Mellie, Ragnar and the other thirteen people disappeared. Alfred faced the berserkers who were chasing him.
As soon as he came into contact with the battle, reports of failures came like snow flakes. The berserkers ignored Alfred's sudden attack in the forest, ignored the pits, traps and flying trees. They pushed back the attacking troops with crazy morale. They climbed out of the pit with their fingers, broke the trap with their teeth, and split the flying wood with their axes!
Alfred was defeated step by step by this seemingly invincible force, and finally had to retreat to where Ella was. He suffered a serious injury on his body and was helped by his subordinates to walk in a daze.
"We must retreat immediately!" shouted a young knight named Glahid under Alfred. "The King of Knights will dock his ship on the other side of the forest, and we can board the ship back to Zealand from there!"
"If we run away like this, we will be caught up by those madmen soon!" another knight shouted, "Someone must break up and use the remaining traps to block their steps!"
As soon as the word "discontinued" was heard, the crowd suddenly became silent. They have all been frightened out of their courage by Ragnar's beast-like troops. Even the brave Sealanders have been frightened to the point of weakness by Ragnar's beast-like troops.
Ella heard it all. She stood up slowly with Amy's support.
"I already have a way to defeat Ragnar, and it is a sure-win way."
She said this, drawing everyone's attention to her.
"However, this strategy cannot be implemented here...I need time. I also need as many troops as possible to ensure the implementation of the plan...So, you must return to Zealand safely with me. And for this purpose... Someone has to be here to hold off Ragnar's army."
"But, I must tell you the truth, those who stay will be in danger. They will use traps to block Ragnar and his troops here, and then find opportunities to hide in the forest, and then find opportunities to pass through large areas of enemy territory , to return safely.”
"People of Sealand, I promise, I will not let your relatives become Ragnar's slaves. People of England, I promise, I will not let pirates continue to plunder your Great Britain - when I return to Sealand , let me prepare, and I can defeat Ragnar!"
"That's all. Those who are willing to stay, tell me your names and let me write them on the inside of my clothes. I promise that when I defeat Ragnar, I will give his land to you, or Your children, I will also write your deeds into poems, regard you as the heroes who defeated Ragnar, and let the bards sing it from generation to generation... The enemy is approaching, and I really can't say too much anymore. Now, I am willing Those who remain, stand before me!"
After an uncomfortable silence, the knight named Glahid stood up first and said, "The honor I can get by killing the Pirate King is probably much more than what I can get by continuing to live for thirty years." , I’ll stay!”
Under the influence of Glahid, more than ten of Alfred's subordinates stepped forward one after another. Now people in Zealand couldn't bear it anymore. Someone shouted: "How can we lose to these Anglo-Saxons!", and then about ten people from the Zealanders stood up.
Looking at the thirty warriors who stood up, Ella wiped the corners of her eyes, wrote their names, and then kissed their foreheads one by one.
After doing this, she firmly gave the order to the remaining people to retreat.
When she got on Alfred's ship and sailed away from the shore, she could still faintly hear the shouts of death coming from the woods.
There were less than five hundred soldiers who ran out with Ella. They sat on the deck disgraced and powerless, their morale demoralized to the extreme. In this case, Ella ordered:
"Take out your flag and put it up in the most conspicuous place on the ship!"
Everyone was surprised when they heard Ella's words. This kind of action is too ostentatious, and it is easy for the enemy to grasp their movements. They were retreating, and it was not like they had won a battle!
"What are you afraid of? Hang out boldly. I'm afraid no one will chase us. As long as they chase us, I will let them come back!"
Seeing the confident Ella, everyone doubtfully raised the flags on all the ships.
However, Ella's next instruction was even more unexpected than the previous one:
"Are there any musical instruments on the ship? Someone will play a song for everyone!"
Everyone looked at each other in confusion, and they were even more confused about what kind of medicine was sold in Ella's gourd. Even if he looks like he's defeated, I'm afraid some people will believe him if he says he's returned victorious!
After sailing with great fanfare for several days, as they were passing Gotland Island, three ships caught up from behind and joined Ella and the others. Those were some of the archers who successfully climbed onto the boat and escaped from Uplon City, and Mellie was among them. She seemed fine and had no serious injuries. But when she learned that Alfred was seriously injured, she rushed to Ella's boat and ran to Alfred's cabin without looking back.
One of the three ships was Alfred's flagship and had a catapult mounted on it. Ella looked at the catapult for a while, and then issued an order even crazier than the previous two orders:
"Drive this ship alone to the city of Gotland and throw a few stone bullets into it!"
"Your Majesty! What on earth do you want to do?" Even Amy couldn't help it and asked in front of everyone, "I did this when I went to Upland before to lure out their navy. But our fleet has already lost its strength. It’s not as good as before! We’re thankful that Gotland’s navy didn’t come out to stop us, so why should we provoke them!”
Ella still did not reveal his plan, but just said: "What we want is for them to come out. Then we can rest in Gotland - don't worry, although we are short of manpower now, when the time comes, there will naturally be a large army to respond .”
Alfred's men didn't believe Ella's words, but the Sealanders happily ran over and removed them from the flagship. Ella asked the rest of the fleet to hide far behind, not to be discovered by Gotland, and only let the flagship drive alone to the city of Gotland, and fired a few stone bombs into it.
"Shieldmaiden, the Gotlanders are still hiding and refusing to come out, what should we do?"
Ailadi stood at the bow of the ship for a while, sighed, and said, "It seems that the plan has failed. Let's just go back to Zealand."
After saying this, Ella walked into the cabin alone in silence.
When Amy walked in, she was surprised to find Ella lying on the ground, curled up and whimpering.
Is there any way to destroy the chasing enemies? How can there be an army to meet them? However, if they just want to run back to Zealand in despair, they will be intercepted by Gotland and their entire army will be annihilated.
That's why she gave the dangerous orders one after another.
No one knows that the person who seems to be the most confident is actually suffering from a deeper fear than anyone else these days.
The names of the thirty warriors who stayed behind in Upland were still written on the inside of Ella's clothes. However, since she doesn't even know magic, how can she defeat Ragnar's army that transcends common sense?
She was a liar and she deceived everyone.
"Amy...can I be scared now? Can I cry?"
