Chengwu's lack of large-scale repeating crossbows to assist in defending the city has always been a worry for Hu Hai!
After all, in this era when cold weapons are king, the Qin army's large-scale continuous-firing crossbows with a range of 1,800 steps (nearly 900 meters) and an effective killing range of 1,500 steps (nearly 750 meters) can
It is said to be a truly strategic weapon! It is almost as effective as the cannon that just appeared in later generations!
If there are dozens of large-scale repeating crossbows in Chengwu County, then Hu Hai doesn't have to worry about any trebuchets at all. As long as the trebuchets appear, they can be destroyed with large-scale repeating crossbows!
Considering the range of the Qin army's large-scale continuous-firing crossbows, the human-powered trebuchets, which can be called pitiful, are basically destroyed on sight!
However, the key point is that Chengwu today does not have large-scale repeating crossbows! So, if Xiang Liang really uses a large number of trebuchets to attack the city, Hu Hai no longer has to think about the consequences. There will be no living person standing on the entire city!
At that time, Xiang Liang, who had hundreds of thousands of troops, could pile them up on the top of the city even if he piled them up!
It's not like Hu Hai has never thought about manufacturing a large-scale repeating crossbow in Chengwu. He asked the remaining ten or so craftsmen who were with the army to make them. However, with the current conditions in Chengwu, it is obvious that even if they are manufactured in Chengwu City, it will be difficult.
It has been breached long ago!
"Go and get people to cover the city wall with hay and other things! Go quickly! Call the craftsmen here by the way, I have something to ask!" Hu Hai was silent for a while and said to Long Xuanda!
"Here!" Long Xuan responded quickly and turned around to go out!
"Wait!"
The scary thing about the stones thrown by the trebuchet is not the damage caused when they fall, but the stones will definitely roll around after hitting the city wall. This can easily cause collateral damage and cause more casualties to the defenders!
The reason why Hu Hai asked Long Xuan to spread hay on the city wall was to prevent stones from falling on the city wall. However, he immediately thought that if Xiang Liang used fire to attack, then he would spread hay on the city wall to prevent it from being damaged by fire.
At that time, not only were there no soldiers left to save the city, I was afraid that a fire would burn more soldiers to death!
"Don't spread hay! Go and get people to spread at least three inches, not five inches, of sand on the four walls and corridors! Do it quickly!" Hu Hai said!
"The general will obey the order!"
After a while, a dozen craftsmen who had followed Hu Hai back to Xianyang arrived!
"Tian Rong, can you build a trebuchet?" Hu Hai stopped a few people and saluted and got straight to the point!
"Your Majesty, I know how many of you can build it!" Tian Rong is the Mohist family who followed Hu Hai north to explore and determine the location of the shipyard. He is a member of the Mohist family leader Tian Ren, and so are the hundreds of craftsmen Hu Hai brought from Shangfangzhong when he went north.
He is the leader!
"How far can the stone be thrown? The trebuchet I need is to throw stones in the city, not on top of the city!"
"This..." Tian Rong was a little unsure after hearing Hu Hai's words! After all, if a trebuchet throws stones from the city, the first thing it has to face is the city wall several feet high, and then it can be thrown out!
"Okay, I won't ask. Tian Rong, please hurry up and get people to build two trebuchets for me to see! The range doesn't have to be too far, just five or six hundred steps!" Hu Hailai was worried about this issue. After all, Tian
Rong is a professional, and it is worth considering how many available craftsmen Xiang Liang can have. The range of the trebuchet he wants to build can only hit a few hundred steps, which is only slightly farther than the Qin army's crossbow!
"The villain obeys the order!"
Hu Hai began to forget about the trebuchet. He kept thinking about the large-scale repeating crossbow but forgot about the trebuchet, a primitive siege weapon!
However, the current situation is a bit passive. Xiang Liang's army of more than 300,000 people thought that he would soon be able to build enough trebuchets to attack the city. At that time, it was time for Xiang Liang to launch an attack!
Now it seems that the trenches dug by Xiang Liang were mainly to prevent the Xuanwu army in the city from leaving the city to destroy the trebuchets, rather than to really trap him in Chengwu for life and death!
What to do, what to do! Hu Hai is indeed a little panicked now!
He could imagine the miserable situation of the Qin army guarding the city under the rain of stones!
But now he is really helpless against this trebuchet!
Time is passing quickly!
The city walls were covered with more than five inches of sand by Long Xuan's leaders to prevent stones from jumping and hurting people when they fell on the city wall!
Du Teng, Weng Zhong, Xia Houying and Fan Kuai all knew that when they defended the city, they would have to face the rain of stones thrown by Xiang Liang's trebuchet. The reason why Xiang Liang still stood still until now was obviously because he was trying his best to build the army.
Enough trebuchets and siege equipment! Once the drums of attack sound, the first thing Chengwu City will face will be the rain of stones dropped by Xiang Liang's trebuchets!
Then came Xiang Liang’s overwhelming siege troops!
However, everyone is the same as Hu Hai, there is no good way to stop Xiang Liang's trebuchet! And judging from the current situation, Xiang Liang will definitely attack from all sides at the same time, instead of just attacking one city wall!
After all, compared to Chengwu County, which is more than ten miles in radius, Xiang Liang's 300,000 troops are more than enough even if they attack from all sides at the same time!
It seems that now we can only hope that the trebuchet built by Tian Rong and others will be useful, and then use them to attack Xiang Liang's trebuchet! But everyone knows that this will only work temporarily!
After all, there were only more than 100,000 civilians in Chengwu City, but Xiang Liang had more than 300,000 people! The speed of destruction is probably not as fast as Xiang Liang's army building such trebuchets!
However, something is better than nothing!
Tian Rong is now leading tens of thousands of people to rush to build a trebuchet. All the materials that can be used in Chengwu City have been removed. Hu Hai did not ask how far his trebuchet can hit. With the skills of the Mohist family, since Tian Rong
If you dare to build it boldly, it will definitely be useful!
On the ninth day of the seventh month in the first year of the Second Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, it is the third hour of Shenshi!
"Dong dong dong!"
The sound of war drums filling the sky suddenly sounded from outside the walls of Chengwu County!
Many soldiers on the city wall who had been hiding in the caves and in the shade of the city wall corridors were stunned for a moment when they heard the sound of war drums. Then they quickly stood up, put on their helmets, picked up their weapons, poured out of the caves, and ran up to the crenellations.
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Hearing the sound of the war drums, Hu Hai, who was sitting in the county government office and already dressed in military uniform, stood up in response, strode out of the county government office, took the golden helmet handed over by Long Xuan, put it on his head, and went straight to the city wall.
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As the war drums sounded, the gates of all the Xiangliang company camps surrounding Chengwu County were opened, and densely packed soldiers rushed out of the camp carrying long and wide wooden boards filled with sawdust and shouting to the sky!
"Bang bang bang!"
Under the gaze of the Qin soldiers on the city wall, a muffled sound rang out. These ragged rebel soldiers ran to the two-foot-wide trench and erected thick wooden boards that were more than three feet tall, and then fell heavily to the opposite side of the trench.
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After a while, dozens of wooden plank bridges more than ten feet wide appeared in front of the first trench!
After the wooden bridge was built, the soldiers who put down the planks in their hands rushed back to the camp. Behind them, more soldiers carrying planks quickly passed the first trench and built a wooden bridge on the second trench in the same way!
More people means greater power! In an instant, the five trenches surrounding Chengwu County were all connected together, forming a smooth road!
"Rumble!" A continuous roar sounded!
After the five trenches became a smooth road, countless rebel soldiers, more than ten people pushing one vehicle, or more than twenty people pulling one vehicle, were densely packed with almost no less than five hundred vehicles of various sizes, each with wooden wheels and long throwing handles.
Trebuchets rumbled out from the Xiangliang camp on all sides!
Seeing so many catapults, Hu Hai and others took a breath!
How big is Chengwu County? One wall is less than four miles long and less than three feet high. Xiang Liang is a typical example of wanting to capture Chengwu in one attack!
"I ordered Tian Rong to hit me with his trebuchet!"
Hu Hai is still very clear about the principle of attacking first to gain strength, and attacking later to suffer disaster! Now there are more than sixty hurriedly manufactured trebuchets in Chengwu City! Although the range has not been tested yet, we should not take advantage of Xiang Liang's advantage now.
The trebuchets are all crowded together to make a little profit. Is it possible that they wait for him to set up a formation and hit his head before hitting him?
More than sixty trebuchets were divided into four parts and arrayed a hundred steps behind each city wall! Facing each other on all sides!
However, the trebuchet made by Tian Rong is also pulled by manpower, but the net bag and body shape of Dou Shi are obviously much larger than that of Xiang Liang's trebuchet, and the throwing handle is also much longer!
More than sixty trebuchets were quickly set up. The people standing in front of the trebuchets were not ordinary people, but the Xuanwu Army under Weng Zhong's command! There were not many people, and there were ten Xuanwu Army soldiers in front of one trebuchet!
"Hoo ho ho ho!"
Four-foot-sized rough stones flew out one after another from behind the four city walls with a whirring sound of breaking through the air!
This is a trebuchet to calibrate the target and impact point! After all, Tian Rong’s trebuchet has not yet been tested to see how far it can hit since it was rushed to production!
Fortunately, all four stones flew over the city wall smoothly without hitting anyone! Tian Rong wiped the cold sweat from his head!
The four stones flew over the city wall for more than 700 steps and hit the open space in front of the fifth ditch closest to the city wall. They splashed up a cloud of dust, jumped up and rolled several feet away, and then stopped moving.
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The trebuchet is very good and powerful!
Although Xiang Liang's trebuchet did not hit a single one, it far exceeded Hu Hai's expectations! With more than 700 steps, it was obvious that Xiang Liang's trebuchets that were significantly smaller than Tian Rong's trebuchets were not
Possibly such a long range!
Hundreds of Xiang Liang's trebuchets are now climbing over the second ditch. They are still more than a thousand steps away from the city wall. Naturally, it is impossible to hit them! But even so, the four huge boulders that suddenly flew out of the city made it difficult for him to push them.
There was a commotion among Xiang Liang's rebels in the trebuchet!
Xiang Liang, who was originally full of confidence, saw a boulder flying out of the city that was obviously much larger than the stone on his trebuchet, and his heart suddenly sank! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come
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