The Ouzan cavalry used thick and heavy plate armor, and the plate armor of the White Braves was especially tough and heavy. Not only that, the armor of the White Braves had been imbued with the greatest number of toughening inscriptions.
This was also why they had been able to fight against the Abbasid Caliphate's Mamelukes!
Swish! Swish! Swish!
On the walls, Wang Chong's men had chosen to restrain themselves, but the Ouzan White Braves outside had chosen the exact opposite strategy. With an ear-piercing whistle, tens of thousands of arrows came whistling down like a tide, shooting toward the people on top of the city wall.
At that moment, even space itself seemed to be tearing apart.
Even Bai Siling grimaced at the sight of the long trails left behind by the arrows.
"Careful!"
"Dodge!"
… …
Loud shouts came from all over the walls as all the clan experts, including Bai Siling and Zhao Yatong, chose to dodge.
The power contained in those arrows was so great that even they didn't have the confidence to block them.
At this moment, the only person still standing on the walls, exposed to the rain of arrows, was Wang Chong. His expression was calm and emotionless.
Boom!
Hundreds of arrows pierced through the Golden Splitter Mountain, exploding from every direction, enveloping Wang Chong's body. But when these arrows were still several zhang away, they were frozen in the air.
Bzzz! Wang Chong blinked, and a cold light flashed through the darkness. In a flash, all the arrows were struck by some invisible energy and smashed to pieces, dropping to the ground.
In that moment, even the roars of the White Braves outside the city dimmed. On the walls, all the clan experts and the guards looked at Wang Chong with eyes brimming with worship.
Wang Chong, unmoved in the rain of arrows, was like a god, holding the hearts of the people and becoming their pillar of support.
"Ready!"
"Raise the secondary walls!"
…
Following a series of creaking sounds, thick, slanted steel plates quickly rose from the city walls. Once these steel plates were raised, they immediately protected everyone.
At this moment, the White Braves' second wave of attack had arrived. In the gloomy darkness, ten-some Ouzan White Braves were dragging a long, silvery-white object behind them. Using the high speed of their warhorses, they charged toward the tall gates of the City of Steel like shooting stars.
"Be careful! It's a siege awl! "
A panicked shout came from the city wall.
In that instant, everyone could clearly see that the tip of that silvery-white object was incomparably sharp. It was shockingly a sharp siege awl that was fifty to sixty feet long.
There were many complicated silver patterns on the surface of the siege awls. As long as one was in the military, they would not be unfamiliar with those silvery-white patterns. They were densely packed and countless sharp runes.
Everything that was engraved with such sharp runes was a top-notch siege weapon. Even a steel gate that was several feet thick would be pierced through.
Bang!
Before they had time to think, a heaven-shaking boom resounded in their ears. At that moment, the entire City of Steel trembled as if it had been struck by a shooting star.
But before this sound had faded, the sound of galloping hooves came from outside the city. A second silver-white battering ram from the Great Snow Mountain Holy Temple arrived like a bolt of lightning.
Boom! A second earth-shattering boom resounded in everyone's ears.
"Marquis!"
Su Shixuan stared at Wang Chong, his face ghastly pale. If they continued to attack in this manner, the gates of the City of Steel wouldn't be able to hold out for long.
At the start, he and Cheng Sanyuan had been confused by Wang Chong's decision to have them retreat into the city. But now, even the slowest Su Shixuan could sense that this wave of enemies was different from the ones he had faced before, completely different from cavalry.
Because no cavalry would bring such siege awls when charging on the battlefield.
This wave of enemies was far more formidable than he had imagined, and they had also come fully prepared.
"Don't worry about it. No matter what siege weapon they use, they won't be able to open the gates of the City of Steel. "
Wang Chong's voice was flat and indifferent, neither loud nor soft, but it had an intimidating power.
The White Braves were almost invincible in a field charge. At the very least, the cavalry under his command were incapable of stopping them, but defending a city was a different matter.
Wang Chong knew what Su Shixuan was worried about, but that was impossible.
The gates of the City of Steel were not made of ordinary steel, but of Meteoric Metal that Wang Chong had brought from overseas. No matter how many sharp runes the White Braves' siege awls had been engraved on them, no matter how powerful their charge, they would never be able to break through a gate made of Meteoric Metal.
Such a thing could never happen, and Wang Chong had engraved so many defensive and toughening runes on the gate.
Ouzan isn't involved in production, so he couldn't have forged something of this level. It seems like it came from the Great Snow Mountain Temple.
Wang Chong's mind was in turmoil. Ouzan had placed far more importance on him than he had expected, but no matter what they wanted to do, they were doomed to fail.
The City of Steel was his life's work, his dream. In order to establish a foothold here, he had already made ample preparations. Not even Ouzan's illustrious White Braves could break this city.
"Pass on my order. Tell Xu Keyi that he can begin his preparations!"
Wang Chong said.
"Yes, Marquis!"
A messenger quickly responded and left.
Outside the City of Steel, the White Braves were still not done with their assault. Boomboomboom! Silver battering ram after battering ram slammed into the tall gate.
At this moment, there was a clattering of metal as long five-clawed hooks were thrown up from the walls and hooked onto the edge of the wall.
"Go!"
With a roar, hundreds of White Braves jumped off their horses, their right hands gripping ropes as they used the hooks on the wall to scale the walls.
"Everyone, follow me! Hurry and stop them!"
Su Shixuan grimaced and unsheathed his sword. He was the first to step out of the wall that had been blocking the volley of arrows and charge at the hooks.
On the other side, the others also charged out, fully armored.
The people outside the city were all incredibly powerful. If they were allowed to use their hooks to scale the walls and open the gates of the City of Steel, then the more than one hundred thousand craftsmen in the city would be exposed to their iron hooves.
The City of Steel would suffer grievous casualties!
Clang, clang, clang. The long swords hacked at the five-clawed hooks, splitting them into two. Without these hooks, the White Braves began to drop to the ground.
But before they could reach the ground, the White Braves swung their right hands, and another set of hooks latched onto the top of the wall. These White Braves immediately charged toward the top of the wall.
"Sir Zhang!"
As the Ouzan's assault was at its most intense, Wang Chong glanced at the dense ranks of Ouzan's White Braves and suddenly turned to Zhang Shouzhi, who was being protected by several guards.
"It's about time to use the beehives."
"Mm."
Zhang Shouzhi nodded and said nothing. He quickly turned and left, walking down the city wall.
Although he was only skilled in city construction, Zhang Shouzhi had fought with Wang Chong in the war of the southwest, so he wasn't completely ignorant of military affairs. These people were powerful, and as cavalry, they had brought siege awls and hooks that were rarely seen by cavalry.
It was clear that these were no ordinary opponents.
But regardless of who they were, they had clearly underestimated Wang Chong's confidence in building a city and his preparations.
"Buzz!"
As the hundreds of Ouzan White Braves reached the bottom of the wall and were using their hooks to scale it, no one noticed that around fifteen meters from the ground, a dense network of holes had appeared on the wall.
Within the holes, there were sharp arrows shining with cold light.
Boom! Tens of thousands of arrows shot out like a torrent of locusts, engulfing all the Ouzan White Braves outside the wall. This sudden assault caught the Ouzan White Braves off guard.
Ding ding ding, countless arrows rained down on his body, but they were all blocked by his thick armor. However, there were more than tens of thousands of arrows raining down from the city walls, and there was no way to dodge at such a close distance. Pu, pu, pu, the arrows were pierced through the gaps in the dense rain of arrows, piercing through the necks and other areas.
Bang, bang, bang!
Caught off guard, thirty to forty White Braves dropped to the ground, their corpses strewn across the ground. The others also had their ropes cut and fell off the city wall. Not only that, but the rest of the Ouzan White Braves were also caught in the rain of arrows. Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! In the blink of an eye, seventy to eighty White Braves were killed.
"Damn it!"
"Be careful of the arrow rain!"
…
Howls tore through the night sky. This volley of arrows was something none of the White Braves had expected. Wang Chong's' beehive 'had been set up perfectly, and there had been no warning at all. In the blink of an eye, more than a hundred White Braves had been killed or wounded.
In a battle where tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of soldiers could be killed or wounded, this number was negligible. But to the White Braves, who numbered only five or six thousand, this was no small number.
"Shields!"
"Defense!"
The White Braves' ferocity was on full display. In the face of this volley of arrows, not a single one of them retreated. In the dim light of the flames, the White Braves suddenly stooped, their right hands reaching into the bellies of their horses. When they stood up, they were holding thick plates and shields.
One shield after another was raised into the air, and in the blink of an eye, they had formed a massive 'defense' beneath the walls of the City of Steel. All the arrows struck these shields and were blocked.
"Everyone, hurry! Open the gates! Attack the City of Steel! "
A White Braves commander shouted, and as he spoke, more claws and hooks crossed the forty-some meters to strike the walls.
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