Speaking of ancient China, in fact, there are often wars, whether it is counterinsurgency and war, or resistance to aggression, every war will have a lot of casualties, after all, in that era of cold weapons, the war is also very dependent on the strength of both sides, but in ancient times, many people are unwilling to project, after all, there is no such heavy weapon as we have now, every siege needs to pay a heavy price, not only soldiers are unwilling, in fact, many generals are the same.
But many times there is no way, sometimes, the city is very important, if you go around directly, in the future the other side through this city to counterattack, belly and back under the enemy, will face a fiasco, so many times, even if you don't want to, you must also attack the city.
I believe that everyone has more or less seen some ancient siege scenes from tv, in fact, it seems that the defending side has taken a big advantage, with the help of strong walls can pose a great threat to the enemy army, but is the siege side really only prepared those cloud ladders that look very fragile and some stout wooden stakes to hit the city gate? I don't think any general will let his men die in vain, and they must have been well prepared.
If it is really like a TV show, the soldiers on the top can easily push the ladder down, then what else to fight, in fact, the ancient siege ladder and we see is completely different, the structure of the siege ladder is very troublesome, in fact, more like a chariot, the front can resist the enemy's long-range shooting, the soldiers are hidden behind, and the ladder is also fixed on it, it is impossible to easily push down.
After all, in ancient times, siege warfare also happened frequently, and the siege side must have thought of a lot of ways to reduce casualties, especially those craftsmen who spent a lot of effort to design a variety of siege vehicles, and later after many modifications to be better used on the battlefield, and even some people made preparations specifically for those moats, so that soldiers could pass.
Even so well prepared, in the siege battle, it is still the casualties of the siege side far more than the defending soldiers, and even many people feel that there is no defender ten times the strength of the troops at all dare not to attack the city, you can imagine how tragic the ancient siege warfare was, in fact, the defending side is not dead in the city.
They sometimes take the initiative to attack, the initiative in their own hands, after all, if it is besieged by the enemy for too long, the loss of grain and grass will have no chance of victory, and the initiative can often be unexpected, in the case of the other side is not defensive, to achieve a certain victory, improve morale, if the siege side has long been prepared, do not mention, for example, we often see siege soldiers scolding the battle under the city, want to lead the defenders out in this way, but the effect is not large, generally only to hit the morale of the other side.