NOVEL WEB Chapter 498, Temple Knight_1
Hearing the words of the soldier, the colour drained from Hester's face.
The complexion of the other dwarves in the hall also turned ash-colored.
The panic had faded to become a numb stillness.
They now understood that the rhythmic trembling beneath their feet spelled.
The Undead, the Undead had begun the siege.
Boom, boom, boom!
The regular tremors became more distinct, vying with the increasingly frantic toll of the outer bell.
Hester could pay no more attention to other matters.
He quickly grabbed a battle-axe from nearby and strode out.
He walked the whole length to the city wall.
When he climbed up to the city wall, he could feel the entire wall gently shaking.
He stood there, gazing down from the city wall.
The assaulting Undead had no torches. Under the thick night, he could vaguely see moving silhouettes.
Hester took a hard swallow.
He looked at the communication shell once again, but there was no movement.
What was Gray Iron City doing, they hadn't even come up with a solution yet.
Was sending reinforcements so difficult?
But, at this time, he could only suppress these thoughts.
Looking around at the soldiers on the city wall, filled with fear and unease.
Hester knew that in their current state, it would be challenging to hold the city.
Once the fight began, deserters might appear.
He swept his gaze over the crowd, and then shouted, "Reinforcements from Lord Rune are already on their way, all we need to do is hold out for two days, just two days, then the time for us to counterattack will comes. Long live Lord Rune."
Reinforcements?
All of the warriors looked cheered.
Two days was not long, they would be safe soon.
Their morale surged.
All the warriors raised their arms and shouted, "Long live Lord Rune."
Boom, boom, boom!
Just as the dwarves' spirits rose, diluting their fear of the Undead,
Somewhere below, the low beatings of war drums suddenly sounded.
At first, the drumbeat was not quite in rhythm, but gradually, it became more consistent
With the steady beat of the drums.
A gray pulse of light expanded rapidly.
It transformed into small rings of light appearing under the feet of the Undead warriors.
Straight after, the dwarfs saw rings of light appearing under the Undead's feet.
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The night was still dark.
But the gray light rings were unusually conspicuous.
In the dwarves' vision, it was endless and dense, light rings reaching as far as the eye could see.
Hester was stunned.
All the dwarven warriors turned dumbfounded.
That... What were these numbers representing?
Even if the dead from the past decade of Eight Peaks Mountain were dug up, they wouldn't amount to as many Undead as there were outside.
How are they supposed to fight this?
"Commander, commander, they've started charging!" a dwarf shouted loudly.
Hester snapped awake, looking at the front.
The Undead were already holding their weapons, beginning their charge.
This charge showed no regard for strategy or coordinated tactics. They were just rushing headlong toward the city.
They even didn't have siege ladders or battering rams.
"Fire! Musketeers, ready!" Hester gave the order loudly.
Boom, boom, boom!
The sound of dense cannon fire erupted, with cannonballs being dropped into the Undead army.
As the cannonballs fell, a swath of Undead was flung up into the air.
Gunsmoke filled the whole area, with the cannon fire lighting up the sky.
After a few more rounds, deep pits appeared on the ground.
At the same time, Hester noticed something else.
Off in the distance, carts covered with oily skins, pulled by skeletal cows, entered the battlefield.
The cart's cargo was unloaded, the oily skins were pulled away, revealing large cannon barrels.
Hester's heart skipped a beat.
The Undead also had cannons.
How could they possibly have cannons?
Meanwhile, he saw a group of humans running out from the back of the team.
They began filling the cannons with ammunition.
Then, using a torch, they lit the fuse.
They moved with practiced ease.
"Damn it, take cover!" Hester shouted
Boom, boom, boom!!!
The Undead's cannons unleashed torrents of flaming debris.
Heavy cannonballs struck the city wall, exploding the stones and soil. Dwarves were thrown into the air, the city wall under the cannon's bombardment, left with several cracks that resembled spiderwebs.
Hester straightened up, they weren't Undead.
They had no fear of facing cannon fire.
Shaking his head to clear the dizziness, he issued an order, "Destroy their cannons."
The cannons turned, aiming towards the enemy's position.
Boom Boom.
The cannons of both sides greeted each other, exploding within their respective camps.
The whole earth continued to shake, and the air filled with the scent of gunpowder smoke and charred earth.
By this time, the Undead had reached the foot of the city wall.
The dwarven musketmen opened fire.
They didn't even have to aim, just pull the trigger and any random shot struck a skeleton.
However, the bullets did minimal damage to the skeletons.
Unless it hit the skull, hitting the body did not do much real harm.
Bang, bang, bang!!
Bullets accompanied by spurts of flames rained down.
At the same time, the skeleton shooters on the Undead side also reached their firing position.
Following orders, they began firing at the dwarf shooters on top of the wall to suppress them.
Bullets whizzed by each other incessantly.
The night was lit up. The cannon fires and the bullets turned the battlefield eerily bright.
The skeleton warriors began to swarm at the foot of the city wall, stepping on each other, quickly spreading up the city wall.
...
In the Undead region.
Dong Jiayue was sitting in the center of the army, holding the Book of Lords, reading the messages from the others.
As expected.
The four nearest dwarven fortresses had sent reinforcements.
On their way, they were killed by the ambushes that he had previously set up.
Four armies had also reached the foot of their target fortresses and were making preparations for the siege.