Mount and Blade System: Start from Pioneer Lords.

Chapter 235 Fierce beast
"We have more people than you, eh? If you have the guts, come up here and let me see if you are all wimps!"

Several orc barbarians guarding the gate laughed wildly.

More and more people from Gaoya Fort were attracted by the commotion here. Those who were on the periphery even pinched the tail of the arrow with their thumb and watched coldly. As long as the opponent made the slightest movement, the arrow would pass through their heads within a hundred steps in the next second.

The soldiers' faces were uncertain and their Adam's apples were rolling wildly. At this moment, they felt like lambs to be slaughtered, but if they put down their weapons, they would appear weak. An unspoken sense of tension was growing more and more intense.

"What are you doing? What the hell are you doing? Want to rebel?"

Just when the atmosphere reached a critical point, a loud voice roared out before anyone arrived.

A young man wearing fine plate armor took big steps, pushing aside several barbarians like a dragon or a tiger, and appeared in front of everyone.

He took a look and understood everything in an instant. He kicked the orc next to him who looked like he was in big trouble and said, "Put your weapons away, damn it. They are for fighting the enemy, not for our own people."

Give an order.

The sound of "swish, swish, swish" was heard in unison.

The angry barbarians put away their weapons and marched away in neat steps, in teams of ten, with almost identical movements. The people wandering around the periphery calmed down and continued to patrol the town to prevent any soldiers from hiding in the corners and preparing to cause trouble.

Count Andao, who walked out at the right time, was inevitably deeply shocked. You know, this kind of discipline and formation is often so strict that only the top ceremonial guard of each country can master it.

But that was the result of special training, and now it was easily mastered by a wilderness force from a place known as a cultural desert.

And this cohesion...

Count Ando thought of one thing. Even if it was a first-class legion like Debe, once the commander was killed, no matter how elite the soldiers were, they would not be able to withstand the pressure and would collapse.

But he had serious doubts about this army from High Cliff Castle. Once the Lion Hunter Knight, who was the commander, fell, the enemy would probably face an even more fierce counterattack from this army.

He has a very high prestige in his own army, but he is probably far from achieving this level.

The soldiers who had attempted to snatch a ticket for fun breathed a sigh of relief; if they had not been put on the firing squad, they really would not have been willing to engage in a bloody conflict with this so-called "countryside militia".

Fortunately, the lion hunting knight was quite sensible.

"Sir, your subordinates..." They sheathed their swords, and a one-eyed swordsman wearing leather armor, who was obviously an officer of this team of soldiers, stepped forward.

"roll!"

"Hahaha."

The orc guard, who had been kicked and looked aggrieved, immediately burst into laughter.

The one-eyed swordsman was stunned, but looking at the Lion Hunting Knight who was looking at him with a sneer, he dared not say a word. After trying thousands of words for a long time, he finally squeezed out the word "OK".

Then he ran away in shame with his soldiers.

I'm afraid that after this incident, these soldiers will know that this Baron Castle already has an owner.

"Old An, these are all your soldiers, right?"

The lord had already seen An Dao hiding in the dark, and he walked over with a smile and put his arm around his shoulders.

"You won't be mad at me for doing this, will you?"

"You are now a famous person who has broken through the town of Kalia, killed three powerful summoned stone giants and captured a baron. Your reputation is so loud and terrifying. Who dares to be angry with you?" Count Andao glanced at him and said something in a rather yin-yang tone.

"In fact, it's just that heroes are made by the times and it just happened to be the right time." The Lord of Gaoya Castle was also thick-skinned and tried his best to pretend to be calm and waved his hand.

Count Andao looked at him for a second longer. He didn't expect that this rough-looking man with no aristocratic manner could say something that made people think deeply.

"In fact, these guys are a little too arrogant. I was worried that no one could suppress them. You saved me a lot of effort." An Dao pushed away the lord's hand and said as he walked outside.

"No matter what you say, you conquered this town and you have the highest contribution, so this Baron Castle naturally belongs to you. I will go and warn them."

He waved his hand and left without looking back.

Obviously he knew that what was coming next would be the more realistic process of house search and it would not be convenient for him to stay here.

"Brother-in-law, I didn't expect this earl to be so worldly-wise."

Mir, who had been following the lord as a personal attendant, looked at his back and said something with emotion.

"Human relations? A blacksmith must be strong himself. If you ask someone else to take a look, I'm afraid we'll have to argue for a few days over the allocation of this Baron Castle."

Levi shook his head, turned around and walked into the castle with his sword in hand.

He forbade the people of Highcliff Castle to plunder and rob, which meant to rob the unarmed civilians.

But the wealth in this castle is spoils of war, what they deserve, and they are just here to collect it reasonably.

The town of Kalia is a very ordinary agricultural town, and the Baron's Castle in it is naturally not very luxurious.

In addition to the outer wall, the buildings inside include the castle main building located on the third and fourth floors in the center, as well as stables, warehouses and kitchens.

Among them, of course, there were also the cooks, maids, servants and some grooms who were originally from the castle.

These poor people only knew that something big had happened recently, otherwise their own baron lord would not have dispatched a large number of soldiers to garrison Kalia.

However, they did not expect that it was an army that attacked them, so they were still confused until the castle was breached. Then they immediately knelt down and surrendered, begging this group of soldiers who came from nowhere to spare their lives.

Levi was not interested in bullying a few unarmed ordinary people, so he gave them some rations and let them leave the castle with their belongings and find a place to live on their own.

Then the orcs and barbarians began to search the ground for the spoils of the castle.

Soon the barbarians moved all the things they found to the castle hall.

There were exquisite swords, portraits and everything else, all filled up the open space in the hall.

A barbarian held a beautiful wooden box as big as his head and placed it on the table.

In mid-air, a cold light flashed, and the cut end of the iron lock fell smoothly on the table, and Hogg's scimitar was already sheathed.

"This swordsmanship is already three times better than mine!" Levi gave Hogg a thumbs up. The lord opened the box and couldn't help but exclaimed loudly the next moment: "Wow!"

He couldn't open his eyes because of the glittering gold coins and various jewelry in the alley.

The orcs who were eating with bowls in hand thought they had found some treasure and wiped their mouths quickly, stretching their necks to get closer, wanting to see more. However, they found out that it was just some useless gold coins. They made a "huh" sound and squatted on the ground to eat with relish.

To them, this thing is not as real as the fist-sized meat in their bowls.

After a fight, nothing makes them happier than having a delicious meal.

"You bunch of idiots know nothing." The lord happily put all the gold and jewelry into his inventory.

His system space was not infinite, but there were still a few slots left, which was more than enough to store this little money.

He didn't expect that Baron Regulo was quite rich. He had about two thousand gold grams alone. If he exchanged other antiques and valuable items, he might have about five thousand gold grams.

This made the lord, who was barely making ends meet, feel like he had become rich overnight. He wanted to immediately go to the Gonda Canary Garden, a den of luxury, to experience the treatment of an aristocrat.

"Brother-in-law, what do you think this is?" Mir quickly ran over with a few books in his hands, shouting, "I found this in a bedroom, hidden in the gap between the cabinets. If I hadn't accidentally touched the switch, I might not have found it."

"Bloodline Dou Qi..." Levi took it and started reading it one by one, but soon lost interest after flipping through a few pages: "It's a low-level Dou Qi secret book, it should be a family heirloom of the Durant family. It's useless to you, but you can take it back to help other people in Gaoya Castle practice."

He casually threw it to Mir and started reading the next book: "Abin..."

"Ahem, this thing is too evil. It will definitely lead the young man astray."

"Brother-in-law, do we still want it?" Mir blinked curiously.

Levi said with a compassionate look on his face: "The contents of this book are like a scourge. I will destroy it to prevent it from harming the young people of the kingdom!"

Then immediately rolled it up and stuffed it into the clothes.

This knight novel is divided into two volumes. After Levi finished reading the first volume, he was very interested in the subsequent plot with a learning attitude.

But since he was already a lord, he was too embarrassed to ask Lorinna to help him buy this kind of knight novel.

I didn’t expect to see the second volume here. Baron Regulo is really a blessing to him!
"..." Looking at his brother-in-law's hypocritical appearance, Mir was speechless.

"Have the prisoners been handed over to Count Ando?"

Having completed something that he had been longing for, the lord was in a good mood and asked about some small matters.

Gaoyabao was not interested in these soldiers at all, and instead wasted their rations, so they simply did them a favor and gave them to Andao.

"Well, all the prisoners have been handed over to them." Leighton nodded. The hobgoblin was lying on the table writing and drawing with a quill pen. As a military officer of High Cliff Castle, he also worked part-time as an administrative officer and was currently recording the spoils of war and the consumption of logistical supplies.

"Sir, the food we seized here is enough to support all our military activities in the southern border, and we even have some left over."

It even exclaimed: "There is so much food here. I can't imagine that this small town can have it."

"Normally, there are at least a hundred thousand civilians under this baron's fiefdom. If the taxes collected are only 10% higher, it will be unimaginable wealth." Levi was not surprised at all. He took the document and took a look at it, and was a little surprised: "So many? It seems that this baron treats these civilians under his command as animals."

In fact, the output and income of a territory are not difficult to calculate.

Especially for a barony that was not very large, when Levi saw the data on paper, he almost thought that Baron Regulo was an earl.

The taxes collected by the other party are probably unimaginably high. The farmers of Kalia probably still owe money to this guy after paying the taxes.

Even hanging street lamps are not enough to eliminate sin.

However, this seems to be the current situation in this world. The so-called commoners are actually slaves of the nobles.

Although Derby's laws strictly forbid nobles from killing commoners, how many people actually abide by them?
Even knights whose creed was the Eight Virtues still had their own manors and servants.

All I can say is that in this world, if you are not a noble, you are worse than cattle and horses.

When the sun sets, the horizon looks like it's on fire. The northern troops in the town of Kalia have divided up their respective garrisons and started making fires to cook, with smoke rising from the kitchen.

Due to King Derby's strict ban on the war affecting civilians and the intervention of Count Andor, the soldiers did not rush into civilian areas and directly start a series of brutal atrocities.

However, the chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep in the livestock shed suffered the most. They were driven to the open space by the soldiers and slaughtered.

If other desires cannot be satisfied, then the desire for food can be satisfied. Most of the time during long marches, they have to eat dry food, which has long made their stomachs taste stale. Now, being able to drink a mouthful of fresh broth for free in the cold season is definitely an indescribable comfort, enough to soothe the empty hearts.

In the civilian area of ​​the town of Kalia, Fadil was performing treatment in a simple robe.

But the people she treated were not injured soldiers, but civilians.

"I didn't realize you were so kind." The lord walked out of the darkness with his hands in his pockets.

A group of pale and thin civilians immediately looked at the young man with fear, who was obviously traveling with the soldiers.

Levi looked at these civilians. Most of them were thin with sunken cheeks. They were obviously struggling to make ends meet. Their cotton coats had so many patches on them.

Many of them are unlucky ones who were unfortunately injured in this war. If they do not receive effective treatment, they will soon die in some unknown corner.

Some little kids had red cheeks from the cold and their hands were covered with frostbite.

"Levi, I also came from a peasant family. If the bishop hadn't brought me back to the Vatican, my situation would be the same as theirs." Fatih touched the dirty head of a little girl, and under the surge of magic power, the other's frozen and cracked hands quickly recovered.

Levi also wanted to touch the other person's head, but unfortunately the little girl immediately hid behind the Saint Fatier with a look of fear, so he had to give up.

Inwardly, she felt that little Buji was lovable, but fighting was hard work, and the lord was reluctant to let the little guy suffer, so she had to coax him into staying in Gaoya Castle and let Tina take care of him.

"How many people can you save by doing this?" Levi was not like those nobles who completely treated these civilians as livestock. He was just stating a fact.

"I don't know how many people I can save, I just know that if I don't do it, I won't be able to save anyone."

As Fadil chanted, a holy light enveloped the civilians.

(End of this chapter)