MTL - Be a Leader In a Primitive Tribe-Chapter 145
The time soon came to the beginning of August, and it was almost two months before Li Miao, Daxue and Yan went to the new town to take up their posts.
According to the news from various places, all aspects are progressing smoothly.
Sang Yu also felt happy in her heart.
But at this moment, they received a letter from Feige from the tribe of gods.
After reading the contents of the letter, Sang Yu's expression changed slightly, and he immediately sent someone to call back Pai Yu who was training in Lihua Town.
Flying pigeons pass on things like this, because the pigeons are raised in Xindi, and the direction of pigeons’ homing is generally in Xindi, and the number of pigeons is limited, so raising and training cannot be done overnight. Currently, only the Rock Tribe and the God Tribe have pigeons that can communicate .
In other places, even if the pigeons are taken out, the news can only be sent to Xindi.
On Yu's side, he still had to send someone out to notify him.
Because of this news from the God Tribe, Sang Yu's sense of urgency also came up.
This letter made her understand that her previous plan of peaceful coexistence with the three tribes might be ruined.
In fact, even if the other party doesn't make a move at this time, it will be a matter of time.
Such a covetous organization is like a ticking time bomb. If An Zhi is threatened by them once, it won't be like this next time.
It's better to just dig out the tumor in one go, so as not to cause troubles on the other side from time to time in the future, which is extremely annoying.
And there just happened to be an excuse at this time.
Sang Yu first went to the garment workshop, and asked everyone to speed up the armor-making team, and then went to the handicraft team, found Mei, temporarily postponed the shipbuilding plan, and started building trebuchets first.
Yes, build trebuchets.
It sounds complicated, but it's actually very simple.
Before there was no artillery ammunition, trebuchets were "weapons of mass destruction" in the cold weapon era, with a range of up to 500 meters.
In ancient large-scale wars, trebuchets were often used as a sharp weapon for siege, mainly using the principle of leverage, which can be operated by a few people, and can be launched with one load and one pull.
The main thing is to use the principle of leverage. Compared with shipbuilding, Sang Yu is more familiar with this.
She found a pen and paper, drew the outline and structure of the catapult, and explained the working principle of the machine to May and her entire research and development team in detail.
After making the waterwheel and bellows, Mei, Ting and the others quickly understood the structure of the catapult, and everyone said with relief.
"Leader, we can make a rough model tonight. If there is no problem, then we can start directly."
Sang Yu is very satisfied with the performance of this small team. The mechanical system of the tribe is slowly taking shape, which is the most critical system for the future development of the tribe.
"The catapult can be big or small. The big one can be as big as our house and the yard, and the small one can't be too small. But it can be disassembled. After we build the parts of each part, put them on the carriage and transport them to the battlefield. It’s time to assemble and use.”
Mei and the others were excited when they heard this, and eagerness flashed in their eyes.
It is unprecedented to make such a large weapon and disassemble it.
Just imagine which craftsman doesn't like to do challenging things. For them, only by creating such things can they reflect their abilities. So as soon as Sang Yu finished speaking, everyone seemed impatient.
After arranging Mei's affairs, Sangyu asked Xiaoxue to prepare three to five hundred large pottery pots for backup. In addition to throwing stones, this trebuchet can also throw more powerful things.
Just like the flints I saw on TV before, tung oil is applied to the stones, lit and thrown into the crowd, the power is extremely powerful.
It is not difficult to make a trebuchet. Once the principle is figured out, and the tribe has enough manpower and materials, Mei led the people to work for a few days, and quickly made the first trebuchet.
The morning after the catapult was made, Sang Yu called all the tribe members to watch the test results.
Xiaoxue and others have also prepared the clay pot for burning.
The first thing is to test the stone. After the stone is loaded into the parabolic net, the shooting angle is adjusted. As soon as Mei gives the order, dozens of people who operate it immediately pull the rope. It flew over and hit a place more than 200 meters away from the city wall, smashing a big hole in the grass, and then rolled out, wiping out a road mark, and hitting the ground in a mess.
It is conceivable that if the person standing opposite is a person, I am afraid that he will be smashed to the ground.
Seeing this effect, Sang Yu also showed a smile on his face, beckoning to test the combustion pot.
Clay pots filled with tung oil and thick straw were ignited and thrown out before launch.
The incendiary pot that was billowing with thick smoke flew out of the city wall, and when it hit the ground, it exploded as a whole, sparks splashed, and the entire ground became a sea of flames.
The onlookers saw it and couldn't help but be speechless.
If it was hit by this incendiary pot, it would be burned to death if it was not smashed to death, it was terrible.
Such a trebuchet can only be imagined by a person like the leader, which is really amazing.
Everyone cheered and shouted that the leader is mighty, and the whole scene was very exciting.
This trebuchet has certain disadvantages in terms of gravity and range. But being able to produce something beyond this era in such a short period of time is already unimaginable, at least for now, it is enough for the time being.
And during this time, since Yu came back, a meeting was held within the tribe regarding the crusade against the three major tribes.
In the end, after everyone's discussion, the unanimous result was to fight.
Fight back, but you can't fight alone, and you don't use the name of the alliance.
Moreover, in the name of being invaded, squeezed and plundered by the **** tribe in recent years, a crusade will be carried out to rescue the tribesmen who have been taken captive. In this way, this foreign war has also been covered with the skin of a righteous army.
Sang Yu took a deep breath and said, "I've already listed the tribes in the east that were invaded, oppressed, and plundered by the **** tribe. All the team leaders present, each responsible for a tribe, will go tomorrow. Visit these tribes, say that our Phoenix tribe is going to rescue the tribesmen who were taken captive, and ask them if they want to be together."
"Leader, what if they don't agree?"
"People from the Alliance and the three major tribes are in the same situation now. These tribes are like grasshoppers on the same rope as us. Even if they are unwilling, they will still send troops in the end. I let you go to make them more willing to follow us pace, understand?"
"Understood the leader."
And during the few days when the teams of various tribes gathered, Mei invited Sang Yu to the handicraft team again, directly giving her a huge surprise.
A group of young people led by Mei modified the original trebuchet to create a more powerful trebuchet, which has a more powerful effect on the huge and towering city walls.
Sang Yu was shocked when she saw their newly improved trebuchet, and even flashed through her mind the scene when she was watching historical war movies:
The Yuan Dynasty attacked Xiangyang City for a long time, and later developed a new type of trebuchet. When the trebuchet was launched, the sound shook the world and was indestructible. The stone eggs fired out hit the ground, and a seven-foot hole could be smashed.
And such a big killer made the Song army defending Xiangyang City six o'clock instantly defeated.
And this new type of trebuchet in front of us should be similar to the Xiangyang gun used by the Yuan army in history.
When making the trebuchet before, Sang Yu only designed it based on the principle of leverage, but he didn't expect that this group of young scholars could improve it to this point.
The stone eggs that can be fired by this Xiangyang cannon weigh more than 150 catties, compared with the old version that can only throw a hundred catties before, it has been upgraded in terms of throwing weight.
Moreover, the old version requires a lot of manpower to launch, sometimes as many as dozens of people, which is very labor-intensive.
But the new version of the trebuchet is launched by gravity falling.
Its working principle is, first, prepare a heavy object heavier than a stone egg, hang it on the front end of the throwing rod of the trebuchet machine, and when launching, first pull down the throwing rod, and fix the lower part of the throwing rod with an iron hook, and then fill it. The stone egg to be launched, this is the preparation before launch.
When in use, the iron hook is knocked open, and the weight at the front end of the throwing rod is affected by gravity, and falls rapidly, pulling the throwing rod to turn over quickly. At the same time, the stone bullet was instantly thrown out.
The accuracy, suddenness, and destructive power of the new version of the Xiangyang gun are far higher than those of the previous trebuchets. For Sangyu, this is a historic breakthrough.
She praised Mei and the entire young research and development team, and ordered them to manufacture ten Xiangyang cannons, and when they were disassembled, they would be transported by horses, and then assembled when they were near the God Tribe.
In order to boost morale, Sang Yu ordered people to carry the two newly developed Xiangyang cannons outside the city gate, and asked everyone in the tribe to watch the launch again.
What people never expected was that the new catapult combined with the power of the burning tank directly blasted a small soil bag flat.
The people of all the tribes were shocked, and they prostrated themselves on the ground and shouted long live the Phoenix tribe.
Simply horrible.
