Chapter XIII The Siege

I finally had set my sight on the city, surrounded by a thick 10 meter high wall, armed with soldiers about 1st and 2nd Stage,

Why there were so many of them suddenly? Of course because the fight had alarmed the guards and they had called for reinforcements.

There were about a thousand that meant they had pulled out all of their forces.

"Zhang Yu! Ready the ballista, and shoot on my command."

"Yes your majesty!"

"Zhang Yi! Ready the first and second battalion and prepare the battering jam."

"Yes, your majesty!"

Now. It was finally time for my second city.

"Shoot!"

Two huge arrows about 2m x 1m were shot at the same time. Their target? The defense towers on the city wall.

A moment later, a crumbling sound could be heard. When one looked over, one saw the fallen stone towers, destroyed.

„Another time!"

And the arrows flew again and again, the guards couldn't do much against it, because the ballistas were placed right out the range of their arrows. Now they could only watch as one after another, their towers were destroyed.

„Zhang Yi!" I shouted again,

"Use the battering jam!"

"Yes! Your Majesty!" Zhang Yi cried out only that a second after, a deafening sound resounded. The jam had hit the huge wide door in the entrance, and small cracks appeared in the middle where the jam had hit.

On the other side of the wall, many rustling noises were heard. The soldiers ran from one point to another, to support the injured. Other soldiers had already prepared their stand in front of the door. Prepared to die, not wanting anyone to get through.

Chhzz Chrr

Crack after crack appeared on the huge wooden door.

The city guards were sweating and peeing their pants.

Crch Chzz

It was getting louder and louder. The door was getting weaker and weaker, Zhang Yi had already ordered the one hundred soldiers to be ready any moment.

A hundred swords were drawn out at the same time and the other thousands of men had done the same. Every two to three minutes the huge ballistas could be heard releasing the arrows and destroying the important defensive points in the city.

Czzz Chhrach

The wide Door broke open and the two armies stood infront of each other. The soldiers looking into the faces of their enemies, wishing them death.

But no one dared to move until the order was sent out.

"Attack!" The Lord and I shouted at almost the same time. The soldiers searched for their target, and started slashing to one another, sometimes carving huge scars or being blocked by the sword of the enemy.

As the battle continued, men after men died on both sides, covering the street with corpses and blood. Many of the city guards were injured and had retreated. My soldiers fought bravely with each other and the losses were still imaginable. There were still about 90% of my men left, and on the other side were only about 300 or 400 soldiers left, that meant this fight was almost won.

Blood spilled everywhere, on the houses, the streets, the ground. Some of the guards even tried to beg for forgiveness, but as I had already told my soldiers.

There would be no hostages after the battle.

As the battle continued, the guards of the city were pushed back continuously, and a large margin of them had already died.

Zhang Yi was quickly and intelligent in rearranging the battle formation, and so casualties were reduced.

Zhang Yu had already returned to me, from commanding the ballistas, as they no longer had any effect on the battle.

„Your Majesty! We have already killed two of the leading commanders of the army.

As for now, only a fourth stage cultivator remains, he has escaped towards the forest near the city. About two hundred soldiers have followed him."

„Then why don't you just follow them?"

„I'm sorry your majesty! But if we follow them, we won't be able to clean out the resistance inside the city. And so lose our sole purpose!"

„Ah right, well send more troops to the west side where the slums are, I will go to the lords mansion while your doing that."

„Yes your majesty!"

As Zhang Yu left, I had already set my sight on the mansion. It wasn't as luxurious as the one from the other city, but still had cost a huge sum of wealth to build this.

The Lord was a typical noble who abused his power to make himself richer, and didn't think about his folk. When I was here secretly, I had heard about how the normal civilians hated him to their bones. If I wanted to build this city better, and call it my own, I could use this fact and make the folk worship me. With the right mindset nothing was impossible.

As I set foot into the entrance hall, what surprised me, that many of the servants were still here, kneeling on the ground as they saw me, begging for forgiveness.

Well I didn't care about this people, as they had done nothing against me. And then there was this, something wich I had seen in movies and series, but here in reality, I was surprised. This was the first time I was so overwhelmed since I arrived here.

Because infront of me…

[ Hey Guys, I will be taking some time for new chapters, because I have to think a lot about how I want the story to continue ]

[ The new cover of my book was designed by myself. ]