Summoning Total War

Chapter 42 Centaur Longbow (Part 2)

That night, Murphy slept deeply.

When he woke up the next day, it was already broad daylight. As he regained consciousness, the sound of people gradually began to ring in his ears. The construction of the blacksmith shop was almost completed. It was very important for the town to be self-sufficient in ironware, so the residents had been rushing to work in recent days. The blacksmith shop does not occupy a large area, but the personnel training required is still quite troublesome. In the initial period, Murphy allocated a batch of materials for them to practice.

It wasn't until these days that something finally came to fruition.

Turning over, Murphy realized that the coat he was wearing was no longer the one he wore last night. He was wearing a thin, close-fitting sand woven nightgown. It was very close-fitting and comfortable. The style didn't look like it was his, but it was. A bit like the clothes of the female priests...

This seems to have been replaced by the high priest last night?

There is still a faint fragrance on it.

As soon as Murphy got up, he immediately noticed a little itch on his back. He put his hand on his back and scratched it, and immediately scratched a large bloody cocoon.

"Is your injury healed?" Murphy touched the new smooth skin on his back and looked stunned.

In the battle with the Jackals that night, because the situation was so unfavorable, even Murphy, as a lord, finally had to join the battle himself!

That night, General Hamilton died in battle! Only 11 Spartan heavy infantry survived! And Murphy also left three deep wounds on his back that night!

One was a sword wound, and the other two were caused by the gnoll's claws.

The latter almost tore off a large piece of flesh on Murphy's back during the attack!

Part of this wound was initially healed with holy water and the high priest's magical treatment. If the other part of the flesh and blood was not regenerated, it would have to wait for a slow natural healing process. It's only been a week or two now, so it shouldn't have gotten better so quickly?

Murphy suddenly remembered the warm feeling coming from the high priest's soft little hands last night. In the process of squeezing the sore muscles, there was also a warm current on his body similar to that when receiving magical treatment.

Did the high priest treat himself again last night?

Thinking of this, Murphy suddenly felt warm in his heart.

What a very considerate little lady...

Breakfast is wheat porridge, and there is also a bowl of stewed fish soup, which is full of aroma.

After breakfast, Murphy called the herald to ask about the specific number of jackals captured last night. According to the previous agreement, half of these jackal prisoners were Murphy's spoils.

After some questioning, Murphy found that the proportion of prisoners was still very high.

From the Gnoll clan with a population of about five hundred, nearly two hundred adult Gnolls were captured.

Being surrounded, as the first batch of adult male Jackals who were the main force were killed, the other female Jackals and semi-adult Jackals soon lost confidence and completely gave up resistance. It must be mentioned here that the so-called semi-adult Gnolls refer to Gnolls between the ages of twelve and eighteen who have not yet reached the twenty-year-old standard for the most combat-effective age of Gnolls.

Under normal circumstances, there are only so many gnoll clans, and internal competition among these ferocious creatures is fierce. Few jackals can live to an older age. Generally, after entering old age, a jackal's ability to survive is greatly reduced!

Because other gnolls in the group will also be their potential enemies!

One hundred gnolls, even according to the minimum standard of 20 silver coins each, are worth more than 2,000 silver coins.

It’s almost equivalent to the territory’s entire month’s tax revenue!

Due to trade reasons, Murphy also had some surplus food on hand. He has never been a person who likes to save money. In his opinion, money spent is money! What is hoarded in the territory is not called money, it is called silver and precious metals.

Therefore, most of the income generated by trade in the towns was used by Murphy to purchase supplies from the human rear in the southern plains.

These materials include various daily necessities as well as useful strategic reserves!

The first batch of royal merchants who were similar to the lords had been trained by Murphy. Everything should not be rushed, so he did not deliberately encourage the residents of the territory to engage in business. The progress of territory construction is accelerating, and urban residents are gradually getting more silver coins. Murphy believes that it won't be long before the void of merchants will be gradually filled.

"Lord, there is a businessman named Plife outside asking for an audience!" A girl's clear voice came from outside the door. After the Governor's Mansion was rebuilt, a new group of maids were added. These girls took over the duties of the attendants. work and fully take over Murphy's daily life in the Governor's Mansion.

And with the encouragement of the high priest, these girls were allowed to go to the temple to learn the fighting skills of the priests.

There are a total of twelve new maids, six of whom are responsible for daily living and food, and six who are responsible for the security of the Governor's Mansion. The latter are girls with certain fighting talents selected by the high priest, and they are receiving more orthodox Templar training. The current combat effectiveness is roughly the same as that of ordinary soldiers, but there is considerable room for growth!

And in normal times, these girls are also the targets of Murphy's training.

For now, Murphy can probably handle the combined attacks of three girls at the same time. Of course, this does not rely on skills, but on men's innate power to suppress.

Pliffe?

Murphy rubbed his forehead, trying to recall the identity represented by this name from his memory. During this period, he came into contact with so many names that he couldn't react for a while.

Fortunately, he still had some impression of the name. Because it is pronounced the other way around - Philip.

Plifa seems to be a slave trader and one of the main people who participated in the battle yesterday?

He wants to see him?

What could it be?

In fact, Puli Fei, who was standing in the Governor's Palace at this moment, was also upset.

Pulifa is a middle-aged businessman, not tall, slightly fat, but very strong. He is a man who can eat a pound of meat in one meal. He was born into a goldsmith family, and after a lot of hard work, he became a slave trader with a good value. However, he has not had good luck recently. As a slave trader, Plife mainly deals in goblin slaves. However, since the kobold language was successfully translated and some slave traders mastered the method of domesticating and training kobolds, the slave industry has The goblins were completely replaced by kobolds!

As we all know, goblins are not as diligent and honest as kobolds, and in industries that require a large number of slaves, such as mining, kobolds have professional advantages over goblins.

This leads to a problem, that is, the prospects of the goblin slave market are not optimistic.

And this is why Plife turned his focus to Gnoll slaves. In terms of profit, goblins are certainly not as high as gnolls, but in terms of safety, goblins are obviously much less of a threat. As a slave trader with no aristocratic background, Plife did not do well in the human city-state. Often suppressed by other slave traders with nobles as their backing!

Therefore, after seeing Murphy's extraordinary leadership and military talents with his own eyes yesterday, he thought hard all night and finally decided to come forward today and offer himself a hug! He needs a backstage, and everything yesterday told him that Murphy has a very high investment value! Of course, this also requires that he has corresponding value and can bring corresponding benefits to Murphy!

For this point, Puli Fei is quite confident!

Because he is one of the few merchants in the human city-state who dares to cross the barren stone highlands and successfully conclude trade with the centaurs!

This is also the reason why he can prosper without aristocratic background.

In his youth, Plife was full of adventurous spirit. He once led a group of people across the barren stone highlands and by chance rescued the centaur chieftain who was besieged by a large group of goblins.

At that time, there were about six hundred goblins surrounding dozens of tall centaurs.

The businessman's unique sharp gaze allowed him to discover the extraordinaryness of these centaurs, because they wore ornaments made of mammoth tusks, which were something only centaur nobles could possess!

At that time, Pulifa made a risky decision!

Then lead your mercenaries and attack the group of goblins with a team of less than fifty people! As a slave trader, he knows that goblins are very timid. As long as they can suppress their momentum, they are likely to be defeated in one fell swoop!

That time, the goddess of luck stood by Puli Fei's side.

He actually defeated the group of goblins in one fell swoop and saved the centaur nobles. This move also won the gratitude of those centaurs. He gained the recognition of the chief of a centaur tribe and was honored as a warrior!

He dared to attack in the face of ten times more enemies. This kind of courage was no worse than that of a centaur warrior.

Relying on this incident, Plifa successfully reached a trade with the Centaur tribe and established an initial friendship. He also relied on trade with the Centaur tribe to accumulate capital bit by bit and gradually gained his current status.

As a slave trader, Plife is different from other fat-minded big businessmen. Although he is a bit fat, his superior material life has not corrupted his heart. He can also use good swordsmanship and can step on the deserted land. He personally led the team on the sand, and when faced with several times the number of goblins, he still had the courage to lead the team to defeat them!

And he was also the only slave trader who personally participated in the hand-to-hand combat in yesterday's battle!

For this reason, Plife had a bloody wound on his arm.

In fact, although Plifa is quite confident that Murphy will accept him, because only he can buy horses and longbows from centaurs! But Murphy's extraordinary performance yesterday still made him feel a little frustrated.

There is no other reason than the awe that arises invisibly.

Yes, yesterday's battle made Plifa discover something.

That is, the Greek lord does not seem to have a powerful enough long-range attack force in his hands!

Javelin throwing has been gradually abandoned since humans entered the city-state era. The range and power of bows and arrows completely replaced the javelin. It is impossible for the Greek lord's military talent not to see this. So the reason why he did not form a long-range attack force is that he did not have enough bows and arrows in his hands?

In fact, making bows and arrows is not easy.

This takes a while, and if the quality is guaranteed, the bow will take nearly a year to make step by step.

The biggest advantage of Plife is that he can buy a longbow from the centaur tribe, a very powerful longbow with an effective range of 210 yards (about 200 meters).

Of course, there is still a drawback, that is, this kind of longbow requires relatively high strength (because it is used by centaurs), and the quantity that can be purchased is not too many.

But Philip was confident that he could buy more than 300 longbows from the Centaur tribe based on past friendships!

Because he knows that the Centaur clan is currently at war with some large intelligent creature in the north! They urgently needed a batch of armor to arm themselves. At the same time, due to the war, the centaur food was also in short supply. As long as you provide them with what they need, it is not very difficult to buy longbows and horses from them!

In order to win Murphy's trust as much as possible, he also brought the only centaur longbow he had!

"Is this the centaur longbow?" Murphy looked at the longbow in front of him quietly. It had smooth lines and a smooth bow body. The length was about one and a half meters. Because it was a weapon used by centaurs, it had a large body shape. A little bigger, and the strength required to open the bow is not small, but it is still within the acceptable range of humans!

Although he was ecstatic in his heart, Murphy's face remained calm. He looked at the sturdy middle-aged man in front of him. This man looked more like a warrior than a businessman. There was a shrewd light in his eyes, but he did not appear to be a philistine. It seems that I have learned to leave something that I will stick to in my heart. Almost as soon as this man expressed a hint of surrender, Murphy had the idea of ​​recruiting him!

The reason is simple. He knows the trade routes with the centaurs and can purchase supplies from the centaurs!

These supplies include horses and weapons!

"With your talent, it's really a pity to be a businessman." Murphy stood up slowly, his eyes falling quietly on Pulipe in front of him. Although his real age is only sixteen, as a lord, his long-term giving of orders and the aura he cultivated in the war have already given him pressure on others! Especially Puifei, who had experienced yesterday's war, he could feel the unusual aura of Murphy!

After Murphy saw the slave trader in front of him, he thought of such a person.

The reason is simple. The man in front of him is a strong man who looks more like a warrior than a businessman. He is the only slave trader who has personally participated in the battle yesterday.

This made Murphy very fond of him and admired his courage!

"My territory happens to be short of a secretary. I wonder if you would like to work for me?" Murphy smiled, and that hint of smile immediately made Plife feel like a spring breeze, making him relax.

Murphy's words stunned Pulifa!

He just wanted to rely on Murphy to gain support from the nobles, but he didn't expect that Murphy would value him so much before everything came out! It is not surprising that Philip misunderstood, because the position of secretary is generally held by small nobles in the world's aristocratic circles, and it is held by small nobles who are relatively close to the great lords. According to the classification of nobles in this world, although the scope of the territory is not large, Murphy's strength is at least that of a viscount. Then his secretary must at least be a nobleman!

Murphy's statement, in the eyes of the natives of this world, basically represents a series of corresponding promises such as position, status, noble title, etc.

So it's no wonder that Puli Fei was stunned.

After being stunned for a moment, he was ecstatic. Plife immediately knelt down on one knee and said solemnly: "I am willing to serve you! Your Excellency, the noble lord!"

As a slave trader with a not-so-good background, Pulifa knew very well what the status of a nobleman in this era could mean! And it takes several generations of hard work to obtain a noble status!

Businessmen, no matter how much money they have, will always be pigs full of copper odor in the eyes of nobles.

They have no status and are not allowed to raise private soldiers. In the eyes of the great nobles, there is no difference between merchants and captive pigs and beasts!

They can be slaughtered when necessary.