Some assault teams bypassed the second floor and charged straight toward the artillery positions on the third, but the outcome was little different. Every artillery position had two people guarding it, and the others could pick up weapons the instant they came under surprise attack and join the fight. These positions actually proved harder to take than the windows.
Dai Mubai alone could hold one side. It was not that the Earl's Domain had no powerful fighters left, but there was no chance they would still lead the charge. At long range, even Dai Mubai feared attacks from these weapons, but if the enemy dared to charge, they were undoubtedly marching straight to their deaths.
Soon, the Inner City Army's first charge ended in total annihilation. Many had hoped to take advantage of the chaos to climb in through the higher floors, then wheel back and ambush those downstairs. Yet none of this could escape the Detection Device, and Dai Mubai soon went over and killed them.
Five hundred people died just like that, and their opponents even remembered to toss down a round of grenades in provocation, blowing up several dozen more.
Yet they had accomplished absolutely nothing.
Watching this, the Inner City Commander felt his blood pressure soar and roared, "A thousand men! No, two thousand, charge together! Attack from every direction at once! I refuse to believe we can't take them!"
Seemingly having received the Inner City Commander's written order that an attack was imminent, and with the Castle's cannons indeed firing far less frequently, the Outer City also ceased its bombardment.
The earlier exchange of cannon fire had blasted open quite a few sections of the Castle's outer walls, but those places were now guarded as well.
Still, he firmly believed he had simply sent too