Mount & Blade: Wind of War

"That little nobleman from the Eastern Province seems to have discovered our secret."

After the dinner that day, they retreated, leaving only a few female knights closest to them as escorts.

At this moment, in the dark room, the soft water light reflects, and the mist rises. The female knight with silver hair and red eyes slowly takes off her armor. She takes off her face armor, spreads her long silver hair, and then walks step by step. Enter the hot spring in front of you.

Due to years of martial arts practice, they have graceful and exaggerated female curves, and skin as clear and beautiful as ivory. Due to racial limitations, it is basically impossible for human women to have such attractive skin.

There is a crystal ball in the room. With the control of a female knight, the crystal ball projects an image, projecting the video of the banquet just in front of Isa Karasa and Martha Pace.

In the video, a young man with obvious characteristics of a noble from the Eastern Province was hiding in the corner of the banquet and enjoying his meal without any grace.

"It's impossible, just this guy?" Marsha Pace frowned slightly when he saw this, and said with some surprise and disbelief.

"It's indeed him. If my perception hadn't been very high, I would have barely noticed his sight. This guy is very cautious. Aunt Masia, your acting skills are actually enough to deal with most of the northern nobles, making them unaware. It’s strange, but some people are knowledgeable and some are naturally sharp. When facing these people, you can’t deceive Aunt Masha. This little guy probably belongs to the latter.”

Hearing this, Masha, a beautiful woman in a gorgeous robe, stood by the hot spring pool and frowned and said, "Since he has noticed something, should we respond to it?"

"It's not necessary. He is just suspicious at most. If we take action because of this, it will be confirmed by him. What's more, unnecessary actions may also give insight into the real opponent hiding in the dark." Red eyes and silver hair Isha's eyes only stayed on the man for a moment, and then she talked to Mashayan about the direction of cooperation with other powerful pioneering lords.

For a lord, excellent personal qualities such as intelligence and agility are far less important than absolute strength.

Especially, in this northern wilderness where the probability of elimination from competition is astonishing.

After two moments passed on the crystal clock, Isha stood up in the hot spring under the service of Masha, and put on her dark blue armor again. She put on the mask again, and then took Masha and The female knight beside her walked through several rooms and came to the balcony of Silver Frost Castle.

At this moment, the open space in the castle was brightly lit. There were twenty female knights wearing sophisticated heavy armor, including both men and horses, fifty capable light cavalry, and one hundred and twenty armed with strange double-barreled irons. A special unit of management, fifty elite infantrymen.

With these full-time soldiers plus a certain number of auxiliary soldiers, Isha Karasa has enough confidence to defend against this bandit invasion even without the support of other pioneer lords, but the losses in Silver Frost Town will be relatively large. big.

In fact, just as Rhodes had guessed before, this request for help was more of a large-scale military parade than a request for help, hoping to establish absolute prestige among the future Northland lords in order to achieve great success.

"Aunt Masha, is my army strong?"

Pointing at the army below with the sheathed silver sword in her hand, the silver-haired and red-eyed female lord asked with a smile. At this moment, she was indescribably high-spirited and confident.

On the other side of the castle, Rhodes was applying for military supplies from the steward of Silver Frost Town.

According to the elite level of the support troops sent by each pioneer lord, Silver Frost Town also provides different materials. It is divided into several grades. The more elite the troops are, the more abundant materials they will receive year-on-year. But the twenty militiamen like Redwood Town basically come here to make up the numbers, which is ten copper coins per person per day.

Five days of military supplies are issued before the war begins. If there are gains after the war, corresponding rewards will be given. Then the five-day military supplies for twenty people in Redwood Town are worth one hundred silver coins and ten gold coins, which is quite a lot for civilians. , but these ten coins are simply not considered money if they are invested in the "military supplies" option.

Therefore, after Rhodes got the ten gold coins, except for using two of them to buy some food supplies and two bags of sharp enough steel arrows, he reached out and pushed forward all the remaining eight coins, slowly He slowly pushed it to the fat steward in front of him.

That is a heavy, attractive, shining gold coin with the king's head cast on it, but it is more beloved than the king, and can even tempt people to fall more than the devil!

"Uh, Mr. Rhodes, what do you mean?"

Seeing this scene, the young man under the general manager in the room immediately lowered his head and started to calculate the accounts. He was the general manager's nephew, which Rhodes had already found out before.

"General Manager Luman, I don't dare to expect the military rewards from Yinshuang Town. I just want to lead my brothers to survive. I wonder if General Manager Luman can help us organize things up and down and help us find someone for us in Redwood Town." In a safe and secluded location?”

There are only twenty militiamen under his command, and none of them can afford to die.

This time, there were nearly forty pioneer lords who came to attend the banquet. Even if all the lords made up the numbers like me, the entire Yinshuang Town now has thousands of soldiers, and twenty militiamen were thrown here. In a fight of this scale, there won't even be a splash, so where you are sent is very important.

Pressing the eight gold coins with his palm, Rhode stared at the fat steward in front of him with one hand on the sword, like a wolf, half requesting, half threatening.

People's kindness needs to be sharp, otherwise they can't protect themselves. The same is true for bribes from others, especially for poor people with little capital. They should make the other party feel that every penny of their money is important and life-threatening. If you take the money but don't do anything for me, I will fight you to death!

"... I can't arrange you in the castle. But I should be able to transfer you to the quarry. The quarry is densely forested and sparsely populated. If you die there, I think it's none of my business." After a moment of silence, the fat and naive-looking quartermaster replied.

"Then I'll trouble you, Mr. Luman. Please help us make this happen."

The core of the entire Silver Frost Town is the castle, followed by the outer town. There are also quarries, mills and other production buildings around. Compared with the town, the quarry is sparsely populated and easy to defend. The possibility of being attacked by wilderness thieves is indeed relatively low. Although it is definitely not as safe as the castle, with the capital in his hands, there is really no better choice.

Just when Rhodes happily put down the gold coins and turned to leave, he was suddenly stopped by Luman behind him, and then he was handed a crossbow and a bag of crossbow arrows by the other party.

"Don't worry, I will still help you with things. These are temporarily lent to you. Please try to use them properly and don't break them." Although he didn't understand what he meant, Rhodes still nodded and thanked him, and left with those unexpected gains.

Until Rhodes walked away, the boy who had been counting his money in the room raised his head: "Uncle Luman, why did you lend him that crossbow? That's a regulated military crossbow, right? In this way, we are equivalent to not making any money at all, and we have to do things for him for free."

"Haha, Cohen, have you seen people doing business?"

"Yes, but what is the relationship between the two?" Cohen was still puzzled and asked.

Manager Luman smiled when he heard the words, and then he stopped keeping the secret and began to teach his nephew directly: "Uncle, tell you, those who save money little by little and buy second-hand furniture and other things in business often do not lose money. Those who ask for money from their families and buy new tables, chairs, benches, etc., most of them lose money."

"...Uncle, are you saying that the guy who threatened you just now may be able to do his own 'business' in the future?"

"I'm not sure, but this is the wilderness of the North. Who knows who will be the next rising noble? If we, who have little capital, want to have a big return, we have to invest when people are poor. I forget it, but I don't want you to be a manager for life."