When Richard returned to Harden Castle, he did not alarm the others.

Richard went to Fort Vick last night, and today it happened that he did not receive a combat mission.

He went to Vikburg this time, and outsiders did not know about it for the time being.

The reason why Richard got the first step and got the background of Baron Stuppa's family, his position is the most critical reason.

After the defeat of Wald's brigade, Vicburg was empty.

In fact, only a few officers such as Richard, Diarra, Owen, and Ron can seize this opportunity.

Richard's brain was the fastest, and he immediately acted that night, and only then did he get the inheritance of the Baron family.

After a day of rest, Richard received a battle report.

Baron Harden and Lieutenant Colonel Marvin joined forces with Captain Sharp to defeat the Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry Brigade, and Gunderson could only flee into the Eagle Mountains with the remnants of the defeated army.

The battle for the defense line of the Pratos Mountains finally ended ahead of schedule.

After the battle of the Platos Line, Baron Harden joined up with Lieutenant Colonel Marvin and went to Fort Flame for reinforcements, while the 8th Brigade stayed behind to rest at Harden Castle and take charge of the defense in this direction.

After two months of continuous fighting, the 8th Brigade suffered heavy losses, and now the strongest force was the 6th Squadron commanded by Diarra, and the provisional squadron commanded by Richard.

When Captain Sharp arrived at Harden Castle, he brought a new appointment.

Richard was transferred to the position of Squadron Leader of the 7th Squadron, and his eldest brother Ron took over as the deputy squadron leader of the 6th Squadron of Richard.

The 7th Squadron was a newly formed squadron, and it was originally not fully manned, and most of the soldiers were killed and wounded in the battle, and the former squadron leader was also killed in the subsequent battles.

Now there are only about twenty soldiers in the 7th squadron.

However, these more than 20 soldiers participated in the defense of the city for more than two months, and although their physical fitness was not good, they were already veterans who had participated in hard battles mentally.

The provisional squadrons commanded by Richard were all recovered wounded soldiers, mainly soldiers of the 8th Brigade, and some wounded soldiers of the Legion Reconnaissance Group.

The provisional squadron is now the most complete, and Captain Sharp only gave Richard thirty soldiers to take to the seventh squadron.

Hayden still followed Richard this time and was transferred to the seventh squadron. With Richard's care, although Hayden's strength is not strong, he is not in the key direction of the battle every time.

In the event of a tough battle, Richard personally went into battle, leaving Hayden in the rear, and after several months of fighting, Hayden was intact in the battle.

Severely understaffed, Captain Sharp recruited a few hundred recruits from among the refugees to replenish the battle damage of the Eighth Brigade.

Richard took the soldiers to the 7th Squadron and found that the 7th Squadron was in good shape, with a total of more than 50 veterans, and its combat effectiveness was estimated to be second only to the 6th Squadron. The previous main squadron was crippled this time, and seventy or eighty percent of them were recruits.

If the Eighth Brigade wants to regain its combat effectiveness, it is estimated that it will take two or three years of training.

In the ensuing battle, the 8th Brigade could only take on the tasks of the second and third lines, and the corps headquarters did not transfer them to the main battlefield, but stayed in the direction of Pratos to rest.

Now that the 7th and 6th squadrons were the most combat-ready, Captain Sharp had these two squadrons stationed in the Platos fortress complex.

The remaining main force is stationed at Harden Castle, seizing the time to train and regain combat effectiveness.

Armed with the books he had found at Baron Stoppa's castle, Richard and the 7th Squadron were once again stationed in Castle 3.

Castle No. 3 changed hands several times, the fortifications were damaged a lot, and part of the city walls collapsed.

After entering the castle, Richard organized training and repaired the city defenses, and the time soon passed for more than a month, entering August.

In the last month, rewards have also been distributed at the Legion Headquarters.

Ordinary soldiers were paid double salaries, and officers of the squadron rank were rewarded with twenty gold coins.

The most important thing is the combat exploits, the ambush in the canyon commanded by Diarra and Richard, and the total annihilation of the three squadrons of the Wald Brigade, played a key role in the victory of the Platos Line.

In this battle, the two squadron leaders were each rewarded with three medium merits.

In addition, Squadron Leader Diarra reinforced Platos Castle and cooperated with the defeat of the Orc Commander-in-Chief Gunderson, who was awarded a moderate merit, and Richard led twenty cavalry to defeat half of the Orc's squadron and was awarded a medium merit.

Richard cooperated with the soldier Dida to kill Wald, a fifth-order lion-headed man, and rewarded Richard with two for medium merit and one for Dida for medium merit.

Counting Richard's killing of orc professionals, there are six medium skills and three minor skills accumulated in this battle.

After the whole war this year, Richard has accumulated one big merit and three small merits.

After Ron became a professional, he made two small achievements in the subsequent battles, and Hayden still did not make an inch.

There is still a war going on, and many areas are unable to communicate.

Even the situation of his father William, Richard did not know.

It is only through a rough intelligence analysis that it is possible to determine whether it is safe or not.

According to the battle reports that are coming now, the main castles such as Black River Fort, Flame Fort, and Flying Eagle Castle have not been lost.

However, the fortresses at the southern foot of the Eagle Mountains suffered heavy losses, some of which were noble territories, while others were castles directly under the kingdom and were garrisoned by the main forces of the Northern Legion.

The second brother Barron is in the Grizzly Legion, and the Grizzly Legion is far away from the Wild Lions, and Richard doesn't know much about the situation there.

Barron's position was relatively low, and his strength was not very strong, and in this brutal war, the losses of junior officers were particularly large.

After the war began, Richard did not receive any letters from his family. I don't know if my father William, my third uncle Bernie, and my second brother Barron have made any military achievements?

William has accumulated a lot of military exploits, and if he gains something this year, the family merits will add up to enough to be a hereditary nobleman.

Survive in the kingdom of Grant, there is no title of nobility, and you are inferior everywhere.

For the past month or so, Richard has been training with soldiers in the morning and handling military affairs, repairing the city walls with soldiers in the afternoon, and reading magic books in the evening.

This magic book is called "Charlotte Explains Thirteen Common Spells", which not only records the complete meditation method, but also records thirteen commonly used spells.

Through the book's preface, Richard knew that Charlotte was a native magician.

Active before the establishment of the Kingdom of Grant, the Dawn calendar was around 2000.

It has been more than 1,200 years now.

Charlotte is one of the leaders of the Highland Mage Guild, a magical organization.

In this magic book, the meditation methods recorded are very advanced and complete, this set of meditation methods is called the Highland Meditation Method, there are twelve articles, enough to cultivate to the Nine Rings Magician.

However, the number of spells is relatively small, only thirteen. Nine of them are low-level magic, the other three are four-ring magic, and one is five-ring magic.

For a magician, the more magic he masters, the stronger his ability to adapt to complex environments and his combat effectiveness.

Thirteen kinds of magic are far from enough for a magician.

Because of the busy military affairs, the main energy is used to read magic books, and even affects the cultivation of the breathing method, and there is not much progress in various skills, which is reflected in the experience value, which has not increased much for more than a month.