This traveler only wants to choose the lowest difficulty

Chapter 268 Self-esteem is very high
After the three Wu Junsmiths were driven away in despair, Hou Junji took a closer look at the newly built machine and was full of joy. Before leaving, Wang Dong presented all the blueprints and drafts of the trebuchet manufacturing that he had sorted out a long time ago. .

This thing was originally intended to be given to Hou Junji to ask for credit, but now that it was presented, Hou Junji was naturally overjoyed, so he left happily after all kinds of compliments.

Early the next morning, Wang Dong was notified to go to the Zhongguan Mansion on the march to bring back a dozen soldiers who had learned how to operate the trebuchet, and there was also a young man dressed as a civil servant who looked no more than 20 years old.

Hou Junji introduced to Wang Dong that this person was named Liang Shu, who was a newly assigned arithmetic student in Longxi from the Imperial College, and was currently working as a clerk in the Marching General Manager's Mansion.

A group of people came out of the military commander's mansion, and Wang Dong took them outside the city. After seeing the huge trebuchet, the soldiers were very excited.

"This machine is so huge, its power must be scary."

"Master Wang, it's really amazing that you can make such a machine."

Wang Dong smiled and listened to the rainbow farts of the crowd, but at this moment he suddenly heard an accent in the pass nearby saying: "Well, trebuchets of this size are not uncommon in front of the battle, it's just that our Tang army used to have manpower trebuchets Now it has been changed to the method of counterweight, which is rather novel.”

Wang Dong turned around in astonishment, and saw that the speaker was touching his chin at the side and making a profound statement.

Seeing the haughty and disdainful expression on his face, Wang Dong instantly understood the situation. This little thing about him was actually looked down upon by highly educated newcomers in the workplace.

Wang Dong thought for a while. Although he didn't remember whether Liang Shu left his name in history, but thinking about it, he could know that Guozijian, as the highest institution in the Tang Dynasty, recruited all the noble children at the beginning of its establishment. Those who graduated from the Imperial College were considered students, and their families must have some influence, and after studying for so many years, of course they felt superior to others, and it was normal to look down on them with low education.

Wang Dong smiled, and said to the army craftsmen and He Luo: "First demonstrate the launch of the trebuchet for everyone to see."

After he finished speaking, he asked the soldiers who came to learn how to operate the trebuchet to retreat to the back together with Liang Shu. The soldiers said that Wang Dong's trebuchet was the best in the world, but they were actually flattering. It is the largest machine, but this kind of manpower trebuchet is still used a lot in front of the Tang army. There are several in Shanzhou City, so when seeing this trebuchet, everyone feels that although it is still Shocking, but not as exaggerated as they boasted.

Hearing that Wang Dong was going to use the trebuchet, everyone stood aside and watched. The next moment they saw only six people running into the cage under the trebuchet and began to roll up the rocker arm of the trebuchet. This scene shocked everyone. Opened his mouth wide, in order to use such a large trebuchet in the past, at least three NO. The machine can be operated by only six people.

Wang Dong turned his head to look at them with a smile, and found that even Liang Shu, who had shown disdain just now, was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but secretly amused.

Soon the trebuchet was set up, and Wang Dong directly asked them to put a [-]-jin stone as ammunition.

Then with an order, the huge stone was thrown into the sky with the sound of breaking wind.

Seeing the formation of the stones soaring into the sky, everyone was even more amazed. Compared with the human trebuchet, the shape of the gravity trebuchet is not necessarily more powerful, but because of the higher power efficiency, the scene when it is launched is far better than that of the human trebuchet. The feeling of lightness when launching was much more shocking, just like when Hou Junji saw the launch of the gravity trebuchet before.The reaction was the same, and everyone was frightened by the aura when the stone was blasted out of the sky like an earth-shattering one.

When he saw the stone hitting the ground and sinking directly into the soil, even Liang Shu was about to fall down. No matter how disdainful he was, he had to admit that the power of this thing was absolutely overwhelming. State weapon level.

Wang Dong laughed as he watched the soldiers receive a novice education, and then ordered He La and the others to pull up a wooden fence.

These wooden fences are about 16 meters high. After demonstrating the parabolic trajectory to Hou Junji yesterday, Wang Dong asked these military craftsmen to rush to make them all afternoon.

The temporary wooden fence, of course, cannot be made strong. In fact, it is just a few long pieces of wood with ropes drawn to simulate the height of the city wall. badminton fence.

Seeing this thing, Liang Shu couldn't help but look puzzled, and asked Wang Dongdao, "What is this thing for?"

Don't even want to call me Shangguan...

Wang Dong pouted inwardly, and turned around to explain to the other soldiers who came to study: "This thing can simulate a city wall."

After he finished speaking, he ordered the military craftsmen to adjust the trebuchet to the parabolic shooting mode.A few minutes later, the trebuchet fired an oblique ballistic trajectory under the restraint of the iron chain. The catapult arm was raised less than halfway, but the stone was shot directly from the six-meter-high simulated city wall.

All the soldiers didn't understand what Wang Dong meant by shooting the ammunition through the city wall, but when they saw this shooting method, all of them were amazed. Even Liang Shu was surprised by Wang Dong's parabolic shooting method.

Then he didn't care about Wang Dong and the others, and ran under the trebuchet to study this thing by himself. After touching his chin for a while, he felt that he had figured out this thing thoroughly, so he came back and stood in front of Wang Dong and said directly: "You research This thing is quite interesting, if we can use stones of different weights to shoot, we should be able to make a chart, then we can place this trebuchet in the city and directly cross the city wall to attack the enemy below the city."

He Luo couldn't help but said: "Our adults have already figured out this way, do you want to talk more?"

Liang Shu had a disapproving expression on his face.

Wang Dong didn't bother to pay attention to him, and said to the students: "In the past few days, we just want to practice how to operate this projectile trajectory."

He then pointed to a wooden fence about 200 meters away.

The area of ​​that thing is about five square meters, and it looks like a small spot 200 meters away.

"This thing is to simulate the enemy's charging car. If you can operate the trebuchet to destroy it within two shots, you will be considered successful."

After Wang Dong said this, all the soldiers frowned, and even Liang Shu frowned. After thinking for a while, Liang Shu shook his head and said, "Master Wang, I think this training is really useless."

"Let's say that the angle of counterweight and the weight of the stone are different each time the trebuchet is lifted, and this subtle difference can make the range change very large."

"If adults want to be accurate, they can only make such a shooting table. It may take a month to try, and even if the shooting table is made, it can only be used for this trebuchet. Even if we learn , At that time, a new trebuchet will be built, is it possible to re-test the last month to make a table for it? It is too late before the battle.”

"It's better to let us practice using the trebuchet directly. After we are all familiar with the use of the trebuchet, when we actually go into battle, we will shoot a few shots to correct the impact point, and then slowly change the parameters to hit the target. This is more effective. "

Before he finished speaking, Wang Dong frowned in his heart. He finally understood why the teacher hated him interrupting the most in class, should he listen to you or me?
Wang Dong waited for him to finish speaking, and then directly ordered the military craftsmen: "Let's hit him once and show it to the students."

Hearing this, Liang Shu frowned and said:

"It's not easy to hit a distant target with such a projectile..."

Wang Dong ignored him, but called He Luodao to bring a small box, opened the box, and everyone saw Wang Dong took out a lot of equipment.

(End of this chapter)