Chapter 411 City Breaking Dragon Cannon
After the Zong members were given the order to start attacking, the soldiers in the tunnel camp immediately got busy, and soon the Jushiche took the lead. Pieces of torch stones weighing hundreds of catties smashed towards Quzhou City in the distance with the sound of howling wind.
Shang Ji's eyes turned to the torch stone chariot unconsciously, watching the flaming torch stone draw a graceful arc in the air, and then smashed hard on the city wall of Quzhou.
"boom……"
There was a flash of fire, and it took a few seconds to hear the deafening roar. Every torch stone was like a shell, hitting the wall or the defender's head with precision.
In the area hit by the torch stone, there were no surviving soldiers within five feet, and even the seemingly indestructible city wall was bombarded with large chunks of stone.
The players in the two armies opened their mouths and stared blankly at the Jushi chariot, not recovering for a long time.
"Fuck, this is not a catapult! Cannons are not so exaggerated!"
"Nimma, let's cheat! Your catapult has such a high hit rate? Hundreds of catapults almost all hit the city wall!? Your catapult has such a long range? Ultra-long-range attack from more than ten miles away!? How can we let this happen?" Play?!"
"I want to complain, why didn't we have this kind of catapult when we besieged Handan City?"
The players from the Yellow Turban faction in Quzhou City quit immediately and began to curse and yell.
I thought that defending the city was an easy job, but who knew that the Han army had such a perverted siege equipment, and it would be killed immediately if it was slightly affected, how could it be fought? The Han army can use this kind of catapult to slowly grind them to death outside the attack range!
Even Shang Ji was dumbfounded, the torch stone chariot's attack power every time is no less than the full blow of an ordinary super-class military general, with this artifact in hand, it is indeed possible to capture a city at the level of a giant city.
"Look out, it's coming!"
The sect member turned a blind eye to the power of the Jushi chariot, staring at the city-breaking dragon gun with fiery eyes, and couldn't help but let out a low cry.
"What?" Shang Ji was taken aback when he heard the words, and then immediately shifted his gaze to Pochenglongpao following the eyes of the sect members.
I don't know when, the dragon head of the dragon cannon began to gather a large group of milky white light, and the terrifying coercion slowly spread to the surroundings.
The light cluster at the dragon's head became more and more prosperous, and soon reached the limit,
Then I saw the dragon's head slammed open, and a ball of dazzling light shot out, attacking Qu Zhou City.
The speed of this light group in the air is not fast, at least it is not fast from Shang Ji's eyes, but the terrifying power contained in it makes Shang Ji feel horrified.
"boom…………"
Far exceeding the power of the torch stone explosion just now, ten light clusters exploded on Quzhou City almost in no particular order. Even if he was more than ten miles away, Shang Ji could feel the suffocating power of the explosion.
Before the sound of the explosion subsided completely, Shang Ji felt his feet trembling and shaking. He raised his eyes and saw ten large holes several meters wide in the city wall of Quzhou City. Although it did not penetrate the entire city wall, it posed a fatal threat to the overall structure of the city wall.
A large basalt stone as tall as a person flew in the sky, causing serious secondary damage to the city wall and the defenders on the city wall. Countless defenders were running around like headless chickens. Obviously, this round of shelling severely hit the low morale of the Yellow Turban Army.
Shang Ji swallowed his saliva, stared at the Pochenglong Pao with horror in his eyes, and was overwhelmed with shock in his heart.
The power of the city-breaking dragon cannon far exceeded Shang Ji's expectations. This was to attack the city wall. If it attacked an individual, Shang Ji believed that even Lu Bu could not survive the direct hit of the dragon cannon.
"Having this artifact, why worry about the thieves' grievances? Take a thousand dragon cannons and directly bombard Guangzong City!" Shang Ji yelled at the clan members as if he was overly excited.
Hearing the words, the Zong member gave a wry smile, spread his hands and said: "The general doesn't know! The cost of this dragon cannon is quite expensive, and the production process is very complicated. Even with the manpower and material resources of the court, there are only less than 200 of them. Lu The Duke was ordered to fight against the rebels, and before he left, His Majesty approved bringing fifty of them out because of his negligence, and it would be unthinkable to bomb Guangzong with a thousand of them!"
Shang Ji's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and he said again: "Fifty units are enough. After three days and three nights of continuous bombardment, Guangzong will be flattened even with iron."
Those who responded to Shang Ji still smiled wryly. Seeing that Shang Ji was puzzled, the clan members explained the pros and cons of the Dragon Pao to Shang Ji without any precautions.
The dragon cannon is indeed infinitely powerful, but it also has many restrictions. The first point is that it is very expensive. Leaving aside the terrible cost of the dragon cannon itself, only Luoyang Shaofu can make the city-breaking bombs dedicated to the dragon cannon. It is rumored that the cost of each shell is not less than ten thousand gold. One thousand pieces, if you want to flatten a huge city like Guangzong, one thousand pieces is not enough, at most you can blow a hole!
Secondly, even if there are enough shells, it is impossible to fire continuously. Every five consecutive fires, it needs to be cooled for half an hour, otherwise the dragon cannon will be irreversibly damaged.
In addition, the dragon cannon has many disadvantages such as long charging time, inconvenient movement, complicated operation, and too eye-catching targets. At the same time, you must ensure that you have an absolute advantage in the field before you dare to use it. Lu Zhi specially ordered Liu Bei, Gongsun Zan, Lu Bu and others to come over. The main purpose is to protect the dragon cannon from threats.
Otherwise, due to the bulkiness of the dragon cannon, it is easy for the enemy to attack the dragon cannon out of the city.
As for the use of dragon cannons to hunt and kill top historical generals, as Shang Ji considered before, that is even more nonsense. The slow firing speed of dragon cannons and the long charging time make it impossible to directly hit top generals. The aftermath could not even kill the top generals. Unless a very large number of dragon cannons carry out surprise saturation bombing, it will be useless.
However, if you are really rich enough, it is still very effective to use the dragon cannon to fight the army, as long as you are willing to pay the cost! Anyway, with a little calculation in Shang Ji's mind, he immediately dispelled this idea that would definitely make people bankrupt.
While the two were talking, the second round of the dragon cannon fired again. The interval was indeed quite long, more than a quarter of an hour, during which the torch chariot next to it had fired three times.
However, no matter how many shortcomings the dragon cannon has, it will not shake its status as the world's number one siege weapon. With only three rounds of cannon fire and the bombardment of torch stone chariots, a tens of meters wide hole appeared on the city wall of Quzhou City. Huge gap!
"General Shang, I will leave it to you!"
Seeing a huge hole in the city wall of Qu Zhou, the Zong member nodded in satisfaction, and then said to Shang Ji.
"Hahaha, General Zong has already breached the city wall. If he still can't kill the moth thief, how can he face Duke Lu? Wait a moment, general, and see how he will defeat the thief!"
Shang Ji smiled cheerfully, turned around and said to Lu Bu and the others beside him, "Xuande, Fengxian, Bogui, do you intend to lead the army to defeat the bandits?"
"Stick what you want, don't dare to ask you!"