Mount & Blade: Wind of War

The complete division of the Styak Empire has brought about the loss of a central government and the gradual chaos in various places. After two hundred years, this great country has gradually come to the end of its life.

Although there is cruelty and oppression, limited order is better than disorder without rules in most cases.

Although the people of the former empire were in hardship, at least there was a country responsible. Now that it has fallen into a full-scale war, the objects responsible for providing protection can no longer be found, and the guys responsible for collecting taxes have suddenly increased, and the number of thieves and robbers is increasing day by day.

A large number of people have been displaced. In this process, the Lonely Mountain Castle in the northern province has benefited a lot, because the name of Grand Duke Rod Hart, the "Dragon Slayer", has also spread among the people.

In troubled times, people certainly hope to get a strong protector instead of being repeatedly taxed.

Especially after Rod took Anna to the Lonely Mountain Castle, the combination of fame and righteousness caused many people to travel thousands of miles to the Lonely Mountain to become his people.

However, at this moment, the Lonely Mountain Castle, with the approaching military threat from the north, is becoming less and less suitable for attracting a large number of refugees.

Because in wartime, productivity is difficult to release in large quantities. The gathering of a large number of refugees will lead to the consumption of a large number of resources. The rise of magic in this world is different from the low-magic world where people can gather as soldiers. A high-level army can completely defeat a low-level army that is ten times larger than itself. This has been demonstrated very clearly outside the city of Velugatl.

Therefore, Lonely Mountain Castle began the war alert and the sturdy wall and clearing operations.

The war alert is for the people on the one hand and for the nobles in the North on the other hand. For the people, notices are posted to inform that Lonely Mountain Castle is about to face a large-scale war, so that ordinary people will naturally stop gathering at Lonely Mountain Castle, and a small number of people who have no confidence in Lonely Mountain Castle will choose to leave.

For the nobles in the North, they are asked to start preparing for war. After all, the orc army is coming, and it is not that they cannot go around Lonely Mountain Castle if they cannot defeat it. At least within a considerable range, they are at a distance where they are likely to be attacked.

At the same time, Lonely Mountain Castle gave up White Stone Fortress and Redemption City, and moved the population back to Lonely Mountain. Although the orcs can use all meat as military rations, which is much lower than humans, it will still put pressure on their logistics under the stronghold, and the larger the army is, the more so.

It's just that it's hard to leave the homeland. Even with Rhode's prestige, it's still very difficult for the lower-class people to easily abandon their homes.

There are even some orc civilians who think that the army of the Hoffman Empire will not do anything to them, and they have such a fluke mentality.

For this kind of thing, Rhode used his own special administrative means: forced demolition, on the one hand, give a certain amount of economic compensation, on the other hand, if you don't want to leave, then just push the house flat, if you cooperate and are willing to leave, then at least leave the house as a thought.

The one responsible for doing this dirty work is a newly formed army of Lonely Mountain Castle: the Stronghold Corps, the low-level soldiers are composed of 600 goblins, and the high-level soldiers are composed of 200 ogres. The commander of the army is the goblin hero Abby, and the adjutants are his two sons, Big Fat and Second Fat.

All along, Rhodes had been on guard against Abby, even though he knew in his heart that it was not Abby's fault.

Subsequent facts also proved that Rhodes's precautions were correct. If Rhodes had not lived two lives and cultivated the Holy Light Qi Mentality beyond the upper limit of the Mentality itself, he would probably have died of blood disease.

But now that he had found a way to resolve it and the situation was critical, Rhodes finally released Abby and the ogres who had been kept as servants:

Goblin robbers, goblin thieves, goblin thugs.

Adult ogres, strong ogres, ogre warriors; elite ogres, giant ogres, ogre destroyers; ogre gluttons, ogre guards, ogre shamans; ogre trolls, ogre kings, ogre kings.

Even when the demon tide rose, the goblins were as useless as ever, or strengthening the body was simply their wrong evolutionary path, for them.

But it is enough. Although the first-level third-level goblin thugs cannot beat a first-level adult ogre, they have been strengthened to a certain extent. It is no problem to use them to cut trees, carry bricks, clean the ground, and do these auxiliary chores. As long as there is some black bread every day, they are already in high spirits. This is called high comprehensive cost-effectiveness, and they don’t feel bad when they die.

When the demon tide rises, the potential of the ogres is a bit terrifying. The potential of humans is basically one or two levels, while the potential of the ogres does not require any transformation ceremony. All members are at the fourth level, and judging from the promotion route of the arms, they are obviously practicing both magic and martial arts.

In the books of this world, Rhodes once saw an archaeologist’s discussion that there was a lost troll civilization in this world. In that ancient era that is unknown how far away from now, the trolls were the masters of this world...

Rhodes can now confirm that this inference is correct, but with the demise of that ancient civilization, the primitive civilization is no longer enough for the ogres to recover to the height of their ancestors.

If goblins are merely a cost-effective type of troop, then ogre heavy infantry is a truly powerful combat type of troop.

As long as they are organized, there is no problem at all in cross-level challenges. However, both the logistics consumption and the killing experience required to upgrade the level are extremely high. They can be upgraded by one or two levels, which is enough for human troops to be upgraded by one level.

The forced demolition of the White Stone Fortress and the City of Redemption was carried out by Abby, who led the stronghold army. After being a servant for many years, Abby suddenly changed his job and became the commander of the army. The loyalty and subjective initiative of the entire goblin were raised to the extreme. Coupled with the ferocity of the ogres, the forced demolition went smoothly, and there was no real need to take action to cause loss of life.

Abby used her alchemy skills to prepare a foul-smelling potion and threw it into the homes of residents who refused to leave. The spreading foul-smelling green gas would cause more than 90% of intelligent creatures to immediately change their minds.

However, the loyal goblin Abby, who is determined to fight for his career, does not know that the master he serves wholeheartedly has already made up his mind:

If your method of resolving the disease fails and you fail to survive the blood disease, then before you die, you must take all the goblin legions and ogre legions underground for burial. You cannot leave such a huge legacy to the humans of this world. disaster risks.