The last time the Nix people didn't use these two defensive weapons was because the autumn season was dry, and using fire could easily set the wooden walls ablaze. But now they couldn't afford to worry about that because the Panloni people had employed the 'battering ram'.
This was a large tree, big enough for one person to embrace, specially selected by the Pannonians from the mountains. After cutting it down, they smoothed the trunk and sharpened the front end. A dozen warriors lifted it and crossed the filled moat, arriving at the wooden wall and began striking the mud wall below.
Although the mud wall had been packed and reinforced by the Nix soldiers, it was not stone, and under continuous battering, it began to loosen, exposing the wooden wall base embedded deep within.
