Mount and Blade System: Start from Pioneer Lords

"Name?"

"Regulo Durant."

"Why are you the only one holding out here?"

"My lord, I'm afraid I'd like to know the answer to that even more than you do."

Inside the baronial hall, the lord sat in the master's seat with his legs crossed, exuding the full air of a northern warlord.

Tes and Andao stood beside him, appearing more like lowly soldiers despite being earls.

However, no one dared to criticize, as this was a super strongman who could single-handedly beat down three stone giants.

"My lord, you've asked everything you need to ask. I really don't know where those three spellcasters went."

Baron Regulo spread his hands helplessly.

To be honest, if he had known how Klamo broke through the surrounding gnoll cavalry to escape, he wouldn't be here.

"You're a captive, but you seem calmer than the defeated soldiers, not worried about what might happen," Li Wei glanced at the baron of Kalia Town.

To be honest, before entering this baronial castle, the lord had imagined many scenarios.

A brave warrior fighting to the death, or a coward who chose to end his life out of shame.

Unfortunately, neither was the case. The man was quietly sitting in the hall drinking wine, and when he saw them pouring in, he even raised his glass and asked if they wanted a drink.

It almost made everyone think that the baron had suffered a breakdown and gone mad.

"Worry? Spending the rest of my life in a water dungeon, or waiting for ransom, or trading with Damon," Regulo smiled. "They wouldn't just chop off my head, would they?"

Unless there was some deep-seated hatred, even captured nobles would most likely be ransomed or traded.

After all, a living noble is always worth more than a dead one.

That was Regulo's confidence.

He recalled that the only thing he had done to offend this Lion Hunter Knight was probably laughing at his lack of noble manners at the Cullen banquet along with other nobles.

That little thing was clearly not enough for the other party to chop off his head.

After all, anyone who wasn't petty probably wouldn't remember such a small thing.

"Bingo, you guessed it, but no prize," the lord snapped his fingers with a smile.

Seeing the other party's serious expression, Regulo's smile froze.

Tes next to him immediately smiled, drew his long sword, and was eager to try.

If you were to ask who hated the baron in front of him the most, it would be him. So many soldiers were lost in the town that it broke his heart, and he himself was injured, with bandages still wrapped around his chest.

"This duke really wants to chop off your head. Putting aside the fact that when you chose to support Damon, you were a complete oath-breaker to Miss Liya, killing you is completely in accordance with the Deber Laws."

"Not to mention, at Duke Cullen's banquet, it seems that you, Baron Regulo, laughed the loudest, didn't you?"

Li Wei changed the subject and looked at the baron, who was around forty years old, with a bald head but a thick beard on his chin, with a smile.

Damn it, this guy remembers that.

Regulo's face darkened, and he habitually wanted to open his mouth to curse, but at the moment before he could say it, he realized that he was now a prisoner and forcibly held it back, remaining silent.

He had a sense of resignation, as if he would accept whatever was said to him.

Li Wei really wanted to say, 'I still prefer your unruly appearance.'

After all, the tables have turned. You used to laugh at me, but now you can't afford to associate with me.

He smacked his lips, and finally chose to wave his hand.

"Throw the duke into the water dungeon. Before Duchess Fulina decides how to deal with him, let him deeply remember this unforgettable memory."

Two orc barbarians immediately stepped forward, picked up the short man, and dragged him to the water dungeon.

"I'll go too," Earl Tes cracked his knuckles, his joints popping.

In an instant, only a few big and small leaders were left in the baronial castle.

"Li Wei, I just flipped through all the letters from Cullen to here, and they are all orders from different times for Regulo to hold his fief. There is no other useful information at all," Earl Andao threw a stack of opened wax-sealed letters on the table, pressed his temples with both hands, and looked headache: "The letter only said that support would arrive, but there was no specific time and specific location. The fact proves that these so-called support are completely Damon's words of reassurance. I can't understand it, I can't understand it at all."

"Whatever, let Fulina worry about this," Li Wei thought for a while and said, "Send a message to the rear with carrier pigeons, telling them that Kalia Town has been captured, and by the way, ask if we should continue to advance or rest and wait for them."

He had been interrogating Regulo for a while, and the other party was also very confused about this matter. It could be said that he was basically tricked by Damon.

Li Wei, like Andao, couldn't understand why this Golden Lion Knight, who had always had military talent, would make such a low-level mistake.

But if he couldn't understand it, he simply wouldn't think about it.

He would naturally know after the event.

Earl Andao nodded, with a smile on his face: "We independently took down a bridgehead. Based on this, our achievements in this southward campaign will be among the best no matter what."

Don't look at the fact that they have 30,000 people, but in reality, only 20,000 of them are truly combat-ready soldiers. Being able to break through a town defended by nearly 4,000 people, which is almost the size of a small legion, and three high-level mages, is definitely enough to leave a heavy mark on their military career.

If you add the capture of a baron alive, this battle result can basically allow a knight to be promoted to baron.

"It's just a pity that we didn't catch those three spellcasters."

Thinking of this, Andao was slightly disappointed.

"It's normal to have gains and losses. Nothing in the world is perfect," Li Wei responded casually.

To be honest, he could have ordered the warriors of High Cliff Castle to capture these spellcasters at that time.

But the other party could cast powerful magic such as summoning stone giants, so it was hard to guarantee that they wouldn't have some insidious tricks.

Fearing that his precious soldiers would be lost, he didn't send anyone to catch them. By the time he solved the stone giant, they had already slipped away.

However, Li Wei generally didn't regret it. They were just three spellcasters. There would always be a chance to catch them. If these simple-minded guys who had rolled out of the knives and guns with him were gone, then they would be really gone.

After a battle, no names were removed from the system panel, but there were as many as thirty or forty injured, most of whom were orc barbarians on the front line of advance.

However, the three-layer iron armor of High Cliff Castle, which was full of materials, only injured them, and their lives were not in danger.

Li Wei felt that the performance of these Kalia soldiers from the Southern Border, who could be called regular soldiers, was not even as good as the wilderness coalition in the wilderness.

But he knew that these were all illusions. High Cliff Castle was not static. Compared to that time, its strength had increased by an unknown amount.

In just a few months, the low-level soldiers who were generally Tier 2 and Tier 3 at the beginning are now basically Tier 5 advanced units, and there are even two Tier 6 berserkers.

And once the system soldiers' levels and equipment are upgraded to form a scale, the advantage they have against ordinary people will be astonishingly high.

I'm afraid that only a knight squad with all members cultivating battle qi and high realms can cause casualties to them.

The harvest of this battle can also be called gratifying. Three more Tier 5 orc giant axe guards of the orc barbarians have been upgraded to berserkers.

When charging into the formation, Li Wei focused on observing the two unique orc berserkers.

The other party's performance also made the lord grin from ear to ear.

If the other Tier 5 orc giant axe guards could still only kill one person at a time and had not left the small soldier unit, then the two berserkers could simply rely on their own courage and strength to swing their giant axes and cut four or five enemies in half at the waist.

The blood energy that was stimulated could directly knock over a group of small soldiers, which could be called a grass-cutting skill.

Unfortunately, they often could only use one shot and then wither.

However, this also allowed the lord to see the power of the berserker, and he was even more looking forward to the hidden Tier 7 unit, the dragon vein berserker.

He now had some guesses in his mind, and he only had to wait for these berserkers to gather enough upgrade experience to experiment and test the guesses in his heart.

It is worth mentioning here that the centaurs, although they did not join this battle, some members also upgraded during the months of training in High Cliff Castle.

Unlike the barbarians, who took the close combat route all the way to the black, the centaurs had one more route.

Upward in turn are centaur herders and centaur hunters. Continuing to upgrade will result in two routes: one is centaur rangers and centaur sun chasers. This one takes the route of mounted archers, which is more mobile and has more superb archery skills.

The other route is centaur lancers, centaur heavy cavalry, centaur iron-stepping warriors, centaur conquerors, and storm Leneer.

Their whole bodies are covered with heavy iron armor, similar to heavy cavalry. Although their mobility is reduced, their defense and impact force have obviously been raised to an unimaginable height.

What made Li Wei even more pleasantly surprised was that this group of centaurs was the unit that had a special Tier 7 unit route after the orcs and gnolls.

After experiencing the power of the orc berserkers, he did not hesitate to prepare to develop all of these centaurs into heavy cavalry.

Gus's Gale Clan has a total of 1,500 people, and there are about 500 archers left.

Most of them are Tier 2 centaur hunters, and only about 100 are Tier 3 centaur lancers.

After training in High Cliff Castle for a few months, basically all members have been upgraded to Tier 3 units.

Coupled with their racial talent, they are enough to occupy a place in the field of cavalry.

Similarly, Gus, as a hero, is about the same strength as Zart, but with his thunder element, this simple-minded guy suffered a loss for the first time in the hands of someone other than the lord.

Since then, he has been following behind the lord every day, hoping to learn a trick or two to get back his place.

"Leyton, go and call someone to clean up the spoils of war, and remember to tell them not to disturb the civilians and not to loot!"

After a battle, the most important thing is of course to clean up the spoils of war. Li Wei waved his hand and directly ordered this earth goblin to do it, and gave a serious bottom line.

Leyton nodded and left the castle with a few barbarians.

"Li Wei, I didn't expect you to be so compassionate to the weak. You deserve the title of Lion Hunter Knight," Andao said with admiration, and he couldn't help but take a higher look at the lord of High Cliff Castle.

"Compassionate to the weak?" Li Wei shook his head. "In fact, morality and compassion only account for a little bit. I only know that looting will destroy the army's discipline and arrogance, and once this kind of thing starts, it is often difficult to prohibit. I will never allow my soldiers to become a group of alternative bandits and robbers!"

"Everyone knows that looting will destroy the spirit and discipline of the army, but Li Wei, other armies rob, but your own are not allowed to rob, which will cause dissatisfaction and backlash from the soldiers," Earl Andao said with a wry smile, showing helplessness.

Robbery is not just a matter for small soldiers, even more noble knights and nobles participate in it.

Looting after a hard battle is the current social convention and an important means of maintaining morale.

This allows the soldiers to have fun and eliminate inner irritability and anxiety.

"Dissatisfaction? Whoever dares to have an opinion, I'll slap them in the face!" Li Wei said with a sneer.

In fact, thanks to him as a lord with high personal charm, the simple-minded guys under his command are disdainful of bullying the weak, which in their view is completely a loss of a warrior's demeanor.

Andao lowered his eyes and remained silent, recalling what the Lion Hunter Knight had just done, and had to admit that the other party was right.

I'm afraid that under the command of this baron, no soldier would dare to openly disobey military orders.

Not to mention that the other party's subordinates have completely regarded this lord of High Cliff Castle as a god, and their eyes are full of fanaticism, which is probably only comparable to the knight orders cultivated by those churches.

This can no longer be called loyalty, I'm afraid faith is more appropriate.

This is a unit that highly believes in this Lion Hunter Knight!

……

High Cliff Castle, as the first to enter the baronial castle, naturally took it for granted that it would occupy it directly.

Four orc barbarians guarded the gate like metal sculptures.

A group of soldiers walked over from a distance, talking and laughing. After looking at it a few times, a few soldiers took the initiative to walk up and prepare to enter.

As a result, they were pushed back three steps by the broad pectoralis major of two barbarians, and finally lost control and fell on their butts.

"No entry for idlers!" A few orcs chuckled.

"Why? This town wasn't taken down by you alone!"

"Damn, you want to monopolize the wealth in the castle, right?"

"These orcs want to eat alone!"

These soldiers glared angrily.

They admitted that this team, which they didn't know where it came from, was indeed brave, but they also contributed to the attack on this town.

After each battle, the chief officer would let them act freely and let them rob for fun.

Those civilian paupers didn't have much oil and water, so the richest baronial castle was naturally targeted by them.

"There are only four of them, I don't believe they can stop us!"

Someone shouted, and there were at least a hundred soldiers gathered here. Under the cover of wealth and the advantage being on their side, they drew out their knives with a swish.

"Brothers, there are some bastards bullying us from High Cliff Castle!" The orc barbarians immediately howled.

Boom boom boom!

The sound of neat and uniform footsteps came, which was simply earth-shattering.

A team of heavily armored orc infantry with murderous intent swarmed out of the corner, a dark mass, holding giant axes in front of them, their cold eyes constantly looking at the necks of these soldiers.

It seemed that only an opportunity was needed to launch a charge.