Chapter 262: The Lock of the Ballista
Song Qi spun around and scanned the bloody battlefield. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The battlefield was a mess, littered with piles of armor and weapons, patches of corpses, pools of sticky blood, and craters of rocks.
Of course, there is another big highlight on the battlefield, that is, the hundred powerful ballistas left by the generous Chuer machine.
The soldiers were divided into groups, dozens of people around a large ballista, you touch it, I touch it, and I am proud and curious.
"Haha, these guys are our trophies now!"
"That's good, much stronger than our crossbow!"
"Oh my God, you can shoot five arrows in a row! It's too strong! ”
"This Chuerji is simply a god!"
Song Qi raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his face, and also approached a ballista, looking up and down.
The frame and wheels of the ballista are made of tungsten steel, with bright tiles, and the body is decorated with red nanmu, and the body is about eight feet long, five feet high, and six feet wide. In the middle of the ballista was a large crossbow trough, on which were placed five long arrows more than seven feet long and with thick cups. The cluster of arrows was extremely sharp, like a sharp knife, emitting a dazzling chill.
The ballista is equipped with two mechanisms, one for the full string and the other for the loose string.
The layman looks at the bustle, and the insider looks at the doorway.
In Song Qi's view, the construction principle of this crossbow is the same as that of a repeater, but it is more rugged, more effective and lethal than a repeater, and extremely powerful in siege field battles.
But the disadvantages of the ballista are also obvious, bulky, not easy to move, large in size, and not carry-around.
That's why these 100 ballistae turned into trophies.
Compared with the crossbow cart and the repeating crossbow, it is difficult to judge which is superior and which is inferior, which is strong and which is weak, but judging from the results of this war, it is still slightly distinguished.
No matter how powerful a weapon is, if you can't control it, isn't it equivalent to nothing?
Just like someone who can build an atomic bomb, but is groveling under the threat of a pistol, what is the point of such a person being able to build an atomic bomb?
Song Qi was thinking crankily while inspecting the ballista.
He asked himself again, "Song Qi, can you build such a powerful ballista?" ”
He replied to himself: "I think I can build such a ballista, but I didn't think of making such a weapon before." ”
He asked, "Can the Chur machine make a repeater like mine?" ”
He replied again: "I'm afraid not, otherwise why wouldn't Chu Erji build a repeater to defend himself?" ”
He thought for a moment and replied, "Maybe Chu Erji didn't think of building a repeater!" He thought that with the ballista, he could be invincible in the world, and no one could threaten him. ”
However, it is not easy for Chur to build such a ballista. And he was able to build a hundred as soon as he built and formed a ballista corps, just by virtue of this, he knew that Chu Erji had a big mind and great ambitions. It can be said that his mentality is the mentality of the strong to dominate the world.
And when I Song Qi built the repeating crossbow, it was just for the purpose of self-defense and self-protection at that time, which was a humble mentality.
The original intention of Chu Erji and I to build a crossbow is not the same.
However, everything can change over time.
Song Qi's gaze took off the ballista and landed on the wings of the eagle that swept over the battlefield, and he thought firmly: "When I become stronger, I must build thousands of repeaters to form a powerful repeater army!" ”
"Brothers! This guy is ours now! Captain Bagan patted the smooth frame of the ballista with his bloody hand, grinned his blood-stained lips, showed his white teeth, and laughed happily, "Bring it all back to the city!" ”
"All move back to the city!" The soldiers laughed happily.
"This guy has wheels and can push them, isn't it easier for us to push them back to the city?" A soldier reminded.
"There are wheels, but they can't be pushed no matter how much you push them?" Another soldier crouched on the side of the wheel and looked left and right.
"Strange, we saw them pushing their ballistas over the city. Why can't it be pushed now? The soldiers were surprised to circle around the crossbow cart, at a loss for what to do.
"General Song, this ballista can't be pushed!" A soldier walked up to Song Qi, who was looking up in contemplation, and reported.
"I'll see!" Song Qi walked to the side of the ballista surrounded by a group of soldiers and pushed it hard, but the ballista did not move.
Song Qi also looked up and down around the wheel, left and right.
He found that the hubs of all four wheels were hooked by a black iron hook, and he leaned down and reached out to grab the iron hook, trying to break the iron hook, but he couldn't break it.
"This ballista is locked!" Song Qi raised his head and said to everyone.
When everyone heard this, their faces were a little gloomy. Someone scolded: "This chull machine is really cunning enough, he locked the ballista!" No one else can move the ballista when they get it! ”
"I think I can unlock the lock." Song Qi raised his eyebrows and said.
The Chull machine must have set a brake switch on the ballista. This is similar to Zhuge Liang setting up a mechanism in the mouth of the wooden ox flowing horse, Sima Yi grabbed the wooden ox flowing horse, because he couldn't find the mechanism, he couldn't move it, and in the end he could only carry it back.
Where is this switch?
Song Qi touched his chin with his hand and paced around the frame of the ballista, his eyes narrowed slightly, and his gaze moved inch by inch on the ballista.
Finally, his eyes were drawn to a raised crossbar on the side of the crossbow groove. This crossbar is very inconspicuous, and the position is relatively hidden, so you won't notice its existence if you don't go out of your way to find it.
This crossbar, which looks like a car's handbrake from the outside, must be the switch of the crossbow wheel lock.
"This is the switch that opens the wheel lock!" Song Qi excitedly grabbed the crossbar and pulled it, and the result... I didn't pull it.,Press it again.。。。 I didn't press it either.
Everyone's eyes lit up, but then they turned gloomy.
It's strange that the Chull machine shouldn't have a useless part on the ballista, and besides, this thing doesn't have any decorative effect!
Song Qi's gaze carefully examined the crossbar and found that there was also a button on the cross-section of the crossbar.
Song Qi hadn't driven a car for a thousand years, so he was a little rusty about the structure of the car.
But when he looked at the button on the crossbar, he suddenly realized that he was inexplicably excited.
Haha, this Chull machine is so interesting! He designed the crossbar entirely in the style of a car handbrake!
Song Qi grabbed the crossbar, pressed the button with his thumb, and pressed it down with a handbrake.
"Click!" After the crossbar was pressed down, the iron hook on the wheel bounced up and reached the inside of the wheel.
The wheels can be easily moved by a person.
"The ballista can move!"
"General Song is too mighty!"
The soldiers clapped their hands and cheered, beat the victory drums, and lightly pushed a hundred ballistas, and happily returned to the Iron Horse Pass. (To be continued.) )