Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 873
Gunner Zhao Erzhu smiled excitedly.

"The commander must keep his word, look at me."

"When will my words not count? If you really have the ability to knock down the opposite city gate, I will personally ask His Majesty for your credit."

Erzhu wiped his nose, and looked around the red cannon several times again.

"No problem, it must be destroyed."

On Xinkouguan City, the Yiwu Army looked at the huge catapults and felt a little nervous.

"Is this a catapult?"

Song Jingang was wearing bright light armor and stood on the tower to watch.

Two hundred paces away, the twenty catapult trucks are still so conspicuous, after all, they are so huge, and the arms of the catapult trucks are so eye-catching.

But what puzzled him was that such a large catapult usually requires at least 200 people to pull it, but what about the cables and people?

Looking at the side of the catapult, there are only a dozen or so people busy to and fro.

"It is estimated that these riprap vehicles have not been assembled yet."

Song Jingang could only think of this.

"Marshal, do you want to send Qingqi to destroy those catapults?" asked the first general.

Large-scale catapults pose a huge threat to Guancheng. Although such catapults are generally not accurate and just smash randomly, when the two armies are fighting, the enemy's stone bombs are flying all over the sky, which can also make the defenders frightened After all, even if this thing is as big as a fist, it will either kill or injure it if it hits it, not to mention that if it throws a boulder weighing more than ten catties, it will even destroy the city oar.

"Watch it change!"

Song Jingang rejected the proposal of his subordinates. After all, there are [-] Qin troops in the gate, and even the emperor Luo Cheng is here in person. At this time, when the morale of the Qin army is at its peak, if they go out to fight, that is to send them off.

close.

A horse galloped to the imperial front.

"Report, the red-clothed cannon has been reloaded, waiting for His Majesty's order!"

"Dingfang, this is the artillery's first appearance. Everyone is curious about why the catapults are independent. This is the time for you to show your strength and prove it to everyone."

Su Dingfang said loudly, "The ministers will definitely live up to His Majesty's expectations."

"Okay, as long as you perform well today, then I will give you the military title, go."

Su Dingfang led the order to retreat, got on his horse and galloped back.

Back in front of the artillery formation, Su Dingfang shouted to the artillerymen under his command, "Your Majesty has already said that as long as we perform well, we will be awarded the number and form an army of our own."

The artillerymen cheered.

"shoot!"

Zhao Erzhu raised a big wooden mallet high and slammed it down on the ratchet trigger of the catapult.

A loud bang.

The ratchet lock unlocks.

Immediately, the Qianjin counterweight box that was hoisted high suddenly fell down, the counterweight box fell sharply, and the other end connected to the arm bar, a 150-jin stone bullet was violently ejected.

The boulder whizzed and flew away through the air.

On the upper floor of Xinkou City Gate, Dai Jun thought that Qin Jun's catapult cart hadn't been assembled yet, so they crowded there to see it strangely.Unexpectedly, suddenly there was this violent sound of breaking through the air.

The red-clothed cannon that Zhao Erzhu was in charge of shot out stone bullets, aiming directly at the gate of the city more than [-] paces away.

The Guancheng Tower in Xinkou is beautifully built. On this dangerous Guancheng, it looks a bit aloof and arrogant like a general.

But almost instantly, a boulder fell from the sky.

Just smashed half of the city gates and buildings.

The boulder smashed half of the city gates and buildings and continued to castrate. It flew into the city with countless broken bricks and wood, and smashed into a house not far from the city wall, directly smashing a huge hole. It even smashed a big hole several feet deep.

Earth-shattering.

"Zhu Zi, you got hit, you really got hit, you are a fucking talent!"

Su Dingfang couldn't help being ecstatic. He was already a Xiang-level officer before, but once a group of his men broke through the city and committed the crime of robbery, murder, and adultery. Although he was a newcomer to the army, the higher-ups didn't care about it. He Being implicated, he dropped several levels in a row.

Later, he was appointed by the emperor to form this artillery battalion. He worked very hard and regarded it as his own turnaround.

Unexpectedly, this first shot actually killed half of the gates and buildings directly, what a face.

"Commander, you promised me that you will be a two-pound Dragon Flyer."

"Two altars, no, I will give you ten altars." Su Dingfang roared with red eyes.

The remaining nineteen red-clothed cannons threw boulders one after another, and two of them hit the wall of the pass, shaking the ground and shaking the mountains, and more of them crossed the wall and smashed into the city.

far away.

Seeing the power of the cannon, the emperor and the generals couldn't help admiring it loudly.

"It's really unexpected that this improved catapult can only use a few people, but it just exceeds the prestige of two or three hundred people before."

"Indeed, and I think the red cannon seems to be quick and easy to assemble and disassemble."

"Hahaha, let me tell you, these red-clothed cannons are made of standardized parts. All the parts of the red-clothed cannons, as long as they are of the same model, can be replaced with each other, and they are all optimized and simplified as much as possible. Therefore, disassembly It is very convenient to assemble and transport, easy to operate, and even easier to maintain. Of course, the most important thing is that the power of this red cannon is even stronger."

In addition, his reload is also very fast.

After a round of shooting, several loaders over there began to pry the ratchet again to lower the weight box.

But in about a quarter of an hour, the filling was completed again.

As far as the disadvantages are concerned, this thing is not like the artillery of later generations, it has high precision, and it has matching aiming and measuring tools.The accuracy of the red-clothed cannon is still not perfect. As for aiming, it all depends on the intuition and proficiency of the gunners.

So the first shot smashed the city gate, even Luo Cheng thought it was just a mistake.

"Your Majesty, with this magical weapon for subduing the country, who can stop our great Qin army from attacking and breaking through?" All the generals congratulated the emperor.

"Hahaha, the red-clothed cannon is indeed an artifact of the country, but it is only a weapon after all. Don't put the cart before the horse."

"Embracing the mountains and rivers is dangerous and solid, and making unparalleled sharp weapons is not as good as the support of the people. The virtue of the country is not the danger!" The emperor said with emotion.The innovation of weapons can only bring about the innovation of tactics, but not everything.

Just like Yang Guang has an army of millions, but he will still lose the world in the end.

Twenty red-clothed cannons blasted boulders weighing more than one hundred kilograms into the pass city in turn, and a thousand medium-sized and small catapults also pushed down the city, and began to bombard the sky.

Yuchi Jingde saw that the city had been smashed and completely lost the power to resist, he was overjoyed at the moment, swung his knife and roared again and again.

"Follow me to the city!"

In the second year of the Great Qin Kaiyuan, in the middle of June.

The emperor came to Xinkou Pass in person, Su Dingfang commanded the artillery to show up with [-] cannons in red clothes to assist, and Yu Chigong led his troops to climb first, and won the Xinkou Pass in the first battle.

(End of this chapter)