Dusk fell and twilight gathered, with only a ray of setting sun remaining, casting a blood-red afterglow on the city wall.
“Kill!”
A sudden but expected cry of killing rang out, and the Japanese pirates swarmed towards the city wall.
"The Japanese pirates are attacking the city!"
The young and strong civilians on duty on the city wall shouted, awakened the young and strong people who were on break, picked up their weapons, and took up defensive positions.
The Japanese pirates' arrows were almost completely used up in the previous continuous harassment. They only shot wildly for a while at the beginning of the siege to cover the Japanese pirates' siege, but they stopped firing in less than ten minutes because they had no more arrows to shoot.
On the contrary, because of the straw men borrowing arrows, there were a lot of feather arrows accumulated on the city wall, and more than a hundred bows were fully fired. After a day of continuous archery, there were enough feather arrows, and the young and strong archers on the city wall shot freely, and the accuracy of their arrows also increased greatly.
"Hahaha... Don't worry, brothers. The Japanese pirates have no more arrows!"
Seeing that the Japanese pirates had no arrows, the young and strong people on the city wall felt less pressure. They boldly leaned out and aimed at the climbing Japanese pirates from above, throwing stones, pouring gold juice and throwing wood on their heads, and their accuracy improved greatly.
The Jingnan city wall, backed by tens of thousands of people, is now filled with defensive tools. Stones, millstones and other heavy objects are piled up like mountains, especially the gold juice, which is piled up in pots one after another. If it is not poured down, the city wall will become a sea of feces.
The Japanese pirates who were climbing the siege ladders were smashed and splashed and fell down below the city. A large number of Japanese pirates were knocked down, and the ground was already covered with blood.
"Fuck! Liar! Didn't they say that the people in the city were exhausted? How come they are more energetic than me?"
When a climbing Japanese pirate was smashed down from the city wall, his mind was filled with resentment towards his leader Heihachiro.
“Ah?! No!!”
"Stupid Heihachiro, you lied to me!"
"It hurts so much!"
One by one, the Japanese pirates were knocked down or thrown off the siege ladders with screams, ending their dirty and sinful lives.
The Japanese pirates paid a greater price in this siege than in the previous ones. Before they even reached the top of the city wall, hundreds of them had been killed by feather arrows, falling rocks, millstones, and gold juice from the city walls.
"Charge forward, don't stop! As long as you keep charging upward, Jingnan will be captured!"
The Japanese pirate leader Heihachiro brandished a Japanese sword, shouted ferociously, and led the supervision team to drive the Japanese pirates away from attacking the city.
Although our side suffered heavy casualties, and although the strategy of exhausting the enemy seemed to have no effect, it didn't matter... By now, Aso should have led 300 elite soldiers out of the woods to the north gate and launched a surprise attack.
Humph, the defense of the North Gate is empty, and our 300 elite soldiers attacked unexpectedly, and they can succeed in one strike! By the time the other gates heard the noise, it was too late. Before their rescue arrived, the city gate had already been taken.
By then, no one in Jingnan will be left alive, all dead!
The Japanese pirate leader Heihachiro looked towards the Jingnan city wall with a ferocious expression and vowed to massacre the city and wash away the shame of his repeated failures with the blood of the city!
Things were now going just as Heihachiro had imagined.
When the Japanese pirates launched a massive attack on the west gate, Aso Yuji heard shouts and screams in the woods outside the city. Following the orders of their leader Heihachiro, he quietly led 300 elite Japanese pirates, carried five hastily made siege ladders, crouched down and passed through the woods, made a big circle, crawled across a ditch, and went around to the north gate.
“Kill!”
When they reached the north gate, Aso Yuji kept Heihachiro's orders in mind, drew his Japanese sword without stopping and led the team to attack the city.
Siege ladders were quickly placed on the city walls, and the Japanese pirates, with ferocious faces, shouted and swarmed up to climb up.
"The Japanese pirates are attacking the city?!"
Since the siege began, the North Gate had never been attacked by the pirates. When the city was attacked, there was a panic on the city wall. Fortunately, Zhu Ping'an sent a hundred young and strong civilians in advance to be on the safe side. They had experienced several sieges by the pirates. Facing the siege, they did not panic and quickly stabilized the situation.
"What are you afraid of? There are only a few pirates here. There are only five siege ladders and a few flying claws. When we fought the pirates at the west gate before, there were more than ten times more pirates attacking the city! The siege ladders have filled up one wall, and the pirates' flying claws are densely packed! The short pirates are climbing up like ants!"
"What are you all doing standing there? Move stones and splash gold juice. The Japanese pirates are made of flesh and blood. One smash will kill one, and one splash will kill a bunch..."
"Haha, these bastards don't have bows and arrows, don't be shy, brothers, just shoot them down with open arms!"
One hundred young and strong civilians who had experienced fighting took the lead in stabilizing the situation, and aimed stones, gold juice, and wooden sticks at the Japanese pirates and smashed them down.
Oh shit!
Why are there so many people at the city gate? There must be more than a hundred of them. Where is the defense gap? !
The Japanese pirates who were climbing the siege ladders with fierce shouts and killings looked up and saw more than a hundred heads of defenders on the wall. Each of them was holding stones and ladle of golden juice, smashing and pouring them down. The Japanese pirates were stunned and stupefied on the spot. This was different from what they had agreed. Didn't they say that the defense of the north gate was empty? ! How could this be empty defense? This was strictly guarded!
Aso Yuji was also confused. He was the first one to climb up. It was going smoothly at the beginning. He had climbed one-third of the way up, but there was no reaction from the city. He was secretly delighted and thought that the defense of the north gate was weak as the leader said. But before he could smile, more than a hundred heads popped up from the city!
Then, a blanket of rocks and a torrent of boiling gold liquid fell on him. Even though he had a foundation in martial arts, he was terrified when he saw this scene. In an emergency, he turned around and moved behind the siege ladder to avoid the fatal millstone. Then, he jumped down from the siege ladder without stopping for a moment, rolled on the ground, and finally managed to save his life in a miserable state.
However, even though Aso Yuji had a good foundation in martial arts, was agile and had quick reactions, he was still burned on his back by the boiling gold juice, leaving his skin and flesh torn, and his legs were limping from jumping from mid-air.
The other Japanese pirates did not have his strength and luck, and dozens of them were killed or injured on the spot.
"Baga! We are the elite! How can we be afraid of these two-legged sheep! Charge forward, we have more people than them!"
Aso Yuji reached out and touched his burned back, and he was furious. When he saw some Japanese pirates retreating, he was even more furious. He drew his sword and killed a Japanese pirate who was not retreating, and forced the other pirates to attack the city. Aso Yuji held the Japanese sword in his mouth, used his hands and feet, followed the Japanese pirates to attack the city, and in critical moments, he used the Japanese pirates in front of him as a shield, holding the Japanese pirates in front of him on his head, and rushed up quickly.
Led by Aso Yuji, the Japanese pirates climbed up fiercely, shouting and killing...
The battle at the north gate instantly became intense.
The sound of fighting at the North Gate was heard from the West Gate wall. Zhu Ping'an's face changed. He didn't expect the Japanese pirates to split up their forces. Fortunately, he had sent 100 more soldiers to each of the other gates in advance, otherwise the Japanese pirates would have succeeded. In an emergency, Zhu Ping'an drew another 100 soldiers from the wall and ordered Liu Daqiang to lead the reinforcement of the North Gate. At the same time, he ordered the other two gates to send 30 soldiers each to reinforce the North Gate.
When Liu Daqiang led the reinforcements to the north gate, the Japanese pirates had already rushed to the north gate and were fighting fiercely with the young and strong men defending the city.
With the addition of more than a hundred new soldiers led by Liu Daqiang, the morale of the young and strong defenders of the city was greatly boosted, and they gained the upper hand in the situation.
As reinforcements arrived from the other two city gates, the Japanese pirates who had climbed onto the city wall were forced to fight a desperate battle. After a few fierce struggles, they were completely defeated. There was no longer a single Japanese pirate standing on the city wall.
Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Aso Yuji followed a hook, climbed down the city wall, and led the remaining Japanese pirates to flee to the west gate.