Chapter 309 (2/2)

“Milord! Look! Liu Bei’sexpression After all, Liu Bei’s soldiers also did not give hi Cavalry experienced casualties the previous day

“They have not been beaten back!” Zhang Xiu was a ht of things more than Hu Che Er Liu Bei was not someone that would send his White Eared Soldiers to their deaths

Zhang Xiu’s doubts was soon resolved when he heard a loud and resonant sound that cae wooden structures

“Milord What are those?” Hu Che Er was still not faht on the Central Plains He also did not know about the wooden structure

“A catapult!” Zhang Xiu shouted In a primitive society, walls werethose times, walls were made of wood and were very short Beasts would rarely try and climb the walls After that, huainst beasts had lessened while threats against other people had increased As a result, stones started to be used to er The taller it is, the greater the advantage

However, the struggles between huht of the walls If walls could be s made to destroy walls The catapult is one such weapon This, rae weapons There were many that kne to e towers This was because Dong Zhongshu banned all the other schools that were not Confucianism Because of this, only a few people learned e towers and even less people kne to es were dependant on the rams and the nuer would be the winner With the catapult the casualties would reduce

“Catapults?” Hu Che Er looked at the ical The large arrows shot by the ballista the day before made Hu Che Er feel very uncomfortable There had been countless deaths but Hu Che Er knew that the ballistae were treasures

“Catapults?” Xu Shu gave a similar reaction on the walls He did not expect Liu Bei’s Army to take out catapults “Could it be that the industrial area was not completely burned down? Did Liu Bei obtain the blueprints?” Xu Shu did not dare to think further It would becoed to obtain Liu Mang’s blueprints The walls would not be able to hold out against the attacks fro Yi explained that the blueprints was not at the industrial zone but had long beenvalued talents at Shouchun, including craftsh they do not understand ’s things were ht and also well paid Their position is not any inferior co Yi placed priority in protecting them

“Then how could this happen?” Xu Shu looked attentively He then noticed that the structure was different fro lever However, this catapult was like a wheel Xu Shu did not knoerful it was but he knew that the Liu Bei’s Army would be able to use it properly “The Liu Bei’s Aro down quickly and give an order for wet leather and bedding to be brought over!” Xu Shu hastily gave his order No matter hoerful the catapults were, Xu Shu would need to be prepared

“Understood!” Deng YiYi returned He only ed to find about ten sheets of leather and a little bit of bedding “Quickly cover the walls with it!” The catapults would throw rocks and smash the walls with it Xu Shu intended to soften the blorapping the walls with so?” The youth frohed as he saw the preparations “It would work if it was an ordinary catapult However, this iscatapult2!”

Soon, Xu Shu would experience the feeling of being attacked by catapults

“Report Milord, the preparations are complete!” The catapults had been prepared The rocks had been placed on the wheel

“Good Now bring down those walls!” Liu Bei spoke resentfully He had been suffocating froht back

“Yes!” The soldier replied The ten catapults started to e handle on the wheel The soldiers turned this handle, causing the wheel to h speed The rock would be thrown fro a certain velocity

The first volley of rocks fell onto the city walls, se to the walls was reduced by the cushi+oning Besides that, the angle and position of the hit was also lower as it was just the first shot The soldiers on the walls gave a sigh of relief

“Hm? Is that all?” Liu Bei was disappointed He had believed that the catapults would bring him a major victory or at least destroy the ballistae However, the first volley only produced such little results Only a few soldiers had been se rocks that fell onto the walls

“Milord Do not be i also had cold sweat If the catapults also had no effect, they would need to start throwing lives away

“Did you think you can block it with just wet leather? You !” The youth was still very confident He then shouted loudly “Move faster! Raise the angle and shoot!” Under the youth’s guidance, the shooting angle of the catapult was adjusted The people working the catapults also worked faster

The rocks were then shot towards the walls again Unlike last tih the wet leather could soften the ie The walls that had been bo time could not take it

“What?” Xu Shu did not expect those catapults to shoot rapidly like the ballista Even Liu Mang’s catapults could not do this This was because Liu Mang prioritized its strength with ach rock was having a hundred and fifty kilograms On the other hand, this catapult shot rapidly without letting the soldiers on the walls rest

The wet leather was soon unable to hold out Rocks that fell onto the walls instantly killed the soldiers When it crashed on the wall, it also broke into pieces and in soinal catapults were like a scale with a bucket at one end This bucket was filled with rocks The other side would tied withbattle, soldiers would expand a lot of energy to pull the ropes The ropes would then be released for the rocks to be thrown at the enes It takes a lot of ti catapult designed by Ma Jun overcas It used a wooden wheel and the rock is placed on it That hen the wheel is rotated rapidly, the rocks would be launched continuously Ma Jun had been testing it and felt that it would become very powerful when it could throw hundreds of rocks in a row

“Return fire! Fight back with the ballista!” Deng Yi shouted loudly The soldiers holding the wet leather to soften the blows3,to use the ballista? How unfortunate!” The youth was somewhat pleased The catapults he created was able to supress the ballista Naturally, he would feel happy

“General Our ballista is unable to hurt them!” One man shouted Their arroere blocked by shi+eld soldiers in front of the catapult The ballista could only harass the Yi shouted while Xu Shu laughed bitterly ‘So they were just testing us earlier!’

Seven hundred paces away This is the safe distance discovered by sacrificing the lives of seven hundred White Eared Soldiers

The accuracy of the catapults increased as time passed Screams resounded on the walls as the rocks continued to crash onto it

“Oh no! The ballista!” Deng Yi shouted “Quick Push the ballistae in!” Deng Yi ordered for the ballistae to be pushed into the tower He even helped the nearby soldiers to push the ballistae However, it was too late

“General! Be careful!” A bodyguard pushed Deng Yi away Deng Yi wanted to curse but before he could say anything, he found out that the place he was standing at turned into a pit Pieces of the ballista and the guard who pushed him was scattered all over the place

There had been twelve ballistae Theyten had been destroyed

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我马钧的轮转式抛石机Had trouble with this First one all, he supposedly clai) was a Chinese ht so far However, the man lived in the state of Cao Wei, established by Cao Pi during year 220 AD In other words, he did not work for Liu Bei Also can’t find his date of birth Hethis period Secondly, he never inal timeline so I a wheel rock throwing nificant lack of explanation, I cannot tell if they used a rotating lever or that the catapult itself is a spinning thing of some sort (feels like a heel, catapult version) I doubted that it is a trebuchet since Pang Tong and co clai’s catapult However, trebuchets were supposed to be of the superior Having different things with saonel, soer, soer = trebuchet

I know it is not a s Could be a traction trebuchet or a counterweight trebuchet

Have mercy! Release e weapon research!

They are holding the wet leather, using them like trampolines