War is undoubtedly closely related to human civilization, every history book that records the progress of mankind, the demise of the nation, and the course of civilization has a record of war, and under the shadow of war, there will be an army and weapons, and if the country wants to be strong, it will develop the army, reform weapons, and a series of measures, after all, whether the country is strong and whether the nation will be bullied is closely linked by the strength of the army.
Throughout the history of our country for nearly five thousand years, the change of each dynasty and the standard of weapons will be reformed to a certain extent, but there is one thing that has changed very little in thousands of years, that is, the ladder that climbed the city wall in ancient times, that is, the ladder of clouds.
When it comes to yunti, many people will have a sense of cruelty, because there is no high technology in ancient times, if the enemy wants to stick to the town, in addition to besieging the enemy until the enemy runs out of food, sending emissaries to shake the heart of the general, there is also a suicide siege battle.
Most of these situations occur in particularly critical battles, in order not to delay the trip, have to adopt the siege method, the people who belong to the attacking side often need more than ten times more military strength than the defenders, and this is only the hope of breaking through the city, so why do other armies use this method? Can't you take a detour?
Sure you can take a detour, but! Very few militaries do this. Because it is easy to form a situation of being attacked by the enemy, coupled with the great benefits of capturing the city.
Just as the so-called wealth is moving, once the city is breached by the attacker, the materials in the city are all the attacker. For example, the grain and grass in the city, gold and silver jewelry, and even the Qinglou women in the city, the wives and concubines of the powerful, the wives and children of the daughters and ordinary people, these are the spoils of the attacking side, after all, no one wants to miss the opportunity to get rich.
Of course, the most important thing is the strategic problem, in addition to the fear that the detour will be caught, there are other strategic help, such as when the attacking party takes the city, the reinforcements behind can be quickly supplied, quickly go to the front line to support, or take this city as the center, attack and support to other places, which can greatly expand the efficiency of war, and the ladder is to help the attacker to capture the city faster.
As an important prop for the attacking side, the ladder requires soldiers to rush under the city wall with rollers, arrows, and gold juice, erect the ladder, and firmly grasp the city wall with the hook and claw above, so why does the guard not push the ladder down, but prefers to work hard to smash it with stones?
The reason is actually very simple, the above said that there are two hook claws above the siege ladder, these two hook claws are designed to firmly grasp the city wall, as a military product, how can it be an inferior counterfeit product, so it is undoubtedly difficult for the guard to destroy it. Perhaps at the time of his destruction, the enemy had climbed up and sent him to see the king of Yama.
Isn't it okay not to destroy the wood without destroying the hook claw? This is natural, but it is difficult to operate in practice, because the ancient knives are not like today, there are many swords that can cut iron like mud, most of them are ordinary knives, and even the axe is not sharp, if you cut down the ladder, it is likely that it is not destroyed, and the enemy will come up.
Coupled with the fact that once the ladder is put in place, the enemy will enter the tide, rushing up continuously, trying to push the ladder with brute force, which is undoubtedly a fool's dream, plus there is a grappling hook on the ladder, if you want to push it, you have to lift the ladder first, which increases the difficulty of pushing to the ladder.
Therefore, when a siege battle occurs, few soldiers will bother to push the ladder down, but prefer to take the stone to smash, after all, the enemy relies on the ladder to forcibly capture, forming a straight line, seemingly smashing a person, it is likely to take two or three people to go.
Secondly, the attacking side attacks the defender through the ladder, the attacker's people seem to be like a tide, which is daunting, but the ladder can only be climbed by one person and then one person, which is naturally easier than hitting a group of people at once, which is why the attacking party has to pay ten times the number to break through the city.
Finally, because even if the attacker breaks through a point by climbing the ladder, the surrounding soldiers will quickly solve it, and the ability to defend is greatly improved.
Of course, once the siege war is started, the attacking party not only breaks through the city wall, but also orders people to push the log to knock the city gate open, but in the siege war, no matter how the attacking party uses tactics, it must pay a painful price, short soldiers, fighting the enemy with flesh, whether they can survive depends on whose luck is good or hard.
This is also the helplessness of ancient wars, even in the period of World War II, this siege war is still the attacking side to pay extreme pain to win, such as the Normandy landing battle we know, although one is landing on the island and the other is climbing the city wall, but the essence of the war is the same.