A Realistic Mount & Blade Game

To be honest, Shen Mu was truly happy.

After all, 30 Swadian Light Infantry, 50 Swadian Peasants, and 25 Swadian Bandits, a total of 105 people, had joined.

Counting his current 45 members, Shen Mu's force directly reached the 150-person mark!

This increase in strength made Shen Mu genuinely happy.

"First, let our friends who have come from afar have their fill, and then get a good night's rest. Tomorrow, they will be put to work in our base."

Shen Mu made the arrangements.

He had the Swadian Light Infantry, who were also Swadian, welcome these deserters, refugees, and bandits into the room where the wheat field was located.

After all, the rules of the Mount \u0026 Blade world existed there, not the rules of the undead world, so it was very suitable for resting.

"We... are grateful for your acceptance, Lord Shen Mu!"

The refugees and bandits were all very moved. After bowing respectfully to Shen Mu in front of the long table one by one, they entered the room with the wheat field.

Especially the 30 Swadian Light Infantry, who were standing in a row. After being defeated on the front lines, they had no choice but to become deserters. Because of their shame, they did not want to or dare to return to the new capital, Praven, so they came to join Shen Mu, wanting to get rid of their status as deserters and have a new beginning.

Coming here, that Lord Shen Mu did not pursue their current status and still treated them as former Swadian Light Infantry.

How could this not make these Light Infantry, who had experienced being deserters, feel grateful and extremely moved?

Therefore, after the 30 Swadian Light Infantry struck their chests, they turned and entered the room with the wheat field, their faces solemn and their eyes red, clearly indicating that they had raised their loyalty to Shen Mu to the maximum!

Or rather, soldiers who came to this other world could be trusted in terms of loyalty.

However, sometimes, extremely high loyalty means being willing to fight to the death for a name, a slogan, or an order.

When these newly joined Swadian Light Infantry entered the room with the wheat field.

Inside the main house of the base, the kitchen became busy again.

The hired sentries were helping to cook.

Fresh wheat porridge, crispy baked bread, and Blue Star's native syrup being cooked in small jars.

There were also chopped vegetables, various beans that had been found.

As well as frozen meat and canned goods, etc.

All of them were mixed together and added to the large pot, making the boiling wheat porridge even more flavorful.

For Shen Mu, this kind of mixed stew was not as good as eating canned food himself.

But for the poor Mount \u0026 Blade soldiers from a backward era.

These foods.

Especially food that had been added with various seasonings that, although did not have nourishing effects, still had a sweet and salty taste.

Was nothing short of delicacies!

"Hoo... This is really delicious! So delicious!"

"Even the landlords in our place can't eat this!"

"Delicious! Wheat porridge with salt!"

"And bread with sugar! Sweeter than honey!"

"It's the same as what the manor lords in our place eat!"

So, in the wheat field, the newly joined Swadian Light Infantry, the Swadian refugees who arrived, and the bandits, all held wooden bowls and ate the still-scalding food in large mouthfuls.

Each of them ate ravenously, even putting the food residue on their dirty, unwashed fingers into their mouths to suck on.

Their faces showed expressions of intoxication.

The hired sentries, who had brought over the large pot, small jars, and baked bread, all had strange expressions.

Of course, these were all matters for the Mount \u0026 Blade soldiers themselves.

Shen Mu was still busy with his own affairs.

"There are about 3 hours until dawn..."

Shen Mu estimated the time at this moment, which was a skill that every Blue Star person possessed in this terrifying era of entering the undead rules.

So, he reached out and gently twisted the silver ring on the index finger of his left hand, the low-level supply ring from the Einherjar Empire.

"Use!" Shen Mu's thoughts communicated with the system.

The system then communicated with the low-level battlefield magic infused within the ring.

'Buzz—'

An extremely special wave instantly began to emerge from Shen Mu's brow, and then acted on the silver ring on his finger.

Then, in an instant, it erupted, mixed with countless tiny data streams, and suddenly fell on many Mount \u0026 Blade soldiers in the main house of the base.

So, in the quivers that the hired sentries had taken off, the crossbow bolts that had already dried up, leaving only two or three or none at all, now had tiny data streams that materialized the phantoms of crossbow bolts at an extremely fast speed.

When the white light formed by the data stream dissipated.

In the originally dried-up quivers, there were neatly arranged crossbow bolts with fletchings, straight shafts, and iron arrowheads!

And this scene also appeared in the knapsacks of the new Lake Rat Gang members, those fish darts that had originally been thrown out.

On the roof of the second floor of the base, in the wine barrel next to the ballista, those javelins that had been fired.

At this time, all of these basic consumable weapons were replenished.

"Is this the battlefield replenishment magic? It's quite interesting..."

Shen Mu raised his eyebrows slightly at this moment, glancing at the hired sentry's quiver placed in the corner, which had already been refilled, and was also a little surprised.

But the high-quality goods produced by Mount \u0026 Blade were indeed surprising and delightful at the same time.

This time was originally just to try out this so-called battlefield magic.

The effect was unexpected.

Very perfect.

Shen Mu was very satisfied.

"Of course."

Shen Mu's thoughts communicated with the system again, and the dialogue box on the retina in front of him refreshed again: "There is also the more important troop upgrade."

[Ding! You have soldiers that can be upgraded!]

[Lake Rat Gang Newcomer × 10, can be upgraded to: Lake Rat Gang Veteran Thug (Heavy Throwing Infantry)]

[Upgrading to Lake Rat Gang Veteran Thug (Tier 3) requires 50 denars per person.]

[Swadian Light Infantry × 25, can be upgraded to: ① Swadian Footman (Heavy Melee Infantry) / ② Swadian Knight (Heavy Cavalry)]

[Upgrading to Swadian Footman (Tier 4) requires 100 denars / Swadian Knight (Tier 4) 100 denars per person.]

[Please make your own choice.]

"Finally, it's here."

Shen Mu didn't care about the denar issue.

Instead, he carefully looked at the troop upgrades in the dialogue box, especially the upgrades for the Swadian Kingdom's troops.

The Lake Rat Gang troop upgrades were all heavy throwing infantry, with no branches. Just climb the upgrade tree.

But the Swadian Light Infantry's upgrades were different.

As the Swadian Kingdom's Tier 3 troops, the most important transition point, the next upgrade to Tier 4 troops, had two choices.

One was the upgraded version of the Light Infantry, the Swadian Footman.

Equipped with better surcoat heavy chainmail, iron composite helmet, heavy kite shield, hand-and-a-half sword, and pike, they possessed standard line-holding capabilities.

They were considered qualified line-holding heavy infantry.

But the second type was the essence of the Swadian Kingdom.

It was also why the Swadian Kingdom was known as invincible on the plains, sweeping away all enemies, and why Harlaus, despite being so reckless, could still suppress the other four countries in the wilderness—

Cavalry troops!

It was also the only one among the four countries with cavalry that, during the Tier 4 cavalry period, even the cavalry and warhorses were all covered in heavy armor, used lances, were well-trained, and could form a cavalry wall for charging heavy cavalry!

That's right, the cavalry upgrade of the Swadian Light Infantry was the Swadian Knight!

Equipped with cavalry lances that were more than 4 meters long, heavy hand-and-a-half swords, cavalry kite shields, and mattocks for breaking armor.

They wore surcoat heavy chainmail, flat-topped helmets, and even chainmail leggings on their legs.

And most importantly,

There were also the Swadian warhorses, which were also wearing surcoat chainmail.

In the Swadian Kingdom, which focused on manor and territorial economies, and were trained in racetracks, the best Swadian warhorses in terms of physique, speed, and strength were used as mounts for the Swadian Knights.

This also created the Swadian Knights' illustrious reputation!

Sometimes on the battlefield.

The Swadian Knights, with their stronger impact force, took the lead, followed by these Swadian Knights.

Compared to other countries, even if they were all Tier 5 knights, they would probably be terrified!

Swadian Knights could even be classified as Tier 4.7 troops!

In the wilderness.

Even if they encountered Tier 6 Nord Royal Guards, as long as the terrain was suitable and there were enough heavy cavalry, it was really hard to say who would win!

This was the confidence of heavy cavalry!

"But how should I choose?"

It was for this reason that Shen Mu couldn't make a decision.

Swadian Knights were really good, their combat power was strong, and their mobility and impact force were invincible in small spaces.

But precisely because Shen Mu considered the current cramped environment.

It was still the seventh floor of the apartment.

The narrow corridor.

Directly eliminated the most cost-effective aspect of the Swadian Knights, that is, their super mobility and excellent tactical movement in the plains or wilderness!

And looking at this 1.5-meter corridor width.

It was easy to charge in.

But difficult to turn around.

"I can't possibly treat these Swadian Knights as disposable troops, can I?"

Shen Mu sighed: "That would be too extravagant."

That would be too stupid.

This was really difficult to decide.