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There is a wide river in the north of Dangyin, named Dangshui. Dangyin is named after it. About three miles south of Dangshui, there is a circular hill with weeds on the mountain, and there are no people except foxes, rabbits, deer and rats. But ten days ago, hundreds of dragon and wolf soldiers suddenly appeared in this deserted hill, including cavalry and infantry, blocking the deserted hill. More than a hundred infantry set up post towers at high places and checkpoints at the entrance of the valley; while hundreds of cavalry were spread out in three groups for several miles, patrolling day and night.

Previously, there were no less than ten whistle cavalry in Yecheng who had spied across the river, but after Ma Han led his army to Dangyin, he directly dispatched 200 Dragon Wolf Cavalry, and at an average daily speed of seven levels, he killed more than twenty enemy whistle cavalry in just three days. After that, the Yuan army's whistle cavalry did not dare to approach a hundred miles.

The generals followed Ma Han to the valley entrance of this hill, and walked towards the valley under the guidance of the garrison army. The generals were confused. It was unlikely that they would be ambushed when they saw that they did not look like they were stationed soldiers. Instead, they saw some wooden houses, but they were obviously not barns, which meant they were not food storage places. So what were the purpose of these soldiers guarding this place as if they were facing a great enemy? Could it be that the mystery was hidden in these seemingly simple houses?

When the generals walked to the depths of the valley, their eyes were immediately attracted by a row of buildings in front of them. But hundreds of steps ahead were a three-meter-wide and three-meter-high. The thickness was equivalent to half a wall of the city wall. This wall not only had military buildings such as pheasant discs and women's walls, but also had two rows of about twenty grass men with reed branches. The military uniforms worn by the grass men were known to be simulated by Yuan's soldiers at a glance.

It is obvious that this is a section of the city wall in Yecheng "moving" to this place.

Ma Han pointed at the long whip: "This object was made by me by the craftsmen by referring to the thickness, height and width of the Yecheng city wall. Gong Ren, Jun Yi, Yuan Bo, you are familiar with Yecheng, so you might as well climb up this wall and check it out. See what is wrong."

Dong Zhao, Zhang He, Gao Lan all got off the horse and climbed up the steps, touched here and looked there. After getting the approval of Ma Han, Gao Lan pulled out a knife from his waist and cut a few times into the stent. He cut out a few shallow edges. Gao Lan rubbed the knife marks with his hand for a while and nodded. Finally, the three of them confirmed together that the wall, no matter whether it is high, thick or strong, was basically the same as the wall in Yecheng.

After reading this high imitation city wall, everyone still doesn’t know what to sell in the lord’s gourd.

Ma Han didn't say much, as if he had something to wait. After a while, one person walked out of an inconspicuous straw hut in the valley. He held the hem of the long gown and rushed to Ma Han from a distance: "Zuo Zhang Chang Ma Jun has seen General Cavalry."

When the generals saw that Ma Jun, who was affiliated with the General Office and specially created the company, appeared here, they were more or less surprised.

Ma Han didn't explain, and just nodded to Ma Jun: "How?"

Ma Jun bowed respectfully and said, "It's ready."

"So, let's start."

With Ma Han's faint command, the seemingly inconspicuous grass shed that Ma Jun walked out suddenly made a loud noise. The grass walls on all sides were pushed down and the roof was lifted up. The smoke and dust were stirring up, and the grass chips flew. This sudden big noise scared the war horses under the generals' crotch and made a long neigh. The generals were shocked and suspicious, and they all turned around.

Although they were mentally prepared, when the smoke and dust disappeared and the huge creature was revealed, everyone couldn't help but stare at the big one, full of questions - what is this?

This is a siege-like thing made of hard wood, with long arms, thick central shafts, dense ropes, and heavy hanging baskets. The height of its main frame is almost flush with the "city wall". Around this strange siege, are eight powerful soldiers of Kongwu in rows.

Ma Chao walked up, looked left and right, patted and pushed, and then said to Ma Jun: "This thing is not less than a thousand pounds, and the base frame is wide, so it is not easy to overturn. But Deheng, you don't have wheels, how can you push it?"

Ma Jun smiled and said, "It is usually disassembled, assembled in time, and carried in a ox cart, without wheels."

"What?" Ma Chao screamed in fuss, "It only takes time to assemble it? That's not just assemble it under the city wall? How many people will die..."

Ma Han and Ma Jun looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.

Looking at the inexplicable expressions on Ma Chao and the generals' faces, Ma Han finally spoke: "This is not a siege, but a siege... I don't have to worry about it, but please calmly observe it."

Ma Jun looked at the sharp weapon made by himself, then looked at the "city wall" two hundred steps away, his eyes were burning and hot. I don't know where he took out a triangular red flag and waved it hard, and the eight soldiers on standby took action immediately.

First, the four sergeants turned the winch and used two pulley sets on both sides of the bracket to raise a huge leather wooden counterweight hoist box filled with mud and stone weighing 5,000 kilograms, and parked it on the front bracket. Because of the use of crawler ratchet tips, the winch will not reverse and the counterweight box will not fall after the counterweight box is raised. At this time, the other two sergeants began to turn the turntable behind the seat frame, pull the arm rod down, and then use a sliding hook to fix it at the bottom of the wheelbarrow. The last two sergeants put the round stone bullet weighing 50 kilograms into the cowhide bag.

Everything was ready, Ma Jun began to calculate the distance, arm resistance, and adjust the counterweight. Finally, he felt that there was no problem, so he retreated to the side, raised the red flag and slashed violently.

A sergeant held a sledgehammer and tried hard to hit the iron bolt. The machine spring bounced, the sliding hook slipped off, the counterweight box fell, and the arm boom bounced up—

call--

The generals opened their mouths wide and watched the huge stone bullet fly into the air, flying three feet in front of the city wall. They landed on the ground with a bang, resounding throughout the valley, the ground trembled, and the stones were left with no ground. Fortunately, the war horses had been pulled away from afar, otherwise they would have had another tossing.

"Well, test shot, just test shot..." Ma Jun failed in the start, with awkward face and apologized repeatedly.

Ma Han didn't comment or blame him. Even modern artillery shells were tested, let alone ancient stone casters.

Before the generals could come back from the shock, after another repeated operation, the second stone flew out with a bullet.

Boom! This time, the stone bullet hit the city wall accurately, and mud and sand splashed everywhere, and the pheasant saucer shattered, and the grass nearby were all penetrated by the splashed hard mud blocks, which was amazing.

As Ma Jun continued to adjust the shooting distance, the red flag in his hand slashed down again and again, and the more he threw the flying stones, he became more and more fiercely, ten consecutive shots, except for two off-target, eight shots were all hit. The city wall was smashed beyond recognition, the female wall was broken, and the wall collapsed in the middle, and the straw man had been swept away. The last shot was like straw that crushed the camel. With a loud bang, the stone fell into the city and exploded, and the smoke and dust rolled into the sky.

The onlookers, the guards around, and the guards on the mail tower were all stunned, and even the mud and dust swelled up, they forgot to shut up.

Although it has been recorded in the Spring and Autumn Period and was used when Qin destroyed the six kingdoms, it has been lost over the past few hundred years. Not to mention ordinary soldiers, even Xun You, Dong Zhao, Le Jin, Xu Huang, Zhang He, etc., who are familiar with allusions and proficient in military tactics, no one has ever seen the map, let alone the real thing. Therefore, he witnessed it for the first time and was shocked.

Liu Ye quickly stepped forward, and looked around the catapult while tinkering, regardless of the mud and dust, his face was dark and yellow, and he walked over with excitement and surprise: "Ye once saw this figure from the collection of his ancestors. He was quite surprised. He wanted to make a tool, but he was not skilled and worked too much, so he did not succeed. He never thought that the general had a loom... But Ye had something unknown, and this object seemed to be different from the ancient picture. The ancient picture contained many people needed human power, but looking at the general's tools, he replaced human power with a hundred pounds of heavy objects, and there were various machine spring lock hooks, which were linked together. Such exquisiteness and the legacy of the Mohist school. I wonder if it was due to the improvement of the general and Ma Zuozhang, or there were other ancient pictures?"

Ma Han smiled and said, "I have never seen any ancient pictures. If Zi Yang has them, can you find them?"

Liu Ye was both amazed and shook his head: "Ye's hidden pictures are far apart, not worthy of observation, not worthy of observation."

Pang De couldn't help but interrupt: "If this thing can be heavier and twice as big as it will be even better if it can throw a hundred kilograms of huge rocks."

"Yes!" Ma Chao also looked up and said, "If a few huge rocks are smashed down, the wall will collapse."

Ma Han looked at Ma Jun, and the latter smiled bitterly: "In theory, it's OK, but it's very difficult to make, and it's also very troublesome to carry and use. And the general believes that big may not be better..."

The counterweight trencher developed by Ma Han and Ma Jun is just a medium-sized trencher. A real large trencher with a weight of more than ten tons and can throw hundreds of kilograms of stone bombs. However, the targets of this giant trencher are mostly Western stone castles, and it is not too much to be overweight. What Ma Han wants to deal with is just rammed earth buildings, so there is no need to develop such a large guy. After all, the larger the size of the trencher, the heavier it is. The difficulty of manufacturing, transportation, assembly, bomb making, and casting will increase exponentially or even several times, causing the cost of war to increase.

Strategic weapons are either the more powerful they are, the better they are. The most suitable ones are the best.

Ma Han asked the generals with a smile: "How?"

Yu Jin couldn't hide his excitement. This was the special force he was about to command. He asked Ma Jun anxiously: "How many such catapults are there?"

Ma Jun pointed to the inconspicuous earthen houses and wooden houses in the valley: "It's all there."

This time, even Le Jin couldn't help it: "How many?"

Ma Jun raised his outstretched finger: "Nearly a hundred."

Yu Jin sighed lightly: "Yecheng, it's over."

Zhang He bowed deeply to Ma Han: "I only ask the lord to defeat Yecheng when he defeats Yecheng, and save the life of the third prince Yuan."

Ma Han said lightly: "Of course, if he is lucky enough."

Yes, thousands of troops attack the city, sharp weapons are all out, arrows and stones are like rain, swords and guns are blind, and no one can guarantee that anyone can survive to the end, everything depends on luck.
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