408 Hand Push Ballista

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c_t; Later, Sun Yaoran offered a plan to send people to pretend to be defeated soldiers to enter the city late at night, and the thieves then killed, took advantage of the situation to occupy Shouyang City, and killed all the remaining defenders, which achieved a decisive victory. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Read the full text of the latest chapter of infoBased on Sun Yaoran's calculations, after occupying Shouyang City, he should use it as a base to expand his power in all directions, slowly encroaching on the areas under the jurisdiction of the surrounding prefectures, and finally slowly surround other prefectures and cities, and then annihilate them in one fell swoop.

Sun Yaoran's strategy was feasible, but he missed the attraction of Shouyang City to these heroes. In the eyes of these people, it is already a blessing to occupy a large city, and it is better to live in the city and enjoy the blessings than to risk continuing the attack. At the beginning, they were forced to raise troops, but now that they have eliminated the army of the Shouyang City Lord, their task has been completed, and now it is time to enjoy the spoils.

Due to the lack of progress and greed for pleasure of these people, the result is lax military discipline, and many of them were originally bandits, but now they have finally revealed their true nature. They began to burn and plunder everywhere, and in the name of liquidating the henchmen of the city lords. Sun Yaoran had mentioned this matter many times in front of several big leaders, but they didn't think so, thinking that since they had already won, they shouldn't care too much, and it was better to make everyone more relaxed.

Sun Yaoran used his wisdom and means to help the thieves survive several crises, and the encirclement and suppression troops from other prefectures and cities attacked the city, but he blocked them one by one. Although Sun Yaoran tried his best, the combat effectiveness of the thief soldiers became weaker and weaker, and people's hearts began to scatter, and he felt that even if the Dragon Soul Legion did not come, it was estimated that they would break up in two months.

After settling the people of the Crazy Wolf Gang, Sun Yaoran fell into deep thought. [There are almost all the books I want to read.,It's much more stable and faster than the general station.,There's no ads in the whole text.] Chu Xiong was no longer reliable, he had to think about his own way out in the future, Fang Ruitao was only seventeen years old, and he had repeatedly performed miraculous feats in less than a year after he was born, and he had defeated the strong several times to defend the city. The soldiers he trained were extremely elite, and they once made a splash in the spring training competition, fighting a wing of ironclad cavalry alone with a brigade, and also wiped out the opponent.

This kind of battle record made Sun Yaoran yearn for Fang Ruitao, and he secretly decided in his heart that if he had the opportunity, he would take refuge in the past. Sun Yaoran is a high-minded and arrogant person, although he has decided to take refuge in Fang Ruitao, he still wants to compete with him, so as not to be looked down upon by the other party after defecting to the past.

Because of this thought, Sun Yaoran began to bother to prepare for the defense of the city, of course, for the sake of insurance, he left his cronies in the city, and the cronies of several other big leaders were all transferred to the most dangerous city head.

As the general military division that was publicly promoted, although the military power was in the hands of several big leaders, Sun Yaoran had the right to transfer to a certain extent. Seeing that he arranged the city defense every day without sleeping or eating, several big leaders thought that he was trying to stop the attack of officers and soldiers, just like in the previous battles. Therefore, they all handed over their subordinates to Sun Yaoran with confidence, and they only cared about drinking and gambling every day to play with women, and no longer cared about the affairs of the troops.

Without the constraints of a few big leaders, Sun Yaoran can be regarded as the most powerful person in the entire Shouyang City. The most elite cronies of several big leaders were soon transferred to the most dangerous places in the city, and in the name of guarding the most important areas with strong troops, all for the defense of the city.

Just as Sun Yaoran was meticulously arranging the city defenses, the slow-moving Dragon Soul Legion had already arrived less than fifty miles outside Shouyang City. Fang Ruitao, who had been distributing all the scouts to investigate, always had the information in the Shouyang City area, and he knew very well that all the bandits and gangs in the vicinity had all shrunk into Shouyang City. Now the thieves in Shouyang City are strong, and they have exceeded 100,000, but he only has 12,000 people in his hands.

Although there is a huge disparity in strength, Fang Ruitao doesn't care, after all, the gap in the quality of the two sides' forces is difficult to level in number, and the only use of the rabble is just to stand on their feet and cheer, more often they are counterproductive. During this leisurely march, in addition to training with several women in the god-making space every day, he also spent a lot of time researching new weapons, and the weapons of mass destruction he had recently researched were almost completed.

Although he is not good at mechanical design, Fang Ruitao has been influenced by the tide of the Internet after all, and he is also well-informed. There is a micro factory, and there is no need for Fang Ruitao to make it himself, so he drew a drawing on a whim, and after the continuous improvement of the micro factory, a new weapon was quickly baked.

The new weapon is a new type of hand crossbow using manganese titanium alloy spring steel, this crossbow is 70 centimeters long, the front of the crossbow body has a spring steel bow back with a double bow, and the whole crossbow has two winding systems that can interact with each other, and one launch can drive another crossbow machine to do work, making the work required for winding much easier.

However, this is not the ultimate goal of Fang Ruitao's design, there is also a pylon with a card slot and a hand crank handle under the crossbow body. There is a cage-type crossbow arrow box on the card slot, which can place forty-three crossbow arrows, as long as you turn the hand crank, the crossbow arrow box can press the crossbow arrows into the launch slot one by one, and the hand crank can also complete the work of winding and firing at the same time, so as long as the hand crank has been shaken, you can make this hand crossbow like a machine gun like a rapid fire, so as to achieve the effect of high-density fire coverage.

This new hand crossbow is just a trial production, and Fang Ruitao only made one for himself for experiments, because its manufacturing process is too complicated, and the consumption of crossbow arrows is too large, for the time being, he does not want to promote it to the whole army. The crossbow could not be promoted, but he was not unprepared, and on the way he designed a ballista cart for the whole army for siege.

This kind of ballista cart is not the Zhuge God Crossbow he used in Gulma City, although the Zhuge God Crossbow has a high rate of fire but is less powerful, it is very useful for field battles or defending cities, but it is not powerful for siege. Therefore, Fang Ruitao's design this time is similar to the last mechanical crossbow developed by the Romans around 100 AD. Often referred to as the hand-pushed ballista, this hand-pushed ballista was designed and manufactured by the famous Hillen, and it was designed to incorporate powerful attack capabilities into a slim structure in order to be able to move flexibly.

The reason why this hand-pushed ballista achieves the perfect balance of mobility and attack power is the use of a large number of metal parts on the crossbow. Metal parts are stronger, can be made thinner, and are more expensive than heavy wooden structures, but they are lighter and more powerful.

Fang Ruitao was very interested in this design, if there was no shortage of steel in the entire Heavenly God Continent, I am afraid it would be him. With a smelter in a micro-factory, Fang Ruitao can easily obtain a variety of metals, and the machine shop can manufacture these metals into a variety of complex metal components with extremely low time and cost.

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