Chapter 22 The mountain rain is coming
"The natives are trying to form a coalition army, and this is an invitation from them. There was a slight wind in the wilderness, and Hutt's long wild hair fluttered in the wind.
His tone was solemn, but it didn't infect Richard.
"Hey, it's not a small skill. "Richard was thinking about whether it would be better to call it a coalition or a bandit assembly if the natives could really organize.
Common sense is that apart from the time of desperation, there are few times when the natives can join forces.
"My lord, before you came, there used to be a group of kobolds living here. Their leader is a rare kobold shaman who wields the power of the fire element, knows divination, and is proficient in herbal medicine, and has a high prestige among the surrounding tribes. Hurt said, pointing to the wooden building on the hill.
It dawned on Richard - when he first arrived here, he was puzzled as to why such a privileged treasure in all respects could be occupied by a group of kobolds, but now he understood everything.
The scarcity of medical skills in the wilderness can be imagined, and there is a high-level compound talent among the co-authored kobolds.
"After the horde was battered, the shaman held a grudge and used his prestige to rally a coalition of tribes, and their goal was -" Hutt paused and continued, "You!"
"Me?" Richard's expression suddenly became very exciting.
"Yes, it has long been a tradition for the natives of the wilderness to exclude outsiders, especially the nobility of Pompeii. Because once outsiders stand still, they will invade their living space. ”
"Then you ......," Richard looked at the centaur with a good look.
"We are lonely ghosts who have been forced to leave our homeland, and we do not want to be degraded into the wilderness to join the natives, so that future generations will become robbers and bandits. The Windwind Clan is willing to join the Alpine Fort and henceforth raise the sword for your honor. Hurt finished speaking, and there was a soft sound of horses' hooves, and twenty-one centaurs stepped back to caress their chests.
This battle was unexpected, but he quickly nodded, "On behalf of Alpine Castle, I welcome you to join. ”
In other words, it may be inevitable to suspect that it was the natives who played Mission Impossible, but for him, there is no such problem at all.
If you think about it, the system's acceptance criteria must be more than just verbal allegiance, and hostile people will inevitably fail to pass false allegiance. Now that they have received the application for joining the team, it is enough to show that they are not two or five boys with evil intentions.
This is a hidden benefit of the system, and Alpine Fort will be a place where you don't have to worry about spies and spies in the future.
He led the centaurs out onto the hills, and the barbarians were enthusiastic, high-fiveing their new comrades one by one in greeting.
One lie often has to be compensated for with 10,000 lies.
Since he used the noodle ball as a potion to deceive the barbarians, now he has to make a full set of tricks, and then take it out to deceive the centaurs. Richard went back to his room and counted the twenty-one beans that were left from last time, and handed them to Gunther for him to show up.
This will be more effective and, most importantly, will avoid a slight disturbance of someone's conscience.
Richard watched a few barbarians fall into a daze, and the centaurs swallowed the pills half excitedly and half suspiciously, before they passed the application for joining the team one by one.
Compared to the Barbarian's simple and brutal hand-to-hand hoplite route, the Centaur has a much richer advancement potential. Starting from the lowest level of centaur herdsmen, up to the centaur recruits and centaur guards.
If you continue to advance, there will be two branches, one is the route of the centaur guerrilla archer and the centaur archer, which is positioned like a human archer, and the other is the route of the centaur shock spearman and centaur marching vanguard, which is equivalent to the heavy cavalry.
Once this kind of troop tree is formed, which is suitable for both distance and near, and attaches equal importance to infantry and cavalry, it will greatly enrich the composition of the army of Gaoshan Fort and completely change the current embarrassing situation of lack of cavalry and long-distance spear throwing.
What made Li feel a little pity was that the quality of these centaurs was too uneven.
At the beginning, the barbarians were first-class soldiers when they first joined the team, and their combat effectiveness was already quite good. And the twenty centaurs were divided into three gears - two third-level centaur guards, nine second-level centaur recruits, and the rest were all recruit centaur herdsmen.
This level can only be said to be limited in strength than the militia, and it is completely dependent on racial talent to have some combat effectiveness. Even if an adult herdsman has not been trained in martial arts, it is too easy to fight two skilled human soldiers.
However, as a hero, Hurt is on par with Gunther, and even has a lot of trading skills. I really can't see the honest and simple look on that face, this kind of seemingly honest person is often the most ruthless once he pits people.
Richard saw that the people in the caravan camp in the distance were wandering restlessly, and the coachman had even set up his carriage, but he had not yet made up his mind to drive.
They heard the sentinel's warning, but it was still unclear what was happening. I don't know what the sudden appearance of the centaurs is, or if the attitude of the mountain castle towards them has changed again, and they are as anxious as prisoners waiting for their sentence.
Richard waved vigorously to the camp and motioned for them to come quickly. The form was undecided at the moment, but Anne took a deep breath and walked towards the hills, followed by four or five brave mercenaries who chose to follow to protect their employer.
The barbarians in the middle of the way automatically spread a path for Anne and the one-eyed dragon to pass, but when the third man was about to follow, he was squeezed left and right by the two brutes with their shoulders, kicked back two steps, and finally fell uncontrollably.
"Wait here!" the brutes laughed insolently.
The centaurs didn't know why the barbarians were laughing, but they laughed wildly. The effect of this group of strong men laughing at the same time was simply shaking, and the remaining mercenaries had erratic faces, their hands on the handle of their weapons and their knuckles turned white, but they didn't dare to pull them out after all.
"Be polite to the guests. Richard rolled his eyes.
The two barbarians glanced at each other, sighed at the same time, one helped the fallen mercenary to his feet, and the other dusted off the leaves of floating soil and grass on his body, "We didn't mean to, sorry brother." ”
"Miss Anne. Richard led Gunther and Hurt into the wooden building and whispered, "Alpine Fort may soon have a war, a war with the natives. ”
"Soon??" The sudden news made the half-elf's face change.
The caravan could now only stay in the Alpine Fort for refuge, and getting involved in a war that was not theirs was certainly not what Anne expected.
"It's time for dinner, let's talk while we eat. Richard took the lead in the main seat of the long table in the hall.
When Gunther heard that there was something to eat, he casually pulled over a chair and sat down, and Anne and the one-eyed dragon had no choice but to suppress the doubts in their hearts and sit silently on the other side. Centaur Makht was unable to use a human chair, and sat directly on the ground, about the same height as the other seated people.