Berserk, Total War: Second Son of Nobles

In the spring of 1445, in this season of vitality and growth, the war on the continent was reignited.

As the saying goes, wildfires cannot be extinguished, spring breezes will bring new life. After a winter of recuperation, both Midland and Yoda seem to have survived another year. However, only the two countries know how much they have paid for this war and how long they can last.

As the first bird song of spring resounded on the border of Mitlanyuda, the vast southern plains were suddenly filled with the sound of horns, horse hooves, shouts, and various sounds intertwined together, telling the people of this continent in a very simple voice: war has come again.

At this time, in addition to the two countries of Midland and Yoda, which cared very much about this war, the countries from the south also paid close attention to this war.

Due to the decades of war, many merchants in southern countries made a lot of money by transporting a lot of materials to Midland and Yoda. Many people from southern countries also went to the front line as mercenaries, which improved the local security environment. Therefore, in the eyes of many countries, they hope that Midland and Yoda will fight for another century.

However, the French King's Office, which was far away in the southern peninsula of the continent, was very angry. This time it was not because the two countries had been in arrears of the tithes that should have been paid to the French King's Office, although they had not paid for a long time, but what was more serious was that they had begun to disregard the majesty of the church and began to attack neutral countries.

According to the letter of help from Archbishop Balden, the Yoda Empire ignored its previous oath not to attack countries of the same faith, and began to attack King Balden who was crowned by the Hall of the King of Law, citing the identity of the third prince of Balden as the national orthodoxy, and demanded his abdication.

If the two countries' failure to pay tithes before was considered disrespectful to the God of Light by the Hall of Fame, then this attack on the neutral country recognized by the Hall of Fame was already considered heresy.

After the Hall of the King of Law questioned the Yoda Empire's purpose in doing so, the Yoda Empire responded to the Hall of the King of Law:

I am a barbarian, why should I be afraid of you?

Due to the centralized policy of the emperor of the Yoda Empire, the local church has been suppressed to the point of being dispensable. If you, the Pope's Office, have the guts, come across the sea and attack me!

Now the Office of the King of Law is really anxious. Even though my Office of the King of Law has not done anything for so many years and its status has declined, I am still the most honorable existence in public. How dare you, the Yoda Empire, ignore me like this? If my Office of the King of Law had not established the Yoda Empire hundreds of years ago to stop the pagans, your ancestors would have been whipped by some pagan and forced to do hard labor!

Of course, the Hierophant's Office cannot directly sanction the Yoda Empire. After all, the neighboring pagan countries are watching. What if their own religious factions engage in internal strife, then they will have to launch an expedition to fight. In the end, the Hierophant's Office will have to spend a lot of manpower, material resources, financial resources and a lot of time to settle it. It would be better to just let it go instead of doing so.

Therefore, the first task of the Hall of Law is to make the Midland Kingdom and the Yoda Empire stop the war in a short period of time and submit to the Hall of Law. Then the Hall of Law must flatter one and trample the other, and by secretly supporting the Midland Kingdom, let the ruling class of Midland and the Hall of Law form a dependent relationship, deepen the Hall of Law's influence on Midland, both in the church and the secular world, and then let Yoda know that without his Hall of Law, you, Yoda, are nothing, just a stinky younger brother.

The support of the Hall of the King of Faith for Midland is not in a direct form. First of all, some countries with relatively large influence of the Hall of the King of Faith announced that they would not transport any materials to Yoda. Of course, they cannot control the secret transportation. After all, people are not stupid if they can make money. As long as these countries express their attitude, they can convey an attitude to Yoda: I am happy that you can care about your father, but your attitude towards your father makes your father unhappy.

Then the French King's Office was still very rich, so it ordered a lot of weapons and equipment for Midland through other countries, and then asked those countries to give them to Midland as gifts.

Then when the Pope's Office preaches to people in the church of Midland, they will tell people that the war you are fighting with Yoda is a just war, the God of Light will stand on your side, and other nice words. Then, those who have money can contribute money, those who have strength can contribute strength, and after you die, you will go to heaven and become angels, and then you will no longer be troubled by illness, poverty, etc., in order to increase the support of the people of Midland for the war.

These measures did have some effect. The King of Midland promised to pay this year's tithe and invited the King of France to the Wyndam Cathedral to crown the king. This seemed like a precursor to cooperation between the two forces. Many caravans from the Southern Kingdom also began to move towards Midland. Midland's commercial income was much higher than before. At the same time, Midland also had more soldiers on the front line. Although it was not enough to drive Yoda out, it could delay for a lot of time.

However, the most important issue facing the Hall of the King of Law is how to deal with the Yoda army entrenched in the Kingdom of Balden. If they are not expelled, the Hall of the King of Law will not be able to regain face in a short time, and of course they cannot support Mitlan obviously. So after a discussion, a group of people in the Hall of the King of Law came up with a compromise:

Write a letter and ask Archbishop Balden to tell King Balden to allow the Kingdom of Midland to go to the Balden territory to resist the attack of the Yoda Empire. If King Balden disagrees, then it will probably be over. If King Balden agrees, then there may be a glimmer of hope, although Midland has not been doing well recently.

So the letter went through many twists and turns and finally came into the hands of Archbishop Balden. After reading it, the Archbishop hurriedly discussed the matter with King Balden.

"Things have come to this, there is no other way. Prepare paper and pen, I want to write a letter to the King of Midland." The king had no choice. The art of checks and balances had been messed up in his generation. He could only find someone to hold on to.

The general meaning of the letter is nothing more than: I'm sorry, I was wrong. I didn't see the kindness you showed before, and I didn't realize it until Yoda broke in. Now it's too late to think about it. I hope you can forgive my mistakes and send troops to rescue my brother as soon as possible, urgently!

King Mitlan (the old king in the main storyline of Berserk) was overjoyed when he received the letter. He was in his prime at that time and had a very strong enterprising spirit, so he quickly ordered Count Milo stationed in the Forest Territory to move eastward and reach the capital of Balden before the Yoda Empire. At the same time, he called on the nobles in the west and the central regions to contribute their manpower and manpower to put pressure on Yoda's troops in the southern battlefield and prevent Yoda's main force from moving north.

In the spring of 1445, John received an order from Count Milo to mobilize the entire army, led by Forest, to clear all obstacles to Binsey and wait for the arrival of the main force.

"Good man, you really put all the dirty work on me," said John.

If he only had 6000 men now, he would definitely not be able to accomplish it, but in the past two months he has been systematically recruiting peasants to work and serve as soldiers in castles all over West Barden. Although some of them were lost in the process, he has basically controlled all aspects of each castle and has played a great influence on the lower levels of the castle. He is just waiting for the main force to attack.

So John immediately ordered a large army to march out and attack the nearest castle.

Inside the castle, the nobles received the news that the Midlan army was marching, and quickly ordered all the civilians to enter the castle to act as transporters of supplies or even as cannon fodder for the war.

Joseph's brother was among them. When he entered the castle, he immediately gathered the managers of various departments together and said, "Let our people roll up their left sleeves, and let those who are assigned to carry weapons secretly transport a few weapons out every day. When the uprising begins, first occupy the city gates and the armory, and then directly attack the castle after getting the weapons."

The castle is currently crammed with more than 1000 people, including 100 lords, their relatives and various non-combatants, more than 400 soldiers and more than 500 civilians, 300 of whom are their accomplices, so it is very likely that they will take the opportunity to rebel.

In the early morning of the next day, John's troops arrived at the bottom of the castle, surrounded the entire castle, and then began to use local materials to build various siege equipment.

The defenders in the castle were all nervous, waiting to see when John would attack. However, John was not in a hurry. He knew that he had a lot of traitors in the castle, so what he needed to do now was to consume the defenders' energy.

By night, except for the patrolling soldiers, all the soldiers on the city wall went back to sleep, otherwise they would not have the strength to fight the next day.

Joseph's brother and his men went to the armory first and killed the guards inside. Fortunately, there were no patrols around. Then they split into two groups, one group put on equipment and went to the city gate, and the other group went back to transport the equipment.

The team that arrived at the city gate began to talk directly to the people at the city gate.

"Brothers, it's time to change guards. I really admire the time to fight a war."

"Is it time? Let's leave now and go back to sleep. I'm so sleepy."

"Are these new here? I don't know them."

"There are many people in the barracks that you don't know. Go back to sleep."

"Wait a minute, boss, their shoes are different from ours." The captain guarding the city gate took a look and found that they were indeed different. It was spring and they were still wearing winter equipment.

"Hey, what the hell are you..." Before he could finish his sentence, Joseph threw a flying axe at him, hitting him right in the face.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" When the other soldiers saw this, they shouted loudly and then attacked Joseph and his men.

"You two go and open the city gate quickly and notify the people outside to come into the city quickly. We will guard here." Joseph said to everyone.

The two chosen people immediately opened the gate. After seeing the gate was opened, John immediately ordered people to launch fireworks to make the insiders in the castle revolt. This was developed by his alchemy workshop and could be used as a signal. Suddenly, the sound of fireworks rang out in all directions. The people inside also quickly took up their weapons and fought with the patrolling soldiers.

The lord was sleeping soundly with his beauties on both sides, when he suddenly heard the sound of fireworks, followed by shouts and screams. Even a dumb man knew what was going on. He immediately asked his wife and children to pack up, take the most valuable things in the house and go to the tunnel. However, when they arrived at the castle hall, it was already surrounded by unruly people outside. The lord quickly said to the soldiers: "Charge out, whoever charges out first will get 100 gold coins."

Hearing that they could get money, the soldiers also tried to break out of the siege, but they were all beaten back by the peasants outside, so they could only hold on in the castle. When John arrived at the bottom of the castle, the lord had been hungry for the whole morning, so he shouted: "I surrender, don't kill me, noble wars should be stopped at a certain point, I will pay the ransom."