Byron spent two days in the Riwa car, where he gave his troops a rest, procured supplies, and found a suitable place to set up a dye mill.

It is a dyeing workshop that was abandoned by a fire, and it can be used again after repair.

The mayor of the town was also very generous, saying that he would keep the land for Byron, but he also asked Byron to bring salt from the Nord kingdom to the town, so that the price of salt in the city would not continue to rise.

There are two villages to the north of Riwache that can also produce sea salt, but the quality and quantity are not up to the requirements.

And in this regard, Byron also agreed, the salt trade he planned would pass through here, and he could still sell personal favors, so why not.

However, one of the merchants in the town must be careful when he is also the size of Byron, and from here to the west, the pirates and pirates along the way are simply unscrupulous in plundering the caravan.

Especially with a large fleet of pirates, a few galleys carrying one or two hundred pirates, and even the city's patrols were no match for them. Especially as the weather begins to warm up and the seas become more seafarable, the frequency of their attacks will increase dramatically.

For their safety, Byron also chose to go with another caravan, which also had eleven mercenary sentinel-level guards, and eight caravan guards on horseback. There are also more than a dozen helpers and buddies, but the combat effectiveness is obviously not high. It wasn't safe enough for them to go to the Nord kingdom in numbers, so the caravan manager was happy to go with Byron and them to the Nord kingdom.

After four days of walking, the terrain gradually became higher and steeper.

If there is a forest in the area, the horse will have a hard time running.

This shows that Byron and they are getting closer and closer to the Nord kingdom, as long as they pass through a border castle, they will reach the territory of the Nords.

However, on the way, Byron also met some Nord merchants who were on their way to Vekia to sell goods, and their ranks included horses and Nord cavalry on horseback.

Obviously, this is different from the situation in the game where the Nord has no cavalry, and the real Nord kingdom always maintains a certain number of light cavalry to scout or launch surprise attacks. They also kept horses in large numbers to transport goods where there were no rivers.

However, it is true that the terrain and horse types of the Nord Kingdom have limited the development of cavalry.

Byron and the others have been very careful along the way, for fear that a group of bearded pirates will suddenly pop up on the side of the road, shouting slogans and cutting them down.

However, when one night there was one man missing from the caravan that had been on the road with Byron, Fatis and Bandak warned Byron that something was going to happen.

Early the next morning, Byron and the caravan men found the man's body in a quagmire, covered with scars and barely invisible.

At this time, Byron also found that the terrain around this quagmire was a bit high, and if someone killed him from both sides at this time...

"Get out of here!"

Byron immediately gave the order, and their team was on the main road not far away, and there were only a dozen people who came to check on Byron and Ellen.

But before Byron could turn around, a figure appeared from a nearby high slope, and in the blink of an eye something grazed his helmet and stuck in the ground behind him.

“**********”

With a bunch of shouts that Byron couldn't understand, a large group of bearded pirates wearing chain mail and Nord eye-protection helmets rushed out from behind the high slope, the axes in their hands kept throwing, and several caravan guards were directly nailed to the ground by a dozen axes and four or five javelins, and the blood flowed profusely.

Byron rolled on the ground several times in fright, and got a lot of dirt on his body.

Several javelins also landed not far from him, and several other soldiers also raised their shields or lay on the ground, and even Ellen retreated while dodging with long swords.

And when the pirates rushed up with Germanic swords and one-handed tomahawks like crazy, even Aren began to run.

The few who were left behind were shot in the back by the pirate archers who remained on the high slope and fell to the ground. And when the pirates, armed with tomahawks, rushed up, they slashed the backs of the wounded soldiers lying on the ground with a few axes.

The soldiers on the other side of the caravan were also frightened by this formation, because in a hurry, only two militiamen except Bandak had wound their crossbow arrows.

Bandak's crossbow arrows knocked out one of the pirate archers, while the other two arrows didn't penetrate the pirate's chain mail at all.

Byron and the others dodged the deadly axes and javelins all the way back to the group, gasping for breath and beating their hearts violently, as if they were about to jump out of their chests.

And in the midst of the confusion, Byron also heard the only language he could understand:

"I'm going to use your skull as a bowl!"

This is one of the most spoken and familiar words by the Bandits in the game.

In the game, the pirates are mostly a newbie benefit because of their good experience drops, but in reality, the roar of these pirates makes Byron shudder.

Because what those savage robbers shouted could really happen to them!

"My skull is too expensive to make a bowl."

Byron muttered, then shouted for the soldiers to defend themselves against the enemy.

In the face of such a terrifying and terrifying enemy, the new militia almost threw away their shields and fled, but only raised their weapons tremblingly under the rebuke of Fatis and Ellen.

Vecchia's veteran light infantry also stood at the front of the ranks, and the cavalry also ran out of the ranks under the command of Fatis, forming two wings.

Jamila jumped out of the carriage and sighed at a javelin-pierced raw silk, then took up her weapon and stood at the back of the line to protect the carriage with the fellow grooms.

The shields were raised, the militiamen raised their spears and stabbed, and the Svadia light infantry stabbed their swords. Vecchia's axe slammed down, and several of the pirates who rushed to the front fell.

But the advantage lasted only a short time, and the remaining pirates did not stop there, and raised their round shields in one hand to block the attacks of spears and axes, and then swung their axes with one hand, leaving deep scratches and cracks in the shields of the militiamen.

The untrained militia soon became untenable under the roar of the pirates, and heavy axes slashed at them, cutting through their leather armor, tearing their flesh and smashing their bones.

"Charge! Kill these bandits! ”

Fatis rode his horse, with two of Vecchia's bastard riders and the caravan guards, and ran around the group in a short circle, finally picking up his speed and crashing into the pirates' ranks.

Although the number of pirates was less than forty, not necessarily as many as Byron's, their madness and fearlessness still crushed Byron's morale.

Even though nearly twenty horsemen rushed into their ranks, spears and spears at once four or five pirates, the rest of the men were still fearless to stab men with their swords, cut their horses with axes, and stopped the charging horses with their bodies and shields, and in the blink of an eye, several horses fell from injuries and the loss of a leg, and the riders sitting on them were also hacked to death by the surrounding pirates.

And even if they were so close, there would still be pirates throwing axes and javelins to knock Byron's cavalry off their horses. This situation is either that they don't care about the life or death of their comrades, or they are very confident in their throwing ability.

Byron really felt that he had sent people to investigate in vain at this time, and these pirates really made Byron understand what it means to be truly unscrupulous.

Being so close to the mainland, they would all lure Byron and them over, and attack without any scruples even though they were outnumbered, these Nord robbers are really terrifying and cunning madmen!

What's worse is that Byron doesn't have any effective way to fight these crazy guys.