The Battle to Land on the Walls

Zhou Xu had already explained the tactics for dealing with the Siege Towers to Shi Lei in broad strokes yesterday.

Now that the Siege Towers were bearing down on them, Shi Lei, who already had a plan in mind, naturally did not lose his footing.

He had the Spearmen move onto the walls ahead of time and ordered them to keep their eyes on the Siege Towers and follow their movements throughout. The moment the tower doors at the top opened and the assault soldiers inside charged out, they were to greet them with crystal-iron spears!

The Siege Towers had limited space inside, which indirectly restricted the soldiers' movements. The moment the shield-bearing soldiers hiding inside charged out, they were met with a merciless barrage of crystal-iron spears.

Although they consciously raised their one-handed shields to defend themselves, they still could not withstand the dense forest of crystal-iron spears thrusting out in unison. Their inability to form an airtight defense was destined to give their opponents an opening!

Once they passed over the iron-clad one-handed shields, the ordinary soldiers' wooden armor, which resembled a mahjong mat, could not offer the slightest resistance to the crystal-iron spears. The razor-sharp spearheads stabbed straight into their flesh, even piercing clean through their bodies in a single burst!

At that moment, excruciating pain spread throughout their bodies. Their faces flushed purple-red in an instant from the agony, yet they did not fall.

Unless a vital organ had been struck directly, even being pierced through the body by a sharp weapon would not kill them immediately.

The soldiers who dared charge at the very front were all death-sworn warriors, men prepared to die. They had to bear even greater lethal risks, and most of them would never make it back alive.

Soldiers like these would