Seeing that his battering ram and the soldiers nearby were all blown to pieces by the Wildfire, Koma shouted loudly at the soldiers pushing the spare battering ram at the rear of the formation.
Heave-ho, heave-ho!
Under Koma's command, groups of captive slaves pushed the spare battering rams and rushed from the rear formation.
They were seen using all their strength under the coercion of a group of Westeros soldiers, quickly pushing the battering rams towards the West City Gate of Volantis.
Hornos, standing at the top of the Black Wall of Volantis, did not care as he watched the battering ram approach again.
Although the wildfire stored in Volantis could not be used for large-scale killing of these siege soldiers, even dozens more battering rams would be useless.
As long as it was not a battering ram made purely of stone, it would be impossible to open the gate of Volantis while being subjected to Wildfire.
The key problem now was that there were too many enemies!
Looking at the dense siege ladders leaning against the top of the parapets of the Black Wall of Volantis, a hint of worry appeared on Hornos's face.
Although there were over ten thousand soldiers and slaves in Volantis, they could not all guard the West City Gate.
After all, they also had to guard against the enemy feigning an attack here while striking elsewhere, or the enemy dragon that had not yet appeared.
So at this moment, there were only nearly five thousand defending soldiers at the top of the Black Wall of Volantis, which already accounted for almost half of the total military strength.
But because the Black Wall was too majestic and vast, facing the siege soldiers who were continuously climbing up from all directions,
the defending soldiers felt somewhat overwhelmed and struggled to cope.
After only a short period of the Volantis siege battle, the defending soldiers had already killed at least nearly a thousand siege soldiers.
But for the enemy forces of at least sixty to seventy thousand, the casualty rate had only just approached one sixty-seventh or one seventieth.
Moreover, under the unequal military strength and financial incentives, the siege soldiers of the Westeros Eastern Expedition Army were maintaining high morale and bravely attacking the city.
This further increased the pressure on the defending soldiers of Volantis.
In this kind of large-scale war, too much accumulated pressure easily leads to fatal mistakes!
Ah!!!
A siege soldier wearing brand new armor cut down a defending soldier of Volantis who was throwing a rock, and then directly jumped from the siege ladder onto the Black Wall parapet.
But as soon as he let out a roar, he was hacked to death by several surrounding defending soldiers.
But this first Westeros siege soldier who jumped onto the Black Wall marked the beginning of the brutal Volantis city wall battle!
At the point where the Volantis city wall was first breached, two siege soldiers took advantage of the moment when the defending soldiers were cutting down the first siege soldier,
and jumped directly onto the city wall, back to back, and began close combat with the defending soldiers.
Once a hole was poked in the originally tight city wall defense line, there would definitely be a second and a third.
After the death of the siege soldiers of the Westeros Eastern Expedition Army, their siege ladders were continuously replenished from behind.
After the death of a Volantis defending soldier, the middle-level Commanders behind them would immediately transfer soldiers from other areas to replenish.
As time went by, the corpses on the top of the Black Wall of Volantis, which resembled a meat grinder, had piled up high, and thick layers of sticky blood covered the city wall.
Sizzle! Whoosh!
Chirp, chirp, chirp!
The sound of flamethrowers spraying Wildfire and igniting was heard again at the city gate.
And the defending soldiers running on the city wall were stepping on the muddy blood, using their lives to desperately fill the defensive gaps on the city wall.
Damn it, these Westeros soldiers are much more troublesome than expected!
No way, we must transfer some troops from other city gates!
Looking at the shaky city wall defense line, Hornos directly turned around and ordered the messenger next to him: "Tell the cavalry from the other three city gates to come and help."
"Yes, Commander!"
After receiving the order, the messenger turned and left to deliver the message.
Due to the large area of Volantis, he naturally could not waste time running from gate to gate.
Three plumes of purple smoke rose from the beacon tower at the West City Gate, clearly visible throughout Volantis.
Upon seeing these three plumes of purple smoke containing information, the Commanders of the other three city gates immediately began to transfer troops to support the West City Gate.
The battle at the top of the West City Gate wall would naturally not stop because of these three plumes of purple smoke.
As time passed, more and more Westeros soldiers stood at the top of the Black Wall, and they even initially formed military formations to resist the defending Volantis.
Their territory also gradually expanded from the initial one-person width.
One meter, two meters, three meters...
"Haha, keep it up, brothers, kill all these bastards, and tonight we'll go find their wives to discuss life!"
Somewhere on the Black Wall, a Frey Family officer responsible for commanding the Westeros forces was waving the axe in his hand and loudly encouraging the surrounding soldiers.
Rumble!
Just as he was speaking, the Frey Family officer vaguely heard a rumbling sound of horse hooves in his ears, indicating that a large number of cavalry were rapidly approaching.
Hmm? Is it the enemy's cavalry from inside the city coming to support?
Just as the Frey Family officer frowned in confusion, he found that the Volantis soldiers in front of him were retreating like a tide.
Then...
Da da da!
Two units of Volantis cavalry, each with at least a thousand men, appeared from the north and south directions of the Black Wall.
Like two torrents of steel, they rapidly approached the Westeros soldiers who were currently standing dumbfounded.
Damn it!
We actually encountered a cavalry charge on the city wall!
Facing the inescapable cavalry charge, the Frey Family officer could only passively receive the impact of the enemy cavalry with a pale face.
Bang bang bang!
Ah!
These carefully selected sturdy warhorses fiercely crashed into the crowd of Westeros soldiers at the top of the Black Wall.
Screams of agony immediately rose one after another.
These Volantis cavalry, with fierce expressions, swung the long swords in their hands, alternating left and right, harvesting the lives of these enemies.
The Westeros soldiers, who were just fierce and ferocious, shouting about finding the enemy's wives to discuss life, instantly became a group of leeks being harvested by a scythe, extremely miserable.
Performing a cavalry charge on top of the city wall, perhaps only the Black Wall of Volantis could achieve this!
"Cavalry attack, quickly form ranks to defend against the enemy."
"Are there any archers, quickly return fire, return fire!"
"Those with shields and spears, quickly come and form ranks!"
Although the Westeros soldiers fought with all their might, infantry without a spear and shield formation could never be a match for cavalry.
Most of the Westeros soldiers at the top of the Black Wall were cut down by the cavalry, while the small remaining portion were either knocked flying by warhorses or panicked and jumped off the city wall to their deaths.
Very good!
Hornos looked at the Black Wall area that his side had retaken, and nodded with satisfaction.
With the two thousand cavalry transferred from the other three city gates, he had full confidence in defending the West City Gate.
Hmm? What is that?
Just as he was feeling complacent, his eyes happened to catch a glimpse of a white figure faintly visible in the clouds above his head.
Needless to say, this white figure was naturally the dragon Arrax.
Lucerys, sitting in the dragon saddle of Arrax, put away his special telescope, and then patted his dragon's scales.
Roar~~~
A high-pitched dragon roar immediately echoed throughout the area surrounding Volantis.
Damn it! Is the enemy's dragon about to attack?
Hornos looked around at the soldiers who were panicking because of the dragon's roar, and his face immediately changed from joy to worry.
But Arrax in the sky did not mean to dive after the dragon roar, and still hovered in the air, acting as a dragon-shaped reconnaissance aircraft.
Did not launch an attack? Could it be that the dragon roar just now was some kind of signal?
Our cavalry launched an attack, and the enemy sent a signal.
Bad!
This is their trap!
The enemy is using the West City Gate as bait to attract attention, and the real target they want to surprise attack is one of the other three city gates!
After a moment of brainstorming, Hornos immediately ordered the messenger to inform the two thousand cavalry to return to the other three city gates.
But notification, organizing the formation and changing direction, plus at least twenty minutes of travel.
By the time they rushed back, they would basically only be able to clean up the battlefield.
...
Volantis is located precisely at the mouth of the Loyne River, and the large city was built around this river mouth.
The Loyne River flows into Volantis from the north city gate and flows out from the south city gate.
These two gates, one in the south and one in the north, were the most prosperous gates of Volantis in the past.
If the Westeros army wanted to launch a surprise attack, they could only do so from the south city gate, which is adjacent to the vast Summer Sea.
Splash, splash, splash!
On the Summer Sea, where the currents were balanced today, countless large, medium, and small oar warships were sailing rapidly towards Volantis from the southwest.
Needless to say, the Black Three-Headed Dragon flags hanging from this massive fleet indicated their identity.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Bang, bang, bang!
The arrows shot by the defending archers at the south city gate and the long spear bolts shot by the ballistas caused some casualties to the rapidly approaching Conqueror Fleet soldiers.
But as the distance closed, the Conqueror Fleet also began to return fire.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
When many of the Conqueror Fleet's oar warships rapidly approached the port near the south city gate,
dozens of burning pitch barrels were hurled from the large oar warships among them, smashing fiercely into the Volantis soldiers at the south city gate, who were left with only over a thousand men.
Clang! Ah!
These burning hot pitch barrels exploded fiercely at various points on the south city gate wall, and the high-temperature, viscous black-brown liquid instantly splashed onto the surrounding Volantis soldiers.
These unfortunate soldiers immediately rolled and struggled on the ground, howling like ghosts and wolves, trying to rub off the pitch, which was both irritating and corrosive.
At the same time, the burning pitch also emitted highly irritating poisonous black smoke,
causing the surrounding Volantis soldiers' eyes to turn red and start tearing uncontrollably.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
The Conqueror Fleet took advantage of the panic among the Volantis soldiers to continue their attack,
a very dense wave of arrows was shot from the oar warships, falling in a blanket fashion on the Black Wall of the south city gate, instantly causing a large number of casualties.
This unit of Volantis soldiers, whose numbers had already dropped to less than a thousand, did not know if they were stunned by this sudden attack,
facing the Conqueror Fleet rapidly approaching the port near the West City Gate, they actually dared not stick their heads out from the city wall to return fire against the Conquerors.
Perhaps in their view, the Black Wall and the south city gate were strong enough.
No matter how many enemy soldiers were in this fleet, it was impossible for them to fly directly onto the city wall via catapults!
Bang bang bang!
Charge!
Kill!
As soon as many of the Conqueror Fleet's oar warships approached the port outside the south city gate, countless gangplanks were thrown from the warships.
Subsequently, a large number of Westeros soldiers roaring and waving weapons landed successfully via the gangplanks.
And a large number of small oar warships either simply charged straight onto the land,
or the soldiers on board jumped off the ships and waded towards the shore when they approached the shallow water area of the port.
In a short while, about one-third of the Conqueror Fleet approached the port area, and approximately six to seven thousand soldiers successfully landed in the south city gate port area, preparing to begin the siege.
On the flagship of the Conqueror Fleet, Edmund, who had been granted the title of Earl by Lucerys for his merits in the Disputed Lands, glanced at the tall and sturdy south city gate of Volantis.
Then he turned his head and said respectfully to a short figure wearing a hooded robe behind him.
"Lord Leaf, please lend us your assistance!"
"Okay, don't let your people get close to the city wall for now."
The short figure pulled off his hood upon hearing this, revealing Leaf, who had shown great power during the capture of Lys.
"Yes!"
Upon hearing this, Edmund nodded in agreement and immediately issued his orders to the messenger.
The eager Westeros soldiers, who wanted to break into the city, kill, burn, loot, and plunder, heard the messenger's call and immediately moved away from the city wall of the south city gate.
At the same time, a melodious song, seemingly in an unknown language, echoed on the flagship of the Conqueror Fleet.
Subsequently, after the ground below the south city gate wall trembled slightly, a narrow crack suddenly appeared along the edge of the Volantis city wall.
Although the initial depth of this crack was only a few dozen centimeters and did not cause significant damage to the city wall.
But as the ground trembled more and more violently, that crack instantly spread across the Black Wall of the south city gate like a spider web.
If it were the east or West City Gates, due to the solid foundation, the Black Wall would still maintain its basic form even with cracks.
Plop, plop!
But below the south city gate is the Loyne River, and although there is an iron city gate that reaches the riverbed supporting it at this moment, under the effect of Leaf's 'Roar of the Earth' magic.
A large number of very small gravel began to fall into the Loyne River from the cracks.
After the small gravel, stones of varying sizes began to fall.
It was clear that the Black Wall of the south city gate had lost its stability under Leaf's magic.
And the south city gate, without the support of a solid foundation, simply could not bear the astonishing weight of this fifteen to sixteen meter thick Black Wall.
Bang bang bang!
Finally, with a huge roar, the Black Wall of the south city gate split open directly from the center, with the Loyne River as the focal point.
After the huge dust kicked up by the collapse of the city wall dissipated, at this time, the southern Black Wall of Volantis had blocked and filled up a large part of the Loyne River.
The water level of the Loyne River also rose at a visible speed, and it was believed that it would not be long before the water accumulated in this area would burst out with a roar.
But now, both the Westeros soldiers and the Volantis soldiers had no time to worry about the accumulating river water.
The Westeros soldiers, like hungry wolves, trampled on the gravel that had filled up more than half of the Loyne River, and poured into the city of Volantis.
Clang, clang, clang!
Urgent alarm bells rang throughout Volantis, and Hornos at the West City Gate could naturally hear them.
This rhythm of the bells meant only one thing, and that was that Volantis had been breached!
So fast? Oh God, what should we do!!! (End of This Chapter)