58. Counterweight catapults

Seeing the stone flying high overhead, there was a brief silence at first, and when they realized that it was not lethal at all, the group continued to laugh before, and the sound became even louder. The fourth elder patted his ass and reminded him incidentally: "I guess, that little girl is just like you said, she doesn't know the military at all, and now she is probably reprimanded by the people who know the soldiers, and she doesn't dare to send stones anymore, and now I'm afraid she is busy transferring the catapult position!" ”

Jelle Dashi laughed and said, "Makes sense! ”

Jere's boulder turned to look at the catapult position and ordered: "The whole army obeys the order, bombard the place where the stones flew before, don't let them escape, I will leave none of their trebuchets behind!" Hearing that Yale Dashi understood his potential lines, the four elders breathed a sigh of relief.

After listening to the order, the craftsmen pushed the heavy cannon cart forward with a bitter face. Looking at the mighty and majestic army in front of him, the mighty wooden beast, he felt as if he was the master of the whole world, and he said happily:

"Attack, the whole army presses. I'm going to go into the city today for a feast! ”

Before he could finish speaking, he felt as if someone was gently stabbing him in the back with a finger, and he turned angrily, wondering who was making a big deal out of the scenery while he was pretending, only to find that the various elders were staring at the sky in amazement. He looked over with curiosity and saw a sight he would never forget.

He saw the stars fall.

There seemed to be a sound of bounce in his ears, but the Jerean boulder knew that it was just an illusion, this was still hundreds of meters away from the city, and the sound of the cannon cart throwing stones in the city, how could it be heard here? Round and rolling boulders of similar shapes flew out of the city, and nearly a hundred stone balls were as thin as mosquitoes and flies, but they briefly obscured the sky, shining like heroes.

The Jerek Stone felt a panguing in his heart, those stone balls looked too accurate...... It's like a demon whispering in the wind and asking for his life. How could a trebuchet be so accurate?

"Protect the Patriarch!" The clever four elders lay down with the big stone of Yele, and the other elders woke up like a dream, no longer caring about their demeanor and etiquette, and they all hugged their heads and lay on the ground to hide.

The stone ball whistled past them, as if mocking their cowardice. Their target is never the weak flesh and blood, but the enemy trebuchet, and the battlefield is fought, and only the cannons of the winning side can dominate the entire battlefield, and the loser is left with no bones left. Only a few misaligned stones came at them, knocking down a few hapless guards.

In contrast, the craftsmen and soldiers next to the trebuchet were not so lucky, the stone ball fell into the position accurately, smashed a cannon cart and fell to the ground and rolled rapidly, causing secondary damage, and everywhere it passed, it was eroded.

Of the nearly 100 stone balls, about 70 stone balls smashed into the position, and half of the trebuchets were damaged in an instant. No sooner had he risen to his feet in horror than he heard the terrible cry "Beware of throwing stones!" ”

Jelle Dashi shuddered, and then skillfully lay on the ground, holding his head in his hands, and secretly cursed, "Why can her catapult be launched so quickly and accurately?" ”

After three live shots, the craftsmen marked the height of the catapult in the front basket of the catapult, and the other craftsmen hurriedly referred to the white line and marked their catapults, and the men of the requisition worked hard to shovel the earth and fill the empty wooden basket.

"Everyone obeys the order, three rounds in seven minutes, there is meat tonight, three rounds in ten minutes, and there are enough steamed buns today. Shoot me hard! ”

The man who had been shouting the trumpet suddenly let go, and the trebuchet quickly lifted its long tail arm under the gravity of its front basket, and the stones that had been polished to almost identical were fired at the same time. After all the stones were shot out, an order was given, and the people who had already prepared the wooden basket that had fallen to the ground were reloaded with soil and filled it to the original scale, and the people who shouted the trumpet behind slowly pulled up the front basket, and a new round of slaughter was prepared.

Eight minutes later, the rope puller was exhausted, but the three rapid-fire shots were effective - almost all of the trebuchets of the Jerek were smashed to pieces.

Zhao Rulong, who was in command, smiled when he heard the results, and said to the crowd with the hourglass that was still in the quicksand: "Although you used eight minutes, everyone has a piece of meat and a bowl of soup tonight!" ”

"Wan Sheng!"

The remnant sun was stained with blood, and the two sides who had been fighting for a day withdrew their troops, and they were safe all night. On the second day, Yelemeng discovered the problem, and without the cover of his own trebuchet, the trebuchet of the Jin army could almost be said to be unscrupulous. The good men often suffered heavy casualties before they reached the city wall, and the trebuchets of the Jin army were inevitably too accurate. Every wooden curtain, ladder, just to a certain certain distance, often directly hit by ten boulders, and finally there are few that can safely enter the city. After another day of fruitlessness, Jeel withdrew his troops with a loud cry, and on the third day there was no more fighting.

In Chongming City, Wang Dewei exclaimed: "Your Highness, I really didn't think that this thing called a counterweight trebuchet could be so powerful. It's just a matter of hitting where to fight! With such a divine weapon, I feel that Chongming City cannot be broken for ten days, let alone ten days. ”

Yes, on that day, the counterweight trebuchet that played the crushing exchange ratio was the counterweight trebuchet, one of the few weapons that can be made as long as you know the principle and without any technical threshold, and a male frequency crossing knowledge that almost everyone must have, in the latest selection of the school where the system is located, it is known as the three fool-style cheats alongside making sugar and hydraulic forging. As long as you draw a scale on the wooden basket in front of the trebuchet to smash 100 meters, 150 meters, and 200 meters, you can make an illiterate man a master of pointing and fighting.

Yang Qing was not as optimistic as Wang Dewei, he was still a little uncomfortable when he first came to this group, and he arched his hand respectfully and said: "Your Highness, there are not many boulders left in the city. ”

Chen Lihua said: "Then continue to pick up the house, but remember to give residents enough compensation." ”

Chen Lingxuan interjected coldly: "I'm afraid that the house will not have that kind of magical effect in the future." ”

Everyone was silent for a while, and after being reminded by Chen Lingxuan, it suddenly dawned on them that the stones in the house must be large and small, and they cannot be as uniform as the stones specially prepared to defend the city as before.

Seeing that the atmosphere was depressed, Chen Lingxuan could only pick some good words to say: "But it seems that the Yele Department will not continue to attack in the next few days, isn't this what we want?" Isn't it victory if we just wait for reinforcements? ”

"When will reinforcements arrive?" Yang Qing was embarrassed to say directly, "Can reinforcements arrive?" Instead, the word "when" was used.

Everyone present understood what he meant. Chen Lihua said firmly: "It will come." Reinforcements will definitely arrive. ”