Lord Harland

The land within a hundred kilometers south of the military station's defense line was basically deserted. After the war ended this year, Richard only sent a small number of satyr slaves to graze in this area.

Although the Harland Territory rescued more than 200,000 people from the northern prairie, they basically settled in Martins County south of the Eagle Mountains.

Because the northern foothills of the Eagle Mountains are a war zone, the back and forth must be fierce, so Richard will not build a large settlement in this area in the short term.

Without sufficient population, it has been difficult to replenish the defense lines of military stations.

Since the return of the army in May, Richard has continuously dispatched transportation teams to transport truckloads of grain to the grain storage point north of the Eagle Mountain Range.

Sometimes he and Undine took action personally, using bottles of starlight and legendary space bags to help transport food. They could transport five hundred tons of wheat in one trip, enough to feed a thousand soldiers for a year.

Richard and Undine made more than a dozen trips, and the transportation efficiency was equivalent to that of three auxiliary brigades for more than half a year.

Because the road conditions in the northern part of the Eagle Mountains are very poor, there are only simple passages built by the orcs, which cannot allow four-wheeled carriages to pass through. Food transportation can only rely on camels, and simple tools such as wheelbarrows require a lot of labor and time.

In order to strengthen the grain transportation work, Richard specially mobilized 8,000 city defense troops and security troops to strengthen transportation forces. By mid-July, tens of thousands of tons of grain were finally transported to the grain station.

Richard moved Haaland's main army to the northern area of ​​the Eagle Mountains, which actually faced high risks.

Once the mountains are blocked by heavy snow in winter, it will be difficult for the forces south of the Eagle Mountains to effectively reinforce them. If the defense line of the northern military station is attacked by orcs, it must endure the test alone.

Moreover, the core strongholds of the defense line are all rebuilt from orc depots and food stations, which are far less strong than Canyon Castle, Double Star Castle, and Hurricane Castle. This will undoubtedly reduce the defender's advantage. Therefore, we must seize the time, take advantage of this period of time when the orcs are defeated, and hoard a large amount of supplies on the front line.

After defeating the orc army, Richard inspected Martins County in May and June, coordinating various materials and presiding over the resumption of production. In July, he crossed the Eagle Mountains, supervised the transportation of logistics materials, and coordinated the command of the defense line of the military station.

Compared to the Harland Territory, the orc attack station defense line supplies are shorter.

Because the core area of ​​the northern prairie where the orcs are entrenched is not far from the defense line of the military station. Most of the orcs live a nomadic life. Although they were massacred by Richard this year, as long as the army of Harland Territory evacuates, the orc tribe will come back soon.

With the support of a large number of orc tribes on the prairie, it is not difficult to supply the orc army.

Now that the Orcs' logistics line has become shorter, and there is no need to cross mountains and ridges, it is no longer difficult to transport food and crops, and it is no longer necessary to accumulate three years to cross the Eagle Mountains. The war between Harland and the Orcs may become futile. Japan does not fight.

The intensity of the war will also become more intense.

Since July, the two sides have fought many frontline battles.

Because the density of orcs is very high in the southern region of Priland, the scouts in the Harland territory will fight against the orc nomadic tribes and the main orc legionnaires every time they perform a reconnaissance mission.

In just over a month, the reconnaissance brigade lost more than 200 troops. As a last resort, Richard could only order to reduce the frequency of reconnaissance.

After moving the defense line forward to the edge of the northern prairie, the Haaland Territory army would bleed every day. Since July this year, the two sides have been fighting almost every day.

Even if Harland's scouts can exchange one for ten, or even one for a hundred, as long as the orcs in the Prairie Governor's Region persist and rely on the huge number of races, Harland's scouts will eventually be unable to hold on and reduce the number of scouts. frequency, and began to choose to avoid war.

It is not an easy task to gain a foothold on more than 50,000 square kilometers of land in the northern part of the Eagle Mountain Range. During the era of King Charles, several main armies in northern Xinjiang once invaded the area north of the Eagle Mountains, but they were unable to gain a foothold and could only allow the soldiers to plunder.

Pushing the defense line to the north of the Eagle Mountains, not even the Grant Kingdom could do this.

Although the Duke of Harland now has a foundation in the middle of the Eagle Mountains, with a population of more than 1.7 million, it has also developed a relatively good industry, and even the level of magic civilization is very developed, supporting the northern part of the Eagle Mountains. war is easier.

However, managing the land in the northern part of the Eagle Mountains is still a long-term job, and I am afraid that it will take several years to confront the orcs.

Since the beginning of the war, the war machines in Harland's territory have been operating at full capacity, and weapons and equipment have been continuously manufactured. A large number of steel armors, bows and arrows, alchemy bombs, searing ray guns, and force field shields have been transported to the military station defense line.

Second-line corps such as the security corps and urban defense corps are also strengthening their equipment and training. Almost all of them are equipped with steel plate armor. With the invention of the steam hammer, making plate armor has become very simple.

If production capacity is fully released, Haaland's territory can manufacture 100,000 pieces of plate armor a year.

Time passed by, and one day in mid-August, Richard came to Military Station No. 11. Wilde, the commander of this defense line, went out of the city in advance to greet him.

After four months of repairs, the scale of Military Station No. 11 has been greatly expanded, and a civil structure wall extending for three kilometers has been built outside the military station.

Tall logs were erected on the outside of these walls, with rammed earth on the inside. The walls were four to five meters thick. Two smaller civil structure castles were built in the south of the walls, forming a three-dimensional defense line with the No. 11 Military Station.

The three castles were all equipped with heavy trebuchets. During this period, the auxiliary soldiers who controlled the trebuchets used local materials and fired a large number of pottery bombs in advance.

Richard and Wilde walked around the vicinity of Military Station No. 11, watching the soldiers' drills, inspecting the city defenses, and deducing the weaknesses of this line of defense on the sand table.

In the afternoon, Richard was just about to go to the No. 12 Military Station fifty kilometers away with Wilde, when suddenly an urgent letter was delivered to Richard.

The letter was sent by someone from Rogge, and the content was very simple.

In August this year, prospectors from the Harland territory discovered a mysterious lake in the dense forest northeast of the Snow Mountain Castle. The magic concentration near this lake was very active, and the lake water was particularly sweet. I'm afraid there is a long underground river connected to the nearby water system.

It stands to reason that most of the lakes in the Eagle Mountains are alpine saltwater lakes. Moreover, this lake is still north of the Eagle Mountains and cannot be connected to the Black River system in the south of the Eagle Mountains.

Such a strange situation was reported and immediately attracted Richard's attention. He immediately stopped the inspection, personally mobilized the elite members of the Harland Mage Association, and summoned Sutton, Silver and his son to go to the lake to inspect it.

This lake is a typical mountain lake. The surrounding landscape is similar to an active volcano. There is no nearby stream to replenish the lake, nor is there any river outflow.

The lake is crescent-shaped and covers an area of ​​about thirty square kilometers. Because it was discovered only a short time ago, the depth of the lake has not yet been explored.

Arriving near the lake, Richard clearly felt that the concentration of magic power in this area was very high, and the number of nearby magical beasts was also significantly higher.

On their way here, Richard and others successfully hunted a level five fire-breathing bull. You must know that in the Eagle Mountains area, there are not many wild monsters of the fifth level.

Now that the Harland Mage Association has strong troops, even if the legendary monster is nearby, Richard dares to fight, even without the use of star bombs. The three high-level magicians, Richard, Undine, and Sophia, together with Sutton and Xi Erfu, the two ninth-level knights, both have a good chance of winning.

Pilosa, the death knight of the Stark Kingdom, encountered the combination of Harland Territory and was not spared either.

The soldiers of the guard brigade made several simple rafts and started a simple survey using some tools.

This alpine lake is located due north of the main peak of the Eagle Mountain Range, about forty kilometers away from the Snow Mountain Castle. Because it is far from the orc supply line, neither magic hot air balloons nor lion cavalry rarely visit this area to investigate such a large lake. This is the first time Rand territory has been discovered.

As soon as the soldiers of the guard brigade left the shallow water area, a ray of silver light struck a soldier. Fortunately, the deputy captain of the guard brigade, Sokes, was sitting on the raft. He had quick eyesight and quick hands and successfully intercepted the silver light.

Suddenly, Sox's hands felt sore and numb.

"Be careful, pull back quickly, it's the bloodline magic silver lightning released by the Snow Crystal Fish."

Richard had very good eyesight and was very knowledgeable. He could clearly see the reality of this white light in a flash.

Although the Snow Crystal Fish is only a second-level monster when it matures, the power of its bloodline magic silver lightning is smaller than that of magic missiles, and its individual combat power cannot match that of the Iron Horned Horse. However, this type of Warcraft is a rare super-large-scale gregarious Warcraft, with a population of tens of thousands. For larger schools of Snow Crystal Fish, the population size will exceed 100,000 or one million.

Even the strange beasts in the deep sea do not dare to easily provoke large schools of snow crystal fish. The fishermen on the east coast of the Central Continent were even more shocked when they saw this kind of monster.

Every autumn, millions of snow crystal fish swim upstream along the Black River and enter the rivers and streams on the east coast plateau to lay eggs.

Because the population size of Snow Crystal Fish is too large, it is very dangerous to catch this monster in the water. Duke Jonathan can only catch a small amount in some special river sections.

Because thousands of snow crystal fish can be caught every year, the Duke of Jonathan has a sufficient supply of Tenghui potion, and can even trade this precious resource with foreign countries.

Due to their huge population, snow crystal fish have almost no natural enemies. They are very cruel and have sharp teeth that can eat gold, silver, copper and iron. This kind of monster fish is a terrifying species of piranha. If it encounters a large number of snow crystal fish on the route, it can often gnaw through the bottom of the boat and eat up all the living things on the boat. Rumor has it that even the legendary knights are not immune.

Even a magic ship built with a lot of money by coastal countries will run away immediately when seeing a swarm of snow crystal fish to avoid fighting such monsters. Because tens of thousands of silver lightning spells are hitting the magic ship, even if a large magic circle is arranged on the magic ship, it will still be penetrated by thousands of spells.

According to records in some books, snow crystal fish basically live in the northern waters of the Central Continent, and their spawning grounds are also on the east coast plateau. Harland's territory is still three to four hundred kilometers away from the east coast plateau. Logically speaking, snow crystal fish rarely spawn in the middle reaches of the Black River. Unexpectedly, they were found in this mountain lake.

Hearing Richard's reminder, Suokes hurriedly ordered the soldiers to row desperately to the shore.

Although Sokes didn't know what risks he would face, hearing Richard's reminder immediately aroused his vigilance.

In the hearts of people of Sokes' generation, Richard is like a great king recorded in ancient books. Even if his life ends now, he is already a legend in the Grant Kingdom, enough to be praised for hundreds of years.

Richard has been struggling in Northern Xinjiang for eighteen years and has become the idol of thousands of teenagers in Northern Xinjiang. Countless people followed his example and joined the army hoping to achieve a class jump through war.

Socks grew up in Harland when he was a teenager, and his admiration for Richard became even stronger. He is Roland's eldest son. His talent follows his father's. He is only twenty-eight years old and his professional level has been promoted to the fourth level.

Roland is a very senior officer in the Harland Territory. If we count from the beginning, he has served the Harland Territory for seventeen years. He was very talented and was promoted to an intermediate professional before the age of thirty. However, due to commanding the brutal defense battle of Platos, Roland was physically disabled and never advanced again.

Shortly after the Battle of Platos, William was promoted to hereditary baron, and Roland celebrated the birthday of the goddess and entered the Harland territory to develop at William's invitation.

In the past seventeen years, Roland has performed conscientiously and made some achievements. However, because his professional level cannot be improved and he cannot keep up with the development of the territory, his promotion has been slow over the years, and he still jumps back and forth in the rank of captain.

There is extraordinary power in this world, and the strength of high-level officers can turn the tide of the war to a certain extent and determine victory or defeat. Individual combat effectiveness has a far greater impact on the outcome of the war than in Richard's previous life. In a country with strong militarism like the Grant Kingdom, the professional level is not high and it is difficult to be promoted to a high-ranking officer.

The same is true for the Dukedom of Harland. The military system naturally believes in strength, and those who cannot be promoted to high-level professionals are destined to be unable to be promoted to legion-level officers.

Although Roland is very senior, he was considered the third person in Haaland's leadership in the early days, but now, his actual status has been continuously declining, and many old subordinates have surpassed him.

After more than ten years of accumulation, Roland and his son had accumulated four great merits and three intermediate merits, and were less than halfway to being promoted to a hereditary noble.

Roland is only forty-eight years old, which is not too old. His eldest son, Suokes, is very talented. He has already broken through the fourth level at a young age, and his position in Harland has gradually caught up with Roland.

After hearing Richard's reminder, Suokes' order was very decisive. In just two or three minutes, the raft reached the shallow water area.

At this moment, the raft had been chewed to pieces by dozens of snow crystal fish.

Seeing this scene, Undine, Sophia and others hurriedly released powerful freezing techniques to freeze the water near the raft, helping Sox and others escape ashore.

Seeing the prey escape, the snow crystal fish still refused to let go and jumped up onto the ice with all its strength. Because he moved slowly on the ice, he was easily caught and brought ashore by Richard and others.

After catching dozens of snow crystal fish, Richard's face suddenly showed a bit of joy.

Although there are no specialties in the Snow Crystal Fish, catching it is risky, but it is a Warcraft fish after all. The fish's internal organs can also be used to refine Tenghui potions, and the fish meat can help warriors strengthen their bodies and strengthen their foundation.

Hundreds of snow crystal fish can be caught every year, which is a precious resource for the Harland Territory.

After discovering the snow crystal fish in the water, Richard immediately stopped exploring the lake. The depth of the water was unknown, and Richard was unwilling to let the soldiers take risks easily.

He named the crescent lake Snow Crystal Lake and quickly formulated a fishing strategy.

Snow crystal fish have a shark-like sense of smell and can smell the blood of creatures from far away. They have few natural enemies and their own IQ is very low. It is relatively easy to catch them as long as they set traps.

Richard asked several magicians to join forces to freeze the ice near the lake shore, and then threw bait in the deep water, and successfully caught some.