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When the siege ended that day, he returned to the Song army camp, Meng Zhong found a piece of cloth and painted the rough shape of the "well railing" on the cloth.

The so-called well railing is simply a "mobile arrow tower", but it can also play the role of a "infantry passage" like a "cloud ladder". Its appearance is like a small composite house with a platform on the top, and you can stand a crossbowman and shoot soldiers in the enemy city with the advantage of height.

The interior of the well rail can generally be divided into several layers - the number of layers of the well rail is determined according to the height of the enemy city. Each floor is set up with a staircase. The highest "attachment" except the "top platform" has a suspended wooden board with barbs on the board, which can hook the wall of the enemy city when it is hung down, so that a bridge-like passage is built between the "attachment" and the enemy city to help infantry quickly attack the enemy city.

Therefore, the perfect well rail design has two functions: "mobile arrow tower" and "infantry passage". The former is used by crossbowmen to suppress enemy soldiers on the city with long-distance weapons, while the latter omits the steps of infantry climbing the city wall. Therefore, it is a very convenient and excellent siege equipment.

The reason why Meng Zhong believed that the well railing could restrain the "B wall" of Tengcheng was because the "hanging wooden board" of the well railing could directly cover the "B wall" and make the latter useless.

Of course, although it is an excellent siege equipment, the well rail also has its shortcomings, such as poor mobility, easy to be destroyed, difficult to build, etc.

It is easy to understand that the movement ability is poor. After all, the height of the well rail is generally taken from the height of the enemy city wall. If the enemy city wall is three zhang high, the well rail must be higher than three zhang, otherwise it will lose its meaning to build such siege equipment. In the case of "increasing", the base must also be larger, which greatly increases the weight of the well rail, so the movement ability is very poor.

Since the well railing is generally made of wooden structure and its interior is like a house attic, it is easy to be targeted and easily destroyed, especially when enemy soldiers use fire arrows to attack.

As for the difficulty of building, it involves the craftsmanship level of the world.

As the most important tool for carpenter work, especially "iron nails", it is far from popular in contemporary times. Therefore, contemporary craftsmanship buildings, or furniture, generally adopts "monomous (sǔn) and (mǎo) structures", that is, a technology of using concave and convex parts to fit together and reinforcing the entire object by self-reinforcement.

Among them, the protruding part is called "Tennon (Tennon)" and the concave part is called "Tennon (Tennon, Tennon)". If the mortise and tenon technology is used properly, the two wooden structures can be tightly clamped to achieve the "seamless" level.

Therefore, contemporary craftsmanship, from palaces to furniture, does not require nails. [PS: The wheels of a carriage will use nails. On the one hand, it will strengthen, and on the other hand, it will prevent the mortise and tenon structure from falling apart due to shock and causing disintegration. Others and so on.]

The problem is that mortise and tenon structures are techniques that only experienced craftsmen can master. If Meng Zhong draws a sketch of a well railing and finds a group of infantry who have almost no relevant carpenter experience, he can create a well railing car, then it would be too underestimated to see the technical content of a siege equipment like a well railing.

Yes, even though Meng Zhong had drawn a sketch of the well railing car, how to create it is a problem. After all, even the king's army does not have excellent craftsmen to follow the army - this is why the siege parties can only create rough and simple siege equipment.

In addition, Meng Zhong also has a knot in his heart.

He was considering whether to build the well railing.

Because according to his judgment, excellent siege equipment such as Jinglan can largely restrain the "B-wall" of Teng City, making it unable to play a role, and then help the Song army conquer the city.

But once Teng City is conquered, Teng State will be completely destroyed. At that time, the Teng people in the city will lose their country and may even be slaughtered by Song soldiers. This is something Meng Zhong does not want to see.

『…』

Looking at the cloth with a sketch of the well railing, Meng Zhong fell into deep thought.

At this moment, Meng Hu suddenly broke in with a tent. Meng Zhong was about to say hello, but he saw two clan brothers wearing armor followed behind Meng Hu.

He put away the cloth quietly, and Meng Zhong stood up.

"A Zhong, these two are the clan brothers Meng Heng and Meng Min." Meng Hu smiled and introduced: "I just met two clan brothers, and they asked me to take them to you."

"Looking for me?" Meng Zhong was a little puzzled.

In fact, a few days ago, when Meng Qing summoned all the "car officials" in the clan, Meng Zhong met Meng Heng, and he was one of them.

But before that, neither Meng Heng nor Meng Min had ever had any contact with him.

"You are Meng Bo's younger brother?"

The clan brother named Mengheng came up and smiled and said, "Uncle was quite close to Brother Wei and others during his lifetime. Since you are his younger brother, you are the same as our younger brother."

Hearing this, the clan brother named Meng Min also smiled and nodded.

That night, Meng Heng and Meng Min generals Meng Zhong and Meng Hu invited their military tent, and immediately ordered the soldiers to make some wine and meat, and the four of them drank and chatted in the tent.

Can I drink alcohol in the army?

Of course, it is not allowed for infantrymen, but for Meng Heng, Meng Min, Meng Zhong, Meng Hu and other Meng family members, even if they violate the rules in the army slightly, Sima Meng Qing would not blame them for this, and the royal army would not take care of them.

In short, families like Meng Heng, Meng Min, Meng Zhong and Meng Hu have some privileges, and are not comparable to ordinary soldiers from civilian origins.

After some chatting, Meng Zhong learned that Meng Heng and Meng Min met his brother Meng Bo on the way.

When Meng Bo and his group went to Pengcheng from Jing Bo, it was the cold winter month and the road was blocked by ice and snow. At that time, Meng Heng and Meng Min were just ordinary soldiers who were hiking on foot. They almost froze to death on the road because of the cold weather. Meng Bo gave up his position on the chariot, so that these two brothers could get enough rest. After that, Meng Heng, Meng Min and Meng Bo became close friends.

Meng Zhong suddenly remembered that in his letter to his brother Meng Bo, he wrote that when Meng Bo and others were stationed outside Pengcheng City, Pengcheng sent some women to "comfort" them. At that time, Meng Bo was laughed at by Meng Heng and Meng Min the next day because he "refuses" the woman assigned to him. At that time, the relationship between them was already very close.

"Uncle is a warrior."

After drinking the second half, Meng Heng was already a little drunk. He recalled the night attack of Teng Hu, and said to Meng Zhong drunk: "At that time, there was chaos in the camp and fire everywhere. Teng's soldiers entered the army and killed everyone they saw. Teng Hu..."

Speaking of this, a little fear appeared in his eyes, as if he was still scared of that night attack.

After that, Meng Min took over the conversation and continued to tell the story.

According to his story, the Meng clans were panicked and fled in scattered places, but Meng Bo followed Meng Zhi and tried his best to gather the clans.

Under his shouts, Meng Heng, Meng Min and others gathered together one after another. Under Meng Zhi's leadership, they fought against the invading Teng people, but they didn't expect to just run into Teng Hu, which led to the occurrence of "Teng Hu seriously injured Meng Zhi" and "Meng Bo was killed by Teng Hu to save Meng Zhi".

According to Meng Heng and Meng Min, Meng Bozhu was said to have done his best that night, brave and courageous, and was completely different from Mu Na on weekdays. Meng Zhong secretly sighed.

Because he could feel that Meng Heng and Meng Min's closeness and nostalgia for his brother Meng Bo was from the bottom of his heart.

That night, Meng Zhong and Meng Hu returned to the military tent to rest.

Wait until the next day, Meng Heng and Meng Min, the two clan brothers, found Meng Zhong and Meng Hu again, saying that they wanted to take them out for a walk - in fact, they were taking them out for patrol.

Given that they had been in the military camp for a few days and were just feeling depressed, Meng Zhong and Meng Hu happily accepted the invitation from Meng Heng and Meng Min.

Originally, in terms of the organization of "one army", about 30 of the seventy-five soldiers were members of the Meng family, but the only soldiers of Meng Heng and Meng Min were the Meng family members, and the rest were infantrymen, with only about fifty people.

Among these fifty people, only a small number were family soldiers brought from Mengyi - that is, family slaves, refugees, etc., while the rest were civilians, refugees, etc. recruited from Pengcheng area.

For these soldiers, Meng Heng and Meng Min had the power to kill.

"I'll drive! Let me try the taste of leading the army."

Meng Hu boarded the chariot with great enthusiasm.

"Haha." Meng Heng laughed and said, "Okay, let you be a chariot officer for a day." After that, he ordered the soldiers behind him, "Everyone obeys the orders."

"Yes!" fifty soldiers replied in a not-to-neat voice.

After obtaining the permission of Meng Heng and Meng Min, Meng Hu laughed and drove forward with a chariot.

Meng Heng and Meng Min sat in the car with Meng Zhong, and they introduced Meng Zhong to the nearby terrain and the war that had happened there.

During this period, although Meng Heng and Meng Min temporarily gave up their posts to Meng Hu, when they introduced Meng Zhong's surrounding situation, they always glanced around with vigilant eyes from time to time, which made Meng Zhong think to himself: The cruel battlefield has already tempered these two brothers with extremely vigilant.

Suddenly, Meng Heng seemed to have seen something, stood up suddenly, slapped Meng Hu on the back, and whispered: "Ahu, stop the horse!"

Meng Hu was startled and quickly tied the reins and stopped the chariot.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Meng Hu asked in panic.

Immediately, Meng Heng pointed to a forest in front of the right and said, "There are four people running in there." After that, he ordered the soldiers behind him, "Go twenty people, catch those four people, and be alive."

"yes!"

With a command, ten soldiers rushed towards the woods with weapons in their hands, and within a moment, they captured the two men Meng Heng said.

The two men and women were probably in their twenties. Two of them seemed to have been punched and kicked by the twenty soldiers, leaving new scars on their faces. The two women were safe and sound, just hugged each other and looked at Meng Heng, Meng Min, Meng Zhong and Meng Hu on the chariot with horror and begging eyes.

『Teng people?』

Meng Zhong was stunned. Before he could have any thoughts, he heard Meng Heng's voice coming from beside him.

Meng Heng said with a few smiles on his face, "A Zhong, A Hu, kill those two men."

“…”

Meng Zhong and Meng Hu looked at each other.

At this time, Meng Heng had already pulled out the sword from Meng Zhong's waist and stuffed it into Meng Zhong's hand. He then hugged his shoulders and whispered: "A Zhong, you are Uncle A's younger brother. Although Amin and I are determined to protect you, you must also learn how to protect ourselves... What we can teach you is how to take the first step... If you kill them, your heart will no longer be afraid or shaken again!"

“…”

Meng Zhong looked at Meng Heng in shock, and then he realized that the clan brother who was smiling and kind in front of them had a cold look at his eyes at this moment.
Chapter completed!