Lord Harland

In the years since Richard entered the Red Moon Plane, the Harland Territory has been expanding its army. It has not only increased the number of technical units such as artillery and magic airships, but also built more magic ships and steamships.

After more than three years of accumulation, the number of Harland's naval troops has now reached 7,000.

About 2,000 of the 7,000 naval forces are in the river fleet, and the remaining 5,000-odd naval forces are active offshore.

Although the Harland Territory has a large magic ship flagship that can conduct ocean voyages, due to the lack of hydrological data on voyages and the lack of familiarity with the routes, the Harland Territory Navy has not left the offshore sea and ventured into the ocean in recent years.

There are two major arteries in the Harland Territory, the Heihe River and the Samba River. However, there are snow crystal fish in the waters of the Heihe River that can return to spawn, and the navigation period is only half a year. Although the situation of the Samba River is better, it is located further north and has a freezing period of up to four months.

Due to climate and geographical constraints, Harland's river fleet has to anchor in the warm Xiaguang Port in the south every winter.

Xiaguang Port is located 280 kilometers south of Xinghui Castle. It is a settlement built by the Harland Territory in recent years.

This port city is located in the southern part of the East Coast Province and has a warmer climate. The harbor is not frozen all year round and is a natural harbor where large ships can be berthed.

After three years of development, the population living near Xiaguang Port has exceeded 8,000.

Nowadays, a total of three port cities have been built in the coastal areas of Harland Territory. From north to south, they are Haikou, Xinghui, and Xiaguang. Among them, the area near Xinghui Port has the largest population. This city at the mouth of the Heihe River is run by Harland Territory. The point is, it already has a population of about 30,000. Haikou and Xiaguang cities both have a population of less than 10,000.

With the construction of the seaport city, Harland has also focused its development on the eastern region. In the past three years, due to the significant increase in fiscal revenue and the reduction in the proportion of military expenditures, it has the financial resources to continuously build magic ships.

As of the spring of Dawn Calendar 3280, the Harland Territory had launched nine magic ships, two of which were large flagships using legendary magic cores as energy cores. Steamships were built in even greater numbers, plus thirty-two had been launched for the river fleet.

After seven or eight years of development, the number of ships in Harland's territorial waters has become comparable to that of the Sith Kingdom. Because it is equipped with a large number of magic crystal cannons, it is almost a dimensionally reduced strike compared to its opponents, and its combat effectiveness far exceeds that of coastal countries such as the East Coast and Sith. By surprise, it can even defeat hundreds of magic ships of the Holy Radiance Empire.

Despite possessing very strong water power, Harland's navy did not provoke naval wars with neighboring countries. In the past three years, the offshore fleet has been under the command of Sutton, training to become familiar with magic ships, while undertaking transportation tasks to support the red moon plane.

After Sutton returned from Hawkins Castle, Richard decisively issued the order, and the two fleets, offshore and inland, rushed out and led the second army to attack Silver Moon Island. The coalition of nobles led by Harland will act as the second echelon, waiting for the fleet to win before they can be freed up to transport them to the southern front.

Sutton has traveled this route many times in recent years and has rich sailing experience. In just three days, Harland's naval forces arrived in the waters of the Silver Moon Islands and discovered the United Kingdom's sentry ship on the east coast.

The Silver Moon Islands are located northeast of the mouth of the Oram River, only 120 kilometers away from the mainland. This archipelago was originally the territory of the Grant Kingdom and belonged to the Earl of Silver Moon Island.

Twelve years ago, the Grant Kingdom lost the naval battle, Earl Silveryue was killed, and the Silveryue Islands fell.

In the years since then, although the United Kingdom of the East Coast has suffered a lot on land, losing more than 100,000 square kilometers of territory, and the legendary knight Mark Dean died in the war, Silver Moon Island has always been controlled by the United Kingdom of the East Coast. An advancing stronghold for invasion by sea on the east coast.

There are more than thirty islands in the Silver Moon Islands, most of which are small and lack fresh water. Only three islands cover an area of ​​more than 300 square kilometers, with seasonal rivers and large amounts of fresh water resources.

Silver Moon's main island is the largest in area, covering more than 8,000 square kilometers. The eastern part of the island has a relatively gentle terrain, while the western part has high mountains. Silver Moon Island has been developed for many years and has more than one million acres of fertile land. A large-scale harbor has also been built on the east side of the island, with a large number of supply ships moored.

In order to maintain maritime transportation lines and protect these supply ships, more than 70% of the main fleet of the United Kingdom on the east coast is stationed near Silver Moon Island, with the main force being ten magic ships.

After discovering the enemy's situation, the east coast magic ship immediately sounded the alarm and used magic conches to pass the information to the rear.

After the alarm was sounded, Harland's naval forces swarmed up, and the magic crystal cannons on the ship fired one after another, pouring a large amount of ammunition into the enemy ship.

Although there is an attack circle on the magic ship, the magic attack range is relatively short. Most of the magic is defensive magic, and the effective distance is about two to thirty meters away from the magic ship.

As for Harland's magic crystal cannon, depending on its caliber and charge, the attack distance of the alchemical bombs it launches is also different. Generally speaking, the range of the army cannon is about five kilometers, and the range of the naval cannon can reach up to 16 kilometers. .

Although the firing range of the magic crystal cannon is far less accurate than on land due to the bumps of the ship, the range of sixteen kilometers is enough to easily annihilate enemy ships.

The magic ship is equipped with a magic crystal cannon, like a weapon from across the ages.

During the naval battle, the magic crystal cannon appeared and immediately showed its devastating advantage.

Although the United Kingdom navy on the east coast was brave, it was still easily annihilated by the navy led by Haaland.

After annihilating the enemy ships, Richard immediately launched a landing battle.

Before the army landed, it was still the magic crystal cannon that launched the artillery battle.

Harland leads the warships, each of which is equipped with a large number of magic crystal cannons. Generally speaking, steam ships are equipped with six magic crystal cannons, small magic ships are equipped with twelve magic crystal cannons, and medium magic ships are equipped with twenty magic crystal cannons. The two large flagships are equipped with more than sixty magic crystal cannons. The twelve main guns on each flagship have a range of up to sixteen kilometers.

Harland's navy fleet has two large flagships, three medium-sized magic ships, four small magic ships, thirty-two steam ships, and the fleet is equipped with up to 420 magic crystal cannons. The number of gunners operating the magic crystal cannon exceeds three thousand.

If this batch of magic crystal cannons were placed in the army, they would be enough to be organized into eighty artillery squadrons, increasing the number of artillery in the army by more than half. From this aspect, it is evident that Richard attaches great importance to the navy.

Not counting the money spent on building ships and training sailors, more than one million gold coins have been invested in equipping the navy with more than 400 magic crystal cannons.

If it weren't for Harland's leadership in industrial production capacity and the surge in fiscal revenue, Richard would not be able to build so many warships like dumplings.

More than forty warships lined up in a row, and each salvo fired two hundred alchemical bombs. Such a high-intensity shelling immediately caused casualties to the defenders on the east coast.

Although the United Kingdom on the East Coast has more than 10,000 troops on Silver Moon Island, there is also a strong stronghold like a castle. However, the lack of coastal defense artillery and the lack of means to deal with magic crystal cannons resulted in the defenders of Silver Moon Island being passively beaten. They only lasted for a short while, and the defenders collapsed before Harland's army landed.

According to post-war statistics, Harland's leader had fewer than a hundred casualties and wiped out all the Silver Moon Island defenders.

Most of the casualties among Haaland's soldiers came from the pursuit battle.

After conquering Silver Moon Island, Harland captured a large number of supply ships.

These supply ships are basically traditional wooden sailing ships. These ships have a small load capacity and basically have no autonomous navigation capabilities. Relying on a wooden sailboat to sail in the Dawn Plane is very dangerous. Not to mention terrifying creatures like deep-sea monsters, even low-level monsters and fish-men in the ocean can easily sink a wooden sailboat and overturn it. Wooden sailing ships can sail offshore only under the protection of a magical fleet.

Compared with wooden sailing ships, the steamships manufactured by Harland Leader are safer. The steamships are not only equipped with magic crystal cannons, but also have steel plates on the outside of the hull. The strength of the hull is far greater than that of wooden sailing ships. Because it uses a steam engine for power, its speed and flexibility are better than that of a sailboat. When sailing offshore, it can cope with most dangers as long as it does not encounter deep sea monsters.

Despite this, Richard did not dare to let the steamship sail alone, let alone let the steamship stay away from the coastline.

The supplies of the east coast army were seized, which greatly reduced the supply pressure on the army led by Haaland.

Silver Moon Island is a supply base for an army of 200,000 people on the east coast. The food supplies stored there are enough for Harland to lead an army of 20,000 people for three years. After seizing Silver Moon Island, Richard no longer needed to mobilize ordinary supplies such as grain, salt, cloth, and wood from the rear. The more critical point was to successfully cut off the supply line of the 200,000-strong army on the east coast.

Through counting and statistics, Leader Harland seized more than 80,000 tons of grain, tens of thousands of cotton cloths, more than 100 tons of salt on Silver Moon Island, and captured more than 18,000 prisoners. Fifteen thousand of them were sailors on wooden sailing ships, and only three thousand were soldiers. In addition, Silver Moon Island has a population of more than 300,000, 99% of which are serfs. They were originally the property of the Earl of Silver Moon Island.

Leader Harland has made a fortune on Silver Moon Island, and the United Kingdom on the East Coast is in danger of being defeated across the board.

After receiving the information about the fall of Silver Moon Island, the 200,000 landing troops of the United Kingdom on the east coast immediately fell into chaos.

The frontline army on the east coast only had enough food for twenty days. Now its retreat was cut off and the naval fleet was wiped out. It immediately fell into an extremely dangerous situation.

Seeing that the entire army was annihilated before their eyes, the east coast army began to struggle to the death and launched a frantic attack on the Grant Kingdom army, hoping to break through the defense line, enter the core of the Grant Kingdom, plunder, and survive by relying on war to support war.

The east coast army began to fight tooth and nail. For a time, whether it was the Eastern Fourth Marquis or the Royal Guards Corps, the casualties suddenly increased. In just three or four days, the defenders suffered more than 14,000 casualties. The attacking east coast army suffered more than 30,000 casualties.

Such a crazy attack put heavy pressure on the four eastern marquises. However, they knew in their hearts that the East Coast Army was already desperate. In order to withstand the enemy's final madness, the four Eastern Marquises used their accumulated experience. In order to protect their families and property, the backbone of their subordinates also fought desperately to keep the enemy at bay. front.

Unable to defeat the enemy head-on, and with their logistical supplies cut off, the remaining 160,000 troops on the east coast were suddenly in a dilemma.

Attacking forward will cause heavy casualties and fail to open the enemy's defense line. Opening up the supply line backward will also be difficult due to the lack of magic ships.

Thirty thousand people were killed and injured, and their offensive capabilities were temporarily lost. They had no magic ship to retreat, and could only wait for death on the beach, unable to advance or retreat, bringing this army, which numbered 160,000, to the brink of collapse.

After barely holding on for more than ten days, when the food was exhausted, part of the army broke up, and part of it walked out of the camp, handed over its weapons, and surrendered to the Grant Kingdom.

Grant fought with the East Coast for more than ten years. After five battles, this time he finally disabled the United Kingdom Navy on the East Coast and annihilated one front and ten legions on the East Coast.

After screening the prisoners, the Harland leader and the Grant Kingdom carefully selected 60,000 elites from the prisoners. The Grant royal family, the Harland family, and the four eastern marquises each selected 20,000 prisoners and incorporated them into their own regiments.

After three days of rest, three legions of the Grant royal family chose to return for reinforcements, two to reinforce King Roger, and one to go to the empty Nolan.

About 20,000 captured soldiers were recruited, and the number of the three legions of the Guards was seriously exceeded. The total number of each legion was as high as 25,000 to 6,000. More than 50,000 army reinforcements arrived at the front line. Although the captive soldiers were somewhat unstable and the reinforcements had just experienced a battle, King Roger finally stabilized the situation and quelled the rebellion launched by Elena and the Scarlet Horn.

Although they defeated the rebels and suppressed the rebellion, the Grant royal family was unable to retain the backbone of the Venus family. Under the cover of the legendary magician Elena and the legendary knight Charlemagne, the backbone of the Venus family successfully withdrew from the battlefield. For the Grant royal family, the failure to severely damage the Venus family was ultimately a hidden danger.

After annihilating the United Kingdom Maritime Front on the east coast, Richard led the four eastern marquis coalition forces and divided his forces into two groups to go south. The Allied Forces of the Four Marquises had 80,000 troops and went south by land to reinforce the Southern Earls. Richard used leapfrog tactics and once again relied on naval forces to attack the coastline of the United Kingdom on the east coast.

Although the four eastern marquis coalition forces have a closer route and are only 400 kilometers away from the front line, Harland's army has the power of sea transportation to cover a distance of more than 600 kilometers in just two and a half days to attack Andorra. A stronghold south of the mountains.

With the help of the power of the magic crystal cannon, Harland led the army to easily capture many coastal castles, and the troops were directed south of the Mara River.

Harland led the army to stir up wind and rain behind the Andorra Mountains. The four Marquises of the East and the Seven Earls of the South joined forces to break through the natural line of defense of the Andorra Mountains.

In an instant, the Andorra Front of the United Kingdom on the East Coast was also attacked from both sides, and its retreat was cut off.

The Andorran front army planned to break the encirclement and break out from the southwest, but was surrounded and annihilated by the coalition forces of Richard and the nobles of the Kingdom of Grant.

In this war, the Grant Kingdom paid a price of 30,000 troops and completely annihilated the two fronts of the United Kingdom on the East Coast. In just ten days, the East Coast lost 300,000 troops and was on the verge of national subjugation.