The alarm horns sounded from the walls of Anling City. Ever since the scouts across the border had begun operating frequently, the garrison troops led by Shi Lei had already made all the necessary preparations.
Now that they were mobilized, everything proceeded in orderly fashion.
After climbing onto the wall, Shi Lei immediately activated Eye of Insight to observe the situation in the distance.
At a glance, Shi Lei's brows furrowed slightly, and he fell silent.
Seeing his expression, the soldiers beside him assumed the situation was extremely grim. Little did they know that what was going through Shi Lei's mind was...
That's it?
According to his observations with Eye of Insight, the enemy had roughly four thousand troops outside the city.
The siege equipment they had currently spotted included Cloud Ladders, Siege Towers, and Battering Rams—the three standard pieces of siege equipment.
The problem, however, was that Anling City had nearly three thousand garrison troops inside it, even without counting anyone else.
Unless the enemy possessed a piece of brute-force equipment capable of blowing open their gates, such as a Three-bow Ballista, and could smash through the city gates to charge inside, four thousand siege troops alone would have no chance of capturing Anling City through a normal siege. It was nothing but a fool's dream.
When Great Zhou had attacked the New Continent, Shi Lei had served as one of the commanders leading the troops and had encountered situations far more severe than this. To be honest, he did not take the present display of force seriously at all.
However, more than half of the troops in the city were new recruits, and that was a problem that could not be ignored.
Thinking of this, Shi Lei did not relax or let his guard down in the slightest.