"Reading history makes one wise." People have always attached importance to the study of history, in fact, more often they want to learn relevant knowledge and experience from history, so as to promote today's development and progress.
Therefore, since ancient times, people have attached great importance to the study and study of history.
In modern times, where science and technology and civilization are more developed, in fact, whether it is experts and scholars or ordinary people, they will have more or less understanding or research of history.
In ancient times, there was such a phenomenon, and many people could not help but understand the mystery. That is, in the ancient war, why didn't the defenders choose to push directly to the ladder, but instead smash it with stones? This question, if you ask the soldiers at the time, probably the soldiers will tell you: who pushed who is stupid.
So why do soldiers say that? And in ancient times, why couldn't you push a ladder? What kind of wisdom does the ancients contain in this? Then this still has to start from the history of the time and the way to defend the city in detail.
The ancient way of defending the city
In ancient times, wars were often fought over territory between emperors. Therefore, there was also a lot of experience with war in ancient times.
In fact, ancient wars were often for the sake of territoriality, so the most critical thing in war was to break through the other side's cities. Only by breaching the other side's city can it be called a real victory.
Therefore, in ancient wars, the defense of the city was actually a very important link.
As the saying goes, "The devil is one foot tall, and the tao is one foot high." So in fact, in ancient times, there were many ways to defend and siege the city. And there is also a lot of attention to the construction of the city wall.
For example, outside the ancient city pool, a trench was always built, in fact, in order to prevent the enemy army from entering the city smoothly, increasing the difficulty for the enemy to enter the city, so as to further protect their own city.
Moreover, especially in times of war, there is often not only a trench outside the city walls, but also a lot of mechanisms, just to be able to further prevent the invasion of the enemy army.
In addition to this, there are many ways and measures to defend the enemy army and machinery in war. For example, the first is that there is fire oil that people are familiar with.
Fire oil means that when the enemy army invades, when the other party begins to climb the ladder into our city wall, pour fire oil at them to prevent the invasion and entry. At the same time, there are many other ways, such as: boiling water, gold juice, rolling stones, etc.
In order to attack the city wall, there are actually many equipment and weapons.
For example, the most famous and direct is the ladder. The so-called ladder, as the name suggests, means that the soldiers will lean a very long ladder against the city wall, and then they will climb up one by one to confront the soldiers guarding the city. If you can succeed, you will win in the end. This is the most direct, but at the same time the most likely to cause casualties.
Later, with the invention of gunpowder and the increasing experience and wisdom of combat, people began to gradually use artillery to siege the city. Although the success rate has increased significantly, the number of destructive and human casualties has also begun to increase further.
However, I have to admit that no matter how cruel the defense and siege of the city. Attacking the city is always the most important part of ancient warfare.
Why not push the ladder
As just mentioned, in fact, in ancient times, the most commonly used siege method was to use cloud ladders to attack the city. At this time, if the soldiers guarding the city directly pushed the ladder down, wouldn't it be better, and wouldn't this reduce a lot of pointless fighting? And is it easier? But why did the soldiers use stones to smash at these climbing enemy troops?
So why do soldiers think that whoever pushes the ladder is a fool? In fact, the ancient ladder was not as simple as we think now.
In fact, the method of pushing down the ladder is not something that the ancients who have experienced hundreds of battles have not thought about it, nor have they not used it. And the reasons why they don't use them are actually very complicated.
The first point is that when climbing the ladder, in order to prevent the enemy from climbing up, they will coat the ladder with a lot of poison. At this time, if the defenders push to the ladder and touch the ladder, it is actually a veritable "lifting a stone and dropping it on their own feet". Therefore, the defenders of the city naturally do not touch the ladder.
The second main reason is that the ladder is too long to be torn down. The name of this ladder is "cloud ladder". As the name suggests, this ladder is actually very long, so it is very difficult for soldiers on the city wall to tear down the ladder. Therefore, instead of wasting a lot of effort and possibly not being able to push it down, it is better to directly drop the stone down to be thorough.
The third reason is that in fact, when the enemy attacks and places the ladder, it will consider whether the soldiers on the city wall will tear down their ladders, so they do not simply place the ladders, but after a certain design and angle calculation. Therefore, the ladder they have placed is actually very strong and difficult to be pushed down.
Therefore, combined with the above three reasons, the defenders on the city wall generally do not push down the ladder, because they know that pushing the ladder is actually doing useless work and wasting physical strength, but it is better to directly use stones to hit the other party completely and effectively.
Therefore, the ancient defenders of the city would think that if they pushed the ladder, it was a very stupid act.
epilogue
The wisdom of the ancients is actually very great. Especially since wars often occurred in ancient times, many of the seemingly small actions we make now were taken by the ancients after careful preparation.
For example, the seemingly simple ladder climbing is actually calculated and considered a lot, rather than being carried out casually.
In many film and television works, in fact, the description of many scenes in history has been exaggerated or reduced, so if you want to truly understand ancient civilization, you still have to start from the historical data, carefully study and analyze.
Therefore, "take history as a mirror". When we study ancient stories and some events, we should not only focus on the surface, but also think about the deep reasons for them and further analyze the reasons for many things.
The study of history is actually endless, so we still need to understand history more deeply and learn history in order to better create a better future.
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