Berserk, Total War: Second Son of Nobles

Encouraged by Count Milo, the Midlan army marched into the city in huge numbers. Seeing this, the defenders had no choice but to evacuate to the castle and nearby residential areas.

At this time, John led his troops and chased the retreating soldiers into the castle, because he hoped that when the soldiers guarding the castle gathered the retreating soldiers and opened the door, he could directly lead his troops into the gate to control the castle, reducing the difficulty of siege for subsequent troops.

However, when they arrived at the castle gate, they found that the defenders inside had no intention of gathering the defeated troops, and the gate had never been opened. No matter how the soldiers shouted for help, no one responded. Then they saw many soldiers cursing, taking off their equipment, picking up their weapons and rushing towards the north and south gates or residential areas.

So John could only wait outside the castle with his troops. By noon, many soldiers were too hot to run into other houses to cool off, or they made fires outside to cook, and no reinforcements arrived.

"Sweetheart, what are those guys doing? Why haven't they come yet?" John couldn't help but wonder, did these guys think that they would declare victory after taking down the outer city, and they could just ignore the soldiers in the castle, right?

"Report! Governor, we have captured some Midland soldiers. They were robbing us." Suddenly, some soldiers came to John with some soldiers equipped with Midland equipment.

"What's going on?" John was puzzled. Aren't they attacking and killing the enemy? Why did they start robbing their accomplices?

It was almost noon, and John's troops went to buy food from the local residents. Because John was very strict about military discipline, the soldiers would not rob the people unless John allowed it. The local residents also recognized the currency of Midland, because this was a city frequented by Midland merchants before, so after the soldiers gave the local people money, they were very willing to give the soldiers food. The two sides were trading well, but suddenly a group of Midland soldiers with large and small bags came out and pointed their swords at the residents of Binsey to rob them. John's troops would definitely not accept this, so they picked up their weapons and fought with the Midland troops, but they did not kill them, otherwise none of them would come back.

After the soldier said this, he brought forward a Midland officer.

"Which lord do you serve?" John asked.

"Hello, Governor. I am from Count Milo's army, and we are related to you." When the leading officer saw that it was John, he didn't dare to say anything. After all, he still remembered that his villagers had besieged the mercenaries before.

"Let me ask you, what is the mission that Count Milo gave you?" John asked.

"He asked us to pursue the enemy and attack the castle..." The officer did not dare to lie to him. What if he was killed for lying about military intelligence? So he told him the task that Count Milo had given them.

"Then what are you doing now? Do you have Count Milo's consent? Are you cooperating with us to attack the castle?" John suddenly asked.

"This..." The officer knew that of course it wasn't the case. After entering the city, he directly became a member of the Zero Yuan Purchase and had no time to attack the castle.

So John ordered the soldiers to lift the siege of the castle, led the soldiers directly to the west gate, and rode ahead with the flag, heading west.

All they encountered on the way were a bunch of Midland troops and mercenaries who were burning, killing, and looting. Many houses were not damaged in the war, but were burned by the Midland soldiers and mercenaries. John became angrier and angrier. I fought hard to clear the way for you, and you do this? They couldn't even cooperate. So he was furious and ordered his soldiers to clear the way with weapons and stop looting. If they met anyone burning, killing, and looting on the road, they would kill them directly, no matter if they were regular soldiers or mercenaries.

When I walked to a block, I saw a group of soldiers dragging a woman by her hair into the house, and a group of mercenaries were carrying large and small bags outside.

"The Governor has ordered that no one is allowed to plunder, otherwise they will be executed on the spot." John's soldiers shouted at them.

"Damn Governor, you are so old..." A small noble in Midland was about to say something, but John got off his horse and slapped him in the face. The soldiers next to him were also shocked. They thought that the soldier was only responsible for delivering the message, but they didn't expect that the real owner would follow.

"Let me ask you, what is your title, what is your official position, and who do you serve under?" John asked.

"I... am Lord Bordeaux, centurion of the Western Legion of Midland, directly under the king..." The noble was also stunned and spoke incoherently. Before he could finish his words, he was slapped by John again.

"Ignoring military orders from your superiors, talking back to your boss, and looting at will, is this what you should do as a king and a noble? Pin him down and drag him away!" John roared.

"Slow down, be gentle. I am a noble, you can't treat me like this..." The little noble wanted to say something, so John decided to continue beating him until he could no longer speak.

"Drag him away and keep moving forward." After beating him, John shook his hands, got on his horse and continued to move forward.

The effect was very significant. In front of them was John carrying the flag of the Governor of the Forest, and behind them were thousands of armed parades with weapons. In addition, the soldiers who had escaped before reminded them that when they were looting, they would stop and flee when they saw John's troops. In this way, they arrived at the city gate and saw a centurion cooking cabbage stewed with beef at the city gate. While eating, he was singing the folk tune of Mitlant:

"Eat the cabbage and roll the fat beef~, noble sir, you are not as good as me~"

Hearing the sound of the large army marching, the captain thought that some unit had returned with their harvest, so he said:

"Damn, who's here... Hey, the Governor."

"Where is Count Milo?" John asked calmly.

"The Earl is resting outside the tent outside the city," the centurion said quickly.

"Oh..." John said, and then led his troops there. The centurion took a look and saw that the troops in front were holding weapons and looked ferocious, and behind them were a group of Midland soldiers and mercenaries. It didn't look like they were going there to ask for credit. However, the centurion didn't dare to ask, because he saw the freshly-baked red palm print clearly displayed on the left cheek of the Midland centurion.

John walked to the largest tent in the camp, asked someone to keep an eye on the captured soldiers, and dragged the Midland Centurion directly to the big tent.

Count Milo was having a party with other nobles, drinking and eating. John entered the tent and threw the Midland Centurion directly in front of Count Milo.

Count Milo was startled and was about to get angry, but he saw John looking at him with red eyes. He was a little scared by being stared at, but he still asked: "What's wrong with Governor John not attacking Binsey?"

John asked directly: "My troops are fighting hard in the city, ask your soldiers what they are doing?"

As an experienced noble, Count Milo guessed it immediately. His army went directly to loot the city instead of supporting John. He also didn't know that John's troops were so efficient. They didn't go to rob but went straight to attack the castle. So he said, "Governor John, let's talk it over. If anything goes wrong, I will take full responsibility."

"The Forest Governor's troops will no longer participate in future sieges." John said and left the tent.