Chapter 126: Thunderbolt
Yuan Wei once again took the lead. ~Top Novel,
However, this time he did not go into battle to kill the enemy, but led hundreds of people to repair the city wall.
According to the local people of Lujiang, this section of the city wall in the southeast corner was originally a lake under the wall, and the city wall was built after filling the lake, so the foundation is not as solid as the rest of the wall sections.
As a result, due to the continuous rainfall and the bombardment of the Jiangdong Army's catapults, it collapsed at once.
This section of the city wall in the southeast corner has almost collapsed more than half, only a thin layer on the outside is still there is a bag collapse that has not collapsed, and the gaps on the left and right sides are also enough to be twenty steps, if the repair cannot be completed before dawn, only wait for tomorrow dawn Jiangdong Army will attack the city again, this section of the city wall may completely collapse under the bombardment of catapults.
At that point, it's all over.
Because the Jiangdong army can continue to pour in from the gap, the Yuan army will no longer be able to resist.
Therefore, in order to encourage the people as much as possible, Yuan can only take the lead again, although after a day of fighting, he is already as tired as a dog, but he still has to go into battle shirtless, who made him Lujiang Taishou?
"Poof!" Yuan Wei stepped into the mud with one foot, but it didn't reach his knees.
After struggling in the mud for a long time, Yuan finally put the sack full of dirt on his back and put it down.
However, as the soil of Yuan No's sack was pressed, the sack stack, which had just been erected less than a zhang high, immediately collapsed again, and Yuan Fu was caught off guard and was almost buried alive by the collapsed sack.
Xu Sheng hurriedly threw away the sack on his shoulder, grabbed it and picked up Yuan Wei.
Yuan didn't care about wiping the mud off his body and face, and he jumped to his feet in a hurry.
Nimei's. Still don't let people live? Is this to force Lao Tzu to a dead end?
Lujiang Changshi Liu Kai came over with a disgraced face. With a bitter face, he said to Yuan No: "Childe." The foundation of this section is too soft, and if you don't first tamp the bottom foundation, the base will collapse as much as you want, and you can't build it up. ”
Yuan said: "Why didn't you say it earlier, then hurry up and lay the foundation!" ”
Liu Kai said: "But the foundation needs stones, where are the stones now?" ”
"Stone?" Yuan Fu's eyes were rolling wildly, and he suddenly saw a private house not far away, so he pointed to the foundation of the private house and shouted. "Demolish, all the houses in the city have been demolished, the stones have been demolished, and the foundation of the city wall has been tamped, if the stone is not enough, the son of Ben Gongzi will also be demolished, no matter what, this section of the city wall must be built, must be built, built up......"
By the end, Yuan Wei was almost roaring hoarsely. The soldiers and civilians in the four places were suddenly silent, because. Yuan Que has always given people a gentle and elegant appearance, they have never seen Yuan Que so hysterical, of course, Yuan's old department has seen it, and Yuan Nuo is called hysterical on the battlefield.
Liu Kai stood still and didn't move, but he didn't want to be this villain.
Don't demolish the houses at that time, arousing the people's anger, Yuan Fu borrowed his head to calm the people's grievances.
This, Yuan Yin has a criminal record, and his uncle Yuan Yin was not used by Yuan Yin?
Ordinary people may not be able to see the cat, but how can people like Liu Kai not see the doorway?
Seeing that Liu Kai was still standing there, Yuan Wei was completely angry, and shouted: "Liu Changshi, what are you still doing here, go, go, hurry up, take someone quickly, hurry up!" ”
Liu Kai was helpless, and said with a wry smile: "That is the case, and I also ask the prince to give a handwritten message." ”
"Oracle?" Yuan Wei glanced at Liu Kai deeply, how could he give an order?
To be honest, the idea that Yuan Kai had just now was really a repeat of the old trick, first let Liu Kai go to demolish the houses, wait until the houses were demolished, and then use Liu Kai's head to calm the people's grievances, to tell the truth, this trick worked very well, and Yuan Wei didn't mind using it one more time.
It's a pity that Liu Kai is not Yuan Yin, so it is not so easy to take the bait, but Yuan No can't be strong.
Yuan Wei looked at Liu Kai, the expression on his face was uncertain, and he was thinking about how to trick Liu Kai into taking the bait, but when he turned around, he saw Liu Ye coming over in a hurry, followed by Ma Jun.
"Childe, Childe!" Liu Ye greeted Yuan No as he walked, looking a little excited.
Yuan Di's heart skipped a beat, looking at this posture, could it be that Ma Jun built a thunderbolt?
However, calculating the time, it has indeed been more than ten days since Ma Jun started to build the thunderbolt, and it should almost be a result.
Sure enough, when he arrived in front of Yuan Fu, Liu Ye couldn't suppress his joy and whispered: "Childe, the thunderbolt has been built!" ”
Yuan Jun looked at Ma Jun behind Liu Ye, Ma Jun's face was also red, but he didn't know if it was because of excitement or because he trotted all the way, and Ma Jun nodded heavily in the face of Yuan No's gaze.
Seeing Ma Jun nodding, Yuan Wei didn't care about repairing the city wall anymore, and left the construction site in a hurry.
Fuck the walls, fuck the gaps, as long as you have a thunderbolt, what the fuck are you going to repair?
As long as there is a thunderbolt, the gap in the city wall in the southeast corner will not only become the gate to victory for the Jiangdong army, but will become the door of death for the Jiangdong army to hell.
The thunderbolt will turn that gap into a meat grinder that devours Koto's flesh!
A moment later, Yuan Fu had already arrived at the workshop, and then saw the thunderbolt cart placed in the yard.
Good guy, this is really a big guy, Yuan Wei visually inspected it, the height is at least three meters, and the two crossbow arms are spread left and right, and it is very likely to exceed twenty meters!
It seems that this is a large bed crossbow, but it is slightly different from the large bed crossbow, the crossbow arm of the large bed crossbow is one, and the crossbow arm of this thunderbolt is disconnected from the middle and fixed separately on the bracket, leaving a U-shaped gap in the middle of the bracket used to fix the two crossbow arms, needless to say, this U-shaped gap must be the trajectory of the stone projectile.
Because the stone projectile will only fly in a straight line, if it does not leave a gap in the middle, it will collide with the crossbow arm.
The working principle of this thunderbolt is actually similar to the leather slingshot played by children in later generations, except that there was no rubber band in this era, so the rubber band was replaced with a large crossbow, of course. It's a leather slingshot. It is also an oversized leather slingshot. The leather slingshot can only shoot small stones, but this guy can shoot hundreds of pounds of stones!
Ma Jun explained: "Childe, please see, these two main crossbow arms are spliced with six centuries-old mulberry, because they are not integrally formed, but segmented splicing, so the elasticity is poorer, and the service life will be shorter, but Childe can rest assured." According to your request, launch a two-hundred-pound boulder five hundred steps away, and there will be absolutely no problem. ”
A boulder of two hundred catties is equivalent to one hundred catties, that is, fifty kilograms.
Yuan Wei nodded subconsciously, he knew where Ma Jun's confidence came from.
Ma Jun's self-confidence does not come from these two main crossbow arms spliced with six hundred-year-old ancient mulberries, but from as many as a hundred strong crossbows mounted on the stand! These 100 strong crossbows are fixed in five layers, with 20 crossbows in each layer, lined up from left to right, half on the left side of the trajectory. Half on the right side of the trajectory to ensure a balanced pull.
After these hundred strong crossbows are opened. The arrows will not be buckled, but through a hundred cables with iron hooks, they will hook the iron rings tied to the bowstring of the main crossbow, so that through the cables, these hundred strong crossbows will gather traction on the main crossbow, producing a strong joint force, enough to launch a two-hundred-pound boulder to five hundred steps away!
A hundred-pound boulder, but it's amazing, such a powerful kinetic energy is definitely not something that flesh and blood can compete with!
If you attack from a distance, of course, you have to use a hundred catties of stone bullets, because large stone bullets have great inertia and strong lethality!
But if you attack at close range, there is no need to load such a large stone bullet, you can completely replace the two hundred catties of large stone bullets with hundreds of two catties or so of stone bullets, you can imagine, when this big guy launches, hundreds of stone bullets roar out, that kind of extreme horror beyond this era!
Yuan Fu became excited in a year, he seemed to see the tragic scene of the Jiangdong Army flying flesh and blood under the ravages of the thunderbolt car, in the face of such a terrible weapon, the Jiangdong Army is brave and good at fighting, and then it is stimulated by the slaughter order of the beast, I am afraid that there is no return, Sun Ce Pifu, come on, come on, although let the horse come!
At that moment, Yuan Wei said to Ma Jun: "Deheng, can you test shoot?" ”
"Of course." Ma Jun nodded, and said, "However, Gongzi and Ziyang, you'd better avoid it, the thunderbolt is too loud when it is launched, and there will be a lot of debris splashing after the stone projectile hits the earth mountain, I'm afraid of hurting Gongzi and Ziyang." ”
Of course, Yuan Wei would not hold it up, and hurriedly retreated to a safe distance with Liu Ye.
Besides, Ma Jun commanded more than 100 craftsmen to start operating the thunderbolt car.
This thunderbolt requires 150 people to operate at the same time, 50 of whom are responsible for opening the main crossbow, and 100 are responsible for opening the 100 strong crossbows, and then hook the open strong crossbow to the thickened bowstring of the main crossbow through the hook cable, and the main crossbow bowstring is made of stored hemp, which is the thickness of a child's arm.
Yuan Wei noticed that the bowstring of the main crossbow was also disconnected in the middle, tying the ears on both sides of the basket, and the basket of this thunderbolt was probably hewn out of a whole log, and the two sides were nailed into the rings bent with iron rods, and the main bowstring twisted with storage hemp was tied to these two large iron rings.
There is also a fixed buckle behind the basket, that is, a crossbow machine.
After opening the crossbow, Ma Jun instructed two craftsmen to put a boulder weighing more than 200 catties into the throwing basket.
Ready, Ma Jun turned his head and looked at Yuan Nuo from a distance, Yuan Nuo nodded, and Ma Jun ordered loudly: "Launch!" ”
The wrestler in charge of firing suddenly raised the big wooden hammer in his hand, slammed it on the bracket, only to hear a click, the buckle that locked the throwing basket was released, and then the main crossbow was pulled back by the parallel force of a hundred strong crossbows, and there was a loud buzzing sound, but this sound was nothing compared to the sound made when the stone bullet whistled out.
Under the combined traction of the main crossbow arm and a hundred strong crossbows, the boulder weighing more than two hundred catties roared out in an instant, and in the loud sound that wanted to puncture the eardrum, the boulder weighing more than two hundred catties was like a lightning bolt, which cut through the void at once, and slammed into a dirt mountain about fifty steps ahead.
"Boom!" The earth and mountains shook violently, and smoke and dust flew everywhere.
Yuan No, Liu Ye, and Xu Sheng, who accompanied him, opened their eyes at once. (To be continued......)