The stone bullets were placed in bullet pouches, wrapped in straw bags and doused with gasoline. Finally, tie a one-foot-long fire tube. Pull the rope at one end of the fire pipe and tie it to the ground.
When the wrench was put down and the buckle was unlocked, the counterweight box suddenly hit the ground. He swung his arms loudly. The bullet bag flew up, the fire tube was pulled, and the inside made a clicking sound, and the fuse began to burn.
The swing arm swings to its highest point, is restricted by the crossbar, and stops moving forward. Under the huge inertia, the stone bullets in the bullet bag broke away from the trebuchet, whizzing along the long parabola and flying towards Jining's southern city wall.
Almost at the same time as it reached its highest point, the fire tube exploded with a bang. A ball of fire burst out and instantly ignited the straw bag wrapped in gasoline and soaked in gasoline.
Then, the entire stone ball burned fiercely.
Thirteen stone balls were lit in the air one after another. The night sky suddenly lit up.
The whole army and the city saw it. Many people have gone to bed. But a huge bright light illuminated the window. Yang Fan hasn't slept yet, still looking at the map and thinking about tomorrow's siege plan.
At this time, streaks of bright light flashed across the tent window. It looked like a meteor falling.
"What's going on? Go and ask." Yang Fan put down the red and blue pencils and said to the guard.
After a while, the guard came back. "Report to the commander, the engineers are testing the trebuchet."
Yang Fan nodded, this is normal operation. According to regulations, the trebuchet must be test-fired after being assembled. Only if there are no problems can it be given to the troops for use. Otherwise, if there is any problem without test firing, engineers and sappers will be responsible for it.
At this time, the Mongols on the city wall were dumbfounded. In the middle of the night, the Ming army on the opposite side actually used trebuchets to attack the city. They looked at the fireball flying from the sky and did not react for a moment.
The Mongols did not expect that the Ming army, which had just arrived today, would attack the city. They all thought that the Ming army had to rest for a night after traveling a long distance. There wasn't much defense on the city walls today.
Many soldiers on duty were sleeping soundly leaning against the crenellations.
Thirteen fireballs roared down. Six fell into the city. Five fell outside the city. Two hit the wall.
150kg is not a light weight. When the Mongols attacked Xiangyang, the Huihui artillery projectiles weighed only 150 kilograms, which was half the weight of this artillery shell. And this shell is even harder. Quick-drying cement plus stones are more destructive.
At that time, Huihui artillery smashed the Xiangyang city wall covered with rammed earth and bricks. According to historical records, in the first month of the tenth year, artillery attacked Fancheng and destroyed it." "After defeating Fan, we moved our attacking tools towards Xiangyang. One shot hit his tower, and the sound was like thunder, shaking the city. The sound of the machine shook the heaven and the earth, and everything it struck was destroyed and sunk seven feet into the ground. The city is in turmoil, and many generals are overtaking the city and surrendering."
These two stone bullets hit the walls on both sides of the tower. One shot hit the horse in front of the wall.
There was a loud bang, and the stone bullet hit the wall directly. Half-mounted in the stone city wall.
Around the stone bullets, the stone wall crackled and exploded with countless cracks, radiating out in all directions.
All the people on the horse were shocked and fell to the ground. For a moment, everyone was frightened. Yelling, rolling and crawling away in all directions.
Another stone bullet hit the top of the city wall, hitting the middle and back of the horse path. The huge impact force caused the stone bullet to break directly. The inner side of the upper surface of the city wall was hit, and the ground cracked, causing it to shake for a while. The female wall on the inside of the city wall collapsed with a loud bang.
The flying gravel swept away all the soldiers within a radius of more than ten meters. The momentum of these stones is so strong that as long as they are rubbed against, bones will be broken, muscles will be broken, and flesh and blood will fly everywhere.
There were screams and running sounds everywhere on the city walls. Complete and chaotic.
The fireballs that fell into the city landed on the houses.
In this era, the rich and officials lived in wooden houses. The poor live in adobe and thatched houses.
Seven stone bullets that fell into the city, carrying raging fire, smashed into the wooden buildings. Then there's the vibrating egg effect on the hard winter ground. It stopped after bouncing a few times.
Along the path of these stone bombs, houses collapsed and many wooden buildings were set alight. Start a fire.
Just one attack caused such damage, leaving Liu Sansi stunned. This trebuchet is too powerful.
However, what shocked him was yet to come.
In the second round of shooting, three shots hit the south wall. This time the front of the wall was shot. The crenel was directly broken. Caused small-scale collapse.
The soldiers hiding behind the crenels were smashed into pulp.
Under the huge attack force, three four- to five-meter-wide gaps appeared on the outside of the city wall, and a large amount of stone and clay collapsed. Although the lower edge of the gap is still seven or eight meters from the ground.
But this is already very scary. This shows that if the attack continues, the city wall will completely collapse.
Yin Bili Tabu Nang was sleeping. Suddenly, a fireball flew towards his mansion.
There is a small garden in front of his bedroom. A half-acre pond covered with thick ice.
A fireball roared and lit up the night sky.
Yin Bili is in his sixties and feels relatively light in his old age. He woke up instantly.
He murmured to himself: "What's going on tonight? Is there a meteor shower?"
As soon as he sat up, he realized something was wrong. There were shouts and shouts everywhere. There were constant tremors of heavy objects falling to the ground.
At this time, a bolide crashed directly into the pond.
Because of the cold outside the Great Wall, the pool can be frozen one foot thick. But even a foot of solid ice cannot stop the bolide flying from the sky.
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boom! There was a loud bang.
The entire ice surface of the pond was blown away, and broken ice was flying everywhere. The water in the pond splashed backwards.
With a crash, it was buckled on the roof. Then countless pieces of ice came in through the doors and windows.
Yin Billy screamed, and he was hit by more than a dozen large and small ice cubes, one of which was as big as a watermelon and hit his left knee.
He screamed miserably and fell, and he saw his left leg twisting strangely. Then a piece of broken ice hit his cheek, and all his last dozen remaining teeth fell out.
Yin Bili suddenly fainted.
The city lord's mansion was attacked, and everyone in the mansion got up. Soon Na Keer and his soldiers rushed in and carried him away for treatment.
At this time, a raging fire broke out in the city. Originally, the wind in Saibei was strong. At this time, the fire was burning red due to the wind.
The test firing team outside was also dumbfounded. This trebuchet is too powerful. It's only been two rounds and it's like this.
Liu Sansi asked: "Gong Zhao, are you still fighting in the third round?"
Zhao Dazhuang also looked confused. He did not expect that such a big noise would be made.
"Continue to fire. According to the regulations, the test fire is three rounds, so finish the three rounds."
Soon, the third round of launches began. With the sound of the swinging arm, it flew up and was restrained by the horizontal bar with a clang.
Shoot the pocket to throw out the live ammunition. It exploded into a fireball in the air and flew towards the south wall again.
This time, the accuracy dropped, and only one shot hit the wall. Everything else is high. Fly into the city.
The only one that hit hit the south city gate. The city tower was directly knocked down.
