On Earthen City's walls, Wolfe watched the nomad army attacking the city, his face dark and gloomy.
Golden Wolf banners and Sand Scorpion banners flew high overhead. This was a joint assault by the armies of the Golden Wolf Khanate and the Sand Scorpion Khanate. The Golden Wolf Khanate was one of the foremost powerful nations under the rule of the Grassland Temple, while the Sand Scorpion Khanate was one of the great empires under the Desert Temple. Both nations had hundreds of millions of subjects, and among nomadic peoples, every citizen was a soldier—any grown man was a qualified warrior.
Precisely because they were nomads, these nations' armies normally lived scattered among the people, only being conscripted into military forces when war broke out. Thus, at their core, they were merely a pack of ferocious bandits by nature, with none of the military discipline expected of a regular army.
They did not employ the conventional siege methods of the Western Continent's nations. They had not even prepared a single catapult. Tens of thousands of nomad cavalrymen rode their mounts forward lazily. Ahead of them were countless elderly, weak, sick, and frail people, their expressions numb and their eyes filled with despair.
These people were citizens of the various nations of the Eastern Great Plains who had been captured and plundered. They carried heavy straw sacks stuffed with packed earth, marching forward blankly, onward, onward, onward. When they reached the foot of the walls, they threw the sacks into the trenches outside the city, then swayed back toward the rear, where more sacks awaited them.
Wolfe was dumbfounded. The Caesar officers and soldiers of the Dragon Horn Legion were dumbfounded. The emissaries and officials from Pick Kingdom and the other two kingdoms atop the walls were dumbfounded. The Church's clergy