"Kill!"
"Rumble-"
"One tael of silver for every enemy soldier killed! A hundred taels for an enemy officer! A thousand taels of gold for the enemy commander! The first man onto the walls gets a hundred taels of gold, a hundred cattle and sheep, and ten women from the Central Plains!"
"Kill them!"
"Charge!!"
"Hold! Hold!"
"Bring up the logs! Crush them!"
North of Red Dragon City, battle cries shook the heavens.
A siege involving nearly a million men from the two armies raged like wildfire, ferocious beyond measure.
Across the vast plains, densely packed Great Yuan soldiers surged toward Red Dragon City like a tide, charging at its walls without fear of death.
On the walls, under the command of Sun Chuanting, Sun Chengzong, and the other generals, ranks of Ming soldiers held their positions, stubbornly resisting the Yuan Army's frenzied assault.
Seven days earlier, Sun Chengzong had arrived at Red Dragon City with two hundred thousand troops, while another hundred thousand had marched north from the south as reinforcements.
The garrison inside Red Dragon City now numbered nearly five hundred thousand, no longer inferior to the Yuan Army in numbers.
Moreover, with the advantage of the walls and the high ground in this siege, the Ming Army had no fear of the Yuan assault.
Now that battle had begun, both sides were already red-eyed with killing, and the fighting immediately reached a white-hot pitch.
On the walls and beneath them, corpses and severed limbs lay piled everywhere. Blood stained the walls red and soaked the heaps of bodies before gathering into streams that spread in every direction outside the city.
At this moment, the cruelty of war was laid utterly bare.
Apart from the ranks of Ming soldiers and their commanders, many unarmored figures were helping defend