"What kind of planes are these Jurchens doing? The war elephant shoots another rocket out to see what the hell these grandchildren are tossing? "Ahh

After carefully retracting his skull from the wall, Hu Biao, who was full of stubble and red eyes, cursed in his mouth.

The voice sounded like something was stuck in the throat, and it was rather hoarse.

In fact, I don't blame Hu Biao's current state, it looks so bad, because now all the netizens in the city are counted as one, and they are all such an embarrassed appearance.

That is, Ah Li, Ah Fen, and War Elephant, the situation of these three little sisters-in-law and sister-in-law is slightly better.

Today's time will be dawn in about an hour, and it will be the morning of August 1.

In the previous two days, the Jurchens had driven the people they had captured, and had been frantically piling up earth outside the city day and night.

Even the corpses of the people who had been shot, exhausted, and executed like monkeys had been spared. Diaphragm

and baskets of dirt, all piled together, eventually turned into a mound of dirt that grew higher and higher; Before nightfall last night, the earthen walls outside the east, west and north walls of Haiyang City were already very large-scale.

Although on the whole, it is three meters high, which is slightly lower than the city wall.

But at a distance of about ten meters, the Jurchens drove the people to pile up earthen platforms more than two meters higher than the city wall.

Because last night, it was a dark night when I couldn't see my fingers.

The Jurchens also stopped lighting many torches and continued to pile up earth.

However, the people who stayed on the city wall could clearly hear the sound of 'squirping~' coming from the mound of dirt outside the city, and they didn't know what they were doing at night.

So Hu Biao and others, who used to take turns to sleep for three or four hours every night, didn't sleep all night. Diaphragm

The main thing is that they clearly know that the Jurchens must be preparing something that they think is a big killer weapon that can help them break the city quickly.

The biggest possibility of this should be trebuchet.

But if it is a trebuchet, then which model is it, is it powerful, and how many are there?

When I think of such a thing, it is like a sharp knife hanging over my head, so where can they sleep Hu Biao?

Under Hu Biao's order, the war elephant picked up a special long arrow, put a ball of linen soaked in vegetable oil, tied it at the position of the arrow, and set it on fire.

An arrow shot out of the mound outside the city.

Unfortunately, the rocket that was fired this time still landed on the wet ground as before, and then went out soon after. Diaphragm

So much so that they didn't see anything, and they didn't know what those Jurchens were secretly tossing under the dark night?

Seeing this, the team that was also squatting beside Hu Biao, with red eyes, did not accept Yu Hanfeng at night, and after spitting fiercely, he shouted in his mouth:

"Lao Hu, let me try to go out of the city again, I don't believe it, I can't even find out what these Jurchens are secretly doing."

The reason why Yu Hanfeng said this was that about two hours ago, after his three scout horses were lowered from the city wall with ropes, they secretly felt to the mound of earth to try to figure out the situation.

But after the three of them left the city, it was like a mud cow entering the sea, and there was no movement at all.

Such a thing has always been very troublesome to Yu Hanfeng.

After hearing this, Hu Biao finally said a sentence in his mouth: "Don't take any risks, there will be dawn in an hour at most, and you can see clearly at a glance what the Jurchens have prepared at that time." "Ahh

Hearing Hu Biao say this, Yu Hanfeng could only suppress the anxious emotions in his heart.

Like the rest of the team, he crouched silently behind the battlement, smoking a cigarette and waiting for the dawn to reveal the mystery.

In such a process, no one dares to poke their brains out of the wall with a flickering cigarette butt in their mouths.

That's because in the previous time, there were already many soldiers under him who suffered losses.

When night came, the Jurchens hid in the darkness of the fires on the city walls, as if they were hunting; As long as someone comes forward, the sharp arrows like poisonous snakes will be greeted with precision.

After being shot a dozen people in a row, the people on the city wall were unusually cautious during the night's time.

In this way, while everyone waited silently, time passed little by little. Diaphragm

didn't wait for the sun on the horizon to pop out a little bit, just when the sky was a little white, everyone just lay on the wall and looked out.

At this point, I finally saw clearly what the Jurchens were tossing out of the big killing weapon?

After seeing it clearly, everyone breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, and there was only one thought: that's it......

*******

Let Hu Biao and them sigh 'just this', that is what they see in their eyes, that is, on those earthen platforms in the mound outside the city.

The Jurchens used a crude wooden shield to block the trebuchets behind them.

In ancient wars, trebuchets were indeed a sharp weapon in siege warfare, and it is said that Xiangyang City, which Guo Jing participated in defending and was known as an iron fight, was breached by trebuchets. Diaphragm

The problem is that the trebuchet of the Jurchens in front of them is fundamentally different from the 'return cannon' used outside Xiangyang City.

This thing is supposed to be a medium, 'single-tip cannon' trebuchet.

Specifically, a wooden pole is installed on a wooden stake; At one end of the pole is a leather pocket, in which can put a stone of about ten catties.

At the other end, there were several ropes tied to it, and a group of people suddenly pulled hard to throw the stones at the other end.

It can be regarded as using the principle of leverage, but the use is somewhat primitive.

It is convenient to occupy a high position to hit the city wall, but the stone thrown is only ten catties in the sky, how powerful can this thing be?

The only problem was that it was fairly simple to make, so after a night's time, the Jurchens set it up outside the city. Diaphragm

Outside the northern wall alone, there are as many as forty or fifty units.

And those Jurchens naturally knew that once it was dawn, the secrets of these trebuchets could not be kept; So at this time, a large number of surrendered Liao soldiers had already appeared next to these trebuchets.

Twenty or thirty people are usually operating a trebuchet and are ready to launch.

What's more critical is that a group of Jurchen officials and generals such as Wanyan Lou Room have already appeared on the battlefield, in positions where ballistas cannot be hailed, and they are ready to watch with pride, and the trebuchets that they have been preparing for a long time smash the city defense.

Therefore, after Hu Biao waited for the brains to poke out his brains, groups of shirtless stout Liao soldiers and young men pulled the rope at the end of the 'single-tip cannon' at the same time in the password.

In the sound of 'crunch~' wood rubbing, stones the size of bowls flew towards Haiyang City.

You can see that they are heading for the ballistas on the city walls, and as a result? Of the forty or fifty stones, half fell directly on the dirt ground outside the city. Diaphragm

In the remaining half, more than a dozen pieces smashed on the walls of the city wall, smashing into small craters under the splash of dirt.

There were also five or six pieces that flew directly over the city wall and smashed into the city, and I faintly heard someone screaming, presumably accidentally hit.

There were only a dozen or so pieces that really hit the city wall.

None of them hit the ballistas on the ramparts.

In fact, it is a very normal thing to have such a situation, the trebuchet seems simple, but if you want to hit it accurately, it involves the mathematics of ballistics.

Dayuan's 'Huihui Cannon' can become the exclusive of Lao Huihui because of such a reason.

These surrendered Liao soldiers outside the city, they know the mathematics of wool. Diaphragm

Coincidentally, a stone fell on the wall where Hu Biao and the others were squatting, although it did not hurt them, but the splashing mud and sand made them face.

With a grizzled annoyance, Hu Biao shouted:

"Wolf green, take our Italy away, no! It's our trebuchet that pulls it out and lets them know what a trebuchet is~"

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