648 Meaningless Deaths Part 1 (2/2)
There were watchtowers at intervals of every five yards. Underneath them was the ten yard wide passageway, but on top of them were embrasures on the sides. Every soldier that attacked the top of the city wall would have to watch out for crossbow arrows from both sides.
Saleen saw that no arrows were shot out from the embrasures as the enemy consisted of only light-armored soldiers. More than ten low-level mages commanded war puppets to join the heavy-armored soldiers to engage the Tanggulasi soldiers.
Grand Bishop Nicholas saw that his soldiers had managed to reach the top of the city wall and had occupied an area that was fifty yard wide. He was pleased at first, but started frowning soon after. There was no way the enemy's defense would start crumbling so quickly. Regardless of how many soldiers managed to climb up the city wall through this fifty yard wide passageway, the area they occupied did not expand.
All the soldiers that had climbed onto the city wall were contained within these fifty yards. This was clearly a plan to weaken their side.
”Kane, when will your soldiers join in the attack?” Grand Bishop Nicholas sighed to himself and called the Tanggulasi corp leader by a more intimate name even though the former's identity was far superior than the latter's.
The corp leader put down his alchemy binocular and said to Nicholas, ”Bishop, as you can see, the enemy's defense is tight and they are at full strength. Our arrow vehicles were ineffective and did not injure many of them. If we send out our main forces now, we will suffer heavy losses. It is better to wait until the enemy is tired out.”
”Kane, unless I have three-hundred-thousand men to attack from both sides and pressurize the enemy on a battle line of more than ten miles wide, the enemy will never be tired out,” Grand Bishop Nicholas explained his concerns.
There was no way there were lesser than fifty-thousand soldiers or ten-thousand residents in this city. All their information was wrong. If he wanted to take down this city, he would have to pin his hopes on the people from the supreme court. Unless he exhausted his own forces to a certain degree, those three fellows would only continue to watch from afar.
”Or else, we could request the Pope to send over high-level holy priests and heavy equipment.”
Nicholas laughed bitterly and said, ”How far have we traveled? Twenty-thousand miles? Or was it twenty-five-thousand miles? Even if the Pope was willing to accede to our request, we do not have enough grain to survive till then.”
The corp leader became speechless too. They were too far away from his own empire. If holy priests flew non-stop without eating or drinking, would they be able to travel two-thousand miles in one day? There was no way holy priests would be able to reach them in half a month even if they had been boosted by divine spells. He knew that their grain would only last them for four days. In the end, they could only depend on themselves.
”Won't those three fellows obey the Pope's order?” The corp leader could not accept it. He was still hoping that the people from the supreme court would attack first. Once the jailers start to attack, his own twenty-thousand soldiers would follow behind and they would stand a chance of breaking through the city gate.
”What can I do if they choose not to obey? I'm only afraid that we will no longer be able to return to the Glorious Plains. Kane, you have to be willing to sacrifice your soldiers' lives. Launch a big-scale attack tonight. I will discuss it with the three of them again.”
Nicholas' words were depressing and the corp leader replied furiously, ”My Lord, as a member of the Solomon family, we are not afraid to die in battle! Go and talk to the three of them. At ten pm tonight, I will rally my army to launch an attack. If they choose to watch from afar, I will never forgive them even if I'm dead!”
”Hmm, go and collect the holy medicine and let your soldiers rest first. Perhaps we should delay for two more hours and attack at midnight instead.” Grand Bishop Nicholas knew that even if they managed to enter the city, they would not have the upper hand in urban warfare. Based on the defense of the top of the city wall, there were more mages in this city than most of the other cities in Qin.
What Nicholas did not understand was that the way this city was built seemed to be a waste. The enemy could have used the same amount of resources to build ten cities of similar scale and even build up Broken Blade Pass to stop his attack. Instead, the enemy chose to concentrate all its resources on the white city instead.
Of course, he would never know that Saleen built this city in order to protect the dimensional teleportation portal. After Jason arrived, he would open up the teleportation portal that would lead to the interdimensional space. The importance of this teleportation portal surpassed that of ten big cities. If the teleportation portal was not secured, mages that entered the interdimensional space would never be able to return.
Saleen was even more confused than Nicholas. On the city wall, he saw that at the rear of the enemy's armies were the main forces and the five-thousand strong black-armored army. They had not made any moves. Those three terrifying fellows had returned amongst the black-armored army and did not launch any attacks on the city wall.
The attacks underneath the city wall never stopped. Were they trying to tire out his soldiers? With the number of soldiers he had, they would be able to rotate with each other to defend this two-mile wide city wall. Even if they fought for half a month, his soldiers would not be fatigued.
Such tactics were ineffective against Saleen. The number of soldiers that could climb up to the city wall was few and far between. His mages could hide within the buildings completely and support the soldiers and knights in front of them. If not for the fact that the enemy still possessed a very strong main force, Saleen would not even have to be there personally.