Zheng State Town originally had only a little over fifty thousand people, with exactly ten thousand soldiers among them. Now they had to fend off attacks from four directions, meaning each wall had only a little over two thousand defending soldiers, along with several thousand civilians.
Yet they had to face the assault of twenty thousand Great Qin Soldiers. In the first wave alone, Zheng State's defenders had already suffered one-fifth casualties.
Then Wang Jian and the other two launched another attack. Great Qin relied on the greater power, range, and accuracy of its arrows to successfully suppress the defenders, while the three enormous beasts in the sky took the opportunity to attack the people atop the walls.
Although the defenders seized the chance to attack the giant beasts as well, their cultivation was too weak. They could only inflict a slight amount of damage on them.
Moments later!
The Zheng State defenders on three walls had already suffered two-fifths losses, and urgent cries for aid came one after another. Standing atop the eastern wall, Wang Xiao's heart sank upon receiving the news, but he could not possibly leave the eastern wall now.
The other three walls only faced twenty thousand Great Qin Soldiers, while his wall faced sixty thousand soldiers, with the Great Qin Imperial Prince personally commanding them. The danger was far greater, so Wang Xiao could not move a single step away. He could only order more residents to be conscripted.
At that moment, streams of gray ghostly qi spread outward, and the atmosphere turned eerie and sinister. Wang Xiao, who had just issued his orders, was unknowingly engulfed in the ghostly qi.
He immediately sensed that something was wrong. The soldiers around him stiffened where they stood, terror creeping onto their faces. Quite a few even