Pratt had the orcs camp at the foot of the hill five miles from the fort, and after nightfall he climbed the hill and relied on his talent for night vision to continue to observe the defenders of the fort to see if he could find a flaw.

The torches swayed gently in the night wind, the red sparks thunderbolted from the top of the torches, and the soldiers constantly patrolled the walls of the fort, the iron armor reflected the light in the moonlight, and the soldiers were orderly and did not panic.

Pratt was very patient, and in the second half of the night, he witnessed the two changes of guard by the defenders of Fort Garrison.

He thought to himself: "The garrison should be a four-hour shift. Every time I change guards, I am quiet and not flustered at all. With elite troops stationed, it seems that the night attack has no chance of winning. ”

The night was like water, and it seemed very calm, but Pratt was distraught.

Pratt observed all night, and knew very well that although the fort was quiet, it was full of murderous intent.

In the face of complete city fortifications, if you rashly attack this castle, you will inevitably hit your head and bleed, and the casualties will not be counted.

But the orc army arranged the Pratt legion to fight in this direction, and there was simply no room for bargaining. The combat mission of the Pratt Legion is to find a way to break through the defense line of Haaland's territory and disrupt the northern area of Fort Blackriver.

On the front line of the battlefield, Pratt knew in his heart that the orc headquarters underestimated the power of Haaland's territory, and it would be very difficult to achieve the strategic goal.

Early the next morning, Pratt sent the Harpy to reconnoiter the deployment of the troops in Haaland's territory.

The stealth men scattered out and entered the skies over Haaland's territory, and some even flew to the side of Fort Black River, reconnoitring the situation of the Northern Legion by the way.

Now there are magic hot air balloons in Haaland's territory, and when the Harpys fly over the barracks, the magic hot air balloons can be lifted into the air to fight and force back a small number of Harpies.

There are archers on top of the magic hot air balloon, and it often takes four to six harpies to attack from all sides to destroy a magic hot air balloon, and in the process of attacking, the harpy will also be shot by the archers.

Even if you pop the Magic Balloon with an energy missile, the members of the Magic Balloon Squad are equipped with parachutes, making it not easy to kill the crew members of the Magic Balloon.

It is more difficult for the Harpys to reproduce, an orc legion, a total of only one hundred and twenty Harpies, and it takes a few Harpies to shoot down a magic hot air balloon, and after a few hits, the Harpies find that the exchange ratio between the two sides is not cost-effective.

After a few aerial battles, the Harpy would use his speed advantage to avoid fighting the Magic Balloon as soon as he spotted the Magic Balloon in the air.

In addition, the Harland Territory Reconnaissance Brigade uses the Warcraft cavalry as the backbone, and the Warcraft cavalry has very strong combat effectiveness, and is not afraid of the Hippogriff hunting and blockade, and the scope of intelligence reconnaissance has expanded a lot.

Although the intelligence reconnaissance of the orcs is still at a disadvantage, the situation has changed greatly compared to a few years ago.

In this battle of orc invasion, the army in Haaland's territory also has a certain right to battlefield intelligence. I also have a general understanding of the movements of the orc army.

Pratt attaches great importance to intelligence work, and must scout the situation of the army in Haaland's territory, even if he lost some Harpy scouts, he waited for six days at the fort.

Within six days, the Harpy carefully reconnoitred Heihe County, and even flew into the Dragon Canyon, where they found the Knight Academy of the Grant Kingdom to organize and mobilize and complete the assembly. The nobles of Canyon King and Brena County also organized an alliance to reinforce the northern front.

After analyzing the situation, Pratt believed that the fighter had not yet appeared.

Now fighting with the soldiers of Haaland's territory is simply brute. Even if there were heavy casualties and the Fort of the Garrison was conquered, there was Fort Wilhelm behind to block the way.

If a castle or a castle is fought, even if you fight your own legion, it will be difficult to break through Haaland's territory. When the Northern Legion, the Cavalry Regiment of the Knight Academy, and the Noble Alliance of Geda Province are mobilized, their own legion will inevitably be surrounded and annihilated.

Pratt has no backers in the upper echelons of the Orc Empire, and it can climb to the position of Legion Commander by virtue of cunning and good fighting.

Since the fighter plane did not appear, Pratt withstood the pressure, and he chose to camp north of the fort, with no intention of attacking the city.

The number of soldiers commanded by Richard was small, and he fought against the orc legions in the field, and even with the help of alchemy bombs, he had little chance of winning by paying for it.

Both sides did not move to respond to all changes, and time passed day by day, and in the blink of an eye, it entered April.

In mid-April, the first turning point suddenly occurred in the tide of the war.

The commander of the Eastern Front of the Orcs adopted the tactic of encircling the point to send reinforcements, besieging the Flying Eagle Fort, and hiding the main force to the south of the Flying Eagle Castle to lure the Grizzly Legion to a decisive battle.

The Grizzly Legion couldn't hold its breath, fearing that the Flying Eagle Fort would be lost, so they rushed to reinforce when their strength was not enough.

This army of orcs managed to defeat the Grizzly Legion. The Grizzly Legion lost six brigades in formation, and even the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade lost more than half of its troops.

The Grizzly Legion is the main backbone of the province of Lahe, and the main army has suffered a defeat, and the situation in the province of Lahe has suddenly become very bad.

The first to suffer was Richard's neighbor, Viscount Nelson.

Although the resistance of the Viscount of Nelson was very fierce, and it could be called the last soldier in the battle, the strength of the two sides was too great, and in late April, Felin Castle was lost, and the orcs broke through the Black River defense line, and they could break through to the south of the Black River without worries.

Felin Castle is the main castle of the Viscount of Nelson, and its status is like Fort William in the territory of Haaland, the main castle of the territory is lost, and the defenders of several castles in the south of the Viscount of Nelson have no intention of holding on at all, and take the people to the west to avoid the war.

There were as many as 27,000 refugees who fled from the Nelson Viscounty to Greyfordson Castle, including 600 soldiers of the Nelson family.

After receiving the information, Richard hurried to Graveson Castle and violently drove the members of the Nelson family away, taking in 600 soldiers.

The members of the Nelson family all have aristocratic status, and Roland has no authority to deal with it at all. If you want to swallow this soldier and eat the refugees in Nelson's territory, you can only let Richard do it himself.

Richard is a hereditary viscount, higher in status than the remnants of the Nelson family, and a reserve major general, the supreme commander of a strategic direction.

All the northern part of the Fort Black River area was a war zone under Richard's jurisdiction.

As long as he is not a hereditary nobleman, Richard has the authority to cut first and then play.

Richard personally rushed to Graveson Castle to preside over the reorganization of the army, and the remnants of the Nelson family did not dare to stop them.

If they are crooked, they are not Viscount Nelson, they have been beheaded by Richard, and there is no place to seek justice.

These members of the Nelson family were all kicked out of the army by Richard.

Without the interference of this group of people, Haaland's territory successfully swallowed 600 soldiers.

The Viscounty of Nelson is on the front line, and the pressure to defend against orcs is very high, and the soldiers in the territory, as long as they have the conditions, will basically practice the breathing method. These six hundred soldiers, with the quality of more than three hundred people, can be compared with the soldiers of Haaland's territory.

In addition to more than 600 soldiers, 27,000 refugees were a windfall, swallowed up by Haaland's territory, and of course could not be returned to the successor Viscount Nelson.

The remnants of the Nelson family had planned to take refuge in the powerful Haaland territory, but they didn't expect Richard to eat people without spitting out bones.

The population and soldiers were eaten and wiped out by Haaland's territory, which naturally made the members of the Nelson family indignant, and some young people even threatened to sue themselves in the noble council, but their parents beat them up.

Now in a time of war, Richard is the supreme commander of the Graveson region, and at this time he has lost his head, and there is no place to reason.

annoyed Richard and killed all the remnants of the Nelson family, which can be blamed on the orcs, and whether the Nelson family members can survive or not is actually in Richard's thoughts.

The hereditary aristocracy of northern Xinjiang has a very harsh living environment, and Richard led his troops to fight at the age of sixteen, and it has been twelve years now.

In the past 12 years, the situation in the northern Xinjiang region has changed, some nobles have climbed up and been promoted to the title, and some nobles have died with their entire families. There are also nobles who lost their territory, got a sum of money and migrated to the royal capital, lost their noble status, and the efforts of generations were ruined.

The Haaland family can develop and grow, and Richard will naturally not be merciful when it is critical.

As long as the Nelson family members are obedient, Richard doesn't intend to make things happen.

Richard also felt a sense of sadness about the tragic situation of the Nelson family. Although he devoured the soldiers and population of Nelson's territory, he had no intention of killing the members of the Nelson family.

Unbeknownst to the young men of the Nelson family, the Council of Nobles was a tool for the great nobles to bargain with the Grant royal family. The minor nobles did not have much authority in the noble council.

The strength of the Haaland family has reached the standard of the great nobility, and the treatment in the noble council is also extraordinary.

The Nelson family went to the noble council to complain, and there was a feeling that someone in the hall was suing Master Ben for what.

Even if the Council of Nobles makes a judgment unfavorable to Haaland's territory, when the population is returned, it is still public that the public is justified, and the mother is reasonable, and when it is executed, it can be bargained.

You say that this person is a serf of the Nelson family, and they say no, how can you prove it?

Is it easy to break a mark with a soldering iron?

Moreover, Haaland's territory is more than 18,000 square kilometers, and now it has a population of nearly 300,000, how to find the serfs of the Viscount of Nelson is also very difficult?

It is estimated that in the end, it is still with the mud and let Richard return some of the population.

More than 27,000 people, up to a few thousand can be returned.

Ordinary serfs, of course, will remain in the territory of Haaland. Even if the freedmen were reduced to indentured servitude, it would be safer to remain in Haraland's territory.

Only the middle and upper strata of the Nelson Territory, breaking the bones and tendons with the Nelson family, can follow the Nelson family and rebuild the territory.

These people used to live in good conditions, but the contrast between becoming indentured slaves is very great, and they must not be able to accept such changes in their hearts. Richard was also unwilling to let them stay in Haaland's territory, and he was resentful and made a mess of things to affect the development of the territory.

This group of people was screened by Richard, a total of more than 3,400 people, and they were all taken away by the Nelson family. As for some of the gold and silver carried by the members of the Nelson family, Richard was not greedy.

This amount of gold and silver, adding up to about 20,000 gold coins, is the capital of the Nelson family's turnover.

When the Haaland family ran the territory, the initial capital was only a few thousand, and they borrowed some from relatives, and it was just 10,000.

If the successor Viscount Nelson is very capable, there is still a chance to turn over.

The Viscount of Nelson was lost, and the eastern part of Haaland's territory was reduced to the front line, and despite the collection of six hundred Nelson family soldiers, the strength to defend Greyforson Castle was still weak, and Greyford had become a weak point in the defensive line.

Finding that the situation of the war had changed and the defensive line was weak, Richard immediately chose to ask Fort Black River for help.

Because the war situation was not tight, Heihe Fort sent 600 city defenders to serve as the first wave of reinforcements.

Because he did not trust the remnants of the Nelson family, Richard dismantled the 600 soldiers and added them to the six battalions in Haraland's territory, and then transferred four infantry squadrons to Graveson Castle. Having completed this step, Castle Greyson already had nine infantry squadrons, six auxiliary squadrons, and the number of defenders had already exceeded two thousand.

No sooner had Richard finished his reorganization at Greyfordson than the Northern Legion received a call for help from Fort Flying.

After the defeat of the Grizzlies, the situation in the province of Lah became very bad.

Although the Grant Kingdom has the strongest force invested in the province of Rahe, with one main army and two second-tier legions, the orcs have also invested four legions in the province of Rahe, with more than 100,000 troops.

Now seven teams of orcs are pinning down the defenders of Fort Eagle, and six teams are approaching Fort Grizzly to fight the remnants of the Grizzly Legion. Four brigades dispersed and plundered in the northern part of the province of Lahe.

A main army went south to attack Feiyan Fort, and thirteen brigades were assembled in the south of Viscount Nelson, and they would invade Geda Province at any time, attack the direction of Heihe Fort, and contain the main northern army of Geda Province.

The strategic location of Feiyan Fort is very important, and it is the most important strategic stronghold in the eastern part of Geda Province.

The castle is located on the north bank of the River Leyte and is transported by water into the county of Leyte, the core territory of the province of Geda. If Fort Feiyan can't be defended, Fort Leyte is also in danger of being lost.

Fort Leyte is located in the heart of the province of Geda, and there is no strong army nearby, except for the cavalry regiment of the Knight Academy.

It is the richest area of the province of Geda and the direct territory of the royal family of Grant, with a population of hundreds of thousands in Leyte.

If Leyter is lost, Nolan will inevitably be held accountable.

After receiving the request for help from Feiyan Castle, Commander Rabe, although under a lot of pressure, still decided to send reinforcements to help the Feiyan Legion maintain the situation.

Compared with the main legion, the number of second-line legion soldiers is only 16,000, and there are no Warcraft cavalry and mage regiments in the establishment, and the weapons and equipment are also inferior.

The most important thing is the will to fight, combat experience, and the second-line corps are not as good as the main corps.

The 16,000 soldiers of the Feiyan Legion are no match for the 7,000 elite soldiers in Haaland's territory in positional warfare. In the face of an attack by a complete orc legion, the Feiyan legion simply couldn't withstand it for too long.

(End of chapter)