The Era of Generals

Attend class?

　　 Xu Qing's complexion was fierce, and he said in his heart: Coming!

　　According to Chen Ze's order, he almost gritted his teeth to get the trebuchet to be dismantled at the top of the city.

　　 As a soldier, Xu Qing must obey the commander's orders, but why he did this, he still can't figure out why.

　　 Especially after Chen Ze asked him to set up the demolished sling rack on the square under the city, this made Xu Qing unable to see his purpose.

　　 Although compared to the crowded towers, the number of trebuchets that can be accommodated in the square at this moment has doubled. If it can be used to attack the enemy, the natural firepower will also be doubled.

　　 But there is a wall between the catapult and the enemy!

　　 Firstly, the attack range of the catapult was greatly shortened, and secondly, a stone bullet that was accidentally fired might even hit the city wall, or even land directly on the head of one's own soldiers on the tower, causing unnecessary casualties.

　　 Regardless of how you look at it, it will do more harm than good to cast stone racks in the city.

　　 But because of Chen Ze's repeated attempts to block the enemy's advancement, Xu Qing's view of it is not as one-sided as before. When he arranged for manpower to erect the trebuchet, he had been waiting for Chen Ze to unravel the mystery for him.

　　 Chen Ze was confident, and walked around these trebuchets first, and after a close observation, ordered someone to fetch a knife.

　　 Compared with Chen Ze's previous life, the development of the trebuchets in Haotian Continent is still in its infancy. According to the research on trebuchets in the previous life, the trebuchets placed in front of him still belong to the category of manpower.

The frames of these trebuchets are fixed on the ground with dozens of thick rivets. On both sides of the frame, there are upright columns. The top of the columns is drilled with a hole as big as a fist. Each one is very flexible with hundreds of rivets. The elastic cable twisted by the bow system is fixed between the uprights.

In the middle of the two uprights, a lever vertical to the frame is erected. The bottom of the lever is connected to the movable shaft on the frame, and on the top is a large iron bowl for placing stone bullets and other projectiles. In addition, there is a small crossbar on the top, with more than a dozen ropes tied to the crossbar for the soldiers to pull.

　　 During the battle, the soldiers would pull down the lever, put stone bullets into the iron bowl, and then loosen the rope, the lever would be like a bow and arrow, and it would be violently ejected by the elastic cord in the middle of the column to achieve the purpose of throwing stone bullets.

　　 Each stone projectile weighs 30 to 40 kilograms. It is very heavy and has the impact of throwing it. Soldiers hit by the stone projectile are either dead or injured.

　　 However, it is difficult to achieve precise strikes with a trebuchet, and only a rough range of strikes can be determined.

　　 But this shortcoming doesn't matter in a siege. There are enemy soldiers everywhere in the city, and they don't fight wherever they go. Therefore, the defenders have always used trebuchets in a more Buddhist style.

　　 Chen Ze naturally didn't want to be so Buddhist, so what he had to do now was to make a small improvement to the trebuchet.

　　 Under the gaze of Xu Qing and many soldiers, they saw Chen Ze marking the scale with a knife on the movable axis of each trebuchet.

　　 Xu Qing and the others were at a loss for a while, and they didn't understand the purpose of Chen Ze doing this, but if it were in the previous life, most people could see what Chen Ze was doing at a glance.

　　 X axis and Y axis.

　　 It is these two coordinate axes that Chen Ze marked on the movable axis of the trebuchet.

　　 He carves very quickly. After a while, he has carved the coordinate axes on the ten trebuchets. Then he straightened up, clapped his hands and laughed: "Come on, we are running out of time, go to class!"

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　　 The night came early, and the West Cloud Gate in the darkness was illuminated by the fiercely burning fire wall in front.

　　 "Explain, prepare to attack the city!"

　　 Outside the city, General Fang, who patiently waited for the wall of fire to extinguish, looked more and more ferocious. When the last wall of fire was ignited 80 meters away from the wall, he knew that the waiting time had come!

From two hundred meters away, as General Fang expected, the trenches behind were all equipped with kerosene. Unthinkable, he could only order people to stand on guard, put out a wall of fire, and move forward a little bit. Two hours passed, and finally slow. Advancing here.

The catapult was ready, the stone bombs dipped in resin fire oil were also placed in the launch bowl, and the siege tower was pushed to the front line. The hundreds of assailant soldiers in the tower looked grim, and the siege hammer was pushed closer to take charge. The soldiers rushing into the city gate flexed their hands, only seeing the Xiyun city gate that was close at hand.

　　 Swordsmen and pikemen guarded the back formation, and the cavalry also stepped up the frequency of patrols to guard against the ambush that disappeared in the back formation.

　　 Except that the scout team sent to the other two gates did not return any news, General Fang had already made all the preparations for the attack.

　　 Just wait for the fire wall to go out!

　　 His catapult is similar to the catapult in West Cloud City, and the attack distance is about 100 meters. However, considering the upward shooting problem of throwing stone bombs onto the tower, the actual attack distance will be shorter, only about 70 meters.

　　 Thinking of this, he had to admire the opposing commander. This last wall of fire happened to be stuck at the limit attack range of the catapult. At the current distance, the stone bullets fired by the catapult could not cause damage to the defenders.

　　 But that's it!

　　 General Fang smiled slyly, then glanced at the West Cloud Gate for the last time. When he suddenly turned around, he shouted coldly, "Remember what I said to you back then?"

　　 Xu Gangzhu and others heard the saying that they had a pretty body~www.readwn.com~ The murderous look in the eyes with sharp eyebrows erected.

　　 "You guys, do you want to live in the forest of poisonous mist all your life, or do you want to fight hard to make a splendid wealth?"

　　 General Fang continued to roar: "Do you think that the Forest of Poisonous Mist is the place where the Qingyang Empire left you? Wrong!"

　　 "The Forest of Poisonous Mist is nothing more than a prison, or a prison for you to throw yourself into a snare!"

　　 As soon as he said this, not only the leader of the Xu Gang and the others, but also the soldiers behind him, all became angry.

　　 Yes, the Forest of Poisonous Mist is a prison!

　　 It's still a prison where they don't need to be arrested, they just throw themselves into the net.

　　 I thought the Forest of Poisonous Mist was a refuge for these fugitives, but is that really the case?

　　 The difficult living environment, the complicated and sinister intrigue, the fear of precariousness, everything makes people have a longing for the outside world.

　　 General Fang came to the Poisonous Mist Forest in this situation.

　　 One can imagine how much temptation he has for people in the forest of poisonous mist when he takes freedom as a condition.

　　 "Now! Your chance is here. As long as you take down West Cloud City, this general promises..."

　　 General Fang looked around at the soldiers in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "From now on, you will no longer have to be trapped in the forest of poisonous mist. From now on, money, wine, women, everything, you will enjoy your life!"

"right!"

　　 The leader of Xu’s gang raised his arms and echoed loudly: "Brothers, it depends on today's fight to drink soup or meat. Today we are going to..."

"we……"

　　 "My mother!"

　　 The impassioned Xu Gang leader suddenly changed his complexion, and then changed again, and that scream full of blood immediately turned into a scream of horror!