The matter of expanding the army was still decided at Richard's insistence, and with the financial resources of the Hunter family, although it would be a little nervous to support a new army, it could barely be done after a while, and Egg, as the big steward who was in charge of the money and food in Tiemu City, always instinctively had a headache about the expansion of the army.

This expansion was carried out from two aspects, one was to supplement the original two legions, the Flying Bear Army and the Tiger and Leopard Army each expanded a flag regiment of 5,000 people, organized into a reinforced corps of five flag regiments, and then formed a new corps of 25,000 people, the new legion was named the Burning Sun Legion, which coincided with Richard's fighting attributes.

The equipment of the Legion of the Sun is still provided by the Armory, but with some updates compared to the previous equipment.

The ordinary bows and arrows have been basically eliminated from the equipment sequence, and the ranged troops only retain the bear hunting crossbow and the kicking crossbow, two long-range weapons with strong armor-piercing ability, and the improved partial box car fleet has also become the standard equipment of the regular army of Ironwood City.

In the war, you must always be good at summarizing lessons and lessons, the Hunter family has jumped out of the level of competition among the small nobles, and the target enemy has become an orc or even a snow giant, a non-human with amazing defense, an orc because of its strong body can be draped in thicker iron armor, and the snow giant is born with rough skin and thick flesh, which is not an ordinary bow and arrow that can break the defense, and even the system's marksman has a bad damage effect on them, only the elf archer can still see some, and it makes little sense to continue to maintain ordinary archers.

The Partial Box Truck can deal with the direct charge of the strong battle race, at least in the case of confrontation with the Orcs, the soldiers can rely on the Partial Box Truck to make up for the physical disadvantage a little.

The spear and shield armor-piercing heavy soldiers have become the main hand-to-hand combat equipment of the current Hunter family's subordinate army, and Richard's imaginary enemy has gradually completely shifted from a human army to an alien army, all around the idea of fighting orcs.

At this time, in addition to the system army, there will be more than 80,000 professional troops under Richard's command, namely the Flying Bear Army, the Tiger and Leopard Army, and the three legions of the Lieyang Army, plus a cavalry flag regiment.

At present, the territory directly or indirectly controlled by the Hunter family has occupied half of the Northland, and it is still eroding the traditional sphere of influence of the Lancet family.

In the past, although there were only more than two million people in the territory directly under the Lanster family, as the overlord of the Northland, the Lanster family also had a considerable influence on other Northland lords, and the Lanster family could trade and recruit troops on the territory of other lords, as long as it was not too much, no one dared to complain.

But now with the rise of the Hunter family, and the performance is getting stronger and stronger, more nobles are gradually falling to the Hunter family, or because Richard's rules are a little harsh, I am afraid that the entire Northland except for the Lancet family, the rest of the nobles have fallen to the Hunter family.

Even though Richard's rules are harsh, under the threat of war, there are still many nobles who join the alliance formed by the Hunter family in order to protect themselves, consciously send their sons and nephews to Ironwood City to study, and transfer their quasi-knights to serve in the Hunter family's army.

When the ogre entered the east, the performance of the Hunter family was very bright, and the nobles who took refuge in the Hunter family were basically spared from suffering, while the nobles who obeyed the Hunter family in the past could only fend for themselves in the end, everyone voted with their feet, since the Lancet family could not be stable, it was also the right thing to join the Hunter family.

Especially in the last half month, there has been an orc army coming out, such a big movement, it is a dragon and a sky level powerhouse fighting, everyone is not stupid, it is impossible that what happened in Ironwood City is not clear, after fully confirming the tension of the situation and the strength of the Hunter family, more nobles from the North Land have thrown themselves under the command of the Hunter family despite Richard's harsh regulations.

Now the division of more than 10 million people in the Northland has reached the point of four or six, the Hunter family accounts for six, the Lancet family accounts for four, and the Hunter family is still expanding, sooner or later, the Lancet family's sphere of influence will only be left with their own direct territory, or even more than...

And Richard now has a population of 6 million and half of the Northland, and has 80,000 professional standing troops, which is actually not a poor army.

In half a month, in addition to keeping an eye on the expansion of the army, army training and the construction of the territory in Tiemu City, Richard did not go to the Demon City for the time being, there were two legions of Flying Bear and Tiger and Leopard Army, and Lint coordinated management, and he couldn't do anything if he wanted to, but went to Boulder Fort to receive the reward for this mission.

This battle is considered to have overfulfilled the task, the scale of the battle is not large, but the quality of the enemy is very high, and the experience of more than 600,000 has grown almost the same as the growth of the orc battle, and when receiving the task reward, hundreds of thousands of experience were rewarded again, and finally Richard was regenerated by one level.

At present, Richard's level has reached level nineteen, but in addition to a little increase in various attributes, there is not much improvement in strength for the time being, and a little more skill points have been obtained, and the scorching sun is finally in a state that can be upgraded, but Richard takes into account his current weak state, and is afraid that there will be any bad consequences caused by rashly improving his strength, so he plans to endure it and wait until his physical state recovers.

In addition to experience, there are also a lot of other rewards for quests, one treasure class reward and one soldier class reward.

When the treasure is rewarded, the golden armor can provide the wearer with five strength bonuses, and provide five defense points for the wearer and his subordinate soldiers at the same time.

The basic defense of the Crusaders, who are known for their defense, is twelve points, and with the bonus of Golden Armor and advanced defense, the Crusaders' defense can be close to twenty points, which is really going to be an unstoppable iron can on the battlefield.

The only thing that made Richard dissatisfied was this gold armor, which was too beautiful and gorgeous, more than ten times shiny than the gold-edged armor on a white background that Richard made to pretend to be forced, with gold lines on a red background, and the entire armor was shiny when it was passed on, and it was difficult not to be noticed on the battlefield.

Fortunately, the second bonus class has added a close bodyguard for Richard - Outstanding Swordsman, Outstanding Swordsman, Richard is not familiar with this class, but vaguely remembers that they replaced angels in a certain version of Hero Invincible to become the top class of human forces, wearing a spiked heavy armor, wearing a cloak like Spartan red pants, holding a giant sword like a door panel, two meters tall, it looks stronger than the orcs, and it is especially capable of fighting at a glance,

Richard's only worry is that the Excellence Swordsman is not a flying unit in the game, and if he comes here, he can only act on the ground, so he will indeed have to be discounted as a top soldier, but fortunately, the Excellence Swordsman is also set by the system as a template for fighting spirit, and the Excellence Swordsman with mid-level strength in the sky can also urge the fighting spirit to fly, but the flying ability is weaker than that of the archangels and dragons, who are born with wings.

After receiving the reward, something happened that made Richard slightly confused, the parliament of Boulder Fort did not issue a new mission, and after checking it many times to no avail, Richard could only give up temporarily, explaining that he had recently completed the task and did not trigger a new mission for the time being.

"Fred."

"My lord..."

A warrior with a haunt's back walked in and saluted Richard