Sleepless Night
After hearing the soldier's account, Shi Lei fell silent, unable to utter a word for a long while.
Putting those green-skinned creatures aside, judging from the soldier's account, that enormous Green-skinned Monster really was a monster through and through! Pingyuan City had been breached in a short time, and that Green-skinned Monster had played a crucial role.
Without that Green-skinned Monster, no matter how strong those green-skinned creatures were, breaking through the city gates in such a short time would not have been easy.
As long as the city gates held, the city defense troops could keep them outside the walls and then strike them with the advantage of the city's defenses.
Of course, reality had no room for so many ifs. Shi Lei quickly focused his thoughts on how to deal with that Green-skinned Monster.
As things stood, that Green-skinned Monster was the equivalent of the Three-bow Ballista in their Great Zhou siege forces. It could directly change the nature of a siege and drastically reduce the difficulty of taking an entire city.
Conversely, as long as they could eliminate that Green-skinned Monster, then even if the green-skinned creatures on the other side were individually stronger than their human soldiers, they could not easily capture the cities they were defending!
After confirming this line of thought, Shi Lei's mind quickly sprang into action.
An ordinary steel saber can at most break through the other side's flesh, but it can't sever their fingers. Whether an Enchanted Weapon can do it remains unknown. The safest method is still to use a crossbow!
The Three-bow Ballista isn't agile enough. It would be best to deploy City Defense Crossbows!
However, City Defense Crossbows were not equipment one could simply acquire whenever one wanted.
They had come as a siege force this