"Leif, listen to me," Bjorn ordered, "I want you to reduce the weight of the projectiles. Stop using the solid, heavy iron balls. Do we have any of the smaller caliber shots? Or the hollow iron shells we use for the light field guns?"
"We have hundreds of the hollow shells in the lower armory," Leif frowned, scratching his beard. "But they don't hit very hard against stone walls."
"We are not trying to shatter stone," Hakon suddenly laughed loudly, "We just need to smash dirt and kill the peasants building the ramp!"
"..." Bjorn nodded firmly. "Lighten the projectile weight entirely. Then, I want you to increase the black powder filling to the absolute maximum limit that the steel can withstand. Pack it tight.
And finally... hammer the wooden wedges under the carriages. Raise the angle of the barrels as high as they can safely go without tipping backward."
