Lord Harland

Philip stayed at the farm and factory for more than ten days, and handed the investigation report to Richard before the Goddess's Birthday. Through Philip's investigation material, Richard had a general understanding of the situation in grassroots farms and factories.

The farm is in pretty good condition, after all, it is already the third year of land reclamation, and the location is not far from Fort William.

As the saying goes, under the emperor's feet, law and order are strict. Richard often inspected near Fort William, and the bureaucrats near Fort William were relatively restrained. Coupled with Haaland's continuous cultivation of talents, bureaucrats with management skills and basic knowledge are no longer scarce, and the officialdom is clearer than twenty years ago.

Twenty years ago, there were almost no honest officials in the Harland Territory. As long as 99% of the bureaucrats had some power, they would find ways to harm the public and enrich themselves to make money for themselves.

Over the years, Richard has eliminated and dealt with corrupt officials one after another, and established an audit and supervision system. Nowadays, officials who directly commit corruption are relatively rare. Most bureaucrats today are engaged in rent-seeking for power, and they are more civilized than they were twenty years ago.

Nowadays, in Philip's village, the average life expectancy of indentured slaves has increased to forty-eight years. They can barely eat enough and are given one set of clothes a year, because it is close to the coal mine and there is coal for heating in winter. In addition, doctors from Tulum Coal Mine will go to the countryside twice a year to treat indentured slaves in farms, and occasionally distribute some free medicines. Compared with the first half of these serfs' lives, the few years they entered the Harland Territory were already considered the best and happiest years in terms of living conditions.

Because the flour mill where Philip works is a state-owned factory, the remuneration is pretty good. Workers generally receive a monthly salary of four silver coins, and they can also receive sixty kilograms of flour every month. If one person works, the whole family can live without worries about food and clothing for a year. If you can pass the training and become a skilled worker, your monthly salary will increase to eight silver coins, and your welfare benefits will be comparable to those of the main legionnaires.

Through Philip's investigation report, Richard observed that the economy near Fort William has greatly improved. The people in the capital area have solved the problem of food and clothing and are gradually developing to a higher level.

Of course, Richard cannot make decisions based on a report from Philip. He will read the official statistics and the information from the intelligence department. A few days before the birthday of the goddess, he will also launch a surprise attack and personally go to the grassroots level. Take a look.

Time flew by like this, ushering in the dawn calendar year 3274.

It has been twenty-eight years since Richard traveled to the plane of dawn.

Twenty-eight years was a long time, enough for Richard's outlook to change to a certain extent, becoming more like a native. Compared to when he just traveled through time, his way of thinking seemed to be a different person.

Shortly after the goddess's birthday, Richard sent Philip to the Third Legion.

Although the training in the army is very difficult, after last year's decentralization training, Philip's character has matured a lot and he has also developed strong endurance. After a period of adaptation, under the covert care of Jennings, Morgan, and Levine, he slowly integrated into the army.

Philip's changes over the past year have surprised Sophia. She thought in her mind: "Richard's method is indeed good. It seems that in the future, future generations of the Harland family should find ways to decentralize their training and receive a period of training." The Tribulation of Time Life.”

After Philip was settled, all schools in Harland Territory have started enrolling students. As the number of free people in the territory increased, six more elementary schools were added after the New Year. Now there are 40 primary schools and ten middle schools in Harland Territory.

Harland Territory Primary School is not a small mountain primary school. Because of the relative shortage of educational resources, education in remote mountainous areas has always been abandoned. Harland Territory schools are all established in relatively prosperous large-scale strongholds.

There are no 50,000 to 60,000 people nearby, and there will be no schools, hospitals or other infrastructure at all. Therefore, each primary school has at least two to three thousand students.

The total number of students enrolled in forty primary schools and ten middle schools has exceeded 100,000.

The number of new students enrolled this year is as high as 23,000. From these new students, the territory has found 236 children with magical talents, and these children have been selected to enter the magic academy.

Starting last year, these children with magical talents will no longer go to school with ordinary people, but will all enter the Magic Academy. Counting this year's freshmen, the Magic Academy already has more than 400 students. The children with the best qualifications have been promoted to senior mage apprentices, and they should be able to advance and become professionals in their third year of learning magic.

Including the children from the Magic Academy, the Harland Wizards Association already has 1,150 members, almost twice the number of the Grant Wizards Association. In terms of number, it already meets the standards of a large magic organization. The Harland Wizards Association Its background is even stronger than that of ordinary large-scale magic organizations.

Last year, a total of three people died in the Mage Association, and 37 people advanced. Now there are 305 official magicians in Harland's leadership. The number of magicians is roughly the same as that of the Grant Mage Association.

It took Harland more than twenty years to catch up with the Grant family's six hundred years of accumulation. This is entirely because Harland's leadership is more open, the selection range is wider, and blood is not used as a selection condition.

As the number of freemen increases, Richard will build more schools, Harland's selection of candidates will become wider and wider, and talents will emerge like a spurt.

Soon after the new students entered school, the weather became warmer and warmer. Time flashed into March, and the northern Xinjiang region was about to enter the spring plowing season.

The heavy snow in March has melted, and carriages are constantly passing through the valleys of the Eagle Mountains to replenish supplies to the Beishan defense line.

Harland now leads an army of 140,000, of which the number of troops left in Eagle Province to defend against the orcs is as high as 80,000.

Although Richard strongly supports the development of Eagle Province and continues to immigrate to Eagle Province, due to a poor foundation, as of the end of last year, the population of Eagle Province was less than 600,000.

Because the land reclamation period was short and the grain output was relatively average, in the past one or two years, grain had to be transferred from the central, Vera, and Heihe provinces. The Eagle Province was simply unable to supplement logistics for the garrison.

From Heihe, the most prosperous and central province, to the Eagle Mountains, which are 200 to 300 kilometers deep, transporting food and baggage thousands of miles away, the loss is very serious, even for the Harland Territory, which has abundant supplies, the pressure is huge. Very heavy, carrying a heavy burden.

However, the orcs still stationed heavy troops in the direction of Pulilan, and Richard did not dare to draw a large number of troops from the Beishan defense line. Before the railway line was repaired, the Harland leader had to face difficulties in logistical supplies.

Richard and the staff department made a lot of plans and decided to grab a handful of orcs in the spring of this year.

The Puliland area is an important town of orcs. Not only are there a large number of orc tribes living nearby, but they also have large tracts of farmland and have captured hundreds of thousands of humans for cultivation.

By capturing Pulilan and seizing this part of the mature farmland, the army in the northern part of the Eagle Mountains can be replenished nearby. There is no need to transport food from the rear. It is relatively simple for Harland to just transport other baggage.

In fact, four years ago, Richard severely damaged the orc army, annihilated the seventeenth elite orc army, and then launched a surprise attack to capture Pulilan. However, because the supply line was too far away at that time, and the main force of the orcs was wandering outside, Richard finally had no choice but to give up Pulilan and concentrate on operating the Beishan defense line.

Now four years have passed since the last war. Harland's army has increased by 60,000, and its strength has far exceeded four years ago. However, the orcs lost the Battle of Samba River, and their strength is not as strong as four years ago.

In addition, Richard has been operating the Beishan defense line for four years, building more than a dozen strong strongholds, and shortening the logistics transportation line by more than half.

In this attack on Pulilan, Richard also planned to continue to weaken the orcs and have a decisive battle with the orcs of the Eastern Front of the Prairie Governor's Region.

Leader Haaland began to stockpile supplies in March, and it was not until April that all supplies were ready.

On the eve of Richard's departure, Undine happened to give birth.

The pregnancy cycle of elves is much longer than that of humans, and generally the span is very long, usually between three and nine years. According to experience, the longer the pregnancy period, the more talented the elves are.

Half-elves have strong elven blood, and their pregnancy cycles are also longer than humans. Richard and Undine's child has a quarter of elven blood, and Undine's pregnancy cycle is as long as sixteen months.

Before the child was born, Richard had already discussed with Undine that if the child was born a girl, he would be named Isabella, and if the child was born a boy, he would be named Rex.

Undine gave birth to a boy. Although he was just born, he was very good-looking.

Richard met the child, talked briefly with Undine, and rushed to the front line with his soldiers overnight.

This time, the troops were still divided into three groups in the northward battle. Soros led the Second Army and the Third Army across the Samba River from Snow Mountain County and led the troops straight to Pulilan.

This army has 40,000 regular troops and 20,000 auxiliary troops. It has also strengthened three squadrons of Warcraft cavalry and five squadrons of magic crystal artillery, with a total of 60,000 infantry, 2,000 Warcraft cavalry, and 1,330 artillery units. The Griffin Knights cooperate. Troops fighting on the Northern Front. The total strength is about sixty-four thousand. This army is on the northern front.

Richard led the First Army Corps to set off from Military Station No. 10, looking for an opportunity to cross the Samba River and cooperate with Soros's troops in the battle. Four artillery squadrons were also strengthened along the way. The first battalion of magic airships, the second and third battalions of magic hot air balloons were assigned to Richard, with a total of 20,000 infantry, 1,000 Warcraft cavalry, 1,000 artillery, and more than 2,000 aerial reconnaissance troops. . Including the headquarters personnel, the total strength is 25,000. This army is the southern front.

Sutton led the elf archers, the demon hunter troops, Harland led the coalition of nobles, the fourth battalion of Warcraft Cavalry and other troops, with a total strength of 16,000, crossed the river in the east of Puliland, and surrounded the Puliland area from the flanks. In the sky above the army, there are the two-legged flying dragon knights, the most powerful unit under Harland's command, who are the eastern front of the three-pronged army.

The three armies gathered the orcs in the Puliland area from three directions, with a total strength of 110,000.

Although the equipment of the aristocratic coalition led by Sutton is poor, the quality of the soldiers is also very good. They are all carefully selected from the major aristocratic coalition. There are more than thirty high-level professionals, as well as bipedal dragon knights, elf archers, demon hunter troops, Warcraft cavalry and other elite soldiers to cooperate in the battle. On the surface, its combat effectiveness is better than that of powerful troops like the Northern Army.

But whether it can unleash the full combat power of the noble coalition will also be a test for Sutton's commanding skills.

The three armies advanced together and approached the Puliland area, causing the orc army to immediately fall into panic.

In particular, the flying troops under Harland's command were overwhelmingly active in the sky above Pulilan. In just two or three days, they had killed more than 300 harpies.

It was difficult to cultivate flying units. Generally, an Orc legion could only recruit 160 harpies. They lost 300 harpies in two days, almost wiping out the flying units of both legions. Such heavy casualties were already unbearable for the orcs. The harpies had suffered severe blood loss and no longer dared to easily take to the air to fight.

The casualties caused by the orcs to the Harland Territory were almost minimal. They only shot down eight magic hot air balloons, one magic airship, killed two Griffin Knights, and injured a bipedal flying dragon.

In the plane of dawn, although harpies are relatively weak flying troops, they are also third-level professionals when they reach adulthood.

Usually three or four harpies can compete with a fifth-level gryphon, but with the cavalry on the back of the gryphon, often three or four harpies cannot defeat the well-equipped gryphon knights. After all, the gryphon knights can not only defeat the gryphons In addition to using blood spells, the duck can also use explosive arrows, alchemy bombs and other magic props.

Generally speaking, half a team of harpies will have a higher chance of winning if they face off against one griffon knight.

As for the flying dragon knights, a team of twelve harpies cannot compete with them, and the Harland leader has fifty flying dragon knights, hundreds of gryphon cavalry, as well as magic airships, magic hot air balloons and other flying The arms and air power have far surpassed the Eastern Front Army of the Orc Grassland Governor's Region.

The 600 Harpy soldiers gathered near the Prairie Governor-General were quickly beaten by the flying troops led by Harland and did not dare to take off.

There were no flying units in the sky, and the orcs near Pulilan suddenly fell into a serious passive state. Now the orcs can only rely on the Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry to personally participate in reconnaissance activities through the ground.

Although the Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry is also a professional unit and its combat effectiveness can compete with the Warcraft Cavalry, it cannot defeat the Flying Dragon and Griffin Cavalry in the open wilderness.

Dispersed reconnaissance can easily be ambushed and killed by flying units, while centralized reconnaissance is inefficient, resulting in particularly poor reconnaissance results. It is also easy to fall into the trap of Harland's army.

Thoros was near Pulilan, successfully mobilized the elite, and wiped out three squadrons of Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry. Richard also crossed the Samba River and successfully ambushed the 200 Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry.

The reconnaissance troops were ambushed continuously, which also made the orcs feel extremely painful. Snakemen, harpies, silver moon wolf cavalry, and orc archers are all elite orc units. It is difficult to replace them if they are lost.

After repeated defeats in the past five years, the losses of the orc elites have been relatively serious. With the use of magic crystal cannons on the battlefield, the snake-like heavy infantry has gradually become an obsolete unit. Every time he fought against the Harland leader, the orc commanders did not dare to concentrate the snake-like people, and they lost their ability to make a frontal impact. Now they can only disperse the snake-like people among the ordinary orc army.

Now the decisive battle has not yet begun. First, the Harpies were beaten so that they did not dare to take off, and then the Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry suffered heavy losses.

The decisive battle has not yet come, and the elite orc professional army has lost more than 800 people. This situation made the legendary jackal heartache.

The situation has developed to this point, and the top management of the Orcs has become very clear that the strength of the Eastern Front Army is no longer comparable to that of the Duke of Harland, whether defensive or offensive.

The war is not going well, and the legendary jackals are already planning to withdraw their troops.

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