In the dim corridor, Zhang Caidong was leading his Swadian recruits to the window.
He held a mace stained with sulfurous blood and an old fan-shaped shield in his hand, and nodded to the Swadian recruits behind him: "Just wait here for my order."
The 10 Swadian recruits behind him all clenched their one-handed axes.
He swallowed and looked at Zhang Caidong with a determined expression.
They were obviously ready for battle.
‘Crack! ’
So after Zhang Caidong opened the security door, darkness and thick gray fog suddenly appeared inside.
And there was a sound coming from inside, as if some wings were flapping.
With a strange rattling sound.
It shows that there are a large number of undead monsters inside.
Or rather, a monster from the abyss.
"Go, go, go!" The 10 Swadian recruits behind Zhang Caidong didn't hesitate at all. They raised their one-handed axes, held up their old shields, and immediately rushed in shouting.
Along with a dream of an axe chopping, and the sharp sound of fear that was screaming.
Among the 10 Swadian recruits, one of them, whose body was covered in dark red blood, stepped out, nodded to Zhang Caidong and said, "There were about 12 little demons in total, and they have all been dealt with."
"Well done." Zhang Caidong nodded at this time, turned around and walked into the room.
Looking at the corpses of the little demons that had fallen to the ground, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Although these Swadian recruits are just some newly armed peasants, their fighting capacity has been greatly improved with the training during this period. At least they are able to cooperate well, so they have not suffered much damage so far.
There were very few people with even minor injuries, let alone seriously injured people, there was not even a single one.
Therefore, Zhang Caidong is quite confident in the combat effectiveness of these soldiers. In his opinion, other people like the newly armed peasants have little combat effectiveness at all. It is good enough if they do not scatter when facing the enemy.
They have low morale, poor equipment, and are extremely timid. They need a long period of training to develop real combat effectiveness and become cannon fodder that can be sent to the battlefield and barely avoid collapse.
Now these Swadian recruits can actually face the enemy, rush forward and fight one by one, without any fear of the possibility of casualties and death.
It can be said that they are quite warlike, or that they are extremely confident.
After all, the peasants came from a powerful empire and even when facing enemies, they had the absolute confidence brought by the empire, which made them full of self-confidence and their courage was extremely inflated.
"I can't imagine how powerful your country is." Zhang Caidong couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the corpses of these little devils in the room.
"Our kingdom is very powerful. The entire continent bows down to our fallen nation. Moreover, we were once an empire. If it weren't for the conspiracy that led to the division of the empire, we would still be just as powerful."
The Swadian recruits didn't say much, just spoke in general terms, describing some of the background stories they knew about the Kingdom of Swadia.
Of course, the background of the world of Mount and Blade Warband and Empire takes place entirely on the continent of Calradia, and the map is not as large as the world of Mount and Blade II Overlord.
Therefore, the background story is that the Kingdom of Swadia is the center that unifies the regions of the other five kingdoms.
As for the area of Calradia in Mount and Blade 2, it only belongs to the westernmost territory of Vlandia.
Then it evolved through Vlandia into the present-day Calradia, at least that's how the background story unfolds.
But you have to know that this is the background story of Mount & Blade II and cannot be counted as part of the world of Mount & Blade Warband.
Although these two worlds seem to be a relationship of inheritance, they actually have their own independent evolutionary branches.
"It's really powerful." Zhang Caidong nodded when he heard the proud tone of the Swadian spiritual beauty.
After all, he could see that, although these Swadian recruits did not want to say too much about what the world they lived in was like, he could tell from their words and actions that the kingdom they lived in was indeed quite powerful. After all, being able to supply everyone with standard equipment was something that many small kingdoms could not do.
Moreover, these soldiers have obviously undergone unified military training. Although they look quite unfamiliar and their movements are quite clumsy, after a period of cooperation, it is obvious that they have mastered the content of the military training they directly learned.
This is enough to represent that the kingdom not only has standardized equipment to provide, but also has unified military training that can reach the lowest level directly.
But the human kingdoms that Zhang Caidong knew were not like this.
He even heard the gnolls he used to own talk about how the vassals of his vassals were not his vassals, and that when going to war, he only needed to summon his own vassals, and his vassals would also summon their vassals.
Then they can just rush forward in a disorderly manner. As long as they ensure that their direct troops and noble troops do not collapse, it means that they will not suffer any losses.
After all, the gnoll and human forces had fought each other before.
He still has a good understanding of the human army's process and its tactics. After all, the hatred between the Jackals and the Lion Duchy is quite deep.
"Brother Zhang Caidong, Brother Zhang Caidong, what's the situation on your side?" Just as Zhang Caidong was deep in thought, footsteps suddenly sounded outside, and a human executive from Blue Star came over excitedly with his Swadia civilians.
"Oh, I've solved everything here, how about yours?" Zhang Caidong nodded, glanced at the Blue Star human executive he was quite familiar with, and waved to him, indicating that they could go out together. "I've solved everything there too." The Blue Star human executive smiled and followed Zhang Caidong out, and the Swadian recruits and Swadian civilians followed their footsteps and came to the small square outside the community.
At the same time, quite a few people have gathered in this small square.
These all followed over in a while, with 10 Blue Star human executives coming every day, and now a team of spiritual commanders consisting of 40 Blue Star humans has been gathered.
Behind these 40 Blue Star humans, there are 400 Swadian civilians waiting there.
They are all followers commanded by these 40 humans from Blue Star.
Of course, at least this is how the humans on Blue Star feel. After all, they had already established a contract and a spiritual anchor before, and had a superior-subordinate relationship with these humans.
According to traditional thinking, what else could this be but the relationship between a commander and followers?
Therefore, they have fallen into a kind of misconception, thinking that as long as they control these followers, they control their lives, and it is basically impossible for them to betray them, and the consequences of betrayal are quite serious.
After all, none of the followers wanted to return to that prison-like realm. If they couldn't escape from that prison-like star realm, they would watch their minds forever trapped in their stone-like bodies.
Therefore, the humans on Blue Star are quite confident about the people in the spiritual world that they have. If there is anything, they will tell them, and they are not afraid of them hearing it.
"Fortunately, it seems that everyone has no problems." At this time, Zhang Caidong saw that these Blue Star humans were talking and laughing together, and a smile appeared on his face.
However, when his eyes swept across these Blue Star humans, he could clearly find that these Blue Star humans were actually in groups of three or two, each with their own small circles, and were not all together.
Even when these humans from Blue Star chatted with each other, they could still see some resentment in each other's eyes.
Obviously, these small circles also have their own interests, the groups dislike each other, and within some small circles there is some resentment that is revealed because they don't want to hide it.
Obviously, these small circles themselves are full of filth.
"You are really worthy of being the Big Sister Shenmu. With just a slight move, you have caused conflicts between these senior and middle-level managers. Their originally united relationship has now fallen to the freezing point." Zhang Caidong knew this very well, because he knew very well that this was a change brought about by Shen Mu itself.
Before, those middle-level managers bypassed the senior managers one by one and handed in the list, allowing Shen Mu to master everyone's list. He also took the initiative to promote these middle-level managers so that they could become spiritual world commanders according to their wishes.
Being able to become a spiritual commander without the recommendation of senior managers is tantamount to depriving these senior managers of an important personnel arrangement.
"Human resources are politics, this saying is so true. I didn't expect that Shen Mu looks so young, but has such amazing skills." Zhang Caidong's eyes showed some fear at this time.
Before, when Shen Mu destroyed the diesel company, he already had some awe for this young man in his heart. Now seeing that he had such advanced political skills, he felt even more emotional and admired him slightly.
There is no way, because the previous work was so smooth and decisive that it directly interrupted the process of these Blue Star humans who wanted to connect and merge into a whole piece of iron plate that cannot be penetrated by water and cannot be pierced by a needle in the shortest time.
Now Zhang Caidong himself feels a little embarrassed. If he discusses something with these humans from Blue Star, it is estimated that some people, whether they are senior or middle-level, will definitely not agree with him. After all, their personnel power is not in his hands.
If they don't agree, then they don't agree. At most, they may be ostracized at normal times, but for them, this kind of ostracism will not be a problem as long as they can get the approval of Lord Shen Mu.
"Forget it, let's not think about it." Zhang Caidong shook his head at this time, looked at the Blue Star humans who had gathered in front of him and walked over.
When the humans from Blue Star saw Zhang Caidong coming over, they all ended their judgments and lined up in front of each other.
They also sent several senior managers to Zhang Caidong and began to report their looting of the community.
"Well, well done." Zhang Caidong nodded and listened to these people's reports on the battles and casualties they had fought against the undead monsters found in different residential buildings. He heard everything clearly.
They are training their troops and accumulating their own points at the same time. After all, Lord Shen Mu has already made it clear that as long as they can lead these human soldiers to gain combat experience and merit, they can return to Shen Mu and be promoted again.
Moreover, their promotions have been in sharp contrast. That is, Zhang Caidong is now equipped with the second-level Swadian Militia.
There are shields, maces, spears, and hunting crossbows.
It can be said to be a very versatile breed.
In addition, the Swadian recruits behind him, armed with scythes, were indeed much stronger than them.
So they all tried their best to accumulate combat experience and points as quickly as possible, and then exchange them for the opportunity to get promotion from Lord Shen Mu.
"So what's next, Brother Zhang Caidong, should we go to another community?" At this time, some male human executives also made suggestions. After all, there are large areas of buildings outside the area where they are.
And there are also some undead monsters hidden in these buildings.
"Then go ahead." Zhang Caidong nodded, looking at these Blue Star humans who were already full of fighting spirit, and the Swadian civilians behind him, he pondered for a moment and then spoke again: "But keep your strength in the afternoon. If possible, I want to take everyone into the darkness tonight to see if we can deal with some monsters in the dark. After all, the number of undead monsters in these buildings is really too small, and the speed at which we gain points and combat experience is too slow."
"Go fight those undead monsters in the dark?" These humans from Blue Star looked at each other. They did not see fear in each other's eyes, but just a little more eager to try.
Now their self-confidence is indeed quite inflated, and they just go into the darkness to fight those undead monsters.
Relying on himself and the human followers behind him, can't he deal with those zombies and skeletons, these low-level undead monsters?
Moreover, even if they cannot solve the problem, they can retreat back to Dehrim in time. After all, Dehrim has complete defenses.
There are also patrols protecting the border.
Everything looks safe. (End of this chapter)
