Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 217 Range
Liu Pingji returned to the machine and shouted to several craftsmen next to him. The craftsmen put down the wooden bucket and put bags of sand into the wooden bucket. The wooden wheel began to walk, and the wooden wheel began to rotate. Everyone was surprised to see that the wooden bucket filled with sandbags began to rise slowly, while the other end of the long arm lowered accordingly. When the wooden bucket reached At the highest point, the craftsmen fixed the long arm with iron wedges, then straightened the long cable at one end of the long arm, and put four stones weighing at least [-] kilograms in the leather pocket.

"Since the enemy has already said hello, we should also respond, otherwise it would be too impolite!" Wang Wenzuo smiled at everyone, nodded to Liu Pingji, waved his right hand, and made a start gesture.

The craftsman swung the hammer and broke the iron wedge. The heavy wooden bucket lost its support and fell suddenly, driving the long arm to start rotating. It accelerated to an astonishing speed, and finally the stone bullet flew out of the leather pocket along a tangent, until the gravity pulled it down to the ground again, and that was already 350 meters away from the starting point.

"How? Shouldn't our greetings be more 'warm'?" Wang Wenzuo patted his palms: "This is worthy of the Tang Dynasty's reputation as a state of etiquette!"

No one spoke, and everyone was stunned by the enormous power and range of this new weapon, so much so that they forgot to respond to the one-liners from their superiors.Cui Hongdu was the first to regain his senses. He grabbed Wang Wenzuo's arm and said, "Sanlang, why didn't you take out this thing sooner if you have it, then we've captured Ren Cuncheng long ago!"

"Why don't you take it out earlier!" Wang Wenzuo frowned: "Go and see how big this thing is, and how much manpower and financial resources it took to make the metal parts. How could I have made it earlier? Besides, then The mountain road in the mountain city is so steep, and it would not take ten days and a half months to move such a big thing up the mountain, right?"

"That's true!" As soon as Cui Hongdu said that, he realized that he meant to accuse Wang Wenzuo, and he hurriedly laughed and said, "Don't be angry when you join the army. I was in a hurry and said the wrong thing just now. But you should take this thing out earlier. Everyone is at ease!"

"This is a siege tool. We are guarding the village now, and it is not very useful. Why should we feel at ease?"

"Joining the army is not right. Even if this thing can't kill a few people, but the sound is like a thunderbolt, and it can throw such a big stone to such a far place, the soldiers will definitely boost their morale when they see it. How can they not feel at ease?" Cui Hongdu laughed.

"Hongdu is right. The two armies are in full swing. If you use this thing to throw a few oil cans, fire bombs, etc. in the direction of the enemy commander's flag, you don't need to kill a few people. As long as the army's banner is down, you will definitely be killed." The military is in disarray."

All the generals were beaming with joy, as if the victory was already in their pockets, and they only needed to reach out to grab it. The original nervousness before the battle had already been swept away.Only Hei Zhichang's expression was complicated, he was a little lucky and a little disappointed. He was only more than ten meters away from the gravity trebuchet, and he could see it clearly. There was no need for hundreds of people to launch it like a lever trebuchet. Thousands of people pull it, and only seven or eight people need to walk on the wooden wheel to lift the wooden bucket full of sandbags up.

Obviously, this trebuchet does not require a lot of manpower, but its range and power are far better than the old trebuchets.This means that in front of the Tang army, the mountain city that Baekje people rely on for self-protection can no longer be relied on. Except for a few mountain cities whose terrain is so dangerous that even counterweight trebuchets are difficult to function, most of the fortresses are the only ones. The effect is to delay time.As long as the Tang army can transport the parts of the trebuchet and splice them together, it will take five or six days at most, or two or three days at least, and the Tang army will be able to destroy the city walls and houses in the city without hurting a single soldier outside the range of the defenders.In this case, resistance is meaningless, persistence to the end is synonymous with suicide, Baekje's demise is already a matter of time, and it is a wise move for those like myself who surrendered to the Tang people earlier.

"Go on, go on, show the traitors how powerful I am, Tang!"

The shouting brought Hei Chi Chang Zhi back from his thoughts. He saw the wooden bucket rise slowly again, the craftsmen moved the stone bullets into the leather bag, and the generals of the Tang army with thick red necks waved their fists and cheered loudly. The Baekje civilian husband also looked excited.Seeing this, Hei Chi Chang Zhi suddenly felt that a part of his heart stopped beating, as if he had died.

"It seems that for the rest of my life, I can only live as a Tang man!" Hei Chi Chang Zhi clenched his fists: "If those peasants can survive, so can I!"

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"Master Wang, you are really a learned person! Didn't you say something earlier: gold, soup, I don't understand what it means. I just realized it when I saw it. This is gold soup! I believe the thieves can't beat it now. !"

"That's right, with a bang, you can throw a big rock so far, even steel and iron bones can't stand it! With this thing, it's no wonder the generals of the Tang Dynasty are so confident!"

"That's right, they are blessed by gods and Buddhas, they are different from us!"

"Then we just need to wait here, dig the soil, and cut the wheat, and we will win? We can go back with copper coins and wheat? It's so good, I can't believe it!"

"Why don't you believe it? You didn't see that big thing. If you were a thief, you would dare to attack after seeing such a big rock fall? It would be nice if you didn't pee your pants in fear!"

Seeing the folks gossiping with great interest, Wang Hao felt joyful in his heart. He didn't expect things to go so smoothly, but the facts were in front of him, so he couldn't help but believe it.

"Wang Pu, Wang Pu!"

"Hey!" Wang Pu stood up and went to greet him: "Master Yuan? What's the matter!"

"The thieves have retreated for the time being. You take people out and finish digging the trench. Work harder tonight and put up the pickets. The reward will remain the same!"

"Yes!" Wang Po replied, turned around and shouted to the peasants: "Everyone, be quiet, Mr. Tang has issued an order, and the thieves have retreated. Let us go and dig the trench, and the rewards will remain the same!"

Cheers erupted from the crowd. The Baekje peasants picked up their hoes, led by the leaders of each team, returned to their area, and started to work. In fact, the enemy's scouts were not far away, but the peasants But they didn't care, they just buried their heads in their work, and the huge figure of the gravity trebuchet behind them gave them a sense of security that they had never had before.

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Yin three quarters.

The bonfires of the enemy camp, shining on the hillside not far away, are like falling stars.In fact, it is brighter than the stars, but it never flickers, but sometimes it swells and stretches, and sometimes it degenerates and gloomy, like a distant firework, faint and dim.

(End of this chapter)