Mount and Blade: Summon five outlaws at the start

The three affiliated villages of Rhine Town are Lesse Village (the fief of Barnett Knight, the village where Monkron massacred), Magal Village, and Baga Village.

Since that day, Hood sent Monkron to lead the robbers to rush into the village and launched a bloody massacre.

The whole village was reduced to ruins, the villagers were killed, the houses were burned to ashes, and the farmland was destroyed.

Although Conrad later rebuilt the village, it has never been able to regain its former prosperity and vitality.

The main reason for this situation is that a series of emergencies made Conrad ignore the reconstruction plan of Lesse Village for a while.

First, Hood wanted to steal Rhine Town, which triggered a series of turmoil and chaos, and then there was a fierce attack and defense of Kingsley Manor, and the war spread to the surrounding areas.

Coupled with the large-scale invasion of the Kuyers, until now, only a few houses have been built in Lesse Village.

Since there was no one to manage it for the time being, it was occupied by hundreds of refugees who had fled from the eastern border one after another, using it as a temporary shelter.

That evening, when the refugees were sitting together to make a fire and cook, a burst of rapid horse hooves and wheels broke the originally peaceful atmosphere.

A team of one hundred fully armed Valandian soldiers quickly surrounded the village of Lesse.

The leader, Jeff, walked down the carriage slowly with an indifferent look and no expression.

He held a double-headed eagle flag that symbolized the authority of the Holy Roman Empire in his hand. Under the horrified eyes of the refugees, he walked to the ruined castle in Lesse Village.

Without any hesitation, he directly inserted the double-headed eagle flag into the soil on the top of the castle.

Then, Jeff turned to the panicked refugees and announced expressionlessly: "From today on, this is the territory of the Holy Roman Empire!"

"If you want to stay here, either choose to become a loyal subject of the Empire and obey the Empire's rule and arrangements, or pack your bags and leave here immediately!"

After saying this, Jeff stood in place, his eyes coldly sweeping over the ragged and haggard refugees in front of him.

Then, he waved his hand, and the fully armed soldiers behind him immediately raised their weapons and prepared to drive away the refugees.

Facing the Vlandian recruits holding pitchforks and sickles with resolute expressions, these refugees were terrified and their bodies trembled instinctively.

Although they were full of anger and unwillingness, they knew that they had no ability to fight against this army that suddenly appeared.

Although the new recruits of Vlandia were poorly equipped, the aura they exuded was clearly that of a regular army.

They had gone through countless hardships to get here from the distant East, and along the way, the refugees encountered countless difficulties and obstacles.

Hunger, disease, and bad weather tortured them all the time.

What frightened them even more was that there were countless ruthless criminals lurking in the wild, profit-seeking slave traders, and fleeing deserters.

As long as they dared to step out of this relatively safe area, the thugs would rush up without hesitation, looting the only supplies they had, and maybe even selling them to slave traders, so that they would live a dark slave life from then on.

Resistance was definitely not an opponent.

Leaving would face more dangers.

Under such circumstances, these refugees had only one way to survive.

They looked sad, and after a moment, they all fell to their knees with a thud, expressing their willingness to join the so-called Holy Roman Empire with a trembling voice.

Seeing these refugees so tactful, Jeff nodded with satisfaction, and then waved his arm again, signaling the Vlandian soldiers around him to stop driving them away.

Then, he took a step forward, coughed twice, cleared his hoarse throat, took a deep breath, and suddenly raised his voice and said:

"The great founder of the Holy Roman Empire, His Majesty King Hod, is kind-hearted! He couldn't bear to see his people starving, so when he sent us here, he also brought everyone a batch of food and some daily necessities, which he gave to you!"

"Thank the great king!"

As soon as these words came out, they instantly caused a thousand waves.

The faces of all the refugees present, which were originally sad, now showed a surprise smile.

No one expected that just by joining the Shinra Empire, which they had never heard of before, they could actually get food aid.

"Thank you, your kind king!!"

Suddenly, a voice came from the crowd.A shout filled with excitement.

Jeff looked in the direction of the voice and saw a middle-aged refugee with a haggard face but the excitement in his eyes.

As if infected by him, the other refugees also shouted loudly, expressing their gratitude to the king whom they had never met.

"Well... when distributing food and supplies later, give more to that person."

Jeff looked at the middle-aged refugee who spoke first, rubbed his chin, and instructed the Valandian soldier beside him.

"Understood." The Valandian soldier nodded.

Just as these refugees living in the village of Lesse were full of joy and gratitude to their new king, the village of Baga, far away, was also experiencing a similar change.

After arriving at Baga, hundreds of Valandian soldiers led by Kuhn quickly surrounded the entire village.

Faced with this group of sudden and aggressive uninvited guests, the villagers of Baga Village were terrified at first, but soon found that the other party seemed to have no ill intentions.

Kuhn and others also came to appease these villagers under the order of Hod, and adopted the same strategy as Jeff.

Use both kindness and force...

Finally, when the villagers knelt down tremblingly and expressed their willingness to surrender and join the empire, they also received a considerable amount of material support.

After taking over the two villages, in order to better manage the two villages that had just been incorporated into the empire, Hod appointed Jeff and Kuhn as their respective lords.

These two robber lords will shoulder the responsibility of protecting the peace of the villagers and promoting the prosperity and development of the territory.

Just like Jules before, when Jeff and Kuhn were canonized as lords, they also successfully transformed into heroic roles!

Not only that, they also gained the ability to recruit robbers.

However, unlike Jules’s level 2 command level, Jeff showed a command level of up to level 3.

What is even more astonishing is Kuhn, whose command level is directly on par with Paul, both at level 4!

In this way, the robbers recruited by these three robber lords can be combined to recruit up to ninety robbers in total!

And it should be pointed out that these robbers will not occupy the original team capacity of Hood.

In other words, for Hood, this is equivalent to adding a full ninety robber soldiers outside his team out of thin air.

This undoubtedly greatly enhances the overall strength of Hood's side, and don't forget that Paul is still in Kingsley Manor. Once he is appointed as the lord of Kingsley Manor, he can also recruit forty robbers.

After transforming Jules into a hero, Hood was very surprised. Why Paul was already a hero, but why did he not have the ability to recruit soldiers?

However, after Hod thought about it carefully, he came to the conclusion that only heroes who owned territories had the ability to recruit soldiers.