Ride and Cut

Hurt took a bite of the fine wheat flour pancake, and couldn't help feeling his eyes slightly warm—how long has it been since he ate this thing? Since they broke away from the half-orc kingdom, the centaurs no longer had any choice in their diet, and almost forgot the taste of their favorite refined wheat flour.

"How long do you think it will take for the enemy to come to the Alpine Fort." Li Cha pressed the corned beef loose with a spoon, scraped off a spoonful of jam, sandwiched it in the cake and tore it hard.

"It must not be soon." Hurt smiled contemptuously. "People in the wilderness are all bastards who only take advantage and not lose. It will take at least a few days just to organize the army rations. I think it will take at least ten days."

Annie breathed a sigh of relief, ten days was enough to wait for the reinforcements from the firm to arrive and then withdraw calmly. She is a businessman, and it is not in her interest to be involved in a war for no reason; she is a woman, and she cannot bear to let the guards who have suffered heavy losses go through another test.

"They are indeed a grassroots team, but Gaoshan Fort cannot let down its vigilance because it underestimates the enemy. Since it knows that it will be fought sooner or later, it will double the number of guards from today. The soldiers take turns to rest and stay on duty." Li Cha said.

"Your Excellency is wise." Hurt offered a flattery at the right time.

"To be honest, I wanted to beat them up a long time ago, but I didn't find an opportunity for a while. I actually dared to make a ball and deliver it to the door, and I just cleaned it up together, hahaha." Li Cha raised his head and laughed three times.

Gunther stacked the three cakes and drank half of them in one mouthful. He almost rolled his eyes when he was startled suddenly, and quickly picked up the ale glass and poured it into his mouth.

"By the way, what weapons are your centaurs good at?"

"My lord, centaurs are excellent archers. They can send an arrow into a rabbit's eye socket from a hundred steps away." Hurt rubbed his hands, "But bows and arrows are very delicate weapons. Our clan has been away from our homeland for a long time, and now there are not many usable war bows."

"Your clan... Hey, wait a minute." Li Cha suddenly discovered a blind spot, "It's impossible for your clan to only have adult warriors, right? Where are the other old, young, women and children?"

The twenty-one centaurs who joined Alpine Fort were all males of full age, which did not fit the age and gender composition that a tribe should have at all.

"They..." Hurt blinked his eyes twice, very innocent, "They travel relatively slowly, and they are also driving a lot of grazing animals. It may take a few days to come after falling behind."

Looking at that simple and honest face, Li Cha suddenly figured it out - this guy wants to hedge the risk!

If Li Cha defeated the native allied forces, it would be logical for him to bring other members of the tribe into the Alpine Fort. And if the native allied forces overturned Li Cha's car, it would be very convenient for Hurt to take some young soldiers on the road, after all, they have four legs!

Unexpected, ah, unexpected, who is so much more stupid than anyone these days.

He looks like a fool, with more eyes than a monkey, and the principle of not putting all eggs in one basket is carried out vividly.

"Then remember to tell the sentinels, don't make trouble." Baba came to work for him, and Li Cha couldn't even tolerate this small thought.

"Miss Anne." He tapped on the pine tabletop with his fingers, calling back the half-elf who was obviously distracted, "I want to know if your firm can lend you five hundred gold coins to Alpine Fort."

Now Li Cha doesn't itch when there are too many lice, and doesn't worry about having too many debts, and he has a completely broken mentality about the financial situation. Anyway, since he already owed fifteen hundred gold coins, it would be no big deal to borrow another five hundred.

The advantage of borrowing money to develop an army is better than borrowing money to gamble in that you don't have to worry about being chased by thugs because I have an army.

"No problem, I can make the decision with five hundred gold coins."

Usury lending is also one of the core businesses of Woya Commercial Bank, but Annie didn't mention interest at all. Now it's the half-elves under the eaves, who have to bow their heads.

"Alpine Castle is always grateful for your generosity." Li Cha nodded his thanks in a decent aristocratic tone.

After eating, Li Cha took Hurt and patted his chest to ensure that the bow and arrow would be in place immediately. At the same time, he told him to start training with the centaur tomorrow to find the hand, and then he entered the house with the five hundred gold coins delivered by Annie.

The bows and arrows used by centaurs are slightly different from those used by ordinary cavalry archers.

The expensive longbow is recognized as the strongest bow in the current mainstream military equipment. It is famous for its long range and high power. Equipped with a half-pound armor-piercing arrow, it can even directly shoot through the knight's plate armor from fifty steps away.

But because sitting on horseback is not as convenient as being down-to-earth, human cavalry archers cannot use longbows at all, so they can only retreat and choose short cavalry bows with far worse range and accuracy. Contrary to many people's intuitive impressions, due to the gap in equipment, cavalry archers will suffer losses if they shoot directly against infantry archers.

The flexibility of the cavalry and the power of the longbow are like white roses and red roses to human beings. They have always been contradictory options that cannot be bothered. If you want one, you have to give up the other.

But this principle does not hold true in front of centaurs. They are born gods of creation in this line of work. Due to the special body structure of the centaur, the centaur can completely shoot with a longbow while running, taking into account both flexibility and power, and it is more than a star and a half stronger than ordinary cavalry archers!

Opening the system panel, the heavy shining gold coins disappeared without a trace in an instant, and at the same time there was a balance of 500,000 dinars in the store.

Centaur purple-shirted longbows cost 15,000 dinars each, which is twenty-one according to the number of people. Cone-headed white feather arrows cost 800 dinars per pot, and at least 40 pots are the minimum.

A huge sum of money in the eyes of ordinary civilians is only enough to make a sound when it is used to arm the army, and more than half of it is lost in the blink of an eye. A famous general said that fighting is burning money. Li Cha thinks this is completely nonsense, because burning money doesn't burn that fast.

The development of Gaoshanbao is like a bottomless pit devouring gold, and it seems that the return is far away.

Li Cha was frustrated for a long time and didn't recover. He thought that being a lord meant castles, maids, and constant banquets with his wife. In fact, he hadn't seen all his farts, leaving endless worries and unfinished debts. It's better to be a bandit and get rich.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, he kicked over the empty gold coin box and fell asleep on the bed.

the next morning.

The purple shirt longbow was distributed to the centaur, and Hurt began to train with the clansman in full swing.

Li Cha observed their practice, and they were indeed famous for being good at marksmanship. Even the worst of a dozen or so centaur herdsmen could hit a bowl-thick wooden stake fifty paces away while running at full speed after finding the touch.

Experts look at the doorway, this level is much better than the so-called one-hundred-step piercer, and the level of human elite archers may only be regarded as amateur amateurs in the eyes of centaurs.