After that, Dust led his men to dig out the people who fell into the pit. Under Casred's leadership, they met the team ambushing in the forest: the number of people in this team was about 300, a few were wearing leather armor, and most of them were wearing coarse cloth clothes of civilians. They had been ambushing in the forest for so many days, and did not even set up a decent camp.

"A few days ago we saw you send a reconnaissance team toward Winchester, but our ambush is for ambushing the large army and cannot be exposed because of a reconnaissance team. So we didn't care." Casred said, "We originally thought that King Sweden would pass through the forest soon. The nights in the forest were difficult to bear. In order not to be discovered, we could not even make fires. Many people have become sick these days, and a few days later, we will not be able to hide."

"What's your plan?" Ella asked.

"We thought you would spend the night in Southampton," Casred replied. "Although we have a large number of people, we do not have decent armor and weapons. If we fight head-on, we will suffer great casualties, so we want to steal some weapons and equipment in the night and launch an attack. Those who stay in Southampton will take the lead in occupying the port, drive you into this forest, and then we will launch a second raid."

"People from Southampton?" Ella repeated in confusion. There were only about five hundred people here, and it was indeed too small for a city's population. According to Casred, they had ambushed near Southampton. But she had already used hot air balloons to detect any ambushed near Southampton, and she did not find any ambushed?

"If you find out, you can't call an ambush." ​​Casred said, "Come with me. They have been hiding for so many days, and probably can't hide it anymore. If it's too late, I'm afraid I can't help but launch an attack directly."

So Ella and Casred and his group walked out of the forest. Amy outside the forest was already anxious to set fire to the forest because of Ella's disappearance. Seeing Ella come out safely, she was naturally relieved. Ella said that she had defeated ten enemies in one go. Amy didn't believe it, and scolded Ella in a low voice.

Not long after, Casred took Ella and others back to Southampton. He came all the way to the center of the city and took out a whistle in front of Ella. The whistle was made of bone and used a craft that Ella had never seen before. Casred explained that it was obtained by a team of strangely dressed people passing by here not long ago. The sound was very harsh, but very loud, and they agreed to use the whistle as a signal to relieve the crisis.

At first, Ella didn't care. It was not until the whistle sounded that Ella realized that the sound was more than just a harsh sound, and it was even pierced into a human bone. It made people feel a sense of fear that it came from primitive instinct, which made people still want to cover their ears and avoid it. Casred only blew, and Ella had a thick layer of goose bumps all over her body.

"What was this whistle used for?" Ella shouted, covering her ears, "Just listening to this sound, I feel that it is not a good thing!"

Casred spread his hands, saying that he didn't know either.

As the whistle fell, something more terrifying than the whistle happened. This city that had been quiet for many days seemed to be awakened, and noisy voices sounded from all directions. The empty rooms that had been investigated suddenly opened the doors and windows on their own. Men, women, elderly people, and children came out from inside and soon filled the streets.

"It's the tunnel." Casred explained to Ella, "the entire Southampton has been connected by the tunnels. When the enemy arrives, citizens can hide in and take refuge."

"Does every city have such authenticity?"

"No, there are only a few coastal cities that have dug tunnels, after all, this is a big project." Casred replied, "But the Knights do have the idea of ​​popularizing authentic tunnels throughout Britain."

Everyone took a breath of air. If Ella had not asked them to withdraw from the ship, but had been resting in Southampton overnight, the consequences would have been unimaginable. Even if they were not ambushed, they would probably not have gotten any advantage under the head-on attack of so many trained citizens.

A man in armor hurriedly ran towards this side. Graheide recognized that it was a knight under the Knight King. He ran to Ella and nodded repeatedly to apologize: "I'm sorry, sorry, if I had known that it was the King of Sweden, we would have come out to greet you! We were just discussing underground how to raid the port. If you hadn't come back in time, it would have almost caused a disaster!"

"No... You guys look like they ask for help?" Amy complained dizzyly, "Not to mention Bjorn, even if Ragner comes, can he really beat you?"

Who knew that the knight was shocked: "Bjorn? Our opponent is Bjorn?"

"You don't know?"

"I don't know! We only know that the news about Winchester was cut off and that it was attacked by Scotland not long ago." The knight said, "Although we sent a lot of people to reconnaissance in the direction of Winchester, we have not received any news about Winchester so far."

Ella covered her mouth and thought for a while: "So, I can only go directly to Winchester to find out. Are there any enemy ambushers in the forest besides you?"

"No, I can guarantee this!" said Casred. "We have not seen any other people these days except your troops of Sweden."

"I can also guarantee it." Dust said, "Based on the investigations these days and my experience, it is impossible to infer that there will be more than five hundred people ambushing this forest."

"Will you lead your troops to Winchester, King of Sweden?" said the knight. "I wanted to do this long ago, but these citizens were not trained enough and lacked weapons. I dare not act at will. If King of Sweden wants to go, I can help you a thousand people and draw additional personnel to maintain your logistics supplies!"

"In this way, there will be four thousand troops to fight." Ella thought for a while, then nodded, "We will set out tomorrow. What happened to Winchester will be clear immediately!"

As night gradually fell, Southampton became more and more busy. For Ella's war to go to war tomorrow, people from half of the city were rushing to prepare for the pre-war. The bodies were still lying on the streets. This was an important disguise. Before the alarm was lifted, their husbands and sons might have been lying there and being pecked by birds.

"Alfred, is this your determination to fight against the Tianfang Empire?"

Ella stood in the shadow of the city and thought silently. She knew that not only Britain, but the claws of the Tianfang Empire would sooner or later reach Sweden and towards the Qiqiu Empire. Alfred had already begun to prepare for that decisive battle, and what about her? What should she do?
Chapter completed!