank Ben Shuai for his foresight, if it weren't for Ben Shuai's stone shell and alcohol to paralyze the enemy, you would have died a long time ago." ”
The ancients were actually cute, and they were even more rigorous in their studies, just because they heard that in order to increase the counterweight of the trebuchet, they added a stone shell and configured alcohol, and this time the rebels were completely in accordance with the dynamite package made of that mold, but there were few stones in the south, and the highest degree of their wine now was more than 20 degrees, which was difficult to combust, so the production of explosives was limited, and you must know that explosives were very easy to make.
It is because the stones are difficult to find, and the current drinks are all made of food, and the rebels naturally have some control over the food in order to fight for a long time, so they can't continuously throw explosives bags at Pan Mei's camp, otherwise Pan Mei will set up the camp within the range of the rebel catapult strike machine, which would have been defeated a long time ago.
"Wen Shuai means that Shenlei doesn't need to add stone shells and wine?" Pan Mei was surprised.
"Yes, the stone shell is added for counterweight, you must know that the ammunition is too light or too heavy to be fired far, and the wine is added to set fire, but unfortunately the rebel wine is difficult to ignite, which saved your life." Wen chuckled.
While they were talking, a loud bang exploded above the enemy's city gatehouse, and a puff of black smoke suddenly rose.
"Report to Wen Shuai, standard trebuchet, ammunition weighs two hundred and thirty pounds, throwing distance seven hundred and ten steps, ammunition lead volley explosion." Zheng He saluted and reported.
"The lead is lengthened by three inches, the weight of the ammunition remains the same, the trebuchet used is standard, the target, the Yangzhou city wall, continuous shooting." Smelling it, he pointed at Yangzhou with a feather fan and ordered.
"No." Zheng He saluted in response. The red flag in his hand, dancing continuously, thousands of trebuchets began to operate neatly.
The first time Shi Shouxin saw it, thousands of trebuchets were operating at the same time, it was really shocking, and he finally knew what it was used for when he heard the wooden box that he had ordered to make, which was used to hold gravel and soil for counterweight.
Boom......!
Airplanes...... Airplanes......!
The sound of thousands of trebuchets being fired was incessant.
The ammunition shot into the air, like a black cloud, and shrouded towards the Yangzhou city wall.
Countless black smoke and firelight exploded on the city wall of Yangzhou, and the gravel and dirt in the counterweight basket flew wildly.
The rebels on the city wall of Yangzhou began to scatter and hide in a series of miserable howls.
Thousands of smokes, along the city wall of Yangzhou, lined up in turn, rose into the air, as if forming a wall of smoke.
"You have begun to do iniquity again." Tan Fengyi sighed as she looked at the black mist rising from the Yangzhou city wall. (To be continued.) )