Chapter 309 Ma's Stone Thrower
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Early the next morning, Xu Shu saw the giant shield soldiers under the city wall standing horizontally under Shouchun City, rows and rows of elite and neat, giant shields and heavy armor? A sneer appeared at the corner of Xu Shu's mouth, thinking that he could resist the bed crossbow with this formation?
The bed crossbow in Xu Shu's hand is an improved version, his predecessors before him can directly penetrate the planks of the warship, those planks are extremely thick, some can be more than a few feet, they are all cut from those giant trees, and there are iron sheets on those planks, which are extremely strong, but this is also a part that has been penetrated one by one, these giant shields and heavy armor may be hard bones in front of the arrows and swords, but in front of the giant arrows of the bed crossbow, it is a pile of chickens and dogs, which are not vulnerable at all.
"Go on the bowstring!" Without Xu Shu opening his mouth, Deng Yi on the side pushed out the twelve bed crossbows and stood on top of the city.
"Strategist, is this really okay!?" Liu Bei asked at the phoenix on the side, no wonder Liu Bei is worried, these giant shield soldiers and heavy armor soldiers, they are all white-eared and heavy-armored, Liu Bei doesn't want to lose any of them, before Chen Zhi wanted to ask for his life to fill the moat but was stopped by Liu Bei, but now he has to take it out.
"Don't worry, my lord, there are sharp weapons in the camp, and it will be a matter of time before this Shouchun City is destroyed,!" Pang Tong felt a little bit in his chest.
"But!" Liu Bei was still very puzzled, his eyes drifted to Zhang Xiu on the side from time to time, which means that Zhang Xiu over there told everyone by example, the giant crossbow arrows on the bed on the city wall, that arrow shot down, those heavy armor could not withstand any impact at all, and the heavy armor that could make everyone feel at ease became like paper paste, and a giant arrow was shot out of the city wall, which was a heavy armor that could penetrate seven or eight layers, and even the cavalry and war horses penetrated such a lethal force, and those giant shields and heavy armor could withstand it!
"Has the lord forgotten the battle of the second general Shouchun?!" In order to be able to reassure Liu Bei, Pang Tong had to pull Guan Yu in, Guan Yu's battle of Shouchun? That's not war at all. It was an escape, Liu Mang went down to Shouchun City in one day, and Guan Yu in the city didn't even have the slightest ability to fight back, so he abandoned the city and fled, and finally left a lot of military food and ordnance in the city, which was a pain in Guan Yu's heart.
"Second Brother's Battle of Shouchun?!" Guan Yu's pain did not make Liu Bei grieve with him. On the contrary, Liu Bei's eyes lit up now, and he went down in one day, in addition to the siege of Liu Mang's army, there was also the stone thrower. This made Guan Yu lose Shouchun, because even if he persisted, he could only add casualties in vain, but now the role has changed. The one who besieged the city became him Liu Bei, and the one who defended the city became Liu Mang's army. ”
"This?!" The message that Pang Tong got from the youth was no! Because from Guan Yu's description, Liu Mang's stone thrower can throw more than 300 catties of heavy stones to 300 to 500 steps, and if it is loaded with more than 100 catties of heavy stones, it can hit a distance of 700 steps. In this era when there is basically no lever principle, no lathe, no spring, all the stone throwers are made of wood, and the young man is naturally ashamed of himself, but the young man is not so unconfident in his own stone thrower, if he fights with Liu Mang's ballista head-to-head, he may not be an opponent, after all, Liu Mang's one has already used some spring devices. But the bombardment of the city walls was more than enough.
Of course, Pang Tong would not say that it was inferior to Liu Mang's ballista to hit Liu Bei's self-confidence, but said very indifferently: "It's all over it!" ”
Such a sentence finally reassured Liu Bei, and immediately ordered Chen Zhi to act according to the plan.
"The last general obeys!" Chen Zhi hugged his fists and said, and then went down to prepare.
"Lord, what do you say Liu Bei wants to do?!" On the edge of Liu Bei's camp is Zhang Xiu's camp, and Zhang Xiu is also paying attention to the battle of Shouchun. Yesterday's loss of his Xiliang Iron Cavalry made Zhang Xiu miserable, there were more than 1,000 casualties in his innocence, and there was nowhere to go if he wanted to cry, who let him run over to Xu Shu on Shouchun and slap his face with a bed crossbow.
"Liu Bei?!" Zhang Xiu was also very puzzled. What is Liu Bei thinking? With a huge shield and heavy armor, can you not be afraid of the bed crossbow on the city wall? Zhang Xiu is a military general, he naturally knows the penetration ability of this bed crossbow, can nail a heavy armored cavalry alive with people and war horses to the earth, steady and firm, such penetration, even if the bed crossbow is aimed at himself, Zhang Xiu is not necessarily sure to block, but now Liu Bei actually used the white ear heavy armor to test, and had to make Zhang Xiu puzzled, but looking at Chen Dao, who was giving the white ear heavy armor training, Zhang Xi actually believed that this Liu Beijun may really have a way.
"All, take the sandbag!" Chen Zhi shouted, except for the white-eared and heavily armored soldiers in the front row, who were holding giant shields, the other soldiers all carried generations of sandbags, carried him on their shoulders, and waited for Chen Zhi's order.
"Okay, the goal is to move forward in the Shouchun moat!" Chen Zhi let out a low roar, the white-eared heavy armor soldier is his pride of Chen Zhi, although this white-eared heavy armor can only be established with the help of Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Liu Bei, but most of it is still presided over by Chen Zhi, this is his hard work.
In Chen Zhi's opinion, the one who can really have a one-on-one duel with the white-eared heavy armor in this world is the Bingzhou wolf cavalry of the world's first cavalry, even if it is the black chess battalion that also belongs to the heavy armored cavalry, and the famous army under the king of Shu, the chengguan army is not in Chen Zhi's eyes, and now the Bingzhou wolf cavalry has been disabled, and it is basically impossible to appear again for most of the year, so it is basically invincible in the Central Plains.
"Boom, boom, boom!" Different from the tremor of the charge brought by the heavy armored cavalry, the white ear heavy armor brings neatly planned steps, the military order is the same, and the order is the same, which is not only a dogma of Liu Mang for the city management army, but also the method of governing the army with white ear and heavy armor, even if the abyss in front of you is hell, you have to charge forward under the order, which is why Cao Cao sent the tiger and leopard cavalry several times but could not leave Liu Bei.
"Giant shield heavy armor? Hehe, let you become a rock sugar gourd today! Xu Shu sneered at the white-eared heavy armor soldiers who were getting closer and closer, and finally gave an order after the white-eared heavy armor soldiers approached the range of the bed crossbow, and the twelve bed crossbows roared again.
"Whoosh!" One after another, the giant arrows of the bed crossbow were shot out, and under the huge elastic force of the bowstring, each giant arrow felt like it was tearing through the air, and the sound of the air vibrating.
"Boom!" The giant shield of the white-eared heavy armor in the first row finally came into contact with the giant arrow of the bed crossbow, and like those Xiliang iron riders before, there was no second choice at all. Even with the help of this giant shield, the power of the bed crossbow was still revealed, the giant shield was directly shattered, and the bed crossbow effortlessly pierced into the white-eared heavy armor soldier hiding behind the giant shield. This kind of inner armor may not have as high defense as the outer armor for ordinary swords, but it has a good ability to resist the sharp weapon of the bow and arrow, and the arrows of the bow and crossbow cannot penetrate the inner armor at all, but now it is like child's play, the outside of the inner armor is fully penetrated, and most of the white-eared heavy armor soldiers in the first row are killed and wounded.
"Go on. Don't stop shooting! Xu Shu stood on top of the city and gave an order to the bed crossbow, this is a white-eared heavy armored soldier, Xu Shu also saw it, otherwise there would not be such a neat pace, white-eared heavy armored soldier, that is the elite of Liu Bei's elite, if he can be abolished under Shouchun City. Then Xu Shu's army will make a lot of money.
Although there are only twelve bed crossbows, but the rain of arrows he formed is not bad at all, after all, the body is huge, and the bed crossbow can be shot continuously, the white-eared heavy armor soldiers under the city are worthy of being elite, the first row of giant shields was pierced through the heavy armor, the second row quickly replaced the first row, and the surviving soldiers who could be treated were naturally treated. If it can't be cured, just give up.
"No matter how many shields there are, how many arrows can I have?!" Another row of arrows rained down intensively, and it stands to reason that Liu Bei's army should be very distressed by such a loss of white ears and heavy armor, but Chen Zhi is eyes flashed with light, looking at Liu Bei's army camp behind the military formation.
In Liu Beijun's camp, in addition to Pang Tong, there was also a young man standing on the high platform, looking at the scene in front of him: "Two hundred steps, directly shooting through the first and second layers of giant shields, the heavy armor is completely useless!" As he spoke, he recorded it, "Okay, military advisor!" ”
"Hmm!" Pang Tong nodded, and the Ling Qi in his hand waved, and Chen Zhi, who was among the white-eared heavy armor foot soldiers, breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this Ling Qi. To be honest, Chen Zhi couldn't bear such a bed crossbow shot, and when he saw Ling Qi Chen Zhi, he immediately shouted, "Retreat, a hundred steps!" ”
Forward and forward. Another pair of giant shield soldiers stood in front of them, and the entire large army of white-eared heavy armor began to retreat.
"Want to run? Leave me half of it! Xu Shu said coldly, yesterday the Xiliang Iron Cavalry collapsed halfway through the charge, and the originally concentrated troops were scattered all of a sudden, and the hit rate of the guide bed crossbow was greatly reduced, and because of the speed of the war horse, the Xiliang Iron Horse quickly ran out of the range of the bed crossbow, making the bed crossbow sigh in vain, but today is different, today is Liu Beijun's white-eared heavy armor soldier, he is a foot soldier, the naturalness will not be too fast, wave after wave of arrow rain shot over again.
"Every ten arrows, a reincarnation?!" The young man recorded once again that the bed crossbow in the city, every shot was very fast, but every ten shots, he would pause, although the pause was not long, but the young man still noticed.
"General, a hundred steps!" The white-eared heavy armor soldier said to Chen Zhi, Chen Zhi nodded, and the army slowed down again.
"Whoosh!" Three hundred steps in front of the bed crossbow, two hundred steps made no difference, or directly tore open the giant shield and penetrated the heavily armored foot soldiers behind.
"Three hundred steps, or through the giant shield?!" The young man began to frown, he really didn't expect that there would be such a person in this world who designed such a sharp weapon, three hundred steps may be an instant for a cavalry, but for a foot soldier, it will take a while. If there were such weapons on every wall, it would be very difficult to siege the castle in the future. "Go on, Strategist!" Pang Tong's command flag waved again.
Chen Dao's white-eared heavy armor retreated a hundred paces again, this time it was much better, but the giant shield was still pierced, but only two or three soldiers behind the bed crossbow were shot.
"This white-eared heavy armor of the military advisor is really slow, is this commander a fool? The arrow is a live target, so it's time to retreat and hurry up? And carrying those huge shields! Deng Yi looked at the white-eared heavy armored soldiers who left corpses under the city and said disdainfully, if it was him Deng Yi commanding this department, he would definitely let his subordinates lose the giant shield in their hands, so that they could run fast and let their subordinates scatter in all directions.
"No, no!" Xu Shu was finally reminded by Deng Yi, is this commander with white ears and heavy armor soldiers a fool? If it's a fool. Will Liu Bei let him come out as commander? It's not cost-effective to fill the moat with heavy armor foot soldiers, heavy armor foot soldiers run slowly, and the sandbags that are naturally carried with amazing weight will not be too heavy, but how many times can you run back and forth like this? Xu Shu was a little uneasy, he quickly picked up the telescope that Liu Mang gave him and looked around, not only looking at the white-eared heavy armor soldiers but also Liu Bei's camp behind.
"What's wrong with the military advisor? Didn't they come to fill in the moat? I thought that I was a turtle shell if I took a giant shield, but it's a pity. In front of our bed crossbow, every qiē is for nothing! Deng Yi said proudly.
"It's not about filling in the moat!" Xu Shu shook his head, although those soldiers were holding sandbags in their hands, they were not close to the moat at all, and many people's sandbags were thrown away, and this sandbag was simply confusing himself and others.
"What is that?!" Xu Shu finally saw a command flag. He was being held in the hands of his best friend, Feng Xiao Pang Tong, and every time the order flag waved, the white-eared heavy armor soldier took a step back.
"Not good!" Xu Shu finally knew where this feeling of wrongness was, but it was already too late.
Five hundred steps! Six hundred steps, until seven hundred steps, finally the power of the bed crossbow became smaller, although the bed crossbow could still destroy the giant shield. But he could only shoot through the giant shield, but he couldn't penetrate it, and he was stuck on the giant shield.
"Seven hundred steps?!" The young man in Liu Beijun's camp finally finished recording, smiled and said to Pang Tong on the side, "Military division, we can fight back!" ”
"Fight back!" Pang Tong laughed, he was just waiting for the young man's words, "Come on, pass on my military order, and have been beaten passively for so long, we should also take out our sharp weapons and display them!" “
"Yes!" The soldiers on the side will take the command and depart. The order flag in Pang Tong's hand was not idle, and continued to wave, this time it was no longer an order to let Bai Er Chongjia advance or retreat, but an order to directly collect troops and return to the camp.
Seeing the meaning of this Lingqi, Chen Zhi finally breathed a sigh of relief, he had been suffering just now, and he fully realized the grief and anger of Hu Che'er before. There was no way to fight back when he was attacked, and the casualties were very heavy, just 700 steps, he left more than 700 corpses. Those are all white-eared heavy armor soldiers, every time Chen Zhi dies, he is distressed, and he was only killed and injured less than 500 people in the ambush and state wolf cavalry, but now he has lost 700 people, which can feel good, but fortunately, it is finally over "The whole army returns to the camp!" Chen Zhi's order also made these white-eared heavy armor soldiers put down their courage and walk through the rain of arrows from this bed crossbow, which is really not something ordinary people can do, because you don't know if you are the one who will die next time.
"Lord, look, this Liu Bei Liu Da'er's army has also been beaten away and is going back to the camp!" Hu Che'er had a little gloating expression, after all, when his Xiliang Iron Cavalry suffered so many casualties yesterday, those Liu Beijun's generals didn't give Hu Che'er a good look.
"Didn't you get beaten away!" Zhang Xiu is a military general and a lord, he naturally thinks much more than a warrior like Hu Che'er, is it possible for Liu Bei to pull out the white ear heavy armor for nothing? There must be something wrong with it.
After a while, Zhang Xiu's doubts were solved, because from Liu Bei's barracks, there was a sudden sound of pulling fiber, hey, hey, hey's voice was very loud, Zhang Xiu fixed his eyes, and only then did he see that nearly ten large wooden shelves were pulled out of Liu Bei's camp.
"Lord, what is this?!" Hu Che'er is from Xiliang and is a Qiang ethnic group, so he is not very familiar with the conquest in the Central Plains, and he does not know much about this wooden shelf.
"Trebuchet!" Zhang Xiu's mouth spit out these three words, the ancients started from the primitive society, because they had to guard against the attack of wild beasts, so the ancients designed the city wall, and protected the city in the city wall to prevent the attack of wild beasts At that time, the city wall was made of fences, and wood was very low, and few wild beasts would climb the wall, and then human beings slowly became the protagonists of this world, becoming the peak of the food chain, the threat from wild beasts was less, but the threat from people of their own kind became bigger, Therefore, the city wall slowly became made of stone and blue bricks, and the city wall became bigger and higher, and it was impossible to cross the city wall by climbing alone. The side with the walls has a natural defensive advantage.
However, it is impossible for the fight between human beings to stop because of the height of the city wall, since the defensive structure such as the city wall has been created, there are naturally offensive buildings that break through the city wall, and this thing in front of you is a sharp weapon to break through the city wall. He and the car, together with the well, called the three major weapons, the car will do a lot of people, and there are also many people who will use it, but this thing can be made is really very rare, because he involves the study of organs, since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Dong Zhongshu deposed the hundred schools of Confucianism. There are very few real people in mechanics, so not only do wells rarely appear, but trebuchets are even more rare.
The normal siege is to rush the car in front, and the ladder is behind, relying on human lives to pile up is to fight with the enemy to see who has more people, who can not bear it first. , and with this thing, a lot of people can die less.
"Trebuchet?!" Hu Che'er looked at the wooden shelf with a puzzled expression, this Han thing is magical, although the giant arrow shot by the bed crossbow before made Hu Che'er very uncomfortable with countless deaths and injuries of the men under his command, but it also made Hu Che'er understand that those bed crossbows are a treasure.
"Trebuchet?!" The same emotion was Xu Shu on the wall of Shouchun, Xu Shu never thought that this Liu Beijun would be able to take out a trebuchet! "Didn't the industrial zone burn down? Let Liu Bei get the drawings?! Xu Shu didn't dare to think so. If Liu Mangjun's ballista drawings fall into Liu Bei's hands, then this Shouchun will be really difficult to defend, with the attack power of ballistas, what kind of city wall can withstand such a blow?
"Absolutely not!" Deng Yi stood aside and explained, "The blueprints of the ballistas are no longer in the industrial zone at all, and the craftsmen who can make the ballistas have long been moved into the city by the generals!" "Liu Mang practiced meritocracy in Shouchun, and such talents include these craftsmen who know how to learn! Although they don't know anything about it, they have their own craftsmanship, and many of Liu Mang's things are not just made by Liu Ye. There are also these craftsmen made under Liu Mang's inspiration, so the status of craftsmen in Liu Mang's army is no worse than that of officials, a master craftsman, Liu Mang has offered a salary of 500 stones, so these craftsmen are the first people Deng Yi wants to protect.
"How could that be?!" Xu Shu looked at it carefully again, and then he realized that those trebuchets were different from those developed by Liu Mang's army in many places. Liu Mang's ballista was formed by a very long lever, but the trebuchet in front of him was made of a huge roller, Xu Shu didn't know how powerful he was, but he knew that since Liu Beijun took out such a thing, he would definitely not be unintentionally targeted, "There are masters in Liu Bei's army!" ”
Deng Yi immediately ordered to go down. Let the city send some wet cowhides and bedding up, hurry! Xu Shu hurriedly ordered to go down, no matter what the trebuchet on the opposite side looked like, Xu Shu needed to guard against him.
"The last general commands!" Deng Yi quickly went down, and after a while, the wet cowhide bedding couldn't find much in such a short time, so he could only take out dozens of cowhides and some bedding, "Quick, spread all these bedding wet cowhides on the city wall." Wrap me up in those castleheads! "The boulders shot by the trebuchet are all smashed on the head of the city, relying on the huge impact to bring damage, and Xu Shu's method is to wrap the head of the city with soft things, so that the boulder has a cushioning force when it falls and reduces the damage.
"Hehe, with wet cowhide and bedding?!" On the high platform of Liu Beijun's camp, the young man looked at the preparation on the city wall of Shouchun and laughed: "If this thing is an ordinary trebuchet, it really has many functions, but unfortunately what you encountered is my Ma Jun's rotating stone thrower!" ”
Soon Xu Shu experienced the feeling of being bombarded by a stone thrower.
"The lord is ready!" The ten wheeled stone throwers of Ma Jun were all ready at once, and the boulders were placed on the round wheel of the stone throwing machine one by one.
"Okay, pass my military order, and blast all those bed crossbows on the city wall for me!" Liu Bei was finally about to vent his evil anger, he was suppressed by the bed crossbow on the city wall, and now he was finally going to fight back, how could there be a feeling of discomfort.
"Yes!" The little colonel took the order and left, and the ten stone throwing machines began to operate, and on top of the huge disc was a very long crank, and dozens of soldiers were turning the huge crank vigorously, and the crank was transmitted to the disc, so that the boulder in the disc was running high, and when it reached a certain degree, the boulder in the round wheel was directly thrown out at once.
"Boom, boom!" The first rain of boulders fell suddenly, and it was the head of the city wall that hit it. Xu Shu's wet cowhide and futon worked, and under the cushioning force, the damage caused by the boulder to the city wall was reduced a lot, and because it was the first round of shooting, both the angle and the hit were much lower. The soldiers at the head of the city couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Huh? That's how power is it?! Liu Bei was disappointed, he originally thought that this stone thrower could bring him any heavy victory, and he didn't expect him to be able to blast Shouchun directly. I must have destroyed those bed crossbows, but now the first round of shooting has only brought so little results, and only one or two unlucky soldiers on the entire city wall have been hit by boulders.
"Don't be impatient, my lord!" Pang Tongxin was also pinching a cold sweat, if this stone thrower didn't work, it really depended on the people to pile up.
"Wet cowhide, the futon can block it! It's so whimsical! "Young people are very confident. Shouted loudly, "Plus, plus!" Upward angle, projectile! Under the guidance of the young man, the angle of the stone throwers was adjusted and the firing point was raised, and there were not only people pulling the crocks on the side of the trebuchets, but also people picking up the stones and quickly putting them into the wheel. After high movement, one boulder after another was ejected.
"Boom, boom!" This time it wasn't like the last time, and there was no free boulder rain. This time, the stones thrown out were one after another, although the wet cowhide and bedding could form a buffer to offset the damage, but he couldn't always offset it, the head of the city wall couldn't withstand the bombardment for a long time.
"What?!" Xu Shu really didn't expect that this trebuchet outside could shoot like a bed crossbow, even Liu Mang's trebuchet couldn't do it! Liu Mang's ballista really can't shoot continuously, because he pays attention to the quality and strength of the cannonball, and each boulder has a role of three hundred catties, but this Ma Jun's stone-throwing machine pursues shooting. It was a burst of fire, and it did not give any rest to the people on the city walls.
The wet cowhide and bedding soon couldn't resist it, and the boulder fell and smashed on the city wall, and the soldiers who were directly hit had no way to live, and those who were not directly hit also cracked because of the falling boulders. Those small stones flew out, and the light ones were pierced through the body, and the heavy ones died directly on the spot.
The original stone cart resembled a big scale, with a bucket hanging at one end. The bucket was filled with large and small stones, and many ropes were hung from the other end, and during the battle, the soldiers pulled the rope in unison, and the end of the stone was quickly cocked, so that the stones were thrown out to strike the enemy. This kind of stone cart has many disadvantages, every time it is shot, it takes some time, and the effect is not great. The new wheeled stone cart designed by Ma Jun overcomes these shortcomings. It uses a wooden wheel to hang stones on wooden wheels, so that the large stones can be shot out one after another by installing machinery to drive the wheels to rotate rapidly, so that the enemy has no time to defend. Ma Jun once used wheels to do experiments, which could shoot dozens of bricks and tiles hundreds of paces away in a row, which was quite powerful at the time.
"Shoot back, shoot back! Shoot them back for me with a bed crossbow! Deng Yi shouted loudly, and the soldiers who operated the bed crossbow quickly turned the direction of the bed crossbow and threw it directly at the trebuchets.
"Huh! What about a bed crossbow?! It's a pity, it's a pity! "The young man is a little complacent, the stone thrower he created himself can suppress this bed crossbow weapon made by the King of Shu, how can this not make the young man happy.
"General, our bed crossbow can't hurt them at all!" Some generals exclaimed, because the arrows fired by their bed crossbows were basically blocked, and there were groups of giant shield soldiers next to those stone throwers. The bed crossbow can only harass them, but it cannot harm them.
"What!" Deng Yi was stunned, only Xu Shu was smiling bitterly, sure enough, he was testing just now!
Seven hundred steps, this is the safe distance that Pang Tong and Ma Jun used the lives of nearly seven hundred white-eared heavy armor soldiers to test out, before the white-eared heavy armor soldiers, under Pang Tong's command flag, as if they were dying, was to test how far the bed crossbow could shoot, how many meters away it could be from his damage, or reduce his damage to the minimum, it was obvious that between five hundred steps and seven hundred steps was a very good distance.
"Boom, boom!" The accuracy of Liu Beijun's stone thrower under the city is getting higher and higher, and under the saturated blow, the stones are thrown into the city wall one by one, "Ahhhhhh For a moment, the screams continued.
"Not good, bed crossbow!" Deng Yi shouted, "Quickly push the bed crossbow in, push it in!" Deng Yi wanted these soldiers to push the bed crossbow into the city tower, and even helped the soldiers with a bed crossbow on the side to push the bed crossbow together. But it was too late.
"General be careful!" The guard on the side pushed Deng Yi violently, Deng Yi was about to scold, but he was stunned before he could speak, because the place where he was standing had become a big pit, and a hundred-pound stone was falling there steadily, the bed crossbow and the guard who pushed him away were all scattered all over the ground, the bed crossbow fell apart, the guard was smashed into minced meat, and the blood was cheap to Deng Yi's face.
Twelve bed crossbows, two of which were dragged into the tower in desperation, and the remaining ten were all reimbursed.