This is what happened before Ella and Alfred held a war meeting in Winchester.
When Bjorn joined up with the troops who arrived later, Tesosomok and others had been captured by them. The three men, who had lost their magic power and were seriously injured, were no match for Bjorn's army. They were tied up tightly with thick hemp ropes until they met Bjorn.
"Hey!" Although Chimalpopoka was seriously injured, his voice was still as loud as thunder, "Let your people untie us quickly! We are tied too tightly!"
"Of course, you are all the helpers I invited." Bjorn said, "But before that, shouldn't you explain to me and all my subordinates why you didn't defend the city of Winchester? Why? ?Three elves?"
"We've been fooled!" Chimalpopoka shouted, "We've been drugged and can't use our strength at all!"
"Drugated? Were you caught indoors?"
Chimalpopoka's voice suddenly became softer; "No...it's in the open air, under the city wall."
"Open air?" Bjorn's voice became louder, "How did you three manage to be drugged together in the open air?"
Chimalpopoka's voice became even lower: "We all sat in one place, waiting for the duel for a long time..."
"Duel?" Bjorn felt a surge of anger rushing to his forehead, "Are you mistaken? This is war! Is this something that can be resolved by a duel? And you have to wait for a long time? This is war! One minute It can decide the lives of hundreds of people! Are you just waiting there?"
Chimalpopoka's voice was so low that he couldn't hear it: "This has nothing to do with me, it's all Tratoani's decision..."
"Tratoani didn't want to use a duel to solve the problem, he just wanted to buy time for us to rest." Yinzkoatl replied in the same low voice, "We are too tired and need a rest very much, so we pretended to agree." This duel. Who knew that the opponent who proposed the duel also had evil intentions!"
"Rest?" Bjorn's tone softened, "Did you hold on for a long time and finally couldn't resist?"
"No," Chimalpopoka interrupted without thinking, "they danced until they lost all strength."
"Dancing?" Bjorn's anger that had just been suppressed suddenly doubled, "Is this how you defend the city?"
"We have been deceived by the enemy," cried Chimalpopoka. "A plague broke out in Winchester that we have never seen before. Then the girl said that she needed to dance to pray to the gods. Who knew she They want to sneak attack us when we are tired from dancing! Nothing the people say in this new continent can be trusted!"
"We have suffered a loss of knowledge." Yinzikoatl also said for himself, "The plague was terrible, and we all thought it was caused by gods. Now think about it, this is probably the same as that horse. It's the same, it's very common in this new world, but we haven't seen it before.
"What kind of plague?" Bjorn frowned, "Smallpox? Or cholera?"
"What are those?" Yinzkoatl and Chimalpopoka looked at each other. "We only know that the plague is very contagious and can infect hundreds of people in a day. People who are sick will have a lot of growths under their skin. The terrible black spots can lead to death at the earliest on the same day, and can take a few days at a slower pace, but they are still fatal and cannot be cured!"
Inzkoatl was describing the situation of the Black Death, but Bjorn listened with a blank expression. The outbreak of the Black Death was only recorded in the documents of the Seven Hills Empire hundreds of years ago, and Bjorn did not know any more than Inzkoatl and others. When the Black Death broke out in the Empire of the Seven Hills, Bjorn was still in Aztlan and had not returned.
"Have you heard of this plague?" Bjorn asked his men again.
Everyone shook their heads. Bjorn's men are all from Scotland. Although Scotland and England are adjacent, there are many mountainous areas in the country, and contacts with England are not close. The situation of the Black Death is currently only known in the Mediterranean coastal areas such as the Seven Hills Empire, the Alemannic Federation, and the Tianfang Empire. People in England have only heard about it, let alone Scotland.
Yinzkoatl and Chimalpopoka couldn't help but look at each other, and they thought involuntarily: The locals have never heard of it. Could it be that this disease is really caused by the one-legged God of War, the Smoke Mirror?
"Winchester has been recaptured and the King of Knights has been rescued. Our plan to control England has failed." Bjorn sighed and said to his men: "There is no other way, let's loosen their bonds first. "
The relieved Chimalpopoka asked feebly: "When will we counterattack Winchester?"
"Counterattack? No, it's too late. Since Winchester is lost, we will be surrounded by the enemy at any time - I haven't discovered where the enemy's main force is yet. We need to withdraw immediately before this happens. Scotland!"
"Withdraw?" Chimalpopoka suddenly exploded, "Our three hundred warriors from Aztlan are still trapped in it! Those are not ordinary soldiers, they are the most elite three hundred Eagle warriors. And the Panther Warrior!”
"You just said so much, haven't you realized how troublesome your opponent is?" Bjorn said seriously, "The girl you are talking about has another title of 'Triumpher'! The fighter plane has been lost. If we withdraw too late, our entire army will be trapped here!"
"No!" Chimalpopoka shouted, "You were saying that the New World has many hearts, so we will come to help you. Give up attacking England, then give us your Scottish heart!"
"What did you say?" Bjorn couldn't help but take his spear from the soldier's hand, "Say it again?"
Chimalpopoka had suffered losses at the hands of Bjorn and did not dare to be presumptuous, so he quickly closed his mouth. But Yinzikoatl said from the side: "Bjorn, you'd better think clearly. England will not stop if we withdraw. There are not many defenders in Winchester at the moment, and the enemy's two kings are They are all inside, if we give up this opportunity, it will turn into a tragic and protracted battle."
Bjorn began to waver inside. He thought about it for a long time, and finally sighed and said, "What you said makes sense. Well, let me try and see if I can trick the King of Knights out and catch him."
"Cheat him out and catch him?" Chimalpopoka and Yinzkoyatel couldn't help but pricked up their ears. "How?"
A mouse squeaked and ran past Bjorn's eyes. Bjorn put down his spear and squatted on the ground, picking up a few broken stones.
“Take the mouse as an example, how can we trap that mouse with rocks?”
"Trapped the mouse with stones?" Chimalpopoka answered without thinking, "Then we have to put the stones high around the mouse and build a wall around it that it can't climb over, right?"
"A rat doesn't wait for you to build a wall around him."
"Then build a wall first, then put some food inside the wall to attract rats, and design some mechanisms on the wall to block the rats as soon as they come in?"
"This can only deceive some stupid rats. But the 'rats' we are facing now are very smart and clever." Bjorn said, "To deal with smart rats, we must use smart traps. To deal with extremely smart rats, If there are rats, then you have to use extremely clever traps that can’t even be blocked by the wall, otherwise they won’t get in.”
"They didn't even block the wall? Didn't they just run away after coming in?"
"Master Querakiri taught me an interesting knowledge." Bjorn said, "Let's try it."
