@PugJesusM to Illustrations of historyEnglish • 18 days agoProcess of undermining a castle's walls illustratedimagemessage-square20arrow-up1157arrow-down10
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minus-square@gibmiserlinkEnglish27•18 days agoWonder how many commanders had their diggers… just keep digging until collapse.
minus-square@PugJesusOPMlinkEnglish38•18 days agoTunneler: “Is this safe?” Very Brave Commander, yelling down the tunnel from the surface: “Probably! Just keep going!”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•17 days agoYou sort of need to know when the wall collapses. If it collapses too early, you can’t press your advantage, and if it collapses too late, then your troops will be under enemy fire for quite some time while they wait for the wall to collapse.
Wonder how many commanders had their diggers… just keep digging until collapse.
Tunneler: “Is this safe?”
Very Brave Commander, yelling down the tunnel from the surface: “Probably! Just keep going!”
“And light a big fire down there!”
You sort of need to know when the wall collapses. If it collapses too early, you can’t press your advantage, and if it collapses too late, then your troops will be under enemy fire for quite some time while they wait for the wall to collapse.