A Realistic Mount & Blade Game

These Viki archers, Rodok veteran crossbowmen of the third rank, and mercenary crossbowmen, who had been tested on the continent of Calradia for a long time, had experienced countless battles, and even killed many people before being promoted to the fourth rank, were quite clear that solving the enemy's strength was the key to winning the next victory!

Therefore, these archers and crossbowmen did not hold back at all, but instead became more serious and precise when shooting those spiritual creatures who were running away quickly with their backs to them.

'Swish swish swish swish swish!'

Only the screams of arrows and crossbow bolts tearing through the air could be heard, one after another.

One spiritual creature after another, came over with tortoise shells on their backs.

Just after overturning the tortoise shell into the trench, and almost before they could run two steps, their bodies suddenly jolted, and their steps faltered. With that piercing pain, the lucky ones could run two more steps.

The unlucky ones would fall headlong to the ground, twitching and trying to reach forward.

But then another shrill scream appeared in their ears.

At this time, the huge force that suddenly appeared on their backs, chests, or even necks or the backs of their heads, made their breathing suddenly stop, and in less than ten seconds, they completely趴 there motionless.

Completely turned into corpses!

And on their corpses, whether it was the back or the neck, or even the back of the head, a steel crossbow bolt or a cone-headed arrow had been nailed.

What was pierced was either the heart, the skull, or the spine.

It was completely damage aimed at taking lives!

The murderers.

It was the 100 expressionless Viki archers, 50 Rodok veteran crossbowmen, and 50 mercenary crossbowmen on the city wall!

How could they come to the front of the city wall they were guarding, throw down these tortoise shells, and run away?

Did they really think that these elite archers or crossbowmen from the continent of Calradia didn't care about face?

However, even if these archers and crossbowmen were so diligently shooting and killing those servant troops.

However, the number of servant troops recruited by these pig-headed people was really too many, with a base number of 2000+, no matter how many archers on Shen Mu's city head vented their anger, leaving their corpses in groups of a dozen or so.

It was still… a drop in the bucket!

Deep in the green belt of the residential area, 500 meters away, more and more furniture was being ransacked by those pig-headed people or servant races in the residential area, and then placed on the open space.

Then, several servant races holding hammers or axes flattened the pots and pans.

There were also nimble Blue Star human laborers who casually tied ropes to these furniture, forming a shield-like protection, increasing the defensive effect.

Then, they let those lower-level servant races carry them, hiding underneath while continuing to advance towards the trench, to fill the trench and pile up the slope towards the city wall.

It can be said that every time, twenty or thirty tortoise shells slowly walked out from inside.

Even if four or five were blown up by crossbow cannons along the way.

As long as the remaining twenty or so, ten or so tortoise shells came to the trench, they could fill the trench with a depth or width of one or two meters.

As time passed, the trench outside the west gate was actually filled with those tortoise shells.

Even if there were hundreds of corpses of spiritual servant troops lying outside the trench.

However, the trench, which had been filled and was nearly 6 meters wide, and had also been piled up to a height of nearly 1 meter towards the city wall, already represented the tactical success of those spiritual servant troops, and they had begun to enter the stage of directly attacking the city wall!

"Continue firing arrows!"

Bandak had already put away the heavy crossbow in his hand at this time, and instead pulled out the nail-headed hammer from his waist, with a leather-covered round shield on his left hand, quickly walking on the city wall on both sides of the city gate, loudly encouraging these archers and crossbowmen who were standing behind the baffle, still pulling the trigger or drawing the bowstring, and shooting outwards.

The situation was already not right.

He had to ensure that he observed the movements of the entire city wall in order to arrange when it was suitable for these archers and crossbowmen to retreat, and when it was suitable to transfer.

And when it was suitable to let the veteran Lake Rat Gang thugs who were waiting on the stairs inside the city wall come up!

The city wall here was only 6 meters high and 3 meters wide.

Moreover, there was more than half a meter of range because a baffle with a slightly inclined angle was installed.

And there was half a meter for the archers and crossbowmen to move around.

The remaining 2 meters was the passage needed for passing by and moving around, as well as transporting supplies and replenishing arrows.

Plus, there had to be a certain distance to prevent oneself from falling off the city wall.

Then the distance that could be moved was quite narrow.

Therefore, most of these fourth-tier Lake Rat Gang veteran thugs, as well as those fifth-tier Lake Rat Gang destroyers, were waiting at the bottom of the stairs.

As long as they were called.

Then these unruly Lake Rat Gang members would immediately rush to the city wall, using the shields and javelins in their hands to let those enemies who dared to attack the city wall know that when defending the city, the members of the Lake Rat Gang family were all tough!

That's right, the Lake Rat Gang members can play a considerable role in complex environments, especially when defending the city, when facing the enemy's attack on the city wall or attacking key points!

The javelin itself is a short-range throwing weapon, with a short range, but extremely powerful.

Ordinary heavy crossbows or sniper crossbows, when facing throwing weapons such as javelins or flying axes at close range, are inferior in terms of power, as well as the impact on the enemy's morale, armor, and shields.

Of course, the attribute of throwing weapons is high-power damage weapons thrown at close range.

It is essentially different from bows and arrows or crossbows, these two types of long-range rapid-fire weapons and long-range precision weapons.

But at this moment.

Once there is a change on the city wall, these Lake Rat Gang members rush up, using harpoons or barbed javelins to attack those spiritual servant troops who can only climb up the slopes built up of furniture and have no way to effectively make defensive actions, then they will have a chance to play!

Close range, and no way to avoid it, this is the specialty of the Lake Rat Gang members!

And in order to prevent special situations from happening.

Shen Mu also arranged in advance for those 50 Swadian sergeants wearing full-body sleeveless plate armor, inner heavy chain armor, wearing flat-topped helmets, and holding spears, to line up and stand by underneath.

As long as the defense line on the city wall may have problems due to the speed and strength of the enemy's attack being relatively fierce.

Then what comes up is not the Swadian light infantry.

But these Swadian sergeants who are specially used to hold the line, real, reliable, and absolutely professional heavy-armored line-holding infantry!

In a sense, Shen Mu also used these Swadian sergeants to make the worst plan.

The worst plan for the west city wall.

"And I can use that reward from the 'Catapult Team Support'."

Shen Mu narrowed his eyes slightly.

Looking at those twenty or thirty tortoise shells that were coming over again, but were obviously repelled by wave after wave by himself, he slowly exhaled a breath of stuffy air, but his thoughts did not communicate with the Mount \u0026 Blade system in his mind.

This reward is one of his trump cards.

Shen Mu looked at the tortoise shells in front of him, which were still coming over, but were obviously repelled by himself wave after wave, and was still sure that he could hold on.

After all, the 2 light crossbow cannons beside him, as well as the 2 siege crossbow cannons on the Great Pagoda, were still flaunting their power, smashing one tortoise shell after another, exposing the spiritual creatures underneath, and being shot and killed on the spot by the archers and crossbowmen on the city wall.

What's more, within a distance of 200 meters pushed out from the city gate under Shen Mu's feet.

The corpses of spiritual servant troops were already densely packed and fell in pieces.

Just a rough look, vaguely estimating, I'm afraid it can already be noticed that those who died, whether they were jackalmen, earth spirits, or bear spirits, or lizardmen, etc., these desert bandit races, the number of corpses has already reached 1000+.

For the spiritual servant troops who originally came over with more than 2000 heads, they have now lost more than half.

Even if the trench is filled.

And a slope of 3 meters high, 6 meters wide, and about 7 meters long, with potholes and furniture corners, has been piled up on the city wall, looking like it can already be stepped on to rush up and fight.

The servant troops, who have already suffered heavy losses, with more than half directly killed in battle, and casualties approaching four-fifths.

There is really no way to continue attacking forward!

"Boss Cai! You really can't let our brothers continue to attack! The casualties are too heavy!"

"Yeah! Boss Cai! You talk to those bosses of Diesel Company behind! If you let our brothers rush up again… the brothers will turn their faces!"

"We are all temporary workers! Although we also really want to become formal employees of Diesel Company! But if the followers in our hands are all gone! Then it will really be completely over!"

“Boss Zhang! Brothers, we're begging you! If we lose all our capital, we won't even qualify for the temporary teams anymore! We usually just freeload at the Diesel Company, there's no need to risk our lives!”

Right there by the green belt, the captains of those temporary teams, along with their close teammates, were filled with helplessness.

Especially when looking at Zhang Caidong, who remained expressionless, they were all on the verge of tears.

They originally thought that charging forward with tortoise shells, dropping them, and filling the trench would be no big deal, and retreating would mean safety.

But who would have thought that the number of crossbowmen on the human city wall would be so high.

And their archery skills were so fierce and accurate.

Plus, there were ballistae.

They were directly routed!

Even if they could grit their teeth, charge forward with the furniture, fill the trench, and even accumulate a slope leading up to the city wall, allowing direct attacks.

But now.

All the temporary team members have only two or three spirit world followers left.

If they continue to fight, they might lose all their spirit world followers and have to carry the furniture themselves to the city wall, risking their lives to throw things onto the slope, continuing to increase the height and paving the way for those pig-headed people!

“Yes, I know.” Zhang Caidong said expressionlessly at this moment.

Looking at the temporary team captains in front of him, all with extremely worried faces, a faint mockery appeared in his eyes.

His tone was still calm as he said: “Charge one more time, raise the slope of that city wall directly to over 4 meters, and I will notify Brother Fu Jian. Then we can have all our people withdraw and let them take over.”

“Charge one more time…” These temporary team captains were extremely embarrassed at this moment.

“That's right, go ahead.” Zhang Caidong looked at them, one by one, his tone carrying some determination:

“This was originally Brother Fu Jian's task for me. I'm not afraid to tell you, his original task for me was to exhaust most of your spirit world followers, to avoid any backlash for the Diesel Company in the future. But I suppressed it and only let those unfamiliar temporary workers risk their lives. You captains have mostly kept your spirit world followers, and haven't sent them to the battlefield to die!”

The faces of these dozen or so temporary team captains immediately turned ugly.

This was the truth.

The elite spirit world followers in their hands were indeed not sent to the front line to pave the way with tortoise shells.

Those who went were other guys who were conscripted by the Diesel Company, forced to join the temporary teams, and looked down on them, these newly formed team captains, and were a bit rebellious.

Mainly, Zhang Caidong actually said that the Diesel Company deliberately sent them to die.

This, of course, was even more of the truth.

They all understood it.

So now these temporary team captains didn't say much. In the end, they looked at each other and saw the look of頹然in each other's eyes.

Might makes right.

Compared to the Diesel Company, they were the weak now, the ones who could only be treated as fish on the chopping board, with no room for resistance.

Thinking of this, these temporary team captains made up their minds.

“Charge!”

They turned and left, going to arrange for their temporary workers, summoning their spirit world creatures, and once again raising those tortoise shells, charging forward.

Then wave after wave, they were sent to their deaths, and spirit world creatures fell in front of the city wall one by one.

“Almost there.” Only then did Zhang Caidong reveal a mocking smile and turn to walk towards Fu Jian.

Once the temporary workers of the temporary teams were used up.

These temporary team captains would be gathered back under his command.

Waiting to rebuild the new temporary teams.

At that time.

Wouldn't it be Zhang Caidong who had the final say!

This would be equivalent to secretly controlling the rights of the Diesel Company's outer temporary teams, meaning Zhang Caidong could feign authority and have his own military power!

At that time, he would definitely not be such a small figure who could only feign authority!

“Diesel Company, I must get to a higher position!” Zhang Caidong's eyes flashed with ambition.

Just as Zhang Caidong went to report.

At the top of the city gate tower.

A dialog box appeared in front of Shen Mu.

【Ding! You and your troops have successfully defended the city wall and resisted the fierce attack of the first wave of minion army!】

【You have received a reward—5000 denars.】

【Hint: The battle has come to an end for now. You can take a break for a while and prepare for a more intense battle. (During this process, you can upgrade your soldiers)】

The content in the dialog box was the reward after completing the first stage of the task.

The sound of metal coins colliding echoed in Shen Mu's ears.

Crisp and pleasant.

Representing that this attack by the minion army could finally be considered over.

And right in front of him, Shen Mu looked at the remaining spirit world followers in the process of retreating, his face solemn.

Because right in front of him, a section of the city wall on the north side of the city gate had been piled up with various furniture and debris to a height of more than 4 meters, and because of various edges and corners, as well as the corpses of spirit world creatures that died on it, it had reached nearly 5 meters.

And in terms of slope, it was already quite gentle and smooth.

If someone climbed from the bottom, they could really reach the height of the city wall, and then jump to the edge, grabbing the battlements with both hands, forcibly climbing up, standing on this 6-meter-high city wall, and then crossing the 2-meter-high baffle, which would be considered a successful climb!

“Really, a more violent storm is coming.” Shen Mu had no fear now, but a bit of poetic sentiment.

This was his advantage.

The more critical the moment, the calmer he was.

He glanced at the dialog box that popped up on the retina, especially the hint, and communicated with the system in his mind: “Upgrade the Vaegir recruits!”

【Ding! Detected that you have 200 'Vaegir Recruits (Tier 1)'. If you pay 30 denars per person, you will be allowed to upgrade to 'Vaegir Footmen (Tier 2)'.】

【If all are upgraded, it will require 6000 denars.】

【Hint: Currently you only have 5000 denars and cannot complete the promotion of all 'Vaegir Recruits'.】

【Hint: King Yaroglek of the Vaegir Kingdom is satisfied that you generously paid 1000 denars before to upgrade the Vaegirs. Therefore, at this critical moment, he is willing to return 1000 denars to help the 'Vaegir Recruits' serving under you complete their upgrade.】

A new dialog box appeared in front of Shen Mu.

It was the content that appeared at the bottom that made Shen Mu slightly stunned: “Wait? King Yaroglek of the Vaegir Kingdom… returned 1000 denars to me?”

This was something Shen Mu hadn't expected.

Before, when upgrading the Vaegir immigrants to Vaegir Recruits in the newly established village of “New Rivacheg”, he did pay 1000 denars.

But this was the upgrade fee and the fee to go to the Vaegir Kingdom for special training.

Shen Mu didn't expect that this money could actually be returned to him at the most critical moment.

Just making up for the 1000 denar gap.

Allowing him to upgrade all 200 Vaegir Recruits to Tier 2 Vaegir Footmen!

‘Buzz!’

Just as Shen Mu was pondering, the data stream in his brow surged out, rushing towards the back.

And just as Shen Mu subconsciously turned his head to look, those Vaegir Recruits were already wrapped in white light, forming egg-like objects one by one.

Then, after a dozen seconds, they transformed into Vaegir Footmen wearing leather armor, also wielding two-handed axes, looking fierce, appearing behind the city wall, moving their shoulders, seemingly eager to try.

But at this moment, Shen Mu's thoughts moved slightly, and he didn't carefully observe these Vaegir Footmen.

Instead, he communicated with the reward he had obtained long ago in his mind—

Designate 200 low-tier infantry to upgrade immediately!

This rule-based special reward!

Why was Shen Mu so attentive in leading these Vaegir villagers and immigrants to upgrade.

Why did he let these Vaegir Recruits gain more experience.

The reason lies in this…

Once this reward was used, then he could directly upgrade the Tier 2 Vaegir Footmen again, turning them into Tier 3 Vaegir Skirmishers who use bows and arrows!