The 6th Squadron suffered heavy casualties and was transferred to Harden Castle by Captain Sharp to recuperate. They were accompanied by dozens of wounded soldiers of the Eighth Brigade.

Harden Castle is located 30 kilometers west of the Pratos Mountains and is in an obtuse triangle shape with the Flame Castle and the Platos Castle.

With the Platos fortress complex in front, Harden Castle is already in the rear, and now the castle is garrisoned by the second-line army city defense army.

After the 6th Squadron was transferred, with the warrant of Baron Harden, the city defense army immediately transferred soldiers to supplement it. This group of recruits was of high quality, looking strong and strong, and two of the soldiers were already high-level soldier cadets, enough to serve as junior officers.

There is also a sharpshooter with an archery level of level 3, and he can barely manipulate an enchanted bow and crossbow to kill and damage enemies.

It seems that this batch of reinforcements should be carefully selected. It was now a wartime state, and the 6th Squadron still had a warrant from the Supreme Commander of the defensive line, Baron Harden. The city defense army did not dare to slack off and fooled with new soldiers.

Prevent the 6th Squadron from complaining to its superiors and holding them accountable.

After the reinforcements came in, the 6th Squadron was reinforced. When he returns from injury, he can continue to form two squads to make the system complete.

Ron is a junior officer who is treated first by the priest after the battle.

After the treatment, most of the injuries have recovered and they are now able to move normally. If you continue to recuperate for about ten days, you will almost be cured.

In this battle, Richard grabbed the heads of two pros and increased his experience by 2500.

"It seems that killing miscellaneous soldiers will not increase experience, and I don't know if killing a profession with a lower level than me will increase experience after my level increases?"

Richard thought in his heart and silently opened the properties panel.

Richard Haaland

Power: 8.7

Dexterity: 2.6

Stamina: 3.8

Mental Power: 9.1

Lion Legion's Breathing Method: Tier 4 (256/10000)

Grant Kingdom Basic Swordsmanship: 3rd Order (521/4000)

Archery: 4th Order (574/10000)

Riding: 3rd Order (489/4000)

Northern Legion Combat: 2nd Tier (581/2000)

Experience Points: 2500

In recent days, Richard has continued to train hard, and his experience in various skills has increased slightly. However, it is still far from the advanced.

In particular, the breathing method, which is related to the professional level, has just begun to be cultivated.

If you practice the breathing method step by step, I'm afraid it will take two to three years to advance.

A professional's combat effectiveness mainly depends on attributes, equipment, and skills.

The main thing that increases the level of the profession is the attributes. A good breathing method, after the advancement, the bonus to the attribute is slightly larger, and there is a special fighting attribute killing effect.

Even if the breathing method of the Wild Lion Legion is not as good as the top breathing method in the Dawn Continent, the difference is not too much, and the comprehensive evaluation is already top-notch.

It is rumored that the breathing methods practiced by the three legions in the north are all cherished by the royal family of the Grand Duke of Starnik.

A hundred years ago, a brutal internal struggle broke out in the Duchy of Starnik, and the Jonathan family was ousted by the great nobles of the country and exiled to the in-laws Grant Kingdom, becoming the current Duke Jonathan's family.

The heritage of the Jonathan family was also handed over to the Grant royal family. This includes advanced breathing.

The royal family of Grant used these three breathing methods to mobilize a part of the resources to form three main army corps, which were invested in the northern exploration war.

The Duke of Jonathan's territory, the territory of the three northern provinces, and the fortress at the southern foot of the Eagle Mountains are all trophies of the victory of the Pioneer War a hundred years ago.

Richard is now in the middle of a war, and the most important thing is to increase his combat effectiveness.

Adding 2,500 XP to the Breathing Method has no effect on the increase in combat power.

The top priority is to improve various skills, and the archery skills that are most helpful in battle have been upgraded to the fourth order, and they cannot be improved for the time being.

The only thing that can be upgraded now is the Basic Fighting Technique of the Northern Legion.

Richard had 1500 experience on the Northern Legion's combat skills, and the stat panel immediately changed.

The remaining 1,000 points of experience, Richard fortunately, all added to the breathing method of the Wild Lion Legion. This thousand points of experience is equivalent to a month of hard cultivation for Richard.

With the addition of Kill Experience, Richard's stats panel became.

Richard Haaland

Power: 8.7

Dexterity: 2.6

Stamina: 3.8

Mental Power: 9.1

Breathing of the Lion Legion: Order 4 (1256/10000)

Grant Kingdom Basic Swordsmanship: 3rd Order (521/4000)

Archery: 4th Order (574/10000)

Riding: 3rd Order (489/4000)

Northern Legion Combat: Tier 3 (81/4000)

Experience: 0

For some time after that, the 6th Squadron had been resting at Harden Castle, and Richard began to adapt to the third-order basic fighting technique, so as not to be embarrassed by unfamiliar skills on the battlefield.

In this way, the 6th Squadron spent more than ten days of leisurely time.

Suddenly, Richard received news from the front that the orc army had once again launched an attack on the fortress complex of Platos.

There were as many as two and a half groups of orcs attacking the city this time, except for the team that was disabled last time, the other two were all fresh troops.

In this siege, the orc army did not take any risks and chose to fight steadily.

In the last two or three days, the war ahead has been very tight.

Richard found that the number of wounded soldiers withdrawn from the front had increased considerably, adding up to more than three hundred.

Among the wounded were also the wounded of Baron Harden's cavalry regiment.

By talking to the wounded, Richard heard that Baron Harden once again led his team to charge into battle, killing the sixth-order orc commander and crushing the main orc brigade before stabilizing the battle line and repelling the orcs.

After two defensive battles, the Eighth Brigade had suffered a total of 400 casualties. Although not an inch of ground was lost on the front line, it was already difficult to support the defensive line by relying on the Eighth Brigade to hold on.

Orcs also began to cross the Pratos Mountains and began to infiltrate the Barony of Harden.

The news ahead is constantly changing.

One moment it is said that Baron Harden is ready to abandon the Platos castle complex, and the other time it is said that Baron Harden is holding on and waiting for reinforcements.

True or false, the wounded soldiers who retreated said anything, and even Richard, who was present in the battle, was a little confused.

In the Baron's Castle, in addition to the sixth squadron, there were several squadrons of the city defense army stationed, and Baron Harden also left a few officers with a part of the serf army to protect his family.

Not only did the city defense army have no enchanted equipment, but each squadron only had a dozen soldiers who practiced the breathing method. The backbone of the Sixth Squadron was transferred from the city defense army to replenish the Sixth Squadron, and they were wounded.

Combined, several squadrons could not defeat a squadron of the main army.

Even if the Sixth Squadron had just completed the reorganization, Richard led a charge that could crush hundreds of city defense troops.

The combat effectiveness of the city defense army was already very poor, and even worse was the serf soldiers.

The serf soldiers in the castle were not even fully equipped, many of them were holding hoes, dung forks, armor, bows and arrows, and they were pitiful, except for a few officers who looked good, they were simply useless, and in the face of orc attacks, they could not play the slightest role in the field, and could only be barely used to defend the city.