In front of the gate of Xinzheng City, looking at the trebuchet positions that Qin Jun had built frantically as if he didn't want money, Wei Zhuang's paralyzed face couldn't help but twitch.

Who invented the trebuchet has long been unknown, but the first large-scale and historical record is in the hands of Fan Li, legend has it that he used a trebuchet that "weighs 12 pounds of flying stones, and travels 300 steps for the machine".

In the record of the trebuchet in "Mozi Beicheng Gate": "All the borrowed chariots are iron, the pillars of the borrowed chariots are seven feet long, and the yuan is four feet." ”

Borrowing a car is a trebuchet also.

When Mozi, the ancestor of the Mo family, and the grandfather of the Gong Loser demonstrated the offensive and defensive battle of the machine technique in front of King Chu Hui, the defensive equipment used included trebuchets to destroy the ladder and other equipment of the Gong Losing Team.

It's just that the trebuchet may be an artifact of siege warfare in later generations or games, but in this era, it is just a chicken rib.

Even in the Song Dynasty, in addition to the giant trebuchets that require hundreds of people just to use, the slightly more advanced tiger squat cannon fired only a stone projectile weighing fifteen catties in later generations, and the range was only seventy-five meters.

In this era, the weight of the stone projectile that can be thrown by a purely man-fired trebuchet is only about eight catties of later generations, and the range is only about 50 meters.

Whether it is a field battle or a siege, not only is the power insufficient, the distance of fifty meters is really not enough, it is too easy for the crossbowman to shoot the soldiers of the trebuchet position, or suddenly attack out of the city and destroy the trebuchet position in the blink of an eye.

And if it really comes to the point where you don't have to worry about the trebuchet position being disturbed, where do you have to spend that effort to build a trebuchet, and the flat push can take away the opposite side in a wave.

Therefore, in the Warring States period, trebuchets were more of a defensive equipment used by defenders.

But the problem is that the Mo family, who has played trebuchets for more than 200 years, and the public losers, who are known for their domineering tricks, have teamed up to improve the trebuchet...... Seriously, Zhang Ji thinks the power and range of this thing are a bit perverted.

Not to mention the several kinds of trebuchets that can be called giant cannons invented by Gong Yiqiu, Zhang Ji felt that it was a bit outrageous just because it could fire stone bullets weighing ten catties of later generations and had a range of about 120 meters.

The so-called standard trebuchet, as the name suggests, is a standardized equipment trebuchet, which is an assembly line project invented by Qin Mo, which independently produces the parts required for assembling the trebuchet, and then can be temporarily assembled by carrying the polished and formed parts.

The use of this standard trebuchet is not only easy to carry and use, but also greatly reduces the personal quality required by the soldiers who set up the trebuchet position.

You must know that there is too much to learn to train a group of soldiers who build trebuchet positions, and it is no less than asking a group of craftsmen with half a bucket of water to go online.

Wei Zhuang at the head of the city took a deep breath and watched as if no one was building one trebuchet position after another next to the Qin army, even he couldn't help but want to explode.

He understands the reason, but the question is what are these dense eighty trebuchets for?

Is the commander of the Qin army crazy!

"It doesn't matter, it just so happens that the development of Xinzheng has reached a limit, the population in the city is too dense, and I already have the idea of demolishing the city wall and expanding Xinzheng this year."

Nanyang County Cheng Zhao Hai looked at Tu Sui and Ren Huan, who were also stunned, and waved his hand casually.

Although General Teng was the county guard of Nanyang, he didn't know much about government affairs, so it was all handled by Zhao Hai, the county leader of Nanyang County, who was a branch of the Qin clan.

Qin has always had the custom of cash-for-work, and in this year of great disaster, he can also take advantage of this major project of demolishing the broken old city wall and expanding Xinzheng City to appease and recruit displaced people in Yingchuan County and enrich the population.

Of course, Wei Zhuang didn't know Zhao Hai's plan, but in the face of the eighty trebuchets prepared by the Qin army, he was really helpless.

When the trebuchet was fixed at an angle, the Qin army could carry out the trebuchet almost day and night, and even at night maintained the catapult of at least five trebuchets per wall.

The city wall at the head of the city was smashed to a dilapidated state, so that many rebel soldiers often fell to their deaths because of poor visibility at night, because the city wall lost its shielding effect.

By the fourth day, the Qin army still maintained an endless stone bombing, and the Qin army began to be a little bored, except for the soldiers who took turns to protect the trebuchet position, the rest of the soldiers began to play juju, wrestling and other entertainment.

In contrast, the rebels in the city had been beaten a little crazy by the endless bombardment of the Qin army, and even the rangers and convicts who were known for their bravery and ruthlessness could not stand the Qin army's fighting style.

In the absence of an effective means to counter the trebuchets, the rebels knew that the city would be bombarded endlessly, but they had to continue to send troops to garrison the city, otherwise the soldiers of the Qin army who protected the trebuchet positions could become the vanguard of the siege at any time.

Anyone bombed like this would have lost their morale, and the rebels, formed by a rabble, were on the verge of collapse.

But the Qin army didn't plan to give them a way to live at all, the city was besieged on all sides, and even the warriors who were good at light martial arts were extremely difficult to escape from the encirclement of the entire 100,000-strong army.

And on the sixth day, Meng Wu finally waved the general flag, personally beat the drum, and sounded the horn of the first attack of the Qin army since the siege of the city.

It is true that the trebuchet bombardment provided the rebels with a terrible number of stones, but the rebels, who had been mentally tortured to the limit, could not exert much combat effectiveness at all.

Until the city of Xinzheng was broken, the street fighting in the city was roughly over, and the 100,000 Qin army exterminated 50,000 rebels, and only more than 1,000 people were killed, more than 2,300 people were lightly injured, and more than 400 people were seriously injured.

It's a pity that Wei Zhuang and Zhang Liang escaped again under the deliberate indulgence of Meng Wu and Luo Net, "nowhere to be found".

However, Zhang Kaidi, the Han Xiang who created the story of the fifth prime minister of the Zhang family, stayed outside Xinzheng City forever.

If a rebellion fails once, the second time it will be clearer about the gap between the anti-Qin forces and the Qin state, and then begin to hibernate with the anti-Qin forces.

And that's not something that Locom is happy to see.

Moreover, the Xinzheng rebellion did make Yingzheng, the king of Qin, feel angry and worried, and in the answer sheet handed to Yingzheng, there must also be a valuable head to appease the anger of the king of Qin.

So Luo Wang chose to kill Zhang Kaidi and let Zhang Liang, who was still young and vigorous, escape.

and then used the two uncommon hatreds of killing ancestors and fathers to stimulate Zhang Liang to take revenge with the impulse of anti-Qin forces, so as to help Luo Wang better uproot the secret anti-Qin forces.

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