Mount and Blade: Summon five outlaws at the start

Chapter 200

Before long, the supplies in the stronghold were counted in detail.

What surprised Hod was that there were more than a dozen horses, as well as more than a dozen cattle and sheep. In addition, there were some dark bread, a small amount of wild fruits, milk wine, cheese and other foods.

You must know that since the white disaster, many tribes’ livestock have either starved to death or died of disease, and very few have survived to the present.

Like the tribe where Kuyel Rangers were before, their livestock were almost all dead, and later their livestock were robbed from the village.

It is not known whether the livestock and horses in this stronghold were obtained in the same way.

Seeing this, Hod did not hesitate and immediately issued an order to slaughter all the livestock on the spot and make bacon that was easy to store and carry.

The robbers who received the order immediately took action. For a time, the whole stronghold was filled with the noisy sound of slaughtering livestock.

At the same time, after an inventory, there were 31 young and strong herdsmen who surrendered, including eight tribal warriors who were good at fighting.

And there were more than 30 herdsmen, old, weak, women and children in the stronghold.

In order to make these surrendered young and strong herdsmen feel at ease and no longer have worries, Hod specifically ordered Kuhn to bring people to cook some food.

After receiving the order, Kuhn quickly led people to prepare. Soon, a pot of steaming hot food was ready and distributed to each of the old, weak, women and children.

Seeing that their families were properly taken care of, the young and strong herdsmen who were originally under custody finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the stone hanging in their hearts fell to the ground.

Because from the current situation, the other party did not seem to intend to take their lives. For these young and strong herdsmen who had lost their leaders, they just hoped to survive.

For Hod, this operation was very successful. Not only did he obtain a certain amount of effective replenishment of supplies, but he also successfully captured the young and strong among the 31 herdsmen.

However, the only thing that made Hod a little regretful was that he failed to let his soldiers take this opportunity to accumulate some experience points.

The next day.

Hod ordered Jeff to take ten robber leaders and ten crossbowmen recruited by Valandia to garrison here, and to take care of the captured old, weak, women and children among the herdsmen.

After arranging these, Hod led the rest of the people away from here.

It is worth mentioning that the captured young and strong herdsmen were also taken away by Hod.

Later, these young and strong herdsmen were arranged by Hod to join the rangers.

However, in order to improve their combat effectiveness, Hod equipped each new member with brand new weapons and equipment.

Specifically, they included: two riding horses for each person, a set of leather armor, a felt hat, a scimitar, a spear, a riding bow, and a bag full of arrows.

It was this move that made these newly joined young and strong herdsmen have a little goodwill and respect for Hod.

After all, in the past, such sophisticated weapons and equipment usually only appeared in the hands of the headman or tribal warriors, and they were definitely not something that ordinary herdsmen could possess.

After thinking about it, Hood distributed the chain mail he had seized to the first group of Kuyel Rangers who followed him.

There were two main purposes for doing this. One was to appease the more experienced rangers to prevent them from being dissatisfied with the newly joined young herdsmen getting the same weapons and equipment. On the other hand, he also hoped to win the hearts of these Kuyel Rangers in this way and make them more loyal to him.

Sure enough, when the first group of eleven rangers got this batch of chain mail, they seemed to have been reborn, exuding an indescribable pride and confidence.

Whenever they looked at the tribesmen who had just joined the team, they always raised their heads high, with disdain and contempt in their eyes.

It seemed that they wanted to announce to everyone in this way that they were the most trusted and loyal confidants of the "headman" of Hode.

However, for these new members, after seeing the first batch of rangers like this, in addition to envy, they were more eager and yearning.

They secretly made up their minds to work hard for this new "headman" in the hope that they could be appreciated and rewarded by the "headman" as soon as possible, so that they could wear the enviable armor like those rangers.

While they were chatting in their spare time, these newly joined young and strong herdsmen unexpectedly learned that a ranger had received a generous reward of two silver deer from Hode for his outstanding performance!

This news was like thunder from the sky, and it instantly exploded in the crowd., all the people were excited to the extreme, and they were eager to try.

But the matter did not end there. Then they heard a more exciting news from the two rangers who received the reward.

Huode not only gave them silver deer, but also promised to give them two sheep each!

As soon as this was said, the whole scene was completely boiling. These young and strong herdsmen could no longer suppress their excitement. Cheers came one after another, resounding through the sky, and they couldn't wait to fight for the new "headman" and prove themselves.

When Huode learned about this situation, he was also happy to see it happen.

With the addition of this group of new members, Huode's originally small cavalry team was greatly expanded in an instant, and the number of people soared to 46.

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The Kuyel people know the Kuyel people best.

Thanks to these newly joined young and strong herdsmen, the team easily found a tribal stronghold hidden in a forest again.

However, the strength of the tribe in this stronghold should not be underestimated, and there are as many as 40 to 50 young and strong people among them.

Compared with the rangers and the newly joined young and strong herdsmen tribe, this tribe is obviously more vigilant.

They not only built a circle of wooden walls outside the stronghold, but also built several sentry towers to monitor the surroundings at any time.

When Huo De led his team to appear near the stronghold, the other party immediately noticed their arrival.

They immediately sent people out for help, then closed the gate of the stronghold and quickly organized people for defense.

I saw a young and strong herdsman and tribal warrior with braids or felt hats on their heads running up the wall, drawing bows and arrows, ready to launch a counterattack against this group of uninvited guests.

At the same time, some old men and women were also shuttling below, transporting various equipment and supplies needed for combat to the tribal warriors on the wall.

The entire stronghold became tense and solemn, and a battle of attack and defense was about to break out...