Chapter 488: Plans cannot keep up with changes (please vote and subscribe)
The scouts led by You Ye have been out for a few days, and the location of the battle has been set at Fuma Pass. A large amount of equipment stored by the Han tribe is also being transported to Fuma Pass. Luo Chong, the backbone of the Han tribe, is also the "god" in the eyes of the two tribal alliances that have just moved south. He is no exception and appears on the wall of Fuma Pass.
The two walls of the city wall are each six or seven hundred meters long. Although they are built with rammed earth and no bricks and stones are used, the thickness and height are there, and ordinary attacks are completely useless.
The two walls are now full of young and strong people who have just moved in. That's right, they live.
The new city behind Fuma Pass has just laid its foundation and doesn't even have a wall. It is impossible to use it for defense. The city wall in front cannot be inhabited. It is used to lock up the enemy. In addition, there are steep cliffs between the two walls, and the plank road connecting the two walls has not been built. It is not very convenient to go up and down the wall. So instead of waiting for the enemy to come and then climb the wall, it is better to live on it first.
Women and children have been transferred to Hanyang City. Among the 3,000 people who moved here, nearly 1,000 men stayed behind. Together with the temporary reorganized teams of the two alliances, there are about 1,500 defenders and craftsmen left at Fuma Pass.
800 people are deployed here on the first wall, and 700 people on the second wall. In this state of war, these people have not been off the wall for several days. They eat, drink, defecate, urinate and sleep on it.
However, it is not crowded. The two walls are 12 or 13 meters high, about 5 meters wide at the top, and 600 to 700 meters long. Even if there are 2,000 people stationed on one wall, it will not seem crowded.
The reason why the wall was made so wide was that Luo Chong planned to deploy large weapons on the top of the wall in the future, but he did not expect it to be put to use so soon.
I saw that in the battlements of the first wall, there was a temporary fully loaded crossbow every 20 meters. There were 34 crossbows on the entire wall, which was not a small number, but not too many. In Luo Chong's opinion, the density of these 34 crossbows was still too low for the length of the entire wall.
"Quick, quick, quick, string it up, shoot one shot and see how far it can hit. Let's calibrate the range first." Luo Chong, standing on the wall, said to the soldier who was debugging the crossbow next to him.
"Yes, leader."
The two soldiers from Liuyang County also began to learn how to operate the crossbow under the guidance of the craftsmen of Hanyang City. This thing is actually not difficult. People who have played with bows and arrows or hand crossbows will not be too unfamiliar, because this is still the same type of weapon after all, just a little bit bigger.
The two quickly completed a winch stringing action, and then placed an oversized crossbow arrow in the arrow slot of the crossbow, which is actually a javelin.
Here we have to talk about the man-eating tree that grows in the basin behind the Fuma Pass. It can be said that since Luo Chong discovered that strange tree, he has been continuously cutting materials from the tree.
A large number of arrows, spear shafts, and giant arrows for bed crossbows similar to javelins, and even side dishes such as syrup nodules, are continuously delivered to several counties of the Han tribe. However, Luo Chong did not treat the tree badly. Every time he sent people to get materials, he would actively feed it with some animal blood and flesh. As a result, the man-eating tree did not continue to expand over the past few years, but it did not lose nutrients and wither.
As the leader of the Han tribe, Luo Chong naturally knew the importance of this tree. It was precisely because of this that he deliberately blocked the road and built a city from the valley north of the man-eating tree. The strategic purpose of doing so, in addition to defending against the enemy from the north, another important reason was that Luo Chong wanted to completely incorporate the man-eating tree into the territory of the Han tribe.
"Fire." Seeing the two soldiers equip the javelins, Luo Chong immediately gave the order to test fire.
Another old tribesman who had moved from Hanyang nodded and moved the wooden block behind the crossbow to adjust the height and angle. He adjusted it to 45 degrees according to the scale on it. Needless to say, this is the longest range of the parabola.
After determining the firing angle, he picked up two hammers and knocked at the firing mechanism behind the crossbow.
Bang
As
the hook of the bowstring fell down, the three hardwood longbows immediately rebounded, and the long bowstrings, driven by the bow arms and pulleys, shot out the short spears.
In an instant, the sharp and thin short spears drew a beautiful arc in the sky, flew more than 300 meters through the air, and then plunged into the ground.
This wonderful scene immediately caused hundreds of people on the entire city wall to cheer together. With such weapons in hand, they would not be afraid of any enemy.
Especially the group of people from the tribal alliance who had just gone south and were followed by cannibals all the way, saw the artifact invented by the new leader, and they couldn't help but get excited.
"It seems that our decision is right. This person must be a god from heaven who has come to the world to lead us to defeat the enemy. We don't have to run around anymore."
Just as everyone was cheering, Luo Chong shook his head secretly behind him. He was very dissatisfied with the result of the experiment.
First of all, there is the range of the crossbow. Luo Chong was a soldier in his previous life. He was familiar with all kinds of modern weapons and had played with many of them himself. However, he also did a lot of research on the history of ancient cold weapons.
According to historical records, the bed crossbow of the Song Dynasty could already shoot about a kilometer. Although it sounds a bit exaggerated, it is actually because the units in ancient times are different from those in modern times. Converted to modern distances, the range of the Eight Oxen Crossbow of the Song Dynasty should be about 600 meters. There was even a glorious record of blowing up the heads of enemy generals with a crossbow on the top of the city.
However, Luo Chong's bed crossbow only has a range of about 300 meters, which is half the range, which is about the same as the longest range of longbow projectiles. It is too bad. Not to mention the range, the key accuracy is also rubbish. Luo Chong stood right behind the bed crossbow to watch the trajectory. From the launch to the final landing more than 300 meters away, the landing point actually deviated by more than 20 meters horizontally. Can this be called a weapon?
However, he knew where the problem of accuracy deviation came from. In fact, it had nothing to do with the bed crossbow, but with the short spears used. The short spears used on the entire city wall were the earliest batch of bronze spear-headed javelins of the Han tribe. They were originally temporary and did not even have tail feathers. How could they guarantee the stability of flight?
For example, the giant arrows used for bed crossbows should generally be made of iron to make the spear head and installed with iron tail feathers. One is to reduce the weight of the arrow, and the other is to ensure the stability of the arrow's flight. In short, there are still many places that need to be modified in this bed crossbow.
Finally, after several test firings, Luo Chong tested the performance of this temporarily modified bed crossbow in all aspects. The short spear without tail feathers and the temporarily assembled bed crossbow can only get the best compatibility in power and trajectory stability at a distance of 150 meters. At this distance, the left and right deviations do not exceed two meters, and basically there is no problem in using it to deal with giant apes.
The next step was to have people mark outside the city. Outside the city wall, mark distances of 50 meters, 100 meters, and up to 300 meters in sequence. In this way, when the enemy attacks, the people on the city wall can choose different weapons based on those distance markers to make the most correct counterattack.
But what Luo Chong didn't expect was that when his defense preparations and preparations to lure the enemy were all done well, the enemy did not play by his rules.
Seeing a letter from an eagle on the east bank of the Ru River in his hand, Luo Chong couldn't help but frowned.
"The enemy actually crossed the river?! The hunting patrol team of Liuyang County discovered a large number of enemies to the north of Sitong County, and the immigrants from Sitong County have been temporarily transferred to Hanyang City!
No traces of giant apes were found in the team!"
(End of this chapter)
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