Volume 1 Troubled Times Chapter 78 Stone Catapult

Wang Bian looked at Zhang Pu who was circling around him and asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

Zhang Pu said angrily: "I'm curious, can't I? ”

Wang Rong shook his head helplessly and said, "The soldiers are in danger, this is still the front line, you should hurry back to the wounded soldiers." ”

Zhang Pu pursed his lips and looked stubborn: "I won't go back, now that the battle is over, where is the danger?" ”

It was too late, it was too fast, and I only heard a muffled sound of "buzzing", and an arrow was shot from a distance. Wang Rong didn't look good, Zhang Pu couldn't hide at all, and she didn't wear armor yet. didn't care about whether men and women kissed or not, he quickly dragged Zhang Pu into his arms, turned around, and exposed his back to the outside.

When Wang Hao saw Wang Rong's movements, his head was suddenly dizzy, and his soul was scattered. He ran towards Wang Rong with a square shield in hand, but it was still too late.

Wang Bian took a rain of arrows, and the dense arrows hit the armor. Wang Rong was hit by more than a dozen arrows on the spot, and the guards hurriedly stepped forward and protected the two with shields.

Wang Wei even held Wang Wei up, and asked, "Du Wei!" Captain! What do you think? ”

Zhang Pu hid in Wang Rong's arms, the closest person to him, and heard Wang Rong's muffled snort at that time. She hurriedly came to the other side and helped Wang Wei to the side of the wall to stack out.

Wang Mo hurriedly tried to help Wang Rong take off his armor, but was stopped by Wang Rong. Wang Wei stretched out his right hand from his back, "Kaba", broke an arrow, and grinned at Zhang Pu, who was worried, and Wang Wei, who was in a cold sweat: "It's okay, it doesn't hurt." ”

After listening to Wang Rong's words, Wang Mo almost knelt on the ground, uncle, adult, what time is it, and he didn't forget to be handsome in front of Xiao Zhang.

Zhang Pu spoke with a crying tone: "Don't scare me, are you hurt?" ”

As soon as Zhang Pu's words fell, before Wang Rong could answer, he heard the overwhelming shouts of killing outside the wall.

Li Sujie ran over quickly, waved his saber in his hand, knocked several arrows away, he squatted beside Wang Rong, and said loudly: "Zhong Ming! This bearded man is crazy, they have just lost thousands of people, and they don't even have to breathe, and they are attacking again. ”

Then he saw Wang Rong being shot like a hedgehog, and his face was shocked: "Zhong Ming, are you okay?!" ”

Wang Rong smiled and said, "It's okay, don't make a fuss." Let all the soldiers go to the wall, come to life, why don't we beat the Bearded Man back before dark. ”

"!!"

Although Ashina Siyuan lost thousands of people on the second wall, his headquarters did not suffer much damage.

At this moment, Ashina Siyuan was at the second wall, and he pressed all the remaining soldiers of the Bearded Tribe, and at the same time used all the remaining siege equipment in his hand.

The heavy siege crashes and hundreds of flying ladders, driven by the Badgers, kept approaching the wall of the main camp in the west.

An array of 5,000 men quickly crossed the main camp trench, and they pointed their bows and arrows upwards diagonally, drew their bows like a full moon, and fired them at the wall. Arrows shot like dark clouds at the wall.

Ashina Kuro swung his scimitar and shouted, "Kill! ”

Tens of thousands of tribal soldiers held spears, swords and shields, carried flying ladders, and pushed crashing cars to approach the wall. It's still the same operation, it's still the same routine, in the face of the attack of the Bearded People, the soldiers of the Western Governor's Mansion have been able to face it calmly.

Of course, Wang Rong will no longer use a simple bed crossbow to entertain the bearded people who come to visit. Behind the wall, there are more than a dozen improvised stone throwers.

The stone thrower built by Wang Rong is not the famous return cannon of later generations, it is a counterweight trebuchet with huge volume and complex structure. Wang Rong just wanted to build it, and he didn't have that time.

The stone throwing machine built by Wang Rong is a torsion stone throwing machine used in ancient Greece and Rome in the West, also known as a stone crossbow. It mainly relies on twisted ropes to generate the force of the catapult to launch stone projectiles. The catapult rod is usually upright, with a large wooden spoon containing stone bullets at the top of the rod and the lower end of the rod inserted into a tightly twisted horizontal rope. When ejecting, the ejection rod is pulled to a near-horizontal position with a winch and a stone bullet is placed in a large wooden spoon. Release the winch rope and the ejection lever returns to its vertical position while ejecting the stone.

In order to be able to inflict more damage on the Bearded Man, he changed the large wooden spoon on the top of Wang Rong's catapult into a leather bullet bag. The bullet pouch was not a whole round stone bullet, but a bag of broken stones.

Ma Yuansi waited beside more than a dozen stone crossbows with some of the lightly wounded members of the 2,000-man team, while Han Qian took a part of the lightly wounded members of the 3,000-man team to distribute them all over the wall, acting as observers. The intact soldiers of the 2nd and 3,000th detachments were placed under the command of Li Sujie, who were armed with bows and crossbows, or manipulated bed crossbows, and poured arrows, crossbows, and stones in their hands on the Bearded Men outside the wall.

The fourth and fifth thousand-man teams, under the leadership of their respective thousands, held spears, swords and shields, pushed the battering rod, or several people in groups held hook rods and fork rods, and frantically output to the bearded people on the flying ladder.

The Bearded Man soon felt the caress of the soldiers of the Western Governor's Mansion. When they rushed from the second walled wall to one hundred and fifty steps away from the main wall, the bows and crossbows on the walled wall began to exert their might, and more than 1,000 people shot arrows from the walled wall at the same time, and the arrows soared away like locusts, densely swept across the sky, and shot at the rushing man.

The leather jackets on the Badbeard people equipped with the Arrow Tower could not resist the penetrating power of the arrows at all, and the soldiers of the Badbeard tribe fell to the ground with arrows, revealing several gaps. But the gap was quickly filled, and it was quickly closed, and the tribal soldiers rushed to a distance of only a hundred paces from the main camp wall.

The second round of arrows soon shot out from the wall, and they rained down like black clouds in the air. At the same time, the bed and stone crossbows began to wield, and the crossbow spears were fired in a burst of fire, plowing several blood lines through the crowd. The stone was thrown into the air, and after flying some distance, it landed accurately in the running crowd, setting off a shower of blood. The tribal soldier who was carrying the ladder as he ran didn't even have time to scream, and fell to the ground.

The arrows continued, the stones flew in the air, and at the distance to the wall, the Badgers paid the price of thousands of casualties, but for their large numbers, the thousands of casualties did not affect them much.

Han Qian and his subordinates kept an eye on the speed of the Badgers' advance. When the bearded man reached a distance of fifty paces from the wall, he waved the command flag in his hand violently.

When Ma Yuansi saw the dancing flag, he immediately ordered: "Quick! Change the oil tank! Thirty steps away from the wall! Launch! "More than a dozen black canisters of fire oil were thrown into the air, and under the action of gravity, they fell at the feet of the running man, and the broken pottery shards cut their cheeks and palms, causing them little damage, but what frightened them was the viscous black liquid that flew everywhere.

When Han Qian's troops and horses fell from the fuel tank, they shot out the rockets that had been ignited in their hands at the same time. A fire suddenly broke out under the wall, and the flames rose and devoured the front-line man.