Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 168 Bai Gongpao

Yuan Huan always felt that these catapults looked a little different from those he had seen in Guangling before, but there was no abnormality on their faces and he didn't ask any questions.

The difference is naturally huge!

Outside the cities of Qichun and Guangling, the ones used to throw disaster relief food were only the torque catapults they had used for "training".

In Hefei City, not far from Chao County, a special team from the Ministry of Industry has been stationed. A shipload of components manufactured by the Shipbuilding Industry Department enters the river directly from Gongkou, is transported to Ruxukou, enters Chao Lake, and is finally unloaded in Chao County. The Ministry of Industry's special team will complete the final assembly here, as well as the final manufacturing of some components that have little technical content and can be easily obtained from local materials, but are bulky.

The twenty catapults in front of Baitu’s army are all counterweight catapults. The main design idea is based on the "returning cannon" used by the Mongols during the Xiangfan battle in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. , is a skill from the Western Regions, and was invented by people from the Western Regions.

In May of the third year of Jian'an, because Yuan Yin refused to cooperate and ignored the people in the city who wanted to welcome Bai Tu, the Jiangdong Army outside Hefei replaced the relief food they threw every day with stone bullets weighing more than 100 kilograms each!

Yuan Yin also felt that today's Jiangdong Army was approaching menacingly, so he went up to the building in armor and looked down at the military formation below from the city wall.

"Yuan thieves poisoned Huainan, which used to be a prosperous and peaceful place. Now people are starving and dying all over the fields, and they have to change their sons to eat. Although Bai started in humble beginnings, he is now highly regarded by the people...

Although you are determined to be a thief, I still have benevolent thoughts in my heart. If you think of the more than [-] people in the city today and open the door to receive our relief, you can still leave a good name in history. If you stubbornly resist, you will be killed in Hefei. Without caring about the common people, Bai had no choice but to go up to heaven and serve the people below. When the city is destroyed, the culprits will be cooked in the cauldron and shared with the soldiers and people of Hefei! "Bai Tu shouted loudly from outside the city.

Yuan Yin changed Bai Tu's indifferent and begging-like persuasion in the past few days. Today, he suddenly became evil and threatened to stew him as soon as he opened his mouth and share it with the whole city. Ruthless, I knew the reason in my heart, and even expected it.

The dedication of Guangling and Qichun not only damaged the morale of the Huainan Army and inspired Bai Tu's Jiangdong Army, but also gave Bai Tu a complete moral upper hand.

Yuan Yin had expected before that Bai Tu... I am afraid that he will attack the city head-on!
After all, tens of thousands of people traveled to Huainan, which was suffering from drought, and how could they do nothing?

However, after hearing Bai Tu's threat...especially when the [-] elite soldiers outside shouted in unison, "Share it together, eat it together", Yuan Yin was still nervous.

"Baitu! Let's put aside all the things in the past. Since you keep saying that you are doing it for the common people, but now there is drought in Huainan and east of the Yangtze River, isn't it against the benevolent way for you to mobilize troops at this time?" Yuan Yin shouted bravely. road.

"Absurd! I, the 300 million people in Jiangdong, worked together to worry about the worries of the Huainan compatriots, worry about the worries of the Huainan compatriots, cut down on food and clothing, and received millions of stones in relief food. I want to overcome the difficulties with the people in Huainan, etc. For the sake of their own selfish desires, they actually obstructed them. It seems that Yuan Lin and her ilk, in order to discredit Jiangdong, actually did such things as poisoning the people...

Soldiers!Can you tolerate this happening?Can you watch helplessly as the good intentions of the Jiangdong elders were wasted and the innocent people in Huainan were harmed by Yuan Ni? Bai Tu asked loudly.

At this time, there were nearly [-] "living people" among the [-] Jiangdong Army, which was a very high proportion. Bai Tu's shrine for protecting the people and military treatment increased the enthusiasm for joining the army, and the number of grassroots corps commanders and chiefs became more and more Be abundant.

In the world of Cheng Ji, even if the princes go to war, they can only increase the proportion of manpower drawn, and rarely recruit strong men - because the living people in the army are at least corps commanders, or even Huainan Army, because too much manpower is drawn. , and it is unpopular with the people. It is even more difficult for living people to join the army.

In this case, if you force a strong man to rebel, it may cause chaos on the battlefield.

In contrast, Baitu's Jiangdong Army, although the proportion of military service is small, but the corresponding...corporate commanders are almost complete!
Moreover, Bai Tu specially set up a propaganda team in the army. The prototype was the war exhortation team that Bai Tu asked the Ministry of Rites to set up before. However, the officials and staff assigned by the Ministry of Rites to the army were a bit too ungrounded and spent all their time talking about big principles. It has even become a burden for junior officers.

After Zhang Liao reported this to Bai Tu, Bai Tu also made adjustments and replaced it with a propaganda team that was better able to get along with the officers and was even selected from among the officers. There were not so many annoying truths and the main focus was on everyone. "War mobilization" before the war.

For example, at this time, everyone in the Jiangdong Army knew that they were fighting for the people of Huainan!

Think about the family, the young and old, scrimping on food and clothing and eating relief food, isn't it just to help the people in Huainan?

Every time I think of this, the officers and soldiers in the army feel proud...

However, the enemy was so crazy that they refused to give relief food to the people of Huainan. How could there be such a bad person?
The feeling of sharing the same hatred with the enemy arose in Jiangdong's army - the Lord is right, this "benevolence" was put together by us Jiangdong elders and must be sent out!
Understanding the meaning of war not only helps to improve morale, but also restrains military discipline.

After Bai Tu finished shouting, he retreated to the high earth platform built behind the formation.

As the "coach", Bai Tu is only responsible for the command of the grand strategy, and the specific command is in the hands of Lu Bu.

As the soldiers beside Bai Tu waved flags under Bai Tu's command, Ding Feng, the vanguard young general in the forward army, shouted: "Get on to Bai Gong's cannon!"

Bai Gong Cannon... Bai Tu also felt that the name was a bit awkward. Anyway, twenty Baigong Cannon were now facing the Hefei city wall.

"Lift!"

creak creak-

I saw that the short arm end of the wall-throwing cannon was pulled up by a group of soldiers with a winch - the weight on the short arm end was ten times that of the long arm end. Although the long arm end of the lever principle saves effort, it is still in the Under the huge weight gap, normally the short arm is still down.

The winch also uses the principle of a pulley to lift the weight of the short arm more effortlessly. When one end of the long arm falls, stone bullets weighing more than a hundred kilograms each are put into the bullet socket at the end of the long arm...

"put!"

Ding Feng gave an order, and the winch that was originally holding the short arm was loosened. Under the weight of more than 100 kilograms, more than [-] kilograms of stone bullets were directly lifted up, and because it was located on the long arm side of the lever, the lifting speed was extremely fast!

"Raise your shield and face forward!" Yuan Yin immediately ordered.

After all, there were "feedings" a few days ago, and Yuan Yin also knew what they were used for.

Under the sound of wind and thunder, stone bullets weighing more than [-] kilograms were lifted to the highest point and flew towards Hefei City.

Most of them hit the city wall directly, but some just landed on the city tower...

The "grain truck" from a few days ago showed its majestic side in front of Hefei City today!
There happened to be a stone bullet that hit the soldier who was holding a seemingly reliable heavy shield under Yuan Yin's order.

Yuan Yin only heard a roar in his ears, and then there was one less soldier around him, and then he looked carefully... The broken shield, the broken wooden and stone armor, and the broken personal soldiers were already indistinguishable from each other.

"This, this..." Yuan Yin couldn't help but be stunned for a while.

The Baigong cannon under the city did not give Yuan Yin a chance to react. After some adjustments, the second round of salvo came again!
The people debugging the Baigong cannon, as well as the accompanying personnel from the Ministry of Industry, were correcting the angle of the fort and raising the height of the short arm based on the previous landing point...

Of course, although standardized processing keeps the differences between each Baigong cannon within a very small range, due to the different wear and tear and the use of hastily polished stone bullets, the weight and center of gravity of each stone bullet, and even The shapes are all different. It is technically impossible to expect the Baigong Cannon to be able to aim accurately.

There is no need for precise fixation. At this time, under Ding Feng's order, the target to be calibrated is the middle of the opposite city wall.

There was another round of thunderous cannon fire, but this time none of them "missed" the defenders on the tower, but... the defenders on the city wall clearly felt that the wall was shaking!
Although when the stone bullet hit, a faint golden light flashed on the city wall, removing part of its power, it was still not immune.

The main target of the Huihui artillery attack was never the defenders, but the city walls or warships.

According to the records of "Yuan Shi" from another world, this kind of returning cannon "weighs 150 kilograms, is mechanically fired, and the sound shakes the heaven and the earth. It destroys everything it hits and sinks seven feet into the ground"...

It was this kind of weapon invented by the craftsmen of the Western Regions that brought an end to the last stage of the Song and Yuan's nearly six-year offensive and defensive war in Xiangfan. The Song Dynasty had lost its last chance to drag Yuan and Meng to death. .

In the history of "Another World", Huihui Artillery captured Fancheng when it first appeared. Lu Wenhuan, who had defended Xiangyang for nearly six years, was unable to break the Huihui Artillery's offensive and was also forced by the Yuan army's massacre of Fancheng. He had no choice but to leave the city and surrender.

Later, Hui Hui Pao also followed the offensive of the Yuan army and defeated the Yangtze River Navy, Tanzhou, and Jingjiang...

Of course, the returning artillery is not invincible. No matter how optimized it is, its movement speed is extremely slow. Even the heavy infantry cannot outrun it. It can only be used for the offense and defense of fixed positions.

As long as the military formation is moved, returning to the artillery array is equivalent to finding an ancestor and a life gate for one's own military formation.

Therefore, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when the various rebel armies rebelled against the Yuan Dynasty, this thing was no longer seen. In the cavalry confrontation of Mingjin, the trebuchet was even more of a joke.

However, just as the Song army in the late Southern Song Dynasty was unable to fight the Mongols head-on and could only defend according to danger, does the Yuan army in Hefei now dare to come down and fight Lu Bu?

"put!"

After the third round of the Baigong Cannon roared out, the golden light on the Hefei city wall was almost invisible - this was mostly due to the establishment of the Zhong family's "dynasty", which added a layer to all the city walls in the country. BUFF.

Otherwise, based solely on popular opinion, the city walls of Hefei might not be able to play such a big role.

Yuan Yin also knew that the defensive effect of the founding BUFF might not be able to save him if this continued.

The power of the Baigong Cannon was beyond his expectation, and even though the Jiangdong Army had run out of stone bullets after five rounds, but...

Yuan Yin did not clean up the sources of surrounding stone materials before. In other words, with simple repairs, the other party can replenish stone bullets. There is no point in continuing to wait for the city wall to collapse!

(End of this chapter)