Before Jinling Ferry.
The first wave of barbarian soldiers had already climbed to the tops of the siege ladders.
Each man held a curved saber in his mouth, fanatic madness burning in his eyes. They were going to charge up—this was the best chance they would ever get to change their fate.
"Kill!"
The barbarian soldiers beneath the ladders and the defenders atop the city tower roared in unison.
The barbarians who had reached the walls pulled the curved sabers from their mouths and slashed forward in an instant...
The soldiers guarding the tower thrust their spears and blades through the crenels, skewering the first enemies to appear...
For a time, the roar of battle shook the heavens. Barbarian soldiers who had climbed onto the tower plunged from above, but in the blink of an eye, fresh troops were scrambling up after them.
"Attack! Attack!!"
Seeing that the situation was turning grim, Gu Dumu immediately shouted to the soldiers across the moat, "Don't stop! Attack with everything you've got!"
"Vmmmmm!"
Suddenly, the night sky rang with the piercing twang of mechanisms, followed by a series of "whooshes!"
Boulders flew from the siege engines, sailing over the moat toward the towering city walls...
A tremendous crash resounded along the walls. The boulders smashed into the towers, sending countless fragments cascading down. In an instant, no one knew how many soldiers had fallen into pools of blood.
With the siege engines joining the battle, both sides' soldiers went berserk in an instant.
On the walls, the armies clashed at close quarters. Heavy crossbows sang as their bolts flew over tens of thousands of troops toward the siege engines on the far side of the moat.
The war drums and horns of both armies suddenly thundered through the heavens.
Screams rose one after