Chapter 873 The Artifact of Suppressing the Country
Gunner Zhao Erzhu smiled excitedly.
"The commander-in-chief must keep his word, look at me."
"When will I keep my word? If you really have the ability to destroy the city gate building opposite, I will ask Your Majesty for you in person."
Erzhu wiped his nose and looked around the red cannon several times again.
"No problem, it must be destroyed."
On Xinkou Pass City, the Yiwu Army felt a little distressed when they looked at the huge catapults.
"Is this a stone throwing car?"
Song Jingang was wearing bright light armor and stood on the city wall to watch.
Two hundred steps apart, the twenty stone throwing cars were still so conspicuous. After all, they were so huge, and the arm of the stone throwing car was so eye-catching.
But what puzzled him was that such a large stone-throwing cart usually had to be driven by at least 200 people, but what about cables and people?
Looking at the side of the stone throwing cart, there were only a dozen people busying themselves.
"I guess these stone throwers have not been assembled yet."
Song Jingang could only think of this.
"Master, do you want to send Qingqi to destroy those stone throwing cars?" asked the general.
Large stone throwing cars pose a huge threat to Guancheng. Although such stone throwing cars generally have no accuracy and are smashed randomly, when the two armies are fighting, the enemy's rock bullets are flying all over the sky, which can make the defenders frightened. After all, even if they have big fists, they will either die or be injured if they really hit them. Not to mention that if they shoot a huge rock of more than ten kilograms, they will even be destroyed.
"Watch it happens!"
Song Jingang rejected his subordinates' proposal. After all, there were 100,000 Qin troops under the custody, and even the Emperor Luo Chengdu of the Qin Dynasty arrived. At this time, when the Qin army was in full swing, he would go out to fight and send him off.
Close down.
A cavalry rushed to the front of the emperor.
"Report, the red-clothed cannon has been loaded, His Majesty Gong ordered!"
"Dingfang, this is the first appearance of the artillery. Everyone is curious why the stone-throwing chariot should be independent of the army. This is the time for you to show off. Show your strength to prove it to everyone."
Su Dingfang shouted, "I will definitely not let Your Majesty down."
"Okay, as long as you perform well today, I will give you a military call and go."
Su Dingfang took the order to retreat and rode back on his horse.
Back in front of the artillery formation, Su Dingfang shouted to his subordinate artillery soldiers, "Your Majesty has already said good words. As long as we perform well, we will give us military ranks and form our own army."
The artillery cheered.
"shoot!"
Zhao Erzhu raised a large wooden hammer high and knocked it hard on the ratchet trigger of the stone throwing truck.
There was a loud clang.
Ratchet lock is unlocked.
Suddenly, the high-rise counterweight box of Qianjin fell suddenly, and the counterweight box fell sharply. The other end of the arm rod was connected, and the stone bullet weighing 150 kilograms was bounced out violently.
The huge rock roared and broke through the sky.
On the Xinkou City Gate Tower, Dai Jun thought that the Qin army's stone throwing cart had not been assembled, so he squeezed there to see the strange thing. Unexpectedly, suddenly there was a violent sound of breaking through the air.
The red-clothed cannon Zhao Erzhu was in charge of, and the stone bullet whistled out, aiming directly at the city gate building more than 200 steps away.
The Guancheng Tower in Xinkou is built very beautifully. On this dangerous Guancheng, it looks a bit arrogant and arrogant.
But almost in an instant, a huge rock fell from the sky.
He smashed half of the city gate building directly.
The huge rock smashed half of the city gate building and continued to move. He flew into the city with countless broken bricks and wood, and then smashed into a house not far from the city wall. He directly smashed a huge hole. After the stone bullet landed on the ground, it even smashed a large pit several feet deep.
Earth-shaking.
"Zhuzi, I've really won, you're really a talent!"
Su Dingfang couldn't help but be ecstatic. He had been a wing-level officer before, but once a group of subordinates committed robbery, murder and rape after breaking through the city. Although they were newly enlisted in the army, the superiors would not care about these things. He was implicated and demoted to several levels in a row.
Later, the emperor ordered this artillery battalion to be formed. He worked very hard and regarded it as his turnaround.
Unexpectedly, this first shot directly killed half of the city gate building, which was so beautiful.
"The commander-in-chief, you promised me, the two-pound dragon gate flying general."
"Two altars, no, I will give you ten altars." Su Dingfang roared with red eyes.
The remaining nineteen red-clothed cannons threw out huge rocks one after another, two of which hit the city wall, which made the earth shake and the mountains. More of them crossed the city wall and hit the city.
far away.
The emperor and the generals couldn't help but exclaim loudly when they looked at the might of the cannon.
"I really didn't expect that this improved stone throwing cart would only use a few people, but it was more powerful than the previous two or three hundred people."
"Indeed, I think this red-clothed cannon seems to be assembled and disassembled quickly and conveniently."
"Hahaha, let me tell you, these red-clothed cannons are made of standardized parts. All the components of the red-clothed cannons, as long as they are of the same model, can be used in substitutions and simplified as much as possible. Therefore, disassembly, assemble and transport are very convenient, operation is also very convenient, and even maintenance is also much more convenient. Of course, the most important thing is that the power of this red-clothed cannon is even stronger."
In addition, his loading was quick.
After the round of shooting, several loaders over there began to pry the ratchet again to lower the counterweight box.
But in about a quarter of an hour, the loading was completed again.
To put it in the disadvantage, this thing is not like the artillery of later generations. It has high accuracy and has matching aiming measurement tools. The red-clothed cannon is not yet perfect in terms of accuracy. As for aiming, it depends entirely on the intuition and proficiency of the gunners.
So the first shot hit the city gate tower, and even Luo Cheng felt that it was just a accident.
"Your Majesty, with this magical artifact in the country, who can stop our Qin army from attacking and breaking the sharp edge in the future?" All the generals congratulated the emperor.
"Hahaha, the red cannon is indeed a magic weapon to rule the country, but it is just a weapon after all. Don't put the cart before the horse."
"Holding mountains and rivers is dangerous and solid, and creating unparalleled weapons is not as supportive as the hearts of the people. The country is in virtue but not in danger!" the emperor said with emotion. What the innovation of weapons can bring is only tactical innovation, and it cannot bring everything.
Just like Yang Guang had a million troops, he would still lose the world in the end.
Twenty red-clothed cannons bombarded more than 100 kilograms of huge rocks into the pass city one after another, and a thousand medium and small catapults were pushed to the city and began to bombard the sky.
Seeing that the city had been smashed and completely lost its power of resistance, Yuchi Jingde was overjoyed and waved his sword and roared repeatedly.
"Follow me to the city!"
In the second year of Kaiyuan in the Great Qin Dynasty, mid-June.
Chapter completed!