I shook him slightly, "Remember the plan General!"
"Yes, Yes, I remember! Forgive me Sir! I'll see to the evacuation of the wall!" He said as he quickly recovered from the shock he had been under.
"Already in process General, I need you to go ahead and set up our troops in the city. I think they're going to break through faster than we thought. I can't lose you right now General get to the city!"
He nodded and pushed past me and down the stairs to his assignment abandoning the wall that he had thought could never fall behind him.
Towers and fortifications all along the top of the wall were being blown apart. I pulled a warrior out of the rubble with a broken leg and passed him off to two others who were headed down the stairs. I grabbed up an unconscious archer only taking the time to check for a pulse before I slung her over one shoulder and started making my own way down from the wall.
It was a miracle that as many of us survived as that did. I watched the shock play across the faces of the warriors, who were huddled a safe distance away from the wall, as they watched the great wall shudder and groan as the wall top was systematically destroyed as if by a great unseen hand. I wondered if I had lost them and then one noticed me and stood to attention followed by the rest of them.
"It's alright to be afraid. It's alright to be shaken by what you thought not possible. But it is not alright, when faced with this new reality to think that you cannot yet rise above it! Those of you who are wounded prepare to be evacuated to the cities, as for the rest of you report to your positions for tomorrow we will fight and make the enemy pay for this!"
"Yes Sir!"
I turned from the departing warriors and looked back at the great wall that still rose so high overhead even though its fine towers had been smashed off of it. They had stopped targeting the wall top having satisfied themselves with the level of destruction there. Now it sounded like they were focusing on punching two holes through the wall on either side of the remains of the central tower.
They'd have their holes through by morning, which sadly was a good thing. It would speed up their assault to take the city earlier than anticipated, which was good because our scouts had reported that the Attorgron army coming up over the mountain passes intent on coming up on us from the rear was farther along than we had expected as well.