Attacking a castle was not an easy job. People had to have enough soldiers to defeat the defenders. They would decide to lay siege to the castle and literally sit down and wait until the defenders starved to death with the food supplies running out. The Lord would use some of the latest weapons such as battering rams, mangonels and trebuchet to get into the castle. They started to climb up the ladder, fire Greek fires and send dead bodies of the defender using a trebuchet. Not only that they used sappers where specialist soldiers could dig under a wall or tower and collapse it. The wooden cover,called a tortoise was used to hide themselves from the defenders while in progress.
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