"Kardinal! Over there! They're back!"
Standing high above the ordering walls, Kardinal Yu, his aides, and several others focused on the many men on horseback riding galloping towards them at full speed.
The scouts were back.
"Quickly! Open the gate! Let them in!"
Open it! Open it!
Word spread like fire, and those on the 3rd floor inside the walls, hastily gripped the handle on the massive mechanism, using all their might to roll the heavy chains up.
The structure was a tall and thick metal shaft with 4 well-spaced, equally powerful arms sticking out from its upper region.
Drawing up the chains connected with the gates required the men to rotate the structure in a clockwise movement. And Anticlockwise when releasing the previously thick chains.
Heave! Ho! Heave! Ho!
All 16 men had veins popping out their arms as they rotated the structure, with 4 people pushing on each of the structure's extended arms.
A soon...
