In order to reduce the casualties while defending the city, An Sanxi arranged a large number of hanging households on the top of the city.
Mao Yuanyi of the Genjue Ming Dynasty introduced in "Wu Bei Zhi 3: Illustrated Comments on Hanging Houses and Hanging Curtains": "Hanging houses and hanging curtains are the most important things at the entrance of the cave. Without these two, the thieves will fire thousands of crossbows, and the city will not be able to survive. Stand. In the past, General Lei was hit by six arrows in the face, and this was rare. Now it is planned to make a wooden frame at the entrance of each ridge, with two feet inside, and plant it on the city. A rotating shaft is set outside, close to the edge of the two ridges, and the Use a covering grid, put up a felt blanket or use a quilt, wet it with water, and cover the opening of the ditch directly, so that arrows cannot enter."
To put it bluntly, it is to use wooden poles to hang wet quilts, felts and other soft objects at the crenel openings. Used to block arrows fired from the city.
People hide behind hanging doors, lift up a corner to observe secretly, or shoot.
When the Mongols under the city shoot their arrows up, if they hit the hanging door, the arrows will bounce away. Because this thing has no force and floats around, it can remove the force of the arrow. Will not penetrate.
Sprinkling it with water adds toughness and weight, and prevents the rocket from burning out.
In some movies, multiple layers of quilts are added with soil and water, which can protect against machine guns and can be worn to blow up bunkers. Although this is a bit nonsense. But adding water to a quilt can indeed prevent arrows. Qin Liangyu's white-armed soldiers put quilts around their iron armor, and then carried their spears to fight the Eight Banners in the field.
All the Eight Banners' bows and arrows could not penetrate. In the end, the white soldiers were defeated by artillery.
There are a lot of quilts in Duolun city, but it will get cold soon, and people still need quilts to keep out the cold.
These quilts are transported by water. It was hard-won. The rivers will be frozen in winter, and the transportation of materials will be cut off. It will be next year before transportation is needed again.
An Sanxi was reluctant to take it out and waste it.
An Sanxi discovered that some shrubs and ground vines on the grassland were very tough. And there is no shortage of basket weaving craftsmen in the city. The people in the city are all refugees fleeing famine. There is everything to do inside.
So An Sanxi soaked these rattans in tung oil, repeatedly soaked and exposed them to the sun, and then weaved them into canopies to block arrows. Although they were hard, the rattan armor was very flexible and elastic. The effect of blocking arrows is very good, and the weight is much lighter.
In addition to the canopy that can be supported at the crenellations, an outward-sloping rattan roof is also installed inside the crenellations on the city wall, so that there is no need to worry about the arrows being thrown from the wall and injuring people on the wall. This kind of short tent is not wide, only about two meters, but it is enough to protect the defenders under the battlements.
To prevent fire, wet mud was applied to it and water was poured over it.
In the past month, the Mongolian attacks have been very fierce, and these hanging households have greatly reduced casualties.
After the Dawn stopped again, its artillery fired again, firing continuously and destroying more than a dozen trebuchets.
Under artillery fire, the Mongols did not dare to get up, let alone adjust the direction of their trebuchets and trebuchets. At this time, Chu Buqing also understood that a heavy thing like a catapult could only hit fixed targets. To deal with moving targets is to act as a living target.
The Franco cannon on this black ship has a range far beyond that of catapults and trebuchets. Judging from several launches, the maximum range is about four to five hundred meters. Nothing can be done to them unless they run out of ammunition.
Seeing that the catapults were almost destroyed. Mo Zuo ordered: "Replace the red cannons on the bow with shotgun shells and aim them at the trebuchets."
The order conveyed from the sound-transmitting copper tube came to the gun fort on the bow of the ship. Fu Laoliu immediately directed his apprentices to crank the helicopter and steering gear. The gun emplacement began to rotate slowly.
Thousands of people were busy at the trebuchet. A completely dark place.
Two hundred meters is a bit far. The cannon's cannon shot was out of reach. The cannon's cannon shot has a range of up to 150 meters, and is useless any further.
But the red cannon is different. It weighs more than two tons and has a barrel of three meters. It uses spherical solid bullets and has a range of 1,500 meters. If you use shotgun shells and three small medicine bags, you can reach a maximum distance of 250 meters.
This is due to the fact that the red cannon shot is a larger steel ball with a diameter of one centimeter. Large steel balls have better storage speed and can hit farther.
Moreover, chain bombs and bar bombs can also be used at this distance. Both types of ammunition are available in the gun fort. Just didn't hear the order.
Turai saw that his catapults had been destroyed. There was no point in staying here except being ravaged by artillery fire over and over again. Decisively, he immediately commanded his remaining thirty or so people to retreat.
"The shotgun is loaded."
"Aiming completed, distance is 200 meters."
"Fire!" followed an order. A young apprentice immediately thrust the fire into the red cannon's fire door.
Boom, there was a loud noise, and the whole ship shook. The river water stirred up countless waves.
More than three hundred small steel balls, accompanied by fierce flames and black smoke, rushed out from the muzzle, like a storm, hitting the six trebuchets and the personnel behind the secret cables around them.
This is the first time the red cannon has been fired under the city of Duolun.
Khan Ahai and others did not know that there was a red cannon on this boat.
At this time, the huge sound of cannons directly shook them, and their ears buzzed. They were only more than 800 meters away from the city wall on the high platform, and they could clearly see the protruding iron shell protruding from the prototype of the bow. A dark, thick barrel.
The gun barrel immediately erupted violently, a blaze of flames. In the blink of an eye, they saw a scene of blood and flesh flying across the trebuchet.
A steel ball with a diameter of one centimeter is already very large. When hit on a trebuchet, it can easily penetrate and break many wooden components. From a distance, a burst of sawdust is flying on the position. Like the dust blown up by the strong wind.
At a distance of 200 meters, the shotshells have completely dispersed. At this distance, the shotgun swarm appears as a flat discus, flying forward at a speed exceeding the speed of sound.
Wherever the shot cloud passed, there was a mess. The trebuchet was broken, the tip arm fell off, the wooden frame fell over, and the people pulling the ropes behind were knocked down piece by piece like cutting leeks.
Although Chubuqingtabu Nang was riding on a horse and commanding behind the dense crowd, a stray bullet still hit the long tassel on his helmet and knocked away the iron pipe where the long tassel was inserted.
The huge impact almost broke his neck bones, and he was so frightened that he almost fell off his horse.
However, this is just the beginning. The fixed silk cannonballs are loaded very quickly. After firing one round, insert another round and continue firing.
It didn't take long before the Mongols even recovered from the shock. The second artillery fire was fired.
Another heavy rain of steel balls came. The few trebuchets that had not fallen fell completely this time. Tall wooden pillars were smashed into the crowd behind.
