Rocks, barrels and anything else they could get their hands on when they piled up this rubble held up better to cannon fire than the fixed walls did. Meme was so infuriated that he managed to get around the harbor boom by building a kind of railed road in which 70 of his ships were launched over land into the waters of the Golden Horn. The reason why they did that is to deflect cannon fire. If it was straight up and down, if the ball hits it, it just with the force. So when you use softer material, like in the case of wood and dirt and other stuff and pile it up. It just packed it in more. This onslaught would effectively go