A Realistic Mount & Blade Game

After reaching the flat ground, Shen Mu finally experienced the power of heavy cavalry.

Specifically, Swadian heavy cavalry, with both man and horse fully armored, their equipment comparable to the top-tier cavalry of the other five kingdoms' warbands.

Over a short distance of a hundred meters, whether encountering skeletons or zombies, or even ghouls,

they simply steamrolled over everything in their path.

Even providing cover for the newly arrived farmers, bandits, and hired crossbowmen was done with considerable professionalism.

With just two or three charges back and forth along the flanks of the formation, they used lances or hand-and-a-half swords to kill any undead monsters daring to approach on the spot!

Soon, the 100 new immigrant farmers and 30 bandits were all transferred inside the city walls.

And at the city gate,

10 Swadian heavy cavalry galloped past Shen Mu and Bunduk at the gate, returning to the village area free of gray mist.

“Thank you for your welcome, Lord Shen Mu.” Bunduk respectfully bowed his head at this moment.

Shen Mu responded with a light smile, “It's nothing.”

It really was a small matter.

Bunduk, now free from the darkness and gray mist, looked at the seemingly all-consuming darkness just a few steps away, with gray mist flowing slowly like countless tentacles intertwined and overlapping, and his eyes showed a hint of horror.

“Is this the other world that Lord Shen Mu has worked so hard to defend?” Bunduk murmured to himself.

‘Crack, crack’

Before Bunduk could recover, some strange noises emerged from the gray mist outside.

And right as Bunduk subconsciously looked up,

a skeleton wearing decayed armor and a similarly decayed helmet, with pale gray cranial eye sockets flickering with幽 blue soul fire, without any flesh on its body, just a bone frame, actually staggered over.

Moreover, scattered among the surrounding gray mist, seven or eight more skeletons appeared.

They seemed to have discovered them.

Then, they raised the decayed or broken longswords or scimitars in their hands, and like infants, they stumbled towards them, intent on killing!

“Prepare for battle!” Bunduk reached behind him and drew the heavy crossbow hanging on his back.

He bent down, his face solemn, and quickly used the small winch to draw the string.

The power of the heavy crossbow was very great.

The closer the distance, the higher the lethality, and the armor-piercing effect was also better.

The only drawback.

Was that the speed of drawing the string was very slow.

This was even with the addition of a small winch, allowing the use of the winch to draw the string.

But it still required about 20 seconds to complete drawing the string for one shot, and that was only for crossbowmen extremely skilled in using heavy crossbows.

Give it to a novice, and being able to draw the string within half a minute would be considered good!

“It's okay, Bunduk.” Shen Mu, standing next to him, remained calm, casually pointed behind him, and then pointed his finger forward.

Without even issuing an order.

“Go!”

The 10 veteran Lake Rat gang thugs guarding here with torches directly drew their woodland axes and quickly ran forward, chopping the skeletons that dared to appear inside the city walls into piles of useless bone fragments in just a few strikes.

Their movements were efficient and quite swift, and after completing their objective, they quickly retreated backwards.

Bunduk, who had just finished drawing the crossbow string, was stunned by what he saw.

“These are members of the Lake Rat gang from beyond the mountains, lightly armored throwing infantry, skilled at throwing javelins, a very good group of young men.”

Shen Mu explained to Bunduk.

He knew that this benevolent protector of the people from the Mount \u0026 Blade warband world was seeing these small family troop types from the Mount \u0026 Blade hegemon world for the first time.

“They really are very good.” Bunduk glanced at these veteran Lake Rat gang thugs wearing leather armor, holding woodland axes, and carrying two bags of harpoons on their backs, and keenly noticed the strength of these soldiers.

At this moment, he couldn't help but murmur in a low voice: “Even compared to the Nords, they wouldn't lose by much.”

Shen Mu smiled without saying much.

After all, these veteran Lake Rat gang thugs, in a sense, were indeed related to the Nords.

However, the Mount \u0026 Blade hegemon world was about 500 years before the timeline of the Mount \u0026 Blade warband world.

Although Mount \u0026 Blade hegemon was a later game.

However.

In terms of timeline, it supplemented the division of the empire and the rise of various ethnic tribes.

Eventually, it evolved into the worldview and background story of Mount \u0026 Blade warband in the west of the kingdom.

Including the invasion of the Nords and the establishment of the Nord Kingdom.

“Having these Lake Rat gang members guarding here is quite reassuring.” Shen Mu turned his head at this moment, looking at the 10-meter-high, 5-meter-thick city wall pieced together from reinforced concrete slabs, and a smile appeared on his face:

“Come, Bunduk, to welcome your arrival, before the banquet begins, let's take a tour of my village.”

Shen Mu said this.

“Thank you for your hospitality, I am also very willing to visit your village.” Bunduk nodded solemnly.

Then he followed Shen Mu and started walking towards the inside of the city wall.

However, even the 10-meter-high and 5-meter-thick city wall, which resembled a gravity dam, had already greatly shaken Bunduk's mind and surprised his face.

Such a large-scale city wall, seemingly made entirely of stone, really exceeded his expectations!

However, Bunduk also looked outside at this time.

When he came in, Bunduk also keenly noticed that a layer of wooden planks seemed to be laid outside this gap.

And just below the wooden planks, there was a moat dug around the city wall!

In fact, his observation was indeed meticulous.

Outside the city wall, Shen Mu had deliberately used the magic ball modifier to dig a 5-meter-deep moat.

If it weren't for the fear that continuing to dig deeper would cause a backlash from the undead monsters lurking inside the underground garage that had already been sealed underground.

Then he would definitely have dug deeper!

“Come, let's visit the village.”

In fact, while leading Bunduk on the tour, Shen Mu was also carefully examining his village.

The small village named “Dhëreim.”

And behind Shen Mu and Bunduk, the 10 Swadian heavy cavalry who had dismounted followed tactfully, acting as guards.

“Greetings, Lord Shen Mu!”

“Hello, Lord Shen Mu! Respects to you!”

“Great Lord Shen Mu!”

In the west of Dhëreim, there was a Lake Rat gang training camp covering an area of about 500 square meters.

Facing directly west was the 5-meter-wide and 4-meter-high gap.

Currently, 30 bandits and 25 new Lake Rat gang members were living and resting in the houses of the training camp.

Seeing Shen Mu coming over, they also bowed and greeted him diligently and respectfully.

“Mm.” Shen Mu nodded in satisfaction.

The new ballista that had been carried over was placed at the position of the main entrance of the training camp.

The direction the ballista was aimed at was the gap in the city wall.

Which was the city gate.

As long as there was any situation, these bandits and Lake Rat gang members would operate the ballista to launch an attack first!

“In the future, a military camp can be built in the west.”

Shen Mu was also thinking this.

Then he continued to lead Bunduk forward.

In the middle, there were 30 longhouses with typical Swadian Kingdom-style stone and wood mixtures.

The top had thatch and wooden boards, which were both rainproof and heat-insulating. If it was upgraded and replaced with stone tiles, it would not only be sturdy but also fireproof.

And at this time, inside and outside the longhouses, there were already 300 Swadian farmers that came pre-installed in the village template.

Plus the 100 Swadian immigrants who had just arrived.

This directly squeezed the space on the house side to the brim.

It was fortunate that the Swadian farmers took out the cloth from their rooms and set up many tents, which could barely provide the new immigrants and their extra villagers with a living environment.

After all, in the southern part of the village, there were 22 mu of wheat fields, 5 mu of cabbage fields, and 5 mu of pumpkin fields, as well as various agricultural buildings, which had enough space to set up tents.

However, Shen Mu also keenly noticed that in this space in the southern part of the village, there seemed to be only 10 mu of wheat fields.

More wheat fields and other fields seemed to have been moved outside because of insufficient area inside the city wall.

“Let's go take a look at the city wall.”

Shen Mu thought of this and was worried about his wheat fields and the 5 mu of cabbage fields and 5 mu of pumpkin fields.

So, he passed through some granaries, storage rooms, livestock pens on the east side, and a small space specially reserved for future trade, and came to the stairs on the inside of the city wall, which were specially reserved, and climbed up the city wall.

However, on the city wall now, there were already Swadian infantry and hired crossbowmen, hired sentries, consciously coming up to patrol.