Is this the new trebuchet? This projection distance is far beyond their previous traditional trebuchets. Li Daozong and An Xinggui have seen traditional trebuchets. Traditional trebuchets only have two-thirds of the range at most, or even closer.
Moreover, it is impossible for the thrown stones to reach such a heavy weight. The most important thing is that there is obviously a long soft rope in the middle of this trebuchet. Why is it so accurate? ! Much more precise than their traditional placement of stones in a frame mounted on top of a long pole.
"Quickly increase the weight! Load 70 kilograms of stone bullets, aim at the city wall, and test the damage to the city wall!" Several engineers in charge of the projection quickly calculated several times, and then said loudly.
"yes!"
Several soldiers quickly began to operate, and soon a larger stone bullet was placed in the slide rail. When the two stone bullets were thrown out again with the terrifying sound of the trebuchet, this time they hit the city wall below the city tower accurately.
Two huge clouds of smoke and dust soon appeared from the city wall in the distance, followed by two loud noises of "Boom" and "Boom". When the smoke and dust were blown away by the wind, Li Daozong and the others saw that the smoke had just hit the city wall. Half of the stone bullets directly blasted two gaps in the city wall.
The two huge gaps collapsed together with the parapet above. This power... was simply incredible!
"Advance, advance 50 meters! Test 100 kilograms of stone bullets!" The engineer in charge became excited and shouted in agreement.
Dozens of soldiers nearby immediately pulled a four-wheeled carriage with a specially reinforced structure and pushed it directly under the weight box. Then they slowly lowered the weight box to the center of the carriage, and then released the link structure on the weight box.
Find a few more horses to pull the several-ton counterweight box away, and then start pushing the remaining trebuchet structure forward.
Li Daozong and An Xinggui were both a little stunned. In fact, the only difference between the counterweight trebuchet and the traditional large trebuchet is that the rope and the slide rail below are added, which extends the long lever arm in disguise. As for the small torsion trebuchet, the power of that thing is If it is too small, it is often used for killing.
When their traditional large trebuchets were moved in the past, the stones and breeding materials in the counterweight box must be taken out before they can be moved.
This... just dismantle and transport the weight box together with the breeding? Although it is impossible to travel long distances, moving it tens of meters and reinstalling it can save a lot of time.
Soon the large trebuchet was reassembled, and this time the largest stone projectile thrown by the trebuchet was loaded, a 100 kilogram stone projectile.
When the stone bullets were bombarded on the city wall again, two huge gaps appeared next to the two gaps. Although the entire city wall did not collapse, after all, the wall thickness of Gaochang City was only about five meters, even half of Chang'an City. Less than.
However, a thickness of five meters cannot be collapsed in one or two times, but collapse on the outside of the city wall is inevitable.
The four dense gaps have already caused some chain reactions, with a large piece in the middle collapsing directly, and the collapsed rubble accumulated in the trench under the city wall, filling up the trench quite a lot.
This power... is indeed several times greater than their previous power! As for the stone bullets, there are mountains all around, so there is no shortage of them.
"Stop for a moment and test the large siege crossbow!" The craftsman in charge of the test said loudly and excitedly.
The trebuchet here stopped quickly, and two special carriages were pulled over. These two carriages were not pulling cargo, but real three-bow large crossbows. The arms of the crossbows were even thickened. The three bow arms are placed two upright and one upside down.
A moving pulley set is also installed to lengthen the crossbow string to enhance its power!
When this thing was pulled out, Li Daozong and the others all gasped. This thing... would die if they were next to it, right? Because Li Daozong had already seen the crossbow arrows it used, which were probably as thick as an adult's arm, with wooden arrow shafts and iron arrowheads.
"Come on, come on, put up the siege arrow and try the quality!" The craftsman who was testing was obviously very excited and said loudly.
Li Daozong noticed that the other party had replaced the sharp iron arrowhead of a crossbow arrow with a circular structure.
"What does this mean?" Li Daozong was a little curious. Wouldn't the sharper the arrow, the better?
"We want to see if this kind of arrow can open a hole in the city gate if it is shot directly at the city gate. Because city gates are often wrapped with iron sheets and built with wood, with this kind of arrow, all the power of the crossbow arrow will act on the iron sheet. Regardless of whether it can be shot through, it will cause huge damage to the structure of the city gate. If a few more arrows are fired, the city gate may fall apart!" the engineer said excitedly.
Li Daozong: "..." A path that was never imagined.
However, he also knew that these were test tasks assigned by His Highness, so he naturally had no objections.
This crossbow is much faster than a trebuchet! Because of the addition of a movable pulley, it does not use a winch to wind up, which is of course possible. Now, for the sake of speed, two horses are directly used to pull the crossbow string for rapid winding.
Soon, after the two crossbows were loaded, they aimed directly at the gate of Gaochang Capital City, and then suddenly pulled the trigger.
A unique buzzing sound from the crossbow string sounded, and the terrifying crossbow arrows could not be caught by the naked eye, but the distance from here to the city gate was only more than 200 meters.
Then there was a "boom", and two huge noises came from the doorway.
Li Daozong immediately picked up his telescope and looked over. When he saw clearly the situation inside the doorway, his face looked very strange.
This thing... is actually possible?
Because of the two city gates inside the doorway, one of the gates had a hole the size of a washbasin, and the undamaged parts were also somewhat deformed and twisted.
In addition, the crossbow arrow seemed to have hit the edge of the door frame in the middle of a city gate, which is often the place where the iron is thickest and strongest. The crossbow arrow did not penetrate the city gate, but there was a huge gap between the two city gates. , it should be that the door latch structure behind the city gate was destroyed by huge force. Although it was not completely damaged, it was no longer so tight.
"Win the string! Try shooting at the city tower!" The engineer was very excited and shouted loudly.
The two crossbow arrows were placed directly up again, still the same spherical iron arrows as before, this time they were aimed at the city tower.
"Buzz", two more crossbow arrows were fired, but this time, I don't know if it was because of good luck, but one crossbow arrow directly hit a wooden load-bearing pillar on the outside of the city tower.
There was a huge explosion, and the wooden load-bearing pillar exploded. Then the structure of the city tower, which had just been hit by a trebuchet with a big hole, was destroyed. Under everyone's dumbfounded gaze, the structure of the city tower exploded. A small cloud of dust came out, and then it collapsed directly to one side.
As for the other crossbow arrow, it penetrated directly through the tower.
"Hahahaha! This is the effect you want! Try changing the climbing arrows!"
"yes!"
The brand new crossbow arrows were stringed again, but this time Li Daozong noticed that these crossbow arrows were no longer wooden shafts. Although they had become thinner, they were pure iron shafts.
This time the crossbow was aimed directly at the city wall.
With a "buzz" sound and the sound of the crossbow string, Li Daozong immediately picked up the telescope, and two crossbow arrows had been deeply inserted into the city wall of Gaochang State.
If there were more like this... the soldiers could climb up directly on these crossbows!
This is a natural ladder, and the enemy cannot destroy it.
The engineers below were testing excitedly, but what Li Daozong and An Xinggui didn't know was that before they tested, Ju Zhisheng just wanted to come over to the city wall to take a look at the situation, inspect it, and boost the morale of the soldiers.
But when he just stepped onto the city wall, a stone bullet whizzed over, and then a hole was directly smashed into their tower.
Ju Zhisheng was so frightened that he fell to the ground, and the ministers around him were even more unbearable!
Then they quickly retreated to witness Datang's siege weapons test!
"Surrender! Surrender! Send people out! We surrender!" Ju Zhisheng collapsed. It was only an hour or two before the city tower was destroyed and half of the city wall collapsed... Can they really hold on for twenty days? !
It's just that Ju Zhisheng doesn't know what he will face next.
