Lü Fei and the others stood atop the western city wall of Chong City.
This section of the wall was about twelve meters wide and over five hundred meters long, with mountain slopes on either side.
There were only a little over a hundred people standing atop the five-hundred-meter wall, making it look somewhat sparse.
But there was nothing they could do about that. The entire Chong City currently had fewer than a thousand combat personnel it could deploy. Those thousand people had to guard four city gates, leaving far too few hands.
Chong City was not located on the border, nor was it a military stronghold. During peacetime, there was no way—and no need—for it to station too many troops.
Under normal circumstances, several hundred Overseeing Bureau Inspectors, several hundred City Guards, the Cessation of Hostilities Bureau, and the Bureau of Impartial Justice were more than enough to maintain order in an ordinary city.
As for wartime, no one would truly expect a small city like this to transform into some impregnable fortress.
Especially after artillery like this appeared, the role of city walls was further weakened. The traditional style of siege warfare from the past was becoming less and less necessary.
Back then, the Western Allied Forces of the Seven Nations had fought all the way to the foot of Lanling City.
Lanling City was known as Number One Under Heaven among all strong cities. Its walls stood over one hundred and fifty meters tall, and throughout history they had once held back the attacks of armies numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
Yet even with such a mighty city, the imperial court had not dared fight a defensive battle against the Western Allied Forces. Instead, it had sent the Military God, Wenren Zheng, to lead the Great