Several battles were fought, and despite the great victories in Haaland's territory, the casualties were not light at all.

The Eastern Front annihilated the Gatling Department on the Eastern Front, and after two battles, the Soros Department suffered nearly 1,000 casualties and about 400 casualties.

The defensive battle of Platos on the Western Front was even more brutal, with more than a third of the casualties of the army led by Haaland and nearly 700 casualties.

The middle line annihilated the Kiram Division, in order to defeat the main force of the orcs and kill the legendary kobolds, Haaland led nearly 3,000 casualties and killed more than 1,000 people. Among them, in the battle of chasing and killing the legendary dragon vein kobolds, more than 160 soldiers were killed, half of whom were scouts.

Counting a small number of auxiliaries, Haaland led the army to suffer about 5,000 casualties, more than 2,000 killed, and some of the wounded soldiers were disabled for life. After this war, the number of pensioners next year will exceed 10,000, and the financial pressure will increase by a few points next year.

This year, Haaland has only trained 4,000 recruits, and Richard is also preparing to expand two infantry brigades, and 4,000 recruits are simply not enough to replenish.

This year, only two infantry brigades can be grouped together, and the shortage of troops can only be slowly filled.

As time went on, Richard and his army had been in the Lothar Basin for two months, and the time was also in early June.

In the past two months, Richard has been very stable, and the Orc Empire has not deployed troops to counterattack.

In this battle, Haaland led and cooperated with the Grizzly Legion to completely annihilate the two main legions of the Kobold Principality, and the four legions together lost more than 10,000 soldiers when they retreated.

The kobold principality has only six legions, the main force is 120,000 people, and the loss of 50,000 at one time is simply not able to replenish in a short time. What's more, Richard also killed Kiram and annihilated more than three thousand dragon vein kobolds. Relying on the power of the kobold principality, it is simply impossible to counterattack in a short period of time.

According to the system of the Orc Empire, titles are not hereditary. Only by becoming a legend can you be knighted.

After the legendary orcs die in battle and old age, the title will be taken back by the orc empire.

The title of the Orc Empire, which is more similar to that of a human governor, is difficult to leave to future generations to inherit.

After the legendary boar man died in battle, the Duchy of the Boar Man became the territory directly under the central jurisdiction of the Orcs, and now the dragon vein kobold was killed by Richard, and the kobold principality will also be controlled by the Orc Center.

The Orc Empire is vast, with a territory area of more than 80 million square kilometers, of which about 30 million square kilometers are uninhabited ice fields, and millions of square kilometers of land are polluted by undead energy.

The eight major royal families of orcs, more than forty legendary main forces are defending against the Divine Radiance Empire, and those who are at war with human kingdoms such as the Grant Kingdom and the Ryan Kingdom are mainly orc dukes.

Because of the pressure of defending the Divine Radiant Empire, the Orc Royal Legend would not choose to come to a remote country like the Eagle Mountains. The legendary boar man has been dead in battle for more than ten years, and there is no orc royal legend to take over and command the battle in the direction of the Grant Kingdom.

Now that Kiram has been killed in battle, the kobold principality is in chaos. By the time the Orc Central appoints a new commander, it will take several months to straighten out the chain of command.

This window of a few months is very crucial for Haaland.

After taking the Lothar Basin, Richard gave the order to begin the construction of the Hurricane Castle.

Once the Hurricane Castle is completed, Haraland will be able to establish a strong defensive line with the Hurricane Castle as the core in the northern part of the Lothar Basin.

After two months of hard work, the construction of the Hurricane Castle has progressed relatively quickly, the foundation has already been laid, and the outer wall has been built four meters high.

In order to build this castle, the Lothar Basin mobilized sixteen thousand indentured slaves, and Haaland led the men who transported supplies in the rear, adding up to three or four thousand.

The mage group of Haland's territory also has to take turns to draw manpower and use the power of magic to participate in the construction of the castle.

According to engineers' estimates, the castle should be completed by late August.

June is the summer harvest season, and the Lothar Basin is the core of the kobold principality's replenishment, with more than three million acres of farmland reclaimed here. Despite the lack of planning, the level of agricultural planting is not high, the yield per mu is only about 70 catties, and the annual grain production is more than 100,000 tons.

There are more than 300,000 orcs in the Lothar Basin, and they can barely eat by relying on grain cultivation alone, and the animal husbandry here is also doing well, and there are herds of cattle and sheep in the sheep-body and minotaur tribes.

In addition, the orcs also captured a lot of iron wildebeests, preparing to imitate humans and train Warcraft cavalry.

In fact, the legion commanded by the orc royal family already has a formed Warcraft cavalry, just like the Human Empire.

Kiram is an ambitious orc, and in recent years it has been sending orcs to capture the Iron Wildebeest in the northern foothills of the Eagle Mountains, and has almost captured the Iron Wildebeest in the northern region.

Kiram originally planned to train five hundred Demon Beast Wolf Cavalry at one time to unexpectedly inflict heavy damage on the human army, but he didn't expect that before it could succeed, he would die at the hands of humans.

The Iron Wildebeest Ranch established by Kiram in the Lothar Basin also fell into Richard's hands.

The Iron Wildebeest Ranch controlled by the Kobold Principality is three times the size of Haaland's territory, with more than 300 adult Iron Wildebeest and 200 young ponies.

At this scale, without affecting the breeding and breeding of iron wildebeests, this iron wildebeest ranch can provide at least fifty adult iron wildebeest every year to supplement the army.

After more than ten years of development, the Warcraft War Horse Breeding Center in Haland's territory has also reached a certain scale, with more than a hundred adult iron wildebeest horses, and a third-order horse king for breeding. There are also more than sixty ponies, and they can provide more than a dozen Warcraft war horses for the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade every year.

Together, the two horse farms will be able to restore the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade to its formation and replenish the battle damage this year.

In a decisive battle with the main force of the orcs, Harland led the Warcraft cavalry brigade to suffer heavy losses. Not only did the Warcraft cavalry lose forty-five people, but more than thirty were seriously injured and withdrew from active service. The Warcraft War Horse also suffered a large loss, and more than sixty of them died.

Although the flesh and blood of the beasts were very useful for training soldiers, Richard did not order the slaughter of the wounded Iron Wildebeest, and the dead Iron Wildebeest was skinned and cramped. Instead, let them be buried with the soldiers, in the military cemetery in the Haaland territory.

Warcraft warhorses are very sensitive and intelligent, and their IQ is equivalent to that of human children. Richard's respect for them, they all know.

Compared with the Warcraft cavalry of Edward, Jonathan and other families, the quality of the Warcraft cavalry soldiers led by Haaland is poor, but the cooperation with the Warcraft war horse is more tacit. When the two sides fought, the Warcraft cavalry led by Haaland may still have a slight upper hand.

The capture of a huge herd of iron wildebeests can replenish the battle damage for the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade made Richard very happy, and finally let go of his worries.

In this year's war with the orcs, the two families of Edward and Jonathan have suffered large battle losses. Although their Warcraft cultivation center is larger, it provides a maximum of about two hundred Warcraft warhorses every year, and of course they will give priority to replenishing their Warcraft cavalry.

If it weren't for the capture of the orc's Warcraft Horse Farm, the battle damage of the Harland Warcraft Cavalry Brigade would probably not be able to make up for it this year.

After all, the Lothar Basin is the front line, and it can face war at any time. After discovering the Warcraft Horse Farm, Richard immediately dispatched elite soldiers to move the Warcraft Warhorses to the rear and merge the two large pony groups.

This year's war has already affected agricultural production in the Lothar Basin, and although the war lasted for a relatively short time, the summer grain production in the Lothar Basin was about 6,000 tons less than in previous years.

Fortunately, Richard prepared in advance and sold about 40,000 orc prisoners of war, which not only reduced food loss, but also recovered some of the funds.

Combined with the output of animal husbandry, even if the garrison is increased by 20,000, this year's grain is enough.

After taking the Lothar Basin, there are a thousand things going on everywhere. Despite Richard's decentralization, the last few months have been hectic.

The production of agriculture, the statistics of household registration, the construction of defensive lines, many things need to be signed and approved by Richard.

Now that the summer harvest is over, it's finally easy.

Every year on June 12, it is the harvest festival of Haaland's territory.

The Harvest Festival is a relatively new festival, only about seven or eight years old. In the beginning, the freedmen spontaneously organized themselves to bring out fruit and food, and celebrate the harvest with singing and dancing on the night of June 12.

Since last year, the Harvest Festival has become an official holiday for Haaland's collar.

On this day, the Fort Wilhelm Opera House not only has a big performance, but also a grand celebration on the square.

At this year's harvest festival, in order to integrate the population of the Lothar Basin into the Harland territory, Richard wrote a letter to Rogge, asking the opera singers of Fort William to come to the Lothar Basin and perform for the people here for a while.

And on the evening of June 12, a big celebration is held.

The members of the Fort William Opera Company are all locals, most of them very young, many of them no more than twenty years old, and for as long as they can remember, they have been free people, and their lives are relatively rich and stable.

Many opera singers have also gone to elementary school and have a little bit of learning.

The artistic development of the Dawn Plane is lackluster, and almost all the arts such as music, fine art, and sculpture serve the aristocracy. In the entire Grant Kingdom, there are very few people engaged in art.

There is also only one opera house and dozens of jugglers. On the contrary, the number of family painters is relatively large, and there are more than a few hundred people in the Grant Kingdom.

The people of the Kingdom of Grant do not have a high standard of living. More than 90 percent of the country's population is serfs, who work hard every day and worry about food and clothing. Even in the capital, Nolan, the vast majority of the population is poor, unable to even eat, and certainly has no soil for the development of art.

The development of Haaland's territory greatly improved the living standards of the freedmen.

This year, there are 260,000 freedmen under the leadership of Haaland, and there is enough soil, and all kinds of art seem to have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Folk painters, folk singers, dancers, jugglers are all present in Fort William.

After Richard became an earl, he established an opera house, formed a song and dance troupe, and even personally directed the writing of the script, creating opera works such as "Soldiers of Northern Xinjiang", "Song of Spring", "Great Invention", "Harvest Day" and so on.

The plot of these works is relatively simple, the lyrics are close to reality, and they praise the soldiers, farmers and scientific researchers led by Haaland, which has caused great repercussions and sensations in this place where entertainment is extremely scarce.

In just a year or two, opera singers have become very popular in Fort William.

Catherine rode a lean horse, and with her companions from the cabaret, followed a convoy of supplies along the Harland Valley.

After entering the northern part of the fort, the road was already very difficult, and Catherine and the others even needed to get off the horses, carry some supplies on their backs, and pull the horses forward.

The actors of the song and dance troupe are treated like stars in Fort William, and they are sought after everywhere they go. They have a relatively generous salary, no worries about food and clothing, and they have not suffered like their parents at all.

After only half a day away from the fort, leaving the wide road, and carrying heavy luggage on her immature shoulders, Catherine felt that her legs were unusually heavy.

"Mr. Steven, how long will it be before we get to the Lothar Basin?"

Stewyn turned around and saw Catherine gasping for breath, tears already in her eyes. So he said comfortingly: "Hold on to it, it's almost here." ”

Although Catherine did not enter junior high school, she was a smart person, and immediately noticed Stewin's perfunctory, and continued to ask: "How long will we have to walk to reach the Lothar Basin?" ”

Seeing Catherine's repeated questioning, Steven had no choice but to tell the truth: "At this rate, it will take three days to enter the Lothar Basin. ”

Hearing the answer, Catherine was a little discouraged, and she said with a depressed face: "I have to walk for three days, and I can't walk now." ”

"If you can't walk, you have to persevere, there are still scattered orcs on this road, who will attack the lonely, and if you don't follow the big team, your safety is not guaranteed.

Our mission is very tight and it is impossible to wait for you. Hold on for another two hours, there is a post station more than ten kilometers away, and we can rest when we arrive at the post station. ”

Catherine, as a star of the Fort William Theater, is quite famous in the vicinity of Fort William, but her social status is not comparable to Stewin's at all.

Stewin is the first batch of soldiers in the Haaland Leader, although his qualifications are average, he has still been a second-order soldier for more than ten years, but he has a very wide network and a very large face, and he has friendships with many high-level leaders in the Haaland Leader.

Steven has been retired from Haaland's army for five years and is now a transport merchant. His caravan, like the official caravan controlled by Richard's cousin Gavin, was mainly responsible for military logistics and transportation, and its annual profits were relatively stable.

Now Stewyn's caravan has dozens of mercenaries under his command, these mercenaries are basically from Blackriver Fort, and many of them are retired soldiers of the Northern Legion. These mercenaries can be regarded as the third-line troops led by Haaland, and they must obey the command and participate in the war at the critical moment.

Since last year, Haaland has led the establishment of two major trade unions of demon hunting and mercenaries, and although Stewin is a businessman, he is a member of the two major trade unions and has formed his own mercenary group, because of his upper-level relationship, he is more authoritative in the two major trade unions.

Seeing that Stewyn became serious, Catherine could only grit her teeth, insisted on keeping up with the large army, and walked to the post station.

After the inn, the road in the valley was much easier, and after three days of arduous travel, the opera company followed Stewin's caravan and finally arrived in the Lothar Basin.

(End of chapter)