Datang: My apprentice is Princess Changle

Chapter 597 The Trebuchet

Chapter 612 Catapult

In the evening, a convoy arrived at the Tubo camp from the direction of Tubo, and after showing their identity tokens, they were taken to meet the Tubo king.

"Mr. Cui is here? Please come in." He said politely, but the king of Tubo sat there without moving, only to be invited.

He didn't get up until he heard footsteps coming from outside, and said with a smile to the man who walked in: "Mr. Cui, long time no see, you look more elegant than before."

Taking off the face scarf he was wearing, the man dressed in ordinary Tubo clothes replied without changing his face: "Your Majesty has praised you."

Even if he could feel the contempt hidden in the Tubo king's attitude towards him, as the Bolingcui family, he really had no other choice.

As long as the king of Tubo is willing to be an enemy of the king of Youzhou, he will help him.

He pointed to the person who followed him and said, "Your Majesty, the purpose of coming here next time is to give him a sharp weapon to attack the city! This man is a very powerful craftsman trained by our Bolingcui family. He is good at making Artifacts, not long ago, he imitated the red cannon in Youzhou, and made a trebuchet. This trebuchet is not used for throwing stones, but is specially used for throwing explosives. It can throw at least 500 Mi! Your Majesty, if this thing is used on the battlefield, wouldn’t it help the Tubo army a lot?”

"Is this true? Did he really build this kind of trebuchet?" When the King of Tubo heard what "Mr. Cui" said, he stood up in surprise and asked happily.

Mr. Cui nodded and said: "Naturally! I have tried it before, and 500 meters is only the most conservative estimate, and it can be farther! And it can be adjusted, the target and length of the throw can be adjusted! This time we directly brought ten An improved trebuchet, I hope it can help the king!"

"Hahahaha! Mr. Cui! Your help is very timely!" The King of Tubo, who was just polite before, strode down this time, patted Mr. Cui on the shoulder, and said happily.

The King of Tubo ignored the craftsman next to him. After all, his identity was that of Mr. Cui's slave.

Since he is a slave, then the things made by this man belong to Mr. Cui.

Naturally, the king of Tubo would not lower his status to be kind to someone else's slave.

As long as he can face King Youzhou, he is the only choice for the ex-direct descendants of the Boling Cui family who are fleeing.

Even if other small countries or tribes dared to take in the Bolingcui family, they were limited to taking in them.

Want to go up against the King of Youzhou?Want to offend Datang?
Apart from today's Tubo, how many dare to do this?

The king of Tubo is full of pride!
At such a critical moment, Mr. Cui suddenly came with such a sharp weapon for siege. Doesn't it mean that God favors him?

This is God supporting him!
The Tubo king did not delay, and immediately followed Mr. Cui out, and came to the convoy brought by Mr. Cui.

There are a total of more than a dozen carriages, ten of which are open carriages wrapped with thick animal skins.

Opening the animal skin package on one of the vehicles, what I saw was a trebuchet that looked very good.

However, unlike the ordinary trebuchets that the Tubo king had seen before, this style of trebuchet looks more cumbersome.

From the perspective of manufacturing technology, it should have made great progress. In terms of details, just looking at it feels cumbersome.

"Try it with a stone and show it to me!" Tubo King said.

Without further ado, Mr. Cui asked someone to lift the trebuchet down, put it on the ground, and conducted experiments in the open space with his back facing the checkpoint.

In this experiment, it was found that this trebuchet did throw farther than the trebuchets in the past!
And in actual operation, the speed is very fast, and there is no jamming when it is cast.

In this case, use the explosive pack that has already ignited the fuse, and it will not get stuck on the trebuchet.

"Yes, yes, Mr. Cui, you have made a great contribution this time! When I capture Youzhou and capture King Youzhou, I will take you to see the pitiful appearance of King Youzhou!" King Tubo said casually promised.

Hearing the words "King of Youzhou", Mr. Cui immediately bit the pressure and creaked it!

He hated Youzhou King Qin Yang to the bone!
Although among the people who destroyed their branch, the one who gave the final order was Emperor Tang Li Shimin, but without the cooperation between King Youzhou and Li Shimin, their branch would not have been convicted at all!

Thinking of the fact that the patriarch and all the elders were all dead, and the entire body was not even preserved, and the whole clan was either killed or had no future after being convicted, Mr. Cui wanted to make King Youzhou often do this kind of thing. pain!
It's a pity that Li Shimin seems to trust Youzhou King very much. His people went to Chang'an to lurk and provoke, and even tried to encourage Changsun Wuji's son to be an internal response, but all failed.

They lost a lot of manpower in Chang'an. As a last resort, they gave up doing what they did in Chang'an and Youzhou, and went to Tubo instead.

When they arrived in Tubo, they discovered that although the King of Tubo still held great power, he was not as wise and powerful as they imagined. This once disappointed Mr. Cui.

The King of Tubo is willing to send troops to attack Youzhou, which is in the interest of Mr. Cui and others. However, Mr. Cui is still worried that the King of Tubo is too arrogant and arrogant, and will fail to attack Youzhou, and will be defeated by the King of Youzhou.

Only then did he keep helping the Tubo king contact helpers, and even urged his subordinates to add bricks and tiles to the Tubo king's attack on Youzhou.

The improvement of the trebuchet appeared under such circumstances.

The remnants of the Bolingcui clan used their own money to improve and build ten trebuchets and sent them over.

At the same time, some food was also delivered.

In order to attack Youzhou this time, they also bleed a lot.

The Tubo king was very satisfied with this, seeing that he had just mentioned the word Youzhou king, Mr. Cui's face was already gloomy, his teeth were gritted, and the Tubo king trusted him even more.

"Your Majesty, when do you plan to attack the checkpoint?" Mr. Cui heard about the Tang Checkpoint after entering the camp. Knowing that checkpoint even stumped the Gu Master who came to help the King of Tubo. This made Mr. Cui is also a little curious about this level. He wonders whether this level can withstand the bombardment of explosives.

The Tubo king was a little moved and said, "Just tonight, wait for them to fall asleep."

In this case, the bombing of explosives alone is enough to kill many people.

He estimated that there were at least a few thousand elite soldiers in Youzhou in that checkpoint. Although it couldn't compare with the 10 people he brought with him, the Youzhou side relied on the fortifications to rely on thousands of people to firmly defend the pass. Road checkpoint.

If you only rely on hand-to-hand combat to kill the enemy, your own losses will not be small.

(End of this chapter)