I am a child of Daqin Xiong, who supervises the country at the age of eight

Chapter 407 Counterweight Catapult

The moment Ying Changsheng's voice fell, the soldier next to him couldn't help frowning.

The reason is very simple. The technical content of the trebuchet is not high, and it is not complicated to make, but the problem is.

So what if the trebuchet is made?

I saw an officer frowning and reporting to Ying Changsheng.

"What can the nineteenth son succeed in building a trebuchet for our army??"

"We are now under the city wall, and the defenders on the city wall are condescending. The catapults they use are condescending, and the range is much farther than ours. Even if we can successfully build the catapult, we cannot Throw the stones from the trebuchet!"

The moment the officer's voice fell, Ying Changsheng frowned slightly.

If you think about it carefully, there is indeed some truth to what the latter said.

After all, the enemy on the city wall was condescending at the moment when the projectiles they fired hit down.

It will definitely be launched under the action of gravitational potential energy, which is more authentic.

Thinking of this, Ying Changsheng couldn't help but frown.

He thought carefully about the solution, and after thinking for a while, Ying Changsheng immediately opened his mouth to the officer.

"I have a way to solve this problem. Now I want you to build a trebuchet, a brand-new trebuchet, a trebuchet that has never been seen before, a huge trebuchet with an extremely long range!"

"Is there such a thing?"

At the moment when Ying Changsheng's voice fell, the soldiers next to him unavoidably let out an exclamation, only to hear Ying Changsheng chuckle, and then opened his mouth to speak.

"Why is it impossible? There are many magical things in this world, and this is one of them!"

After Ying Changsheng finished speaking, he immediately waved his hand, and someone took it. He took some paper and pens, and then he quickly drew a simple sketch on the paper with a brush.

After the sketch was drawn, Ying Changsheng then handed the sketch he had drawn to the officer on the side.

"Immediately, send someone to find wood, and then make this thing according to the requirements on the blueprint!"

"My subordinate understands!"

The moment Ying Changsheng's voice fell, the officer next to him could not show any slightest hesitation. He quickly followed what Ying Changsheng said, took the drawing in his hand, and immediately went to look for wood.

In the army of the Great Qin Empire, soldiers came from all over the world, and all the soldiers in the army needed some soldiers who were proficient in making tools and machinery.

Because it is inevitable in the current era when marching and fighting, it is necessary to make machinery of one kind or another.

Under such circumstances, such a skill must be mastered in order to make the army invincible.

At this time, the soldiers did not dare to neglect in the slightest.

They go to prepare.

And while they are preparing.

at the same time.

Dou Ran on the top of the city wall did not dare to attack them when he saw the Qin army below the city wall.

After seeing these troops from Qin.

It actually stopped, stopped under the city wall.

Then, there was no time to attack them.

For a while, among the defenders on the city wall, Dou Ran, who was wearing armor, thought he was going to have a bloody battle.

Suddenly, he let out a long breath.

Realizing that he had escaped from Ascension, he had a chance of survival.

The Qin army did not rush to attack, which means.

For the time being, he could stay on the city wall, and Gou Yuan could barely breathe for a while.

For a while, Dou Ran breathed a sigh of relief.

And he didn't know the date of his death, it was already very soon.

As long as the trebuchet needed to win longevity is completed, there will not be long time left for his death.

The technical difficulty of the trebuchet is actually not very high.

Historically, the trebuchet was born in China in the early Warring States period. Of course, the trebuchet that was born at that time was not the kind of trebuchet that everyone imagined in later generations.

The trebuchet was born at that time.

It is a very backward weapon. This kind of trebuchet generates kinetic energy through human pulling, and then throws stones.

In this way, the purpose of killing is achieved.

This kind of weapon is the weapon used by Dou Ran and the others on the city wall.

Naturally, Ying Changsheng would not make such a weapon.

Because the officer just made it very clear that this kind of trebuchet has a very short range. Under such circumstances, if this kind of trebuchet is used, it is obvious that there is no way to attack the city, so Ying Changsheng wants to make it at this time. trebuchet.

Actually a very advanced trebuchet.

It stands to reason that the Great Qin Empire has entered the era of gunpowder weapons at this time, and there is no need to study backward kinetic energy weapons such as trebuchets.

But the problem is that they did not carry artillery.

So I had to pick up this outdated weapon again.

Ying Changsheng ordered the craftsmen to make trebuchets.

It is a trebuchet that was born in the twelfth century in history.

This kind of trebuchet was called a counterweight trebuchet in later generations.

It uses the lever principle to install a large wooden box in front of the trebuchet, then fills it with stones, generates great kinetic energy through the lever principle, and then throws the boulders out.

In this way, a huge killing effect is achieved, and the range is still very far.

At this time, after Ying Changsheng's order was issued, the bows and arrows in the army did not dare to neglect in the slightest. They quickly searched for some wood from all around.

And then these wood.

All of them were processed, and it didn't take a long time to successfully make it, a trebuchet.

Ying Changsheng, who was staying in the tent at this time, heard that the soldiers had finished making this thing.

Suddenly his face showed joy.

Only to see Ying Changsheng showing a satisfied smile.

Then he said with a smile.

"Not bad, quickly add earth and rocks to the wooden box in front, and then look for some rocks to serve as shells, to see how far it can hit, and if it can hit, hit the city wall in the distance!"

After Ying Changsheng's order was issued.

For a moment, the soldiers nearby did not dare to be negligent at all. Then a large amount of earth and stone was added to the counterweight box in front of the net head period. After it was full, the lever on the trebuchet was slowly pulled. Come down.

After it was fixed, a soldier carried a stone weighing more than ten kilograms to the tail of the trebuchet and installed the stone in the bag that fired the stone.

Immediately after doing this, Ying Changsheng gave an order.

I saw the soldiers start the trebuchet immediately.

The stone was immediately thrown out.

Then it formed a beautiful parabola, and then hit the city wall from a distance.

This really shocked everyone present. The reason is very simple. Everyone originally thought that the trebuchet was so far away from the city wall of Guangling County.

(End of this chapter)