"What kind of planes are these Jurchens working on? The war elephant shoots another rocket out to see what the hell these grandsons are working on?"
Hu Biao, who carefully retracted his head from the wall, his face covered with stubble and his eyes red, cursed in his mouth.
The voice sounded like something was stuck in the throat, which was quite hoarse.
In fact, it's not to blame that Hu Biao's current state looks so bad, because every one of the netizens in the city now looks like such a mess.
That is to say, A Li, A Fen, Zhan Xiang, these three sisters-in-law and sisters are in a slightly better situation.
Today's time will be dawn in about an hour, and by then it will be the morning of August 1st.
In the past two days, the Jurchens drove the people they captured and piled dirt outside the city day and night.
Even the corpses of the people who were shot to death, exhausted to death, and executed like killing chickens to scare monkeys were not spared.
After being piled together with baskets of soil, it eventually turned into an increasingly higher mound. Before nightfall last night, the earth walls outside the three walls of Haiyang City, east, west, and north, were already very tall.
Some scale.
In this way, as everyone waited silently, time passed little by little.
In ancient wars, trebuchets were indeed a powerful weapon in siege warfare. It is said that Guo Jing participated in the defense of Xiangyang City, which was said to be as strong as iron, but it was attacked by trebuchets.
But if it is a trebuchet, which model is it, is it powerful, and how many are there?
When I think of such a thing, it's like a sharp knife is hanging on my forehead. How can Hu Biao and the others sleep?
It is actually very normal for such a situation to occur. The trebuchet seems simple, but if you want to hit it accurately, it involves mathematical knowledge in ballistics.
The Jurchens also stopped lighting many torches and continued to pile up soil.
Specifically, it is a wooden pole with a wooden pole mounted on a wooden stake; at one end of the pole is a leather bag, which can hold a stone weighing about ten kilograms.
And those Jurchens naturally knew that the secret of these trebuchets could not be kept once dawn; so by this time, a large number of surrendered Liao soldiers had already appeared beside these trebuchets.
With a "creak~" sound of wood rubbing against each other, bowl-sized rocks flew toward Haiyang City.
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What made Hu Biao and others sigh, "That's it" was what they saw in their eyes, on those earthen platforms on the mounds of earth outside the city.
It can be regarded as using the principle of leverage, but the use is a bit primitive.
More than a dozen pieces of the remaining half were smashed on the city wall, causing the soil to fly and create small craters.
Although overall, it is only three meters high, which is slightly lower than the city wall.
More importantly, a group of Jurchen officers and generals such as Wanyan Loushi had already appeared on the battlefield, in a position where the ballistas could not greet them. They were ready to watch with satisfaction as the trebuchets that our side had prepared for a long time hit.
Poor city defense.
The problem is that the trebuchet of the Jurchens in front of us and the "return cannon" used outside Xiangyang City are two different things.
Such a thing has always made Yu Hanfeng very worried.
Occupying the advantage of being in a commanding position, you can hit the city wall, but the stone thrown only weighs ten kilograms. How powerful can this thing be?
After hearing this, Hu Biao finally said: "There is no need to take risks. It will be dawn in an hour at most. By then, you can see clearly what the Jurchens have prepared."
At this point, we finally see clearly what the big killer weapon of the Jurchens is?
After seeing it clearly, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and had only one thought: That's it...
After hearing what Hu Biao said, Yu Hanfeng could only suppress the anxiety in his heart.
However, the people staying on the city wall could clearly hear the sound of "rustling~" coming from the circle of mounds outside the city, and they had no idea what they were doing in the dark.
Because last night was a dark night.
The other end was tied with many ropes, and a group of people suddenly pulled hard and threw the stone at the other end.
So that I didn't see anything, and I didn't know what those Jurchens were secretly doing under the dark night?
Upon seeing this, Yu Hanfeng, who was also squatting next to Hu Biao with red eyes, spat hard and started shouting:
"Lao Hu, let me try to leave the city again. I won't believe it. I can't even find out what these Jurchens are secretly doing."
It is a pity that the rocket fired this time still landed on the somewhat wet ground as before, and extinguished soon after.
During such a process, no one dared to stick their head out of the wall with a flickering cigarette butt in their mouth.
The Jurchens used crude wooden shields to block the trebuchets at the back.
Just outside the northern city wall, there are as many as forty or fifty.
But after the three people left the city, there was no movement at all, just like mud cows entering the sea.
The reason why Yu Hanfeng said this was that about two hours ago, after three of his detective horses were lowered from the city wall with ropes, they secretly walked toward the mound, trying to figure out the situation.
Therefore, Hu Biao and others, who could take turns sleeping for three or four hours every night before, did not sleep at all that night.
This thing should be a trebuchet called a "single-shooter cannon".
Once night falls, those Jurchens hide in the darkness where the firelight on the city wall cannot shine, just like hunting. As long as someone shows up, the poisonous snake-like sharp arrows will accurately greet them.
Only a dozen or so pieces actually hit the city wall.
The main reason is that they clearly know that the Jurchens must be preparing something that they think is a powerful weapon that can help them quickly break the city.
Under Hu Biao's order, the war elephant picked up a special long arrow, tied a ball of linen soaked in vegetable oil at the arrowhead position, and lit it on fire.
The only problem is that the production of this thing is quite simple, so after spending one night, the Jurchens set up many outside the city.
The most likely possibility is the trebuchet.
After being shot and killed more than a dozen people in a row, the people on the city wall were now extremely cautious at night.
Like other members of the team, he squatted silently behind the wall, smoking a cigarette and waiting for the answer to the mystery to be revealed when dawn came.
Before the sun could peek out of the sky, and the sky turned a little white, everyone just lay on the wall and looked outside.
So just when Hu Biao and others were waiting for their heads to be revealed, groups of shirtless and sturdy Liao soldiers, young and strong, pulled the ropes on one end of the "single-shooter cannon" at the same time while giving orders.
Another five or six pieces flew directly over the city wall and hit the city. I could faintly hear someone screaming. They must have been accidentally hit.
That's because many of his soldiers have suffered losses in the past.
He shot an arrow at the mound outside the city.
None of them hit the ballistas on the city wall.
Usually there are twenty or thirty people operating a trebuchet, ready for launch.
It was obvious that they were heading for the ballistas on the city wall. What happened? Of the forty or fifty stones in total, half fell directly on the muddy ground outside the city.
But at positions every ten meters away, the Jurchens drove the people to build earthen platforms that were more than two meters higher than the city wall.
It is for this reason that Dayuan’s ‘Hui Hui Cannon’ has become exclusive to Lao Hui Hui.
The Liao soldiers who surrendered outside the city knew nothing about mathematics.
But coincidentally, a stone fell on the wall stack where Hu Biao and others were squatting. Although it did not hurt them, the flying sand did hit their faces.
With a look of disgrace and annoyance, Hu Biao shouted:
"Lang Qing, it's not right to run away from our Italy! It's our trebuchet that we pulled out to let them know what a trebuchet is~"
