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Chapter 45: Flooding
🕑 Added 2025-04-24 15:17:24 +0000 UTC“Assholes! Assholes! A bunch of idiots!”
Izkaga pounded the table with his fists. His hair was already stiff, but now it stood up in anger, making the tall Izkaga look like an angry lion.
When he learned that his food supply had been cut off, Izkaga’s rage was second only to the last time his camp was robbed. He grabbed the collar of the soldier who came to report the news and lifted him up: “Where are the people who robbed the food? Are all of them alive?”
Threatened by Izkaga’s momentum, the soldiers dared not say that only a few people escaped, so they could only bite the bullet and say, “All of them are dead.”
Anyway, in his opinion, there was no way those injured knights could survive in such heavy rain.
“Is that Ezequiel guy coming back? He has been demoted and is now your apprentice knight.” A fierce light flashed in Izkaga’s eyes. If the knight Ezequiel who was carrying out this order was not the son of his cousin, Izkaga would definitely choose to kill him to vent his anger.
“Block the news. No, detain everyone who knows about this except me.” Taking a deep breath, Izkaga managed to calm his desire to kill. He looked at the guards beside him and said in a tough tone, “Send me more people to keep a close eye on the movements of Bilu City… Don’t let them try to rob the camp again.”
After saying this, Izkaga collapsed on the chair as if he had lost all his strength. He couldn’t imagine the scene of a 10,000-man army starting a riot. The failure to capture the city of Bilu and the troubles over the past few days had brought the morale of the Northern Army to its lowest point. Fortunately, this timely relief gave Izkaga some hope.
At this moment, it is a test of the army’s will.
Fortunately, that night Izkaga received a piece of news that made him breathe a sigh of relief – the gates of the city of Bilú were wide open, there were no fires or patrolling soldiers on the city walls, and the guards inside seemed to have all evacuated.
Upon hearing this, Izkaga immediately put on armor and led a thousand cavalrymen into the city.
The empty streets showed that there were no traces of human activities here. After confirming that it was not an ambush, Izkaga did not act rashly. He waited until all the northern troops were stationed in Bilu City and took over the patrol in the city before he hurried to the granary in Bilu City with several knights.
Although Izkaga did not have any hope for this, if he put himself in Ector’s shoes, he thought that if he were in Ector’s position, he would definitely destroy all the food and grass before evacuating even in the heavy rain.
But what if?
With a last bit of hope, Izkaga pushed open the door of the granary, and saw the well-preserved grains and grass piled together. His eyes lit up, and he couldn’t help but laugh at Ector’s uselessness.
“Count the food supplies.”
Izkaga suppressed his smile and assigned a personal soldier to do his job. It must be because they evacuated in such a hurry that they even forgot to destroy the food. These sufficient emergency food were enough to support Izkaga’s ambition to continue the attack.
Izkaga was intoxicated by his sudden victory. He could even hear the joy surging in his chest like waves.
It seems so close.
He suddenly opened his eyes, and the voice became more and more real. A bad premonition came to Izkaga’s heart, and at this moment the door of the granary was roughly pushed open, and a knight rolled into the granary.
Izkaga recognized the other man, the knight he had sent to patrol the city of Bilu. At this moment, the other man looked as if he had just been fished out of the Salt Lake.
“Sir, the dam has burst… the dam at Bilu City has burst!”
There seemed to be a sound of something breaking, followed by a majestic sound roaring from the center of the city to the entire Bilū City.
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Seen from the high ground, the city of Bilu looks like a prison gate built in a basin, locking the entire Beidelin Plain under the high ground.
Facing the steady rain, Menachel could easily see the scene in Bilú City. The temporary dam that was expanded overnight finally collapsed under the heavy rain. These dams that Ector had instructed to deliberately cut corners were of course the result of Agravain’s plan.
Taking advantage of the flood, they built dams to store water and built ponds. Then, taking advantage of the enemy’s eagerness to capture the city, they pretended to abandon the city and immediately diverted water for irrigation. In order to delay the enemy, Agravain even deliberately abandoned food – even if the rebel commander chose to retreat for the sake of safety, he would definitely choose to transport the food away, thus buying enough time for the city of Bilu to be flooded.
People like this are the most terrifying.
Menachel glanced at Agravain, who looked calm on the side, and was glad that this kind of person was a companion who did not need to be killed.
“Sir Agravain, thanks to you this time.” Menachel imagined that if he encountered such a situation, he would definitely fall into the trap set by Agravain. Although he would not die, few of the knights under his command would survive.
“I didn’t expect Sir Ector to be so efficient. He evacuated everyone in the city in just two hours.”
“In fact, there are not many people in the city.” Ector, who was also admiring the water, spoke at this time.
As a fortress city, the residents of Bilu can serve as soldiers at any time. There are less than a thousand guards left, which actually means that there are almost the same number of townspeople in Bilu.
“It’s already very good to be able to exchange three thousand people for the death of ten thousand rebels.” Ector finally showed a forced smile. The war was won, and Ector felt deeply tired.
This was probably his last fight for Camelot.
As Ector was thinking this, he heard Agravain’s untimely questioning voice: “No, it’s not over yet.”
Perhaps the precipitation will eventually come to an end. This rare heavy rain that lasted for nearly two days finally showed a trend of decreasing.
“There are many high platforms in the city. It is difficult to wipe out the rebels with only the temporarily accumulated water. After the water recedes, which will take about an hour, we need Sir Menachel to lead the troops to counterattack and enter the city while the rebels are still unstable."
In order to drain the water, the rebels would certainly open the front and back gates, so Menachel would not have to worry about siege.
“I’m afraid it will be difficult to gather enough manpower by then.” Ector frowned when he heard this and said with some embarrassment.
Although he was surprised by Agravain’s strategy, such an idealistic plan was difficult to implement – letting the tired defenders of Bilu City wait for an hour in the heavy rain without any shelter, by then it would be difficult for anyone to even run.
“Don’t worry, leave it to me.”
Menachel raised the corner of his mouth, stretched out his hand and clenched it, his tone full of confidence. Fortunately, he, Menachel, was the ideal person for the job.
