Warlord: King of All Clans

After returning to the base, Rose Knight Xiya came over and reported: "The civilians we brought back have already headed south."

"Got it." Leo nodded in response.

The hundreds of civilians from the town of Melesi that Leo brought back already carried a lot of food and supplies. He also bought some more food for them and then let them go south.

As long as they can get to the vicinity of Knight Gladstone's territory north of Isembol, someone will pick them up and take them into Gravel Castle to become laborers there.

This migrating team was able to defend the town of Melesi, which showed that their military strength was not low. They were much better off than the original River Bend Pioneer Team.

As long as the lords' armies along the way don't go to "clean up", ordinary bandit groups won't get into trouble.

The corner flag of the Isenbol Legion did not make any comment on this matter, as they did not suffer any losses anyway.

It's not that they are afraid that Leo will hang them on the flagpole, but they are not foolish enough to think that the cruel Leo is just being soft-hearted.

Several hundred people stayed in the town of Melesi, and that was the food left for the orcs, enough to feed the three thousand orcs for a long time.

Compared to the laborious hunting of various large wild beasts in the Wolf-Driving Plains, the human civilians were even weaker than wild horses and herds of horned deer. A single charge of three thousand orcs could forcefully break through the walls of the small town of Melesi, which was only three or four meters high.

Three thousand orcs occupying the town, and several hundred people as food, undoubtedly further increased the difficulty of the cleanup.

During defensive operations, it is common sense in warfare to clear the countryside and fortify the city.

All the refugees from Frovald were driven south by the army to prevent them from staying in the north and becoming food for the orcs.

If it were not beyond their capabilities, humans would have wanted to drive all the wild beasts in the wilderness to the south.

When we arrived at the courtyard of Legion Commander Arnold, the main members of the legion had already begun to divide up the Duke's reward.

As the strongest and most accomplished member of the legion, Leo received less than the legion commander Arnold. Even the deputy legion commander Rudolph received less.

Leo received 10% of the Grand Duke's reward, which was nearly two hundred gold coins worth of supplies.

The three of them alone took away 30% of the reward, and the remaining 20 or so corner flags shared the remaining 70%.

In addition to dividing the rewards, there is also division of the soldiers whose corner flags died in battle.

The charge of one hundred wolf cavalrymen resulted in the deaths of nearly fifty corner flag knights, proletarian knights and knight squires.

Among them, there are quite a few soldiers who died in the corner flag. These soldiers will be divided up by other corner flags and added to their own troops until they return to Isenpol.

In the era of feudal lords, the fate of the lower-level soldiers was undoubtedly the most tragic. They participated in wars but were unable to achieve any merit, and their military merits could only be exchanged for a small amount of money and land.

Soldiers in the standing army may also be promoted to sergeants, and finally there is a very small chance that they will become knights.

The soldiers of the lord's army had no way to be promoted, and many of them had to go back to farming after fighting. The strong full-time infantrymen could at best serve as captains of the knight lord's guard.

As they were happily dividing the money, they saw the herald walk in.

"Captain Arnold, the Duke has sent someone here with a reward for Lord Leo."

"Give it to me?" Leo was very interested. As the corner flags looked at each other in confusion, he walked out of the yard.

On the street, two fully armed knights in heavy armor, riding on burly war horses, looked down at Leo who came out of the yard.

These two heavy-armored knights were wearing exaggerated full-coverage plate armor.

The thickness of the exposed edge of this plate armor is half a centimeter, which is at least twice as thick as an ordinary knight's plate armor!

The ferocious armor was dyed blood red, and the top of the head, shoulders, back, and joints were all covered with sharp edges.

The war horses they rode on were also extremely tall and strong, with smooth and sturdy muscle lines, but they were not wearing any vests.

As the sun shone, the red warhorse's skin flashed with a reflection like fish scales.

There are a lot of thick edges and corners of varying lengths on the warhorse's head, making it look extremely ferocious.

It's a dragon scale horse.

The exclusive mount of the Wind Knight, a mid-level magical beast with the blood of a red dragon, capable of carrying thousands of pounds of load and running at high speed.

The dense dragon scales on the body are enough to ignore the shooting of a single soldier's bow and crossbow.

These two knights were obviously the combat-style Wind Knights, and the retired Solovy Knights who returned home, because the outflow of the Wind Knights' armed forces was prohibited, obviously their exclusive armor and mounts were left at the Knights' headquarters in Olenik.

The Wind Knights are the most powerful heavy cavalry in the Empire, capable of suppressing the Wolf Riders of the Orcs, and can easily fight against three times the number of Imperial armored troops.

Next to the two Wind Knights, there was an empty dragon-scale horse.

A Swift Knight jumped off his horse and looked through the eye sockets of his helmet, carefully examining the young man for whom the Duke had made an exception. He then thrust the reins in his hand over to him and said, "The Duke has ordered that Leo Mondo has made outstanding contributions in the battle and he shall be rewarded with a Dragon Scale Horse."

"Thank you, Duke!" Leo was overjoyed. He took the reins and pounded his breastplate to express his gratitude.

"Don't let the Duke down. Also, be careful." After completing the task, the Wind Knight looked at the dragon-scale horse beside Leo and said meaningfully.

"I understand! Take care, brothers!" Leo watched the two Wind Knights leave, then looked happily at his new warhorse.

As Leo's horse fighting skills became more and more sophisticated, he was already able to sit on a warhorse and wield a thirty-five-pound long crescent-shaped sword freely.

Leo's strength is actually greater. When fighting on foot, he can still fight even with the ogre Krog's big stick.

However, horse battles require consideration of the load-bearing capacity of the warhorse. If a long weapon is too heavy and wielded on horseback, the potential energy will be too terrifying.

He could hold the long crescent-shaped sword with one hand and swing it in circles like a helicopter propeller, but the warhorse under his feet could not do that.

When fighting against the Orc Wolf Cavalry, Leo wielded his long crescent-shaped sword to fight against the enemy, and the heavy Northern warhorse under his feet began to stagger, unable to withstand such a huge force.

If such battles occur too frequently, the war horses will eventually be crippled due to the heavy load.

The Duke's reward was a real relief to Leo, and it directly solved the biggest problem that was affecting his immediate combat capability.

Our little mouse’s grandfather is also great!

Leo was very happy. He held the reins with one hand and wanted to touch the dragon scale horse's head with the other hand to show his closeness.

The dragon scale horse opened its mouth and bit without hesitation.

A crisp biting sound was heard, as if two cow bones were hitting each other violently.

If Leo hadn't reacted quickly enough, his palm would have been bitten off.

Looking at the unruly dragon-scale horse, Leo felt a little headache and could only stare at the dragon-scale horse.

Whose horse has pointy teeth?

Rather than a horse's head, the dragon-scale horse with bared teeth looks more like the head of a red dragon.

As a mid-level magical beast, its biting ability is even stronger than that of a warg.

Leo had no choice but to lead it into the stable, and start by feeding and caring for it, slowly getting familiar with the animal.