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During the Siege of Jerusalem during the First Crusade, the Crusaders launched an attack on the city with a large covered battering ram. As it advanced inexorably, the Arabic defenders struggled desperately to set it on fire.
Despite their best efforts, the ram reached the first layer of walls and opened a hole in them. The panicked Arabs rained all their firepower down on the ram. The Crusaders managed to gather their limited supply of water and put the fire out.
There was a brief pause. The Crusaders realized, with horror, that the ram was stuck in the wall and was blocking their line of advance.
There was only one thing to do.
In an ironic reversal of the situation, the Crusaders began raining fire down on their own ram, while the Arabs, responding in the only way they logically could, began pouring water from the ramparts, trying to preserve the obstruction.
(The ram eventually ended up being destroyed, preparing the way for an assault on the main walls later on.)
The end.
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They should have had a few people with buckets of water, putting out the fire from on top the wall, and everyone else was getting new stuff to shove in the hole if and when the ram got removed.
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