Northern Dynasties

Chapter 493 Invincible

boom! boom! boom!
Huge bombardment sounded every once in a while. Although the power of each cannon stone could not be carefully observed under the cover of night, the tall gate buildings of the enemy were bombarded and collapsed by the cannon stone one after another, and their outlines became smaller and smaller. is for everyone to see.

"Wait a minute, adjust the barrel and add another layer of sand to the weight box."

After the more than 30 well-shaped stone bullets prepared before were fired in half an hour, Li Tai was not in a hurry to send people forward to check how the enemy's defenses had been destroyed. After firing a stone bomb, he ordered the two stone cannons to be adjusted slightly.

These two catapults are the returning cannons that Li Tai has hidden for a long time, but in this plane, they must be named Heyang Cannons.

The return cannon is very famous, and it seems that as long as it is fired, it will be invincible. In the concept of ordinary people, there must be some great black technology hidden in it.However, compared with the traditional human trebuchet, the principle of the return gun is the same, except that the source of its power is changed from human pulling to the sinking of the counterweight's own gravity.

The traditional trebuchet uses manpower to pull the front tip, and uses the principle of leverage to throw the stones at the rear tip. The greater the power, the more manpower is required to drive and add more gun tips.The upper limit of its power is not high, because of the limitation of physical space, a trebuchet cannot increase the number of operators without limit, and the human drive also faces a problem of inconsistent force.

The return cannon is a kind of counterweight trebuchet, which emits shells through the natural sinking of the front counterweight. In theory, there is no upper limit of power. After all, only one fulcrum and lever are needed, and the earth can be moved.

Many important equipment improvements in the history of cold weapon warfare may not all contain advanced technology. For example, the appearance of stirrups is more of a summary of experience.

Li Tai has even restored complex models like the hydraulic spinning wheel, and of course he will not miss the return cannon.Although Nancheng of Heyang did not have a craftsman who knew how to build this kind of trebuchet, he did have accurate parameters for different models.

The river bridge itself is a wooden pontoon bridge that needs maintenance and repairs over the years. Therefore, there is no shortage of qualified timber in Nancheng, and all of them have undergone initial processing.

On the premise of not pursuing the maximum power, it is not difficult to come up with two return guns. Different craftsmen are responsible for manufacturing different parts, and then transport these parts to the river bridge for assembly by their own parts.Because the river bridge itself is not a stable ground, nor can it support a too powerful gun mount.

Although Li Tai likes to rush, he is not reckless. He knows that it is absolutely difficult for him to defeat the Heyang defenders of the Eastern Wei Dynasty under normal conditions.Moreover, neither the friendly forces in the Heluo area nor the tyrants in the rear of Kansai are very reliable, and they may not be counted on at critical moments.

He still led his troops to Heqiao without hesitation, and of course he had to prepare his own trump card, and he couldn't come here to die for a moment of greed.

Although the plan to continue attacking the north side of the river bridge with the return artillery was determined early in the morning, when he actually came here, Li Tai discovered that he hadn't thought of a key problem, that is, the enemy also has the big bed crossbow, a powerful weapon for defending the city.

Although theoretically there is no upper limit to the power and range of the reciprocating cannon, it is limited by many factors such as materials, structure, and terrain environment in actual application.

After a little comparison with the bed crossbow captured in Nancheng, Li Tai found that the range of the return cannon he prepared was completely covered by the bed crossbow.

This is definitely a fatal problem, especially the return cannon he used for attack is not yet a finished product. If he wants to attack the enemy's pass city, he must advance within a certain distance of the enemy's front line for assembly.During this time, they will be fully exposed to the range of the enemy's bed crossbow.

Li Tai chose to attack at night because he wanted to take advantage of the vigilance and ignorance of the enemy.The sand on the vehicle can not only be used to block the enemy's crossbow shooting, but also can be used as a counterweight for the return gun.

Although the density of sand is not as good as that of stones and iron blocks, it can be re-increased after being transported to the destination and poured into the river, which can reduce the initial investment in transport capacity and the load capacity of the river bridge.Moreover, the finely divided sand facilitates the fine adjustment of the increase or decrease of the counterweight, so that the power of the return gun put into actual combat for the first time can be adjusted more flexibly.

It can be said that the heavy armored infantry assigned to the saber is completely inorganic, and has no use in most actual combat scenarios. It can be said to be an expensive, very passive, and extremely low-cost unit.

It can be said that as long as the enemy doesn't rush up and stretch out his head to be stabbed stupidly, it is difficult to cause effective damage to the enemy, but as long as the enemy takes the initiative to attack, it is cutting melons and vegetables.

Therefore, due to the wealth of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, they did not build up such wonderful arms as armies, because the investment was too large but there were few application scenarios. Li Tai, who was used to doing business without capital, directly formed two hundred soldiers after making a fortune. A crowd.

This kind of extravagant army is really useless if it is not formed, but if it is really formed, it is much easier to use than ordinary infantry. The happiness of the krypton gold boss is not something ordinary people can understand.

Li Tai's vision for tonight's battle is to bombard Zhongli City and Heyang Pass with two return artillery, so that the enemy can't stand the blow and go out of the city to attack and destroy the siege weapon, while he marches forward with two hundred heavy armors. Bridge, just like playing Fruit Ninja, kill these attacking enemies. Isn't it easy to kill thousands of them in one night?

But the expected situation didn't happen. Rao Xue Guyan, a fierce man who hacked more than a dozen knives a day, couldn't retreat after rushing up and sending another big lance.

They were hundreds of meters away from each other, and under the dark night, it was difficult for Li Tai to conduct a real-time and detailed monitoring of the enemy's movements, but based on what he saw, he felt that the enemy's reaction was not active enough. But they didn't see any rushing out of the pass, so they planned to expand the scope of the attack, so that these soldiers of the Eastern Wei Dynasty could fully appreciate the ruthlessness of artillery fire.

"Master Lang, the tip of the cannon has been calibrated, and now we are going to attack?"

When the soldiers finished correcting the ratio of the front and rear cannon tips, He Ruodun used a shovel to add a lot of river sand to the heavy wooden bucket hanging from the front tip and poured it with river water. He heard that the iron chains wrapped around the outer wall of the wooden bucket were stretched. It stopped after the rattling, took out the calibrator and compared it for a while, then hurriedly squeezed in front of Li Tai to ask for instructions.

Real men love big guys. This powerful big stone cannon really fits He Ruodun's aesthetics. Compared with it, even his previous archery skills are like needlework embroidery in his eyes Well, it's really not worth mentioning.

"Shoot!"

After Li Tai heard the words, he waved his hands and said, watching He Ruodun personally look at the fort to operate, he couldn't help wondering if he should be the commander of the artillery battalion in the future?

During the time when the guns were stopped and adjusted on the south side of the bridge, the chaos of the defeated Eastern Wei army on the opposite side also subsided.Hu Lujin personally led the supervising team to stand on the north side of the river bridge. Seeing the swarms of routs on the bridge, he directly ordered dozens of people to be beheaded in a row before he could barely control the rout.

After a lot of pushing and pushing, Xue Guyan, who was behind the team, managed to come to the bridgehead of the river bridge. When he saw Hu Lujin's cold eyes, Xue Guyan couldn't help but lowered his head, and said in a harsh voice: " Da Sima, the defeat of the defenders was not because of the cowardice of the soldiers, but because the bandit army was so fierce that it was impossible to resist..."

At this time, the river was still roaring and shaking, and Hu Lujin could guess the enemy's attack method, but in his mind, although the stone cannons attacked fiercely, they would not make all the troops in the city retreat.If it really has such power, why did their army hate Yubi City last year!

So he put his saber in his hand and shouted angrily: "Your disciples are heavily used to guard Heyang. If you don't stand on the wall, where else are you going? What you stand here is only fighting bravely and not being afraid. A strong man who sacrificed his life for the country! The old man stands here today, if you dare to come out behind me, you will definitely be killed!"

Hu Lujin's resolute statement, coupled with the beheaded dozens of corpses at the head of the bridge, immediately gave these rioters a great shock.The front could not rush down the bridge head, and the death-threatening sound of bombing sounded from time to time from the rear, and there were many frightened soldiers who could not help but roar and howl in grief, anger and despair.

But not everyone has a mental breakdown. After all, these defenders are veterans of the Six Towns who have been honed in battle. After realizing that they have fallen into a desperate situation, they quickly adjusted their mentality and recalled the enemy's offensive Although the momentum is not small, it is not so dead that there will be no life. Besides, even if you die in the battle at Heguan, it is better than being beheaded when you hit the bridge. The former can at least spell out a pension for your wife and children.

After a person is put to death, courage grows instead.In particular, the sound of the bombing from the south didn't sound again after a while, and the deterrent and panic created in people's hearts naturally dropped sharply.

"The thieves rely on the power of cannon stones. Now that they have stolen Guancheng, it is difficult to use cannon stones to attack. You guys come back with me, and bury these bandits in the river!"

Xue Guyan saw that the crowd had recovered, so he raised his arms and shouted again, organizing the soldiers to fight back.After hearing this, the defenders quickly regained their confidence. When it comes to hand-to-hand combat, they are naturally not afraid of any opponent.

So the soldiers who were stranded on the river bridge quickly formed an array spontaneously, armed with knives and guns, and then marched towards the south of the bridge.

However, before they returned to the river island, there was another gust of wind in the night sky, and an irregularly shaped black shadow rolled and passed overhead, and immediately landed heavily on the bridge.

There was a loud click, and the two powerful soldiers were smashed into meat paste when the artillery stone hit the ground. Immediately afterwards, the boulder fell heavily on the bridge deck. The bridge deck sank down suddenly, and then bounced up again. This section of the bridge deck All fluctuated violently, and several soldiers near the left were directly thrown off the bridge and quickly submerged in the river.

"This is God's punishment, God's punishment! Retreat, rewind... I don't want to die!"

The soldiers were already terrified, but this bloody and shocking scene immediately pierced through their psychological defenses, causing even more frightening chaos than before. Among the rivers.

"This cannon is a bit far away. It should have hit the river bridge. Take advantage of the panic and seize the city!"

Han Xiong led the crowd to wait for the battle, and he was a bit physically exhausted at the moment, while Ho Ruodun was still having fun playing with cannons. Li Tai felt that after this series of bombardments, the enemy must have panicked. So he personally led the light armor tribes to rush to Heyang Pass.

(End of this chapter)