Mohist Tang

On the wall of Gaochang City, all Gaochang defenders are staring at the Tang Army under the city like an enemy. After Gaochang and the Tang Army forward battle, all Gaochang soldiers recognize In terms of actual combat, they really couldn’t beat Great Tang. The only thing that can protect them is the Gaochang City Wall under their feet. Only hiding behind the city wall can give them a sense of security.

Suddenly a huge hot air balloon rose quietly from under the city wall, and it rose higher and higher, and soon surpassed Gaochang City. You must know that the entire Gaochang City is as high as about five feet. This thing is already comparable to Gaochang City, and there is a continuing upward trend.

“Quick! Shoot it down for me!” Although the guard doesn’t know what this is, it can be clearly seen that there is a hanging basket under the circular monster, and there is even A Tang Army suddenly understood that this must be a new weapon of the Tang Army and immediately ordered the shooting.

“whiz whiz whiz!” Gao Chang spared no expense in deploying the defensive weapons on Gaochang City to exert formidable power, and the crossbow arrows flew randomly.

However, the hot air balloon is far away from Gaochang City, outside the attack range of Gaochang City, and it is getting higher and higher, even if it is the most powerful crossbow in Gaochang City, it cant hurt it at all. .

Finally, the hot air balloon got higher and higher, and finally reached more than 100 feet, which was more than twice as high as Gaochang City. Even if you were standing in Gaochang City, you could clearly see the hot air balloon flying into the sky.

I saw an unknown thing floating outside Gaochang City, and the whole Gaochang City was panicked. There were all kinds of speculations and rumors.

“It is shaped like a ball and can fly into the air. This is probably the hot air balloon popular in Chang’an City. Pass the order to the people of Gaochang so that they don’t have to panic!” The Tang Army’s change was naturally transmitted to Qu Zhisheng immediately. In his ears, when he arrived at the fastest speed, he looked at the hot air balloon rising outside the city and waved ordered.

The hot air balloons in Chang’an City are making a lot of noise, and it has something to do with Mohist Family Son. Gao Chang has naturally received relevant information.

“Why did the Tang Army raise a hot air balloon outside the city? What does this mean?” a frowns saying by a Gaochang official.

“Looking at the end, Tang Army definitely wants to monitor our army.” A general speculated.

Qu Zhisheng suddenly complexion changed, cry out in surprise repeatedly: “Not good, my Gaochang defense equipment is in danger.”

Sure enough, with Qu Zhisheng tone barely fell, a series of When the whistling sound hit, I saw Tang Army attack the Gaochang City building with trebuchets. These trebuchets looked like opened eyes, aiming at the gate towers upper city defense weapon. Soon sawdust flew on the gate tower and a crowd of defenders. The machinery was completely destroyed.

“Gate tower fifty steps westward, there are three strong crossbows!”

“Thirty steps eastward, there are golden sauce pot holders.”

Xue Rengui looked up and saw the semaphore waving under the gondola of the hot air balloon, and loudly conveyed the Gaochang garrison’s defense equipment to the Tang Army trebuchet.

Soon, more than a dozen trebuchets were launched at once, and three crossbows on the wall of Gaochang City were hit at the same time. All split up and in pieces suddenly, and they could no longer be recovered, and the gold was boiled. The juice was destroyed and scattered all over the place.

“On the target, move 70 steps west.” Xue Rengui received the semaphore, loudly said, and soon, two four-wheeled carriages carrying heavy objects pulled the hot air balloon and moved slowly westward. , And the trebuchets do the same. Start walking along the Gaochang City wall, one after another one after another destroying the defense equipment of Gaochang City.

“Hot air balloon! Semaphore!”

Hou Junji couldn’t help but praise the function of hot air balloons, especially the appearance of semaphore, which made the formidable power of hot air balloons more obvious. .

In fact, among the Tang Armys siege weapons, there are not no siege weapons that are comparable to hot air balloons. The weapon nest car of Supervisor Jiang manufacture is also tall and tall, which is enough to get a full view of Gaochang City.

But compared with hot air balloons, nest carts have fatal flaws. First of all, the manufacture of nest carts is slow, and it takes half a month to succeed. Where there are hot air balloons as fast and convenient, one hour and second nest carts It’s too bulky once the manufacturing is completed, it can’t move at all, while the hot air balloon can move easily, and with it, it is enough to destroy most of the defense weapons on the Gaochang City wall.

For a whole day, the roar of the trebuchets continued on the entire Gaochang City wall. Almost the entire Gaochang Citys immovable defense weapons were destroyed. The few remaining defense weapons were also hidden Under the city.

As night fell, the entire Tang Army camp was cheered, but Gaochang City was completely silent.

“How is our army damaged?” In the Gaochang Palace, Qu Zhisheng asked with a gloomy face to a Gaochang general.

The general brace oneself said: “Back to the king, our soldiers did not have many casualties, but most of the defensive weapons arranged by our army cannot be moved, and they have been completely destroyed by the Tang Army trebuchets.”

Qu Zhisheng’s face is embarrassed, Gaochangs forces are weak, and he is already unable to face the hundreds of thousands of Tang Army. Now the confidence to resist lies in the defensive power of Gaochang City,

Now Gaochang Citys defensive weapons have been completely destroyed. Without these defensive equipment, Gaochang Citys defensive capabilities have been weakened again, and the odds of victory in this war once again lean towards Great Tang.

“The king can rest assured, now that the people of Gaochang are united, and the same hatred, even if they lose their defense weapons, they are enough to resist Great Tang.” A general was full of confidence.

Qu Zhisheng just relaxed a little, and plucked up his courage to fight Great Tang, but the panic in his heart lingered all the time, and he fell asleep dimly until midnight.

“Ah!”

Qu Zhisheng felt like he was asleep. The hot air balloon outside Gaochang City suddenly turned into an eye, staring at him tightly, suddenly letting him He woke up suddenly.

However, in his sleep, the hot air balloon outside Gaochang City suddenly turned into an eye in the sky staring at him, causing him to have one’s hair stand on end suddenly and jump up.

“The King!”

The attendants on the side hurriedly put on clothes for Qu Zhisheng. Qu Zhisheng walked towards the high platform, looking worriedly at the hot air balloon outside Gaochang City, this hot Balloons are Tang Armys eyes, constantly monitoring Gaochang City.

Suddenly Qu Zhisheng frowned, and suddenly he found that the fire in the sky was getting closer and closer. Just when he was wondering, suddenly an explosion sounded from the city, and then there was an explosion in the direction of Northern Part of City. The wind quickly spread into a fire, and the entire Gaochang City was red even at night.

“Come on, check it out, what’s the matter?” Qu Zhisheng suddenly angered.

However, before he got the report, he saw that the flame of the hot air balloon had reached the sky above the Gaochang Palace.

“King be careful!” With the exclamation of an attendant, a hall in front of Qu Zhisheng was instantly concentrated by Gunpowder, causing a raging fire.

Following a series of explosions in the sky above the Gaochang Palace, the entire Gaochang Palace was panicked. It was not until dawn that the fire in the entire Gaochang City could be extinguished.