Berserk, Total War: Second Son of Nobles

Summer 1444, Mitlan Camp in the Mitlan-Yuda Junction Forest

After agreeing with Conseil to send a report within seven days and sending off Conseil's army, John began to check the territory module of his system.

territory:

Forest Territory (nameable)

Population: 601 (the population here refers to the number of people who obey their rule)

Regional development: 5% (primeval forest protection is good)

You can build: dirt roads, medieval houses, churches, parade grounds, wooden forts...

Stability: 10% (enemy invasion, unexplored area, no inhabited areas, thieves rampant)

Prosperity: 0

Manpower: 0

Taxes: 0

After reading this, John feels that there is still a long way to go. Next, he will look at the recruitment

"No buildings, no recruitment"

Okay, we have to build it.

Then John looked at the employment template

Mountain folk: 200 people, recruitment fee 1 gold, maintenance fee 1 gold (building enough houses can exempt taxes)

Thieves' group: 200 people, recruitment cost 3 gold, maintenance cost 1 gold

Poacher: 100 people, recruitment cost 3 gold, maintenance cost 1 gold

……

"It seems that mountain people are the basic manpower, so let's recruit them to build the town first."

So John recruited two teams of mountain people to build houses and wooden forts, and went out with the thieves to rob the baggage of the Yoda Empire, obtaining enough supplies. He even once captured the workers who were sent to mine, and occupied the quarry and iron mine.

As John fought to support the war, after a month of hard work (burning), diligence (killing), labor (force) and plundering), he finally built a city that looked decent. Although it was still very simple, it looked livable and at least he didn't have to sleep in a tent anymore.

"Ding, your city has been built, please name the city"

Since this was John's first city, the city was named after John.

City:Johannesburg (Woodenburg)

Architecture: wooden forts, houses, city walls, dirt roads, farmland...

Population: 1001

Prosperity: 0

At present, Johnburg has sufficient food and complete weapons, and the time is right to start the battle.

So John recruited two teams of thieves, five teams of poachers, five teams of mountain people, and even two teams of wandering knights as guards.

As the name suggests, wandering knights are knights who have lost their land. Most of them are illegitimate children or second sons in the family. Their families cannot provide them with territories, so they can only buy weapons and horses for them to go out and explore. Some wandering knights will choose to participate in the arena to make a living with prize money. Those who are good-looking and well-off will be spotted by a lady and live together. Of course, a large number of wandering knights go directly to the battlefield. Years of military life have made them abandon useless aristocratic manners and prejudices, and begin to focus on training martial arts or other skills, such as calculation, geography, medicine, engineering, diplomacy and a bunch of other skills that can be used. If these people have military merits, they will be appreciated by other lords and get a job, so as to better obtain a territory and establish their own family.

With these people, John began the conquest in the woods. The first one was Yoda's military camp. Due to the previous strategy, the Yoda stronghold here had been beaten to pieces by the Midlan army. Only some small fish and shrimps were left, and they were taken away in one wave.

A robber's den

"Boss, Yoda's dog army has been driven away. We can go down the mountain to rob now."

"Okay guys, let's go down the mountain to rob tomorrow. I've been so depressed these past few days. Let's go down and grab some valuables."

"Report! It's bad! The Midlan army is coming towards us!"

"Boss, what should we do?"

"What can we do? Retreat. Take away everything you can and run!"

Next came some bandits. John divided his troops into three groups and defeated them one by one. He beheaded all the bandit leaders and threw the other bandits into various mines as coolies, thus forming a sustainable system of exhausting the resources.

Five generals were born during these wars. Although their attributes were mediocre, they were still usable.

Then John began to carry out large-scale infrastructure construction in the forest. With Johanburg as the center, five castles were built around it, each named after a general. Roads were built in the middle to facilitate communication. Then John began to upgrade Johanburg, upgrading it into a stone castle.

"Ding Dong, city upgrade, unlock the Chamber of Commerce, Intelligence House, and Standing Military Camp"

Chamber of Commerce: Can recruit merchants

Intelligence House: You can recruit spies and assassins

Standing military camp: Based on the size and population of the city, it will automatically recruit a certain number of soldiers for defense in times of war, and will automatically disband when the war ends.

Okay, with this, we don’t have to worry about the city being attacked because there are no soldiers left.

So John organized people to build the new buildings, and after two weeks of construction, all the buildings were completed.

John spent 15 gold coins to recruit merchants, spies, and assassins respectively.

Simon the Merchant is a middle-aged man in fancy clothes and beer jackets, with a large hat and a moustache.

"Good day, sir, I am the head of your private chamber of commerce. My name is Simon. Thank you for hiring me to do business." Simon first took off his hat, bowed, and thanked John.

"Simon, I need to know how the Chamber of Commerce works," John asked.

"Okay, sir. As you can see, the Chamber of Commerce is taking advantage of the information gap between materials in different places to capture the demand for goods in different places, and then resell them to make a profit."

"Do you think my territory has any specialties that can be sold?"

"Excuse me, Your Excellency, your territory currently does not need any other cities. Of course, if it is population, it would be a good choice."

John would definitely disagree with this. Although these were his good brothers who were worth 1 people for 200 gold coin, they were still his people after all. If he bought them, he would lose their people's hearts.

"Okay Simon, I need to send you to the city behind Midland to recruit craftsmen, preferably those who can make iron tools and cannons, and buy some cannons and shells."

"Okay, sir. Although during the war, artillery and shells may be classified as military supplies and prohibited from being bought and sold, I will still try my best."

"Then I wish you success in returning with what I want."

So the merchant Simon set out on the road to buy supplies. Since the Chamber of Commerce had its own convoy of 5 horse-drawn carriages, Simon did not prepare too much cargo. He just loaded some food, water and some money into the car, and left quickly. John could also clearly sense Simon's specific location.

The next spy is named Wesker, an ordinary Western European man, very ordinary even.

"I thought spies were all masked, gloomy people," John joked.

"If the man you are talking about is a spy, he would be hanged on the city wall by the enemy on his first mission. My lord, the most important thing for a spy is to bring intelligence back to the destination safely." Wesker replied.

"Okay, I need you to go south to the vicinity of Dordorei and find out the battle situation on the front line."

"Got it, my lord. I will reply you by carrier pigeon. If you receive it, please write me back." After Wesker said this, John rewarded him with a horse and he left.

"Then next is the assassin" John thought as he looked at the assassin.

The assassin's name was Cyril, which was quite consistent with his imagination. He was wearing a black tights with throwing knives and other assassination equipment hanging around his waist, carrying two daggers, a crossbow on his back, and his entire head was wrapped in a hood.

"Good day, sir, thank you for recruiting me to a profession I excel in" Cyril knelt on one knee to express his gratitude.

"Get up," John told him to stand up.

"Thank you, sir," Cyril stood up.

"There is no target that needs you to assassinate at the moment, so you will be responsible for my daily safety," said John.

"Yes, sir" Cyril nodded and stood next to John.

"I thought you were going to jump onto the beams or use a smoke bomb to hide yourself."

"The kind you're talking about only exists in novels," Cyril said.

"Well, at least the leadership is functioning," John thought.