Boiling Beast Bloodline-Chapter 2018 - 642: Intensifying Preparations

"Immediately blow the charge horn and raise the banner of city slaughter!" The furious Prince Similian seemed to be chewing on a mouthful of soybeans, his teeth clattering noisily as he spoke.

Once the banner of city slaughter is raised, it signifies that warriors are allowed to pillage and vent freely after capturing the city. This order has a certain effect in boosting morale but serves even more to drive the defenders to fight desperately.

"Future king, if you still possess any sanity, you’d better not issue such an absurd order!" Prince Rhincor grabbed his nephew’s arm, his face pale as he growled lowly, "We’ve just sounded the retreat horn, and now you’re sounding the charge again. Do you want the siege troops to trample each other?"

"What should we do now?" If not for several guards holding back Prince Similian, he would have drawn his sword and charged towards that city wall: "Uncle! Didn’t you see there are some Giant Tortoises nearly reaching the wall! We can definitely take this city!"

"Messenger, follow my command, signal with flags for the vanguard siege troops to fall back in an orderly manner, temporarily appoint Whale Warriors and Deep-Sea Squid Warriors as overseers to maintain order first!" The Mermaid Grand Marshal ignored the urgent tone of Similian and bit her lip as she watched the Mulanese warriors continuing their siege: "The Giant Tortoise warriors are at the very forefront of the siege troops, might as well not retreat them, let them and those Mulanese who can’t understand Sea Clan orders stay loyal and dutiful below this city wall!"

"No way!" Prince Similian shook off the guard’s hold, nearly bumping noses with Prince Rhincor, his gaze sharp yet chaotic: "Uncle, don’t forget, right now I am the highest commander of this army! I want to continue the siege now!"

"As you wish! Messenger, deploy twenty thousand Mulan warriors and twenty thousand Giant Tortoise warriors from the reserve, forming ten mixed battalions of four thousand each, bring more shields, continue to launch wave-style sieges, fill in another batch every time one perishes, no pause allowed, but also no charge all at once!" The Mermaid Grand Marshal issued her orders with a cold sneer, eyeing Prince Similian askew: "Future king, remember that these soldiers are dying because of your command!" 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

"Coward! Traitor! Are you planning to desert during battle?" Prince Similian drew his sword, intending to place it on the Mermaid Grand Marshal’s neck, but it was quickly knocked away by the guards of Prince Rhincor.

The clanging of swords unsheathing resounded continuously, as both groups of the Mermaid royal guards bared their weapons, glaring at each other.

"Similian, there are no cowards or heroes on the battlefield, only foolish commanders and wise leaders! From now on, your supreme command is stripped away by me, this is the sealed decree your father, our shared Emperor Beckenbauer, handed me before departure, I hope the now unclear-minded you can still read!" Prince Coral showed a beautiful giant clam page, swaying it lightly before the dazed Similian and forced it into the Mermaid prince’s hand: "I am now preparing the next siege plan, I hope you behave before then, if I have to put you under house arrest, none of us will retain any dignity!"

"Signal with flags, notify each officer to slowly withdraw and regroup according to sequence, those who disobey orders, kill! Those who sprint, kill! Those who incite the soldiers, kill! Those who spread rumors, kill!" The Mermaid Grand Marshal issued orders icily one after another: "Scout rider, return to camp immediately to gather personnel and assess losses, report back swiftly upon news! Le School Heavy Armor, Seahorse Military Police, return to camp and bring me the head of the garrison commander, not a single Siren, Mermaid, or Mulan should be missing!"

Prince Abdullah and Prince Similian shuddered from the series of bloody orders, lips parted, nothing dared to be said.

Three hours!

Due to Similian’s insistence and Prince Rhincor’s compromise, the reserve troops of forty thousand warriors along with forty thousand previously committed Giant Tortoise and Mulan warriors, totaling eighty thousand Hai Mu Coalition, were driven to launch a desperate attack continuously against Witherspoon’s southern gate for a full three hours under the overseer’s murderous threats!

They had no long-range firepower cover, as the Dile Archers and mixed Mage regiment had already retreated; they also had no siege equipment, since each Giant Tortoise disappeared mysteriously upon nearing the city wall; all they had were Arhats Ladder or the use of grappling hooks and ropes to climb the wall, actions virtually doomed to fail, as it meant Beamon defenders could effortlessly extend from the battlements to hurl boiling pitch and heavy beams and stones down upon their heads.

Of the commanders of ten thousand, only General Dushel of the Giant Tortoises withdrew alive in the end.

Clad in exquisite armor embedded with Turquoise, holding a gilded Damascus Scimitar, four Mulan Daqiong Lut Pashas and all the standard bearers, like cactus, were already shot with dozens of arrows during the charge. Beamon archers evidently used powerful long-range armor-piercing arrows, and the four masterly skilled Mulan Pashas, though protected by solid full armor, were forced to accept this humiliating death on the cramped battlefield without maneuver room...