The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

Ye Tianlong naturally saw that these mercenaries were deliberately delaying time, but he considered that the real main force of the Kingdom of Swadia was cavalry. Even if he continued to pursue the pursuit, if the other party focused on escaping, his own troops lacked cavalry. It is also difficult to leave it behind. So Ye Tianlong simply acted out a show with these mercenaries, negotiated a mutually satisfactory condition with the other party, and finally surrendered these more than [-] mercenary soldiers without any effort.

The nobles who stayed in the camp were all dumbfounded when they heard that Ye Tianlong had easily pushed back the main army of the Kingdom of Swadia and surrendered several hundred troops. Was King Rouse really beaten to death by his own side? He was so vulnerable that he withdrew his troops without even daring to fight.

After discovering that the enemy army seemed to be vulnerable, the nobles couldn't help but have the idea of ​​​​doing meritorious service, and soon they also asked King Ragnar to fight.

King Ragnar also wanted to completely expel the enemy troops from the territory as soon as possible, so he agreed to the request of these nobles and let them attack separately.

However, soon, several Nord noble troops that were pursuing the front were counterattacked by the Kingdom of Swadia. In total, they lost at least [-] troops. If it weren't for Ye Tianlong and his troops quickly He caught up and almost let the opponent turn the tide of the battle.

Ye Tianlong looked at the enemy cavalry that was quickly evacuating, and felt a little helpless. There were so many cavalry that they could do whatever they wanted! The initiative on this battlefield has always been in the hands of the opponent. Fight if you want, and withdraw if you want!

And the other party seemed to know how powerful he was. Once he came with his troops, the other party immediately retreated without any hesitation.

However, despite some twists and turns, in the end the Nord Kingdom's side finally forced all the enemy troops to withdraw from the country, and the national war was temporarily stopped.

Because the two sides have not even agreed on an armistice agreement, Ye Tianlong can see that the Kingdom of Swadia has not been defeated. The battle between the two sides will restart at any time. He will have to continue to think of ways to expand and train his troops after returning this time. .

The most important thing is that he must also train more cavalry. The cavalry he currently has is too few and will not be of much use in the battle.

He also captured more than fifty enemy war horses this time. In addition to the horses that the caravan led by Jiang You was about to buy back, Ye Tianlong estimated that he would be able to form at least a hundred troops when he returned this time. A cavalry unit of more than [-] people.

In addition to horses, Ye Tianlong also captured a large number of enemy weapons and armor this time. Most of these equipment were half sold and half given away by Ye Tianlong to Viscount Sol and King Ragnar. In addition, the captured enemy soldiers He also separated some of the remaining ones and gave them to Viscount Saul, so that he could quickly replenish the losses of his troops, while he himself only selected [-] people from the more than [-] prisoners to supplement them. Just among his own troops.

Viscount Saul was very touched by Ye Tianlong's generous behavior. His relationship with Ye Tianlong has been developing rapidly these days, and has even reached the point of becoming brothers. Even King Ragnar has a very good impression of Ye Tianlong, and feels that Thor can help him. He promoted a very good young hero.

For Ye Tianlong, giving away a bunch of equipment that is almost like scrap metal to him can gain the favor of Viscount Thor and King Ragnar. This business is really profitable for him. It’s over!

After confirming that all the troops of the Kingdom of Swadia had been expelled from the country, King Ragnar disbanded the army. Except for leaving more than [-] troops stationed at the border, the other troops could go their own way. Home.

This is actually a huge drawback of the feudal system country, because the nobles are not only the military commanders of their own tribes, but also the political managers of their own territories, so they simply cannot maintain such a national army of thousands of people for a long time. Otherwise, if no one takes care of the territory of each lord for a long time, it will soon become deserted or even cause trouble.

In contrast, Ye Tianlong feels that the centralized monarchy system that they have completed early in the East is much more advanced. Although the country will quickly weaken if it encounters a weak king, if the monarch is wise enough, he can completely unify the entire country. The strength can sustain long-term campaigns that last for several years or even more than ten years, and the number of troops can easily reach hundreds of thousands or even millions.

In a country with a feudal system like the Kingdom of Nord, the king's ability to rule the country can be said to be extremely limited. After all, this feudal country is all about enfeoffment and construction, so it is called a feudal system.

Those noble lords who were enfeoffed in various places have a high degree of autonomy over their own territories. Basically, except for paying taxes on time and sending some soldiers to respond to the king's signs when a national war occurs, those noble lords have complete control over their territories at other times. He is a local emperor in his own territory, he can do whatever he wants! You can even formulate some weird laws unique to your own territory, such as the 'right of first night' and the like.

The advantage of doing this is that it can greatly mobilize the subjective initiative of the noble lords. After all, since this territory has been completely entrusted to you, so that you can dominate it at will, then in order to satisfy their own needs, those noble lords Desire, of course, is to build their own territory well. Otherwise, the territory is so poor that there are not even many residents. Even if they want to dominate, they don't have the conditions!

The disadvantage of this is that the king's binding force on these noble lords becomes extremely small. For example, this time, King Ragnar tried his best to find a reason to allocate more land to Thor and Ye Tianlong. He also gave some monetary compensation to those big lords.

The reason King Ragnar found was also very simple, that is, those territories had been held by those great nobles for a long time, but no development had been carried out, and they were suspected of being abandoned, so King Ragnar entrusted them to To others, so that those territories can be developed as soon as possible and generate their due value.

This is because of the great victory this time, and the fact that the great nobles had evil intentions in Viscount Thor's mind before, King Ragnar was able to successfully carve out several pieces of wasteland from these guys and enfeoff them to Ye Tianlong and Saul.

If it were normal times, even King Ragnar would not be able to do anything against these great nobles. After all, the great nobles' influence in the Kingdom of Nord can be said to be deep-rooted, although the individual forces are more powerful than They are not in the royal family, but if they are united, they can use more resources and troops than King Ragnar.

After receiving the order from King Ragnar to disband the national army, the great nobles who did not gain much benefit from this national war and instead suffered frequent losses of troops and generals immediately returned to their territories with their troops one by one.

Ye Tianlong and Viscount Saul were a little slow because they still had a large number of prisoners and trophies to escort. After all the nobles left, they slowly packed up the trophies and began to return to the territory together.

On the way back, because he was not in a hurry, Ye Tianlong sometimes even stopped to help some villages or small towns drive away some bandits and bandits entrenched in them.

This is of course not because Ye Tianlong likes to meddle in other people's business, but because he can gain reputation and honor in this way. He has not forgotten that last time, he relied on the reputation he accumulated before to exchange for thirty-nine powerful people in one go. Kuset Khan Guards may still use this reputation and honor value in the future! If he could get some easily, he would naturally not miss this opportunity.

Just walking and stopping like this, it took Ye Tianlong more than a week to finally return to his territory.

After returning to his territory, Ye Tianlong was ready to use up his one-week recruitment quota.

However, just when Ye Tianlong opened the panel as usual and prepared to operate, he discovered that the screen of the panel seemed to be cracked, and several black lines appeared on it at some point.

Ye Tianlong stretched out his hand and stroked these black lines, thinking about why this happened.

After thinking for a while, he felt that the most likely cause of this situation was the evil demons from outside the territory. Although he had killed an evil demon before, it seemed that there were more evil demons that had invaded the world of riding and slashing. On one end, there are others developing obscenely in secret! After the other party completely controls this world, perhaps the various permissions given to them by the god of games as guardians of the virtual world will be completely invalidated.

As for now, Ye Tianlong tried operating several functions, but for the time being he didn't find anything wrong. However, this also put a lot of pressure on Ye Tianlong and gave him a sense of urgency.

After summoning more than fifty newcomers, Ye Tianlong handed over the task of educating these newcomers about the rules of the camp to Luo Chenguang and others, and then he took Zhang Dashu to the places where dragon cud grass was planted to check these spiritual herbs. growth status.

What makes Ye Tianlong happy is that under the careful care of Zhang Dashu, these dragon grasses are growing very well, and the first crop will be harvested in about a week.

After harvesting this crop of Dragon Cult, he can use these Dragon Cult as the main material to refine the Dragon Transformation Pill. Next, whether he can cultivate a more powerful heavy cavalry force than the Swadia Knights will all depend on the Dragon Transformation Pill. After all, the output and quality of horses in the Nord Kingdom where he is located are far higher than the Without going to the Kingdom of Swadia, if you want to cultivate better war horses in a short period of time, you can only rely on this Dragon Transformation Pill to achieve overtaking in corners.

What made Ye Tianlong even more delighted was that among this group of newcomers, there was actually a firearms expert that he had been looking forward to.

This firearms expert's name is Guan Jun, and he is Luo Chenguang's old comrade-in-arms in the army. Luo Chenguang contacted several of his old comrades-in-arms in the army some time ago. During this wave of summons, he finally had One was successfully summoned by Ye Tianlong.

Ye Tianlong also had no doubts about employing people, and immediately handed over the development and improvement of his firearms to this expert, and acted as a hands-off shopkeeper with ease.