Chapter 663: Preparing for War (3)
PS: I have a stomach trouble today, and the whole person is almost dehydrated, shrinking by 2000 words, sorry, I will make up for it later
With the end of the war council against the Great Empire of Divine Light, due to further knowledge of the matching of the armies of the Great Empire of Divine Light, after consulting with the Craftsmen of the Sunset and the Dwarven Craftsmen during the construction of the Lower Maginot Line, the fortifications were rectified for nearly 1 month.
First of all, since the Holy Light Empire seems to be a little different from the heavy infantry of the Sunset Empire in terms of movement speed: the Sunset Heavy Infantry chooses full-body plate armor that has good movement ability, but its defense is much worse than that of the heavy plate armor, while the Holy Light Empire is the opposite of the Sunset Empire, in this case, the 1st and 2nd line walls of the Lower Maginot Line have two kinds of fortifications in batches: the falling stone well and the fire oil ditch.
The so-called falling stone well is based on the original battlements of the city wall, and the stone wall is hollowed out in the middle with a fashion stacked half a meter higher than a person, so that if the enemy uses a hook to climb from the bottom to the top, then the soldiers guarding the city wall can drop the stone from the hollow wall and hit the enemy soldiers who are stepping on the wall to climb the rock.
Of course, there are also disadvantages to falling stone wells, first of all, it will prevent the soldiers defending the city from knocking down those siege ladders leaning on the city wall, but between many soldiers who climb up with the siege ladder happily climb up, but because they step on the hollow falling stone well and then fall from the top, so this is not a disadvantage, the real disadvantage is because the falling stone well will reduce the strong ability of the battlements, so if there is a trebuchet hit the battlements, then the battlements in the area that are hit lose the ability to provide shelter for the defending soldiers.
The reason for the design of the rockfall well is mainly inseparable from the construction point of the outer city wall of the Lower Maginot Line: although part of the first line of the Lower Maginot Line was rebuilt from the original coastal cities, and it is located in the sea cliff area of the extreme south, more of the wall is built on soft land near the beach. In this case, the fire city defense weapon was the first to be PASSED, after all, although the sun never sets although the empire has Greek fire that is not afraid of water, but Greek fire is not afraid of water, it also has the nature of fire, that is, it cannot burn without oxygen, and a huge wave on the seashore is enough to take away all the oxygen needed for the Greek fire on the ground to burn in an instant, so the fire city defense weapon is the first to pass.
The second PASS is a large siege weapon such as a counterweight trebuchet and a giant crossbow to defend the city, as for the reason is very simple, because after the assessment of the intelligence network on which the sun never sets, the intelligence network found that the Holy Light Empire and the Griffin Empire also have the ability to build giant warships. However, unlike the giant warships on which the sun never sets, the giant warships of the Great Empire of Divine Light and the Griffin Empire are not so much giant warships, but rather the storage of huge war machinery at sea: because the naval battles in the Inland Sea of the King are more inclined to coastal operations and support for coastal army operations, and the battles that have really fought on the sea surface in recent thousands of years can be counted on a finger, so the strength of the two old human empires in the middle of the Central Continent is more focused on letting their warships kill and injure more soldiers in local land battles while fighting along the coast. In such a situation, a very strange giant warship was born.
The reason why this kind of giant battleship is very strange is that first of all, the technique used by this giant battleship is similar to the paddlewheel technique of the Great Empire on which the sun never sets. So giant battleships have no sails. It is moved by the large paddlewheels mounted on both sides of the hull; Secondly, because this kind of giant battleship needs to be moved, paddle wheels are installed on both sides of the hull of this giant battleship, so the giant battleship does not have a so-called hull at the same time, and its hull is the same as the Xiyi warship to a certain extent - the large frame is a huge cuboid.
The last and the strangest thing is that it was because of the purpose of this giant battleship when it was shot out. The purpose is to allow this giant warship to carry more war equipment, so that after the war equipment is installed on its surface, it can continuously and steadily throw stones, arrows and javelins at the enemy on the ground, so after various design versions that make people speechless, a kind of warship becomes a large surface platform. Giant warships were designed almost identical to the later aircraft carriers: on huge platforms, the soldiers of the Holy Light and Griffon Empires were able to install 10 counterweight trebuchets and carry enough ammunition to shoot for several hours, and at the same time use ballistas and repeaters to replace the guardrails of such giant warships, and if all the people could be more silent than this, it was that the supreme leaders of the two great powers agreed to put this giant warship into production, And if there is any situation that is more fucked up than being put into production, it is that this kind of battleship that makes Sun Lin speechless when he sees it is actually mass-produced! Until now, the Great Empire of Divine Light had 24 ships, while the Griffon Empire had as many as 28 ships.
In this case, if the city defense giant crossbow and counterweight trebuchet were put into the first line, it would simply provide a target for those giant warships, so the counterweight trebuchet that originally existed with the first line was mobilized to the second line, and the city defense giant crossbow of the first city wall was transferred to the giant stone tower in the area of the third city wall that had not yet been built.
Speaking of which, in fact, the reason for the construction of the falling stone well has already been demonstrated: since all the defensive equipment existing in the first city wall has been removed, in order to strengthen the defensive ability of the first city wall, and the stones that were originally provided for the counterweight trebuchet were hoarded on the first city wall and were difficult to be removed because they were too heavy, so the sun never set decided to use the falling stone well used in the dwarf clan to protect the city wall, which is not troublesome and does not consume too much time. At the same time, it is not too troublesome to repair.
As for the oil ditch located on the second wall, it is actually to make more holes in the city wall, and then transform it into a pipe, so that after the oil in the hot oil pot placed on the city wall is boiled again, the soldiers defending the city can use the iron pipe to direct the boiling hot oil into the oil ditch, and then let these oil ditches be left from the city wall to scald the enemy infantry who stay under the city wall.
At the same time, in order to make this hot oil cover the empty space between the first wall and the second road as much as possible, the craftsmen also dug many tunnels to let the hot oil roll, but it is unknown whether these tunnels that are like human blood vessels are really supplied to the hot oil flow. (To be continued......)