Lord Chronicle

Chapter 110 Catapult War

"What, you mean using a siege machine to deal with the enemy's siege machine?" Gein couldn't help but exclaimed.

While stuffing dried meat into his mouth, Sol said vaguely: "Yes, what's wrong?"

"This..." Gein, Nori and the others glanced at each other, and grabbed Sol's job: "Don't eat it, what do you think, tell me clearly."

The job was taken away, Sol had no choice but to lick his fingers, and then said: "I thought about it before, we are small in number, we can't rush out of the city to destroy, and the only way to face the enemy's trebuchets is to be beaten." For their sake. So the only way to deal with them is to fight them with fire."

Nori frowned and said, "That's what I said, but there is a lack of craftsmen in the castle, so I'm afraid there's no way to manufacture those instruments."

Saul smiled hey: "There is no need to do it, we have a lot of ready-made goods."

"You mean..." Gein didn't understand for a while.

Nori has already reacted: "You mean, use those things in the castle warehouse?"

Sol nodded: "Of course, I found out when I cleaned up the supplies a few days ago. There are a lot of siege equipment stored in the castle, ranging from trebuchets, arrow towers to city crawlers. Just take them out and deal with them." The improvised rags made by the enemy are certainly not a problem."

The siege equipment stored in Diviji Castle was all made by the Lulin Army for the purpose of attacking Dusk.In order to cope with the tall city walls of the royal capital, these things took a long time, and all of them were made very huge, far from being comparable to the improvised goods made by the Lulin Army outside the city.

Originally, the Lulin army had exhausted their energy and was going to use these siege weapons to capture the capital in one go and end the war.Unexpectedly, people are not as good as heaven, but in the end they made it easier for Sol and the others.

If these weapons can be used, they can indeed exert a considerable power.But Gein still has some doubts: "Our craftsmen are not familiar with the weapons of the Lulin Army at all. Can this method work?"

Saul said confidently: "This is not a problem. Those things are finished products, but they are broken down into pieces for the convenience of storage. You just need to combine them."

Although large-scale military equipment is complex in structure and well-made, it is very simple to disassemble for the convenience of use in combat and maintenance and repair.Although there is no dedicated craftsman in the castle, it is no problem to assemble these parts.

"Then what are you waiting for, let's go and have a look." Gein immediately stood up.

"Wait, my dinner..." Sol was still thinking about his stomach.

"What else to eat, I'm not afraid to make you dead." Gein unceremoniously stuffed the little food that Sol was looking forward to, and dragged him away.

Not long after, in a large warehouse in Diviji Castle.

"Just, is this thing?" Everyone looked at the thing in front of them in shock.

On a huge waterproof felt cloth spread on the ground, a group of huge wooden equipment parts are neatly placed at this moment.From the thick and long boom like a house beam, to the beam covered with iron sheet, and the extra-large counterweight, etc., if you have an expert, you can see that when these parts are combined, it is a complete car. Trebuchet.

These parts are in good condition, except that they are wrapped in tarpaulin and brushed with tung oil to prevent decay, which is now a pleasing bright yellow color.

"How is it? Is there a way to assemble it?" Gein turned his head and asked a craftsman.

Among the defenders of Diviji Castle, apart from a few craftsmen who belonged to the Dinar army, there are only some civilian occupations such as blacksmiths and carpenters.If they can't assemble these devices, it's all over.

The craftsman stared at the parts for a moment, then nodded affirmatively: "No problem, although I have never played with these things before, but their structure is clear at a glance, and it should be possible to do it just by assembling."

Hearing what he said, Sol and Gein were both relieved.

Afterwards, they checked other stocks in the warehouse. It has to be said that in order to capture Dinar, the Lulin military did not hesitate to spend.In addition to the giant trebuchet, they also found an archery tower that could be erected to shoot at the enemy on the city wall; a city crawler that could hook the top of the wall and send people up directly; Take twice as many siege engines; ballistas that can fire five arrows as thick as spears at a time, and so on.

Fortunately, the Lulin army outside the city came in a hurry, so they could only temporarily make some small equipment.If any of these things are handed over to the opponent, today's battle may be dangerous.

"Hey, with these trebuchets, we won't kill those bastards outside the city." Seeing the craftsmen busy around those parts, Sol couldn't help but sneered.

From the boom that is as big as a house beam, it can be seen that after the assembly of this trebuchet, it will be at least 6 to 7 meters high, and it can throw stones weighing hundreds of catties. Enough to see?
Gein was also very excited to think of the huge stones thrown by these huge trebuchets, smashing the naked enemy army to pieces.He couldn't stop ordering the craftsmen to hurry up and assemble at least two trebuchets and an archery tower before tomorrow morning.

At this time, Nori suddenly asked his own question: "Where can we get enough ammunition?"

Due to the weight, the ammunition of the trebuchet cannot be stored, otherwise even if a room full of stones is placed, it cannot be transported away, so it is temporarily collected on the battlefield when used.

Sol said: "This is not a problem. Aren't there many stones in the arrow tower that fell down today? Besides, the castle is backed by a mountain, so I'm afraid that I can't collect ammunition?"

So far, all the problems have been solved, and Gein said eagerly: "I can't wait to give those guys a surprise."

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Early the next morning, the horns of the enemy camp blew together, and the enemy army, which had rested for a day, assembled again and assumed an offensive posture.At the same time, the three trebuchets also began to bombard the castle, and the stone bombs flew in all directions. Although they did not cause too much damage, they already made everyone suffocate.

However, when the catapult assembled by Thor and the others appeared in the enemy's field of vision, there was a lot of commotion in the neat formation of the enemy.Obviously they never imagined how the enemies in the castle could conjure up these trebuchets after only one night.

Since the castle is built on the hill, the terrain is relatively high.Under the desperate drag of 8 war horses, two giant trebuchets were placed on a higher platform behind the castle, condescendingly overlooking the enemy outside the city, which not only avoided accidental damage to the city wall, but also increased the range of throwing.

At the same time, a 10-meter-high watchtower was also pushed behind the wall. Since these watchtowers were built in comparison with the tall city walls of the capital, the top of the watchtower was much higher than the outer wall of the castle.At this moment, not only a group of archers with superb archery skills were arranged on the top of the archery tower, but also two huge ballistas were placed.

The enemy's reaction was also quite fast, and the three trebuchets immediately turned their angles, trying to destroy the two trebuchets first.However, the throwing power of this small trebuchet with a simple structure is limited, and it is impossible to hit the back of the castle. Moreover, there is no guarantee of their accuracy, and the impact point is completely random. It was only because of the bad luck that Sol got home yesterday that he was bombed and hid. arrow tower.

Stone bullets whizzed past the city wall, but they were completely unable to pose any threat to the two trebuchets. On the contrary, they couldn't even hit the people on the city wall.Seeing that the situation was wrong, the enemy stopped throwing and began to move the trebuchet, trying to narrow the distance before hitting.

At this time, on the high platform of the castle, Sol, who was in charge of the first round of strikes, was urging the soldiers operating the trebuchet: "Hurry up, don't let the enemy get too close."

These soldiers were all people who had manipulated siege equipment in the Dinar army before, and this time they were specially selected by Gein for Saul to command, and they could be regarded as making the best use of everything.

Those soldiers hurriedly moved the huge stones weighing hundreds of catties onto the trebuchet, and then several of them turned the noose with their strength, and lowered the boom bit by bit.

On the steps leading to the high platform, those war horses who used to gallop on the battlefield and charge into battle can only carry huge stones on their backs at this moment, playing the role of poor cargo horses.From time to time, they let out a shrill neigh, complaining about their tragic fate.

When the noose was fully pulled up, a soldier reported to Saul: "Master Saul, you are ready."

Looking up at the enemy soldiers who were slowly approaching the castle, Sol touched his chin: "Hit me!"

The manipulator pulled down the mechanism, and with the muffled sound of mechanical rotation, the lowered boom was raised high under the action of the counterweight, and in an instant, two huge boulders weighing more than [-] jin flew into the air.

The throwing distance of this special giant trebuchet is very long. After the two boulders flew for a long distance, they began to smash down obliquely under the action of gravity, and the target was the densely populated enemy formation.

There was a loud bang, and a stone accurately hit the slowly moving enemy group. The huge force caused it to roll over a distance of more than ten meters in the crowd before stopping.The other boulder missed its aim and flew past the enemy formation, smashing a deep hole in the ground.

A trace of blood and corpses appeared in the neat enemy formation, and the surface of the boulder was even more bloody, and it was unknown how many people had been crushed to death.

Seeing this scene, all the defenders on the city wall cheered excitedly.However, the strictly trained Lulin army was not shaken by this blow, and they continued to approach the castle in an orderly manner.

The disadvantage of the trebuchet is that it cannot do precise strikes. The range of the attack can only be determined by adjusting the angle, and the rest depends on God to determine the bullet point.Although one of the stones missed, at this time Sol had already ignored so much, and the huge damage caused by the other stone made him very excited.

"Quick, continue to load, give me a hard hit." He ordered dancing.

The soldiers responsible for loading bombs immediately put new stones into the trebuchet with great effort, and then the noose pulled the boom back a little bit.A few minutes later, with the muffled sound of throwing, two stones flew into the air again.

This time the enemy was prepared and scattered when the stone hit the ground, but many people were still crushed to death and injured.Fortunately, however, a tumbling stone happened to hit an enemy catapult, blasting it to pieces.

"Yeah!" Another burst of cheers came from the brilliant results.

However, it took too much time to operate the trebuchet. After another round of strikes, the enemy had moved under the city wall.Since the angle was too low, there was no way to launch a stone attack at this time, unless Thor wanted to smash two gaps in his city wall.

At this time, the enemy's catapults that moved closer began to throw stone bombs. Perhaps because the two catapults felt too threatening, the enemy stubbornly aimed at the high platform.

Thor wouldn't be so stupid as to confront them. With such a negligible hit rate, it was a waste of ammunition. Besides, he didn't believe that his luck would be as bad as yesterday.

He is waiting for something, as long as those things are delivered, hey, you will feel better.

At this moment at the city wall, the enemy also started to attack.For a moment, the enemy troops climbing up the ladder looked like a group of crazy ants on the stretching outer wall.A new siege engine cannot be built in just one day, so the enemy is pinning all their hopes on hand-to-hand combat.

At this time, the archery tower standing behind the city wall began to play a role. Dozens of archers poured down the rain of arrows without any scruples. Because of the high position, they didn't have to worry about the counterattack of the enemy's bows and arrows.

The most terrifying thing was the two ballistas. With their huge size, they could fire five spear-like arrows at a time.Because it relies on mechanical transmission, only two people are needed to operate it freely.

There was a muffled sound of tom, the thick bowstring trembled, and five giant arrows shot towards the enemy below in a fan shape.There is no armor or shield that can resist such powerful arrows. Any enemy that is shot is like a severed wooden stake, nailed to the ground with both people and arrows, sometimes even killing two birds with one stone.

After shooting, you only need to reload the arrow branch, and then pull the bowstring, and you can shoot the second time, which does not take time at all.The damage caused by these two ballistas alone is not inferior to those dozens of archers.

Although the two trebuchets and an arrow tower did not cause a decisive blow, they had a considerable impact on the morale of the enemy.Although the soldiers of the Lulin Army still shouted fearlessly and bravely climbed up the city wall, the battle was no longer as urgent as yesterday. Gein and Kress firmly suppressed the enemy on the front line of the city wall and did not let them advance a step .

At this time, on the high platform in the castle, the impatient Sol finally got what he needed.Several craftsmen drove the horses and brought up dozens of huge clay pots.

"How's it going, is everything done?" Saul couldn't wait to meet him.

"It's all done according to your orders." A craftsman nodded to him.

They carefully unloaded the goods on their horses, and only then could they see clearly that the clay pots were filled with oil, the mouths of the pots were sealed, and the surface was wrapped with cloth strips soaked in oil, like... like a large Molotov cocktail .

That's right, these simple "incendiary bombs" are exactly what Sol ordered the craftsmen to prepare.Last night, he suddenly remembered the role of those Molotov cocktails when Lovell was attacked by the undead last time. The castle had all the supplies, and there were two trebuchets, so why not make good use of them?

Tell the craftsmen to put the clay pots aside and pile them up, and Sol is about to start shooting.At this moment, a stone bomb suddenly hit the wall behind the high platform, and a large amount of gravel fell with a loud noise, scaring everyone to shrink their necks.

Fortunately, the falling rock did not hit those clay pots, and only injured a few people.After the noise passed, Sol looked bitterly at the two trebuchets outside the city: "It's quite arrogant, I'll let you try my new weapon right away."

Instructing the soldiers to aim at the direction of the two catapults, Thor put the clay pot on the catapult, and then lit the cloth strip on the mouth of the pot.As the flames ignited, the two clay pots immediately became a dangerous item that was about to explode.

"Get ready, let go!" Following his order, the crane arm was raised, and two large incendiary bombs were thrown into the air together.

I saw two flames in mid-air draw a graceful arc, and then hit the ground near the enemy's trebuchet.This thing is not like a stone, it can hit wherever it hits. After the clay pot shattered, the oil inside immediately splashed around, and was then ignited by the flame at the mouth of the pot.

There was a bang, and two groups of flames with a diameter of several meters shot up on the ground, and the soldiers of the Lulin Army who were caught off guard were affected, and they all ran away screaming.One trebuchet was splashed with oil and immediately burst into flames. The other was a bit lucky and was only affected by a small amount of flames, and was quickly extinguished by others.

Looking at his own results from a distance, Sol felt elated. I really am more suitable for this kind of technical work.Without his order, the excited soldiers immediately brought the other two oil tanks, ready for the next launch.

At this time, the only trebuchet that remained seemed to panic. It stopped shooting, and it turned slowly under the pull of the horse, as if preparing to flee the battlefield.

How could Sol allow it to wish?Before this cumbersome guy could turn around, two clay pots fell down again, causing two burning seas of fire on the ground.This time the trebuchet was not so lucky, it was splashed with oil neatly, and then turned into a pile of eye-catching bonfires.

The four seas of flames outside the castle had a great impact on the enemy. Unfortunately, the enemy soldiers who were affected by the disaster rolled all over the ground with flames all over their bodies, and their screams could be faintly heard here.The important thing is that the flames greatly disrupted the enemy's formation, making it impossible for them to rush to the city smoothly.

However, killing only a few trebuchets obviously did not satisfy Saul. After crossing the sea of ​​flames, he set his sights further afield.There, there is the enemy's base camp.

In order to facilitate the siege, the enemy's barracks is about 1500 meters away from the castle. If it is an ordinary trebuchet, it is absolutely impossible to hit that far.

But these two trebuchets were specially made by the Lulin Army to attack King Dinar. They were not only extremely strong, but also had impressive throwing power. Also, they were located at a high place, so it was not impossible to hit them there.

"Turn to the maximum angle for me, the target, the enemy's barracks." Sol waved his hand and pointed forward, full of vigor and prestige, as if commanding thousands of troops.

The soldiers had already guessed what he wanted to do, and they all became excited.They quickly adjusted the throwing angle of the trebuchet to the maximum, and then filled the lit clay pot.

The next moment, two incendiary bombs were thrown high, skimmed a distance of more than 1000 meters in mid-air, and then hit the door of the enemy camp one after another.A section of the fence outside the enemy's camp immediately burned, and some guard soldiers could be vaguely seen running back and forth around the burning place from here.

Looking around with his hands on the awning, Sol seemed very satisfied: "Reload, give me a blast!"

A few minutes later, two more clay pots were thrown into the sky.This time the luck was very good, a clay pot flew directly into the center of the enemy camp, and in a short while there was a flash of fire, and the nearby tents immediately burned.

The enemy camp was in chaos for a moment, countless enemy soldiers rushed towards the place where the fire broke out, and a plume of black smoke shot straight into the sky, which was particularly eye-catching under the clear blue sky.

"Smash, smash, throw all the jars over to me." Thor's blood began to boil again.

In fact, there was no need for him to order, and the soldiers who were in high spirits knew what to do. They refilled them again and again with great efficiency, and threw all the clay pots to the enemy camp in the distance.

At such a distance, the hit rate is very low, but as long as a clay pot falls into the enemy camp, it will cause a big fire.The enemy obviously never expected to be attacked from the air from such a distance, and the flames rising from one place after another exhausted the remaining enemy troops, and soon the enemy's camp was full of flames and thick smoke billowing.

The enemy troops under the castle hadn't noticed the abnormality of the base camp yet, and were still struggling to climb up the city wall.At this moment, I don't know which soldier first noticed the fire in the barracks, and soon the commotion spread to everyone. They all turned their heads back in horror. The flames and smoke in the sky destroyed everyone's will to fight.

Soon, with bursts of long horns, the enemy retreated across the board, no, it would be more appropriate to use rout.At this time, the Lulin army had completely lost their good quality of advancing and retreating freely. They discarded their weapons and put down their battle flags. The officers, like the frightened soldiers, just wanted to escape quickly.

At this time, Sol had already thrown out all the incendiary bombs he had made, and the enemy camp was raging with flames, turning into an unmanageable situation.If nothing else, those guys who fled back will be sleeping rough tonight.

On the city wall below, people cheered loudly.The results of this battle were so brilliant that those soldiers who had been prisoners of the Lulin Army felt extremely proud.

Among the cheering crowd, Gein looked back at the trebuchet on the high platform, and said with a low laugh, "Sol, you really have it."

(End of this chapter)