I have to say that in recent years, China's costume dramas can be described as mushrooming, and the degree of restoration of history is getting higher and higher, from buildings, appliances, to the accessories on the characters, all of which are exquisite, but "no one is perfect, barefoot", there are always some mistakes.
So many "keyboard men" crackled a scolding director, scolding the screenwriter, scolding the actors, this is not, a TV series appeared siege war, in the face of not very tall wooden city gate, the momentum, well-equipped enemy army is not able to attack, rather than use a large wooden stake to knock on the door, nor a fire to burn the wooden city gate, angry "keyboard man" scolded: "This group of ancients is also too stupid!" ”
At first glance, they are not wrong, but in fact, once the details are discussed, this wooden city gate is really not burned casually, I don't believe we continue to look.
The first reason is that the gates are very strong. Of course, the city gate in the TV series only needs to make superficial efforts, in fact, the formal and real city gates in china's history are extremely strong, after all, it is a city gate, usually using a hundred-year-old giant wood as raw materials, and to choose such a high-grade wood as iron birch (jujube wood, elm wood can also be), their fireproof ability is quite good. Secondly, the ancients would wrap the wooden city gate with a layer of iron and nail thick copper nails, which could not be burned for a while and a half.
The second reason is the fire extinguishing design. What will be chosen as a city? There must be water in the place, the ancient city gate is inside the city wall, there must be a moat outside the city wall, "the city gate is on fire, and the pond fish" is said to be the city gate of the Song Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn Period, in order to extinguish the fire, the people also joined together, but the water was transported over too long, so it was directly used to put out the fire with the water of the moat, and finally the fire was successfully extinguished.
But because of the firefighting, the water in the moat was used up, and the poor fish inside died of thirst. It can be seen that the ancients have long considered the fire attack, and they also left a gap above the city gate, if someone really came to set fire, pour water from above, and even did not have to go downstairs to extinguish the fire, had to make people admire the wisdom of the ancients.
The third reason is that there is more than one door. Well, even if the enemy did burn down the first gate and rush in, it was very likely that something more terrible was waiting for them. "Catch turtles in an urn" everyone has heard of, right? China's Zhonghua Gate is known as "the world's first urn city", the city gate is set up with 3 urns, 4 ticket gates, each urn city has 1 door and 1 gate, the double iron door is set up with jack gates that can be started up and down, and there are 27 Tibetan soldier caves in the city...
You may wish to think boldly, if the enemy destroys the city gate and rushes in with great interest, what awaits them? So when the Xiang army attacked the city of Nanjing, it would rather dig tunnels than attack the city gate, are you really a fool when they are all fools?
Of course, there have also been people in history who challenged the "burning of the city gate", in 1561 AD, the eunuch Cao Jixiang, the eunuch of Si Li, joined forces with Shi Heng, the Duke of Zhongguo, to rebel in The Capital Division, in order to rush into the palace, Shi Heng chose to set fire to the gate, and as a result, the defenders of Dong'an Gate not only did not extinguish the fire, but added firewood to the fire, resulting in a growing fire, and the rebels themselves could not extinguish the fire, but could not enter...
In fact, there are still many things in the world that make people feel "inexplicable", but as long as you carefully investigate, there will always be new discoveries, if it is so convenient to burn the city gate, who has not braved the rain of arrows to climb the wall or dig tunnels, do you think?