No wonder Hu cherishes this small piece of dried meat so much.
In this era, it was difficult for the people to eat meat, especially the soldiers fighting on the front line.
The third-level and fourth-level nobles are better. In addition to getting polished rice, they can also get something called "sauce".
In the Qin Dynasty, making sauce was called "醢", which means meat sauce and also means to chop people into meat sauce.
The method of making rice wine is to dry and mince the meat first, then mix it with the rice wine leftover, add salt, sometimes add bean (bean), add some wine depending on the situation, and place it in a clay pot to ferment for a hundred days. .
The sauce made in this way became the standard food for the Qin army because of its long shelf life and easy transportation.
Of course, this is the standard meal for third-level nobles and above.
If you are not a "high-ranking person", the sauce you get will have almost no meat but squid.
It tastes and looks a bit like modern bean paste.
Don't tell me, this thing is quite edible.
The dried meat that was brought up was a piece sent by his family, and he saved a small piece of it.
Of course, Shen Bing did not dare to "accept it", but declined politely.
But thinking about it, it’s been a long time since I’ve eaten meat.
Just as he was drooling thinking about it, Zhang Xuan rode up to Shen Bing, jumped off the horse, and asked:
"Engineer!"
"According to the general, the Handan city wall is more than thirty feet high."
"Can our trebuchet throw fire bombs into the city?"
I have never tried this before. When I used trebuchets to attack a city, I always considered the longest distance as long as it could hit the city wall.
Only when attacking the city wall at Wuniu Mountain, the fire bombs were fired over the city wall and into the city.
However, the wooden walled city is only more than ten feet high, so there is almost no need to consider the height of the city wall.
Shen Bing did not dare to answer easily. After all, this was related to the outcome of the battlefield. If something went wrong, it would be a serious crime of beheading.
"Let me do some calculations."
With that said, Shen Bing walked out of the queue, picked up a branch on the roadside, and lined up the draft on the ground.
Shen Bing's mental arithmetic ability is pretty good.
It's just that the unit of length in this era was different from modern times.
When calculating, steps, feet, etc. must be converted into meters first, which complicates the problem.
After conversion, it becomes a parabola problem. Based on the range, we can roughly calculate the highest point of the parabola, so we draw the conclusion...
Fatty Tun followed Shen Bing without saying a word, staring intently at Shen Bing's gestures on the ground.
Shen Bing ignored him. After thinking for a while, he raised his head and said to Zhang Xuan:
"A linen bullet can cross the city wall two hundred paces away."
"Pine bullets and flint bullets need to be about a hundred steps away..."
Pine bombs and flint bullets could barely cross the city wall at the highest point, so the range was halved.
The result of halving the range is to expose yourself to enemy crossbows and wall trebuchets.
Zhang Xuan didn't believe that Shen Bing could come up with the answer this way. He thought he would have to at least try it with a trebuchet a few times.
"Is this true?" Zhang Xuan asked.
"Seriously!" Shen Bing nodded firmly.
If that doesn't work, it's not difficult to build a high platform and raise the trebuchet a few feet.
Zhang Xuan nodded and replied:
"That's it, we just need to throw the linen bombs into the city!"
"I ordered them to make a large amount of linen bombs and rush them over!"
With that said, he jumped on the horse and sent the order.
It was really a flying horse, a flying horse without stirrups, and it was wearing armor...
This is quite difficult, so it is not easy to be able to ride a horse freely in this era.
Zhang Xuan's movements are quite fast, or it can be said that the production of linen bombs is very fast.
When the artillery crew arrived at Handan that night, the first batch of linen bombs also arrived shortly after.
Zhang Xuan went to the commander's tent to report to Yang Duanhe:
"General, the artillery division has arrived."
"According to artillery engineer Shen Bing...the linen fire bombs can be thrown into the city from a distance of two hundred steps."
The reason why Zhang Xuan added "Shen Bing's theory" was because he felt guilty for not having tried it before.
If you can't throw it in, you can still leave some escape route for yourself.
Unexpectedly, Yang Duanhe seemed to trust Shen Bing very much. When he heard this, he nodded and said:
"That's it, let the artillery prepare to attack the city!"
Zhang Xuan was stunned, he didn't expect it to happen so quickly.
When Yang Duanhe saw Zhang Xuan didn't reply, he looked at Zhang Xuan doubtfully and asked, "What's so difficult?"
Zhang Xuan replied:
"General."
"The gunner is on the road and hasn't had his dinner yet..."
Yang Duanhe waved his hand and said:
"It's not too late to fire bombs into the city before eating!"
Zhang Xuan said "Promise" and hurriedly went to deliver the order.
No wonder Yang Duanhe is so anxious.
On the one hand, he wanted to take advantage of the night fire to attack Handan, but on the other hand, he was worried about Wang Jian...
It is possible to use the improved trebuchet at night without being noticed by Wang Jian.
In other words, if Yang Duanhe could break through the North Gate overnight, it would be too late for Wang Jian to notice it the next morning.
So Shen Bing and others, who were so hungry that their chests pressed against their backs, were immediately rushed to the battlefield.
Fortunately, the artilleryman's task is only to fire projectiles from a distance. If he were to confront the enemy, he would simply surrender in this state.
The cool breeze blows and the bright moon hangs high.
The Handan City Wall stood majestically in front of Shen Bing under the moonlight.
The city was dark, and there was a faint smell of blood floating in the evening wind.
Shen Bing knew that those were the traces left by the Qin army when they attacked the city during the day.
Although Zhao Jun's morale was low due to Li Mu's death, he was facing the capital of Zhao State at this time.
Everyone knows that the Zhao Kingdom will fall as soon as the capital city is broken.
So even though Li Mu, the mainstay, had fallen, there were still soldiers and civilians who resisted desperately.
Later, Shen Bing learned that this was not the case.
The reason why Handan has been able to resist so far is related to King Qin Yingzheng...
Ying Zheng, also called Zhao Zheng, was born in Handan.
At that time, he was a hostage, so he was bullied by the Zhao nobles in Handan.
Now that the Qin army is approaching the city, even if King Zhao loses his will to resist, those nobles who once bullied Ying Zheng dare not give up...
Because the cruelty of Ying Zheng is known to the whole world.
If the Qin army captured Handan, it would be strange if they did not dig out these nobles one by one and destroy all nine tribes.
As a result, the Handan nobles who originally had their own internal conflicts were surprisingly united this time.
All the forces spent their wealth and even sent men and servants to fight in the city.
This left the Qin army helpless against Handan for a while.
Even Wang Jian's army continued to attack fiercely.
At this time, Wang Jian was standing on a high platform looking at Handan from a distance, thinking hard about how to break the city tomorrow.
At this moment, fireballs were seen in the north of the city shooting straight into the sky like the scorching sun, crossing the city wall and falling into the city.
Soon the city of Handan was ablaze with flames and chaos...
At this time, the houses were all made of wood, and the buildings in the capital were very densely packed with each other. Once ignited, the fire would spread easily.
Wang Jian was shocked and asked his general:
"What is that?"
The general looked at it for a while and then replied:
"I don't know."
"But it is said that Yang Ting, the daughter of General Yang, used fire bombs to burn down the enemy's stronghold!"