The stone bullets were placed in a bullet bag, wrapped in a straw bag, and poured with gasoline. Finally, a one-foot-long fire tube was tied. The rope at one end of the fire tube was tied to the ground.
When the wrench was put down and the buckle was unlocked, the counterweight box slammed to the ground. The swing arm suddenly swung. The ammunition pocket flew up, and the fire tube was also pulled. There was a squeaking sound inside, and the fuse was also pulled.
Start burning.
The swing arm swung to its highest point, was restrained by the crossbar, and stopped moving forward. Under the huge inertia, the stone bullets in the bullet bag broke away from the trebuchet, whizzing along the long parabola and flying towards the southern city wall of Jining.
Almost at the same time as it reached the highest point, there was a bang, and the fire tube exploded. A ball of fire burst out and instantly ignited the straw bag wrapped in gasoline and soaked in gasoline.
Then, the entire stone ball burned fiercely.
Thirteen stone balls were lit in the air one after another, immediately lighting up the night sky.
The whole army and the city saw it. Many people had already gone to bed. But a huge bright light illuminated the windows. Yang Fan was not asleep yet, and was still looking at the map and thinking about tomorrow's siege plan.
At this time, streaks of bright light flashed across the tent window. It looked like a meteor falling.
"What's going on? Go and ask." Yang Fan put down his red and blue pencils and said to the guard.
After a while, the guard came back. "Report to the commander that the engineers are testing the trebuchet."
Yang Fan nodded, this is normal operation. According to regulations, the trebuchet must be tested after being assembled. If there are no problems, it can be handed over to the troops for use. Otherwise, if there is no test firing, if problems occur, engineers and engineers will be responsible for it.
At this time, the Mongols on the city wall were dumbfounded. In the middle of the night, the Ming army on the opposite side actually used trebuchets to attack the city. They looked at the fireball flying from the sky and did not react for a while.
The Mongols did not expect that the Ming army would attack the city after arriving today. They all thought that the Ming army had to rest for a night after traveling a long distance. There was not much defense on the city wall today.
Many soldiers on duty were sleeping soundly leaning against the crenellations.
Thirteen fireballs roared down. Six fell into the city. Five fell outside the city. Two hit the city wall.
150 kilograms is not a light weight. When the Mongols attacked Xiangyang, the projectiles of the returning artillery only weighed 150 kilograms, which is half the weight of this artillery shell. And this artillery shell is harder. Quick-drying cement and stones are more destructive.
At that time, artillery returned to smash the city wall of Xiangyang covered with rammed earth and bricks. According to historical records, in the first month of the tenth year, artillery attacked Fan City and destroyed it.
The thunder shook the city. The engine was fired, and the sound shook the heaven and the earth. Everything struck by it was destroyed, and it penetrated seven feet into the ground. The city was violent, and many generals overran the city and surrendered."
The two stone bullets hit the city walls on both sides of the city tower. One shot hit the wall directly in front of the horse.
There was a loud bang, and the stone bullet hit the wall directly. It was half embedded in the stone city wall.
Around the stone bullets, the stone wall crackled and exploded with countless cracks, radiating out in all directions.
All the people on the horse were shocked and fell to the ground. For a moment, everyone was frightened. They yelled and rolled and crawled away in all directions.
Another stone bullet hit the top of the city wall, right behind the middle of the horse road. The huge impact caused the stone bullet to break directly. The ground cracked on the inner side of the upper surface of the city wall. After a while, the city wall shook.
The inner parapet collapsed with a loud bang.
The flying gravel swept away all the soldiers within a radius of more than ten meters. These stones were full of momentum. As long as they were touched, all bones would be broken and muscles would be broken, and flesh and blood would fly everywhere.
There were screams and running noises everywhere on the city wall. It was complete chaos.
The fireballs that fell into the city landed on the houses.
In the houses of this era, the rich and officials lived in wooden houses, while the poor lived in adobe and thatched houses.
The seven stone bullets that fell into the city, carrying raging fire, smashed into the wooden building. Then they produced a vibrating egg effect on the hard winter ground. They bounced several times before stopping.
Along the path of these stone bombs, houses collapsed, and many wooden buildings were set alight, setting off fires.
Liu Sansi was stunned to see such damage caused by just one attack. This trebuchet must be too powerful.
However, what shocked him was yet to come.
In the second round of shooting, three shots hit the south wall. This time, the front of the wall was hit, directly shattering the crenellations and causing a small-scale collapse.
The soldiers hiding behind the crenels were smashed into pulp.
Under the huge attack force, three gaps four to five meters wide appeared on the outside of the city wall, and a large amount of stone and clay collapsed. Although the lower edge of the gap was still seven or eight meters from the ground.
However, this is already very scary. This shows that if the attack continues, the city wall will completely collapse.
Yin Bili Tabu Nang was sleeping. Suddenly, a fireball flew towards his mansion.
There was a small garden in front of his bedroom, a half-acre pond covered with thick ice.
A fireball roared and lit up the night sky.
Yin Bili was in his sixties, and his sleep was relatively light in old age. He woke up instantly.
He murmured to himself: "What's going on tonight? Is there a meteor shower?"
As soon as he sat up, he noticed something was wrong. There were shouts and shouts from everywhere outside. There were constant tremors of heavy objects falling to the ground.
At this time, a bolide crashed directly into the pond.
Because of the cold outside the Great Wall, the pool can be frozen up to a foot thick. However, a foot thick ice cannot stop the bolide flying from the sky.
Boom! A loud noise.
The entire ice surface of the pond was blown away, and broken ice was splashed everywhere. The water in the pond was splashed backwards.
There was a crash and it was stuck on the roof. Then countless pieces of ice came in through the doors and windows.
Yin Billy screamed and was hit by more than a dozen large and small ice cubes, one of which was as big as a watermelon and hit his left knee.
He screamed miserably and fell, and he saw his left leg twisting strangely. Then a piece of broken ice hit his cheek, and all of his last dozen remaining teeth fell out.
Yin Bili suddenly fainted.
The city lord's mansion was attacked, and everyone in the mansion got up. Soon Na Ke'er and his soldiers rushed in and carried him away for treatment.
At this time, a raging fire broke out in the city. The wind in the north was strong. At this time, the fire burned red due to the wind.
The test firing team outside was also dumbfounded. This trebuchet must be too powerful. It has only been like this for two rounds.
Liu Sansi asked: "Gong Zhao, are you still fighting in the third round?"
Zhao Dazhuang also looked confused. He did not expect that such a big noise would be made.
"Continue to fire. According to the regulations, the test fire is three rounds, so let's finish the three rounds."
Soon, the third round of launch began. With the sound of the swing arm, it flew up and was restrained by the horizontal bar with a clang.
Eject the live ammunition from the bullet bag. It explodes into a fireball in the air and flies towards the south city wall again.
This time, the accuracy dropped, and only one shot hit the city wall. The others all hit high and flew into the city.
The only one that hit was on the south city gate, which caused the tower to collapse.
