Lord Harland

In addition to Harland's territory, the orcs gathered sixteen brigades and once again penetrated the defense line of Earl Martins' territory, annihilated a legion of redeemers, and captured Songtao Castle.

Once again, a large number of members of the Martins family died in the war.

It is said that the reason why the orcs were able to capture Songtao Castle by surprise this time was because they used many original alchemy bombs.

Alchemy bombs are considered rare weapons in the Dawn Plane. In addition to those produced by the Grant Kingdom, the alchemy bombs produced by the Elemental Heart of the Celtic Kingdom are the original ones.

In the past, when the great nobles of the Grant Kingdom went to the Magic Kingdom on the southwest coast to trade, they would usually buy small amounts.

Orcs and Markholm Magical Kingdom (Magic Council), Celtic United Kingdom (Heart of the Elements), Mountain Kingdom of Croa (Mountain Tower), Pale Land (Parliament of the Dead), Kingdom of Stormstrait (Wizard's Home) ), Palmela Icefield Kingdom (Ice Witch) and other western countries in the mid-continent have relatively many contacts.

The conflicts between these magic kingdoms and the Holy Radiant Empire are very fierce because of their beliefs and interests.

During the previous orc invasions, Grant Kingdom used a large number of alchemical bombs, and this time the orcs also returned some favors.

Unexpectedly, hundreds of alchemy bombs played such a crucial role. Not only did they completely annihilate the Redeemer Army, but they also captured Songtao Castle three times.

In just a dozen years, the Martins family was trapped in the castle three times. Even if King Roger helped borrow a loan and invested a lot of resources, they could not stabilize the situation.

It seems that after the war, the Martins family will give up their territory and develop into other areas. After all, there are not many direct members of the Martins family now.

Earl Downey Martins' close bloodline basically died out during the three falls of the castle. Now only three sons are left as hereditary barons of the original territory.

The Martins family is a hereditary baron in the province of Froda. The nobles of the province of Froda have always been loyal to the royal family. Even if they give up their northern territory and lose their status as a great noble, the Martins family is still a hereditary noble and is still far away from complete decline. Relatively far.

After years of struggle, an outstanding person was finally promoted to a great noble, but it only lasted for more than ten years.

This is the normal state of the Dawn Plane

Each level of this world is difficult to cross.

It is more difficult to maintain it after crossing over than to be promoted to a title. For example, barons such as Grumang and Vader who had climbed up from the bottom, had it not been for the strength of the monarch Richard, they would have lost their territories when faced with the orcs' attack this time.

Although Grumeng and Vader are very capable, the key to their ability to maintain their territory is the situation near the territory.

Although Earl Downey Martins was very capable, it was a pity that the external situation was not good when he was knighted, and King Charles did not provide him with support, and he eventually died at the hands of the orcs.

After Donny Martins died in the war, even if King Roger gave the Martins family resources, the outcome of the Martins family was still not optimistic.

In the past decade or so, the rise of the Harland Territory has changed the situation in northern Xinjiang, making many noble territories safer. The main reason why the coalition of nobles in Geda Province was willing to obey Richard's command was because they saw this.

After the capture of the Earl of Martins, the orcs surged along the Kaia River, and the Flamehold once again became the front line. However, the fighting power of the Mad Lion Legion far exceeded that of the defenders of Earl Martins, and they finally stabilized the situation.

With more than 30,000 orcs stationed in the upper reaches of the Kea River, the western region of the Harland Dukedom suddenly became very dangerous.

Because the western part of Haaland's territory was well developed by the Grant Kingdom, and the Wild Lion Army protected the flanks, Richard did not deploy heavy troops in this direction. The focus of Haaland's territory defense has always been the northern defense line.

If the orcs divided into several large groups and attacked the Iron Lion Castle (formerly the Barony of Harden) in a detour, the situation would become particularly dangerous.

After the situation changed, Richard mobilized 3,000 auxiliary troops to Iron Lion Castle and asked for help from Geda Province.

Now the Lach Province is surrounded on three sides by the Duke of Harland, and the Flying Eagle Castle has also become the territory of the Duke of Harland. The Flying Eagle Legion has long since been disbanded, the Grizzly Bear Legion has been transferred south, and only the Feiyan Legion is left as a second-line army.

The Gascoigne Province has too much to take care of itself, and the Mad Lion Legion has some difficulty in protecting itself in the face of the superior force of the Orcs. Only the province of Geda has not yet participated in the war and has sufficient reinforcements.

Although Richard is the Duke of Northern Xinjiang, he has no direct jurisdiction over the military garrison in the royal territory.

In order to avoid threats to their rule, the Grant royal family did not establish a complete command organization in northern Xinjiang. Not only did the four great dukes in northern Xinjiang fight independently, but they did not even have unified command of the garrisons in the three provinces under the direct jurisdiction of the royal family. To prevent someone from taking control of the Central Army in the north by virtue of their military exploits and prestige.

After Richard's letter for help was sent, the nobles of Geda Province did not make things difficult.

After all, the Duke of Haaland is the first line of defense in the province of Geda. If Richard is angered by not saving anyone and deliberately opens a passage to engage in a tacit war with the orcs, not only the Duke of Haaland but also the local nobles will suffer. With the Legion of the North.

The Duke of York refused to save him and blocked Edward's reinforcements. Therefore, Edward and the orcs tacitly fought a tacit war and deliberately let go of the defense line, allowing the orc army to pass through the Duke of Edward and invade the Duke of York. It caused a lot of harm.

Caught off guard, the Duke of York suffered heavy losses. Its population was plundered by orcs, and millions of people were massacred. Many nobles of the Duke of York and their entire families died.

Although the Grant Kingdom does not have an idiom about lips dying and teeth falling apart, they all understand the meaning of this idiom.

The noble coalition forces in Heihe County have been organized and have taken the initiative to go to the front line. The aristocratic coalition forces of Romon County and Brenner County gathered together and rushed to Iron Lion Castle to help the Duke of Harland stabilize the defense line.

At the same time, the Knights College Cavalry Regiment also began full mobilization. This elite force set off three days later. This front was led by the most experienced Viscount Romain.

As the general reserve force, the Northern Army Corps, under the command of Army Commander Rab, is ready to rush to the front line at any time.

In the eastern part of the Dukedom of Harland, the Dukedom of Jonathan is facing attacks from two legions of orcs, and at the same time it has to defend against the legendary black dragon. There is a faint tendency for these two families to unite, putting a heavy pressure on the Dukedom of Jonathan. In recent years, the Jonathan family has transferred a large number of elites to the Grand Duchy of Stanik. It is very difficult for the remaining troops to defend, let alone support operations in other directions.

The two duchies of Edward and Fox resisted the four orc legions and were also unable to provide support to the duchy of Harland.

In front of the Duchy of Harland, forty-four infantry brigades of orcs appeared, with a total strength of nearly 90,000. It can be said that the orcs regard this defense line as the focus of their attack, and the Harland Territory already has a heavy responsibility on their shoulders.

Perhaps because Richard caused many casualties to the orc army, the orcs will focus their attack on the defense line of Harland territory.

There were battlefields all over the Haaland territory, with the fiercest fighting in the direction of Grotta.

The Thirteenth Legion, the main force of the orcs, stormed Thoros's headquarters, not caring about casualties at all, as if they wanted to consume all the alchemy bombs of the defenders. The harpy scouts did not care about the casualties and fought against the magic hot air balloon squadron without hesitation. They must detect the defenders' information. This kind of scene is very rare.

In just six days since the war started, according to the battle report, forty-six harpies have been killed, and Harland's magic hot air balloon team has also been shot down by five groups, two magic hot air balloon squadrons, and only seven magic groups are left. Hot air balloons can be launched into the air for combat.

Because the fighting in this direction was too fierce, Richard dispatched a squadron of magic hot air balloons from Fort William to go to Canyon Castle for reinforcements.

In the direction of East Grotta, the orcs also fought for seven or eight days. It's just that the orcs in this direction are not foolhardy. They have divided their forces twice, trying to attack weak points and bypass the defense line.

In the mountainous area in the northern part of Baron Vito, the Sutton detachment has been hiding here for some time.

Five days ago, Sutton's detachment easily wiped out an orc auxiliary brigade, killed two hundred kobolds and a hundred wild boars, captured four squadrons of satyrs, and rescued more than two thousand human slaves.

After the war, Sutton deliberately did not clean up the battlefield, hoping to attract the main force of the orcs to the north and cooperate with the main force Martin to fight.

Unexpectedly, the orcs were not fooled and did not divide their forces to pursue Sutton's detachment. Instead, they strengthened their offensive, hoping to conquer the Double Star Castle and break through this line of defense.

So Sutton organized the human slaves to camp on the spot, and he led his troops into Baron Vito and followed the orcs outside.

Sutton's unit is a full-time professional army. Not only are the personnel high-quality, but the equipment is also very sophisticated, especially the special squadron, which is handy for conducting reconnaissance and sneak attacks.

They followed, unnoticed by the orc army.

The orc brigade faced off against the coalition of nobles. The difference in strength between the two sides was not big, both were close to two thousand. However, the quality of the noble coalition was lower and they did not dare to fight with the orcs in the field.

Even though Baron Grumang, the commander of the coalition forces, was an eighth-level warrior, he alone could not decide the outcome of the war. There were at least close to 200 professional officers in an orc brigade.

If it weren't for the weapons and equipment being far inferior to humans, and not being good at throwing crossbows, they would be worse than the main army of orcs in hand-to-hand combat.

The lower-ranked brigade of the Mad Lion Legion has only sixty professionals. If it were not equipped with alchemy bombs and explosive arrows, it would have a strong equipment advantage and would not be able to fight in the field with the orcs.

In recent days, the orc army has launched several siege battles, but they were all defeated by the noble coalition with superior equipment. The total casualties exceeded two squadrons, especially the snakemen squadron, which suffered more than 20 casualties. There were already serious casualties. Attrition.

As for the aristocratic coalition in the city, due to the poor performance of the serf soldiers, there were several collapses. Combat casualties and the implementation of battlefield discipline also resulted in 300 casualties.

However, the backbone of the nobles did not suffer many casualties, and the defenders still had enough strength to fight the orcs.

Sutton looked at the orc camp not far away and did not mobilize for battle. He decisively launched a surprise attack.

Although the Sutton detachment only has 500 soldiers, they are elite soldiers in the Harland territory. Their combat effectiveness is far superior to an orc brigade, and even more powerful than the Warcraft cavalry brigade, especially the first squadron, which wears sub-dragon leather armor. , even like a tiger descending from the mountain, it took the initiative to find the orcs, and was not afraid of close combat with the orcs.

The first squadron's assault was very fierce, easily defeating the obstruction of a squadron of quilboars.

Ordinary quilboars are unable to penetrate the defense of dragon leather armor, and the combat skills of professional soldiers are far more powerful than those of orcs.

The commander of the wild boar squadron was targeted by the elves early on and was hit by armor-piercing arrows.

After breaking through the obstruction of the Orc squadron, Sutton's detachment easily broke into the Orc camp. The demon hunters immediately spread out and fired rockets at the orc camp, setting tents, antlers, and horses on fire.

In an instant, a large plume of smoke ignited in the orc camp, and the battle situation was immediately noticed by the defenders in Vito Castle.

The two Barons Gruman and Vader were the first generation of military nobles. The first generation of military nobles were often very good at fighting and had rich battlefield experience.

After realizing that there was a problem in the orc camp, they immediately mobilized their elite troops and rushed out of the castle decisively. They wanted to cooperate with the Sutton detachment inside and outside to cooperate with the Sutton detachment to fight the orcs.

The orc captain originally planned to mobilize troops from the front camp, but when he saw this scene, he had to give up the idea and ordered the two squadrons of the front camp to stop Baron Grumang. He led the guard squadron to support the rear camp and drive away Sutton's detachment.

When the orc captain arrived with reinforcements, he immediately discovered that defeat was inevitable.

In just a short cup of tea, Sutton's detachment had killed more than 500 orcs, and about 300 orcs had been completely defeated. Counting the guard squadron brought over by the orc captain, there are only about five hundred soldiers that can be mobilized now.

The orc captain was just about to say a few words to boost morale when three feather arrows were suddenly shot from the enemy's formation.

These three feathered arrows flew extremely fast, and the arrow shafts were also extremely heavy. Their flight paths were very straight, making a strong whistling sound, and there were also dazzling light spots on the arrows.

The ones who shot these three feather arrows were Sylph and other three high-level elves. Their archery skills have reached level six. Only Richard and Thoros in the entire Harland territory can rival them.

This level of archery is already so perfect that the orc captain cannot dodge.

The sixth-level armor-piercing arrow easily penetrated the enchanted armor of the orc captain, and an arrow penetrated the orc captain's arm armor, stringing together the orc captain's arms and throat. Another arrow hit the chest of the orc captain, piercing the goggles and nailing it firmly to the chest of the orc captain.

The most powerful arrow turned out to be a tracking arrow. It was originally aimed at the head of the orc captain, but was blocked by the orc captain with his long sword. However, the arrow circled in the air and shot through the orc captain from behind. head.

Being targeted by three high-level elves, this fifth-level tauren could not survive.

Normally, it would be very dangerous for an intermediate professional to be targeted by a high elf. Because the elves are good at archery and can be promoted to high levels, their archery skills have basically reached level six.

Enemies like this, especially in the jungle, are always very dangerous.

The orc captain's goal was too obvious. As soon as he appeared on the battlefield, he was like a big light bulb. He died in the battle before he could play his role as an officer.

The commander was killed, which dealt an extremely serious blow to the orc army. The remaining orcs began to run away frantically, and in an instant Kung Fu had collapsed.

Sutton, Grumang and others gathered together. After briefly cleaning the battlefield, Sutton turned around and asked, "How are our casualties?"

"The Demon Hunter Squadron suffered the most casualties, with nine killed and sixteen lightly and seriously wounded. The First Squadron had two killed and seven wounded, and the Special Forces Squadron had one killed and one wounded. The Elf Squadron had no casualties."

Sutton nodded after hearing the staff officer's report. He thought to himself: "The last time we annihilated the Orc Auxiliary Brigade, four people were killed and nine injured. This time there were thirty-six casualties, and the total casualties were close to fifty. Although the casualties in each battle were not many, the accumulated casualties were It shouldn’t be underestimated either.”

While chatting with Baron Grumant, he told the staff officer beside him: "Tell Wilde that after breaking through the enemy's formation, the formation should not be too scattered. The main reason why the demon hunters suffered so many casualties this time is that there was no cover." , the formation is too scattered, let them learn lessons and sum up experience.”