On Earth, trebuchets were quickly phased out after the advent of the Age of Artillery, and were only used to make up for the lack of artillery and gunpowder.

Just like in the era of the French Revolution, some militias went into battle with short spears without muskets, it does not mean that it was strong in that era, but it was just used to make up the numbers.

Of course, Luo Ming didn't know that much about the history of the Earth War, but that didn't stop him from asking Aya to list the data of the various catapults she knew, and then derive and analyze them factual and factual from them.

Trebuchets are certainly not useless, but there are some advantages, especially in this era when firearms are not yet commonplace.

For example, trebuchets don't consume much copper and iron, and they don't consume gunpowder at all, so small trebuchets can be mass-produced for defending cities, and they can be used forever as long as wood and stone are available.

The oversized catapult, on the other hand, could fire boulders, much larger than the limit caliber of the guns that Lormin could now cast, and although the range was much closer than the artillery, it was still very useful for attacking fixed fortifications.

When a boulder falls, no wall can be left unscathed.

Luo Ming also hesitated for a long time between using a large number of heavy trebuchets to smash the walls together, or blowing down the walls with a large amount of gunpowder.

But in any case, the catapult that can be used to siege the city must not be small, and Luo Ming has every reason to believe that it is a good target for artillery even from a distance of several hundred meters.

Especially now that he still has a rifled cannon, and the second rifled gun is also being made, he is even more confident.

However, after all, this is only the confidence that only those who know and those who are rational can have...... For those nobles, Lockin felt that Vauban Kleiman's suggestion was meritorious, and that it was time for them to show them how good they were.

Now Luo Ming really doesn't have a giant cannon that can fire super-large cannonballs, and he won't be willing to make such a big and inappropriate thing in a short time, and the rest of the artillery is naturally far inferior in terms of momentum.

But Luo Ming has another good thing in his hands, far better than the artillery he has now - that is, rockets, or rockets to be precise.

If you really take the current rocket and bombard it with a siege engine a few hundred meters away, it will be no different from aiming at the moon, and you may not be able to hit one shot if you fire 30 rounds.

But its momentum was indeed sufficient, and Luo Ming immediately sent an order to prepare thirty rockets, and when the enemy appeared, he would greet them with several rows of barrages.

Although the rockets do consume a lot of gunpowder, thirty of them are not enough to empty Luo Ming's family, even if there are hundreds, he can get them.

According to calculations, the existing stockpile of gunpowder was enough for 8.5 tons of gunpowder, enough for all the artillery and muskets he now had to fire five or six hundred rounds in a salvo.

Of course, this amount is enough for Luo Ming to fight with full firepower for more than a week, but it is still a little insufficient for a long-term and protracted war, so Luo Ming's clone is mobilizing people and slave labor in the rear at this moment to make gunpowder on a large scale.

According to estimates, 80 kilograms of gunpowder should be produced every day, which may not seem like a large number, but in fact 80 kilograms of gunpowder is enough for a mountain howitzer to shoot almost 150 times, and this number is much more for short guns and tiger squat guns.

In a normal battle, firing thirty or forty shells a day is considered a remarkable thing.

You must know that the people of Belan are also mortal in the flesh, and they will be tired when attacking the city, if they really dare to keep attacking the city from till night, for several days in a row, it will certainly consume a lot of gunpowder from Luo Ming, but Luo Ming will definitely seize this good opportunity to lead the troops out to raid.

In short, with this supplementary channel, Luo Ming was sure that for a long time, he would exchange the lives of the Belans by consuming gunpowder.

In this process, Luo Ming also thought of some ways to carry out the division of labor and information control as much as possible, and still left some core processes and key proportions in the hands of a few credible people, but this can be regarded as a technology diffusion after all.

If someone has a heart to investigate, I'm afraid it won't take two or three years, the formula of gunpowder will be experimentally restored, although the quality is estimated to be not as good as Luo Ming's gunpowder in the short term, but it is also a leap from scratch.

However, Luo Ming has no regrets about it.

It is impossible to completely isolate the technology from the outside world, but as long as the technology can be spread widely enough to affect their own interests, they can obtain enough benefits from other aspects to supplement, then it cannot be regarded as a loss.

It's about the same as nuclear weapons on Earth. Seventy or eighty years after the end of World War II, some second-rate powers possessed the ability to manufacture nuclear weapons and even the finished products of nuclear weapons, but within these seven or eighty years, the United States, the Soviet Union, the Kingdom of Heaven and other countries that were the first to possess nuclear weapons have reaped huge benefits and gained a strategic advantage over non-nuclear countries in an all-round way, and have maintained this for decades, widening a huge gap.

As long as they go further before their potential enemies and competitors can use full-fledged gunpowder weapons, they will have to catch up.

And if you simply chase those superficial things, the result will never be much better than Da Qingguo's Westernization Movement.

However, this plan still needs the cooperation of those nobles in his own hands to do the best...... Unexpectedly, Luo Ming couldn't help but laugh twice.

"Excuse me, Master, why are you laughing?" asked a young man beside him curiously.

He didn't call Luo Mingjun but called him master, because this young man was one of Luo Ming's apprentices in Brandon, and now he held the position of an attendant, and he was in private, so it didn't matter if he asked.

Although Granty immediately shook off a cold look, which made the young man tremble a little, Luo Ming didn't care, but said directly:

"It's nothing, I'm just laughing at the situation. ”

Luo Ming smiled and waved at him: "Go and inform the officers to assemble in the council hall within ten minutes." ”

Then he ordered another attendant and told him to inform the council chamber to make relevant preparations.

Externally, Luo Ming naturally showed a fearless optimism, he was the leader of the whole of Meiquan, a great man who led the Meiquan army to victory in a hundred battles, as long as he still behaved calmly and talked and laughed, he could make people feel a little more confident.

What you think in your heart is another matter. Luo Ming didn't think that he would fail here and not become so nervous, but he also roughly estimated that this must be a severe test, and he must not underestimate the enemy.

Now that we know the information of the Ben Mine Vehicle, it is not bad to make more preparations in advance.