After altering the situation, Su Rong bent down to pick up an arrow feather. She compared it with the arrow feathers held by the Nanchu soldiers and the ones brought from Daliang by his own soldiers. This comparison showed that Dawei’s arrow feathers were slightly lighter, more pointed and thin, but extremely resilient, hence ensuring a greater range.
She thought to herself, the bows and crossbows in the hands of Dawei’s soldiers must also be extremely light and skillful and more advanced than those of Daliang and Nanchu.
It seemed that Dawei had indeed been doing something over these years, constantly improving their military weapons to strengthen their army.
Ye Guixue arrived on the city wall just a step slower than Su Rong. When he arrived, Su Rong had already changed the situation. He saw Su Rong studying an arrow feather and immediately walked up to her, "Princess, it’s dangerous here. You should retreat and command from the rear. I’ll take care of things here. "
Su Rong looked up at Ye Guixue, "What are you talking about? I’m not afraid of danger. Although Dawei’s siege is intense, Yuan Zhao has 800,000 troops and I have 500,000. If this is the only way he’s going to attack, he won’t be able to take Heiya Pass even in half a month, so, I’m thinking, Yuan Zhao is not going to adopt a brute force approach."
She passed Dawei’s arrow feathers to Ye Guixue, "Look at this. Since Dawei has made improvements to the bows and arrows, what about the other weapons? I wonder if they have also been improved".
Ye Guixue took the feather and his facial expression instantly became serious, "Hard to say".
"It has been sixteen or seventeen years since Dawei and Daliang signed the contract. If Dawei has been improving its weapons for so many years and has kept it very well hidden, then, they must have targeted more than just bows and crossbows. They must have developed other powerful items," Su Rong said.
Ye Guixue nodded, "The Ye Xiang Residence does have secret agents in Dawei because of the collusion between the Nangong Family and Dawei. However, we can’t infiltrate Dawei’s armory, so we haven’t received any reports about their weapon improvements".
"That’s normal. If Dawei could be easily infiltrated, it wouldn’t be so powerful," Su Rong felt that she has been underestimating Dawei despite her caution.
Sure enough, as soon as her words stopped, Dawei changed their method of attack when they saw the situation was unfavorable. They started bombarding the city with 6 siege cannons. The rumble made the ground seemed to shake on Heiya Pass city wall.
Su Rong’s countenance changed instantly.
Ye Guixue’s face also changed greatly.
The two of them exchanged a glance and stepped forward. They saw a similar siege vehicle with a cannon on it which was pushed by more than a dozen Dawei soldiers. When two of them on the left and right shook the iron chain, a flame burst out from inside and then the city gate was blasted with loud noise and trembling.
"We must destroy this thing immediately," said Ye Guixue.
Su Rong nodded, "Yes, it must be destroyed. Otherwise, even the sturdy black iron city gate and the stone city wall cannot withstand such attacks."
This cannon needs to pause for a good while after firing, before it can fire the second shot. The siege vehicle is clumsy and the siege cannon on the vehicle is not agile either, but this fresh military weapon is enough to cause horror and panic, even if it appears clumsy and inconvenient.
Except for Dawei, neither Nanchu nor Daliang had such a thing.
And before that, neither Daliang nor Nanchu had heard a wind of it.
Su Rong thought that earlier at the border between Daliang and Dawei, Yuan Zhao actually withdrew his troops. Did he think that it was not the right time to bring out this thing? Now it has been used against her in Nanchu.
With gritted teeth, Su Rong said to Ye Guixue, "You command the troops on the city wall, I’ll take some men and open the city gate and break out."
"Absolutely not!" Ye Guixue was alarmed, "Not to mention the disparity in our forces, this siege cannon itself is too dangerous. Once hit by it, as you have seen, there would be nothing but splattering flesh and blood. If anyone should go, it should be me."
Su Rong raised her hand to stop him. "If the soldiers can’t hold on, first you lead them to hold on for a while. After I go down, I won’t rush out immediately. I will make some preparations, then take the secret guards out. We must destroy these siege cannons, otherwise, we won’t be able to hold on for half a month, or even three days."
"Princess!" Ye Guixue’s face tightened, he shook his head firmly. "If anyone should go, it should be me."
Su Rong also tightened her face, "Lord Ye, this is an order."
Ye Guixue was silent for a moment, but still looked at Su Rong with a determined look, "I beg to disobey the orders".
Su Rong chuckled in disbelief, "Alright, Ye Guixue. Do you really treat me as a princess? You sound nice to my face, but deep inside, you really don’t think I can order you around, do you?"
Ye Guixue shaking his head, "No, princess, you should understand, no way could I let you venture alone."
"Who said anything about going alone?" Su Rong said, "I will take the secret guards with me."
"There is no need for me to personally defend the city here. Brother Ning Ze, Brother Zhang Mao, Brother Jiang Zhu, all can defend the city. I will go with the princess to destroy these siege cannons." 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂
Su Rong looked back at Ning Ze.
Ning Ze immediately said loudly, "Princess, rest assured, the three of us can defend the city wall."
Su Rong looked at him and chuckled. "What can you do? How many people can you kill on this city wall? Go to the rear and prepare some rolling stones and other such things, the more the merrier."
Ning Ze was taken aback. He muttered in a small voice, "I’m not that useless, I’ve already killed... three soldiers of Dawei."
"You killed three soldiers, but during that time Jiang Zhu and Zhang Mao saved you twice," Su Rong pointed out.
Ning Ze immediately became silent, he quickly tossed his sword aside, climbed down the city wall and ran to his post.
Zhang Mao and Jiang Zhu looked at each other and shouted in unison, "Princess, rest assured, we will defend the city wall."
Su Rong nodded and stopped arguing with Ye Guixue. She said to the two of them, "Alright, I’ll leave this place to you."
With that, she turned around and descended the city wall.
Ye Guixue gave Zhang Mao and Jiang Zhu some instructions regarding Dawei’s siege strategies and reformulated the defense strategy accordingly. Then, he followed Su Rong off the city wall.
The moment the two of them left, the tension on the city wall eased for a moment. Jiang Zhu shouted sternly, "Hold the city wall, no slackening."
He slashed a Dawei soldier who had managed to climb the city wall, and Zhang Mao also shouted. Together, they blocked the gap that the Dawei soldiers momentarily opened.
Both Jiang Zhu and Zhang Mao were initially stunned by Dawei’s ferocious siege. The soldiers of Nanchu felt the same way. But now, Su Rong alone reversed the situation on the city tower in a short time. Ye Guixue devised a new defense strategy according to Dawei’s siege strategy, giving them a sense of security. Although the deafening firings and lights from six siege cannons beneath the city made them dizzy, they were no longer panicked. They calmly guided the soldiers to resist Dawei’s soldiers and defended the city wall.
The soldiers woke up to the situation and did not dare to be slack anymore. They quickly closed the gap and sealed the whole city wall tight, preventing the Dawei soldiers who had climbed the wall using human ladders from succeeding.
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