"Woooo~"
"Boom, boom, boom~"
Amid the clash of drums and horns, more and more Beastmen troops arrived beneath Iowa City.
Behind the vanguard, a rumbling sound drew closer. Four siege ladders, each over forty meters tall, slowly rolled to the rear of the vanguard.
Each siege ladder was pulled by twenty pack beasts. Its three- or four-meter-wide front was covered in various shields. It looked as though the Beastmen were taking the attack seriously and were determined to capture Iowa's towering walls.
Behind the siege ladders came more siege engines: simple scaling ladders, war drums made from monster hide and standing taller than a man, catapults, and the Magic Giant Crossbows brought by Lizardman mercenaries.
The Beastmen's great drums were said to be made from thunderbeast hide. Two tall members of the rhinoceros tribe wielded enormous bone mallets, and every strike left the surrounding Beastmen even more invigorated.
"Whoosh~"
As soon as the catapults were set up, two towering Beastmen hoisted boulders two meters in diameter onto the slings. Several hundred Herbivore Beastmen pulled the catapult arms, hurling the boulders toward the city walls.
The Lizardman mercenaries' Magic Crossbows were even easier to operate. They placed a boulder on the main beam, and the torsion springs flung it into the air. The three Dwarf Runes on the beam allowed the boulder to fly as far as six or seven hundred meters.
After two rounds of ranging shots, the crossbows and catapults advanced, guarded by the Human troops as they slowly moved forward, stopping six hundred meters from the walls.
"Listen up, Barbarians of Iowa!" A Beastman shouted from atop a siege ladder. "Your leader, Landen, was born a Barbarian and was merely a vassal of the Beastmen Royal Court.
"Now he has betrayed Barbarian tradition, seized the capital of the