In order to reduce the casualties while defending the city, An Sanxi arranged a large number of hanging houses on the top of the city.
Mao Yuanyi of the Genjue Ming Dynasty introduced in "Wu Bei Zhi 3: Illustrated Comments on Hanging Houses and Hanging Curtains": "The hanging doors, hanging curtains, and the entrance of the cave are the most important things. Without these two, the thieves will fire thousands of crossbows, and the city will not be able to survive.
Standing. In the past, General Lei was hit six times in the face, so he rarely did this. Now it is planned to make a wooden frame at the entrance of each ridge, with two feet inside, and plant it on the city. A rotating shaft is set outside, close to the edge of the two ridges, and used
To cover the grid, you can put up a felt blanket or use a quilt, wet it with water, and cover the opening of the ditch so that arrows cannot enter."
To put it bluntly, it is to use wooden poles and hang wet quilts, felts and other soft objects at the entrance of the crenels to block the arrows shot from the city.
People hide behind hanging doors, lift up a corner to observe secretly, or shoot.
When the Mongolians under the city miss their arrows and hit a hanging house, the arrows will be deflected directly. Because this thing has no force and floats around, it can take away the force of the arrows and will not penetrate.
After being poured with water, the toughness and weight are increased, and it can prevent the rocket from burning.
In some movies, multiple layers of quilts mixed with soil and sprinkled with water can protect against machine guns, and they can be worn to blow up bunkers. Although this is a bit ridiculous, adding water to quilts can indeed protect against arrows. Qin Liangyu's white-armed soldiers are like this.
They were wrapped in cotton quilts outside the iron armor, and then went to fight with the Eight Banners in the field with spears.
All the Eight Banners' bows and arrows were unable to penetrate. In the end, the white soldiers were defeated by artillery.
There are a lot of quilts in Duolun city, but it will get cold soon, and people still need quilts to keep out the cold.
These quilts are all transported by water. They are hard-earned. The rivers will be frozen in winter, and the transportation of materials will be cut off. It will be next year before they can be transported again.
An Sanxi was reluctant to take it out and waste it.
An Sanxi discovered that some shrubs and vines on the grassland were very tough. And there was no shortage of basket weaving craftsmen in the city. The people in the city were all refugees fleeing famine. They could do anything.
So An Sanxi soaked these rattans in tung oil, repeatedly soaked and exposed them, and then weaved them into canopies to block arrows. Although they are hard, the flexibility and elasticity of the rattan armor is very good. The effect of blocking arrows is very good, and it is lightweight.
It's also much lighter.
In addition to the hanging roof that can be supported at the crenels, an outward-sloping rattan ceiling is also installed inside the crenellations on the city wall. This way, there is no need to worry about the thrown arrows missing the people on the wall. This kind of short canopy is not wide and only has
It's about two meters, but it's enough to protect the defenders under the battlements.
To prevent fire, wet mud was applied to it and water was poured on it.
In the past month, the Mongolian attacks have been very fierce, and these hanging households have greatly reduced casualties.
After the Dawn stopped again, its artillery fired again, firing continuously and destroying more than a dozen trebuchets.
Under the artillery fire, the Mongolians did not dare to get up at all, let alone adjust the direction of the trebuchet and trebuchet. At this time, Chubuqing also understood that heavy things like trebuchets could only be used to hit fixed targets.
Target. To deal with a moving target is to act as a living target for others.
The range of the Franco machine gun on this black ship far exceeds that of catapults and trebuchets. Judging from several firings, the maximum range is about four to five hundred meters. Unless they run out of ammunition, there is nothing they can do to them.
Seeing that the catapults were almost destroyed, Mo Zuo ordered: "Replace the red cannons on the bow with shotgun shells and aim them at the trebuchets."
The order conveyed from the sound-transmitting copper tube came to the gun fort on the bow of the ship. Fu Laoliu immediately directed his apprentices to crank the helicopter and steering machine. The gun emplacement began to rotate slowly.
Thousands of people were busy over there at the trebuchet. It was completely dark.
Two hundred meters is a bit far. The cannon's shotgun can't reach it. The cannon's shotgun has a maximum range of 150 meters, and it can't do anything any further.
But the red cannon is different. It weighs more than two tons and has a barrel of three meters. It uses spherical solid bullets and its range can reach 1,500 meters. If it uses shotshells and three small medicine bags, the maximum distance is
It can reach 250 meters.
This is due to the fact that the shotshells of the red cannon are larger steel balls with a diameter of one centimeter. Large steel balls have better storage speed and can hit farther.
Moreover, you can also use chain bullets and bar bullets at this distance. Both types of bullets are available in the gun fort. I just didn't hear the order.
Turai saw that all his catapults had been destroyed, and there was no point in staying here except being ravaged by artillery fire over and over again. He decisively ordered his remaining thirty or so men to retreat.
"The shotgun is loaded."
"Aiming completed, distance is 200 meters."
"Fire!" Following the order, a young apprentice immediately thrust Huo Qianzi into the fire door of the red cannon.
Boom, there was a loud noise, and the whole boat shook. The river water was stirred up with countless waves.
More than three hundred small steel balls, accompanied by fierce flames and black smoke, rushed out from the muzzle, like a storm, hitting the six trebuchets and the personnel on the secret ropes around them.
This is the first time the red cannon has been fired under the city of Duolun.
Khan Ahai and others did not know that there was actually a red cannon on this boat.
At this time, the huge sound of cannons directly shocked them and their ears buzzed. They were only more than 800 meters away from the city wall on the high platform, and they could clearly see the protruding iron shell protruding from the prototype of the bow.
A dark, thick barrel.
Immediately, the cannon barrel erupted violently, a burst of flames. In the blink of an eye, they saw a scene of flesh and blood flying across the trebuchet.
A steel ball with a diameter of one centimeter is already very large. When hit on a trebuchet, it can easily penetrate and break many wooden components. From a distance, a burst of sawdust is flying on the position, like sand and dust blown by a strong wind.
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At a distance of 200 meters, the shotshells have completely dispersed. At this distance, the shotgun swarm appears as a flat discus, flying forward at a speed exceeding the speed of sound.
Wherever the shot cloud passed, there was a mess. The trebuchet was broken, the tip arm fell off, the wooden frame collapsed, and the people pulling the ropes behind were knocked down one by one like cutting leeks.
Although Chubuqingtabu Nang was riding on a horse and commanding behind the dense crowd, a stray bullet still hit the long tassel on his helmet and knocked away the iron pipe where the long tassel was inserted.
The huge impact almost broke his neck bones, and he was so frightened that he almost fell off his horse.
However, this is just the beginning. The fixed-loading silk cannonballs are loaded very quickly. After firing one round, just insert another round and you can continue firing.
It didn't take long before the Mongols even recovered from the shock, and the second artillery fire was fired.
Another thunderous rain of steel balls came. The few trebuchets that had not fallen fell completely this time. Tall wooden pillars hit the crowd behind them.
