Ancient wars, this is a gorgeous big stage, countless famous players in history have left amazing performances on this stage. We often imagine that distant era, when a million troops took the rank of general, and the sword pointed and invincible
...... However, the reality may not be as gorgeous as we think.
In ancient warfare, mainly divided into field warfare, siege warfare, water warfare, naval warfare, etc., then today in order to let everyone have a little in-depth understanding of ancient warfare, we will take the most complex and difficult siege warfare as an example, to talk to you in depth, how to fight the ancient siege warfare!
In order to explain the siege battle in detail, we first ruled out all kinds of sneak attacks and raids and easily obtained the city, but adopted a dignified frontal attack mode.
There are many kinds of sieges, and the lowest cost is simply to garrison all the troops and horses around the city walls to prevent the enemies inside the city from coming out, and the enemies outside the city can enter. However, if you want to surround the city, you need to complete a huge project!
First of all, a large trench was dug outside the city wall to enclose the whole city, and then put horses and thorns on both sides of the trench to prevent the people in the city from overtaking. What's more, simply build another wall outside the trench of the besieged city, and directly encircle the whole city. Therefore, before the siege of the city, the first thing is to build infrastructure!
Of course there is another way
"Encircling three que one" leaves the enemy with the idea that he can escape, which often makes the enemy feel lucky and cannot defend the city with all his strength!
Okay, the city is surrounded, will you attack next? Hey, that's sending a head to death!
Not only the towering walls are insurmountable barriers for the siege soldiers, but the long-range weapons such as crossbowmen and bed crossbows on the city walls will make the siege soldiers fall into nightmares on the way to charge. Next, under the city wall, marble, horizontal wood, rolling oil, etc. poured down, which was the end of the world for the siege side.
Here to tell you a logic: the siege is not a full-scale attack, the defense is not an equal distribution of troops on the walls, the two sides are actually engaged in a choice and tug-of-war. The attacking side will constantly look for the weakness of the defending side, seeking a breakthrough, resulting in the total collapse of the other side; in addition to arranging the normalized defensive troops, the defending side will leave a part of the people and horses as a reserve team, dynamically judge the enemy's main attack direction, and then put the reserve team into it
"Patching".
One side is constantly looking for the weakness of the breakthrough, and the other side is constantly adjusting to make up for the weakness, which is the normal state of siege warfare!
So next, the siege side first investigates the situation in the city.
First of all, we must build a high platform outside the city, or you can climb the nearby mountain to observe the whole situation of the city in an all-round way. It is necessary to observe the arrangement of the opposing force, but also to observe the arrangement of the defensive equipment on the city wall, in short, all kinds of situations must be collected, and the more comprehensive the better.
After some reconnaissance, the next step is to advance the pull point!
The truly clever defenders of the city will not simply shrink their troops in the city, but will rely on the terrain around the city to create a set of three-dimensional defense system. For example, camp fortresses are set up on the commanding heights of the surrounding mountains, such as arrow towers around the moat, and so on.
At this time, the besieging side needs to patiently concentrate its forces on pulling out the defensive positions outside these cities one by one.
After pulling out the perimeter strongholds, the siege forces can further compress the strategic space of the defending side, and the next thing to do is to fill in the moat. Arrange for the men to hide behind shields, or approach the moat under the cover of various trench-filling vehicles, and fill the moat with sand, thus clearing the obstacles for subsequent attacks.
In addition, the siege side can also dig tunnels into Chengchi. Contrary to what everyone thinks, the general tunnel is not dug into the inside of the city, but only to the bottom of the base of the city wall, resulting in the collapse of the city wall. Of course, the defending side will often dig trenches along the city wall to cut off the tunnels of the siege side, and it is possible to set up water tanks along the city wall to detect whether there is a sound of digging underground at any time.
What's next? It's a tentative attack!
On the basis of the preliminary reconnaissance, select some of the enemy's possible weak points to carry out tentative attacks. At this time, the ability to organize and coordinate the siege forces is a very big test:
When the soldiers launch a charge against the city wall, they must have corresponding shields and other objects to cover, so as to reduce the casualties caused by the other side's long-range strike; if the attacking party also has ultra-long-range strike weapons such as catapults and wells, then it is necessary to suppress the defenders on the city wall in a timely manner, and the ultimate purpose is to ensure that the soldiers charging towards the city wall are damaged as little as possible.
When the soldiers rushed under the city walls, there were two ways to attack. One is to attack weak gates, and the other is to use ladders to climb the walls. At this time, it has entered the most brutal stage of siege warfare. Although the attackers took the previous series of measures, due to the limitations of ancient technology, the tall city walls were still insurmountable barriers for the siege soldiers.
At this time, you must make full use of the main attack, feint attack, mobility, harassment and other levels of tactics, mobilize the defenders in the city to follow your rhythm and be tired of running, so that the other party can not understand your real direction of attack.
Finally, there is the destruction of the city.
When the other party is mobilized by you, the siege side must choose the final breakthrough direction, and secretly continue to prepare for the thunder strike. When everything is ready, we have to use tactics to attract the enemy's defenses to other places as much as possible, and then there is the final hammer deal: stud!
At the chosen breakthrough, all the catapults were concentrated on a city wall, and they were smashed! After the city wall collapsed, the infantrymen who had long been assembled and waited for them rushed up and poured in rapidly from within the gap in the city wall; at the same time, the ultra-long-range weapons such as Jing Lan poured madly against the city wall, and they must crush the defenders on the city wall.
At the same time, the all-round ladder to the city began, once a breakthrough, immediately put in follow-up troops to further tear open the gap in the opponent's defense line, but also attract more enemies to reinforce, indirectly weakening the strength of other defense lines. Other units take the opportunity to achieve multi-point breakthroughs from weak defenses, and then divide and disintegrate the enemy, causing the defense to completely collapse!
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