Rise of the Lord of Mount and Blade

“Lord, we killed a total of 23 Bailey people and captured eight people alive. The property and war horses they looted were all taken over by us, apart from this, we People also found twenty-five Touraine men in ragged clothes in the wood shed at the corner of the logging yard.”

Listening to Simon’s report, Richard slightly nodded on horseback, He cast his gaze to the slave who followed a few imperial infantry to help each other out of the wooden shed. Although their faces were dirty, they all had the joy of escape alive, as well as the joy of someone coming to save them. Surprise.

The slaves were taken to the open space in front of Richard by the imperial soldiers. The yellow dirt ground still carries the blood stains of horrible to see left from the battle and a bunch of uncleaned drops from humans. The meat that came down, they stood on the bloody ground without hesitation, raised their heads, and looked at Richard in front of them with grateful eyes.

Although they didn’t know this strange boy, they still derive his identity from the banner held behind Richard. He is the new Viscount of Laertai and their new lord.

Richard’s gaze scanned each slave slowly, looking at their miserable looks. Everyone became yellow and thin due to long-term oppression and hunger, with sunken cheeks and messy hair exuding. A foul smell, sticking to the scalp, or like a chicken coop, their limbs exposed to the air are also skinny, as if there is only a layer of skin attached to the bones, there is no bleeding at all, it is almost like it is Walking skeleton.

The young Viscount only felt very depressed in his heart. He took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled it, and said in a low tone: “Leaders of Laertai, I am your new lord, Richard Viscount Vareen, your suffering is over, and the shackles imposed on you by the heretic have also been broken. From now on, you will regain your freedom.”

Richard said, the slaves underneath one after another. Tears were left. They either hugged each other, or lowered their heads and wiped the turbid tears with their skinny hands. All this was like a dream to them, a dream they prayed for until now.

Looking at the weeping crowd, Richard thinned his lips and turned his head to look towards Simon standing beside him, instructed: “Simon, you will go and register each of them personally. Get up, make sure that everyone can return to their home safely, and then…” Speaking of this, he glanced at the slaves, a trace of unbearable flashes in his eyes, “Give their families tax exemption for this year, just as Viscount Laertai made up for them.”

Listening to what Richard said, Simon was stunned. He looked at Richard with a strange look, and did not answer until Richard found out his silence and asked him aloud. , He was stupidly nodded, and agreed.

……

After asking Simon to deal with the slaves, Richard walked to the place where the Bailey prisoners of war were held, and the eight horse bandits who were captured alive were locked up together at this time. Entering the dilapidated wooden shed where Touraine slaves lived, they knelt in humiliation on the muddy ground mixed with excrement and urine, and their noses were full of pungent stench. All of this did not make them more concerned about the humiliation of their captives.

“Let us go!”

“You will regret it!”

“Damn Touraine pig!”

” ……”

As soon as Richard walked into the wooden shed, he heard the mad yelling and insults of the horse bandits, but the soldiers guarding them were all the empires that Richard had brought from the hacking world to them. The insulting words of Touraine pigs in his mouth didn’t feel any sense at all, just looking at them with a disgusting expression, thinking about where to find a piece of cloth to cover all of their mouths.

As soon as Richard came in, the soldiers stroked their chests and saluted. One of the soldiers stepped forward and said: “My lord, the eight Bailey captives who were seen in custody are all locked here. But because of the language barrier, we were unable to interrogate them.”

“I know.” Richard nodded to him, indicating that he understood, and then looked towards the prisoners kneeling in the mud. They are still foul-mouthed. Richard had studied the languages ​​of the surrounding countries when he was a boy, so he could understand some of what they said. In this case, he face turned cold and pointed to one of the most fierce ones. The captive said: “Drag him out for me.”

He tone barely fell, and the two hired Swordsman standing aside immediately rushed out, dragging the captive to Richard in front of him like a hungry tiger.

“Cut off one of his arms.” Richard didn’t even look at him, instructed coldly at the soldier.

One of the soldiers hearing this responded, pulled out the saber around waist, and slashed directly at the prisoner’s left arm. The intact arm fell to the ground, and the scarlet blood spewed out, accompanied by the prisoner’s killing. Screaming like a pig.

When he said nothing, he chopped off a man’s arm. The seven prisoners behind looked pale, and the man who was clamoring crazily just closed his mouth and looked at Richard timidly. .

Facing their gazes, Richard scanned them in a condescending manner, and then asked: “Who is your leader?”

“…”

Silence.

The prisoners of war looked at each other, and no one answered him. After more than ten seconds, one said weakly: “My lord, our leader is dead.”

“Dead?” Richard squinted his eyes and looked towards him, and said: “What’s your name?”

“My name is Cook, my lord.”

“Very well, Ku K, tell me everything you know. I hope you are smart enough not to do anything that might irritate me.”

“Yes, my lord…”

……

Through Cook’s narration, Richard has a deeper understanding of this group of horse bandits. This group of horse bandits escaped from the border province of the Kingdom of Bailey. They were originally from the royal family of Bailey. The herdsmen in the ranch, because of a sudden plague, many horses and livestock in the ranch died of illness. They were afraid that the royal family would offend them, so they simply did nothing and kill the administrator who guarded the ranch in one night. Died, fled there with dozens of war horses, and finally came to Laertai collar around in circles.

Raltai is not the only group of Berry robbers in the Laltai group, but other Berry people are active in other places in the group, and this group of horse bandits usually has contact with other people of the same clan. , Exchange information with each other, so Richard can know the number and location of other Bailey robbers.

This will be of great help to his next work of suppressing bandits!

After finishing the interrogation of the captives, Richard turned his attention to the spoils of war obtained after the battle. Although he has not seen it with his own eyes, he can imagine it by his own imagination. There must be a lot of gains this time, and the forty war horses alone are a considerable wealth.