Chapter 169 Return to Dehrim
Moreover, the reason why Shen Mu returned to Dehrim was because he had not used the three rewards he had opened from the golden treasure chest.
The evening breeze comes directly from the Suno Plain, blowing across the entire area covered by the Mount and Blade rules.
For example, it is an enhanced version of the breeze from the Suno Plain.
However, compared to the breeze that blows every 20 minutes, the evening breeze from the Suno Plain blows every evening.
It will last about an hour.
It not only promotes the growth of plants, but also enhances the morale, courage and mental resilience of soldiers.
It is just right to deal with the threat to the soul level caused by the undead rules that will arise after night falls.
In the future, when Shen Mu's Mount and Blade rules begin to cover large tracts of land, his troops will need to take the initiative to leave the city walls and go out on patrol to strangle those undead monsters.
From strategic passive defense to strategic active defense.
And it is also a proactive attack at the tactical level.
Therefore, this evening breeze from the Suno Plain can help Shen Mu's Mount and Blade rules to carry out the final wave of strengthening at the evening when the Undead Rules are about to move and the Blue Star and the Spirit World Rules can no longer suppress the Undead Rules, so that he can face the upcoming Undead Rules and Undead monsters with a more tenacious attitude.
That's why Shen Mu was quite satisfied with the evening breeze coming from the Suno Plain.
What's more, he has two other rewards.
The gift of nature's food and caravan acceleration.
The gift of natural food is that it can directly allow the fields and crops you own to grow quickly to the point where they can be harvested.
Caravan acceleration allows the caravan to complete a trade quickly.
All of these require the consumption of faith power.
Moreover, if the number of crops is too large or the relative quantity is too large, the amount of faith power consumed will still be an astronomical figure.
But for Shen Mu, this is always a good opportunity to speed up the growth of crops.
And a good opportunity to speed up caravan traffic.
Growing crops can provide quite important food.
The caravan's travels can bring various urgently needed consumables, including food and some raw materials that Shen Mu needs.
So this is quite crucial.
The night passed like this.
Nothing happened.
In addition to sensing that there were humans living here in the darkness, it seemed that they saw a bonfire exposed on the city wall, so some low-level undead monsters similar to skeletons or zombies staggered to the side of the city wall.
Nothing else happened.
Moreover, even these skeleton soldiers or zombies seemed novel to the Vikia guerrilla archers on the city wall at first. They pulled up their nomadic bows and shot them directly outside the city wall.
But after a while, seeing more and more skeleton soldiers and zombies wandering outside, I became bored and didn't have many thoughts.
Because they also found that the fighting power of these skull coins and zombies was not as good as that of farmers.
Using your nomadic bow and feather arrows to shoot these skeleton soldiers and zombies would be a waste of your feather arrows.
After all, these feather arrows are also quite valuable consumables.
After each battle, they would take the initiative to go out and look for the arrows that had been shot. As long as they saw arrows that were still usable and intact, as long as there were no major flaws or they were completely unusable, they would collect them.
After all, there is no way to actively produce arrows in the current New Riwadin, including crossbow arrows.
These are military consumables.
'Om! '
As the time came to 6:00.
Maybe a little more time.
But it was during this period of time that the morning light from the rising sun in the sky instantly tore apart the darkness and gray fog.
This represents the rules that belong to the spiritual world and the Blue Star world, just like a sharp sword that tears apart the undead rules that were originally shrouded in darkness.
It can be said that it happened in just a short moment.
The undead rules of the star world that were torn apart and expelled were completely bounced away along with those undead monsters, leaving the scope of the blue star world.
Only those undead monsters hiding underground can rely on those places where the sun cannot reach or there is no light, and rely on the undead rules that remain in the darkness and recovery inside, and continue to lurk during the day, and will not be repelled by the native rules of the Blue Star world.
Of course, these are all old stories.
Now even Bestur and Resarit, who had just arrived, already knew the subtleties between the rules of the Blue Star world and the rules of the undead.
He also knew about the situations of the dark and daytime days occupied by the Undead Rules and the Blue Star Rules respectively.
"Okay, Aileyen, I'll leave this to you."
Shen Mu finished his breakfast in the hall of the lord's castle, then checked the defenses of the Vikia Castle one last time. He nodded with satisfaction and handed over the castle completely to Ailen.
After all, this is his important military base.
Not only is it responsible for Shen Mu's future power, but also for whether he can obtain a steady supply of troops and recruit troops on a large scale.
It was also responsible for suppressing the suburbs east of Balihe.
After all, right here in Sujia Village, there are two evil forces, the Hell Devils and the Skeleton Legion, under the site, which may pose a threat to him.
Therefore, the New Rivadin of Wikia Castle must be located here, which is equivalent to guarding the Sujia Village site for Shen Mu and more possible threats that may arise in the surrounding area.
Prevent the Skeleton Legion or the Demons of Hell from invading the ground and posing more threats to Shen Mu's Dehrim from the east.
"This is really a bit of a self-defeating move." Shen Mu smiled bitterly.
Originally, he was planning to turn this place into a backup base, but he didn't expect that after he set up the castle here, the backup base was not built, but instead became an outpost castle.
It is precisely because of this outpost castle that the Sujia Village site can be blocked.
And just happened to discover the devil from hell.
Otherwise, those hellish demons from Angang Street would really appear on Balihe Street and surround him.
Then Dehrim would be the real danger to him.
"My lord, I will defend this place firmly and will not allow any enemy to capture our castle." Airen answered firmly at this time.
"Well, I still believe in you." Shen Mu nodded. He was quite confident about the strongest warrior in the good camp in this Mount and Blade world. He was also a noble knight of noble birth and had good tactical and strategic training.
This is why he chose Airen to stay here.
Perhaps Ailen is not strong in commanding troops, and his understanding of various tactics is also quite superficial, only superficial.
But Aileyon himself is good at fighting and is a brave general.
At the same time, because it knows something about all the tactics, it can be said that it can understand how to implement various tactics.
It includes city defense and reconnaissance, defensive counterattack and sending cavalry to seek assistance at critical moments.
Aileyen understood all of this very well.
It is basically a low-profile version of Resarit.
An all-around fighter.
But it's like how Resarit is better at training soldiers.
Irene's own combat power is quite strong, and his fighting skills and fighting experience are quite sufficient. Therefore, he relies on the 10 Holy Tree Knights left to him by Shen Mu, as well as 1000 Vikia guerrilla shooters, 300 Vikia archers, 100 mercenary crossbowmen, and 200 Kugit grassland bandits.
A regular force of 1600 people, all of whom are long-range shooters.
That is definitely more than enough to defend the small Vikia castle, New Rivadin.
After all, the current Xinriwadin has built various castle fortifications.
It would be enough to use the city walls and various defensive works to defend against the enemy's attack.
Moreover, the 1300 Vikia long-range archers are able to switch to two-handed axes to attack, and they are a powerful type of soldiers with high attack and low defense.
In addition, there are 200 Kugit grassland bandits who can rush out of the city gate at any time to launch an active tactical attack.
There will be absolutely no problem in defending against the enemy's attack.
What's more, there are two light crossbows and two light catapults placed on the arrow tower and the tower.
There is no need to worry about defensive work.
"Well, then, let's go." Shen Mu checked the castle one last time to make sure there were no omissions.
So he took Resarit and Bestur, as well as 100 Swadian heavy cavalry, 315 grassland bandit elites, and 100 Holy Tree Knights, and rode away from the Vikia Castle New Rivadin.
Rushing quickly towards the west towards Dehrim.
It was early morning.
The sun was shining on the earth. All the darkness and fog had been removed, and there were no more undead monsters.
It seems that the Blue Star World is still the Blue Star World.
No different than before.
Of course, it would be even better if we didn't consider the obviously gray reinforced concrete buildings in the distance.
"Why do I feel like the buildings on Balihe Street in Longcheng City have become more and more gray since we last met in the past two or three days?"
At this time, Shen Mu was riding his horse in the front and looking ahead. He saw the reinforced concrete buildings, some tall and some short, which were the native buildings of Blue Star. He couldn't help but frowning slightly.
At the same time, he also saw many collapsed buildings, or more than half of the buildings were still standing.
It was like the leftovers of something that had just been eaten, and just looking at it made me feel a palpitation in my heart.
Yes, the wreckage.
Shen Mu's description is very vivid.
When we approached a wreckage, we saw that it was a two-story building built next to the provincial road. 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 looked as if it had been hit by something.
But just look at the collapsed part and the exposed bricks and rubble clay fragments underneath, it is obviously a desert area of about 200 square meters that has assimilated the surrounding Blue Star land.
You can understand that this is obviously the result of being swallowed up by the spiritual scene that fell from the sky.
Eat the leftovers!
Compared with the original Blue Star buildings, those spiritual world plots that fell directly down were equivalent to eating up part of those Blue Star buildings as they fell.
Aren’t the rest just food remnants?
Blue Star Architecture is food.
"Or the entire Blue Star world has become food for the spirit world."
This thought suddenly popped up in Shen Mu's mind at this moment.
It still seems to be the case now.
Even in Shen Mu's heart, he felt that the current Blue Star world was becoming increasingly unsustainable.
It was as if it could still hold on before, but as the time of struggle got longer and longer, the Blue Star world became weaker and weaker.
I can’t take it anymore.
"So the buildings in Long City in the distance are starting to turn gray. It feels like Blue Planet... is about to be destroyed."
Shen Mu frowned slightly.
Because that gray appearance really gave Shen Mu the feeling that this Blue Star world was really very weak, as if it was hanging on to its last breath and was about to die.
"If that's the case, then I'll have to speed up my development again."
Shen Mu sighed.
The current development must not stop, it must get faster and faster, so that the snowball can roll bigger and bigger.
Especially at this time Shen Mu suddenly thought of the increasingly larger black waves that appeared on the eastern horizon.
I couldn't help but feel more and more excited in my heart.
The throbbing that always appears in his heart is the source of Shen Mu's sense of crisis.
"But it's okay."
Shen Mu looked up and saw himself moving quickly along the original county road, heading straight towards Balihe Street.
Just at the end of the field of vision, the outline of Dehrim had appeared there.
This gave Shen Mu some sense of security.
After all, Dehrim is his strength and confidence, and his greatest support in the Blue Star world.
At the same time, Shen Mu turned his head and looked at the 100 Holy Tree Knights who were following closely beside him, as well as Retrisa who led 100 Swadian heavy cavalry, and Bestur who led 315 grassland bandit elites.
The throbbing and depression in his heart suddenly began to ease 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 time.
Then he shook the reins again, allowing the horse under his crotch to continue galloping forward quickly, and with all the cavalry behind him, he approached Dehrim.
Then we came to the east gate of Dehrim.
"It's Master Shen Mu who's back!"
"Open the city gate! It's Lord Shen Mu!"
Just above the east city gate, the burly Lake Rat Gang saboteurs, who were still far away at this time, spotted Shen Mu and his cavalry troops approaching quickly.
So they shouted quickly and lowered the board in front of the trench, and at the same time opened the iron gate and the real city wall gate.
Welcoming Shen Mu's return.
Then Shen Mu led his cavalry troops and rushed in, directly into the town area of Dehrim.
However, when he entered the town area, his expression changed slightly.
"Huh!?" Because Shen Mu saw at this time that in the town area, the people crowded there were not his Mounted Blade soldiers and Mounted Blade civilian units, but the Blue Star humans who were looking at him with confusion and surprise.
And a small number of spiritual followers belonging to these blue star humans.
In this town area, whether it is the houses or the streets, especially looking up at the large open space that originally belonged to the trade zone, including the light handicraft industry in the south, it is already full of many Blue Star humans stationed there, and they have set up tents.
Shen Mu also nodded slightly.
not bad.
With so many humans from Blue Star living here, to him, they are all humanoid machines that generate the power of faith for him.
They are all valuable resources.
Especially now, he really needed the resource of power of faith to speed up the growth of his plants, the construction of his buildings, and the round-trip time of his caravans.
Now that he saw that so many humans from Blue Star had been integrated and settled down in their own towns and cities, how could he not be satisfied?
At the same time, he was quite satisfied with his move to authorize Zhang Caidong to manage the humans on Blue Star.
After all, it is now well managed. Although it is crowded, it is not chaotic.
The middle of the street was still large enough for him and the cavalrymen to move quickly through it.
And I am becoming more and more satisfied.
We arrived at the noble mansion in the town area.
At this time, Swadian soldiers holding spears have surrounded the place, looking like they are providing very tight protection.
At this time, when they saw something coming, they hurriedly took a few steps towards the sky, bowed their heads respectfully and touched their chests to salute.
"Hello! Lord Shen Mu!"
"Yeah, very good." Shen Mu nodded at this time.
Then he dismounted and looked at the cleared streets around him, feeling quite satisfied.
He didn't want so many Blue Star humans sleeping near his noble mansion.
Then he waved his hand and instructed the Kugit grassland bandit elites and Swadian heavy cavalry who followed behind him: "You should immediately go to the castle area and settle down. Someone will arrange a place for you to live there."
"Understood." Resarit and Bestur nodded at this time. After all, as the commanders of these heavy cavalry and grassland bandit elites, they should also go over to coordinate at this time.
"Well, go ahead." Shen Mu nodded and signaled Resarit and Bestur to go to the castle area in the north.
At this time, he had also seen Bandak's own tribune, who had discovered the castle area in advance and was rushing over, and was also the defense commander of the castle area.
"Lord Shen Mu!" Bandake hurried over to salute and greet.
"Well." Shen Mu said to Bandak without any hesitation, "Since you are here, you will be responsible for the placement of these light cavalry and heavy cavalry, and take Resarit and Bestur, our two new friends, to see our Dehrim."
"...Yes." At this time, Bandak had also discovered Resarit and Bestur. His expression changed slightly, and he seemed to have some disgust, but after hearing Shen Mu's order, he responded.
"Come with me, both of you." Bandak looked at Resarit and Bestur, who also had some disgust on their faces, and spoke lightly.
He turned around and led them towards the castle area.
The attitude is just not very good.
no way.
Shen Mu was very clear about this.
The tribune Bandak is a truly kind general in the kind camp.
Otherwise, it would have been impossible that when he was able to enfeoff generals in the later period, Bandak refused to become a noble lord, but instead called himself a tribune and took it as his responsibility to protect civilians.
You have to know that in the entire continent of Calradia, or in the entire world of Mount and Blade with the Middle Ages as its background.
Ability to refuse to become a noble, refuse to join the aristocracy.
Instead, he is loyal to the common people.
Someone who also showed mercy and care for the common people.
It's just a drop in the bucket!
Or it can be said that in the entire Mount and Blade world, Bandak is the only one who can do this!
This also illustrates Bandak’s kindness and integrity.
Therefore, they must be quite disgusted with Resarit and Bestul from the evil camp.
There is no way around it. After all, Resarit is an extremely selfish and cold-blooded instructor who only cares about money and not people.
In order to train a qualified army for the king and nobles, they would often take the new recruits to rob caravans and burn villages in the name of suppressing bandits. They would even pretend to be bandits and commit all kinds of evil everywhere, and even secretly control the outskirts of a village or town and plunder passers-by and merchants.
As a Kugit, a nomadic people, Bestur is a natural robber and bandit.
Normally they graze on the Kugit prairie.
If there is a chance to play the role of a horse thief, go to the territories of other kingdoms, and make some pocket money by taking advantage of the strong endurance and mobility of the grassland horses under your crotch, which can run long distances, that would be a good idea.
So, as for things like robbing civilians and burning villages, Resarit and Bestur had done it many times on the continent of Calradia.
Bandak, who has always been committed to protecting civilians and villages, would of course hate the two of them.
It was Shen Mu who gave the order, so he held his nose and led the two of them for a simple stroll.
But it's just work.
Since Shen Mu asked him to take Resarit and Bestul to familiarize themselves with the environment of Dehrim and understand the city defense of Dehrim, he did so.
Next, work is work and personal feelings are personal feelings, and Bandak will never have anything to do with these two bandits and robbers.
And Bantak also believed that Fatis and Aileyen, as well as James and Manid, who had come here before.
They all have the same mentality as me.
(End of this chapter)
