The Bone Shields formed by three Guardian Taotie standing side by side were nearly eight meters wide. With an eight-meter-wide path, the ordinary Taotie below could charge straight up the slope.
This was no longer like their first minor skirmish, when only a few dozen had rushed the wall. Once the passage was formed, the ordinary Taotie charging up would likely number in the thousands, perhaps even tens of thousands.
And by then, the fall of the Great Wall would only be a matter of time.
Once the Great Wall fell, eliminating the Taotie would become far too difficult. Clearly, the Taotie Beast King was not alone; this time, Jiang Yan Hai and the others had not even spotted a Beast King within their field of vision.
Commander Lin had already issued the order to prepare for close combat. Soldiers from the Bear Army and Deer Army had formed a shield wall atop the section where the Taotie were building their slope. Countless massive Siege Crossbows were pushed into position and began attacking the Guardian Taotie's shield wall from the side.
And sure enough, these slow-firing but immensely powerful Siege Crossbows proved somewhat effective. Since the Guardian Taotie had to form a shield wall with their Bone Shields spread directly overhead, their bodies were completely exposed from the sides.
Arrows had little effect on the thick-skinned Guardian Taotie, but the crossbow bolts mounted on the Siege Crossbows, as thick as a baby's arm, could kill them in a single shot.
However, there were too few Siege Crossbows. Though these weapons had tremendous power, their slow rate of fire made them less useful than the huge repeating crossbows. Their power was somewhat excessive, so the Tiger Army had not made many of them.
Commander Lin's face had already gone pale. She