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Chapter six

Over the wall

The next two days of battle carried on like regular. However a stir was radiating through the ranks of the Chu. A rumor was spreading about the young man who dared to enter their camp and take one of the commander's heads. The rumor made the Chu blood rise in a battle fury that would continue on to the days that followed.

With the Chu riled up it didn't come to a surprise that they would direct their fury to the southern wall. And with the Chu constructing two siege towers it seemed to be that the southern wall would fall in but a day.

By the end of the week the Chu prepared their siege towers and sent them off that morning to the battle. The southern soldiers knew that they had to hold off entail nightfall, but to face a siege tower was a daunting reality that gripped them by the throat.

Ten saw how the morale would fall in the southern wall and gave temporary command of a thousand soldiers to Lia. Ten did this for two reasons, within the one week they faced the Chu Lia was famous on the southern wall. The second was that Lia could inspire soldiers from pushing them into a no win situation.

When one had a group of ill-trained soldiers to command and one was outnumbered there is but two solutions. Hit the enemy with quick guerrilla raids, and the second is to force those soldiers into a no win and no retreat situation. Once the daunting reality hit the soldiers that it was victory or death they would become fearless in a forth night.

Lia did just exactly that. He placed his unit at the bottom of the ramp that led up to the ramparts. He ordered them to kill anyone who retreated down to them. By doing this every soldier under his command including the thousand man commander that was there knew but only two ways the battle would go. They could retreat and die running away, or they could die fighting.

He brought up oil to the ramparts and organized four teams that were in command of the oil. These teams would toss the oil on the siege towers and light it aflame. He then made two more groups that were responsible for brandishing crossbows firing at the men who came out of the siege tower when it lowered its drawbridge.

Lia himself would put himself in the front line of one of the towers, while he sent the thousand man commander to the other. They would lead their men when the enemy troops came and they would either win or they would be overwhelmed and be killed.


He watched the tower come slowly across the field of battle. He had a crazed smile spread across his face that made his comrades that surrounded him stare at him with unease set in their gaze. He couldn't help but smile at it. After all it was going to be entertaining to watch soldiers climb over hundreds of their comrades, only to be cut down as well.

"Better not be considering dying here," Sin stated, "after all your nephews told you to bring back an enemy sword for them. Uncle Lia wouldn't disappoint would he?"

Lia snorted, "I got them a glaive. Well I guess they wouldn't have the strength to lift it." Lia sighed, "well your right that I wouldn't disappoint."

The first tower came to the wall and lowered its drawbridge. The sound of battle came sprouting up from around the tower. The second began to get close.

Lia put his helm on and drew his sword. He waiting for the tower to come, the entire time hoping a lucky arrow didn't find him. When the drawbridge came down the oil carriers threw buckets of the liquid onto the tower. One threw a torch setting it ablaze, despite the wood being soaked in water the fire kept up for a while before smoking and finally dying out.

The Chu came out like starving wolves. Many of them fell as bolts slammed into their ranks from crossbows. However that didn't halt their advance and they slammed into the defenders with bone crushing power.

Blood sprayed in the air as the two sides sliced into one another. Lia among the ranks sliced into his enemies trying desperately to stay on his feet as he deflected and parried countless blows.

A soldier in front of him took a spear in the stomach and began to scream. Lia shoved him into the enemy and he was cut down in moments. He took the soldiers place and fought knife and teeth with the Chu soldiers.

He felt his sword connect with bone and put more pressure behind the blade letting it scrape and crunch against the bone as he ripped it out of a young man's collarbone. The soldier looked up at him with dying eyes as he stumbled back, and fell to the ground.

A moment later a soldier stepped over his body and came at Lia. He dodged to the right letting the spear pass his head by inches. He then bolted forward and ran the point of his sword seven inches deep in his opponent's chest.

He twisted the blade and at the same time drew a dagger and ran it into his throat. He pulled both weapons out and let the soldier crumble to the ground. The soldier grabbed his throat and tried to scream, but it only came out as a low gurgle.

Yet again another soldier came at him. He sunk his teeth into the leather handle of his dagger and grabbed his sword handle with both hands.

The Chu soldier came at him with blood fury. However that was his downfall, it was too late when he noticed that a spear was thrusted at his throat. It went through his unprotected flesh like butter and came out the same way. He collapsed to the ground grabbing his throat just like the other before him did.

"Our allies are getting overwhelmed," Sin hissed. She drug Lia out of the fray of battle and behind the lines of Qin.
Lia took deep breaths as he looked were the other siege tower was. It was true. The Chu had overwhelmed the defenders and made a gape in their ranks. They were already running down the ramp to try and open up the southern gate.

Lia drew a second dagger with his left hand. He sprinted off with Sin on his heels. Together they made their way to the ramp. When they were ten feet above the ramp Lia jumped off the railing and hit the stone ramp with a grunt his teeth bit down on the dagger in his mouth.

He ducked as the first soldier got to him. He switched his dagger into a refuse grip. He slashed the soldier across the throat and ran the pommel of his sword in the side of his head sending him crumbling to the ground.

Sin came to his side and both of them fought the overwhelming forces of the Chu. Hot slicing pain spread across Lia's body, he knew he was struck more than once but he kept his footing. He ran the dagger through a soldier's mouth. He let the dagger go and shoved him to the side.

He grabbed the dagger from his mouth and continued to fight. They were getting pushed back when the Shili unit finally came to their aid.

The Chu ranks collapsed. For in front of them was a band of mad men, all of them had wild eyes of bloodlust. They looked like they were enjoying the battle, enjoying fighting an overwhelming force. Once they saw the fear in the Chu ranks the Shilia unit gave animal like war cries as they bathed their weapons in the flesh and blood of the Chu.

Lia led the charge up the ramp. He couldn't see anything but the enemy in front of him covered in red. He swung his weapons each time they came back with blood dripping from them. It was the same for his men, each one had tunnel vision.

When a soldier fought in a death match, when it was either his life or his opponents they developed tunnel vision. All they could see is a tunnel, and in that tunnel their foe stands. They strike without seeing anything else around them. Pain is nothing but a needle in the neck instead of burning hot agony that would make them drop their weapon and surrender.

The Shili unit brought tunnel vision to their advantage. In the front row as their ranks developed tunnel vision, the second row of soldiers would cover the front with spears. While the front row wasn't even scared of death for a matter of seconds as their adrenaline overcame them.

Lia lost his second dagger. He gripped his sword with both hands as he swung it down on the enemy. Flesh was sliced and bone was crushed as he shoved the enemy back to their siege tower. Lia didn't stop there he moved forward leading his men onto the drawbridge and continued the fight with his foes.

He went to go into the siege tower but hands grabbed him and pulled him away kicking and screaming for more. His men finally got him behind the Qin line. His adrenaline started to wear off and he could finally notice the scorching pain that racked his body.

"Shit," he groaned, "thought I was going to really enter the afterlife there."

"Crazy bastard," Chien said, handing him a skin of water, "don't over exhaust yourself there's still plenty of fighting to come."


The day moved on. All the walls saw battle but not as fierce as the southern, and the northern walls saw. Another siege tower that the Qin didn't know about came to the northern wall by noon. They however didn't gain any footholds into the ramparts.

The southern wall saw the most clashes with more than two hundred soldiers dying in the fighting. One siege tower was set ablaze and burned to the ground while the second was damaged to the point that it would need repairs before it could be used once again.

However that day proved to the Chu how willing the enemy was to defend their positions. They reorganized and deployed different tactics the next day. Instead of a hard assault they went to bleed out the enemy.

Ten reorganized as well. She cut half the manpower at the walls and sent in fresh troops to act as reserve forces. The two sides came to a stalemate. It would continue like this for a week further entail the Chu had four siege towers ready and located in positions unknown to their enemy. They would push for one decisive win before the Qin reinforcements made it to the city.