The enemy troops outside the city were finally ready, and the siege ladder advanced slowly. Ronan and the others were hit by countless arrows and stones shot by trebuchets, unable to raise their heads at all. They could only huddle at the base of the battlements, unable to fight back.
The ladder was put up on the city wall. In order to prevent the friendly troops from being hurt, the arrow rain finally stopped. Ronan and the other defenders finally got a moment of respite, but they immediately had to fight with the enemy troops who climbed up the ladder.
Ronan and others had no means to counter the enemy's ladders and siege ladders, so they could only defend passively. It would only be a matter of time before the city wall was captured. Ronan only hoped that Terra's reinforcements would arrive before they were finished.
Ronan stood at the entrance of the battlement and repeatedly used the spear in his hand to avoid shields and stab the enemy's arms or shoulders accurately, shooting down the enemy soldiers one by one. The enemy soldiers were unable to climb the city wall through the ladder for a while.
But as the siege ladder was put up on the city wall, the situation immediately changed. A large number of enemy troops climbed up the city wall through the siege ladder. The pressure on Ronan and other defenders immediately doubled, and they never experienced the experience of defending the enemies on the ladder.
Ronan also had to use his spear as a javelin and threw it through the chest of an enemy soldier. Then he drew his two-handed sword and started fighting with the enemy.
Ronan held the enemy's long sword, then used his hand to hold the tip of the sword and pressed forward, and rushed forward with all his strength. Under Ronan's huge force, the enemy was pushed back step by step.
Even together, Ronan couldn't stop Ronan's momentum, and he was finally pushed off the city wall and fell to the ground.
There were more and more enemies on the city wall. Ronan rushed back and forth but could not kill them all. The number of enemies killed by the defenders was far less than the number of enemies who climbed up the city wall.
Finally, the defense line on the right side of the watchtower was broken through, and several enemy soldiers rushed into the watchtower. When Ronan heard the shouts, he immediately turned around and rushed towards the watchtower. An enemy soldier behind him who wanted to attack him was stopped by the Templars.
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In the watchtower, several enemy soldiers were struggling to turn the mechanism. As the mechanism turned, the heavy gate slowly lifted off the ground. Seeing Ronan coming in, two of the soldiers immediately picked up their weapons and rushed toward Ronan.
Ronan turned sideways and dodged a weapon, then raised the big sword directly and cut his chest. Then he used a thick wrist guard to block the dagger slashed by another soldier. He held the sword body with his other hand and used it fiercely.
The gauntlet dug into his neck.
Pulling out the gauntlet, Ronan quickly stepped forward and chopped down an enemy who was turning the mechanism with his sword. He then raised his sword to block the enemy's dagger, and at the same time kicked him down with a kick. The sword fell vertically.
Pierced through the chest.
At this time, on the right side of the watchtower, the defenders were retreating into the watchtower after retreating. Seeing this, Ronan yelled:
"Get out of the way and let me come!"
Then he directly took a step forward, held the sword with both hands and raised it above his head, slashing hard, directly cutting off the enemy's spear that was raised to block, and then slashed the enemy in half diagonally from the right shoulder to the left abdomen without losing any momentum.
The enemy troops behind were shocked and driven out of the watchtower by Ronan.
After cutting down an enemy again, Ronan Huan looked at the situation around him and shouted to Dario:
"The city wall cannot be defended anymore. Get off the wall and retreat to the castle!"
The defenders slowly withdrew the city wall, and Ronan stayed behind to cut off the rear. After the defenders withdrew the city wall, the enemy troops quickly turned around the mechanisms in the watchtower, and the gates rose to the top. The enemy troops had been waiting outside for a long time.
A swarm of roaring bees rushed in.
Ronan and others formed a semicircle, struggling to resist the enemy while retreating. A Terran soldier just used his shield to block an enemy's dagger. Before he could counterattack, the enemy on the other side hit him hard with a war hammer.
He was hit on the back, and he fell to the ground. Then the enemy soldiers surrounded him and beat him randomly. The chain armor on his back was quickly torn and scattered, and his back was beaten to a bloody pulp and made no sound.
Ronan holds the hilt of the sword with one hand and the sword body with the other. He turns to the left and hits an enemy soldier on the head with the hilt of the sword, knocking him to the ground. Then he thrusts to the right and stabs the tip of the sword into another enemy soldier.
on the neck.
At this time, the defenders had retreated to the castle. Ronan threw his sword and chopped down an enemy who rushed up, then immediately turned around and ran back to the castle.
He quickly closed the gate, locked it inside and hung up the baffle. The enemy troops outside rushed to the castle gate and slashed at it with swords, but they only stirred up a burst of sawdust, so they had to give up.
When Gino learned that the defenders had run into the castle, he cursed them as rubbish, but he could only order his men to pull the siege truck closer to the city and knock open the gate.
Ronan and others who hid in the castle got a moment of respite, but the defenders suffered heavy casualties and were reduced to ten. Only three Templars were left around Ronan, and there were only five Terran defenders left.
There are still six elves alive.
Except for Ronan, both Inela and Dario were injured. Inela was not injured and only had scratches on his left leg and right arm, but Dario was shot by an enemy arrow before entering the castle.
On the right shoulder, the arrow pierced the chain mail and sank deeply into the flesh.
In a hurry, Ronan could only fix the bottom of the arrow and break the arrow. The arrow cannot be broken directly. Otherwise, the arrow will cause secondary damage if it moves inside the body. If the bone is injured, it will flow out.
Bone marrow can cause infection, which can be fatal if not treated in time. There are no antibiotics in this world.
After briefly treating Dario's wounds, the defenders advanced deeper into the castle and found Prince Gaogen. After Gaogen saw the miserable state of the defenders, he knew that things were not optimistic.
"Let's go to the place with the fewest and narrowest passages in the castle. That way we can hold on for a while longer. The city gate won't be able to stop them for too long."
After that, the team was led by a Terran soldier to an internal room, located in the corner of the castle. There was a small open space in front of the door, and there were only two corridors that could accommodate two people passing side by side.
"What can I do?" Gao Gen pulled Ronan and said.
"Go back to the room and pray for us, pray that we can stop them for a little longer, and pray that reinforcements can arrive before we die!" Ronan rejected Gao Gen's request to fight together and drove him into the room.
"Dario, please come into the room. Your injury should affect the movement of your right arm." Ronan turned to look at Dario and said.
"It doesn't matter, I can still fight!"
"You will die if you try to be brave!" Dario smiled and shook his head, but Ronan did not try to persuade him.
"I'll guard here and leave it to you over there, no problem?" Ronan said, pointing to the corridor where they came from.
Dario knew that there must be the largest number of enemy troops there, but he did not let down Ronan's kindness. Inela took a deep look at Ronan and did not express any opinion.
"Then it's settled. Let's eat something and drink some water first. We'll stop the enemy in the corridor later. If we can't stop them, retreat to this hall. The enemy's numerical advantage won't be reflected here, but we can still stop them.