"siege" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- However, the Jin returned soon after with enough siege machinery to scale Kaifeng's layer of walls defended by 48,000 Song troops.
- Catapults and siege machinery flashed into charred heaps, while kettles of oil exploded into gigantic fireballs.
- In such a case, a sally might drive back the attackers, destroy the siege machinery... but it wouldn't change the inevitable outcome.
- Trenching and revetments had been dug and built such that getting siege machinery like a ram close enough would be a slow and deadly process.
- Though the fortress itself was not large, the steep slope upon which it rested made bringing siege machinery against it all but impossible.
- And all around it there appear to be campfires, and what look like tents, sentries, siege machinery, and so forth.
- "I wish we had some of the siege machinery the Romans know how to build," he said wistfully.
- Then the creak of ancient siege machinery.
- No siege machinery could get close, and a catapult would have to operate from the valley below.
- It would need siege machinery such as would take weeks to assemble.
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