The night passed very long, Shirley sang more than a dozen songs in succession, but Reggie tossed and turned and still couldn't fall asleep.
"Did I do something wrong?" Reggie's eyes and eyebrows knitted together. "I shouldn't have given them one more night. I should have killed them immediately."
Shirley caressed Reggie's cheek tenderly: "You are not wrong, my lord is always good."
"There will be sacrifices in the war," Reggie murmured, "but the sacrifices of the soldiers cannot be in vain. We can't wait any longer, we don't have to wait until dawn, we start now..."
Reggie walked out of the camp, stared at the sky for a long time, and then came back.
"If I attack Blackwater City now, it will mean that all the werewolves have lost hope of surrender, and they will fight me to the end."
Imma looked at Reggie sleepily and said vaguely: "Then let's wait until dawn."
"Give them one night, God knows what they will do."
Imma rolled her eyes, shook her head and said, "This is too complicated. Why are you telling us this?"
"What should I do?" Reggie grabbed his hair fiercely, "Why am I so indecisive?"
In fact, Reggie is decisive enough, but he can't see the entanglement and struggle behind other big shots. There is no room for any mistakes on the battlefield of the expedition. As far as the current situation is concerned, he has made the best choice.
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Unable to sleep anyway, Reggie simply went to the watchtower and watched the movements of Blackwater City with the sentries.
The city wall on the east bank was very high, and Reggie couldn't see the situation in the city. He really wanted to turn into a fish and swim directly to the city along the Blackwater River to see what the White Wolf King was doing.
After suffering like this for a minute and a second until Dongfang turned white, Reggie finally breathed a sigh of relief. He walked down the watchtower and gave an order to Jiawen: "Hit his mother with a cannon!"
Will Rogers set out with the artillery and deployed the artillery seven hundred feet away from the city wall. This is not the farthest range of the second-generation artillery, but it is the best shooting location. The terrain here is slightly higher.
A short uphill climb would cause great trouble for a cavalry charge.
Iron Skull and Flashman took the infantry and set up their muskets. Broken Bones and Sulit also led the cavalry on their horses. Reggie gave the order to fire, but Will Rogers suggested firing a warning shot first.
"At least give the civilians a chance to escape," Will said, still maintaining the knight's virginity. "If we want to conquer this place, we shouldn't leave too much hatred behind."
Iron Skull sneered: "When the werewolves kill us, where can we go to seek revenge? War without hatred can only appear in dreams."
Reggie didn't want to waste any more time, so he brought a musket and fired six shots in a row. The huge gunshots echoed over the wasteland for a long time.
"Okay, we have issued a warning!" Reggie said, "Now blast him!"
Will ordered the soldiers to load their ammunition. Reggie wanted to see the effect of the first round of shelling, but found a dazzling flag flying above the city.
"It's really cool!" Reggie cursed in his native language, "At this point, you still have the thought to wave the flag? Fuck him!"
Just when Will was about to give the order to fire, Jiawen quickly stopped him and said, "Sir, that flag is white."
"So what if it's white..." Reggie was startled, "White?"
Blackwater City surrendered, with more than a dozen white flags flying proudly at the top of the city.
Some nobles in the city opened the city gate and respectfully welcomed Reggie into the city.
Reggie didn't find the White Wolf King among this group of people, nor any other great lords, nor even a soldier.
The person with the highest status present was a lord (a middle lord with a higher status than the small lords). This lord's name was Roerwan. According to his description, the White Wolf King and the nobles brought everything they could in the city.
stuff and escaped by boat overnight.
Reggie wanted to take a look at the city, but Jiawen stopped him.
"Sir, if Sean had captured Shattered Snow City, what would you have done?"
Reggie suddenly realized that according to the original plan, if Sean captured Shattered Snow City, Reggie would use kerosene to blow him up in the castle. The White Wolf King left so suddenly that Jiawen would naturally become suspicious.
Not just Jiawen, Iron Skull is asking several young nobles who are leaving the city: "Your Wolf King is gone, why do you still stay here? Don't lie to me, I have lived in the Benlang Kingdom for a long time, I understand you
The rules!”
The little lords looked at each other and did not dare to say anything.
Iron Skull whispered to Reggie: "Blackwater City belongs to the White Wolf King. Since they are qualified to live in Blackwater City, this proves that they are the retainers of the White Wolf King."
Blackwater City belongs to the White Wolf King. This sentence is easy to understand. The White Wolf King was originally the master of Blackwater City.
But why do we say that those who live in the city must be the retainers of the White Wolf King? Are there no other nobles and commoners in this city?
After walking into the gate of Blackwater City, Reggie finally understood what Iron Skull meant. Blackwater City was not a city in the traditional sense, but a giant castle that had been repeatedly expanded.
There is a clear record in the history of the Wolf Country. The three largest races of the Wolf people are the gray wolf clan, the white wolf clan and the black wolf clan. The wolf kings of these three races have the highest status. They have obtained the king's permission.
A huge castle was built in their respective territories. Other wolf kings, such as the red wolf king, the golden wolf king and the scar-faced wolf king, are not qualified to build such a super castle.
The reason why they are called super castles is because the scale of these three castles is completely comparable to that of the royal palace. Since the king of the Benlang Kingdom has not placed any restrictions on these three wolf kings, their castles have been expanding.
Like the stacked castle on Spiked Island, the White Wolf King's castle has an astonishing seventeen floors, with ten floors stacked on top of each other, eventually forming a huge Blackwater City.
Someone once calculated that it would take at least half a day to go from the outermost level of the castle to the innermost level. If you wanted to check every small castle, it would take at least a month.
The residents in the city are all the retainers and servants of the White Wolf King, which is why Jiawen and Iron Skull are suspicious. The White Wolf King has escaped, why do these retainers and servants stay here? If they betrayed the White Wolf
King, the White Wolf King will kill them all without hesitation in accordance with the laws of Benlang Kingdom.
According to this lord's explanation, the White Wolf King did not have enough ships to take them away, and they were abandoned by the White Wolf King.
This explanation is reasonable, but it does not mean that it is the real reason. No matter in any era, there are countless reasonable lies.
Reggie walked into the first level of the castle and accidentally stepped on a piece of poop on the gravel road. Smelling the original ecological smell in the air, the true appearance of Blackwater City was far less glamorous than it appeared on the outside.
"This place is too dirty!" Reggie carefully avoided the feces all over the street and looked at these gorgeous and weird buildings. The outermost castle looked like a row of pencils stuck in the ground, one after another.
The small castle stretches all the way to the river bank.
But when he wanted to approach the second level of the castle, Hurley blocked Reggie's way: "I have a good nose, let me go in and take a look first. If they hide something terrible, at least they can give it to you."