Sometimes war is so simple and brutal.

A group of people struggling to survive.

Pei Zilie fell silent for a while.

Now is a troubled time, it is a time when human life is like a mustard, even the scholars will sometimes be slaughtered, not to mention the common people, sometimes a human life is not even more important than animals, at least animals can feed more people.

As a child of a family of scholars, even if he was just a child of a small family, Pei Zilie rarely considered these at the beginning, for him, the war was more an extension of the will of the court, in order to protect the interests of the country.

And he didn't think about it from that point of view now.

From this point of view, the purpose of war is simpler and more tragic.

Li Xinchen patted Pei Zilie on the shoulder and said lightly: "Dashi, break and stand, if we want to end all this, we still have a long way to go." ”

Pei Zilie was stunned for a moment and bowed slightly.

Li Xinchen didn't seem to be very satisfied with Pei Zilie's answer, and turned around and said, "Dashi, there is a new thing, do you want to go and see it together?" ”

Pei Zilie was a little surprised, and when he saw Li Xinchen's somewhat mysterious expression, he nodded solemnly.

For Xiao Shilian, Li Xinchen is very relieved, that guy inherits Xiao Maha's character, he has always been bold and indomitable, but Pei Zilie is obviously the opposite of Xiao Shilian, which may have something to do with Wu Mingche.

Wu Mingche was originally more than steady and not enterprising, and the students he cultivated were certainly not much better, so Li Xinchen didn't expect Pei Zilie to become the same person as Xiao Shilian, he only hoped that Pei Zilie would be more confident in the war in front of him.

No matter what the strength of the two sides is and what will happen, Li Xinchen must win this battle and has no choice.

Pei Zilie didn't know what Li Xinchen wanted to show him, and followed Li Xinchen through the camp in a bit of a daze, and walked to the baggage camp in the rear, which made Pei Zilie even more surprised, the equipment and grain and grass in the baggage camp were very familiar to Pei Zilie, what novelty would there be here?

Seeing Li Xinchen coming over, Wu Ping, who was taking several craftsmen to check the equipment up and down, arched his hand at Li Xinchen, Wu Ping was a disciple of Ouyang Mo after he arrived in Bashu, and he was also a well-known craftsman in Bashu before, through Ouyang Mo's mention, he naturally grew up quickly, and this time the maintenance of the baggage equipment in the rear relied on Wu Ping to lead people to maintain.

The Shu Road is rugged and difficult, and these instruments can only be disassembled into small parts to handle, and even after the bumps on the Shu Road, these parts are somewhat worn, so that there is naturally less Wu Ping and others.

How important these bows and trebuchets are, these soldiers of the Bashu army know in their hearts, so they have a lot of respect for these craftsmen.

"Is the Thunderbolt assembled?" Li Xinchen asked with a smile.

And Pei Zilie, who was behind him, subconsciously opened his mouth wide.

Thunderbolt?

As a general, Pei Zilie knows very well what the thunderbolt means, this kind of large-scale catapult that once emerged in the struggle for hegemony in the late Han Dynasty, not only has the characteristics of easy to move, but also the huge stones are thrown out, which is really devastating.

The sound is like a thunderbolt, so it is called a "thunderbolt car".

In contrast, the current trebuchets are like playing at home.

It's a pity that with the war year after year, the drawings for making thunderbolts and the craftsmen who know how to do this have been dissipated in the long river of history, and the northern Hu cavalry in the south is obviously not suitable for trebuchets to deal with, so the thunderbolts have gradually withdrawn from the world's sight.

When it first came out, the main role of the Thunderbolt was to attack the fortifications, such as the Battle of Guandu, which became famous in the first battle, and then the number of appearances of the Thunderbolt became less and less, and it was mainly a deterrent, in fact, to this day, the rest of the trebuchets with similar effects to the Thunderbolt are better when attacking the camp and destroying the enemy's shield array, after all, the stones thrown from the sky, although menacing, are visible to the naked eye, Some veterans know how to dodge when they hear the wind, and at most they are a bit of a threat to inexperienced recruits.

Pei Zilie obviously knew this, so he didn't think that one day the Thunderbolt might return to the battlefield, the lost technology and the less and less space to use it undoubtedly made it difficult for the Thunderbolt to play its true role, and even if it was manufactured, it would be wasted.

However, Pei Zilie also had to admit that in the face of a fortified city like Xiangyang, a powerful siege machine like a thunderbolt is indispensable.

Thinking of this, Pei Zilie couldn't help but glance at Li Xinchen next to him, he really didn't know when this guy started thinking about Xiangyang City, you must know that the thunderbolt car, which has been lost, is not something that can be built for a while and will appear in front of him, at least Pei Zilie knows that Ouyang Mo does not have this ability.

And what is presented in front of Pei Zilie's eyes now is indeed a huge trebuchet, and the rest of the trebuchets in the army are like hunting dogs lying next to the tiger in front of this one.

Li Xinchen stretched out his hand and gently stroked the huge body, this trebuchet was actually developed after he began to enter Bashu, and its purpose was naturally self-evident, and then Li Xinchen also needed to face a series of fortified cities in the Central Plains, and Xiangyang was only the first.

Li Xinchen had to admit that the wood in Shu is indeed of good quality, "Shu Mountain Wu, A Fang out", Qin Shi Huang took a fancy to the wood in Shu at a glance, not without reason, fortunately, the mountains of Bashu are vast, and he was not cleaned.

This sturdy, century-old wood is still easy to find.

As for how this Thunderbolt was made, it's actually quite simple.

Li Xinchen has never seen the thunderbolt car transformed by the original generation of wizard Ma Jun, but by studying the general characteristics of trebuchets in this era, Li Xinchen has been able to figure out the key to it.

The basic principle of trebuchet is actually very simple, that is, the principle of leverage, but the principle of leverage is easy, but it is not so easy to grasp the degree of it, and the calculation of torque may be blind to future generations who are not professionals, not to mention the ancients who did not have a complete mechanical system.

This also makes the scale of the trebuchet can only be limited to a certain range, in order to ensure the quality of the trebuchet as much as possible, otherwise a huge thunderbolt will not work at all after being built, and it is even more likely to throw stones directly on one's own head.

This is also why the thunderbolt is only a glimpse in history, obviously not all craftsmen have the ability of the original thunderbolt designer Liu Ye or the reformer Ma Jun, so the disappearance of the thunderbolt may also have this reason.

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