Three days later, Boom and his party of five arrived at the Crystal Tool Fort along the shores of Beijiao Lake in the Tiegong River. Although the location was very remote, the number of caravans coming and going was no less than anywhere else, and more people came to purchase.
Most of them are servants directly under the royal family, rather than ordinary merchants.
Crystal Weapon Castle is one of the three main cities of the Goblin Clan. Compared with the prosperity of Alchemy City and the wealth of Wallkill City, it can be said to be as tough as a bull. Crystal Weapon Castle is known as the "wombat's butt"
, one is because of its iron-walled city wall, and the other is because Crystal Mechanical Castle only produces one thing, and that is "the goblin siege weapon."
Compared with the dwarves' paranoia of pursuing extreme destructive power, the Crystal Mechanical Fortress can be said to value the quality, or accuracy and practicality, of siege weapons more.
Throughout the history of the development of the entire world, although the professionals of the goblin tribe have shown a sense of being dependent on others, both in terms of quantity and talent. But in any important battle that can be named, no matter who is the winner, the goblins
The clan’s siege weapons are all indispensable resources.
During this time, those who made their fortunes through war include the mighty Dukes like the Principality of Cambay, emerging forces like the Pawa Federation, and opportunistic forces like Iron Hook Island, Crab Island, and even Pirate Bay.
Stream.
However, the goblins are completely opposite to them, because the goblins rarely go out into troubled waters in person. They tend to stand aside and simply sell heavy siege weapons to make a fortune. As for the "despicable people" in the world, "
Negative comments such as "shameless people" and "rats and sparrows" have further verified the goblin clan's correct decision in some aspects.
Therefore, under this general trend, the Crystal Weapon Castle rose from the ground, and from the very beginning a camp became the scale it is today. Where there are intelligent creatures, there will inevitably be endless disputes, so the Crystal Weapon Fortress has never been
They won’t worry about the lack of business. This is the power of the goblin tribe’s technological power.
Throughout the course of the war, heavy siege weapons usually use some kind of blunt instrument to open a hole in the city wall. Secondly, they use the siege weapons under the city wall to launch arrows to clear the enemy on the wall. At the same time, the soldiers also
Fire volleys from movable siege towers that are pushed close to the city walls. This allows the besiegers to gain a commanding position and seize the opportunity from above.
As for the moat, artificial barriers, and even the city gates, they need to be filled with rubble in advance. Because only in this way can the siege tower be pushed far enough to hook the parapet with a drawbridge. And once it touches the city gate, the legion will
You can pull or destroy it by working together.
From the ancient times of ferocious beasts to the present, the two most commonly used siege weapons are battering rams and siege cones. The former is used to gradually crack the wall through continuous impact, causing the entire load-bearing structure to crack and eventually collapse.
Make a gap.
In contrast, a siege cone usually consists of a rectangular wooden stake with an iron tip. Its working principle is to use the tip to break stones piece by piece and carve holes into the arrow tower or city wall.
A circular hole.
The battering ram is usually made of a thick wooden stake made from the largest local tree trunk, with a giant ram installed on the front, which requires 15 to 30 people to pull. It is installed in two triangular frames by ropes or chains.
When using it, a strong man should pull it back as far as possible to the maximum distance allowed by the rope, and then release the rope to collide with the city wall.
Since the defenders would also rain down arrows from the walls, the attackers could not hope to survive being exposed to such firepower. Therefore, the attackers began to install bunkers similar to wooden roofs for the battering rams, covering an area of
And wheels or pushrods.
In some cases, this wooden bunker will be transported by the main battle corps. Every time the battering ram moves forward a certain distance, the soldiers have to pick up the bunker and move it to where the battering ram is.
And the hanging curtains on both sides of the ceiling are usually sewn from animal skins to ensure that the entire structure is not overweight to the extent that it is difficult to move. In contrast, the wooden ceiling itself is designed to withstand liquids such as asphalt or hot oil.
Inflammable materials are usually stronger than hanging curtains. If the attacker makes it fire-resistant by covering the ceiling and frame with animal skins, bricks or earth, etc., the defense can only throw boulders at it or leave the city.
Only a surprise attack can destroy it.
But even if the wooden ceiling is made to be indestructible, it does not mean that the battering ram itself will be foolproof. Starting from the ancient magic era, in order to prevent the battering ram from falling from the frame when it hits the city wall, the frame has been equipped with
A fork-shaped beam to ensure that the battering ram can be fixed and stable. At the same time, this device can also prevent soldiers from pulling the battering ram away when they pull it back.
Now when King Fernando of Ogu launched the "Holy War", he frequently used this heavy siege weapon of the goblins. However, the buffer device at that time still had flaws, that is, a rope was used to stop the siege hammer from colliding with it.
Large cloth bags filled with straw, similar to mattresses, or wide and thick wooden boards are hung on some city walls.
But in this way, the battering ram will waste a lot of kinetic energy on these buffer devices and cannot be used on the city wall. In the final battle to siege the old king, the above-mentioned wooden boards and bags were used, but in the end they were
Proving that this method does more harm than good to the attacker.
Compared with the battering ram, the role of the siege cone in siege warfare is not that important, and its efficiency is also appallingly poor. Because only after a long period of trying, it is possible to build a siege cone on the city wall.
Drilling holes, and in the process, the threat posed by the enemies on the city wall is no less than that faced by the battering ram.
However, because the siege cone weighs less and is easier to transport, it also has its own advantages. More importantly, the siege cone does not require a large number of soldiers to move like a siege ram. Although the ceiling it uses is made of
The method is the same as that of a battering ram, but the size is much smaller.
After that, the goblins launched the "Wild Ass Ballista" that shocked the world, and it also became the first line of defense for the High Court of Cisse.
The "Wild Ass Ballista" has a strong iron bar fixed between the two machine shafts. The iron bar is very long, like a huge measuring stick. It is flat and smooth, and the middle section has been specially polished by craftsmen. There is a
A longer square wooden beam with a straight and narrow arrow groove planed along the long center line.
The archer stands next to the bow arm on one side and aims, and then puts the giant arrow into the groove of the wooden beam. While loading the arrow, only a few strong young people need to quickly turn the rotating rod to pull the string of the crossbow.
Full.
In addition to the accurately matched sliding grooves, the power-on winding mechanism and the firing trigger device, the biggest feature of the ballista is its excellent performance in torsional energy storage. The ammunition used by the ballista is a special metal heavy arrow with a diameter of the average arrow.
Ten times the size of the arrow, the arrow feathers are not animal feathers, but made of hardwood chips. This kind of arrow is minimally affected by the natural environment, and its energy decays slowly. Coupled with the powerful torsion energy storage of the ballista,
It can often cause astonishing destructive power.
As an evolution of the siege ram, the advent of the "Meteor Trebuchet" has flooded Crystal Machinery Castle with orders. This trebuchet has a simple structure and low cost, and its energy storage device is a rear-mounted single-force torque generator.
Article. Compared with the ballista, although the muzzle velocity of the trebuchet is lower and the accuracy is far less than the former, its destructive power is more shocking because its spring size is larger than that of the ballista.