After saying that, the little sunfish raised his hand and stood on the slope, and the servant behind him raised the red umbrella cover, which was a signal - the soldiers of the people's army and many military servants and craftsmen under the mountain shouted the trumpet, and began to build siege equipment with the wooden devices prepared last night and before in an area more than a thousand feet away from Alalmanburg. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"It's just kidding, what can touch our walls and towers at such a distance?" The three Callegos watched from afar, sneering and bewildered.

On the distant plains, under the escort of the Seleucian army and the soldiers of Gimages, and under the strict supervision of the little sunfish, the servants were the first to roll out a wooden frame thirty cubits long and seven and a half cubits wide along the laid planks, laying them on the flat board, and then striking the same seven-and-a-half-foot beam with an iron hammer on the whole three and seven points of the frame. Then they used their tools to erect a twelve-cubit high column at each end of the beam, and on both sides of the column, with beveled angles, laid a support frame to hold the column firmly to the frame, all because the Seleucian legion had set weights and measures around Anna's body with great precision and speed.

When all this was in order, the little sunfish waved his arms again, and the craftsmen leaned on the ladders on both sides of the pillars, climbed up one after another, and set up two wooden rollers of different sizes but both of which could be rotated in the round holes that had been cut in advance at the end of the column, and nailed the wooden boxes with iron plates to facilitate the extension of the swing arms, so that they were more firm—a group of military servants divided into two rows, and carried the extremely long wooden poles on their shoulders, acting as a swing arm for projectiles, and stretched into the middle of the two pillars, and were in a suitable position. The craftsmen on the ladder used ropes, lifting lugs and other utensils to integrate with the wooden box, and at the first hinge of the wooden box, a "pocket box" reinforced with iron bars was suspended. On the other side, the same number of servants drove an iron reel with a rope at the rear end of the base frame, and tied the scorpion-tail iron hook at the front of the long swing arm with the rope.

"Pull it down." Several servants tugged at the ropes at the four corners of the bottom of the trunk and pulled them down, while the other long swing pole also with a slight whistling sound, with the rope on the iron reel, whizzed and lifted into the air, and the empty leather elastic bag swayed in the wind against the turbulent Alalmanburg.

Then a large number of servants began to lay stones one by one in the tore down pockets, until they were full and unusually heavy.

"Turn the wheel." Agnes on the hillside continued to command, and the servants and craftsmen made a snorting sound, and several people were sweating, and the iron wheel at the back of the frame was wrenched, and the loop of rope was pulled back onto the wheel, and the swinging arm was squeaked and pulled down with difficulty until the heavy trunk was slowly lifted back, and the four ropes under it swung back and forth until the height of the critical point.

At this moment, the elastic pocket on the scorpion-tail iron hook at the front of the long pole of the swing arm was placed with a rounded stone bullet, and after being tied with a cross, several gunners walked to the side of the "Great Plani Cannon" and used small tools to make a simple measurement of the angle and distance of the launch at Fort Alalman, which was clothed in the beautiful morning light. Previously, Agnes had already created a fixed set of tabular formulas, which could be copied by a rough mathematical gunner.

On the wall of Alaman, which was completely "locked", many soldiers defending the city opened their mouths wide and faced the new beast-like stone throwing machines erected in front of them, a total of five, and stood up one after another from behind the sheds and battlements where they were hiding, whispering, and the whole air was filled with an uneasy atmosphere.

Angry with the third Taylor. Callegos waved his whip, he had been appointed commander of the Logos, and ran back and forth between the walls, whipping the backs of the stunned soldiers everywhere, "Give me all the retraction, the enemy is about to fire!" It was too late, but the five "Great Plani Cannons" lined up under it suddenly launched a beast-like sound, and the roar shook the whole field and the fortress - the artillery players shook the mechanism in their hands with the iron hammer and smashed it down, and the rope on it suddenly turned, shaking their hands like a rapid whirlwind, and the unbalanced pocket box on that side fell down violently under the action of the gravity of the heavy accumulated stones, and drove the long pole swing arm over there to draw a perfect arc in the air, The stone projectile in its pocket broke free from the frenulum under the action of an unusually strong centrifugal force, spun like a spinning top, and in a very short moment, with an unbeatable speed and impacting force, crossed a distance of up to 1,400 feet: five projectiles, lined up, three in a slightly lower position of the sandwich wall, penetrated through the wall, with the powder and gravel that exploded, and came out from the side of the sandwich wall, and could carry great kinetic energy, until they smashed into the swamp on the west side of the sandwich wall; The other two smashed a tower in an instant, and the other smashed two pheasant moats under the tower, shaving off the heads and upper bodies of more than a dozen defender soldiers standing on them, and the lower body of the lower body that was still twitching and crawling to the ground, as well as falling armor, bricks, and human organs.

A stone bullet was swept a few feet in front of the tip of Taylor's nose, and the three private guards in front of him were all smashed off half of their bodies, and they were all killed in battle, and Taylor himself instinctively and embarrassedly threw himself on the battle road, falling all over his body covered in dust and blood, and then he raised his face, and looked at the devastation in front of him, and the soldiers who were wailing and pouting their buttocks everywhere, and they were actually dumbfounded, and continued to lie there, trembling like a sieve with great fear, and really didn't know what to do, let alone initiate any instructions!

"Hooray!" Seeing a volley, the Seleucian soldiers who had achieved significant damage on the walls of the enemy's large and small cities raised their flags in unison and let out earth-shattering cheers. In the midst of the sound, the gunners and military servants under the Great Plani cannon began to turn the rope on the iron reel again, and recycled and pulled up the long pole of the swing arm - this kind of instrument that uses the principle of rod scale to fire cannons, there is no precedent in the entire Eastern Roman Empire, Franks and even Saracen and Persia, its range is long, the power is huge, and there is also a most prominent and significant advantage, that is, there is no need to pull the cannon rope like the Persian stone thrower in Antioch before, once the box is full, the iron wheel is erected, and it can be fired back and forthIn fact, the frequency has increased quite a bit.

Soon, with a terrifying whistling sound, a second round of five stone bullets came like a whirlwind, and soon the sandwich wall was crumbling, filled with smoke and dust, and was pierced in several places. But between the walls, the brave Alamans still carried wooden frames and baskets, trying to repair the holes through which the stone bullets had passed. (To be continued.) )