Mount & Blade: Wind of War - Chapter 595

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An old soldier in the City of Divine Blessing sold his small house in the city and went to the newly occupied area under the protection of the army. He could directly buy several manors and dozens of maids to serve him. As long as he managed it properly, he would not have to worry about the rest of his life.

Of course, this is also because the old soldier has absolute confidence in the army of the Empire of Light. The price of real estate manors in the newly occupied area will drop sharply. Although it can be very cheap when bought, once the enemy country counterattacks, not to mention the manor, life will be lost.

However, this old soldier dared to be sure that the land that the Empire of Light conquered and plundered the Styak Empire would never be counterattacked again. Even if he succeeded in bottom-fishing, he could operate on the new land for more than ten years and wait for the output value of those manors to recover. Maybe he could make a lot of money again, return to the imperial capital, and buy back his house.

Although this kind of thing involves certain risks, the possibility of success is not low.

At the same time, the battle on the front line was just as most of the drinkers and veterans imagined. The army of the Empire of Light conquered the city and seized the land smoothly, just like a wildfire burning the forest.

The current Empire of Light has a population of four million, but the army is only a little over 100,000. This is because, except for the security forces, the regular army of the empire is almost no less than level three.

Such an army attacking an army that is generally less than level one or two is simply a generational strike across the ages:

An enemy crossbowman secretly attacked and succeeded by chance. A crossbow shot a Rhodok heavy crossbowman in the head.

Then the Rhodok heavy crossbowman turned his head left and right in confusion, because the crossbow arrow was bounced off the steel helmet and did not break the defense at all.

On the contrary, the three-arrow continuous crossbow in the hands of the elite heavy crossbowmen has fast loading, great power, and high firing rate. It is just like an assault rifle. Three heavy crossbowmen can suppress the dozen crossbowmen on the opposite side without raising their heads.

When attacking many small castles, there is no need to prepare siege equipment. A row of Rhodok heavy crossbowmen below will keep firing, and the enemy crossbowmen on the castle will fall down like dumplings. As long as there are enough elite infantrymen climbing the ladder, the castle will be taken down.

If there are not enough elite infantrymen accompanying the army, these Rhodok heavy crossbowmen can also be replaced with shield hammers as infantrymen. Except for the slightly higher cost, the performance is not bad at all.

What’s more, there are air knights. The Royal Guard Griffin Knights, the exclusive legion of Kress, are best at this kind of war where the strong attack the weak. The Royal Guard Griffin Knights throw javelins at the enemy below in mid-air. Basically, only they can attack the enemy, but the enemy can’t attack them at all.

Even if they barely attack, the arrows that are constantly consuming power due to upward shooting can’t break the defense of light steel armor at all. What’s more, these Royal Guard Griffin Knights are often surrounded by wind shields, which have the effect of weakening most attacks.

In the former Styak Empire, many nobles knew that they could not win before they resisted.

But they still held on with a fluke mentality, hoping to raise their own value with the blood and lives of their subordinates, and successfully keep their property and even their noble titles.

To be fair, the demands of many nobles cannot be said to be excessive. A city has been run by a family for hundreds of years from generation to generation. Now that it is confiscated and deprived of everything and demoted to civilians, most nobles will find it unacceptable.

Therefore, many nobles set fire to the city after being defeated, wanting to take the entire city as a sacrifice for themselves. However, under the general trend, no matter who wants to resist, they will be directly crushed.

For a newly established country, the more vested interests mean more burdens, so the old nobles and old landlords of the former Styak Empire will never accept them. Even if these people burn a few cities, the big account will be calculated, and the benefits of the policy will far outweigh the disadvantages.

Among the five armies, Marshal Resarit and Knight Fatis were the easiest to talk to. Resarit was holding back a lot of energy. In order to prove his ability, he was willing to make some concessions in terms of property, except that he could not agree to let the old nobles retain their power and noble status.

Of course, if the other party was too greedy, people like Resarit would not mind cheating the city first and then killing his entire clan.

Fatis was unwilling to kill too many meaningless people. Sometimes, even if the other party resisted stubbornly, he would personally take down the castle and only kill those men who showed strong hatred, without offending the elderly, weak, women and children.

Normally, as long as there was resistance, the whole clan would be slaughtered. Fatis often did not kill people, but left some property to the remaining women and children, which was purely influenced by his nature.

Cress and Yannick strictly followed Rhodes’s instructions. All those who dared to resist were slaughtered, and those who gave up resistance could retain their right to life and even some property rights. In this way, the nobles on the route of the army had either fled long ago or chose to lay down their weapons and surrender.

Under the absolute suppression of force, not everyone can withstand the fear of death.

Many old nobles even split and even fought because of the struggle between the pro-war and pro-peace factions. They all thought they were thinking about the family, but no one could convince the other. In the end, they could only use the swords in their hands to verify who was right and who was wrong.

During the founding war, the more thoroughly these old nobles were swept away and suppressed, the more stable and solid the foundation of the country would be in the end.

If people shed more blood now, people in the future will shed less blood. Rhodes knew the truth, so he did not hesitate when making the decision.

At this moment in Bright Moon City, with warm jade and warm fragrance accompanying reading, Rhodes was comprehending the mystery of the Book of Life with Grand Duke Daenerys.