In history, was it true that ladders were used to siege cities during wars in ancient times?

In ancient times, the battle was indeed fought with ladders, this kind of ladder is called siege ladder, which is specially designed for siege, and can be hung directly on the city wall, so that soldiers can fight for the city wall with the enemy by climbing the ladder.

Historically, in ancient times, when fighting a battle, it was really a siege with a ladder, but it was carried out after attacking a wave with bows and arrows and catapults.

Yes, but it is not the same as the ladder used by modern people, but a ladder with a stable base and corresponding assistance.

In ancient times, cities were very important to a country. Almost every war revolves around a city, with both sides aiming to conquer the city. It can be said that China's thousands of years of war history is actually the history of the city's attack and defense.

As can be seen from some film and television works, the offensive and defensive battles of the ancient city are very cruel, and the battering ram hits the city gate while using ladders to climb the city wall. In the movie, the soldiers defending the city burned it with fire, smashed it with stones and wood, poured hot oil on it, and shot it with bows and arrows. It's that they don't push the crumbling ladder into the city.

Stories like this used to make me so anxious that I wanted to push the ladder for them myself. I, a layman who has not been at war, can also see that pushing down the ladder into the city is a very effective way to defend, so why didn't the ancient soldiers who fought long enough not push down the ladder to avoid future troubles?

In fact, this question contains a lot of historical and physical knowledge. First of all, let's talk about the height of the ancient city walls. Generally speaking, it is about 10 meters.

If a ladder can be installed on a city wall, it must be more than 10 meters. This is something that anyone who can do in junior high school geometry wants to know. Just imagine, a ladder of more than 10 meters, plus the enemy soldiers on the ladder, how much will its overall weight weigh?

In addition, if you push a ladder, you will be targeted by the siege archers, and you will be easily shot. This is also an issue to be aware of in terms of the danger of bows and arrows. When the soldiers of the besieging side came to attack the city with ladders, they often waited for them with words and literature, and whether it was stone or oil.

Ladder sieges were part of ancient warfare. In war, it is not just a single use of ladders, but a full-scale siege. When using the ladder to attack the city, the bows and arrows at the city gate are put together at the same time, suppressing the destruction of the ladder by the defenders of the city, and storming the city gate, so that the defenders of the city can disperse their forces, and the ladder can capture the city.

Ranged** is extremely useful in siege warfare, killing defenders to the greatest extent. A lot of the time, people who die on offense are about the same as people who die on defense. As for other auxiliary methods, there are many more, such as fire flooding, late gunpowder.

There is also a stupid way: far from the city walls. Dig your own and rebuild a high wall.

It is condescending and can have double defense!

Therefore, the main means of dealing with the cheating ladder is: burn!

The ladder itself is made of wood, and the key is to ignite the fire. It's easy to start a fire, just shoot a few rockets from the side, but a large piece of wood like a ladder is hard to ignite, so throw in some ignition materials such as grease, gunpowder, grass handles, etc. Throw yourself into the fire so that it can be burned out.

As a result of this approach, the ancient city walls were easy to defend and difficult to attack. So there is also the first one to climb the ladder and get a reward of a thousand dollars.

Finally, after the Ming and Qing dynasties, due to the extensive use of artillery, the city walls that defended the city became less important than the previous dynasties, and the cloud ladder began to withdraw from the historical stage of war, basically using guns to slam or blow up a place on the city wall before the soldiers rushed up.

<> "Ancient sieges like to use cloud ladders to attack cities, why not knock down ladders?

The ancient battlefield is basically based on cold weapons, and the long-range throwing ** is only a bow and crossbow and a catapult, causing limited damage, but the number of deaths does not have to be hot at all ** The war is less, and the cruelty of it is not to be underestimated, when the two armies are at war, the core is morale, if the morale is chaotic, then it will become a mess of scattered sand, and there is no ability to fight back at all.

One of the most difficult part is the siege, for the attacker is very difficult to quietly mess up, the defender only needs to close the gate, stand on the city wall, as long as the materials are enough, they are not afraid of the loss of the city, so they have to be prepared to fight a protracted war, it is best to be able to consume their materials, then it will be much easier, the strange thing is that the besieging side likes to take the ladder, why the defending side does not directly accompany the clan to knock down, but laboriously with a stone to smash it?

The reason lies in the ladder, they are different from the general ladder, the general structure of the ladder is composed of three parts, in addition to the straight ladder above, there is a chassis below, this chassis is quite strong, the chassis is a wheels that can be rolled under the chassis, the wheels are made of solid wood, the requirements are enough to layer a thousand pounds, and the outside also includes cast iron sheets, after the soldiers step on it, the next acre is immediately fixed, and it is not realistic to push down by manpower.

Even if the ladder is left the city wall, it will turn to the ground, and the besieging soldiers can push it hard, and the soldiers can still continue to climb the ladder after success, in this case, the use of stones, rolling wood, and smash down along the ladder will have a better effect, and it can also roll towards the rear, killing soldiers along the way, which is considered to kill two birds with one stone, often weakening the enemy's strength, and more deterrent than destroying the opponent's tools.

Of course, if the materials are used up, you can use the fire attack, pour a large amount of fire oil down the ladder, and then ignite it from above, the fire has been spreading downward, the soldier can not climb up, the natural ladder is useless, and the burning time is enough, the ladder will also collapse, which is still very meaningful, and it can also have the effect of consuming the enemy's materials, and the trick is very effective.

If you want to take the city without spending a single soldier, the most clever thing is to rebel, through the internal and external cooperation, open the city gate, the difficulty of entering is very easy, but in order to do this, you have to have the right chips, or master an important handle, in fact, no matter how opportunistic, the siege is always the party with the greatest loss.

The ladder is a necessary tool in ancient wars, we often see in many costume films, in order to attack a city, many people will climb the ladder and rush forward, so they mistakenly think that the ladder is the ladder, in fact, this is not correct, they have obvious differences, if the ladder is the same as the ladder, then the enemy army does not have to go through a lot of effort, it can be easily overthrown.

The appearance of the ancient times is very similar to our modern one, but the ladder is different, although the name of the two sounds similar, but there are substantial differences. The ladder belongs to the household model, the tools needed by ordinary people, and the ladder is specially used in war, compared to the ladder to do ambush, it is more complex to work, and the volume is larger, in order to be used to arrange troops, to facilitate the use of some lethal **, if long crossbow arrows, rockets, etc.

In modern costume films, due to time and cost constraints, it is impossible to use real ladders, and simple ladders are used instead, so many people will think that ladders are ladders. Except for a few people who have studied history, the average person will not be able to see the difference at all.

As long as you reason a little, you will understand that it is impossible to attack the city with a ladder, its weight is so light, how can it withstand a few soldiers to break through together, even if the load is okay, but the soldiers defending the city, as long as a light push, the enemy has no power to fight back, which obviously does not meet the standards of soldiers.

But the ladder is completely different, after thousands of years of improvement, it has long been an indispensable tool in the war to grind the brigade, the offensive can be called perfect, plus the catapult complements each other, for the attack on the enemy's city, is very advantageous, not only to a large extent let the soldiers defending the city **, but also to a minimum do not spend their own troops to take the target.

Because of the huge size and heavy weight of the ladder, it is not easy for ordinary people to knock it down, not to mention that there are soldiers who continue to attack the city, and under such heavy pressure, it is not easy for dozens of people to push it away. Therefore, the warriors defending the city will only attack the enemy who advances, and will not knock down the ladder.

Nowadays, TV dramas are all in pursuit of high efficiency, and sometimes a TV series is filmed in only two or three months, and it is impossible to completely restore history, which is a great disadvantage for the next generation of young people, and there are many misunderstandings about history.

In fact, it is because the ladders used for siege are all triangular brackets underneath, and the triangle has stability, so it is difficult to push down such ladders.

Because this kind of ladder is specially made, it can't be pushed away at all. It's better to throw a stone directly from above and throw it down.

Because these siege ladders are very heavy, they cannot be pushed away for a while, and when attacking the city, they often shoot arrows at the head of the city, and if they push the ladder, they are live targets.

First of all, the ladders are very heavy, and it is difficult for one person to overturn them, and only one person can stand at the mouth of a city wall. Secondly, there is a poisonous needle at the top of the ladder, which will pierce the hand and die of poisoning when pushed.

Because it is particularly difficult to overturn siege ladders, which not only have a very stable base, but are also very large.

It can't be knocked down at all, the ladder is very long, and it takes a long piece of wood to do it.

So, what was the real siege like in ancient times?

The first is to build the Yuliang Road, that is, to use soil bags to pile a large mound directly under the opponent's city, so that the soldiers can directly rush to the city. The process of construction should be that the soldier pushes a wheelbarrow with a shield on the top (this thing is called a wooden donkey) to transport the dirt bag, rather than running forward with the dirt bag on his back to be shot by arrows. It sounds simple, but it's a simple and crude approach.

The second is to build a building car with the same height as the opponent's city wall, but if there is a moat, you have to find a way to fill in some parts of the moat, push it to the city wall, and go directly to the city. This may cost more props, but the building car can be used repeatedly.

And the ** of the defender, in addition to bows and arrows, many people know about rolling wood and rocks. But rolling wood is not directly thrown into the city, and rolling stones is not just thrown out of the city. If you really do that, you will have to tear down the houses in the city after three days of siege, and after a month of siege, the defenders will be able to tear down the walls themselves.

Rolling wood and stone are ancient city defense equipment. Hitting a stone is relatively simple, it is a stone with a rope tied to it, and after falling down, you can pull the rope to pull the stone back. Rolling wood is much more complicated, there must be long nails on the wood, ropes are wound on both sides, and when you throw it down the city, the wood will rotate at high speed under the control of the rope, which can crush enemy soldiers into meat pies, even if you just touch them, the long nails can pierce a few bloody holes.

After throwing it, you can use a roller to pull it back to the city.

No. Ladder siege is the most advanced art of war, unless there is an absolute superiority in troops, it is generally used to destroy the enemy's defense equipment first, such as artillery and stone-throwing machines.

No. In ancient times, there was a moat outside the city, and the enemy's ladder had nowhere to build, and the city wall was quite high, and the ladder could not reach the height of the city wall at all.

Yes, ladders were an indispensable tool in siege warfare in ancient times, but they are not exactly the same as the ladders we commonly use today, with a solid base at the bottom.