亚述帝国的攻城战术论析

The Means to Conquer Cities in the Assyrian Empire

在长期征战的过程中,亚述帝国创造了丰富的攻城策略,常用的方式大致可以概括为和平谈判、工兵技术突防、封锁围困、恐吓与欺骗等四类。亚述帝国的攻城策略运用没有固定的模式,而是针对不同的城市采用不同的方式,有时单独采用单一攻城策略,有时则综合运用多种方式攻城。亚述帝国的攻城策略偶尔也遭遇过挫折,但总体来说是成功的,各种攻城方式的灵活运用加速了其征服西亚北非地区、建立规模空前的大帝国的历史进程。

The Assyrians invented various ways to conquer cities,such as peaceful negotiation,the break-through of walls with engineering weapons,blockade,intimidation and cheat,and so on.Rather than using a fixed method to capture cities,the Assyrians had taken different strategies according to the situation of different cities.Multiple means were commonly employed while single method was taken occasionally.The Assyrian means to conquer cities were mostly successful,though they failed sometimes.The flexible use of various means to capture cities had accelerated the Assyrian military conquest in the western Asia and northern Africa,and boosted the formation of the unprecedentedly large Assyrian empire.