Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 209: Chapter 116: Two Places, Three Extremely Generous Gains (Part 4)

Whenever they had a special skill, they would have already gone to work in the workshops.

Of course, unless the farmlands are their own!

Owning their own farm and land, that is the beautiful life many knights pursue all their lives.

In an agricultural society, ensuring every farmer’s family has more than ten acres of fertile land with light taxes is the standard of a prosperous era.

These slaves toil hard all year round, and yet, their output belongs entirely to the capitalists and farm owners.

But there’s no need to complain, in this world, who has it easy?

The slaves suffer, but don’t the knights suffer as well?

In the battle against the Divine Chosen Demons, it truly was a river of blood and flesh, constantly at risk of being directly chopped into pieces by monsters. Would slaves be able to launch an assault as fiercely as the knights?

Even if they paid an extremely bitter price to achieve victory, the remaining knights have no time to enjoy it. After a brief rest, they along with 600 dwarves reformed a coalition to launch a clearing war in the canyon of the Gray Mountain Range.

Under the scorching summer sun, they had to wear heavy armor and undergarments and launch an uphill attack toward the monster’s lairs, Gray Rock Peak and Gray Rock Valley.

This place had been transformed into a fortress complex by the Demon Legion, with three camps on the mountaintop, dozens of arrow towers and watchtowers on the mountainside, and a massive fortress camp in the valley, with each defense facility interlinked and mutually supportive.

If not for the fact that the followers of Khorne disdain using magic and ranged weapons, the attackers would have suffered heavy casualties.

Even so, it required the Champion Knight to lead the charge, fiercely attacking each stronghold, and after eliminating all external defense points, they could launch a full assault on the enemy’s camp in Gray Rock Valley.

These past few days, another six or seven wounded soldiers were withdrawn to the territory, these are the soldiers who were maimed or seriously injured, permanently losing the possibility of returning to the battlefield.

They can only do odd jobs at the Sunfire Church’s monastery, help train the territory’s militia, explain tactics to young children, and guide their training.

The lightly wounded soldiers were hastily treated by the Hospital Knight Order members and then sent back to the battlefield.

Give them a potion to prevent them from dying, that’s the condition for lightly wounded soldiers not leaving the front line.

None of this is something peasants could accomplish.

In this world, the rule of the Knight Lords is brutal, but when needed, the Knight Lords truly step up.

And half a month later, good news finally arrived from the Gray Valley, the Half-Elf Swan Knight personally delivered an uplifting message to Su Li.

Following a bloody war, with the aid of the Resentful Giant Crossbow Carriage, fighting day and night, the coalition finally cleared all of the cultists’ outer strongholds and successfully broke through the demons’ camp the night before.

After completely burning the corpses of all demons and cultists, the coalition discovered a huge cache of spoils in the monsters’ camp!

The Dwarf Oath Gold alone amounted to 2000 pieces!

The two sides split the spoils in a 6:4 ratio, with the Hesse Territory able to claim over 800 pieces of Oath Gold.

This ratio, Su Li found nothing to criticize.

After all, in the siege warfare, human knights aren’t skilled, and only a few dozen Walking Knights could make an impact.

Moreover, the dwarves provided siege equipment and performed the siege operations, they scaled peaks, conducted subterranean infiltration, launched ants for sieging, handled operations from suppressive crossbow cannons and firearms to melee ladders and battering rams, they practically handled it all.

Human knights only needed to follow the dwarves into the enemy heights in a specific battlefield area and hack away with all their might.

Truth be told, in any world, a mere brute only capable of hacking people holds little value. The key is that the territory could only provide this bit of hacking help, and the scale was only a few dozen Walking Knights, the role of Armed Attendants climbing the walls was dismissively deemed useless by the dwarves.

If it’s just the support on the siege battlefield, then giving Hesse Territory even ten percent of the spoils is too much.

But the human cavalry played a huge role in defending the flanks and stabilizing the outer line. Two attempts by monster armies to return aid were both ground into pieces by human cavalry outside the valley.

Moreover, humans provided the dwarves with ample food supplies, winning unanimous praise from the dwarves. After all, without their big friends, they would only have black bread mixed with gravel to eat in battle. Though it didn’t affect their combat, being able to eat better certainly made their fighting more spirited.

So the dwarves were exceedingly generous in their rewards.