Seeing this, James also ordered Capor's catapult unit to suppress the Barbarians' catapults. When the messenger James dispatched reached the catapult unit's position, he found Capor hopping mad.
When the Barbarians had launched their catapult assault moments earlier, two stone projectiles had cleared the walls and, by sheer chance, landed on the catapult unit's position, striking several catapults.
Fortunately, those catapults had been on standby, with no soldiers nearby, so there had been no casualties. Had a catapult launching fire oil bombs been hit, the consequences would have been unthinkable.
Capor had never expected the enemy catapults to hit his position through sheer luck, but being struck by the enemy infuriated him.
To everyone else, though, it was merely bad luck.
To Capor, this was unacceptable. After all, his catapults far surpassed the enemy's in both range and accuracy, yet the enemy had landed the first hit. He truly could not stomach it.
Fortunately, James's orders finally gave Capor free rein to retaliate. Capor brought the catapults that had been on standby into action as well. He intended to destroy every Barbarian catapult across from them, though half his catapults would continue suppressing the enemy archers as they withdrew.
The fortress's catapult unit soon began adjusting its aim and firing ranging shots. They had to hurry and knock out the Barbarian catapults as quickly as possible, or those stones would cause even more casualties and chaos.
As the defending catapult unit began to retaliate, the catapults in the Barbarian ranks immediately felt the terrifying power of the fortress's catapults. Before long, several more Barbarian catapults were set ablaze.
At the sight, Heshima asked Keledu, "Lord Keledu, what are these weapons the enemy is using?
"How can they set my catapults on fire from so far away?
"Could there really be