Start: Datang Wanli a lonely city

Chapter 358 That's it?

"These Jurchens, what kind of plane are they doing? War Elephant shoots another rocket out, and see what these grandchildren are tossing about?"

After carefully retracting his head from the wall, Hu Biao, with a stubbled face and red eyes, cursed out such a sentence.

The voice sounded like something was stuck in his throat, and it was quite hoarse.

In fact, it is not to blame for Hu Biao's current state, which looks so bad, because all the netizens in the city count as one, and they all look like this.

That is, A Li, A Fen, and Zhan Xiang, the three sister-in-laws and sisters are in a better situation.

Today's time, it will be dawn in about an hour, and it will be the morning of August [-]st by then.

In the previous two days, the Jurchens drove away the people captured by them, and kept piling up soil outside the city day and night.

Even the corpses of those people who were shot to death, exhausted, and executed by them as an example to others were not spared.

After being piled up with baskets of soil, it finally turned into a higher and higher mound; before nightfall last night, the earth walls outside the east, west, north, and north walls of Haiyang City were already very dense. Some scale up.

Although on the whole, it looks like three meters high, which is slightly lower than the city wall.

But at every ten meters away, the Jurchens drove the people to pile up earthen platforms more than two meters above the city wall.

Because last night was a dark night where you couldn't see your fingers.

The Jurchens also stopped lighting many torches and continued to pile up the soil.

However, the people staying on the city wall could clearly hear the sound of 'squeaking~' coming from the mound outside the city, and they didn't know what they were doing in the dark.

So Hu Biao and the others, who were able to take turns sleeping for three or four hours every night before, did not sleep all night.

The main reason is that they clearly know that the Jurchens must be preparing something that they think is a big killer that can help them break through the city quickly.

The biggest possibility among them should be the trebuchet.

But if it is a trebuchet, what type is it, how powerful is it, and how many are there?
Thinking of such a thing, it was like a sharp knife hanging on the forehead. How could Hu Biao and the others sleep?

Under Hu Biao's order, the war elephant just picked up a special long arrow, tied a ball of sackcloth soaked in vegetable oil at the arrow's position, and ignited it.

Facing the mound outside the city, an arrow shot out.

It's a pity that the rocket fired this time still landed on the somewhat wet ground as before, and went out soon after.

So much so that I didn't see anything, and I didn't know what those Jurchens were secretly tossing about in the dark night?
Seeing this, he also squatted beside Hu Biao, and the red-eyed Team Ye Buhui Yu Hanfeng spit hard, then shouted:
"Old Hu, tell me to go out of the city to try again. I don't believe it. I can't even find out what these Jurchens are doing secretly."

The reason why Yu Hanfeng said this was that about two hours ago, after three of his scouts were lowered from the city wall with ropes, they sneaked towards the mound, trying to find out the situation.

But after the three of them left the city, it was like a mud cow entering the sea, and there was no movement at all.

Such a matter has always made Yu Hanfeng very brooding.

After hearing the words, Hu Biao finally said: "Don't take any risks, it will be dawn in an hour at most, and you can see clearly what the Jurchens have prepared by then."

Hearing what Hu Biao said, Yu Hanfeng could only suppress the restlessness in his heart.

Like the rest of the team, he squatted silently behind the wall, smoking a cigarette while waiting for the dawn to reveal the answer.

In such a process, no one dared to stick their heads out of the wall with a cigarette butt that was flickering and flickering.

That's because in the previous time, many soldiers under him had suffered.

After nightfall, those Jurchens hid in the darkness where the firelight on the city wall couldn't illuminate like hunting; as long as someone appeared, the sharp arrows like poisonous snakes would call them with precision.

After being shot and killed more than a dozen people in a row, the people on the city wall became extremely careful at night.

In this way, while everyone waited silently, time passed little by little.

They didn't wait for the sun in the sky to show a little head, but when the sky was a little pale, everyone just lay on the wall and looked out.

At this time, it can be regarded as finally seeing the Jurchens clearly, what is the big killer that they have tossed out?
After seeing it clearly, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and only had one thought: that's it...

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Let Hu Biao and the others express the emotion of "this is it", that is what they saw in their eyes, that is, on those earth platforms on the mound outside the city.

The Jurchens used crude wooden shields to block the catapults behind them.

In ancient wars, trebuchets were indeed a sharp weapon in siege warfare. It is said that Guo Jing participated in the defense and the city of Xiangyang, which was known as iron-like, was breached by trebuchets.

The problem is that the trebuchets used by the Jurchens in front of them are completely different from the "returning cannons" used outside Xiangyang City.

This thing should be a medium-sized trebuchet called a 'single-point cannon'.

Specifically, a wooden pole is installed on a wooden stake; a leather bag is placed at one end of the pole, and a stone weighing about ten catties can be placed in it.

The other end was tied with several ropes, and after a group of people suddenly pulled hard, the stones on the other end were thrown over.

It can be regarded as using the principle of leverage, but it is a bit primitive.

The convenience of occupying a commanding height can hit the city wall, but the stone thrown is only ten catties, how powerful can this thing be?

The only problem is that this thing is quite simple to make, so after one night, the Jurchen set up a lot outside the city.

Just outside the northern city wall, there are as many as forty or fifty.

And those Jurchens naturally knew that the secrets of these catapults would not be kept once it was dawn; so at this time, a large number of Liao soldiers who surrendered had already appeared beside these catapults.

Generally, two or 30 people operate a trebuchet and are ready for launch.

More importantly, Wanyan Loushi and a group of Jurchen officers and generals have already appeared on the battlefield, where the ballista can't greet them, and they are ready to watch with complacency. Rotten city defense.

That's why Hu Biao and the others poked their heads out, and groups of shirtless, sturdy Liao soldiers, young and strong, pulled the rope at one end of the 'single tip cannon' at the same time under the command.

Amidst the sound of "creaking~" wood rubbing, bowl-sized stones flew towards Haiyang City.

It can be seen that they rushed to the ballistas on the city wall, the result?Of the forty or fifty stones in total, half fell directly on the mud outside the city.

For the remaining half, more than a dozen pieces were smashed on the wall of the city wall, causing small holes to be smashed under the splash of mud.

Another five or six yuan flew directly over the city wall and smashed into the city. Someone faintly heard screams, and they must have been accidentally tricked.

Only a few dozen or so yuan really hit the city wall.

None of them hit the ballista on the city wall.

Such a situation is actually a very normal thing. The trebuchet seems simple, but if you want to hit it accurately, it involves the mathematical knowledge in ballistics.

Dayuan's 'Huihui Pao' can become the exclusive of Lao Huihui because of this reason.

Those Liao soldiers who surrendered outside the city know a little about mathematics.

Coincidentally, a stone fell on the wall where Hu Biao and others were squatting. Although they didn't hurt them, the splashing sand made them face.

Hu Biao yelled out in disgruntled annoyance:
"Lingqing, run away from our Italy, no! It is our trebuchet pulled out, let them know what is called a trebuchet~"

(End of this chapter)