A slaughter at the gates

***

Your speech has lifted the morale of the soldiers.

Chances of desertion severely dropped.

As a king, by joining the battle you have massively increased the morale of your soldiers. They will not falter or fear as long as you fight alongside them.

Soldiers will fight to their last breath.

All soldiers have been invigorated. They will not lose stamina or tier as easily as before.

***

The enemy forces stood across from the city. They made sure to be away from the catapult range this time.

Dave looked up and nodded toward Dementi.

"Release the trebuchets!" Dementi shouted.

Instead of rocks, the trebuchets threw dozens of soldier heads roped together that fell a few feet away from the enemy soldiers.

Fear and panic-stricken, some of the enemy soldiers took a few steps away from the maggot-infested heads of their brothers that died yesterday.

Dementi kept shooting the decapitated heads of the soldiers.