Chapter 554: The Final Gamble!

Indeed, as Meng Yan had anticipated, the situation was harder to hold on to than imagined....

The enemy's assaults were fiercer with each attack, and the timing was extremely unpredictable—sometimes at dawn, sometimes in the afternoon, also at midnight, and in the late night. They could launch an attack at any time, without warning.

On our side, in order to be prepared for those unforeseeable attacks, the soldiers had to remain vigilant around the clock without a moment of rest.

Under such oppressive conditions, it was truly torturous to endure. He could clearly feel that the enemy was growing stronger as the battle progressed, while the morale of his own side was increasingly low. Especially today at noon, when twice as many soldiers had broken through to the city walls as usual. Had it not been for the deputy generals fighting to their deaths and throwing those dozen or so fierce warriors off the walls along with themselves, the city might have already fallen!