War Lord: Rising from the Land of Misfortune
Chapter 420

How to Storm a City Without Siege Ladders? (Part Two)

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"How about that? Never seen it before, have you! Don't be so surprised—the real show is yet to come. Consider this a free eye-opener for you today! Just wait and see whether Kylin ends up worse off than you!"

The three men's conversation reached Nalant's ears, and he immediately turned back with a smile.

If possible, he wanted this battle to be even more spectacular. That would make it easier to intimidate the other castles afterward!

"But you don't even have siege ladders. Can you call this a siege?" Ryan still refused to accept it, muttering under his breath.

The three of them were heirs to their families, after all. Though the catapults and Siege Crossbows had stunned them, they still felt that Nalant's actions looked nothing like a proper siege.

If he had followed convention—sending several hundred serfs to fill the moat, then attacking with dozens of ladders—they thought he might truly have managed to take the walls with the support of those two powerful weapons.

"Heh, who told you a siege has to involve siege ladders? When I, Nalant, storm a city, I have no intention of relying on ladders. I'm going in through the main gate!"

Nalant laughed. This was the matter he had thought about the most while discussing warfare on paper.

Back outside Quinte Castle, the skeletons' siege had left a profound impression on him.

Even skeleton soldiers, creatures capable of scaling walls with their bare hands, had to pay a considerable price when attacking a city. If he sent guards forward in the conventional manner, who knew how many would die?

So he had let his imagination run wild and devised a method of attacking a castle without climbing its walls.

Of course, this method could probably only be used by him. As for

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