The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 534

"The trebuchet." Immediately someone shouted, cut, some people looked disapproving, thinking why the guy is more powerful than the artillery,
It turned out to be a trebuchet.

"It's a return cannon." Li Zhongyi smiled and said, "It's also called a counterweight trebuchet or a heavy trebuchet."

"Who still uses this thing now? It's all artillery." Xu Wei also shouted.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the Huihui Cannon was used at its peak. After entering the Ming Dynasty, it was gradually eliminated. Anyone who still uses this thing now is an artillery.

"Shout whatever you want, just watch it, you guys are amazing, come on?" Ding Yi scolded again with a smile.

The generals immediately fell silent.

"Li Zhongyi, give me a brief introduction." Ding Yi said again.

Li Zhongyi smiled and introduced to everyone, what is the difference between his own Huihui cannon and the Huihui cannon of the Yuan Dynasty.

It is a trebuchet with the principle of leverage and counterweight.
The main producers of "Returning Cannon" are Alao Wading and Yisi Main.These two people are both Hui Hui people from the Western Regions (to the west of Yumen Pass today), so the cannons are called Xiyu Cannons and Huihui Cannons, and because they were first used to attack Xiangyang and Fancheng, they are also called Xiangyang Cannons.Because of its powerful launch, it is also called the boulder cannon.

There is a record in Yuan History: (1271 A.D.) and Alao Wading to the capital.Ten years ago, before the soldiers of the Cong Dynasty attacked Xiangyang, because of the terrain, a cannon was placed in the southeast corner of the city, weighing 150 catties.Song appeased Lu Wenhuan's fear and surrendered the city."

The Yuan Dynasty attacked Xiangyang for a long time, and finally used the newly built Huihui Cannon to force the surrender.

At that time, the return guns fired 150 heavy boulders.

At that time, the Yuan Dynasty attached great importance to the training, organization and management of Huihui gunners and military craftsmen.In the second year after the capture of Xiangyang, the General Manager's Mansion of Huihui Gunners was established. Since then, Huihui Cannon has been brought to all parts of the world, and its reputation has spread far and wide.

On the European side, it was soon discovered that the projection force of this kind of equipment came from the gravity of the heavy counterweight, not from the torsion of the rope like the trebuchet and ballista, and called it a trebuchet. (counterweight trebuchet)

They also immediately replaced the trebuchet, as the preference for the trebuchet may have been due to the fact that it could throw projectiles weighing up to 300 lb (136 kg), more than the largest catapults could fire. Shen 5 to 6 times.

到了十四世纪中叶, 有的抛石机能抛射将近1000磅（约454公斤）重的弹体，威力巨大。试验表明，吊杆长50英尺（约15.2米），平衡重锤为10吨的抛石机能将200到300磅（约90-136公斤）的石弹抛射约300码（约274米）的距离。可以投掷一个或多个物体，物体可以是巨石或火药武器，甚至是毒药、污\秽\物、人或动物的尸\体, 达到心理战的目的, 那些污秽物同时也是最早的生化武器。

Following Li Zhongyi's introduction, the generals felt disgusted, we are going to fight like this now, throwing everything away?

Is this going to hit Gaizhou?
of course not.

Soon they found that the folks brought over a black object the size of a modern football, and Li Zhongyi motioned for everyone to step back and disperse.

This thing is made of sheepskin, and it is wrapped with big staff's oil.

For the stability of the flight, the oil tank is very full.

I saw the trebuchet on the left first started.

A hoarder picked up a brush, dipped the brush in an iron bucket, and gently brushed the outside of the oil bomb, and away from the seam, about half of the oil bomb was brushed.

Immediately, a smell of petroleum came over us, and Ding Yi signaled everyone to back off and stay away.

Another hoarder touched it with the prepared fire source.

Wow, half of the outside of the petroleum bomb was burned.

With a strong pull on the side of "Fa", the counterweight iron box fell down hard.

Whoosh, the oil bomb flew out.

After flying about 200 meters, it landed heavily, and with a whoosh, the sheepskin split and flames spread all around.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, feeling that it's not that powerful, isn't it just a trebuchet, adding fire to attack?That's fun with artillery.

Ding Yi saw everyone's expressions and knew that they didn't understand the power of gasoline.

It can be said that before there was no petrol bomb, Ding Yi was not willing to attack Gaizhou, because Huang Taiji was there, and his business was the same as their Fuzhou. There were pits and bunkers everywhere, and artillery was useless.

But with gasoline bombs, think about dropping a thousand gasoline bombs on the city in one breath. In this era, what kind of strong city can survive?
It's sour to think about. (Of course, oil is a bit of a joke now.)
Of course, he doesn't bother to ask them to explain now. In the future, he can only use actual combat to prove the power of petrol bombs.

Li Zhongyi said at this time: "We are based on the test."

"The counterweight box is two thousand catties, and it can throw about 20-25 catties of gasoline bombs to about 250 meters."

The Huihui artillery in the Yuan Dynasty threw stone bombs weighing 150 catties.

The oil bomb that Ding Yi threw was only five catties - 25 catties.

Therefore, after lightly reducing the weight box, they can throw it as far as 1000 meters.

Craftsmanship Bureau has made three types of trebuchets.

Large, medium, small.

The parts of the large riprap machine weigh more than 1000 kilograms, and more than a dozen parts can be pushed away on two vehicles.

The counterweight box is made of pure iron, weighing about [-] jin, and a full discus is more than [-] jin, of course it can be heavier, just pile it inside.

The maximum load is [-] kg.

With a five-kilogram counterweight box, a 15-kilogram oil bomb can be dropped to about 1000 meters.

There was a problem with the large trebuchet at the beginning. One was that the suspension bar was relatively long and it was not easy to carry.

Ding Yi thought of the principle of telescopic tubes in the later generations, and used one large and one small to fit them together. After adding component bolts, the long suspension rod was divided into five parts, and this problem was solved immediately.

Now Li Zhongyi and the others are showing a small trebuchet, which has just thrown 15 kilograms of important petrol bombs at a distance of about 200 meters.

Small trebuchets can still be pushed, and Ding Yi is going to assemble them on Tier [-] battleships and large warships.

Some people didn't understand, so they asked, how can the counterweight box weigh five thousand catties?
That box weighs two hundred catties, and it takes several people to lift it up. If you load it up to five thousand catties, how can you lift it up?
Do you use cows to pull it?
Many officers may have never seen or understood them, so Ding Yi immediately looked at these bumpkins with contempt.

"Pretend to show them." Ding Yi said.

Li Zhongyi grinned, and saw that the hoarders first pulled up the box and fixed it.

Then someone lifted a ladder ladder for decoration, which is common in later generations, and put it next to the counterweight box.

Climb the box ladder.

The people below raised the discus, and the people above threw it in one by one.

A discus weighs ten catties, and there are larger ones of twenty catties. Anyway, just keep throwing them in, and the weight box will be piled up after a while.

"It's already a thousand catties." Li Zhongyi said while counting the discus.

When fighting, you can get more ladders, two, or even three people can be loaded inside at the same time.

Although it is labor-intensive, it has no technical content. All hoarding soldiers can learn it once, and they don't need to be as professional as artillery.

Everyone suddenly realized.

Someone asked again, if the counterweight box is more than [-] catties, wouldn't it take half a day to install it once and change it again?

After you throw it in one cannon, after it hits the ground, do you have to pour it out again?Otherwise how to pull it down?
Ding Yi thought for a while, but he really couldn't explain the principle of leverage to this group of uneducated people.

The sense of superiority of the traversers is born out of thin air.

He said cheerfully: "You see, this boom is very long, right? In theory, as long as the boom is long enough, I can pull up a weight box full of [-] kilograms by myself."

All the generals looked worried, but no one dared to say anything, they could only look at Ding Yi and pretend to compare.

Ding Yi didn't care, and continued: "But our suspenders shouldn't be too long, or they'll break easily."

"So five thousand catties and a counterweight box, even if four thousand catties are put in it, the people below can pull it up."

"If you want to increase the shooting range, you can put more discus in it, and you can fill it up to five thousand, six thousand, or ten thousand catties."

"Of course, five thousand catties is enough for us now. If it's a naval battle, in order to be able to fight accurately, two or three thousand catties are enough for small and medium-sized ones."

"Usually, ladders are rarely installed on the battlefield, unless it is necessary to temporarily increase the range and increase the counterweight."

The craftsmen's designs are all combined with levers and counterweights to calculate the shooting distance.

Ding Yi's petroleum bomb is light, which ensures that he can increase the shooting range without greatly increasing the counterweight.

The distribution weight does not need to be as terrible as ten tons. It can be pulled up by a few soldiers, and there is no need to put discus in it.

At this time, Ding Yi put down the already filled counterweight box directly, then walked up, called two hoarders, the three of them pulled hard, hissed, and the audience exclaimed, Mr. Ding and the three of them directly put the one thousand catty weight box Things pulled up?
"Are you a wooden cake?" Zhang Jing didn't believe it, and many people didn't believe it.

Ding Yi pretended to be complacent in this wave.

He let go again and asked everyone to carry the counterweight box in front. The six generals did not lift the counterweight box weighing a thousand catties. This made Ding Yi feel that the generals in Dongjiang Town were a bit useless.

After such a test, the generals seemed to feel a little mysterious.

Of course, they still don't understand why a few people can pull up something that weighs a thousand kilograms with a long boom.

Anyway, explain these data to these big soldiers, they don't understand, Ding Yi just needs to let them see, this thing is easy to make, easy to carry, has a long range, and strong power.

"Now this is oil, so its power is limited. When gasoline is produced in the future, it will be more powerful." Ding Yi is also trying it for the first time, and the oil he brought back from Da Yuan is also a small amount.

Everyone can't deny it, Mr. Ding, as long as you are happy.

Anyway, no one thinks that this trebuchet is so powerful.

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