When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 757 Very Watery

The Silver Bay City Cathedral reflected a faint fluorescence under the moonlight, but its back door was covered by the shadow of the tower and was extremely dark.

In the pitch-dark alley, horses snorted and slowly entered, pulling a black wooden carriage with copper bells hanging on it.

The carriage was quite luxurious, with intricate Gothic gilded patterns on the edges and surface.

But the person who came out was a monk in simple clothes, and the one who greeted the monk was the distinguished Archbishop of Silver Bay, King Weiss.

The archbishop was nearly eighty years old, with snow-white hair hanging from his eyebrows and lips, while the monk was just over thirty, serious and strong.

"Have you, Your Excellency the Duke, made the right choice?"

"Yes," said the simple monk, in a terse and powerful voice, "I have done my duty, and all agree, except Count Lattes."

"Lathis is a capable man, but his soldiers are too poor. When he goes to Dawn Island, Your Highness may give him a general position." The archbishop's cane beat the ground rhythmically.

“I’ve always wondered what to do next?”

"When His Highness Jinigis has time, he will naturally come to take care of it. If His Highness Jinigis fails, then let the Franks or Norns worry about it."

"I see." The simple monk took two more steps forward before whispering, "Is this all worth it?"

"The road to heaven is paved with thorns. If everyone is afraid of blood," the archbishop paused as he stepped onto the stairs. "Then who can be ultimately saved?"

"Hallelujah!" The monk drew the sign of the cross on his chest.

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"Hallelujah!" Under the moonlight, hundreds of kilometers away from Yinwan City, Duke Yichao drew the word "喬" on his chest.

"Ha, what Luya, the Holy Father and the ancestors in heaven will never forgive you." In the flickering candlelight, Count Lattes spoke eloquently.

Duke Yichao ignored him and asked the attendant, "Have all the tributaries been repaired?"

Count Lattes grabbed his arm and said, "What on earth are you thinking about? This is our hometown after all."

"Just because Gravel is my hometown doesn't mean it's a good place."

"Do you really believe what King Gigi said?"

"Why don't you believe it?" Duke Yichao picked up a copy of Yilin and handed it to Count Lattes, "Look for yourself, His Majesty the King directly stripped all the noble titles from top to bottom on Dawn Island.

They could even sell them directly to ordinary people as knights' manors or even baronies, which was like exchanging money for aristocratic titles.

At least we are nobles. As long as we do well in this battle, I will still be the Duke when I go to Dawn Island. How can the Duke of Dawn Island be the same as the Duke of Gravel Plains? "

"This... Isn't he afraid of resistance from the nobles? Doesn't the Osra family have any objection?" Lathis's eyes widened as he buried his head in the newspaper.

"It is said." Duke Wing Nest hesitated for a moment, "The Osla family once tried to send people to support Duke Neidbach, but His Royal Highness the King stopped them, and the two sides fought a battle on the border.

After this, the Osra family completely withdrew their support for Neidbach.

I guess it was the patriarch of the Osra family who chose to surrender."

Duke Yichao looked at his cousin and reached out to pat his shoulder, but he finally withdrew his hand: "The situation is like this. We can't repair the Innocent Dam. It will collapse in the future if it doesn't collapse now."

"Is Meliati a fool?"

"My cousin, do I expect a flood to drown Meliati's army?" The Duke of Wing Nest used a pair of tongs to stoke the fire in the fireplace.

"if not?"

"What do you think the purpose of clearing the countryside is?"

Count Lattes was stunned for a long time before he spoke: "When did you understand these things?"

"Obviously, I do."

"You know which prostitute is smoother, which lady is more coquettish, I know, but war?"

Duke Yichao's face darkened: "It was the envoy from the Holy Throne City who came up with the idea. You will lead the Red Feather Arrows to attack tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

Count Lattes was stunned for a long time, then bowed and kissed his hand: "As you command."

The purpose of clearing the countryside was, firstly, to disperse the crowd and reduce losses, secondly, to force the Thousand River Valley army to take fixed roads, and thirdly, to prevent Meliati from obtaining baggage.

There is at least an hour's buffer period between the discovery of a flood and the release of the flood water. The infantry can at least use this time to escape to high ground, but the transport ships cannot go ashore.

How much power can the Thousand River Valley army, which has lost its baggage, have in fighting back against the Red Feather Arrow Knights, who have retained their most elite strength?

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"Is everything arranged?" Tarkan, the Duke's confidant, looked around.

Under the moonlight, many workers gathered at the Inossen Dam.

They pulled the wooden frame with ropes, and the iron chains slid between the shoulders and the rocks, and the wooden cage filled with stones was lifted from the water.

On both sides of the towering dam, stone statues of priest kings holding scepters and swords quietly watch everything in front of them.

Hearing Tarkan's words, the engineer with a big belly and a worried face glanced at him and said, "It's all ready. It will start in two quarters of an hour at the latest."

"Is it about to begin?" Looking at the calm water, Tarkan couldn't help but doubt.

"The Innocent Dam has been in disrepair for a long time." Water conservancy engineer Dabu Odo looked at the dam in front of him, "Even if it doesn't collapse this time, it will collapse in another seven or eight years."

Raising his head and stretching his neck, Tarkan looked at the towering dam and the stone statues on both sides and said, "It doesn't look like it."

"You don't understand." The engineer from the Holy See City stared at the dam. "Water is both weak and hard. Give it a hole as small as a needle tip, and it will tear it apart into a natural chasm!"

For hundreds of years, this dam, which was started by Pope Joan and completed by Pope Innocent, is a treasure of dam engineering.

At this moment, it is up to me to end it.

It was a moonlit night with stars and everything was silent except for the sound of the wind and the rustling of grass.

"Did you hear it?"

"What?" Tarquin looked at the nervous engineer. "What's that sound?"

“It’s the dam that’s crying.”

As Dabuodo finished speaking, a column of water suddenly gushed out from a crack in the dam.

Massive water vapor was rising, and it seemed as if a giant beast was roaring under the water. The faces of the people near the dam turned pale.

In just a blink of an eye, two, three... five, six... countless columns of water gushed out from the cracks in the dam.

The mountains and the ground began to shake, and the stone statues of the bishop and king on both sides of the dam were trembling.

These water columns finally merged into a large water column, and the originally solid dam broke into countless stones, causing the stone statues to collapse.

The river water rushed across the mountains and valleys, spreading towards both sides of the valley.

With a rumbling sound, the stone statue collapsed and fell headfirst into the water.

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The clouds were rolling, and flocks of water thrushes flapped their wings and glided over everyone's heads.

Standing by the Nauan River, the misty wind blew across Meliati's face.

Her hair was loose and she was walking barefoot on the muddy ground. The Nauan River in front of her was no longer as clear as before.

The mud and sand were churning, the fish and shrimp were jumping, the river water overflowed the river bank, and the water became more turbid.

Countless bubbles and whirlpools appeared in the middle of the river, wrapped with fishing nets, soil, and even grass and the bushes on it.

It is almost impossible for barges docked at the port to untie their anchors, otherwise they will be out of control and capsize or run aground on the shore in the next second.

In the distance, the civilian camp was in an uproar.

"Look! It's the water thrush from the upper Nauan River!"

"Here comes the Faun on his Thrush!"

"Your Highness, Your Highness!" Lannes, who was also dressed in pajamas, walked over quickly in his slippers, "Stonewall people, dig up the Ruoan Dam!"

"I know." The drizzle of the early morning fell on Meliati's body, and her voice trembled a little, "I know..."

(End of this chapter)