Berserk, Total War: Second Son of Nobles

After John had a chat with the nobles of Yoda, he went straight to the military camp in Johanburg. Most of the people here were veterans who had followed him. John found several hundred soldiers to organize a guard of honor and a military band to rehearse to welcome the arrival of the Midland army.

At the same time, John wrote back to Wesker, asking him to find out who the nobles of the Midland Intervention Army were, and the personality of the Second Prince of Balden. After all, he didn't know what kind of hobbies the Second Prince had, and he wanted to see if he could satisfy some of them in exchange for some substantial rewards. However, most of the nobles these days have lost their minds due to fighting, and some of them have all kinds of hobbies. It would be bad if they caused any trouble in the territory.

A few centuries ago, there were relatively few nobles, and due to marriage, a noble had relatives in many countries. It was possible that a noble in Midland had an uncle who was a noble in the Yoda Empire. Therefore, there were strict laws at that time that prohibited the deliberate killing of nobles during wars. Of course, if there were other reasons, they would not be carefully investigated. However, after several centuries of differentiation and evolution, especially the Hundred Years' War from the beginning to the present, the blood bond has gradually become diluted, and the relationship between Midland and Yoda nobles has gradually become independent of each other. Another point is that due to generations of reproduction, there are too many nobles, and there are countless second sons like John and various illegitimate children, so there is no law prohibiting the killing of nobles.

At the same time, John looked at his money and food, and when he felt that he had enough, he started his journey of increasing his troops again.

As the saying goes, "a cannon shot is worth a thousand taels of gold." John fought so many battles, and although he didn't get a thousand taels of gold, he still had a lot of gold coins, as well as some valuable equipment. This gave John a lot more soldiers to choose from, such as the French mercenary knights. John recruited two teams, so there were heavy troops in John's army, which made John very confident. These knights rode armored horses, wore exquisite knight armor, and each held a lance and a sword, giving people a feeling that they were very elite and not easy to mess with.

For the rest, John recruited some ordinary soldiers to strengthen his own strength, which brought John's army to more than 8000 people. Fortunately, there were many vacancies in the military camps in various places, which could accommodate so many people.

Then John began to recruit more farmers to open up more fields in the early spring of the following year, increase his own grain production, and strive to achieve food self-sufficiency in the territory as soon as possible.

In this way, the population of John's territory reached more than 3. More people meant more food consumption, more taxes, more soldiers, and more construction. This was one of the reasons why the nobles hated mercenaries. Not only would they take away money, they would also take away people, leaving the territory without labor.

By the way, John went to see the castle by the sea. At present, it has been built into a simple wooden fortress. What is special about it compared to other castles is that there is an extra port here, which means that John can develop his own navy. However, John took a look and found that the ships he can build now are all very small transport ships or pirate ships. These ships are just for delivery to Yoda, let alone Midland. So John first built a few offshore fishing boats, and waited for the sea ice to disappear in the spring of next year to go fishing to increase food income.