In the ancient times of the Cold Weapon Era, the gains and losses of a city often meant the victory or defeat of war, and to capture a city, it was inevitable that soldiers would have to push ladders to climb the tower to kill the soldiers guarding the city. However, Xiaobian would like to ask you a question, then why don't the soldiers who defend the city directly push the ladder to it, so that the soldiers who attack the city will not be able to attack the city?
Why don't ancient soldiers do this - push the ladder to let people smash themselves to death, so much time and effort, why do they have to be stupid to wait for others to go up the stairs to fight around, the reason why they did not do this, the answer is very simple, just three words "can not be pushed down", if it is really easy to push, directly throw people to death, Xiaobian thought, if so, then such a ladder may have been eliminated long ago, and will not let the ancient people continue to use it for thousands of years!. In order to prevent foreign invasion, ancient people often set up a high, water-leaking city in the key geographical location of the city, and in order to facilitate access to the city, they often built a lot of pairs of gates under the city. In order to take care of the wartime city, the city was not so easy to be breached, and the city gate was often built very heavy, so heavy that if you want to open this door, it takes several soldiers to open it with all their strength! It is so heavy that the city gate is closed, and the thousands of pounds of wood outside cannot be easily knocked open! Because it is too heavy to open, the soldiers who besiege the city can only "give up the near and far" to take the ladder from the side to the upper tower to fight with the enemy.
As the name suggests, we can imagine how tall he really is. If the ladder is high, its weight will naturally come up, and once the weight comes up, it is easy to appear bulky, and it is not easy to push it if it is heavy, originally the ladder was to assist in combat, and as a result, dozens of soldiers breathlessly pushed the ladder under the city wall, and they were already tired and breathless at this time, so that the soldiers who originally planned to attack the city still had the heart to attack the city! Since this is the case, the ladder has lost its meaning of existence! Therefore, the ancients added a wheel under the ladder, so that it was much easier to push the ladder to where it was needed! According to relevant historical records, this kind of ladder first appeared in the wars of the Xia and Shang dynasties, and at that time it may really be the kind of ladder that fell down with one push.
This ladder naturally lost its significance on the battlefield, so the carpenter master Lu Ban slightly transformed the ladder to make the ladder less easy to push, and finally formed the original blueprint of the later ladder. With the changes of history, the invention of the ladder is certainly not the credit of one person, it should be improved by the skilled craftsmen of the past generations, the ladder will slowly become heavy and not stupid, and it will eventually become a very handy weapon for siege warfare, or it has become an indispensable siege weapon in the era of cold weapons in war! Do you think so? Welcome to discuss!