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From the connection of the grass dragonfly, Zhang Jiashi muttered the words that he had just said, which made many senior officers of the Qin army silent.

As a nomadic fishing and hunting people, the Donghu people are still far behind the Great Qin Empire, which gradually completed the popularization of iron tools. However, obtaining these siege equipment, which were still in use more than ten years ago, is a rather huge threat to the Great Wall of Qin, which is not too high.

Not the height of each city can be compared to that of Hangu Pass and Xianyang City.

The height of the Great Wall during the Qin Dynasty was not too high, and it could not correspond to the height of the Great Wall with the Ming Great Wall as the main body in later generations.

In the face of so many large-scale siege equipment, the Qin officers and soldiers defending the city, including Zhang Jiashi, couldn't help but gasp.

Such a number of siege equipment, as well as the number of Donghu people attacking, made Zhang Jiashi have to be silent for a while, and then said to his uncle Sun Ji: "After a while, you lead the guards to operate those modified bed crossbows. No one knows better how to do it and when to use it. ”

Uncle Sun Ji shook his head: "My lord, your safety is the top priority of our pro-guard team. ”

"There are no eggs under the nest, so you can do my bidding. Zhang Jiashi looked at his uncle and grandson Ji and said something that the other party couldn't refute.

Uncle Sun Ji looked at Zhang Jiashi for a while before he clenched his fists and said, "Oh!"

"Mr. Chen and Mr. Xiao, please arrange for the families of the officers in Dingxiang City to evacuate. Zhang Jiashi looked at the civilian team led by Chen Pingxiao and He, and he added: "Sima Junshou has been killed in battle, if this place falls, Zhang will definitely not escape the responsibility of the defeated army and lost the land, if so, Zhang should do his best for his duties." ”

Chen Ping and Xiao He were silent for a while, then glanced at each other, and finally nodded: "Your subordinates will receive orders." ”

Zhang Jiashi nodded, then looked at the Donghu people who kept coming, like a tide, and said for a while: "Everyone else is at their own posts." Also, give them weapons and equipment, and if things don't work out, let them join the battle. ”

"Whoa!"

Dozens of people gathered around Zhang Jiashi quickly left.

And when there was no one else around, Zhang Jiashi heard Bai Qi say to him: "You never thought that things would turn out like this?"

"It's true that I think a lot of things are too simple. In particular, it was completely surprising that the Donghu people were able to find craftsmen who could make these siege equipment. We're not that easy to bully, though. Zhang Jiashi glanced back at the area south of the Great Wall, and many of the various catapults that had been installed at an accelerated pace showed a trace of cold murderous intent.

He knew very well that under such circumstances, the Donghu people were no longer the force that could not climb the city a few days ago, but an existence that posed a considerable threat to itself.

Not to mention those building cars, a large number of well railings make the height advantage of the Great Wall that Zhang Jiashi himself relies on not so obvious.

However, Zhang Jiashi had the kind of earth bomb and black powder bag launcher modified from the bed crossbow, which was deployed to deal with the well-fence troops of the Donghu people.

For Zhang Jiashi, these black powder weapons are used to deal with such light siege equipment, and it can be said that the problem is not very big.

But for those large building cars and trebuchets, Zhang Jiashi did not have a good way.

It's not that Zhang Jiashi can't let the catapults behind him attack each other, but with the durability of the current catapults, Zhang Jiashi is worried that something will go wrong.

Of course, Zhang Jiashi is not without preparations to deal with this problem.

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The Minfu troops in the back, under the command of the low-ranking officers of the nearby Qin army, and the instructions of the corresponding Mojia instructors, carried out the final step of the installation of the catapults that had been laid with the main body.

Of course, this is not to say that Zhang Jiashi has not made preparations in this regard in the past few days, but for Zhang Jiashi, there is a trouble in laying an integral catapult, that is, the modified gear projectile rod, the bronze gear used, is extremely easy to oxidize due to contact with water.

Because of the lack of effective buffering, the service life of these gears is also a problem, once there is a patina on the joints, it is very likely that these geared catapults in order to increase the projectile strength will be scrapped directly.

As Bai Qi said, instead of hoping to make gears with greater rigidity, it is more practical to run to Indochina Peninsula, which is still basically full of miasma, and see if there are rubber trees.

The quality of artificial rubber is better than that of natural rubber obtained from rubber trees, but now there is a lack of effective chemical basis, even if Zhang Jiashi starts to prepare everything now, and let Mo Shu study without sleep, it is better to let Zhang Jiashi jump directly into the sea to feed the fish more practically.

A lot of things can't be taken for granted, it doesn't mean that you know what to do and you will be able to do it.

Moreover, there is another problem, that is, Zhang Jiashi, who can't even make pure molten iron now, is still more practical to do a lot of things step by step.

Therefore, these improved catapults can already be said to be a secret weapon of Zhang Jiashi corresponding to the Donghu people in a sense.

Of course, this does not only refer to the situation that there is a certain increase in range, Zhang Jiashi did not waste time, and let the Liaodong soldiers build those large stones that have been at least polished to a certain extent, at least there will be no obvious water chestnut, and they are used to throw.

Instead, a lot of it is easier to obtain, using melted bronze and pouring it into a mold, resulting in a kind of triangle with spikes.

After Zhang Jiashi took over the Liaodong Military Construction, he made a very important improvement, that is, to let people try to change the mold to iron instead of using the stone crucible on a large scale, because this crucible made mainly of limestone could not effectively cope with Zhang Jiashi's subsequent large-scale production method.

Perhaps, in order to make these things, it took a long time to polish the iron crucibles and corresponding utensils from some rough iron blocks or iron plates. And in actual operation, Mo Shu's subordinate Liaodong military construction also encountered a very embarrassing thing, that is, liquefied bronze, which actually melted those iron molds together.

Knowing that this ordinary piece of iron could not withstand the high temperatures of liquefied bronze, Zhang Jiashi had no choice but to settle for the second best thing, and purchased harder granite from many places instead of continuing to use the limestone as the supporting equipment.

For this, Zhang Jiashi spent a while again.

By the time these granite polished crucible molds were made, it was already the day when Zhang Jiashi sent people to attack Donghu.

In Zhang Jiashi's understanding, the best material for crucibles is graphite, but now it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to make graphite tools on a large scale. Therefore, granite, which is highly resistant to heat and relatively hard, may be a more suitable material for metal production during this period.

Of course, using the current tools to process the corresponding crucibles and molds has to be said to be a waste of time. And there is a saying, called sharpening knives and not cutting wood, after Zhang Jiashi handed over to Mo Shu's command of the Liaodong Armament, after the large-scale use of these granite as materials, the production of the corresponding bronze equipment, the speed and output of the Liaodong Arsenal have been greatly improved.

If Zhang Jiashi didn't know that what he needed was not bronze that would be replaced by steel sooner or later, I am afraid that Zhang Jiashi would let the weapons of his soldiers be equipped with bronze again.

In fact, Bai Qi knew that if Zhang Jiashi wanted to use the crucible steelmaking method of later generations on a large scale, it might be the most convenient way to obtain the two major graphite producing areas in China in later generations, Jilin Panshi and Shandong Laixi, and mine the natural graphite abundant there.

Although granite is resistant to high temperatures, there is a problem, that is, granite crucibles with a poor degree of processing have a problem, which is easy to cause problems due to thermal expansion and cold contraction effects.

In a sense, the granite crucible that Zhang Jiashi now uses is more of a more effective emergency response than a direct means of solving the problem.

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The troops of the Donghu people soon reached the Great Wall pass less than three thousand meters away.

Of course, Zhang Jiashi knew that the other party was also making final preparations. But in the face of the Donghu people who attacked more than 50,000 people this time, Zhang Jiashi had no intention of going out of the city to engage the other party.

This can be said to be a self-inflicted trouble.

However, Zhang Jiashi later discovered a very strange thing, that is, the other party was actually using a burlap bag or a leather bag to hold sand.

What are they doing?

Zhang Jiashi didn't understand very well. But Bai Qi then reminded him: "You didn't see the trenches you dug out, the other side wanted to pile up these traps and open the way for the main force to attack later." ”

After Zhang Jiashi heard Bai Qi's words, he quickly understood.

Because as Bai Qi said, Zhang Jiashi has only covered the trap with quicklime to prevent the outbreak of the plague in the past few days, but he has not been dealt with much.

In this case, since the attack force of the Donghu people is going to attack on a large scale, it is natural that these things that block the advance of various siege equipment in many ways will be directly flattened.

Zhang Jiashi ordered all the crossbowmen and crossbowmen to prepare for the onrushing Donghu people.

After many Qin army officers took the order and left, Zhang Jiashi muttered: "If I knew this, I would have built a set of trenches and barriers outside." ”

After Bai Qi heard this, he said to Zhang Jiashi helplessly: "Do you think it is useful for you to do this?"

Zhang Jiashi: "......"

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After Zhang Jiashi and the Qin officers and soldiers on the Great Wall waited for the Donghu people to come and send them to death, several tribal leaders of the Donghu people were discussing a matter.

This time, they were ordered by Zabehe to have his subordinates fill the trenches dug by Zhang Jiashi for the army.

The leaders of several tribes, who had already paid a certain price in the attack a few days ago, would certainly not do such a thankless task again.

For them, the tribesmen under their command should not be used as cannon fodder at all.

Together with a few good tribal leaders, they found Zabekh and said to him, "Now that we have got what we want. So why don't we let these slaves make one last effort for our great Donghu and let them fill the trap of the Qin dog?"

Zabekh didn't want to do that, but he was also the king of Donghu. He was also very unhappy in the face of several tribal leaders who said that he did not have a good relationship with him, but just like the small calculations made by several leaders, he knew very well that these Qin slaves who actually did not have much use value, in his eyes, were not worth mentioning at all, just like the promises he would not fulfill.

He nodded slowly, and then asked these leaders to lead people to capture the thousands of Qin slaves who had been gathered in this place and carry out what these tribal leaders were supposed to accomplish.

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As a small number of craftsmen who had not yet been separated from slavery by the Donghu people for a few days, they did not know that several tribal leaders had already regarded several of them as people who had to be sent to death first.

Because they think that these Donghu people, who are the masters, should not be arbitrarily instructed by these Qin people, who have become slaves.

After these Qin slaves were gathered by the Donghu people once, these leaders of the Donghu tribe took the warriors of their tribe to arrest the Qin slaves who did not like their eyes.

Many slaves who thought they had escaped looked at these Donghu people in horror.

They didn't know what would happen when these people were caught.

Some people tried to prevent such a thing from happening, but they were soon dragged aside by a few or more Donghu people, punched and kicked.

The screams rang out one after another, but those who were willing to resist extinguished their own blood because of the screams.

This is also their sorrow. Of course, Zhang Jiashi, who knew that he had been trapped, would not sympathize with these poor people who just wanted to live.

Because for Zhang Jiashi, these people are not only pitiful, but also hateful.

Of course, Zhang Jiashi has to know the ins and outs of these things.

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Six thousand, about one-third of the Qin slaves, were brought to the Donghu people's formation one by one by the leaders of several tribes, as well as many Donghu warriors.

Some Donghu people who knew the Yanzhao dialect said these things to them.

Many people showed their frightened expressions in their eyes, but after a few Donghu people drew their weapons and slashed and killed a few Qin slaves who were slowly retreating, many people trembled their feet, and then took the Donghu people on the side, handed them the bags of sand, and were slowly driven forward by thousands of Donghu knights.

They quickly came to a distance of about a thousand meters.

But looking at the majestic Great Wall in front of him, and the flags fluttering in the breeze on it, many of them were not slaves under the rule of the Qin Dynasty, and slowly stopped.

However, they were soon shot through the back of the heart by the Donghu knight behind them, and their bodies were stuck in several feather arrows, and they fell forward to the ground.

Many slaves swallowed a mouthful of saliva after seeing this scene. Because they never thought that something like this would happen.

However, many of them did not want to die, so they could only obey the will of the Donghu people, continue to carry the bags of sand, and then move forward.

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The few trenches that Zhang Jiashi ordered to be dug were only two or three hundred meters away from the Great Wall.

This distance, for many pouting crossbowmen, is a range of a hit rate.

However, looking at the people in front of him who were carrying bags of sand, Zhang Jiashi was puzzled, because he could see that these people were not Donghu people.

"They're slaves. Bai Qi's words revealed the identities of these people.

After Zhang Jiashi heard this, he planned to order the troops not to attack, because he still couldn't shoot at these people.

Bai Qi said a sentence that made him have to be entangled.

"If you don't attack, you're going to face a bigger problem. You should know that since these people are here, they are your enemies. Don't forget what else is behind you right now. ”

"Behind me...... What else is there?" Zhang Jiashi muttered.

Soon, he raised his head and said to a few of the five hundred lords of the Qin army who were holding command flags: "Order to pout the crossbowman, against those people...... Shoot!"

"!!"

After responding to Zhang Jiashi, several Qin army officers quickly waved a small red flag in their hands, quickly waved it forward twice, and after a pause for a while, waved it twice again.

This kind of command method was proposed by Bai Qi, because the Great Wall and the subsequent operations, a set of effective flag command methods, than many times, to send people to convey orders, more efficient and reliable.

After all, there are many times on the battlefield where the herald is killed by the enemy before the order is delivered.

For this reason, Zhang Jiashi first tested the effect of this set of flag command methods in this battle of the Great Wall.

Of course, the ancients have already touched on this aspect, and it is not Zhang Jiashi who first created a precedent in this kind of remote contact and suggestion.

In previous wars or some special circumstances, it can be said that it is quite popular.

Of course, this way of flag command is not without its drawbacks, because flag command is subject to subjective visual influence

For example, if the flag receiver between the two is in an area that can directly obscure the field of vision, or the distance is too far away to see what is going on, then this flag command method is useless at all.

However, the Qin army, which was basically on the Great Wall, would certainly not encounter such trouble.

After the person receiving the flag explained the meaning of the flag to his commander, the officer under Zhang Jiashi's command said loudly to the officers and soldiers under his command nearby: "Pout the crossbowman and shoot at the enemy!!

A pouting crossbow that had already been loaded was held flat, and the crossbowmen corrected the position of the crossbow arrows with their own experience, and one by one, the crossbows quickly flew towards the people in the city......

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