Berserk, Total War: Second Son of Nobles

With the complete liberation of the cultists' territory, the only thing left in the entire County of Franche-Comté is the most difficult to attack, the Aberrant Count.

The two battles caused John's troops to suffer a certain degree of casualties, mainly because of the cultists' various operations such as poisoning and using human shields. The soldiers suffered certain damages both physically and mentally.

So John wanted to add some mercenaries through the system. It didn't matter if he didn't open it. He was shocked when he saw it. The culture of other territories was Western European culture, but it directly became Satan culture here. Except for our old farmer, all the people who could be recruited were cultists. However, they were all armies that believed in Satan, and they had not really brought out Satan or other demons.

John had no choice but to recruit farmers to repair the damaged military buildings in the occupied area, and then recruit soldiers through the local military buildings. However, this would take at least a week.

So after a short rest, the troops rushed to the castle of the Count of Distortion and arrived at the final big boss stronghold of the entire earldom that afternoon.

Since the Counties of Franche-Comté were located on the border between the two countries for many years, successive counts built their capitals as military castles. After several generations of hard work, the entire castle was not only large in area, but also well-equipped with various defensive equipment.

However, the Yoda people came with cannons and catapults. After several months of bombardment and siege, the former Count of Franche-Comté had to surrender and was redeemed by Midland after being taken as a prisoner. However, this battle provided Midland with time to gather its forces, which prevented the Yoda Empire's army from making a sudden attack and breaking through Midland's defense line.

Because the battle lasted too long, the entire castle was reduced to ruins, with three of the four walls collapsed. The Yoda people had to spend several months repairing it.

In the Yoda people's vision, this castle will become a nail in their Midland border area, providing supplies to local troops and protecting the supply route from the mainland to the front line.

Ideals are beautiful but reality is cruel. The Yoda troops of Midland worked very hard to build the castle, but the Yoda troops of the Kingdom of Balden were defeated at a speed that no normal person could achieve.

General Adam's successive defeats proved to the world the Yoda speed, and also let the countries that were resisting Yoda's invasion know that the Yoda people are not invincible and they will also lose battles.

What happened next was that the Yoda people collapsed at the first blow in Barden, and the Mitlan people successfully gave the Yoda Empire a big fight in a foreign country. Now basically most of the countries on the continent have a bad attitude or are hostile to the Yoda Empire.

With the signing of the Midlan Yoda Contract and the Yoda people's retreat in disgrace, the first thing the residents here welcomed was not the Midlan army, but a group of cultists and bandits, and even a monster like the Count of Distortion.

After doing a bunch of blasphemous things, this group of people did not forget to continue building the castle, so they requisitioned all the resources that could be found in the territory to build the castle. Now they have basically completed the construction of the city wall, but the workmanship is not as good as that of Mitlan Yoda, so it is very ugly, in sharp contrast to the one built by Yoda's people, and the quality is probably not up to standard.

In the castle hall, as usual, the Distorted Count was listening to reports from all over the place. Apart from his hands that were constantly writing various documents, his other tentacles were reviewing documents, and some were taking the food handed to him by the servants beside him and putting the food into his mouth. The servant who handed him the food was trembling, because the bowl contained not food for normal people, but pieces of bloody meat.

"God's messenger, it's bad, the Midlan people are coming." At this moment, a monster with various tentacles but still human-like pushed open the door and said to the Deformed Count.

"Well, how many of them are there in total?" said the Count of Distortion as he went about his business in an orderly manner.

"About 10,000, and dozens of cannons." Following the monster soldier's report, the eyes of the Count of Distortion also turned to the monster soldier and said in a surprised tone:

"So many."

After seeing his reaction, the monster soldier quickly said: "The city wall has not been repaired yet. If they shoot at the wall with cannonballs, it will collapse directly."

"Oh, keep observing and tell me if you get any new information." The Count of Distortion said and ignored him.

After the soldiers left, Count Distortion said to a man wearing a sheep skull mask next to him:

"High Priest, what did the gods say about this battle?"

The high priest next to him was silent for a moment and then said: "This is God's test for you. If you succeed, we will have no difficulty in conquering this land."

After hearing this, the Count of Distortion thought for a moment and said, "Then High Priest, you should quickly use carrier pigeons to ask for help from believers everywhere. As long as they can support us, we can surround this army with superior forces."

"Okay, I will notify believers everywhere immediately." After hearing this, the high priest hurried out to spread the news.

Outside the castle, the flag of Midland was flying. Because the entire castle was located on a plain, John's troops easily surrounded the castle and set up cannons at the west gate which had not yet been built.

The defenders on the city wall treated it as a formidable enemy and immediately took up battle array.

John saw that everything was almost ready, so as usual, he started by firing cannons at the city gate.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

With the roar of cannons, the newly built city wall gradually began to shake. The soldiers on the wall saw that something was wrong, so they quickly got down from the wall and hid behind it.

The general guarding the city was also a humanoid monster with horns on his head. When he saw this situation, he discussed it with other officers.

"If we continue to fight like this, the city wall will collapse soon. Then they can attack us directly without any fortifications. This is very disadvantageous to us. So I thought, we should take advantage of the time when his cannons are paused, rush out and smash his cannons, and then run back, so that they will lose their siege equipment and can only fight us hand-to-hand."

John was looking at the unresponsive city gate opposite and was feeling bored when he suddenly found that the opposite side opened the city gate and was coming to kill them.

The leading troops were a group of monsters with tentacles, followed by some bandits and cultists. It looked like they were about to attack the main camp.

"Order the artillery to abandon the cannons and retreat, let the heavy musket team move forward, and the spearmen behind to protect the cannons." As John's order was given, a hundred soldiers holding Mushkot heavy muskets rushed out from the army. After placing the front end of the guns loaded with ammunition on a bracket, the soldiers waited for the order from their superiors.

"Fire! Launch!"

With the first round of firing, one hundred bullets were fired at the charging army. The bullets of this type of musket were larger and heavier than those of ordinary matchlock guns, and had stronger penetrating power. Although the opposing troops had been blessed, their bodies were still unable to withstand the bullets, and the leading monster soldier was directly pierced through the body.

After the monster soldier fell down in the eyes of disbelief, the bandits and cultists behind him were revealed, and it became easy to deal with them.

"Crossbowmen, step forward and fire!"

Following a wave of arrows, the defenders suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat back into the city walls.

At night, when the army defending the city was preparing to go to sleep, they found that for some reason, wolves were howling around the castle.

“Awooo~ Awooo~”

This kind of howling is not the howling of a few wolves, but the howling of thousands or even tens of thousands of wolves, as if they were gathering their forces to hunt.

"Oh my God, this is a wolf's den." The general defending the city was blessed, so he didn't feel very tired from not sleeping, but the noise was really disturbing. It would be better to use cannons to bombard the city gate.

"Ouch~~"

John's troops outside the city gate imitated the sound of wolves to spread noise into the city. John rode his horse and said to the soldiers:

"Soldiers, His Majesty the King has named us the Knights of the White Wolf and me the General of the White Wolf. We must act like wolves. We must use the wolf's howl to tell them that tomorrow we will eat his flesh and drink his blood. Soldiers, continue."

After saying that, he told the Knight Commander next to him: "When the shouting is almost over, let the soldiers take turns to sleep. I will go back to rest first."

After saying that, he rode back to the door of the tent, handed the reins to the groom, and then entered the tent. With the help of the servants, he took off his armor, put on his pajamas, put on earplugs, lay down on the bed, and fell into a baby-like sleep.