Chapter 140: Easy (Part 2)

Time always passes very quickly. It is the castle. After 10 minutes, the fog was blown away and there were continuous coughing sounds inside, but there were only a few who could stand.

Cronshaw immediately seized the opportunity, and he drew his sword and issued an order: "Get ready, come forward!"

The mercenaries looked at each other and then stepped forward. As a small castle, Fort Pussy did not have enough protection for the river. When the mercenaries approached the castle, someone struggled to get up and shoot arrows down, but the arrow had neither strength nor line.

After firing a few arrows, the battle-torn mercenaries immediately noticed the truth and instantly, their morale was shocked. At this time, some mercenary shouted: "Roar up and cut down the door!"

Suddenly, a large group of mercenaries stepped forward and rushed to the entrance of the castle, and began to knock on the door with axes and other things.

"It's a game." Bud said in the back.

Etger could not calm his surprise for a long time. Indeed, if the weather and environment cooperated with it, magic was used appropriately, and if the other party had no mage and priests in the corresponding field, it would be a one-sided battle. No wonder the Light Church had decided to eradicate the magic union and began the "elimination of evil wizards" movement, desperately instilling into the people that wizards are evil and incarnations of the devil.

The divine arts that the God of Light can provide to the priests are only seven areas: the realm of light, the realm of order, the realm of redemption, the realm of fire, the realm of war, the realm of goodness, and the realm of strength. In fact, it is difficult for the priest to fight against many similar situations alone.

The advantage of a priest is that it is more difficult for a priest to appear in batches than a wizard. As long as the god is powerful and the believers have pious beliefs, a priest can be produced in batches, and it also has the power to heal this kind of mage that is difficult to obtain. It is much more difficult for a wizard to train and grow - but compared to combat, an excellent wizard has a far more combat power than a priest.

No wonder, after the end of the jihad, the kings and nobles of all kings all supported and drew magicians to participate in the regime and royal family, so that the magic union, which was already on the verge of destruction, had developed rapidly and had controlled its huge strength until now.

It is completely different from similar games on earth. Games emphasize balance. Here, there is no so-called balance in this world, reality has never balanced, there is only a level pyramid. The power of the mage profession is that no profession in this world can be compared with positively - the only regret is that it is too difficult for a mage to be born.

In his eyes, the mercenaries cut down the city gate with their axes, and even knocked on them with chain hammers. The door sounded one after another.

However, before a few hits, a man came out of the city wall, and he shouted in a hoarse voice: "Surrender, we surrender."

The shouts made many people look at each other, especially the mercenaries.

"Daniel?" Etger couldn't help but shout, looking forward to his opinion.

"Captain, since they want to surrender, then surrender. After all, this territory will still belong to the count, so it is not good to kill and hurt more." Fang Xin thought for a while and said.

"Okay, then that's the decision." As he said that, he gave Fang Xin a hug, and then rode his horse forward.

The following things are not done with Fang Xin. The city gate opened in less than a long time, and then inside, people fell to the ground, and might not be dead, but most of them vomited and were unconscious.

Fang Xin glanced and finally confirmed that the outside of the castle was large, different from a small room, so the poisonous gas had not reached the level of poisoning, so he said in an order: "Pull them all into the open space outside to blow the air. If you can live, you will live. If you can't live, you will be buried."

The combat location was outside the castle, and the poison gas was mainly concentrated there. Although the families inside were affected, the impact was not great. Fang Xin watched the mercenaries pull out the children and women in the inner room of the castle, and thought to himself - otherwise, weak women and children would definitely die in large numbers, and they would not have the resistance of adult men.

It was strange that after a while, the clouds slowly dissipated and the weather improved. The hundreds of people pulled into the open space outside the castle. When the wind and sun were blown, most of them moaned and began to regain some of their activity.

The mercenaries began to check the goods in the castle. According to the agreement, most of these belong to the three regiment commanders, but the mercenaries could also obtain one-tenth of the spoils.

"Sir, there is a priest who is very healthy inside. It's okay to rely on the protection of the altar." Without much time, Etge came back.

"What God's Pastor?"

"God of Light."

"Then I will disappear, so I will save trouble." Fang Xin said lightly. In this case, there was no way to kill him, and Fang Xin was not a hostile believer who killed him when he saw the Lord of Light.

He also believes that as long as the people yearn for light for a day, the believers of God of Light will basically not be cut off. He only wants to break the monopoly of God of Light.

"I checked it and the supplies in Fort Pussi were really good, especially the weapons of 200 people. According to the agreement, this belongs to us."

"Well, I want sixty weapons, and I will transport them back to my territory later." This saves a lot of money, so I don't have to buy weapons from the guards in the territory.

"Yes, I'll seal it up immediately and ship it back." Etger said: "It's difficult to transport both grain and wine, and gold and silver have been managed in a unified manner and are still counting now, but it can be said that the expenses we hired this time have been earned back."

"The title is also earned back, Etger, what do you think we will get?"

"It is actually difficult to cooperate with the territory and titles now, especially the areas rewarded. Baron Jason of Xia could be granted about seventy knight lords in the Principality. If he became an earl, he would also slightly cut some territory to the Principality - this could be granted about fifty knight lords!"

"I don't have to count mine in it, right?" Fang Xin said. His territory was basically bought by himself and there was no need for rewards.

"Well, now the territory and titles are not coordinated. I think we can both obtain one or two estates and obtain the title of hereditary lord." Etger has already considered this issue very maturely: "Although there are fewer territories, but if the title is available, my family will be able to establish a branch and be hereditary in the future."

The kingdom territory has long been divided, and the king has no reward at all. If he wants to reward, he has to divide it from the royal territory. This is not possible. If this continues, the royal territory will be divided soon.

Therefore, the palace nobles were born, that is, nobles who had only titles but no territory. Of course, if it was a permanent seal, they would also reward a small manor to indicate that after all, there was still a fief, and they were not completely short nobles.

Originally, privilege comes from titles and strength comes from land. The palace nobles were despised by the real land nobles with a long history. With the development of the commercial economy, the strength of the nobles began to turn to the economic and commercial field, and the bear nobles became popular - just have privileges.

As for Fang Xin, in fact, he bought hills and wastelands, and the price was very high. People in this era basically believed that this was a loss-making business - even the Earl did not think that these lands were worth the money, but were just a protection fee.

"Well, the only problem now is that the main force is in a decisive battle."

"What, Daniel, do you want to participate?"

"Of course not, Eteg, after all, we are mercenaries. We can only defeat the frontal battle with the Knights completely. However, we have mastered two castles after all, and Fort Psych can also threaten the hinterland of Viscount Senkada. As long as we send troops and attack tentatively along the way, Viscount Senkada has to divide its troops to defend. In this way, we can divide his troops and reduce the pressure on the frontal battlefield. As for the other things, the outcome will be decided by God!" Fang Xin said simply. He was not ready to continue to participate, and there was no meaning.

"That is, go out without fighting?"

"Well, it's enough to just go out without fighting. At least two hundred people can be restrained!" Fang Xin nodded and smiled: "I believe that our current achievements are enough to make the big shots look at us differently."

This sentence made Etger determined, and he nodded in agreement, but he immediately said: "Daniel, I heard you are going to recruit mercenaries?"

"Yes, I've just come here. There are neither knights nor guards in the territory. I have to add some mercenaries to guard the territory."

"Mercenaries are not a good choice. Haven't you ever thought of accepting some excellent knights?" Etger asked.

"Oh, please say it."

"After you obtain the title, you can also accept one or two knights. Some excellent knight families, their second son and third son, have also received strict knight education, but due to money issues, it is difficult to obtain the official knight title. Therefore, you can accept their allegiance and turn them into your retainers."

In the past, knights had fiefs, but now the situation has changed. They may not have a manor. However, it also takes a lot of money to enthrone a formal knight and a full set of knight armor. Therefore, many excellent knights are only apprentice knights throughout their lives and cannot be promoted to regular.

"Yeah, you have a good idea, but I don't know much about the local excellent knights."

"Daniel, let me leave this. I will introduce you to a few, and I will guarantee that they are the best knights - how many do you want?" Etger asked intently.

"Then you have to have three, what do you think?" The hereditary lord can have up to ten knight retainers, but of course it is impossible, the burden is too great.

"It's very appropriate, so what's going on?"
Chapter completed!