"Ultimately, we were just too poor and too backward..."

The wicked man glanced at his comrade lying on the ground in coarse linen clothes and felt extremely uncomfortable.

Productivity was extremely low in this era, and it was only because he was appreciated by Meng Kuo and became a squad leader that he was able to obtain a set of leather armor and a sharp Qin sword.

Other new recruits could only wear coarse linen clothes and carry rusty tetanus blades to fight the enemy to the death.

"Fire again!"

At that moment, the rebels' second wave of arrows came, and the evil man and his men rushed into the range of the arrows.

"Squad leader, watch out!" Erniu, one of his men, rushed to the evil man's side with a rattan shield, blocking the incoming rain of arrows.

"Bang bang bang..."

The arrows struck the rattan shield with a dull thud. Feeling the force transmitted through the shield, Erniu said with lingering fear, "Brother Evil Husband, thank goodness you made this rattan shield, otherwise we would have been riddled with arrows!"

The wicked man nodded in agreement, feeling very fortunate for his foresight. He had previously thought that the most lethal weapon in ancient times was the bow and arrow, so he led his young men to collect vines and weave them into vine shields.

The effect of the vine shield is obvious and very significant.

Just then, the soldiers leading the way carrying the siege ladder arrived at the foot of the Jinyang city wall and set up the ladder.

The wicked man suddenly burst into laughter and shouted, "You mustn't be reckless! Advance in an orderly fashion and don't worry about me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, his leg muscles bulged suddenly, and his body shot out like a cannonball, heading straight for the erected ladder.

He must take it down; he'll be the first to scale the walls!