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The sun hung high and the red light was shining.

Wearing red turbans and linen robes or simple leather armor, these people were all township soldiers from the state and county from the government, and they were still inferior to the forbidden army in Tokyo in terms of weapons and equipment.

Dozens of stone throwers attacked a little bit in such a concentrated and high-density manner, and at first it also caused a lot of casualties to the Southern Tang defenders at the head of the city, but the Southern Tang army that had suffered also learned to disperse intelligently, except for some unlucky eggs, who happened to be "close contact" by the stones falling from the sky, seriously injured or killed on the spot, the overall casualty rate was much lower than at the beginning.

In addition, cracks appeared in some walls of the Xicheng city wall, and the cracks continued to expand. Bang bang bang! The experienced Wei Jun compared his fingers, simply calibrated the target, adjusted the position and angle of the stone thrower, and several large stones threw an arc, hitting the city wall heavily, with a bang, suddenly, the damage resistance rate of the wall finally exceeded the critical point, and slid down, and an obvious huge gap appeared in the complete city surface, and the narrow passage behind the wall was exposed to everyone's eyes.

"Harder, hit me hard!"

Seeing this scene, the military generals on patrol shouted excitedly.

Chen Xu looked at the western city wall where a big gap appeared, but there was no big surprise.

They smashed the head of Shouzhou City, the thinnest part of the city wall, and the main wall still showed no signs of cracking.

The revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades still need to work hard.

The excavation and slope construction project is being carried out steadily, and Chen Xu has also used a lot of other methods, playing tunnels, bombarding the city wall, and shooting the persuasion credit arrow into it.

Just when fifty stone throwers concentrated on bombarding the west city wall, Chen Xu and the others returned to Xia Cai Town.

Most of the military supplies of the Wei army were concentrated here, and warehouses were set up here to store these houses, and the person in charge was Li Gu, the governor of Jushou Prefecture, whom Chen Xu had met when he first came to Huainan. The small village where Chen Xubu lived was also arranged by Li Gu.

Chen Xu walked straight into a clearing that was simply fenced off by wooden planks, and the people inside were busy playing with all kinds of strange and elaborate things similar to parts in their hands, and there were a few prototypes like stone throwers on the open space, oh no, it was not like it, it was a stone thrower. These people are not sergeants in the army, but craftsmen requisitioned from nearby states and counties, and without craftsmen, who will repair and make those damaged siege machinery.

It was Chen Xu who gathered these people, and asked Li Gu to help find those skilled craftsmen, not why, just to improve the stone throwing machine and make it more powerful!

The Mongols in another time and space can make a "Huihui Cannon" that has reached the peak of the Cold Weapon Era, and there are countless skilled craftsmen in the land of Shenzhou, and they will definitely be able to do it, and they can do it better!

Ancient Chinese scholars don't seem to be very interested in this kind of craftsmanship, as a strange and ingenious skill, Chen Xu does not have this idea of despising craftsmen, if he has enough strength in the future, he must set up a special department to develop various technologies.

I don't know who saw Chen Xu and the others coming in, and shouted "Chen Dashuai", everyone looked over, quickly put down the things in hand, and hurriedly said: "Chen Dashuai."

Chen Xu is currently serving as the envoy of Shouzhou, controlling more than 200,000 horses, and it is not inappropriate to call him a "big handsome".

Chen Xu smiled, waved his hand, motioned for everyone to sit down, and said, "Everyone continue to work, don't worry about the generals, I just want to see your progress."

That's when everyone settled down.

"Master Guo, how is the stone thrower going?" Chen Xu asked one of them. This person, whom Chen Xu called "Master Guo", was in his forties, with high cheekbones and a beard on his chin, and he was a well-known craftsman in the Songzhou area, who was found by Li Gu for him.

"After my research with Master Chen, Master Li, and Master Wang, an idea has been initially formed." Master Guo took out a sketch, on which the strokes were extremely detailed, and the overall design of the stone throwing machine jumped on the paper.

Chen Xu looked at the three people beside Master Guo, presumably these people were the three he mentioned, and praised a few words.

Chen Xu came from the modern world, and he did not despise the craftsmen, and he was approachable in the eyes of the craftsmen, which also mobilized the enthusiasm of the craftsmen to a certain extent.

There is a fixed transverse axis between the two pillars of the frame of the stone throwing machine, and there is a lever perpendicular to the axis, which can rotate freely around the axis. A weight is attached to the short arm of the lever, and a pouch (a sleeve similar to a catapult belt) at the end of the long arm is used for loading.

"Dashuai, you and I come." Master Guo led Chen Xu to a stone thrower that had been formed.

In addition to the larger model, this stone throwing machine is different from the usual stone throwing machine in several places.

However, Chen Xu didn't know much about this aspect, and he didn't care about these issues at present, he just wanted to know the power of this stone thrower, so he asked directly: "What is the power of this stone thrower?"

Master Guo said: "Tell the marshal, this stone thrower is designed for the first interview according to our design, and we have already experimented to throw a boulder of 110 catties, and it can go further!"

"Good!" Chen Xu laughed and said, "As soon as this stone thrower comes out, Shouzhou City will be broken!" You are all meritorious heroes! ”

"By the way, I wonder if you can build ten of these stone throwers in a short time?" Chen Xu then asked, one like this is not enough to form a powerful firepower.

"Half a month." Master Guo said that he was appointed by Chen Xu as the chief engineer.

"It's a bit long, can you shorten it even more?"

"I'll wait for the day and night processing, about ten days, if the commander can arrange some people as our assistants, the time can be shortened."

"Yes, I will send a hundred of you, and you must complete it as soon as possible, as soon as possible." Chen Xu touched it slightly, and agreed loudly.

"If the city of Shouzhou is broken, you are all meritorious people, and you will be rewarded!" Chen Xu said.

Chen Xu has no money now, but if the city of Shouzhou is broken, he will not set up troops to kill the people, but the money still has to be taken, Shouzhou is such a big city, Huaixi is an important town, and the Southern Tang Dynasty grain tax is heavy, and the city has been defeated, and I am afraid that there is no money in the city, and the money in his treasury cannot run!

In their eyes, Chen Xu, a general who is in charge of hundreds of thousands of horses, has such a high status, but he is not pretentious at all, and treats them very peacefully, how can they not be moved.

Moreover, there is another bounty after the destruction of the city.

How can you not be excited?

Everyone thanked each other.

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