After making a bet with Nemio in the Great Tent, Alice and Gervais were the first to leave the camp and return to the camp to the west.

Although it is three hours, it is safest to make arrangements quickly.

"Gervais, are you really sure?"

In the tent, Alice and Nemio made a bet with confidence, but when they left the camp, they immediately became worried, and she really had no confidence in her heart, because Gervais had not told the whole plan until now.

If Gervais's scheme was a precedent for it, surely some of the other well-informed earls would know.

But it was clear that Gervais's method was unknown to even the counts.

Such an unprecedented, if it really happens, it can really be said to be a miracle, just like wine, gunpowder, and so on.

"It should be fine, Alice, don't worry!"

Gervais gave Alice a reassuring look.

Now that the wall was burning red, Gervais felt that this should be the way he could do it.

In the state of three days and three nights, let alone stones, even if the iron is red, the iron can react violently when it encounters cold water, but the iron becomes harder.

But the stone is different, the stone is likely to crack, and the result will be known in the next few hours as to whether it will succeed or not.

……

Soon, Gervais and Alice were back at camp to the west.

After returning to the camp, Gervais immediately sent his own personal guard team and asked them to go upstream to inform Ander and the others to destroy the dam immediately!

With the exception of the dam, all the minor nobles in the camp received a notice from Alice to prepare for battle.

"Alice, are your trebuchets ready?"

"It's ready! Ready to launch! ”

After making sure everything was in place again, Gervais and Alice arrived at the camp gate, and now everything was ready, only the east wind was missing.

At the same time, many people also arrived from the east and north of White Rock City.

Because of Alice's bet with Nemio, everyone in the other camps was able to temporarily halt the offensive this morning.

Now the nobles of the entire principality have heard of the bet between the Jones family and the Charles family, and they are all surprised.

At this moment, a small number of nobles with high status and free access to the camp gathered on the west side of the camp, wanting to see how the Jones family relied on one family to complete the destruction of the city in three hours.

The quickest of these people was of course the party to Nemio's gambling contract, which was related to the gain or loss of a rich territory, and he had to watch it here to rest assured.

When Nemio arrived at the camp to the north, he did not greet Alice and Gervais, but stood aside with a few of his vassals.

As for Nemeo, Alice and Gervais also don't want to see him, so they also ignore him.

As time slowly passed, half an hour later, hundreds of nobles of the Duchy of Jean had gathered outside the camp in the north, including the king and the eight earls.

In the distance, the defenders of White Rock City also noticed the anomaly here, and the defenders on the western wall were obviously more than double as usual.

"Haha! Now it's up to you how you attack the city! ”

Looking at the figure on the city wall in the distance, Nemio was more sure in his heart, originally because of the fierce offensive in the north and east, there were not many defenders in the west, but now the defenders found the abnormality here, took precautions, and directly increased the defenders, which was really unexpected for Nemeo.

"Count Alice, there are less than two hours left, and you are not ready to attack the city?"

"When the time comes, if you lose, your territory will be my Charles's! Hahaha! ”

"Count Nemio, don't be too happy, it's not certain who wins or loses!"

Nemeo's face was so annoying that even Alice, who had always been cold and didn't talk much, couldn't help but reply lightly.

"Oh, yes! Rely on your fire that burned for three days and three nights, right? Maybe the defenders of White Rock City will thank you for giving them so much work to roast their meat! ”

The fire that Gervais had set was still burning at the moment, even now with two teams of serfs transporting timber on their way back.

When Nemio said this, many of the nobles present couldn't help but laugh, and some wanted to laugh.

The counts who did not directly clash with the Jones family in this southern expedition only smiled slightly, because the lord of the north was still on the side, and they did not want to offend the lord of the north.

But the little nobles behind Avery, or Nemeo, laughed exaggeratedly.

"Nemio, do you want to taste the taste of my iron fist, since the bet has been made, you shut up for me, whether you win or lose will be known before noon!"

"If you are bullying my granddaughter in front of me, even if Your Majesty is present, I will beat you all over the ground!"

The Lord of the North finally spoke up at this time to defend Alice, and his long beard was blown to the ground, and if Nemio was going to be looking for trouble in the next moment, he would need that casserole-sized fist to swing out.

"Gust, you think I'm scared of you......"

"It's coming!"

Gervais ignored the ridicule of Nermio and the other little nobles, his gaze had been in the upper reaches of the river, and suddenly Gervais's ears trembled slightly, and he heard a trace of movement from the upper reaches in the distance.

When everyone heard Gervais's call, they were all stunned for a moment, and then immediately fell silent.

Because the movement upstream is only a momentary effort, it has become bigger and bigger, and there is an inexplicable roar, and I don't know if it is an illusion, standing at the gate of the camp at this moment, it seems that I feel that the earth is trembling slightly.

Lawrence, the lord of the north and king of the north, had the highest cultivation, and at this moment he couldn't help but gaze to the west.

Gradually, the roar became louder and louder, and the tremor of the earth became more and more obvious, and became real, like the movement of thousands of horses galloping.

After more than ten seconds of staring and perceiving, they finally saw the source of the movement from the upstream.

A kilometer upstream, a monstrous flood mixed with countless rolling stone stumps was surging and coming.

"Ahh It's the flood! Shall we stand back! ”

"Yes! If we are engulfed by that flood, even our Bronze Horseman's cultivation will not be able to resist! ”

"Could it be that the Jones family is trying to break down the walls by the flood?"

The little nobles who were still laughing at Gervais just now turned a little pale, and their arms were trembling slightly, because the monstrous power of the flood was so terrifying that it showed the terrifying power of nature to the fullest.

The dam failure of the reservoir is no better than an ordinary flood, although the ordinary flood is turbulent, but the rise is also fast and slow, and it is not so terrifying in people's perceptions.

But the dam burst, the thousands of cubic meters of river water poured down in an instant, and the scene of the flood rushing can definitely compete with the tsunami, and human beings will feel their own insignificance in front of it.

The little nobles unconsciously slowly retreated a few steps back, and only a few counts and kings stood still motionless.

"Hehe, no matter how big the flood is, it is wishful thinking to break down the city wall by the flood!"

When Nemio saw the mighty flood sweeping in front of him, he immediately understood what the Jones family had planned.

Nemio couldn't help but feel nervous at first, for fear that he would really let the Jones family's plan succeed.

However, in the next moment, Nemio thought of the walls of Baiyan City, but they were all built with thousands of pounds of boulders, and even if the flood completely submerged the entire city wall, it was impossible to cause any major damage to the city wall.

What's more, although the momentum of this flood was terrifying, it was not enough to completely submerge White Rock City.

At this time, no one paid attention to Nemio's expression, and everyone stared intently at the flood in the distance, waiting for the moment when the raging flood hit White Rock City.

Rumble!

Kindness is like water, and from this idiom, we can know that in people's impressions, water is soft and affectionate to nourish all things.

But this is the kind of water, once it gathers to a certain extent, it is also a terrible disaster.

At this moment, the flood water in the upper reaches finally rushed to the city wall of Baiyan City, and with the roar of a terrifying wave crashing on the shore, the monstrous torrent slammed into the towering walls of Baiyan City with stones and other debris, instantly stirring up waves more than ten meters high.

However, just as everyone had expected, the walls of Baiyan City were made of thousands of pounds of boulders, which were extremely strong, and they did not move in the face of this stormy sea.

The hard walls made the turbulent torrent bow its head, and it had to be diverted to continue rushing along the walls of White Rock Castle.

Multiply! Multiply! Multiply!

The flood water flowed down the city wall again, and after only two or three meters of seconds, it finally disappeared the burning wood, and at the same time slapped on the 100-meter city wall that had been burned for three days and three nights.

The splash of water hit the red-burned walls, and the sound of explosions continued, and the nearby river continued to bubble and roll.

This process lasted for more than half a minute before slowly weakening, and finally only a large area of stirred up water mist above the city wall could be seen slowly dissipating.

When the last trace of mist was also swept away by the breeze, the city wall was still the same, the waves were still the same, and only a piece of water could be seen in front of him, and Baiyan City still showed his majesty.

"Haha! It is completely wishful thinking that you can break through the walls of a thousand pounds of boulders with such a small flood! Count Alice, this time the bet on your Jones family has been lost! You have to remember, your reward this time is from my Charles family! ”

As this largest wave of floods flowed through White Rock Castle, the power of the next flood had weakened, and the flood that had just reached seven meters of the walls of White Rock Castle was now just over four meters away, and it was still slowly declining.

In more than ten or twenty minutes at most, the water level outside Baiyan City will definitely drop

Now that White Rock City is still standing, it means that the Jones family's plan has failed.

Hearing Nemeo's words, everyone on the scene reacted at this time, and then looked at Alice one after another.

The king, in particular, and the lord of the north, had an inquiring look in their eyes.

If there is any hope among the large and small nobles who have some hope for the Jones family's gambling contract, it is their king and the lord of the north.

The Lord of the North knew that his granddaughter was by no means a person who lacked calm, on the contrary, Alice had been well educated since she was a child, and her personality was very similar to that of her mother, not only was she smart, but she was also cautious and reliable.

So he thinks Alice is putting her hopes for the destruction of the city on this seemingly stupid flood.

As for the king, unlike the Lord of the North, he has some confidence in the Jones family not because of Alice, but because of Gervais, who is largely ignored by everyone.

Through the sudden appearance of fireballs in the Glory Manor, as well as the small steel cannon that performed extraordinarily a few days ago, and even the golden wine some time ago, King Lawrence felt that Gervais was not a simple person, and it was likely that people had unexpected plans.

There was a sudden silence in the room, and everyone was looking at Alice, waiting for her to make a final summary and admit the failure of the bet.

Although Alice's expression at the moment has not changed much, in fact, like other nobles, she thinks that Gervais's plan has not succeeded, so she can't help but look at Gervais.

When she set her eyes on Gervais, she saw that Gervais was holding a telescope at this moment, carefully looking at White Rock City in the distance.

And as Gervais looked at it, a smile slowly appeared on his handsome face.

Clearly, Gervais's plan wasn't going to be so simple.

Gervais put down the monocular in his hand, smiled and glanced at his cheap wife, gave her a reassuring look, and then looked at Nemeo, and then said in a mocking tone: "Count Nemio, who said that a flood could not wash away the walls built of boulders?" ”

"Alice, get everyone out of camp and get ready to attack the city!"

"Okay! Gervais! ”

When Alice saw Gervais's confident smile, the little worry in her heart was immediately dispelled.

And she looked at Gervais with a confident but evil smile at the moment, and she actually felt a little faster heartbeat.

In order to hide her strangeness, Alice quickly turned around after hearing Gervais's words, and ordered Nadine who was waiting at the door: "Pass my order, everyone out of the camp and start the siege!" ”

"Yes! My lord! ”

Nadine saluted Alice respectfully, then turned to the long-awaited vassals in the camp and shouted, "Lord Earl, you have an order!" Start attacking White Rock City! ”

After saying that, Nadine took the lead with five hundred Rose Knights and rushed towards the outside of the main camp.

Nadine and the others did not ride horses, but divided into groups of more than a dozen people to lead a carriage in the direction of White Rock City.

The carriage was carrying a simple wooden raft, which was simply tied with wood and straw rope, but it was very large enough to accommodate a team of more than ten people.

As the five hundred rose knights walked out of the camp, they were followed by a group of small nobles who were all dressed in the same way, all equipped with simple rafts.

"Haha, Count Alice, are you preparing to attack the city? You don't even need a siege ladder, do you need to climb it? ”

At this moment, Nemio already had a faint bad premonition in his heart, but he couldn't find anything wrong.

In order to ease the depression in his heart, Nemio can only hide his worries by sneering and testing Alice's reaction.

In fact, in addition to Nemio, the other nobles and nobles were also puzzled, but they were just bystanders to today's events, so they did not speak, but silently watched the development of the situation.

……

It was only five or six minutes, and Nadine and the others, who were walking in the forefront, finally arrived at the river, because the flood had not completely receded at this moment, so even if there were still four or five hundred meters of the city wall in their location, it had been flooded here, which was why they carried a simple raft for every dozen people.

"Hurry up and get on the raft! Stroke hard towards White Rock Castle, remember that the adults told me in advance, everyone will row the section of the city wall that was burned a few days ago! ”

After Nadine boarded the raft, he began to give orders to the surrounding teams, and soon the thousands of people rode on the simple raft towards White Rock City.

"Alice, trebuchet ready!"

"Trebuchet ready!"

……

Lord Loss, do you think there is some conspiracy in the Duchy of Jean, first to burn the walls with fire, and now to flood them, and what is even more strange is what they want to do with these rafts? ”

"The current water level under the city wall is still two or three meters deep, even if they want to attack the city, there is nowhere to stay, and they don't have a siege ladder at all?"

On the western wall of White Rock City, Lloster and Wallis, the Grand Commander of the Thunder Knights, stood facing the outside of the city.

The person who came out to question him was none other than Wallis.

Today's situation is very abnormal, and it is difficult for him, the great commander, who has experienced more than ten years of war, to scratch his head.

In fact, not only him, but even those ordinary soldiers were extremely puzzled, pointing and discussing something towards the raft that was approaching hundreds of meters away.

After a few hours of rest this morning, and the first batch of reinforcements, the morale of the defenders in the city has risen a bit, so everyone has changed the morale of the previous few days.

At this moment, they were waiting solemnly, ready to give the enemy troops on those rafts a head-on blow, but none of them noticed that under the western city wall, the city wall with nearly 100 meters had changed!

"Whatever they do, as long as we hold on inside the city and wait for other reinforcements to arrive!"

"If Lawrence can't capture White Rock City, then his plan for this year's southern expedition will be in vain, and we, the Duchy of Alban, will have precious respite!"

Lluster didn't understand what the Duchy of Jean had, but he wasn't worried, now that the king had begun to assemble a large army and prepare to quickly support White Rock City, the Duchy of Jean's plan to capture White Rock City would inevitably fail.

Although the damage caused by the Duchy of Alban's initiative may be greater than in previous years, it is all worth it.

Because the Church had already promised, they persuaded the Duchy of Xes to sign an armistice with the Duchy of Alban.

In addition, the church will privately provide a large amount of iron materials to the Duchy of Alban from this year.

As long as there is enough iron, the Duchy of Albanne can make enough weapons and armor, and with enough weapons and armor, the strength of the Duchy of Albane will not be worse than that of the Duchy of Jean.

Therefore, for the Duchy of Alban, this year is the most important year, and he must bring this year of development time for the Duchy.

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400 meters...... 300 meters......

"Trebuchet, launch!"

Seeing that the bamboo raft of the siege team was getting closer and closer to the walls of Baiyan City, and there was a distance of more than two hundred meters to reach the bottom of Baiyan City, Gervais finally gave the order.

"Launch!"

Bang! Bang! Bang!

As the hammer slammed into the trebuchet's clasp, five massive trebuchets threw boulders larger than a millstone toward White Rock City.

The five boulders crossed an arc in the air at a speed visible to the naked eye, tumbling and smashing into the walls of White Rock City.

Thundered!

Next, the image of everyone present being stunned appeared.

The moment the stone fired by the trebuchet hit the wall of White Rock Castle, the wall of White Rock Castle, which was indestructible in the eyes of everyone, collapsed.

And it didn't collapse a small gap, but a full length of hundreds of meters.

The hundreds of defenders who had been watching the show on the city wall fell into the water with the collapsed wall in an instant, and disappeared without a trace.

With the collapse of the nearly 100-meter city wall, the flood outside the city, which had not had time to recede, seemed to have found an outlet and began to fly into Baiyan City.

"This ...... This...... How is this possible? ”

At this moment, everyone has this question in their hearts.

Many people unconsciously pinch the back of their hands, unwilling to believe that this is true.

They knew the power of trebuchets, and in the siege battles of the previous days, they would use trebuchets to fire at White Rock City every day.

However, the walls of Baiyan City are extremely strong, and even if a stone larger than a grinding disc hits the wall, it can often only leave a small mark on it, smashing down the rock shell of some city walls, and even smashing out larger pits.

But why? Why did the Jones family destroy the impregnable walls of White Rock City in an instant with just one round of launches? And it's nearly 100 meters long!

Whether it was the nobles of the Duchy of Jean, or the soldiers of the Duchy of Alban, who were on the city wall, they were all in a daze at the moment, and no one made a sound, just stared blankly at the huge gap.

If there is any action now, it is only Nadine's besieging team, they don't even have to paddle at the moment, the water pouring into White Rock City will carry them towards the city.

Moreover, they could even see many soldiers and centaurs in the gap on the raft at this time, because the rolling torrent was about to drown them.

"Longbowmen! Shoot arrows! Can't let them into the city! ”

Listening to the screams of the fleeing soldiers in the city, Wallis on the city wall finally reacted, and shouted orders to the defenders who were still standing on the city wall, and at the same time drew the long sword at his waist, preparing to go to the gap in person to block the siege team of the Jones family.

"Wallis, don't go! Let's withdraw! White Rock Castle ...... Lost! ”

Just two steps after Wallis had taken a step, Losse took a deep look at the camp a few miles away, and looked at the rose flag fluttering on the camp, and his hands trembled slightly.

He knew that White Rock City could no longer be defended.

As long as the flood waters receded, tens of thousands of troops from the Principality of Nagien would continue to pour into White Rock City.

And without the protection of the walls of White Rock City, these thousands of people in the city are not the opponents of the Duchy of Jean at all, even if they have their own two golden knights, it is useless, because the Duchy of Jean has eight golden knights.

Their best option now was to retreat towards the southern wall while the Duchy of Jean had not yet been attacked.

"Lord Losser, there are floods everywhere, how can we retreat?"

Wallis gritted his teeth and gritted his teeth, but finally obeyed Loss's orders.

Because he also knew that there was a gap of a hundred meters in the city wall, and any remedy was useless.

"There are dozens of wooden boats in the city, and let everyone collect planks and wood, make simple rafts and leave, and run as much as they want!"

The flood temporarily stopped the attack of the large forces of the Duchy of Jean, but it also prevented their retreat.

However, at this moment, the army of the Duchy of Gien is in the east, north and west, and there is no enemy in the south, as long as you run to the south, you can directly return to the hinterland of the Duchy of Alban.

"But Lord Lossher! The warhorses of our Thunder Knights! ”

Vorster gritted his teeth.

Although the water level in the city is not high, but with the opening of the city gate, the water level inside and outside the city will be at least one or two meters, and people can escape with planks and boats, but the war horses cannot be taken away.

"Don't worry about the horses, the lives of these soldiers are the most important thing! You are all the elite of the Empire, and now that White Rock City is lost, we must preserve our strength to deal with the invasion of the Duchy of Jean! ”

Lester took a deep breath and made a difficult decision, and with that he said that, he took the lead towards the southern wall.

As he walked, Löster ordered the defenders, who were still at a loss for what to do: "Everyone, quickly make a simple raft and prepare to evacuate from the south gate!" Be fast! ”

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