Chapter 411: Breaking the City Dragon Cannon
As soon as the order was given to the sect members to start attacking, the soldiers of the tunnel battalion immediately got busy, and soon the torch stone cart took the lead. Pieces of torch stones weighing hundreds of catties smashed towards Quzhou City in the distance with the sound of the howling wind.
Shang Ji's gaze unconsciously turned to the torch stone cart, and watched the burning torch stone cut a graceful arc in the air, and then smashed the city wall of Quzhou.
"Boom ......"
There was a flicker of fire, and it was only after a few seconds that a deafening roar was heard, and each torch stone smashed like a cannonball, accurately hitting the wall or the head of the defenders.
In the area hit by the torch stone, there were no surviving soldiers within five zhang, and even the seemingly impregnable city wall was blasted off large pieces of stone.
The players in the two armies grew their mouths and stared at the Torch Rock Cart, stunned, and did not recover for a long time.
"Damn, this is a catapult! Cannons aren't so exaggerated! ”
"Nima, cheat! Your catapult has such a high hit rate? Hundreds of catapults almost all hit the city walls!? Your catapult has such a long range? Ultra-long-range attack more than ten miles away!? How else does this make us play?! ”
"I want to complain, why didn't we have this kind of catapult when we besieged Handan City?"
The players in the Yellow Turban camp in Quzhou City suddenly stopped doing it and shouted scolding.
I thought that defending the city was an easy job, but who knew that the Han army had such a perverted siege machine, and it would be killed immediately after a little impact, how could this be fought? The Han army can slowly grind them to death with this catapult outside the range of attack!
Even Shang Ji was secretly speechless, the power of each attack of this torch stone chariot was no less than the full force of an ordinary super-first-class general, with this artifact in hand, it was indeed possible to capture a giant city-level city.
"Look, it's coming!"
The sect member turned a blind eye to the power of the torch stone car, staring at the city-breaking dragon cannon with blazing eyes, and couldn't help but let out a low cry.
"What?" Shang Ji was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then immediately shifted his gaze to the city-breaking dragon cannon with the sect member's gaze.
At some point, the dragon head of the dragon cannon began to gather a large cloud of milky white light, and the terrifying coercion slowly spread to all sides.
The light cluster at the dragon's head became more and more vigorous, and it soon reached its limit, and then I saw the dragon's head slam suddenly, and a dazzling light shot out, attacking Quzhou City.
The speed of this light cluster in the air was not fast, at least not in the eyes of Shang Ji, but the terrifying power contained in it made Shang Ji feel horrified.
"Boom ............"
Far exceeding the power of the Torch Stone explosion just now, ten light clusters exploded on Quzhou City almost in no particular order. Even if he was more than ten miles away, Shang Ji could feel the suffocating power of the explosion.
Before the explosion had completely subsided, Shang Ji felt a tremor and shake under his feet, and when he raised his eyes, he saw ten large holes several meters wide appear in the wall of Quzhou City. Although it did not penetrate the entire city wall, it posed a fatal threat to the entire structure of the city wall.
A large block of basalt one man tall flew in the sky, causing serious secondary damage to the city wall and the defenders above it. Countless defenders spun around like headless flies, and it was obvious that this round of shelling had dealt a severe blow to the already low morale of the Yellow Turban Army.
Shang Ji swallowed his saliva, staring at the city-breaking dragon cannon in horror, and his heart was shocked.
The power of the city-breaking dragon cannon far exceeded Shang Ji's expectations, which was to attack the city wall, and if he attacked an individual, Shang Ji believed that even Lu Bu would not be able to survive the direct hit of the dragon cannon.
"With this artifact, why worry about the moth thief? Take a thousand dragon cannons and directly bombard Guangzong City! As if he was overly excited, Shang Ji yelled at the sect member.
When the sect member heard this, he smiled bitterly, spread his hands and said, "The general doesn't know anything!" The cost of this dragon cannon is quite expensive, and the production process is very cumbersome, even with the manpower and material resources of the imperial court, there are only less than 200 units. Duke Lu was ordered to fight against the rebellion, and before leaving, he asked His Majesty to approve the transfer of fifty units, and one thousand units to level Guangzong without even thinking about it! ”
Shang Ji's eyes flashed when he heard this, and he said: "Fifty units are enough, and after three days and three nights in a row, Guangzong was flattened even if he was beaten with iron." ”
The one who responded to Shang Ji still smiled bitterly, seeing that Shang Ji was puzzled, the sect member explained the advantages and disadvantages of the dragon cannon to Shang Ji in detail without any defense.
The dragon cannon is indeed infinitely powerful, but it is also quite restrictive. The first point is that the cost is very expensive, the terrifying cost of the dragon cannon itself is not mentioned for the time being, the simple dragon cannon special city-breaking projectile, only Luoyang Shaofu can make it, it is rumored that the cost of each piece is not less than 10,000 gold, Lu Zhi only has a thousand here, if you want to bombard a giant city like Guangzong, a thousand is not enough at all, at most a hole will be opened!
Secondly, even if there are enough shells, it is impossible to fire them continuously, and every five consecutive fires must be cooled for half an hour, otherwise the dragon cannon will be irreversibly damaged.
In addition, the dragon cannon also has many shortcomings such as long charging time, inconvenient movement, complex operation, and too eye-catching targets. At the same time, it is necessary to ensure that it is in an absolute advantage in the field before daring to use it, Lu Zhi specially ordered Liu Bei, Gongsun Zhan, Lu Bu and others to come over, the main purpose is to protect the dragon artillery from threats.
Otherwise, with the bulkiness of the dragon cannon, it is easy for the enemy to destroy the dragon cannon when they go out of the city to raid.
As for the use of dragon artillery to hunt top historical generals like Shang Ji considered before, it is even more nonsense, the slow firing speed of the dragon cannon and the long charging time make it impossible to directly hit the top generals, but just being affected by the aftermath will not be able to kill the top generals. Unless a very large number of dragon artillery carries out a surprise saturation bombing, it will not be a good thing at all.
However, if you are really a local tyrant enough, it is still very good to use dragon artillery to fight the army, as long as you are willing to spend that money! Anyway, with a little calculation in Shang Ji's heart, he immediately dispelled this idea that it would definitely make people bankrupt.
While the two were talking, the second round of dragon cannons was powerful again, and this interval was indeed quite long, more than a quarter of an hour, during which the torch stone cart next to it had already fired three times.
However, no matter how many shortcomings the dragon cannon has, but it does not shake its position as the world's first siege weapon, only three rounds of artillery fire, with torch stone car bombardment, there is a huge gap in the city wall of Quzhou City dozens of meters wide!
"General Shang, I'll leave it to you next!"
Seeing that there was a huge hole in the city wall of Quzhou, the sect member nodded with satisfaction, and then said to Shang Ji.
"Hahaha, General Zong has already broken through the city wall, if he can't wipe out the moth thief, then what kind of face does Ji have to meet Lu Gong? Wait a minute, general, and see how Ben will break the thief! ”
Shang Ji smiled happily, turned to Lu Bu and the others next to him and said, "Xuande, Fengxian, Bogui, do you have the intention to lead the army to break the thief?" ”
"I don't dare to ask for it!"