Chapter 220: The Deterrent Power of Catapults
"Lord Wang, this is here?" Cheng Yanjin followed the eldest grandson Wuji into the tower, and his eyes were full of novel iron firearms.
Li Yuanba didn't answer Cheng Yanjin's words, but said: "Okay, it doesn't matter what place this is now!" The space above the tower is not very rich, so you can come up in batches! ”
The first group, of course, was Li Yuan, Li Shimin, and a group of princes, who went up the spiral staircase to the tower, and the first thing they saw was two improved catapults in the pavilion-like building.
Compared to the giant catapults used in land sieges, these two are much smaller, and of course, they are also much worse in terms of range and power.
Stroking the catapult bracket that had been improved from wood to iron, Li Yuan said, "De'er, does this thing really have attack power?" ”
"Father, you removed the word '?', you can see the power of this thing later!"
Li Yuanba patted his chest confidently, and the smile on his face was cold.
Li Shimin led a few little princes to take a few steps forward, walked to the edge of the small pavilion and looked at it from a distance, and couldn't help but gasp on his handsome face.
Outside the Wuwang Mansion, on the streets of Changlefang, there is no end in sight of the endless soldiers, and the voices of people in the distance are boiling, and the heads of people are crowded, and those people are holding torches in their hands, and the red light dyes half of the sky.
"A lot of thieves!" Li Chengqian's eyes were wrinkled as he looked at the crowd outside the palace, and there was not the slightest fear in his heart, but on the contrary, there was a blood stirring.
Li Yuanba laughed, stretched out his hand and patted Li Chengqian's shoulder heavily, and said, "Chengqian, are you afraid?" ”
Li Chengqian's eyes flashed with excitement, and he asked rhetorically, "Fourth Emperor Uncle." I don't know if you're afraid? ”
When Li Shimin heard this, he turned his head and looked at Li Yuanba, and said, "Cheng Qian." I'm afraid there is nothing in this world that your Fourth Emperor Uncle is afraid of! Back then, your Fourth Emperor Uncle drank back to Li Zitong, the king of Fengming in Hebei, before the ten thousand armies, what kind of arrogance was that? Now the thieves outside this house are all rabble. Do you think your Fourth Emperor Uncle will be afraid? ”
"Naturally not!" Li Chengqian also came to courage. His voice was loud, and his face turned red with excessive excitement.
"Not bad!" Li Yuanba interjected, "I'm a Tang boy, I don't shed tears when I sweat and sweat!" Fourteen thousand people, a bird? ”
"De'er, without further ado, let's quickly let us see the power of this thing!"
Li Yuan will always be the most beautiful guy, what a good opportunity to cultivate the relationship between uncle and nephew. It was broken by an old man who was not ashamed.
But you can't do anything about this guy yet, no way, who calls him his daddy?
Shaking his head helplessly, Li Yuanba shouted under the tower: "Shenwuwei, come up with four gunners, and bring the shells up by the way!" ”
"No!"
There was a gruff response from under the tower, and after a few breaths, four people dressed in post-sed. In battle uniforms, the Shenwu guards, who looked five big and three thick, climbed up the tower with two boxes of cannonballs.
Because the area of the top floor of the tower is limited. Standing on forty or so people is already the limit, so Li Yuanba can only push the ministers down.
Fortunately, the tower is about five zhang high, and there is a mezzanine in the middle for resting. From the mezzanine, you can also see the situation outside the Wuwang Mansion.
On the top floor of the vacant tower, the cannons of the four Shenwu Guards had already begun to get busy.
Carefully taking out the black cannonball from the shell box, after a few simple procedures, a Shenwu guard fired with a hideous face.
There was a earth-shattering bang, and the tip of the catapult bounced high, as if it were carrying a cannonball burning with a gunpowder core, and flew directly into the dense rebels dozens of feet away.
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Outside the palace, the armies of the two sides have converged. Liu's crash is still tirelessly crashing against the gate of the palace. But the door didn't move, as if it wasn't a door. Rather, it is a solid wall!
"I said Liu Jiawen, can you do it? It's just a mansion gate, you can't even open this, right? ”
Cui Shizhao's face showed an anxious look, seeing that the time for tea was about to pass, if this mansion gate could not be attacked for a long time, the soldiers of the various guards on Suzaku Street were probably about to arrive!
Hearing Cui Shizhao's words, the obese middle-aged man surnamed Liu wiped the sweat on his forehead and said, "Brother Cui, you can relax!" If you want to get here from Suzaku Street, it will take at least a stick of incense, and now it is only after the time of tea, and when the gate is broken, the entire Chang'an City will be in the pocket of you and me. ”
"You said it easily, in my opinion, if you are given time for tea, you will not be able to open this Martial King Mansion! Let's take a long ladder and let those Tibetan barbarians directly climb over the wall! "Cui Shizhao doesn't have that much patience, instead of working here, it's better to step up and attack first.
Liu Jiawen thought for a while and said, "That's it, I'll go and negotiate with Lu Dongzan for a ......."
"Boom!"
Before Liu Jiawen finished speaking, a black cannonball the size of a human head flew out of the palace and smashed straight into the soldiers of the Liu camp.
The cannonball shattered the moment it hit the ground, and the huge impact force directly smashed a soldier into a meatloaf, and then, the remaining shock wave continued to spread around. For a while, seventeen or eighteen soldiers were killed, and the desperate wails before death pierced the dark night sky and pierced everyone's eardrums.
"What's, what is this?" Liu Jiawen was frightened by this sudden attack.
Cui Shizhao was also shocked, because they had never seen such a strange attack weapon, and the loud bang was like a thunderbolt descending from the sky, and the terrifying explosive power instantly killed and injured a large number of people.
If this kind of attack continues, not to mention the more than 14,000 of them, even 100,000 people will not be enough to see!
"Damn, who can sue me, what the fuck is this?"
Seeing this, more than 20 of their Liu people died, Liu Jiawen's eyes were suddenly congested, if he stayed quietly outside the gate like this, and continued to do useless collision actions, it would be a live target at all, waiting to be bombarded to death by that strange thing!
Thinking of this, Liu Jiawen suddenly scolded loudly: "Come on, inform Tubo Dalun Lu Dongzan, the door of the mansion cannot be opened, the opponent's weapon is too fierce, you need to put on a shield, take a long ladder, and jump in from the wall!" ”
As the order was delivered, one of the scouts hurried towards the right rear of the camp. (To be continued)