Early in the morning, Rand walked out of the barbarian tribe lord's tent, and unexpectedly, several knights and reserve knights got up. Greyhound takes a reserve knight to count all kinds of livestock; Rohr takes a man to meet Volcker; Albert begins to interrogate the captured Demonless; Greyhound's son and another knight search for loot next to the tent.

Everyone greeted Rand with a heartfelt smile when they saw him, and it was a smile full of hope.

Rand was also very happy, much happier than when he was appointed as a baron (acting), and within a few days of coming to the other world, he ran for his life every day. Today, although there are more hits and fewer blows, I finally see hope.

In the morning, before the barons moved over, Rand learned of the results of the night raid: a total of 38 demonless men, 2 over 35 years old, 12 demonless males, 17 women and 7 children, as well as 12 black-scaled horses, 15 pack beasts, and 50 long-haired sheep.

In addition to people and livestock, there are 8 carts and 12 tents in the camp, about 10 gold coins, 100 silver coins and more than 200 copper coins, 3 sets of iron armor suitable for the figure of intermediate knights 400 kilograms of grain, 20 kilograms of salt, 20 kilograms of monster meat, as well as more than 10 spears and long knives, some magic cores of monsters and more than 30 animal skins, and a few iron pots.

The grain and livestock harvested this time greatly relieved the pressure on Rand's food, but Rand still had questions, why there were so many black-scaled horses in this camp, according to the number of tents and horses, how could there be more than 10 demons in this camp, and where did these demons go now?

Rand and Albert decided to question two of the captives who were over 35 years of age. According to the confession of the two, there were originally 10 demon supporters in this tribe, and half a month ago, the leader of the Gray Goose tribe sent a letter asking the leaders of the surrounding tribes to go to the Gray Goose Alliance.

Because this tribe often participates in the alliance of the gray goose tribe, thinking that this alliance is the same as the previous one, it is mainly hunting and business, so the tribal leader took 4 barbarian cavalry to the alliance, but after walking for several days, they did not hear about their leader's movements.

The Grey Goose Tribe and the Brown Bear Tribe are the two largest tribes in the southern part of the Galloping Horse River, the Brown Bear Tribe relies on an iron mine in the west, the scale of the tribe is larger, and the leader of the Brown Bear is also stronger personally.

However, the grey goose tribe, which relies on salt mines, treats their surroundings more aggressively than brown bears.

Relying on the salt mines in the northeastern region, the Grey Goose tribe had regular trade with the Terran nobles of the southern dragon kingdom, and the grey goose used the export trade to control the surrounding small and medium-sized tribes.

Every year before spring and winter, the Grey Goose Tribe gathers the surrounding small and medium-sized tribes for alliances and hunting, taking advantage of the alliance, the tribes who go to the tribe can obtain a small amount of salt, and can exchange their furs and black-scaled horses for salt, ironware, grain, and other inland goods.

The Grey Goose Tribe's alliance had lasted for seven years until 996, and in the first two years, most of the tribes who went to the alliance were afraid of the Grey Goose tribe's large numbers, and even feared that the Grey Goose tribe would take the opportunity to eat the other tribes.

However, after another two years, the small and medium-sized tribes found that the Grey Goose tribe only wanted to buy the black-scaled horses that were just one or two years old in their hands, and in order to let them breed horses with peace of mind, the Grey Goose tribe could give them grain, salt, and even provide stallions during the alliance.

So in the past two years, the small and medium-sized tribes around the gray goose tribe have become suppliers of black-scaled horses.

The growth period of black-scaled horses is half a year, and it takes another year to mature after birth.

Three years ago, many tribes in the alliance watched those tribes who sold horses rely on 5 or 6 black-scaled horses in exchange for dozens of long-haired sheep and a winter's grain, and soon the surrounding tribes sent mares and stallions during the next alliance, and sold the old horses, ready to make a lot of money two years later.

This year's winter meeting alliance officially took the results of breeding and horse breeding in the past two years to the gray goose tribe to sell horses and cash out.

The above information was summarized by Albert from his interviews with the captives.

Rand was shocked when he heard this, he felt that if the leader of the Grey Goose tribe lived in his own time, he would also be a business wizard, and it was not uncommon to eat salt by salt, and it was rare to use the profits from selling salt to envelop the surrounding tribes.

Let a group of nomadic barbarians become cooperative breeders, and this leader is not really engaged in the breeding business, but in the name of breeding, the entire grassland tribe helps him hoard a large number of horses, and as this group of horses and the barbarians on the horses gather together, it becomes a huge cavalry force.

However, Rand still can't figure out some problems, according to the current trade between the Galloping Horse Plain and the Dragon Kingdom, relying on the Black Scale Horse alone is enough to offset the food consumption of the barbarians, so why do the barbarians still attack the Dragon Kingdom? What can't be obtained by trade exchange?

"Yes, Terran's demon slave." The captive answered Rand's question, the only two "old" demonsless over the age of 35 in the camp was named Johe, who had been the butler of a certain baron in the Dragon Kingdom, and had been sacked by barbarians in the course of his business six or seven years earlier.

In this camp, the general non-demons were newly captured from the Terrans in the past two years, and more than half of the remaining non-demons were exchanged or purchased in small shares in the past 9 years, so most of the captives were Terrans, and the rest were also demon-free descendants of the Terrans and barbarians.

Most of the barbarians have no particular obsession with killing, but the barbarians in the southern part of the Galloping Horse Plain like to prey on Terran demon hunters. According to Johe, the barbarians plundered the Terrans, leaving the non-demons as slaves, and the demons-worshippers sold to large camps such as salt or iron mines.

His family was attacked by the Grey Goose tribe that year, and the owner of the family was taken away by the leader of the Grey Goose tribe, and the remaining demonsless were taken to the alliance and sold to the small and medium-sized tribes.

According to Johe, the barbarian salt mines require a large number of miners, and the non-demons cannot carry out long-term, high-intensity mining, and the barbarian demon supporters themselves do not know how to mine, so every time they attack the dragon, they will take a large number of demon supporters and send them to the mines, so that the demon owners can mine, and the non-demon boiled salt is the production division in the salt mines.

When Rand heard this, he was really shocked, thinking that the nobles of the dragon principality, claiming to be demon supporters, lived the life of a feudal landlord in the Middle Ages, and the whole kingdom had no iron or horses.

The barbarians, who seem to live a primitive tribal life, are actually a group of high value-added owners and mine owners who carry swords and do business.

The point is that in the eyes of the barbarians, the nobles are actually a bunch of hard laborers. Rand felt that his demon-embracing life was very similar to the group of big animals on the side, but he didn't expect the barbarians to think so too.

This other world is indeed magical enough, it is really the mage who listened to the silence, and the capitalist who listened to it shed tears.

However, from Johe's mouth, Rand also found several key points, one is that the main forces of these small tribes have gone to the Gray Goose Tribe, and the other is that there are a large number of Terrans among the tribe's demonless people, and these Terrans have been captured by the barbarians, which means that he does not have to worry about causing trouble to himself because of the capture of the new barbarian camp, on the contrary, he will be the savior who saves them from the barbarians.

Thirdly, these barbarians are taking the Terran demon holders as slaves, which means that their cheap father and brother are not doing well and are working as coolies.

"Albert, knights, based on the information we have just received from Johe, perhaps we can attack a few more barbarian camps, and maybe we can find my father and brothers," Rand said.

"It's a solution, but will the Grey Goose Tribe give us that much time? What if we have been on the Galloping Horse Plains for a long time and are encountered by their main force? Albert voiced his concerns

"It's a possibility, but I think it will be a long time before the grey geese have gathered so many barbarians and gone south of the Kornico Pass not for business.

They want demon lovers slaves, and since the people in our territory have withdrawn, they will go back to rob the Roth Territory, but there are only a few dozen people in the Roth Territory, can they satisfy the appetite of the gray geese? ”

"But further inland, there will be the Count's Knights," Rolle said his thoughts at this time, "The Count's Knights are not comparable to those knights in Roth's territory. The Count can also summon mages and priests"

"You don't have to be tough," Rand said, "the Northwest Earls are so big, if the Earls divide their troops and station, they will be broken by a large group of barbarians, and if they gather together to confront the barbarians, it will give the barbarians a chance to sweep the rear."

How to deal with nomadic tribes with high mobility? The idea of many agricultural kingdoms is to hold on to the city and retreat when the food carried by the nomadic tribe runs out, but in the Dragon Kingdom, the most suitable castle to defend against the barbarians is the castle of the Roth Lord.

Situated on a tributary of the Punma River, surrounded on three sides by water, and with the castle towers leading up to the Kornico Pass, the castle is arguably the best stage of defense.

However, even if the unbelievable Earl has now lost the best opportunity to send troops due to suspicion and hesitation, Rand does not think that the Earl can help defend the Viscount's Castle.

Because in history, large-scale barbarian invasions have not been able to hold Roth Castle: the magical turbulence on the Galloping Horse Plain blows directly through Roth's territory with the north wind, and it is difficult for the Terran transcendents to exert their full strength in the entire territory of Roth.

Without the blessing of magic, the low-level Terran transcendents could not defeat ordinary barbarian cavalry.

"The only regret is that I can't see the Grey Goose tribe storm Rot's castle with my own eyes, and I can't witness the fate of the betrayers," Rand said as if he had sentenced his relatives to death.

After hearing this, Rohr and Albert also felt a chill down their spines, but they also admitted that today's Roth territory needs to face hundreds of barbarian cavalry alone, even if Baron Bob has managed well in recent years, at most it will gradually accumulate, and the gray goose tribe is a barbarian tribe that has engulfed the entire south of the Galloping Horse River to advance and retreat together, I am afraid that Bob's Roth Territory will really not be able to keep it.

In the afternoon, the two camps in Rand finally converged. The excited expressions of the lords were full of wonder and admiration, Rand was the first of several generations of the family to enter the Galloping Horse Plain and defeat the barbarian tribes, and Rand gained more from the battle than Huck had earned in several years of business.

"You're amazing, Rand" Nila was finally relieved when she saw Rand, "Lord Huck hasn't accumulated as much as you have in one night"

"But we haven't safely returned to the Northwest Earldom now, and everything we have gained now could be gone in one night" Rand is well aware that his actions are a big gamble, this victory is only the first round, and everything is possible before he returns safely to the Barony of Galloping Horse.

"Young master, it's good that you're okay, I really didn't expect you to have such a harvest in one night, it must be Master Huck who is blessing us" Mei Wennan was very excited, in his eyes, Huck, Ryan and Obote were taken captive like the sky was falling, although the youngest Rand in the family was promoted to a junior knight, but Rand is a baron who is stuck at the age of 14 to stimulate the bloodline, and the fourth son of the baron who is stuck at the age of 18 to become a reserve knight, such a talent can only be regarded as a lag in the Dragon Kingdom.

Generally, if you become a reserve knight at the age of 18, it means that this person will be a high-level knight at most in the future, and the family will need to invest a large amount of resources.

And now, this fourth son, who is not very high, actually took the remnants of the territory to capture a barbarian tribe. This is a big thing that can be written into the county log. Mei Wennan burst into tears with excitement for a while.

According to Albert's request, all the newly captured demons and livestock, and finances were Lante's own, and Rand led his subordinates to defeat the barbarians as the lord, but everything in the camp was originally owned by Huck Runma, not Rand Runma, as the leader of this battle, Rand Runma himself had nothing, in this case, all the loot should be given to Rand first.

For Rand now, the harvest is to earn himself the population of a knight's territory, although these people are not their own people, but after returning to the territory in the future, they can be exchanged with several families.

So the big tent of the original barbarian leader became Rand's tent, Johe was tentatively appointed as the butler, and studied with Mei Wennan, and the current demonless ones were temporarily managed by Nila.

After the question of ownership was determined, the first thing Rand did was to cook sheep to celebrate, after fleeing for so many days, everyone was eating vegetarian cakes, wild vegetables or wheat porridge, and the knights had a great demand for meat, and they had to eat more meat, and even more Warcraft meat to have combat effectiveness.

Rand also tried on the barbarian iron armor, according to the tradition in the territory, only the family knight to the junior knight will buy a pair of armor from the territory, not even full body armor, just leather armor with iron sheets, now the three sets of iron armor obtained, are all full body armor, chain mail lining, adjustable half-body armor and skirt armor are matching.

Such a set of armor, in the kingdom of the dragon is usually between 100 and 200 gold coins, if the armor is good enough to carry runes, then the price is even more expensive, the iron armor on the galloping horse plain is from the southwest iron ore, the quality is good.

Rand wore one for himself, one for Rohr and Greyhound, two of the hardest of the day, but still flattered to get two sets of iron armor.

Of course, others can't ignore it, and Rand divided 20 catties of demonic beast meat among several low-level knights and reserve knights.