When Sybyll charged across the gap between her army and the forces assembled inside the wall, it was a signal to the entire army that the next phase of the battle had begun. The sound of her axe striking stone echoed through the gatehouse tunnel, immediately answered by a renewed fury from Captain Ipiktok's bombardment.
-WHOOOM- -CRACK- -WHOOOM-
Iron shot hammered the battlements with faster and faster, no longer seeking individual targets but creating a devastating barrage that forced the remaining defenders to cower behind whatever cover they could find. The once neatly notched crennalations of the battlements now resembled the broken teeth of a bareknuckled fighter and men who had once stood proud with bow and arrow in hand now crawled on their bellies, dragging wounded companions away from the most exposed sections of the wall.
Under this protective storm of iron and exploding stone, four figures charged toward the gatehouse, following in Dame Sybyll's wake.
