I, the prince in distress, send money

Chapter 117 Trivia
In the evening, the rain clouds that had been hanging in the sky for a long time finally fell. The leaden clouds hung low, and the dense rain threads were like a web woven by fate, soaking the muddy ground into an ochre-brown swamp.

Xiaodao stood at the edge of the tricolor awning, stretched out his hand, watched the raindrops fall into his palm, and felt the coldness in them.

"How long will this awful weather last?"

Suddenly someone asked a question from the side. Xiaodao turned his head and saw a player wearing a woolen sweater and dressed similarly to the local merchants. He raised his head slightly and looked at the ID above the latter's head.

+I'm Ao Nai He+
The name of this game... is quite special.

“Have you asked the local farmers?”

Xiaodao prompted.

"They are locals and know the local climate better than we do."

"I asked, and they said it would be next week."

A hint of sadness and a bitter smile appeared on Ye Aonaihe's face.

"I need help."

"I'm afraid the Mountain Tiger Regiment is not available."

Xiaodao refused without thinking.

"In a few days, we'll be heading out to the Republic's territory. We have no interest in going to Helgeland."

Xiaodao knew Ye Aonaihe, who was the leader who brought the refugees back to Bolas Fortress. Now Ye Aonaihe came to find him, it must be the bandit suppression mission issued at noon today.

Because of the small reputation rewards and cumbersome task process, the only players interested in this type of task are novice players who have not yet joined other groups. Most old players are not interested.

This results in a small number of players undertaking the task of clearing out bandits, and their strength is not strong, but this is also consistent with the characteristics of novice tasks.

Now that Ye Aonaihe has come to find me, he must be hoping that the Mountain Tiger Regiment will go and clean up the bandits.

Xiaodao was not willing to do such a thing. As an old player, he had not fallen so low as to snatch tasks from new players.

"I led over thirty refugees to Bolas Fortress. It took seven days, and out of the thirty or so people, only twenty survived."

Ye Aonaihe spoke of his experiences in a calm tone.

“That’s how I first learned that people can actually collapse like a piece of wood while walking, and die silently.

Without crying out for help or reaching out, he simply lay prostrate in the dirt and grass. His eyes, bulging from his skinny appearance, stared at me silently, then slowly dimmed. His face was truly as white as a piece of paper.

Xiaodao looked at Ye Aonaihe, with no emotion on his face or in his heart, only impatience.

Lu Xun once said that people's sorrows and joys are not the same. I just think they are quarreling. Xiaodao's mood is now. He is too lazy to pay attention to the latter and turns away.

Ye Aonaihe looked at Xiaodao's departing back, just sighed, and did not try to keep him.

But neither of them knew that their little dispute was seen and heard by someone not far away. The man in the yellow robe had a thoughtful expression on his face.

...Xiaodao refused because he really had something to do. Secondly, the Mountain Tiger Regiment was a group of loose sand, and he had no way of ordering other members to do any work. All he could do was lead the players who were willing to trust him to fight.

Mandatory order?

Who cares about the knife?

The advantages and disadvantages of easy entry and exit are very obvious, but "Ye Ao Nai He" is the only one who doesn't understand it clearly.

Compared to guarding the refugees with Ye Aonaihe, Xiaodao and other veteran players of the Protectorate would rather fight to the death in the Knight's Castle.

Bagnia is a mountainous country with a high average altitude, mostly mountainous areas and little arable land. It is sandwiched between three major countries, like meat in a sandwich.

Although this piece of meat is chicken ribs, with little meat and many bones, and is not tasty, in order to prevent themselves from being eaten, the nobles in the Kingdom of Bagnia are still very active in building castles in their own territories.

Among them, the Bolas Fortress, which Chris mistakenly thought was a small castle, is actually the fortress with the most dangerous terrain and the most difficult walls to conquer in the kingdom, without a doubt.

Most of the castles in Bagnia are actually knight castles that can only accommodate a hundred people or even fewer. Most of them stand in valleys and halfway up the mountain, close to the mountains and water.

Therefore, most of the battles between the Restoration Army and the Republic were sieges, with few field battles. They were a tug-of-war and siege, and before Chris returned home, both sides were exhausted.

So much so that this spring, apart from the attack and defense of the Bolas Fortress, in other parts of Bagnia, the fronts of the Restoration Army and the Republic are in a state of stalemate.

There was no major war, but small-scale reconnaissance battles and sabotage wars behind enemy lines continued unabated, causing both sides to suffer heavy losses. This spring, the supporters behind the scenes decided to increase their support.

Although the term and concept of proxy war did not yet exist, the rulers of the Bohemian Empire and the Kingdom of Minisia all understood that supporting others to help them fight was always better than participating in the war themselves.

The next large-scale war may start in the autumn...the summer is too hot and the winter is too cold.

The above situation was learned by Xiaodao from the Minissian officers.

Xiaodao feels that this period of time before the war breaks out is an opportunity for players.

The Mountain Tiger Regiment is about to take action. Xiaodao decides to cross the canyon suspension bridge behind Bolas Fortress and fight down along the passage to the south, using the advantage of surprise attack to capture as many knight castles as possible.

After capturing Bolas Fortress, the players of the Mountain Tiger Regiment who participated in this battle not only gained reputation and equipment, but also had their regiment upgraded by one level.

The upgraded Tiger Regiment gained a privilege that other regiments did not have... the base of a second-level regiment.

A chapter that has obtained the second-level garrison authority can use the chapter merit points to exchange ten kilometers of land as the chapter's territory in non-strategic areas after attacking and occupying the enemy.

Within this territory, the chapter can independently formulate the territory's taxation rights. The ownership of the territory's surface and underground will belong to the chapter. The chapter can also recruit servants and form a chapter retinue.

The number of servants and attendants is limited, but the opening of these rights will mean that the war group can freely establish its own micro-kingdom within its own territory.

Chris is reversing history and exercising feudalism towards the players!
However, no matter how others criticize him, Xiaodao quite likes the setting of this "warband base". He is ready to lead his brothers in the warband to launch an attack and use battles to gain merit points for the warband.

For this operation, Xiaodao planned to use his monthly money for cigarettes and alcohol to purchase supplies.

(End of this chapter)