Mount and Blade System: Start from Pioneer Lords.

Chapter 68 Iron Mine Defense

"My lord, I am willing to become your subject!"

The savage who asked the question first said with gritted teeth.

He has no family in the tribe and is alone. Rather than being a captive and not knowing what the future will be like, it is better for him to express his position now.

"Very good. From now on you will be a citizen of Gaoya Castle. You will be guaranteed to have enough to eat three meals a day." Levi patted his shoulder.

After the words were spoken, everyone was a little bit incredulous. After all, being guaranteed to have enough to eat three times a day was a treatment only the clan leader and the shaman had.

And they just need to do the work, they don't need to fight.

Although they were soldiers, they could only have two meals a day at most, and they also had to take care of the children at home, so their life was actually very difficult.

After all, their food all comes from hunting and looting, which is very unstable.

No matter whether it is true or false, you have to give it a try. Many people begin to waver in their hearts.

"My Lord, I will join you too."

"I also……"

……

In an instant, Levi received applications from more than ten people to join the team, and he approved them one by one with a smile.

There is no upper limit on the number of people in Levi's team panel, so he is not worried about these subjects wasting their places, but he has divided these teams into subjects and soldiers.

So even if he leads the barbarians to win the war, these subjects will not share the experience. This is another difference between the Mount and Blade system and the game.

Even if these subjects have undergone long-term personal training and accumulated experience to meet the upgrade requirements, Levi is not currently planning to upgrade them.

If there are outstanding ones among them, they will be absorbed into the army and upgraded.

Levi was generous in rewarding those who dared to be the first to come forward, but as for those who joined later, Levi only promised them two meals a day.

But even so, they looked excited.

Levi didn't say any polite words and just ordered someone to prepare a meal for them.

Soon, a dozen or so warriors from the Evil Fang Tribe who had become residents of High Cliff Castle squatted outside the place where the prisoners were held, holding bowls and eating rice in big mouthfuls.

There was a large piece of braised meat with fat and lean meat in the bowl, which made the group of captives swallow their saliva and their eyes glowed green.

Although Levi would not abuse the prisoners, he would not treat them like masters either. He would just feed them leftovers every day as long as they were not starving to death.

Now that someone is setting an example, it won't be long before these poor savages all surrender.

My Lord, I dare not say anything else, but I can guarantee that even if I have to sell my ditches, I will not let my people go hungry.

As for the goblins and kobolds? They were just slaves. It was good enough for them to give them something to eat, but they were still picky.

If you don't do it, there are plenty of people who will do it. There are a lot of starving goblins and ogres in the wilderness waiting for this position.

The well-fed warriors of the Evil Fang tribe were then sent out to mine.

……

The tranquility of the Fed tribe did not last long. Just one day later, when the sun had just dimly risen and the dew on the grass had not yet dried, a warning horn sounded from the watchtower.

Looking around, there were countless people wandering around in the mountains and forests, and animals and birds were startled and flying. They were groups of wilderness bandits, they were still waiting and brewing, but this process would not take too long.

The Fed warriors quickly gathered together, and the Burning Legion of High Cliff Castle was also ready. Everyone was prepared for this expected battle.

He was wearing three layers of heavy armor that had been repaired by the blacksmith Feder, holding a huge square shield with two edges in his left hand and a huge sword in his right hand.

Levi led the armored and armed orcs out of the protection of the city wall and lined up in front of the wall.

The heavy square steel shields, each nearly two and a half blades high, slammed heavily into the ground under the enormous force of the orc barbarians, stirring up clouds of dust.

The silent warriors were like steel sculptures, with their eyes, the only thing sticking out from their helmets, proving that underneath the steel were bodies of flesh and blood.

Behind them are Fed warriors holding spears. When the barbarians can't stop them, this is the last line of defense of the city wall.

The walls of the Feder survivors were only four blades high, and they had no way of defending the city against the large number of wilderness bandits.

With only a few hundred casualties, they would be able to fill up this height and rush into the camp of the Fed's survivors, stepping on the bodies of their companions.

Therefore, Levi must lead the orcs to protect the city wall as much as possible, to buy more shooting time for the Fed warriors who are drawing their bows and arrows behind him, and to maximize the defensive role of the wall.

These steel shields were the result of the Fed blacksmiths working day and night at his request.

Perhaps it would take a lot of time to make weapons and armor, but if it was just shields, you could make a lot in a day.

In a world where technology has not yet truly developed, the telescope is undoubtedly a powerful reconnaissance tool.

Not only can you detect the enemy's movements in advance, but you can also investigate the details carefully.

This storm, which had been brewing for three days, was more serious than Levi had imagined. Faced with the tough challenge of the remnants of Fed, the wilderness natives from different tribes actually united briefly.

However, the lord disagreed with this. Even if they united, they would just be a mob.

This is literally a mob, with no organization, no queue, no coordination, and not even a leader to command the entire army.

But there are really a lot of people. If you look carefully, you can find all the common races in the vicinity, goblins, gnolls, northern savages, mountain lizardmen... there are even a dozen giant monsters mixed in.

Trolls and trolls are two different creatures. The easiest way to distinguish between the two is that the former has normal IQ, while the latter is like a mentally retarded child.

However, when God closes a door, he will inevitably open a window.

Although these trolls are stupid and have the same IQ as an eight-year-old child, they are as big as four blades, weigh several thousand pounds, and have immense strength. They are true behemoths, while the goblin gnolls are only as tall as their knees.

"How many people are there across the way?"

Levi leaned his greatsword against his shield with great force, and the sound came through the cross iron barrel helmet, sounding very dull.

"Four thousand or more?" Zat was a little unsure.

After all, the mountains and forests affected the line of sight, and this group of indigenous coalition forces was in disarray and had no formation, so it was impossible to count the number of people specifically.

"What about our people?"

"Forty-eight...three hundred and sixty-eight."

"Not bad. I'll kill a few hundred of them, and you can each kill ten of the rest. It won't be that hard."

Although he didn't know the boss's expression in his helmet, judging from his tone, he should be smiling. Zat also grinned, and his tense nerves relaxed a little.

Although it is a veteran on the battlefield, to be honest, with a total of 48 people including the leader having to resist the first wave of attacks from nearly 4,000 people, it has never fought such a fierce battle!
(End of this chapter)