"Pfft, pfft, pfft..."
Sharp arrows hissed through the air as the defenders loosed ten thousand shafts at once.
Though the volley killed fewer than one in a hundred, it brought the siege engines racing forward to a sudden check and slowed them sharply.
At the same time, archers on the walls and enemy archers in the siege towers outside began a bloody exchange!
Boom, boom, boom...
Deafening impacts thundered...
A rain of boulders blotted out the light as it arced across the sky and crashed down...
The walls shuddered, boulders shattered, and bricks cracked.
Here and there, rocks struck the ramparts and burst into sprays of blood, or smashed through the battlements, sending defenders tumbling down like dumplings into a pot...
In the opening clash of a siege on this scale, the catapults and stone-throwers, with their tremendous reach and terrifying force, were the undisputed stars of the fight for the walls!
Countless boulders fell across the sky like a meteor shower bearing the force of heaven and earth...
Vast Chen City stood like a giant holding up the sky, unmoving beneath wind and rain. The lives falling from it like dumplings were no more than flakes of skin shed from its body...
Lives were worth less than grass, and blood surged like a tide. Even the sky-shrouding rain of arrows was only a supporting player, providing cover!
Heaven collapsed; earth split apart.
The ground shook; mountains swayed!
Arrows flew like wind, boulders fell like rain!
The vast battle was enough to drive men mad with fascination. It was as brutal as the end of the world, and everyone was a little boat in the storm; however strong one person might be, survival was far from certain.
Blood filled the air as the battle went on.
After more than