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English[en]
At the 1215 siege of Rochester Castle, King John ordered that fat from 40 pigs be used to set fire to the mines beneath the keep, which caused it to collapse, a cheap and effective technique in place of the more complicated mixture of sulfur, tallow, gum, pitch and quicksilver he had used in France the previous year.
Chinese[zh]
在1215年攻击洛切斯特城堡(Rochester Castle)时,无地王约翰下令把四十头猪的脂肪堆到要塞下方新挖好的地道中点燃,导致了要塞的倒塌,这个廉价又高效的技术比起一年前他在法兰西用的要好得多,当时他用了复杂得多的硫磺、牛油、松香和沥青的混合物。