異域文化 中世紀(jì)攻城戰(zhàn) 09

Well it's gonna fit. Some point is gonna found. We're off the ground here.

After last night's narrow miss,Wayne's trebuchet is repositioned to be more in line with the target.

All we're doing is shifting it slightly to the left, we were throwing it to the right little far,so we've shifted it about one inch,so hopefully we will be dead on center.

With the same 250-pound ball as yesterday, and the sling at the same length,Wayne believes he is now dead on to hit the wall with his third attempt.

Three,two,one, fire in the hole.

The third shot is identical to the second in distance, at a range of 200 yards, adjusting the wheels one inch to the left placed the missle bang on top of the hoarding.

We've gotten the wood, I'm off the contact with any stone yet,but we've knocked the hoarding pretty well,well maybe a little high, and then come down a little bit.

That must be the old tub,oh, where,mustn't it?

That's the hole.

It's still a bit on this side,isn't it?

You mean standing under that hoarding, you'd have a jolt?

With the trebuchet lined up on the target,Wayne only has to shorten the range by a hair to hit the stone battlements below.

So this time what we're trying is lengthen the sling about 6 inches,so we're hoping to fire it a little bit flatter and get to the top of the hole, top of the wall.

Quite difficult, I think probably, isn't it, on those small adjustments,do you think?

Yes, small adjustments are difficult to do.

We could perhaps not get so lucky this time,but it's been very good so far,isn't it?

Five,four

Worried that this may be the last attempt,Wayne makes a sudden change of plan.

Two,one,fire in the hole.

He replaces the 250-pound ball that he's been using with a jumbo 300 pounder.

Wayne figures that the heavier ball clocked at a speed of 127 miles an hour should breach the wall.

But he is wrong.

We're going back to the 250 ball instead of 300 and see if we can get a little more high.

They barely got the time for one more shot, the American team, and they've been very near, but they might miss it again and if, say, they don't get it, do you think you can get it with yours?

Maybe We're more lucky , and we can destroy this wall.

Yeah,well let's see, it is French against Americans,er...

No,no,it is not against, that's your way.

Six,five,four,three,two,one..fire in the hole.

Putting on their kilts for good luck,Wayne's team rushes to get in one final shot.

word to chew:

jumbo:elephantine, of great mass; huge and bulky;

eg: "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp"