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Attacks Diminish; Unrest in the Enemy Camp; The Most Dangerous Enemy I, with two others, with the long, stout forked stick, caught an upright of the ladder and thrust it back, several feet, where it wavered, and then tipped backward, and men, crying out, leapt free or fell backward. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 44, Sentence #1)

Certainly he would not wish to lose time and expend resources indefinitely at Mytilene when his efforts might be more lucratively applied elsewhere. It had doubtless been his hope to take the town by surprise and sack it within two or three days at most, which hope, one notes, had been disappointed. I then turned about and made my way back to the ditch and tunnel, to return to Mytilene. Attacks Diminish; Unrest in the Enemy Camp; The Most Dangerous Enemy I, with two others, with the long, stout forked stick, caught an upright of the ladder and thrust it back, several feet, where it wavered, and then tipped backward, and men, crying out, leapt free or fell backward. When an attacker climbs a ladder, he is, in a sense, not only precariously vulnerable, with narrow footing, clinging to the ladder, and managing a weapon, or shield, but alone. If the wall were high, there might be fifteen or twenty men behind him on the ladder, but he would still be alone, at the top of the ladder. The first man on the ladder is always alone. - (Avengers of Gor)