Berserk, Total War: Second Son of Nobles

"Governor, the Earl has not yet captured Binsey."

"Oh, then call me when he takes it down." John turned over and continued to sleep.

"Report, Governor, the Earl has ordered you to lead the soldiers to attack Binsey."

"We won't lose, will the Midland regular army be so weak?" John quickly got up, dressed and prepared to lead the troops to fight. Not going before was a temper tantrum, and not going now after receiving the order was tantamount to disobeying the order.

"Let Stephen prepare his cannon," John ordered hurriedly. When he came out of the camp, he saw Stephen tinkering with his cannon. Since there were no wheelchairs for cannons nowadays, they needed to be placed on a carriage and pulled in. Once they arrived at the destination, they would be unloaded and assembled on the spot. After assembly, it looked a bit like the Shogun's Nanban cannon.

The group slowly entered Binsai and arrived at the bottom of Binsai's inner city. Then they were shocked by the pile of corpses at the city gate. They did not expect so many people to die. The most difficult siege had obviously ended, but they still suffered such heavy casualties.

Count Milo saw them coming and hurried forward to ask: "This castle is too difficult to conquer, Governor John, do you have any ideas?"

When John saw the thickness of the city wall, he said, "You guys have no way to deal with it, so I have no idea either. I can only try the cannon."

"Stephen, install the cannon and blow open the city gate."

"Received, sir." Stephen began to prepare the artillery after receiving the order.

The nobles watched Stephen unload the cannon, and then continue to fix, install and adjust it. It took a full 20 minutes to complete the installation.

"I remember this thing is the latest artillery produced, but it is much bigger than our Midland."

"It's obvious that this is an original product customized from the Southern Kingdom. Governor John is really willing to spend money."

"But even a trebuchet can't destroy the castle, can this cannon do it?"

"It should be possible. I remember that the southern battlefield has begun to equip this kind of artillery."

Amid the discussions among the nobles, Stephen began the first round of test firing.

"Load the shells," Stephen began to order, and the artillerymen began to load shells into the cannons.

"Fire!" Stephen continued to order.

With the first artillery fire, the hot shells hit the city gate, causing wood chips to fly, but they still failed to penetrate the city gate.

"Okay, come a few more times, fire both cannons at the same time, and try to blow up the city gate for me today," Count Milo said with satisfaction. As expected, the governor's troops were really useful.

"Boom! Boom!" The continuous bombardment not only made the city gate more dilapidated, but also gradually reduced the morale of the defenders.

General Binsey was planning how to defend the castle, but when he heard that Midlan was using artillery to attack the city, he knew that things were not going well. He had seen this kind of siege weapon before when he was studying at the Yoda Military Academy. As long as it was used well, it would be very helpful in siege.

"Hurry up and order the soldiers to destroy that cannon for me. Whoever destroys that cannon will be given 100 gold coins!" General Binsey no longer cared about reason. If the cannon was not destroyed soon, it would only be a matter of time before the city gate was breached.

So the death squad composed of the defenders launched an attack directly from the city gate to the location of the artillery, and then they were hit by the shells that had just been fired. Blood and flesh splattered everywhere, and many Balden soldiers were affected by the shells. Some were hit in the head, and the soldiers behind were penetrated by the shells and hit in the arms.

"Stop shooting, retreat." Seeing this, John decisively ordered Stephen to stop attacking, and then ordered the soldiers to shoot arrows. For a while, there were casualties again. At this time, Count Milo saw that the city gates were open, so he directly ordered the soldiers to attack. It was still the familiar arrangement, with the mercenaries charging first, followed by the nobles, and then the regular army of Midland.

Seeing that the Midlan soldiers were about to attack, General Binsey quickly ordered the soldiers to ignore the people outside and quickly close the city gate. As a result, there were too many corpses at the gate and the gate was stuck. No matter how hard the soldiers tried, they could not close the gate. They could only watch the Midlan army rush into the city gate and had to engage in hand-to-hand combat with them.

General Binsey saw that this was not going to work, and took advantage of the fact that there were only a few Mitlan troops coming in, and immediately ordered: "Have my personal soldiers ready to charge with me and drive out those bastards from Mitlan."

It has to be said that General Binsey's personal soldiers were also very elite. They were all tall and strong, wearing full body metal patterned armor. In addition to the two-handed swords, they also had halberds, giant axes and other very intimidating weapons. They just hacked at the soldiers and forced the Midlan soldiers out of the castle. Then General Binsey began to command the soldiers to carry the bodies.

Count Milo saw that this was not going to work, so he quickly said to John: "Governor John, let the artillery continue firing, and don't let them close the gate again."

John could only follow his orders and let the soldiers continue to fire cannons while letting the crossbowmen continue to shoot arrows to hinder the enemy.

So the shells were transferred from the city gate to General Binsey's personal soldiers. No matter how good the armor of General Binsey's personal soldiers was, they could not stop the artillery shells. The armor was immediately dented, and the whole person vomited blood and died. The entire team of personal soldiers raised their shields on the spot, using the corpses as cover, trying to block the soldiers who were carrying the corpses behind them. Helpless, Count Milo could only watch John continue to attack, while he went to prepare the next batch of death squads.

Seeing that his personal soldiers were being consumed continuously, General Binsey was helpless. Without artillery, he would have to defend the city as long as he wanted and with the remaining food.

"Woo-woo-" Midland's charge sounded again. Count Milo ordered his soldiers to charge. At the same time, he organized the most capable men in the army into a charge team and asked them to break through the enemy's defense line head-on while the large force behind them was attacking.

"Listen carefully, as long as you can get into the castle, each of you will get 20 gold coins. Do you hear me?" Count Milo is determined this time. He will do anything as long as he can take down Babinsey.

Hearing such a generous bounty, the stormtroopers were also very excited. As the artillery fire stopped, they launched a charge towards General Benz's personal soldiers. For a while, the sound of hacking and killing was endless. The momentum and combat effectiveness of the stormtroopers directly caused General Benz's personal soldiers to retreat again and again, and finally a gap was torn open. When the Midland soldiers behind saw that they could get in, they rushed in and started fighting with the defenders. In less than an hour, General Benz was captured.

After seeing General Binsey, Count Milo ordered his men to tie him up and then take him to attack other castles in Sibalden. He believed that those nobles would know what to do.