Chapter Twelve
Liada’s first boulder fell short. It slammed into the dirt and rolled ten meters to hit the wall, but it did no damage.
She maneuvered Obolus to push the machine twelve meters closer to the wall.
The next boulder hit the wall just a few meters from the gate, shaking loose the top two layers of stone, but they didn’t fall.
Arrows and spears arched over the wall from inside, hitting the dirt and trees, but no one was injured.
Liada’s next shot hit in almost the same place where her previous boulder had weakened the wall. Ten meters of the top three tows of stones tumbled to the ground.
“Reload!” she shouted. “Quickest time!”
A dozen of the Daorsi enemy tribesmen clambered onto the rubble of the wall, firing arrows at the trebuchet.
The Ardiaei men used their shields to
