Who Could Stand Against This?

"Quick, quick, quick! Tighten those screws! Pick up the assembly speed over there!"

One section after another of the siege ladders was joined together and firmly secured with screws. While the performance was taking place up front, one hundred towering steel siege ladders, each more than ten meters tall, had already been assembled.

As for siege equipment, Wang Xuan had long ago ordered the craftsmen to design it. They had abandoned the primitive method of cutting wood and constructing everything after reaching the destination. Wooden siege ladders were cumbersome and easily destroyed by fire, whereas these ladders, assembled from angle iron, were light, sturdy, and easy to transport. They were simply far more convenient.

As for larger siege weapons, Zhao Yun felt there was no need to bring them out.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The thunderous sound of war drums rang out from all four directions at once.

Each man carried a huge rectangular iron shield. Four iron hooks had been firmly welded onto the front corners. Working in groups of five, they hooked the shields securely onto the siege ladders, raised the ladders more than ten meters high, and charged forward at a brisk pace to the dense beat of the drums.

Every one of these designs had been prepared to prevent enemy archery during the siege and ensure that the ladders reached their designated positions without incident.

In reality, morale atop the city walls had already fallen to rock bottom. Only under the threats of the defending officers' personal guards did sporadic volleys of arrows weakly fly toward the teams carrying the siege ladders. They merely landed feebly on the iron shields with a clanging sound.

Once they reached the foot of the walls, the iron shields were unloaded backward and detached. The more-than-ten-meter-long siege ladders were immediately raised