Chapter 184 The artifact is calling me (please vote for me!)
In the light screen transformation room, there are three more rows of grids in the system mall. The original 3×5 grids have been expanded to 6×5 grids.
However, currently only the items in the five grids in the fourth row are visible and available for purchase, while the other two rows are temporarily invisible and unavailable for purchase.
Ma Su knew that the last two rows of grids were not visible because he did not have enough stability points. As long as the stability points reached the corresponding number, these things would reveal their true colors in Lushan.
Therefore, he patiently looked at them one by one.
The five items on the fourth row of shelves are: advanced version of Zhuge Liannu (effective range increased by 50%), priced at 10,000 points;
The manufacturing plan and sample ship of the company battleship built by Gongsun of Liaodong (200 paces wide × 300 paces long), priced at 10,000 points;
Liaodong Gongsun's ship-borne breaking powerful crossbow manufacturing diagram and a set of sample crossbow arrows (range 300 steps), priced at 10,000 points;
A set of Liu Ye brand enhanced version trebuchet manufacturing drawings and samples (the effective projection distance is increased by 50%, reaching 500 steps), priced at 10,000 points;
A set of powerful artifacts (sword cart, trench-making cart, trench-filling cart, siege cone, Greek ballistae) with manufacturing drawings and samples each, priced at 10,000 points;
"Hiss~"
Ma Su's eyes widened and he took a deep breath.
Sure enough, there is nothing wrong with expensive things except that they are expensive.
These five things are very useful to Shu Han at this stage!
Let’s talk about Zhuge Liannu first.
Although the repeating crossbow was made by Zhuge Liang and could fire arrows continuously, it had two fatal flaws.
First, the range is short, the iron arrow is only 30 steps, and the effective range of the ordinary (wooden) arrow is only 50 steps.
Second, the accuracy is poor. Since the arrows used in repeating crossbows do not have fletchings, the iron arrows will lose balance and roll when flying over long distances. The production of wooden arrow shafts requires high precision, which is difficult to make manually and is not easy to manufacture and use in large quantities.
Therefore, this advanced version of the Zhuge Liannu (effective range increased by 50%) is very powerful.
Let's talk about the battleships and the ship-borne breaking crossbows. These two items are the "strategic nuclear weapons" of the Gongsun family in Liaodong and are prohibited from export. Sun Quan once offered a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry to buy them, but he couldn't buy them.
With these two things, it will be much easier for the Shu Han to attack Wu in the future.
Among the last few items, there is no doubt that three siege vehicles and one cone and one cannon are useful.
In this era, the most difficult war to fight is the battle of city attack and defense.
For the attacker, the first thing to do when attacking a city is to clear the obstacles outside the city and fill in the moats and trenches.
The moat and the trench are sometimes combined into one. In summer and autumn, the trench introduces water from the river and becomes a moat. In winter and spring, the defenders block the trench in advance and drain the water inside, because there are usually many sharp piles buried at the bottom of the trench.
Wood thorns, if someone accidentally steps on them and falls, they will be stabbed to the core.
The moats and trenches are both more than four feet wide and more than one foot deep. For example, the moat of Xiangyang City, the first city of the Han Dynasty, has an average width of more than sixty feet, and the average width is close to five feet. To fill it, it would not take even a mountain of earth.
enough.
Therefore, whenever there is a city attack or defense battle, the attacker must overcome various difficulties and spend a huge amount of work.
First of all, you need to remove the horse-rejecting stakes in front of the moat. This horse-rejecting stakes are not used to resist horses, but to block the attacker's siege equipment.
Secondly, the siege team needs to withstand attacks from above and fill the moat with earth, rocks, firewood and grass. Sometimes the siege team has no other choice but to fill it with human lives one after another.
Only by filling in the moat can the city wall be reached for siege.
Because the task of filling in the moat is too dangerous and arduous, many generals will use auxiliary soldiers to fill in the moat, especially the surrounding nomads. When attacking the city, there are relatively few craftsmen, and most of them drive the people around the city to carry arrows.
Arrow to fill pits and moats.
By the time it was filled in, the moat would be filled with corpses.
For this reason, the general asked the personal guards to serve as supervising the battle team. If anyone escaped from the battle, cowered, he would kill without mercy.
In order to ensure the safety of the clearing troops, trench-making vehicles came into being. A high barrier was erected in front of the trench-making vehicle to withstand arrows fired from the opposite side, and sand and gravel or bags for filling the river were loaded inside.
The trench-making vehicle is close to the moat, and you can easily throw stones in by opening the window.
If the trench or moat is relatively wide and cannot be filled evenly for a while, then it will be the trench-filling truck's turn to show off its power.
The trench-filling vehicle is shaped like a cart with folding bridges on it. When you drive to the trench and lower the bridge, it will become a temporary wooden bridge for soldiers to pass. At the same time, trebuchets and our own shooters will also attack the city wall.
Project long-range firepower and cover the river filling troops.
For the defender, the moat is the first line of defense. The defender will usually set up three or four artificial obstacles behind the river, mainly including caltrops, antler trees, horse pits, horse guns, sheep and horse walls, etc.
Tribulus can be divided into wood caltrop and iron caltrop. Wood caltrop is an annual herb. The fruit shell has hard thorns. Collect it and sprinkle it on the road that the siege team must pass. It can sting the feet of enemy soldiers and horses. Iron caltrop
It is an artificial "five-sided spike" that has the same function, is stronger and can be recycled. Similar to caltrops, there are also iron caltrops, which are mainly deployed in trenches with shallow water or streams near cities.
Tangpi to prevent enemy troops from crossing.
Antler wood, horse traps, horse-repelling guns, etc. also have similar functions to caltrops, and their main purpose is to prevent enemy troops, especially cavalry troops, from approaching.
After filling in the moat, we come to the most critical part of the siege. Break open the city gate or climb the tall and thick city wall. As long as there is a gap in the city gate, the attacking army can rush in.
To break open the city gate, you need to use heavy weapons. This type of weapons can be roughly divided into two types, the direct destructive type at close range and the throwing type at long distance.
The main siege equipment at short range is siege cones, while the main equipment at long range is trebuchet.
The trebuchet is the most commonly used long-distance siege equipment in this era. In addition to throwing stones, it can also throw logs, metals and other heavy objects, or use ropes, cotton threads, etc. dipped in oil to wrap on the surface of the stone, ignite it and then throw it.
Attack the enemy camp and burn the enemy to death.
The advantage of the trebuchet is that it has high lethality and long range, but the disadvantage is that it is not accurate enough.
Often the attacker's side has fired many rounds, but the gate on the other side is still intact.
Usually at this time, it is necessary to use siege cones, a close-range super-heavy destruction instrument, to hit the city gates and walls to destroy the city structure and achieve victory in the siege.
The shape of a siege cone is a huge round wooden pile fixed on a four-wheeled vehicle. It uses inertia to hit the city gate through the pile head. After breaking through the first gate, soldiers will swarm up to attack and destroy the second gate.
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In siege battles of this era, siege commanders would use a combination of close-range heavy weapons and long-range throwing instruments.
The Mongol and Yuan Empire used this method of warfare when they conquered Europe and attacked the city of Kiev.
They first set up trebuchets around the city, throwing stones and burning objects day and night, bombarding the city walls. At the same time, the cones of the siege vehicles continued to hit the city gates.
The Kiev people tried their best to shoot arrows and throw stones, but these conventional countermeasures could only hit some Mongolian troops who were trying to climb ladders to climb the city, and did not help to reverse the situation of the war. In the end, the Mongolian army relied on a combination of heavy weapons to destroy them.
After entering the city gate, a large number of Mongolian cavalry rushed into the city of Kiev and killed them.
In the inherent impression of the world, the cavalry is the king of field battles and is not good at attacking cities. But with the advent of siege cones and large trebuchets, the cavalry has the same ability as the infantry to attack fortresses.
This is also the core reason why the Mongolian cavalry was able to sweep across Europe.
No city can withstand such an attack.
This method of attack was also used when the Tang Dynasty attacked Goguryeo. When the Tang army attacked Liaodong City, they first spread out long-distance throwing equipment on the battlefield. The Tang army's trebuchet "used big wood as a bed" and threw 300 kilograms of stone.
The huge boulder was thrown towards the target 500 meters away, with astonishing power, causing the earth to collapse.
The Tang army bombarded Liaodong City day and night. The Goguryeo defenders set up large wooden bunkers on the city wall to defend against flying rocks, but it was ineffective. The huge rocks falling from the sky quickly destroyed everything.
Sometimes, in order to obtain a commanding strike effect, the attacking commander will place siege equipment at a commanding height outside the city (such as on a hillside, on a mound, etc.).
Kublai Khan's younger brother Hulagu went on an expedition to the west and attacked Fort Maimenteis of the Mulai Kingdom, the "Great Assassin Nation". Because the fortress was perched high on the top of the mountain, there was no way to climb it and it could not be hit with arrows and rocks.
In order to attack the mountain fortress, Hulagu transported the trebuchet up the mountain. The soldiers first disassembled the trebuchet, then used exquisite pulley winches to transport these parts up the mountain one by one, and finally assembled these parts on the mountain.
Every siege weapon.
The next day, Hulagu issued an attack order, and rows of stones weighing hundreds of kilograms hit the fortress. Many walls collapsed instantly. The defenders in the fortress wanted to use powerful bows and crossbows to counterattack, but they were quickly defeated by the Mongolian army.
The ballistae, which had a range of 2,500 steps, could not hold its head up under pressure and was quickly defeated.
If there is no commanding height near the city, use manpower to build one.
In Ma Su's view, the reason why ancient Rome was able to rampage across the Mediterranean and establish an empire spanning three continents was due to its powerful heavy infantry, strict military discipline, and a variety of exquisite military machinery: ballistas and trebuchets.
, battering rams, crossbows, etc., these artifacts accompanied the infantry legions that Rome was proud of and conquered the surrounding Mediterranean.
The Mongol and Yuan Empire also established a huge empire spanning the Eurasian continent.
The only thing these two empires have in common is their indestructible siege equipment.
Although the ballista was born as early as 600 years ago, there is currently no high-end artifact like the ballista in China. The one with the closest structural principle to the ballista is the Zhuge Liannu.
In 399 BC, Dionysus of the Thera Ancient City Gang, a Greek subordinate, faced the strong threat of force from the Carthaginians and created a weapon that eclipsed other forces - Dionysus.
Sri Lankan craftsmen designed and manufactured the first torsion spring ballista in the history of war!
These items, including ballistae, actually exist in this era, but are controlled by various forces. Without the help of the system, it is almost impossible to collect all the artifacts.
Take trebuchets for example. Although the Shu Kingdom can also make trebuchets, their performance is definitely not as sophisticated as those made by the original creator Liu Ye.
Not to mention the advanced version.
As for the company of warships and the powerful crossbow, these are military weapons that the Gongsun family did not spread to other people.
Of course, Zhuge Liannu is also a "nuclear weapon" exclusively owned by the Shu Han, and is at the top of the list of foreign "arms embargoes".
Wei, Wu and surrounding forces wanted Zhuge Liannu, so they had no other option but to send undercover agents to steal it.
And with the help of the system, Ma Su will soon possess all these artifacts.
By then, with the artifact in hand, not to mention conquering Liangzhou, the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains will not be a difficult task.
As his thoughts surged, Ma Su couldn't help but sigh.
