Chapter 73: Speed beyond imagination After a simple and sumptuous dinner, the 32 Swadian sergeants, supplemented by 30 Swadian light infantry, led 322 villagers and rushed out of the city gate. At the same time, 25 veteran Lake Rat Gang thugs were dispatched along with 30 new Lake Rat Gang members who were newly promoted from the robbers. Together they came to the south of "Dherim". That is, the 22 acres of wheat fields, 5 acres of pumpkin fields and 5 acres of cabbage fields that could not be fully expanded within the village and could only be expanded outside the city wall. All the crops in this area had been harvested and picked, leaving only a bare piece of land. The reason for arranging so many villagers is to allow them to absorb more combat experience. Complete upgrades faster. As for the 78 Swadian recruits who had completed the upgrade, Shen Mu did not send them out. Once all the villagers are upgraded to Swadian recruits, they will naturally be upgraded to Swadian militia. There is no need to send them out now to share the experience of these villagers. In the fields below.
"Line up!" Bandak in the army commanded the more than 450 soldiers, and they all lined up. With their backs against the moat outside the city wall, they formed a semicircular defensive formation. The Swadian soldiers and light infantry were mainly lined up in a row, with villagers holding pitchforks and long wooden sticks behind them. At a vague glance, they looked like a barely qualified spear phalanx. Behind these square formations, 55 members of the Lake Rat Gang were waiting with their small-blade axes and woodland axes. These have high attack and low defense. Soldiers who can also use javelins to throw at the enemy serve as reserve forces at this time. As long as there is any looseness in this semicircular spear formation and there are more enemies, they will squeeze forward and use the javelins in their hands to attack the first wave of enemies. If the enemy continues to charge fiercely and the formation is in danger of being broken up, they will be needed to take the lead. These are common tactics in the continent of Calradia, whether it is the Warband world or the Overlord world. What's more, it was right on the city wall behind them. 50 mercenary crossbowmen and 30 Vigia archers have already lined up on the south wall. Each of them was holding a war crossbow and a nomadic bow, and had already drawn the crossbow arrows and feather arrows from the quiver in their hands. They were vigilantly scanning the darkness and gray fog at the edge of the wheat field just outside the city wall. If there is any abnormality, they will stand on the 10-meter-high city wall, looking down from above, and provide shooting support! And just in case, the 78 newly upgraded Swadian recruits, 10 Lake Rat Gang saboteurs, and the 10 Swadian heavy infantry were all lined up behind the east gate, ready to rush out to provide support at the command. However, based on current experience, it seems that they will not be needed. Although those undead monsters are endless in number. But the combat effectiveness... is really hard to describe! Perhaps because of the number, any ordinary person who only has followers of spiritual creatures dare not easily set foot in the darkness and gray fog, an area eroded by the rules of the undead. With the Mount and Blade system, you can pull out a group of Mount and Blade soldiers in a short time.
Moreover, through the rules of Mount and Blade, after a series of battles, a qualitative upgrade can be completed instantly. This qualitative upgrade from physique to weapons and equipment to combat experience can be called a cheat. On the contrary, they are not afraid of undead monsters. in contrast. Shen Mu now even feels that the number of these undead monsters is a little too few. It delayed the upgrade speed of his troops! "But fortunately, it's a pretty good start now." Shen Mu came to the south city wall and looked at the soldiers below who had lined up and started fighting under the backdrop of bonfires and torches. His face was relaxed. After a series of early battles, Shen Mu had more and more trust in these mounted and sword soldiers. For example now. Just outside the city wall in the fields, those Swadian soldiers, light infantry, and villagers formed a spear phalanx. Before they could show their strong defense and counterattack, some of them could no longer hold back and rushed out first. "Hehehe!" They were the 30 former robbers who had just joined the Lake Rat Gang from the Gang's training camp and became official members, and are now new members of the Lake Rat Gang. These bandit-type soldiers like to launch attacks on their own. If we don't arrange the battle line, we will have to greet in advance these professional bandits who are already in the swamps near the big lakes and are operating and plundering with impunity. So what they like to do most is to launch a surprise attack according to their professional habits. Then grab it and run! "kill!" "Long Live the Lake Rat Gang!" The 30 new members of the Lake Rat Gang didn't even use the harpoons behind their backs. Instead, they grinned and drew out the small-blade axes at their waists (a compact weapon that could penetrate armor), and smashed them directly on the heads of the skeletons and zombies. Accompanied by the crisp sound of skulls breaking. The skeletons and zombies who dared to leave the darkness and come to the fields protected by the rules of Mount and Blade were severely cracked on the heads by the new members of the Lake Rat Gang who took the initiative to attack and rushed forward with small axes like spinning tops. They fell down and turned into real skeletons and a pile of rotten meat! Shen Mu had no objection to this, including Bandak who was in charge personally. Because these new members of the Lake Rat Gang have the ability to restrain these undead monsters. Because both the newcomers and veteran thugs of the Lake Rat Gang wear leather jackets and multi-layered leather jackets, not real leather armor, they are extremely flexible in their movements. In addition to the slender shield like a zither, there is also a small-blade axe that is small and flexible but has excellent armor-piercing effects. What kind of skulls and zombies' heads can stop it?! What's more, these undead monsters coming out of the darkness are extremely clumsy. They walk with a staggering and stumbling gait, and come in scattered groups, without forming a numerical advantage. Instead, the 30 new members of the Lake Rat Gang who rushed forward together formed a numerical advantage in a small area. Start killing these undead monsters! Even in the darkness, there would occasionally be a zombie with bulging muscles, sharp claws, and gray-white skin. The moment it appeared, the new member of the Lake Rat Gang who first discovered it would pull out the harpoon from his backpack and throw it out. Head, neck, chest and abdomen, all in the blink of an eye. They were all hit by the harpoons! The sharp harpoon, once a fishing tool, was transformed into a deadly weapon by the Lake Rat Gang's newcomers with their skilled techniques and strong arms.
In an instant, the zombie, who had just walked out of the darkness and gray fog and had no time to react, was killed on the spot! "Alright! We can retreat now!" However, these new members of the Lake Rat Gang are not stupid. On the contrary, they are extremely cunning and understand that the enemies appearing in the darkness at this time are gradually becoming stronger and more numerous. Then you need to immediately withdraw from the current battle and return to the spear formation. They do the same. "interesting." Shen Mu stood on the city wall, watching the little incidents involving the new members of the Lake Rat Gang, and his originally slightly nervous mood became much happier. Nothing makes a lord happier than seeing his soldiers easily defeat the enemy. Especially when he saw these new members of the Lake Rat Gang, like cunning loaches, passing through the spear phalanx formed by the Swadian sergeants and light infantry and returning to the rear to rest, the undead monsters that followed were directly stopped in place by those spears or lances. It's not a forced stop. Instead, these Swadian soldiers used the weapons in their hands to forcibly stop the undead monsters and killed them directly in front of the spears and pikes. Moreover, these Swadian sergeants and light infantrymen showed no intention of stopping the stabbing with their spears. Instead, they led the villagers behind them, holding their pitchforks and long wooden sticks, and also carried out wave-like stabbing with their spears. There were sporadic skeletons walking slowly over, and these villagers actually defeated them! Stabbed with a pitchfork several times. His joints were broken, his spine was fractured, and even the soul fire in his skull and eye sockets was destroyed, turning into useless bone residue all over the ground. “I feel that these undead monsters may look scary, but they always have a real fighting power that even a farmer or peasant, or even a peasant woman, cannot match.” Next to Shen Mu, there was an archer from the Kingdom of Vijia, who spoke with a strange expression on his face. "It is indeed weak." The other Vaegir archers nodded in agreement. The 50 mercenary crossbowmen around them all felt the same way. In particular, most of these mercenary crossbowmen were upgraded from mercenary sentinels and participated in many fierce battles with undead monsters, demon monsters and the like. From the beginning, the formation was complete and the geographical advantage was taken. The resulting lethality. Extremely deadly! At least these mercenary crossbowmen knew very well that they only needed to aim at the vital parts of the undead monsters, especially the head and eye sockets, and shoot their crossbow arrows. The result of the following battle will completely kill those seemingly terrifying undead monsters on the spot! "Don't worry, these guys are just very weak. Not only do they move slowly, their movements are also clumsy, and their attack power is also weak. Even those skeleton warriors only have higher bone defense." Experienced mercenary crossbowmen were whispering and passing the news to the newly arrived Vigia archers. "I understand." The Vikia archers nodded thoughtfully. There was even a Vikian archer who, seeing a zombie walking out of the darkness close to the city wall, reached out from the quiver on his back and pulled out a cone-head arrow with better armor-piercing effect, pulled his high-quality nomadic bow, and shot it directly. "Pah!" As the cone-headed arrow tore through the air, it emitted a special scream that sounded like a ghost's cry.
Then the zombie staggered out, and a black shadow flashed across its head in an instant, causing its entire neck and body to suddenly stop backwards, and it staggered and fell to the ground with a thud. The soul fire in the eye sockets flickered, and then completely lost its burning appearance. Completely dissipated. And at this time. Then I saw that there was a cone-head arrow piercing the zombie's head. A fatal blow! "Pretty!" Seeing this scene, those mercenary crossbowmen at the peak of level three all cheered. The other fourth-level Vikia archers also nodded and smiled in approval. Anyone can do it. But such a beautiful scene, killing the enemy with one blow, really gave face to the Vikia archers, the long-range shooters who had just arrived. No one wants to be outdone by other long-range shooters, especially crossbowmen. It's not just these Vekir archers. Among the 50 mercenary crossbowmen, there were also people close to the battlements at the edge of the city wall. They raised their crossbows, aimed at the undead monsters such as skeletons or zombies that appeared below, pulled the trigger directly, and shot their crossbow arrows. Again, black shadows and shrieks passed by, and more undead monsters fell to the ground with their heads down. This immediately caused the crossbowmen and archers on the city wall to cheer. Now they are not afraid at all. Instead, they had a lot of fun! Everyone is an intermediate or advanced shooter. Now they are in a high position, shooting at the slow-moving undead monsters below. It is no different from shooting at moving targets. Can't you have fun? "Save some crossbow bolts and feather arrows." At this time, Shen Mu called a halt to their competition, with a helpless look on his face: "When the situation is out of control, we can continue shooting. Now, let's just watch the performance of the villagers below." "Understood." These mercenary crossbowmen and Vikia archers all showed regretful expressions on their faces. But that's it. Anyway, Shen Mu has already given the order, so they just have to obey. Save crossbow bolts and feather arrows. It is indeed one of the standards that every archer needs to know and achieve. Of course, Shen Mu didn't really want these mercenary crossbowmen and Vikia archers to stop this shooting competition that was just for fun. He did it to save crossbow arrows and feather arrows. But it is for the upgrade of the villagers below. In the Mount and Blade rules. Killing an enemy with your own hands will earn you more combat experience than standing still, protected, and simply roaming around in the same battle.
In this way, more villagers can gain combat experience faster and reach the upgrade standards. "However, I think those villagers down there can really stand on their own." Shen Mu pursed his lips. The villagers holding pitchforks and sticks were really trying hard to resist the endless stream of undead monsters that emerged from the darkness and gray fog at the edge of the fields protected by the Mount and Blade rules. The number is 322, with Swadian sergeants and Swadian light infantry serving as the backbone to support the spear phalanx. Those undead monsters really fell in droves under the villagers' pitchforks and sticks. It seems to be in vain, and all you know is the stupidest tactics that will lead to your death. The added fuel is still the weakest kind of undead monster. Even if there are sporadic zombies or occasional skeleton warriors appearing. They were either discovered and shot by the crossbowmen on the city wall, or killed directly at the edge of the battlefield by the harpoons and darts thrown by the new Lake Rat Gang members who had come to rest, or by the senior thugs of the Lake Rat Gang. There is not even a chance to get close to these villagers! "good." Shen Mu's lips curled up slightly. It seems that the upgrade speed is faster than expected! (End of this chapter)
