Chapter 572: Thunder Carts (End)
Zagmer directly set up a "foolproof" flag, and Luo Ming will naturally help him take it away later.
As for this thunder car, it was invented by a sage over a period of ten years, and after being dedicated to the Belan army, he experimented with a number of abandoned fortresses, and it was invincible without considering supernatural powers!
Its range is far beyond that of a typical trebuchet, and even a little longer than that of a traditional heavy trebuchet, and at the same time, except for the core components, it can be built from local materials, and the footprint is also smaller than that of a traditional heavy trebuchet, making it easy to carry.
If it weren't for the fact that it uses torsional energy storage, requires powerful enough energy storage materials, and requires spell-assisted manufacturing, which is expensive, then its appearance itself is enough to cause a military revolution!
No, perhaps this military revolution has already begun, and the battle of the Belan Federation to invade the Duchy of Lothar is its prelude, and without its help, the Berans would not dare to adopt such a radical strategy as a raid on Vanshee County across the two counties.
This time, Zagmer's army had enough parts to assemble six Minecar.
You must know that the Thunder Cart's power is so great that it can cut cracks in mountain cliffs, and it can completely smash that strange fortress into ruins from a long distance, no matter what shape it is!
This is true, if any fortress is only beaten and does not fight back, it will not be able to carry siege weapons.
The strongest point of the Ben Thunder Car is actually its long range, at the farthest point of its effective range, whether it is an ordinary trebuchet or a bed crossbow, it is almost impossible to hit it, such a hand length naturally has an advantage, and it can beat the opponent to the point that it can't fight back, and the city will naturally break.
It's a pity that it was born at the wrong time, just three years ago, the world's first cannon was made by Luo Ming under the supervision of Schönbrunn Collar, and now the people of Belan directly took it and hit Luo Ming's men.
Luo Ming did not rashly order the soldiers to fire, but patiently waited for the minecart to be assembled.
The Benlei car is disassembled and loaded into trucks when it is transported, and it is not large, but when it is to be used, it will take a while to assemble, and then it will be transformed into a behemoth three meters high, six meters wide, and eight meters long, and there will be a small crane behind it to load ammunition for it.
Lorming didn't know much about its stats, but Scout Vabort was diligent at the time to jot down the rough data he had visually obtained—for example, it was "taller than a knight on horse, as wide as two carriages, and longer."
Shooting one or two wagons from a distance of a few hundred meters does not have a very high hit rate, and once it misses, it will arouse the vigilance of the opponent and immediately retreat.
But when it is assembled, the target will be much larger, and even if one round of artillery misses, it can be hit a second round, and after it is assembled, it will not be so easy to escape.
A mine-running cart was first transported three hundred and fifty meters outside the city—a great deal of effort and effort to overcome many obstacles in the process, because Luo Ming had sent men to temporarily dig small trenches there that were just enough to block the passage of large goods.
Then, they began to assemble, which took another half an hour, during which they vigilantly prevented Luo Ming from sending troops to attack, but Luo Ming had no intention of letting people go out at all, and even let his soldiers start to rest in rotation to maintain their strength.
When the Ben Mine was almost assembled, Luo Ming finally raised his long sword and shouted: "First team, shoot!"
Half of the long-range guns on the city wall began to fire one after another, and although the control was not so precise, in general, there was an interval of about two seconds between each shot, which was also to prevent the shells from being confused, so that the gunner could observe the landing point and adjust the direction of aiming.
After this half of the artillery was fired, Lockin immediately ordered another group of artillery to start firing.
By the time the guns of this squad had also finished firing, half of the guns of the first squad had been loaded, and Lockin waited for another ten seconds before giving the order to fire again.
Luo Ming has generally done distance positioning outside the city, but the artillery positions at the head of the city are different, and the gunners are not all very experienced, so this first round of shooting is actually a school shooting.
However, although the first round of shelling did not hit the minecar, and the most recent one only brushed it from the side, it still knocked down a craftsman and a soldier who was helping in front of it, and hit a few people next to it by the way.
Then, the second round of shelling hit the target. A load-bearing beam broke, sawdust scattered, and its own weight bent and deformed its remaining load-bearing beam, making a tooth-sore sound.
Several mages and two swordsmen who were guarding in front of the thunder cart were furious, and tried their best to block the next cannonball, but after a hundred secrets, only half a minute later, another cannonball hit.
If it was only a minor injury just now, which is equivalent to a person falling and bleeding a little skin, this shell caused him to suffer a serious injury equivalent to a broken limb. A large piece of wooden frame flew straight out, and was pulled back by the rope halfway through, and by the way, it knocked down an unlucky guy who wanted to repair the load-bearing beam.
"Damn it! pull it back - put them all away and get back, quick!" Zagmer yelled at his men who were unloading parts from the cart to assemble the second and third Minecar.
It didn't take long for the wreckage of the minecar, which had been assembled and had eaten two more shells, to move slowly.
In order to be able to fine-tune, there are actually wheels on the Benlei car, but it is very heavy, and it was not fast to move, but now almost a third of it is dragged on the ground, which is even more muddy and watery.
It was only when these precious pieces had been dragged back a hundred meters that Lockin's artillery stopped firing.
In the process, the first thunder car ate three more projectiles, and even the core components were greatly damaged, and it was impossible to repair them.
The other carriages loaded with parts were also somewhat damaged, and one of them was directly damaged, scattering the parts, although it did not damage more irreparable core parts, but it also caused a lot of trouble for the people of Belan.
The carriage, which had been completely destroyed, had been shot by Loming with rifled cannons.
Of course, in order to prevent this secret weapon from being exposed prematurely, Luo Ming did not directly use conical bullets or any incendiary grenade shotguns, etc., but just used ordinary round bullets with a wooden stock added to the tail - now his artillery basically uses a stock.
The butt can not only improve the sealing, so that the energy of the gunpowder explosion can be transferred to the shell more, but also when the shell is flying, there is such a much lighter than metal butt falling behind, but also can play a certain stabilizing role, just like the feeling of a badminton.