"Bjorn." Ella's brows furrowed. According to Alfred's description, it was indeed difficult for him to handle. His magic can attack from a distance, making it difficult to trap him. Once he breaches the wall, defense becomes meaningless. In addition, even at close range, his swordsmanship is very troublesome.
She unconsciously cast her gaze on Amy: "Amy, your Loki's protection..."
"Yinvar is Bjorn's brother." Amy replied, "Even if I want him to help me, he won't help me."
"Sorry, it's my problem." Ella said apologetically. To reach Loki's protection above the elf level, she needed to give up Amy's body to Yin Val, which she shouldn't have mentioned in any case.
Seeing that Ella felt a little guilty, Amy hurriedly added: "But I can use Aphrodite's protection to try my best to help. Although I can't completely stop Bjorn's actions, there is still no problem in interfering with him."
"In this case, we can only place our hope on you, Glahid." Ella turned to look at Glahid, "Once Bjorn comes on the scene, you and all your archers will aim at him and keep shooting."
"Aim all at Bjorn?" Glahid replied, "To be honest, this may not be effective, and we will not be able to support the battlefield."
"As long as we can interfere with Bjorn so that she can't breach the city wall. If the city wall is lost, no amount of archer support will be able to replace it."
"In this case, my subordinates can also participate." Alfred said, "Although Glahid is the strongest archer in Britain, I still have a group of slightly inferior archers here."
The battle plan was thus decided. Although everyone felt that some of the plans were not very satisfactory, no one could come up with a better plan for the time being.
"Then let's talk about the most important thing!" Ella leaned her head in front of Alfred, "Your troops went to steal homes easily, and let my troops do such a difficult job, you have to show something, right? You How much money is left in the treasury? Tell me?"
"It's really a pirate-style negotiation." Alfred smiled, "Although I know Sweden is very poor, it's a pity that I don't have much money left here."
"How could this happen!" Ella yelled, "Then I became a free mercenary, didn't I? Although the Island Republic also treated me as a mercenary at the beginning, it also gave me some money!"
"Aren't we allies? Why are we talking about money?" Alfred said, "How about this? I think your Swedish soldiers are mainly infantry. After this war is over, I will support you with a group of war horses and send a few more Knight, how about helping you train your cavalry team?"
"Well... I still want money."
"I know that Swedish horses are stronger than ours." Alfred said, "But the formation of a cavalry team is not just about horses. Without experienced commanders and good training, it is just riding Just a horse person."
Ella thought of the First Field Army of the Seven Hills Empire, which was mainly cavalry but collapsed every time, as well as Berengar's armored holy cavalry, which was small in number but could play a key role every time.
"Okay...but during the defense of the city, all my troops will eat and drink your food!"
"Sweden's food supply must be in trouble." Alfred replied, "Not only during the defense of the city, but after the war, I can also support you a little, although not a lot."
The agreement was reached. Alfred began recruiting citizens for the planned trap operation. However, the Black Death was already on the rise in Winchester, so too many people could not be recruited. Fortunately, most of those who have become ill are in prison, and the situation is still easily controllable. Ella sent people to clean the prison, put some flea poison and rat poison, and then continued to place the sick people in the prison. Others were quarantined elsewhere.
There were a total of 3,000 copies of sulfa in the army. Based on the estimated number of people who might get sick in the future, the number was far from enough, so they could only wait for support from Paracelsus. As for Dan, although Ella asked him to make sulfa, she didn't have much hope - he had limited manpower alone, and his "medicine" was really hard to describe. Ella wouldn't have even wanted to tell him the recipe for sulfonamide if Dan hadn't found the antidote to the hair odor the next morning.
Those who died of the Black Death, as well as the corpses whose hearts were dug out outside the city, piled up so much that Winchester currently had no time to bury them. But leaving them alone would accelerate the spread of the Black Death, so they could only be piled outside the city and burned with oil. The fire that burned the corpses lasted for several days. Rats and flies screamed and fled in the flames, as if they were seeing the end of the world.
After these tasks were completed, Ella took Amy to the city wall to inspect the completion of the trap. Less than half a month has passed since the battle meeting, and the planned traps and equipment are advancing at an unexpected speed, but Ella still looks worried.
"Amy, to be honest, I have no confidence at all whether these traps and equipment will work." Ella said, "It would be great if I had someone with the strength of a great elf or above. The one who cultivates great elf magicians. I have already made plans, but I can't find a suitable person who is familiar with astronomy."
"Your Majesty, I still don't understand the relationship between astronomy and magic." Amy said, "Your Majesty, you are the best in astronomy, but you still don't know magic? And you clearly don't know magic, why do you believe in your plan? Can we cultivate magicians who are above the Great Elf?"
"I'm not convinced, I just think it's worth trying." Ella sighed, "Forget it, don't think about these unrealistic things. How about I write another letter to get Gottfried, but he probably won't be able to come in time. Already..."
"If Your Majesty feels embarrassed, you can actually retreat directly." Amy said, "I always feel that we suffer from Alfred's proposal. And the fact that the situation has become like this is entirely due to problems with Alfred's strategic deployment. Your Majesty has done your best to save Alfred."
"If our opponents are only the Aztlans, we can indeed retreat. But as soon as Bjorn appears, the situation changes. Amy, you don't think that after Bjorn takes Scotland and Ireland, he will leave the pirate kingdom alone. Don’t you care?”
Amy was stunned for a moment, then lowered her head and replied: "Indeed. His father and three brothers all died in the hands of His Majesty and Hestein, and the territory was also taken away. After establishing a foothold in Scotland, he I will definitely come to take revenge.”
"I think before, he was still called Boss Hestein." Ella sighed, "I really want to leave his matter to Hestein."
At this moment, a knight hurried up to the city wall.
"King of Sweden, it's not good. The King of Knights seems to be suffering from the Black Death. Go and have a look quickly!"
