Chapter 8, the sharpest mouth cannon
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In the ancient cold weapon warfare, what was the easiest way to deal with the enemy's trebuchet bombardment?
- That is, to hide under the walls as much as possible!
First of all, due to the relationship between parabola and ballistic, the stone projectile of the trebuchet either hit the city wall or flew far from the city wall, and it was impossible to change the trajectory and fall directly after flying over the city wall, hitting those guys hiding under the city wall.
Secondly, the stones thrown by manpower are not cannonballs after all, and it is difficult to bombard the thick and strong city walls directly to collapse under normal circumstances.
Of course, if you are really unlucky, you will still be smashed and even killed if you hide under the city wall. No one is to blame.
Who made your luck like that? Even this kind of unfortunate thing can happen with a very small chance.
ββ¦β¦ Shelling! Everyone, hurry up and hide! β
Therefore, as soon as the Jin Army's trebuchet group began to bombard, Wang Qiu took out three steel helmets from his personal space, put them on himself, Guo Jing and Nobita, and then rolled to the foot of the city wall, and at the same time watched in horror as stones flew overhead, crossed the tall Kaifeng city wall, roared into the city, and smashed holes in the roofs of the houses, arousing heart-rending wails.
Stone bullets fell one after another, the thick and solid city walls were trembling slightly, and everyone's hearts and livers were also fluttering.
Under the blue sky after the snow, the trebuchets of the Jin army continued to threaten, wave after wave, like a tide, and gradually stopped after a long time.
Fortunately, although the Jin army used a lot of fireballs on trebuchets in order to increase their lethality, which was also a weapon that the Song court threw outside the city in a panic, it had just snowed heavily, and the surface of the buildings in the city was generally extremely wet, and it was difficult to burn the fire. Moreover, as a unique large city with a population of one million in the world in this era, Kaifeng's fire protection measures are also quite perfect, and the sporadic fires were quickly extinguished.
(In the 12th century, the city of Rome, once a million people, had long since fallen, and Constantinople had only a maximum of 500,000 people left.) οΌ
However, the city tower of Dongshuimen and the neighborhood near the city wall were ravaged by another catastrophe, as if they had been ravaged by a meteorite rain.
Of course, the Song army defending the city was not beaten passively on a one-sided basis, and when the round of bombardment by the Jin army stopped temporarily, Zhang Shuye immediately returned to the city and commanded the Song army to counterattack with the bed crossbow and the divine arm bow on the city wall...... And Guo Jing also took Wang Qiu and others and hurried to the city tower to watch the battle.
-- Since it was too late to clean up, the city wall at this time was still a miserable scene of corpses lying on their backs and blood flowing all over the ground. Half of the tall and magnificent city gate tower has collapsed, and the female wall of the city looks like a dog has gnawed it, and many battlements have been flattened. The walls are full of smoke and fire. The ground was even more bloodstained, and stumps, broken bodies, and minced flesh were thrown everywhere, completely looking like a Shura field. The surviving Song Dynasty forbidden soldiers shrank in the corner like quails. The look of horror fully indicated that these people were about to collapse.
However, the four traversers who stepped into the battlefield had no intention of making any humanitarian exclamations, just staring nervously at the defenders' next counterattack.
Under the reprimand of the generals of the Song army, the forbidden troops who had survived the round of "meteorite rain" just now were quickly driven to the bed crossbows that had not yet been smashed, pursing their lips one by one, shaking the winch frantically with their hands - only a series of "squeak" sounds were heard, and the three big bows on the bed crossbow gradually bent into a half-moon shape. It seems that it is about to be broken by this huge force. Next, the loaders worked together to pick up the thick pig iron crossbow arrows and stuff them into the arrow trough. This kind of heavy crossbow arrows for bed crossbows weigh up to 100 catties each.
In the eyes of the nomads, who were desperately short of metal and had to grind their arrows out of stone and bone, it was a luxury that could not have been imagined.
Look next to the bed crossbow. The shiny cast iron crossbow arrows were neatly stacked into a hill - for the Song people, it was a battle made of pure money and steel! In this dark era, only the Song people, who are the most productive in the world, can afford to play such a big deal.
Moreover, Bianliang, as the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, has been continuously repaired and built by generations of kings over the past hundred years, and it can definitely be described as Jincheng soup pool.
However, the Kaifeng Forbidden Army had excellent equipment and strong walls, but there were no skilled veterans, especially those skilled troops that required long-term trainingβno matter how powerful the weapon, if it was only locked in the warehouse and covered with dust, then it would be the same as if it were nothing.
Therefore, although the momentum of dozens of bed crossbows on the Bianliang city wall shooting together was huge, the results were really not very good - because the enemy's catapults were far away, and most of the shooters operating bed crossbows on the city wall were rookies, as a result, more than ninety percent of the crossbow arrows missed, either in the rear, or too far forward, and did not hit the trebuchet, but only hit some Jin soldiers...... Of course, a few crossbow arrows were still missed!
-- I could only hear "Whoa! With a bang, a trebuchet that had been shot fell apart, smashing over a bunch of Jin soldiers, and there were bursts of cheers from the city walls...... Unfortunately, good luck was limited, and more than 80 crossbow arrows were fired, and only two Jin Army trebuchets were smashed.
No way, in the era of cold weapons, operating a "high-tech weapon" such as a bed crossbow is also a technical job, without keen visual inspection ability and rich operating experience, don't want to play heavy crossbow at all. In the hands of rookies, whether crossbow arrows can hit people depends more on luck!
On the other hand, after surviving this round of throwing from the Song army's bed crossbow, the Jin army also walked to the catapult to prepare for the next round of bombardment, and the Song army was helpless about it - pulling the bowstring and loading the arrows were very time-consuming, so the rhythm of shooting crossbow arrows was not fast.
ββ¦β¦ It can't go on like this! We must do everything we can to destroy the enemy's ranged attack weapons! β
Looking at the pale and crumbling Song soldiers around him, Wang Qiu knew that most of the waste firewood from these peaceful citizens had been so frightened that their hands and feet were weak - well, it felt like driving the later generations of Taiwanese strawberry soldiers into the bloody trenches of Europe in World War I.
Therefore, despite the roaring thunder and kicking and scolding of Zhang Shuye and several officers, the winding and reloading of the officers and soldiers defending the city were still extremely slow.
On the contrary, those Jurchen Tartars outside the city who flaunted their might and mighty had the momentum of elite soldiers in a hundred battles -- the Song people once commented on the combat effectiveness of the Jin soldiers: "People are like tigers, horses are like dragons, mountains are like apes, and when they enter the water, they are like otters, their strength is like Mount Tai, and China is like tired eggs." Roughly speaking, the Jin army is very strong in combat, fighting on foot like a tiger, riding like a dragon, fighting in the mountains like an ape, and fighting in the water like an otter.
It can be seen that in this Golden Song War with millions of corpses, what kind of miserable scene did the forbidden army of the Song Dynasty look like a mountain of defeat.
But in Wang Qiu's view, this kind of desperate scene of panic and courage is an excellent stage for most savior heroes to appear.
ββ¦β¦ Nobi-kun! Come on, it's time for you to wield your talents! β
Wang Qiu overlooked the battlefield outside the city for a while with a high-powered telescope, and then first took out the only mortar from his personal space, and then dragged Nobita over with a calm face very self-consciously - because there were too many strange wars of all kinds, and even aliens were beaten I don't know how much, this Japanese fifth-grade elementary school student is far more adaptable to the bloody battlefield than many veterans - said in a serious voice, "...... I heard that you are a sharpshooter in a hundred, and you must be good at playing with artillery, so let's operate this mortar together! I'll take care of the reloading, and you will aim and range......"
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Nobita, the first male protagonist of the Doraemon series of comics, what kind of person is he?
β¦β¦ Well...... I often get zero marks on exams, lack of motor cells, like to peep at girls taking baths, I am bullied for three days, I often cry and cry, I have no extracurricular skills such as Go, music, painting, calligraphy, writing, and photography, and I don't seem to be good for anything.
But he actually has two outstanding skills: first, the school's famous rope turning expert; Second, the invincible sharpshooter of the universe.
In short, as long as it is a long-range shooting weapon, no matter what kind of weapon, it can usually achieve a nearly 100% hit rate in his hands!
So, on the winter day of the leap November of the first year of Jingkang, Nobita used the mortar that Wang Qiu got from the infinite space to once again perform his shooting skills that had defeated the cosmic monsters, the Iron Man Corps and the alien invaders, and successfully achieved every must!
ββ¦β¦ 250 degrees, loaded with high-explosive shells...... Thermally Loaded ...... Ready ~~~ put!! β
In an instant, only a "bell" was heard, and the mortar shell was instantly discharged, crossed a high parabola in the air, and landed accurately at the feet of a catapult, blowing a wooden beam to pieces, and causing the entire catapult to fall down with a bang!
ββAs soon as you touch a shooting weapon, Nobita can instantly transform from a scrap of wood to an expert in ballistics!
ββ¦β¦ Readjust! The muzzle of the gun was deflected fifteen degrees to the left, and the elevation angle was raised by three degrees...... Ready ~~~ put!! β
Listening to Nobi's mouth's incredibly accurate visual measurements, Wang Qiu shook the handle desperately, and after realigning the position of the muzzle, the second mortar shell landed accurately next to another catapult, blowing up at least a dozen Jin army sappers and turning several people into blood...... But more Jin troops still rushed forward without fear, trying to use this catapult to counterattack the Song army on the city wall.
ββ¦β¦ Come again, come again! Keep shooting according to the coordinates just now! β
With Nobita's excited shouts, Wang Qiu stuffed one mortar shell after another from the muzzle of the gun, and blew up the trebuchet position of the siege Jin army to the ground - the range of the trebuchet in these years was about 250 meters, which was definitely within the range of any mortar.
And looking at the flames that burst out on the position of the Jin army outside the city, the Great Song Forbidden Army on the city wall couldn't help but cheer with joy.
At the same time, Guo Jing was sweating profusely and was busy fooling Zhang Shuye, whose curiosity was soaring, saying that this was Lei Fa Yunyun who was invited from Heavenly Court.
It's a pity that although Nobita's artillery skills are shocking, almost every time he must hit, it is a pity that Wang Qiu only has a total of twenty cannonballs, so he is reluctant to let them go after hitting ten. As for the more expensive RPG bazooka, Wang Qiu was simply not willing to show it off.
In this way, in front of tens of thousands of gold troops outside the city, the damage caused by a mere ten mortar shells was almost negligible.
Therefore, after Wang Qiu took back the mortar that had been beaten hot, Nobita, who was still unsatisfied, turned around and shouted the famous special mantra to the cat: "...... Doraemon, hurry up and help me figure it out! β
And Wang Qiu also looked at the round body of the machine qì cat with great interest, looking forward to what incredible novelty props he could come up with - many urban young men in this world must be like Wang Qiu, who had the dream of killing all sides with Doraemon's magical props when he was a child!
It's a pity that Doraemon, who is now in a state of strict debt, seems to have become a little less powerful......
--Doraemon, who was treating the wounded soldiers in the city, quickly put away the automatic medical box, and then lowered his head and hurriedly rummaged through his four-dimensional pocket, and the more he rummaged, the more ugly his face became: "...... Oops, I consumed too many weapons last time I fought zombies, and my credit card was frozen before I could buy a new one! Well, I'll see, both the air cannon and the shock gun were beaten to scrap. The zoom lamp has no more energy...... What can be regarded as a weapon seems to be the only thing left of this 100 billion equivalent earth destruction bomb...... Why don't you throw it out and try it? β
Watching Doraemon take out a huge bomb with a skull drawn from his pocket, and looking at the Jin army under the city wall, Wang Qiu was almost paralyzed by fright: "...... Don't don't, don't! Don't throw it away! Doraemon! Even if you want to die, I still want to live! β
What is the concept of 100 billion tons of equivalent? Equivalent to the power of five million Hiroshima atomic bombs! It is enough to plow the entire Japanese island into a radiant wasteland, if it is used to bombard the Jurchen Iron Cavalry a few miles outside Bianliang City...... Are you trying to kill yourself? What about suicide? Or suicide?
It's hard to say whether the earth will be destroyed if such a bomb is dropped, but at least the entire Central Plains should be burned to the ground!
But such a powerful nuclear bomb was only used to destroy rats in Doraemon's hands...... Rats in the 22nd century are terrifying!
Seeing all kinds of strange things that Doraemon had turned out of his pocket scattered all over the city wall, Wang Qiu finally couldn't help but say his own construction: "...... Doraemon, in this case, it seems that you should use the 'lie comes true mouth' to make the enemy surrender immediately, right? β
- [Lies Come True Mouth], one of Doraemon's magic props, as long as you wear it, no matter how ridiculous your words are, you can make a lie come true...... Nobita, for example, used this gathing to successfully turn his dad into a karate master and a flyer......
ββ¦β¦ It can't be done, Wang Qiujun! Doraemon sighed and waved his hand, "...... 'Lies Come True Mouth' can only work on one person at a time, and if you know the name of one of the enemies below, then you can indeed make him turn against him immediately - but there are tens of thousands of enemy troops besieging the city!" β
ββ¦β¦ In that case, then we have to change something - the sound coagulant, you should still have it, right? β
Seeing that the level props that could reverse the law of cause and effect were not used, Wang Qiu had to regretfully retreat to the next best thing and use a more rustic physical strike instead.
- [Sound Coagulant], one of Doraemon's magical props. Anyone who drinks it and shouts it will turn into a large brick and fall down, knocking over the target of the scolding. It's usually used as a joke, but it can also be used to take down enemies: housewives can use it to deal with wild cats stealing fish, office girls can use it to deal with idiots and hooligans, and Nobita makes headlines of the day when he screams in the mountains, knocking over a bunch of passers-by...... Even more tragic is Doraemon himself, because he catches a cold after drinking the sound coagulant, which causes Nobi's house to pile up a pile of solid sounds, almost collapsing the floor slab - accompanied by Doraemon's continuous sneezing......
But in Wang Qiu's eyes, this kind of boulder that can shoot out with sound is probably much more powerful than the early artillery.
ββ¦β¦ Use a frozen sound to smash people? That's a good idea! "Doraemon's head is obviously not stupid, and he figured out the key to it with a slight turn," ...... But we have to hurry! The next round of the enemy's catapult attack is about to begin......"
-- Due to the urgency of time, it was too late to convince others, so the first round of mouth cannons could only be fired by Guo Jing and Guo Daxian himself.
ββ¦β¦ Listen to the Jurchen barbarians, if you dare to offend my Central Plains Heavenly Empire, you are really asking for your own death......"
On the upper floor of the East Water Gate in Bianliang, Guo Jing pinched his nose and poured a large mouthful of sound coagulant into his mouth, then held on to the battlements of the city wall, took a deep breath of cold air, and scolded loudly at the enemy troops outside the city.
Then, accompanied by his angry scolding, in the stunned eyes of the soldiers of the two armies, a huge cement block the size of a calf flew out of his mouth with a sound every 34o seconds, and smashed the top of Jin Jun's head!
In an instant, the dust and smoke were everywhere, the flesh and blood were flying, the tall catapult was smashed to pieces, and the golden soldiers who operated the catapult were smashed into a blur of flesh and blood.
ββ¦β¦ Guo Daxian Master's divine law is invincible! I will win! β
Seeing this, the defenders at the head of the city cheered for a while, and their morale was greatly boosted. Guo Daxian, who was already shouting a little hoarsely, took advantage of the situation to hand over the work of firing the mouth cannon to a group of professionals -- in ancient wars, the two armies often had to shout and curse each other before they faced each other, so there was a group of professional "loud voices" in charge of scolding in the Song army -- let them drink the sound coagulant one by one, and then stand on the edge of the battlement to scold the Jin people.
I have to say that these forbidden soldiers who are specially responsible for scolding the formation are still very dedicated in their work, not only with loud voices, but also with a string of foul language, and they scolded for two quarters of an hour without repeating, so that the Jin army besieging the city enjoyed the power of a mouth cannon.
-- The head of the city scolded loudly, and the stones under the city were like mountains......
Seeing that it was so easy to kill the enemy and serve the country, several civil officials also had the courage to follow suit, poured a large mouthful of sound coagulant, and then scolded the golden soldiers who were scurrying around the city......
-- According to incomplete statistics, before all five bottles of sound coagulant in Doraemon's pocket were exhausted, 30 Song soldiers and 15 civil officials who joined in the fun cursed a total of about 500,000 words of foul language and threw more than 100,000 tons of solid sound on the enemy's head!
Of course, under the sharpest artillery bombardment in history, the Jin army camp was in disarray, and the catapult position was almost buried by stones. The morale of the besieging Jin army plummeted when they landed, and they had to withdraw their troops in advance. And the Song army, which was originally frightened, was instantly demoralized, and cheers were like thunder.
At the same time, Emperor Zhao Huan, who had been eating unpleasantly in recent days, finally heard the good news that Guo Daxian was casting spells at the head of the city to defeat the enemy.