Bloodline Lord of War

  Chapter 128 Tips for keeping people

   Seeing Vaughn's cavalry walk away, Helen finally breathed a sigh of relief, and her expression softened a little.

  Actually, she doesn't want to start a war with Vaughan, but this is a game for the faint of heart. You have to act like you are ready to give it a go in order to scare the other party away and avoid this battle. As long as Helen hesitated just now, Vaughn would never let it go.

   "Thanks, Helen." Robin turned to look at the female knight on horseback, and said gratefully.

Helen took off her helmet and got off her horse. She looked at Baron's body in the grass, frowned, and was very amazed: "You really dare to kill Baron in front of Vaughn, you must say you have the guts ? Or crazy? If I don't come, what will you do?"

  Robin smiled, and said calmly: "If you don't come, then I can only run for my life."

  Helen shook her head helplessly, she felt that Robin sometimes did things too crazy.

   "Why are you here? And with so many soldiers?" Robin looked at the astonishing cavalry behind Helen. If it was a coincidence, he wouldn't believe it.

   "We discovered that Vaughan led troops into the wasteland. Just in case, the Duke ordered me to also lead troops into the wasteland to monitor Vaughn's actions." Helen explained simply.

   "So that's the case, Your Excellency is really far-sighted."

  Then, Helen asked expectantly: "So, Wind Castle, you have already taken it down?"

   "It's down." Robin nodded affirmatively.

   "God of the Holy Light, you really captured Wind Castle!"

  Helen had only guessed before, but when this guess was confirmed, she was still very surprised.

   After all, Robin's army strength will be less than two hundred, and Wind Castle not only has more than a thousand defenders, but also a military fortress with walls. It's unimaginable that Robin took down the Wind Castle with just this little force in his hand. That is, looking at the war history of the entire empire, such unreasonable battles are rare.

   "My people are in Windcastle right now, cleaning up the mess. I ran out to chase Baron by myself," Robin said.

   "I have time later, you have to tell me in detail how you laid down the wind castle." Helen asked very excitedly. As a military officer, she was naturally very interested in tactics and warfare.

   "Okay, if you have time." Robin said, walked to Baron's body and squatted down, touched Baron's body, and took out Baron's money bag within two strokes.

   "Hey, good stuff." Robin opened the purse, saw that it was full of gold coins, and unconsciously showed a greedy smile on his face.

  Helen watched from the side, and couldn't help but look disgusted: "You have knocked down the entire wind castle, and you still care about this little money?"

  Robin put Baron's wallet in his arms, stood up, and replied confidently: "You have never been poor, I am different from you, Miss, I have to plan my own food, I am used to being poor."

  Helen was noncommittal to Robin's words, and she thought strangely: Robin, a man, has both a heroic side and a street side, and I really don't know which side is the real him.

  Robin cut off Baron's head with a dagger and hung it on his saddle.

  He will bring the head back to Windkeep, and hang it on the gate of Windkeep. Although the Wind Castle has been taken down, there must still be Baron's loyalists in the city. Robin wants to tell these people that your master is dead.

   "Do you want to go to Windcastle with me?" Robin asked Helen as he wiped the blood from his hands on his trousers in a disfigured manner.

  Helen thought about it, and thought that there was nothing to see in the Wind Castle, so she replied, "No, I'm going back to Silver Frost City to return to my life."

  Then, Robin and Helen got on the horse one after another, and the two said goodbye to each other on the horseback.

   "I left Robin, I don't think it will be long, we will meet again." Helen put on the helmet and said with a smile.

   "Goodbye, have a good journey." Robin also responded with a smile.

  Then, the female knight left with Snow Eagle's cavalry, and Robin also rode back and headed for Wind Castle.

  …

  By the time Robin returned to Windcastle, the battle in the city was basically over. Before dawn, the remnants of the Wind Castle and the residents of the city made their last counterattack in a vain attempt to regain the city. The two sides fought a big battle in the square in the center of the city.

  The results are self-evident. Simon commanded the iron guards and half-elves to easily defeat this group of mobs. The Iron Bear Warriors even went on a killing spree, killing more than a thousand people on the spot, and taking countless prisoners. After the battle, the entire square was covered with broken corpses and sticky blood.

   This last battle completely broke the backbone of the Windcastle people, and no one dared to resist Robin anymore.

Robin walked on the square, every step he took would leave a blood-red footprint on the ground. Looking up, there were human corpses everywhere, as well as various stumps and internal organs mixed together. The air was full of thorns. The smell of blood in the nose.

  Many residents of Windcastle were carrying corpses in the square, surrounded by iron guards, monitoring their work. These corpses will be carried outside the wind castle, and then a large pit will be dug to bury the corpses together. These Fengbao people were all scared out of their wits, and they all worked quickly with fearful expressions, fearing that they would be the next to die.

  Simon followed Robin covered in blood. The excited expression on the face of this highland guy seemed to be unrepentant.

   "You did a good job, Simon." Robin stopped and turned to Simon.

  Being praised by Robin, Simon was very happy, he giggled twice, and said naively: "I'm just carrying out the task assigned to me by the leader."

   Then, Robin came to Baron's lord's mansion, where Luke was leading people to search.

   Walking into the gate of the lord's mansion, Robin saw several large boxes of documents in the hall at a glance. Luke was standing next to the boxes, holding many letters from Baron's life, and was carefully checking them one by one.

Seeing the lord coming over, Luke stopped what he was doing. He explained to Robin: "Before the expedition, Aisha told me to carefully check Baron's documents and letters, such as tax records, household statistics, income and expenditure. The details and the like must be kept properly, so that you can take over Fengbao faster, my lord."

  Robin appreciated it very much, and jokingly said: "Aisha is really careful. Sure enough, there is no woman in this family."

   "My lord, what are we going to do with Wind Castle? We don't have enough manpower to send people to manage this place. Once we withdraw our troops, the residents here are likely to rebel again." Luke said worriedly.

Robin had already thought about it a long time ago, and replied with a smile: "Who said that the Wind Castle will be managed? It's still the old routine. All the population, property, and supplies will be moved back to Raging Waves City. Don't leave even a single brick. Wait for us Evacuate this place, and set it on fire, and from now on, there will be no wind castle."

  Storm Castle is larger than Raging City, with a larger population and better construction, and it also has city walls. From the perspective of rational analysis, Robin should move his family to Windcastle. However, the current development of Raging Waves City was built bit by bit by Robin. He still has a bit of a homeland complex, and he doesn't want to abandon Raging Waves City easily.

   No matter how good the wind castle is, it is someone else's land after all, and the golden nest and silver nest are not as good as your own doghouse. Moreover, Robin is confident that within the first half of the year, Raging Waves City will develop better than Wind Castle. Once the smelting workshop is completed, Raging Waves City will soon become the most prosperous city on the wasteland.

  Although the war is over, there is more work to do. It is not a small project to relocate the entire Wind Castle to Raging Waves City.

  Robin handed over these tedious tasks to his "Elf Prime Minister" Aisha, and he took the main force to incorporate the four small territories around Wind Castle. These territories attacked Rage City with Wind Castle before, and now it's time for them to pay the price.

  The incorporation process went extremely smoothly, no one died, and no blood was seen. The first day he went to Baron Rainer's territory, he only stood outside the village and yelled a few times before the other party opened the door and surrendered.

Then early the next morning, Robin received a report as soon as he woke up. The leaders of the remaining three territories were kneeling outside the camp. Each of them dared not come alone, so they made an appointment. The three of them Come together and surrender.

   Robin is so old, this is the first time he heard that there is also a group for surrender. So just like that, Robin took control of three more small territories without bloodshed.

  After the Battle of Wind Castle, the remaining half-elf archers were all promoted to the second level of bloodline, and also awakened the bloodline skill: long-range shooting.

  The deer cavalry also had upgraders. Tess and several deer cavalry had been promoted to the second level of the bloodline, and they all awakened a new bloodline skill: whirlwind impact.

   This skill is actually the skill of the elf deer in ancient times. It will greatly enhance the impact speed and impact power of the deer cavalry. Robin asked Tess to demonstrate it in the open space outside the city of Raging Waves.

When Tess rides the elf deer snow and launches [Whirlwind Impact], a swirling wind vortex will form in front of the antlers, just like a huge whirlwind drill. Before the humanoid straw target in front of Tess touches the elf deer's antlers, it will The "whirlwind drill" flew into the air.

  Using this skill, even light cavalry can display a charge comparable to that of heavy cavalry.

  Robin is very excited. It seems that the deer cavalry will develop in the direction of generalists in the future, not only taking into account the flexibility and speed of light cavalry, but also can be used as a group of heavy cavalry to charge the battle. It is true that one cavalry has two uses.

  …

   It took nearly two months before Raging Waves City finally swallowed the Wind Castle bit by bit. With the addition of the Wind Castle forces, the entire city of Raging Waves expanded several times, and the population doubled even more. At this time, Raging Waves City finally looked like a city.

Robin then ordered the official construction of the city wall, and the stone materials were buckled from the city wall of Wind Castle. Robin had inspected the site and found that the stone materials for the city wall of Wind Castle were all given to Baron by the Golden Rose family. wedding dress.

  The construction of the city wall has just started, and the smelting workshop on the other side has finally been completed. A large-scale iron smelting plant has sprung up beside the Raging River.

On the day when the workshop produced the first piece of iron, Robin went to the site to observe it in person. Holding the cooled iron piece in both hands, he laughed excitedly, like a child getting a new toy, and his face was full of concealment. With great joy, he said to Aisha and Janna who were accompanying him, "Finally, we can smelt iron ourselves!"

  Steel is an absolute strategic resource, especially in the wasteland where materials are scarce, a piece of iron can be sold for a premium of two or three times. In Robin's eyes, the value of this small piece of iron is no less than a gold bar.

  It's a pity that the forging level of Raging Waves City is still very low. It can barely forge farm tools such as sickles and hoes. There is still a long way to go to forge weapons and armor.

  So after visiting the Ironworks, Robin sent Janna a new task: to recruit blacksmiths.

  In fact, Raging Waves City has always been recruiting craftsmen, not just blacksmiths, leatherworkers, masons, carpenters, stonemasons... All kinds of craftsmen are recruiting. As a newly emerging territory, Raging Waves City lacked almost all craftsmen.

  Janna has been in charge of the recruitment work, but it has not been very smooth. When those craftsmen heard that Rage City was in the wasteland, they immediately refused to come. As long as these technical jobs are good, they can be enjoyed anywhere, and they live well in the empire, so they can't afford to go to the wasteland where the birds don't **** and suffer.

   What's more, some lords will simply restrict some important technical jobs from leaving the territory, especially blacksmiths who can make weapons and armor, which are important talents that every lord is vying for.

   This time the Wind Castle was taken down, and Rage City absorbed a lot of skilled workers from the Wind Castle, but it was still not enough, and the level of these people was not high.

   After all, Wind Castle is still a small city in the wasteland, without much heritage. It is considered prosperous in the western wasteland, but if it is placed inside the empire, it is definitely at the third-tier level.

  Robin also knew about these difficulties, so he specifically told Janna to let her do whatever she wanted, whether it was stealing, robbing, cheating or buying, in a word, as long as she got people.

  The craftsmen sent by Helen, once the smelting workshop is completed, they should return to Silver Frost City according to the agreement. But how could Robin easily let go of all the fat in his mouth?

  Before this, he had already prepared many hands. First of all, the houses he built for these craftsmen are not bad, at least not much worse than Silver Frost City;

  These craftsmen must have missed their relatives and children very much after staying in Raging Waves City for several months. Therefore, Robin gave money and effort for free, and asked Janna to bring all the wives and children of these craftsmen to Raging Waves City under the pretext of visiting relatives, so that the craftsmen's families could be reunited.

  At the beginning, the craftsmen were very happy and praised Baron Robin as a good lord, but gradually they realized that something was wrong. It was easy for their family to enter Raging City, but it was difficult to get out.

   Whenever a family member of a craftsman asks to go home, Robin can always come up with various reasons to prevaricate. Why are there bandits robbing people, there are natives eating people in the wasteland, what? Are you going back to visit your elderly parents? No problem, I'll bring your parents over, who else is in your family? I can take them all for you, so that your family can be together neatly.

   Just like this, Robin insisted on leaving all these craftsmen in Raging Waves City. Robin himself knew that he was somewhat shameless doing this, but for the sake of the development of the territory, how much was his face worth?

  (end of this chapter)