Shi Liang, the commander of the Ninghai Sea, has a knot that he had more than ten years ago. That is, the empire's intentional or unintentional suppression of the sailors!

Not from the beginning of the Qianyuanji dynasty, but from the founding of the entire Qianyuan Empire, successive emperors showed alienation and distrust of the sea.

With the combat power of the empire at its peak, it is completely easy to build a super fleet of thousands of warships to rule the entire Eastern Ocean.

But the reality is that the Imperial Sky has the best shipbuilding technology in the Eastern Continent, but it is complacent and unwilling to invest in the sailors.

Even if the Lena Dynasty rose up in the north and formed the Great Ocean Naval Division to provoke the Empire, the empire only slightly strengthened the Donghai County Naval Division to deal with it.

It was completely on the defensive line, and it never occurred to him to send a large fleet on an expedition and take the initiative to hit the harbor of the Lena people.

Even the rise of the pirates and the bottleneck of maritime trade were inseparable from the Empire's conservatism in this regard.

Shi Liang knows very well that the empire has always claimed to be the overlord of the Eastern Continent of the **** country, so it is dispensable for exchanges with the open sea.

Moreover, the climate in the eastern ocean is unpredictable, and there are often storms and tsunamis, which often capsize a fleet, which also gives the emperors of successive dynasties a sense of insecurity.

However, understanding is understanding, how can Shi Liang, as a naval commander, be willing to settle for the situation?

Not to mention leading the fleet to patrol the ocean, it is difficult to clear even the pirates at the doorstep, this naval commander is too boring.

Another point is that in the eyes of the empire, the Ninghai Division is only a supplement to the East China Sea Division.

As long as the sailors of Donghai County are in one day, he Shi Liang can only be nailed to his current position and cannot survive further.

For the ambitious Shi Liang, this is difficult to accept.

The appearance of Chen Wu's envoy made him another world.

Vigorously develop the sea trade heavy water division, and even form a fleet far beyond the East China Sea division!

This promise alone is enough for Shi Liang to make up his mind.

Moreover, the situation of the empire in the past two years is indeed worrying, there is a feeling of the weather in the last years of the dynasty, and the development of the Songjiang army is extremely rapid.

For several reasons, he didn't even mention any other conditions, so he happily accepted Luo Tianxiang's surrender.

From this moment on, there was no longer any suspense about the fall of Quanzhou Port.

After further agreeing with Shi Liang, Luo Tianxiang, who had completed the important task, quickly sneaked out and passed the news to the military intelligence officers who responded outside.

Subsequently, the personnel of the military intelligence department managed to spread the news overnight and reported it to the two major brigades of the Songjiang Army that were besieging the city outside.

Without this scruple, Sun Tian and Xu Shizhong could let go of the siege.

Because it is a seaport-type city, although Quanzhou Port is large, the tightness of the city defense system is even worse than that of a sandbank.

As siege equipment was brought up from the rear, the Songjiang army began to use stone throwers to carry out a tentative bombardment of the city walls of Quanzhou Port.

Among them, there are four huge stone throwing machines that stand out from the crowd and are very conspicuous.

Unlike the most common torsional stone throwers in the Empire, this type of stone thrower does not have a winch and is very large.

If the Omani soldiers showed up here, they would find that this new large stone throwing machine was very similar to the stone throwing machine they had just developed to make great contributions to the attack on the South Peak Fortress and Tianlong City.

That's right, this is another world of counterweight catapults known as return guns.

Before the artillery came out, this thing was basically the pinnacle of large siege engines.

Before this, Chen Wu did not take it out too early due to various considerations.

But now, with a solid enough foothold, he finally got the game's mature design drawings to the craftsmen of the War Readiness Agency.

At this moment, the counterweight stone thrower that appeared under the city of Quanzhou, the length of the boom is fifteen meters long, and it can easily throw a huge stone weighing 300 catties to a distance of 200 steps away, and the counterweight hammer for it is as high as several tons.

Although it fires slower than a torsion stone thrower, it is incredibly powerful enough to destroy most fortresses.

Even the defense of Tianlong City last year failed to block the bombardment of the immature counterweight stone thrower of the Omanis, and a section of the city wall was collapsed little by little.

The one that Chen Wu took out was named "Great General Stone Cannon"

The heavy weapon, used to bombard the city wall of Quanzhou Port, is simply a knife for killing chickens!

In fact, when these four large stone throwers were pushed to the front of the formation, along with the others, the soldiers of the city defense battalion on the wall of Quanzhou Port had already noticed them.

There is no other reason, it is too big!

Regardless of the size of the soldiers operating the machine, or the counterweight used for counterweight, it is not on the same level as the torsion stone throwing machine around.

Although I haven't seen it with my own eyes, just imagining it knows that these four large stone throwing machines are only very difficult to mess with.

After a simple calibration using Professor Chen Wu's method, the first round of test firing began with the stone thrower.

Ordinary torsion stone throwing machine is mainly based on stone bullets weighing two or three catties, and a stone throwing machine can launch dozens at the same time.

Four counterweight stone throwing machines, mainly used to destroy the city wall, used a huge stone block of 300 catties.

At the sound of the order, hundreds of stone bullets were thrown towards the city like a rain of flowers.

Although most of them missed, even falling directly into the open space behind the city walls, even if one out of ten could hit, hundreds of stone projectiles would fall on the city's head.

The crisp and dense sound of impact sounded, as if it were a huge hail rain.

Although the soldiers of Quanzhou Port made preparations in advance, such as hiding behind the battlements, blocking the top with shields, and their positions were relatively scattered, there were still several unlucky eggs who were hit by the rebounding stone projectiles, and they were either dead or disabled!

However, the counterweight stone throwing machine that they were most afraid of was not able to master it well because of the first trial, and the boulder that was thrown fell down more than ten meters in front of the city wall, smashing a deep pit in the ground, and it was dusty for a while.

While amazed by the power of this large stone thrower, the soldiers defending the city couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

They thought that the range of the four catapults did not seem to be enough.

However, this is only the first round of test launches!

After adjusting the angle slightly, the bombardment of the second and third rounds began.

This time, the range of the stone projectiles was more precise, and the boulders thrown by the counterweight stone thrower were getting closer to the walls.

After correcting the angle twice in a row, in the third round of bombardment, a boulder finally fell from the sky and smashed on the wall of Quanzhou Port.

At that moment, the nearby soldiers only felt that the entire city wall shook slightly.

Although the walls were unharmed, there was a noticeable loosening near the bombarded masonry.

This made the soldiers of the city defense battalion who happened to be in the scene gasp!

"Those four terrible catapults must be destroyed!"

Luca, the co-captain of the Quanzhou Port City Defense Battalion, was not slow to react and made a wise decision.

But the problem in front of him was that although there was a way to deal with it, it could not be done by relying on the strength of the defenders in the city.

They had only a small number of cavalry, but the Songjiang army had a full five hundred cavalry waiting on the raised slope outside the city.

If it was an infantry out of the city, it would be almost impossible to destroy the four stone throwers.

As soon as the gate of Quanzhou Port was opened, the cavalry of the Songjiang Army would immediately enter and destroy all the soldiers who dared to go out of the city to destroy the stone thrower.

As for relying on the city defense weapons of the city wall, it is almost impossible to attack the Songjiang army and destroy the stone thrower in front of the Songjiang army.

The geographical location of Quanzhou Port made it unlikely that it would be attacked from land.

More likely, the attack came from the open sea of the Eastern Ocean, so the focus of defense was on the dry camp of the Sailors.

In addition, the salty and humid air on the seashore is also very strict about the erosion of the crossbow of the rubble-throwing machine.

Several factors have determined that the counterattack of Quanzhou Port is very weak.

Having mastered this absolute superiority, the Songjiang army naturally did not rush to send infantry troops to attack the city, but bombarded it with a stone thrower for three days.

Almost all the stone bullets that could be found nearby were thrown onto the city.

Four counterweight stone throwers also threw hundreds of boulders.

Probably because the wood used to act as a boom was not enough, one of them had been damaged, and the boom of the counterweight stone throwing machine was also severely deformed, and its power was greatly reduced.

But even so, the pressure they put on the port of Quanzhou is enough.

On the front of the wall, there is a section of the city wall that is already covered with spider-like cracks, the widest is even the thickness of a thumb, and it may collapse if the vibration is slightly stronger.

The soldiers defending the city did not even dare to approach this section of the wall.

"It's worthy of a general's cannon!"

The generals of the Songjiang Army, who were watching the battle under the city, witnessed the power of this counterweight stone throwing machine for several days, and they couldn't help but be surprised and excited one by one.

With such a sharp weapon in hand, why worry that there is a city that cannot be attacked.

Don't say that there is a Quanzhou port in front of you, even if it is a Xiongguan like Nanfeng Fortress Daqingguan, as long as there are enough general stone cannons, it can be completely destroyed in a few months, right?

"Tell me to go down and prepare for tomorrow's attack!"

……… The fourth day of the siege!

As the remaining two counterweight stone throwers continued to exert their might, it was a coincidence that two boulders in a row smashed to a landing point, and the city wall of Quanzhou Port finally could not support it, first the cracks spread sharply, and countless rubbles rolled down, and then large pieces of masonry fell, collapsing under the frightened gaze of the defenders.

A gap of 123 meters wide!

Although it was still a bit narrow, it was enough for the Matsue army to attack.

With an order, the 1st Brigade of the Songjiang Army, which had already been prepared, killed the morale of the soldiers, and fought with the Quanzhou Port City Defense Battalion, which was also psychologically prepared.

However, compared with the soldiers of the Songjiang Army, the morale of these Quanzhou Port City Defense Battalions is much lower.

If it was a sea raider, these soldiers would dare to fight to the end in order to protect their hometown.

However, the attacking side was the Songjiang soldiers from the neighboring county, and they also posted notices in the city in advance to spread rumors, coupled with the non-stop bombardment of the catapult for three whole days, it is conceivable how much courage they can show.

In just half a day, the Quanzhou Port City Defense Battalion behind the gap in the city wall fell into a crisis!

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