I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 25, Trebuchet
Guo Dian looked at the huge Yellow Turban Army camp below the city, and said calmly: "Things are not so bad. After all, we have saved half of Jizhou, and half of Jizhou is still there, which is enough to restore the vitality of the occupied area. If we can't keep Yingtao City, the entire Jizhou will fall, and then the real catastrophe will be!"

Then he laughed and said, "Speaking of which, it's all thanks to Zhengnan's idea, otherwise Yingtao City would have been defeated by the crowbar of the Yellow Scarf."

The judge heard the crowbar say viciously: "Mr. Lei is a thief who deserves death. If it weren't for him, how could our Jizhou gentry suffer such a disaster!"

Although the Yellow Turban Uprising last year was a catastrophe for the great Han, it did little damage to the nobles in Jizhou. Their Wubao was stronger than ordinary cities, and Zhang Jiao did not offend them, so the losses suffered by the nobles were limited. .

But this time the Zhang Niujiao Rebellion, they aimed at the family property of the nobles. With the crowbar, the docks of the nobles were like paper, and they could be broken with one poke. In Shangcheng, the wealth is more than that of Dahan County, so this time they suffered a catastrophe, and now hundreds of families have suffered catastrophe, and tens of thousands of wives have been separated, and most of them are related to the judge. That's why, after he knew that Lei Gong was a bandit who had invented a crowbar, which was specifically aimed at their Wubao, he hated Lei Gong extremely.

Hearing Xu Wei's name, Guo Dian said with a heavy face: "This Lei Gong is a difficult character. It is said that he has now occupied the entire Wei County, but he has not expanded his troops. If he really has a foothold in Weijun, it will be difficult to destroy the reclamation!"

Ordinary rogue Guo Dian is not worried. The Yellow Turban Uprising was huge at the beginning, but it disappeared in a flash. However, if Xu Wei divides the land and divides the land, the [-] soldiers in the field are the [-] good families, and the big man relies on the good families to hang him. Those in the four directions, those with a regime like Xu Wei's are even more difficult to deal with.

Xu Wei took over Zhang Niujiao's craftsman camp and led thousands of craftsmen to cut wood. After returning to the camp, they beat it again. No one knew what they were doing.

It wasn't until 10 days later that Xu Wei said to Zhang Niujiao: "I have already created a sharp weapon for siege, now we can see its power!"

Zhang Niujiao and other generals of the Yellow Turban Army came over with great interest.

I saw that in the open space three hundred steps away from Yingtao City, Xu Wei and the people from the craftsman camp were busy setting up this giant bracket!
Zhang Niujiao and the others looked at this thing strangely, but they didn't understand what it was?
Bai Bo asked curiously, "Marshal, do you know what this is?"

Zhang Niujiao shook his head!

Zhang Baiqi hesitated and said, "Could it be a Jinglan car?"

Jinglan chariot is a kind of climbing and siege equipment in the ancient cold weapon war.Jinglan is a mobile archery tower, which can attack the enemy's siege weapon on the city wall.With it on the shelf, any arms can shoot from a long distance.Generally, it is built to a height of 3 and a half floors, with pulleys installed underneath, and it is condescending to move and shoot.It has an extremely wide shooting range and strong dynamic strike power, but at the same time, it moves slowly and has no close combat ability, which is also a fatal injury to Jing Lan.

When Zhang Baiqi said this, everyone felt a sense of enlightenment, it was a bit similar!
Zuo Xiao said: "This Lei Gong is really capable, this kind of siege equipment is not something we can make!"

But Zhang Niujiao said: "The Jinglan chariot should not have such a long wooden pole, and there are no wheels to move it. It is impossible to shoot from three hundred steps away. There is no such strong bow in the world! Anyway, things are already gone now." Come out, let's see what Lei Gong said!"

After Xu Wei took people to install it, he came to Zhang Niujiao and said, "Commander, these are 20 trebuchets, which can throw a stone weighing 100 jin at a distance of [-] steps. These twenty trebuchets are enough to destroy The walls of Yingtao City!"

What Xu Wei manufactured is a trebuchet with the principle of leverage and counterweight. Adding a belt can make the trebuchet have a longer range. The maximum counterweight of the bottom can be two thousand catties of stones. The maximum ratio of the lever and the belt can reach 1: 10. It can fire projectiles weighing hundreds of catties. Xu Wei's trebuchet is very close to the return gun.

In order to increase the accuracy, Xu Wei also specially fired tens of thousands of pottery bombs, weighing 100 jin, 80 jin, 50 jin,

"Catapult?" Zhang Niujiao and the others have never heard of this thing. Chinese catapults first appeared in the Warring States period, but the military strength of the Han Dynasty was strong, and the focus was on the development of offensive cavalry. Catapults basically withdrew from the battlefield. It will have to wait until the Battle of Guandu more than ten years later, even the generals have not seen this thing before, let alone Zhang Niujiao and the others.

Seeing their inexplicable expressions, Xu Wei knew that they didn't understand, so he said: "After seeing their power, the commander will understand!"

Xu Wei said to the soldiers of the Artisan Battalion: "Get ready to launch!"

"Hoo!" The soldier cut off the live hook!
"Boom!" A pottery bomb weighing more than one hundred catties directly smashed into Yingtao City, directly smashing several houses!All of a sudden, smoke and dust filled Yingtao City!
The soldiers on both sides were stunned by the huge power of the trebuchet!
Half a day later, the Yellow Turban Army cheered loudly, because he knew that the catapult was to help them attack the city.

However, in Yingtao City, he lost Kuangjiang, and no one wanted to be hit by such a big stone!

Guo Dian was surprised when he saw 20 wooden frames: "Cannon cart? Is there anyone among the ant thieves who knows how to make this kind of siege weapon?"

The Guo family in Jinyang is also considered a family of generals, so he soon knew what it was.

The judge said with a pale face: "It's over, there are such siege weapons among the ant thieves, we can't even defend for a month!"

Xu Wei didn't hit the city wall and asked the soldiers to lower the counterweight a little and fire the projectile again!

"call out"

"boom!"

This time, the hundreds of kilograms of bullets hit the city wall directly, causing the city wall to tremble and a lot of dust fell!

After this experience, Xu Wei asked the soldiers to use the same weight as the trebuchet, and then arranged twenty trebuchets in an arc shape, so that they all concentrated on one point to project!
"Boom boom boom!"

Xu Wei asked them to shoot 5 rounds in a row, and more than 80 of the hundreds of shells hit the city wall!The entire city wall looked even more dilapidated.Half of the remaining shells smashed into the city and half of them outside.The shells entering the city destroyed all the buildings around the city wall.

Xu Wei came to Zhang Niujiao and said: "Commander, with these catapults, the walls of Yingtao City will definitely be smashed in five days at most, but this catapult is difficult to move, so be careful not to be destroyed by the Han army, the commander still has to arrange Let's protect these trebuchets!"

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