Chapter 12: The End and the Beginning

"Ah......h

Blood flowed down the sword from Viscount Will's back.

"I actually wanted to run, and I almost deceived Lao Tzu."

There was a bit of disdain in Viscount Thoth's tone, just now Viscount Will, an old adversary who looked like a madman, really frightened Thoth, thinking that he really wanted to fight for his life, but he didn't expect it to be a false shot, and he found an opportunity to turn the horse's head and want to escape.

It's a pity that he was entangled by Ron who rushed in, and in the end, Viscount Will, who lost his courage, killed the glorified Besott from behind with a knight's sword.

"Ron, you're hurt."

After all, it was a veteran knight's dying counterattack, and Ron seemed to be injured a little.

"It doesn't matter, let's go and support Lord Richard first."

"Hmm", after all, the battle continued, and Viscount Sauter was not particularly good at playing the old silver coin of Corporal Lixian's play, so he ordered the cavalry next to him to cut off Viscount Will's head and continue to fight.

With the addition of the two knight-level combat power of Viscount Sauter and Ron, the cavalry of the Will family, which was already a little shaken, began to disperse, and in the end, only two quasi-knights and a dozen cavalrymen fled from different directions.

Richard did not ask for the pursuit to continue, he reorganized the remaining cavalry on his side a little, and observed the main peasant soldiers of the Will family a little, and the infantry without cavalry cover was simply full of loopholes.

He led the rest of the cavalry to easily cut through Will's line from the flanks, and kept shouting that Will was dead, showing Will's head to the army.

The inevitable collapse began, and the peasants decisively dropped their weapons and fled, and even the would-be knights and guards who had been bravely taking the lead began to waver.

One by two, the rout caused a chain reaction in the end, but several quasi-knights gathered together, trying to organize the fleeing peasant soldiers to make some futile resistance, but were attacked by Richard with the cavalry, when the last few resisting quasi-knights fell under Richard's sword, the war has lost any suspense.

The farmers of the Will family scattered and fled in all directions on the snowy field, and the farmers of the Hunter family chased after them like red eyes, and now this group of people is a low-hanging fruit in their eyes.

It wasn't until Richard ordered a ban on the killing of deserters that the Hunter peasants reluctantly stopped.

Until the last pursuing peasant soldier returned, there was no trace of the Will soldiers on the snow, except for the captives who fell directly to the ground.

……

After a short cheer, the soldiers of the Hunter family began to clean up the battlefield, and in the iron-scarce Northland, these iron armor, knights' swords, and even spear heads were good treasures. Cleaning up can collect almost hundreds of pairs of iron armor, even if some are damaged, they can be used to sew cloth armor by finding a blacksmith, laying a certain foundation for Richard's next expansion.

And Richard's consciousness finally came to some surprises.

A brilliant victory

Losses: 556 Enemies Destroyed: 2053

Bonus XP 5560

Congratulations on the upgrade

Richard: Terran

Level: 3 (3280/5000)

Power: 6.2

Constitution: 6.5

Dexterity: 6.5

Spirit: 2.8

Skills: Beast's Breathing (Master) can be improved, and General Qi Induction (Elementary) can be improved.

New Skill - Elementary Offensive Technique (10% increase in attack of soldiers under your command - can be learned)

Available Skill Points: 3

Richard first tried to learn the basic offensive technique, using a skill point. Ron and one of the would-be knights in the city guard were then called to ask each other, and Ron bluntly said that he felt strengthened, but the other would-be knight was a little confused by Richard's question.

Richard didn't explain it in detail, and after sending the two of them away, he began to think about it.

After presumably determining that the offensive technique would only work for the soldiers produced by the system under his command, Richard was in a tangle.

After thinking about it, Richard added skill points to the Beast Breathing Method, there are too few soldiers in the system, and now it is not very useful to add offensive techniques, the quality of the general qi induction technique is too low, and it is a bit of a waste to directly use the skill points to improve, so let's see what the Beast Breathing Method that has been cultivated to the peak looks like further.

When the two skill points were put into the Beast's Breathing Method, Richard obviously felt a burst of comfort in his body, and his strength and five senses were obviously improved.

Even the improvement plan for the continued strengthening of the Beast's Breathing Method has surfaced in his memory, which means that this set of breathing methods is equivalent to the perfect improvement of the Beast's Breathing Method, and he can teach it to everyone in the Hunter family.

Intuitively looked at his own property panel through the system, and it has become

Richard: Terran

Power: 8.6

Constitution: 8.5

Dexterity: 9.2

Spirit: 3.0

Skills: Beast's Breath (Grandmaster), General Qi Induction (Elementary), Attack (Elementary)

Army: Spearmen (10), Archers (10), Swordsmen (1), Crusaders (1)

At this time, Richard's physical fitness has been greatly improved, not considering the fighting spirit, just with his physical fitness, Richard is no weaker than the senior knight who has entered the knight rank for many years and introduced energy to temper his body to the peak.

It was already dark, and the soldiers who had cleaned up the battlefield set up camp, and the main members of the Hunter family gathered around the campfire to discuss things.

Richard did not choose to march to Boulder Castle overnight, in this era the overnight march is a rather dangerous thing, the night is full of too many accidents, even the battle-hardened elite tour will not march overnight unless it is absolutely necessary.

Now that the Will family is already meat on the board, there is no possibility of escaping at all, and there is no need to take risks.

In addition to the cheers of victory just now, the mood of the people around the bonfire at this time was not high, although the battle was a complete victory, but the loss of the Hunter family was not small, not to mention that two system swordsmen were killed under Richard's command, and two of the three quasi-knight-level centurions of the city guard were killed, one of them was the son of the second uncle's family, Richard's cousin, the city guards killed hundreds of people in order to block the quasi-knights of the Will family, and the peasants suffered the heaviest losses, and they were cut down like grass in front of the quasi-knights of the Will family without armor.

Although the Hunter family is also a martial family, such a major battle with heavy casualties is also the first time to experience.

After making a simple arrangement, Richard also opened his mouth to comfort a few words, although the effect was not great, but everyone finally raised their emotions.

Richard didn't say anything more, and told everyone to go back and rest early.

Only Richard and Viscount Sauter were left.

"Do you know, during today's battle, Will's old guy saw his son dead, and his eyes were really terrible, I thought he was really going to exchange my life, but I didn't expect him to want to escape."

"Haha, I didn't expect my father to be scared on the battlefield."

"Who knows, I thought that he also loved his son as much as I did."

"......" Richard was suddenly a little silent, he had never been a sensational person, and he didn't know how to take it.

"But, if I think about it, he is right, if he can run away and return to Boulder Fort with some troops, I'm afraid we won't have it so easy now."

Sauter didn't pay attention to Richard's silence and continued.

"Richard, if one day, my father also dies on the battlefield, do you desperately want revenge, or continue to plan reasonably?"

Damn, send the proposition.

I have to say that this sentence also stopped Richard, Richard prides himself on being a rational and scheming person, if the person who died in battle today is not his cousin but Viscount Thoth, can he still keep his sanity.

"I didn't get to that point, and I didn't know the answer, so in order not to let myself encounter such a problem, I think I would try not to let my father go to the battlefield again in the future."

"You hunt, drink and watch circuses in Ironwood City, I will invite all the most popular circuses in the Golden Dragon Kingdom to you in the future, you can enjoy the blessings, and leave the rest of the hard work to your son."

Richard actually evaded the question.

It's shameful to run away, but it's really useful.

……

"You, hahahaha."

"You kid is talking like the usurper prince in the bard's story."

Richard also smiled, his current authority in Hunter is the king, why do you need to usurp the throne.

When you take the Boulder Castle, it will be a new beginning.

……

The tent in the night wind rattled, and the entire camp except for the patrolling soldiers had fallen asleep.