Take a plane to the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 93 Dodo's Plan

Shengjing City was a small city at the end of Ming Dynasty. Surrounded by the city wall, it formed an irregular square. There were two gates on each side of the east, west, south, north, and eight gates in total. There was a moat outside the city, but it was not wide. .

In the early morning of the third day, just after dawn, Zhu Changyuan commanded thousands of Fusang pirates to attack the city.

But there is a more important step to be done before the siege, and that is to fill in the moat with a passage.

There are twenty siege shield machines, each about five or six meters long, three or four meters wide, and three meters high. The whole body is made of two-centimeter-thick steel plates, and the middle of the belly is densely packed with various steel structures. .The bottom layer is the gap that can accommodate people temporarily.

Regardless of this simple equipment, it cost Zhu Changyuan more than 5 yuan for one piece!Twenty, more than 100 million!

"Bang bang bang!" The machine started, and the soldiers picked up the shovels to dig the soil, put them in snakeskin bags, packed them in bags, and transported them to the moat with a shield machine. It took two hours to fill in the moat. Passage for shield machines to pass through.

In the process of filling the river, Zhu Changyuan naturally suffered from the rain of arrows from the city wall, but with the protection of the thick shell of the shield machine, those arrows placed on it are like tickling, no, scratching is not enough.

"What is this?"

Tabai nervously looked at the more than 20 shield machines below on the city wall, and asked nervously.

"It's a thing for siege." Duoduo watched Zhu Changyuan fill up the moat little by little, and said, "They want to use this thing to avoid our attack, and then dig against the city wall. Rats make holes!"

"Then what should we do? Can we just watch? Bows and arrows are useless?"

Tabai, who is in his 40s and nearly 50 years old, is already crying in a hurry.On the other hand, Duoduo was laughing.

"What are you laughing at?" Tabai said, "People are attacking right now, can you still laugh?"

Duoduo snorted coldly, looked at the shield machine below Zhu Changyuan and was not in a hurry. He seemed to be talking to himself and said, "You're so smart!"

Tabai said: "Fifth brother, what are you talking about?"

Duoduo was calm and composed, and said with a smile: "Sixth brother, you have never seen this kind of thing, but it is recorded in ancient military books that it is a siege weapon called a Chongche. Use it to make me laugh!"

"Is there a way to deal with it?" Tabai asked.

"Of course!" Duduo said confidently, "He only knows that the charging cart is a sharp weapon for attacking the city, but he doesn't know that the rushing cart also has a huge disadvantage. Do you know why I asked the brothers to move to the city wall early in the morning?" Stone?"

Tabai suddenly realized, "Is it just to smash this thing?"

"That's right!" Duoduo laughed loudly, "In ancient times, ramming chariots were mostly made of wooden planks and leather. There are two ways to break this ramming chariot formation. High, falling would basically smash those things to pieces."

"What about another method?" Tabai asked.

Duoduo said: "The other way is to attack with fire. Although the chariot is powerful, the city is too strong. Even if there are dozens of soldiers in the chariot, it will take a few days to dig through a section of the city wall. Just set fire from the top to the bottom of the city." .”

"Oh!" Tabai suddenly realized: "Is it Fire Attack?"

"It's better to add fuel to the fire!" Duoduo is familiar with military books and is well versed in the art of war.

Seeing Zhu Changyuan's soldiers filling up the moat little by little, and slowly driving the shield machine across the river, Tabai's eyes glowed with blazing light, and he tilted his head and said to Duo Duo: "Come here, let's Can we start the attack?"

Zhu Changyuan's twenty shield vehicles, with ten soldiers hidden in each vehicle, arrived at the bottom of the city wall of Shengjing City at the same time, and the front part was firmly attached to the city wall.

"Hey!" A pirate devil soldier looked at the city wall close at hand, and gave a thumbs up to the devil next to him: "This thing is really powerful, aren't we just digging holes in the iron house?"

"Okay, don't talk, the general said, put on the mask first!"

More than a dozen people put on the masks in their hands at the same time, and then turned on the air compressor. Two people took the drill bit and pushed it against the thick city wall. "Buzz buzz buzz!" The voice suddenly rose.

Pieces of loose soil peeled off from the city wall, and in just 1 minute, a large piece of dry mud was chiseled off the city wall by the jackhammer!
This is something that can directly chisel away concrete on a construction site, but chiseling mud is overkill!
"Okay!" Duoduo watched the [-] shield machines below and put them in place against the city wall, and then ordered the soldiers to throw stones down: "Stones, throw!"

The weight of the stone is too large, and the shield machine can't throw it far away. The best effect can only be achieved when they are all close to the wall and start attacking.

However, Dodo was soon dumbfounded.

The car below was not torn apart as he imagined, but remained firm. Stones fell on it one after another, making metal sounds one after another, and even the top of the car was hit by stones, but there was still no car. Get smashed!

"Change the big rock!"

The weight of the stones thrown down by the soldiers defending the city just now was almost less than [-] catties. If they were too heavy, they would be difficult to handle and transported to the city wall. Throw big stones down.

The city walls of Shengjing City are usually equipped with some large stones, ranging from seven to eighty catties or even one hundred and two hundred catties.

After the soldiers defending the city received Duduo's order, several people worked together to lift a big stone, and then threw it down.

"when!"

The boulder fell from the city wall more than ten meters high, and the damage to the shield machine below was huge. The upper layer of iron sheet was almost smashed out of a huge hole, and some of the tires of the cars below were crushed and deformed!
But Zhu Changyuan had expected this a long time ago, and added a large number of dense steel supports in the entire shield machine, including thick steel bars, steel pipes, and even I-beams.

The shape of the shield machine was severely deformed, but the soldiers on the bottom layer who were digging into the city wall with the pickaxes were unscathed. It was just that the pickaxes stirred up dust, and the dust below filled the air, which was very uncomfortable.Fortunately, preparing a mask in advance can also reduce dust from entering the lungs with breathing to a certain extent.

The pickaxe below is tolerable.

Pick pickers broke the clods of soil from the wall little by little, and then someone dumped the soil in the car to the back of the car with a shovel. Once a little space was dug out of the front wall, the shield machine moved forward again, tightly Keeping up, one after another, the work of digging the city wall is in full swing.

The boulders on the city wall kept falling down, but there was a two-centimeter-thick steel plate on top of the shield machine, and dense steel supports under the steel plate.Therefore, the boulder seemed to change the shape of the entire shield machine by smashing it, and even made the arched roof on it concave, but it was still useless. Half an hour later, the entire five-meter-long The car got into the thick city wall.

Even if the city wall is two feet thick, how many hours can it last?

(End of this chapter)