A Realistic Mount & Blade Game

Of course, Shen Mu didn't care about Resarit and Bestur's thoughts at all.

This world was already quite cruel.

And now he was more concerned about the upcoming defense work of New Rivadine, and how to deal with the demon forces that might surge out of the subway station in Sujiacun at any time.

These were the top priorities he cared about!

Returning to the main house of New Rivadine village.

"Open all the rewards I have."

Shen Mu's mind communicated with the system, and a dialogue box appeared in front of him again.

【Current Rewards —】

【① Random Village × 1】

【② Gold Treasure Chest × 5】

【③ Silver Treasure Chest × 5】

【④ 100,000 Faith Points】

【⑤ 10,000 Denars】

Then, in front of Shen Mu's retina, the new dialogue box content began to refresh.

These were the reward items he currently possessed.

"10,000 Denars, 100,000 Faith Points, and 1 Random Village."

Shen Mu raised his eyebrows slightly: "And 5 Gold Treasure Chests and 5 Silver Treasure Chests."

This was truly a great harvest.

The 10,000 Denars, 100,000 Faith Points, and 5 Gold Treasure Chests were the rewards he received after completing the post-set temporary mission.

After all, analyzing the spirit world lord's mark with hell rules should indeed yield some good things.

But he didn't expect that 5 Gold Treasure Chests would be thrown at him directly.

Gold Treasure Chests were related to the power of rules.

And the 5 Silver Treasure Chests were the rewards given by the system after evaluating the battles during the mission.

They should also be good rewards related to the army or the town.

As for that Random Village.

It was mainly the reward given after analyzing the lord's core mark of the Beastman tribe, and Shen Mu had not opened it yet.

Now it was just right to open it.

"Then open them all!"

Shen Mu immediately communicated with the Mount \u0026 Blade system.

Immediately in his mind.

'Buzz!'

A special force of Mount \u0026 Blade rules began to permeate, and in the depths of his mind, streams of colorful light surged out.

It directly turned into the dialogue box in front of him, and the content was constantly refreshing.

【You opened the Silver Treasure Chest and obtained the following rewards —】

【① 10,000 Denars】

【② Stone Arrow Tower × 4 (Introduction: A 7-meter-high stone arrow tower, the arrow tower part can accommodate ranged archers, and the top can be equipped with city defense equipment.)】

【③ Light Ballista × 2 (Introduction: A light ballista that can shoot sharp javelins to attack enemies, with an effective range of 200 meters.)】

【④ Light Catapult × 2 (Introduction: A light catapult that can throw round balls or scattered stones, with an effective range of 150 meters.)】

【⑤ Swadian Military Grain × 10 carts (Introduction: There are 10 carts full of military grain, filled with black bread, dried meat, sausage, smoked fish, and durable onions, carrots, and cabbage, and of course, 10 bags of precious salt.)】

First to be opened were the 5 Silver Treasure Chests.

"This is not bad."

Shen Mu raised his eyebrows slightly, looking at the treasure chest rewards above, with a smile on his face.

10,000 Denars were secondary.

The key was that the four stone arrow towers could directly become the defense assistance for New Rivadine.

Plus two light ballistas and two light catapults.

They could just match these 4 stone arrow towers and form a sharp city defense effect in a short time!

Moreover, he had already learned about the two light ballistas during the siege of Dhirim.

This was the first time he had learned about the two light catapults.

But thinking about it, he could understand that throwing single round balls or scattered stones for defense should be the attack mode of single target damage and group area damage.

Shen Mu had also seen this in movies and TV shows in his previous life.

"Then open the other Gold Treasure Chests!"

Shen Mu's mind at this time once again communicated with the system.

The new dialogue box refreshed again.

【You opened the Gold Treasure Chest and obtained the following rewards —】

【① Mithril Enchantment Scroll × 5 (Introduction: This scroll can enchant the power of Mithril into weapons. After use, it will have toughness and sharpness effects, and produce 200% damage to evil.)】

【② Stone Wall Upgrade Scroll × 1 (Introduction: After using this scroll, it will immediately upgrade your existing walls. The upgrade will produce stone walls that are 6 meters high and 2 meters wide.)】

【③ Vaegir Deep Water Well (Civil Building) × 1 (Introduction: This is a deep water well from the Vaegir Kingdom, which contains abundant cold well water.)】

【④ City Defense Baffle (Military Building) × Whole City Wall (Introduction: These are city defense baffles from the Vaegir Kingdom. They are 2 meters high and 3 centimeters thick, and are equipped with shooting windows to satisfy the shooting of Vaegir archers.)】

【⑤ Refugees from the Vaegir Kingdom × 500 (Introduction: There are 500 refugees from the Vaegir Kingdom. They have been affected by the war, so they decided to come and take refuge in your New Rivadine.)】

"Oh, this is interesting."

Shen Mu looked at the new dialogue box content at this time, and raised his eyebrows again: "Mithril Enchantment Scroll, can enchant the power of Mithril into weapons to increase damage?"

The first thing that caught his attention was this Mithril Enchantment Scroll.

Looking at the introduction above, he was also thoughtful.

As long as it was enchanted into the weapon, it would provide the corresponding weapon with toughness and sharpness effects, and also strengthen the damage effect of 200% to evil targets.

Shen Mu subconsciously turned his head at this time and looked at the Holy Tree Knight Sword that he had already placed on the table.

His Holy Tree Knight Sword had Mithril, this kind of magic material.

Therefore, it had a warning-style reminder and extra damage effect for the evil that appeared around it. It was considered a quite good type of magic weapon.

Or rather, this was originally a kind of magic weapon.

It's just that the effect was not as strong as those real magic weapons.

But compared to ordinary weapons, it was definitely considered to have excellent effects.

And now thinking about why the Holy Tree Cavalry needs to consume 200 Denars to upgrade to the 5th-tier Holy Tree Knight.

Perhaps it was because of the equipment of the Holy Tree Knight.

Of course, if it was measured according to the value of this equipment in the game, it would definitely exceed 100,000 Denars.

But the Mount \u0026 Blade rules were here.

Mount \u0026 Blade soldiers only needed to pay the upgrade fee to upgrade.

There was no need to pay the value of this equipment.

Now this Mount \u0026 Blade rule continued to this Blue Star world, and even the maintenance fee did not need to be paid.

It could be regarded as a special help to Shen Mu.

Getting back to the topic.

This also led to the fact that if Shen Mu wanted to obtain these special magic weapons, he needed to pay a lot of Denars.

Because he had not thought about equipping his generals with some of these magic weapons before.

Now he had this Mithril Enchantment Scroll.

And there were 5 of them.

In this way, he could enchant 5 weapons with Mithril.

"I can enchant the weapons of Bandak, Fatis, Alayen, Bestur, and Resarit."

Shen Mu touched his chin and made a decision.

This was an extremely wise choice.

After all, no matter what, he still needed these 5 generals to fight for him now.

And they were the first line to take the lead in fighting.

If there were no good weapons, it would obviously not meet the enemies of the evil camp that these generals needed to face now.

Whether it was the undead monsters in the undead rules.

Or the abyss demons in the abyss rules.

Or the hell devils in the hell rules.

Anyway, these were all enemies of the evil camp.

Then, as long as the enchantment of the weapons was completed, it could be put into use quickly.

What's more, he had offended the hell devils in the hell rules, and I'm afraid that by tonight, those hell devil troops would come to attack his Vaegir village, New Rivadine.

At this time, Shen Mu also looked at the second reward in this gold scroll.

Stone Wall Upgrade Scroll.

"This is really a considerate Mount \u0026 Blade system, directly giving me stone walls with better defensive effects."

Shen Mu nodded in satisfaction.

This was obviously the same as those stone walls in his Dhirim town, 6 meters high and 2 meters wide.

Adding the thoughtful rewards below, including the wooden baffle, New Rivacheg, still just a village, received ample defensive upgrades.

The walls are 6 meters high, plus a 2-meter-high baffle.

Then there are 300 Vaegir archers, these tier 4 powerful ranged shooters, stationed in the village, ready to go to the city wall for support at any time.

In addition to those wooden sentry posts, wooden watchtowers, and wooden observation towers that are still under construction.

Plus four stone towers.

And light ballistae and light catapults that can be paired with the towers.

It can be said that in a short moment, New Rivacheg's city defense can be upgraded from a weak village level to a town level!

There is also that separate livelihood building.

A deep water well from the Vaegir Kingdom.

This deep water well can bring a constant supply of fresh water to New Rivacheg.

Plus the military rations in the previous 10 carriages.

There is food and water.

"Very good, very good, everything is perfect."

Shen Mu nodded with a smile: "And there are 500 Vaegir immigrants coming." This made him feel even more satisfied.

Having immigrants is equivalent to having a population.

In this Vaegir village, New Rivacheg, there are already 300 Vaegir archers and 500 Vaegir villagers.

A total of 800 Vaegirs.

Now.

With the arrival of another 500 Vaegir immigrants.

The population has directly soared to 1300 people.

Which means that it has already reached the upgrade requirement of a Vaegir village—the foundation of 1000 Vaegirs.

This Vaegir village, New Rivacheg, can be upgraded to the next level!

And just at this moment, in front of Shen Mu's eyes, the dialog box was still refreshing.

[Ding! Because your name has spread throughout all the kingdoms on the Calradia continent. Whether it is the king or the nobles, or the knights and commoners, they have all heard of your deeds and have a high respect for you in their hearts.]

[Since you also have a high reputation among the Vaegirs and already have a village in advance, the nobles of the Vaegir Kingdom discussed that the village can be directly replaced with a complete castle.]

[Do you choose to accept?]

[Note: The Swadians are more willing to use this opportunity to fight for a Swadian village to come to your world, but they were forced to give up due to King Harlaus' strong opposition. Now, a special trend of thought is slowly developing and growing in the Swadian Kingdom. It is no longer limited to the noble groups, even merchants and commoners have begun to spread some kind of special trend of thought.]

It's about that random village option.

It's just that the option for this village is not to directly draw a village from a random force.

Instead, the Vaegir Kingdom directly discussed that it could be replaced with a complete castle.

This surprised Shen Mu a little.

And he directly made a decision: "Accept!"

Of course he can accept it.

After all, this is directly turning a village into a castle.

From the lowest-level livelihood village to a military-type castle, he doesn't need to upgrade it additionally.

New Rivacheg directly became a castle through this choice.

Saving time and effort.

And at the critical moment when hell demons may attack at any time after dark, it played a life-saving role.

But looking at that special note at the end.

"……" Shen Mu was still a little speechless.

He pursed his lips.

He also sighed: "I can only say that he is worthy of being King Harlaus."

There were many wise operations in the game, and now that he has come to this real Blue Star world, he still has to be subjected to King Harlaus' wise operations, he is really quite speechless.

And looking at the so-called trend of thought in the special note.

Shen Mu also subconsciously reached out and pinched the center of his eyebrows: "Don't they want King Harlaus to step down?"

If he really steps down, then he definitely has no opinion.

"Forget it, let's just leave it like this." Sighing, Shen Mu shook his head and didn't continue to think wildly.

Then he communicated with the system again with his thoughts.

Next, it's time for him to use these rewards.

He slowly closed his eyes.

Not only these rewards, but also the special reward of +10 soldiers recruited that he had obtained before.

And the matter of the grassland bandit lair reaching the number of people required and being upgraded to a bandit den.

And the upgrade of the soldiers after the end of the battle.

Shen Mu needs to personally operate all of them now.

"Then let's start."

Shen Mu pursed his lips and completely devoted his spirit to the Mount \u0026 Blade system.

He started his personal operation.

'Buzz!'

At this time, in the center of Shen Mu's eyebrows, strands of white data streams began to surge.

The power of countless pure Mount \u0026 Blade rules began to spread.

Changes began in this New Rivacheg.

Extremely drastic changes.

Including the main house of the village where Shen Mu was located, it was also wrapped in that one by one white data and turned into a more massive castle.

And in front of Shen Mu's eyes on the retina, dense dialog boxes began to appear.

The content in the dialog box also began to refresh rapidly.

It was not until all the dialog boxes stopped that it was considered a temporary end.

[Ding! Your Vaegir village "New Rivacheg" has been successfully upgraded to a 'small castle'. You can carry out the construction of subsequent castle-related military buildings.]

[Your 'stone city wall' has been upgraded.]

[Your four 'stone arrow towers' have been completed.]

[Your 'Vaegir water well' has been fully developed.]

[Your 'city defense baffle' has been installed.]

[Your 'grassland bandit lair' has been successfully upgraded to 'bandit den'. Currently, you can recruit: tier 3 troops (grassland bandit elites).]

[A batch of 500 Vaegir immigrants has arrived. Because you have +7 legendary reputation in the Vaegir Kingdom, a batch of 100 tier 2 Vaegir light infantry also arrived with those 10 carts of military rations and 2 light ballistae and 2 light catapults.]

The dialog box in Shen Mu's eyes was refreshing quickly at this time.

There was a lot of dense content.

"Is it over?"

Shen Mu then slowly opened his eyes.

It was only when Shen Mu opened his eyes again that what appeared in front of him was not the simple main house of the village before.

But a spacious castle hall.

He was still sitting on the main seat symbolizing the lord, with a rectangular hardwood table in front of him.

On both sides of the table, there were 8 hardwood chairs.

It was still the regular layout of the lord's hall.

Shen Mu looked at this small castle, which was also built with stones and wood. Because he had seen the Rhodok castle before, he was not surprised now.

He just looked at it with some interest, this interior decoration and decoration style that obviously had a Vaegir style.

He nodded lightly: "Not bad."

After all, this was a Vaegir castle given to Shen Mu after discussions by the nobles of the Vaegir Kingdom.

Of course, there would be obvious Vaegir-style decoration and decoration.

"Then let's go out and take a look."

Shen Mu was also quite expectant at this time.

So he stood up and walked outside.

At the entrance of the lord's hall, there were two Holy Tree Knights holding the spears in their hands, standing guard.

Seeing Shen Mu coming, they also respectfully bowed and saluted.

"Lord Shen Mu."

They said respectfully.

"Yes."

Shen Mu nodded in response. And after these two Holy Tree Knights opened the door.

Looking at the terrain in front of him that was obviously higher than other areas, and the platform outside the main building of the castle that had also been leveled with bricks and stones, he realized that the main building of this castle was just built on the top of the hill where the main house of the village was originally located.

And when he turned his head to look back.

Shen Mu also saw a two-story castle similar to the Rhodok castle, but smaller, standing here.

And it was obvious that the number of shooting windows, shooting balconies, and shooting towers opened on this castle was also greater.

It was more convenient for ranged shooters to shoot outside.

"It is very convenient for Vaegir archers to enter it for defense."

Shen Mu nodded lightly.

At the same time, he also turned his head to look around.

There was also some surprise in his eyes.

At the bottom of the hill, surrounding the bottom of the hill's range, there was actually a circle of city walls 6 meters high and 2 meters wide standing here.

It just surrounded the entire hill of about 10,000 square meters.

And at the bottom of the hill and the hillside, there were various castle buildings.

For example, there were castle granaries, castle armories, castle barracks, as well as prisons, sundry warehouses, fodder warehouses, and stables, all fully equipped.

Even the Vaegir well was now placed outside the barracks.

Furthermore, there was an area surrounding the castle.

It belonged to the outer area of the castle.

It was the originally flat land outside the hill.

The outer perimeter was also surrounded by stone walls, with stone arrow towers on each of the four corners, but the city gate and the sentry towers on both sides were made of wood.

Shen Mu, who had just arrived at the outer area from the inner gate of the castle, was somewhat astonished to see the stone walls and wooden sentry towers and the wooden city gate.

But he quickly understood.

"A Vaegir castle upgraded from two Vaegir villages is directly located on this hill. It is a complete castle defense system, while the previous villages were still within the original wooden wall area."

Shen Mu looked at the wooden city gate and the wooden sentry towers on both sides of the city gate at this time, and he also understood why they were all made of wood.

Because at that time, the wooden walls he chose to build were matched with wooden city gates and wooden sentry towers.

Including those wooden sentry posts and wooden watchtowers that had not yet been completed.

All of them were built with high-quality wood, belonging to the military defense buildings of the village system.

Compared with the castle defense system that he had now upgraded to a Vaegir castle and used a city wall upgrade scroll to upgrade the wooden walls to stone walls, it seemed out of place and simple, of course.

"Then upgrade all of them to stone city gates and stone arrow towers!"

Shen Mu didn't hesitate at this time, and immediately communicated with the system with his thoughts.

Then he found the castle military construction interface of New Rivacheg.

[Stone City Gate: Construction/Upgrade cost 5000 denars per gate. Requires 30 days of construction time. (Construction time can be reduced through Faith Points)]

[Stone Arrow Tower: Construction/Upgrade cost 2000 denars per tower. Requires 20 days of construction time. (Construction time can be reduced through Faith Points)]

The relevant content immediately appeared on the retina in front of him.

"Confirm the construction of 2 stone city gates and 8 stone arrow towers!"

Shen Mu immediately made a decision.

And he made another decision: "Consume 220,000 Faith Points to complete the construction of all stone city gates and stone arrow towers!"

Almost instantly, a new dialog box appeared in front of Shen Mu.

This was feedback from the Mount \u0026 Blade system.

[Ding! You have chosen to use Faith Points to speed up the construction of buildings!]

[2 Stone City Gates, reducing 30 days, require a total of 60,000 Faith Points.]

[4 Stone Arrow Towers, reducing 20 days, require a total of 160,000 Faith Points.]

[Total consumption: 220,000 Faith Points.]

[You still have: 17,366 Faith Points remaining.]

Then, with the appearance of the dialog box.

'Buzz!'

A stream of white data instantly gushed out from the center of Shen Mu's eyebrows, directly surging towards the two wooden city gates on the left and right in the outer area of the castle.

Including the 8 wooden sentry towers on the entire outer city wall.

A stream of white data was also attached to them.

Countless light and shadows began to flicker.

The many construction workers and the construction contractor in New Rivacheg had once again turned into stuttering phantoms.

They entered the time stream that had been specially strengthened by the power of faith and began to quickly build new stone city walls and stone arrow towers for Shen Mu.

They demolished all the wooden buildings in New Rivacheg that did not conform to the castle building system and then rebuilt them into stone buildings.

They were taller, more reliable, and more difficult to destroy.

"That's it."

Shen Mu looked at the city gates and arrow towers that had completely turned into stone buildings in just 30 breaths, and he was very satisfied with this.

Then he looked up at the village houses on the south side of the outer area, which were quite numerous.

They were still simple wooden structures.

But he didn't continue to spend Faith Points and denars, preparing to rebuild them into town houses.

The key was that these village houses were already enough for now.

Having the barracks in the inner area of the castle, Shen Mu could completely concentrate his main force in the barracks.

Including warhorses, there were also stables that could be placed.

Of course, the more numerous Khergit people and Khergit steppe bandits still needed to be placed in these civilian houses in the outer area of the castle, living together with the ordinary Vaegirs.

After all, the number of 300 Khergit people and 215 steppe bandits was still too large.

If we only talked about people, then there was absolutely no problem.

Entering the inner area of the castle and living in the barracks or towers, it could be completely accommodated.

It was just that the number of 515 steppe horses was too large.

If these steppe horses were filled in after the stables in the inner area of the castle had already accommodated hundreds of warhorses of the Holy Tree Knights, it would be extremely crowded.

There might also be friction problems.

It was better to let these steppe horses graze simply outside.

The key was that the type of horse like the steppe horse could endure hardship and was easier to raise than the steeds of the Holy Tree Knights.

So, these steppe horses could only suffer a little.

Moreover, Shen Mu looked at the building in the northwest corner that had become a bandit den, and he was quite satisfied with this recruitment building that had obviously been renovated and become neat and tidy.

Before, the steppe bandit lair was just a dilapidated wooden fence surrounding a shack.

They were all simple houses built with rotten mud, branches, and turf.

Now it had become a steppe bandit lair.

It could be clearly seen that it had become clean and tidy, and the wooden fences were nailed with wooden materials one by one, and the houses were also normal houses built with stone and wood together.

This bandit lair was obviously a proper base for steppe bandits.

It was indeed different from a stronghold where they would only live occasionally.

"Lord Shen Mu!"

"Greetings to you! Lord Shen Mu!"

At this time, the 1,000 Vaegir civilians living in the outer area were all respectfully greeting Shen Mu.

The gazes they cast on Shen Mu were also extremely respectful and fanatical.

Especially when they looked at Shen Mu, there was a kind of sincere worship originating from the depths of their souls.

"Yes, very good."

Shen Mu also nodded in response to them at this time.

No matter what, as long as these Vaegir civilians were upgraded in the future, then they would be a reliable source of soldiers for him.

Especially since they were about to face battle now, these Vaegir civilians were quite important.

"Wait, I still have soldiers who haven't been upgraded, and it seems that these Vaegir civilians can also be conscripted."

Shen Mu patrolled around the New Rivacheg, which had become a castle.

And he suddenly remembered that there was still a job to do.

That was the upgrading of these soldiers he had, and the conscription of these Vaegir civilians.

If Shen Mu remembered correctly.

After reaching the level of a castle, then he could conscript all the civilians living in these castles into soldiers through the castle's conscription.

With Shen Mu's thoughts, his mind communicated with the system.

Immediately, a new dialog box popped up.

[Ding! Your castle "New Rivacheg" can be recruited. You can currently recruit——]

[Vaegir Recruit (Tier 1 Infantry) (100 denars/person) (No additional weapon and armor requirements)]

[Vaegir Light Infantry (Tier 2 Infantry) (300 denars/person) (If you have Nomadic Leather Armor, Two-Handed Battle Axe, Nomadic Hat, Leather Boots and other equipment, the recruitment cost can be reduced) (Currently no additional weapons and armor are provided)]

[Hint: Recruiting subsequent arms requires specialized recruitment buildings: Archery Training Camp (Vaegir Skirmisher), Infantry Training Camp (Vaegir Infantry) to be recruited.]

The content was simple and clear.

Now Shen Mu could only recruit two kinds of soldiers through his castle.

One was the Tier 1 Vaegir Recruit, which was basically similar to the recruits that could be recruited in the village.

It belonged to the most basic infantry.

However, the second type was the Vaegir Light Infantry, which belonged to the Tier 2 infantry in the Vaegir Kingdom's combat system.

Wearing leather nomadic leather armor and holding a two-handed battle axe.

In terms of destructiveness and lethality, it was considered the strongest Tier 2 arms in the entire Calradia continent.

However, because there was no shield, it could not defend against the shooting of ranged archers or the attacks of melee enemies.

Therefore, it also belonged to a fragile unit with high attack and low defense.

You have to be careful when using it.

However, the third-tier upgrades for the Vaegir Light Infantry are the Vaegir Infantry, a type of infantry, and the Vaegir Skirmisher, a type of archer.

Especially the Vaegir Skirmisher, a third-tier ranged archer unit.

At the third tier, they can use the Nomad Bow to effectively cover and output arrow rain against enemies.

It can be said to be a very useful ranged archer.

Therefore, the second-tier Vaegir Light Infantry is still quite popular with Shen Mu.

"The only pity is that the recruitment cost is still a bit outrageous."

Shen Mu's face also showed some helplessness at this time.

If you want to recruit Vaegir Light Infantry, then the recruitment cost, without weapons and armor to reduce the recruitment cost, has actually reached 300 denars per person.

This is a bit outrageous.

If you want to recruit 1,000 Vaegir Light Infantry, then the consumption of denars would be a terrifying 300,000 denars.

But thinking about it, Shen Mu couldn't help but smile wryly.

Even if Shen Mu only recruits those Vaegir Recruits, it would still require 100,000 denars.

For Shen Mu now, it is still an unaffordable expense.

After all, he has only managed to accumulate more than 65,000 denars with great difficulty.

Where would he get 100,000 denars to recruit Vaegir Recruits?

"As expected, I'm now caught in the money paradox again."

Shen Mu couldn't help but sigh, reaching out to pinch his brow, feeling a bit dizzy.

He was indeed a bit anxious.

Especially looking at the dialog boxes that reappeared in front of him, all containing the dialog boxes of those soldiers who could be upgraded.

His face became more and more helpless.

Because he knew that upgrading the soldiers next would cost a large sum of denars.

Precisely because of the soldiers to be upgraded next, he absolutely couldn't recruit these Vaegir Recruits with weak combat power first.

At least, he had to improve the combat power of these existing soldiers first.

"Open the troop upgrade interface."

Then Shen Mu continued to communicate with the system with his thoughts.

A new dialog box popped up again.

[You have soldiers that can be upgraded——]

[Upgradeable soldiers:]

[① Khergit Tribesmen × 300, can be upgraded to 'Steppe Bandit (40 denars per person)' ] 12000

[② Swadian Light Infantry × 100, can be upgraded to 'Swadian Infantry' or 'Swadian Knight' (100 denars per person)' ] 20000

This was something Shen Mu hadn't expected.

"Among the Swadian Light Infantry, there are actually 100 people who can be upgraded to fourth-tier troops, and all 300 Khergit Tribesmen can also be upgraded to Steppe Bandits."

This was simply an unexpected surprise.

Shen Mu immediately communicated with the system with his thoughts: "Upgrade all Swadian Light Infantry to Swadian Knights, and upgrade all Khergit Tribesmen to Steppe Bandits."

There was no hesitation at all.

[You have confirmed the direction of the troop upgrade.]

[Upgrade begins.]

As the dialog box that appeared in front of him.

'Buzz!'

A new data stream surged out again.

In this New Rivacheg, which had already become a Vaegir Castle, those Swadian Light Infantry and Khergit Tribesmen now began to upgrade.

Moreover, the third-tier Swadian Light Infantry were upgraded to fourth-tier Swadian Knights, a qualitative change that could be described as a complete transformation.

If they were mounted, then they would be heavy cavalry equipped with heavy chain armor, comparable to land tanks.

Even if they dismounted for infantry combat, holding spears and hand-and-a-half swords, as well as kite shields, they could also be qualified heavy infantry.

Although they couldn't compare to the dedicated infantry, the Swadian Infantry, in terms of tanking ability and infantry combat level.

But in terms of tanking, they were already much stronger than ordinary soldiers.

At least much stronger than Swadian Light Infantry, just looking at their muscles and the heavy chain armor they wore, as well as the flat-topped helmets, iron greaves, and chain-mail gauntlets that armed them to the teeth, all greatly improved the defensive level of these Swadian Knights.

Not only could these Swadian Knights charge into the enemy's formation like they were invincible, wreaking havoc.

Even if they dismounted for infantry combat, they could withstand many enemy's conventional attacks.

That's why Shen Mu felt surprised that these 100 Swadian Light Infantry could be upgraded to Swadian Knights.

Especially when Shen Mu learned that these 300 Khergit Tribesmen could also be upgraded to Steppe Bandits.

That was an even greater surprise.

"Now my number of Steppe Bandits has reached 515, then if I pair them with these 100 Swadian Knights... doesn't that mean I have a cavalry unit with a mixed formation of light and heavy cavalry?"

Shen Mu looked at the Steppe Bandits who had completed their upgrade and appeared in front of him not far away.

Watching them upgrade from relatively short Steppe Horses to relatively tall Steppe Horses, wearing nomadic armor, and holding spears, with nomadic scimitars and nomadic bows hanging from their waists, looking like standard combat-type nomads.

His mood was a bit excited.

The most annoying thing about these Steppe Bandits was not their close combat ability.

But they could use the endurance and agility of the Steppe Horses to carry out endless harassment on the battlefield.

Making the enemy irritable and consuming their physical strength in vain, even the formation began to become scattered.

Immediately holding spears and drawing out nomadic scimitars, they began to charge with spears, concentrating most of their strength, dividing, encircling, and annihilating those small groups of enemies.

This was the most annoying thing.

And if the enemy's formation was lured into disarray, and their physical strength was almost exhausted.

Then let these Swadian Knights, who could form a shield wall shoulder to shoulder, charge with spears, and sweep across.

That would be like using a fly swatter to swat flies.

One at a time.

Easy peasy.

And this tactic was often the tactic of the Mongolian cavalry that once roamed across Eurasia.

On the Calradia continent, the Khergit Khanate was responsible for this final charge, but it was the Khergit Veteran Horsemen.

A fourth-tier shock cavalry.

Although they also wore lamellar armor, it was not as good as the armor of the Swadian Knights, covering more area and providing better defense.

The key was that the legendary excellent Steppe Horses under these Khergit Veteran Horsemen had no armor.

It was equivalent to something similar to the Mamluke Cavalry.

But in terms of close combat skills and experience, they were not as strong as the Mamluke Cavalry, who had been carefully cultivated from childhood in the Mamluke knight team before being upgraded.

Not to mention being able to upgrade to the fifth-tier Swadian Knights and Mamluke Cavalry.

Therefore, the Khergit Veteran Horsemen were just a faster, less defensive Mamluke Cavalry.

What they could support was that they could cooperate with the Khergit Khanate's cavalry unit to carry out rapid assaults, and launch a charge against the enemy with spears at critical moments, completely tearing apart the enemy's formation.

Of course, how many could survive after launching the charge was not certain.

It was definitely much different than the Swadian Knights, the strongest fourth-tier heavy cavalry with heavy armor equipped on both men and horses.

But once the Swadian Knights' heavy cavalry unit was paired with the Khergit Khanate's light horse archer unit.

Then the effect would come out.

You should know that when the former Calradic Empire had not collapsed.

It relied on the Calradic Empire's main force, plus the Swadian's heavy cavalry, the Khergit's light cavalry, the Rhodok's tanking infantry and elite crossbowmen, and the Vaegir's archers and shock cavalry, to sweep across the entire continent.

Letting the Calradic Empire's illustrious reputation be unassailable for hundreds of years.

Even if the Calradic Empire had collapsed and disintegrated.

Whether it was in the Warband world or the Bannerlord world, they all yearned for this name and wanted to rebuild the new Calradic Empire.

The reason was that the Calradic Empire's past was a glory that no one could forget!