Yiwei Zhongquan nodded: "Ben Shuai once read in the book of war, in a distant country, there are also siege equipment similar to this thing, my Emperor Dacang His Majesty is born sacred, there are immortals, so I specially ordered the Ministry of Engineering to make this kind of siege equipment, and then use the method of fire attack." ”

Have you seen it in the book of war?

And it's a siege apparatus that we haven't seen before?

Yes, last time, the four great generals were taught military books by His Majesty, and most of them only studied two or three books such as "The Art of War".

With doubts, Zhu Xi and Han Tong turned around and walked to the place where the stones and barrels were placed, and then looked at the several catapults that had been erected.

It is said that it is a catapult, but in fact, strictly speaking, it should be said that it is a trebuchet, because it is completely incompatible with the chariot, but after it is built, it is pulled by the war horse and dragged onto the battlefield.

"How do you use this thing?" Zhu Xi called a small official from the Ministry of Industry and asked.

The little officer trotted over and said, "Your Excellency, although this catapult is not difficult to make, it is very powerful, you see, there is a rope wrapped around it, and there is something called a gear underneath, as soon as we release the rope, it will spin and throw the stone with its throwing arm." ”

Throw it out......

Zhu Xi glanced at it in surprise, as a general, he often camped with his soldiers on weekdays, making siege ladders and the like, and after a few glances left and right, he probably understood the truth.

The point is that it's called a gear......

Zhu Xi went up to take a look, and sure enough, this thing called a gear was ready-made, and it was just here to place and assemble it.

If such stones were really thrown onto the city wall, it is estimated that even the castle tower would be smashed down, right?

"Why don't you have to hit the nails, or do it in advance? Why not make something so powerful? We are besieging the city and fighting, but it is worn. Wei Zhongquan frowned, although he knew in advance that there was such a siege weapon, he was still a little puzzled.

"Tell a few generals, the trebuchet taught to us by His Majesty is much more complicated than this, due to the limited time, what we have built today is only a simple trebuchet, which is enough to capture Dongyang City, so we can only build it with local materials like making siege ladders."

A consumable item with a surname.

Wei Zhongquan gave a definition of these things in his heart, and it can be heard from the words of the little official that these catapults built today are only used this time today, and there will be better catapults in the future, so there is no need to consider wear and tear.

In anticipation, the generals waited for nearly half an hour, and under the command of the officials of the Ministry of Works, the trebuchets were attached to the horses to form catapults, and then they were pulled to the side of the military formation.

With an order, the three major legions began to take neat steps and approached Dongyang City.

"Roar—"

The army stopped thirty feet from the city walls, which was the distance at which the archers could shoot.

"Catapult, let's-" Wei Zhongquan waved the command flag.

"Bang-"

"Bang-"

"Bang-"

There was a loud sound of a wooden pole swinging.

"Whew-"

More than a dozen large stone bullets were suddenly thrown into the air, forming a perfect parabola, and quickly fell in the direction of Dongyang City Tower.

The boulder made a whining sound in the air that broke the air, and the thick and powerful momentum made people look shocking.

"Bump—"

"Bump—"

"Bump—"

The stone bullet fell, hitting the wall hard, making a loud bang, and with each bullet, the entire city wall seemed to be violently shaken.

The defenders at the head of the city felt that their hearts had been hit by heavy objects, and the whole person jumped and jumped.

Dongyang City is an ordinary city, the city wall is not much stronger and taller than Kangcheng, and the soldiers on the city wall are all stunned and look at the flying boulders, and hurriedly dodge.

What kind of monster is that wooden shelf? How could such a large stone be thrown onto the tower?

The defenders of the city were terrified in their hearts, in fact, the damage caused by these dozen stones was not very large, but the psychological deterrence of the entire city defender army was incomparable.

After all, in everyone's perception, throwing a stone into the sky is definitely not something that people can do.

"Boom—"

The second batch of stones flew into the sky, one of them directly wiped the wall buttress and shot down, boom, the wall buttress was directly destroyed, the gravel flew indiscriminately, more than ten city tower defenders were directly shaken away, the huge shock wave, they were directly shocked to death in the process of shaking and flying, and unfortunately they were directly hit and became a piece of flesh.

"Ahh

The soldier hit by the rubble fell to the ground and screamed in horror.

The other one hit the wall battlement, and the stone bullet fell violently, and the rolling stone broke through the wall battlement on the other side, and enough seven or eight people were killed by this bullet.

"There are so many people hiding in the city walls?"

This scene surprised Wei Zhongquan outside the formation, it seems that those defenders also know that they are clumsy, and they have ambushed nearly twice as many people inside the city wall, waiting for the Cang army to attack, and then come out consistently, resist the first wave of attacks, and dampen the spirit of the Cang army.

These two waves of big stones directly exposed them.

Immediately after, a third wave of stone projectiles arrived.

"Bang Long—"

Finally, there was an earth-shattering sound, and one section of the Dongyang City Wall shook a few times, and then collapsed!

Collapse ......

Can a collapsed section of the city wall still be considered a city wall?

Even, the bricks of the collapsed city wall directly filled the moat outside the city.

"Change the stone bullet-" Wei Zhongquan ordered.

Immediately, a group of soldiers replaced them with smaller stone bullets, which, unlike before, were covered with a layer of thatch, opened the barrels, poured pine oil, and put them into the notch of the trebuchet.

"Whew-"

A second batch of stone projectiles flew out, ignited a raging fire, and pressed down on the city.

In a short time, the city and outside the city were already in flames.

Wei Zhongquan stood on top of the city tower and nodded with satisfaction.

The time has come......

Wei Zhongquan commanded the herald next to him, and each thatched stone bullet was filled with some damp animal feces and fired out together.

In a short time, smoke was already billowing from the opposite city wall, and the burning of feces produced a choking smoke similar to wolf smoke, and the already frightened defenders of the city completely lost their fighting spirit.

"The whole army obeys the order and besieges the city—"

Finally, Wei Zhongquan gave the order to siege the city, and the three major legions marched together, with the crossbowmen at the forefront, first a burst of arrows were thrown, completely eliminating the resistance, and then the siege ladder pressed up, and the Xuanwu legion attacked towards the gap in the collapsed city wall.

The siege of 15,000 soldiers was spectacular and magnificent, as if this was not a siege, but a one-sided pursuit.

The frightened guards of the city had no fighting spirit, because of the thick smoke, the archers could not see what was outside, and they had already covered their noses and walked away, and by the time the Cang army below climbed the city wall, it was too late.

A siege battle, because of the catapult and the repeater, two weapons of war, completely disrupted the rhythm.

The two sides fought together.

At the same time, the gap between the two armies was once again exposed, and both the number of soldiers and the quality of individual soldiers were fully advantageous.

In a quarter of an hour, the Cang army completely occupied the city wall, planted the banner on the head of the city, and at the same time opened the gate of the city, allowing the army behind to enter, and clear the remnants of the defenders in the city.

Wintersun City, fallen! ()