In addition, more than half of their troops didn’t make it across and were cut off from the tunnels by collapsing supports. But perhaps it was for the best — drowning underground wasn’t the most pleasant way to die.
Thus, instead of one hundred and forty thousand troops, ‘only’ forty thousand had managed to cross in five hours. And, as agreed, the wizards and engineers had created enough fog for them to hide in the forest, which had spread its dense, leafy embrace out so comfortably on this side of the shore.
Right now, gritting his teeth, Hadjar was watching as the gods’ troops made lavish use of cannonballs. Instead of trying to breach the castle walls, they were bombarding... the river. The General couldn’t even guess whose ‘bright’ idea this was. It was hard to imagine how much ammun
