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Thick smoke billowed into the sky. Ulf's warriors raised torches and burned the villages outside the castle. The thick smoke rising from these burning villages and the choking smoke made the guards on the city wall unable to bear it. He covered his mouth and nose, tears streaming from the corners of his eyes.
"Ahem, what do these hateful Vikings want to do?" Knight Etherel sneezed. He squinted his eyes and stared at the siege camp outside the city wall. It was hidden in the thick smoke and only human figures could be seen. It's shaking.
"Shall we attack now?" Vargas watched as the people of the Eagle Group gradually prepared the siege equipment, but Ulf had no intention of attacking.
"Let the soldiers start to rest, leaving only those on guard is enough." Ulf glanced at the direction of the castle, and then returned to the camp tent to rest, as if he was not in a hurry.
However, a whole day passed, the sun gradually set, and night was approaching. Ulf's army did not seem to make any move. Even Knight Etherel and Count Linzi in the castle looked at a loss.
"They neither attack nor send envoys to negotiate. What do they want to do?" Count Linqi's face showed a puzzled look. In fact, there are more than 300 guards in the castle, so there is no need to fear the more than 100 Vikings outside the city. , if they attack the castle, Earl Linqi will be able to test their strength, but now the opponent is surrounded and refuses to attack.
"I will lead the guards out to try to attack." Knight Etherel said impatiently.
"Wait a minute, what if this is a trick by the Vikings and they set a trap outside the castle?" Count Linzi immediately refused. He had suffered enough from the cunning Vikings and was unwilling to take risks.
"Then you can't be scared by more than a hundred people and stay in the castle, right?" Knight Etherel said dissatisfied.
"We can't take risks and order the guards to stick to their posts." After Earl Linzi said a word, he left the city wall. On the way back to the fortress, he always felt that the Viking flag surrounding his castle looked familiar.
"I think I've seen it there." But he still didn't think of it. It was safe hiding in the castle, so he didn't think about it anymore.
As night fell, the originally humid air in Britain encountered the smoke and dust caused by the fires set by the Vikings during the day, and a thick fog suddenly formed. In this thick fog, it seemed as if a monster appeared at any time.
The guards in the castle nervously clenched their weapons. Under normal circumstances, when there was heavy fog, the siege team would probably take the opportunity to attack. Knight Etherel was also pacing back and forth on the wall, yelling. Cheer up the guard.
"Dong dong dong~~." Suddenly, the sound of drumming rang out in the thick fog, and the guards in the castle suddenly became excited at the dull drumming.
"Are they going to attack the city?" The guards on the city wall were in a panic, but they were quickly silenced by the scolding of Knight Etherel. He ordered the archers to get ready, and the others also stayed at their posts.
However, what is strange is that the Vikings did not take the opportunity to attack. The drums stopped beating for a while. Knight Etherel put his hands on the wall stacks and stuck his head out to look over carefully.
Suddenly, he saw an army with torches approaching in the distance in the thick fog. The torches were like stars in the sky.
"It's the enemy's reinforcements. Go and report it to the earl." Knight Etherel hurriedly stopped a soldier and asked him to report the matter to the earl.
"Reinforcements?" The count was just about to rest when he heard the soldier's announcement. He hurriedly came to the window and looked into the distance. In the thick fog, he saw the meandering army with torches, while the drums and the vikings The noise sounded at the same time, which made him panic immediately.
What alarmed the people in Fort Lincoln even more was that the troops who came to support seemed to be endless as far as the eye could see. They kept gathering towards the siege camp. Soon, countless torches lit up in the siege camp. If every one The torches represent about five people, so thousands of people have quickly gathered here.
"So many?" Looking at the Vikings gathered like stars in the sky, even the knight Etherel was shocked, and even more confused in his heart. Could it be that the count was right, there were a hundred Vikings in the siege camp People are actually Guzlen's vanguard.
"It's Guzlen, he is the only one who has such a huge Viking army." Count Linzi made a frightened voice. He backed up and fell on the carpet of his bedroom. The soldiers on the side wanted to help him, but they couldn't. He pushed him aside.
At this time, a black wolf's head seemed to appear in front of Earl Linqi's eyes. Stimulated by the arrival of such a large army, he finally remembered the one on the left when the King of Mercia's army fought against Guzlen. The team that killed the Lord of Mercia, wasn't the flag they were flying the black wolf head flag?
"The knight asked you, what should I do now?" The soldier also turned pale at this time. He swallowed hard and asked Count Linzi.
"We are finished. We will definitely be killed by the barbaric Vikings, and the legacy of my ancestors will be destroyed." Count Linzi cried and laughed. He touched the stone wall of the bedroom with his hands, which his ancestors spent money on. Fort Lincoln, which was built with a lot of material and financial resources, may be completely destroyed.
Knight Etherel never received the count's order. He strode anxiously to the count's bedroom. When he saw Count Linzi huddled in a ball, he couldn't help but lift him up angrily and shake him.
"Cheer up, Earl, we still have a strong city wall that even Guzrun can't break through." Knight Etherel roared loudly, but in contrast to his firm voice, the people in the fortress The women and servants began to panic and scream. Such a large Viking force would scare anyone who saw it.
"No, you don't understand how powerful they are. The end of the world has come, and the Lord is punishing us." Count Linzi's eyes were trembling, and panic spread throughout the castle.
"Lord Earl, Lord Knight, look, their number is still increasing." The soldiers on the side saw in horror from the window that a steady stream of torches were still gathering from a distance. Their number was so large that a rough calculation There should be tens of thousands.
"Gudu." At this time, even the strong Knight Etherel couldn't help but swallow his saliva. It wasn't that he wasn't brave and determined, but that the opponent had too many people.
In the thick fog, Ange strode towards the city wall with a bow and arrow on her back. After walking to a suitable distance, she picked up the bow she was carrying and shot an arrow towards the city wall. There was an arrow tied to the arrow. A piece of parchment folded into thin strips.
"Whoosh~~." A soldier from Fort Lincoln was nervously holding a spear and shield, but with a whoosh, an arrow next to him stabbed firmly into the wall next to him. The arrow was so powerful. It's so big that it can even penetrate half of a solid stone wall.
Ange looked at the arrows shot with satisfaction, then turned around and entered the thick fog again, leaving only the noise of the frightened guards on the city wall, who thought they were being attacked by the Vikings.
"Dengdengdeng~~." Soon, the parchment letter was delivered to Knight Etherel and Earl Linqi by the soldiers. Looking at this easy-to-understand letter, the two could not help but looked at each other.
"They want these things?" Count Linzi asked.
"Obviously, these barbarians are blackmailing us." Knight Etherel picked up the parchment and was about to tear it up, but was immediately stopped by the earl.
"If we can use these things to drive away the Vikings, then we can try it." Count Linzi hugged the parchment tightly as if holding a life-saving straw, and he said to the knight.
"It seems that this is the only way." Knight Etherel stretched out his hand and scratched his head under his helmet. He is indeed very brave, but one against ten is different from one against a hundred, or even a thousand. , tens of thousands of Vikings took advantage.
"Very good, go prepare immediately and hand over all the horses in the castle to them." Count Linzi breathed a sigh of relief. He thought that Knight Etherel would object again.
"Wait a minute, Lord Earl, such a large army is besieging us just to get war horses. Could it be a trick?" Knight Etherel suddenly grabbed the Earl and asked him.
"No, because it is clearly stated here. They are going to attack His Majesty the King, and they may just be on the way." Count Linzi unfolded the parchment, with several horses drawn on it, and then surrounded it with a circle, and then An arrow was drawn next to the horse, pointing at a crown, and below it was a crooked path.
"These damn barbarians don't even have words, but they can defeat us completely." Knight Etherel's beard shook a few times and he complained.
"I don't care who they want to deal with, as long as they don't attack us." Earl Linzi didn't care about the life or death of the King of Mercia. In his opinion, his loyalty was enough. His entire county's army was destroyed, which made the Vikings People were plundering his territory with impunity, and it was all the fault of the incompetent King Theoulf of Mercia.
In the camp outside the castle, Ulf stood there and stared in the direction of the castle. Vargas was shaking his ax with a look of disbelief. Ange had just returned from delivering the letter, looked at Ulf, and then at the castle. Direction, everything seems to be in a dream.
"They will do as requested." Ulf turned back and looked at the torches in the camp. The North soldiers walked among them from time to time, shaking the torches from time to time, and then let out noisy roars.
A flag team that had just entered the camp in the distance, when they tied the torch to the wooden pole, immediately turned around and disappeared into the darkness, lit the torch again in the distant forest, coming from a distance, it looked like It was as if there was a steady stream of troops entering the camp holding torches.
