After handing Liu Ping over to the squad leader responsible for defending that section of the wall, Shi Lan turned and climbed down, making her way to the archery grounds.
By dusk, hundreds of people with decent archery skills had been recruited to defend the four walls. Nearly a hundred of them were sharpshooters capable of hitting a target a hundred paces away.
Besides them, dozens of martial artists had climbed onto the walls to help with the defense. Many were familiar faces Shi Lan had seen before: the people who had passed the City Lord's Manor's trials, collected their reward money, and left.
With these fresh reinforcements joining them, the figures atop the walls were finally no longer so sparse.
Aside from those helping defend the city, Nie Yangze had also gathered all the able-bodied men in the city in one place, ready to await orders.
Seeing this, Shi Lan felt a little more confident.
By nightfall, basin after basin of cooked meat was carried up to the walls. Simple tents came with the food. Clearly, no one would be able to leave the walls that night.
After dinner, Huangfu Yun gathered everyone together and began assigning their duties.
Since most of the people who had come to help defend the city were ordinary folk, there was no way they could draw back the strings of the demon-slaying crossbows by themselves. They could only assign a martial artist to load and cock the crossbows for them.
A martial artist at the fifth level of Body Tempering Realm would be exhausted after cocking a crossbow a dozen or so times in succession and would need time to recover. At most, one could support two crossbowmen.
Those at the sixth level of Body Tempering Realm could manage a little better, but