Chapter 47 The night is as cold as water
The night is as cool as water.
Bagshot is a bustling town in England by the sea, and because it is located on the coast, most of the townspeople live by fishing. During the day, they go out to fish for a living, and at night, the salty sea breeze blows, which makes the townspeople live quite peacefully.
But, too, because of this, the likelihood of the town being targeted by the Saxons increases considerably. In winter, everyone worries about food, and this is also the time of year when Saxons are most active.
Before winter comes, the people of the town will store the food for the winter early, in case the sea freezes when the winter comes, so that they cannot go out to sea to fish, and when they have no food source, they will only starve to death in the winter, so the people here have maintained this habit for a long time.
And at this time, the Saxons, who also had no food, would have set their eyes on this cowardly England, which seemed to them to be at their mercy, and they had nothing to fear. Since they have no food to eat, wouldn't it be better to rob others of what they had?, and the Saxons, with such thoughts, must have invaded England most frequently in winter, or when winter was approaching.
In this case, the town of Bagsshot, as the closest town to them after crossing the sea, and it is also a rather prosperous town, then their goal must be to put it on it as soon as possible.
It was already late at night, and all the townspeople in the town were already asleep in dreams, and the whole town was quiet, looking extraordinarily peaceful and calm. But the unknown sounds made from time to time shrouded the town in a strange atmosphere.
There is a dense forest in the north of the town, which is the place where you have to pass to get from the coast to the town. The dense forest is very deep, it is the middle of winter at the moment, the trees are bare, the branches appear very dry, the branches are yellow, and there is no trace of green, which adds a touch of sadness to this dense forest.
At this time, in the depths of the dense forest, there were several vague shadows flickering, which added to the strange atmosphere.
"Hey, I said, Boss, are those guys really coming back here? We've been here for days, and we haven't even seen a single figure. A human voice came from the depths of the dense forest, but it did not bring a sense of popularity to the dense forest, but it was even more terrifying.
"What? are you getting impatient?" another figure replied to the question, presumably the one known as the Boss.
"That's not it, it's just that we're wasting time here, and I always feel like it's a shame to know what the situation is now. The figure's words revealed a hint of anxiety and worry.
"Don't worry, it'll be fine, believe in our king, since she said yes, then it must be okay, we don't need to worry about the situation over there, now our main purpose is to protect this town." This is a task that the king himself has given us, and it must be completed no matter what. ”
"However, we don't even know if the enemy will come here now, it's a complete waste of time, in that case, shouldn't it be better for us to help the king?" Hearing his boss's words, the figure also knew that it was right, but when he thought of the current situation in the country, he couldn't help but say.
"Shut up, have you forgotten what the king said, the people are always the most important at all times, so you have to protect them no matter what, how can you have such thoughts?" said the boss angrily to the figure. "If, as you say, we are gone, then if there is a real Saxon invasion, will there be any living people in this town?"
Hearing this, the figure fell silent, and the dense forest fell into silence and strangeness for a while.
This group of people was sent by Leah. When she heard that autumn and winter were the most frequent Saxon invasions, she thought that since they were for food, the town closest to the sea and with abundant food reserves would be the first target for them to peep. Thinking of this, Leah asked the minister to list the towns that met this condition, and finally concluded that this seaside town called Bagsott was the most likely, so in order to prevent it, she wanted to send a team to garrison here.
However, it happened to be the time to fight with the alliance of kings, and Riya, who originally wanted to send more than 500 people, was troubled by the advice of those ministers, and England was indeed short of manpower now, so he sent more than 100 people first. Although the number of people is indeed small, these people are the elite selected by Leah, and it may not be possible to face a large number of Saxons, but it is still possible to use the terrain to do a grappling. All they had to do was drag Ria to bring someone to help.
However, the current situation made them have to wonder if there would really be Saxons here, because they had been squatting here for several days, but nothing had happened, and they didn't know what the situation was on Leya's side, which made them more and more irritable.
But the king's orders had to be obeyed, and even though they were worried and irritable, they were obliged to remain here until the king came, or heard the news of the king's defeat.
At this time, on the sea not far from the dense forest, there were dense shadows, and if you look closer, you will see those shadows, but they are dense shadows of ships, and at a glance there are at least hundreds of ships on the sea.
They are moving towards the shore at breakneck speed, like the Phantom Killer in the Night, bringing death to people. Not long after, under the blowing of the sea breeze, the ship approached the shore at a very fast speed, and then a dense number of figures were seen jumping down from it. Soon after, when no one had disembarked from the ship, they ran towards the forest, presumably targeting the town of Bagshott.
There were probably a thousand or so figures, led by a figure that looked like a leader, and they hurried towards the dense forest, predictably a night of slaughter.
"Haha, I'm going to have to go crazy this time. Those English chicks, uncle, I'm coming. Ha ha. There was a loud laugh from the running crowd. brought up the laughter of the people around him, obviously agreeing with this sentence.
"Well, don't be so loud, and although I don't think the cowardly Englishmen can do us any harm, it's better to keep unnecessary trouble to a minimum, and if we wake them up, we'll have to put up some resistance, right?" the leader-like man whispered to the laughing crowd behind him.
"Hey, got it, got it. After hearing the leader's words, although the figure just now said that he knew, anyone could hear the tone of indifference. Not a disdain for the chief, but for the disdain that the chief thought the English would do them harm. This is the conclusion of their long period of aggression.