In this way, this group of British knights and retinues followed Amy and approached the camp left by Bjorn. When she was still some distance away from the camp, Amy asked Fenrir to stop first. After the knights approached, she suggested: "According to my experience, if you rush in stupidly when you see the camp, it will be very easy." You’ll fall into the trap. We can’t escape from the camp anyway, so before rushing in, how about we check to see if there are any ambush around?”
The knights looked at each other, then nodded and said, "That makes sense. The King of Knights often teaches us to be careful. This is the heart of England, and Bjorn's troops will be hindered even if they retreat. It's true. time."
With that said, the knights sent their followers to investigate in several directions. This surprised Amy a little: she was originally prepared to argue with this group of people. It turns out that these knights who insisted on chasing after him were only impulsive because of Alfred's illness. When they calmed down, their military quality seemed to be much higher than that of Ella's pirates.
Soon after, the guards came back one after another from different directions, reporting that there was no ambush around.
"Why so fast? Are you looking for it seriously?" Amy didn't quite believe these reports. In her understanding, to detect an ambush, one needs to carefully search the surrounding areas, which is a very time-consuming task.
"There is no need to search them all. Just identify the locations that pose a threat to us and search within a certain range." A knight explained, "As for the ambush outside the range, several people have already stayed at important locations. Once If the enemy appears from a distance, they will report it with smoke. We have no time to retreat."
Amy was startled again. The identification of important locations and the arrangement of left-behind personnel should have taken a lot of effort to be arranged by the generals. She saw that these knights had only given orders for reconnaissance before and said nothing else. Those subordinates were actually able to complete their arrangements on their own. It must have been that they had received a lot of military training.
When Alfred proposed to help Ella train cavalry as a gift for Ella to send troops, Amy felt a little bit shortchanged. Now it seems that the gifts Alfred sent can be said to be quite precious. She even felt that even if Ella asked the knights to pursue Bjorn directly, they would be able to retreat safely after encountering danger.
"Your Majesty must have made a mistake by treating these knights as pirates..."
After confirming that there were no ambushes around, Amy and others came to a high place to confirm the situation of the camp. It was a military camp that once accommodated more than 10,000 troops. It was so large that even on high ground it was difficult to see the sides. I also saw that the camp inside was divided into dozens of square and complicated small blocks, with doors and households in all directions, and it looked like a military formation for marching and fighting.
For some reason, just looking at the strict camp, Amy felt a murderous aura coming towards her face.
"Is there really no one here?" She turned to ask the knights, "Just looking at this formation makes me feel a little scared."
"It's just that the tents are neatly arranged. There must be no one inside." A knight pointed at the birds flying above the camp. "Look, there are so many birds parked on the tents. If there are people, they will all fly at the slightest movement."
Amy felt relieved. Ella also demonstrated this method of judgment to her. The performance of animals is sometimes more trustworthy than that of scouts.
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Why is the horse disobedient? "The knights shook their heads. This was the first time they had seen such a scene.
"Idiot Fenrir, it's all your fault for barking and scaring the horse." Amy patted Fenrir's head reproachfully, then turned to the knights and said, "Anyway, we have to search carefully, and we can't even ride a horse. It’s convenient, let’s tie the horses outside and walk.”
There was no fire or pigs in the camp. If there was anything unusual about the camp, it was that there were no fences in the camp, and instead there were piles of rocks. There were eighty or ninety piles of rocks, dividing the camp into the neat blocks they had just seen on the high ground. The road between the rubbles and rubbles was wide enough for two horses to walk side by side.
"What a big project." A knight sighed, "Why don't they use wood that can be obtained everywhere, but use piles of stones?"
"Maybe it's because wood catches fire more easily than stone. Bjorn was trying to protect himself from Loki. It's a pity that their efforts were in vain. They just built it and evacuated it after only a few nights of sleep."
"We still have to be careful," Amy said, "check each camp one by one, and be sure not to fall into the enemy's trap."
All the knights nodded in agreement. They divided into ten groups and began to search around the camp. Amy also formed a group with a knight and four retinues, and searched all the way towards the center of the camp.
The birds parked above the camp were disturbed by the people and horses, and they flapped their wings and flew up one after another. This flight alarmed the birds further away. After a while, countless birds were hovering over the camp.
Amy searched every corner carefully with ten thousand concentration, but everything was empty. There were no traps or supplies. During the retreat, Bjorn had already moved the things in the camp. A clean one.
As the search deepened, the voices of other teams gradually disappeared, and only the birds were still chirping in the sky. Amy and her group walked through the pile of rocks for a long time, and finally came to a wide open space. There was a very large tent in the open space, and it looked like it was used by Bjorn. It seemed that they had arrived at the center of the camp.
A servant lifted up the curtain, but it was also empty inside.
"It was actually a well-prepared retreat." The knight following Amy took a breath. "The enemy moved the camp so cleanly. The enemy was completely at ease and not panicked at all. If we pursue, maybe we can really retreat." The losses will be heavy.”
"Looking at the bright side, this means that the enemy did not notice that Alfred was attacking Scotland. We just don't know what the enemy is planning to do with this retreat." Amy thought for a while, then shook her head in distress, "I can't think of anything. Understood, let’s go back and let His Majesty judge. I just don’t know where the other teams are now or if they have discovered anything.”
The knight looked around. There is a wide avenue leading here in every direction. He couldn't help but scratch his head in confusion: "Strange thing, this is the center of the camp, no matter which road will lead to here in the end. Why don't you see anyone else at all? Are we the first?"
"Maybe they searched more carefully. That's a good thing. Let's wait here."
Amy swept around the floor, trying to find a suitable place to sit. But there was nothing clean on the ground, only a mouse died in a pile of gravel.
