In 1626, the famous battle in the history of the Ming and Qing Wars, the Battle of Ningyuan, broke out. After two days of fierce fighting, the Ming army guarding Ningyuan City repelled the attack of the 60,000 Later Jin Army, and the Ming army also won the first defensive victory since the history of the Ming and Qing wars.
But is this battle won easily? At least in yuan Chonghuan's report, he mentioned a detail: after the battle, the Ming army collected more than 100,000 arrows fired by the Later Jin army from the city walls, towers, and cities. You must know that Ningyuan City is only a city with a circumference of nine miles, the average length of each side is only a thousand meters, and hundreds of thousands of arrows hit the position with a length of one thousand meters, what kind of scene will it be?
It is no exaggeration to say that after the war, Ningyuan City was almost like a huge hedgehog!
After that, the hundreds of thousands of arrows fired by the Jin Army, who were their targets for killing and injuring?
Walls made of stone? Obviously not! The attacking Houjin army could not sit idle and do nothing, because even if they were tired and vomiting blood, they could not shoot the city wall down.
Castle towers on the walls? Of course not, because the city tower is limited in size and there are not many people inside.
Launch high into the air and kill the buildings in Ningyuan City in free fall? This is even more so! Because such blind shooting does not have any accuracy, the Houjin Army will not be so wasteful.
So what exactly are their targets? The answer is already very clear here - the Ming army on the city wall is resisting the Later Jin army attacking the city. Although they had the protection of the fortress on the city wall, they could only expose their bodies to the fortress if they wanted to launch a defensive battle to block the siege of the city.
In order to accurately shoot arrows at the Houjin army under the city, the Ming army could only expose its own body. Even if they wanted to tear down the ladder that the Jin army had built on the city wall, they would have to poke their bodies out. But as long as they were exposed under the line of sight of the Hou Jin Army, the hundreds of thousands of arrows on the opposite side would gradually beckon.
Luo Zheng, the deputy commander of the Ming Dynasty who guarded Xiping Fort in the Battle of Quang Ninh, was shot in the eye by a flying bow and arrow while commanding the battle on the city wall. So don't think that if you guard the city, you can have absolute safety, after all, the city is also a professional soldier, and they also have professional long-range weapons in their hands.
When you figure this out and try to explain why you don't tear down the enemy's ladder when guarding the city, the answer to this question will be solved.
1. If you want to tear down the ladder built by the enemy, you have to appear on the city wall, and the overwhelming bow and arrow will make you turn into a small hedgehog in an instant.
2, after the ladder is set up, the enemy troops under the city will naturally climb the ladder to climb, one, two, three.... If there were five or six people climbing on this ladder, the weight of the ladder would reach more than a thousand pounds. To tear down this ladder is equivalent to tearing down five or six people at the same time.
Of course, one person can't do it, we can go up to several people, the body can not make the strength, we can follow the example of the famous general Zhang Patrol who guards Suiyang, make a rough wood into the impact of the wood, and crash the ladder and the enemy army together. But the problem is still the same, when a group of people are standing on the top of the city tower, breathlessly holding a piece of wood, the other side only needs a bow and arrow shot, how many can you survive?
Therefore, hiding behind the city wall and throwing stones, or holding stones as shields, and then accurately smashing the ladders and enemies under the castle tower, this has become an effective choice for many defensive officers and soldiers.