The kingdom's sprawling camps rose like a forest of timber, encircling the seaside Golden Bay City. More than thirty thousand soldiers of the kingdom had gathered here, sealing off every land route and almost completely cutting off the sea lanes as well. At this moment, the broad Golden Bay City was like a "fish trap" penned inside wooden rails, and the "big fish" inside the trap could no longer escape.
Faced with the army's siege, the defenders atop Golden Bay City's walls were thrown into panic. The Feathered Serpent priests and sun priests in the city prayed day and night, holding sacrificial rites to steady the defenders' hearts. But after Kuashe, the great chief of Hidden Snake City, had fallen in battle, the chiefs of the eastern tribes no longer answered to one another and all had different thoughts. They held councils every day, yet could never reach a consensus, nearly turning the palace of deliberation upside down with their quarrels.
The defenders inside the city were in an uproar, a chaotic mess, while the besieging army outside the city proceeded in good order, making preparations to storm the walls. The five days set by the king passed in the blink of an eye. And by dawn on the sixth day, the army's assault officially began!
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Under the terrified gazes of the defenders on the walls, twenty Copper Cannons were deployed outside the flattest western side of the city. Then, under the protection of two thousand kingdom guards, the Artillery Battalion operated the "god-gifted" Copper Cannons and fired round after round of "divine punishment" thunder!
"Rumble!"
Ten Sun God Eagle Cannons bombarded the defenders on the wall with precision, knocking down whole swaths of the raised arrow-shielding wooden boards and leaving streaks of bloodred