Compared with the art of war, in other aspects, the six realms of reincarnation have their own characteristics, and the development of siege weapons from Asura to the present is more consistent.

During siege and other operations, you will find that these Asura troops, no matter where they come from, have an astonishing consistency in their combat methods.

As far as Wu Feng knew, in the past siege battles, these Asura troops had almost adopted the same method.

Often after failing to try to fill the trenches and climb the city walls with cloud ladders, they all use two identical methods.

First, use siege hammers to open cracks on the city wall, and second, no longer simply use siege weapons under the city wall to launch arrows and stones to clear the enemy troops on the city wall.

At the same time, the soldiers were allowed to move the siege tower to carry out volleys when they were pushed near the city wall.

In this way, the besiegers can stand high and clear the city walls from above.

However, the same attack method often does succeed and some end in failure.

The main reason is that the siege tower built by Asura never really approached the opponent's city wall, but after filling the moat with rubble, the demons pushed the siege tower to a distance that was enough to hook the chest wall with suspension bridges, and under the leadership of the higher-level Asura, they cut off the opponent's city wall defense.

Asura's siege of the city often leads to the siege tower to a distance that is sufficient to hook the city wall with a suspension bridge, so that the siege ends in failure.

During the entire dark age after the fall of Asura Emperor, the two most commonly used siege weapons are siege hammers and siege cones.

The former is used to gradually crack the wall through continuous impact, causing the entire load-bearing structure to break and eventually collapse a gap.

On the contrary, the siege cone consists of a rectangular wooden pile with an iron pointed end. Its working principle is to use a pointed end to smash the stones one by one, and to dig a circular hole in the arrow tower or city wall.

The siege hammers given to the talisman array can be used to defend against the roof of enemy arrows and stones.

Siege hammers are usually made of a huge wooden pile made of the largest local tree trunk. A huge iron head is installed at the front, which requires hundreds of Asuras to pull.

Siege hammers are often installed in two triangular frames by ropes or iron chains. When used, the soldiers pull back as much as possible to the maximum distance allowed by the rope to release the rope to collide with the city wall.

Since the defense side will shoot raindrop-like arrows and stones from the city walls, the attackers cannot expect to survive under exposure to this firepower. Therefore, the attackers began to install roof-like bunkers for the siege hammers, with coverage reaching wheels or push rods.

In some cases, the main force will be responsible for transporting this bunker. Whenever the siege hammer moves a distance forward, the Asura warriors will carry the bunker and move it to the place where the siege hammer is.

The hanging curtains on both sides of the ceiling are usually made of animal skins to ensure the entire structure as much as possible, and are not overweight to the point where it is difficult to move.

In comparison, the ceiling itself is stronger than hanging curtains in order to resist asphalt or liquid flammable materials such as hot oil.

If the attacking party makes it sufficiently proof of fire by covering animal skins, bricks or mud on the ceiling and frames, the defender can only throw huge rocks at it, or raid out of the city to destroy it.

But even if such a ceiling is made into indestructible, it does not mean that the siege hammer itself will be foolproof.

Starting from the era after the fall of Emperor Asura, in order to prevent the siege hammer from falling from the frame when it hits the city wall, these Asuras have installed a fork-shaped wooden beam on the frame to ensure that the siege hammer can be fixed and stable. At the same time, the device can also prevent the Asura warriors from pulling the siege hammer away when they pull it back.

When the demons were still in the Asura realm, they used this design when they besieged the city.

There is also a less effective buffering device, which is to hang a large cloth bag similar to a mattress and filled with straw, or a wide and thick wooden board, on the part of the city wall hit by the siege hammer.

But in this way, the siege hammer will waste a lot of kinetic energy on these buffer devices and cannot be used on the city walls.

During many sieges that year, the above-mentioned wooden boards and cloth bags were used, but in the end it proved that this method was more harmful than good to the attackers.

Fortunately, this is a world with magic, and there are many very good materials in the Asura world, so after making spell improvements to these equipment, it becomes easier to use.

Compared with the siege hammer, the siege cone's position in siege battles is not that important, and its efficiency is relatively poor.

Only after a long period of attempts can it be possible to make holes in the city wall, and in this process, the enemy forces on the city wall pose no less threat to them than the situations that the siege hammers have to face.

However, due to its smaller weight and easier transportation, the siege cone also has its own advantages.

More importantly, the siege cone does not require a large number of soldiers like the siege hammer. Although the ceiling used is the same as the one used by the siege hammer, it is much smaller in size.

The siege cone and its ceiling have appeared many times in previous battles. Because its mission is to dig holes under the city wall, the siege cone is sometimes called a "rat".

In addition, because the siege cone is used

The action of breaking through the city wall is also very similar to a cat scratching the wall with its claws, so the siege cone is sometimes called a "big cat".

The third and most common name is "sow". The main reason for the name is that its roof with a round top looks like a pig's back, and its operation is like a wild boar attacking its opponent with its fangs.

In addition, in some rare occasions, the siege cone is also called a "fox", just like the name of "rat", which refers to its ability to dig holes in a plane.

Like the late Asura Emperor, soldiers in the era when Asura Emperor's fall would also use methods such as digging tunnels to support siege hammers and siege cones.

A long time ago, when Asuras were sieging the city, there was only one method available. When carrying out this kind of action, the siege side would often choose the opponent's fortress, an exposed corner, digging as large as possible under the ground, and supporting it with wooden beams.

After that, the Asura warriors will fill the space with straw and shrubs and set fire to ignite them.

When the wooden beams are burned, the city walls will collapse into the tunnels. Some Asuras will call this tunnel "furnaces" because after the tunnel is ignited, the black smoke and sparks emerge from the vents above are very similar to the stoves they use every day.

When facing a castle built in a soft place of land, digging such a tunnel will be very effective, and the siege side can also be free from the interference of the arrows and stones on the city walls, which are very dangerous for siege hammers and siege cones.

But from another perspective, the tunnel cannot play any role for castles built on high ground or on hard rocky ground.

Facing the tunnel, the best defense is to dig "anti-tunnel", attack enemy excavators underground, drive them back and refille the caves they dug out.

However, if the attacker digs the starting point of the tunnel, which is relatively far from the city wall, and carefully conceals the entrance, its specific location and direction of excavation, it will be difficult to detect and the chance of success will be relatively high.

Since the tactic of digging tunnels was used in the siege, this tactic has spread in the Asura path.

During the siege, both the offensive and defensive sides will dig tunnels. The attacking side hopes to destroy the opponent's fortifications. The defending side will use the anti-tunnel to prevent the opponent from digging. Both sides may even fight in the tunnel.

Although siege hammers, siege cones and tunnels are the most important methods of siege in the entire post-Asura Emperor era, some other less important methods should not be underestimated.
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