Daqin Engineers

No wonder Hui Hui cherishes this small piece of dried meat so much.

People in this era usually rarely eat meat, especially soldiers fighting on the front lines.

The third-level knight and the fourth-level knight are better. In addition to getting polished rice, they can also be divided into something called "sauce".

Qin Shi referred to making sauce as "", which means meat sauce as well as meat sauce.

The method of glutinous rice is to dry and chop the meat first, then add the leftover koji from the wine making, add salt, and sometimes add sesame (bean), depending on the situation, add some wine, and leave it in a clay pot to ferment for 100 days. .

The sauce made in this way became the standard food for Qin army because of its long storage time and convenient transportation.

Of course, this is the standard configuration of the three-level knight and above food.

If it is not a "high nobility status", the sauce obtained has almost no meat but sunn.

The taste and appearance are a bit like modern bean paste.

Not to mention, this thing is pretty good.

The jerky that Xu presented was a piece sent by his family, and he saved such a small piece of meat.

Of course, Shen Bing did not dare to "suck it", but politely declined.

But think about it, it's been a long time since I could eat meat.

When he was thinking about drooling, Zhang Xuan rode his horse to Shen Bing's side and jumped off the horse, and asked:

"Engineer!"

"According to the general, the wall of Handan is more than 30 feet high."

"Can I wait for the catapult to throw fireballs into the city?"

I haven't tried this. I used the trebuchet to attack the city before considering the farthest distance as long as it can hit the wall.

Only when Wo Niu Mountain was attacking the walled city, the fire bombs crossed the wall and hit the city.

However, the wooden walled city is no more than ten feet high, so almost no need to consider the height of the wall.

Shen Bing didn't dare to answer easily. After all, this was related to the question of victory on the battlefield. In case something went wrong, it would be a big crime.

"Let me calculate."

After that, Shen Bing walked out of the queue, picked up a branch on the side of the road, and lined up drafts on the ground.

Shen Bing's mental arithmetic ability is fairly good.

It's just that the unit of length in this era is different from that of modern times.

When calculating, the steps, feet, etc. must be converted into meters first, so the problem is complicated.

After the conversion, it is the parabola problem. Based on the range, the highest point of the parabola can be roughly calculated, and then the conclusion is drawn...

Fatty Tun followed Shen Bing without saying a word, staring at Shen Bing and making gestures on the ground.

Shen Bing ignored him, and after a while, he raised his head and said to Zhang Xuan:

"Saiyi bullets can cross the city wall two hundred steps away."

"Songming bullets and flint bullets need to enter about a hundred steps..."

Songming bombs and flint bombs can barely cross the city wall at the highest point, so the range is halved.

The result of halving the range is to place yourself under the blow of enemy crossbows and trebuchets.

Zhang Xuan didn't believe that Shen Bing could get the answer in this way. He thought he would have to use the trebuchet for a few trials at least.

"Really?" Zhang Xuan asked.

"Really!" Shen Bing nodded affirmatively.

It's really not possible. It's not difficult to set up a high platform to raise the trebuchet a few feet.

Zhang Xuan nodded and answered:

"That's it, I just need to throw the sackcloth into the city!"

"I ordered them to make a large number of linen bullets and rush over!"

As soon as he jumped on the horseback, he passed the order.

That is really a flying horse, the kind of flying horse without stirrups, and wearing armor...

The difficulty is not small, so it is not easy to ride horses freely in this era.

Zhang Xuan's movements are also fast, or it can be said that the production of linen bullets is very fast.

When the artillery arrived in Handan that night, the first batch of linen bullets also arrived.

Zhang Xuan went to Shuai Teng to report to Yang Duanhe:

"General, the artillery has arrived."

"According to the artillery engineer Shen Bing...Sai Yi fire bombs can be thrown into the city within two hundred steps."

The reason why Zhang Xuan wanted to add "Shen Bing said" was because he had never tried it.

If you can't throw it in, you can still leave yourself some retreat.

Don't want Yang Duanhe seemed to trust Shen Bing, he nodded as soon as he heard this:

"That's it, let the artillery prepare for the siege!"

Zhang Xuan was taken aback, he did not expect it would be so fast.

Seeing that Zhang Xuan did not answer, Yang Duanhe looked at Zhang Xuan in confusion and asked, "What's the problem?"

Zhang Xuan answered:

"To the general."

"The artillery rushed on the road, I haven't used dinner..."

Yang Duanhe waved his hand and said:

"It's not too late to throw a fireball into the city and eat again!"

Zhang Xuan responded with "No" and hurriedly sent the order.

No wonder Yang Duanhe was so worried.

On the one hand, he wants to take advantage of the night fire to attack Handan, on the other hand, he is worried about Wang Jian...

Using the improved catapult at night may not be noticed by Wang Jian.

In other words, if Yang Duanhe could break through the North Gate overnight, it would be too late to wait for Wang Jian to notice it the next morning.

As a result, Shen Bing and the others, who were so hungry that their chests stuck to their backs, were caught on the battlefield.

Fortunately, the task of the artillery is only to launch fire bombs far away. If it is against the enemy, it will simply surrender in this state.

The breeze is breezy, and the moon is high.

The city wall of Handan stood in front of Shen Bing in the moonlight.

The city was dark, and some uncomfortable smell of blood faintly floated in the evening breeze.

Shen Bing knew that it was the trace left by the Qin army during the daytime attack on the city.

Although Zhao Jun said that his morale was low because of Li Mu's death, he was facing the capital of Zhao Kingdom at this time.

Everyone knew that Zhao Kingdom would die as soon as the capital was broken.

So even though the pillar of Li Mu had fallen, there were still soldiers and civilians desperately resisting.

It was later that Shen Bing learned that the facts were also not the case.

The reason why Handan has been able to resist so far is related to King Qin's Yingzheng...

Ying Zheng, also called Zhao Zheng, was born in Handan.

At that time, he was a hostage, so he was bullied by the aristocracy of Zhao in Handan.

Now that the Qin army is approaching the city, even if King Zhao loses the heart to resist, the nobles who have bullied Yingzheng still dare not give up...

Because of the brutality of Yingzheng, the world is well known.

If the Qin Army took Handan, it would be strange not to dig out these nobles one by one and destroy the nine clans.

As a result, the Handan nobles, who had been fighting each other, were surprisingly united this time.

All forces spent their wealth and even sent men and servants to fight in the city.

This made Qin Jun helpless in Handan.

Even Wang Jian's army attacked one after another.

At this time, Wang Jian was standing on a high platform and looking at Handan from afar, thinking hard about how to break the city tomorrow.

At this moment, they saw fireballs from the north of the city rushing straight into the sky like a scorching sun, crossing the city wall and falling into the city.

Soon there was a raging mess in Handan City...

In this era, the houses are all wooden, and there are still densely connected rooms in the capital, and once the fire is lit, it is easy to spread.

Wang Jian was shocked and asked the general:

"What is that?"

The minister replied after watching for a while:

"Subordinates don't know."

"But it is said that Yang Ting, the daughter of General Yang, used fire bombs to burn the enemy village!"

"Could that be a fire bomb?"