Destiny Only Han

Chapter 212

dong dong dong...

The sound of war drums rumbled, sweeping across the entire battlefield like thunder and lightning.

Inspired by the sound of the drums, coupled with the time spent recharging their energy, the morale of the Chu army was greatly boosted, and it returned to the unparalleled and powerful army that looked down on the world.

Ji Bu, who was on the other side of Zhongli Meihe's sub-office, immediately led the soldiers behind him forward, keeping pace with the dozen or so catapults operated by nearly a hundred people, and slowly headed towards Xingyang City in the distance.

The two of them were full of confidence. When this new type of siege weapon was tested, they had been there in person and found that it was as Long Qi said, the range was nearly twice as far as that of the man-pulled trebuchet, and the throwing The stone is also several times bigger!

With this kind of powerful weapon to help out, breaking the Xingyang City in front of you is as simple as picking something out of a bag!
On the top of the city, through the binoculars in his hand, Liu Bang clearly saw the attacking posture of the Chu army, especially the trebuchets approaching slowly.

It seems that the Chu army is bound to win, but in fact Liu Bang is not panicked at all.

Behind him, very close to the city wall, the original dwellings have been completely demolished, and nearly a hundred super-large gravity trebuchets are neatly arranged on the vacated ground.

Now, the roller-like runners on both sides of the trebuchet have been spun rapidly under the trample of manpower, driving a large number of bricks with the same weight, slowly rising, and entering a state ready to be fired at any time .

Extending all the way across the city wall, or a raised stone embankment somewhere beside the road, or a small pit that was dug to expose the soil layer.

From the Chu army's point of view, these places are completely part of nature, but they are actually the reference objects used by the Han army to mark the distance between the two sides.

During this period of time, according to the opinions given by Han Xin, the construction of the city wall of Xingyang City was partially demolished for reconstruction.

On the whole, from the original straight, it became jagged and criss-crossed.

That is to say, in this shape, there is only a small part of the place left for the Chu army to climb the ladder and forcibly climb the city.

The remaining places are either at the common strike point of several city walls, or are simply limited by the terrain, making it impossible to deploy large siege equipment such as Lügong vehicles.

So, at this moment, standing on the top of the city, wearing an iron helmet, quietly looking out from a corner of the battle shed, calculating the distance between the Chu army's building carts, catapults, and frog carts to fill the moat, and their own catapults. the distance.

At the beginning of the war, he received clear instructions from Liu Bang, asking him to bring the enemy closer before fighting.

Under the strong walls and clear fields of the Han army, there was no suitable wood for two hundred miles around. The Chu army finally got together the weapons for the siege after holding back for a long time.

If this battle is ruined by him!

Well, either Xiang Yu will take his life, or he can only retreat and wait for the wood looted from other places to rebuild the siege equipment.

The famous Hulao Pass in later generations belongs to the place controlled by Xingyang today.

It is connected to Songyue Mountain in the south and the Yellow River in the north.

If you can't attack here, don't think about attacking Guanzhong.

This is the reason why the two sides of Chu and Han are fighting here.

Although the land in Guanzhong was devastated by Xiang Yu, it was not comparable to the land of Liang and Sishang in terms of wealth and wealth, but when it comes to the dangers of mountains and rivers, it is not an exaggeration to say that Guanzhong is the best in the world!

This is also the reason why Han Xin dared to draw another [-] troops from Xingyang.

The width of the city wall is limited. If 1 people are needed to fill all the stations, then there is not much difference between 3 people and 5 people in the city.

And Han Xin still has a small thought, that is, Liu Bang is too prodigal!

The last time he missed one, Liu Bang took a hundred thousand Han troops to forcibly send a wave of heads...

If he left enough troops in his hands, what he could do was beyond Han Xin's imagination!

It is said that Han Xin is a soldier fairy, and he fights fairy battles that others dare not even imagine, but in fact Liu Bang is not inferior to Han Xin in commanding battles!

Well, at least he thought so himself.

It's just that the result of the battle is Han Xin's consecutive victories, from one victory to another.

As for Liu Bang...

If the opponent's operation is fooled by him, then he wins, if not, then run away...

At this moment, Xiang Yu's first Xingyang siege was completely seen through by Liu Bang.

Therefore, when the Chu army outside the city was preparing to use pirated catapults to destroy the Han army's city walls, the arrow towers and battle sheds on the top of the city, in Xingyang City, after roughly estimating the ballistic trajectory, the super large catapults of the Han army began to show their power. up.

bang, bang bang...

After a series of firing sounds, stones the size of human heads roared and flew into the distance.

The attack this time was no better than the sneak attack on Xiang Yu that day. The target of the trebuchet was too big, and it could be hit casually.

Well, the trebuchets of the Chu army were used for siege operations, and it was inevitable to move them from the barracks to the front of the battlefield.

Before there were no cranes and heavy-duty semi-trailers, if you wanted to move the trebuchet, you must not make it too large.

Moreover, because the engineers of the Chu army only knew the general appearance, they did not know whether the fixed parts were fixed with mortise and tenon structure or with iron nails.

The only thing that can be known is to use wooden boxes to hold stones, and use the force of falling heavy objects to replace human dragging.

The change in structure made the trebuchet bigger and could throw heavier stone bullets with higher shooting accuracy.

But, that's all.

The so-called one point makes it through, not one point doesn't make it through.

Before anyone pierced the window paper for the Chu military engineers, the highest point, that is, the height of the swinging lever, a trebuchet exceeding two feet, was the limit they could make.

The trebuchets of the Han army are different, because they don't need to be transported for a long distance, they only need to be able to adjust the angle briefly, so as to hit all the enemies in the 120-degree sector in front of them.

Therefore, if the size of these trebuchets is not limited by the fact that the city wall of Xingyang is only more than three feet high and needs to be hidden, the height of these 3.0 version heavy defense weapons should be at least four to five feet high!
The fixing method used by Liu Ying is not a simple mortise and tenon structure.

Well, this structure is not unique to China.

As for the reason, the wood characteristics only have strength and toughness in the longitudinal direction, and it is easy to break in the transverse direction, so it is necessary to ensure that the force is in the direction of the wood fiber.

Therefore, as long as it is a connection of wooden materials, in the era when productivity is underdeveloped and there is no large amount of metal to make nails, the appearance of mortise and tenon structure is inevitable.

People of any region and race will think about how to connect them. Mortise and tenon joints appear in almost every corner of the planet simultaneously.

This is the same as people in different regions have their own national languages.

The method used by Liu Ying is the one he learned in later life when he was taking ancient building maintenance courses.

Golden wood mixed mortise and tenon.

Whether it is durability, strength, beauty, cost or batch processing performance, it is far superior to traditional pure wood mortise and tenon joints. It is a mainstream method of high-end wood construction.

Structurally, there are mortise, mortise and wedge, and it has all the advantages of the traditional mortise and tenon structure.

The so-called good steel is used on the blade.

In a structure, the strongest material should be used where the stress is the greatest, but the mortise and tenon joints actually shrink at the joints, and the strength is lower than before splicing, and thicker wood or bucket arch support structures are needed for reinforcement.

Metal has a higher volume-to-strength ratio, and it can avoid external reinforcement structures while ensuring strength when used in key stress-bearing parts. At the same time, there is no fiber orientation problem, and it is easier to make complex-shaped connecting members, which can make nodes change from hinged to rigid. Connection greatly facilitates structural design.

Well, most of the ancient building maintenance does not use metal, but glass fiber reinforced plastic pins and carbon fiber reinforcements.

However, in this era, using metal instead of wood is undoubtedly a qualitative leap.

And this kind of leap, reflected on the current battlefield, can almost be described as devastating.

When the stone bullets flying out of Xingyang City, like meteors across the sky, landed precisely on the Chu army's trebuchet positions.

In an instant, dust and sawdust flew around.

Amidst the heart-piercing cries of the soldiers of the Chu army, the trebuchets hit by huge boulders one after another made a creaking sound, seemingly slow, but fell down extremely swiftly!

On the cloud cart of the Central Army of Chu, Xiang Yu tightly held the railing in front of him. He couldn't tell whether he was angry or recalled the thrill of the day.

Unlike the gloomy clouds of the Chu army, the Han army on the head of Xingyang City suddenly burst into cheers like a mountain roar and a tsunami.

Their morale has soared to the extreme with a round of precise strikes from their own catapults.

The so-called strong army is actually tempered in one victory after another.

Once a person has courage, even a thin person can defeat a burly man!
Especially on this kind of desperate battlefield, if the soldiers of one side firmly believe that they will win, then there is a high probability that they will win!

Sometimes, the end of science is actually metaphysics.

At the Central Army of the Chu Army, the sound of war drums continued, and with the banners unfurled, Xiang Yu ordered the whole army to come forward and storm the city!
Today the Chu army has pulled back its posture. If he suffers a little loss and withdraws his troops, he, the overlord of Western Chu, should go to Zhenze (Taihu Lake) to fish and catch shrimps for a living as soon as possible!
In the front of the Chu army, Zhong Limo looked in the direction of Xiang Yu in the distance, and began to drive the peasants they forcibly recruited, pushing a toad cart wrapped in thick cowhide, carrying wooden boards and sandbags forward.

The role of these civilian husbands is to fill up the moats outside Xingyang City when the war starts.

This is a very dangerous task, and it can be called a mission of ten deaths and no life.

Therefore, soldiers of the Chu army are naturally not suitable for this kind of work.

(End of this chapter)