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The hammerer's two hands close around the sledgehaft, and the sledge head contacts the wedge squarely. The iron wedge remains embedded in the fortress wall's mortar joint during impact. The leverman's hands close around the pry bar's upper end while both boot soles meet the stone terrace. The pry bar rests directly on its stone fulcrum, and its lower tip contacts the underside of the tipping block. The tipping block retains contact along its lower inner edge with the wall course and will land on the rubble bed beneath it. The fortress wall's surviving courses bear downward onto lower masonry and bedrock. Each soldier is about 1.7 m tall; the exposed wall section is 4 m high, and the tipping block is roughly 0.6 m across. It is December 1256: Two Mongol soldiers in differently worn quilted wool deels beneath leather-and-iron lamellar coats, fur-edged caps under simple iron helmets, gloves, trousers, and boots.; Rough local stone, lime mortar, bedrock, forged iron tools, ash handles, wool, leather, iron lamellae.; Manual masonry demolition using a sledgehammer, embedded wedge, pry bar, and stone fulcrum.", "style_description": {"aesthetics": "Disciplined destruction after surrender. 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