Zhang San, please behave yourself!
Chapter 485 - 455: Are You Selling This Merit?

Chapter 485: Chapter 455: Are You Selling This Merit?

The siege this time had already lasted for an hour, and although no one from the Great Sui’s soldiers had managed to scale the walls within that time,

the Northern Qi Army above had been fighting from morning till now. Even though the soldiers were continuously rotated, the relentless attrition was beginning to tell.

At this moment, Wang Junwu judged from the sound of drums that the frequency urging the assault had increased from before.

Clearly, the officer commanding them had also noticed that the troops atop the walls were close to buckling.

Yet, since General Du had not given the order to retreat, it proved that there was still some fight left in those atop the walls.

"Big Head Wang, what do we do now? We’ve already had six brothers wounded!"

The Deputy Team Leader in the back shouted at Big Head Wang.

In the entire siege formation, the team leader with the flag bearers and two deputy flag bearers, or flag protectors, at the front, forty-five soldiers in the middle, and the Deputy Team Leader at the rear.

The Deputy Team Leader felt that it would take quite some time before the city could be taken.

Wang Junwu’s brows slightly furrowed as he looked at the ramparts for a while before asking, "Do you brothers want to earn your merits?"

"We do!"

Many gritted their teeth and shouted.

"Whatever I do next, don’t worry about it. Just protect yourselves, and then keep an eye on the southwest corner of the ramparts. The moment you see the Northern Qi’s flag cut down and our Great Sui’s flag raised, shout ’The Sui Army has entered the city, everyone run!’ - scream it at the top of the ramparts! Do you understand?"

Everyone did not understand what Wang Junwu’s plan was, but they all nodded in agreement.

Wang Junwu handed the flag to a flag bearer next to him, then took a spare flag from the flag bearer’s pack, placed it in his Storage Ring, and rushed to the section of the wall closest to the ramparts before slipping along the wall towards the south.

The Sui Army was attacking the west side of Baizhou City. Although it was unlikely that there were no defending troops on the southern and northern sides of the wall, the number of defenders could not compare to that at the western gate.

Moreover, with the Sui Army all concentrated on the west side, the Northern Qi would naturally not expect anyone to scale the walls from the south or north.

Especially since, whether in the Primordial Qi Realm or True Core Realm, martial artists are actually vital strategic assets; they can’t be used in sieging or defending a city, a situation where they’d easily be killed by stray arrows.

Only in true frontal assaults and chaotic melee do martial artists come into their own.

But no one had expected that, at this very moment, a True Core Realm martial artist had made his way under the city wall and leapt toward the southern ramparts, with one blade thrust into the crevice of the wall’s bricks and stones.

With another leap, he was already closing in on the ramparts.

But Wang Junwu did not rush to climb up, instead, he firmly gripped the handle of Horizontal Blade embedded in the wall, and with his other hand he took out the Sui Army’s flag from his Storage Ring.

Then he pulled out a long pole, single-handedly fitting the flag onto it.

After preparing everything, Wang Junwu gripped the Horizontal Blade with one hand and grabbed the flagpole with the other, leaping onto the top of the ramparts.

He wielded his Qi around the Horizontal Blade and flung it out.

"Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack..."

In an instant, several flags of the Northern Qi Army atop the southwest were cut down.

Then, Wang Junwu drew the Horizontal Blade from his waist, waving the Great Sui Army flag with one hand while fighting the surrounding soldiers with the blade in his other.

Among those soldiers, Wang Junwu was like a tiger rampaging through a flock of sheep.

At the same time, someone below the walls suddenly shouted loudly, "The Sui Army has entered the city, run for it——"

The Northern Qi soldiers on the ramparts, upon hearing this shout, were momentarily unable to discern where the voice came from, but felt that something was off.

However, some quickly noticed that many flags from the south side were missing, and a flag of the Great Sui was fluttering.

"Someone has really taken the ramparts!"

"It’s bad! The south side is breached!"

Seeing the situation to the south deteriorating, the morale of the soldiers at the center disintegrated.

Those still blocking Wang Junwu were so startled by the notion of the south side falling, that many immediately began to fall back.

This retreat gave Wang Junwu the chance to continue cutting down the flags.

As more and more of the Northern Qi’s defending soldiers noticed the south side, coincidentally another flag dropped there.

That realization hit everyone - the Sui Army had scaled the walls.

Fear and chaos quickly spread throughout the ramparts.

General Du was still waiting for the officer in front to fail, so he could send his son-in-law with troops to reap the rewards.

But he could never have imagined that while he was summoning a disguised courtesan pretending to give military orders but actually feeling up the wares, the ramparts suddenly waved the Great Sui’s military banner.

From a distance, Changsun Wudiao, who was watching the battle, noticed Wang Junwu, the first to climb the ramparts, and couldn’t help but smile.

This man was indeed extraordinary!

As the Northern Qi Army panicked, other Sui forces quickly ascended the ramparts as well.

The officers, seeing they had finally taken the wall, were so thrilled they were almost in tears.

"Who was the first to scale the wall? The Capital Commandant will reward him handsomely! I’ll personally put up the money to reward his mother! Charge! Kill all these Northern Qi dogs!"

Wang Junwu’s Deputy Team Leader immediately ran over to report, "Reporting to the Capital Commandant, the first to scale the wall is our team’s flag bearer, Wang Junwu, and he is also the first to cut down the Northern Qi flag. The flag that’s currently flying above is held by him too!"

The Capital Commandant could hardly believe it; he had such a formidable soldier under his command!

"Wang Junwu, is it? Rest assured, I will request merits from General Du on his behalf when I get back! Dammit, I’ve been called a worthless commandant for too many years, never knew someone capable was under my command! Don’t worry, there’s a reward for your whole team, and it’s on me personally!"