Two days later, Ren Baqian brought the box back to Dayao. It was just past noon.
Ren Baqian carefully put the box away and strolled to the main hall of the city commander's residence. A group of people were hurrying in and out.
The empress was sitting at the seat of honor, and no one knew what she was thinking about.
"Your Majesty, how's the situation?" Ren Baqian walked to her and asked.
When the empress heard his voice, her eyes finally focused. She first looked at his face, reached out to take the bag that he was carrying, rummaged through it, and put it beside her feet.
Then, he said, "Great Xia has been attacking for an entire night. Over the past two days, Great Xia has lost at least 30,000 men. There are also 1,500 casualties in the city. Now, the winged cavalry warriors that are left in the city have gone up the city walls to defend."
This was the biggest weakness of the aboriginals. Even though they were strong, their numbers were too small. Five to six thousand soldiers had to defend the city walls in three directions. Excluding the few guards at the southern city wall, there were actually less than two thousand soldiers in each direction, and they had to withstand the continuous attacks from Great Xia.
The number of casualties gradually increased, and the pressure on the remaining soldiers increased.
This was expected. Great Xia used a forceful attack, and both sides suffered huge losses.
Now, it was up to who could endure.
Ren Baqian thought about it and felt that Great Xia shouldn't be able to endure.
If they could, he would make them unable to.
Ren Baqian accompanied the empress in the main hall until it was night time, but Great Xia still had no intention of withdrawing. It was obvious that Great Xia's 100,000 soldiers were taking turns to attack until the thousands of aboriginal soldiers in Liao City couldn't hold on anymore.
After dinner, Ren Baqian went to the top of the city wall with the accompaniment of the guards. As soon as he went up, he was choked by the smell of blood and the battle cries around him.
Ren Baqian saw seven or eight huge scaling ladders being pushed to the side of the city wall. Those scaling ladders were like mobile buildings. At the top was a platform with dozens of Great Xia soldiers standing on it. When they were very close, they would jump over and attack. Behind the scaling ladders, there were still countless soldiers climbing up the ladder without stopping.
"Kill!" Dozens of Great Xia soldiers jumped over and roared with a sinister look on their faces.
Most of them only managed to shout the word "kill" before they were cut down and fell to the bottom of the city wall. Only a few of the more powerful aboriginals were able to deal with the aboriginal warriors.
A winged cavalry warrior appeared from the side. The long saber in his hand was fast and ruthless, and he managed to kill a few Great Xia soldiers in a few moves. He then brandished his long saber to knock down a few arrows that were shot at him.
Another batch of Great Xia soldiers jumped onto the cloud chariot.
At this moment, the city walls were filled with torches from top to bottom, brightly illuminating the area dozens of meters below the city walls. There were corpses, damaged military equipment, and a dense mass of Great Xia soldiers below the city walls.
Boom! There was a loud bang, and a cloud of fire erupted from the bottom of a ladder in the distance. The ladder was blown up, and the Great Xia soldiers on it screamed miserably as they fell.
Needless to say, this was the work of the explosives. Otherwise, it would take a lot of effort to destroy such a huge ladder.
But now, a tube of dynamite could easily solve the problem.
Then, there were a few more explosions. After all the ladders within his field of vision were destroyed, the aboriginal soldiers could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
"Sir Ren!" A winged cavalry warrior wiped the blood off his face, cupped his fists at Ren Baqian, and sat by the wall to rest.
"Do the Great Xia soldiers still have any military equipment?" Ren Baqian asked.
It wouldn't be easy for the other party to make such a huge ladder, right?
"I hope not!" that winged cavalry warrior mumbled.
Since yesterday morning, they had been fighting continuously for 18 hours. Even though they were Earth Wheel experts, they still felt tired.
However, imagination was always good. Not long after, the Great Xia soldiers rushed up again.
This time, it wasn't the Great Xia soldiers who were already exhausted. Instead, it was the elite soldiers who had rested sufficiently and rested for a full 10 hours. They carried ladders that looked like ladders and rushed up again.
"Damn it!" Ren Baqian cursed. This time, he had brought a lot of anti-infantry jumping mines and was prepared to bury them outside the city walls. However, if the other party didn't withdraw, how could he bury them? He couldn't possibly bury them on the city walls, right?
After walking around the three city walls, Ren Baqian hurriedly returned to the city commander's residence, took out his Italian cannon, and went directly to the bottom of the city walls.
If the other party didn't withdraw, he would blow them up until they did.
This time, he had brought back a total of 40 mortar shells, which were still steel ball incendiary bombs. He also brought 50 Type-72 anti-infantry landmines, which had a total of 650 destructive shrapnel fragments. If they were to explode from a height of 1 meter, the destructive power would be even greater than a mortar shell.
He took a look at the city wall. It was dark in the distance, and he couldn't see clearly. However, he remembered the areas below the city where there were more people and where there were fewer people. Then, he quickly ran down to adjust the angle of the mortar.
A moment later, there was a bang, and smoke was emitted from the muzzle of the mortar. Dozens of seconds later, a ball of fire immediately exploded outside the city. Even the surrounding Great Xia soldiers were swept away, and two ladders were directly destroyed.
"Oh yeah!" Ren Baqian's voice didn't sound very happy. Instead, it sounded dull.
"Sir Ren has made a move!" The aboriginal soldiers cheered. Looking at this posture, they knew that Ren Baqian had personally made a move. Besides him, no one else could use this thing. The destructive power of those black tube explosions wasn't as great as this one.
He adjusted the muzzle and fired again.
Boom!
The cheers on the city wall were louder.
"Sir Ren, I want to bear your children …!" Such a voice came with the wind.
Ren Baqian's face twitched. Which b * stard shouted this? Do you believe that I'll beat you to death?
When the third mortar shell was fired, Ren Baqian continued to adjust the angle.
When the mortar was fired, there were people cheering on the city wall, but after dozens of seconds, the cheers suddenly stopped.
"A dud?" Ren Baqian had this thought. He stuffed the mortar shell into the barrel and fired again.
Boom!
Then, he adjusted the angle and fired again.
This time, there was still no sound of an explosion.
This time, Ren Baqian immediately realized that something was wrong. It would be understandable if there was a problem with one mortar shell. However, there was a problem with both shells, so it wasn't a matter of probability anymore.
"Sir Ren, that thing of yours has been shot onto the wall!" a winged cavalry warrior hurriedly shouted as he ran down from the city wall.
Ren Baqian thought, How can you say that?
He also knew that this wasn't the time to stare. Upon hearing this, he immediately knew what was going on, so he quickly got up and ran up the city wall.
"Where is it?"
"Sir Ren, follow me." That winged cavalry warrior ran along the city wall with Ren Baqian, dodging the swords and sabers that were slashing at him from time to time.
Ren Baqian twisted left and right and weaved his way through the shadows of the swords and sabers. He looked down from the top of the wall where the winged cavalry warrior had stopped and saw a dark-colored mortar shell nailed to the wall by a long arrow. It was still swaying with the wind like an hour hand.
"So ruthless?" Although Ren Baqian had already guessed it, he was still a little surprised to see this scene.
This was a mortar shell! It could travel hundreds of meters in one second!
Furthermore, it was still night time!
Where did this expert come from?
"Sir, be careful!" Shi Hu pushed Ren Baqian, and a long arrow whistled through the air as it brushed past Ren Baqian's shoulder and disappeared.
"Do you know where he is? I'll blow him up! "Ren Baqian was lying on the ground with cold sweat dripping down his forehead.
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