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Medieval Chinese fortress assault (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world

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[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nah, they got a rope to pull it back up again.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I think as long as they don't drop it too far (like to the ground), then people would have a very hard time getting on top of it. And even then, they would feel your weight as they were pulling back up, and just have someone merc you from the top.

I can't imagine the soldiers would be too motivated to be the first ones at the top, alone, either. Maybe a lot of posturing like they're trying to be extra, but no one wants to be the first to get a spear to the face.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

First over the wall was big for Romans, but not sure how it worked for others.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 5 points 11 months ago

I can’t imagine the soldiers would be too motivated to be the first ones at the top

iirc they said of Frederick the Great's army that the soldiers were more afraid of the officers behind them than the enemy in front of them.