Bang! Bang! Bang!

The sound of huge bombardment sounded every once in a while, and although it was impossible to observe the power of each cannon in detail under the cover of night, the enemy's tall gate tower was smashed and collapsed by the cannon stone one after another, and the silhouette became smaller and smaller, but everyone could see it.

"Wait, adjust the cannon rod and add another layer of sand to this weight box."

After the more than 30 stone bullets that had been prepared before were fired in most of the hour, Li Tai did not rush forward to find out what the enemy's defense had been destroyed.

These two trebuchets are the war heavy weapons that Li Tai has hidden for a long time, but in this plane, it is estimated that they will be named Heyang cannons.

Back to the cannon is very famous, it seems that as long as a cannon is sacrificed, it will be invincible, in the concept of ordinary people, there must be some great black technology hidden in it. However, compared with the traditional human trebuchet, the principle of the return cannon is the same, except that the source of its power is changed from manual pulling to the gravity of the counterweight to sink.

The traditional trebuchet pulls the front tip by manpower, and uses the lever principle to throw the back end of the stone, and the more powerful it is, the more manpower is required to drive and add more cannon tips. The upper limit of its power is not high, due to the limitation of physical space, a trebuchet cannot increase the number of operators indefinitely, and the human drive also faces the problem of inconsistent power.

The retrieval cannon is a counterweight trebuchet that fires artillery shells through the natural sinking of the front counterweight, which theoretically has no upper limit on power, after all, it only takes a fulcrum and a lever to pry the earth up.

Many important equipment improvements in the history of cold weapon warfare may not all contain advanced technology, such as the emergence of stirrups is more of a summary of experience.

Li Tai has even restored the complex model of the hydro spinning wheel, and of course he will not miss the return cannon. Although Heyang Nancheng did not know how to build this kind of trebuchet, he had the exact parameters of different models.

The river bridge itself is a wooden pontoon bridge, which needs to be maintained and repaired over the years, so there is no shortage of qualified timber materials in the southern city, and they have all undergone initial processing.

Without maximizing the power, it was not difficult to construct two return cannons, and different craftsmen were responsible for making different parts, which were then transported to the river bridge to be assembled by their own parts. Because the river bridge itself is not stable, and it cannot support too powerful artillery frames.

Although Li Tai loves to rush, he is not reckless, and he knows that with his forwards all the way, it will be difficult to defeat the Heyang defenders of the Eastern Wei Dynasty in a regular state. Moreover, whether it is the friendly forces in the Heluo area or the hegemony in the rear of the Kansai region, they are not very reliable, and they may not be able to count on them at critical moments.

He still led his troops to the river bridge without hesitation, of course, he had to prepare his own killer plan, and he couldn't run here to die for a momentary greed.

Although the plan to continue the attack to the north of the river bridge was determined early in the morning, when he actually came here, Li Tai found that he did not expect a key problem, that is, the enemy also had a large crossbow to defend the city.

Although theoretically there is no upper limit to the power and range of the return gun, in practical application it is limited by many factors such as materials, structure, terrain and environment.

After a slight comparison of the bed crossbows captured in Nancheng, Li Tai found that the range of the return cannon he had prepared was completely covered by the range of the bed crossbow.

This is definitely a fatal problem, especially since the return cannon he used for the attack is not yet a finished product, and if he wants to attack the enemy's fortress, he must advance to a certain distance of the enemy line and assemble it. During this time, they will be completely exposed to the range of the enemy's bed crossbows.

Li Tai chose to attack at night in order to take advantage of the enemy's vigilance and ignorance. The sand in the vehicle can be used both to block the enemy's crossbow shots and to be used as a counterweight for the return gun.

Although the density of sand is not as good as that of stone and iron, it can be transported to the destination and poured into the river water for a second time, which can reduce the initial capacity input and the load capacity of the river bridge. Moreover, the fine sand is convenient for the subtle adjustment of the counterweight increase and decrease, so that the return cannon that is put into actual combat for the first time is powerful

to more flexible adjustments.

The heavy infantry equipped with the swords can be said to be completely inorganic power, and it is useless in most actual combat scenarios, and it can be said to be a high-cost, very passive, and extremely cost-effective type of troops.

It can be said that as long as the enemy does not rush up stupidly and stretch out his head to take the knife, it will be difficult to cause effective damage to the enemy, but as long as the enemy takes the initiative to attack, it is to chop melons and vegetables.

Therefore, with the wealth of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, it was not much to form such a strange army as the arm, because the investment was too large but there was no application scenario, so Li Tai, who was used to doing business, directly formed two hundred armor after making a windfall.

This kind of luxury army is really useless if it is not formed, but if it really wants to form a system, it is much better than ordinary foot soldiers, and the happiness of the krypton gold elder is not something that ordinary people can experience.

Li Tai's idea for tonight's battle is that the two return artillery will bombard Zhongyun City and Heyang Pass, so that the enemy can't stand the blow and go out of the city to attack and destroy the siege weapon, and he will use two hundred heavy armor to array the front bridge, like playing fruit ninjas, to slash and kill these attacking enemy troops, is it not easy to kill thousands in one night?

But the expected situation did not appear, Rao is Xue Guyan, a big man who broke more than a dozen knives a day, and he couldn't return it after rushing up and sending another big lance.

Hundreds of meters away from each other, under the thick night, it was difficult for Li Tai to carry out a real-time and detailed monitoring of the enemy's movements, but based on what he saw, he felt that the enemy's reaction was not enthusiastic and active.

"Master Lang, the cannon tip has been calibrated, and now you will attack?"

After the soldiers had corrected the proportions of the front and rear guns, He Ruodun personally used a shovel to add a lot of river sand to the large wooden bucket hanging at the front end and doused it with river water, and then stopped when he heard that the iron chains wrapped around the outer wall of the wooden bucket were stretched and gurgling, and then he took out the calibrator and measured it forward for a while, and then hurriedly squeezed in front of Li Tai and asked for instructions.

Real men love big guys, and this powerful stone cannon is really too suitable for He Ruodun's aesthetics, compared to which even the archery skills he was good at before have become a flower work like threading needles and embroidery, which is really not worth mentioning.

"Let's launch!"

After Li Tai heard this, he waved his hand and said, looking at He Ruodun looking at the artillery platform to operate, he couldn't help but wonder if he wanted to let this guy be the commander of the artillery battalion in the future?

During the period of artillery suspension and adjustment on the south side of the river bridge, the chaos of the defeated Eastern Wei army on the opposite side was also reduced. Hu Lu Jin personally led the team to stand on the north side of the river bridge, and when he saw the rout on the bridge swarming, he directly ordered dozens of people to be killed, so that the rout could barely be controlled.

After some pushing and squeezing, Xue Guyan, who fell at the back of the team, barely came to the head of the river bridge, when he saw Hu Lujin's cold gaze, Xue Guyan couldn't help but hang his head, and said in a bitter voice: "Da Sima, the defeat of the defenders is really not because of the timidity of the soldiers, but because the thieves are fierce and fierce, and there is really no way to resist it......

At this time, the river was still roaring and trembling, and Hu Lujin could guess the enemy's attack, but in his concept, although the stone cannon attacked fiercely, it would not make all the troops in the city retreat. If there is really such power, why would their army hate the Jade City last year!

So he held his saber in his hand and scolded angrily: "Where are you waiting for the apprentices to be reused, to guard Heyang, and not to stand on the wall? There are only strong men who are brave and do not retreat and are not afraid to sacrifice their lives for the country! The old man is here today, if you dare to come out behind me, you will not be spared!"

Hu Lujin's statement was categorical, coupled with the dozens of corpses that were beheaded at the bridgehead, which immediately gave these rebels a great deterrent. The front could not rush off the bridgehead, and the urging sound of the rear sounded from time to time, and there was no shortage of frightened soldiers who could not help but let out a howl of grief and despair.

But not all of them had a nervous breakdown, after all, these defenders were veterans of the six towns who had been tempered by the war for a long time, and after realizing that they had fallen into a desperate situation where they could not advance or retreat, they also quickly adjusted their mentality, recalling that although the enemy's offensive was not small, it was not enough to be dead, and even if they died in battle, it was better than storming the bridgehead and being killed, the former was at least okay

Spell out a bereavement pension for his wife and children.

When people are put to death, courage breeds instead. In particular, the sound of the southern bombardment did not sound again for a long time, and the sense of shock and panic created in people's hearts was sharply reduced.

"The thieves have only used the power of artillery, and now they have stolen the city, and it is difficult to attack with artillery. Sons and daughters will come back with me, and bury these thieves in the river!"

Seeing that the situation of the group had recovered, Xue Guyan raised his arms and shouted again, organizing the soldiers to fight back. And when the defenders heard this, their confidence quickly recovered, and when it came to hand-to-hand combat, they were not afraid of any opponent.

So soon the soldiers stranded on the river bridge were armed with knives, guns and weapons, spontaneously formed an array, and then marched towards the south of the bridge.

However, before they could return to the riverbank, the night sky was full of wind, and an irregularly shaped black shadow rolled overhead, and smashed heavily on the bridge deck.

Kacha made a loud noise, and the two strong soldiers who fell on the cannon stone were suddenly smashed into meat sauce, and then the boulder fell heavily on the bridge deck, and the bridge deck suddenly sank downward, and then bounced upwards again, this section of the bridge deck fluctuated violently, and several soldiers near the left were directly lifted off the bridge, and quickly disappeared into the river.

"This is heaven's punishment, heaven's punishment! Retire, rewind...... I don't want to die!"

The soldiers were already frightened, but this bloody and astonishing scene suddenly broke through their psychological defenses, and even though it caused a more frightening chaos than before, many soldiers were extremely frightened and could not advance or retreat, and even took the initiative to jump into the river.

"This cannon is a bit far away, it must have hit the river bridge. Take advantage of the thief's panic and take the city quickly!"

Han Xiong led the crowd to fight in front, and at this moment he was already a little physically exhausted, and He Ruodun was still playing with artillery, Li Tai felt that after this series of bombardments, the enemy must have panicked, so he personally led the light armor troops to rush to Heyang Pass.