In this way, this group of British knights and retinues followed Amy and approached the camp left by Bjorn. When they were still some distance away from the camp, Amy asked Fenrir to stop first and wait for the knights to approach.
Finally, she suggested: "According to my experience, if you rush in stupidly when you see the camp, you will easily fall into the trap. You can't escape from the camp anyway. Before rushing in, let's check the surrounding area first."
How about no ambush?”
The knights looked at each other, then nodded and said: "It makes sense. The King of Knights also often teaches us to be careful. This is the heart of England, and Bjorn's troops will be hindered even if they retreat. It is indeed not bad.
time."
With that said, the knights sent their followers to investigate in several directions. This surprised Amy: she was originally prepared to argue with this group of people. It turned out that these knights insisted on going in the first place.
Chasing was only impulsive because of Alfred's illness. When they calmed down, their own military quality seemed to be much higher than that of Ella's pirates.
Soon after, the retinues came back one after another from different directions, reporting that there was no ambush around.
"How come it's so fast? Are you looking for it seriously?" Amy doesn't believe these reports. In her understanding, to detect an ambush, you need to carefully search all around, 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 will have no time to retreat."
Amy was surprised 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 general. She saw that these knights had only given orders for reconnaissance before, and other orders were not given.
Without saying anything, those retinues were able to complete the arrangements on their own like this. It must have been that they had received a lot of military training.
When Alfred proposed to help Ella train cavalry as a gift to invite Ella to send troops, Amy felt a little disappointed. Now it seems that the gift Alfred sent can be said to be quite precious.
.She even felt that even if Ella had asked the knights to pursue Bjorn directly, they would have been 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 ground 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. See you again
The camp inside is divided into dozens of square and complex small blocks, with doors and households in all directions, like some kind of military formation for marching and fighting.
For some reason, just looking at the neat 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 to 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 more at ease. Ella also demonstrated this method of judgment to her. The performance of animals is sometimes more trustworthy than that of scouts.
"But you still have to be careful. There may be something on fire in the camp." Amy said, "Last time, His Majesty tied up some pigs with burned tails in the camp and knocked down the enemy commander."
The group of knights were stunned for a while, unable to imagine what kind of battle it was.
But just when Amy was about to lead the knights into the camp, Fenrir suddenly roared. The roar frightened the other horses, causing them to start jumping on the ground. The knights finally controlled the horses, but these
However, Ma was unwilling to enter the camp ahead.
"It's strange, why are these horses 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 horse outside and walk."
There was no fire or pigs in the camp. If there was anything unusual about it, it was that there were no fences in the camp. Instead, there were piles of rocks. There were eight or ninety piles of rocks, dividing the camp into them.
The neat area we just saw from the high ground. The piles of rubble and the road between the piles of rubble are 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 were 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 disturbed the birds further away, and 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 the 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. The open space was neutral.
They were holding a very large tent, which looked like it was used by Bjorn. It seemed that they had arrived at the center of the camp.
A guard lifted up the curtain, but it was also empty inside.
"It was actually a well-prepared retreat." The knight who followed Amy took a breath, "Moving the camp so cleanly, the enemy is completely at ease and not panicked at all. If we pursue, maybe we can really retreat."
There will be heavy losses.”
"Looking at the bright side, this means that the enemy did not discover 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.
Understand, 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 was a wide road leading here in every direction. He couldn't help scratching his head in confusion: "Weird thing, this is the center of the camp, no matter which road leads to here in the end. Why didn't you see it at all?
To others? Are we the first?"
"Maybe they searched more carefully. This is a good thing. Let's wait here."
Amy swept around the ground, trying to find a suitable place to sit. But there was nothing clean on the ground. She only saw a dead mouse among a pile of gravel.
