Berserk, Total War: Second Son of Nobles

After some friendly exchanges, John borrowed a carriage of women's clothes from the second prince, packed them up, and sent them to the walls of Binsey by catapult.

After opening the bundle, General Binsey found that it was full of women's clothes and some letters. All of them were trash insulting him, saying that he had so many soldiers but was still such a coward, and should become a woman in his next life.

In his opinion, these were just disgusting ways of provoking others. Although some of them were angry, they still endured it. However, his subordinates could not help it and took the initiative to request to attack the Midland troops. Fortunately, he stopped them one by one, otherwise there would definitely be chaos.

Logically speaking, Binsay is a city directly under the king. According to the agreement with Midlan, Binsay should not stop Midlan's army.

That's a good point, but Binsey's current general supports the Third Prince, and he has received a letter from the Third Prince, asking him to stop the Midland army from reaching West Balden.

When he learned that the commander on the opposite side was a sixteen-year-old boy, Guard General Binsey also used a catapult to give John a return gift. The return gift was some relatively expensive youth clothes and some local snacks in Balden, which looked a bit like potatoes, but the contents were broken when the package hit the ground. After ensuring that the food was non-toxic, John tasted a small piece.

"Hmm...it tastes like barbecue, and it's quite delicious." John wondered if he could open a deep-fried food shop and make the fried food from his previous life.

The siege lasted for almost two more days. On the third day, the defenders under the city of Binsay discovered that the Midlan people were packing up their tents and preparing to leave. The guards told General Binsay, and General Binsay knew at a glance that they were going to bypass Binsay and cross the river directly to the capital of Balden. However, the king had told him before that he must stop them. But with the current military strength, there are only 8000 people in the city of Binsay who can be dispatched directly at his command. The rest are either citizens or caravan guards of those merchants. Their purpose is to guard their treasures and they will never go out of the city to fight with him. So General Binsay can only watch the Midlan army go east.

Then the next day, the defenders of Binsey discovered that Midland had begun transporting supplies right under their noses.

So shameless.

Many of Binsey's defenders were indignant. The Kingdom of Balden was a country with a strong feudal atmosphere. Unlike the openness of Midland and the southern countries, the people of Balden had been under pressure from landlords and the church for years. Even if some of them became businessmen, they had to be denied by the local rulers and the church. Even if one thing was not done well or was not thoughtful, they would not be allowed to enter the territory to buy and sell goods.

The nobles who grew up in this kind of atmosphere were taught by their adults from an early age to be loyal to the monarch, brave and a series of other values. Loyalty to the monarch was especially important, which was the most important of all qualities. Of course, this was not the case for the great nobles.

Binsey's mission was originally to defend the royal capital. Now that Midlan's army had passed by, even the baggage train dared to pass right under their noses. This was a great humiliation for Binsey's defenders.

As a result, the entire Binsay began to accuse General Binsay of not fulfilling his obligation to defend the royal capital, and the voices became louder and louder. Even some people took to the streets to protest the inaction of the defenders, hoping that Binsay's army could save their fallen hometown as soon as possible. Although it has not reached the level of violent demonstrations, General Binsay also knows that if he does not take any action, even if he survives, his reputation will be reduced, which is not conducive to future command.

So when the next baggage train of Midland arrived, General Binsey ordered a cavalry unit to attack the baggage train of Midland. Just when everyone was ready to kill the Midlanders, the Midlanders simply rode away on their horses, leaving only the carriages without horses. Binsey's garrison had to send people to transport the carriages. All of a sudden, the Balden army expanded directly. In the next three days, as long as there was a baggage train of Midland, they would attack. Every time the baggage train was attacked, they would drop the carriages and run away. So Binsey's army thought: Midland's army is nothing special, and Balden's soldiers are worth two at a time.

Then on the fifth day, Balden's soldiers were on their usual patrol and spotted a carriage west of Binsey. When the officers looked through binoculars, they discovered it was a carriage with the Balden royal emblem.

This matter was immediately reported to General Binsey, who immediately thought that this was the vehicle the Second Prince was riding in. If the Second Prince was inside, after sending people to capture the Second Prince, Midlan would have no puppets and would definitely send a large force back to besiege Binsey, which would be considered mission accomplished.

"How many people are there in that convoy?"

"About 200 cavalrymen escorted the carriage."

When General Binsey heard that they could fight, he asked his confidant to take 600 cavalrymen, go out of the city gate and rob the carriage and come back. Not long after the confidant took the cavalry out, the Midland cavalry took the carriage and ran westward. The confidant saw this and ordered the cavalry to chase them. When they arrived at a basin, they found the carriage there. They didn't care whether there was any ambush or not, and rushed down directly. When they opened the door of the carriage, they didn't even see a single person.

"Damn, we're ambushed, let's retreat quickly." The confidant saw this and quickly ordered people to return to the castle, just in time they were attacked by the ambushed crossbowmen. Although the arrows could not have much effect on the soldiers in full metal armor, they caused great damage to the cavalry horses that had no armor. For a moment, people and horses fell to the ground, and many cavalrymen were seriously injured because they fell off their horses and were trampled.

When the Baldun cavalry was in chaos, John's infantry rushed forward, captured those who could be captured, and killed them on the spot if they could not, trying to preserve the integrity of the armor as much as possible.

"Okay, everyone change your armor to Balden's, then ride your horses and carriages in through the west gate of Binsey," John ordered quickly.

In Binsai's castle, General Binsai suddenly felt something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what it was. Just as he was about to get up and move around, he heard the door open and the guards hurried in from outside.

"General, the Mitlan army is attacking at the east gate of Binsay, and they are using trebuchets to attack the city walls."

"Let the soldiers patrolling the city rush to the east gate, and let the others stay still. They can't attack anyway," said General Binsey. If the city wall could be destroyed by a catapult, then he would have done his job as a general.

At the east gate, Midlan was seen using catapults to attack the walls of Binsay from a distance. Although the defenders had catapults and crossbows, their range was too short and they could not effectively kill the Midlan army. Just as the two sides were confronting each other, the Balden cavalry returned with their carriages from the west gate of Binsay. When the soldiers guarding the city saw that the second prince had been brought back, they hurried down to open the city gate to welcome him.

"Greetings to His Royal Highness the Second Prince..." After the city guard said this, what greeted him was not the news of standing up, but the cavalry's lance, and he was stabbed through.

"Hurry up and eliminate the surrounding soldiers and then raise your shields and wait for the insiders in the city to open the second city gate." John threw away his lance and shook his arms, which felt so sweet and painful. Then he quickly raised his shield to defend himself. The remaining soldiers quickly killed the nearby cavalry and then ordered the crossbowmen behind to fight back against the soldiers on the city wall. Because the entrance to the upper city wall was inside the second city wall, it was impossible to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the defenders on the city wall after conquering the first wall.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" After seeing this, the defenders on the second city wall quickly ordered their soldiers to climb up the wall and start shooting.

"Have Wesker and the others taken action?" John said as he used his shield to block the arrows.

"I just saw they received the signal, they should be coming over," said the guard.

At this time, the soldiers guarding the city saw that many civilians with weapons came to the west gate.

"Hey, you guys hurry to the east gate, we'll just guard here," said the commander of the west gate on the city wall.

"We can't hear what you said," said one of the civilians.

In desperation, the officer went down the wall and shouted.

"I already said I'd guard the east gate..." Before he could finish his words, he was shot in the head by a crossbow arrow.

"Brothers, some of you should open the city gates, and some of you should go up to the city walls, and let Governor John's troops in quickly," Wesker said quickly. Then a group of more than 300 old farmers took their weapons and quickly went up to the city walls to kill the enemy, while some of them quickly opened the city gates.

"Brothers, follow me and rush into the city gate, we will be safe," John shouted, and then he formed a shield formation with the soldiers, put the shields together to form a shell, and then entered the second city wall under a rain of arrows.

After entering the city wall, John ordered some people to rush up to the wall to provide support, and then had people release fireworks in the city. Because the fireworks were not very clear during the day, John made ten large fireworks. The sound of the fireworks even alarmed the Binsey guard in the castle. After seeing this, the army outside also hurried to enter the Binsey West Gate. For a while, the defenders of the Binsey West Gate could only fight hastily, and then they were divided and surrounded. In the end, some died in battle, and some surrendered.

"Give me a team to guard the west gate. Everyone, follow me to support the east gate. Remember to ask Stephen to bring the artillery." John ordered, then rode his horse and led the cavalry to the east gate.

There were about 3000 defenders at the east gate, and then there were some citizens and caravan guards. John encountered quite a few of these armed citizens on the way, but they all quickly moved aside after John shouted that they would not be killed if they surrendered and would not be looted if they entered the city. At this time John knew that the reason why the civil organizations in Binsey resisted Midland was not because Balden was so good to them that he inspired their patriotism, but because they were simply afraid that the Midland army would enter the city and loot.

When John arrived at the east gate, he saw a group of people hiding under the city wall, and then they were discovered.

"Where are you from?" The commander guarding the east gate didn't recognize them, but John was still wearing Balden's armor, so he asked them where they came from.

"Wait a minute, I'll come over and talk to you." John quickly dismounted and walked over. When the two sides were only one step away from each other, John said:

"We, Midland's work" and then directly stabbed the chief of the East Gate.

The remaining soldiers also engaged in hand-to-hand combat with Balden's army. The troops brought by John were all his subordinates who had fought in many battles with him. Facing the defenders who had never fought a war in their lives, although they could not be defeated, there were only a few who could fight. The best combat effectiveness of these defenders in the past was only beating up ordinary people and fighting robbers. They had never had any serious training. They were no match for John's soldiers. They fought directly from the street entrance to the city gate. The soldiers who came later also joined the battlefield. For a while, the soldiers at the east gate retreated to the city wall, so everyone opened the inner city gate and went up to the city wall to fight with Balden's army to prevent the enemy from attacking the soldiers who opened the outer city gate.

When Count Milo, who was far away outside, saw the east gate was opened, he immediately ordered the catapults to stop shooting and rush into the city to support John.

"Soldiers, go into the city and kill the enemy. Killing one will give you one silver coin. Charge!"