Gotta touch your hand in exchange for a new name. But I really didn't mean it, I just acted subconsciously. hurriedly laughed and said: "The third lady said that it was funny, in broad daylight, what can I do, I just asked you if the stones used in the catapult have to be so big?" ”

"It's not so big, how can it be thrown far?" Li Yaoguang glanced at me again, and hid the slender hand that he had withdrawn behind him, as if he was afraid that this son would play hooligan at any time to disrespect her white and tender little hands, who is it

However, the flush on Li Yao's pretty face finally faded a little, and her eyes turned and fell on those huge trebuchets. "Such a large catapult can be thrown at least about 300 steps at the farthest."

"More than three hundred steps? Doesn't that mean that you can throw a mile, which is powerful enough, but how many people can throw that far? "I looked at every catapult, there were dozens of young people, and I couldn't help but feel a little dizzy, could it be that such a thing needs so many people to control it?

"This kind of large catapult requires 50 tractors, and a larger catapult requires 100 towers." Li Yaoguang's words left me speechless, which completely exceeded my belief, and it was different from the catapult I saw in the ancient war blockbusters and medieval war blockbusters in later generations, uh no, it should be called a catapult, not a catapult.

But the problem is that those catapults are not much different from our catapults, except that they are loaded with stones and rely on inertia, while the catapults of this era rely on human drag to form power.

Well, the difference is not much, and it can be changed to the kind of mechanical catapult that uses non-human manpower. Not only saves a lot of manpower, but also can make the operation of the catapult appear more simple, well, if you get two sets of pulley system, and then change it into that kind of mechanical inertia stone throwing, I believe it will definitely not be worse than the Arabs in medieval Central Asia to get out of the catapult.

Just when Ben Gongzi touched his chin and pondered, there was the sound of war drums in the distance, and he didn't think about it anymore, he rushed to the edge of the city wall and looked down, accompanied by the smoke and dust formed by stepping on the ground, and rows of rebels with armor appeared in sight again.

Standing on a high place, you can see at least hundreds of ladders, and farther away, there are more than a dozen siege catapults, as well as several siege vehicles with triangular roofs, or should be called crash trucks, and there are also five towering arrow towers, countless people are roaring roaring, pushing these arrow towers as high as three or four zhang, four square, like bunkers, slowly moving forward.

Seeing these arrow towers, Ben Gongzi couldn't help but gasp, this thing is already high as the city wall, and not only nailed the door panel at the height of the arrow tower, but also covered with cowhide and the like, this is to enhance the ability to resist attacks, and according to the relevant information that Ben Gongzi saw in later generations, this thing is definitely the nemesis of the city defenders. Seeing this thing, and looking at those stone-throwing carts again, my son finally understood, if there were no catapults, I am afraid that I don't know how many families will die today.

"They have such good things, why didn't they use it last night, if they used it, I'm afraid it was last night, but it would be a big problem." I couldn't help muttering in a low voice, and Li Shimin, who was standing next to me, turned his head speechlessly. "Brother, this arrow tower is such a big shelf, if it is pushed over in the middle of the night, the movement is definitely not small, in this way, where is there still a sneak attack, it is clearly coming. Pushing something in the middle of the night, isn't that sick? ”

Hearing this guy's explanation, Ben Gongzi almost slapped himself, too, such a thing must be strange to push, I'm afraid that I can hear the sound two miles away from the city, and it will be a fart attack.

"Are they going to attack the city, are there many rebels coming?" Li Xuanba was squeezed behind, jumping up and down for a long time and couldn't see it, so he could only ask loudly behind him.

"At least 20,000, it seems that Yang Xuangan really wants to try his best to open the gap from us." Chai Shao replied loudly, I couldn't help but take a breath of cool air when I heard this, the ancient war really didn't treat people as people, and there were 20,000 people as soon as they made a move, and I don't know how many of the 20,000 people who could survive until the end of the war.

I squinted my eyes and looked up at the sky, it was less than two hours before the end of the last battle, and it seemed that Yang Xuangan's neuropathy really wanted to use this as the main point of attack. His sister, could it be that this thing saw that his brother was a traverser, so he used his strength to eat milk, and he had to break the myth that the traverser was undefeated and undefeated?

And at this moment, they heard the noisy drums from the north, and everyone couldn't help but change their faces, and Pei Yuanqing smashed his mouth and shouted in a low voice. "It seems that Yang Rei's army intends to attack from both sides, so that my Luoyang defenders can't help each other."

, presumably Yang Xuan's intention was to make it impossible to reinforce everywhere. Yang Gongdao commanded with a cold face, telling everyone to go to their respective posts to be on guard. Also get those catapults ready, the opponent's arrow tower, that thing is the biggest threat to the defenders above the city wall, and must be cleaned up as soon as possible.

Then he said to Yang Shidao, this thing sighed, and hurriedly ran down the city tower and rushed to ask for help, in fact, such a big movement, it is impossible for Zhang Tong'er, the Eagle Yanglang general who is located in the city as a reserve, not to know the way, but if Yang Shidao comes forward, he can urge the other party to hurry up and come over for reinforcements.

And Ben Gongzi didn't care about appreciating it, so he rushed to the position of my defense area, and asked those people to prepare crossbows and arrows, and check whether the bows and crossbows in their hands were damaged. Bundles of crossbow bolts were placed in place. Behind me, a catapult was in the right position, aiming at the nearest turret to us.

In front of this defense area, there are at least three siege vehicles and an arrow tower, and when I see these things, I can't help but feel a little uneasy. Taking a few steps back, I approached Pei Yuanqing, who had come to help me defend, and asked in a low voice, "Do you think that in today's daytime siege battle, our losses will be great?" ”

"Don't worry, these thirty-five catapults are enough to smash all those guys' siege equipment. If I were Yang Xuangan, I would have to gather at least fifty catapults and ten arrow towers, and the elite under my hands would be the vanguard, and the rebels of the other city walls would respond to the call, so that the city would not dare to do its best to defend one side, so that at least thirty percent would be sure to break through the Shangchun Gate. Now, with so few siege equipment, it is completely delusional to want to break the city

Ben Gongzi couldn't help but be surprised. "Brother Yuanqing, hearing you say this, I'm much more relieved. But come to think of it, then Yang Xuan must be anxious about the future, after all, my Great Sui Ming will be in the land of Donglai now, there are more than 100,000 sailors and soldiers, if he learns the news here, he will definitely come to the aid in the starry night, and when the time comes, he will have no chance to attack if he wants to. ”

"Seeing the smile, it has been several years since I foolishly followed my father into battle. Last year, he went north with the Son of Heaven, and he had seen more battles, so he could naturally guess a rough idea. When Pei Yuanqing said this, he couldn't help but sigh. It's a pity that hundreds of thousands of elites of my Great Sui were buried in the bitter cold land of Liaodong. Even I was hurt. Originally, I was glad that I could at least rest for a while, but I didn't want to, Yang Xuangan actually rebelled and came to attack the eastern capital Luoyang. ”

"Listening to Brother Tai's tone, you don't see the Son of Heaven's Northern Expedition, right?" This guy looks like he is in his early twenties at most, and he has been fighting on the battlefield with his father for several years, it seems that it is not a lie to say that the ancients were precocious, or Ganluo would not be twelve years old.

"Not optimistic." Pei Yuanqing glanced at me, and after thinking about it, he shook his head affirmatively and said: "When I was last year, the million elite divisions lost nearly half of their troops, but they didn't even see the head of Pyongyang, so they could only wave their troops back to the court. And without waiting for the people's strength to recover, and to march north, I originally thought that I was afraid that the ending would be the same as last year, and I didn't want Yang Xuangan to rebel this time, and the Son of Heaven could only return in vain. ”

As we spoke, the drums of the enemy camp changed and became agitated, and the rebel phalanx, which had been standing in the clearing, began to slowly march towards us. And the heavy arrow tower, once again in the sound of shouting, slowly pushed forward.

"Don't worry about the catapult first, smash the arrow tower for me first" Ben Gongzi turned around and shouted to Zheng Chen, Zheng Chen and Liu Yitian went to the left and the other to the right, and greeted the military leaders of those catapults, and the thirty or so catapults also began to move under the command of their respective military leaders, "Hurry up, hurry up, move an inch to the right, no, come back a little, stop right, just like this, you can't move"

"And you, Yuan Fang, go down there for me, and try to get a few hundred bricks over." I whispered to Li Yuanfang again.

"Childe, what is needed to defend the city is boulders and wood, and the bricks can't kill people at all, at most they will be injured." Li Yuanfang whispered.

"You give me to do it honestly, and then you will know the truth." This son glanced at the goods and said viciously, Li Yuanfang reluctantly beckoned more than twenty people to go down the city tower with him, and ran towards a half-built house not far away, where there were at least tens of thousands of bricks.

"Brother Xian, what are you asking people to do?" Pei Yuanqing asked me a little uncertainly.

"The younger brother asked them to go and get some bricks, maybe it will be of great use in a while." This son looks very confident, it is a pity that only the men who appreciate the heroic appearance of this son, there are no beautiful girls, I can't help but subconsciously turn my head sideways, look south, and just see Li Yaoguang in a bright and dazzling bright light armor.

Dressed in armor and even more heroic, she was carrying a good bow, quietly waiting for the rebels to come into her range.

With a shout, the fifty young men of the catapult behind him worked together, and the spoon drew a beautiful round lone, and threw a stone projectile weighing dozens of catties out of the air. I saw a black shadow in the sky, falling towards the arrow tower in the distance.