To quickly end a siege generals have taken to strapping very heavy armour and weapons to the largest soldiers in their armies, usually giants, ogres, cyclops,
etc and commanding them to crush the castle walls or batter down the gate with their brute strength.
Some are equipped with massive gauntlets, often with hammers on the end, some with bulldozer like scoops or spiked shoulder pads to barge structures, whilst some
of the particularly stupid can be persuaded to wear a pointed hat and run at walls like a battering ram...