Shen, The Kingdom of Xi'an
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The city echoed with gongs, their clangs ringing through the narrow crowded streets. Thousands of earth demons, originally sent to block the river, now stand upon the city walls watching the enemy cross the snow blanketed valley. Ling's scorched earth policy seemed to have done some damage, having deprived them of resupply for the length of the trek. 

Inside Shen the citizens were packed into the stone buildings at the center of town, including the castle of Lord Chung, the earth demon governor of the province. The narrow mountain passes had prevented their human enemies from bringing siege equipment, but one look at their carts told the defenders that the Theologians had not come unprepared. 

With grunts of efforts the ground level warriors, outside of the walls, raised two artificial walls around the city. Creating a three tiered perimeter around the city. 

"Destroy the damn" ordered Lord Chung, referring to the damn up river, which was blocking the Yuan river. A telepath relayed the order to his counterpart, and upstream fourth earth demons destroyed the structure sending a torrent of water into the valley. The tsunami raced down the dry riverbed, clearing chunks of forest and mountain with it. As the surge of water raced into the valley the outerwall of the city was struck by a boulder and crumpled into a heap, adding debris into the torrent as it hit the Theologian army crossing the valley.