A feeling of panic quickly spread among Hulett's soldiers. What happened on the dock platform only made them suspicious and confused while they were charging, but the two explosions just now happened near them - the reason for this is that they can still feel panic, as they naturally have not experienced the power of the explosion personally.

Almost all the soldiers heard the sharp whistling sound that was coming at them rapidly. It was shrill and so fast that it was difficult to follow with eyes. Everyone only had time to see two black shadows before they had already penetrated into the densely packed group of soldiers.

Then, a roar exploded in the crowd, and faint flames and smoke suddenly scattered, and in the flames and smoke, there was a "devil who claims lives".

In an instant, two large "circles" "collapsed" in the dense charging formation, with hundreds of people lying in the circles in a mess. Those in the outer circle were better off, as they could still struggle and groan, but those in the inner circle were silent, with blood constantly flowing from their faces, necks, or waists and abdomens.

The howls and cries for help intensified the commotion among the Hulett army, but just when the soldiers began to subconsciously slow down their pace, the charge drums sounded again.

The one beating the drum was Liehuo. He was swinging the drumstick vigorously and hitting the drumhead fiercely, because he knew that only the intensive charge drum beats could rekindle the fighting spirit of the soldiers and reduce the negative impact caused by the enemy's treacherous tactics.

"Boom boom boom boom, boom boom boom boom, boom boom boom boom, boom boom boom boom..."

"Charge! Charge!" The hysterical shouts of the generals continued to ring out, and the formation that had slowed down to a near stop began to speed up...

Seeing this scene, Wu Lai raised a smile: "High Priest Shelley, you have worked hard, now please return to the tent and rest."

Shelley nodded slightly: "My general, you have to be careful."

"I will." Wu Lai nodded seriously, and suddenly winked at Shelley mischievously, "Don't forget the emergency plan."

"I haven't forgotten it, but I hope I don't have to use it." Shelley said. The emergency plan that Wu Lai mentioned refers to her retreat arrangement - when the defense zone is about to be lost, Caesar and twenty special forces boys will cover her leaving the war zone and escort her back to Assyria. Because once the gap defense zone is lost, Kayikede City may not be able to hold on for long. In addition, the Kayikede City area will also be in chaos. In comparison, it is naturally most appropriate to return to Assyria.

"I hope so too." Wu Lai said with a smile, and waved his hand to the group leaders, "Go back to your command positions and prepare for battle!"

"yes!"

"I'll wait for you." Shelley said softly as he passed by Wu Lai.

Wu Lai responded, turned around and waved to the Special Forces Company 2 who were waiting in line, "Company 1, 2nd Platoon, 3rd Platoon, get ready, Company 2, everyone, get on the wall!"

When Red heard Wu Lai's order, he looked back and saw that Shelley had already walked down the steps and was about to leave, but Wu Lai was still standing on the parapet. He was surprised and couldn't help asking Odo, who was also walking quickly beside him, "Captain Odo, what's the general doing?"

"They should be leading the special forces company to stop the enemy." Odo naturally saw the agile posture of the second special forces company jumping on the protective wall. Ever since he saw the training of Wu Lai's two special forces companies at West Point Military Academy, he has been envious of them. If he didn't know that these two powerful special forces companies were Wu Lai's private armies, he would never mind asking Wu Lai for them.

One hundred young men from the Second Company's special forces lined up on the parapet, wearing leather armor, kneeling, holding individual crossbows and half-thick wooden shields. At the left foot of each man was a crossbow box containing one hundred and fifty standard crossbow arrows. The more than fifteen thousand crossbow arrows on the parapet were sixty percent of Wu Lai's current stock. He believed that these were enough to give the enemy a hard time.

The first platoon of the first company went downstream this morning to prepare to meet Pu Ya and others. Because of this, the first company did not serve as the main force of the blocking. However, the second and third platoons were now at the protective wall behind Wu Lai. The sixty-two young men were also fully armed, but what they held in their hands were not crossbows, but pottery jars filled with oil.

Each person held one in his hand and had two at his feet.

Fire is a good defense, so there's no reason for Woolley not to use it.

Soon, the Hulett ladder soldiers connected twenty-two wooden ladders to the earthen platform. After nailing the last fixing wedge, the ladder soldiers quickly retreated to the bottom of the platform. At the same time, two thousand shield soldiers began to climb the last row of stairs with large shields. Under the large shields were one thousand Kimoan archers with their arrows drawn. Behind them were another two thousand Kimoan archers and Hugo Simon's right army.

On the parapet, half-thick wooden shields had already covered the figures of the hundred young men of the Second Company. There was a small torch next to the wooden shields. They were quietly waiting for Wu Lai's orders. Although the enemy was right below them, the distance was close enough for them to see the enemy's facial features clearly.

"Be prepared!" Wu Lai narrowed his eyes.

"The first company is ready!" The young men from the second and third rows of the first company responded loudly.

Wu Lai raised his right arm. Below, more than a thousand shield soldiers were protecting hundreds of Kimo archers as they rushed onto the platform. They then quickly dispersed. However, screams began to sound one after another.

The Kimo archers who were in a ready posture below the platform began to shoot upwards to cover after hearing the screams. They subconsciously thought that the screams were caused by the attack of the defenders above the parapet. In fact, this was not the case - the nail boards laid in advance by Wu Lai who was carrying out the attack were covered with sharp barbs and hidden under the dead grass and thin bark. Once stepped on, they were enough to make several large bloody holes in the soles of the unlucky guys' feet.

"It's a nail board!" someone began to remind loudly.

"Flip it over!" The order was given by the general who first stepped onto the platform.

Then, more than a thousand shield soldiers and hundreds of archers received the order, crouched down, and began to destroy the nail boards. On the stairs, more shield soldiers and archers began to enter the platform.

"This is called taking care of the feet and not the head." Wu Lai smiled slightly and swung his right arm down fiercely.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh..." Dozens of oil tanks flew over the protective wall and smashed down fiercely...

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh…” Dozens more oil tanks flew high into the air and landed on the platform…

After these pottery jars fell straight down, some hit the rocks, some fell on the nail boards, but more of them directly hit the shield soldiers and archers who were leaning over to deal with the nail boards. The less unlucky ones even had their heads smashed open. You have to know that each pottery jar is not light.

Whether they hit nail boards, rocks, shields or someone's head, these thin-walled oil tanks were shattered in an instant, and the dark oil splashed everywhere, staining shields, armor, and seeping into nail boards and grass.

The general who first stepped onto the platform had one of the broken pieces at his feet. Luckily, he was not chopped open when he leaned over to touch it. He was immediately horrified: "It's oil! Retreat! The enemy is preparing to use fire!"

But it was obviously too late. The moment the second wave of oil tanks landed, the second company's one hundred small torches were also thrown down.

The flames rose up instantly, and soon the fire swept over most of the platform. In addition to the hay and nail boards, the shields, clothes, quivers, and longbows of the Hulett soldiers were also ignited...

The flames kept licking, and another wave of miserable cries reached everyone's eardrums. The soldiers below the platform began to retreat, because soldiers on the platform kept jumping or falling down, and some were even covered in flames...

As the smell of burning became more and more intense along with the thick smoke, Nero at the bottom of the slope punched the wooden pillar of the catapult next to him.

"It's nothing, I should have expected it." Hugo Saimeng frowned.

"Hmph, it won't burn for long." Liehuo narrowed his eyes and said.

Liehuo guessed correctly, the fire on the platform did not burn for long, because the oil Wu Lai had was very scarce - this was the kind that had just been dropped. There were still a lot of other types of oil in the camp, but those oils could not compare with this special oil.

Wu Lai felt it was worth it to use more than a hundred cans of oil to destroy more than a thousand enemy shield soldiers in one fell swoop, and also dealt a heavy blow to the enemy's morale once again.

After a while, when everything that could be burned had been "licked" clean, the fire gradually died out...

"First Company, prepare for defense!" Wu Lai waved his hand, "Second Company, get ready!"

"Second Company is ready!"

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"Aim at the enemy archers! Shoot!" Wu Lai shouted loudly.

"Swish, swish, swish, swish, swish" hundreds of crossbow arrows whizzed towards the bottom of the protective wall, and a large number of Kimo archers closest to the platform fell down immediately.

"Fight back!" The deputy general of the Kimo archers drew his sword and shouted angrily.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh" Nearly a thousand feather arrows scattered towards the protective wall like water...

"Swish, swish, swish, swish, swish" More crossbow arrows flew through the enemy's rain of arrows and headed towards the bottom of the platform...

"Direct shot?! How come the range of their crossbows is so long?!" Lieutenant General Kimo dodged and hid behind a shield, feeling horrified.

"Shield soldiers, go!" A deputy general of the right army rushed to the front of the platform, raised his shield to block and shouted loudly.

"Go! Charge!" With roaring shouts, more than a thousand shield soldiers, with huge shields on their heads, rushed onto the platform regardless of anything.

"Keep shooting, don't stop!" the Kimo Archer Lieutenant kept urging.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh"—more feather arrows flew high and hit the protective wall.

"Number six lures the enemy!" Wu Lai shouted as he tilted his shield to cover himself.

"Number six! Number six!" After the boys in the second company shouted in a relay, the whole company suddenly burst into a loud scream...

The two armies were very close to each other, so the screams were naturally heard by the shield soldiers on the platform below. In doubt, they all peeked out from behind their shields to glance at the parapet. Soon, someone started shouting excitedly: "Climb the ladder! They've been suppressed! Climb the ladder! They've been suppressed!"

The deputy general of Kimo's archers was excited when he heard the voice. He immediately stood up and swung his sword: "Archers, keep shooting and covering! Don't stop, keep shooting!"

"Ladders to the platform! Set up the ladders!" A deputy general of Hulett shouted loudly, and more than twenty huge long ladders quickly passed through the crowd from the middle of the slope and stretched towards the platform.

On the parapet, Wu Lai squatted behind a half-body thick wooden shield, the side of the shield facing the enemy was already full of arrows.

"These little bastards, their acting is so exaggerated, the screams should be one after another, how can they scream in unison?" Wu Lai frowned and thought.

The ladders soon reached the platform. Each ladder was taken by dozens of enemy soldiers, who then lifted them high and stretched them towards the guardrail. After the two huge claws at the front of the ladder hooked the guardrail, the dozens of enemy soldiers quickly turned to the angle formed by the ladder, the cliff and the guardrail, and pulled hard on the several large ropes hanging from the ladder. In this way, the ladder was firmly "nailed" there, and it was almost impossible for the people on the guardrail to push it open.

Almost in a flash, more than twenty huge ladders were set up.

"Go!" A Hulett lieutenant shouted, waving his sword. Hundreds of shield soldiers responded in unison, moved at the same time, and began to climb.

Wu Lai sneered. The enemy's scattered shooting seemed to suppress them, but in fact it was difficult to hurt the special forces company at all. On the contrary, the semicircular structure of the gap in the protective wall exposed the enemy's climbing wooden ladders to the special forces company's field of vision.

The only thing that Wu Lai was worried about now was that dozens of huge wooden ladders were being quickly transferred to the platform below. If there were only more than twenty ladders, with the sufficient crossbows of the special company and the accuracy of the young men, it would be enough to make them knock down one by one. But if nearly a hundred long ladders were climbed together, there would inevitably be omissions. Once the enemy rushed up the protective wall, they would have no choice but to retreat.

However, the protective wall was not the decisive battle area defined by Wu Lai. At best, it was just a blocking position.

"Second Company, get ready!" Wu Lai shouted, and grabbed the crossbow at his feet. With a swing of his hand, the crossbow's trigger caught an enemy shield soldier who was climbing up.

"The second company is ready!" Hundreds of young men from the special forces company responded in unison.

"Shoot the leg!" Wu Lai said with a cold smile.

The shield soldiers of the Hulit Army either charge in front or defend in the rear, and protective gear is always the best, because only in this way can they guarantee survival to the greatest extent. If the protection is not enough, how can they take on these two most challenging tasks?

However, their legs and hips are not protected...