Mount & Blade: Wind of War

In the morning, golden sunlight shines through the window.

In the Gushan Castle Cathedral, Rhodes extended his palm to greet everyone, and received a response like a tsunami of cheers from the people around him.

"Everyone, the king has given me the title of Duke of Gushan and an annual military expenditure of 300,000 gold coins. From today on, I can guarantee you according to the laws of the empire that every piece of land you reclaim belongs to you. ”

"Ahhhhh!"

"Long live Lord Rodhart!"

Rodhart has unparalleled prestige in the Lonely Mountain Castle. There is no need for him to bring back so much good news. Just his appearance and return are enough to inspire people.

Although there is no data to show it, the effect of Rhodes' appearance in Lonely Mountain Castle is completely equivalent to the arrival of the Harvest Horn or even the Silver Holy Grail. It belongs to the category of morale and popular support bonus of humanoid strange objects.

Amidst Rhode's words and the cheers of the people around him, the silver Holy Grail placed in the center of the cathedral seemed to condense the brilliance of the sun at this moment, and the entire body was coated with a brilliant golden color, and it was covered with dragon scales underneath. The heavily armored Rhodes vaguely echoed and illuminated each other.

"Lord! Everyone has been waiting for you to come back. I didn't expect that it would take so long to go back and forth to the capital."

Many civilian knights came to greet them, and everyone was really happy. Although Rhodes' return made everyone no longer have the power to act on behalf of others, but in fact, after such a long time, everyone still couldn't abandon their original habits. The courageous feeling of Lord Extraordinary's support means that even when dealing with the same affairs, with Lord Lord and without Lord Lord, everyone's courage and confidence are completely different.

After finishing the prayer in the cathedral, Rhodes led everyone back to the meeting room of the City Lord's Mansion and got familiar with the current situation. It was not fundamentally different from what Moken and Fatis said in the secret letter before. .

"Moken, now that I'm back, you should change to something less burdensome. Go to the north to negotiate with the stupid cattle farming people of the Iron Heel Tribe. Tell them that if they are willing to withdraw, then the bad debts from before will be over. Forget it for the time being, I don’t care about them killing the citizens of Gushan Castle. If they don’t want to, then let’s go to war. Most of the people in Gushan Castle are slaves and they are not afraid of death.”

The border conflict in the north is itself a bad deal.

Moken continued to immigrate from the City of Redemption to Lonely Mountain Castle, and continued to expand and develop, gradually involving the territory of the Northern Iron Heel Tribe.

Then the Ironhoof tribe had some conflicts during the integration with the Royal Court of Sims. This was normal. So some of the tauren of the Ironhoof tribe returned to their original land and clashed with the pioneer immigrants of Lonely Mountain Castle.

However, Rhodes concluded on the way back that the Iron Hoof Tribe did not want an all-out war, at least not yet, otherwise Lonely Mountain Castle would be at its weakest during his absence.

If they choose a full-scale invasion at that time, Gushan Castle may not be lost, but if they are willing to occupy it, Whitestone Fortress, City of Salvation, and these towns will basically be lost.

However, the Iron Hoof tribe did not take this action, which shows that they themselves are still in a stage of hesitation about whether to end this deadly feud.

Rhodes has never been afraid of this kind of conflict.

"If we must fight, it is better to fight late than to fight early. After we have beaten enough and it hurts, no one wants to fight. Let us develop production well to avoid them coming to interrupt us when we are fully operating and developing, which will be extremely annoying. "

At this time, Fatis, who had originally gone out to wipe out the demonic army, rushed back after hearing the news. The meeting between Rhodes and his beloved general was another scene of deep affection.

"As for those purgatory demonic armies, their existence may not be a bad thing. At least, I don't think their existence is a bad thing for us."

In the next few days, the first civil servant Mo Ken went out of the city to conduct diplomatic negotiations with the Iron Heel Tribe, a northern tauren force. In the previous battles, these tauren had not fought against Mo Ken, but they felt that it was nothing more than that.

But this time it was different. He was still the same person, but his aura seemed to have changed.

Basically, he just took off his shoes and slapped the table and shouted: "If you want to fight, I will fight!"

Later, the Minotaur force Ironhoof Tribe found out that Rodhart, the lord of Lonely Mountain Castle, had returned. Now the morale of the soldiers and civilians in Lonely Mountain Castle was so high that it was about to explode.

Upon hearing this news, the Iron Hoof tribe, which had not had much fighting spirit to begin with, suddenly lost interest in continuing the stalemate.

Gushan Castle sent its first civil servant Mo Ken, and the promises and concessions he gave were enough:

Gushan Castle promised that unless there is another war between the two parties in the future, Gushan Castle will never invade the farmland of the Iron Heel Tribe again. Moreover, Gushan Castle is willing to form equal and friendly diplomatic relations with the Iron Heel Tribe, so that everyone can forget the past and work together for a win-win situation.

Gushan Castle was originally positioned as a commercial town, and it didn't matter whether it had the two pieces of farmland or not.

Although it is intended to establish a self-sufficient internal circulation system, for now, the cost of farming and producing food in the wilderness is much higher than the cost of purchasing external food.

Although the Iron Hoof Tribe was not particularly satisfied with the current result, it could accept it. After all, the current policy of the tribe was to exchange and merge with the Sims Royal Court and return to the collective embrace of the beast-blooded people.

If the final plan was completed, most of the tribe would have to move away. For the land that was about to be abandoned, fighting against an emerging force that had almost never been defeated, the Tauren were not a smart race, but they were not stupid.

Why were they hesitant before?

Because unity and survival can be achieved through struggle, and unity and death can be achieved through compromise.

Although they did not want to fight before, the Lonely Mountain Castle was too much of a soft persimmon at that time. After Rhodes returned, they were ready for war, and the Iron Hoof Tribe immediately withdrew, which was more decisive than Moken expected.

It is said that after the negotiations ended and the Iron Hoof Tribe withdrew, Moken sat alone at the negotiation site for a long time, and then laughed wildly for a long time.

On the other hand, due to Rhodes' return, the morale of the people in the Lonely Mountain Castle soared, which not only directly catalyzed the condensation of a drop of Holy Spirit Blood, but also strengthened the effect of the Silver Holy Grail·Power of Order.

Although the Infernal Fissures in the underground mineral veins did not close directly, the frequency of small-scale temporary Infernal Fissures was greatly reduced.