Chapter 173 (2/2)

The Empire's soldiers on the wall ai for their ene stones were also thrown, raining down like hailstones

However, this tiular infantries These soldiers were er and more skillful than the soldiers frohon the corpses of their coate They then threay their heavy shi+elds and took out a large log kept beneath the shi+elds2 Nuate The loud pounding sound ruthlessly hammered the hearts of the Empire's soldiers

After heavy losses, the bulky towers finally reached the edge of the wall Other than a feers that were s towers started to shoot arrows at the soldiers on the walls The heights of the toere about as tall as the city walls One side of a tower broke open and a large plank fell fro on the top of the battleht onto the wall Hundreds of heavily ared out from inside the tower

Sieg had already pulled out his sword and shouted, ”Drive them down!”

The soldiers froainst each other The sounds of the swords clashi+ng were endless and accoic screams

The Roland soldiers who came out from the arroere carefully selected elites They were all strong but they were disadvantaged in nue and stepped forward The city as like a bloody hell, with broken li off the wall

Rody had lost track of the number of people he had killed However, the opponent's infantry reached the top of the city wall Long siege ladders had already been erected The soldiers joining the assault from the arroers had taken the pressure off the soldiers clie ladders More and ed to climb the walls

The icians of the E out fireballs The large nuive the

Rody's Dragon Fang sas like a weapon specialized in taking lives Those enemies who met him were not able to resist his sword Rody cut down a Roland soldier, in front of hied doith him another soldier who had just climbed the ladder Rody then stepped forward and slashed the ladder, causing all of the soldiers on the ladder to fall

Rody felt a sharp wind behind him He turned around and blocked an attack that caht He held a long cross-shaped sword3 in his hand This sas dripping in blood His face was also covered in blood Froht, it was evident that he was a Senior Knight of the Roland arritted his teeth and said, ”Your Excellency is…”

”Get lost…” Rody did not spare hiht raised his sword to defend but then his cross-shaped sword split into two like tofu4 That slash by Rody cut through the knight's shoulder, including the armor Rody then kicked the body aside and quickly shouted at Seig ”Now!”

After saying that, Rody jumped down from the city wall and created a deep hole where he landed

Aer looked at the fight on the ith a dignified expression He watched the groups of densely packed infantriestowards the wall and the fierce battle on top of the wall The Radiant Eer able to stop the infantries fro

Tiger then thought to himself Perhaps ould be able to capture Thunder City, today

However, at thatscene took place

Suddenly, there was a loud sound of a horn froate opened slowly and the soldiers, ere ra, were shocked by the situation They then showed an expression of fear and despair

Tiger could see clearly soate The cavalry that rushed out of the gate immediately ripped the soldiers apart with their spears

It is the Lightning God's Whip!

Countless horseshoes thundered on the earth, announcing the black ared to the sides of the city gate along the walls, Kill! Below the city wall, the coalition infantries with swords in their hands, were shocked Not until the cavalry's spears had pierced their bodies and after they screamed, did the other infantries suddenly realized that their eneate to counterattack them

Thethe ladders in place, under the city wall They had already used up th to hold up the ladders and were already exhausted When their eneed at them with their spears, they could only close their eyes and wait for their deaths Many of the coalition infantries, below the wall, were scattered as they were being chased by the cavalry The infantries used for the siege had no arht infantries That was because heavy infantries would beco the wall However, now that they were attacked by the enemy cavalry, the lack of any defensive abilities had become their fatal weaknesses!

The battle under the wall continued However, the Lightning God's Whip no longer chased along both sides of the wall Their target was those Roland infantry forate

The thunderous sounds of the horse's hooves drowned out the cries of killing Nuates, like a steady flow of steel, fore formation and raced ahead The horses continued to run towards that for shook the sky

As the horses trampled the dust flew up and the heavy ar sounds

The Roland infantries, ere ready to move forward to the city wall, were stunned They subconsciously stopped when they saw the large cavalry suddenly charge out from the city

A cloud of dust grew nearer as the black cavalry approached the Roland infantry, the horsemen bent forward into their saddles, their weapons pointed forward like a forest of sharp spears

”Kill!”

Tens of thousands of voices shouted, at the sah the shi+elds of the infantries and their fragile bodies Blood splashed and sprayed all over as they screaically

The charge by the Lightning God's Whip ie formation of the Roland coalition infantries

Although the Roland coalition infantries advancing in front was huge and densely packed, but when faced with the attack by the Lightning God's Whip, their fore weakness After the front lines were broken through, scattered deserters obstructed the way That was because the formations were too dense and the defeated deserters ended up toppling their own soldiers behind them

The Lightning God's Whip's charge had scattered the Roland infantries The ar spears in their hands were fatal to the coalition infantries The coalition infantries often slashed at the cavalry only to find that their blades could not har spears could easily impale their bodies from afar

Tiger's face was livid He drew out his sword and shouted, ”Knights, stop them! You just need to stop them and ill capture the city today!”

Translators Note:

1 Safety tip A fireht me that we should not use water to put out fires (Especially if oil catches fire) Most fires would only grow bigger Make sure to use a fire extinguisher

2 This is what the raw says but did not sound right How did the soldiers carry heavy shi+elds and hide that ra beneath the shi+eld?

3 A knight's longsword The longswords used in the Empire, jiandao, 劍刀, are basically just norhts used are the classic swords

4 Soft white blockssoy milk Also known as bean curds