"Your Majesty, this is a newly improved catapult." Push a new catapult onto the playground with the workshop.

If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, and Li Yue has never put down the improvement of weapons, armor and equipment.

This thing is much larger than the previous thunderbolt, and the things thrown have also been improved, from the original fire oil to a mixture of saltpeter, charcoal, and fire oil, and the explosion and combustion are more violent.

"Test firing." Li Yue remembered that the original black powder was made by mixing nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a certain proportion.

However, saltpeter and sulfur are more difficult to get these days.

Storage and transportation can be difficult.

It can only play a miraculous effect on a specific battlefield, and it is not necessary to apply it on a large scale, the conditions are not yet ripe, and it is not necessary.

Squeak, squeak......

Five craftsmen operate the catapult, and with a bang, the clay pot is thrown.

But I don't know if it was because of the strong wind or because there was a problem with the lead, the clay pot did not explode, nor did it burn, and it shattered to the ground.

Li Yue glanced at everyone, "You are so solemn just to show me this?" ”

Several people were in a cold sweat, "Huh...... Your Majesty, you have been negligent for a moment......"

and hurriedly tinkered.

This time it worked, two hundred paces away, with a bang, and the flames soared into the air.

It is true that the power and range have increased, but it is done on the basis of increasing the trebuchet, not to mention the improvement, let alone innovation.

Li Yue looked at this guy who was twice as big as the thunderbolt, this thing is a troublesome thing to transport and disassemble, and with many years of experience in the war, this thing is not practical.

"This thing can't work, you don't always improve on the basis of your predecessors, you have to innovate a lot, such as ......" Li Yue recalled the counterweight trebuchet he had seen in the game.

That is, the Huihui cannon that appeared in the Yuan Dynasty.

It can throw four or five hundred pounds of stone, which is much stronger than the twenty or thirty pounds of thunderbolts now.

I don't know the specific details, but I know that it is made through the principles of winch, pulley, lever, etc.

In the Wei and Jin dynasties, there were already winches, and lever pulleys were available in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Once the principle is understood, it is not difficult to figure things out.

Li Yue drew a sketch from memory, marking the approximate height, "According to this drawing, redesign, don't always think about using manpower, use more ziplines and winches." ”

Several craftsmen looked at the sketch in a daze, "This ...... Can this thing work? ”

"If it doesn't work, build it first, and improve it step by step." Li Yue didn't bother to explain.

After recruiting so many craftsmen, you have to make something new, right?

Suddenly, his heart moved, and when he attacked Qiuzi, Lu Guang captured a large number of craftsmen from the Western Regions, and some of them may be proficient in machinery.

Even if not, if the two sides are combined, maybe they can collide with sparks.

"In this way, you choose the most skilled craftsmen, and I will select a group of craftsmen from the Western Regions, and both sides will be carried out at the same time." Li Yue only believes in miracles.

Besides, it's not high-tech.

"How does this make Huaxia always exquisite and ingenious, how can it be compared to the Hu people in the Western Regions?" A few old craftsmen blew their beards and glared.

Li Yue laughed, "Don't underestimate them, each has its own strengths, as long as I get the result, whoever gets it out will be rewarded." ”

The ruler is long, and the inch is short.

There are many people in the Central Plains, which sometimes limits the development of technology, and anyway, everything can be filled by manpower, so there is no need to improve technology.

There are few people in the Western Regions, so they try their best to borrow strength.

Of course, this is just Li Yue's personal thoughts, more people are not all good things, and fewer people are not all bad things.

Xiangyang City is really strong, relying only on human lives, I don't know how many people will die.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, we will never lose to the Hu people!" A few people hurried away with sketches.

"Your Majesty, what should I do with this thing?" The guard pointed to the large trebuchet.

"Stupid big black thing, burned." Li Yue has already pointed out the direction for them, if they can't get it out again, they can simply disband.

If you can enter Taixue, your skills will never be bad.

Li Yue immediately sent someone to inquire about the Qiuzi craftsmen.

There are also people who know woodwork, but the level is not as good as the workshop, and the language is not clear, so someone needs to translate.

Li Yue took the trouble to explain the principle and what to build.

The gang stared at each other, and finally reluctantly understood.

In less than a month, things were getting out on both sides.

However, it is far from Li Yue's impression, and the shape made by the craftsmen of the Central Plains is like a swallowtail, which requires hundreds of people to operate.

I don't know what it is, but on a traditional catapult, a winch, a lever, and a pulley are added.

As soon as the test shot was made, the things made by the craftsmen of Qiuzi were not as good as the traditional projection vehicles.

On the contrary, the things in the workshop are closer to what Li Yue wants, and the forty catties of stones can be projected at more than 150 steps, which is already a great improvement, and it is much stronger than the original catapult.

It's a good start, things are made, and the rest is to delve into it.

"Each person will be rewarded with five sheep and five stones of grain, and on this basis, they will improve their own food, and if they need, they will go directly to the treasury to get it." Li Yue was quite satisfied, and disbanded the Qiuzi craftsmen, these people were okay with iron, but it was difficult to get these "high-end" things.

Qiuzi is known as a great power in the Western Regions, but it is completely incomparable to Middle-earth.

The larger the population base, the more talents will be produced.

This point is incomparable to Qiuzi, and besides, Qiuzi's little thing comes from Tianzhu and Persia in the west, not from the place of origin.

The Northern and Southern Dynasties of the Sixteen Kingdoms was an era of inheriting the past and opening up the future, with the integration of various ethnic groups, a small collision of ideas, and a small explosion of technology in the Central Plains.

Not only did armor and weapons advance by leaps and bounds, but astronomy, geography, medicine, and agriculture also broke out, and then the later Sui and Tang dynasties were created.

A counterweight trebuchet that knows the principle can't make it for no reason.

In the two months at the end of the year, Li Yue withdrew from the harem and devoted himself to the design of the trebuchet, eating, drinking, and Lazar all in Taixue.

Learn from each other's strengths, integrate the advantages and disadvantages of both sides, and improve step by step.

The projection weight ranged from 40 to 50 catties, 60 catties, and 90 catties, and the firing range ranged from 150 to 16, 18, and 190 steps......

Catapults are getting bigger and bigger.

When it reached 110 catties and 200 steps, it seemed to have reached the limit.

If you increase the weight again, either the range will be reduced, or the catapult will not be able to carry it.

"Almost, just build according to this standard, and the standards of various devices should be unified, so as to facilitate dismantling, transportation and assembly." Li Yue rubbed his forehead, if he wanted to go further, he would have to expend more energy.

After all, he is the Great Liang Emperor, and there are too many things to deal with, and he can't really get into it with one mind.

Plan more for the new year.

With the current power, it should be enough to attack Xiangyang.

No matter how good the siege equipment is, it is only an auxiliary, and the decisive victory on the battlefield depends on the soldiers of both sides, the battlefield situation, and the people's hearts.

Li Yue took a multi-pronged approach and did not pin all his hopes on trebuchets.

"Command." The craftsmen all breathed a sigh of relief.

(End of chapter)