During siege warfare which acoustic outcome indicated tunneling?

💡 Explanation

Hearing shallow mineshaft resonance variation indicated tunneling because sound waves change propagation speed in soil layers; therefore attackers judged instability, rather than gate acoustics or projectile trajectory which relate to existing assets.

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