The battle was at a stalemate. One day passed, and there was no progress in the attack on Lorain.
Late at night, more than twenty small leaders gathered in the camp and started arguing over the attack on Lorraine. No one could convince the others to act according to his plan. In the end, they even
They got up from their chairs and began to fight with each other.
All kinds of strange things flew past Ella's eyes: bones, soup pots, barbecue grills, and even freshly dug boogers.
Ella held her forehead and sat under these things flying around, her brows knitted into knots.
She knew that while these people were making noise, Sigurd's army was approaching Sealand.
Sigurd's messenger seemed to appear before her eyes again: he threw the bloody head he was holding on the ground, and the head rolled a few times on the ground, revealing Amy's face.
An egg hit her forehead at this moment, and the egg white and yolk flowed down her nose.
Ella took out her handkerchief and slowly wiped her face clean. Then, she didn't know where she got the courage to face this group of strong men, and threw a plate to the ground with a wave of her hand:
"That's enough! Stop everyone!"
The little bosses calmed down and looked at Ella together. As a shield maiden with great achievements, Ella's words were somewhat intimidating.
"The situation was amplified by you! It's you who want to fight Sigurd! But now you can't even win a Lorran! Is there Sigurd there now? Is there any magician above the elf level?
Really? Really? Have you ever thought about what would happen if Sigurd really comes?"
Ella's question left the little bosses speechless for a moment.
"Who still wants to fight Sigurd now? Who still has the courage? Stand up! Everyone obeys your command! Who dares to stand up? Who dares!"
No one dared to stand up.
"Okay, let's get back to capturing Loran - you launched the charge without authorization. You are awesome! You are so amazing, so come up with a plan that can capture Loran? Come up with it! Everyone will listen to you.
The command! But if the plan fails, then you will come back to see me with your head, and then the rest of the people will hold their heads and give it to Sigurd! Who dares to stand up? Who dares!"
Still no one dared to stand up.
"No one dares, right?"
Ella glanced at everyone present one by one with her sharp eyes, and everyone she saw lowered their heads. She had been a Barcelona Lisa for so many years, and she was very comfortable doing this kind of thing. But in Constantine
When she was in Niye, she was just a little chick who was ignored. No matter how harsh she was, no one would really care about her. But among this group of pirates, she had already accumulated a certain amount of prestige.
She took a long breath and said:
"Since you all don't dare, well, I'll have to stand up."
In full view of everyone, Ella took a deep breath, stood up, and walked to the middle of the crowd.
"If Loland cannot be captured, I will take all the blame on myself, tie myself up, go to Sigurd myself, and ask him to forgive you. But on the contrary, before Hestein comes back, everyone will
You must obey my orders - I mean, really obey my orders! If I don't say move, don't move; if I don't say retreat, don't retreat; if I say step left, don't step right! Who will
If you step with the wrong foot, whoever is quick will stab himself to death! Do you understand?"
No one made a sound.
Ella looked around at everyone present again.
"I already have a complete plan. As long as you listen to my command, you will definitely be able to capture Lorraine before Sigurd arrives! Just like in Brusis!"
After a period of suffocating silence, someone finally stood up and bowed to Ella. Under his influence, people one after another stood up and imitated his actions. Finally, everyone stood up and expressed their gratitude.
Willing to follow Ella's instructions.
Ella said nothing more, turned around and left the camp.
"Your Majesty...are you really able to take down Luo Lan?"
Amy, who followed closely, asked fearfully.
"No."
What came out of Ella's mouth were words Amy didn't expect.
"I have never fought in a war. Although my father taught me some basic knowledge, every plan I ever proposed was rejected by my father - but even I can hear the plans of those pirates.
How unreliable. In order to verify my idea, I tried it out."
"Testing? In a threatening way?"
"I was scared to death, for fear that they would rush up and beat me... But what scared me even more was that none of them dared to stand up. My idea was correct... they really had no way to take down Luo
Lan. Thinking of the report I heard in Constantiniya, the common tactic of this group of pirates is to rob and run away... You can't count on them at all."
"But Your Majesty obviously has no choice, so why do you have to stand up?"
"If I don't stand up, this army will collapse soon... My father taught me that the so-called leader is to gather people's hearts at a time like this. Even if it fails in the end, it will be better than losing people's hearts."
good."
Ella's eyes burned with blazing ambition, just as she did when she told Amy that she wanted to become Augusta that night in the Praetorian camp.
There is another part to what his father said:
——And if you can win, then you will have taken the first step to becoming a king.
People in Zealand began to make siege equipment according to the drawings drawn by Ella.
There are still six days until Sigurd's arrival.
"Your Majesty, I just took a look at the construction site... They have no experience in manufacturing trebuchets, and the progress is very slow. According to the current speed, the first batch will be completed in about a month..."
"Then deploy three times more manpower from the front line. The people in Lorraine don't know what we are doing and will not launch a rash counterattack."
"Even so, it will take at least half a month... Your Majesty, we really don't have that much time."
Even if Amy didn't say anything about this, Ella understood the situation in her heart. But if she really wanted to rely on the ladder to attack Lorraine, judging from the battle situation on the first day, the hope was equally slim.
What should we do? Send more people to work on the catapult?
-That's meaningless.
If it takes ten people to build a house in one hundred days and twenty people to build the same house in fifty days, then if the number of people is increased to one thousand, will the house be completed in one day? If the number of people is increased to 24,000, the house will be completed in one day.
Will it be completed in one hour? What about increasing it to 1.4 million people? Can the house be completed in one minute?
In half a month, this speed has already reached the limit. No matter how many people are sent, there is no way to speed it up. Unless there is magic that can override time, but such magic does not exist in any country's magic system.
Is there another way? A way to double the speed of making catapults?
Ella sat down and began to search for relevant books on the carpet in the Wang family library.
Can't find it in the engineering category...
Cannot be found in the category of Architecture...
Still can't find it in the history category...
…
…
Isn’t there such a method in the crystallization of thousands of years of human wisdom?
Among the dusty books, a book suddenly fell in front of her. The words on the book were square and neat, and were some kind of hieroglyphics. Apparently they came from the "giant dragon" further east than the Tianfang Empire.
A bold idea emerged in Ella's mind.
Amy saw some clues from the changes in Ella's expression: "Your Majesty, have you found magic powerful enough to defeat Sigurd?"
"I found it, but it's not magic - it's the Art of War."
Ella found Gan.
"Have any of you here ever drawn a map of the neighborhood?"
The Royal Library contains various maps drawn by various people from all over the world. However, Zealand is located in the northernmost and most remote part of the continent, Scandinavia, and the Seven Hills Empire has only a limited knowledge of it.
blank.
"Sister Shieldmaiden, do you want Xilan's? Or Luolan's?"
"No, the scope needs to be larger - preferably covering the entire North Sea."
"In that case, just use the map I drew. In order to hunt the legendary white bear, I have been to various places in the North Sea."
Gan ran out, and soon ran back with a large roll of drawings. As soon as Ella spread out these maps, he was instantly hit by a huge impact - in this era, the so-called maps have basically the same function.
It just shows the relative position between two points. A map that can calibrate the distance between two points is already very precise. But Gan Baolai's map not only marked the location and distance, but also marked the terrain, roads, and forks.
, rivers, bridges...
Even Amy could see that this map was unusual. She pressed Gan's shoulder and asked tremblingly: "Gan... how did you... draw such a map?"
"I traveled all over the world to hunt the legendary white bear, and I drew pictures of the places I passed by. How about it? Not bad, right?"
Hermes, the "god of travelers", had his blessing on Gan.
Ella touched Gan's head and said in a trembling voice:
"Gan...you are really...a genius."
After that, Ella began to stare at the map without saying a word.
The books in the Royal Library were turning pages in her head. She searched for all the files related to the war: tactics, strategy, war history...
