Han Xing disdained the threat of Count Sāo in his heart, but his face pretended to be trembling, and he stammered, "I was declared a heretic? ”

"That's right! Scared, right? "Count Na (sāo) said triumphantly. What is heresy, Han Xing knows very well, he is just deliberately teasing Count Sāo. There is a good saying, "The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment", Han Xing likes to watch others talk to the fullest, and then sit back and watch him be slapped in the face.

"If you know each other, you will obediently disarm and surrender, and I may spare your life!" Count Na (sāo) laughed wildly.

"Come on, do you think I'm really going to believe what you call sparing my life? There is only one end for heresy - to be burned at the stake as a barbecue material! Han Xing glanced at Count Sāo speechlessly, and said secretly in his heart.

"Lord Count Sāo! After careful consideration, I refuse to hand over my lawful territory, Ganquan Village, if you have the ability, take it yourself! Han Xing gave an official reply.

But when Count Sāo heard this, his face turned green, "Lao Tzu has been pulling with you for so long, and I want to convince you, but you don't know each other?" ”

"Good, good! Then let's see the real chapter under our hands! The Count turned his horse's head in a puff, swung his whip, and struck the horse in the crotch (tún), and the horse immediately spread its hooves and ran backwards.

"Lord Count, wouldn't it be unwise for you to reject Count Sāo's offer like this?" Kevin, the captain of the guard, looked at the dense sāo army under the city, swallowed his saliva, and said worriedly.

"Look!" Han Xing waved his hand and smiled, saying that a circular gate composed of a blue light curtain appeared in the open space on the side, and rows of tall and burly devil terminators walked out of it, they were wearing the armor sponsored by Robert at the beginning, and they were holding two-handed swords in their hands, which made people feel powerful at first glance, as if they were heavenly soldiers and generals in the sky!

"It turns out that Lord Earl, you are a realm lord! Look at my stupidity, isn't this unfounded worry—blind (cāo) mind? Kevin's eyes straightened, and even the villagers of Ganquan Village, who had temporarily taken refuge in the castle, looked stupid.

The Lord of the Realm is a legendary existence in the infinite world, as if he is a legendary savior, the chosen son, and a legendary figure like a land immortal. In fact, there are many realm masters in the infinite world, but most of them are real people who don't show their faces, pretending to be poor and white.

After all, it is a great wealth to be the lord of the realm, and when others are still fighting for a land the size of a county, the lord of the realm already owns at least a small city, or even a country, a territory the size of a continent, and has countless masters and capable people, and they are proud of the rivers and lakes!

You must know that the realm master is not a cabbage, if it is not extremely strong, it is a master of excellent luck, and if it is not good, it is outstanding wisdom and deep scheming. The more masters you are, the stronger the drama (qíng) world you encounter, and the more difficult it will naturally be if you want to become a realm master. And Han Xing became the realm master, it was also due to luck, by mistake, just having a huge mobile storage space was already a great advantage. It is said that "you can't eat and walk around", if anyone dares to let Han Xing "walk around", Han Xing is afraid that he will not be able to turn his house upside down and ensure that he will not even be left with a hair!

Imagine that now Han Xing's [Riverside District] can already mass-produce food, what is food? That's money! As long as you take it out and sell it, it is a lot of money in minutes. Owning a private world is equivalent to having a production base.

Just imagine, if it is a world as big as the earth, and it is still a fairy, wouldn't it be Jindan, Yuanying, and even immortals, at the mercy of the drive? People are a person who works hard to fight monsters and level up, at most to form a team. However, (shēn) is the lord of the realm, and there are thousands of younger brothers as soon as he makes a move, and all of them are like destroying the world!

Looking at the civilians around him looking at him with admiring fairy eyes, Han Xingbu (jìn) felt a flutter in his heart. Just when he was swaying at Fang Xuan, high-spirited, and pointing out the beautiful life of the country, the Na (sāo) army began to attack!

"Archer, prepare, draw the bow, release the arrow!" One of Count Sāo's knights served as the captain of the archers, drew the silver sword at his waist, raised it high, and then lowered it heavily.

For a while, there was a thunderbolt sound under the city, and the sound of a bowstring "boom~boom~" in the ears was heard, and hundreds of feather arrows flew towards the city with the sound of breaking through the air.

"Cut!" Han Xing didn't move, he had seen a lot of battles like this! There are only a hundred or so archers, compared to the thousands of troops and horses he has seen, arrows are raining down, it is simply pediatric!

He snapped his fingers lightly, and saw the Devil Terminators standing at the head of the city step forward in unison, turning into a solid human wall. The feathered arrows landed on their (shēn), bounced off by their (shēn) armor, making a "clanging" sound, and then fell weakly.

"How is this arrow fluttering? Hahaha, Count Sāo, your archers don't seem to be good! The arrows that come out of (shè) are soft, are you tickling us? Han Xing casually picked up a feathered arrow that landed on his (xiōng) armor and was bounced away. He weighed it in his hand, then sneered and poked his head out of the city, broke the arrow in front of the sāo army, and then threw it out casually, mocking.

At this time, the Na (sāo) army was stunned, there were zero casualties in a round of arrow rain, and they were ridiculed as "tickling" by others, this face was really bad!

"You wait, I'll make you look good!" Count Sāo's face was pale, his cheeks puffed out, and he croaked as if he were a frog.

"I'm waiting, don't make me wait too long, I'll be bored!" Han Xing yawned in response, as if what was in front of him was not an army, but a group of clowns who came to perform. is still a loser among clowns, and he can't even make Han Xing, the master, laugh out loud!

"Baron Albrecht, have the catapult come up!" Count Sāo was immediately angry, and he yelled at Baron Albrecht, who had attacked him.

Obviously, he also took into account that the castle of Ganquan Village is likely to be a tough nut to bite, so he also prepared something like a catapult!

Three trebuchets were brought up, and this large, bulky creature was slow to move and required two or three people to push together, looking like it was the size of a single man (chuáng).

"This is your catapult? It's a Roman ballista, read more! When Han Xing saw these three "catapults", he immediately laughed, isn't this the famous Roman-style ballista?

It should be noted that Roman ballistae can easily be mistaken for catapults, as they fire stone projectiles. However, the principle of the two is completely different, the Roman ballista is equivalent to a large crossbow, which is what we call the [(chuáng) crossbow], and its scientific name is "elastic stone throwing machine". Its working principle is to use the potential energy of the crossbow string to put the stone projectile in the throwing bucket, and then play it out. The principle is very similar to that of a slingshot!

There is also a catapult, which is also the catapult in everyone's impression, which was first proposed by Cao (cāo)'s strategist Liu Ye in the battle of Guandu in the Celestial Empire, and called it "Thunderbolt Car". But it is also said that this was invented by the Mohists in the autumn period (chūn), and Liu Ye was just picking up people's teeth.

Its purpose was to counter the tall arrow turrets built by Yuan Shaojun (the so-called turrets were wiped out, and the turrets inside were referred to as this thing, a kind of movable high platform that was higher than the city walls, with a large number of archers on it, which was used to suppress enemy fire during the siege).

This catapult is the most common and has the most variants. It was first driven by manpower and was widely used in the Celestial Empire, and we have no shortage of manpower in all dynasties, right? The most important thing is that even without counterweights, relying on a group of people to pull and exert force at the same time, you can throw (shè) deadly stone projectiles. This is also why the "cannon" of the Celestial Empire was first next to the stone character. The advantage is that it can be erected locally, and dismantled directly after use, so as to avoid the trouble of transportation!

Its evolved version is a counterweight catapult, which replaces human labor with a heavy object, lifts the weight and then lowers it, and its most typical feature is the straight spoon-like wooden hair (shè) bucket at the rear. (Sometimes a mesh bag is also used.)

A more evolved version is the torsion trebuchet, which uses a completely different principle, agitating the noose to pull the hair arm off little by little, and then release the winch to throw the stone projectile out.

I don't know if you have ever played with the wooden stick in the middle of the popsicle when you were a child, grab the bottom end of the stick with your left hand, and then gently press the other end with your right hand, and then let go, the stick will bounce out. This is the principle used in the torsion catapult.

The last one is the famous - counterweight stone throwing machine, also called back cannon, siege table car. This siege machine is the pinnacle of the Cold Weapon Age, and unlike catapults, it is tall and about two stories tall.

It looks like a large scale with unequal arms, with a metal hammer-like counterweight in front of it, and a rope and a net-like hair bucket attached to the ground behind the long hair (shè) arms. It is worth mentioning that this is probably the most exquisite of all the siege equipment in the cold weapon era, and the length of its heavy arm and strength arm needs to be accurately calculated, and the slightest deviation may lead to the breaking of the hair (shè) arm, and the fall of the breeding may even hurt your own people.

To give these three siege weapons in the era of cold weapons, in a front and back order, it can only be said that each has its own merits. The advantages of the Roman-style ballista are its small size, strong maneuverability (xìng), simple production process, and less stringent materials, which is conducive to large-scale popularization. This is also the main reason why Roman ballistas are favored, they are not easy to use, can the Romans produce them on a large scale?

The catapult is in the middle, and the data is balanced, which is a moderate choice, but it is more than enough for the general stone city wall!!

The siege chariot is definitely the most powerful and complex of the three siege equipment, but it is large in size, not conducive to production, transportation and carrying, mainly used in the middle and late Middle Ages to attack and destroy strong castles. The most important role of the wheels installed underneath it is to reduce recoil, not to move.

If Han Xing had to choose between the three siege equipment, he would also choose a Roman-style ballista, which has the strongest popularity (xìng) and is easy to form a scale, and if it is replaced with a crossbow arrow, it can be used to kill the enemy army on a large scale (shè) and make "strings of incense"!