The people of Zealand brought a flat stone for the messenger from nearby and a chair for Ella. Hestein's messenger sat on a stool and gradually regained his breath.
"So, what happened to Hestein?"
Ella asked triumphantly as she lay on the chair with her feet up.
"I defeated Halfdan with only 2,000 troops. Hestein has more than 10,000 people and has the terrifying title of 'King of Beasts'. He can't be too incompetent, right? But if he really supports If he can’t hold on any longer and wants me to rescue him, it’s not like I can’t agree. As long as he comes back and licks my toes clean with his tongue.”
"Yes! The boss said that if you, Shield Girl, are still alive and well without any missing arms or legs after he comes back, I will give you this letter written by him!"
"Letter? When did Hestein learn to write?"
"Yes! The boss said that he wanted to find out what Shield Girl you wrote to the owner of Antilia Island, so he started to learn writing!"
Lily heard this and asked doubtfully: "Letter to father? Written by Valkyrie? Is it..."
Ella was so frightened that she sat up straight and shouted, interrupting Lily's question: "I know! You! Why are you still standing there in a daze! Give me the letter quickly!"
Hestein's letter had seven words crawling crookedly and horribly:
"I come, I see, I conquer!"
Ella tore the letter into pieces in one go.
"Just a barbarian from a northern tribe, please apologize to Emperor Caesar!"
Then, the messenger slowly explained the situation of the war in the northeast: Hestein took advantage of Ragnar Lodbrok's troops before they were fully assembled, and attacked sixty-one cities, forcing Ragnar to divide his troops for rescue, and then Defeat the reinforcements one by one. Ragnar is currently besieged by Hestein in Westmanland, with less than five thousand troops!
"Ten thousand people versus five thousand people, I have the advantage!"
The messenger concluded excitedly.
Ella felt a little unsteady sitting up. Half of Hestein's house was burned down by her, and she was afraid.
"After the boss learned that the Shield Girl had defeated all the reinforcements from the British direction, he asked me to bring a message to the Shield Girl."
"……What?"
"If the Shieldmaiden can capture Gotland, the capital of Ragnar, before him, and he becomes the Hero Queen, he will make Gotland and all of Sweden your fiefdom."
Ella suddenly jumped up from her chair:
"You, you, and you! What are you still doing? Why don't you pack your things quickly and march to Gotland immediately!"
——Hestein seems to have won completely. Alfred thought silently.
Ella looked left and right, and finally found him in the crowd: "Alfred, when can your army set off?"
"Zipao, what are you going to do?" Alfred asked in a deep voice, "I would be happy to cooperate with you to capture the capital of the Pirate King, but your troops are insufficient, and I mainly bring the navy, which is really enough. Are you done with this?"
"There is no problem! Isn't Gotland a coastal city? The navy is enough! Come and see with me!"
Ella brought Alfred to the shore confidently. Alfred's face suddenly turned green when he saw the three ships moored on the shore.
"Purple robe...this huge instrument that suddenly appeared on the ship is..."
"Of course it's a trebuchet! I haven't been idle these days. I asked my subordinates to make two more trebuchets! Now we have three trebuchets!"
"Of course I know this is a trebuchet! I wanted to ask why you moved the trebuchet to the boat! Or is it my boat!"
"Of course it's to attack Gotland from the sea!" Ella puffed up his thin chest proudly, "Zealandians, you all know that trebuchets are super powerful weapons! Right?"
The people of Zealand all raised their voices to agree with Ella's point of view. Someone shouted to his companions on the boat: "Test firing! Give the natives of England some knowledge!"
"Wait a minute! Not on my boat..." Alfred wanted to stop him, but it was too late. The Sealand soldiers on the ship had already been prepared. When the people below shouted, they immediately shot out the loaded stone bullets.
However, before the stone bullet flew very far, it hit the mast of his ship. With a "click", his mast was broken.
"My ship!" Alfred wailed.
However, the Sealand soldiers on the ship seemed to be fine and began to load the second round of stone bombs.
Alfred jumped to his feet anxiously: "Why are you still continuing?"
"Probably because if the mast is broken, there will be no hindrance to shooting."
"Tell them to stop right now!"
Ella shrugged helplessly: "The Sealanders like to play trebuchet very much. Once they start, even I can't stop them. Anyway, the mast is broken, so there is no problem in continuing to shoot..."
"It's strange that there is no problem!"
While the two were arguing, the trebuchet on the other ship had also completed the loading action. That trebuchet was much larger than the first one. Alfred was so frightened that he hurriedly shouted: "That's my flagship! It costs eight thousand cows to build this ship! Let them stop!"
"Eight thousand cows?" Ella tilted her head and asked with some confusion, "How many?"
"a lot!"
"Gu...Okay, stop!"
Thinking that Ella finally realized his mistake, Alfred felt a little relieved. But before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard Ella continue to shout: "Fix the trebuchet in front of the mast before shooting!"
"Let them just stop shooting!"
However, the stone bullet has been thrown again. The Sealanders already had some experience in making trebuchets, so Ayla used more complex and powerful drawings when making new trebuchets. This stone bullet was fired with great power, and the trebuchet was moved again. The violent reaction force caused the ship to start to shake, so much that... it was about to tip over from one side.
"My flagship!" Alfred shouted.
"Eight thousand cows?"
“Fus Ro Dah!”
At the critical moment, Mellie let out a roar and pushed back the boat that was about to turn over. The boat rocked on the sea for a few times and finally stabilized.
Alfred patted his racing heart, and was about to warn Ella not to do such dangerous things in the future, but he heard Ella clapping her hands and shouting: "Okay! Perfect test shot!"
"My flagship is almost overturned! Is this called perfection?"
"Didn't it get pushed back and fall over?" Ella tilted her head and looked at Alfred, "Since it can be pushed back, that means it can be used, right?"
Mellie squeezed Alfred's hand in fear.
