Lord Harland

After killing Duke Madison, Richard easily seized the trophies from this man. Although the enchanted armor has been somewhat damaged, it can still be sold for hundreds of thousands of gold coins after repairing it. Even the legendary knight Sylph of Haaland does not have such a good armor, so it can be given away after repairs and modifications.

In the horrified eyes of the Lion Kingdom army, Richard peeled off Duke Madison's armor, took away his enchanted sword, and then sent someone to take the body back to the Lion Kingdom army.

Taking advantage of the boosted morale, Richard seized the opportunity and immediately launched an attack.

More than thirty magic crystal cannons were launched at the same time, and the extremely hard orichalcum alloy warheads accurately hit the city wall with powerful kinetic energy, fiercely creating a large hole.

Although the Novena Castle was built very solidly, with walls more than ten meters thick, it was still difficult to support itself when faced with the attack of this new type of magic prop.

The powerful alloy cannonball hit the stone wall, and the splattered fragments made ordinary soldiers dare not get close. The cannonball hit the inside of the city wall hard, causing cracks to appear on the wall.

After only a dozen rounds of shelling, many bullet holes appeared on the front of the city wall, which was already riddled with holes.

Another round of shells came in, sending a shrill scream in the sky.

The cannonball was fired at five kilometers and drew an arc. This time it actually collapsed the city wall. In an instant, a loud noise erupted on the city wall, sending up thick dust and burying many soldiers.

Seeing the city wall damaged, Chromis closed his eyes in pain.

Although the attacking force led by Harland only had 60,000 people, and he had an army of 200,000, which was more than three times the number of the enemy, only three legion forwards arrived near Novena Castle.

The army of the Kingdom of Lane is more proficient in fighting than the United Kingdom of the East Coast. It also faces the invasion of orcs all year round. It has rich war experience and its combat effectiveness is roughly the same as that of the Kingdom of Grant.

However, compared with the well-equipped, brave and capable main force of Lord Harland, they were still clearly at a disadvantage. Moreover, Richard also had star bombs and magic crystal cannons to help out.

Without the protection of city fortifications, it was even less possible to withstand the onslaught of Harland's army.

In desperation, Chromis had no choice but to abandon the city and issued an order to retreat.

Because Chromis had noticed the star bomb card, he did not personally charge into the battle. Under the cover of the Warcraft Cavalry and the Griffin Knights, the Kingdom of Lane escaped from Novena Castle at the cost of eight thousand soldiers. Retreat, using the Campa River as a natural line of defense, blocking Haaland's army.

At the same time, Cromis listened to McCaron's advice, and with Macaron, who had been treated and relieved of his injuries, as the commander, he led two legions and three thousand Warcraft cavalry, bypassing the Lord Harland's force and attacking Sardin. The two Dukes, Duke Haaland and Hughes, intended to cut off the retreat of Lord Harland's force and contain the actions of Harland's army.

The two Dukes, Sardin and Hughes, had average combat effectiveness and could not withstand the fierce attack of the large group of Warcraft cavalry. In just half a month, they suffered heavy losses, with a total of more than 10,000 casualties.

The back road was unstable, and Dukes Sardin and Hughes continued to send letters to Richard for help. Harland's army had no choice but to give up the plan to attack and mobilized some elite troops to defend McCallon.

In mid-June, the war entered a new stage.

All fronts have been basically stable, and it is difficult for either side to break the balance and fall into a stalemate.

At this moment, even the proud Kingdom of Thomas has to admit that the military strength of the Kingdom of Grant is much greater than that of the Kingdom of Lane. Even if the Duke of Harland is subtracted, it is estimated that it can have the upper hand.

Although the battle line has stabilized, the flying arms of both sides have fallen into a fierce duel.

Air battles broke out every day. In just over a month, the Harland Territory had already suffered casualties of sixteen lion knights, two bipedal dragons, and destroyed six magic airships.

The losses of the Lion Kingdom were even more severe, with more than a hundred gryphon cavalry casualties. Among them, there were more than twenty gryphons wounded and captured by Harland, and the battle damage reached one-third.

The Lion Kingdom was the first to be unable to withstand such tragic consumption, and began to reduce the frequency of the Griffin Knights' activities, giving up the sky to the enemy for the first time.

Although the logistical pressure on the Grant Kingdom was getting heavier and heavier, Richard's army was relatively relaxed.

First, they occupied the Dukedom of Madison and seized 60,000 tons of grain, which could feed the entire army for half a year. Then they caught up with the autumn harvest and harvested a lot of grain, which could be replenished by supporting war.

In addition, Richard also captured Novena Castle and captured a large amount of baggage.

Because the nobles and bureaucrats of the Duke of Madison burned their baggage, Richard killed very heavily in the Duke of Madison. As long as the nobles and bureaucrats caught by the occupying forces were basically executed, their wives and daughters were given to the soldiers who had made meritorious service. Such brutal suppression intimidated the defenders of Novena Castle.

When Chromis retreated, although he also issued orders to fortify the walls and clear the country and burn the baggage, they were not well implemented at all on the chaotic battlefield.

Although someone set fire in some warehouses, it was quickly extinguished by the Harland soldiers who entered the city, and the material losses in the city were very light.

In Novena Castle alone, Richard seized 36,000 tons of grain, 20,000 rolls of cloth, 80,000 kilograms of cotton, in addition to various baggage items such as wood, masonry, iron, and kerosene.

After capturing Novena Castle, Richard's army no longer needed to be replenished from the rear for a year.

Time passed like this day by day and entered September.

After three months of stalemate, the defense line of Campa River in the Kingdom of Lane has been completed. More than a dozen military forts were built along the river. Each military fort was stationed with a large number of soldiers. Many magic crossbows were added to the military forts. The magicians of the Lion Kingdom also set up many magic traps.

Even if the Duke of Harland fights with his life to break this line of defense, the casualties will be heavy.

Moreover, Haaland led the army on the flanks, and there was also an elite force of McCallon. As Richard sent troops back for reinforcements, McCallon saw that there was no advantage to be taken and decisively led his troops back to the south bank of the Mara River.

The war lasted for several months. Richard and the soldiers of Harland not only captured the salient of the Duke of Madison and leveled the border between the Kingdom of Lane and the Kingdom of Grant, but also captured a large area north of the Mara River and east of the Campa River. The territory, including Novena Castle, an important town in the Kingdom of Lane, pushed the border forward significantly.

In this Five-Nation War, Harlan's legion once again played a key role. Not only did it block the largest strategic corps in the Kingdom of Lane, but it also captured more than 200,000 square kilometers of the enemy's land, gaining the greatest merit.

At this moment, among the warring countries, the Sith Kingdom's navy suffered heavy losses. Because it was too far away, it basically withdrew from the war. Although the East Coast and the Delong Kingdom fought hard, their own military strength was average and they were unable to break the balance.

Although the Lion Kingdom still has some strength left, it no longer has the confidence to win. After all, if the scale of the war continues to expand, the Harland Territory can still invest 100,000 troops, and the Grant Kingdom can squeeze out 80,000 troops by patchwork.

At that time, we will still be in a stalemate, reducing the strength of the Silver Wolf Mountain Range defense line, and the only ones who can gain an advantage are the orcs.

Nowadays, the major countries participating in the war are working hard to attrition. They will win a complete victory by fighting until their national strength is exhausted and they are unable to transport logistical equipment to the front line.

The three countries of Lane, Delong, and the East Coast have a combined population of 120 million people, while the Grant Kingdom and the Grand Duchy of Gastanik have almost 60 million people. They have no chance of winning through consumption and national strength.

According to the current situation, if the Grant Kingdom can persist for at most half a year, it will have to shorten the logistics line and reduce the number of soldiers from the front line.

Just when the Grant Kingdom was gritting its teeth and holding on, the orcs invaded on a large scale again.

Because the Eastern Front Army of the Prairie Governor-General had been beaten hard by Harland, the invasion this time was mainly by the Chinese Front Army and the Western Front Army.

More than thirty orc legions appeared near the Silver Wolf Mountains.

At the same time, the Eastern Front of the Prairie Governor-General also launched a feint attack to contain the main army deployed by Harland in the northern Xinjiang and prevent them from transferring westward to support the Grand Duchy of Stanik.

The orcs mobilized more than thirty legions to go south. With such a huge force, they must ask the Kingdom of Lane and the Grand Duchy of Stanik to stop their troops. In order to resist the orcs, Archduke Jonathan immediately gave Macmillan an order to retreat immediately and bring 80,000 soldiers to reinforce the north. At the same time, King Thomas also issued a retreat order to the two armies.

Retreating before the formation is very risky. In particular, Macmillan, who was on the defensive, personally rushed to the military camp of the Kingdom of Lane in order to withdraw smoothly. The two sides had an in-depth negotiation and gained limited trust before they both stopped fighting.

The biggest variable in the Lion Kingdom was held back by the orcs, and the situation in the Grant Kingdom suddenly became a little easier.

King Roger seized this opportunity very decisively and kept sending envoys, hoping to sign a short-term treaty and restore peace for a period of time.

However, Lane, Delong, and the three East Coast countries did not agree to this request at all.

In this five-nation war, the three kingdoms of Lane have clearly seen the background of the Grant Kingdom. The Grant royal family and the Harland Territory are like a man-eating tiger. In just twenty years, they have expanded millions of square kilometers of land and swallowed up millions of square kilometers of land. There are 20 million people in Delong and East Coast countries. The neighboring kingdoms were terrified.

It was under such a situation that the three countries of Lane, East Coast, and Delong formed the Triple Alliance.

In this war, the Three Kingdoms Alliance and the slave-catching group of the Sith Kingdom were unable to defeat the enemy on the frontal battlefield. The Kingdom of Lane also lost a large area of ​​land and the Duke of Madison was killed.

If this tiger is allowed to take a breather, the Three Kingdoms Alliance may suffer a huge defeat in the next war, leading to the fate of annihilation.

Although the Kingdom of Lane has lost a lot of land now, the battle line has been stabilized, and the Three Kingdoms Alliance can rely on its strong national power to consume its enemies. As long as they grit their teeth, survive this period of time, and resist the orcs in the Silver Wolf Mountains, they can continue to fight the Grant Kingdom until the Grant Kingdom's national power is exhausted.

The Three Kingdoms Alliance did not agree to peace talks, but the situation would not change according to their will.

The orcs who disrupted the situation gathered more than 600,000 troops and broke through the defense line of the Silver Wolf Mountains. More than a dozen orc legions poured into Lane and Stanik.

At this time, the Kingdom of Lane must sign a treaty with the Kingdom of Grant in exchange for a short-term peace. Otherwise, if the Grant Kingdom seizes the opportunity and once again mobilizes more than 100,000 troops to cooperate with the orcs to attack the Lion Kingdom, the situation may become even worse, leaving the Lion Kingdom in ruins.

The Lion Kingdom is preparing to temporarily withdraw from the war, and Delong and the East Coast can only agree. After all, in the Three Kingdoms Alliance, the Lion Kingdom is the strongest and is the core of the alliance. This time the war contained the most powerful Duchy of Harland, and also fought against Stanik's 200,000-strong army.

If the two countries drag their feet and refuse to agree to peace talks, and the Kingdom of Lane withdraws from the war unilaterally, and when the Duke of Harland leads his troops to move eastward and cooperates with the coalition of the six dukes, the army of the Grand Duchy of Delon may face the fate of collapse.

In the current situation, both the Kingdom of Lane and the Grand Duchy of Stanik need to restore peace immediately and move their troops south to the north to defend against the orcs.

After Grand Duke Jonathan wrote a letter to Richard, he conveyed the military order to the two Dukes Hughes and Sardin to withdraw their troops and go north.

Dukes Hughes and Sardin evacuated the Duke of Madison with 40,000 troops, and Harland's military strength was suddenly reduced by 40%.

Once the two dukes withdrew, the troops in Richard's hands were somewhat insufficient. At the same time, he ordered Haaland to retreat with 20,000 auxiliary troops and take over the two Dukes of Hughes and Sardin to guard the Dukedom of Madison. While dispatching a bipedal flying dragon knight, he wrote a letter to Soros who was stationed in the rear, requesting that the recruit training be ended early, and the 6,000 infantry newly recruited this year plus 3,000 veterans be added to the southern battlefield to add 9,000 reinforcements.

Although the flying troops of the Lion Kingdom suffered heavy losses, they could not defeat the Harland Territory. But they can still rely on the Griffin Knight to detect a large amount of intelligence.

After discovering that Harland had led an increase of 9,000 troops, the Kingdom of Lane immediately denounced the special envoy of the Kingdom of Grant, claiming that the Kingdom of Grant had no sincerity in peace talks and once again increased its troops on the front line.

As the situation developed, the Grant Kingdom's envoys became increasingly tough. Not only did they not agree to return the occupied land, they also refuted the Lane Kingdom's nonsense. He also provided evidence to show that on this front, the Grant Kingdom had kept its promise and had reduced its army from 100,000 to 70,000. On the other hand, the Lion Kingdom not only did not withdraw its troops on the west bank of the Campa River, but also replenished the battle losses.

The two sides argued at each other's throats for a period of time, but found that there was no use in talking.

In the end, the five warring countries signed a short-term peace contract. This peace contract was not signed by the king. It can be said that this contract can be torn up at any time. As long as we have a clear understanding of the situation, we will definitely know that after defeating the orcs, a larger-scale war will break out among the five warring countries.

After entering mid-October, as the situation further evolved, the five participating countries finally ceased fire and stopped fighting.

It had been half a year since Harland had led the army on the expedition, and Richard had already planned to lead his troops back to rest. At this time, he suddenly received a letter from Archduke Jonathan asking for help.