Mount and Blade System: Start from Pioneer Lords

On this wilderness, meat can be hunted. The boundless grassland is not only a natural pasture but can also be used for planting crops with slight modifications.

Although there isn't much wood and stone, there are ways to solve it. This land can provide most of the materials needed by humans.

Only population!

This place is at least ten days away from the Debe Kingdom, and there is no one in the middle. The only humans who can pass through High Cliff Fortress are merchants.

Moreover, population is the foundation for nobles to maintain their extravagant lives. Anyone who isn't hopelessly stupid wouldn't easily allow the population to flow out of their territory.

In short, trying to abduct people from the Debe Kingdom is a pipe dream.

Fortunately, when god closes a door, he opens a window. After studying the map all night, Li Wei found a solution.

One hundred miles west of High Cliff Fortress, there is a mountain range called the - Kas Mountain Range.

This mountain range is home to a group of Northern barbarians, also known as the First People.

They are the subjects of the previous kingdom of the Debe Kingdom. To escape the Debe royal family's pursuit, they hid in this vast mountain range.

It is said that the ancestors of these First People are descendants of a princess of the royal family.

As for how Li Wei knew, it was thanks to the knight novel he read.

Rather than a novel, Li Wei felt it was more like a travelogue. Maybe the protagonist Abin is the author himself.

After so many years of development, if there really are First People in this mountain range, Li Wei couldn't imagine how many people were hidden inside.

If all of them were recruited as his territory people, he, with both people and land, could become a duke not weaker than Fulina in one fell swoop.

"Boss, the pit is dug."

At this time, Mu Tuo ran over, still radiating heat, apparently having just done physical labor.

"It's only been less than half a day, right?"

Li Wei was surprised to hear that.

You know, digging a pit is not as easy as imagined. A pit that is twenty meters long and more than five meters deep was actually dug so easily.

These orc barbarians are really born to work on construction sites.

When he arrived at the location, a pit that was similar to what he described had already been dug.

This place is located at the foot of a hill, half a mile away from the river that converges from above.

Even if you have diarrhea, it only takes six or seven minutes to jog there, which is the best location.

Li Wei certainly couldn't build a latrine on the hill, because when the wind blows, it would be a foul smell that is hard to describe.

"Use wood to tamp the four sides inside, and then build a simple toilet on top..."

Li Wei briefly introduced the method of the toilet to Mu Tuo.

Fortunately, in his previous life, he was a civil engineering student, so he was quite proficient in construction. Building a toilet was not a problem.

Soon, a small house with orc characteristics rose crookedly from the ground. Half-person-high logs formed a circle, and four thick round logs supported the roof.

The ground inside was sprinkled with gravel, and wooden planks were laid across the top of the pit.

Although the appearance was a bit ugly, it was still no problem to shelter from the wind and rain.

But this also made Li Wei realize the lack of talent in his territory. Not to mention anything else, he had to get a carpenter who could build houses.

"Alas, everything is lacking."

Li Wei sighed.

As mentioned earlier, pioneering is not as romantic as described in knight novels. It is an extremely serious military activity.

...

As the sun set, the afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on the wooden house, and a group of muscular men walked from the brilliance of the horizon.

The returning Zats just caught up with the dinner at High Cliff Fortress.

"Boss, I have found out."

"There are three tribes around us. Two of them, goblins and kobolds, are not to be feared. The last tribe is gnolls."

Zat bit into a pancake as big as his head, while talking about what they had found out today.

"These wolf cubs have very sensitive noses. They discovered us from a long distance, but they couldn't figure out our purpose for a while, so there was no conflict."

"But I estimate that there are about two hundred people in their tribe."

"Gnolls?"

Li Wei pondered.

Compared to the goblins and kobolds, who are weak, gnolls are a force to be reckoned with in the wilderness.

Gnolls are generally about two *ren*(*刃: a unit of length*) tall, with arms that reach their knees, and they are inherently cruel and bloodthirsty.

They never graze or plant, but rely entirely on plundering other tribes to survive. They are well-known bandits in the wilderness.

It is obviously not wise to let this force be around one's territory, especially since they have already discovered the existence of the orc barbarians.

Gnoll tribes generally do not have elderly people. After removing women and cubs from the two hundred people, there are at most seventy or eighty young adults.

Not too difficult to deal with.

"Tomorrow morning, everyone gathers and flatten them!"

...

Early the next morning, except for the ten orc barbarians who stayed behind to guard High Cliff Fortress from being stolen.

The remaining forty were all ready to go, wielding giant axes or warhammers, and carrying five fine steel javelins on their backs.

The only drawback is that they have no armor. They are all wearing loose linen short sleeves.

But even so, their equipment crushed 99% of the tribes in the wilderness.

The Debe Kingdom strictly prohibits the sale of iron weapons to the wilderness. The ignorant wilderness does not know how to refine iron, which has led to most tribes in the wilderness still being in the bone or stone age.

Iron weapons are extremely rare, let alone those made of fine steel.

Li Wei rode a crossbow horse at the front, and a group of orc barbarians followed behind, measuring the earth with their feet.

The cool breeze in the morning brought a hint of coolness, but it could not extinguish the inner enthusiasm of the orc barbarians.

Wanting to experience the "gift of the God of War", they couldn't wait to fight.

Before long, Li Wei smelled a taste different from green grass and soil. Following the direction of the smell, he soon saw the gnoll tribe described by Zat.

He lay in the half-person-high grass and observed secretly.

Although the barbarians behind him did not understand, they all crawled into the grass when they saw their boss lying down.

Gnolls are known as bandits in the wilderness. They advocate plunder and never stay in any one place for long. These two points determine that they cannot carry out any construction.

This tribe is built on the leeward side of a mound, covered with messy stone huts, like pimples on a person's face.

This was obviously taken from someone else.

Although the High Cliff Fortress team was secretive and still in a condescending position, Li Wei forgot one thing: their position was right at the upwind.

And the gnolls have extremely sensitive noses.

Some gnolls spotted their location, constantly howling, calling out to their companions, and rushing towards their location.