Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info in the historical city defense war, the defender of the city is not blindly cowered in the city wall passively beaten, the ladder is a commonly used siege equipment in addition to burning with fire, it is difficult to get rid of, the enemy's siege troops as long as they are willing to pay the price, follow-up reinforcements will continue to rush up through the ladder!

When the time comes, the defenders of the city will inevitably face a large number of enemy troops on the city walls!

In this way, is it not that the city wall is in danger?

Therefore, when the enemy army attacks the city, the defending side will open the city gate and send out a cavalry unit to surprise the enemy army who are busy attacking the city!

It's better to set the ladder on fire!

During the siege, it is impossible for the infantry of the attacking side to form a phalanx under the city, and the cavalry of the defending side of the phalanx in the distance will not be stupid to attack, they only need to cut off the siege troops under the city to be considered a big victory!

This cavalry raid is an absolute fatal blow to the infantry who are climbing the walls, both morale and physical!

Therefore, the besieging side often has a formed cavalry team, as long as the raiding cavalry of the defending side comes out, this cavalry team will meet it, and the defending cavalry will be expelled or even annihilated!

However, this kind of cavalry generally does not follow the defenders to rush into the city gates, which is tantamount to death!

When the opening hub of the city gate is not mastered, any enemy who rushes into the city gate will be turned into a turtle in an urn by the sudden falling gate!

It's common sense!

This is also the reason why the ancient cold weapons attacked the city and only used it on the city wall, as for the raid on the city gate, it all depends on the stupidity of the defending side, and it is rare to win in a real siege battle!

In the orthodox ancient siege warfare, either the ants attached to the siege city and the lives of people were used to fill it, or they found a way to collapse the city wall out of a gap, which is also the role of the trebuchet, of course, in the face of a real fortress, it is difficult for the trebuchet to smash the wall out of the gap......

This is the reason why there were not many siege battles in ancient times, and every time they happened, they would cause a large number of casualties on the besieging side!

Before the advent of artillery, attacking the city walls was really a desperate job!

Lei Zihao had a deep understanding at this time, he was only facing the earthen walls built by the backward Pylos, there were no dangerous buildings such as moats and corner towers, and there were not even the fire oil Pylos people, and he couldn't burn more than a dozen ladder cars!

As for why Lei Zihao only built a dozen ladder trucks, it was very simple, he was very poor......

If you attack the fortress city of the human world, there are not hundreds of ladder cars, and it is not enough for people to burn and play......

Under the cover of their own archers, the Pylos suppressed the Pilos prisoner of war camp and the Seris Revival Army so pale, and the Pylos prisoners of war and Seris soldiers, who wore wooden shields and short swords on their waists, soon climbed the earthen walls of Argos!

This is when the bloody battle really begins!

Under the command of the ironclad commander of the wide-backed Pylos, a phalanx of Pyros citizens in bronze armor killed or pushed the Pyros prisoners of war and Seris off the city in small Greek phalanxes on earthen walls!

The 500 Pylos prisoner of war camp was almost wiped out in less than half an hour after the war began!

This is the tragedy of siege warfare!

Lei Zihao just used a dozen ladder trucks to concentrate on a certain point of attack, if he really spread the entire earthen wall to attack, the speed of the dead man would be doubled geometrically!

You can pick a point of attack at will, concentrate your forces, or make a feint attack in other directions, which is one of the few advantages of the besieging side over the defending side, but only if the besieging side has enough troops!

Obviously, for Lei Zihao, it is not an advantage in terms of troops......

This is also the reason why Lei Zihao only made a simple breakthrough!

With the advance of the Pylos phalanx, the Seris Revival Army is simply unable to gain a foothold in the city!

Fortunately, the archers under the city have completely stunned the Pylos archers on the earthen wall, and the earthen walls are full of Pylos archers full of arrows!

At this moment, under the leadership of Wei Wushu's elite, a thousand heavily armed shield spearmen stepped on the siege ladder vehicle set up by their predecessors and quickly climbed upward!

Since the Pyrrhos archers were completely destroyed by Lei Zihao's archers, and the Pyros phalanx infantry on the earthen wall was also busy slaughtering the Cyris Revival Army, the climb of Wei Wushu's elite and hoplite shield spearmen was unexpectedly smooth!

When this group of ironclad troops climbed the earthen wall, Commander Pylos finally realized the fundamental gap between the two sides!

Just as the Kingdom of Seris could easily beat the city-state of Pylos back then, the bronze armor facing the iron armor is not a concept at all!

It takes a lot of effort for the bronze spearhead to break through the iron armor, but the iron weapon can easily penetrate the bronze armor!

This is the crushing of the Bronze Age by the Iron Age!

What's more, the one who climbed the earthen wall first was still the elite of Wei Wushu with superb combat skills and complete armor?

Under the elite protection of Wei Wushu, the climbing opening of the ladder cart was quickly stabilized, and the infantry of the Pylos phalanx who rushed up could not drive Wei Wushu off the city at all, and could only make corpses!

With the addition of heavily armed shield spearmen, the Pyros phalanx infantry on the earthen wall had no choice but to give up the gap that had been climbed by the ladder cart!

Next, it's time for the shield spear heavy infantry to face off against the Pylos phalanx infantry!

In fact, after the shield spear heavy infantry climbed the earthen wall and gained a foothold, the offensive and defensive battle of Argos was over, and the most capable troops under the command of Pylos could not drive the Seris down, so how could they fight?

The rest is just the dying throes of the Pylos, after all, the Pylos can't have raiding cavalry, go out of the city and destroy the chassis of the ladder cart, so that the army on the earthen wall becomes a passive root!

Under the advance of the shield spear heavy infantry, more and more parts of the earthen wall were occupied, and the wailing Pylos infantry fell from the earthen wall, and the two sides were almost crowded and stabbed each other in the narrow earthen wall!

At this time, the archers under the earthen wall also divided into a part, climbed the earthen wall, and fired at the reinforcements of the Pylos infantry on the inside of the earthen wall!

Before the archers, the elite of Wei Wushu had been shooting with a crossbow for a long time!

After a thousand shield spear heavy infantry had landed on the earthen wall, Lei Zihao's army had completely suppressed the Pyros phalanx infantry, even if they still had a few thousand troops!

"Hold on! Resist me! No one is allowed to retreat! "Commander Pylos, dressed in iron armor, stepped into the front line and slashed a Pylos deserter with his sword!

It is precisely because this high-ranking commander Pylos is so desperately taking the lead in blocking that the shield spear heavy infantry, which has a huge advantage in equipment, has not been pushed to the hub of the city gate so far!

But when the Commander of Pyros came to the front line, his life was no longer his!

Three armor-piercing crossbow arrows emitting a cold light pierced through the crowd from different directions and shot into the brightly armored Commander Pylos!