on a dragon boat

Richard is saying goodbye to Parley and the others, after Natalis entered the port city with five thousand elites, Richard and Paley and his party boarded the way back, the follow-up work will be arranged by Parley, the families of these soldiers, and some of the displaced people who lost their homes in the war will be fainted by the fleet to the port city to become new residents, the entire port city should be able to accommodate twenty or thirty thousand people, and with the size of the island of the sea clan clam farm, in fact, it is not a big problem to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people, but in order not to stimulate the sea tribe for the time being, The planned number of immigrants will not exceed 20,000 people.

"Brother-in-law, be careful all the way, and leave the affairs of Port City to me."

"I'll take care of the affairs of Port City for your lordship."

In addition to Parley, there is also Paul, who is newly invested in Richard, this hero who is good at naval operations and has a certain ability to coordinate and manage is indeed a rare talent, and it is indeed a bit overkill to serve in the unappreciated kingdom navy, and it is foreseeable that the importance of the kingdom navy will decline more and more, judging from the current situation, except for Paley, the kingdom officials may not invest a penny in the navy anymore.

Under Richard's persuasion and inducement, Paul quickly made a choice, on the one hand, the real power of the marquis, who was now in the ascendant of power in the kingdom, and on the other hand, the fleet that was increasingly unappreciated, but it was not difficult to make a choice if he still had some ambitions.

Richard will not take Paul with him on his return trip for the time being, he will assist Natalis in managing the port city here, and also have the task of preparing a fleet for Richard, and he has half of the credit for the pacification of the sea, and Richard also wants to eat such a bite of the bowl of soup in the sea trade.

For the distant Northlands, the current port city is nothing more than an enclave, and he must leave Natalis's combat power to rest assured, with her here, it can not only effectively deter the sea clan, but also make some southern nobles rest their careful thoughts about the port city, including Parley is also within this deterrent range.

As for whether it was worth it to contain such an important combat power of Natalis for the sake of an enclave, after careful consideration by Richard, he thought it was worth it.

A port city is an existence that cannot be lost, and from a distance, it will be the tentacle that Richard will pull to the south in the future, and even use it as the foundation for controlling the sea tribe like the elves in the past.

From the current point of view, under the current cooperation with Parley, Richard can make tens of thousands of gold narls a month, but this is obviously far from enough, compared to the economic and maritime trade income of the entire south, that money is at most a sip of soup, and now that Richard has been here, how can he be satisfied with drinking a sip of soup on the gold tower of the kingdom, he is a top meat eater.

With this contribution to the expeditionary sea tribe, in addition to getting the honorarium of 200,000 jinnars promised by Parley, Richard also tore a mouthful of trade profits from the mouths of this group of southern magnates, and part of the share was divided to Richard, and this part of the benefits had to be watched.

The current arrangement is also temporary, Natalis's force is an absolute deterrent, but Natalis's management ability can only be said to be average, normal level, Paul is stronger than her, and there will be middle-level officials from Ironwood City coming to the south one after another to help Natalis manage the port city and trade together.

Richard waved his hand to the people on the dragon boat, and then drove the red dragon to set off, and the ultimate hydra was embellished in the sea, leaving with Richard, so more than ten days of recuperation, so that after all, the nine heads recovered, and even several heads that were bitten off by the deep-sea giant whale grew back, so that Richard had to sigh its powerful life ability.

The dragon boat and a few warships are still some distance from the mainland, but Richard can't wait to sail back slowly, the days of leaving the north are long enough, he is a little unsteady in his heart, after making arrangements, he set off on his stomach, and after leaving the sight of the dragon boat, he used teleportation to start the high-speed rush mode.

…

Northland

The clouds of war once again loomed over the city, and the traces of the orcs reappeared at the edge of the forest.

The elves of the city in the forest found the vanguard of the orcs in the city of ironwood, but this time the orcs did not remember to attack, but built a huge forward base in the city of ironwood, and it was impossible for more than 50,000 orcs to rush out in one go. They cut down trees in the woods and set up camps, carved roads, and looked like they were going to prepare for a long war.

"General Gelt, the scouts have found signs of human army activity at the edge of the Ironwoods"

After a long and arduous march, the orcs finally crossed the snow field and entered the iron wood forest, but even with the help of the snow giant and the divine envoy Adriro, the non-combat attrition was still very serious, nearly 5,000 orc warriors stayed on the snow field forever, close to one-tenth of the non-combat attrition, even if the orc commander had a certain amount of mental preparation, he still couldn't help but feel pain.

However, Geert couldn't take care of it at this time, and the troops had rested for two days and set up a basic camp, and then it was time to move.

"Pass my order, let the vanguard battalion go to fight a first formation, if the human beings they face are not strong, they will be wiped out, and if there are too many human troops, let them hold on to the spot."

The Pioneer Battalion is an elite unit of the Orcs, although the number is only 5,000, but all of them are veterans who have fought bloody battles and performed well in the Dragon's Breath Pass.

"The Second Legion, go around in the southeast direction, try to bypass the human army in front of you, and launch an attack from the rear flank of the human flank, our side will hold the human army back."

"The Third Army Corps, as a reserve, is ready to support the Pioneer Battalion."

"Yes, General!"

The orcs are extremely confident in the face of the human army in the field, even if Geert received the reconnaissance information that the human army has nearly 60,000 people and still puts the 5,000 vanguard battalion in front, he doesn't want to fight a simple rout battle, since the human race dares to leave the city to fight, he doesn't want to put any of them back, he tries to fight a solid war of annihilation.

…

"Lord Moryl, the orc army has moved."

"Hmm."

At this time, Morrill was confronting the orcs with two ordinary legions, the Silver Wing Legion and the Dragon Army, and almost half of Richard's army.

Not to mention the strength of the system army, if you compare the number of strong people alone, the strong people above the knight rank owned by the system army are completely crushing the orcs on the opposite side, and the ordinary indigenous legions have also changed a lot.

The most obvious is that there have been changes in equipment, in the past, Richard was thinking about financial problems, and the Hunter family had limited financial resources, so it was necessary to consider the cost performance of equipment, but from the Hunter family, the update of military equipment was also steadily carried out.

Originally, the standard configuration of the Hunter family's subordinate armies was a cloth armor and group armor, an iron-bone animal skin helmet, a standard scimitar and their main weapons.

Now from the Dragon Army, on the original basis, the configuration of tortoise back armor and heart armor has been added, which is basically double armor, and the protection ability has been greatly enhanced, and the inner soft armor composed of some satin and soft leather has been added to the inner lining, which is used to alleviate the impact damage of some blunt weapons.

The helmet was replaced with an animal skin lining, an all-metal structure on the outside, and a shawl chain armor with neck guards was added, and the overall protection of the set was greatly improved compared to before, which made the originally rich finances a lot tighter, and Egger lost a lot of hair because of this.

There are also a lot of updates to the weapons, the scimitar has been replaced with a more practical armor-piercing hammer, this weapon with a front cone and a rear hammer is more suitable for dealing with heavy armor units such as orcs, and the head of the spear has become sharper, a posture that is to break armor.