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- Chapter 28 Battle of Shenmu City (2)
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
¡¡
A row of thirty or fifty long arrows tentatively shot outside the city wall more than 150 meters away. The Second Legion did not have many soldiers stationed in the tower in the northeast corner. A small captain looked at the long arrows that came from afar and faded from the sky, and laughed.
"The walls of Shenmu City are ten meters high, and the city is thirty to fifty meters higher than the surrounding lowlands. Even with the short bows of your cavalry, you dare to come here to show off your power."
"Brothers, fight back with me."
"yes!"
More than a dozen soldiers fearlessly raised their shields on their heads and held long and inaccurate arrows. Then they took out their bows, arrows and crossbows and quickly aimed at Lin Fenghan and others who turned and ran away.
"Ouch!"
¡°It shocked me to death!¡±
Ding dong!
Ding!
Ding!
Under the high gravity, the archers of the Second Legion standing on the city wall easily shot long arrows at Lin Fenghan and others 1,780 meters away. Fortunately, the bows and arrows had already flown far away, and their power had already declined significantly. The two or three hit cavalrymen only felt their bodies move, and the bows and arrows were bounced off by the bronze armor and helmets.
Lin Fenghan took a breath, looked back at the Shenmu City wall and said, "This city's defenses are too strong. We may not be able to defeat it with a frontal attack!"
Kelande shook his head quickly, looked at Lin Fenghan and said, "Baron, have you forgotten that there are mixed gunpowder and continuous complete shells transported from the Elante Islands in our logistics supply vehicle?"
"I know."
Lin Fenghan frowned and looked at everyone and said: "Without the bronze cannon, our cannonballs cannot exert their true power. In addition, our gunpowder technology is not mature, and there are too many impurities in the gunpowder. This primitive gunpowder is not only easy to catch fire, but also risky." The smoke is faster and can scare people, but there are very few places where it can be directly applied.¡±
"We should treat this as a secret weapon and use it when we need it most."
"Why!"
Ma Youden lowered his head and sighed: "Baron, what you are saying is that we have no way to break the wall of Shenmu City in the short term, right?"
"Um!"
Lin Fenghan nodded, frowned and said: "The terrain in the northeast is slightly higher than other places by 20 to 30 meters, and the height from the top of the Shenmu City wall is only about 24 meters shorter. And from this angle, Shenmu City's large-scale bombing No equipment can hit us, so I plan to have the ballista unit fire shells continuously from this place."
"We now have three medium-sized trebuchets in our army. The large trebuchet parts we dropped behind will be transported by the logistics sailors in the afternoon. Once assembled, they can be used to attack Shenmu City."
"Today our main task is to investigate the terrain around Shenmu City, check the surrounding resources, block the surrounding roads, and besiege them, causing them great psychological pressure."
¡¡
At the same time, Blair, Bumisxiu and others stood on the east wall. Bumisxiu swept his eagle eyes and instinctively spotted Lin Fenghan wearing gold armor.
Brati also saw Lin Fenghan, pointed at Lin Fenghan angrily, looked at Blair and said: "Your Excellency, Army Commander, it's him, it's him, he is Yi Liuyun, the commander of the Elant army, my Hailin Town was conquered by him He led the fleet to defeat it.¡±
"Is it him?"
"Hurry up and get the bamboo tube."
Blair carefully took the bamboo tube that could narrow the field of vision, looked seriously at Lin Fenghan among the groups of cavalry, and said in surprise: "I didn't expect that the opponent who defeated so many of our generals and horses would be so young. It¡¯s incredible!¡±
"Your Excellency, Army Commander, what should we do now?" Bulati said angrily, looking at Lin Fenghan's back.
"what to do?"
"What should I do if I still want to stabilize you?"
Blair put down the bamboo tube angrily and looked at Bulati and others and said: "We have 4,500 troops. Last night you led people to set fire to the mountain, but you ended up burning yourself. According to statistics, we were burned to death last night. More than ten people were killed, and more than 400 people were burned and fumigated. Nearly 500 people are now lying on dormitory beds to recuperate. They are now suffering from minor injuries, either pain here or itching there, and their combat effectiveness has been seriously reduced and they cannot go to the main battlefield. This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that some soldiers in our team have heard Yiliu Yun¡¯s story and are very doubtful about our victory. Their morale has seriously dropped. If we go out to fight in the city now,Some of them must have escaped, and our chances of winning are very slim. "
"If we still have more than 4,500 troops and there were no losses last night, I would dare to go out of the city to fight, but now" Blair shook his head and looked at everyone in disappointment.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Suddenly, huge noises were heard from the northeast, and stone bullets weighing more than thirty kilograms each hit the tower wall in the northeast corner of Shenmu City with huge force.
"what happened?"
Brati and others grabbed the surrounding buildings in confusion.
Blair¡¯s expression changed drastically as he held on to the city wall and said, ¡°It¡¯s a catapult.¡±
"It's the catapults attacking our city walls!"
"What!"
The Second Legion and the others quickly walked towards the north gate in the direction of the strongest vibration of the city wall.
On a small hill 356 meters away from the northeast corner of Shenmu City, Lin Fenghan, Rana, Dawu and others looked at the four-meter-long, two-meter-wide medium-sized trebuchet seriously.
Centurion Spit of the trebuchet artillery force proudly patted his chest and introduced to Lin Fenghan and others: "Baron, brothers, what we are bringing this time is a direct-fire trebuchet."
"Direct-fire trebuchets, are there many types of trebuchets?" Ross asked in confusion.
"Of course." Spit said seriously: "According to the shooting angle, trebuchets are divided into two types, one for direct shooting and the other for curved shooting."
¡°According to volume, they are divided into small trebuchets, medium trebuchets, large trebuchets, and heavy trebuchets.¡±
¡°According to functions, there are city defense trebuchets, coastal defense trebuchets, field trebuchets, etc.¡±
"Each trebuchet has a different function. Some are made of metal, some are made of wood, and some are made of leather, rubber bands, and straw ropes."
"Each country and region manufactures different trebuchets based on the resources and habits around them, and the trebuchets also vary in power."
"The trebuchet we are bringing is a trebuchet disassembled from a battleship and used in naval battles. The base frame of this trebuchet is made of wood, uses asparagus as a rope, rubber bands, and ropes made of horsehair as a drive. It is strong and sturdy. , has stable performance and can fire stone bullets weighing about 30 kilograms to attack three to four hundred meters away."
"This kind of trebuchet can fire three stone projectiles every two minutes, and it is very strong. At present, our three trebuchets are all of this model, but the shortcoming of this trebuchet is also obvious, that is, it cannot be thrown. Our cannonballs want to To break into Shenmu City, the catapult must be parked on a hillside with an inclination of between 60 degrees and 75 degrees, so that gravity can be used to direct the cannonballs into Shenmu City, but the power of the cannonballs is much smaller. "Spit frowned and said in a low voice.
"Um!"
Lin Fenghan patted Spit on the shoulder and said: "Do a good job. Our cavalry is currently investigating the situation in the surrounding areas. The archers and infantry are also building ladders. You will continue to attack their city walls from this direction and harass them."
"The offensive position is placed on the female wall of the city wall. That part is very weak. Behind it is the wall road where the soldiers walk. If we destroy that position first, it will be much easier for us to attack the city."
"yes!"
Speed ??and others nodded seriously.
January 24, 2013 11:04:22;
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