Lord Harland

The news of Leader Harland's recruitment of mercenaries spread not only in the United Kingdom on the East Coast, but also in the Kingdom of Delon, the Grand Duchy of Stanik, and the Kingdom of Lane. Richard arranged secrets and dispatched intelligence agencies to carry out activities. Even in Nolan City, Harland Leader is recruiting mercenaries on a large scale.

In order to give full play to the subjective initiative of the mercenaries, Richard also formulated a special decree. As long as the soul crystal can be produced, the Harland leader will reward the meritorious service.

Such a decree has actually destroyed the military title system to a certain extent. After all, wealthy businessmen can purchase soul crystals at a premium and accumulate merit through money.

The promulgation of this decree was a decision made by Richard after careful consideration.

After the decree was promulgated, Odaye and other Haalandland capitalists also established mercenary groups one after another. In order to improve the quality of the mercenary groups, Haalandland capitalists paid high prices, cooperated with the intelligence agencies, and poached people from other territories.

After more than twenty years of development, not only the intelligence forces of the great nobles of the Grant Kingdom have penetrated into the Harland Territory, but the Harland Territory intelligence department has also successfully penetrated into the territories of other great nobles.

Since the establishment of Harland Leader, Richard has always attached great importance to the intelligence system.

When the territory was first established, Richard appointed Hayden to manage the intelligence department. Later, because Hayden was not suitable, he transferred the more capable Noel to take charge. Even the working methods of the intelligence department were formulated by Richard himself. After all, Richard had watched many spy movies in movies, TV shows, and novels in his previous life. His understanding of the intelligence department was far greater than that of people like William and Hayden.

At the beginning of the establishment of the intelligence department, a single-line contact work system was established for foreign intelligence work, and then it was organized into an organizational structure of intelligence groups and intelligence stations.

For internal intelligence work, the Department of Homeland Security has been established to disperse activities in various provinces and counties in the Haaland territory. The Department of Homeland Security mainly performs general intelligence collection and counter-intelligence work within the territory.

In addition, Richard also established a Military Intelligence Bureau, which was subordinate to the military leadership and mainly collected military intelligence.

These three lines are not affiliated with each other. The combined intelligence system has more than 20,000 employees. The largest number of them is the Department of Homeland Security. This department has more than 4,000 armed forces, plus civilian personnel scattered throughout the territory. The total number of people has exceeded ten thousand.

But what Richard attaches most importance to is the foreign intelligence department. This department now has four branches, of which the Grant Kingdom branch is the largest, with thirteen intelligence stations under its jurisdiction. The East Coast United Kingdom Branch and the Delong Kingdom Branch have also developed rapidly, each with more than a thousand intelligence personnel.

The Lane Kingdom Intelligence Branch was established not long ago. It mainly relies on Stanik's intelligence activities. Together with the Stanik Grand Duchy Intelligence Station under its jurisdiction, the total number of people is only more than 300.

The General Directorate of Foreign Intelligence actually controls the Harland Territory smuggling department. It can not only collect intelligence and spread news, but also crack down on the enemy's commercial development and secretly promote the expansion of the Harland Territory market.

Due to the establishment of a single-line contact system, Haaland's intelligence department has been very cautious in its activities. Although it has suffered some losses in recent years, it has not been uprooted.

After discovering the legendary magical plant the Dream Tree three years ago, Haaland Intelligence has become even more elusive.

The dream tree is a very special magical plant that can be used on the spot magic radio station. After obtaining the dream tree, Richard immediately took off the leaves of the dream tree and let the station chiefs of the Foreign Intelligence Service take them. Richard has left a mark on the dream tree and can enter the subconscious mind of the heads of various intelligence stations in his sleep.

Leader Harland's current intelligence transmission mainly relies on dreams, and of course he will not leave any loopholes for the enemy.

At the beginning of September, Richard passed the dream and assigned the task of recruiting mercenaries to the person in charge of the intelligence station. By mid-October, more than 5,000 mercenaries had poured into Pulilan City intermittently.

The mercenary groups of the major kingdoms are deeply involved with the nobles. Harland's large-scale recruitment of mercenaries actually weakened the strength of other kingdoms. Soon the major kingdoms issued decrees prohibiting mercenaries from leaving the country, and strengthened counter-intelligence work to crack down on the intelligence departments of Harland.

Unfortunately, it was still impossible to organize the dissemination of the news. A large number of mercenaries quietly entered the Harland Territory through various smuggling channels. In just two or three months, the Harland Territory strengthened 5,000 mercenaries.

Due to the addition of five thousand mercenaries, the food in the Puliland area was no longer enough. In order to replenish supplies for the Puliland area, Richard, Sophia, and Undine took action personally, using the Star Bottle and the Space Orb. , legendary space bags and other space equipment, it took half a month to replenish more than 3,000 tons of food for Pulilan.

Harland Territory already has three legendary space props, which can transport 700 tons of grain at a time. In addition, nearly forty ordinary space props have been accumulated, all of which are in the hands of territorial magicians. Together, these space props can transport 500 tons of food at a time. Just adding up the space props, one trip to Pulilan can transport 1,200 tons of supplies.

Richard took Harland to lead the mage group and rode the Iron Wildebeest. It only took five days to get from Fort William to Pryland City.

The high-level magician and the legendary space bag make the transportation efficiency a bit higher than that of a steam train. It's just that steam trains can be spread all over the Harland Territory, and the number of legendary space equipment is limited. Richard, Sophia, and Undine cannot serve as transport troops all year round.

As for handing over precious legendary props such as the Star Bottle and the Space Orb to a magician of average strength, Richard is not considering it at all. Once the precious space props are lost, the Harland leader will be unable to bear the burden.

The small town of Belayni is located 80 kilometers north of Puliland. It is a newly built town.

This was originally a land reclamation point where human slaves settled, and tens of thousands of acres of farmland have been reclaimed nearby. However, the Orc Empire's planting technology is relatively primitive, and they basically rely on the sky for food and slash-and-burn farming.

After all, most of the prisoners captured by the orcs were serfs. Serfs basically did not receive any education and did not understand mathematics, so naturally they could not build water conservancy projects. It is difficult for a small number of captured nobles to serve the Orc Empire. After all, under the rule of the Orcs, the status of human beings is very low. They are often reduced to food and cannot get any respect.

Therefore, although the Orc Empire has captured thousands of slaves, it lacks talents and its productivity has not been greatly improved.

After the Harland Kingdom captured the city of Prilan this year, the human slave settlement was burned down by the orcs, and all the human slaves were slaughtered.

When Richard led his troops to the vicinity, he also discovered some ghosts with shocking resentment. The pastor of the Church of the Dawn who accompanied the army purified the ghosts, and Harland led the army to station here for a period of time and briefly built some city defenses. Later, this place was used as a logistics stronghold.

When Haaland led the army back to northern Xinjiang in May, Pulilan's defense strength was insufficient, so he gave up here.

In October, various mercenary groups rushed to Pulilan and stationed here again to prepare for long-term operations. In the end, Rand Belayni, the most powerful one, decided to name this stronghold Beleyni Town.

Rand Belayni also has aristocratic ancestry. He is a member of the Earl of Belayni family of the United Kingdom on the East Coast. However, the Belayni family has been multiplying for more than five hundred years. The population of Belayni ancestry exceeds 50,000 people. De's generation no longer has aristocratic status.

But Rand's start was still much better than ordinary people.

Because Rand's lineage has a complete extraordinary inheritance, the White Bird Breathing Technique in his hand can be practiced to the legendary level. The first Earl of the Bereny family, Eugene Bereny, was a legendary warrior who rose from ordinary people to great aristocracy. Although Rand's ancestor became a poor man, the complete breathing method was still left to future generations.

Rand was very talented in practicing breathing techniques. Although he had no one to guide him, he got into the practice by relying on his own guessing. In his thirties, he was promoted to a seventh-level warrior and became the underworld worker for Count Belaini. people. But in his heart, he still wanted to restore his aristocratic status and be promoted to the hereditary aristocracy.

Unfortunately, the reality of the East Coast United Kingdom leaves very few opportunities for the middle and lower classes. The territory of the United Kingdom on the east coast has basically been developed. If you want to gain military titles and win over new nobles, you can only seize the territories of surrounding countries. Asking the East Coast nobles to give up their territories and grant them to officers who have made meritorious deeds is equivalent to cutting off the flesh of the royal family and the nobles, and is simply impossible.

However, the surrounding countries, the Kingdom of Grant in the north and the Kingdom of Sith in the south, are obviously more powerful than those on the east coast. Although the Kingdom of Delon in the west is weak, it is now an ally against Grant. If you want to be crowned on the east coast, you need to cross many paths. There are many invisible thresholds. Unless you are promoted to legend, you can only succeed.

Rand is now forty-six years old. It has been almost five years since he was promoted to the ninth level warrior, but the title of knighthood is still far away. Because it was very difficult to become a knight in the United Kingdom on the east coast, Rand had always planned to go to other countries. After hearing the news about the Harland leader recruiting mercenaries, he ignored the objections of Count Berene and took the company he created with him. The mercenary group came to Harland Territory.

More than a thousand mercenaries from the United Kingdom on the east coast entered Harland Territory. When they came to a strange place, these people would naturally stick together. Rand had a high professional level and a great reputation. He handled things fairly and soon became The core of this group of people.

In the Heart of Fire Tavern, Rand had just drank a glass of high-strength liquor. The hot liquor entered his body down his throat, making Rand's face turn red instantly.

"It's still the northern Xinjiang liquor that makes me enjoy myself."

Rand put down the glass and muttered to himself, then heard Stam, the squadron leader of the Bloodfang Mercenary Group, rushing into the tavern.

After entering Harland Territory, Rand had already changed the name of his mercenary group. After obtaining the consent of the main backbone, they named the Bloodfang Mercenary Group, hoping to bid farewell to their past life and get a new life in the Harland Territory.

"What's the matter, so anxious?"

"A lot of undead were found in the forest sixty kilometers north of Belaini."

Stam is a sixth-level warrior who was trained by Rand. Rand was a very open-minded person and had the ambition to become a hereditary noble since he was a child. After being promoted to an intermediate professional in his twenties, he relied on the legendary breathing method to start cultivating ordinary people from serfs and civilians.

After more than twenty years of accumulation, Rand already has a reliable private army in his hands. Precisely because many of them were trained by him, Rand was able to take away this powerful mercenary from the great nobles.

The Bloodfang Mercenary Group now has three squadrons, with a total of about 450 people.

"Is the news reliable?"

"Very reliable. The first force to discover this undead force was the Wyvern Knights. However, because there were too many undead, the six Wyvern Knights could not destroy the enemy, so a recruitment order was issued to nearby mercenaries."

"There is no other news from the Wyvern Knight?"

"The news has been notified to Pulilan City, and the commander of the Grumang Army has ordered the Griffin Knights to dispatch to intercept this large group of undead. Through the investigation of the flying arms, the number of this undead is about 200,000, and now it appears in The ones in the forest may be the vanguard, but no trace of the intelligent undead has been found yet.”

After hearing the news was correct, Rand immediately stood up, summoned mercenaries, and headed towards the virgin forest sixty kilometers away.

Although the number of undead is very large, Rand himself is not worried at all.

Because the undead have no intelligence and rely entirely on instinct for their actions. One first-level human soldier may not be able to defeat one first-level undead, but a hundred human professional soldiers can defeat thousands of undead.

Because humans are intelligent and can use their brains.

In wars, especially on battlefields where the fighting range is vast and the space for movement is large, humans can use strategies to lure and ambush the undead.

Although the Bloodfang mercenary group led by Rand has not been stationed in the town of Belayni for a long time, it has already fought more than a dozen wars with the undead. In many battles, the Bloodfang mercenary group only lost more than thirty people, but the death There have been more than 5,000 undead in their hands.

More than five high-level undead have died in Rand's hands.

From the hands of these undead, the Bloodthorn Mercenary Group seized two high-level soul crystals, sixteen medium-level soul crystals, and one hundred and sixty low-level soul crystals. According to Harland's standards for receiving rewards, Rand not only exchanged more than a dozen enchanted armors and improved the equipment of the mercenary group, but the Bloodthorn Mercenary Group also accumulated eight great achievements.

Of course, these meritorious deeds do not belong to Rand alone, but to the nearly 500 members of the Bloodfang Mercenary Group as a whole.

Rand has reached an agreement with the key members of the Bloodfang Mercenary Group. He will first gather his merits, collect ten great merits as soon as possible, and seize the opportunity to exchange for a territory. This will not only allow Rand to be promoted to a hereditary noble, but also allow the Bloodfang mercenaries to The group, the Corps, was given a piece of land to operate.

Now that he heard that a large group of undead had entered the vicinity of Belaini, Rand's heart suddenly became very hot. He never expected that only two months after entering the Harland Territory, his dream of being promoted to a hereditary noble was already very close.