King Roger received news of the civil unrest in the Grand Duchy of Stannick only slightly later than Duke Jonathan.

Before Duke Jonathan sent people to the royal capital, there were many discussions in the court of the Kingdom of Grant, whether to interfere in the civil war of the Grand Duchy of Starnik?

There are three continents in the Dawn Plane.

The Eastern Continent is still a dense jungle, occupied by elves and lizardmen, and has not been effectively developed and rarely inhabited.

A large part of the Western Continent is polluted by the spirit of the dead, and the dwarves live in the high mountains close to the coast.

Only the Middle Continent has the largest area and the best climatic conditions, which is the focus of competition among the various races in the Dawn Plane.

Humans occupy the most fertile land in the Middle Continent, suppressing the orcs in the cold and desolate northern plateau, and in terms of strength, humans are already the overlords of the Dawn Plane. If the Divine Radiance Empire were combined with several magical kingdoms, it would be more powerful than orcs, dwarves, elves, and lizardmen combined.

It's a pity that there are many internal contradictions among the human countries, especially the several magic kingdoms on the west coast of the Central Continent, in order to contain the Divine Radiance Empire, they even colluded with the orcs to jointly contain the power of the Divine Radiance Empire, resulting in the current situation.

The Kingdom of Grant is located in the northeastern region of the Middle Continent, with four human nations bordering the Orc Empire nearby.

The relationship between these countries is more complicated.

There is not only the side of mutual cooperation and common resistance to the orcs, but also the side of conflict between each other and the annexation of territories.

Among the five countries, the three Grand Duchyes are a little weaker, and the Kingdom of Grant and the Kingdom of Lane are stronger.

If the Kingdom of Grant interferes in the civil war of the Grand Duchy of Starnik, King Lane will definitely not sit idly by and watch the Kingdom of Grant control the Grand Duchy of Starnik, and a full-scale war will break out.

In terms of national strength, the Kingdom of Lane is stronger than the Kingdom of Grant. However, once the army is trapped in the Grand Duchy of Starnik for a long time, it is possible to put the Kingdom of Grant into a turning point from prosperity to decline.

Despite the high risk of interfering with the Grand Duchy of Starnik, King Roger still wanted to send troops into the war.

Now the strength of the Jonathan family is already very strong, and the development has also fallen into a bottleneck, putting a lot of pressure on the Grant family.

If the Jonathan family is supported to become the Grand Duke of Starnik, the power of the Jonathan family will inevitably be dispersed and their efforts will be concentrated on the Grand Duchy of Starnik. Through negotiations with the Jonathan family, the Grant royal family can also recover a part of the developed territory of the Duke of Jonathan, which will be used to reward the military nobles and make the internal structure of the kingdom safer.

The Jonathan family can also get a bigger stage and usher in better development.

In this way, the two strongest families in the Grant Kingdom will usher in benign development, and the internal friction will become smaller.

King Roger originally had the intention of intervening, and he was thinking about how to persuade Duke Jonathan, but he didn't expect Duke Jonathan to come to the door, and the two sides hit it off and joined forces to create a problem in the noble council. The eldest and the second joined forces, and the third did not object, and the issue of sending troops was suddenly very hot, and it was quickly voted on.

After the Council of Nobles voted to send troops, the Kingdom of Grant began to mobilize.

The first was the army of Duke Jonathan's county, with two-thirds of the force in two legions.

In order to show his support for the Jonathan family, King Roger also sent a second-line central legion, which was the Iron Lion Legion of the Zachary Department that his mother did not love.

Nolan also issued an order, requiring the nobles of the three northern provinces closest to the Duke of Jonathan to jointly send troops and organize them into a legion, in addition to Edward, Fox, York, Lorraine, and Duran, the five dukes each sent 4,000 troops, and they were also organized into a legion.

All in all, the intervention army has a total of five legions, of which the Jonathan family has the largest number of troops, almost the elite, with a total strength of 45,000. The Iron Lion Legion has been reorganized, but it is not fully staffed, with a total strength of 14,000.

Each of the five dukes bordering the Grand Duchy of Starnik sent 4,000 troops, which were organized into a large army of 20,000 men.

The three northern provinces demanded 15,000 troops, of which 5,000 were sent from Lahe, 4,000 from Geda, 3,000 from Gascoigne, and 3,000 from Haaland's territory.

The five legions combined, the regular army had ninety-two thousand. The serf army that transported grain and grass along the way added up to more than 200,000.

These 200,000 serf soldiers were mainly drawn from other provinces, and although the four earls and marquis of the south did not need to send the main force to participate in the battle, they needed to allocate food, gold, and materials, and together with the Grant royal family and the Jonathan family, they contributed money for the intervention army.

When the intervention army was formed, the royal family also specially issued an edict, requiring the nobles of each province to draw elites, and not use serf soldiers to make up the numbers, and the royal family and the Jonathan family would be strictly checked. If a soldier is not qualified, he will face a hefty fine.

By the time the order was handed down, it was almost February.

Today, there are about 11,000 soldiers in Haaland's territory, of which 4,000 are recruits. Although the recruits have been trained for about half a year, they look well equipped and in a neat queue, no different from the elite.

But Richard knew in his heart that these recruits were just looking good, and they could only fight a dozen battles to defend the city.

Really encountered a difficult bloody battle, the recruits have not seen blood a few times, and their psychological endurance is not enough, and it is easy to collapse.

Originally, the recruit training period in Haaland's territory was one year, and after completing one year of recruit training, they were scattered and integrated into the veterans, and the veterans were brought with them to ensure that the recruits did not panic on the battlefield.

Now that the recruit training is not over, the call-up order has arrived, and Richard can only end the recruit training early.

Having received an order to recruit 3,000 soldiers, Richard thought for a moment and decided to send the elite to the war. After a meeting with the officers below, he decided to take the Scout Cavalry Brigade, the Hot Air Balloon Squadron, the Territory Mage Regiment, the Third Squadron of the Warcraft Cavalry, the Second Infantry Brigade, and the Sixth Infantry Brigade, with a total strength of about four thousand.

Today, a brigade in Haaland's territory has trained a total of eight squadrons, and the strength is about 1,300 people, including some personnel from the headquarters. Compared with when the brigade was first established, the number of personnel has doubled.

Because there are a lot of new recruits this year, the real combat effectiveness of the infantry brigade may be a little weaker than on paper.

After drawing his troops, Richard took the soldiers of Haaland's territory to Fort Leyte to assemble.

Hearing that Richard was marching into battle with 4,000 elite soldiers, Duke Jonathan rushed to Fort Leyte from his busy schedule, personally talked with Richard, and appointed him commander of the Combined Army of the Three Northern Provinces.

Now in the northern region, there are three dukes, two earls and five nobles, Duke Jonathan is the commander-in-chief of the intervention army, and the three dukes and nobles of Edward, Fox, and Martins will not join the intervention army, and the troops are members of the branch. It was Richard's turn as commander.

The noble coalition of the province of Geda was to assemble at Fort Leyte, and the province recruited 4,000 noble coalition troops, 1,000 in Brena County, 1,000 in Rohmon County, 600 in Leyte County, 600 in Canyon County, and 800 soldiers from Heihe County to participate in the battle.

Richard carefully inspected this group of soldiers and found that the quality of the soldiers was neither good nor bad, the number of professionals was small, but the number of experienced veterans was quite large.

Richard could even see some soldiers in their thirties and forties, and through inquiry, it was found that although these soldiers had not practiced breathing, they had a lot of war experience, participated in many orc invasion battles, and a few of them had more war experience than Richard.

The equipment on the aristocratic coalition looks very ordinary, and the number of iron armor is not much. The officers who lead the troops are rarely the descendants of the nobles, most of them are the branches of the nobility, and even the second sons of the nobles are rare.

Richard thought in his heart: "It seems that most of the nobles in Geda Province have no intention of participating in the war. An army has a small number of professionals, and even if it has experience in warfare, it is difficult to fight field battles with the enemy's elite. However, when defending the city, relying on war experience and fortifications, ordinary people have the opportunity to kill professionals, so it may not be ineffective? ”

Richard waited at Fort Leyte for seven or eight days, and the 5,000 troops of the province of Lah came to assemble.

The province of Lahe borders the Duke of Jonathan, and the Jonathan family has a lot of influence on the nobility of this province, and the soldiers drawn are a little more elite than the province of Geda.

After joining the armies of the province of Lach, Richard led the noble coalition army by ship, along the Starx River into the Black River, and went up the river into the castle of Santa Fes in the province of Gascoigne, where 3,000 soldiers of the province of Gascoin had been waiting for three or four days.

After passing the castle of Santa Fes and walking more than a hundred kilometers, the current of the Black River became turbulent, making it difficult to sail safely, and Richard disembarked from the vicinity of Parani Castle with the combined forces of the nobles of the three provinces.

The Duke of Edward had already stockpiled a batch of grain in advance at Parani Castle, enough for the nobles of the three provinces to eat for twenty days.

The next stop was to pick up the grain and grass at Patin Castle in the Duke of Fox, which was only enough to eat for a month.

Nearly 100,000 intervention troops, people eat horses and chew and consume nearly 10,000 tons of grain in a month, such a huge transportation demand cannot be solved by relying on the Grant Kingdom.

If it weren't for the invention of new alloys, the manufacture of rolling bearings, the extensive use of four-wheeled carriages, and the increase in transportation capacity, half of the military rations would not have been solved.

With today's transport forces, only five thousand tons of grain can be transported to the Grand Duchy of Starnik every month. When they entered the Grand Duchy of Starnik, the food problem needed to be solved by the intervention forces themselves.

In fact, the intervening forces had only one way to collect food on the spot.

The serfs of the Dawn plane did not have much food in their hands at all, and it was difficult to feed themselves, and if they wanted to collect food, they could only snatch it from the nobles, and the resistance would be fierce at that time.

Richard led the allied forces of the nobles of the three provinces for fourteen days and rushed to Padin Castle, which was only a few dozen kilometers away from the Grand Duchy of Starnik and was already close to the front line.

In order to prepare for war, a number of baggage were hoarded in advance in the castle of Pattin, and more than 300 craftsmen fought with the allied forces of the three provinces.

The food hoarded in the city of Padin was only fifteen days, and counting the ten days of military rations that Richard had saved and carried with his army, the military rations of the nobles of the three provinces were less than a month.

The next batch of military rations will be delivered to Patin's castle in twenty days, and the quantity is only five hundred tons, which seems like a lot, and sixteen thousand soldiers can last ten days if they eat and chew horses.

Due to the restrictions of the grain route, the intervening army could only divide its troops to fight.

Duke Jonathan led a total of 60,000 troops of the Iron Lion Army for the northern front, Richard led 16,000 troops of the three provinces as the central line, and Sonny Fox, the third son of Duke Fox, led the 20,000 troops of the Five Dukes for the southern front.

The army on the northern front was personally commanded by Duke Jonathan, and shouldered the heaviest responsibility, responsible for defeating the main force of the Grand Duchy of Stanic and storming Kleinus Castle.

The main task of the central line troops led by Richard is to attract the attention of the central aristocratic defenders and cooperate with Duke Jonathan in battle.

The southern front troops have the lightest task, responsible for containing several other great nobles in the Grand Duchy of Starnik, and there is almost no danger in hiding the secret line of the Jonathan family among their opponents. Relatively speaking, the food route is also the shortest, and there is no shortage of supplies.

As soon as the sky showed a glimmer of morning glow, Richard took the soldiers to breakfast, and left the border.

The Scout Cavalry entered the territory of the Grand Duchy of Starnik yesterday and engaged some of the border nobles' private army.

Richard's reconnaissance force is very strong, with a magic hot air balloon squadron, a lion knight squad, and a Warcraft reconnaissance cavalry, which can not only conduct aerial reconnaissance, but also have a strong ground reconnaissance force.

The Grand Duchy of Starnik does not have a Lion Knight, and there is no way to resist the air reconnaissance force in the Haaland territory.

The Magic Hot Air Balloon Squadron, carrying binoculars, ran all over the nearby castles for more than a hundred kilometers, and had already figured out the reality of the enemy.

The Scout Cavalry Brigade has the Warcraft Cavalry as the core, with experienced scouts, and its strength far exceeds that of ordinary border barons, and yesterday it turned the surrounding 100 kilometers upside down and caught a lot of tongues.

Through the interrogation of the captives, combining the information held by the Duke of Fox and the information held by the Magic Hot Air Balloon Squadron, Richard also had a general understanding of the enemy's situation.

The aristocratic situation of the Grand Duchy of Starnik is different from that of the Kingdom of Grant, and the territories of the four dukes in the country are all in the safe south. The territory area is also relatively small, about 40,000 square kilometers of land, slightly larger than the county of Haaland, and not as large as the county of Martins.

The strength is not as good as the Duke family of the Grant Kingdom, and only one legion has been formed, which is equivalent to the four marquis in the eastern part of the Grant Kingdom.

Because of the great pressure on the northern defense line, the four dukes of Starnik drew troops and jointly organized a corps to be stationed in the north to cooperate with the Starnik border guards. Combined with the alliance of local nobles, the strength of the Grand Duchy of Starnik to defend against orcs exceeded 120,000, which was just half of the total strength.

Under normal circumstances, the Linus family has a strong control, relying on the Grant Kingdom's less than 100,000 intervention troops, it is almost impossible to defeat the main force of the Grand Duchy of Stanic and overthrow the rule of the Linus family.

But by the time the intervention forces were formed, the Grand Duchy of Starnik was already in chaos.

Solaman's reign did not last long at all, and in February, he was overthrown by Baldwin and Haldane.

Baldwin's false peace with Haldane didn't last long, and the two soon clashed and fell into an even more brutal battle for the throne.

When Richard entered the Grand Duchy of Starnik with the allied forces of the three provinces, it was already early April. Baldwin's civil war with Haldane not only did not end, but intensified.

In less than four months since the death of the old king, the Grand Duchy of Starnik has undergone two political purges, five large-scale battles, and more than 40,000 troops.

These 40,000 troops are all controlled by the Linus family, and now there are about 60,000 troops left in the Linus family's control, and it is difficult to control the situation in the Grand Duchy of Starnik.

After Duke Jonathan led his troops into the Grand Duchy of Starnik, the coalition of nobles on the northern border had chosen to stand idly by.

Even if Baldwin shook hands with Haldane, there would be no advantage over the main force on the northern front led by Duke Jonathan.

(End of chapter)