Builds wall around city

>builds wall around city
>builds wall around other wall

What are some other hilarious historical military maneuvers?

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uhh wasnt that outer wall built be the besieging enemy?

yes, ignore the brainlet

It gets better. There were sieges with city walls, walls built by the besieging army around the city, and then walls built around the army by another army.

fuck you both
no way they could travel from outer wall to inner wall that fast in 52 BC

I thought Caesar's Gallic Wars was mandatory reading for posting on Veeky Forums.

As and point out, those two walls hold in the besiegers. Outside of it, on both sides, are the enemy Gauls.

What's wrong with having multiple layers of defenses? It makes the city harder to besiege because an attacking army will have to breach more than 1 wall. In fact, it was a pretty normal for medieval castles to have a "keep" which was essentially a second castle within the walls of the outer castle. The outer castle might also have another wall around it in addition to a moat. The only limit is money.

At least read the wikipedia page before you say dumb shit

>medieval castle
Not relevant whatsoever

But it was not a second defensive wall. It was a wall built by the Romans to siege the Gauls while being sieged by the Gauls.

at the Battle of Yeghevard Nader Shah surprised a larger Ottoman Force (Nader Shah had 15k vs the Turk's 80k) when they were deploying their battle lines by sending out his advance force and seized the Ottoman artillery before it could get off more than five volleys, turned it against the Turks, and killed 40,000-50,000 of them while suffering negligible casualties

Two sides races to built a wall to block the other from the water.

no it was built by the romans so the gauls would have to siege them to break their siege

should also add the gaulic relief force that had to siege the romans on the other side of the walls

The Siege of Syracuse during the Peloponnesian War had all sorts of wall shenanigans. It was a race to see if the defenders could build an intercepting wall before the attackers could wall them in. Two thumbs up.

That's not multiple layers of defenses, it's multiple layers of siege. It's siege-ception.
>gauls build a walled city
>Caesar lays siege to walled city by building another wall around it, facing inward
>gaul relief army comes to lift siege
>but Caesar already built a second wall around the first one, facing outward, so that the relief army will be forced to besiege his besieging army to lift the siege of Alesia.

>40,000-50,000

That must've been a lot of goddamn cannons.

Are we talking The Race to the Sea or...?

Hellenic competitive wall building was always a total riot.

Source?

It's a meme but
>So France built this enormous defence along their border.
>So Germany went around it.

>it's because of Belgium
>it's always because of Belgium

Alexander and the parading nonsense when he besieged Epirus (was it Epirus?)

Do you mean the Siege of Tyre? At the very least, that was also very lulzy

>The Tyrians found the courage to exit their walls and engage the Greeks, often beating them in various skirmishes. Alexander was informed and hurried back, reaching the city exactly when the Tyrians were fighting against a retreating Parmenion. Instead of attacking the Tyrians, he chose to march directly to the city, which he immediately took by force surprising its remaining garrison.
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