Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 691
In the early morning, in Youzhou City, Yeluhu Jian was urging his horse to run towards the city wall. Just now he heard the news that the Song Army had erected a huge trebuchet in the east of the city, which surprised him secretly.

When Yeluhu rushed to the top of the city, he saw the giant trebuchet hundreds of steps away at a glance. It was even bigger than the giant trebuchet, and its height was far higher than the city wall. The five-foot-long throwing pole is twice as long, and there are six huge wheels underneath, each wooden wheel is taller than a person.

"Marshal, this should have been shipped last night. Many brothers have heard movement outside."

Yelu Hujian also heard a strange noise, a rumbling sound, like a sound coming from a black box below, Yelu Hujian frowned, what is that big black box?
Yeluhu stared at it for a moment and then asked, "Is this the only one?"

"Currently only this one!"

Yelu Hu Jian nodded, "It's probably because they are testing"

He didn't finish, just listened to 'Boom! 'There was a loud noise, and a boulder roared towards the city wall. Everyone shouted in fright and squatted down to avoid it.

The boulder crossed the city wall and fell into the city. Soon, the super trebuchet began to slowly retreat more than a dozen steps. After a while, another boulder hit the top of the city. The boulder rebounded from the top of the city and hit the top On the leg post of a heavy trebuchet, the leg post snapped and broke, and the trebuchet crashed down, crushing two soldiers who couldn't dodge under it.

Yeluhu Jian cursed viciously, it's impossible to be beaten like this, you must have a weapon to deal with the enemy's super trebuchet.

Some soldiers suggested: "Marshal, the range of the bed crossbow can exceed that of dealing with it!"

One sentence reminded Yelu Hu Jian, he nodded, "Quickly order the military craftsman to come see me!"

Seeing the danger, Yeluhu immediately increased the production of his creations. There were already more than 200 bed crossbows in the warehouse, and he ordered them all to be carried to the top of the city.

"shooting!"

The general of the Liao army on the top of the city gave an order, and two hundred bed crossbows were fired at the same time, and the dense arrows shot at the super catapult five hundred steps away.

The crossbow bolts of the bed crossbow are about three feet long, thicker than a thumb, and can penetrate gold and crack stones within [-] steps, and are extremely lethal.

Song Jun’s super trebuchet was also protected. A two-foot-high wooden plank was placed in front of it, supported by triangular wooden pillars. However, Song Jun did not expect that the opponent’s bed crossbow was so powerful that it shot through the wooden plank. Dozens of bed crossbows The crossbow bolts were nailed to a tall wooden frame.

The trebuchet is made of huge wood. The stake itself is not afraid of arrows, but the connection of the bracket at the top and the throwing pole are sensitive. They are the key parts of the trebuchet. Because the position is too high, it cannot be defended. Unable to withstand the powerful crossbow arrows on the top of the city, he had to retreat slowly, out of the range of the crossbow on the bed, and the top of the city immediately burst into cheers.

In the afternoon, Fan Ning and Cao Shi led thousands of troops and rushed to the east city of Youzhou. At this time, the super trebuchet had been withdrawn out of the range of the bed crossbow. Fan Ning got off his horse and asked, "Is there any loss? "

The military inspector in charge of the test saluted and said: "I report to my lord that the catapult was shot with 38 arrows, but no arrows were hit at the vital points. There was basically no loss, but two craftsmen were seriously injured."

"Have you been sent for medical treatment?"

"He has been sent back to Lu County for treatment."

Fanning nodded, walked under the trebuchet, and asked, "How did the test work?"

"The test results were very successful, including the pulling force of the steam engine. We were able to accurately hit the [-]-jin boulder on the top of the city."

"Then is there any way to prevent the enemy's bed crossbow?"

The military inspector hesitated for a moment and said: "I initially considered placing a copper shield in front of the three connection points, but I was worried that the thinner wooden pillar would be broken, or that the burning powder cartridge tied to the bed crossbow would still damage the catapult. influential."

At this time, Cao Shi said to Fan Ning: "Don't think about any defensive weapons. In fact, the best defense method is to attack. Bomb the city with hundreds of iron fire thunders, and all bed crossbows will be blown to pieces!"

Fan Ning smiled, "There is some truth to this statement, but before the twenty super trebuchets show their power, we still need to take adaptive defensive measures."

He then said to the military supervisory officer: "I don't care whether you wrap it with iron or cowhide, you can consider it yourself, but I don't want any trebuchet to fall under the enemy's crossbow arrows."

The pace of the war is getting closer and closer. After half a month, all [-] super trebuchets have been assembled.

This morning, 20 soldiers approached the city of Youzhou, and built a board-wall camp in the wilderness three miles away from Youzhou city. Tens of thousands of large tents quickly appeared in the wilderness like mushrooms after the rain. The big camp has only the east and south sides, and it is in an 'L' shape, with a total length of about ten miles. Looking from the top of the city, densely packed tents are paved on the ground, which is extraordinarily spectacular.

At night, dozens of cattle came slowly pulling huge catapults. In order to transport the [-] catapults, the Song army tried their best. They first built five bridges across Lushui, and then organized Fifty thousand militiamen widened the official road from Lu County to Youzhou City, and rammed it to make it extra smooth, so that the huge trebuchet could run smoothly without losing its center of gravity and tipping over.

The positions of the twenty trebuchets have been determined, all of which are located in the east of the city. This is also the strategy formulated by Fan Ning and the two deputy commanders to concentrate their firepower on the east of the city.

Twenty black shadows like hills appeared outside the city, which immediately alarmed the defenders on the top of the city, and the defenders rushed to report to Yeluhu Jian.

Not long after, Yeluhu saw that he had arrived at the top of the city. He stared at it for a moment and asked, "Is there a trebuchet in the south of the city?"

"No! At present, only enemy trebuchets are found in the east of the city."

Seeing this, Yeluhu immediately ordered: "Quickly transfer all the bed crossbows to the east of the city!"

At present, the Liao army has built a total of [-] bed crossbows, which are distributed and deployed on the four city heads. However, judging from the current situation, it is estimated that the Song army will concentrate its forces to attack the east of the city. Seeing this, Yeluhu made a decisive decision.

The Liao army on the top of the city moved quickly, and within a moment, all five hundred bed crossbows were moved to the top of the east city. At this time, [-] super trebuchets had been positioned, and the low roar of steam engines began to sound.

"shooting!"

Even though it was night, Yelu Hujian still gave the order to launch, five hundred bed crossbows were fired at the same time, and the dense crossbow arrows aimed at the dark mountain.

After all, it was night, and most of the crossbow arrows were shot in the air, but it still affected the installation and debugging of the Song Army.

Several craftsmen were shot by crossbow bolts and fell to the ground screaming. Other craftsmen ran under the baffle to avoid the crossbow bolts. A super trebuchet was shot at the belt, which snapped. The trebuchet suddenly lost its balance and let out a terrible sound. The sound seemed to collapse at any moment.

The soldiers shouted and fled in shock, but a broken belt did not cause the entire catapult to collapse, and the catapult finally stabilized.

When news of the Liao army's nightly offensive reached Fan Ning's ears, he was furious and immediately ordered: "Counterattack with iron fire and thunder!"

The Song Army's super trebuchet had no plan to attack the city at night, but it was just debugged at night and launched an attack after dawn.

However, the night shooting of the bed crossbow by the Liao army forced the Song army to change its plan, changing the debugging directly to a counterattack.

Just as the Liao army fired the third round of crossbow arrows, the Song army's super trebuchets also began to counterattack, 'Boom!Boom!Boom! 'A series of crashes.

Nineteen large iron fire thunders weighing one hundred catties soared into the sky, roaring and flying towards the city of Youzhou.

There are three kinds of iron fire mines in the Song Army. One is the ordinary iron fire mine, which weighs fifty catties, and is mainly used for launching ballistas or water battles; the second is the heavy iron fire mine weighing one hundred catties. This kind of iron fire mine is the most widely used. It is used in siege and defense and positional warfare. Thunder is specially used for blasting cities, but because it is too heavy, it is not used much in other aspects.

The Liao army on the top of the city was about to launch for the fourth time, when suddenly a soldier pointed at the sky and shouted, and saw sparks appearing in the sky, before the soldiers could react, a hundred catties of iron and fire thundered and hit the top of the city, and then It exploded violently.

Twelve of the nineteen iron fire mines hit the top of the city accurately, three passed the top of the city, and four hit the wall.

Iron pieces and flames shot out, and air waves swept across the city. Hundreds of poisoned iron nails in the iron fire thunder shot around like a storm. There was a scream.

After the explosion, the top of the city became a mess, hundreds of bed crossbows were destroyed, fifteen trebuchets collapsed, and nearly a thousand soldiers on the top of the city were killed or injured.

At this moment, the second round of nineteen heavy iron fire mines roared again.

(End of this chapter)