Sigurd came with his fleet to rescue Lorraine.
Along the way, he encountered several small fleets sent by Aila. Each time, Ella's fleet showed up from a distance and then evacuated as quickly as possible.
Sigurd did not pursue them.
"She wants to continue to lure us away so that she can buy time to lay siege to Luo Lan! Don't be fooled!"
During this period, he received another urgent letter from Lorraine. In the pirate kingdom, there were very few people who could read and write, so Sigurd could directly recognize the handwriting on it - it was written by his confidant who stayed in Lorain. That is one of his most loyal subordinates. Even if the city of Luolan is destroyed, he will never switch sides.
This increased his confidence in his judgment that Ella was besieging Lorraine with all his strength.
He was inexplicably led by the nose and slipped away from Sifor to Uplon. This humiliation made him extremely angry, and also made his entire army extremely angry. For several nights at sea, he and his entire army had the same dream - they boarded Loland, attacked front and back with the defenders of Loland, and annihilated all Aila's troops under the city of Loland!
As soon as they got off the boat, they rushed towards the city wall of Lorraine at full speed without waiting for a break. They just wanted to have a hearty fight and vent their anger!
However, Lorraine is already an empty city.
Sigurd stared at the gap in the wall of Loland for a long time - it was obviously not caused by magic, but by man-made machinery.
He murmured to himself: "Can it be that Scipio doesn't know magic?"
- This information only made him angrier. He was actually led by a trash without magic for more than half a month!
Lorraine was empty, with no people and no food left; the well water was bubbling, indicating it was poisonous.
——Typical scorched earth strategy. Ella wanted Sigurd's troops to die of thirst and starvation here.
Fortunately, Sigurd's troops found a pile of food in the city that had not yet been transported away. Sigurd took the opportunity to encourage the whole army:
"Look, it was right not to chase those small boats. We successfully bought time, allowing the enemy to flee in a hurry before they could transport all the food! The enemy used such a despicable and shameless method, which just shows that they dare not confront us. !”
After verifying that the food left behind was not poisoned, Sigurd and his troops had a hearty meal. As for water, they can only continue to consume the amount they brought themselves.
Late at night, they dragged their tired bodies into the empty houses and fell asleep.
A series of fires suddenly flashed outside Luoran City. Ella and her army show up.
——"Sigurd, are you full?"
"You must have been scolding me all day, right? You must be calling me a coward who can only run away, right?"
"Furthermore, after seeing the small fleet I sent out, seeing the emergency report sent by Luo Lan, and seeing the food I left in the city, you must feel that I just captured Luo Lan not long ago and did not have enough time to do a good job." He ran away in a hurry when he was ready, right?"
"You are wrong, all wrong. That urgent letter was just intercepted when I was fishing. I have been waiting for you in Loland for a long, long time."
"And you, who have lost your judgment due to anger and arrogance, can you think that the date I scheduled for the decisive battle is actually today?"
Ella's eyes became sharper than ever.
"Light the bows and fire the trebuchets - fire into Lorain."
Sigurd's army was too underestimating the enemy and failed to notice the fatal trap - fire starters were placed on top of all the houses in Loland, and even the wooden walls surrounding Loland were burned in some places. Apply a layer of oil quietly.
A fire broke out. The troops behind Ella let out wild roars. Ella took a sword from Amy's hand, pointed forward with great courage, and her army rushed towards Lorraine like beasts being released from their cages. passed. They held torches and threw them all the way to the roof. The raging fire swept through the entire Lorraine in the blink of an eye.
As for the willingness to fight, the group of barbarians under Aila are also the same!
The sudden appearance of fire and enemy troops plunged Sigurd's troops into chaos. The few who reacted and organized themselves to take up weapons felt an overwhelming pain in their stomachs at the same time.
They were not mistaken, there was really no poison in the food Ella left behind.
——It’s just that I will have diarrhea after eating.
Sigurd's troops had all their fangs pulled out by Ella.
But Ella's army is in full swing!
"Come on, Sigurd!" Ella shouted in her heart, "I have tried my best to capture this beast like you. If you still have the strength to resist, then come on! Come and tell me that I am just a mediocre person. , come and tell me that I am not qualified to be a king - if you can do it, then come!"
As expected of an elf-level magician, neither the fire nor the troops taking advantage of the situation could stop him. Under the firelight that filled the sky, Sigurd rushed out of the flames alone with his stomach in one hand and an ax in the other. His hair has been singed by the fire, and his clothes have become torn, but he is still full of vitality!
A phalanx of a hundred men blocked him from the front. Sigurd gasped and drooled, but his fearsome blue eyes penetrated the crowd and pointed directly in the direction of Ella!
The army around Ella was scattered and completely out of formation.
Ella noticed Sigurd's gaze and said with a smile:
"Ah, it's very confusing, isn't it? I really don't know how to put them into a decent formation.
Sigurd focused his attention on Ella again. Her body was extremely slender and she did not look like a warrior at all.
"Ah, are you looking at me? I am indeed not a warrior. I was jumped over by a sheep a few days ago."
——This is the man who will defeat his "Snake Eyes" Sigurd?
Sigurd suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of irony.
"We are the ones causing the dispute, so I'll give you a chance."
Ella cleared her throat, spurred her horse forward a few steps, and stopped a stone's throw away from Sigurd.
"Sigurd—put down your arms or die here."
"Why would I lose to you? How could I lose to you? No matter who I lose to, I will never lose to you!"
Like all beasts in dire straits, Sigurd let out a shrill howl, then picked up his ax and charged into the phalanx blocking the front. Black smoke continuously emitted from his nose, pushing all enemies he encountered into eternal sleep. And those who were still struggling to support themselves became the dead souls under his axe.
No one could trap this beast. In the blink of an eye, the phalanx of a hundred people in front of him collapsed!
The black mist spread towards the place where Ella was. That was Sigurd's challenge to Ella - Come up! If you don't come up and kill me right away, then you can sleep in the black mist forever!
But soon, a shower of arrows slanted down, and in the blink of an eye, Sigurd was hit by seven or eight arrows.
If you wait for the black mist to take effect, Sigurd will be the first to die.
Ella patted a wooden monument that had been erected beside her with her sword.
"Sigurd, can you read the writing on this?"
"Ah, by the way, I forgot that none of you can read. Then I will read it to you. The words engraved on it are-"
After a deliberate pause, Ella showed a sarcastic smile:
"It was: 'Here Sigurd died'."
Sigurd took a long breath, used his ax to cut off the exposed arrow feathers, then grabbed the ax and rushed towards Ella and the army behind her!
He fell into a pit when he was about to touch Ella. Under the pit were countless sharpened wooden thorns.
The wooden tablet was used by Ella to mark the pit.
But Sigurd was still yelling, still roaring, still cursing, and vowed to cut into pieces Ella, the woman who had soiled the war!
Thick black mist overflowed from the pit and spread in all directions. Many more people fell after encountering the black mist - including Ayla's people and Sigurd's own troops.
He wants to put everyone on the entire battlefield into a deep sleep!
Ella calmly waved her hand.
The catapult, which had calibrated its position in advance, threw the boulder. It missed once, twice, and finally fell into the pit the third time.
The black mist disappeared, and Sigurd made no sound again. The whole world fell silent. On the battlefield filled with corpses, some unknown wild flowers bloomed quietly.
——Flowers blooming majestically, what do you see in your eyes?
——Are you wondering why people just can’t forgive each other?
The night is getting darker, making everything in the world blend into one.
The flowers swayed gently in front of Ella's eyes without saying a word.
"Your Majesty...are you crying?"
"I cried?"
After hearing Amy's words, Ella wiped her eyes. They were wet, and they were indeed tears.
"Amy...is what I did right?"
"I don't know, Your Majesty. I'm stupid and can't understand the rights and wrongs of war."
Amy carefully helped Ella off the horse, and then hugged her.
"But I know that His Majesty is slowly becoming a qualified leader."
"Loran is gone... I burned it down. The homes of the men, women, old people, and children of Lorraine were all burned down by me. It was obviously just a hunting conflict at the beginning, and we were the ones who escalated the situation. In the end, it was all the people of Luoran who had to bear it.”
While talking, Ella finally couldn't bear it any longer and burst into tears in Amy's arms!
"Amy, I'm guilty."
"Your Majesty, I forgive you."
Amy's hands powerfully helped Ella up.
"Okay, don't cry. Look, people are gathering around His Majesty."
The little bosses in Hestein's army have returned from the battlefield one after another. They formed a circle around Ella.
Behind them stood thousands of troops.
Ella wiped away her tears and looked up.
——At that moment, the people around her rushed up, lifted her up, and then threw her into the sky with cheers! .
Everyone, that whole night, was chanting Ella's name.
