Chapter 1489 Draining Lake Steyr (Part 1)

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When the army goes out, there must be a large number of hydrological experts accompanying them.

The task of these accompanying hydrological experts is to help the army find and identify reliable water sources.

The water problem has always been one of the major problems of the army.

Whether reliable and drinkable water can be found is directly related to the morale, fighting spirit and combat effectiveness of the army.

As soon as the sky dawned today, a carriage team slowly drove out of the joint camp of the Britannia Army and the Hiran Army.

Hundreds of black-armored cavalrymen wearing dark purple cloaks guarded the carriage team.

Wearing dark purple cloaks - the identity of these hundreds of black-armored cavalrymen is self-evident.

"Wow." El opened the curtain of the carriage and kept looking at the members of the Delan Undead Team around him, "Looking at it up close... The ace troops of the Britannia Empire are indeed extraordinary..."

Just by looking with his eyes, El could see the extraordinaryness of the members of the Delan Undead Team.

Su Cheng, who was sitting opposite El, also smiled and said:

"You are too kind."

The reason why hundreds of members of the Delan Undead Team were dispatched to escort this carriage team was quite simple.

Because in this caravan sat Su Cheng, the commander-in-chief of the Britannia Army, and El, the commander-in-chief of the Hilan Army.

And all the hydrological experts in their two armies.

The destination of their trip today was the huge freshwater lake located outside the city of Bolu - Lake Steyr.

Su Cheng and El planned to let these hydrological experts in their army help them confirm a very important thing...

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Frankish Empire, outside the city of Bolu, Lake Steyr.

A huge military tent was set up on the edge of Lake Steyr.

In the military tent, a large number of people in ordinary cloth were walking around, sitting at the table in the tent, and writing something with a pen.

The hundreds of members of the Delan Undead Team were scattered around, some standing guard outside the military tent, and some were assigned to patrol teams, patrolling outside the military tent to prevent any irrelevant people from approaching.

"Keso, how about it?"

Inside the tent, Su Cheng asked an old man in front of him who had just put down his pen and let out a long breath.

"Can the water of Lake Steyr be drained?"

Keso - the top hydrology expert of their Britannia Empire.

With his superb level and rich experience, he built many dams for their Britannia Empire and solved a large number of floods.

He was once praised by Ilsa as the "national treasure" of their Britannia Empire.

Being evaluated as a "national treasure" by Ilsa - you can imagine how superb a hydrology expert Keso is.

For this "Watching the Rhine" plan, Ilsa invited Keso with a high reward that was hard to refuse, and asked Keso to serve as the chief hydrology expert consultant of their Britannia Army this time.

Kso was a patriotic man, and with the generous reward, he took on the task without hesitation and followed Su Cheng all the way to this place.

As soon as Su Cheng finished speaking, a smile appeared on Kso's face.

"Captain Cheng, if you plan to drain the water from Lake Steyr - there is no problem at all."

Hearing Kso's words, although Su Cheng had already controlled himself, a touch of joy still appeared on Su Cheng's cheeks involuntarily.

"Great..." Su Cheng sighed in a low voice, "In this way... this battle of Bolu will be much easier to fight..."

"Su Cheng!" At this moment, El's voice sounded.

He used Britannia.

Su Cheng looked in the direction of the voice, and El was walking towards him with a smile.

"What are the results calculated by your Britannia Army's hydrology experts?"

"Our results are - the water in Lake Steyr can be completely drained."

"That's great." The smile on El's face became even more intense.

"The results obtained by my hydrology experts are exactly the same as yours."

"As long as the water in Lake Steyr can be drained... then the difficulty of this Bolu attack will become quite simple." Su Cheng said.

"Yes." El also echoed.

"That... Captain Cheng..." Kso, who heard the conversation between Su Cheng and El, suddenly interrupted and said, "Although the water in Lake Steyr can be drained, it will take a lot of time and cost a lot of money..."

"It doesn't matter." Su Cheng waved his hand without thinking, "This small price is not worth mentioning at all."

"... Captain Cheng." Kso's face became a little scary at this time, and he said in a deep voice, "The price to pay for draining the water in Lake Steyr is more than that..."

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That night-

Tonight, Su Cheng and El jointly held a new military meeting.

Tonight's meeting is the same as last night's meeting-all senior knights and senior generals of the two armies must participate.

As soon as everyone arrived and the meeting started, Su Cheng told everyone the follow-up plan for the army that made everyone dumbfounded.

"Drain... the water of Lake Steyr..." Chinoir, the deputy commander of the Far Eastern Front, widened his eyes, "Captain Cheng, why do you want to do this?"

Because Su Cheng could understand Hiran, he did not need an interpreter to translate for him. As soon as Chinoir finished speaking, Su Cheng immediately replied:

"Let the people in the city of Bolu have no water to use."

"Those who have done their homework before the war and studied the hydrology, geographical location and other information of Bolu should know that the water used by the citizens of Bolu comes from Lake Steyr outside the city."

"Every well in Bolu is directly connected to Lake Steyr."

"As long as Lake Steyr is drained, it is equivalent to draining every well in Bolu."

"Draining every well in Bolu is equivalent to cutting off the water source of Bolu."

"Without water available, the defenders of Bolu can only hold out for another week at most."

"And today, El and I have personally surveyed the situation of Lake Steyr with all the hydrological experts in our army."

"According to the survey of all the hydrological experts in our army, there is no problem in draining the water of Lake Steyr."

As soon as Su Cheng said this, everyone in the tent showed joy.

All of them were knights and generals who had been working in the army for many years.

They knew exactly what it meant for an army to have no water available.

However, before they could be happy for long, El, who was sitting next to Su Cheng, told them a cruel fact.

"Although it is completely possible to drain the water from Lake Steyr, there are two hidden dangers in doing so..."

As El spoke, he slowly stretched out two fingers.