One after another, the siege ladders were plunged into the pile of corpses. The Liao troops climbed up the siege ladders one after another, but most of them could not climb very high before they were immediately knocked down by stones.
The stones specially reserved for defending the city often weigh tens of kilograms. If they are smashed from the city wall, as long as the stone hits the head, the whole helmet and head will be smashed to pieces.
Moreover, when the ladder is smashed down one by one, it is often not just one person who falls, but several people below him.
Those with better luck could save their lives by lying on the pile of dead people as a buffer, but those with less luck were directly crushed to death by the bodies of their comrades.
If those warriors with both luck and strength escaped the first wave of stone attacks, they would be splashed with a large basin of hot oil from the city wall.
On the city wall, there will be a bonfire every ten meters away with a huge black iron pot. The iron pot is filled with hot oil. The oil is heated until it smokes, and then soldiers use buckets to fill it.
Take out the hot oil and pour it all over.
Hot oil of this temperature, let alone being splashed all over the body, would cause big bubbles if it got on it casually. The bone-gnawing pain was simply not something normal people could endure.
After the hot oil comes the torch.
Throw a torch at a soldier who is splashed with hot oil, and in the blink of an eye the soldier will turn into a blazing man who keeps wailing and screaming.
Out of instinct, they will struggle crazily and run towards the nearest comrade, but as long as they are touched by them, they will immediately get burned. Therefore, facing such soldiers, the Liao soldiers will not hesitate to give them a happy death.
They hit the road.
The siege ladders were constantly burned down, pushed aside, and constantly re-erected.
Every time the ladder was erected, there would be countless Liao soldiers biting their weapons like crazy, using their hands and feet with all their strength, praying in their hearts for the blessing of God to survive safely, and then they were killed by the Qin army.
Knocked down again and again.
Covering the entire battlefield that stretched for several miles, one could see that the Liao soldiers were being knocked down from the siege ladder like dumplings.
Those who fall will either die or be injured, and those who are injured will be seriously injured.
In the face of backward medical technology and a huge number of casualties, in this extremely cruel cold weapon war, there is no difference between serious injury and death.
Even worse.
After all, death only takes a moment, but if you are seriously injured, you have to endure tremendous pain and be tortured to death slowly.
Since ancient times, siege warfare has been the most cruel war. The siege force must be several times larger than the defenders to be successful. This is a fact recognized by every commander who studies the art of war.
Siege warfare means that the besieging side uses human lives to fight for the resources of the defending side.
Either the siege team was overwhelmed by huge casualties, or the defenders ran out of ammunition and food, were stormed on top of the city, and were massacred.
Facing the death of their comrades, the siege team will have a lot of accumulated resentment and fear. This emotion must be vented. This is why after most arduous siege battles in history are won, the winner will mostly massacre the city.
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Even if you know you will be scolded by the world, it is still better than suppressing the soldiers and causing a mutiny.
The siege team is under great psychological pressure, and the defenders are not necessarily any better off.
