In ancient times, when agricultural economy was dominant, it was the wisest choice for warlords to occupy the ideal city as a stronghold, which could be used as a base camp for rest and further expansion. With the stronghold, we can not only get food, grass and ordnance, but also get a steady supply of materials from the people in the city.

It is not easy for attackers to capture the ideal city. The strong city wall of tens of meters high determines that sufficient preparations must be made before siege. There are dozens of times more troops than the enemy, food and grass resources needed for a lasting front, and excellent military equipment, including ladders.

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In many film and television dramas about ancient wars, we can often see such scenes: soldiers guarding the city are in command, on the one hand, they launch "arrows and rain" under the city wall to resist the enemy's attack, on the other hand, when the enemy struggles to climb up through the ladder, they raise stones and smash them hard. The atmosphere at the scene was tense.

It is this scene that makes many viewers have a question: Why don't these soldiers push down the ladder directly, and why do they move stones? The moment I bent down to hold the stone was enough to make people sweat.

In fact, everyone has this idea, which is completely biased by the fictional plots of film and television dramas. The real historical details are really not like this.

It goes without saying that siege in war is the second best strategy, and as a siege party, of course, it will be fully prepared. Modern people can think of hidden dangers, and so can the ancients. If the enemy can easily knock down the ladder, isn't the war a joke? Therefore, it is not practical to push down the ladder when guarding the city in the war.

The history of the invention of ladders can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. This day it was invented by the famous craftsman Lu Ban. At that time, the princes scuffled, and after receiving the order from the king of Chu to make siege weapons, Lu Ban racked his brains and began to design. The real ladder in history is different from the ordinary wooden ladder or bamboo ladder, which is a giant weighing one thousand kilograms.

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The ladder designed by Lu Ban is divided into three parts. The first part is the straight ladder at the top, and the bottom of the straight ladder is a huge chassis. This venue is quite familiar. There are roller skates under the chassis to facilitate the transportation of ladders. In order to make the pulley transport in any harsh environment, the wheel is often covered with a thick layer of iron sheet.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the ladder has a thousand kilograms, because when enemy soldiers approach, soldiers guarding the city usually serve with bows and arrows. In order to build the ladder to the wall smoothly, Lu Ban also designed a hidden space for transporting soldiers on the ladder, and the weight of the ladder plus the weight of the soldiers is not easy to push such a huge instrument down from above.

Besides, in the case of fierce fighting between the two sides, the soldiers guarding the city have been overwhelmed by the sniper fire under the wall, so they dare to expose themselves to the enemy and push down the ladder. It is unrealistic for a person to push down a ladder. If dozens of people push it together, it will undoubtedly become a living target of the enemy. Before the ladder was knocked down, it was solved by the other side. In addition, the design of the top structure of the ladder also makes it impossible to push down the ladder, and the top of the siege ladder is generally sharpened or equipped with poisonous needles.

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Since it is really unwise to push down the ladder, what kind of strategy should be used to deal with it?

The wise ancients changed with time and naturally had countermeasures. Among them, throwing stones is one of the ways. Dozens of pounds of stones fall vertically, no matter who has climbed the ladder or who is about to climb under it, they may be hit. If the stone is hitting the ladder, it can also destroy the mechanism on the straight ladder, which is the harvest of "killing two birds with one stone". In a word, this is a good way to deal with the ladder.

Another good strategy is to attack with fire. This ladder is made of wood. Pour the oil on the ladder and light it with fire. The whole ladder will burn, and the soldiers on and under the ladder will suffer.

In a word, this is a fierce hand-to-hand combat, which shows the cruelty and bloodiness of ancient wars. After a hard battle, bodies were everywhere.

Conclusion:

For the subject in the question, we can get the following understanding: In fact, although with the development of productive forces, or the accumulation of human productive forces, it is an unchangeable law that today will win the past, but this does not mean that ancient wisdom will be worse than today. Only with the changes of the times and the development of science and technology, people pay less and less attention to ancient war strategies, and the arrangement of film and television dramas according to the needs of the plot has led to some doubts and misunderstandings.