Eagle Byzantium

After saying that, the little sunfish raised his hand and stood on the slope. The servant behind him raised the red umbrella cover. This was a signal - the civilian soldiers and many military servants and craftsmen at the foot of the mountain shouted, At the sound of the trumpet, the wood equipment prepared last night and previously was placed more than a thousand feet away from Alalman Fort, and began to build siege equipment.

"It's just a joke. What can touch our city walls and towers from such a distance?" The three Kallegos looked at this scene from a distance, with expressions of confusion while laughing.

On the distant plain, under the protection of layers of Seleucid militia and Gemmagis soldiers, and under the strict supervision of Little Sunfish, the military servants took the lead in pushing out the thirty-anna long wooden plank along the laid planks. A wooden frame of cubits and seven and a half cubits wide was laid on a flat board, and then a beam of the same seven and a half feet was hammered on it at thirty-seven minutes of the entire frame. Then they used tools to erect a twelve-cubit-high column at both ends of the beam. They also laid supporting frames at diagonal angles on both sides of the column and fixed the column firmly to the frame. It was all because the Seleucia Legion had set weights and measures around Anna's body beforehand, and they were very precise and fast.

After everything was done, the little sunfish waved his arm again to signal, and the craftsmen leaned on the ladders on both sides of the pillars, climbed up one after another, and erected two holes of different sizes but different sizes in the circular holes drilled in advance at the ends of the pillars. A wooden roller that can be rotated, and a wooden box that can be used to extend the swing arm is nailed with an iron plate to increase its firmness - a team of military servants divided They formed two rows, and they jointly carried the extremely long wooden pole on their shoulders, which acted as a throwing arm. They stretched it in along the wooden box in the middle of the two pillars. At a suitable position, they were picked up by the craftsmen on the ladder. Use ropes, lifting lugs and other equipment to integrate it with the wooden box, and hang a "pocket box" reinforced with iron bars on the first rotating axis of the wooden box. On the other side, the same number of military servants drove an iron pulley with ropes into the rear end of the base frame, and used the ropes to tie the scorpion tail iron hook at the front of the long swing arm.

"Pull it down." Several military servants pulled the ropes at the four corners of the bottom of the box and pulled it down, while another long swing arm wooden pole also whizzed with a slight and lingering sound, bringing the iron pulley up the rope. It was emptied with a whoosh of rotation, swinging up into the air and held high. The empty leather magazine swayed in the wind, facing the turbulent Alamein Fort.

Then, many military servants began to put stones one by one into the torn-off sack box until it was full and became extremely heavy.

"Turn the pulley." Agnes on the hillside continued to command. The military servants and craftsmen made humming sounds. Several of them were sweating and turned the iron pulley at the back end of the frame in circles. rope After being pulled back onto the wheel, the swing arm creaked and was bent down with difficulty, until the heavy bag was slowly raised back, and the four ropes underneath it swung back and forth until the critical point. until the height.

At this moment, rounded stone bullets were put into the bullet pocket on the scorpion tail iron hook at the front end of the long swing arm pole. After being cross-tied and secured, several fixed gunners walked to the "Big Plani Cannon" On the side of the ship, using a small tool, he made a simple measurement of the angle and distance of the launch towards the Alamein Fort covered with beautiful morning light. Because previously, Agnes had created a set of fixed table formulas, and gunners who were proficient in mathematics could just copy them.

Alamein was completely "locked" on the wall. Many soldiers guarding the city opened their mouths and faced the behemoth-like new trebuchets erected in front of them. There were five of them in total. They successively fired from the hiding sheds and The people behind the crenel stood up and whispered, and the whole air was filled with an uneasy atmosphere.

The third son, Tyro Kallegos, was so angry that he waved his whip. He was appointed as the commander of the battlement. He started running back and forth between the walls, slapping the stunned soldiers on their backs everywhere, "Pull them back!" , the enemy is about to launch a cannon!" It was a little late, but then he saw the five "Big Plani Cannons" lined up below suddenly making a beast-like sound, and the roar shook the whole place. A field and a fortress - the gunners shook the iron pulley mechanism in their hands and smashed it down with a hammer. The ropes on it suddenly started to rotate, and the shaking hands were like a rapid whirlwind. Unchecked bags were accumulating heavily there. Under the gravity of the lifted stone, it fell suddenly with a hula, driving the long swing arm over there to draw a perfect arc in the air. The stone in its pocket Under the action of the extremely powerful centrifugal force, the bullet broke free from its tether, spinning like a top. In a very short moment, with unparalleled speed and impact force, it crossed a distance of 1,400 feet: five bullets The projectiles were arranged in a row, three of them were slightly lower than the sandwich wall. They penetrated through the wall and brought with them the exploded powder and gravel. When they came out from the side of the sandwich wall, they also carried a huge amount of bullets. The kinetic energy was until they smashed into the swamp on the west side of the sandwich wall; the other two instantly shattered a tower with one shot, and the other shot smashed two battlements under the tower, chipping away the people standing on them. The heads and upper bodies of more than a dozen defenders were everywhere, and the remains of their lower bodies were still twitching and crawling on the ground. There were also pieces of armor, bricks and human organs falling down one after another.

A stone bullet passed by Taylor's nose a few feet away. The three private soldiers in front of him were all smashed half of their bodies and died in battle. Taylor instinctively and embarrassedly fell on the battlefield, covered with dust and blood. Then he raised his face and looked at the devastated scene in front of him, and the soldiers who were wailing and crawling with their butts sticking up. His mouth and nose were numb. He continued to lie there, trembling like a sieve with great fear. He really didn't know what to do, let alone issue any instructions!

"Long live!" Seeing a round of volleys, the Seleucid soldiers who had achieved significant damage on the walls of the enemy's large and small cities raised their flags and cheered loudly. Amid the sound, the gunners and servants under the Great Plani Gun began to turn the rope on the iron wheel again, retracting and pulling the long swing arm pole - this kind of device that uses the principle of steelyard to fire cannons has no precedent in the entire Eastern Roman Empire, Franks, and even Saracens and Persian regions. It has a long range and great power, and it also has a most prominent advantage, that is, it does not need many gunners and craftsmen to pull the firing rope like the Persian catapult in Antioch. Once the bag is full and the iron wheel is set up, it can be fired back and forth, and the frequency actually increases a lot.

Soon, with a terrifying whistling sound, the second round of five stone bullets came like a whirlwind, and soon the wall was shaky and filled with smoke and dust, and was penetrated in several places. But between the walls, the brave Alaman people still held up wooden frames and baskets, trying to repair the holes that the stone bullets had passed through. (To be continued ~^~)