Lord Harland

After the battle against the dragon, Wilde refined the Heart of the Holy Spirit potion and was promoted to an eighth-level golden knight, improving his combat effectiveness. Anne and Butler were quickly promoted to the fifth level, and the young elf mage Eve also successfully advanced to the sixth level, slightly improving the strength of the Harland Mage Association.

Because she obtained many precious magic plants from the Dragon's Nest, Sophia refined a batch of precious potions. In just over a month, the Harland Leader Mage Association added more than 20 magicians. Counting the magic apprentices who have advanced this year, the official members of the Mage Association have exceeded 180.

One hundred and eighty magicians, more than half of the royal mage group. The Harland leadership has developed in less than twenty years and is about to catch up with the Grant family's thousand-year heritage.

The development of the Harland Territory to its current scale is entirely due to Richard's tolerant mind. Liberating the indentured slaves and expanding the scope of talent selection are the core reasons.

After Sophia successfully refined the Styx potion, Richard began to focus on Snow Crystal Lake.

Every year from August to October, snow crystal fish will swim upstream and enter the snow crystal lake to lay eggs. During this period, the snow crystal lake is very dangerous, and even powerful professionals like Richard dare not set foot there easily.

August to October is the season for hunting snow crystal fish in Harland Territory. During this season, territory professionals will become very busy and even need to draw manpower from the army.

According to the information left by Shao Gongyuan, the key to opening the plane passage was left in the Lake of Life. According to the description in the magic book, Richard estimated that the so-called Lake of Life was most likely a Snow Crystal Lake.

After returning from Stanik, Richard was planning to go deep into the Snow Crystal Lake to find the key. It's a pity that Archduke Jonathan made a request to join forces to defeat the dragon. Next, because Richard found the Dragon Blood Fruit and needed to take care of Sophia, the work was delayed for more than a month.

Now that the Snow Crystal Fish has returned to lay eggs, they are looking for the key to open the plane passage. They have to wait until the Snow Crystal Fish's spawning period is over.

Harland captured a large number of snow crystal fish, and the pharmacist's life was extremely busy. Tenghui potions began to be put on the market in large quantities, and soldiers in the Harland Territory also seized the opportunity to redeem the potions.

In late September, the number of warrior professionals had increased by about 300.

Now including the city defense army, Harland has more than 100,000 troops, and the number of professionals is about 10,000.

At this moment, the orc army gathered again. This time, it was not the giant owl commander who presided over the battle, but the commander of the grassland governorate, the legendary third-level lion man Melonra.

Melon La's rank is also a big shot in the Orc Empire.

In addition to the territory directly under the central royal court, the Orc Empire only has six governor-general districts in total. The Prairie Governor-General ranks second in strength. According to the system of the Orc Empire, Melonla should have three legendary level deputies under his command. It's just that five years ago, Richard killed the legendary dragon-veined kobold Kiram, and the Grant Kingdom's front army did not have a legendary orc to command the battle.

After all, it is not easy to be promoted to a legend. Even in the Orc Empire, if the legend suffers battle damage, it will take a long time to make up for the gap.

In the past five years, there have been two ninth-level Orcs promoted to Legend. It was not until August this year that the Orc Central Court sent the deputy commander of the Prairie Governor-General to take charge of the battle in the direction of the Grant Kingdom.

The new deputy commander was a jackal and was not familiar with the situation in the Prairie Governor's Region.

The Jackal has a cunning character. After taking office, it has been constantly inquiring about information, and has a clear picture of the strength balance in the direction of the Grant Kingdom.

When Kilam was the commander, he commanded up to eighteen orc legions. However, after years of war and continuous attacks from the Grant Kingdom, there were only about fourteen orc legions left in the hands of the Jackal Commander.

Of the fourteen orc legions, two need to be left behind to protect their retreat. There are only twelve orc legions that can attack the Grant Kingdom. With a front line thousands of kilometers wide, facing more than 200,000 defenders, the strength of twelve legions is far from enough.

The lack of military strength is also the reason why the orcs have become increasingly weak in recent years.

Because Haaland controls the Eagle Mountain Range, it already has a commanding advantage. The frontline stronghold is only about 200 kilometers away from the key city of Pulilan in the northern prairie.

The senior orcs of the Grassland Front already hated the line of defense run by Harland.

The most troublesome thing is that Haaland leads this defense line, and half of the area is defended along the river. Relying on the Samba River, a large river with abundant water, Haaland's defensive pressure was reduced by about half.

It's just that the Harland Territory is now well-equipped with troops and supplies, and the territory also possesses a fourth-level magic item, which can largely determine the outcome of a medium-sized battle.

If you want to break through this line of defense, it is no longer enough to rely on the orcs from the direction of Grant Kingdom.

After the Jackal Commander took office, he understood the situation clearly and decided on the three things that the new officer should do to change the strategic situation of the region. He made a request to Melonla, the top leader of the Governor-General.

The Jackals requested to strengthen their strength and recruit four more legions to strengthen their military advantage. And asked Melonra to take his own guards and join him in the battle with Harland's army.

The two legends joining forces can weaken the threat of the fourth-level legendary items to a great extent. If he could take advantage of the chaos to kill Richard and grab the Star Necklace, the orcs' strategic situation would change immediately.

The orcs had just assembled their army, and the news immediately spread to the Harland Territory.

After defeating the legendary dragon, Harland's bipedal dragon cavalry has expanded to thirty.

Although monsters like flying dragons are very ferocious, they are intelligent creatures after all. Once defeated and surrendered, as long as you do not abuse it, it will be highly obedient. After signing a magic contract, it will basically serve humans. The reason why the bipedal dragon captured last time did not surrender was mainly because of the legendary dragon.

This time, the legendary black dragon Ramos was defeated by Richard. The fear of the starlight bomb had been imprinted in the heart of the flying dragon. After catching the flying dragon, it was quickly tamed.

By late September, after a month and a half of emergency training, all three wyvern teams were able to take off. In addition to the flying dragons, Harland also has forty-three gryphon cavalry, and the gryphon cavalry's combat effectiveness also far exceeds that of the harpies. In addition to the wyverns and lion cavalry, Harland has sixteen squadrons of magic hot air balloons.

Although the Magic Hot Air Balloon is not as flexible as the Harpy, and its aerial reconnaissance is limited by the wind direction, it is also a high-altitude scout and can play an important role in war.

Compared with the orc aerial reconnaissance force, the Harland Territory has a great advantage. Now it was the orcs' turn to be careful in the air, or they would suffer.

Especially in the direction of Pulilan, it was a key area for Harland's investigation. As soon as Melonla and the Jackals gathered their troops, the news reached Richard's ears.

Seeing that the orcs began to assemble a huge army, Leader Harland immediately issued a first-level combat readiness order.

Throughout the Harland Territory, officers and soldiers began to stop taking vacations and return to military camps. Reservists who had withdrawn from the army also went to the castles where they lived for intensive training. Both auxiliary troops and regular troops began to maintain their weapons and were ready to go into battle at any time. Even the intelligence department had their eyes widened at this time, watching every move in the territory.

Time passed like this day by day, and in October, the scouts from both sides began a brutal battle.

Because a large number of wyverns entered the battlefield, the losses of the harpies became very heavy. In just five or six days, the Harpies' losses had exceeded a hundred, which was equivalent to the loss of an entire legion of organized Harpies.

You must know that even if the Jackals recruit four additional legions, the number of Harpies in the Eastern Front of the Prairie Governor's Region will only be more than 2,300.

The Eastern Front Army of the Orc Prairie Governor-General is not only responsible for the battle in the direction of the Grant Kingdom, but also devotes a certain amount of energy to keeping an eye on the dragon in the eastern part of the Orc Prairie, and is also responsible for part of the combat missions in the direction of the Stanik Grand Duchy.

In previous years, when they invaded the Grant Kingdom, more than a dozen legions were dispatched, and after several months of fighting, they only lost thirty or forty harpies. Even if the losses have increased in recent years, only 70 or 80 harpies will be lost in one war every three years, so the losses are generally bearable.

In a few days, one hundred harpies were lost in one battle, which was already very serious for the orcs and they could not bear it.

Despite the heavy losses, in order to ensure the surprise of the sneak attack, both the legendary first-order jackal and the legendary third-order Melonra refrained from taking action against the flying dragons and lion cavalry. Their targets are all set on Richard. No matter how much sacrifice they make, they cannot change their determination. They must kill Richard and take away the legendary fourth-level magic items.

The orcs made a lot of preparations and did not reveal any trace of the two legends.

Time flashed to the eighth day of October. Two orc legions were guarding the back roads and grain roads. Sixteen orc legions appeared near the defense line of Beishan in Harland's territory.

From Military Station No. 1 to Military Station No. 14, on a 600-kilometer-wide battlefield, 100,000 Haaland leaders faced the attack of more than 300,000 orcs. Counting the auxiliary troops who maintained food routes, the orc strength had reached About 450,000 people.

Now that the central army of the royal family has been transferred to the south, there are only more than 20,000 reinforcements from the Mad Lion Army near Harland Territory.

Although Duke Edward and Duke Fox combined have a hundred thousand troops, they are in competition with the Duke of Harland and may not be willing to put the overall situation first and send reinforcements to help Richard defend.

The Harland leader was defeated, Richard retreated to the Eagle Mountains, and the orcs suffered heavy losses. This situation was good for them. If Richard defeated the orcs and swallowed up a large area of ​​the Prairie Governor's Territory, Harland's power would become even greater.

The bigger the neighbor is, the more worried Dukes Edward and Fox are. If it were Richard, he would not lose his own strength and provide help to his neighbor.

Although the orcs' offensive was like a dark cloud pressing down on the city, Richard still had the confidence to hold the line of defense.

The orcs on both wings approached the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, No. 14, and No. 13 military stations. The five orc legions contained 30,000 soldiers of Roman and Thoros.

The four orc legions attacked the No. 7, No. 8, No. 9, No. 11, and No. 12 depots, which also put heavy pressure on Jennings and Wilde.

The orcs mobilized an army of 100,000 people at once, rendering the navy that blocked the Samba River useless. After all, Harland's navy led by only two to three thousand people could not compete with the main force of the orcs.

Although the Samba River is a large river, its width is only about two to three hundred meters.

If the orcs set up a water fort along the river, they can block the river. Facing an army dozens of times more numerous, even though the navy had a military advantage, it was no match for the orcs.

However, Harland has a navy cruising outside, and the orcs must station a large army in the water village along the river, otherwise they will be cut off by the navy.

With the navy to contain it, although the enemy had four legions, Jennings and Wilde could easily hold it.

After discovering the orcs' massed army, Leader Harland not only mobilized fully, but also wrote a letter of request for help to the Mad Lion Legion, Edward, and Fox.

Because the situation was urgent and unable to report to Nolan, Pizarro, the commander of the Wild Lion Legion, made a prompt decision and sent troops through the Kelaniya Valley, into Martins Castle, and appeared near Military Station No. 14.

With the strong force of the Mad Lion Army as backup, it is enough to help Roman hold this line of defense.

The seven baronies of Jennings, Lost, Martin, Vito, Morgan, David, and Gruman near the No. 2 Military Station also organized a coalition of 3,000 nobles to serve as surprise troops, threatening the orcs' food routes and containing them. Three large groups of orcs.

The Six Barons Sharp, Ron, Kent, Bernie, Jose, and Wendy also organized a coalition of three thousand nobles and stationed themselves in Castle No. 2 to strengthen the defense of Castle No. 2.

As Richard sent a letter asking for help, the coalition of nobles from Heihe County, Romen County, and Wright County also organized. Under the leadership of Viscount Romen, 8,000 soldiers sent reinforcements to the eastern front and were stationed in West Grotta County. Canyon Castle is one step away from Military Station No. 4.

The Cavalry Regiment of the Knights College also completed its mobilization, took a boat upstream along the Grotta River, and appeared in the Barony of Morgan, only a day's journey from the front line.

Although 15,000 reinforcements were added to the eastern defense line, and although their strength was not as strong as that of the Mad Lions, the strength of Soros's department was more than one step ahead of Roman's.

The Grotta Army led by Soros has about 20,000 regular troops led by Harland. Although there are more orcs in the three legions, with an additional 15,000 soldiers, Thoros already has enough strength to hold on.

Although the two Dukes, Edward and Fox, received Richard's letter asking for help, they acted very slowly. Both parties vowed to send messengers and promised to send reinforcements. However, both families had good words and issued empty promises. A brigade takes practical action.

The orcs were divided into five groups. The easternmost one was in the direction of Military Station No. 3. There were three legions, with a main force of about 60,000 people. The defenders and the noble coalition had a total of 35,000 people.

The westernmost point is towards the No. 14 Military Station. There are two legions of orcs, with a main force of 40,000 people. Roman only has more than 10,000 soldiers under his command, and with the 20,000 Mad Lion Legion, they can also hold on.

The total number of Jennings and Wilde's troops was more than 40,000, but the defense line they were stationed in had the natural danger of the Samba River and the help of the navy. Although they had to face the passage of four legions of orcs, the two troops had the strength to hold on.

The main seven legions of the orcs, more than 150,000 troops, surrounded the No. 10 Military Station. Because of their huge troop advantage, even the No. 5 and No. 6 Military Stations behind the No. 10 Military Station were completely surrounded by the Orcs. As for the defense line of No. 10 Military Station, the defenders, including auxiliary troops, only had about 30,000 soldiers. The strength ratio between the two sides has reached one to five.

The orcs divided into two legions and surrounded the No. 5 and No. 6 military stations, containing 16,000 soldiers.

In the area of ​​Military Station No. 10, the orcs gathered 110,000 troops, and the defenders stationed at Military Station No. 10, including the auxiliary troops, were already less than 15,000. The ratio of military strength is close to one to eight, which can be said to be different between the strong and the weak.