The Collapse of the City Walls

Meanwhile, the slaves below the city walls continued their frantic work.

The explosions of small Gunpowder pack echoed one after another. Although the power of each explosion was limited, the continuous blasts caused the foundation of the entire section of the city wall to be constantly eroded and shaken, the cracks in the wall to grow larger and larger, and rubble to fall from time to time.

The city walls groaned, as if they might collapse at any moment.

Time slipped away amidst the bloody battle, the blazing sun slipped from overhead, and the sky was dyed a poignant orange-red.

The battle raged from afternoon until dusk, with both sides fighting with bloodlust, continuously throwing their last reserves into this massive meat grinder.

Carnford's only Cannon roared, hurling shells toward the tunnel in an attempt to block the passage of Sauron's reinforcements, causing considerable casualties.

But Harald watched coldly from his distant watchtower, his expression unchanged, only waving his hand and ordering new troops to fill in, wasting the defenders' precious ammunition with their own lives.

Finally, at dusk, the cannon fire from the city walls abruptly ceased; the cannonballs had run out.

On the now-silent gun emplacement, Karl watched expressionlessly as the fierce battle raged on the city walls.

His most elite 600 regular soldiers had already been rotated time and again, suffering heavy casualties.

At this moment, those fighting Sauron elite's elite troops on the city walls are mostly ordinary citizens, farmers, and craftsmen who have only received two months of basic military training before being forced to take up arms...

These new recruits lacked combat skills, their formation was loose, and their individual martial arts abilities were far inferior to those of the battle-hardened Sauron Combatant.

But in their eyes, there was no retreat, only a resolute determination to live and die with their homeland!

They used their bodies to block the breach and fought the enemy to the death with their rudimentary weapons!

It often takes two or three lives to exchange for a single veteran of Sauron.

Blood and lives became their only tactics; their courage sustained the crumbling defense line.

Karl showed no emotion, only coldly continuing to issue orders, sending squads of young men, their faces still bearing the marks of youth and fear, yet gripping their weapons tightly, up the life-devouring city wall.

He knew that Harald was doing the same thing.

This war has become an ultimate contest of wills, a battle to see who sheds their last drop of blood and whose morale collapses first.

The setting sun, like blood, illuminated the castle shrouded in death.

The walls and ramparts were piled high with corpses, and rivers of blood flowed between the walls and the city walls.

Both sides were like two exhausted giants, gripping each other's throats tightly, neither willing to let go first.

While the soldiers on both sides were still engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat on the city walls, below the city, the slaves, driven by death, finally accumulated the explosive power to a critical point at the cost of countless lives of their comrades!

With a deafening roar, two key foundations of the outer city wall of Carnford could no longer withstand the weight and carnage caused by the continuous explosions and hammering!

"Boom!!!"

Large sections of the wall suddenly tilted inward and collapsed! Broken stones and bricks poured down like a waterfall, and dust billowed into the sky!

The Sauron soldier and Carnford defenders, who were locked in a fierce battle on these two sections of the city wall, had no time to react. They fell with screams along with the crenellations and planks beneath their feet as the wall collapsed! They were instantly buried in the huge cloud of dust and ruins!

This sudden and dramatic change brought a moment of deathly silence to the entire battlefield!

But the next second, an even wilder and more excited charge horn sounded from behind the Sauron Army!

"The walls are breached! Charge in! Kill them all!" the Sauron Army roared hoarsely!

The elite knights and Heavy Armor Infantry of Sauron elite, who had been waiting in the rear, roared like wolves that had smelled blood. They charged madly toward the two huge gaps, ignoring the billowing dust and the still unstable ruins.

Bright armor and menacing weapons loomed in and out of view amidst the smoke and dust, like a flood bursting its banks!

"Block the breach! We can't let them get in!" The reserves behind the defenders reacted just as quickly! Led by their officers, the soldiers, their eyes red, raised their spears and brandished their swords, charging forward against the smoke and dust and the onrushing enemy, trying to fill the hole in the city wall with their own flesh and blood!

"Clang! Clang! Splatter!!!"

A fierce battle erupted instantly at the breach! The most elite forces of both sides clashed violently at this narrow passage! The dull thuds of swords cutting into armor, the tearing sounds of spears piercing flesh, the screams of the dying, and the roars of rage mingled together!

People kept falling, and those behind them immediately stepped over their fallen comrades to continue the fight! The battle at the breach was extremely fierce, and the ground was quickly covered with blood and corpses!

Occasionally, one or two fierce Sauron knights, relying on their personal bravery and heavy armor, managed to break through the defensive line at the breach and enter the outer city.

But what they were often met with sniper fire from the windows and rooftops of houses on both sides of the street!

"Bang! Bang!"

The explosions of Flintlock Rifle echoed through the alleyways, catching the Sauron knights who had rushed into the city off guard, and they fell to the ground, riddled with bullets.

The defenders continued their sporadic resistance, using their familiarity with the terrain to harass the enemy who had broken through the breach, attempting to push them back again.

However, the fall of the city walls was like the collapse of a dam; once the breach was opened, the flood was difficult to contain.

While the main force of the defenders was firmly engaged in the fierce battle at the breach, in other sections, more and more Sauron infantrymen climbed the remaining city walls using Cloud Ladder and leaped into the city!

The defenders on the city walls were already weak and had suffered heavy casualties. Under the continuous assault of the fresh troops from Sauron, the defensive line finally collapsed completely and was gradually suppressed, divided, and annihilated!

More and more Sauron soldier poured into the outer city and began to advance inward along the streets.

The defenders' resistance gradually transformed from an organized defensive line into a scattered, desperate street battle.

The outer city of Carnford had, in fact, already fallen.

From the gun emplacement, Karl took in the chaos and defeat of the outer city. The Cannon had long since been removed and pushed back into the inner city; he had foreseen this outcome the moment the Cannon ran out of ammunition.

Karl's gaze swept over the soldiers fighting and dying tragically in the streets, and the civilians who were beginning to panic and flee in all directions, and he said:

"Brendan, the outer city is no longer defensible. I order you to immediately organize all able-bodied citizens to retreat to the inner city! All combat troops must abandon the city walls and street positions, resist step by step, and engage in street fighting using houses and fortifications to delay the enemy's advance and buy time for the civilians to evacuate! Ultimately, everyone must retreat into the inner city for defense!"