Berserk, Total War: Second Son of Nobles

Another month passed, and during this month, John hurriedly celebrated his birthday and received congratulations from his parents in his hometown and various nobles.

At the same time, as the mercenary company settled down and made profits, more and more funds were collected into John's finances, becoming another source of income for John.

At this time, John was watching the experiment of the new gunpowder unit in the alchemy workshop.

I saw a soldier carrying a musket about 1.8 meters long. He placed the front end of the gun on a bracket and then held the butt of the gun, aiming it at the armored scarecrow in front of him.

"Fire!" With the order, the soldier pulled the trigger, and a large amount of smoke was immediately produced. Then the scarecrow in front made a puff of sound, and a big hole penetrated the armor and the scarecrow's body and hit the wall behind.

"Okay, it's finally done." John nodded with satisfaction after seeing the result.

htb The Spanish Moushcott matchlock musket, a special unit of the army, is more of a small cannon than a gun. Apart from being bulky and only able to fire from the front row, as long as there are enough of them, it can form an effective firepower network against heavy cavalry and large creatures, of course, only limited to field battles.

In addition to the development of muskets, there was also the development of cannons. Thanks to the craftsmen brought back by John, many types of cannons were developed.

For example, a rocket car, of course, could not be the modern rocket car, which uses gunpowder to launch arrows, often in piles, mainly to attack enemy soldiers.

There is also an organ cannon, because the craftsmen John brought back can make this kind of thing, and as long as the mold is made, it can be put into production.

"Sir, your cannon is too big. The factory currently does not have such a large mold and transportation equipment. Even if it is built, installation will be a problem." A craftsman said to John while holding a blueprint.

"Let's talk about this later," John said as he looked at the blueprint of the siege cannon.

This kind of cannon, as the name suggests, is used to open holes in city walls and gates during sieges. However, it certainly cannot be built at the moment. It cannot be transported by ox carts and horse carriages alone, so we need elephants or something like that.

However, there are currently no herds of elephants in Midland. There are usually circuses and zoos. It is said that the Southern Kingdom has traded elephants with pagans, but it is rare.

John thought about it and decided to give up. Dordorei was not his job anyway, so he shouldn't put his energy into such a thankless task.

After a month of recuperation, most of the wounded have been rested and their armor has been repaired. John can now deploy about 8000 troops to fight. In addition to the defense of the Forest Territory, some soldiers need to be stationed at the border of Yoda, and there are about troops that can be deployed. Of course, John also has a militia that can be mobilized, but this kind of troops can only play defense at best and are definitely not good at straight-line attacks.

So John also needs to use his mercenary bonus to hire more cheap soldiers.

The soldiers also had to solve the problem of food. The grain that local farmers handed over every harvest was definitely not enough. They also needed more grain produced in the Midland Plains.

As the mercenary company continued to expand, it also began to communicate with various merchants and nobles. By giving them some contractual benefits, these people were willing to help the company raise food and buy it at a reasonable price. As the actual beneficiaries and leaders of the local area, these people were much more efficient than the above paper documents. After all, the boss gave you work, and the people who cooperated with you gave you money. Normal people know when to slack off and when to work hard.

In addition to soldiers' money and food, John also needs more information about the local area. At present, it seems that the previous earl here was driven away by the Yoda people, and the king took pity on him and gave him a court earl. The current army coming to Midland does not have the ability to retake this place, so John was sent here.

But because of the signing of the contract, the Yoda people withdrew from here and would not return until March of next year, which meant that John had about six months to recapture and build fortifications here.

In this territory, John has seen three main forces so far: two gangs of robbers took advantage of the Yoda people's withdrawal from the city and occupied several castles to dominate, with a total of about 1000 people; and a group of people similar to humanoid monsters occupied the earldom. According to the map troop cards, in addition to some ordinary bandits and bullies, he also has a team similar to Chaos Forsaken, who are speculated to be pseudo-apostles. However, at present, there seems to be nothing special about them, they just look a bit like Chaos Eggs, but their number is very large, about 5000 people.

Therefore, the entire Earldom of Franche-Comté plus some stragglers can currently gather a combat force of about 10,000 people. Although John does not know how the Yoda people can still keep so many people after so many years of torture, John's current mobile forces are definitely not enough. In addition, for future defense, John must leave 5,000 people stationed in this area, so John currently has at least 15,000 mobile forces.

It seems that John started a new round of hiring by clicking on the system's mercenary panel.

Hmm... the number of troops that can be hired has increased significantly.

Looking at the dazzling array of troops, John was again in a dilemma of making a decision.

What John's troops currently lack is heavy cavalry. Although some of the heavy cavalry defined in the game do exist in real life, this is not the case in the world of Berserk. The knights in Berserk, especially Yoda's, are particularly perverted.

"Hey, htb also has hired French knights." John looked and saw htb's hired French knights. Different from the ordinary ones, the French knights in this module became armored horses, with stronger mobility and combat effectiveness, and the money was not much more expensive.

That's you, hire the French knights! John waved his hand and directly clicked 10 teams, and gold coins were gone in an instant.

Then came all kinds of heavy infantry, mercenary crossbowmen, and some Highland troops, which cost John about 2000 gold coins in total, and he recruited about troops. As for why he stopped recruiting, it was because he had no place to live, and it would not be too late to recruit locally when the time came.

A few days later, John stood on the platform and looked at the troops of about 10,000 people below. Troops from other places were still arriving, but John was now ready to recover his legal territory.

"Soldiers! Although we have worked hard to manage this piece of land, we can't guarantee that it will be taken back someday. However, His Majesty the King has given me a piece of territory that belongs to me. I can freely reward people in this territory. However, there is a group of people in our territory who act recklessly. Do you think we should agree to this?"

"No! No!" the soldiers shouted.

"Okay! His Majesty the King has named me General White Wolf. Wolves are a group of animals that gather together to eat meat. Let's go together, tear the enemy to pieces, eat their flesh, drink their blood, and kill them until they get out of our territory!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill!" The soldiers' roars resounded in the sky over the forest.

John's own war began.