Chapter 392 "Destroy Mysore Within Three Months!

The entire "Pa" was built on a hillock about seventy to eighty meters high, with three concentric circles of walls from bottom to top, and a watchtower over five meters tall in the very center.

Each layer of the wall was supported by stout tree trunks, with a multitude of thinner, densely interlaced wooden bars on the outermost layer, backed by a one-and-a-half-meter-thick rammed earth wall.

Defenders could stand on the rammed earth wall, poking their heads out from the thick tree trunks to shoot at the enemy.

For the attackers, their muskets would have difficulty penetrating those half-meter-thick trunks from a distance, and if they resorted to artillery, the cannonballs would likely ricochet off the lower rammed earth wall beneath them[Note 1].

Thus, the attackers would have to demolish all the wooden structures on the side of the earthen walls with heavy artillery before their infantry could advance close enough to possibly storm through a layer of the wall.