Berserk, Total War: Second Son of Nobles

"Ah?" John encountered a report from a patrol cavalry in a nearby village while pursuing the enemy. It said that a part of the remnants of Yoda had been captured. When John opened the strategic map, it clearly showed the two latest battles, one victory and one enemy surrender. The map also did not show any enemy troops on Sibal's land. It seemed that the war was over.

"What did you do with those soldiers?" John asked.

"They stripped off all their equipment, tied them up and threw them into the fields."

“Have the villages suffered any damage?”

"In addition to the deaths of several villagers, more than a hundred villagers were injured to varying degrees, and the rest was that part of the fields in a village were destroyed."

"Then settle the villagers who died in the battle well, and give a certain amount of money to the other villagers who participated. First, plunder the enemy soldiers. If it's not enough, ask me for it. Then exempt the village whose fields were destroyed from taxes this year," John ordered. After all, no matter how much tax a village collects, it is not as much as he earns from fighting. By the way, John asked the captured soldiers to wear anklets to help farmers replant crops and stop losses in time.

Next, John and his men turned around and headed towards the latest battle point, and soon encountered the legion that captured Adam.

The reason why this legion's equipment is black is because John plans to combine this legion with Charlie's Black Watch into a large mercenary group. Otherwise, it would be unreasonable to develop too quickly. Although it is not obvious, it is easy to arouse suspicion from others. It is better to let them set up a vest, and maybe they can set up a mercenary company in the future.

"Sir, we have captured a Yoda army. Their general said they are a Yoda noble named Adam." The leading knight took John to the place where Adam was imprisoned. After opening the convertible at the back of the carriage, John found that Adam was tied up, all his armor had been taken off, and a rag was stuffed in his mouth.

"Woo woo woo!!!" When Adam saw the light appearing at the door of the carriage, he suddenly became excited for some reason.

"Take the rag away," John ordered, hoping to hear some information that would be useful to him.

However, when the knight took the rag out of his mouth, General Adam came up and said: "I am Adam, the great noble of Yoda, how dare you treat me like this? What do you want to do? You dare to hit me! I... woooo!" John slapped him in the face, and then put the rag back on him in lightning speed.

"You and your troops continue along the original route to meet up with General Charlie, and I will take these prisoners back to Pensai." John ordered, and then slowly returned to Pensai with the prisoners.

After a day of handling, Binsey basically returned to normal. The defenders in the city seized the properties of the rebellious nobles based on clues. The nobles who participated in the rebellion were basically all beheaded according to John's requirements. Their families were also moved out of Binsey and sent to the surrounding villages to live a self-reliant life. Then, except for a part of their property for their basic living, the rest was accepted by John.

Because many local merchants also participated in the local rebellion and were beheaded, the business of Pennside suffered a serious blow, so John began to deal with business issues as soon as he returned to Pennside.

"As things stand, the biggest problem is the severe shortage of merchants who are familiar with the local area," John thought, and he immediately summoned those merchants who did not participate in the rebellion.

When the merchants heard that John had summoned them, they thought that John was mad at them and they were frightened and entered John's office tremblingly. However, they were ecstatic after getting John's promise not to pursue the matter and to exempt part of the taxes. They all agreed to cooperate with John in rectifying the market and to help John's new merchants get familiar with the market conditions in Binsey. So John recruited some merchants from the system, asked them to gather at the Binsey Chamber of Commerce, and asked local merchants to help them get familiar with the market conditions and fill the market. Although there was no effect in the short term, after getting familiar with the market conditions, the merchants would gradually resume their damaged business activities.

By the way, John also gave the system merchants a task, asking them to cooperate with Simon of the Forest Territory to transport the materials and soldiers produced in the Forest Territory to Spencer, forming a solid supply line to prevent Yoda from having insufficient supplies after the counterattack.

In the next few days, John trained his troops, signed various documents, looked at Adam and slapped him, and then inspected the river defense line. The entire defense line basically consisted of building a few fortresses and watchtowers along the river. As for why the city walls were not built, it was because there was no money and no need.

During the days when John was slacking off, Count Milo was not idle either. After crossing the river, he went straight to the eastern front and found the local Count of Balden, with whom he had established a good relationship before. He was warmly received by the local Count.

That night, Count Kozon of Balden held a celebration ceremony for Count Milo and the Second Prince, thanking Count Milo for coming with his soldiers for support, and wishing Balden and Mitran a long and lasting peace. The Second Prince also promised that if he became king, he would reward him and his men.

After the banquet started, Jules found an excuse to leave. Looking at the moonlight outside, Jules missed home.

When I was a child, I couldn't wait to become a noble and become the hero in various stories. However, I found that becoming a noble was not at all like what was described in the previous stories.

There are many things to learn in the academy every day, and they are basically the same day after day. After graduation, he goes to work in the house of Count Milo. In addition to teaching mathematics to children every day, he will deal with various documents in the future. It is also a boring life. He has always felt that instead of following Count Milo, it is better to return to his hometown and make some contributions to his brother, such as collecting debts and seeing the pastoral scenery. It is much better than the boring, complicated and treacherous life in the palace.

It was not until John was promoted that he found hope, a hope that would enable him to realize his dream. If possible, he did not want to live an ordinary life or rot in the countryside without any achievements. He also wanted to have a stage to show his ability, so he placed his hopes on John, hoping that through him he could give himself a chance to show his abilities.

"That kid John should be doing well in West Balden. I hope he doesn't follow my old path," Jules sighed, then opened the wine flask to taste the wine from East Balden.

Just as he was about to drink it, Yu Le suddenly frowned and smelled it carefully.

"This wine is not right, is it medicinal wine?" Jules smelled it carefully again and found it even more wrong. He became more nervous.

"Why is this so similar to the knockout drug I put in my father's wine when I was a child?" Jules felt something was wrong. When he wanted to go back, he found that the inner gate of the castle was heavily guarded, so Jules immediately became alert.

It’s over, the whole army is going to be destroyed, Jules thought.

But Jules was still not ready to give up, so he hid in the toilet, waited for an opportunity, killed a Baldun soldier who was about to go to the toilet, and without caring about the smell, put on his equipment and prepared to go out the gate to see what the barracks were like.

As it was too dark, Count Baldung's soldiers let them pass without much scrutiny. Then Jules trotted all the way to Midland's military camp. Fortunately, everything was normal in the camp and the soldiers were doing what they were supposed to do.

Jules immediately captured a soldier and asked him to find Midland's legion commander.

The troops directly under Midland are legions, all of which are recruited by the royal family. Although their training level and equipment may not be as good as those of some great nobles, they are superior in number, uniformity, and ease of command.

The soldiers also knew Jules, and seeing how anxious he was, they quickly went to inform the legion commander.

As soon as he saw the legion commander, Jules grabbed him and whispered: "The Count of Baldun has surrendered to the enemy!"

The legion commander was shocked, and Jules explained the whole story. The legion commander also felt that it was not normal, so he prepared to lead the soldiers to rescue them. But Jules stopped him again.

"You can't do this, listen to me..." Jules whispered to the legion commander.

At the castle gate, a soldier was yawning and said to another soldier:

"Do you think the Midland army can see through our plan?"

The soldier next to him said quickly: "Don't say anything extra, what if they hear it?"

The soldier said nonchalantly, "I just saw that everyone inside was asleep. The count is having them dragged to the cell. The Midland military camp is also several hundred meters away from us, so they can't hear us."

Just then, a group of Balden soldiers were returning from outside.

"Why are you still patrolling outside so late?" asked the soldier guarding the gate.

"Yes, the amount of patrols has increased a lot recently," complained the leading officer, and the soldiers let them pass without even looking at their faces closely.

After entering the castle, Jules said to everyone: "A few of you go to the city gate and make sure it is open, and the rest of you follow me to rescue the count."

At the inner gate of the castle, the guard saw dozens of soldiers coming from a distance and said, "Which unit are you from? Didn't we agree to wait an hour before we start?"

"No, because I am here to kill you!" Jules said and stabbed the guard with his sword. The other soldiers also killed the guards. After entering the castle, they saw the servants of the castle carrying the unconscious Midland nobleman, and the panicked Count Cosson was standing next to him.

Jules threatened Count Baldung with a sword and said, "Have your men carry the nobles of Midland out of the city quickly."

Count Cosson had no choice but to have the nobles of Midland carried and followed Jules outside the castle.

Outside the castle, Baldun's army surrounded the castle in three layers. Jules held Count Cosson hostage with a sword, stood at the outermost, and shouted to the Count: "Get your people away quickly!"

After hearing this, Count Cosong quickly said to the soldiers: "Did you hear what he said? Leave quickly!" The soldiers of Balden had no choice but to obey the Count's order and make way.

Just when Jules and his men had just met up with the commander of the Midland Legion, fireworks were launched from somewhere, and suddenly a group of Yoda's soldiers rushed out from around the military camp. Jules saw this and could only hand Count Milo over to the legion commander and said to him: "You take the count and the troops and quickly flee westward, and I will take people to stop them." After that, he carried Count Kozon and rushed towards the enemy.

The Midland nobles and mercenaries who had let down their guard were totally unprepared in the face of the enemy. They could only fight hastily, and soon they collapsed and surrendered. Jules saw the Yoda people approaching him step by step, and continued to hold Count Kozon hostage: "If you come any closer, I will..." Before he could finish his words, he was suddenly shot in the shoulder holding the sword by a crossbow arrow, and the sword immediately slipped out of Jules' hand, and Count Kozon also hurriedly fled.

At this time, a man wearing gorgeous clothes appeared from the shadows. His hair was the same brown as the second prince's. He rode a white horse and held a crossbow. After looking at Jules, he said to Count Cozon, "Let's go. Take me to see my good second brother."

Count Milo slowly woke up from his sleep. In his dream, he felt like he was being carried on someone's back for a while and then rode in a carriage for a long time, which made him feel like vomiting.

When he got up, he saw the legion commander standing by and asked, "Why am I in the carriage?"

The trembling Legion told what happened last night and the current situation of Jules's life or death. Count Milo was shocked and sobered up instantly. Then he could only tremble and didn't know what to say. When he returned to Binsay and saw the confused John, Count Milo could only say: "John... your uncle is gone."