(Okay, the timeline of the last chapter was questioned by book friends, my question, now changed to Winter 2591)

Looking at the date in the upper right corner of the newspaper, Surdak knew that the news in the magical newspaper in his hand had been ten days ago.

There was a cup of tea on the desk in the command post, and the room was a little dim, and a beam of light came in through the glass window, and a small spot of light appeared on the desk.

In the spotlight, a handwritten letter from Duke Newman was placed on the table, the fire paint had been torn, and the letterhead inside had been read twice by Surdak.

He was thinking about the situation in the Warsaw plane, and Duke Newman wrote only two things in his letter:

'The House of Ivorson declared Quentin. On the first day of the new year, Bussman will inherit the Duke of the Bussman family and become the new Duke of Bussmann. ’

'After the death of Duke Ryan, the Coalition Cavalry Regiment of the Western Provinces of the Grimm Empire began to enter the Warsaw Plane to recover the five counties captured by the Demon Legion. ’

After reading Duke Newman's letter, Surdak learned that the Bussman family had completely given up the management of the Warsaw plane in order to maintain power in the province of Evorsen.

This time, the Confederate lords of the western provinces of the empire were willing to send troops into the Warsaw plane, mainly Quentin. Bussman was willing to hand over the coordinates of the Warsaw plane.

When the coalition of new lords enters the Warsaw plane, the territorial division of the Warsaw plane will be reshuffled, and once the five counties that have found the fall of the demon legion are recaptured, the original lords will lose ownership of these lands.

If you want to reoccupy this land, there are only two ways, send troops to capture it directly, or be willing to pay for it.

The Duke of Newman is also waiting for this opportunity, and the Bednar Army will capture Kornberg County on all fronts during this time.

After completely taking Kornberg, the Bednar Army will continue to capture Barsa Musa.

The current Epson County has not been conquered by the Demon Legion, and after the withdrawal of the Bussman family's army, it will become a common occupation area for the Alliance Lord Army, and the landowners of this land will still retain the original territory.

According to Duke Newman's plan, the Bernard Lords would occupy at least two counties in the Warsaw plane during this cake-splitting operation.

Handanaar County was the original sphere of influence of the Bednar Legion, but Duke Newman was placed by Duke Ryan at the beginning, and Handanaar County cannot be said to be barren, but it is definitely much worse than the other six counties.

Handanaar was originally a large meadow surrounded by mountains, with vast pastures and dense vegetation in the mountains, so animal husbandry and forestry were developed, but other mining resources were very scarce, and it was very troublesome to expand the territory in the future.

It is bordered to the north by the Kandar Range, to the east by the Samosto River and the Great Rift Valley, to the west by an inconquerable mountain landscape, and only to the south by the Kornberg County, separated by the Kempatomos River.

Kornberg has five bonanza fields, the most popular of which is the Maggie Mithril Mine.

Surdak put the magic newspaper aside, closed his eyes and thought quietly for a while, Duke Newman was willing to spend eight years here with the Bednar Legion, and he definitely didn't just want to occupy two counties, he should also plan to expand outward, at least after the Demon Legion drove out of the Warsaw plane, he had the right to open up Warsaw territory.

When Duke Ryan was alive, this power was in Ryan's hands. Bussman's hands.

And now Quentin. After Bussman inherited the title, in order to ensure that he could obtain the title safely, the compromise he made was to hand over Warsaw.

What's more, the Bussman family has been tortured by the huge quagmire of the Warsaw plane, and the current Bussman family lord army has long been unable to conquer Warsaw, what they need most is to recuperate for a period of time and reorganize, Quentin. Only then could the new Duke of Bussman completely control the lord army of the Bussman family.

This time, Duke Newman sent reinforcements from Bena Province, mainly to stop the demon legion in Moyun Ridge and the demon legion west of the Naroda fortress.

Surdak's Western Route Army was stationed in the forest camp this time in order to contain the Moyunling Demon Legion......

……

The news of the victory of the Western Route Army at Yanggut Canyon was in Ryan. It was announced after Duke Bussman's death.

Hearing the news, Handanar County was completely boiling, and various celebratory balls were held throughout Handanaar City that night, and the black devil skins brought back by the merchants from the forest farm camp also arrived in Handanar City the next day.

The townspeople of the city realized that they had heard the news and were running as fast as the merchants' carriages.

But then again, the news of the victory of the Western Reinforcements in the first battle with the demons was announced, and the next day a large number of Dark Devil Skins arrived in Handanar City, which rejuvenated the entire city.

The noble lords in the city suddenly found that the land in their hands seemed to be saved, and the call for support for the Bena Legion suddenly rose.

The name 'Lord of Surdak' also appeared for the first time at various balls in Handanar City, so after a long discussion, the nobles finally learned that the Surdak Commander was a lord who had come out of the city of Highlandsa.

It was not polite for the nobles to call them by their first names in private......

……

It was only half a month later that Surdak learned that many nobles in Handanar City called him 'Lord of Highlanda'.

In fact, Surdak would have liked to correct the name, as it would have been more appropriate to call himself 'Lord of Gampo' or 'Lord Ruyt'.

Just in time, the demon army on the Moyun Ridge in the northern part of the Gandaer Mountains was about to move, and Surdak had no time to pay attention to this.

He still couldn't figure out how the demons passed messages to each other.

The Bednar Legion had just overwhelmed the border on the Kornberg County border, and the Demon Legion in Moyunling quickly made a series of reactions, if it weren't for the battle of the Sheep Intestine Canyon half a month ago, which made this Evil Legion a little worried, I am afraid that the forward troops of this Evil Legion would have crossed Mount Gandaur by now.

Since Duke Newman hopes that the Western Route Army can contain the demon legion in Moyun Ridge, Surdak has also been formulating a strategy to block the demon legion in Moyun Ridge during this time, after the magician reconnaissance team found out that the demon legion on Moyun Ridge had a series of actions.

Surdak immediately led the Western Route Army, along the forest road that had been opened up four years earlier to the north of the forest camp, towards the Moyun Ridge, a mountainous area in the northern part of the Gandaer Mountains.

Today, the trail is completely deserted, overgrown with weeds and vines on both sides of the roadbed.

A band of ghostly ant, under the command of a druid, cleared the way in front of the army.

This forest road seems to have been completely forgotten by everyone, and when Surdak took the pen and drew this line accurately on the map, the magician reconnaissance team was even a little unconvinced, because after nearly a month of repeated reconnaissance, the magicians did not find such a path in the forest area at all.

But Commander Surdak was very sure that there must be this forest road in the mountains.

There was no need to prepare anything in advance, and on the day the army set out, a team of soldiers and ants was sent to clear the wild grass on the forest road.

As the soldiers gradually cleared the wild grass from the forest road with their scissor-like teeth, a forest road leading straight to Moyun Ridge appeared in everyone's sight as if it had been given magic, and the officers of the Western Route Army became more convinced of Surdak.

The trail here is still so familiar, there are even some small trees with the thickness of an arm, the trees on both sides of the trail are towering, and the canopy above the head has even been connected together, completely obscuring the trail.

Surdak rode a demonic war horse with the army, this time at the request of the small lords in the Western Route Army, thirteen foreign heavy armored infantry regiments as the advance army, followed behind Surdak's two armored knights and a full ant cavalry regiment, and took the lead in entering Moyunling.

The first batch of supplies for the Ghost Ant arrived at the forest camp three days ago, which means that the army of soldiers has finally been recognized by the Bednar Military Department.

Although they are not currently in formation, the War Department defines these soldiers as horse-like mounts of the Heavy Infantry Regiment of the Surdak Lords.

In any case, being recognized by the military finally made Surdak breathe a sigh of relief.

Next, the supply of the ghost pattern soldier ant will not need him to bother to raise.

In addition, this time the military department also sent a hundred bed crossbows and a hundred catapults to the Western Route Army, Surdak guessed that these catapults and bed crossbows had been stored in the material warehouse of Handanar City for a long time, and Duke Newman had been waiting for this opportunity to take out these strategic materials.

With this batch of bed crossbows, Surdak has more confidence in stopping the Moyunling Demon Legion.

With the merchant Malacombe opening up the trading channels in the imperial capital, now whether it is buying a standard magic pattern construction or buying a giant magic crossbow arrow, the Thunder Rhino Merchant Group can not only get the goods as soon as possible, but also have preferential benefits for large customers.

For Surdak, although the cost of using such weapons of war has increased dramatically, the deterrent effect on demons has also increased exponentially.

In order to keep up with the marching speed of the Constructed Knights, the small lords of the Western Route Army specially bought a large number of horses from the ranchers on the Great Meadow, and now this group of heavy infantry has horses.

When passing through the forest road, you can also see a neat team of horses passing through the forest.

The large herds of red-eyed hyenas in the mountains have now disappeared, and these red-eyed hyenas, which were not considered magical beasts at the beginning, pose a great threat to the heavy infantry regiment in the forest camp, mainly because the red-eyed hyena population in this mountain range is too large.

Now the red-eyed hyenas in the mountains have obviously been eaten by the evil spirits, and there is no trace of them in the mountains for a long time.

Surdak sighed softly, remembering the Earth Storm Bear that had helped him escape from the mountains, and that bear had become food for the evil spirits.

Through the gaps between the forest roads, the Moyun Ridge in the distance still reaches into the sky.

……

Surdak's countermeasure this time was not only to lead the Western Route Army to take the initiative to attack Moyun Ridge, so as to contain the demon army on Moyun Ridge.

He spent nearly a month supporting the adventure group in Handanar County to hunt evil spirits in the northern area of Great Meadows and the northern mountains of the Gandar Ear Mountains, not only asking for a variety of items to be traded in the free market opposite the forest farm camp, but more importantly, the forest farm camp was willing to treat the injured members of the adventure group.

Of course, that's not enough to appeal to all adventure groups.

Another policy of Surdak is that these adventurers will not leave easily.

Because he promised the adventure party stationed in the forest camp that the evil spirits hunted by the adventure group could be traded with the lord army of the forest camp camp.

The lord army can redeem merit and receive rewards on the merit list......

After this opening was opened by Surdak, it meant that while the adventure group hunted evil spirits, as long as the spoils were traded for the lord army in the forest farm camp, they could enjoy the benefits of the lord army soldiers.

Moreover, some of the minor lords in the Western Route Army also need unidentified black magic crystals to be promoted to titles, and they are willing to spend some money to buy black magic crystals.

Many adventure groups will set their sights on the top ten magic pattern structures on the merit list, according to Surdak's exchange merit ratio for adventure groups, these adventure groups only need to kill fifty evil spirits and hand over all the loot, they can be exchanged for a complete set of magic pattern structures, which is much cheaper than using magic crystals to bid in the auction house.

It was this news that caused the adventuring groups of Handanar City to begin to pour into the Gandaur Mountains in large numbers.

According to the preliminary statistics of the tavern owner of the free market in the forest farm camp, in the past month, there have been at least a few hundred adventure groups coming to the forest farm camp.

As soon as these adventurers plunged headlong into the Kandar Mountains, they became hunting squads of demon scouts.

Adventure parties with the ability to hunt demons will have at least one constructed swordsman in the team.

The most famous of Bena Province is the Bena Swordsmen, these Constructed Swordsmen may not be as good as the Constructed Knights in the army, but they are far more useful than the Constructed Knights in the Adventure Party, so this is one of the reasons why there are many more Adventure Groups in the Bena Province than in other provinces.

With the influx of adventuring groups into the Kandaur Mountains, the Scout Squad of the Demon Legion scattered throughout the mountains had to be forced to shrink to the area around Moyun Ridge.

The range of activities of the Demon Scout Team is constantly overwhelmed by the adventure group, and they gradually lose control of the Gandar Earl Mountain.

In fact, what made those adventure groups incomprehensible the most was that even if there was no one guarding the Sheep Intestine Canyon now, the evil ghosts on Moyun Ridge would not dare to step into the Sheep Intestine Canyon for half a step.

The arrival of Surdak's Western Route Army at the foot of Moyunling Mountain coincided with the first day of the New Year of the Grimm Empire.

And this day happens to be Quentin. The day when Bussman succeeded Duke Bussman.

……

Probably learned of the movements of the Western Route Army, the Eastern Route Army Edmond. The Marquess of Arnold also launched an attacking stance on the western flank of County Handanale.

However, the eastern foothills of Handanaar were completely different from the northern mountains, and the Eastern Route Army was stationed in a fortress in a gorge, which was named 'Naroda' by Duke Newman.

In fact, as long as you hold the fortress of Naroda, Edmund. Marquis Arnold's Eastern Route Army has completed the task assigned by the military headquarters.

Edmond. Marquis Arnold was obviously not satisfied with this merit, this time he came to the Warsaw plane with the Eastern Route Army and there were a number of Constructed Knights, and ordinary merit could not satisfy their appetite.