Being a lord in another world begins with farming

Chapter 12 Destroying the Bandits
There are very few large-scale forests on the northern border, and the magic horn forest is an exception, because there is a kind of magic horn tree growing here. This kind of tree has no flowers, no leaves and no fruit. Toxicity, once stabbed by the magic horn tree, the wound will be unbearably painful and bleeding, no one wants to try this feeling.

In addition, there is also a kind of horned goblin living here. Compared with ordinary goblins, horned goblins have red eyes, black skin, full of fangs, and a small horn on their heads. They are bloodthirsty and carnivorous, and use magic horn trees The polished weapons, even the soldiers dare not be careless, so few people dare to cut and hunt in the magic horn forest, so the surrounding environment is getting better and better, and the ordinary forests outside have formed a considerable scale. , the risk is not that great.

It's just that if you enter the magic horn forest in groups, aren't you afraid of attracting magic horn goblins?

These little monsters like people the most. After all, people don't have thick fur, nor tough bones, which is really a rare delicacy.

Maybe these robbers thought they would be fine if they only stayed for one night. The problem is that they have been discovered long ago.

Ten miles is not far away, and Owen slowed down. When he reached the outside of the forest, the soldiers had just finished warming up, so they went directly into the forest after a short rest.

The scout cavalry could not only ride on horseback, they had already sneaked into the forest to determine where the robbers gathered, so Owen went straight to the destination under the leadership of the scouts, and quickly blocked the robbers.

Twenty or thirty lazy and dirty robbers gathered together lying or sitting. In order to prevent being discovered, they didn't even light the fire. Right now, they are struggling to eat black bread or something with their big yellow teeth, preparing to replenish After physical strength, I moved at night, but when I looked up, my good guy, there is no need to wait, the other party is here.

The infantry archers in the forest couldn't all gather together, so Owen arranged two infantry archers and two swordsmen to form a team, focusing on long-range attacks.

The wooden bow of an infantry archer is not a good bow and arrow, but it is still possible to hit a person within 50 meters.

With the sound of the bowstring, each feathered arrow twisted like a snake, but it miraculously hit the enemy along a silky arc, and there were not many misses.

Although you hit the enemy, don't expect to kill a robber with one arrow. Feathered arrows are not bullets, and hitting the enemy will not cause cavity damage, so as long as you don't hit a vital point on the spot, you won't die.

In fact, the biggest effect of feather arrows is to reduce staff, because there are only a few warriors who are shot by arrows and can fight bravely. The level of medical care in this ghost place can kill even good people, not to mention injuries, bleeding and infection. This is the biggest role of Feather Arrow.

After two rounds of arrows, the robbers who outnumbered the soldiers all collapsed. They were not regular soldiers at all, they just wanted to make a living, and they had no sense of resistance. Where to run, except for a few people who were dazed and ran deep into the magic horn forest, the rest were either lying on the ground and humming, or kneeling and surrendering, with their buttocks rising high and their heads trembling.

At this time, the swordsmen who had not moved came forward to clean the battlefield. All the wounded were given a happy ending, and their heads were chopped off with a hatchet. Those who surrendered threw a rope to let them tie themselves up, and those who could not be tied up were chopped off directly. , the whole process is simple and crude.

The battle was over in less than 10 minutes. Owen, who was so nervous that he didn't even have time to change his posture, was a little dazed by the pungent smell of blood. His first time was just like that?

In any case, this battle was a baptism for him, a baptism of fighting and death, which would be the spice of life that he would never be able to get rid of in the future.

Many people died in front of Owen, and many of them lost their resistance and were killed, but he didn't feel much, and vomiting didn't even exist. Apart from being a little unacceptable, everything else was fine.

Owen is not cold-blooded, but he knows it is inevitable.

He wanted to close the door and devote himself to farming, but other than being slaughtered as a pig when he became fat, there was no other end for him.

After coming to this world, Owen has long realized that it is impossible not to kill, and it is impossible to kill less. Many times, if you don’t kill them hard, they will not give up if you are afraid of killing them. So All Owen has to do is to get used to all of this as soon as possible, so that he can become the one holding the butcher's knife, instead of the unlucky guy begging for the enemy's mercy under the butcher's knife.

Moreover, as a time traveler, Owen really has no sense of belonging to this world, and killing these aliens will hardly bring him any psychological pressure.

What's more, the beards and hair of these robbers have never been taken care of. They are all tangled together and clumped together, just like felt blankets. They are wearing things that are randomly sewn together with pieces of cloth and scraps of skin. You can't tell this thing How did you wear it on your body? The exposed skin was covered with thick dirt, the nails on the hands and feet were black and long like wild animals, and the smell made people shy away from it.

With such good looks, it is difficult to generate sympathy, so Owen is still in the mood to arrange the next thing.

There is a wooden frame for hanging robbers in the territory. Now there are more than a dozen heads on it, just like a bunch of grapes. When the wind blows, it can also start a large number of flies. Presumably the robbers will consciously choose after seeing it. Turn around and leave.

The living robbers were put on display in wooden cages, and the victorious soldiers were celebrating.

In the Age of Empires, the progress value can be exchanged for ten sheep, and three of them were directly killed. They were even boiled and roasted, and served with beer during horseback riding and slashing. The soldiers were very happy to eat.

But as a lord, as a nobleman, Owen certainly wouldn't eat the same food as soldiers.

The fattest parts of the three sheep were cut off in advance, carefully cooked with spices and olive oil, sprinkled with a little refined salt, paired with good wine, and served by two maids, Owen finally enjoyed the noble style. Son.

After a while of eating and drinking, the soldiers rested and patrolled, but the celebration was not over yet.

The gnawed sheep bones and the water will not be wasted, throw them all back into the pot, then pour some grains into it, sprinkle some salt, and start cooking.

The smell of sheep offal that has been simply cleaned is really not good. When it is boiled on a high fire, the smell is unstoppable within ten steps, but it is meaty. The eyes of the serfs standing around the cauldron are getting brighter and numb. His expression also began to change.

In Owen's eyes, these serfs were simply puppets in human form, and they had almost no other reactions, as if they had nothing else in their life except working, eating, sleeping, and then facing death.

But thinking about it carefully, it seems that he worked, ate, and waited to die like this in his previous life.

After becoming a lord, Owen doesn't need this kind of unresponsive serfs. He wants to make these serfs active and work more actively. After all, being forced to work weakly and actively working are two different things, so he needs Let these serfs have more vitality, that is, let them see a little hope, just like a carrot hanging in front of a donkey, and food is the first switch.

(End of this chapter)