The power used by the Orc Empire to invade the Kingdom of Grant is less than one-tenth.

According to published information, the Orc Empire has a total of 160 regular legions, with a total strength of about 5 million.

However, if it is a comprehensive mobilization, the orcs can mobilize tens of millions of soldiers, but the combat effectiveness of the mobilized soldiers is very low, and they can only be used to fight a dozen siege battles.

When attacking, in addition to consuming food, the mobilized soldiers are just sending the enemy's heads. When the orcs went south, they basically did not need to mobilize in full force, and organized mobilized troops to participate in the battle.

Because of the containment of other forces, the power used by the orcs in the Grant Kingdom is actually fixed, and at most six to ten legions can be drawn from other regions.

If there are more legions drawn from other regions, the situation will be unbalanced.

Since the last orc invasion war, four legions have been drawn from other regions, and as a result, the kingdom of Grant withstood the pressure, and the commander of the northern legions, Zachary, withstood the pressure and annihilated an orc legion.

After the war, the Kingdom of Grant increased its forces in the northern region and trained three ransom legions to regain its balance.

An important reason for the frequent invasion of orcs is that kobolds, snakes, sheep-like people, and wild boar people mature much faster than humans.

There are many races of orc tribes, kobolds, sheep-like people, and wild boar people are very fertile, kobolds can reach adulthood at the age of seven or eight, and snake-headed people can reach adulthood at the age of ten. Even werewolves, lionmen, and harpies are basically adults before the age of twelve.

In order to avoid a population explosion and civil unrest.

Every time the orcs invade, they are actually consuming excess garbage population.

This time the orc invasion is actually slightly less than the last one.

The war has reached this point, and the orc side has lost 40,000 troops and grabbed a population of 100,000, the strategic goal has been achieved, and there is a plan to withdraw the army.

Since June, the orcs have been shrinking, and their forces have gradually concentrated at the southern foot of the Eagle Mountains, and in late July, half of the orc army has retreated into the middle of the Eagle Mountains.

King Roger was furious that he had not been able to save the captured population of Gascoyne, and by mid-July patience had finally reached its limit.

King Roger issued an edict relieving Stein of the Legion of the Northern Frontier and appointing him commander of the Gabrian Legion.

He was transferred directly from the commander of the main army to the commander of the local province, and his rank was also reduced from lieutenant general to major general.

As the new commander of the Northern Legion, King Roger chose to be promoted on the spot, and Rabe, the first deputy legion commander and captain of the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade, was promoted to the commander of the legion.

William's old commander Teng Wei was also promoted, transferred from the position of Minister of Logistics, and was appointed as the first deputy commander of the corps and the captain of the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade.

Tarak waited for many years, and finally survived Tengwei and sat in the position of logistics minister.

Although William's rank has not moved, his influence within the Northern Legion has increased somewhat.

Rabe and Tengwei are his old comrades-in-arms, who have served in the Northern Legion for more than twenty years.

This time, King Roger completely let go of the Northern Legion, deciding to break the ceiling and appoint capable officers from the frontier to preside over the situation.

In fact, this time Stein commanded the operation, and there was no big mistake. However, as the commander of the main army, he did not have a sense of the overall situation, did not dare to take risks, did not make the right decisions in battle, and his command errors were the key factors in the heavy losses of the Gascoigne province.

The Roger Kingdom had just come to power, and there were not many qualified high-ranking officials in his hands, so he could only choose to promote local officers, hoping to stabilize the situation with local officers.

If Stein was too cautious in his use of troops, Commander Rabe's was too reckless and intense.

After taking office, Rab abandoned the main force in the first battle, led the cavalry of the Northern Legion to attack the orc transportation line, completely annihilated the two orc brigades, and rescued 18,000 serfs.

The logistics are unstable, and the orcs can only continue to deploy troops to protect the logistics transportation line.

As a result, five brigades had just been transferred back to the front, and Teng Wei commanded the infantry of the Northern Legion and immediately launched a storm.

The orcs lost their superiority in strength, and were forced to fight a dignified positional battle with the Northern Legion by heavy trebuchets.

As a result, the orcs were defeated, and once again lost 5,000 soldiers.

In two consecutive battles, Rabe and Tengwei seemed to have a good heart, and they cooperated quite tacitly, and the two of them joined forces to not only fight the orcs and lose 8,000 soldiers. It also rescued a group of captured populations and pulled the situation back a little.

The front-line orcs suffered a loss and could only draw troops from the rear.

The five groups of orcs that confronted Richard in the Platos Mountains were drawn and two teams were drawn to bypass the Platos Mountains, passing through the Eagle Mountains from the Earldom of Martins to support the main force of the orcs near Harden's Castle.

The main force of the orcs came to reinforcements and slowly retreated towards the Earl of Martins.

This passage is still in the hands of the orcs, and it seems that the orcs have plans to withdraw completely.

Within a few months, most of the more than 500 wounded soldiers in Haaland's territory had been demobilized, and the shortcomings of the soldiers had already been filled.

During this time, Richard did not forget to learn magic and mastered the magic force field of the five rings.

With this spell, Richard's defenses increased a lot. According to the magic power in his body, after opening the spell force field, it would be difficult for even a high-level mage to break up Richard's defense force field.

In addition to learning magic, Haaland's territory has recently added hundreds of snake scale armors.

This is not just the credit of Richard alone, many magic apprentices in the territory have completed the pre-processing of snake scale armor, and Butler and Anne's enchantment has also been raised to the first level, which can enchant snake scale armor.

Another necromancer, Hiss, had been studying enchantment techniques before, and he had been in charge of some of the enchantment tasks during his time in the Tower of Death.

With the help of everyone, although I made enchanted armor in my spare time during the war, I was able to complete a year's task in five months.

More than a hundred pieces of enchanted armor were assigned by Richard to the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh squadrons.

There are a hundred more pieces of enchanted armor, the recruits have gained war experience, and the wounded soldiers have all been demobilized, and the strength of the army in Haaland's territory has increased a little more than half a year ago.

The orcs drew troops from the direction of Platos, and they could only tear down the east wall to make up the west wall.

As soon as the orcs in the direction of Pratos decreased, they were immediately spotted by Richard.

Richard was very decisive in his use of troops, trusted his battlefield instincts, and regardless of whether there were traps or not, he immediately led his soldiers to a decisive battle with the orcs north of Platos Castle.

Half a year ago, Richard was able to defeat three large groups of orcs with the soldiers of Haaland's territory.

Half a year later, the army of Haaland's territory can still do this.

Although the orc army has more professionals, better physical fitness, and a little more strength.

However, there is a generation gap between the orc army and the human elite soldiers, and the strength of the ranged attacks of the human soldiers far exceeds that of the orcs. In addition, the soldiers of Haaland's territory are equipped with a large number of alchemy bombs, and the accuracy of using trebuchets is also better than that of orcs.

Even in terms of physical fitness, Haaland's territory has a large number of elite soldiers, and the number of professionals in the army under his command exceeds more than 200 people, which can barely compete with the orcs.

Moreover, there are also Warcraft cavalry under Richard's command, and the elite soldiers are equipped with enchanted bows, enchanted armor, and enchanted swords.

Richard once again used his old trick, bringing a trebuchet to launch alchemy bombs, forcing the main orc force to leave the camp and engage in positional warfare with the soldiers of Haraland's territory.

Orcs also have trebuchets, but they can't calculate projectiles, and using trebuchets is quite dull. This time, although he reacted, he also threw a few kilograms of rocks and fired at the troops of Haaland's territory.

However, a few kilograms of stone bombs are weaker and far less powerful than alchemical bombs.

After a while, the orc officers had no choice but to abandon this terrible strategy, and were forced to leave the camp and assemble to fight Richard in a positional battle.

The forces of the two sides are very close, but the weapons and equipment are far apart.

After entering the range of the archers, the soldiers of Haaland's territory stopped, and they all drew their bows and arrows, knocking down large swaths of the orcs. The orcs could not shoot at the human soldiers, so they could only speed up their march and rush over to engage the human army in hand-to-hand combat.

In just 200 meters, more than a thousand orcs fell, and the crying was very fierce.

Finally rushed over, and the magicians in Haaland's territory used powerful spells one after another, and the greasy spells and cobwebs were thrown out without money. Various spells limited the speed at which the orcs could move, followed by another round of strong bows and crossbows, and another batch of orcs were killed and wounded.

Even if they barely rushed up, the soldiers of Haaland's territory were wearing iron armor, enchanted armor, and a large amount of magical healing power, and they would not fall behind in hand-to-hand combat.

The orcs had a unit of snake pros in their hands, and Richard also organized the Warcraft cavalry.

The Warcraft cavalry specializes in fighting snakes, and the orcs are restrained everywhere, and soon more than half of the casualties are lost.

Although the orcs were more capable of sustaining casualties, more than half of the casualties still broke the orc's will.

In terms of strength, the orc army of the three brigades is no match for the soldiers of Haaland's territory at all.

Hard-fought battles have always relied on strength to speak.

The strength is inferior to that of a human, and the defeat of the orcs cannot be avoided.

The positional battle lasted only an hour and a half, and the three large groups of orcs had already broken up one after another.

Seeing that the orcs had dispersed, Richard ordered the Warcraft cavalry to chase and kill for several miles, and drove the orcs into the primeval forest before stopping the pursuit.

In fact, when fighting positional warfare, there were only about 1,000 orcs killed in battle, and most of them were killed by bows and arrows, and the number of orcs killed and wounded in hand-to-hand combat was relatively small. By the time of the rupture, almost all of the wounded soldiers had their heads cut off and a large number of prisoners had been captured.

Many of the orcs who barely escaped into the forest were wounded, and they would face countless difficulties such as blood loss, hunger, and infection, and less than half of them should be able to return safely

After cleaning the battlefield and listening to the report of the staff officer, Richard learned that more than 3,000 orcs had their heads cut off, 1,400 orcs were captured, and only about 1,600 orcs escaped.

Although the battle lost its suddenness, the soldiers in Haaland's territory only suffered 600 casualties and only 226 casualties, and achieved a great victory.

Having defeated the orc army north of Platos Castle, Richard immediately attacked the orc transport lines along the Platos Valley.

This battle was even more unexpected, the orcs were attacked on the march, and almost no effective resistance was organized, and they were completely annihilated by the soldiers of Harland's territory.

After cleaning up the battlefield, a whole orc brigade was annihilated, with less than 200 casualties, and more importantly, 13,000 human prisoners were rescued from the rear fortress.

Counting the 6,000 people rescued at the beginning of the war, the Haaland territory has not spent gold coins this year, and the increase in population is about 20,000.

Richard took the initiative and seized the opportunity to fight two battles in a row.

The results of these two battles were very brilliant, and three orc brigades were defeated with heavy losses, and one orc brigade was annihilated.

The head of the orc professional was sent to the noble council, and the captives were handed over to the royal capital mage association, plus the battle exploits rewarded for winning the battle, and twelve great achievements were made at once.

This year's orc invasion, Richard undoubtedly became the man of the year in the Grant Kingdom, he launched four battles in a row, four battles and four victories, and cooperated with Viscount Rohmon to inflict heavy losses on six orc brigades and annihilate three orc brigades.

Almost single-handedly, he changed the situation of the war in the Kingdom of Grant.

This year, a quarter of the losses of the orc army came from Richard, a quarter from the Northern Legion, a quarter from the Duke of Jonathan, and the remaining 100,000 troops won the last quarter.

After four victories, Richard has accumulated twenty-six great merits, and he can almost be awarded a viscount.

In the past ten years, if you look at military exploits, only a few heroes such as Zachary, Martins, Roger, and Jonathan have been ranked in front of Richard.

This orc invasion is not only a great contribution to Richard, but also a great contribution to William.

Although William led the army, it is impossible to count all the military achievements in his hands. But after several battles, William also saved three great achievements, plus some of Sophia's accumulated military exploits.

The exploits of the Haaland family in this battle are enough to change a viscount.

After making a great achievement, Richard was also afraid of becoming a key target for the Orcs, and immediately returned to Platos Castle, away from the main battlefield.

As the time entered August, the orcs gradually returned to the northern part of the Eagle Mountains.

This battle was a tiger's tail for the orcs, and although they achieved a lot of results before the war began, they suffered losses at the end.

In the half-year-long war, the orcs lost nearly 60,000 soldiers, captured 100,000 human slaves, and grabbed some gold coins and materials.

Since Richard was sixteen years old, he has already experienced four orc invasion wars. In nine years, more than 300,000 humans were captured by orcs in the kingdom of Grant.

The three central provinces and three dukedoms in the northern region of the Grant Kingdom have a combined population of more than 10 million, about 3 million households.

One in ten families in northern Xinjiang had relatives looted by orcs. For nobles and poor people close to the frontier, the probability will be much greater, almost half.

(End of chapter)