The trebuchets equipped by the Marine Corps of the Tang Dynasty are spring-charged torsion trebuchets.
It is very light. After the smaller one is disassembled, two soldiers can carry it.
The heavier one can be carried by a camel.
It is also easy to operate and can be operated by two to three people.
However, the range is longer than that of the Great Man-Eater's trebuchet, and its accuracy is much higher than that of the Great Man-Eater's trebuchet.
To attack the small Bushehr, Su Chen was too lazy to use heavy artillery, so he mobilized a hundred trebuchets ashore.
"Let the Persians attack from the south gate,"
"Show me the fighting prowess of the Persians!"
Su Chen said to Lapu Pasu.
Rappasu agreed and hurriedly mounted his horse to inform the Persians.
Yuchi Baolin said: "This guy is taking advantage of you!"
Su Chen smiled and said: "With this guy here, we can better talk to the resistance forces in Persia, which is also a good thing for us."
After a while, the Persians gave up attacking the east gate of Bushehr City and moved to the south gate.
The Marines also stepped forward, arrived at the foot of Bushehr City, and began assembling the trebuchet outside the range of the cannibal.
The assembly of the lightweight trebuchet is also very simple and can be completed in a few minutes.
Did the captain commanding from the front ask the Persians to retreat a little to avoid accidental injury?
Then he started throwing bombs at the top of Bushehr.
A violent explosion instantly sounded above the city of Bushehr.
A single salvo completely flattened Bushehr's south gate tower.
Then he started throwing bombs towards the city walls on both sides.
The cannibal defenders on the city wall immediately suffered heavy casualties.
One hundred trebuchets quickly cleared two blank defense zones on the walls on both sides of the city gate.
Then continue to expand the results at both ends, while blocking other Dashi defenders from approaching the wall near the south gate.
Under the cover of archers, the Persians began to build ladders to climb the city wall.
The defenders on the wall near the city gate were basically wiped out by the bombs dropped by the Marines.
The few remaining giant cannibals were unable to lift their heads under the pressure of the archers.
The Persians climbed up the city wall smoothly, and then prepared to enter the city and open the city gate.
Listening to the dense explosions ringing in the city,
Su Chen smiled and said to Lapu Pasu who ran to his side again: "You are very fast. You prepared the gunpowder so quickly."
When Su Chen told the Hamu and Berber people the formula for gunpowder, Lapupasu was there as a translator. He knew the formula.
Lapu Pasu said: "It is true that we have some, but the power is far inferior to the gunpowder of the Tang Dynasty."
Su Chen smiled and said: "I guess the saltpeter and sulfur you temporarily found are of poor quality."
"The raw materials need to be purified, and you have to explore this slowly."
The formula of gunpowder is very simple, but the purification of fire salt and sulfur is very troublesome, and the granulation of gunpowder is also a precise process.
These will greatly affect the power of original gunpowder.
Even the storage of gunpowder is a matter of knowledge, and the power of gunpowder is greatly reduced.
And regardless of whether the Persians are still cannibals, and even the domestic elites are included in their desires, Su Chen estimates that they can't tell the difference between potassium saltpeter and soda saltpeter.
While Suchen and Rappasu were talking, the Persians had opened the city gate from inside the city.
The Persians outside the city rushed into the city in droves.
According to the consistent style of the cannibal, surrender is unlikely, and fierce street fighting will follow.
Su Chen didn't want the Persians to suffer too many casualties, so he waved his hand and ordered two hundred marines to rush into the city to help the Persians.
With the help of two hundred marines, the stubborn cannibals in the city were quickly eliminated.
At the same time, it also allowed the Persians to see the terrifying combat effectiveness of the Tang army.
Let them understand the gap between themselves and Tang Jun.
Su Chen and Li Chengqian agreed to Rapupasu's request and stationed in Bushehr City.
Waiting here for that Persian prince Khosrow.
Li Chengqian was very curious about Persian-style urban architecture.
Su Chen also walked around the small town and then returned to the city lord's mansion to rest.
After returning to the city lord's palace, Su Chen listened to Cheng Wuting's defense arrangements for Bushehr and asked him to go down and do his work.
To be honest, Su Chen didn't think that the Big Eater would mobilize his troops to take back Bushehr.
Medina has been lost once, and even if it is a cannibal, it doesn't care if losing a small city like Bushehr will affect its prestige.
As for whether it will greatly inspire the Persians' resistance to fight, they don't care.
As long as the invading Tang people are eliminated, everything will be easy; the Persians are nothing.
But sending troops to Bushehr to fight with the allied forces of the Tang Dynasty and the Persians?
A big cannibal is not stupid.
However, we still have to make preparations, just in case the giant eater goes crazy and rushes over.
Su Chen asked the fleet to inspect the ships carefully at Bushehr Port.
The last time we stormed across the Strait of Hormuz, one-third of the ships were hit by gunpowder bombs or kerosene bombs.
Although the damage was not serious, it was only repaired urgently before and I never had a chance to check it carefully.
Now that the port conditions are good, let's let the fleet do some maintenance.
While the fleet was undergoing maintenance, Su Chen looked at the map to figure out which target would be next, and at the same time asked the Persians to help find out whether Byzantium had started to attack the cannibals as promised.
Li Chengqian was wandering around the city, waiting for the Persian prince of Khoslu to arrive. Rappasu said that the journey should only take two days.
After resting one night in Bushehr, Su Chen got up early the next morning to exercise in the back garden of the City Lord's Mansion.
Now Su Chen insists on exercising every day to maintain the top level of physical fitness mentioned by the system.
However, when Su Chen was exercising, he found that Elsa had been watching him from a distance.
Seeing Su Chen stop after finishing a set of boxing exercises, Elsa ran over and diligently wiped Su Chen's sweat with a towel.
Su Chen was confused about Elsa's behavior: "What are you doing?"
Elsa smiled slightly: "The slave family saw that the commander-in-chief didn't have a maid to serve him, so he came to serve the commander-in-chief!"
Su Chen was stunned: "Stop, what is your name?
I can't stand your service."
Elsa pursed her lips: "The commander dislikes the slave family?"
Su Chen covered his head: "What's the matter?
Say, don't do this."
Elsa looked at Su Chen resentfully: "The handsome man really doesn't understand the charm! The slave family just admires the handsome man!"
"Don't tell me I'm gone. There's no one else who belongs to the slave family. Even though you're down and out, you're still a princess of a small country."
Elsa said: "I heard Lapu Pasu say that you Tang women all call themselves slaves,"
"Besides, we siblings are all being hunted by our own king, and we are planning to follow the marshal to the Tang Dynasty to seek life, so what about the princess?"
Su Chen glared at Elsa: "Let's put aside this, you still haven't said what you want to do?"
