Chapter 1467 Catapult

Xiao Changyi said nothing.

Jing Jing asked, "Don't you know the exact number of soldiers and horses?"

Liu Buli said: "The spies only discovered that there is a Chilin army camped thirty miles away from Jingye City. There are a large number of people, and more people are added every day. They should gather there from different places to attack us."

After a pause, Liu Buli said again with a solemn face: "Their 650,000-strong army was defeated. I guess this time, there will be only a lot more soldiers and horses."

Xiao Changyi then said: "Strengthen the vigilance and tell all soldiers to be ready to fight at any time."

"Yes, General!"

After Liu Buli left, Jingjing frowned and said, "Ms. sir, this is another tough battle."

Without waiting for Xiao Changyi to speak, Jing Jing added: "But fortunately, we are defending the city, so we have a great advantage."

Immediately, Jing Jing sighed and said: "We haven't developed this explosive yet. If we develop it well, we might be able to avoid this battle. But now, this battle should be unavoidable."

Xiao Changyi said: "You can make explosives with peace of mind, and leave the defense of the city to me." For the time being, they will stay in Jingye City until Anjing can get the explosives before making any plans.

"Yeah." Jing Jing thought so too. The top priority now is not only to defend Jingye City, but also to develop explosives. Only by clear division of labor can we better accomplish these two tasks.

Keep eating.

But Anjing couldn't help but think about defending the city. Suddenly, her eyes lit up, "Mr.

Xiao Changyi rarely laughed out loud: "Have you come up with any good ideas again?"

Jing Jing also laughed immediately, "My husband knows me well." Then she stopped smiling and said seriously: "Your city defense equipment is too backward. I thought of something that can help us better defend the city." ”

Xiao Changyi asked cooperatively: "What is it?"

"Catapult."

"Catapult" just meant it literally. Xiao Changyi actually understood it somewhat, and his cold eyes brightened slightly.

"It's just a stone-throwing vehicle. I used to use this when fighting and defending cities in ancient times in the world. Think about it, if the stones were big and sharp and were thrown from the city tower by a vehicle, they would definitely hit the attackers. Losing troops and losing generals.”

After saying that, Anjing stopped eating. He simply put down the bowls and chopsticks, walked to the desk in another part of the room, picked up a pen, and drew a simple catapult.

As soon as the painting was finished, Jing Jing pointed it out to Xiao Changyi: "Mr. sir, look, this is a catapult. Put the big rocks on the cart, and a few people will pull them down here and quickly, and the big rocks will fall." Be launched."

Catapults utilize the principle of leverage.

The battle that Chi Lin wanted to take back Jingye City was unavoidable. At this moment, Jing Jing just wanted to hold on to Jingye City and prevent Xiyun soldiers from suffering any more casualties as much as possible.

Xiao Changyi took the drawing, looked at it carefully, and said, "I'm going to order people to do more of this. It just so happens that there are mountains next to the city, and there are many trees."

Jing Jing said: "We don't know when they will attack the city, but if we prepare early, there is nothing wrong."

"Yeah." Xiao Changyi also thought so.

Immediately, Xiao Changyi hurried out and asked Meng Zhuqing, who was standing at the door, to take the drawings to Xilin City to find some carpenters to make the catapult. He also ordered Qin Yi to take some people to the mountains to cut down trees.

Immediately afterwards, Xiao Changyi ordered Qin Er to lead people to carry the stones up to the tower.

After the instructions were given, Xiao Changyi walked back to the room and had lunch with Jing Jing without even looking at Tuoba Yao who was guarding the door.