Guo Dian looked at the huge Yellow Turban Army camp under the city and said calmly: "Things are not so bad. After all, we have saved half of Jizhou. Half of Jizhou is here, which is enough to restore the vitality of the occupied area. If we cannot defend Yingtao
The city and the entire Jizhou will fall, and then the real disaster will come!"
Then he smiled and said: "Speaking of which, it's all thanks to the idea you came up with, Zhengnan, otherwise Yingtao City would have been defeated by the crowbar of the Yellow Turban Thief."
The judge heard Crowbar saying viciously: "Thunder Gong, this thief really deserves death. If it weren't for him, how could our Jizhou nobles have suffered such a disaster!"
Although last year's Yellow Turban Uprising was a disaster for the Han Dynasty, it did not cause much harm to the noble families in Jizhou. Their forts were stronger than ordinary cities, and Zhang Jiao could not offend them, so the losses to the noble families were limited.
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But this time during the Zhang Niujiao Rebellion, they aimed at the family property of the powerful nobles. With the crowbar, the forts of the powerful nobles were like paper, which could be broken with just a poke, and the military strength of these forts was incomparable.
Shangchengchi has more wealth than the counties of Han Dynasty, so this time they suffered a disaster. Already hundreds of families and noble families have suffered disasters, and tens of thousands of people have been separated from their wives, and most of them are related to Shenpei.
Therefore, after he knew that Lei Gong was a thief who invented a crowbar specifically for their Wubao, he hated Lei Gong extremely.
When he heard Xu Wei's name, Guo Dian said with a heavy face: "This Thunder Lord is a difficult character. It is said that he has occupied the entire Wei County now, but he did not expand his troops aggressively, but led his men to occupy powerful lands.
If he really establishes a foothold in Wei County, it will be difficult to wipe out the settlement!"
Guo Dian, the ordinary bandit, is not worried. The Yellow Turban Uprising was very powerful at first, but it was wiped out in an instant. But like Xu Wei, who divided the land, one hundred thousand soldiers in the field were one hundred thousand good sons, and the great Han relied on the good sons to beat him.
Those from all directions, and those with a regime like Xu Wei's are even more difficult to deal with.
Xu Wei took over Zhang Niujiao's craftsman camp and led thousands of craftsmen to cut wood. After returning to the camp, they started knocking and knocking. No one knew what they were doing.
It was not until 10 days later that Xu Wei said to Zhang Niujiao: "I have made a weapon for attacking the city. Now you can see its power!"
Zhang Niujiao and other generals of the Yellow Turban Army came over with great interest.
In the open space 300 steps away from Yingtao City, Xu Wei and the people from the craftsman camp were busy setting up this giant support!
Zhang Niujiao and the others looked at this thing strangely, but they didn't understand what it was?
Bai Bo asked curiously: "Commander, do you know what this is?"
Zhang Niujiao shook his head!
Zhang Baiqi hesitated and said: "Is it a Jinglan chariot?"
The jinglan chariot is a high-altitude siege vehicle in ancient cold weapon warfare. The jinglan cart is a mobile archery tower that can attack the enemy's siege weapons on the city wall. With it mounted, any soldier can shoot from a long distance. It is usually built up to 3 and a half stories.
High, with pulleys installed at the bottom, it can move and shoot from a high position. It has a very wide shooting range and strong dynamic impact, but at the same time it moves slowly and has no close combat capability, which is also a major fatal flaw of Jinglan.
When Zhang Baiqi said this, everyone felt suddenly enlightened, it was really similar!
Zuo Xiaodao: "This Thunder Lord is really quite capable. This kind of siege equipment is not something we can make!"
But Zhang Niujiao said: "The Jinglan chariot should not have such a long wooden pole, and how can it move without wheels underneath? It is impossible to shoot from three hundred steps away. There is no such strong bow in the world! Anyway, now the thing has been
Come out, let’s see what Thunder God says!”
After Xu Wei led people to install it, he came to Zhang Niujiao and said: "Commander, these are 20 trebuchets, which can project 100 kilograms of stones from a distance of 300 steps. With these twenty trebuchets, they are enough to destroy
The wall of Yitao City!"
Xu Wei manufactures a trebuchet with a lever and weight principle. Adding a pocket can make the trebuchet have a longer range. The bottom can be counterweighted up to two thousand kilograms of stone. The maximum ratio of lever to pocket can reach 1:
10. It can fire projectiles weighing hundreds of kilograms. Xu Wei's trebuchet is very close to the return artillery.
In order to increase accuracy, Xu Wei also specially fired tens of thousands of ceramic bombs, weighing 100 kilograms, 80 kilograms, and 50 kilograms.
"Trebuchet?" Zhang Niujiao and the others have never heard of this thing. China's trebuchet first appeared in the Warring States Period, but the Han Dynasty had strong military strength and focused on the development of offensive cavalry. The trebuchet has basically withdrawn from the battlefield.
It would not appear again until the Battle of Guandu more than ten years later. Not even the generals had seen this thing, let alone Zhang Niujiao and the others.
Seeing their inexplicable expressions, Xu Wei knew that they didn't understand, so he said: "The commander will understand after seeing their power!"
Xu Wei said to the soldiers of the Craftsman Battalion: "Get ready to launch!"
"Phew!" The soldier cut off the live hook!
"Boom!" A clay bomb weighing more than 100 kilograms directly hit Yingtao City, directly smashing several houses! Suddenly, the entire Yingtao City was filled with smoke and dust!
The soldiers on both sides were stunned by the huge power of this trebuchet!
Half a day later, the Yellow Turban Army cheered loudly, because they knew that this trebuchet was helping them attack the city.
In the city of Yingtao, Kuaisheng was lost. No one wanted to be hit by such a big stone!
Guo Dian was surprised when he saw 20 wooden frames: "Cannon truck? Is there anyone among the ant thieves who knows how to make such a weapon for siege?"
The Guo family in Jinyang is also considered a family of generals, so he quickly knew what it was.
Shen Pei's face turned pale and he said: "It's over. There are such powerful siege weapons among the ant thieves. We can't even defend it for a month!"
Without hitting the city wall, Xu Wei asked the soldiers to lower the counterweight a little and fire the projectiles again!
"call out"
"boom!"
This time hundreds of kilograms of projectiles hit the city wall directly. The city wall trembled and a lot of dust fell!
After this experience, Xu Wei asked the soldiers to use the same counterweight as the trebuchets, and then arranged the twenty trebuchets into an arc shape, so that the trebuchets and the others would concentrate on one point to launch!
"Boom boom boom!"
Xu Wei asked them to fire five rounds in a row, and more than 80 of the hundreds of cannonballs hit the city wall! The entire city wall looked even more dilapidated. Half of the remaining cannonballs hit the city, and half hit the outside. The cannonballs that entered the city were even more dilapidated.
Destroy all the buildings around the city wall.
Xu Wei came to Zhang Niujiao and said: "Commander, with these trebuchets, the walls of Yingtao City will definitely be smashed in five days at most. However, this trebuchet is difficult to move. Be careful of being destroyed by the Han army. Commander still has to arrange it."