The Bone-Piercing Demons' bone spikes were sufficient to penetrate the standard Armor of most armies of the Jialan Empire; only the armor equipped by the Empire's Elite Troops could block the bone spikes at a distance of 100 meters.
Although the number of attacking Bone-Piercing Demons was not large, fewer than 200 in total, the first wave of attack caused the deaths of at least over 100 defenders on the city wall.
Most of the arrows fired by the defenders on the city wall were blocked by the Two-Horned Demons, failing to achieve significant Combat Power results against the fragile Demon Race.
However, the defenders on the city wall soon launched a counterattack, and a large number of burning oil pots were rapidly deployed into the Demon Race masses by Trebuchets.
These pots, which ignited upon landing, quickly started a large fire, engulfing many members of the Demon Race.
However, Nord City's reserve of oil pots was limited, preventing unrestrained use; after briefly repelling the Bone-Piercing Demons with the oil pots, they stopped throwing them.
Relying on the suppression from the Bone-Piercing Demons, the Demon Race gained an extremely precious opportunity, and a large number of highly mobile demons rapidly charged toward the base of the city wall.
Although Nord City had a Moat, because Desco County had not been the foremost front against the Demon Race for a long time, the Moat outside Nord City was already dilapidated from years of neglect.
Many residents inside and outside the city had dug some ditches connecting to the Moat, partly for disposing of urban waste and partly for irrigating the farmland outside the city.
These actions greatly reduced the effectiveness of the Moat; in many sections, the water depth only reached the knees, making its function negligible at best.
Therefore, the Moat outside Nord City did not serve much purpose, and the Demon Race easily crossed it.
As for the barricades behind the Moat, due to insufficient numbers of city defenders, they could not deploy troops outside the barricades to hold the line, so the Demon Race quickly crossed the barricades as well, closing in on the walls of Nord City.
Although the Demon Race lacked professional siege equipment, many demons could climb without needing such machinery.
The defenders inside the city walls also rapidly attacked the demons approaching the walls using various methods, shooting with Bow and Arrow or smashing with heads.
For a time, dense stones and wood fell from the city walls, smashing the demons gathered below the walls until they were bloody.
However, for Nord City, the truly threatening element was not these demons currently launching a fierce assault on the city walls.
The demons fiercely attacking the city walls were basically the Cannon Fodder troops among the Demon Race.
Although these demons appeared fierce in their assault, their actual contribution to capturing Nord City was limited.
This is because the true determinant of victory or defeat on the battlefield was the mid-to-high-ranking troops within the Demon Race.
Even if these Cannon Fodder demons managed to scale the city walls, they would quickly be eliminated by the defenders above.
Meanwhile, a large contingent of Two-Horned Demons had gathered near the city gate, preparing to attack it.
As a County Seat, Nord City's gate was naturally sturdy, but the problem was that compared to the city walls, the gate was indeed a distinct weak point for the entire area.
Just as a large number of Two-Horned Demons were rapidly charging toward the gate, some humans suddenly leaped down from the city walls.
A giant man, two meters tall, leaped down from the city wall; the ground beneath his feet cracked upon landing, and in his hand, he held a full-metal Wolf Tooth Club nearly as tall as he was.
Facing the rapidly charging Two-Horned Demons, this person neither dodged nor evaded, instead swinging the Wolf Tooth Club powerfully outward.
The Wolf Tooth Club struck the head of a Two-Horned Demon; under this attack, the Two-Horned Demon, weighing over a thousand catties, was violently flung over ten meters away by the strong man's single swing, knocking down an entire group of Two-Horned Demons behind it.
The head of the Two-Horned Demon that took the blow from the strong man's Wolf Tooth Club was completely caved in, and its two long horns were completely broken off.
Immediately afterward, two more people landed beside the strong man; both placed their hands flat on the ground simultaneously.
Then, a large number of Earth Spikes violently erupted from the ground ahead.
The tips of these Earth Spikes gleamed with a metallic cold light.
Many Earth Spikes directly pierced through the relatively vulnerable abdomens of the Two-Horned Demons.
More than half of the dozen or so charging Two-Horned Demons were instantly lost due to the coordinated attack by these three Transcendent individuals.
The remaining few Two-Horned Demons were all flipped onto their backs by the Earth Spikes emerging from the ground.
And on the city wall, one person fired an arrow from a crossbow; the bolt struck the belly of a toppled Two-Horned Demon, and upon impact, the bolt violently exploded, blowing a large hole in the demon's stomach.
Subsequently, over ten other humans used various strange abilities to attack the Two-Horned Demons.
Someone threw an axe; after the axe left a wound on a Two-Horned Demon, it automatically returned to the attacker's hand.
Then, someone struck the wound on a Two-Horned Demon with a ball of green light; immediately, the Two-Horned Demon hit by the green light dissolved into ashes.
It turned out that this group of humans were all Transcendent individuals from Nord City.
Although the number of Transcendent individuals in Nord City was not large, there were at least two to three hundred of them.
Excluding those not skilled in combat, at least nearly a hundred still possessed formidable Combat Power.
These Transcendent individuals with powerful combat capabilities became Nord City's absolute trump card.
After killing over a dozen Two-Horned Demons, the dozen or so human Transcendent individuals quickly climbed back up the city wall using ropes.
Although the current number of Demon Race outside Nord City was only six to seven thousand, and the city garrison exceeded 10,000, relying on sturdy city defenses, a hundred Transcendent individuals plus over 10,000 hastily assembled garrison troops could barely withstand the Demon Race's assault; going out for a Field Battle would be impossible to win unless the 10,000-plus garrison were Empire Elite Troops.
Moreover, the Nord City garrison clearly understood that as long as they held the city firmly, reinforcements sent by the Empire would arrive soon.
Therefore, the primary objective of the city garrison was to preserve themselves while ensuring the city was not lost.
As for annihilating the Demon Race outside the city, that was completely outside the scope of consideration for the city garrison.
Following the failure of over a dozen Two-Horned Demons to attack the city gate, a large number of demons began to retreat after a series of sharp screeches.
It was clear that this was merely a probing attack by the Demon Race against Nord City.
On a small hill five kilometers outside Nord City, four soldiers from the Fierce Shark Special Forces were recording the defensive battle between the Demon Race and the Nord City garrison using a Drone.
As more supplies and Military Strength were transported through the Space Gate, Gao Feng urgently needed to understand the previous movements of the Demon Race heading east; thus, Gao Feng ordered many team members to travel to Nord City via All-Terrain Vehicle for reconnaissance.
These four individuals had just arrived near Nord City when they encountered the Demon Race's siege battle.
They immediately realized this was a critical moment to understand the Combat Power of the Demon Race and the humans of this world, so they launched the Drone for high-altitude reconnaissance recording.
The entire defensive battle was recorded using the equipment carried by the Drone.