In the feudal era, land and population were the greatest wealth of a lord, and only with land could the population be settled, and only with the population could tax revenue be created, so in general, the larger the land and the more people under his rule, the stronger the feudal lord would be.

The Frostwolf Territory has a population of nearly 500 and 120 professional soldiers, while the Kaiyan Territory has a population of 600 and has about 140 to 150 professional soldiers. The Territory of the Bend was the richest of the three territories, and because of its proximity to the river for the development of fishing and shipping, and the communication with the Lords of the Craftsmen and Arrows of the North, it was very wealthy, with a population of 800 and 200 soldiers.

However, because of the wealth, the Tros family, the leader of the river, has always been more embarrassing, this family prefers commerce to war, and does not have absolute military superiority, so it is easy to refuse to start a war.

Even with an absolute advantage, this family has had a few ridiculous defeats, but the foundation is really strong, as long as it is not destroyed at that time, it can quickly recover.

(Arno Afar slackened, a military lord who had his beginnings in war, was blinded by the interests of the mutual market and failed to perceive the dangers hidden therein.) In such an era of feudal lords who swallowed each other, he didn't want to think about how the two aristocratic families of Simpson and Tros could let him rise smoothly with a mud leg. ）

The reason why Arno Afar believed in the proposal of the mutual market, in addition to the huge profit was really tempting, was more because the Lords of Kaiyan and the Lords of the Riverbend had been at war with each other for a long time, and the Lords of the Frostwolves had grown up savagely between them, and when it came to hatred, Arno Afar thought that the hatred between the two families of Simpson and Tros was much greater than between them and himself.

But he forgot one thing, or he himself didn't have this awareness, between the nobles, there are only eternal interests, there is no eternal hatred, not to mention that these two families are nobles left over from the old era, they may even have blood marriages between each other in the previous era, and wars are wars? But when you want to join forces? But they can join forces.

(As long as these two families join forces to encroach on the Frostwolf Territory and divide the population and resources?) Can you immediately form a parity with those two lords in the north? Otherwise, the three southern leaders are weaker than the two northern ones. Shi Yi gradually figured out the most likely cause and effect, but he didn't act rashly for the time being? Because apart from Tank Olmedo, Shi Yi wasn't sure how many other people in the Frostwolf Territory had been bought.

Is the business steward Tem? The military general is Yanos? Even mid-ranking officers, infantry captains, archer captains...... If the Tros family is willing to pay the capital, Shi Yi does not think that his dominance is higher than the gold coin offensive, although? This era is more about bartering.

But the forty most elite Frostwolf spearmen in the Frostwolf Leader can still be trusted? Because these forty people have been under the control of Arno? Afar is firmly in his own hands, after all, he is a military lord, and this most basic operation is still there.

With the help of the servants, Arno? Afar's training and hard training began, and he was beaten with a stick by his servants every day naked in the wind and snow? Many in the Frostwolf Lords thought that this fool had finally angered the lord completely, and the lord would torture him to death? However, in fact, Shi Yi was maintaining his martial arts cultivation at the same time? He even searched for various herbs for him to speed up the rapid development of the Golden Bell Jar of the Demon Dao (Golden Bell Jar plus Zombie Fist Hard Skill).

Besides? What is the most important thing for Shi Yi every day? It is to ride a horse to observe the territory on all sides and draw a military map by himself.

Frostwolf Lord's camp was built with wooden walls between the mountains? There is a watchtower and stone fort on each side of the east, west, and north, which can be built by consuming a lot of resources in the territory, but their existence, coupled with the military, can ensure that the invading enemy must pay an unbearable price to be able to conquer, if the intruder's dominance or morale is insufficient, the attack may leave corpses all over the ground, and then the whole army will retreat, which is a normal phenomenon.

One hundred and twenty professional soldiers, forty frostwolf spearmen as Arno? Afar's personal guards remained in the camp, and the watchtower and stone fort of the Kaiyan Lord's defense were stationed in the east, with ten archers, ten infantry, and ten pikemen, and the watchtower and stone fort of the Bend Lord's defense in the west were garrisoned by ten archers, ten infantry, twenty pikemen, and the remaining ten pikemen, who were defending in the north and south, respectively, because the southern mountains of the territory were steep, and it was difficult for the enemy to attack from this direction under normal circumstances, and the northern artisan and arrow lords were also constantly at war. So it's good to stay on the sidelines, and you don't need to have too many soldiers.

In terms of the combat power of the troops, it is the pikemen and cavalry, the cavalry to restrain the infantry, the infantry to the pikemen, and the archers to be restrained by the range, and the short-range is restrained by the three.

For example, the frostwolf spearman of the frost wolf leader, the crossbow soldier of the Kaiyan leader, the river pirate of the river bay leader, the siege vehicle of the craftsman leader, and the archer of the arrow lord, to a certain extent, these people have a certain void alienation, the river thieves of the river bay lord have a diving and swimming ability that is far stronger than that of normal people, and the archer of the arrow lord, their hawk eyes are very abnormal.

In addition, the reason why the Frostwolf Territory will have a forty-man pikeman army is not because any of the five major human territories is rich enough to raise cavalry, but because the pikemen are the cheapest equipped and have these forty pikemen troops, the centaur tribes in the forbidden forest not far away are not willing to go to the Frostwolf Territory to plunder, they prefer to go to the Arrow Territory or the Artisan Territory that is relatively farther away, because they are all richer than the Frostwolf Territory.

"Because the territory is poor, even the robbers don't want to come over, why is this so sad?" Shi Yi held a wine glass and tasted the wine worthy of the name of luxury in this era, and whispered to himself and laughed at himself.

Half a month has passed, and the mutual market between the three territories has been carried out several times, although there are no goods that can be obtained, but by providing the host venue and protection, it can still share a lot of profits.

The people in the Frostwolf Territory finally tasted the delicious taste of the river fish soup again, and at the same time, the cloth, pottery, and stone materials of the Kaiyan Territory were also good and high-quality goods, because the two territories had successfully preserved books, so even if there were no relevant talents in the territory, scholars could still guide the craftsmen to learn again by reading relevant books.

Even the Iron Weapons of the Castle Rock Realm are far stronger and sharper than those of the Frost Wolf Domain, which means that they are more efficient in farming and more powerful soldiers in battle.

It's only been half a month, and there are many young girls in the frost wolf collar, wearing their best clothes and mixing at the gate of the market, hoping to marry the men of Kaiyan and Hewan, because in this way they can live a better life, and the economically developed areas will have a resource siphon effect on the economically backward areas.

Of course, it is undeniable that their muscles are relatively fuller, their clothes are relatively more beautiful, and they can eat fish once a month, which is obviously different from not being able to taste a little meat for half a year and a year.

When Shi Yi was on Earth, he once watched feminists boast that South Korean men have the highest average height in Asia, and listed a lot of arguments for the descent theory, but when they were surveyed later, it was found that the average height of China's post-00s generation had become the highest in Asia...... It has nothing to do with race and bloodline, it is basically a matter of nutritional intake, and eating fish, meat, eggs and milk and eating taro and cabbage are more than physical fitness, which is very unfair in itself.

"The people's hearts are available."

Shi Yi was dressed in civilian clothes, wearing a mask and standing at the gate of the market, looking at the indignant men of the Frost Wolf Leader, and chuckled like this.

The principals of the Simpson family and the Tros family are very cautious, and they even do not hesitate to pay some commercial interests to paralyze the "frost wolf lord" Arno? Afar's nerves, because this can reduce the soldier's battle losses, as long as the strategy of flanking left and right, and combining inside and outside, all the commercial benefits paid before can be plundered back.

How can the speed of making money by commercial means keep up with looting? What's more, the feudal lords of this era annexed each other, and did not leave much time for people to operate.

But in the secret preparation of half a month, the planning of the two families has become more and more thorough, and Shi Yi's preparation has become more and more sufficient.

He has gradually discerned which people are traitors and who are still loyal to him, and he has gradually worked out the other party's playing tactics.

There is a deliberate and unintentional strategy, and the most feared is this situation, you think that you are intentional, and the other party is unintentional, but in fact, the other party is the person who is really hidden in the dark shadows.

After a month of mutual trading, late at night.

Several soldiers maintained the trade carts promoted by the villagers, and passed through the bunker of the Frostwolf Lord, because such exchanges had been passed several times, and the squad leader often received bribes from the caravan leader, so at the signal of the squad leader, the other soldiers also circled the trade cart twice, even if it was checked.

"Daddy Laru, why did you arrive so late this time?" The infantry captain, who had just eaten dinner, asked with a smile, biting a broken bone.

"Don't mention it, the wheels were broken when I came, and the time lost because of the car repair, thanks to the fact that I have a good friend like you, Captain Kranz, otherwise I wouldn't be able to enter the city gate, there are so many of us, with so many goods, it's too dangerous outside." As he spoke, the caravan leader named Daddy Larue pushed a cloth bag to the infantry captain in front of him.

"This is some salted fish, brother, you add food to the brothers, this time is not less troublesome for you."

"Alas, friends for so long...... Brothers, check quickly, let it in if there is no problem, they will have to set up tents in the market at night. ”

Objectively speaking, camping in the wild is indeed dangerous, not only can you not buy any food supplies, not to mention, you may also be attacked by alienated beasts, therefore, the caravan will bribe the captain of the soldiers to enter the city, which is a normal demand, especially these caravan leaders, they can go to prostitutes at night to warm the bed, who wants to sleep in the cold?

Seeing that the city gate opened, and the "goods" that pressed the ground into deep marks were sent in, a cold light flashed in the eyes of Father Laru, who had a kind smile on his face. Of course, he is not the leader of the caravan, but the military general of the Tros family, the military ability of the entire river bend leader of the Tros family is weak, and the only one who can still take the shot, is this veteran Bell Niramanda, who is loyal to the Tros family, and hopes to fight for a foundation for this family before he is completely old.

Riding horses behind, a long line of wagons was sent into the camp market area, tonight, at dawn, fifty elite Tros family infantry and fifty Simpsons elite crossbowmen, will work together, with the troops that have been close to the frost wolf leader, inside and outside should completely defeat the frost wolf leader.

Arno, the "Lord of the Frost Wolves"? Although Afar is also a hero, he is not a nobleman after all, and lacks background and fame accumulation, so it will not be too difficult to divide the two families, and even, maybe many people in the Frost Wolf Domain are more willing to become subjects of the Castle Rock Domain and the Riverbend Lord.

(As long as the land and population of the Frost Wolf Territory are divided, the family can usher in new development, and then marry with the Craftsman's Domain, after the strong combination, with the Domain of the River Bay and the Craftsman's Domain, it will no longer be a problem to push the Castle Rock Domain and the Arrow Domain, at that time, it will be difficult for the Tros family to decay anymore, and it can even become a royal family!) ）

At night, although the wind is cold, the face of the veteran Belle Niramanda is swollen red, he has served the Tros family all his life, and it has become his obsession to make this family strong, so he tried his best to promote today's big plan.

However, at this time, on the opposite side of the long street straight, a tall man suddenly appeared, this man was too burly and his features were too distinct, so even in this era when there were no photographs to transmit identification, the veteran Bell Niramanda still recognized at a glance that this man was the "Lord of the Frost Wolf" Arno? Afar's personal bodyguard, it's just that it is said that the two of them have broken up, how could this man be here again?

Although he was surprised, because the planned time was far from being at this time, Bell Niramanda hesitated for a moment, not knowing whether to start the plan directly. Although he deserves the evaluation of calm, sophisticated and experienced, the reason why it was still difficult to lead the army of the Tros family and achieve excellent results in the previous years was because he thought too much and lacked the ability to make decisions, which doomed him to become a veteran but never a famous general.

Whew, that strong big man tank? Ormedo launched, he was obviously wearing heavy iron armor, and he was wielding a huge iron thorn and twin hammers, but the speed of the burst run was almost faster than that of a galloping horse, on the one hand, because of the giant's talent, and on the other hand, it also showed that the golden bell jar of the magic change had taken effect.

"Huh!?"

Because the giant man rushed at an unimaginable speed, Bell Niramanda only had time to pull out the saber at his waist and slash away.

A lifetime of fighting, Bell Niramanda's martial arts and swordsmanship are good, but unfortunately the horse did not run at this moment, and he was in a state of being attacked at this time, the oblique slash to the tank door of the knife, was blocked by the giant man with the iron barbed hammer in his left hand, the star fire dispersed, and the saber was almost cut into half of the iron barbed hammer, which shows the ruthlessness of the strength and the huge gap in the iron quality of the weapon, but even if there is a gap in the smelting process, the heavy weapon is not broken by one or two knives.

With the swing of his right hand, the veteran Bell in front of the tank was directly smashed down, and at the same time, many strong men suddenly rushed out of the houses on both sides of the street, they did not hold weapons, but used a net formed by thick ropes, all the trucks were pressed, although the elite soldiers in the trunk who noticed the abnormality began to struggle, but their strength was undoubtedly not as strong as the suppression of more than a dozen strong men outside the truck, behind these strong men, there were twenty frost wolf spearmen, Anyone in the convoy who wanted to resist was basically set on fire and instantly pierced into a broken hedgehog.

"Tie two more layers, tie it stronger, these are the elite warriors of the Kaiyan Territory and the Hewan Domain, after being hungry for two days, it won't take long for them to become our elite warriors." At this time, the black-haired and black-eyed man with a scimitar in one hand walked out of the darkness step by step, while the veteran Bell Niramanda, who had already broken many bones on his body by the tank, was tied up and escorted to Shi Yi.

"How is it possible, how is it possible? How did you find out, and how did you know we were going to do it tonight? Having not yet detached himself from his refusal to believe defeat, Bell Niramanda asked with a roar, completely ignoring his injuries.

He had put too much effort into this plan, which he had thought would propel the Tros family to new heights.

"I can see that it was just an accident, but you're already very good, but you lack some luck compared to the best players." Glancing at the flushed and swollen face of the veteran Bell, Shi Yi stood with his knife and responded, with an inexplicable pity in his eyes.

"Luck...... Luck...... I've done my best. After two consecutive mutters of luck, the veteran Bell Niramanda gradually softened, and blood began to spill from his mouth, and he died. He is actually a commander-type general rather than a martial arts type, if he let all his subordinates come out, it will be a difficult opponent that makes Shi Yi feel tricky, but unfortunately, his subordinates have no chance to rush out.

In the second half of the night, the Simpsons family was also used in the same way, as long as twenty frostwolf spearmen and civilian men were matched, fifty elite crossbowmen could be captured unharmed, which was the result of the plan being broken.

Since the strategy is used, the success of the strategy can be twice the result with half the effort, but at the same time, it is also necessary to accept that if the strategy fails, it will be doubled backlash.

"The lord is wise, in this way, the Frost Wolf Territory is already unshakable, even if the Kaiyan Territory and the River Bay Territory have only the strength of the troops, I have the confidence to defend the city defenses." The military general of the Frost Wolf Territory was Yanos, who was half-kneeling in front of Shi Yi with a sword at this moment, and said with an excited expression.

There are one hundred and fifty professional soldiers in the Kaiyan Domain, and two hundred professional soldiers in the Hewan Domain, and now they have directly lost one hundred elites, and the remaining two hundred and fifty professional soldiers (this refers to the premise of not staying on the mainland at all, but this is impossible in itself) It is impossible to forcibly break the Frostwolf Territory with one hundred and forty professional soldiers stationed there.

There are many considerations in real warfare, such as morale, whether to fight locally, whether to have siege equipment, and in these aspects, the Lords of Kaiyan and the Lords of the River Bends are all at a disadvantage, so of course Arnos dares to guarantee it.

"Defensively, in such a situation, but also choose to retreat to defend? Hehe. Shi Yi shook his head and chuckled, stepped forward and patted the shoulder of Yanos, who was half-kneeling there, he walked over and continued: "I will defeat the incoming enemy and annihilate most of them...... I'm going to swallow the Lords of Kaiyan and the Lords of the Riverbends in one gulp. ”

If it was before, the cautious Yanos would definitely dissuade Shi Yi at this moment, but tonight, at this moment, because of a certain change in the atmosphere, Yanos suddenly felt that this ambitious greed might really have the possibility of completion.

"Lord, this matter is very difficult, and if our losses are too large, even if we can defeat the invading enemies and annihilate most of them, I am afraid that they will be attacked by the northern lord."

"The Craftsman Leader and the Arrow Leader have just finished a campaign, they need to recuperate for a while, otherwise the people's power will not be enough to use, this time is enough." The military general of the Frost Wolf Domain, Yanos, was thinking about today's battle, but Shi Yi was thinking about the next attack on the Kaiyan Territory or the Riverbend Domain.

Kaiyan's Castle is thick and sharp, and it is better than defense, but after today's battle, the troops will be greatly lost, and it will take at least half a year to recover, and those city defense towers are just stones if there is no one to defend them, and they are not threatening.

The economy of the river bend is rich, the land is flat, the Tros family is not good at war, but their characteristic army river pirates are very difficult, the so-called river pirates are fishermen, these guys are usually like civilians, providing economic and civil support for the territory, but once the local war starts, the river pirates can be quickly transformed into combat effectiveness, the quality is slightly inferior to the infantry, but if they fight along the river basin, it is far more beyond.

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The raging fire burned into the sky, dyeing all the black clouds red, and at this moment, there was a cry and scolding in the frostwolf territory.

The plan is to unite inside and outside and attack the city, so the elite troops of the Simpson family and the Tros family are gathered together outside the city.

The Tros family is rich, so the soldiers accompanying the army are elite infantry and archers with bright armor, and the Simpson family is a crossbowman unit with infantry and ballista, which is a force of nearly 200 people There are no pikemen, because they all know that the frostwolf collar is poor and cannot afford to raise cavalry troops, in fact, among the five major human territories in this area, only two northern territories have large-scale cavalry.

The Artisan Collar is really rich and therefore can afford to raise it, while the Arrow Collar is often attacked by the centaur tribe, and tightening the belt has to raise a cavalry force, otherwise it will be difficult to resist its invasion and raid.

The Tros family of the Bend Lords was wealthy, but his land had no forests and no plain horse farms, so he could not raise a cavalry army.

"The Frost Wolf Territory is already in chaos, haha, it seems that the plan is going well, come, let's rush the city!" It was the lord of the Kaiyan Lord, and the good-faced young man next to him was the leader of the Lords of the Riverbend, he was not a lord, but a direct descendant of the Lord of the Riverbend, so this war was presided over by the lord of the Lords of the Kaiyan Lord, and he alone commanded the troops of the two territories.

When the large army advanced to the front of the city, the planned "bribing traitor" to open the city gate and "inside and outside" to open the city gate were not completed, but the fire in the frostwolf territory was in full swing, and it was impossible for a small accident of this magnitude to interfere with the continuation of the plan.

Since you can't break the city directly, it's better to storm it.

Just as the lord of the Castle Rock Lord, Seplin, adjusted his team, sent crossbowmen and ballistas to the front (suppressing the attack of the city's arrows), and ordered the infantry to support the siege ladder, the gate of the Frostwolf Lord's city suddenly creaked open.

"Hurry up, come in, come in quickly!" A sweaty face of the Frostwolf Leader Infantry Captain suddenly opened the city gate from within, and Cyplin recognized that the other party was indeed the one who had received a large amount of money from him.

Although the sweat on his face was a little exaggerated at this moment, and his expression was also abnormal, betrayal was not very normal in itself, not to mention that the opportunity could not be lost, the lord Cyprin directly did not change the formation, and asked all the soldiers to charge and crush them.

At this time, a large number of crossbowmen were in front, and the heavily armored infantry were running behind, when about a third of the entire army poured into the city, a large area of arrows and spears suddenly fell on the city, which caught everyone in Kaiyan and Hewan by surprise, and at the same time, the terrifying roar and slashing sound came from the city.

"Charge, charge!"

Although he didn't know what was going on, the lord of the Kaiyan Domain, Cyplin, was still quite military-literate, and he knew that he couldn't turn back at this time, and he had to rush into it no matter what was in front of him.

But it didn't work at all, the front army was all crossbowmen, and the infantry with strong melee combat was crowded in the middle of the queue, but it was difficult to rush in, and they could only let the arrows and spears from the city head fall one after another, causing casualties and taking away their lives.

And on the other side of the city, there are two-handed iron spike hammer tanks? Olmedo, like a bloody beast, rushed madly, twenty infantrymen, forty pikemen, and even some brave civilians in the rear, filled by tanks? Led by Olmedo, such a force frantically kills elite crossbowmen.

Infantry is originally the strongest combat unit in close combat except for cavalry, not to mention that it is crossbowmen who are killed at this moment, and although pikemen are cheap and weak, their melee combat ability is far stronger than that of crossbowmen, especially tanks? Olmedo's blood, shouting and shouting like thunder, and the posture of bravely killing the enemy is really too morale-boosting, in this kind of cold weapon war of less than a thousand magnitudes, such a powerful general who takes the lead may be far more powerful than a commanding general.

As the casualties intensified and morale collapsed, the city gates closed inward little by little, and once they were cut off from inside and outside, the defeat of the two major families of Kaiyan and Hewan was completely irreparable. At this moment, the lord of the Castle Rock Lord, Cyplin, had also discovered that the plan had been revealed, and he was the one who was calculated, and he even ignored the arrows and spears on his head, and was so crazy that he grabbed the Frostwolf Leader infantry captain next to him.

"You dare to deceive me?"

"No, I didn't deceive you, but the plan was revealed, the wolf lord threatened my family, and gave me poison, I am a death horizontally and vertically, I am a death horizontally and vertically, it is better to change a glorious battle death, and I can also exchange a little pension for my family" The last golden word was still before it could be spoken, and the infantry squad leader was hacked to death by Seplin's sword.

At this time, the defeat was decided, the coalition forces suffered huge casualties of crossbowmen in the front, and the middle and rear were attacked by crossbow spears and could not even fight back, as for those ballistas, they had already been destroyed by concentrated fire because they were too close to the city wall.

Just when Sepulin made up his mind and was about to turn around and run, he just turned the horse's head, but saw the sister-in-law of the Leader of the Riverbend, the handsome-looking man suddenly stretched out his palm towards him, and then a large piece of sticky white cobwebs suddenly gushed out from the man's sleeve, and the Lord of the Castle Rock Lord, who was actually quite strong in force, fell to the ground directly by the spider web, even if he was still struggling frantically, it was useless.

"Everyone, stop fighting, as the eldest son of the Tros family, I order you to lay down your arms and submit to the Lord of the Frost Wolves."

Morale, at this moment, completely collapsed. When all the warriors of the Hewan Territory around him put down their weapons, the warriors of the Kaiyan Territory were so dazed that they looked left and right, and in the end they could only put down their weapons and choose to surrender.

At this time, Shi Yi, who was dressed in armor, cloak, and saber at his waist, walked out step by step, and he didn't look at the seplin who was tied up tightly on the ground, but his eyes fell on the blonde boy who turned over from the horse.

"Mage, why did you choose that?"

"The most powerful thing about a mage is not in the spell, but in the mind, our defeat is decided, and my choice now is the most beneficial for me."