Lord of the Two Lands
“His causeway was built, his towers raised, but he had another inspiration for breaking down the wall.
He dreamed it, maybe, or a god taught him. He listened to everyone who had an opinion, and studied the city, and went hunting in the hills for a whole long careless day, and came back shouting for his engineers.
Rams. Of course. But rams mounted on ships below the wall, shielded as the towers were against the Tyrians’ fire. They could move where they needed to go, testing the walls, and stop wh...ere they chose to stop, drop anchor and batten hatches and hammer at the huge impervious stones.
Nor only were there stones in the wall; stones lay deep-sunken in the water, barring the ships’ approach. Under a hail of bolts and fire arrows, divers bound ropes round the stones, and men on shipboard drew them up with cranes and made channels for the ramships.
It was the maddest thing Alexander had done yet, and it seemed the most useless. People looked at him and muttered about gods and insanity.MoreLess
He dreamed it, maybe, or a god taught him. He listened to everyone who had an opinion, and studied the city, and went hunting in the hills for a whole long careless day, and came back shouting for his engineers.
Rams. Of course. But rams mounted on ships below the wall, shielded as the towers were against the Tyrians’ fire. They could move where they needed to go, testing the walls, and stop wh...ere they chose to stop, drop anchor and batten hatches and hammer at the huge impervious stones.
Nor only were there stones in the wall; stones lay deep-sunken in the water, barring the ships’ approach. Under a hail of bolts and fire arrows, divers bound ropes round the stones, and men on shipboard drew them up with cranes and made channels for the ramships.
It was the maddest thing Alexander had done yet, and it seemed the most useless. People looked at him and muttered about gods and insanity.MoreLess
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