A Realistic Mount & Blade Game

Moreover, the reason Shen Mu returned to Dhërim was also because he hadn't used the three rewards he got from the golden treasure chest.

It was directly the evening breeze from the Suno Plains, blowing across the entire area covered by the Mount \u0026 Blade rules.

For example, it was an enhanced version of the breeze from the Suno Plains.

However, compared to the breeze that blows every 20 minutes, this evening breeze from the Suno Plains blows every evening.

It will last for about an hour.

It not only promotes the growth of plants, but also enhances the morale, courage, and mental resilience of soldiers.

It can just cope with the threat to the soul level from the undead rules that will be generated after the arrival of the night.

Later, when Shen Mu's Mount \u0026 Blade rules begin to cover large areas of land, then his troops will need to actively leave the city walls and go out to patrol and strangle those undead monsters.

From strategic passive defense to strategic active defense.

And it is still a tactical-level active offensive.

So, this evening breeze from the Suno Plains can just help Shen Mu's Mount \u0026 Blade rules to carry out the last wave of strengthening at the evening moment when the undead rules are about to move, and the Blue Star and Spirit World rules can no longer suppress the undead rules, so as to face the upcoming undead rules and undead monsters in a more tenacious posture.

Therefore, Shen Mu was quite satisfied with this evening breeze from the Suno Plains.

What's more, he has two other rewards.

The blessing of natural grain and the acceleration of caravans.

The blessing of natural grain can directly allow the fields and crops he owns to quickly grow to the point where they can be harvested.

The caravan acceleration can allow the caravan to quickly complete a trade.

These all require the consumption of the power of faith.

Moreover, if the number of crops is too large or the relative number is too large, the power of faith consumed is still an astronomical figure.

But for Shen Mu, this is always a good opportunity to accelerate the growth of crops.

As well as a good opportunity to speed up the traffic of caravans.

Crop growth can bring very important food.

The traffic of caravans can bring urgently needed various consumables, including food and some raw materials needed by Shen Mu.

So this is quite crucial.

One night passed like this.

Nothing happened.

Except that in the darkness, because they sensed that there were human races living here, and also seemed to see the bonfire exposed on the city wall, some low-level undead monsters similar to skeleton soldiers or zombies swayed to the side of the city wall.

Nothing else happened.

Moreover, even these skeleton soldiers or zombies, for those Vaegir Marksmen on the city wall, they felt novel at the beginning, pulled up the nomadic bows in their hands and directly shot them to death outside the city wall.

But after a while, looking at the more and more wandering skeleton soldiers and zombies outside, they felt bored in their hearts and didn't have too many thoughts.

Because they also found that the combat power of these skeleton coins and zombies was not as good as that of farmers.

Using their nomadic bows and arrows to shoot these skeleton soldiers and zombies is equivalent to wasting their arrows.

After all, these arrows are also quite valuable consumables.

After each battle, they would actively go out to find the shot arrows, as long as they saw that they could still be used, and they were still intact arrows, as long as there were no major flaws or they were completely unusable, then they would collect them.

After all, there is no way to actively produce arrows in the current New Rivacheg, including crossbow bolts.

These are all military consumables.

'Buzz!'

As it reached 6:00.

Or maybe a little more time.

But in general, it was this time period, around the time when the sun rose, a ray of dawn light in the sky suddenly tore apart the darkness and gray fog.

This means that the rules belonging to the Spirit World and the Blue Star World's native world, just like sharp swords, tore apart the undead rules that were originally shrouded in darkness.

It can be said that in just a short moment.

The undead rules that were torn apart and expelled from the Star World completely took those undead monsters and were completely bounced out, leaving the scope of the Blue Star World.

Only those undead monsters that hid underground can still rely on those places that the sun cannot reach or have no light, and use the undead rules that remain in the darkness and recovery to continue to lurk during the day without being rejected by the Blue Star World's native rules.

Of course, these are all old tunes.

Now, even Bestur and Lesalрит, who have just arrived, already know the subtle points between the rules of the Blue Star World and the undead rules.

They also know the situation of the undead rules and the Blue Star rules each occupying the black sky and the daytime.

"Okay, Alayen, I'll leave this to you."

Shen Mu finished breakfast in the lord's castle hall, and then checked the city defense of this Vaegir castle again, and then nodded in satisfaction, handing the castle completely to Alayen.

After all, this is his military stronghold.

It is not only responsible for whether Shen Mu's forces can obtain a steady stream of soldiers in the future, and large-scale recruitment of troops.

It is also responsible for suppressing the suburbs east of Balihe.

After all, in this Sujia Village, under the stronghold, there are two evil forces, the Hell Demons and the Skeleton Legion, which are posing a threat to him.

Therefore, this Vaegir castle New Rivacheg must be located here, equivalent to guarding the Sujia Village stronghold and the surrounding potential threats for Shen Mu.

Don't let those Skeleton Legions or Hell Demons have any invasion to the ground, and then pose more threats to Shen Mu's Dhërim from the east.

"This is a bit of a blunder." Shen Mu smiled wryly.

Originally, he planned to turn this place into a backup base for him, but he didn't expect that after he set this castle here, the backup base was not built, but it became a forward castle.

It is precisely because of this forward castle that the Sujia Village stronghold can be blocked.

It also happened to discover the Hell Demons.

Otherwise, when those Hell Demons in Angang Street really appeared on the Balihe Street side, forming an encirclement against him.

Then it would be a real danger to his Dhërim.

"Lord, I will firmly guard this place and will not allow any enemies to capture our castle." Alayen replied firmly at this time.

"Well, I still believe in you." Shen Mu nodded, quite relieved for this strongest warrior in the good camp in the Mount \u0026 Blade world, and also a noble who was born in a noble family and has a good level of tactical and strategic teaching.

This is also why he chose Alayen to stay here.

Perhaps Alayen is not strong in commanding arms, and at the same time, his understanding of various tactics is quite shallow, only staying on the superficial level.

But Alayen himself is good at fighting and is a brave general.

At the same time, precisely because he understands all the tactics, it can be said that he can understand how to do various tactics.

Including siege warfare and reconnaissance, defensive counterattack, and dispatching cavalry to seek assistance at critical times.

Alayen is quite clear about all of these.

Basically, it belongs to a low-profile version of Lesalрит.

An all-rounder warrior.

But just like Lesalрит is better at training soldiers.

Alayen's own combat power is quite powerful, and his fighting skills and fighting experience are quite sufficient, so with the 10 Holy Tree Knights and 1,000 Vaegir Marksmen, 300 Vaegir Archers, and 100 Mercenary Crossbowmen, plus 200 Khergit Veteran Horsemen that Shen Mu left him.

The 1,600 regular troops are all ranged archers.

It is absolutely more than enough to guard this not-so-large Vaegir castle New Rivacheg.

After all, the current New Rivacheg has built various castle defense works.

As long as you use the city walls and various defensive works to defend against the enemy's attack, that is enough.

What's more, there are also two light ballistae and two light catapults placed on the arrow towers and towers.

There is no need to worry about defense work.

"Well, let's go then." Shen Mu checked the castle one last time to make sure there were no omissions.

So he took Lesalрит and Bestur, and 100 Swadian Knights, 315 Elite Steppe Nomads, and 100 Holy Tree Knights, and rode away from the Vaegir castle New Rivacheg.

They quickly galloped towards Dhërim in the west.

It was early morning at this time.

The sun shone on the earth, and all the darkness and gray fog had been removed, and there were no undead monsters haunting.

It looks like the Blue Star World is still the Blue Star World.

It's no different than before.

Of course, it would be better if you didn't consider the clearly gray reinforced concrete building complex in the distance.

"Why do I feel that I haven't seen each other for only two or three days, and this building in Balihe Street, Longcheng City, feels a bit more gray?"

At this time, Shen Mu was riding at the front, looking at the high and low reinforced concrete buildings that appeared in front of him, which were the native buildings of Blue Star, and he couldn't help but frown slightly.

At the same time, he also saw many buildings that had already collapsed, or said that more than half of the buildings were still standing there.

It was as if they were the remains just left over after being eaten, and just looking at it made people feel a throbbing in their hearts.

That's right, it's the remains.

Shen Mu's description is very vivid.

When he approached a ruin, looking at this two-story building that should have been built next to the provincial highway, about half of the area from the middle to the left was gone. At this time, with the collapsed part, a lot of bricks and concrete fragments were exposed.

It was as if it had been hit hard by something.

However, just looking at the collapsed section, and beneath the exposed bricks and rubble, the clay fragments, it's clear that there's a roughly 200-square-meter patch of desert land that has assimilated the surrounding Blue Star soil.

One can understand that this was clearly devoured by a Spirit Realm scene descending from the sky.

The leftovers!

Compared to the original Blue Star buildings, those Spirit Realm landmasses that crashed down essentially ate a portion of those Blue Star buildings as they fell.

Aren't the leftovers the remains of food?

Blue Star buildings are food.

"Or rather, the entire Blue Star world has become food for the Spirit Realm."

This thought suddenly popped into Shen Mu's mind.

It certainly seems that way now.

Shen Mu even had a feeling that the Blue Star world was becoming increasingly unsustainable.

It was as if it could barely hold on before, but as the time it struggled to support itself grew longer, the Blue Star world became weaker and weaker.

It's almost at its limit.

"So, even the buildings in Longcheng City in the distance are starting to look gray. I feel like Blue Star… is about to end."

Shen Mu frowned slightly.

Because that gray appearance really gave Shen Mu the feeling that the Blue Star world was truly very weak, like it was hanging on its last breath, about to give out.

"If that's the case, then I need to speed up my development again."

Shen Mu sighed.

The current development absolutely cannot stop. It must become faster and faster, allowing the snowball to roll bigger and bigger.

Especially when Shen Mu suddenly thought about the increasingly expanding black tide appearing on the eastern horizon.

He couldn't help but feel a growing sense of unease in his heart.

That sense of unease that constantly appeared in his heart was the source of Shen Mu's constant sense of crisis.

"But fortunately."

Shen Mu looked up, watching as he rapidly advanced along the original county road, heading straight towards the Balihe Street direction.

At the end of his vision, the outline of Dertherim had already appeared.

This gave Shen Mu some sense of security.

After all, Dertherim was his confidence and reliance, and his greatest support in the Blue Star world.

At the same time, Shen Mu also turned his head to look at the 100 Holy Tree Knights closely following him, as well as Retisar, leading 100 Swadian Heavy Cavalry, and Beshtur, leading 315 Khergit Veteran Horsemen.

The unease in his heart, and that sense of oppression, suddenly began to subside a lot, and even a faint smile appeared on his lips.

"At least I'm still developing, at least everything is getting better."

Shen Mu also smiled at this moment.

Then, he shook the reins again, allowing the warhorse beneath him to continue galloping forward, leading all the cavalry behind him with a rumble, approaching Dertherim.

Then, they arrived at the east gate of Dertherim.

"Lord Shen Mu is back!"

"Open the gate! It's Lord Shen Mu!"

Above the east gate, the burly Lake Rat Gang Destroyers discovered Shen Mu and his cavalry rapidly approaching from a distance.

So, they quickly shouted, lowered the gangplank in front of the moat, and opened the iron gate and the real city gate.

Welcoming Shen Mu's return.

Then, Shen Mu led his cavalry in single file, directly rushing into the town area of Dertherim.

However, when he entered the town area, his expression changed slightly.

"Hmm!?"

Because Shen Mu saw that the town area was crowded not with his Mount \u0026 Blade soldiers and civilian units, but with Blue Star humans who were looking at him with confusion and surprise.

And a small number of Spirit Realm followers belonging to these Blue Star humans.

In this town area, whether it was the houses or the streets, especially looking up at the large open space that originally belonged to the trade area, including the light industry area to the south, many Blue Star humans had set up tents, fully occupying the space.

Shen Mu nodded slightly.

Very good.

So many Blue Star humans moving in, to him, these are all humanoid machines that generate the Power of Faith.

They are all valuable resources.

Especially now that he desperately needs the Power of Faith to speed up the growth time of his plants, speed up the construction time of his buildings, and speed up the round-trip time of his caravans.

Now that he sees so many Blue Star humans being unified and living in his town area, how could he not be satisfied?

At the same time, he is also quite satisfied with the measures authorized to Zhang Caidong to manage these Blue Star humans.

After all, looking at how well it is managed now, although it is crowded, it is not chaotic.

The middle of the street can still allow him and these cavalry to quickly pass through one by one.

He is becoming more and more satisfied.

Arriving at the noble's mansion in the town area.

At this time, Swadian Sergeants holding spears had surrounded the area, looking like they were providing very tight protection.

When they saw him coming, they quickly took a few steps forward and respectfully bowed and saluted with their hands on their chests.

"Greetings to you! Lord Shen Mu!"

"Yes, very good."

Shen Mu nodded at this time.

Then, he dismounted and looked at the cleared street around him, and was also quite satisfied.

He didn't want so many Blue Star humans sleeping near his noble mansion.

So, he waved his hand to the Khergit Veteran Horsemen and Swadian Heavy Cavalry who had followed him and ordered: "You will now immediately go to the castle area to settle down. Someone will arrange your places of residence there."

"Understood."

Resariet and Beshtur nodded at this time, after all, as the commanders of these heavy cavalry and Khergit Veteran Horsemen, they should go over to coordinate at this time.

"Yes, you can go."

Shen Mu nodded and signaled Resariet and Beshtur to go to the castle area to the north.

At this time, he had already seen Bunduk, his minister, who was also the defense commander of the castle area, having discovered them in advance and was rushing over.

"Lord Shen Mu!"

Bunduk hurriedly came over to salute and greet him.

"Yes."

Shen Mu was not polite and directly said to Bunduk: "Since you're here, then you will be responsible for the resettlement of these light cavalry and heavy cavalry, and take Resariet and Beshtur, these two new friends who have joined us, to take a look around our Dertherim."

"… Yes."

At this time, Bunduk had already discovered Resariet and Beshtur, his expression changed slightly, seeming to show some disgust, but he still responded after hearing Shen Mu's order.

"You two, come with me."

Bunduk looked at Resariet and Beshtur, whose faces also showed some disgust, and spoke faintly.

Then, he turned around and led them towards the castle area.

His attitude was not very good.

There was no way around it.

Shen Mu was very clear about this.

Bunduk, this minister, is a genuine, absolutely good general in the good alignment.

Otherwise, it would not have been possible for Bunduk to refuse to become a noble lord when it came to ennobling generals in the later stages, and instead call himself a minister, taking the protection of the common people as his responsibility.

And you must know that in the entire Calradia continent, or rather, in the entire Mount \u0026 Blade world based on the Middle Ages.

Being able to refuse to become a noble, refuse to join the noble class.

Instead, being loyal to the common people.

And pitying and caring for the common people.

It's simply one in a million!

Or it can be said that in the entire Mount \u0026 Blade world, only Bunduk can do this!

This also shows Bunduk's kindness and integrity.

Therefore, he must be quite disgusted with Resariet and Beshtur of the evil alignment.

There's no way around it, after all, Resariet himself is a cold-blooded instructor who only cares about money and doesn't recognize people, and is extremely selfish.

In order to train a qualified army for the king and nobles, he often takes the recruits to rob caravans and burn villages in the name of suppressing bandits, and even pretends to be bandits, doing all kinds of evil, and even secretly controls a certain village or the surrounding area of a town, plundering passers-by and merchants.

And Beshtur, as a Khergit, a nomadic people, is a natural robber and bandit.

Usually grazing on the Khergit steppes.

If there is an opportunity to moonlight as a horse bandit, going to the territory of other kingdoms, taking advantage of the strong endurance of the Khergit steppe horses and their ability to travel long distances, to earn some pocket money, that is also possible.

So, Resariet and Beshtur have done many times on the Calradia continent the things like robbing civilians and burning villages.

And Bunduk, who has always taken protecting civilians and protecting villages as his responsibility, will of course be quite disgusted with the two of them.

It was only because Shen Mu had issued the order that he pinched his nose and led the two of them on a simple tour first.

But this is just work.

Since Shen Mu asked him to familiarize Resariet and Beshtur with the environment of Dertherim and understand the city's defenses, then he would do so.

Next, work is work, personal feelings are personal feelings, and he, Bunduk, will never have any involvement with these two robbers and bandits.

And Bunduk also believes that Fatis and Alayen, as well as Jeremus and Marnid, who came here before.

Have the same mentality as him.