The battle was stalemate. One day passed, and there was no progress in the attack on Lorain.
Late at night, more than 20 small bosses gathered in the camp and started arguing with each other about the attack on Luolan. No one could convince the others to act on his plan, and by the end, they were even fighting each other with chairs.
All kinds of strange things flew past Ella's eyes: bones, soup pots, barbecue grills, and even freshly dug boogers.
Ella held her forehead and sat under these things flying around, her brows knitted into a knot.
She knew that while these people were making noise, Sigurd's army was approaching Sealand.
Sigurd's messenger seemed to appear before her eyes again: he threw the bloody head he was holding on the ground, and the head rolled a few times on the ground, revealing Amy's face.
An egg hit her forehead at this moment, and the egg white and yolk flowed down her nose.
Ella took out her handkerchief and slowly wiped her face clean. Then, she didn't know where the courage came from. Facing this group of strong men, she waved a plate and threw it to the ground:
"That's enough! Stop everyone!"
The little bosses became quiet and looked at Ella together. As a shield maiden with great achievements, Ella's words are still somewhat intimidating.
"The situation was amplified by you! It's you who want to fight Sigurd! But now you can't even win a Lorran! Is there Sigurd there now? Is there any magician above the elf level? Really? Really? Have you ever thought about what would happen if Sigurd really comes?"
Ella's question left the little bosses speechless for a moment.
"Who still wants to fight Sigurd now? Who still has the courage? Stand up! Everyone obeys your command! Who dares to stand up? Who dares!"
No one dared to stand up.
"Okay, let's get back to capturing Loran - you launched the charge without authorization. You are awesome! You are so amazing, so come up with a plan that can capture Loran? Come up with it! Everyone will listen to you. The command! But if the plan fails, then you will come back to see me with your head, and then the rest of the people will hold their heads and give it to Sigurd! Who dares to stand up? Who dares!"
Still no one dared to stand up.
"No one dares, right?"
Ella glanced at everyone present one by one with her sharp eyes, and everyone she saw lowered their heads. She had been a Barcelona Lisa for so many years, and she was very comfortable doing this kind of thing. It's just that when she was in Constantiniya, she was just a little chick who was ignored. No matter how harsh she was, no one would really care about her. But among this group of pirates, she has accumulated a certain prestige.
She took a long breath and said:
"Since you all don't dare, well, I'll have to stand up."
In full view of everyone, Ella took a deep breath, stood up, and walked to the middle of the crowd.
"If Loland cannot be captured, I will take all the blame on myself, tie myself up, go to Sigurd myself, and ask him to forgive you. But on the contrary, before Hestein comes back, everyone will You must obey my orders - I mean, really obey my orders! If I don't say move, don't move; if I don't say retreat, don't retreat; if I say step left, don't step right! Who will If you step on the wrong foot, whoever is quick will stab yourself to death! Do you understand?"
No one made a sound.
Ella looked around at everyone present again.
"I already have a complete plan. As long as you listen to my command, you will definitely be able to capture Lorraine before Sigurd arrives! Just like in Brusis!"
After a period of suffocating silence, someone finally stood up and bowed to Ella. Under his influence, people started to imitate his actions one after another. Finally, everyone stood up and expressed their willingness to obey Ella's instructions.
Ella said nothing more, turned and left the camp.
"Your Majesty...are you really able to take down Luo Lan?"
Amy, who followed closely, asked fearfully.
"No."
What came out of Ella's mouth were words Amy didn't expect.
"I have never fought in a war. Although my father taught me some basic knowledge, every plan I proposed was rejected by my father - but even I can hear the plans of those pirates. How unreliable. In order to verify my idea, I tried it out."
"Test? In a threatening way?"
"I was scared to death, for fear that they would rush up and beat me... But what scared me even more was that none of them dared to stand up. My idea was correct... they really had no way to take down Luo Lan. Thinking of the report I heard in Constantiniya, the common tactic of this group of pirates is to grab and run... You can't count on them at all."
"But Your Majesty obviously has no choice, so why do you have to stand up?"
"If I don't stand up, this army will collapse soon... My father taught me that the so-called leader is to gather people's hearts at a time like this. Even if it fails in the end, it will be better than letting people lose their hearts." good."
Ella's eyes burned with ambition, just as she had when she told Amy that night in the Praetorian camp that she wanted to be Augusta.
There is another part to what his father said:
——And if you can win, then you will have taken the first step to becoming a king.
People in Zealand began to make siege equipment according to the drawings drawn by Ella.
There were still six days until Sigurd's arrival.
"Your Majesty, I just took a look at the construction site... They have no experience in manufacturing trebuchets, and the progress is very slow. At the current rate, the first batch will be completed in about a month..."
"Then deploy three times more manpower from the front line. The people in Lorraine don't know what we are doing and will not rashly launch a counterattack."
"Even so, it will take at least half a month... Your Majesty, we really don't have that much time."
Even if Amy didn't say anything about this, Ella knew the situation in her heart. But if we really want to rely on the ladder to attack Loland, judging from the battle situation on the first day, the hope is equally slim.
what to do? Send more manpower to work on the catapult?
-That's meaningless.
If it takes ten people to build a house in one hundred days and twenty people to build the same house in fifty days, then if the number of people is increased to one thousand, will the house be completed in one day? If the number of people increases to 24,000, will the house be completed in one hour? How about increasing it to 1.4 million people? Can the house be completed in one minute?
In half a month, this speed has reached the limit. No matter how many people are sent, there is no way to speed it up. Unless there is magic that can transcend time, such magic does not exist in any country's magic system.
Is there any way? How to double the speed of making catapults?
Ella sat down and began to search for relevant books on the carpet in the Wang family library.
Can't find it in the engineering category...
Can't find it in the architecture category...
In the history category... I still can't find it.
…
…
In the crystallization of human wisdom for thousands of years, doesn’t such a method exist?
Among the dusty books, a book suddenly fell in front of her. The writing on the book is square and neat, some kind of hieroglyphics. It was obviously the "giant dragon" from further east than the Tianfang Empire.
A bold idea emerged in Ella's mind.
Amy saw some clues from the changes in Ella's expression: "Your Majesty, have you found magic powerful enough to defeat Sigurd?"
"Found it, but it's not magic - it's the Art of War."
Ella found Gan.
"Have any of you here ever drawn a map of the neighborhood?"
The Royal Library contains various maps drawn by various places, times and people. However, Zealandia is located in Scandinavia, the northernmost and most remote part of the continent, and the Seven Hills Empire has no knowledge of this place.
"Sister Shieldmaiden, do you want Xilan's? Or Luolan's?"
"No, the scope needs to be larger - preferably covering the entire North Sea."
"In that case, just use the map I drew. I have traveled to various parts of the North Sea to hunt the legendary white bear."
Gan ran out and came back soon with a large roll of drawings. As soon as Ella spread out these maps, she was immediately hit by a huge impact - in this era, the so-called map basically only shows the relative position between two points. A map that can calibrate the distance between two points is already very precise. But Gan Baolai's map not only marked the location and distance, but also marked the terrain, roads, forks, rivers, bridges...
Even Amy can see that this map is unusual. She pressed Gan's shoulder and asked tremblingly: "Gan... how did you draw such a map?"
"I traveled all over the world to hunt the legendary white bear, and I drew pictures of the places I passed. How about it? Not bad, right?"
Hermes, the "god of travelers," had his blessing on Gan.
Ella touched Gan's head and said in a trembling voice:
"Gan...you are really...a genius."
After that, Ella began to stare at the map without saying a word.
The pages of the books in the Wang Family Library were turning in her head. She searched for all the files related to the war: tactics, strategy, war history...
