The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

Another thing that made Ye Tianlong frown was that in this small town, except for the soldiers, the other civilians looked sallow and thin, and their clothes were in tatters. It was obvious at a glance that the living conditions were very bad. .

Ye Tianlong probably knew why the people in this town were so poor. According to the chat he just had with the guard guarding the gate, he learned that the population of Odasan town was not large, with only more than [-] people, but the soldiers But there are more than a hundred. The key is that the background of the world of riding and slashing is in the medieval period with backward productivity. It is really extremely difficult for such a small town with no special products to support more than a hundred soldiers.

In addition, after evolving into this relatively real world, countries do not have very clear troop trees like in the original game. Instead, they are roughly divided into three types: militia, combat soldiers and elite combat soldiers based on their attributes and equipment levels. grade.

Taking the Kingdom of Nord as an example, Nord recruits, Nord light infantry and Nord hunters all belong to the militia level, Nord skilled light infantry, Nord warriors and Nord archers belong to the soldier level, and Nord senior archers , Nord senior soldiers and Nord royal guards belong to the elite soldier level. The militia-level soldiers here can generally only be equipped with simple leather and cloth armors, while the warrior-level soldiers can be equipped with iron chain armor and piercing armor. As for the most powerful elite warrior units, they are equipped with Most of them are elaborately made and are composite armor, which is the best in Calradia in terms of defensive power. Among them, take the hard leather armor commonly equipped by Nord royal guards. The surface of this thing is a thick layer of hardened leather armor, and the inside is a layer of chain armor. The combination of the two makes it more powerful than ordinary armor. More powerful defense.

Since the town of Odasan itself is very poor, and there are many pirates roaming around, there are basically no caravans coming here to trade. Therefore, the equipment level of the soldiers in Odasan town is very poor, so although it is not The attributes of the few soldiers have been improved well during training, but there are still more than fifty of them, all of whom can only be equipped with simple leather and cloth armors. They belong to the militia level. For combat soldiers, there are more than thirty, and elite warriors. There were only a pitiful dozen soldiers.

The reason why such a poor town had to force so many soldiers was because the lord of this town, Baron Sol, was an ambitious new military noble who wanted to establish a greater position in the war. For his merits, he obtained a higher title and a larger territory.

Ye Tianlong had never heard of this Baron Sol before when he was playing horseback and slashing, so he guessed that this person was either too weak, so he became a passerby NPC who didn't even have a name in the original game. , or it was because the timeline he entered was a bit wrong, it was not the timeline at the beginning of the regular game, so this Baron Thor, whom he had never heard of, appeared.

For Ye Tianlong, the current situation is more favorable to him. After all, the town of Odasan is so poor. Baron Saul must be short of money if he wants to expand his army and prepare for war. He may have the opportunity to spend it directly. Qian bought the piece of land with a large amount of yellow wax stone storage, and even simply bought a knighthood from the other party, and then directly built a small village there as his future stronghold in this riding and slashing world. After owning his own territory, Ye Tianlong can also recruit soldiers here. During the previous chat with the guard, Ye Tianlong had already learned that outsiders like him could not be in the territories of those lords. Recruiting soldiers at will. After all, these young men and women of the right age are the best sources of soldiers. They are also an important resource for the lords. How can they be recruited casually by outsiders? So Ye Tianlong must find a way to meet Baron Saul next.

However, it is not easy to see the other party. After all, the other party is also a noble lord with his own territory. It is impossible to be like in the game. Players can directly enter the other party's castle at any time to chat face to face with these nobles.

As a lord, the other party must have many things to deal with every day. It would be too outrageous if any cat or dog could sneak into the castle and annoy him.

After some inquiring, Ye Tianlong learned that Potts, the most important confidant of Baron Saul, happened to be collecting taxes in the town today. If he could bribe the other party first, there was a high probability that he could arrange it. Let’s meet that Baron Saul.

When Ye Tianlong found the other party, Butler Potts was leading a group of soldiers to collect taxes at a farmer's home. It seemed that the farmer had not paid enough taxes, so Potts commanded a few soldiers to collect taxes from the farmer. Some valuable materials from the home were moved away, and there was even a little ration left in the farmer's home.

Faced with this situation, the farmer and his wife had no choice but to squat by the gate and watch with despair as the soldiers moved away everything from the house one by one.

When Guo Dafu saw this scene, he felt extremely sympathetic to the farmer. After all, not long ago, he was also a hard-working worker who was at the bottom of society and was cruelly oppressed.

But now that business was serious, he could only temporarily put away the sympathetic look on his face, put on a flattering smile, and tried to talk to the Potts housekeeper.

However, Butler Potts's appetite was much greater than that of the guard. Ye Tianlong gave the other party a full twenty silver coins, but he could not get the other party to agree to help him introduce Baron Saul.

So Ye Tianlong could only grit his teeth, took out several crystal clear glass beads, and stuffed them into the opponent's hands.

"This is a specialty from my hometown of Siris. I hope Butler Potts likes it!"

After hearing Ye Tianlong's words, the gray-haired and shrewd Butler Potts looked down at the glass beads in his palm, and his eyes finally showed a glimmer of light.

"Okay! Seeing how sincere you are, I will arrange for you to meet the Baron when he is free in the next few days!"

Hearing that the other party finally agreed to his request, Ye Tianlong thought to himself that the glass beads really worked! Especially in this backward ancient background where transparent glass cannot yet be produced, this thing is as rare as a real gem!

It seems that because he made a fortune from Ye Tianlong, the Potts housekeeper was in a good mood. He signaled the soldiers to stop and left two chairs and an extremely worn wooden table in the farmer's house to him. , so that the family will not really be devastated.

However, the farmer and his wife obviously did not appreciate Butler Potts' kindness. They still squatted by the gate blankly, without even saying 'thank you'.

After Potts Butler led the group of soldiers away, Ye Tianlong quietly came to the farmer, dropped a large bag of flour and a small bag of food in front of him, and then said nothing. Turned and left.

When the farmer saw someone suddenly throwing two packages of things, one large and one small, in front of him, his two eyes that were originally dead finally moved and turned to the two packages in front of him.

When Ye Tianlong had walked more than ten meters away, the farmer raised his thin and yellow hands, stepped forward tremblingly, opened the big bag, and looked at himself.

But it was this glance that once again gave birth to a glimmer of hope in the farmer's originally desperate eyes, because the contents of this big bag were actually all fine flour as white as snow.

Surprised, he opened another pocket and found that it contained the same fine white salt. He had never seen such white salt before. The farmer couldn't believe it was salt for a moment. It wasn't until he dipped his fingers into a few grains of salt, put it in his mouth, and tasted the strong salty taste that he finally dared to confirm that this was indeed snowflake salt that even those nobles could hardly afford!

After he was happy, the farmer wanted to thank the kind person who left him the big bag of flour and a bag of salt.

Unfortunately, Ye Tianlong, a kind man, had already merged into the crowd and was nowhere to be found.

At this time, Ye Tianlong was walking around the dirty and narrow streets of Odasan Town, while constantly scanning the shops on both sides, trying to find the merchant selling horses. After all, what he was best at was riding and shooting. Now that the bows, arrows and heavy armor are all ready, what is missing is a good war horse.

As long as he has a good war horse, even if he encounters a large group of pirates with more than a dozen people, Ye Tianlong will dare to take a chance.

After searching for a long time, Ye Tianlong finally found the horse dealer in the corner of the town.

What made Ye Tianlong a little disappointed was that the other party didn't have any good war horses at all, only a few traveling horses and pack horses.

These two kinds of horses are considered the most rubbish horses in riding and slashing games. You can guess it just by looking at the names. The pack horses can only be used to carry some goods. Because the running speed is too slow, they are not suitable for use as horses at all. war horse.

As for the traveling horse, although it is a little faster than the pack horse, it is also very thin, with very low defense and HP. It is still a bit reluctant to be used as a war horse. Generally, it is just some non-professional mounted infantry. , I know how to ride this thing for a while. When I get to the battlefield, I still have to dismount and fight on foot. Otherwise, this fragile traveling horse can be chopped down by a senior soldier like the Nord Royal Guard with an ax. There is no hope of being able to ride it. Use it to attack the enemy formation.

At this time, Ye Tianlong thought that his birthplace was in the territory of the Kujit Khanate! After all, as an all-cavalry country, horses there can be said to be plentiful and cheap. Unlike the Kingdom of Nord, almost all resources are devoted to the ace unit of the Nord Royal Guard. There is not even a single unit in the national unit tree. There is no cavalry branch, so domestic horses are extremely scarce and of extremely low quality.