Berserk, Total War: Second Son of Nobles

After some analysis, John decided to attack the city guarded by the Yoda people first.

As the saying goes, you have to look at the owner before you beat the dog. So I will go up and beat the rebel's owner directly. This will have a very strong deterrent effect on the remaining rebels, and then I can use the method of persuading them to surrender to capture the castle without loss.

So after a day's rest, John led his 10,000 men, including his artillery unit, and rushed towards the Yoda castle. As for the commander of the civilian organization, he had already returned to the enemy-occupied area to engage in guerrilla warfare.

After arriving at the Yoda people's castle, John ordered his men to persuade them to surrender.

A soldier holding a shield asked from a few dozen meters away from the castle: "We, the Midlan army, are willing to accept the surrender of the Yoda people. Our army will treat prisoners kindly. As long as you are willing to lay down your weapons and open the city gates..." Before he finished speaking, an arrow was stuck on the soldier's shield, and the soldier quickly raised his shield and retreated to a distance.

When John saw this, he decided to drink a forfeit because he didn't want to accept the toast, so he started firing!

"Fire!" Stephen ordered the soldiers to open fire. With a few loud bangs, fourteen cannons fired at the same time. The shells landed accurately on the city gates, walls, castles and other places. In addition to killing and wounding some Yoda soldiers, they also created one crater after another on the city gates and walls.

"Order the artillery to bombard the city gate collectively." John ordered.

"Artillery, adjust the direction to the city gate... Ready, fire!" Stephen adjusted the cannon according to John's order and fired again. This time the shells hit the city gate accurately, creating one crater after another in Yoda's thickened city gate.

"Okay, keep going!" John ordered.

Under repeated bombardment, no matter how thick the city gate was, it was shaken continuously by the cannons, and the Yoda soldiers behind were also frightened. They held their weapons tightly and waited for the enemy to charge.

After some time, the gate finally couldn't hold out and was blown open, revealing the Yoda soldiers in a defensive posture behind the gate. At this time, Yoda's officer said: "Everyone, the Mitlans are about to charge, hold this place, as long as we don't retreat, as many Mitlans as they come will die, I'm saying this, kill a Mitlan soldier and you'll get 1 gold coin!"

Yoda's soldiers were very excited when they heard this. A defensive battle? It's not like they haven't fought before. Besides, as long as they can hold on, they can get a lot of money. At worst, they can quit after winning the battle and go home to get a few more pieces of land, hire a few serfs and become a small landlord.

Then they saw John's artillerymen begin to reload their ammunition again.

Yoda Soldier: ????

"See that Yoda soldier? Fire at him!" John ordered.

So the artillerymen turned their cannons towards the Yoda soldiers behind the city gate.

Yoda Soldier:!!!

"Light the fire!" Stephen ordered.

For a moment, the shells went straight through the city gate and hit the Yoda people's shield wall. For a moment, the Yoda people were either killed or injured. Some were slightly scratched, while others were seriously amputated or died on the spot from being hit in the head, chest or abdomen. Only a few who were at the back saw that the situation was not right and quickly hid behind the city wall, and then saw their companions' limbs scattered out of the city gate.

For a while, there was no one guarding the city gate. Everyone hid behind the city wall. No matter how the officers beat and scolded them, no one dared to go there.

"This is difficult," John looked at the empty city walls and gates. If he rushed, there would definitely be losses, but if he didn't, it would be a waste of time.

“Oh, by the way, didn’t I bring that Adam here?” John suddenly thought.

"You, ride back and tie Adam up here for me." John found a knight and said, then ordered the artillery to continue bombarding the arrow tower and other defensive measures on the opposite side. For a moment, the entire castle began to shake due to the cannon fire, and the soldiers under the city wall began to be at a loss.

"How many troops do we have now?" asked Commander Yoda.

"There are only about 2000 of them," the officer replied. They had retreated here after being defeated in the Battle to Defend the Royal Capital, but now they couldn't even get out.

"Or let's surrender," said a Yoda officer. His words immediately caused a heated debate among the people around him. Some said that a brave man would not suffer a loss in front of him and that a real man could bend and stretch. Others said that not surrendering was against the spirit of chivalry. If it weren't for the next round of artillery fire, they would have argued for the whole morning.

"Stop arguing. He has a lot of Midlan cannons, but his ammunition will be reduced. He can't keep bombarding with cannons. Wait until his cannons are used up." Commander Yoda was annoyed by their quarreling and could only say this.

John obviously knew about this situation, so he ordered Stephen who was about to ignite the fire: "Stop for a while, wait a moment, trick them, and then blow up when they show their heads."

The Yoda people waited for a long time, but there was no artillery fire, and they couldn't help feeling puzzled.

"Did the Midlanders run out of ammunition?" temporary commander Yoda thought, so he found an officer:

"You, go and take a look!"

The officer who was called could only tremble and walk to the city wall with a telescope. He used the telescope to look at the Midland artillery. After seeing that they did not continue to load the cannon, he immediately went down the city wall and said to the temporary commander Yoda:

"The Midlanders are no longer reloading their artillery, they seem to be out of shells!"

"Okay, everyone, hurry up and continue to guard the city walls and gates. Don't let the Midlan people rush in!" Commander Yoda quickly gave the order.

Soon, batches of Yoda troops climbed up the city wall, and there was a team of Yoda soldiers guarding the city gate. John saw that it was almost time and quickly ordered Stephen to light the fire.

"Fire!" Stephen ordered.

At the same time, more than a dozen shells hit the city walls and the city gates. The Yoda soldiers who had just come up didn't even have time to react before they were hit by shells that came from nowhere. Suddenly, the city walls and the city gates were filled with corpses of Yoda soldiers. At this time, no matter how stupid the Yoda soldiers were, they knew that they were fooled by the Midlan people, and they quickly withdrew from the city walls. Even if there was no shelling for a long time afterwards, they could not catch up with the city walls.

At this time, Adam was also brought in tied up. As soon as he got off the horse, the knight pressed Adam to find John. When John saw him, he said to him directly:

"Go and make those Yodas in the castle surrender."

"I, Adam, am the most powerful noble in the Yoda Empire..."

"Pa" John gave him a big slap on the face with his backhand.

"Are you going to tell me or not? If not, I will chop you up right here and sacrifice you to the emperor!"

"I said I said."

Adam quickly took a shield and arrived at the bottom of the castle under the escort of the soldiers.

"Hey! Can you hear me? I'm Adam. Please ask your general to come see me."

In the city wall, Commander Yoda heard a very familiar voice, but it felt a little unfamiliar, so he said to an officer:

"You, go and see what the Midlanders are shouting about?"

The officer went up to the wall, took a look and then spoke to Commander Yoda.

"Nothing. Mitlan captured a man and said he was our General Adam. I think the Mitlan people think we are fools. I have seen General Adam before, and he is not that thin at all."

The more Commander Yoda thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. The more he listened to the voice, the more he felt it was the same. So he quickly went up to the city wall to take a look. As soon as he looked up, he saw the man with yellow hair directly under the city wall.

"Hurry up! Call your general over here, I have something to say to him!" General Adam shouted, his throat was almost smoking, but no one came out.

"Hey, General Adam, it's me." Commander Yoda recognized it was Adam at a glance and quickly shouted to him.

"You kid, quickly order your men to lay down their weapons and surrender," said General Adam.

"Ah? But..." Commander Yoda was about to say something when he was scolded back by Adam.

"Hurry up, you are the higher official here and I am the higher official, so follow my orders," General Adam said quickly. He felt someone behind him was about to stab him with a knife.

"Okay, it's done," Commander Yoda thought.