In the northeast of the suburbs of Fengzhou, in a valley two or three miles outside the camp of the Zhou army, the soldiers of the forbidden army were heavily guarded, scattered far away to guard the intersection, and an earthen wall was built on the small hillside two hundred and fifty steps ahead, and ten large white circles were painted with white ash on the upper part of the wall. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The circle of the earthen wall is the target, and here, ten light counterweight trebuchets are lined up, like a crouching monster dragging its long tail, looking a little terrifying.

This light counterweight trebuchet is relatively simple to make, with a zigzag base three feet long and six feet wide, and six large wooden wheels installed underneath, which is convenient for mules and horses to be dragged to a suitable position on the battlefield, and of course can be fixed and moved at any time.

On the bottom seat are two side-by-side tower brackets, with a long projectile lever supported by the axle of the middle crossframe. The front end of the lever is only one zhang two long, because one zhang two is just the height from the top of the bracket to the ground, and the front bucket can be loaded with two hundred pounds of boulders as counterweights. The rear end of the lever is three feet long, and the tail is tied to a stone bullet with a rope sleeve made of cowhide rope, which is hung to the top of the lever and can be fired only when the trigger is fired.

"Looks great! I don't know how effective it is? Wait for the old man to send one first! Wang Jing, dressed in armor and wearing an iron helmet with turned ears, took the sledgehammer from the carpenter's head Suo Ke with great interest, and walked to the trebuchet.

Behind the trebuchet is a pile of polished stone bullets, each weighing ten catties, a squad leader operating the trebuchet listened to the boss's words, and hurriedly took four soldiers into place, two soldiers on the left and right first to shake the winch on both sides of the base, and pulled down the rear end of the lever that had been counterweighted. The squad leader hung a stone bullet on the back and waved a small red flag to indicate that it was ready to fire.

Wang Jing stepped forward and looked at the target two hundred and fifty steps away, looked at the iron tip at the top of the lever, and then walked to the side and raised the big iron hammer, and hit the iron tip with a loud shout, and listened to the sound of "whew", the lever lost its restraint, and when the brush was raised to more than 90 degrees and erected, the stone bullet broke away from the lever with the rope sleeve, and flew to a height of more than ten zhang, and then fell diagonally forward, hitting the earth wall with a bang, and with a bang, it almost pierced the same, making a big gap.

"Good! Good also! The onlookers couldn't help but cheer.

"What a bird! Blind calling! Wang Jing's face was a little unpleasant, the range was good, but he didn't hit the target at all, the No. 1 machine hit the No. 5 target, I don't know who measured it and ran away, and it actually deviated dozens of steps.

If you hit the earthen wall, then the elevation angle is no problem. Zhang Yue ran away from behind, clenched his fist and gave a thumbs up, facing the direction of the lever erected high and the predetermined target position, three points and one line, and found that it was really wrong.

"Swing five degrees horizontally to the right in front of you!" Zhang Yue quickly ran back and shouted, the team leader who operated the trebuchet was a little dumbfounded, he didn't know what the fifth angle was.

He immediately snatched the long ruler wooden pole from the apprentice's hand, took the top bracket of the trebuchet as the axis, and fixed the point at the position where the target position should be corrected, drew a line on the ground, and called a group of apprentices to pull forward and back, and slowly set the position.

As soon as the trebuchet moved, the elevation angle changed, and Zhang Yue measured the elevation angle again and calibrated the landing height of the front counterweight. Because the counterweight falls to the end, the projectile angle is large, the stone projectile can be sent far, and the counterweight is placed under a large stone, the elevation angle will be reduced, and the projectile will be close.

Thinking that it was okay, Zhang Yue made a gesture and motioned to the soldiers to go on the winch and pull down the lever, and then load the stone bullets. Wang Jing's interest was undiminished, and he stepped forward with another hammer, and the stone bullet was thrown out again, hitting the foot of the earthen wall with a bang, but it was under the No. 1 target circle.

"It's useless! The bigger effect is intimidation, and it's too difficult to hit the target! Wang Jing sighed and said, these days have been tested many times, and hundreds of stone bullets have been fired, and there are only a handful of them that hit the target.

"How so? When the stone projectile is thrown away from the lever, it is about 90 to 100 degrees angle between the lever and the ground, which forms the gap between the front and back of the target, and of course, the elevation angle. As for the left-right bias, it is most likely that the fulcrum at the top of the trebuchet is not aligned with the target. ”

This dead old man is so greedy, Zhang Yue originally thought that he would be so happy that he danced with his hands, but in the end he actually wanted to hit any point two hundred and fifty steps away, this is difficult to do even with a crossbow from Fuyuan, let alone a stupid guy like a trebuchet.

They thought it was AK47, which affected the range and accuracy, not only because of the production problem, but also because of the material problem. These trebuchets are all made on an improvised basis, and a lot of the wood is fresh wood, which will twist and crack when it dries, and it will be thrown away after one or two uses.

"Since we can't beat it accurately, then we don't have to use this brain, expecting these bad guys to know one, two, three, that's too unrealistic! It's better to win in quantity, pull hundreds of racks out, and let the Shu army drink a pot! Wang Jing is worthy of being an old handsome, but he quickly figured out the joints.

Soldiers don't know one, two, three? My Zhenyuan army can ...... Zhang Yue secretly despised Old Man Wang, but he didn't bother to say it, turned around and shouted: "Suo Keda! Come here, come here! How much has this trebuchet been built now? How many planes can you build in a day? ”

"If you go back to the general, there are twenty fights, and there is no shortage of manpower and materials, and you can build ten in a day!" Suo Keda said with some apprehension.

"Too little! You have a hundred carpenters, why do you need thirty or fifty a day, right? Can't those blacksmiths do it? In addition to the iron tips and troop parts, the rest will be given to you, and it is not enough to transfer a battalion of soldiers to you, in short, thirty a day! There are also six rushing cars, do you understand? Zhang Yue yelled sternly, of course, he didn't expect this group of carpenters to do it, there were fifteen a day, and he was satisfied.

"Alas! General Zhang! Although we are working day and night, we can't get out even if we fight hard......" Suo Keda looked aggrieved and looked at Feng Qianhou.

"Half of this batch of carpenters are apprentices, and there are only more than forty skilled carpenters, and thirty is a bit difficult." Feng Qianhou told the truth.

"So you're going to be a prisoner?" Zhang Yue scolded secretly, his brain was spinning rapidly, and he immediately thought of a way, and waved his big hand: "It's easy to do!" For assembly line work, I found 50 soldiers from the army who knew some carpentry work, plus blacksmiths to gather 200 people and build them in groups. That is to say, the lever, wooden wheel, base, bracket, and stone bullet are all separately adjusted to do it, but the interface size must be accurate, otherwise it will not be installed in the end, understand? ”

"This is a good way, I seem to have seen it in some classics......" Feng Qianhou quickly understood, and said thoughtfully.

"That's really good, Brother Lao Xiaode is in charge of this matter, we must do it as soon as possible, Xiang Xundu has arrived in Liuba, and we have been delayed under Fengzhou City for five or six days."

Zhang Yue was a little anxious when he thought about it, he had already sent Du Ximi to Xingzhou with Xuanxin south, so as to keep track of the location of the reinforcements in Shuzhong at any time, and the best thing was to capture Fengzhou City before the reinforcements arrived. (To be continued.) )