Chapter 165: Useless Work

Although there are only 10 counterweight trebuchets used by Andrult to deal with the Wilcot fortress this time, these 10 counterweight trebuchets are much stronger than the counterweight trebuchets used by Sun Lin to capture the coastal line of the northwest continent before.

The Counterweight Trebuchet is not an improved Scorpion Crossbow, so it is impossible for the Quartermaster Factory War Equipment R&D members to manipulate the accuracy of the Counterweight Trebuchet, and the Counterweight Trebuchet that has been improved in the end only improves its attack power and defense, but it is enough. In terms of defensiveness, as mentioned earlier, counterweight trebuchets are no longer able to ignite by flying rockets under normal circumstances, and when the steel skin is attached to the steel frame attachment point, these counterweight trebuchets are also highly immune to smaller stone projectiles and gravel blocks. In terms of attack power, the counterweight trebuchet is a qualitative breakthrough, at present, each counterweight trebuchet can project more than 500 kg of stones out of the stumbling, and the data shows that the current improved counterweight trebuchet can throw nearly 600 kg of stones out of the stone, without causing any deformation or cracks to the body structure of the counterweight trebuchet.

As a siege weapon that has surpassed the Northwest Continent for more than hundreds of years, the power of the counterweight trebuchet is absolutely impossible to ignore, and letting it be assembled in front of his eyes is the first and biggest mistake made by the commander of the Michar Army in this battle. When the 10 counterweight trebuchets were assembled, with the sound of steel teeth, the 10 counterweight trebuchets struck at the silhouette of the Wilcot fortress that appeared faintly in front of them, and the flying stones weighing more than 500 kilograms disappeared into the blizzard after a silver white line crossed the air, and an earth-shattering roar was immediately heard in the distance. Although due to the extreme snowstorm at this time, the imperial soldiers present could not hear the shouts of the Mishaal soldiers in the distance, nor could they see the situation in the distance.

But when there was a burst of building collapse and rubble falling in the distance, and after the original protruding black shadow in the blurred outline disappeared, the sun did not set the people immediately let out a cry that could penetrate a great blizzard, because they knew that just now, their engineering comrades who controlled the counterweight trebuchet had completely destroyed a stone tower, and the black dots that fell from the air in the distance may be the fragments of the collapsed stone tower, or it may be the corpse of a Michar soldier.

In the ensuing time, 10 counterweight trebuchets went berserk like crazy, raining more than 500 kilograms of boulders towards the outer wall of the Wilcot fortress in front of them. In Andrelt's memory, the Wilcott fortress was built not only by huge stones, but also by a stone called permafrost found in the snow-capped mountains, because this permafrost can have a wonderful relationship with water, although this is only possible in places where there is snow that does not melt for thousands of years. After discovering that water could be transformed into ice and discovered permafrost, the skilled craftsmen of Mishar immediately extended the stone, which they named permafrost, to all buildings, both military and civilian, in the snow-capped plateau area of the Mishaal Empire.

At present, the buildings in the Mishal Empire are generally based on stones, and then the periphery of the stones is connected with cement on the frozen rock, the defense and resistance of the frozen rock are not as strong as the stones, but they are indeed a renewable building material, if you find that there are grooves or cracks in the walls built with frozen rock, you only need to sprinkle a certain amount of water on these problematic places, and these cracks will disappear in less than half a day, and what is displayed in front of people is a new and thicker frozen rock wall. And this kind of material that can be repaired immediately is definitely an ultimate bug in the Northwest Continent where there are no high-level siege weapons, and most of the walls and stone towers of the Mishal City Castle in the snow-capped mountain plateau area of the Mishaal Empire will have a thick layer of frozen rock walls on its periphery.

Perhaps in the past, this building material was absolutely terrifying, but with the advent of the counterweight trebuchet of the Empire, this myth of defense will finally be shattered. The 500-kilogram stone block was like a giant's fist, and a single blow left a terrifying groove in the Wilcot fortress, and due to the powerful power of the counterweight trebuchet, the cracks created by the impact of the giant stone immediately passed into the stone wall in the frozen rock wall. If the permafrost wall is compared to a composite human skin, then the stone wall within the wall is equivalent to a human bone. It's still possible to recombine the flesh and skin after destroying it, but it's not so easy to break all the bones.

Although there are many Mishal soldiers carrying buckets and carrying water tanks to pour water on the wall, hoping to repair the damaged frozen rock wall, but the repair also takes time to sink to the bottom, and during this period, the counterweight trebuchet is enough to tear down all these walls into ruins, but fortunately, the target of the counterweight trebuchet is the stone towers that stand on the peaks and the city walls from time to time, not the walls of the Wilcot fortress. This gave the Mishals a moment to breathe and think, and the commander of the garrison of the fort of Wilcot immediately ordered a force of about 5,000 men to move towards the counterweight trebuchet position.

The idea is very beautiful, but the reality is often the most cruel, as an outstanding infantry general of the Empire on which the sun never sets, how could Andelt not think of such a situation? When the 5,000 Snow Mountain Raiders were 200 meters away from the counterweight trebuchet position, the originally snow-capped snow field in front of them suddenly came to life, and 30,000 giant shield crossbowmen wearing pure white archery half-body steel armor and steel tower shields appeared in front of the 5,000 Snow Mountain Raiders out of thin air and shot 30,000 crossbow arrows at them.

Without any accidents, more than half of the 5,000 snow-capped mountain raiders were killed immediately after the salvo of 30,000 pulley crossbows, and the screams were under the condition of the blizzard, and the Mishaal soldiers who were far above the fortress of Wilcot could hear it, and they could clearly see that red spots appeared on the snowfield in the distance, and finally gathered into a huge red spot, which was not covered by the blizzard.

Then, when the remaining less than 1,000 snow-capped mountain raiders fled into the city, all the Mishaal soldiers present felt a chill, compared to the air outside a few degrees below zero, the air was warm enough.

PS: Didn't they all say that the update time is uncertain? Why did the collection drop more than 5? Sad and tearful, but there are still 2 more.