Deserters without food have a hard time surviving, and may also become the source of Izcoatl's magic. Although the food and grass in the armistice agreement had not yet been delivered to Bjorn, in order to gather the scattered troops as soon as possible and after answering Ella's doubts, Bjorn left first.
Amy asked Ella worriedly: "Disguising Quetzalcoatl doesn't seem to work. If there are no mousetraps enough to catch mice, there is no point in putting bait. But if Izcoatl is left alone, the casualties of the villagers will still be It will continue to increase. Your Majesty, what should we do now?”
"Obviously, both the Scottish and Aztlan forces were defeated by me. How dare Izcoatl, a rat hiding from XZ...!"
Ella's tone was filled with anger, and her expression shocked Amy even more - she pursed half of her lips, and the muscles in her entire face tightened, except for her eyes, which were as big as bells.
Her fists were clenched and trembling, as if she was making an extremely difficult decision.
"It's not like there's no way... Let's go, Amy, let's go back to Winchester first."
The knights were still tied outside the city, under the surveillance of Bjorn's troops. They knew about Bjorn's food shortage, but they didn't know what kind of agreement Bjorn and Ella had reached. After three tremors, Bjorn suddenly left them and left Winchester, and then Ella hurriedly led the troops out of the city. At this time, they, like Bjorn's men, were full of suspicion.
As soon as Ella returned to Winchester, she walked straight towards the knights. Bjorn's men tried to stop them, but were roughly pushed away by Ayla. Bjorn was not here, and facing the angry Ella, they did not dare to stop them at all, and allowed Ella to come to the group of knights.
"Bjorn and I have reached an armistice agreement. I will exchange for fifteen days of food and grass for you, and Bjorn will retreat to Scotland."
Ella stared into the eyes of these knights with a compelling look:
"Of course, we use grain from England. Is there anything you want to say?"
The knights lowered their heads in shame. Although they had clearly won the victory, Bjorn was allowed to walk away. This was entirely due to their impulsiveness in advocating an attack, which led to their arrest. Although Ayla was able to successfully burn Bjorn's food and grass, if they had been calm enough at the beginning, they would have only sent a retinue to perform the task of scouting the camp, and Bjorn would not have been able to seize the bargaining chip. ,
"Lower your head? Do you feel ashamed now?"
"His Majesty……?"
Amy didn't know why Ella suddenly became so mean. Although in hindsight it seems that these knights were too impulsive, at the time even Ella herself couldn't tell what Bjorn's intention was, and the attack on Bjorn's rear was a sudden thought and was not part of the plan.
But Ella seemed to intend to use this incident to suppress this group of knights. She took a big breath into her stomach and drank: "Now that I know that I feel ashamed, then just listen to me in the next matter!"
The knights looked at each other, wondering what Ella wanted to say.
"In order to increase his magic power, Izcoatl is attacking the villagers outside indiscriminately. He has discovered the existence of the tunnel, and a village has been massacred. In order to reduce casualties, we need to relocate all nearby villagers to Come to Winchester!"
The knights suddenly became agitated: "King of Sweden, your decision...? Even if a large-scale war breaks out, it is impossible to bring all the villagers to Winchester! This will make Winchester The city has become very crowded, and the consumption of materials and water resources will become more than ten times the usual amount!"
"Crowded?"
"It's not just crowding!" the knights argued, "the Black Death is breaking out in Winchester. Wouldn't bringing those villagers in make the plague spread even more?"
"I already have a plan regarding this matter." Ella stared and said word by word, "Drive the Black Death patients to the village and bring the non-sick villagers into Winchester City."
"His Majesty……?"
Amy finally knew why Ella had such a terrifying expression before. Doing so would cause great dissatisfaction and even riots among the citizens of Winchester. There was no way Ella didn't know.
Sure enough, the knights shouted: "King of Sweden, do you know what you are talking about? Are you going to drive a large number of Winchester citizens out of their houses and let them wait for death in the wild?"
"The sulfonamides we brought are no longer enough. Even if they stay in the city, they are resigned to their fate. Moreover, Izkoatl will not attack Black Death patients. This can effectively prevent Izkoatl's magic power from continuing to grow. .And if healthy villagers are left outside the city, sooner or later Winchester’s city walls will be unable to protect anyone!”
"Sweden, you are doing this nonsense...how can we agree to it?"
"Don't forget, you are still Bjorn's prisoners."
With a dark face, Ella put the crowbar under the chin of one of the knights.
"If you agree, I will pick you up in exchange for the agreement. If you don't agree, I will tear up the agreement and let you die in Bjorn's hands!"
This is probably the most courageous and cruel decision Ella has ever made.
More than a dozen messengers on horseback set off towards various villages, asking them to take refuge in Winchester City. The Black Death victims were forcibly dragged out of their homes, put into cages like prisoners, and sent to various villages.
Several riots broke out throughout the day, but they were suppressed by soldiers who arrived before they could expand in scale.
Amy noticed that Ella's expression became more and more terrifying. Every time after issuing an order to suppress, she would leave everyone behind and walk into a dark corner alone.
When the first group of villagers arrived in Winchester City carrying packages, Ella's mood seemed slightly better. She stood on the city, holding on to the city wall, and watched dreamily as the villagers filed in carrying packages on their backs.
"Your Majesty, you are such a...silly boy."
Amy whispered behind Ella.
"You have saved a bunch of people and offended a bunch of people. I'm afraid no one will thank you in the end. This is England, Alfred's country. As long as you don't make any decisions, you don't have to bear any responsibility."
"Amy, you have no right to say that to me."
"Too."
Under the setting sun, Amy smiled helplessly.
"In order to save His Majesty, I have offended many more people than this."
A report tragically tore apart this peaceful scene:
"Report to the King of Sweden that a villager was attacked on the way to Winchester City!"
"What did you say?" Amy felt cold. She looked at Ella worriedly, fearing that she would blame herself even more for this.
"Izcoatl discovered our plan. We attacked three groups of villagers from three villages on the way. There were no survivors in each village, and the hearts were dug out!"
But Ella's reaction was unusually calm.
"Where?" she asked, "Take me there and have a look."
(End of chapter)
