In recent years, ancient war genres of film and television dramas have emerged in an endless stream, and many directors will make TV dramas under the banner of "restoring history". I have to say that in recent years, there has been some progress. The architecture, jewelry, and costumes in the costume drama gradually began to become more elaborate, but there were still some details errors.
The one who can find these small details is not an ordinary "keyboard man", but an audience with a brain to think. For example, the war scene in a TV series, siege warfare. In the face of the wooden gate that was not tall, the well-equipped army could not attack it repeatedly, because they had been hitting the city gate with large wooden stakes, and the means were too rigid. If a fire were to burn directly through, wouldn't this wooden city gate immediately surrender its weapons and surrender! Some people can't help but exclaim: the ancients were too stupid!
This is a small look at the wisdom of the ancients, and it is too overestimated the degree of restoration of the current film and television dramas. We must have a reverence for the ancients, we can think of them all, and will use the resources around them to make the best response. Attacking the city with fire is not feasible for three reasons:
Reason one: The wooden city gate is wearing armor
Of course, the gates guarding the whole city must be very strong, and it is impossible to use ordinary wood as a city gate. The shots in film and television dramas do not have to be too harsh, after all, it involves cost issues, is it not good to use the cost in a more suitable place? The city gates in real history will use centuries-old giant wood as materials, mainly using high-grade woods such as iron birch, date and elm. The fireproof ability of these woods themselves is good, and the city gate will be wrapped in iron and fixed with nails, and if you want to attack the city gate with fire, you must first melt the iron, which is obviously basically impossible.
The second reason is that the country is completely equipped
There is an idiom called "the city gate is on fire, and the pond fish are affected", which means that the gate of the city is burned, so the people use the water in the moat on the edge of the city to put out the fire, and with the efforts of the people, the fire is finally extinguished, but the water in the moat also dried up, and the fish in the river died of thirst.
This shows that the means of fire attack have long been known to the ancients, and naturally there will be coping strategies. So what was the coping strategy of the ancients?
That is, to buckle a hole in the city tower, when the enemy intends to fire the city gate, directly pouring water down can extinguish the enemy's flames, the enemy will only waste effort, so there will be no enemy will use fire to attack the city gate.
Reason three, the existence of the urn city
There is far more than one gate, and after entering the city gate, there are several urns (wèngchéng), each of which is a gate and a gate. Urn City is a kind of defensive facility of ancient cities, used to strengthen the defense of the city, and is part of the ancient Chinese urban wall. The siege of the city due to the design of the city is not a simple matter, even a small number of people can hold the city for a long time. The defenders had a way to deal with the enemy who entered the urn, and the turtle was caught in the urn" said that this is the thing.
To sum up, it is not wise to attack the city gates with fire! So we see more of the footage in the film and television drama is to climb the ladder to attack the city, so the siege is bound to suffer heavy losses, unless the tunnel is dug... Hey, that's a good trick, we'll talk about it next time!
Let's watch the costume drama with the brain to see, it is interesting, find some small details will be more interesting, if you carefully analyze these details, increase historical knowledge, really enriched! You tell me?
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