Mount and Blade System: Start from Pioneer Lords

Selling my ass is definitely out of the question. The Lord felt that the trolls in the blacksmith shop had been a bit lazy lately, and instructed the Fede blacksmiths to have them work overtime, striving to work from sunrise to sunset.

First, completely open up the weapon trade market.

As for working overtime at night? Do candles not cost money? Or oil lamps?

Finally, the orcs, who had just returned to rest for two days, were hurriedly taken by the Lord to act as agitators in the wilderness.

They fought so fiercely that the surrounding wilderness tribes wailed and howled. Some who received wind of this in advance packed up their bags and ran away overnight.

They cursed someone in their hearts, who had previously minded their own business, but recently seemed to have gone mad, biting anyone they caught.

Despite the curses, they were the fastest to flee.

Recently, Gao Ya Fort's reputation in the wilderness has been at its peak. They defeated a massive wilderness coalition, seized iron mines, and then dealt with the unusually active Dragonkin Legion. It is said that even the dragon was slaughtered.

No one would dare to provoke such ruthless people. As soon as they saw a flag embroidered with a high mountain, flames, and the sun, even bandit gangs that had just gathered to loot would scatter in a panic, running deep into the wilderness, fearing their parents would lose a leg.

In a tribe that had been conquered by the orcs, the Lord sat on a blue stone with a commanding presence, wearing exquisite leather armor and fine deerskin hunting boots, with a beautiful mithril longsword hanging from his waist, full of flair.

At this moment, he was checking the system panel.

Gao Ya Fort, excluding nearly five thousand residents and a thousand racially mixed slaves, had about three hundred and ninety full-time soldiers, not including the personal guard.

The Fede tribe had a total of two hundred people, but about ten of them were unfortunately beheaded by leopard-headed people who rushed up the hillside, and even using the 'Surgery' and 'Healing' skills couldn't save them.

The orcs, who served as the front line and endured the most pressure, suffered even heavier casualties, with twenty dead and thirty to forty wounded.

Two gnoll scouts also had their worgs shot down by leopard-headed archers and were eventually overwhelmed by the army.

However, this casualty ratio was still much better than Li Wei had expected. After all, that was a four thousand-man legion, with a nearly ten-to-one advantage in numbers, so it was impossible to avoid casualties.

However, the orc personal guard, who went to gnaw at the hard bone of the minotaurs, suffered no damage. Only a few had their wrists sprained by the force of colliding with the minotaurs, but they would be fine after a few days of rest.

This group of veterans who had followed him from the beginning not only had the best equipment but also were at the peak of their strength, so it was actually difficult for them to suffer damage.

Aside from these expected casualties.

The Dragon Legion's attack also brought Gao Ya Fort a huge amount of experience.

The Fede archers were originally Tier 4 Fede longbowmen. They killed the most people in the battle against the Dragon Legion, so they received the most experience.

This allowed dozens of them to advance to Tier 5 Fede Rangers. According to the system's classification, this level is considered elite.

Placed in the various legions of the Seven Kingdoms, they are also the elite among the elite, the ruthless among the ruthless.

Secondly, there were the orc warriors who had just joined Gao Ya Fort and were incorporated into the Burning Legion Infantry Regiment. Nearly a hundred of them were Tier 2, and only a few dozen were Tier 3 orc warriors.

But in this battle, all of them advanced to Tier 3 orc warriors.

When they reached the upgrade standard, Li Wei, who had been paying attention to the panel in the battlefield, immediately clicked on the upgrade.

After all, the entire Gao Ya Fort basically knew about the "Blessing of the War God" event. The Lord had to pay more attention to confirm this claim.

The old Gao Ya Fort veterans, who had already experienced the War God's blessing, accepted the system-enhanced power with peace of mind. The newly joined orc warriors experienced what it felt like to advance for the first time.

They were all experienced warriors, knowing that the improvement of strength was accumulated little by little over a long period of time. This method of quickly improving their strength through combat made them feel dizzy and deeply addicted.

They began to actively request to take over the task of patrolling the vicinity of Gao Ya Fort from the gnolls.

Li Wei had no objection. It was a good thing for soldiers to be warlike, so he let Mu Tuo take them out to find bandit gangs in the wilderness.

However, none of the Tier 5 personal guards reached the upgrade standard, but Li Wei expected that they would reach the upgrade standard after a few more battles.

This level requires the most experience. The barbarians have been stagnant at one level for too long. Li Wei guessed that the Tier 6 Berserker, which is already a top-level unit on the surface, is absolutely different from Tier 5.

As long as they cross this level, it means that the orc barbarians are the top warriors in the entire Middle-earth Continent.

Therefore, the required experience is so vast that they have not accumulated enough even after several consecutive battles.

"Boss, everything has been loaded onto the carts."

Zha Te, wearing a horned helmet, walked out of the conquered tribe, followed by several carts loaded with goods and cattle and sheep gathered together.

Calmly closing the system panel, Li Wei patted the dust on his buttocks and climbed onto a tall horse next to him: "Let's end the sweep here for now, and set off back to Gao Ya Fort."

He wasn't crazy to sweep the surrounding large and small tribes. One was to collect food, livestock, and various spoils, and the other was to clear all the unstable factors around Gao Ya Fort.

The northern wilderness is about to usher in a long-awaited cold season. During this season, the entire wilderness is frozen for thousands of miles, and the snow flutters for ten thousand miles. The biting cold wind, like a steel knife, makes even brown bears with thick fur unwilling to come out of their caves.

This is no less than a catastrophe for tribes that rely on hunting for food.

Not to mention small tribes, even some large tribes may not be able to survive, and for this reason, they often choose to go south to loot De Bei's villages.

Li Wei cleared these threats in advance, so they wouldn't form a huge coalition.

The effect of the sweep in the past few days is that there are no other forces within fifty miles of Gao Ya Fort.

"Boss, is it raining?"

Zha Te suddenly touched his bald head. Something cold had just landed on his head, and he realized it was water when he touched it.

"No." Li Wei shook his head, looking up at the darkening sky, "It's snowing."

I had heard that the seasons in the northern wilderness are as unpredictable as women. The temperature was still relatively cool yesterday, but today you can already feel the obvious cold.

Compared to southern De Bei, the winter in the north often comes a few months earlier and lasts longer.

Now, near October, the wilderness has ushered in the first cold wave.

What made Li Wei slightly relieved was that the winter wheat seeds he had specially purchased had all been planted a few days ago.

All that was needed was to wait until May or June of next year to harvest.

When the team was only half an hour away from Gao Ya Fort, a gnoll with a Gao Ya Fort flag on his back came running.

Li Wei still had some impression of this wolf cub who had been following Hogg, and remembered that his name seemed to be Scarface.

"Lord, the Chief Steward asked me to send you a letter."

He dismounted about ten steps away from the Lord and trotted over, kneeling on one knee with admiration in his eyes.

His admiration for this Lord goes without saying. It can be said that there is no warrior who does not admire this Lord.

Being assigned to deliver the letter gave him an unreal, dreamlike feeling all the way.

"Oh, whose letter is it?"

Li Wei asked curiously.

With Bai Ruisi Tina's personality, she wouldn't come to him unless it was a very troublesome matter. She basically solved it herself. Sending someone to find him specifically meant that this letter was very important.

After thinking about it, the Lord couldn't remember who would miss him and write him a letter.

Scarface got up and handed over the unopened letter, explaining respectfully: "The Chief Steward only said that it was a letter from a friend of yours from Bai Liu City."

"Luo Linna? Mi Ruier?"

Two names rose in Li Wei's mind, but then he shook his head again.

The former only had business dealings with him, and it was a win-win situation, not really a friendship. The latter was just someone he could chat with, a casual acquaintance he had saved once.

For example, when the Dragon Legion attacked this time, this half-elf ran to Bai Liu City the day after advising him without success.

Of course, Li Wei wasn't criticizing anything. It was already benevolent of Mi Ruier to advise him.

It's just that neither of them could be considered friends.

However, when he saw the name on the envelope, Li Wei had an idea.

The letter was from Li Ya, the Duke's granddaughter, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, and in fact, she was also his nominal liege.

Li Wei had played a little trick with words when he was in Ke Lun. Looking back now, he hadn't yet transformed from a mercenary's carefree character into a noble.

If it were any other liege, this kind of behavior would have deprived him of his noble status long ago.

Li Wei thought carefully. He was the only knight personally conferred by this Duke's granddaughter, and he could be regarded as her only reliable foundation, so she could only tolerate his behavior.

The last time he wrote to Li Ya, the meaning contained in it was actually roughly that he would abide by what he said when he swore.

After completely becoming a noble, Li Wei realized the importance of reputation, and the image of a vassal who kept his promises, abided by agreements, and was loyal was obviously extremely important.

Therefore, he would now consciously maintain this reputation.

After all, those who gain the Tao will receive more help, and those who lose the Tao will receive little help.

Obviously, no one would be willing to be friends with a fickle villain.

Opening the envelope, Li Wei slowly read it. It must be said that Li Ya's handwriting was very beautiful, making it a pleasure to read.

However, the meaning contained in it made Li Wei frown, but then he shook his head and muttered to himself: "It's really an eventful time!"

Aside from a long and stinky greeting, the real information in the letter was only two lines, but the content was so important that the Lord raised his eyebrows.

The first piece of information was that this Miss Li Ya was preparing to come and see how her vassal was developing. The second was... the wilderness was about to be in chaos!

The Lord was no longer as relaxed and leisurely as before, and hurriedly rushed back to Gao Ya Fort.

The first thing was to have Bai Ruisi Tina arrange for people to occupy the maple forest of the Feng Yong tribe and then regularly make maple syrup.

Various things had happened one after another recently, and the Lord had forgotten about such a place. It wasn't until he saw Bei Mu, who was shining in the blacksmith shop, that he remembered that the Feng Yong tribe, which had been destroyed by the Dragon Legion, had a maple forest.

The tree sap produced by these maple forests can be made into maple syrup after being boiled. It is a popular commodity in De Bei and is basically not worried about selling.

It can earn at least a thousand gold marks a year, which is an extra source of income for Gao Ya Fort.

The second thing was to start tidying up the appearance of Gao Ya Fort. If the children running around naked still don't wear clothes during this period, then prepare to endure the mixed doubles instructed by the Lord.

Some ugly houses were also demolished and rebuilt by Fede craftsmen into beautiful single-family adobe houses.

Then a tall and exquisite wooden house rose next to the Lord's hall, and the furniture inside was made as exquisite as possible.

"It's best to have all the candles arranged inside, so that it can be as bright as day at night, and then add some flowers for decoration." The Lord guided people to arrange it step by step, "If there are tulips, that would be even better."

"What about the maids?" Bai Ruisi Tina asked about some details.

"Goat-headed girls are still alien races. Except for our King, other De Bei people often have prejudices against alien races. It's better to choose some clever girls from your tribe."

The Lord thought for a while and said.

Because Li Ya was about to arrive, whether it was superficial work or for the sake of Gao Ya Fort's face, it was obviously impossible to be perfunctory.

It was necessary to show a high degree of attention.

The more attention he paid to his liege Li Ya, the better it would be for Gao Ya Fort's reputation. It was obviously a beneficial and harmless thing.

"This Miss Li Ya is about the same age as you, you should understand girls' minds better. I'll leave these things to you. I'll treat you to a drink tonight."

In the end, the Lord rubbed his temples and said rather helplessly.

A pile of troublesome things were piled up together, which made his head hurt. One was to completely eat the fruits of victory after winning the war against the Dragon Legion, such as those slaves, spoils, etc.

The second was to spare some energy to manage Sophia, the silver dragon.

The third was that Li Ya's arrival also required him to start arranging Gao Ya Fort, not to mention anything else, at least a room for rest had to be arranged.

The fourth was the worst news... Fu Linna and the Ke Xian Ri tribe's negotiations had broken down!

Li Ya didn't elaborate in the letter, just vaguely indicated that the wilderness might be in chaos, and she would explain the specific details when she came.

In fact, Li Wei didn't expect to negotiate successfully with a group of stubborn people from the beginning. It was most useful for the two groups to fight with knives and see the truth on their hands.

So, just after the battle with the Dragon Legion ended, Gao Ya Fort was once again on high alert.

The warriors began to train enthusiastically, and the blacksmith shop began to fully build equipment for Gao Ya Fort's own use.