CHAPTER XLIII

Richard's body is blessed by the system, and his senses are far sharper than ordinary people.

The dim darkness of the night didn't hinder him, so he could see a large number of corpses scattered on the ground ahead. Scavenging coyotes were fighting each other around the carcass, all with round bellies.

Some of these corpses were wilderness people, and some belonged to dwarves.

Some are still relatively fresh, still in the same way as before death. Some of them had obviously been left out for quite some time, with mosquitoes, flies and maggots coming in and out of their eye sockets, and their bellies bulging high as if they were about to burst open in the next moment.

"What a terrible smell. Anne frowned and pinched her nose, she should be glad that the half-elf had not fully inherited the elf's eyesight.

You must know that it is summer, and a piece of raw meat will spoil overnight if left in the open air.

"yes, a smell of blue cheese. Richard responded casually.

The culture of the dwarves attaches great importance to the concepts of compatriots, ancestors, and souls, and if they do not even receive any burial of their compatriots who have died in battle, it only means that they are in a very bad situation.

And that's exactly what happened.

The dwarves were very attentive to the construction of their homes.

Their camp was set on a relatively high lakeside plateau, with the gentle slopes of the edges artificially stripped of the redundant parts and trimmed into waist-high vertical drops. It is surrounded by a two-blade high wall made of stones and slag, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

But now several parts of the wall have been pushed up, and a hundred or so big black men like a mountain of meat are rushing into the gap.

All of them were more than two blades and five feet tall, and their torsos were wider than the door panels, and they were fierce and brutal bear warriors. But to Richard's surprise, there were a number of small men around them, running around with simple wooden spears and bamboo spears to cooperate with the bear people.

These dwarfs have easily recognizable red eyes and large ears, as well as excellent bouncing ability. If you ignore the blood stains on their faces, they are generally quite cute.

"Rabbit-headed people?" the lord cried out in his heart, "how could a bear-man degenerate into mixing with a rabbit-headed man?"

The tall and strong bear and the skinny little rabbit-headed man stood together, and the extreme visual contrast was very striking, and this combination reminded him of a joke between a bear and a white rabbit.

"What's so strange about that. Anne rightfully said, "They are vassals of the bears. ”

"Vassal?" Richard searched his memory, but found no knowledge that could correspond to the situation in front of him.

But when he blinked and looked at Anne, and then at Gunther and Hurt, he saw that each of them had a look of astonishment.

So the lord immediately nodded pretendedly, "Oh, it's a vassal." ”

He was so deliberate that the air around him was silent for a moment, and then Anne couldn't help but laugh.

It was Hurt who relieved him: "My lord, a powerful race like the bear people is often good at fighting and not good at production, so it is necessary to gather some vassals to do chores for them, and they will also bring help punches when they fight." ”

"Generally, large tribes are a combination of suzerains and vassals, and only small tribes are monoracial. Gunther scratched his head and added.

"I know how not to say it earlier. Richard was helpless.

"How did we think you didn't even know this. Anne was even more helpless.

The difference brought about by the environment is undoubtedly obvious at this moment, Richard has been staying in the southern province and has no access to this information, and the three people who are very familiar with the tribal environment cannot imagine that there are still people who do not understand this common sense.

"Tsk. The lord lay in the grass and took out his binoculars and looked at it for a while, and couldn't help but smack his lips.

Anne had said earlier that in order to show her determination, the warriors of the Bear tribe had blinded one of her eyes. At that time, Li noticed that this group of goods were stupid and stupid, but they really deserved the name of ruthless people, and they could do it.

Now look at what is going on - it is true that the rabbits are all blind in one eye, but their sect leader bears are clearly all in good sights. It seems that even if the last rabbit-headed man is sacrificed, the bearren tribe will never give up.

"Miss Anne, you said that the big tribe has thousands of warriors, do you also include the vassal tribes? Richard seemed to see the dawn of victory, and he found that the bears numbered at most a quarter to a fifth of the rabbit-headed people.

Although the world is not fair, it is at least different in many aspects. Although a strong race like the bears is strong, their fertility is destined to be incomparable to that of the rabbit-headed people, which is a constraint on them by nature.

"Hmm. Anne nodded, "Don't underestimate the rabbit-headed people, as long as the sect master is there, they can often fight together to the end." ”

"What if the Sect Master isn't there?" Richard couldn't help but wonder.

"Uh...... It is possible to surrender without resistance. ”

"Damn, if it's so powerful, you can only fight with the wind. The lord silently lowered the threat index of the bear man in his heart.

Regardless of the merits, it is obviously unreasonable to count the heads equally, and the combat effectiveness of the suzerains and vassals is completely different.

Although there are more rabbit-headed people, it is a compliment to say that they make up the numbers.

The first thing the dwarves did after mining and smelting iron was to arm their clansmen, which led to their very luxurious equipment, and the excellent full-body plate armor was distributed to the grassroots soldiers, which made the mountain fort guards who had just begun to change their outfits drool.

They are short but very stocky and strong, and they are skilled in using hammers, and their combat effectiveness is actually quite good.

Under the wise leadership of Lord Lord, the military industry of Gaoshan Fort has just started, and the order of redress is weapons first and armor second. Several centaurs were big fans of the theory of slow work, and the output was not as good as that of the only laying hen, and the guards barely finished a round of weapons before leaving.

Therefore, the iron armor on the barbarians is different from each other, and some of them are still the trophies captured before, and compared with the dwarves, the temperament of the poor and middle peasants is obvious.

But if you replace the object of the comparison with the bear people, then they are simply too happy. The bears' equipment is incomparable to that of the High Mountain Fort, at most they are barely equipped with a main battle heavy weapon, and iron armor is a luxury that only a few people can have.

Many Bear Warriors can only wear homemade leather armor, and the defensive ability of this thing can only be said to be barely better than nothing.

But the best equipped dwarves in actual combat didn't have any advantage in the face of beggar-like bear people, these orc warriors were too fierce and too strong!

As he roared wildly, he threw off his arms and slammed into the blow, the rudimentary weapon fell to the ground, the sound of the explosion of gold and iron was almost like hitting a bell, and the dwarven warrior was still beaten to the point of vomiting blood while wrapped in a tin can.

In contrast, the Rabbitheads, while also looking brave, explain why vassals can only be vassals - their crappy attacks seem to tickle in the face of heavy plate armor, and they are completely cannon fodder level.

The main purpose of the bearmen bringing them is probably to distract the dwarves.