Chapter 150: Humanoid Weapons
The team seemed to have been stagnant a little too long.
Half an hour passed, and the princess still did not give the order to attack. While waiting, the soldiers began to talk to each other - after all, according to His Highness's habit in the past, no matter how bluffing the enemy looked, he had to rush once or twice to test the opponent's true level.
Until a peculiar "monster" came behind them.
This thing instantly attracted everyone's attention.
The monster is made of wood, like a beast, it has only two legs, and like a man, it has nothing but legs and half of its body. And the half of the body is also very unusual, there are no hands or arms, but a long iron bar is erected.
But even then, no one laughs at how ugly it is.
Especially when it walked past the soldier, who had to look up at it. A massive creature resembling a human form is inherently capable of giving people a sense of oppression.
"I delivered it, but you really plan to use it for battle?" Moyun Control Trap Beast walked up to Ning Wanjun and Xia Fan, "This is just a prototype. ”
On the way from the rear, she already had a general idea of the situation at the front.
The original intention of the Trap Beast was indeed for war, and its main function was not to replace the logistical baggage, but to carry artillery on its back to accompany the army, and it could transport 100 catties or even 1,000 catties of artillery up the hillside and other commanding heights in most places.
But use it to fight?
Both speed and sensitivity are too poor.
At the same time, the Tiandong instrument is not very earthquake-resistant, not to mention that this prototype is still made of wood. In case of eating a solid cannonball from the enemy, let alone the trap beast itself, I am afraid that the controllers above will all turn into pulp.
Of course, Mo Yun was not naïve enough to think that the two of them were going to use this thing to break through the formation, and the key core was the extra iron-like thing on the upper part of it - when she just finished the leg splicing, Xia Fan had already taken out the schematic diagram of the superstructure, which was obviously prepared for the iron.
Unfortunately, this invasion came too suddenly, and she hadn't really seen the use of irons, so she just reminded the princess and Xia Fan that the beast was a vehicle and not to expect too much from it.
"Do you know what is the best way to deal with an artillery?" Xia Fan asked.
Mo Yun made the trap beast crouch down and jumped down lightly, "I guess your answer is not Fang Shi. ”
"It's a longer range artillery. He took the other man's place and injected Qi into the Celestial Motion Instrument.
The trap beast shuddered twice, and got back to its feet with a snort.
In order to reduce the difficulty of manufacturing and improve the versatility of the bipedal trap beast, Xia Fan considered the possibility of modularization at the beginning, that is, the upper body was separated from the traveling mechanism, and different "bodies" were matched according to the actual task. For example, this experimental trap beast has only one gun carriage above the legs, and the rotation and pitch are all hand-crank controlled, which saves the consumption of the celestial motion instrument to the greatest extent.
"Artillery?" Mo Yun was a little confused - the bronze cannons tried to be cast by the Ministry of Industry occasionally exploded, not to mention the long iron rod on the machine beast? Isn't it...... It's not all sealed, what kind of cannon is it?
And Xia Fan had already controlled the trap beast and walked towards the entrance of the street.
He knew in his heart that the technical principles and design concepts of this heavy weapon were beyond the solid iron cannon on the opposite side, but the two were still at the level of "mutual destruction", and it was obviously not a good idea to go out with a swagger.
His biggest strength lies in the range, as well as the agility of the two-legged mech.
Yes, even if it walks slowly and swallows slowly, it is not as good as a five or six-year-old child, but that depends on the object of comparison. Compared to the enemy's front-loading guns, which rely on fixed gun mounts and are placed on the ground, this thing can be called completely elusive.
Xia Fan turned to the right, and the trap beast roared and crashed directly into the house on the side of the street!
The wall, which is mainly made of thin wooden planks, can't stop the huge force of this monster at all, in layman's terms, it will be that the speed of the heavenly motion instrument is not high, but the torque is very large, as long as it is stable enough, this long street can go wherever it wants.
As the soldiers watched in amazement, Xia Fan strode forward, using the townhouses on the side of the street as a new passageway.
So when he arrived at the house at the end of the street, the enemy didn't even realize that someone was watching him.
Or rather, the other party doesn't care.
There is no possibility of a sneak attack at an uncovered distance of 200 meters.
Xia Fan stretched the guide rail out of the window, and then put a new projectile into the magazine.
Like the track, this cannonball was also specially cast by the blacksmith - since he had the money in his hand, he had a lot more confidence in building things, not only did the modeling requirements become more and more complicated, but he also often asked the other party to rework and recast, if it wasn't for the money, the blacksmith would probably think that he was here to deliberately entertain himself.
For example, the projectile he is using now, in addition to the sharper head, also has an arch bridge tail in the tail, which can better resist the track when it is heated and expanded, reducing the generation of arcs.
Just as the soldiers on both sides were waiting with bated breath for the next encounter, Xia Fan grabbed the handle on the side of the guide rail and launched the streamer technique with a new talisman!
A piercing screech rang in his ears.
It even drowned out the explosion that was expanding as the air was heated!
The projectile slid out of the orbit and was well above the speed of sound when it was discharged—unlike the spherical iron cannonball, which could still be caught with the naked eye, when the enemy noticed a sudden burst of sparks from a window, the sharp projectile had already crossed the empty space of two hundred meters and plunged headlong into the sandbag wall!
"Poof——!
It was a very dull sound.
To Hojosa's ears, he couldn't make any connection between the sound and the word danger, and even if his own cannonball landed on the sandbag, the power would be greatly reduced.
It's just that when the consciousness in his mind was still stuck in this part, the projectile had already penetrated the sandbag and slammed straight into the iron cannon behind it - the violent friction had completely deformed it, and the high temperature had wrapped the body of the projectile in a layer of flames! With it flew out, there were also a large number of sand grains, which were also heated to a red fire, and the absorbed kinetic energy could easily penetrate the human body.
Then there is the buzz of a bell ringing!
A cannon flew up in an instant, and under the violent impact, it rolled backwards several times in a row before falling, and in the process it moved about five or six meters, and the first to be hit was obviously the gunner standing around the gun ready to fire.
The front position was directly beaten into a sieve by the high-temperature sand grains, and the back was hit head-on by the iron cannon, and the parts next to each other were either this section or the bones were shattered.
But that's not all.
After hitting the cannon, the projectile had already broken apart, turning into a fine, but even more deadly fragment. It fanned out, and even flew out nearly a hundred feet away!
Guarding the iron cannon were Hojosa's pikemen, outnumbered and closely aligned, creating a sense of majesty and stopping the princess guards who rushed through the fire net at the first time.
In the face of such a dense standing line, the cracked projectile swept down more than a dozen people in an instant, some were pierced through the intestines, and some lost their hands and feet.
It was only at this moment that Hojo moved his attention from the first tone to the second tone.
It was almost enough to blink an eye, but by the time he came back to his senses, a heart-rending cry rang out from the attacked position!