In the early morning of the next day, Xu Shu saw giant shield soldiers standing horizontally under the city of Shouchun one by one under the city wall. Row after row were very elite and orderly. Giant shields and heavy armor? A sneer appeared on the corner of Xu Shu's mouth, did he think that this formation could withstand the bed crossbow
The bed crossbow in Xu Shu's hand is an improved version. His predecessors could directly penetrate the wooden boards of warships. Those wooden boards are extremely thick, and some can be more than several feet long. They are all cut from those huge trees. There are iron sheets on the top, which are extremely strong, but they are also pierced one by one. These giant shields and heavy armor may be hard bones in front of arrows and swords, but in front of the giant arrows of the bed crossbow, they are piles of dirt. Chicken tile dog, simply vulnerable.
"Turn on the bowstring!" Without Xu Shu's opening, Deng Yi pushed out the twelve bed crossbows and stood on the top of the city.
"Military Master, is this really all right!?" Liu Bei asked Feng Chu next to him. No wonder Liu Bei was worried. These giant shield soldiers and heavy armor soldiers were all white-eared heavy armor. Liu Bei didn't want to lose any of them. Before Chen Dao wanted to ask for orders to bury the moat but was stopped by Liu Bei, but now he had to take it out.
"Don't worry, my lord, there are sharp weapons in the camp. It will be a matter of time before Shouchun City is destroyed!" Pang Tong felt a little confident.
"But!" Liu Bei was still very puzzled, and his eyes drifted to Zhang Xiu next to him from time to time, meaning that Zhang Xiu over there had set an example and told everyone that if the giant arrow on the bed crossbow on the city wall was shot down by that arrow, those The heavy armor couldn't withstand any impact at all, but the heavy armor that could have made everyone feel at ease turned into paper, like a giant arrow shot from the city wall. That is heavy armor that can penetrate seven or eight layers. Even the cavalry and horses penetrate such lethality. Those giant shields and heavy armor can resist it!
"My lord, have you forgotten the battle of the second general Shouchun?!" In order to reassure Liu Bei, Pang Tong had no choice but to bring Guan Yu into the battle. Guan Yu's Shouchun battle? It was no longer a war at all, but an escape. Liu Mang went down to Shouchun City in one day, and Guan Yu in the city didn't even have the slightest ability to fight back, so he abandoned the city and fled. In the end, a lot of rations and weapons were left in the city, which was a pain in Guan Yu's heart.
"Second Brother's Shouchun Battle?!" Guan Yu's pain did not make Liu Bei sad, but now Liu Bei's eyes lit up, and Shouchun went down in one day. One is the trebuchet. This made Guan Yu lose Shouchun, because even if he persisted, he would only increase the casualties for no reason, but now the role has been changed, and Liu Bei has become the one who attacked the city. The defenders of the city have become Liu Mang's army. "The sharp weapon in the camp, can it really compete with the fake king's stone throwing machine?!"
"This?!" The information Pang Tong got from the young man was impossible! Because from Guan Yu's description. Liu Mang's trebuchet can throw heavy stones weighing more than 300 kilograms to a distance of 300 to 500 steps. If a heavy stone weighing more than 100 kilograms is loaded, it can shoot a distance of 700 steps. In the era when there was no lever principle, no lathe, and no springs, all trebuchets were made of wood. Naturally, young people felt ashamed, but young people were not so unconfident about their trebuchets. Mang's ballista duel may not be the opponent in a duel. After all, Liu Mang's one has used some spring devices, but it is more than enough to bombard the city wall.
Of course, Pang Tong would not say that he was inferior to Liu Mang's ballista to attack Liu Bei's self-confidence, but said very calmly, "It's even worse than it is!"
Such a sentence finally reassured Liu Bei, and he immediately ordered Chen Dao to act according to plan.
"The general obeys orders!" Chen Dao clasped his fists and said, and then went down to prepare for the matter.
"Master, what do you think Liu Bei wants to do?!" Zhang Xiu's camp is next to Liu Bei's camp. Zhang Xiu is also paying attention to the battle in Shouchun. His loss of Xiliang iron cavalry yesterday made Zhang Xiu suffer. Unbelievable, there were more than a thousand casualties for no reason, and there was no place to cry if he wanted to. Who told him to run over and beat Xu Shu in the face with a bed crossbow on Shouchun by himself.
"Liu Bei?!" Zhang Xiu was also puzzled, what was Liu Bei thinking? Could it be possible to not be afraid of the bed crossbow on the city wall with a giant shield and heavy armor? Zhang Xiu is a general. He naturally knows the piercing ability of this bed crossbow. It can nail a heavy armored cavalry with a man and a horse to death on the ground. The crossbow aimed at him, and Zhang Xiu didn't have the certainty to block it, but now Liu Bei used the white-eared heavy armor to test it, so Zhang Xiu had to be puzzled, but Chen Dao, who was lecturing the white-eared heavy armor , Zhang Xi actually believed that Liu Beijun might really have a way.
"Everyone, take the sandbags!" Chen Dao yelled, except for the white-eared heavy armor soldiers in the front row who were holding giant shields, the other soldiers carried sandbags from generation to generation and carried him on the back. On the shoulder, waiting for Chen Dao's order.
"Okay, the goal is to move forward on the moat of Shouchun!" Chen Dao roared in a low voice. The white-eared heavy armor was his pride. Although the white-eared heavy armor could only be built with the help of Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Liu Bei, But most of them were presided over by Chen Daozai, which was his hard work.
From Chen Dao's point of view, the only one in this world who can truly compete one-on-one with the white-eared heavy armor is the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, the number one cavalry in the world, even the Black Chess Battalion, which also belongs to the heavy armored cavalry Chen Dao didn't pay attention to the city management army, which became famous under the king of Shu. Now that the Bingzhou wolf cavalry has been disabled, it is basically impossible to reappear for half a year, so it is basically invincible in the Central Plains.
"Boom, boom, boom!" Different from the tremor of the charge brought by the heavy armored cavalry, what the white-eared heavy armor brings is a neatly planned footsteps, the military orders are consistent, and the orders are the same. One of his dogmas is also the method of running an army with white-eared heavy armor. Even if the abyss or hell is in front of you, you have to charge forward under the order. This is why Cao Cao sent tiger and leopard cavalry several times. The reason why Liu Bei couldn't stay.
"Giant shield and heavy armor? Hehe, I'll make you a candied haws today!" Xu Shu sneered as he watched the white-eared heavy armor approaching, and finally gave an order after the white-eared heavy armor approached the range of the bed crossbow. The twelve bed crossbows roared again.
"Swish, swish!" One after another, giant arrows from the bed crossbow were shot out. Under the huge elasticity of the bowstring. Every giant arrow felt like tearing open the air, making the sound of air vibrating.
"Boom!" The white-eared heavy armored giant shield in the first row finally came into contact with the giant arrow of the bed crossbow. Like those Xiliang cavalry before, there was no second choice at all. Even with the help of this giant shield, but The power of the bed crossbow was still revealed, the giant shield was directly smashed, and the bed crossbow effortlessly pierced into the body of the white-eared heavy armor soldier hiding behind the giant shield. The white-eared heavy armored soldiers are infantry wearing two layers of heavy armor. In addition to the outer layer of heavy armor, there is also a layer of chain mail on top of the underwear, which is the inner armor. Its defense is not as high as that of the outer armor, but it has a good resistance to sharp weapons such as bows and arrows. The arrows of the bow and crossbow can't shoot through the inner armor at all, but now it's like a child's play. Most of the white-eared heavy armor soldiers were killed or injured.
"Continue, don't stop shooting rapidly!" Xu Shu stood on the top of the wall and gave orders to the bed crossbow. This is a white-eared heavy armor soldier, and Xu Shu can also see it. Otherwise, there would not be such a neat pace. The white-eared heavy armored soldier is the elite of Liu Bei's elite. If he can be abolished under Shouchun City, then Xu Shu's army will make a lot of money.
Although there were only twelve bed crossbows, the rain of arrows he formed was not bad at all. After all, he was huge, and the bed crossbows could shoot continuously. The white-eared heavy armor soldiers under the city were indeed elite. After armor was punctured, the second row quickly took over from the first row. Surviving soldiers who could be treated would naturally be treated by others, and those who could not be treated would just give up.
"No matter how many shields there are, can I have as many giant arrows?!" Another row of arrows rained down densely. It stands to reason that Liu Bei's army should be very distressed by such a loss of white-eared heavy armor, but Chen Dao's eyes flickered Light, looking at Liu Bei's camp behind the army formation.
In Liu Beijun's camp, apart from Pang Tong, there was another young man standing on a high platform looking at the scene in front of him, "Two hundred steps, directly shooting through the first and second giant shields, heavy armor is completely useless!" As he spoke, he recorded "Alright military advisor!"
"En!" Pang Tong nodded and waved the command flag in his hand. Chen Dao, who was among the white-eared heavy armored infantry, was relieved when he saw the command flag. Unable to bear it, seeing Ling Qi and Chen Dao immediately yelled, "Back, one hundred steps!"
After advancing one after another, another pair of giant shield soldiers stood in front of them, and the entire white-eared heavy armored army began to retreat.
"Want to run? Leave half of it for me!" Xu Shu said coldly. The Xiliang cavalry broke up halfway through the charge yesterday. And because of the fast speed of the war horse, the Xiliang iron cavalry quickly ran out of the range of the bed crossbow, which made the bed crossbow sigh in vain, but today is different. Today is Liu Beijun's white-eared heavy armored soldier, he is an infantry Pawns, the natural speed will not be too fast, wave after wave of arrow rain shot past again.
"Every ten arrows, one reincarnation?!" The young man once again recorded that each shot of the bed crossbow in the city was very fast, but every time he shot ten times, he would pause, although the pause time Not long, but the youth still noticed it.
"General, one hundred paces!" The white-eared heavy armored soldier said to Chen Dao, Chen Dao nodded, and the army slowed down again.
"Swish, swish!" There was no difference between three hundred steps and two hundred steps in front of the bed crossbow. They still tore open the giant shield and pierced through the heavily armored pawns behind.
"Three hundred steps, did it penetrate the giant shield?!" The young man began to frown. He really didn't expect such a person in this world to design such a sharp weapon. Three hundred steps may be instant for cavalry, but For pawns, it takes a while to run. If there are such sharp weapons on every city wall to defend the city, it will become very difficult to attack the city in the future. "Continue, military advisor!" Pang Tong waved his command flag again.
Chen Dao's white-eared heavy armor retreated another hundred steps, this time it was much better, but the giant shield was still penetrated, but only two or three soldiers behind the bed crossbow were shot and killed.
"The military commander's white-eared heavy armor runs really slowly. Is this commander an idiot? Arrows are like living targets. Why don't you hurry up and retreat at this time? Still carrying those huge shields!" Deng Yi The white-eared heavy-armored soldier who saw the corpses left behind the city said disdainfully, if he, Deng Yi, directed this part. It will definitely make the subordinates lose the giant shield in their hands. Only in this way can he run fast and let his subordinates scatter. Once concentrated, it would be an innocent shot from the bed crossbow.
"No, no!" Xu Shu was finally reminded by Deng Yi, is the commander of the white-eared heavy armored infantry a fool? If it is a fool, Liu Bei will let him come out to command? Filling the moat with heavy armored infantry is not a cost-effective thing. The heavy armored infantry runs slowly and carries an amazing load. Naturally, the sandbags they carry will not be too heavy, but how many times can they run back and forth like this? Xu Shu was a little uneasy. He quickly picked up the binoculars that Liu Mang gave him and looked around, not only looking at the white-eared heavy armored soldiers but also Liu Bei's camp behind him.
"What's wrong with the military division? Didn't they come to fill up the moat? They thought they were tortoise shells with a huge shield. Unfortunately, everything is useless in front of our bed crossbow!" Deng Yi said proudly .
"It's not filling up the moat!" Xu Shu shook his head. Although the soldiers were holding sandbags in their hands, they were not close to the moat at all, and many people's sandbags were thrown away. The sandbags were simply confusing himself and others. of.
"Which is that?!" Xu Shu finally saw a command flag, which was being held by his close friend Feng Chu Pang Tong. Every time the command flag was waved, the white-eared heavy armored soldier took a step back.
"Not good!" Xu Shu finally knew where the wrong feeling was. But everything is too late.
Five hundred steps! Six hundred steps, until seven hundred steps, finally the power of the bed crossbow became smaller. Although the bed crossbow could still destroy the giant shield, it could only shoot through the giant shield, but it couldn't penetrate it, and was stuck in the giant shield. above.
"Seven hundred steps?!" The young man in Liu Bei's camp finally finished recording and said to Pang Tong next to him with a smile, "Military Master, we can fight back!"
"Counterattack!" Pang Tong laughed loudly, but he was just waiting for the young man's words, "Come on, pass on our military order. We have been passively beaten for so long, and it's time to show off our sharp weapons!"
"Yes!" The soldiers on the side were about to take the order, and the command flag in Pang Tong's hand was not idle, and he continued to wave it. This time it was no longer an order for the white-eared heavy armor to advance or retreat, but to withdraw the troops directly to the camp The command.
Seeing the meaning of the command flag, Chen Dao finally breathed a sigh of relief. He had been suffering a lot just now. He had fully experienced the grief and indignation of Hu Che'er before. He was helpless to fight back when he was attacked, and there were more casualties. It was very serious, just 700 steps, he Chen Dao left more than 700 corpses, all of them were white-eared heavy armor soldiers, every time Chen Dao died, he felt sorry for him, and he was only ambush Bingzhou Wolf Rider before. There were less than 500 casualties, but now 700 people have been lost. It's a good feeling, but fortunately, it's finally over. Courage, walking through the rain of arrows on this bed crossbow is really not something ordinary people can do, because you don't know if you are the one who will die next time.
"Look, my lord, Liu Bei and Liu Da'er's army has also been driven away and is going back to camp!" Hu Che'er looked a little gloating. After all, when his Xiliang iron cavalry suffered so many casualties yesterday, those generals of Liu Bei's army He didn't give Hu Che'er a good face either.
"It's not that I was beaten away!" Zhang Xiu is a general and a lord, so he naturally thinks much more than a general like Hu Che'er. How could Liu Bei pull out the white-eared heavy armor for nothing? To die? There must be something wrong with it.
After a while, Zhang Xiu's doubts were resolved, because the sound of pulling fibers suddenly came from Liu Bei's barracks. Nearly ten large wooden frames were pulled out of them.
"My lord, what is this?!" Hu Che'er was from Xiliang, a member of the Qiang nationality, and he was not very familiar with the war in the Central Plains, nor did he know much about this wooden frame.
"Catapult!" Zhang Xiu spat out these three words. The ancients started from the primitive society, because they wanted to guard against the attack of wild beasts, so the ancients designed the city wall and protected the city within the city wall to prevent the attack of wild animals. At that time, the city walls were made of fences and wood, which were very low, and few beasts could climb the walls. After that, human beings gradually became the protagonists of this world, and became the pinnacle of the food chain, with few threats from wild animals. However, the threat from people of the same kind has grown, so the city walls have gradually become made of stone and blue bricks. The city walls are also getting bigger and bigger. Get higher and higher. It is no longer possible to cross the city wall by climbing alone. The side with the walls has a natural defensive advantage.
However, it is impossible for humans to fight among the same kind because of the height of the city wall. Since the defensive building of the city wall has been created, there are naturally offensive buildings to break through the city wall, and this thing in front of him is a sharp weapon to break through the city wall. He and Chongche and Jinglan are called the three major weapons together. There are many people who can do Chongche, and many people in Jinglan can use it. But there are really very few people who can make this thing, because it involves mechanism studies. Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhongshu deposed a hundred schools of thought to respect Confucianism, there are very few real masters of mechanism studies, so not only well Lannas rarely appear, and trebuchets are even more rare.
In a normal siege, the rushing car is in front, and the ladder is behind. The result of relying on human lives to pile up is to fight with the enemy to see who has the most and who can't bear it first. And with this thing, many people can be killed.
"Catapult?!" Hu Che'er looked at the wooden shelves with a puzzled expression. The things of the Han people are amazing. Although the huge arrow shot by the bed crossbow before made Hu Che'er very uncomfortable and killed and injured countless men under his command, it also made Hu Che'er understand that those bed crossbows are treasures.
"Catapult?!" It was Xu Shu who was on the city wall of Shouchun who also expressed this emotion. Xu Shu never thought that Liu Bei's army could take out a trebuchet! "Could it be that the industrial zone hasn't been burned yet? Let Liu Bei get the blueprint?!" Xu Shu didn't dare to think that way anymore. If Liu Mangjun's crossbow cannon blueprint fell into Liu Bei's hands, then Shouchun would be really hard to defend. With the attack power of the ballista, what kind of city wall can withstand such a blow
"A strategist who will definitely not!" Deng Yi stood aside and explained, "The blueprints for ballistas are no longer in the industrial zone, and those craftsmen who can make ballistas have long been moved into the city by the last general!" What Liu Mang practiced in Shouchun was the meritocracy, and such talents include these craftsmen who know how to learn! Although they don't know anything about it, they have their own craftsmanship. Many of Liu Mang's things were not only made by Liu Ye, but also made by these craftsmen under the inspiration of Liu Mang, so The status of craftsmen in Liu Mang's army is no worse than that of officials. Liu Mang, a master craftsman, offered a salary of 500 shi, so these craftsmen were the first people Deng Yi wanted to protect.
"Then how could it be?!" Xu Shu looked carefully again, only to find that those trebuchets were different from those developed by Liu Mang's army in many places. Liu Mang's ballista was a very long one. It was formed by a lever, but the trebuchet in front of him was made of a huge roller. Xu Shu didn't know how powerful it was, but he knew that since Liu Beijun took out such a thing, he would definitely not aim at it aimlessly. "There are some masters in Liu Bei's army!"
"Deng Yi ordered to go down immediately, let the city send some wet cowhide, and bedding and other things up, hurry up!" Xu Shu hurriedly ordered down, no matter what the trebuchet looked like, Xu Shu needed to be on guard against him.
"The last general is ordered!" Deng Yi went down quickly, and after a while, the wet cowhide quilts couldn't be found in such a short time, so he could only take out dozens of cowhide and some Quilts: "Quickly, spread all these wet cowhide blankets on the city wall. Wrap those city walls for me!" The boulders shot by the trebuchets all fell on the city walls, relying on the huge impact belt Xu Shu's method is to wrap the top of the city with something soft, so that there is a buffer force when the boulder falls and reduces the damage.
"Hehe, use wet cowhide and bedding?!" The young man on the high platform of Liu Beijun's camp looked at the preparations on the wall of Shouchun City and laughed, "If this thing is an ordinary trebuchet, it really has many functions. What arrived was my Ma Jun's rotary trebuchet!"
Soon Xu Shu felt the feeling of being bombarded by a trebuchet.
"Report to my lord that everything is ready!" The ten Ma Jun's rotary stone throwing machines were all ready at once, and the huge stones were put on the round wheel on the stone throwing machine one by one.
"Okay, pass on my military order, and blow away all those bed crossbows on the city wall!" Liu Bei finally wanted to vent his anger. He was so suppressed by the bed crossbows on the city wall that he couldn't breathe. I fought back, how could I say I was uncomfortable.
"Yes!" Xiaoxiao took the order and went, and the ten trebuchets started to operate. Above the huge disk is a long handle. Dozens of soldiers are vigorously turning the huge handle. The crank was driven to the disk, causing the boulders in the disk to rotate at a high speed, reaching a certain speed and directly throwing the boulders in the disk out at once.
"Boom boom boom!" The first boulder rain fell all at once, and the top of the city wall was the first to bear the brunt. Xu Shu's wet cowhide and bedding played a role. Under the buffering force, the damage caused by the boulder to the city wall was eliminated. It's lowered a lot, and because it's the first round of shooting. Both the angle and the hit are much lower. The soldiers on the top of the city couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Huh? That's the power?!" Liu Bei was very disappointed. He thought that the trebuchet could bring him some major victory. He didn't expect him to blast away Shouchun directly, but he had to destroy those bed crossbows anyway. , but now the first round of shooting has only brought such a small result, and only one or two unlucky soldiers on the entire city wall were hit by boulders.
"My lord, be safe and don't be impatient!" Pang Tongxin was also sweating coldly. If this trebuchet doesn't work, then it really depends on the people to accumulate it.
"Wet cowhide, the quilt can block it! It's too whimsical!" The young man was very confident, and shouted loudly, "Accelerate. Accelerate! Raise the angle and shoot!" Under the guidance of the young man. The angles of each trebuchet were adjusted, and the shooting point was raised. There were not only people pulling the handle on the side of the trebuchet, but also people picking up stones and putting them into the round wheel quickly. people. After high-speed operation, boulders were thrown out one after another.
"Boom, boom, boom!" This time, it's not like the rain of boulders like last time. This time, the stones are thrown one after another. Although the wet cowhide and bedding can form a buffer to offset the damage, he can't always offset it. The top of the city wall It was unbearable to be bombarded for a long time.
"What?!" Xu Shu really didn't expect that the trebuchet outside could shoot continuously like a bed crossbow, even Liu Mang's trebuchet couldn't do this! Liu Mang's ballista really can't shoot continuously, because he pays attention to the quality, strength and power of the shells. Each boulder has an effect of 300 catties, while Ma Jun's catapult pursues the rate of fire. It was continuous shooting, which did not stop the people on the city wall at all.
The wet cowhide and quilts couldn't resist quickly, and the huge boulder fell down and hit the city wall. The soldiers who were directly hit had no way out, and those who were not hit directly were also cracked by the falling boulder. , Those small stones flew out of the light ones and were pierced through the body, and the heavy ones died on the spot.
The original hair stone cart was like a big balance, with a bucket filled with stones of various sizes on one end, and many ropes hung on the other end. The ground is raised so that the stone is thrown to strike the enemy. This kind of hair stone car has many shortcomings. It takes some time to launch every time, and the effect is not great. The new wheel-type hair stone cart designed by Ma Jun overcomes these shortcomings. It uses a wooden wheel and hangs stones on the wooden wheel. In this way, when a machine is installed to drive the wheel to rotate quickly, the big stones can be launched one after another, so that the enemy has no time to defend. Ma Jun once used a wheel as an experiment, and he could continuously shoot dozens of bricks and tiles hundreds of steps away, which was quite powerful at the time.
"Fight back, fight back! Use the bed crossbow to shoot them back!" Deng Yi shouted loudly, and the soldiers operating the bed crossbow quickly turned the shooting direction of the bed crossbow and threw them directly at the catapults.
"Hehe! Use a bed crossbow?! What a pity, what a pity!" The young man was a little complacent. The trebuchet he created himself could suppress the sharp bed crossbow made by the King of Shu. How could this not make the young man happy.
"General, our bed crossbows can't hurt them at all!" Some generals exclaimed, because the arrows fired by their bed crossbows were basically blocked, and there were teams of catapults beside the trebuchets. What about giant shield soldiers? The bed crossbow can only harass them, but it cannot hurt them.
"What!" Deng Yi was stunned for a moment, only Xu Shu was smiling wryly, as expected, he was testing it just now!
Seven hundred steps, this is a safe distance that Pang Tong and Ma Jun used the lives of nearly 700 white-eared heavy armored soldiers to test out. Before that, the white-eared heavy armored soldiers seemed to die under Pang Tong's command flag just to Try to find out how far the bed crossbow can shoot, and how many meters away it can avoid his damage, or minimize his damage. Obviously, between 500 and 700 steps is a very good time. distance.
"Boom boom boom!" The accuracy of Liu Beijun's stone throwing machine under the city is getting higher and higher. Under such a saturated blow, the stones are thrown into the city wall one by one. The sound of screaming is endless.
"No, bed crossbow!" Deng Yi yelled, "Push the bed crossbow in quickly, push in!" Deng Yi wanted these soldiers to push the bed crossbow into the tower, and he even helped a bed crossbow beside him The soldiers pushed the bed crossbow together. But everything seemed too late.
"Be careful, general!" The guard on the side pushed Deng Yi violently, and Deng Yi was about to curse, but he was stunned before he could speak, because the place where he was standing turned into a big hole, and a piece A stone weighing a hundred catties was falling steadily, the bed crossbow and the guard who pushed him away were all scattered on the ground, the bed crossbow fell apart, the guard was smashed into pieces, and the blood was so cheap Deng Yi's face.
Of the twelve bed crossbows, two of them were dragged into the tower after desperate efforts, and the remaining ten were all reimbursed. (to be continued..)