Daqin Fusu: It is difficult to start the battle

Chapter 76 Gravity Trebuchet

Meng Ying looked up, and saw that in this canyon formed by the river and the foot of the mountain, there were busy servants and workers holding bamboo sticks everywhere.

The big logs transported along the waterway were carried into the sawmill by the water one by one, and then turned into large and small logs and carried out.

"Look at that!" Han Xin stretched out his hand, pointing to a huge wooden instrument in the distance.

Meng Ying took a closer look, the wooden equipment seemed a bit like a trebuchet commonly used in the military, but it seemed completely different.

Compared with the stone-throwing machine that uses manpower to pull the throwing pole, this stone-throwing machine is larger, and a huge wooden box is fixed at one end of the throwing pole.

Just as Meng Ying was about to ask a question, he suddenly saw a man in his 30s walking towards him.

The man has a short beard under his chin, wears a long skirt, armor with no shawl (arm armor) on his shoulders, leg guards, shallow shoes on his feet, and a long crown fixed with a yellow ribbon on his head. It is exactly the attire of a seventh-rank official among the twentieth ranks of military merit.

Although Meng Ying is a fifth doctor at the ninth level, she still took the first step to bow down and salute: "I have seen you, brother!"

Immediately afterwards, he introduced Han Xin to the side.

"This is what I mentioned for you. Li Qian, the son of General Zuo, is now a commander in the army. He is proficient in bow and horse, and the ancient Yang Youji is not as good as him!"

Han Xin bowed his hands slightly and stood aside, only to hear Li Qian laughing loudly and patted Meng Ying's shoulder with his hand: "Good boy, I heard that you went out and brought back many prisoners..."

Before he could finish speaking, Meng Ying's facial features wrinkled together suddenly, tears streaming down her cheeks.

"No, even though we haven't seen each other for several years since we parted, my brother Xianyang, isn't your expression too exaggerated..."

"Exaggeration, you slapped my wound!"

Han Xin explained a few words to Li Qian who was at a loss, Li Qian shook his head with a face full of tears and laughter: "Ah Weng is really ruthless! I broke you, Rou'er should feel bad..."

Rouer? ...Han Xin turned his head, looked at Meng Yi with an aunt's smile on his face, guessing in his heart, could it be Meng Ying's lover?
Memories about Li Rou'er instantly appeared in Meng Ying's mind.

Li Xin's second daughter is twenty-eight years old. When she left Xianyang two years ago, she was over seven feet tall. She has a round face and big eyes. She looks like a girl. She has a beard and is almost exactly the same as Li Xin when she was young. She can draw a five-stone bow. There is a hundred steps to penetrate Yang Zhineng...

Could it be that the rumors are true?It is said that when General Zuo came to Xianyang, he slept with his father. Could it be that they really planned to get married? ...Meng Ying shuddered. It wasn't because he disliked Li Rou'er's appearance, but because he was too familiar with her to make a move...

Suddenly, Meng Ying saw the smirk on Han Xin's face, and thought to herself, it is said that the way of husband and wife lies in the complementarity of yin and yang. After so many days of observation, this guy's personal combat power is at most equivalent to one-tenth of Li Rouer's... Well, it's a good match!

Meng Ying made up her mind to write a letter back to Xianyang after returning to the barracks, asking Fu Su to be the matchmaker, and Meng Ying was not worried about whether she was a matchmaker or not.

Han Xin is a talented person selected by the emperor himself, and his colleagues these days have made Mengying understand that the life of a husband and a virtuous person is like a cone in the bag, and the end is seen immediately!
Meng Ying returned a meaningful smile to the smirking Han Xin, turned her head to look at the trebuchet in the distance, and asked, "Brother, what is this?"

Li Qian said seriously: "This is a device made by His Majesty, called a gravity trebuchet!"

"I understand the trebuchet." Meng Ying was puzzled: "Gravity? What does this mean?"

Li Qian spread his hands: "Don't ask, even if I ask, I don't know!"

Meng Ying was speechless for a while, but Han Xin suggested: "Can we come over and have a look?"

When Han Xin came last time, he was driven away by the guards guarding the construction site a few hundred steps away from the trebuchet because of his low rank...

Li Qian thought for a while, then led Han Xin and Meng Ying towards the trebuchet.

When the soldiers carrying long halberds along the way saw Li Qian leading the way, he did not stop him after a military salute.

When he got closer, Han Xin discovered that the structure of the gravity trebuchet was more complicated than he imagined.

It is about one foot high, and below it is a platform with five pairs of wooden wheels, which can obviously be pulled by animal power.

The whole is made of huge wood, and the joints of wood are fixed with iron nails, mortise and tenon and ropes.

A rotatable throwing pole is placed horizontally on the gun mount, with a leather bag and rope tied to one end, and a pair of winches-like things at the bottom.

Han Xin looked at the wooden box at the front of the throwing pole and guessed that this should be the so-called 'gravity'.

"The Qiang people don't know how to build cities, so what are they doing with so many siege equipment?" Meng Ying looked at the steady stream of trebuchets under construction, and was completely puzzled: "The field march brought such a big guy, why are you leaving?" Are you going fast?"

"You're blind, don't you see the wheels underneath?" Li Qian pointed at the row of small wooden wheels under the trebuchet and scolded.

"Can this work? Let me tell you, the roads in the Qiang territory are rough, and it's not easy for such a big car to turn!" Meng Ying stared back unwillingly.

"Haha, you don't have to worry about that!" Li Qian said with a smile: "Your Majesty said that if there is no steering gear and the quality of the material is not good, the wheels should be made smaller and the distance between the wheelbases should be smaller. The wheelbase is the distance between the axle and the axle. It’s been tested on hills, just go slower when cornering.”

After finishing speaking, he chuckled again: "If you really encountered a place that couldn't be turned, wouldn't you dismantle it and carry it over?"

Han Xin nodded, deeply agreeing with this. His Majesty often said that people should give full play to their subjective initiative, which is probably the case.

Meng Ying fiddled around, and after seeing Li Qian categorically rejected his request for two test shots, she asked about the results of the Qiang captives.

"Men who are taller than a wheel are sent to the mountains to quarry rocks, and Qiang girls who are of the right age are rewarded as concubines to soldiers who fight bravely according to His Majesty's edict, and young and old are sent to hermit officials to pound rice for the army."

Li Qian glanced at Meng Yi, and then said: "Don't even think about it, the Qiang girl will not reward you!"

Meng Ying: ...

Han Xin listened from the sidelines, and silently mourned for the Qiang people for three seconds in his heart.

The history of the Qiang people can be described as a history of blood and tears enslaved by the Qin people.

Since the period of Qin Ligong more than 200 years ago, because of the lack of labor force, the Qin people have focused on the Qiang people to the west of Longshan Mountain, and wantonly plundered the population and sent them to Guanzhong as slaves.

Later, a Qiang slave named 'Wuyi Yuanjian', 'Wuyi' means slave in the Qiang language, and Aijian shouted 'Ai Aimu Spartacus' and led a group of people from Guanzhong ran away...

When the captured Qin army set fire to the mountain, Aijian Longma possessed a wave of her. Since then, she became the leader of the Qiang people with the title of "Unburner" (crossed out), and began to teach the Qiang people how to farm and learn from Qin. The way people build cities.

After Qin Xiangong succeeded to the throne, in order to ease the conflict between the slave owners and the emerging land aristocracy, he once again attacked the Qiang people. While capturing a large number of slaves, he broke up the Qiang tribe and returned to the state of nomadic living. ...

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