At this time, Ran Min didn't know about the war in western Liaoning, as well as Yin Hao's Northern Expedition, and now he was still staying in Meilin outside Tongguan.

But after waiting for so long, the artillery and shells secretly pulled from Yecheng were finally in place.

It's long overdue!

In fact, it is not surprising that the logistics personnel are so inefficient, after all, it is at the turn of spring and summer, it is rainy, the roads are muddy, if it is not for the way to go in the water, these baggage do not know when it will be transported to Tongguan.

As soon as the "secret weapon" arrived, Ran Min led his troops to arrange troops under Tongguan, 100,000 sharp soldiers, divided into 20 huge phalanxes, hunting with banners, war drums and thundering, spears like the sea, soldiers like pines and cypresses, standing proudly on this yellow earth! New Bayi m.x81zw

"King, do you want to let the secret weapon come into play?" At this time, Tao Yong, who followed the logistics team to Tongguan, asked.

Ran Min no longer rode in a comfortable car, but sat on the back of Chima Zhulong's horse, looking at the majestic Guancheng of Tongguan in the distance, and shook his head lightly: "It's not time yet." ”

The reason why Tao Yong rushed to Tongguan was because he also came with dozens of gunners.

Wei didn't really train artillery, so the only people who could tinker with this thing were craftsmen who made artillery.

Tao Yong asked again: "King, this Tongguan is so dangerous, so easy to defend and difficult to attack, it can be called a place where one man is the pass, and ten thousand people can't open it, just with our dozens of artillery, we may not be able to take it down, right?" The power of the artillery is not small, but it can't blow up this thick and dangerous Tongguan City! ”

Tao Yong is still somewhat self-aware of this.

The artillery is also stronger than the trebuchet, but in fact it is not very powerful, at least one or two cannons can not penetrate thick walls. And the city wall of this Tongguan is very strong, not to mention one or two cannons, that is, to place an artillery, bombardment hundreds of times, but I am afraid that the wall of this Tongguan may not be able to penetrate it!

"These widows know it." Ran Min squinted his eyes and said, "Tao Yong, how many cannons did you bring this time?" How many shells? ”

"Fifty-three artillery pieces and 720 shells."

"So little?" Ran Min's brows furrowed.

Tao Yong couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "King, what you say will make the old ministers and others chill." Since the gunpowder was tinkered out by us alchemists, the king asked us to make cannons and cannonballs, and it was hard to get them out, but you didn't mass-produce them, so it was not easy for us to make so many cannons and cannonballs with hundreds of people so far. ”

Hearing this, Ran Min smiled a little embarrassedly and said, "Thank you for your hard work." After this war, the artillery will be put into mass production, but the secret of the artillery must be kept and cannot be revealed. ”

Not long after, the Wei army launched an offensive against Tongguan.

"Trebuchet ready!"

With the order of the captain, a soldier immediately loaded the trebuchet with stone bullets into the slot of the trebuchet.

"Launch!"

"Woohoo! ……”

One after another stone bullets were suddenly thrown out, like a meteor cutting through the sky, the stone bombardment hit the city wall of Tongguan, just smashed, the thick city wall became pitted, as if leaving a little trace on the white paper, not enough to worry about.

However, if the stone projectile is thrown onto the castle tower, it can still cause a certain killing effect.

For example, some of the more unlucky Qin soldiers were smashed into meat sauce by those stone bullets that fell from the sky!

When the projectile is placed in the trebuchet's slot, it ignites immediately, and with it, sparks splash all over the sky, like a fireball.

"Bump!"

"Ahhh ……”

The fire bombarded the tower, and it was smashed to pieces. As for the clothes such as pine resin and wolf dung that burst out, they were very flammable, and sometimes they even exploded, smashing some Qin soldiers to the ground, not to mention, and even their clothes were burned!

"Bed crossbow ready!"

A bed crossbow, also known as a bed crossbow, is a combination of two or three bows that greatly enhances the tension and strength of the crossbow. When opening the crossbow, the crossbow string is connected to the winch with a thick rope, and the soldiers shake the winch, open the crossbow string, and set the giant arrow, and when it is fired, the soldier should slam the trigger with a sledgehammer, and the machine will shoot the arrow into the distance!

The bed crossbow of the Wei army has undergone certain improvements, and the bed crossbow of the compound bow has been used.

Now the bed crossbows of the Wei army can be divided into two categories according to the strength and range of the crossbows.

One is a double-bow bed crossbow, which is equipped with two bows, which are placed at the front and rear of the thick crossbow arm, and the two bows are placed opposite each other, when firing, first use a thick rope with hooks at both ends, hook the crossbow string at one end, hook the shaft of the winch at the other end, and then twist the winch with five, seven or more than ten warriors together, open the crossbow string, buckle it on the teeth, and the crossbowman who is in charge of loading the arrow installs the crossbow arrow and aims at the target.

When firing, the power of the human hand cannot pull the trigger, and the crossbowman in charge of firing must raise a sledgehammer and hammer the plate machine with all his strength, so the huge crossbow arrow will fly towards the enemy with a roar.

These arrows are very thick, and the arrowheads are flat and chiseled, so they are called "chisel arrows", and the range is about 120 to 135 steps.

The other type is the three-bow bed crossbow, which is more powerful than the previous type and has twice the range.

The three crossbow bows on the crossbow arm, two at the front end and one at the back, are also installed opposite each other. Because this kind of bed crossbow is stronger, it is also called "eight bull crossbow", which means that it can be pulled apart with the strength of eight old cows.

It generally takes 20 to 100 people to open a crossbow by manpower, and the general range is 200 to 300 paces, that is, about 370 to 560 meters.

The crossbow arrows used in the three-bow bed crossbow are even larger, with thick shafts and iron feathers, and the front end is equipped with a huge three-edged blade iron arrowhead, because it is about the same size as the spear used by ordinary soldiers, so it is also called "one gun and three sword arrows".

It also has another name called "Stepping Arrow", that is because it also has a special function, that is, when attacking the enemy's castle, the thick three-bow crossbow arrow is shot at the enemy city wall, so that the front end of the crossbow arrow is deeply inserted into the wall, leaving only half of the thick arrow shaft and tail feathers exposed outside the wall, and the besieging soldiers can climb these huge arrow shafts inserted in the wall under their own cover to climb the city wall and capture the city.

As a result, this huge crossbow bolt became a pedal for siegers to climb, so these arrows also got the name "pedal arrow".

"Shoot the arrows!"

The bed crossbow suddenly "jumped", and suddenly shot out thousands of crossbow arrows, some of which were submerged into the city wall, and some of which shot directly into the city tower, piercing the body of the enemy above Tongguan!

After a long-range attack, the war drums sounded in unison, and finally under Ran Min's order, countless Wei pawns riveted their strength and rushed to Tongguan in a frenzy.

"Kill!"

"Rush!"

The Wei soldiers pushed the curtains, pushed the crashing trees, carried the ladder carts, and braved the rain of arrows like a fly, they were not afraid of death, they were indomitable, even if the comrades around them fell, they would step on the corpses of their comrades, howling and pounced.

The battle is becoming more and more intense, and Pu Jian, the guard of Tongguan, personally carries a sword to supervise the battle.

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Chapter 0401: Secret Weapon