Lord Harland

The two fronts of the orcs cooperated and invaded south from the Silver Wolf Mountains. The pressure on the Grand Duchy of Stanik was heavier than that of the Kingdom of Lane.

Although Archduke Jonathan has withdrawn 120,000 troops, and the Linus family Haldane has restrained the enemy, the Grand Duchy of Stanik still suffered heavy losses. More than a dozen border castles were captured by the orcs, and a large number of border barons were lost. collar.

Due to the sudden invasion of the orcs, Archduke Jonathan and the Linus family army were surrounded by the orc army.

It's just that Archduke Jonathan has enough reinforcements to contain a large number of orcs. Although the retreat is cut off by the orcs, the situation is not too serious.

But the Linus family does not have the energy to risk the Lion Kingdom sending reinforcements. The orcs don't care about the conflicts between the Jonathan and Linus families. As long as they are human nobles, they are the enemies of the orc army.

Seeing that the situation was critical, Haldane had no choice but to risk a breakout. He is a legendary second-level knight with amazing fighting ability. With Haldane leading the charge, he broke through the siege of three orc legions in one fell swoop. However, the Linus family suffered a huge loss in this battle, losing more than 10,000 people.

In this war, the Linus family did not get an advantage. First, they lost 6,000 soldiers in the battle with Jonathan, and then they died and injured more than 10,000 people because of the orcs' interference. The Linus family itself only has a base of 40,000, and has lost more than 40% of its strength, which cannot be replenished in a short time.

After receiving a letter from Duke Jonathan asking for help, Richard decided to lead his troops north to help the Stanik Grand Duchy defeat the orcs.

In this year's Five-Nation War, Haaland's casualties were not very serious.

The remaining army fought with the Sith Kingdom's Yunhai Slave Catching Group and lost more than 3,000 people. The casualties mainly came from the auxiliary troops, and the losses of the regular army were very light. Although the auxiliary troops suffered a lot of casualties, they were relatively easy to replenish.

In addition, the main force of Lord Harland in the north of the Eagle Mountains faced off against the orcs of the Eastern Front of the Prairie Governor's Region. Several small-scale battles broke out, resulting in more than 800 casualties. The garrison in the Puliland area lost more than 400 people this year in a battle with the undead from the northern ice field.

The Southern Expeditionary Army led by Richard fought several battles with the Lion Kingdom and suffered a total loss of more than 6,000 people. Adding up all the fronts, Haaland's army lost about 10,000 people.

Including the new recruits who have been incorporated into the army this year, the number of Haaland's troops has reached 156,000, including 112,000 regular troops and 44,000 auxiliary troops.

After capturing the Puliland area last year, Richard formed the Fifth Army, successfully built the legendary magic ship, and formed the Black River Navy Army. These are all regular army formations, and the missing personnel can only be supplemented from auxiliary troops.

The 156,000 troops suffered more than 10,000 casualties a year, and the casualty rate was only about 6.5%, which was not very serious. In addition, more than half of the wounded soldiers can return to the army. The actual attrition this year is only more than 3,000 people who were killed in action and more than 1,800 people who were seriously injured and discharged.

The army's casualties are relatively light, and its combat effectiveness can be maintained well. It has enough strength to help the Stanik Grand Duchy repel the orcs.

There is another reason why Richard is willing to help in the war. He is ready to negotiate with Archduke Stanik to exchange the Duke of Madison's territory occupied this year for the Duke of Jonathan.

If this territory exchange is completed, Harland's territory in northern Xinjiang will be connected and complete. Occupying a large territory in the north, it already has the foundation to form a kingdom.

Richard led troops north for reinforcements, which could make the Grand Duchy of Stanek owe a favor.

The most important point is that Richard's reinforcements going north are actually paid. He must be rewarded for winning the Grand Duchy of Stanik. Whether it is land or other resources, Haaland must receive a share.

Richard led his troops northward, and he also had to leave heavy troops in the newly occupied areas. After careful consideration, Richard decided to station Wilde's Fourth Regiment at Novena Castle, while the Duke of Madison left 30,000 auxiliary troops to guard the place.

Harland's auxiliary troops are also not weak in combat effectiveness. They are equipped with a large number of steel armors and alchemy bombs, because Harland's leadership can provide a large amount of Tenghui potions. An auxiliary squadron has roughly three to five professional officers, which is equivalent to Li Check the level of the Sixth Battalion of the Mad Lion Legion that served that year.

According to feedback on the battlefield, it can compete with the regular army of the Kingdom of Lane. But it's a little worse than the Grant Kingdom's frontier army.

Because the nine elite regiments under the Grant royal family are also equipped with a large number of alchemical bombs. Although the royal family cannot sell them to outsiders and compete with Harland for business, they are equipped with enough alchemical bombs and their combat effectiveness is stronger than twenty years ago.

In particular, the four legions of the Northern Territory, Grizzly Bear, Crazy Lion, and Iron Lion are considered to be the first-class powerful troops in the eastern countries of the Central Continent. With the same strength, they can defeat the orcs in a field battle.

Richard left 50,000 troops to defend the newly captured territory, and he personally led 24,000 troops north to reinforce the Grand Duchy of Stanek.

Before heading north, Richard also left the first brigade of magic airships, the Flying Dragon Knights, at Novena Castle, strengthening Wilde's reconnaissance force. With this power, Wilde can detect the enemy's movements in advance and call for reinforcements when the enemy launches a large-scale attack and mobilizes supplies.

Harland has a dream tree, which can be used as a magic radio station. The transmission of information is very easy. Every night, Richard will enter the dreamland of an important intelligence officer and have a brief communication with the director of an important intelligence station.

After this war, Wilde finally gained enough merit and was promoted to the hereditary aristocracy. However, it is still uncertain where his territory will be sealed.

Because the war had just ended, the Grant Kingdom had not yet had time to ennoble or reward meritorious service.

Richard had just led his troops into the Grand Duchy of Stanik, and good news immediately reached his ears. The first is Sophia, who broke through the bottleneck after a meditation and was promoted to a nine-ring magician.

After being promoted to the ninth ring, Sophia's mental power increased to forty-nine points, and she was only one step away from awakening her fifth talent.

Sophia is three years older than Richard, and was promoted to the ninth ring at the age of forty-two. She has a long time to break through the legendary bottleneck. She refined a bottle of water of life and still has a life span of two hundred years. Based on this basis, as long as there are no major accidents, promotion to legend is basically a sure thing.

During this period, not only was Sophia successfully promoted, but Richard's eldest daughter Margaret also broke through the bottleneck. Margaret was promoted to a fourth-ring magician at the age of seventeen, and her meditation progress was faster than Sophia's. A few minutes faster.

During this war, in order to let the children receive training, Margaret went south with the army, while Philip stayed in the northern Xinjiang. Under the care of Jennings and others, he experienced the war firsthand. Philip even killed a kobold himself during the battle.

Although Richard only brought one legion and several thousand professional troops to the north, the attack power of this force was quite powerful.

After entering the Silver Wolf Mountain area, Harland led the army to take the initiative and captured the Hawkins Pass in one fell swoop, cutting off the supply lines of the two orc regiments.

Harland's leader has magic crystal cannons, and the starlight bomb in Richard's hand is powerful and has strong frontal attack capabilities. The six thousand orcs left behind cannot stop Harland's army from attacking.

The supply lines of the two orc legions were easily cut off by Harland's leader.

Lord Harland's main army appeared on the battlefield, and Melonra decisively ordered the withdrawal.

After receiving the order from the headquarters, the orcs from Stanik's direction returned to the northern part of the Silver Wolf Mountains with rich loot.

Richard and Harland led the army and decisively attacked westward, going deep into the middle of the Silver Wolf Mountains. They took the initiative to attack an orc army, defeated the enemy, and rescued 70,000 to 80,000 prisoners.

This time the orcs invaded, taking advantage of the civil war between the five human beings, they have reaped a lot of benefits. Not only did they capture dozens of castles in the northern part of the Silver Wolf Mountains of the Lion Kingdom, expanding their territory to hundreds of thousands square kilometers, but they also pushed the defense line past the center line of the Silver Wolf Mountains to the southern foot of the Silver Wolf Mountains.

This battle made the decades of expansion of the Kingdom of Lane in the Silver Wolf Mountains futile, with the loss of more than 600,000 people, 80,000 troops, and dozens of border nobles suffering heavy casualties. Including the loss of more than 200,000 square kilometers of territory in the south, the Kingdom of Lane lost nearly 400,000 square kilometers of territory, accounting for about a quarter of the total territory, which hurt the foundation.

In this war, King Lane lost 120,000 troops, and the population losses were also extremely serious, totaling about three million. In this war launched this year, due to the orcs' interference, the Kingdom of Lane suffered a huge defeat and suffered a serious loss in national power.

The Kingdom of Lane suffered a huge loss, and the Grand Duchy of Stanik was also unhappy. The orcs invaded the territory directly under the royal family. The border nobles suffered heavy losses, and hundreds of thousands of people were robbed by the orcs. Although the Delong Kingdom and the United Kingdom of the East Coast were not defeated and maintained the battle line, they did not take back their territory. They fought a fierce battle, wasting people and money but with little benefit.

Only the Grant Kingdom, although it has suffered a great loss of national power, has expanded its land to more than 200,000 square kilometers, and can grant titles and land to soldiers who have made meritorious services, without the need for big nobles and the royal family to provide benefits.

More than 200,000 square kilometers of land are enough to be divided into two duchies. Although this land was conquered by Harland, without the 600,000-strong army of Grant Kingdom to restrain it, Harland's army would not be able to obtain such a land. Big benefit, defeat the enemy.

In the end, several great nobles of the Grant Kingdom repeatedly communicated and negotiated with the Grand Duchy of Stanek to turn the newly expanded territory into a dukedom and three counts.

Among them, the Harland Territory made the greatest contribution. It was divided into a dukedom and an earldom. The remaining two earldoms were divided into six viscounties and twenty-four baronies. Distributed to nobles who have made meritorious service in Grant Kingdom. The remaining land in the province also belongs to the royal family.

Because a lot of land was captured in this battle, these three provinces have a large area, each covering an area of ​​more than 30,000 square kilometers. The maturely developed land in the south had a smaller area when it was divided into fiefdoms. The viscounty area was only about 2,000 square kilometers. The baron territory was only about 300 square kilometers because it was easier to bully.

The six viscounties, plus the twenty-four baronies, have a total area of ​​19,000 square kilometers, and the remaining territory directly under the royal family is about 13,000 square kilometers.

Moreover, although many of the nobles who obtained fiefs came from big nobles, such as the six major viscounties, they all came from the six major duke families of Grant Kingdom. But these named nobles are nominally directly subordinate to the royal family.

The essence of this battle is that the Harland Territory expanded its land by 130,000 square kilometers, and the royal family directly expanded it by about 45,000 square kilometers. The remaining 46,000 square kilometers of land belong to other great nobles and newly promoted members of the Grant Kingdom. Military nobility.

For example, the four marquises in the east and the seven earls in the south all gained something after the war. Only thirteen territories were granted to newly promoted military nobles, which was actually very rare.

Of course, including the vassals under the great noble system, this year's battle involving millions of people has promoted more than twenty hereditary nobles. For example, Wilde, led by Harland, has accumulated enough military merits in this battle, and Richard is also ready to seal him to the southern territory. Richard is also ready to let Wilde's fourth army hold on for a long time.

After the demarcation of the territory was completed, Richard went directly to Grand Duke Jonathan and asked to exchange the Jonathan family's territory in the Grant Kingdom with the southern duchy.

Although the Duke of Jonathan owns Dragon's Nest, a natural medium-sized magic well, which is of great value, in order to avoid becoming a thorn in Richard's side and in the flesh, and to consolidate the territory in one place, Duke Jonathan thought for a day and decided to agree to the agreement. proposal.

Richard had more than 1.2 million serfs in his southern territory, and the Duke of Jonathan also had a population of 1.6 million. The two sides reached a population exchange by the way. In the end, Duke Jonathan only needed to move two legions of soldiers and territorial bureaucrats, plus Their family members number about 300,000 people.

After the two duchies completed the exchange, the territory of the Duke of Harland has been connected into one area, covering an area of ​​more than one million square kilometers. Counting Richard's count in the south, the population has increased to nearly 10 million people. about.

The three southern counties were named Novena Province, Campa Province, and Philip County. Since Richard was the biggest contributor to this battle, the right to name the new territories naturally belonged to him.

After the territory was divided, the Kingdom of Roger transferred a royal guard regiment to Novena Castle, while Wilde withdrew the fourth regiment to the Earl of Philip for garrison.

Due to the transfer of troops from the royal family and other nobles, the Harland Territory slowly reduced its garrison to the south, eventually only maintaining about 32,000 troops. However, the Flying Dragon Knights and the first fleet of magic airships remain in the south for the time being.

It’s not that Richard doesn’t want to exchange the northern territory this time, it’s just a pity that the Roger Kingdom wants Harland to focus part of its energy on the south. After all, the alliance between Lane, Delong, and the East Coast has put increasing pressure on the Grant Kingdom. , without the full support of the Harland leader, the Grant Kingdom would not be able to withstand it.

The royal family was unwilling to exchange territories, so Richard could only find the neighboring Dukedom of York and the Grand Duchy of Stanek.

The Grand Duchy of Stanik has the same consideration and hopes that Lord Harland will place some of its troops on the border of the Kingdom of Lane to protect its southern part. The Duke of York is also unwilling to exchange territory. After all, with the Harland Territory blocking the north, the Duke of York does not need to face the threat of the orcs. Of course, it is unwilling to devote its energy to the south to fight against the powerful Kingdom of Lane.

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