The Era of Generals

Attend class?

Xu Qing's complexion suddenly straightened, and he said in his heart: Here we come!

Before, according to Chen Ze's order, he almost gritted his teeth and asked someone to dismantle the trebuchet erected at the top of the city.

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

Especially when Chen Ze asked him to set up the dismantled trebuchet in the square below the city, Xu Qing couldn't see his purpose even more.

Of course, compared to the crowded ones placed on the city tower, the number of trebuchets that can be accommodated in the square at this moment has doubled. If they can be used to attack the enemy, the natural firepower will also be doubled accordingly.

But there is still a city wall between the trebuchet and the enemy!

Firstly, the attack distance of the trebuchet is greatly shortened, and secondly, the stone bullets fired by accident may hit the city wall, or even fall directly on the heads of the own soldiers on the tower, causing unnecessary casualties.

No matter how you look at it, putting the catapult rack in the city will do more harm than good.

However, due to Chen Ze's repeated attempts to block the enemy's advance, Xu Qing's view of him was not as one-sided as before. When he arranged for manpower to set up the trebuchet, he had been waiting for Chen Ze to reveal the answer for him.

Chen Ze, however, was confident. He walked around the trebuchets first, and after observing them closely, he ordered someone to fetch a small knife.

Compared with Chen Ze's previous life, the development of trebuchets in Haotian Continent was still in its infancy. According to the research on trebuchets in his previous life, the trebuchets he had set up in front of him still belonged to the category of human-powered machines.

The racks of these trebuchets are fixed to the ground with dozens of thick rivets, and there are uprights on both sides of the racks, and a hole the size of a fist is drilled at the top of the racks. The elastic cable twisted by the bow system is fixed between the uprights.

In the middle of the two columns stands a lever perpendicular to the frame. The bottom end of the lever is connected to the movable shaft on the frame. On the top is a large iron bowl, which is used to place projectiles such as stone bullets. In addition, there is a small horizontal bar on the top, and more than a dozen ropes are tied to the horizontal bar for soldiers to pull.

During the battle, the soldiers would pull down the lever, put stone bullets into the iron bowl, and then release the rope, and the lever would be thrown out by the elastic cable in the middle of the column like a bow and arrow, achieving the purpose of throwing stone bullets.

Each stone bullet weighs 30 to 40 kilograms. It is very heavy, and with the impact of throwing it, the soldiers hit by the stone bullet are either killed or injured.

However, if you use a trebuchet, it is difficult to achieve precise strikes, and you can only roughly determine the range of a strike.

But this shortcoming doesn’t matter during siege battles. There are enemy soldiers everywhere in the city, and it’s not a fight wherever you go. Therefore, the defenders have always used the catapults in a more Buddhist way.

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 watchful eyes of Xu Qing and many soldiers, they saw that Chen Ze was marking the scale with a knife on the movable axis of each trebuchet.

Xu Qing and the others were stunned for a while, not understanding what Chen Ze was doing, but if they were in the previous life, most people would be able to see what Chen Ze was doing at a glance.

X-axis and Y-axis.

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

He carved very quickly, and in a short time he had already carved the coordinate axes on all ten trebuchets. Then he straightened up, clapped his hands and smiled, "Come on, we don't have much time, let's go to class!"

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The night was coming early, and the Xiyun City Gate in the darkness was brightly illuminated by the fiercely burning fire wall ahead.

"Confession, prepare to attack the city!"

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

From two hundred meters away, as General Fang expected, all the trenches behind were equipped with kerosene. Unbelievable, he could only order people to stay on guard, put out a wall of fire and move forward a little. After two hours passed, he finally slowed down. advanced here.

The catapults were ready, and the stone bombs soaked in resin and kerosene were placed in the launching bowl. The siege tower was also pushed to the front line. Hundreds of soldiers in the tower looked stern, and the battering ram was also pushed close. The soldiers who rushed into the city gate were gearing up, only seeing the Xiyun City Gate which was close at hand.

The sword and shield spearmen guarded the back formation, and the cavalry also stepped up their patrol frequency to guard against the ambush soldiers who disappeared in the back formation.

Except that the scouts sent to the other two city gates did not send back any news, General Fang had already made all preparations for the attack.

Just wait for the firewall to go out!

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

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

But that's all there is to it!

General Fang grinned grinningly, and took a last look at the gate of Xiyun City. When he suddenly turned around, he yelled coldly, "Do you still remember what I told you at the beginning?"

Leader Xu and the others straightened up when they heard the words, and there was a murderous look in their eyes with stern brows.

"You guys, do you want to live in the forest of poisonous mist for the rest of your life, or do you want to fight hard and fight for glory and wealth?"

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

"The Forest of Poison Mist is nothing more than a prison, a prison for you to throw yourself into the net!"

As soon as this remark came out, not only Chief Xu and the others, but also the soldiers behind him burst into fury.

Yes, the Forest of Poison Mist is a prison!

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

I thought the Forest of Poison Mist was a shelter for fugitives like them, but is it really so?

The difficult living environment, the complex and sinister intrigues, the precarious fear, everything makes people yearn for the outside world.

Under such circumstances, General Fang came to the Forest of Poisonous Mist.

It is conceivable that when he takes freedom as a condition, how much temptation he has for the people in the forest of poisonous mist.

"Now! Your chance is in front of you. As long as you capture Xiyun City, this general promises..."

General Fang glanced 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 poisonous mist forest. From now on, money, fine wine, women, everything, everything, will guarantee you a lifetime of enjoyment!"

"right!"

Chief Xu raised his arms and shouted, echoing loudly: "Brothers, whether to eat soup or meat depends on today's fight. Today we will..."

"us……"

"My mother!"

The impassioned Chief Xu's complexion suddenly changed, and then changed again, that shout full of passion turned into a scream of horror!