Mount & Blade: Wind of War

Boom, boom.

Accompanied by the sound of horse hooves trampling, a team of black-armored swordsmen cavalry appeared in the eyes of more than 20 refugees.

After arriving close, with the order of the leader, the cavalry gradually slowed down, and when it came to the refugees, it had completely stopped.

"Who are you and where are you going?"

The leader of the dark armored cavalry, sitting on the horseback and looking at the emaciated farmers in front of him, frowned and asked, and even the grass roots that had not been swallowed were exposed in their mouths.

"Sir, we are poor farmers who can't survive in Takdar Village. Now we want to go to the City of Glory. Sir, we are so poor that we have nothing. Please let us go." The old man who led the refugees knelt down first and kept kowtowing and begging.

Following his actions, the other refugees behind him also knelt down quickly.

"Okay, I got it. Cavalry, give them some of your rations." As he spoke, Fatis took off his helmet and took out the package, throwing half a piece of bread on the dry grass in front of the refugees. Following Fatis's actions, the dark armored cavalry behind him did the same, throwing bread, sausages, and rat jerky all over the ground.

"You will see the Lonely Mountain Castle in less than two days. After you arrive at the Lonely Mountain Castle, remember to register at the registration office as soon as possible. There will be officials to arrange you and settle your work and life."

"My lord, thank you, your glory is as dazzling as the sun."

"I am just a knight bathing in the sun's glory. Remember, from today on, you will only be loyal to Lord Rodhart, and only Lord Rodhart. Let's go, drive."

After saying this, Fatis took his subordinates and galloped away. He still had a mission to do and could not stay here for too long.

"Dad, dad, there's still meat, there's still meat, I haven't eaten meat for seven or eight years." After the dark cavalry left, the son next to the old man said excitedly while holding a string of dried rats, but was slapped hard by his father.

"Eat, eat, eat, all day long. Can you be tired to death by using your brain more? Can't you see that we are in the right place? When have you ever seen the knight leave food for us lowly people?"

"Let's go, go forward, our good days are just ahead, hahahahaha."

On the other side, Fatis was leading the dark armored cavalry, walking through the forest, searching for traces of the enemy.

At this moment, half a year has passed since the battle to establish the Lonely Mountain Castle. Because there is sufficient funds (the witch secret library) and sufficient productivity (a large number of alien slaves), the development of the Lonely Mountain Castle in the past six months can almost be described as a daily change. There is vitality everywhere, and almost no one starves to death.

In terms of military affairs, Lonely Mountain Castle has expanded its army in large numbers, forming dark cavalry, heavy cavalry, charr infantry, and Rhodok crossbowmen, with Rhodok crossbowmen as the main body, totaling more than 2,000 people.

However, no matter how much the dark cavalry is expanded, due to the extremely high requirements for innate talents and the difficulty of training and cultivation, it has only expanded to over 80 people half a year later. Originally, there was no riding improvement in the dark swordsman promotion system, and it should be a magic swordsman unit. However, after Rhodes obtained the steed offered by the Blue Elf Tribe, he strictly ordered all dark swordsmen to practice riding, and let Fatis and Resarit jointly take charge of the training.

Half a year later, this army was fully formed, with high attack (dark fire), high defense (dark fire, black armor), and high mobility (black armor, with the defense of heavy armor but only the weight of light armor). The average level of all members is four to five. Although there are only eighty people, it is an ace special forces, like a small but sharp poisoned dagger, which is easy to be ignored but is actually very scary.

Fatis was extremely grateful to Lord Rhodes for handing over this ace force that he had trained with great effort to his hands. Of course, Fatis's loyalty could not be improved any more, it had already reached the maximum, and he could not do his best, because he did everything that Rhodes asked him to do with all his strength.

"Lord Fatis, found it!"

Yannick, the deputy commander of the cavalry, held up a monocular telescope and said this after completing the reconnaissance.

This telescope was not the one in Rhodes' hand, but the one he bought when he met a traveling merchant in the past six months. Although it was not as good as the one in Rhodes' hand, Rhodes spent a high price to buy three of them and gave them to Fatis, Raymond, and Resarit respectively. As generals who had to lead troops outside from time to time, this was a very important auxiliary combat tool.

"Very good, brothers, let's go and teach those bastards in the Dark City (Sin City) a lesson that they will never forget."

Fatis put away the map, took the telescope and looked at it himself, confirmed the whereabouts of the Dark City cavalry, and then he turned around and said this.

During this period of time, the conflict between Lonely Mountain Castle and the City of Sin, Constat, has become increasingly serious. Lonely Mountain Castle is also known as the City of Glory, and Constat is called the City of Darkness by many people.

The reason for the conflict between the two forces is simple. The main business methods of the wilderness thieves are looting and human slave trade.

Relying on the magic riots of the wilderness as a barrier, they constantly rushed into the inland to plunder wealth and population, and then returned to the wilderness. The legions of the human empire did not dare to chase them for a long time, otherwise no matter how many people were directly wiped out by the magic disaster, it was possible.

The main buyers of the human slave trade of the wilderness thieves were the major alien forces in the wilderness, and even the forces of the orc empire. Now the mountain fortresses, which were the major buyers of human slaves, have become the lonely mountain castle. This is already a contradiction of cutting off the source of income. It was only because the thief king Konstart was busy with internal unification during that time that there was no trouble.

Now that the Dark City has been established, the great prosperity of the lonely mountain castle has attracted a large number of border people to go there. The Dark City, which also implements the slave exploitation policy, has begun to send people here to plunder the population.

This may be a natural way of making a living for the wilderness thieves, but it is completely unacceptable for the lonely mountain castle.

Therefore, Rhodes sent his strongest knight Fatis to lead his most elite troops, the Dark Armored Cavalry, to start patrolling to search for looters. Once found, they would be killed on the spot. If captured alive, they would also be reduced to slaves.