Yuan Huan always felt that these catapults looked a little different from those he had seen in Guangling before, but there was no abnormality on their faces and he didn't ask any questions.
The difference is naturally huge!
Outside the cities of Qichun and Guangling, the tools used to throw disaster relief food were only the torsion catapults used for "training" before.
In Hefei City, not far away from Chao County, a special team from the Ministry of Industry has been stationed. A shipload of components manufactured by the Shipbuilding Industry Department enters the river directly from Gongkou, is transported to Ruxukou, enters Chao Lake, and is finally unloaded in Chao County.
The Ministry of Industry's special team will complete the final assembly here, as well as the final manufacturing of some components that have little technical content and can be easily obtained from local materials, but are bulky.
The twenty catapults in front of Bai Tu's military formation are all counterweight catapults. The main design idea is based on the "Hui Hui Cannon" used by the Mongols during the Battle of Xiangfan in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. You can tell by the name that it is
The techniques from the Western Regions were invented by the people of the Western Regions.
In May of the third year of Jian'an, because Yuan Yin refused to cooperate and ignored the people in the city who wanted to welcome Bai Tu, the Jiangdong Army outside Hefei replaced the relief food they threw every day with stone bullets weighing more than a hundred kilograms each!
Yuan Yin also felt that today's Jiangdong Army was approaching fiercely, so he went up to the building with armor a little nervously, looking down at the military formation below from the city wall.
"Yuan thieves poisoned Huainan, which used to be a prosperous and peaceful place. Now people are starving and dying in the fields. They change their sons to eat. Although Bai started in humble beginnings, he has the hope of the people...
Although you are determined to be a thief, I still have benevolent thoughts in my heart. If you think of the more than 100,000 people in the city today and open the door to welcome our relief, you can still leave a good name in history. If you resist stubbornly, you will be killed in Hefei
With no regard for the common people, Bai has no choice but to go up to heaven and serve the people below. When the city is destroyed, the culprits will be cooked in the cauldron and shared with the soldiers and people of Hefei!" Bai Tu shouted loudly under the city.
Yuan Yin changed Bai Tu's indifferent and begging-like persuasion in the past few days. Today, he suddenly became evil and threatened to stew him and share it with the whole city.
Ruthless, I knew the reason in my heart, and even expected it.
The dedication of Guangling and Qichun not only damaged the morale of the Huainan Army and inspired Bai Tu's Jiangdong Army, but also gave Bai Tu a complete moral upper hand.
Yuan Yin had expected it before, Baitu... was probably going to attack the city head-on!
After all, tens of thousands of people traveled to Huainan, which was suffering from drought, and how could they do nothing?
However, after hearing Bai Tu's threat... especially when the 30,000 elite soldiers outside shouted "Let's eat together, let's eat together", Yuan Yin was still nervous.
"Baitu! Let's put aside all the things in the past. Since you keep saying that you are doing it for the common people, but now there is drought in Huainan and east of the Yangtze River, wouldn't it be contrary to the benevolent way for you to mobilize troops at this time?" Yuan Yin shouted bravely.
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"Absurd! We, the three million people in Jiangdong, have worked together to worry about the worries and urgent needs of our compatriots in Huainan. We have scrimped on food and clothing, and received millions of dan of relief food. We want to overcome the difficulties together with the people in Huainan. You
For the sake of their own selfish desires, they actually blocked it. It seems that Yuan Lin and her ilk, in order to discredit Jiangdong, went so far as to poison the people...
Soldiers! Can you tolerate this kind of thing happening? Can you just watch the good intentions of the Jiangdong fathers being wasted and the innocent people in Huainan being harmed by Yuan Ni?" Bai Tu asked loudly.
At this time, among the 30,000 Jiangdong Army, there were nearly 5,000 "living people", a very high ratio. The benefits of joining the army increased the enthusiasm for joining the army, and the number of grassroots corps commanders and senior officers became more and more abundant.
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In the world of Cheng Ji, even if the princes go to war, they can only increase the proportion of manpower drawn, and they rarely recruit strong men because the living people in the army are at least corps commanders, even like the Huainan Army, because too much manpower is drawn, and
Unpopular with the people, it is even more difficult for a living person to join the army.
Under such circumstances, if a strong man is forced to rebel, it may cause chaos on the battlefield.
In contrast, although Bai Tu's Jiangdong Army has a small proportion of military service, it has almost all corps commanders!
Moreover, Bai Tu specially set up a propaganda team in the army. The prototype was the team that Bai Tu asked the Ministry of Rites to set up to persuade the war. It was just that the officials and staff assigned by the Ministry of Rites to the army were a little too ungrounded and spent all their time talking about big principles.
It has even become a burden for junior officers.
After Zhang Liao reported the matter to Bai Tu, Bai Tu also made adjustments and replaced it with a propaganda team that was better able to get along with the officers. It was even a propaganda team selected from the officers. There were not so many annoying truths and the main focus was on everyone.
"War mobilization" before the war.
For example, at this time, everyone in the Jiangdong Army knew that they were fighting for the people of Huainan!
Think about the family, the young and old, scrimping on food and clothing and eating relief food, isn't it just to help the people in Huainan?
Every time I think of this, the officers and soldiers in the army feel proud...
However, the enemy was so crazy that they refused to give relief food to the people of Huainan. How could there be such a bad person?
The hatred of the enemy arose in the Jiangdong army. My lord is right. This "benevolence" was put together by us Jiangdong elders and must be sent out!
Understanding the meaning of war not only helps improve morale, but also restrains military discipline.
After Bai Tu finished shouting, he retreated to the high earth platform built behind the formation.
As the "coach", Bai Tu is only responsible for the general strategic command, and the specific command power lies in Lu Bu's hands.
As the soldiers beside Bai Tu raised flags under Bai Tu's command, the vanguard young general Ding Feng in the forward army roared: "Come on Baigong's cannon!"
Bai Gong Cannon... Bai Tu also felt that this name was a bit awkward. Anyway, twenty Baigong Cannon were now facing the Hefei city wall.
"Lift!"
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I saw that the short arm end of the Baigong Cannon was pulled up by a group of soldiers using a winch. The weight on the short arm end was ten times that of the long arm end. Although the long arm end of the lever principle saves effort, it is still under the huge
Given the weight difference, the normal position is still to have the short arm end at the bottom.
The winch also uses the principle of a pulley to lift the weight of the short arm more effortlessly. When one end of the long arm falls, stone bullets weighing more than a hundred kilograms each are put into the bullet socket at the end of the long arm...
"put!"
Ding Feng gave an order, and the winch that was originally holding the short arm was loosened. Under the weight of more than a thousand kilograms, more than a hundred kilograms of stone bullets were directly lifted up, and because it was located on the long arm side of the lever, the lifting speed was extremely fast!
"Raise your shield, straight ahead!" Yuan Yin immediately ordered.
After all, Yuan Yin also knew what these were "feeding" a few days ago.
Under the sound of wind and thunder, stone bullets weighing more than 100 kilograms were lifted to the highest point and flew towards Hefei City.
Most of them hit the city wall directly, but some just landed on the city tower...
The "grain truck" from a few days ago showed its majestic side in front of Hefei City today!
A stone bullet happened to hit the soldier who was holding a seemingly reliable heavy shield under Yuan Yin's order.
Yuan Yin only heard a roar in his ears, and then one of the soldiers around him was missing. Looking carefully... the broken shields, broken wood and stone armor, and the broken soldiers were indistinguishable from each other.
"This, this..." Yuan Yin couldn't help but be stunned for a while.
The Baigong artillery under the city did not give Yuan Yin a chance to react. After some adjustments, the second round of salvos came again!
The people debugging the Baigong cannon, as well as the accompanying personnel from the Ministry of Industry, were correcting the angle of the fort and raising the height of the short arm based on the previous landing point...
Of course, although standardized processing keeps the differences between each Baigong cannon within a very small range, due to the different wear and tear and the use of hastily polished stone bullets, the weight, center of gravity, and even the weight of each stone bullet are
The shapes are all different. It is technically impossible to expect the Baigong Cannon to be able to aim accurately.
There is no need to accurately fix the point. At this time, under Ding Feng's order, the target to be calibrated is the middle of the opposite city wall.
There was another round of thunderous cannons, but this time none of them "accidentally hit" the defenders on the city tower, but... the defenders on the city wall clearly felt that the wall was shaking!
Although when the stone bullet hit, the city wall also flashed with a faint golden light, losing part of its power, but it was still not immune.
The main target of the Huihui artillery attack was never the defenders, but the city walls or warships.
According to records from another world, this kind of returning cannon "weighs one hundred and fifty kilograms, is powerful, and the sound shakes the heaven and the earth. It destroys everything it hits and sinks seven feet into the ground"...
It was this kind of weapon invented by the craftsmen of the Western Regions that brought an end to the nearly six-year offensive and defensive war between the Song and Yuan Dynasties in Xiangfan. The Song Dynasty had lost its last chance to drag Yuan and Meng to death.
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In the history of "Another World", Huihui Artillery captured Fancheng when it first appeared. Lu Wenhuan, who had been defending Xiangyang for nearly six years, was unable to break the Huihui Artillery's offensive and was also forced by the Yuan army's massacre in Fancheng.
He had no choice but to leave the city and surrender.
Later, Huihui Pao also followed the offensive of the Yuan army, defeating the Yangtze River navy, Tanzhou, Jingjiang...
Of course, the returning artillery is not invincible. No matter how optimized it is, its movement speed is extremely slow, and even heavy infantry cannot outrun it. It can only be used for the offense and defense of fixed positions.
As long as the military formation is moved, returning to the artillery array is equivalent to finding an ancestor, Mingmen, for your military formation.
Therefore, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when various rebel armies rebelled against the Yuan Dynasty, they could no longer see this thing. In the cavalry confrontation of Ming and Jin Dynasties, the trebuchet was even more of a joke.
However, just as the Song army in the late Southern Song Dynasty was unable to fight the Mongols head-on and could only defend according to danger, does the Yuan army in Hefei now dare to come down and fight Lu Bu?
"put!"
After the third round of Baigong Cannon roared out, the golden light on the Hefei city wall was almost invisible. This was mostly due to the establishment of the Zhong family's "dynasty", which added a layer of founding buff to all the city walls in the country.
Otherwise, purely based on public opinion, Hefei's city wall may not have such a big effect.
Yuan Yin also knew that if the defensive effect of the founding buff continued like this, he might not be able to save him.
The power of the Baigong artillery was beyond his expectation, and although Jiangdong Army had exhausted their stone bullets after five salvos,...
Yuan Yin did not clean up the sources of surrounding stones before. In other words, with simple repairs, the opponent can replenish stone bullets. There is no point in continuing to wait for the city wall to collapse!