Chapter 260: Standoff
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Within Chagatai’s pupils, there was only the endless firelight erupting from atop Cangzhou’s walls and the trenches before them.
An entire hour had passed.
Wave after wave of slave soldiers had been driven forward, and wave after wave had vanished. In this moment, Chagatai suddenly felt that the seemingly close Cangzhou City was impossibly far away.
“Retreat! Retreat! All of you, fall back!”
Another wave of slave soldiers collapsed and fled. They could no longer bring themselves to charge again. The sight of mangled corpses had shattered the last shred of courage within them.
Kuha rode across the battlefield with his saber, cutting down slave soldiers as he went. Each swing of the blade claimed another life. But even so, he couldn’t stop the retreating tide.
Guduo’s gaze was grim. He had participated in the previous battle for Cangzhou as well. Compared to last time, there were now even more cannons atop the city walls, and many more trebuchets placed along the trenches.
Among the trebuchets, thirty more cannons had been added. These cannons had yet to fire, their dark barrels gaping like silent beasts, cold and terrifying.
Guduo understood well—these cannons carried far deadlier shells. The last time their cavalry breached the gates, it was these same cannons that turned them to dust.
On the Cangzhou walls, Xiao Ming silently watched the exchange. The explosions of black powder shells bloomed like deadly flowers on the grasslands—beautiful, but utterly lethal.