"Dear Khan, the ones I sent out are all my most elite Nak'er and guards. They cannot be left behind in the city. We must find a way to withdraw them."
Seeing that it was impossible to continue the attack today, this black ship with an iron shell kept circling in the moat, and the siege forces were completely cut off. The defenders on the city also became energetic.
The racket sticks and rolling logs were thrown down as if they were free.
For a time, the Mongols were scurrying between the moat and the city wall.
No one dared to climb the ladder anymore. The dense shells fired from the Franco machine gun from behind were too terrifying.
With the blast of a cannon, a swarm of steel balls swatted at them, just like a fly swatting at a fly on the wall, and the warriors who climbed the city fell down with a crackling sound.
Mo Zuo did not allow the use of the red cannon on the bow. This thirty-six-pound cannon was too powerful.
Mo Zhui knew that An Sanxi had built this earthen city in half a year, and had not yet laid bricks on it. It was probably not very strong. If this thing that was built in such a hurry was destroyed by him, An Sanxi would still not find it.
Work hard on your own.
The five small flags on the ship also ran to the starboard side, and fifty flintlock muskets and handguns were also fired at the Mongols. For a while, the Mongols suffered heavy casualties and fell to the ground.
At this moment, traffic inside and outside the moat is cut off.
All the pontoons and ladders were destroyed by the steamship. The outside could not support the climb, and the inside could not retreat. Not only were the steamships firing cannonballs and muskets, but the city walls also took the opportunity to stick their heads out of the crenellations and shoot arrows downwards.
Khan Ahai also had veins pulsing in his forehead. Those who went up were all the cronies and elites of various Taijis. If they were all still under the city wall, something big would happen.
"Dear Khan, I think it's better to use a trebuchet to hit the ship. If we can destroy the ship, we can remove our people first." Chubuqing Tabu Nang suggested.
"Well, this is a good idea, use catapults to kill them. Just do it, Chu Buqing, I will give you both the catapults and catapults, and you go and beat them hard." Khan Ahai said fiercely.
When the Morning Light turned around on its fifth lap, Mo Zhui saw many trebuchets pushing up on the flat land in the north of the city, and some human-powered trebuchets were also dragging this way.
The whole body of the trebuchet is made of wood. There is a rotatable shaft placed horizontally above the gun frame. The long rod fixed on the shaft is called the "tip", which acts as a lever.
Those with only one wooden pole are called "single tips", and those with multiple wooden poles are called "multi-tips". The more tips there are, the heavier and farther the stone bullets can be thrown. In ancient times, the number of cannon tips could reach up to 13 tips.
The wood selected for the tip needs to be specially processed to make it both strong and elastic. In addition, since the trebuchet is manufactured using the lever principle, the length of the tip and the ratio of the force arm and the resistance arm must be carefully calculated.
The tip length is about 2.5 to 2.8 feet.
One end of the tip is tied with a "skin nest", which is filled with stone bullets. The other end is tied with a gun rope, which is about several feet long. The number of gun ropes for small guns ranges from 1 to 10, and there are more than a hundred for large guns. Each gun rope is
Pulled by 12 people.
The largest stone cannon was dragged and launched by thousands of people. It could be said that rocks penetrated the air and the bullets were like locusts.
However, at this time, the Mongols were already inferior to each other. The Huihui artillery and Xiangyang artillery of the year were lost to no one knows where. After they were defeated and retreated to the grassland, they no longer had the ability to manufacture them.
These cannons were made by plundering Han craftsmen and imitating the relatively backward trebuchets and trebuchets of the Han people.
For these relatively primitive trebuchets, when throwing stone bombs, one person would aim and place them first, and the person pulling the rope would pull the gun rope violently at the same time. When one end of the gun tip rope suddenly fell, the leather socket at the other end quickly lifted up.
The stone bullets are thrown violently by inertia, with a range of up to a hundred steps.
There is not much wood on the grassland, and there are not many carpenters. They are all Han slaves captured from the invaders' passes.
In recent years, there has been a great famine in the grasslands. More than 30,000 Mongolians from the three tribes of Duoyan and Haraqin starved to death, and the craftsmen were not able to recover.
The siege weapons we have seen so far have reached the manufacturing limit of the Mongols.
Chen Xi had good eyesight. He saw the catapult approaching in the distance and hurriedly shouted: "Look, they have a catapult. Our ship's armor is designed to prevent arrows, but it may not be able to block stones."
The grinding table followed Chen Xi's finger and looked at it for a while.
Mo Zuo sneered and said: "I thought it was some kind of good stuff. It's just these rags that you have the nerve to take out. It's simply embarrassing."
Chen Xi looked at him in confusion.
Mo Zhui sneered and said, "Back then, the Sa family was in the city of Baihusuo on the rocky beach, and they followed the master to resist the siege of the slaves. The master built a counterweight trebuchet and a torsion spring trebuchet."
"My master's counterweight and counterweight trebuchet, the boom alone is about 15.2 meters long, and the counterweight is 10 tons. The trebuchet can throw stone projectiles of 90-136 meters to a distance of about 274 meters. The maximum throw The projectile weighs nearly 454 kilograms. These Tatars make junk, and they have the nerve to call it a trebuchet."
Chen Xi had studied the battle on the rocky beach and naturally knew that the master had a very good trebuchet. It was made of steel and wood and was light and easy to use.
It's just that in order to develop muskets and artillery, after the Battle of Rock Beach, these big guys were put in warehouses to eat ashes.
"Although these catapults are lagging behind, they still pose a threat to us," Chen Xi said.
"Our Folan cannon is loaded with solid lead bullets and has a range of more than 400 meters. It is loaded with shotshells and has a range of more than 100 meters. Their human-powered trebuchets are so short that their range is estimated to be no more than 120 meters. .Girl, don’t worry, let’s see how we destroy them.”
"Stop the ship and aim the artillery at the catapults and trebuchets in the south of the city." Mo Zui ordered loudly through the microphone. "
Chen Xi knew that stopping the ship would not work. The technology of this era did not have a two-way stabilizer, and the hit rate during movement was not good.
You have to stop the boat and shoot quietly.
In the engine room, the steam was immediately cut off, and the ship was reversed briefly to quickly stop the ship.
The black muzzles of the three Franco cannons on one side immediately pointed at the trebuchet being assembled and the trebuchet being pushed forward.
The trebuchet has a shorter range than the trebuchet and is towed by more than a dozen oxen. The trebuchet uses an ox cart to pull the accessories and assemble them within the range.
"Everyone is here, change to solid ammunition, target, catapult in the distance." An officer shouted. The soldiers immediately began to load ammunition.
"The first catapult on the left, one hundred and fifty meters away, three solid rounds, ready."
The soldiers shook their helicopters one after another and aimed their sights and crosshairs at the catapult that the Mongols were dragging with more than a dozen oxen.
The land on the grassland is not particularly solid. When it rains, it becomes mud. The problem here is not that the roads are in poor condition, but that there are no roads at all.
On the grassland, you can walk wherever you want.
Autumn has begun now, and it's getting cold on the grassland. A few autumn rains have fallen, and the roads are muddy.
These heavy equipment were stuck in the mud, and even though they kept whipping the bullocks, they moved very slowly.
At this time, three cannons were already aimed at the catapult.
"Let it go!" the commander-in-chief gave the order, boom! Boom! Boom!
Three Franco machine guns sprayed out flames, and three six-pound lead balls hit the catapult.
At such a close range, the shells arrived in an instant, and one shot flew away. The lead bullet ricocheted several times in the muddy water, and I don't know where it went.
One shot fell into a group of vigilant cavalry, killing five of them.
A lead bullet hit the oxen pulling the cart. There was a loud bang, and half of the oxen's body was smashed to pieces. After the shell grazed the side of the oxen's body, it broke the beam of the catapult.
After destroying the catapult, the lead ball fell into the crowd of gunners following behind. After several ricochetes, it ended up nowhere.
The people following behind are used for rotation. Shooting stone bullets is a physical job, and it won't take long before you have to replace them.
Broken wood chips and wooden thorns flew backwards, and a group of Mongolians fell down with howls.
These wooden thorns were so sharp that they flew backwards after being hit by the cannonballs and directly penetrated into the bodies of the Mongolians.
The Mongols who followed were not regular troops, they were all herdsmen recruited temporarily. There were only ten regular troops in this catapult.
The officer in charge of this projection vehicle is a captain of ten. The captain of ten is also called the leader, which is the lowest-ranking officer of the Mongols. In Mongolian, it is called "Alban Nayan"
"Nayan" means "official, leader, chief". The official position of Nayan is somewhat like a director in later generations, which can be big or small. The head of a street office is also called a director, and some heads of ministries and commissions are also called directors.
During the Qing Dynasty, in addition to the three major Khan tribes of Zhasak Tuhan, Tushe Tuhan, and Chechen Khan, there was also a Sanyin Nayan tribe in the middle of the Khalkha Mongolia. The four tribes respectively controlled the territory of Khalkha Mongolia.
In Mongolian military positions, the head of a hundred households is called "Zhawen Nayan", the head of a thousand households is called "Minhan Nayan", and the head of ten thousand households is called "Tumian Nayan".
He was standing in the car giving instructions when a wooden thorn happened to be inserted into his left eye. He immediately rolled down from the car in pain and rolled on the ground.
There are a total of five catapults in this team. The leader is a captain of fifty.
The position of captain of fifties is not a permanent official position. It is similar to the brigade of later generations. Generally, such an official position, which is smaller than that of centurion but larger than that of captain, is established for special needs.
Tu Lai was the captain of the fiftieth slinging team, that is, the head of the fifty households, and was called "Tabinayan".
"This is artillery, get down quickly, everyone get down."
Turai Tabinayan has seen the world, and he knows that this is a Folang machine gun. He had seen this thing when he followed Khan Duhai to attack Malanguan Pass.
I heard from the old people on the grassland that the Han soldiers in Zhejiang had a lot of these things.
The marshal named Qi Jiguang often brought this thing with him to sweep the grassland.
The range of this thing was much further than that of a bow and arrow, making the lives of the thirty-six members of Duoyan's family worse than death.
All the Mongols fell to the ground in a commotion.
"After destroying the beam, well, this catapult is considered useless. Okay, aim at the next nearest vehicle and prepare! Release"
Mo Zui put down the telescope and nodded with satisfaction.
One of the three hits hit the crossbar, which was pretty good.
At this time, the six trebuchets also arrived at the shooting position and began to assemble. The boom of the trebuchet was much longer than that of the trebuchet, and the range was also longer. It stopped at about 200 meters.
Five updates tomorrow. I've been quite busy recently and have a lot of debts.
