Chapter Twenty-Nine: A Stratagem for Breaking the City

I don't know how long it took for Christina to finally wake up from her coma. She lay on the ground, staring blankly at the top of the tent.

"How could it be...... How could I have let them run away? Damn, they're all pampered guys, and they're really going to save him personally......" Christina smiled wryly.

"Looks like I'm wrong, though. Christina gasped and got up from the ground, "I should have understood earlier that in this era, the nobles were not yet waste that could keep fish in their heads. Ah, the Gentile was sent back by his mistress, what should I do? It is clearly recorded in the book that the city of Pali will be captured by Edward, but if the Gentile goes back, how can the city of Pali be captured? He clearly has the technology in his hand that can make Capet develop at a high speed for 400 years!"

After being silent for a while, she smiled: "No, even if he goes back, I still have a chance." I know the reason for the eventual fall of Pali City, how can I be so uncalm? If it only takes a month or two, even if he has the most powerful technology in his hands, what can he change? He himself is just a big fool!"

"That's it, obviously I wanted to endure until the critical moment to make a move, really, let Edward's thousand-stabbed pick up the cheap......" Christina fell to the ground weakly again, "Now, Lord, do you think I can change the final outcome? I was so scared, afraid that I had made history. I hereby make a great wish that if the heads of my father and mother will no longer be cut off on the gallows, then I will serve you all the rest of my life in the convent for the rest of my life......"

During Christina's prayers, the double moon sets in the west, the sun gradually rises in the east, and the sky begins to brighten.

"Looks like I'm going to have to talk to Edward. ā€

After a while, the final preparations were finally completed - the Boulognes assisted the Caledonian army by building a dike, upstream of the Seti River, which surrounded the city of Pali, and cut off the water source of the Pali moat. The Pali moat, which was wide and deep, began to dry up at a rate visible to the naked eye.

However, this is just a foreplay of a surprising scheme.

The experienced Earl of Lipton took command of the siege, and he wisely advanced the breakfast time of the Galledonian and Boulogne armies, and then launched a surprise attack while the defenders of the city were eating dry black bread.

At this point, the Caledonian Army's long-range firepower had gained the upper hand, and the Capetian Army, who had lost their armor, had lost all the artillery that Sinampe had brought to the front line to the Galedonians - perhaps not accurate, but a considerable part of the artillery was captured by the Galedonians. Combined with the cannons made by Andreno for the Galledonians, and a traditional but large army of trebuchets, the firepower of the head of the city of Pali was completely suppressed, and with the advantage of defending the city, Capet's long-range firepower was able to return fire at first, but they were soon dumbfounded by the Galledonians by their numbers - although they were not accurate, but the Galledonians were able to deliver covering strikes. Some of the stone bullets flew over the city and fell into the city. Many of the hapless citizens of Pali went to God at breakfast.

Seeing that the counterattack at the head of the city had been suppressed, the Galedonians pushed the siege equipment to the front line and began to march towards the city of Pali. Without rubber, the wooden wheels of the Caledonian siege equipment came into contact with the gravel, making an unpleasant grinding sound that made it possible to cover the ears. The voices converged and terrified the defenders at the head of Pali.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!" The defenders on the city walls used beacon fire and bells to inform everyone in the city of this cruel news.

At this time, Sinampei, who had just escaped back to Pali City, was sitting in the palace, racking his brains to think about what to do now, when he suddenly heard this terrible news, Sinampei was startled.

"Damn, what does that Edward think? Now that there are so many people gathered in Pali City, he just needs to slowly besiege the city and wait for the people in the city to starve to death!" Si Nanpei couldn't help but scold, "Can't he give others a little buffer time?"

The answer, of course, was no, for Christina had already persuaded Edward: "The stranger has fled from me by his concubine, and he may have returned to the city of Pali by now." Your Highness, if you still want to reclaim Cape's crown, then follow my advice and recover this city at the heart of Capet's kingdom before that stranger creates something earth-shattering. ā€

"Kepali is a fortress city known all over the world, do you have a way to conquer her?" Edward asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Of course there is a way, otherwise I wouldn't have mentioned it to you. Christina laughed, "Still, it is necessary to use a fierce attack to leave the people of Pali City without time to worry about it - it is better not to give the people of the city a chance to improve their drainage facilities - especially the foreigner, it is better not to let him think about this." ā€

"But didn't the Capetians plug the sewers long ago? Edward frowned, "It's common sense when defending the city. What, what's the problem?"

"Well, it's common sense. But the weather doesn't always change according to people's common sense. Christina pointed to the sky, "This is the rainy season, this year's rainy season will have torrential rains, Your Highness, you have to believe in the power of torrential rains and floods." ā€

"So, the reason why you built yƬ and I built an embankment in the upper reaches of the Siti River......"

"That's right, Your Highness, just like you think. Christina nodded.

Edward nodded in agreement with Christina's proposal. Capet is rainy, while the Pali Plain is particularly low. If Christina's plan is followed, the plains of Pali will become a flooded country, but Edward will not care - as long as it is beneficial to conquer Pali, he will do it ruthlessly.

The inhabitants of the plains of Pali were not his people for the time being, and they were traitors who supported the puppet king, and he would not have the heart to pity them.

"Still, I don't care if anyone else lives or dies, but Your Highness, you can guarantee that the Duchess of Auvergne and the stranger are alive and well. Christina's tone was calm, but the speed of her voice was revealing of her feelings, "If the two of them die, I won't let you go, Edward! I can't allow anything like the Agincourt fortress to happen again, and your tricks won't succeed again!"