Lord Harland

After careful consideration, Richard executed some of the most stubborn captured officers, and then transferred two squadrons from the Guard Brigade and the First Brigade to serve as the backbone and mixed with the captured soldiers. He organized the captured soldiers into auxiliary soldiers and asked them to cooperate. The main force fights.

There are more than 300 people serving as the backbone and serving as junior officers at the grassroots level, which is enough to maintain the stability of the auxiliary troops.

With the addition of 1,400 soldiers, the logistical pressure on Richard's unit became even heavier. Fortunately, they won a battle and captured a batch of grain. Together with the wounded horses left on the battlefield, they could still eat for a while, and the logistics could barely support them.

After three days of defeating this enemy, Richard and his army finally crossed the buffer zone.

At this moment, the hinterland of the Kingdom of Delon was already in chaos. The hundreds of thousands of troops of the Kingdom of Grant were deep into the enemy territory. The furthest troops even reached the vicinity of the capital, St. Sith Castle.

In Saint Sith Castle, Duke Anton looked at the huge map and hesitated for a moment.

Duke Anton is the nephew of King Henry and the most powerful person in the Kingdom of Delon. He is a second-level legendary knight. Although he does not have a high talent in commanding troops in combat, his ability to charge into battle is very powerful.

In the past two years or so, Anton has won several small-scale battles, defeating William, Steven, Duke Duran and other Grant Kingdom generals.

"The enemy comes to plow the grass valley every year. It is not feasible to continue like this. I think we should give up part of the population and strongholds. We should concentrate our efforts to annihilate a group of enemies. The two Dukes of Duran and Guise have a deep hatred for us and are very stubborn. I It seems that we should target these two people.”

Anton looked at the map, and messengers kept sending information to him. After thinking for a long time, he made up his mind.

After making the decision, Duke Anton immediately took action, withdrew his troops from more than ten castles on the front line, and gathered 50,000 troops, including 3,000 Warcraft cavalry, ready to eat the army led by Duke Guise.

Because Harland led the army with bipedal dragon cavalry, the intelligence on the battlefield was almost one-way transparent.

The Kingdom of Delon had just made a decision and was immediately noticed by the Flying Dragon Knight.

It was discovered that the enemy's forces began to concentrate, and they were relatively close to the Duke of Guise. While Richard sent the two-legged flying dragon knight to notify the Duke of Guise, he accelerated his action and traveled 120 kilometers in just one and a half days.

Along the way, the soldiers of the Harland Territory did not even set up camp. They camped in a village at night and risked being attacked. They appeared unexpectedly near the Castle of East as if magic soldiers descended from the sky.

East Castle is the capital of the Duchy of East, with nearly 200,000 people living near the castle.

There are six principalities in the north of the Delon Kingdom. Among them, the Dukes of Guise and Duran rebelled and joined the Grant Kingdom with their territories. The Dukedom of Sac was also annexed by the Kingdom of Grant a few years ago. The Duke of Hubbard lost three-quarters of his land, and the nobility was almost completely lost. Its current strength is not as strong as that of an earldom.

Nowadays, the only ones that still have strength are the two duchies of East and Orlando.

The Dukedom of Orlando is located in the southern part of the Grand Duchy of Stanik. Due to the special relationship between the Grand Duchy of Stanik and the Kingdom of Grant, the army is mainly concentrated on the border.

The Dukedom of East borders the Dukedom of Duran. Due to the wars in recent years, more than 20,000 kilometers of land have been reduced to a buffer zone, and more than one million people have been lost. Its strength has been reduced by 30 to 40% compared to three years ago. Now it only controls a population of about 1.3 million and has trained more than 50,000 soldiers.

Because it is on the front line, there is a garrison of the Delon royal family in the Dukedom of East. Relying on the royal family's capable regiment, they have been able to maintain the front line and defend the city of East in the past two years.

Now that the royal army has just been mobilized, Harland's soldiers appear nearby.

On the Castle of East, Duke Kewen looked at the large formation led by Harland, turned to the legion commander Zeppelin and said: "The enemy seems to have only seven or eight thousand people, and there are also some auxiliary troops. . Our garrison has 36,000 people, six times the number of the enemy. Now the enemy is robbing and arresting people outside the castle. I feel very ashamed on my face. Commander of the Zeppelin Army, why don't you lead your troops out of the city? "

"Dear Duke, although we have 36,000 soldiers, 20,000 of them are new recruits who have been trained for less than a year. The enemy is the powerful northern army of the Kingdom of Grant, from the famous Duke of Harland. We may not win in a field battle.”

Duke Kewen patted the city wall hard, clearly disapproving of Zeppelin's opinion.

"My dear Uncle Zeppelin, maybe you are right, it will be more stable if you can't hold on. But our population is now only more than one million. Most of these people live in the wild countryside. If this army is allowed to be in the territory The war is raging. Our population and economic losses will be extremely heavy. Without the serfs outside the castle, we will not have the strength to support 50,000 soldiers. If soldiers cannot protect the territory, what use are they?"

Seeing that Duke Curwen insisted on a fight, Duke Zeppelin, although he had no confidence, could only follow the Duke's order to dispatch troops out of the city.

Originally, the soldiers of the Duke of East were huddled in the castle, which was a bit troublesome for the soldiers of Harland. Now that the enemy dared to come out to die, Richard immediately ordered the Warcraft cavalry who were robbing outside the city to shrink their formation and kill the robbed people. Oral delivery was given to the auxiliary soldiers. He personally led the main force to face the East Army.

Less than a kilometer away from the city, East led the army, but the military formation became crooked and there was a problem with scheduling.

Discovering that although this army was large in number, it was a weak force. Richard immediately released the star bomb at the Chinese flag, and personally led the Warcraft Cavalry to launch a fierce attack on the enemy.

Just as the commander of the Zeppelin Army was about to order the formation of the team, a thick white light suddenly fell nearby. In an instant, there was a loud noise from the sky and the earth, and violent energy hit him instantly. The ninth-level knight lost his life instantly before he could react.

After the starlight bomb fell, it not only killed the commander of the Zeppelin Army, but also killed the flag guard. Hundreds of people died instantly at the East Army headquarters, and more than 2,000 people lost their combat effectiveness.

Such a terrifying scene immediately caused more than half of the recruits to collapse.

The new recruits ran away, disrupting the veterans' formation. In the blink of an eye, the East Army's formation fell into chaos.

Duke Kewen on the top of the city was stunned when he saw this terrible scene. Seeing that the formation outside the city began to collapse, some guards with war experience reacted quickly and immediately took Duke Kewen down from the top of the city and began to prepare to escape.

The defeat outside the city has been decided, and the interior of East Castle has also fallen into serious chaos. The panicked nobles and bureaucrats gathered at the south gate of the castle with their families.

Taking advantage of the chaos of the East Army, Richard led the Warcraft Cavalry to take the lead. Under the command of the knight, the flame horses released spells together. Seven hundred scorching rays fiercely penetrated the enemy's flank. The Warcraft Cavalry also shot arrows, easily He defeated the formation with one kick and defeated the three East Army groups.

Harland led the First Brigade and the Guard Brigade, and the 28th Brigade also acted quickly and violently attacked the center of the East Army.

The two armies cooperated very well and broke through the East leader's army formation in a short period of time.

"Surrender without killing, surrender without killing!"

After breaking through the enemy's formation, shouts came one after another on the battlefield.

More than one-third of the population of the Harland leader is from the slaves of the Delon Kingdom, and there are also many people from the Delon Kingdom among the generals, such as Jennings, Drifen, and so on.

With the same language, they can naturally communicate with the soldiers of the Delong Kingdom.

Hearing familiar voices on the battlefield, many soldiers abandoned their weapons in panic and surrendered to save their lives.

Seeing that the enemy army had been defeated, Richard immediately ordered the Warcraft Cavalry to bypass the East Castle and block the south gate.

At this time, Duke Kewen, who was the fastest runner, had already fled the south gate with more than a hundred guards. Because of the emergency, he did not even have time to take away his family. The remaining nobles who reacted quickly also escaped from the south gate, hundreds of them.

When Richard arrived at the south city gate with the Warcraft Cavalry, the nobles in East Castle had already broken out into fierce civil strife in order to fight for the escape route, killing many of them.

After locking the south gate, these people saw that there was no hope of escape, so they dispersed and returned home.

The number of soldiers led by Harland was small and they needed to control key points of the city immediately, so Richard did not divide his troops to pursue the escapees.

The chaos in the castle lasted for more than an hour. After Harland led the soldiers to take control of the castle and killed hundreds of rebels and scoundrels, he took control of East City.

After capturing East Castle, Richard immediately transferred a group of logistics staff from the headquarters and led two elite squadrons to count the loot.

After more than ten years of leading troops in war, Richard has never captured a city of this size.

There are more than 200,000 people near East Castle, and it is a large city no less big than Black River Castle. The population size and city location far exceed the castles such as Burson and Nero that Richard conquered.

Early the next morning, seeing Adjutant Green's eyes red and his face full of joy, Richard asked, "Has the treasury been counted?"

"I was busy all night last night and have already counted part of it. There are 330,000 coins in Duke East's treasury. By asking the mistress of the East family, we also dug into the private treasury of the East family. Likewise, We found 460,000 gold coins, plus some of the East family’s precious jewelry, and we gained millions of Delon Kingdom gold coins from this battle.”

Although the gold coins of the Kingdom of Delon and the gold coins of the Kingdom of Grant are not interchangeable, the Kingdom of Grant legally prohibits the circulation of gold coins of other countries. However, the captured gold coins of the Delong Kingdom still play an important role.

This fund can be circulated within the Kingdom of Delon and plays an important role in opening up smuggling channels for the Haaland family. In addition, smelting precious metals such as gold, silver, and copper is also extremely valuable.

"Collect the coins and hand them over to the logistics department. What about other harvests?"

Green replied: "Six large warehouses were found for grain, and the quantity is estimated to be more than 80,000 tons. In addition, there are more than a dozen grain stores in the castle. Together with the grain in the hands of the free people, it is estimated that the amount can be more than 100,000 tons."

We also captured 300 flaming horses, 1,400 pieces of enchanted armor, more than 3,000 enchanted weapons, and 8,000 pieces of iron armor in the castle. According to our standards, we can equip tens of thousands of elite soldiers.

In yesterday's battle, we also captured many important people.

The first is the Duke of Curwen's wife. This lady comes from the Delon royal family and is the sixth daughter of King Henry. If we capture Duchess Curwen, according to noble standards, we can get a ransom of 150,000 gold coins.

Then there are the four sons and two daughters of Duke Kewen. The eldest daughter of the Duke is the legitimate daughter and is also worth a ransom of 100,000 gold coins. The remaining children are all bastards and can only receive a ransom of 30,000 to 50,000 gold coins. The Duke's six court wives were even less valuable, and could only receive a ransom of ten or twenty thousand gold coins at most.

In addition to the Duke's family, we also captured more than 300 people, close relatives of the hereditary nobles of the Duke of East. These people are willing to write letters to their relatives and should be able to receive a lot of ransom money.

The magicians of the Dukedom of East also did not escape. These people all have the blood of the East family. Counting the magician apprentices, there are a total of fifty-six people. President Undine has already interrogated the magicians of the East family, and their meditation methods and laboratories have fallen into our hands.

From the mage tower in the Dukedom of East, we seized 16,000 magic crystals and more than 60,000 abandoned magic crystals. "

The Harland Mage Association has mastered the magic crystal charging technology. The abandoned magic crystals are also of great use to the Harland territory and are as valuable as the magic crystals.

After so many years of collecting, Harland leads the mage department and has mastered more than 200,000 discarded magic crystals.

After years of continuous acquisition of abandoned magic crystals, even the Grant royal family got wind of it and sent people to try to exchange magic crystal charging technology. However, Richard Lion opened his mouth and asked for five provinces in exchange. Because the two sides had too many differences. That's why the deal wasn't done.

Today's Dukedom of Harland is already second to none in terms of strength. Even the royal family does not dare to offend easily, but instead spends great efforts to win over.

After taking control of East Castle, Richard selected elites from the defeated troops, expanded the auxiliary troops to 8,000 people, and then gathered the entire population in preparation for withdrawal.

For this new batch of auxiliary soldiers, Richard tried his best to select them from the serf class, and then promised to go to northern Xinjiang to allocate land to them, make them free citizens, and pardon their families.

Because Richard swore an oath in public, the morale of the newly recruited auxiliary soldiers was relatively stable.

After expanding the auxiliary troops, Richard's army already has 14,000 people, but the real combat effectiveness is Haaland's 6,000 veterans. The main responsibility of the auxiliary troops is to maintain order and escort hundreds of thousands of prisoners. .

After taking down East Castle, Harland was already full of food. In just ten days, Richard sent the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade to continuously arrest people from the vicinity of East Castle, and even reached the royal family as far away as possible. in the territory.

In more than ten days, more than 300,000 serfs were captured.

At the same time, due to the war, more than half a million serfs fled to the south. Even if Duke Curwen regained the lost territory, he lost more than 800,000 people. Without the military population, the Dukedom of East will lose its potential and be unable to Face the brutal aristocratic competition.