Zhou Yin concentrated the thirty-two artillery pieces in one direction, and he was actually commanding the artillery for the first time, and he had asked the direct leader of the artillery unit in advance, the captain. The lieutenant's answer to him was that artillery should be used intensively in order to be at its most powerful.

Now, the thirty-two cannons are slowly moving forward under the pull of the horses, and then the horses pulling the cannons have turned around in a half-circle, and the muzzle direction of the cannons is aimed at the city of Wanguo.

The artillerymen did not need to use a cumbersome way to unload the guns, they took off the hooks that were suspended and hooked, and then carried the two support bases behind the guns and extended them respectively, and the guns immediately became the front end supported by wheels, and the rear seat was supported by the gun carriage.

"Check the balancing machine!"

The structure of the gun carriage is that what looks like a horse-drawn carriage carries the gun body, but in fact it is a chassis composed of a device balancing machine, high and low machine gears, gun body propulsion chute and gun frame.

The Imperial guns were bronze, but the chassis had a very cast iron device, and many artillerymen were busy checking the firmness, then digging two grooves in the ground, and laying a layer of wood for the gun carriages and wheels placed on the ground.

"What's that for?" Xu Zhi was slightly curious, he remembered that he didn't have such trouble when he watched the test launch in the imperial capital.

Zhou Yin is fortunate to have studied it, otherwise he wouldn't be able to answer now. He said: "It is said that there is no anti-recoil device developed, and the recoil can only be removed in this way." ”

Thirty-two cannons were arranged in a straight line, each cannon was served by ten artillerymen, and when they were busy, not only their own people were watching, but also the defenders of Wanguo on the city wall were staring intently.

"I've heard that the enemy has a catapult that can throw stones very far?" The Wanguo guard, whose face is almost bearded, has a long name, the surname is Abdullah. He had been glad and puzzled why he hadn't seen the trebuchet, but now he felt a little wrong.

A somewhat obese middle-aged man, who was the lord of the city, also said strangely: "Not only did I not see the catapult, but I also did not see the ladder." ”

"It's weird!" Apdullah was full of bad things and said, "There must be something wrong with everything that we don't know. ”

"Don't worry, we have blocked the city gates, even if there is an internal response in the city, we can't open the city gates." The lord thought he was talking about this.

As long as it wasn't a brain disease, who would have believed that Wan would be able to defeat the Empire? Since you know that you can't win, there will always be some people who want to speculate.

The Western Regions is a very complicated place, and the concept of loyalty is a very luxurious thing, in fact, if it weren't for the fact that the family members were all in the royal city, it was hard to guarantee that Apudullah and the city lord would not have the idea of surrendering.

"They weren't prepared to climb the ladder, so they weren't going to attack the city today, right?" The city lord kept wiping the sweat from his forehead, not only his forehead, but also the fat people were not so heat-resistant, and under the thorny sun, he could stay so long purely because of the special situation. He said, "Then can I go down the wall first?" ”

Abdullah really doesn't know whether the enemy army will attack the city, he only knows that the enemy army has put up a big battle, since this is definitely not simply for demonstration, with the strength of the empire, there is no need to demonstrate, who doesn't know that Wan and the empire are not an equal opponent?

Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers was looking at the busy artillerymen, and he could guess that it was a weapon, but he really couldn't figure out what it was. When he saw that a soldier had brought the round projectiles, the confusion in his heart not only did not decrease, but increased.

There are not many weapons that use round projectiles, and there are also ballistas learned from the Greeks on the Roman side, which fire a round stone projectile. What is the problem? It's Ki Ru Sriwei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers did not see any of the Raila stone projectile devices.

"What do you mean by poking a stick in it?" Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. The old confusion of Calvers was not solved, and the new confusion came again: "What is it that is in it?" ”

After the artilleryman has finished clearing, he is loading the powder bag, then placing the fuse, and finally putting the projectile inside.

When the projectile was put in, a gurgling sound was actually obvious, waiting for everything to be ready, the artillerymen were doing aiming maneuvers again, and a series of slogans could be heard.

Except for the artillerymen themselves, it is estimated that no one understands what it means to shoot Zhuyuan, ballistics and the like, and after they are busy, they are waiting for the order to launch.

Zhou Yin had already been reminded, and he knew that the movement would be very loud when the artillery was fired. He looked at Xu Zhi and asked, "The ears of the war horse have been blocked, right?" ”

Xu Zhi nodded: "Of course!" The cannon was so loud that our horses weren't trained. In addition to plugging your ears, don't you see that I deliberately placed the cavalry farther away? ”

Zhou Yin knew that Xu Zhi had such a temper, not against anyone. He nodded and said to an officer next to him, "Then let's get started!" ”

The officer had to give the order to run away.

The wind is blowing the flag, the flag belonging to the empire is fluttering, and the flag of Wanguo on the city wall is also flying with the wind, because the atmosphere of the army gathering at the scene is extremely solemn, the soldiers of the empire will not make noise at will, and the soldiers of Wanguo on the city wall are also holding their breath.

"Boom !!"

First, the sudden movement startled many people, and the imperial soldiers who had been notified in advance were okay, they were mentally prepared but were stunned for a moment, and did not do other strange actions.

The projectile fired from the artillery, it roared out of the ****, leaped a distance and smashed into the inner city, and a few sounds as if something was collapsing, and then there was a shout of constantly shouting something.

"The elevation angle has been lowered three degrees!"

"Downgraded three degrees!"

The artilleryman is operating a high and low machine, which is a valve-type device that can be operated high and low by rolling the disc.

Apdullah was a little confused, and when he reacted, he ran to the inner city wall to see what was going on.

The projectile fired by the artillery and the stone projectile fired by the trebuchet are two different things, the projectile fired by the two instruments does not fly at the same speed, the projectile fired by the catapult can at least be caught with the eye, and the projectile fired by the artillery cannot be captured with the naked eye at all.

What Abdullah saw was a ditch smashed out of the open space in the city, which extended directly to some of the buildings, and now the buildings had collapsed, one completely collapsed, and a large hole had been smashed into the wall of the other.

"It's horrible!" Abdullah took another step, he was walking towards the aisle of the wall, and at this moment he had only one thought in his heart: "You can't stand on the wall, you must not stand on the wall!" ”

Walking down the wall, Abdullah heard a string of "Adjusted!" Of course, he couldn't understand what the imperial soldiers outside the city were shouting, he didn't stop, but he still remembered to beckon: "Leave some of the necessary archers, and the rest of the soldiers will all retreat from the city wall!" ”

With the latter sentence, at least Abdullah is still a qualified defense commander, and he doesn't just care about his own life.

The enemy army is using siege equipment such as trebuchets, and as long as the commander of the defending side is not stupid, no commander will let the soldiers crowd the walls and smash them, leaving only the necessary forces to remove most of the soldiers from the walls.

Don't forget that in this era, military orders were conveyed either by shouting or running, and that Abdullah was giving the right orders, but it seemed a little late.

A series of "booms!! "It's constantly coming out, one after another, not uniformly, the empire has long mastered the correct firing sequence, knowing that the movement of multiple guns firing together is too large, which will cause the ground to shake, so that the angle of fire of the rest of the artillery will change, and it will be fired from one cannon after another.

One by one, the projectiles smashed into the city walls, each time they hit the walls, causing a muffled sound. Although there was a calibration shot, with the level of science and technology in these years, it is impossible to say that every shell can hit the desired position according to the estimate. Thirty-two guns were concentrated in two places, but in fact, only about 20 guns hit the ideal area, and the rest of the guns fired projectiles flew off.

"This !!" Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers almost urinated for a moment, he finally knew why an officer from the Han Empire came to dismount him just now, if he was still sitting on horseback, he would probably be swept away by the war horse. However, what he cared about was not being swept away, but seeing a terrible weapon.

"It's terrifying!" Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers' ears constantly listened to the sound of artillery firing, and because of the relative proximity, the eardrums were shaken and "buzzed": "What kind of weapon is this??? ”

The gunpowder used in the artillery is not smokeless, and each firing not only brings a big movement, but also emits a puff of gray smoke. The artillery position surrounded by smoke seems to outsiders to add a mystical atmosphere, but the soldiers operating the artillery inside are constantly busy "clearing", "charging", "adjusting" and so on.

Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers turned his head to look at the city of Wanguo, and what he saw was that the city wall was being bombarded and trembling, and some projectiles that seemed to have deviated from the firing position smashed into the upper position, and when they hit the female wall, they brought a burst of sand and gravel with them.

There are soldiers of Wanguo on the city wall, and the number seems to be quite a lot? They were running wildly, as if something was being shouted in everyone's mouth, and even the movement of artillery and projectiles did not hide the hysterical shouts of the Wan soldiers.

"They must be terrified, right?" Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers was now terrified, because he didn't know what kind of weapons the Han Empire had used. He thought, "This kind of power is no longer inferior to the weapons used by the gods in myths and legends!" ”

If history had not changed, the Romans would have invaded the Greek peninsula, defeated one Greek city-state after another, and plundered everything they wanted, including the gods.

One of the interesting things about Rome is that every family has its own main god, and the gods are not fixed. The Romans had this habit from the invasion of the Greek peninsula, because each Greek city-state had the main god of each city, and it was the Greeks who brought this concept to the Romans, and as a result, the Romans would choose their own main god. In addition, there was a period of time when the Romans were waging wars not for anything else, but to plunder the gods.

Artillery is truly a weapon that only gods can possess at the moment, because there is no weapon with greater range and power!

The roar of artillery continued, and the sections of the city wall that had been continuously bombarded by projectiles were dented and cracked, and the devastating consequences were imminent.

"Are we following the established plan and letting the cavalry rush first?" Zhou Yin hesitated and said, "We don't know what line of defense the Wanguo people have set up inside......

"The cavalry of the empire is invincible!" With full confidence, Xu Zhi said sonorously: "No matter what defense line the Wanguo people set up, they can't block the impact of our cavalry!" ”

In this way, the two cavalry were ordered to move closer to the predetermined position, and their movement allowed Kiresrivi to move forward. Luce. Scipio. Calvers shifted his gaze away.

The two moving cavalry were not too numerous, each about a thousand men and horses, and they formed a formation with the Turquoise cavalry at the front, followed by a small number of crossbow cavalry.

Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Naturally, Calvers didn't know about the existence of the ballista, he just saw the ballista holding a strange device in his hand, and wanted to know what it was, but he knew that no one would tell him the answer.

"The new type of repeater, with a range of fifty meters, can fire eighteen crossbow arrows in a row." Xu Zhi seemed to be a little dissatisfied, and he said to Zhou Yin: "Only increasing the range by twenty meters actually doesn't increase much in the field. ”

Zhou Yin didn't say anything, only the empire in the world has that kind of continuous crossbow, and other countries are still playing with bows and arrows. He knew better that the improvement of the repeating crossbow was not a national project, but was purely a boring encounter by some craftsmen, and the current scientific research strength of the empire was focused on the development of firearms.

There was a very sudden crash, it was the collapse of a city wall that had been bombarded, and it looked like a dusty scene from a distance.

"Long live the Empire!!"

Almost at the moment when the city wall collapsed, a high shout was shouted by the cavalry, who were already running to warm up, but when they saw the city wall falling, the cavalry who were running at the forefront changed their direction and charged towards the collapsed place.

In response to the cavalry charge slogan, hundreds of thousands of soldiers shouted "Wan Sheng!! Any voice is masked in the vast slogan of "Wan Sheng".

At this moment, Kiruslivi. Luce. Scipio. Calvers found that his neck was a little stiff, and he twisted his neck with difficulty to look at the soldiers of the Han Empire, as if to see the expression on each soldier's face...... (To be continued.) )