The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 235: Upgrading the equipment of the city's defense

Zhao Kuangyin defended the city, and Lu Heng surrounded Duanxi. The classic encirclement was three and one was missing. At the same time, He Qi led [-] troops to the north to support Tai Shici. After all, the latter only had a few thousand cavalry, and then prepared siege equipment.

In Jiaozhou in this era, there is a lot of wood, everywhere!
Moreover, the trebuchet under Lu Heng's command, after several improvements by Yu Yunwen, Liu Ye, and engineering students of Jiangdong College, can already make simple key machinery, such as levers, bearings, wheels, roulette, etc., which are easy to carry, and then search for them locally. A frame made of wood will do.

Liu Ye and Yu Yunwen tinkered for a while, and even put forward the concept of a new thunderbolt on the original catapult. What is a new thunderbolt?
Originally, Yu Yunwen added pulleys to the catapult, but it was still very bulky. Then, the engineering students of Jiangdong College made large wooden wheels, which could be installed on both sides of the catapult, so that the catapult could move instead of being fixed there.

After Liu Ye came, he proposed the concept of winches and turntables. Liu Ye divided the catapult into two parts. The upper part is the launching device composed of levers and fiber ropes, while the lower part is the big wheel and wheel proposed by Lu Heng. stand.

Then Liu Ye proposed a winch based on the pulley so that soldiers would not pull up and down. Instead, they would use beef tendons to make the pulling rope stronger. Then the existence of the winch could allow soldiers to pull horizontally to exert force. This is more labor-saving and even more effective. Can be pulled by animal power.

Then Liu Ye and Yu Yunwen added that an excellent engineering student from Jiangdong College came up with a turntable, that is, disassembled the catapult into upper and lower halves, and connected them with a large rotatable wheel, so that The upper part can also be rotated to make the catapult more flexible.

And that top student is still on the turntable, engraved with equal scales for more accurate aiming!
Because they are all made of wood, they rattle when operating, so Liu Ye named them Thunder Cars!

In this way, the trebuchet under Lu Heng's command became a detachable, easy to assemble, turnable, and more labor-saving siege weapon. This time Lu Heng brought a lot of trebuchets, enough for Zhao Kuangyin to eat a pot.

Lu Heng ordered Liu Ye to assemble the catapult. Although it has all the above advantages, it still needs to be cut down on the spot to build it, and it still takes a few days.

Lu Lingji was still taciturn. Lu Heng had nothing to do with his wife. He tried every means to make Lu Lingji happy, but it didn't work at all. He couldn't stay at home all day long, so he could only let Yang Miaozhen accompany Lu Lingji every day.

Lu Heng wanted to see Zhao Kuangyin very much, so he took Qinweiying, Zhao Yun, Dong Xi, and Lao Niu to the city to talk to Zhao Kuangyin.

When everyone came to the city, they saw that there were many guards on the city. Although they didn't see the bed crossbow and other sharp weapons for defending the city, there seemed to be many crossbowmen.

The old cow stepped forward on his horse and shouted out from the range of the archer: "Zhao Xiang! My lord wants to talk to you!"

There was a commotion on the city wall, and then Zhao Kuangyin appeared at the top of the city wearing heavy armor and holding a dragon stick.

In fact, this distance is still a bit far away. Lu Heng only saw a rough idea, but the system should be able to check this distance, so he asked the system command to query the full attributes of Zhao Kuangyin and others, and don't report it for the time being.

【Okay, host! 】

Zhao Kuangyin on the city wall shouted: "Why did Marquis Wu come here from afar, but why did he come from afar, this poor Jiaozhou, a remote place? Xiang also asked Marquis Wu to clarify his doubts!"

That's right, Zhao Kuangyin was as puzzled as Sun Ce, why Lu Heng did not fight in Shouchun and Lujiang in the north, but came to fight in a poor place like Jiaozhou, which was also strange to everyone at the time.

Of course, Lu Heng knew why he took Jiaozhou first. This place will be an important production place for his grain in the future. Jin Yiwei has already found out that Zhuyazhou, which is also Hainan Island in later generations, does have rice that is ripe several times a year, and Lu Heng knows that Yulin County (Nanning City, Guangxi in later generations) has a large number of gold mines.

Now the production of rice is very unstable, and it is still the stage of depending on the sky, and after taking Jiaozhou, the powerful navy can go all the way south to take the Malay Islands and so on.

In this way, Jiaozhou must be firmly in his own hands, and no other military strength is allowed, but of course he cannot tell Zhao Kuangyin about this.

Lu Heng immediately stepped forward and smiled: "Lu Mou came here because of brother Kuangyin. I heard that brother Kuangyin is very brave and can fight against a fierce general like Sun Ce. He also has two generals under his command, Shi Shouxin and Gao Huaide. Make my little brother salivate!"

"Brother Kuangyin, why bother to live in Jiaozhou? The world is as big as brother Kuangyin is such a hero. Are you interested in pacifying the world with Lu?"

"Furthermore, I've heard about the name of the Gao family gun for a long time. There are two generals under Lu's command who are masters of gun use, Yang Zaixing, the successor of the Yang family gun, and Zhao Yun, the disciple of the gun prodigy Tong Yuan. Lu is very curious about who is strong and who is weak. General Gao Huaide? Can I see you?"

As Lu Heng's words fell, Zhao Kuangyin's eight-foot warrior next to him didn't speak, he just held a weapon and made a salute.

Lu Heng didn't know that Gao Huaide was a boring gourd, but he still wanted to see the descendant of the Gao family gun. It is said that Gao Chong is the descendant of Gao Huaide.

However, Lu Heng's words are also somewhat true. Ever since Zhao Kuangyin was born, Lu Heng has been thinking about it. In history, Zhao Kuangyin was a general under Chai Rong. The son has nothing to do with the Song Dynasty.

It can be seen that Zhao Kuangyin and Sima Yi are the same kind of characters, but they only have one article and one military. Under the shadow of Zhao Kuangyin, it was only after Zhao Kuangyin seized power that he gradually became ambitious.

So the core figure of this faction is still Zhao Kuangyin, the system task is only to destroy this faction, no method is mentioned, so why can't Zhao Kuangyin be accepted?
Lu Heng, who has Hua Tuo and An Daoquan, doesn't think he will die earlier than Chai Rong. If Zhao Kuangyin, a strong general who can draw with Sun Ce, is brought in, Gao Huaide and Shi Shouxin will be happy.

Moreover, Lu Heng thought that he would be able to summon Han Shizhong, Yue Fei and other commanders who were loyal to him in the future, so Zhao Kuangyin would not be able to make any tricks.

In the end, Zhao Gou and Zhao Ji are not born to be emperors in this life, it is better to let them be free and unfettered scholars, so as not to harm the common people.

Zhao Kuangyin on the city wall was shocked by Lu Heng's words. Obviously he did not expect Lu Heng's answer. Although it is possible that the words are true or false, but if it is really for himself, then the Zhao family may be saved in the end of this war.

However, being annexed by Lu Heng in this way, Zhao Kuangyin was very unwilling. Now that Chen Dong has contacted Shi Xie, he can fight to the death, maybe he can defeat Lu Heng like Sun Ce.

Zhao Kuangyin shouted: "Marquis Wu has fallen in love with someone wrong. Zhao has lived in Jiaozhou for generations. If he wants Zhao to surrender, his men will see how he can do it!"

(End of this chapter)