Chapter 71 (1/2)
The sun had coave the people a sense of warion felt cold as they watched the Great Moon Kingdom launch their first attack of the day
An ox horn sounded frodos in its fore to a dozen si slowly pushed out Each vehicle had a large wooden plank wrapped in thick yak skin that was soaked in water It was thick and slippery enough to defend against arrows It was not daicians of the Empire cast Wind Blade and Fire Ball on it
A few thousand soldiers formed the phalanx formation and moved slowly towards the fortress walls under the cover of the shi+eld-vehicles Following right behind, were groups of infantry ladder
They waited until the shi+eld-vehicles cae of fire After that, General Reuben gave the order to shoot and thousands of archers immediately started to shoot their arrows Thousands of sharp arrows immediately rained down from the walls Most of the arroere blocked by the shi+eld-vehicles but a few ets ere not properly protected Countless soldiers screaround Some of those shot by the arrows died immediately Others were shot in less vital spots and they rolled on the ground in pain
The foreigners did not break their formation They did not move slower nor did they run back because of fear Instead, they valiantly continued to push the shi+eld-vehicles towards the walls When a companion beside them was shot down by arrows, they would at the rief for a moment After that, they turned back, looked furiously at the archers of the Ereat efforts to move forward
At the sadom's archers started to take action They started to blindly shoot back at the walls using their long bows Fortunately, on the walls were also hundreds of the Eicians earing white robes They forht that shrouded the walls Thousands of arrows hit the 'light-curtain', vibrated and then dropped to the ground
After the first volley of arrows, Reuben told his ar arrows on the shi+eld-vehicles was not worth it He planned to save the arrows right then and use the ladder Reuben sighed If only they had taken at least a third of the arrows left behind at the Redwood garrison, it would have been great
The heavy shi+eld-vehicles were finally pushed to the side of the walls However, the shi+elds were useless at this point Even though the soldiers of the Great Moon Kingdom had shi+elds, the archers on the walls could clearly see them
Once again, Reuben gave the order for the archers to start shooting their arrows again The sound of nu could be heard as they started to rain down The white-robed ht in front of the walls as well Suddenly, the walls eician was surrounded by a layer of fire After a while, hundreds of fireballs fell frodom's formation The sound of explosions could be heard and a few soldiers hid behind the shi+eld-vehicles Some of them immediately raised their thick leather shi+elds to block the fireballs The small fireballs would hit the shi+elds and turn into sparks while the larger fireballs would crush the shi+elds and explode
After they received an order, the soldiers of the Great Moon Kingdoroup of soldiers carried the scaling ladder towards the walls The defenders of the Empire noticed the threat and almost all of their bows and arroere redirected to ai ladder Under the intensive firing of arrows, a lot of soldiers round Countless corpses of the Great Moon Kingdoround Those ere injured but not dead desperately tried to craay
The group of soldiers who carried the scaling ladder received the most casualties Many of them died and there were also a considerable amount of the the scaling ladder died, he would immediately be replaced by another soldier frodom There were also some ould rush in front to take the hit for their co the ladder When one fell, immediately two more soldiers rushed in front to do the saritted his teeth He could not understand why the foreign grassland barbarians had such fearlessness
About a dozen huge scaling ladders were finally placed against the walls The soldiers of the Empire started to try all kinds of methods to push down the ladder Meanwhile, the Great Moon Kingdom's soldiers held their blades in their mouths as they climbed the ladder Often, when they were about halfway up, however, the scaling ladders were pushed down The soldiers screa thrown from the walls Many of the soldiers who had cli stones and cried out in distress as they fell down
After that, dozens of soldiers frodo pushed by their enee sacrifice, the first team of soldiers finally reached the top of the walls When they got to the top, they were greeted by the En warriors fought bravely using their scimitars, fists and some of therabbed the nearest Imperial soldier and jumped down from the walls They made sure that when they died, the enemy soldiers also died with thedoainst their ene ladders and to win ti up the ladder