After the harvest festival, the summer grain began to enter the warehouse, and with enough food, Richard let go of his worries a little.

The Lothar Basin is large, and despite years of Orc development, there are still plenty of swamps in the basin.

On the whole, the eastern and northern elevations of the basin are high, and the western and southern altitudes are low, because of the rivers formed by the melting of the mountain snow, and there is a lake in the southwestern part of the basin with an area of about 2,000 square kilometers.

Geographically, the lake is located in the same large basin as the Lothar Basin. The western part of the lake is a large area of low hills, and the land is relatively fertile, which also has a high development value.

Due to the high amount of precipitation in the Eagle Mountain area, the amount of river inflow is greater than the increase in the amount of river inflow, and the area of the lake is expanding every year.

The geographers of the Haaland Territory carefully measured the depth of the lake and found that the central area was more than 300 meters deep.

After surveying the topography of the Lothar Basin, Richard thought to himself: "The terrain of the Lothar Basin is relatively closed, and the elevation of the Hurricane Canyon is more than 100 meters higher than the lakes in the southwest region.

According to the results of the survey, calculating the flow into the river, in the next 30 years, the elevation of Lake Lothar will rise by more than ten meters, and the area will increase by about 160 square kilometers, and the land close to the lake will have little development value. In the future, the development of the Lothar Basin should focus on the northeastern region at a higher altitude.

If a large amount of farmland is reclaimed in the future, the water consumption will increase significantly, and the amount of river water injected will be reduced, which can alleviate the rise of the lake. It seems that a large number of hydraulic projects should be built in the basin. ”

After taking control of the Lothar Basin, Richard's footsteps spread all around the basin.

This basin has been developed by the orcs and is already a qualified supply center, supported by the basin's products, which can easily support the garrison of Hurricane Fort.

The large lake in the southwest of the basin is also very rich in products, which is very suitable for fishery production and processing.

Although there are many rivers in the territory of Haaland, the volume of water is not very large, the fish resources are relatively scarce, and there are few professional fishers in the territory.

After taking control of the Lothar Basin, Richard personally visited the great lake and decided to send men to fish in the Lothar Basin.

Fresh fish can be sold at Castle of Lothar, and a canning fish factory can be built using the abundance of fish in the area. Now that the production of Haaland Collar Glass Kiln has increased greatly, the price of glass products has become relatively affordable, and although the price of glass cans is still high, it has changed from a luxury commodity to a civilian commodity.

After taking control of the Lothar Basin, the administrative division of the Haaland Territory had to be adjusted.

The Lothar Basin is densely populated, home to more than 200,000 people, second only to Fort William in terms of population density. Richard was bounded by the Lott River, which was formed by Lothar County to the south and Hurricane County to the north of the Lot, and the two counties were merged to form the Lothar Basin County.

In addition, from the southern foothills of the Eagle Mountains, two counties of Grayfordson County and Salt Lake County were divided, and the former Viscount of Nelson was added, and the northern territory of Salt Lake County was established as Salt Lake County.

Richard also took out the counties of Harland and Marsh in the Fort William area to form the capital region of Harland County.

After the readjustment of the administrative plan, the southern foothills of the Eagle Mountains suffered heavy losses, and four important counties were taken away, leaving only three counties: Lianghe County, the eastern county of the canyon, and the southern county, and its influence on the territory was greatly weakened.

The importance has been reduced, and Rogge, the leader of the civil officials, naturally does not need to concurrently serve as the county guard at the southern foot of the Eagle Mountains.

After the administrative division, Richard's second uncle, Powell, was transferred back from Grotta River County to take over as the county warden of Harland.

Today, the Duchy of Harland has five counties, namely the capital county of Harland, the county of the Lothar Basin, the county of the Grota River, the county of Salt Lake, and the southern county of the Eagle Mountains.

The territory covers an area of less than 100,000 square kilometers, roughly equivalent to the five provinces of the Kingdom of Grant.

The northwestern part of the Harland Territory is still a barren area, and there are almost no people in the northern part of the entire Platos Castle, which covers an area of more than 10,000 square kilometers, and if it is developed in the future and expands part of the territory, a new county can be established.

After three months of garrisoning in the Lothar Basin, Richard saw that the situation had stabilized, and it seemed that the orcs were not preparing to counterattack, so he decided to slowly reduce the garrison in the Lothar Basin.

Each of the five counties now needs to be garrisoned.

Grota River County, Lothar Basin County, and Salt Lake County are all frontline areas for the defense of orcs, and it is necessary to garrison large armies.

Although the southern foothills of the Eagle Mountains are already in the rear, King Roger has asked for more troops in this county to cooperate with the Lion Legion to control the upper reaches of the Kaya River, and the Harland Territory must increase its forces and assume responsibility.

In fact, the main reason why the Dukedom of Harland needs to garrison troops in this area is that the Earl of Donnie Martins cannot withstand the orc army.

County Harland is the capital, and the vicinity of Fort William is the administrative and industrial core of the territory, and it cannot be without an army.

Now the regular army in the Harland Territory has eleven infantry brigades, a cavalry reconnaissance brigade, a Warcraft cavalry brigade, three magic hot air balloon squadrons, a lion cavalry squad, plus the staff and logistics personnel of the headquarters, the total number is about 20,000 people. Haaland leads the Mage Guild, and although he has fought with the army many times, he is not a soldier in his identity.

In this year's war, the regular army of the territory suffered more than 4,200 casualties and 1,700 casualties.

Now the shortage of the regular army is about two thousand people.

This year, due to the expansion of the territory, the number of troops is far from enough.

In January this year, Haaland led the recruitment of 4,000 recruits, who have not yet completed their training and will not be able to add to the army until February next year.

By early next year, Richard plans to expand two infantry brigades, add two magic balloon squadrons, and continue to train 4,000 recruits, hoping to expand the number of troops to 30,000 in three years.

The Hurricane Castle was not yet completed, and Richard did not dare to take it lightly, so he could only let the garrisons of Salt Lake County and Grotta River County return, and the defenders of Harland and Eagle Mountains were still stationed in the Lothar Basin.

While Richard was busy adjusting his administrative plans and repatriating soldiers from the Lothar Basin, Sophia's magical research team developed another important invention.

Through the study of the combination and separation of the magic array, the in-depth comparison of the knight and the magician's use of the magic base, and the exploration of the deep principle of the magic particle, Sophia researched a special combination of magic rune array.

This kind of magic array is called the Energy Shield Circle, and it is a range of magic arrays.

The circle consisted of twelve magical shields inscribed with special runes and standard magic crystals.

With the magic energy crystals on each shield as the core, they are connected to key nodes to form a special rune structure, and once the soldiers use their magic power to urge the shield at the same time, they can release a large ring of magic energy shield.

Although the energy shield is only a part of magic, it is not very good at defending against physical attacks, but it has a lot of effects on defending against magical energy attacks.

If a squadron is dealt twelve magic shields and the soldiers hold up the magic shields, the restraint on the mages will be greatly increased.

Because this large energy shield has a very large defensive area, it can be combined to protect a squadron of soldiers.

According to the simulation of the Harland Mage Guild, twelve high-level warrior apprentices equipped with magic shields, scorching ray guns, and alchemy bombs can easily rely on the power of equipment to kill two three-ring magicians.

Receiving the effect of the simulation, Richard was taken aback.

You must know that it is very difficult to train a three-ring magician, the Harland Mage Association has been established for more than ten years, and the only three-ring magician who has really been cultivated is Annie. Hiss and Butler are both mages from the Tower of Death, and Röntgen is a wild mage.

A three-ring magician is a few points more difficult than a fifth-order warrior, and normally a fireball technique can kill or injure five or six soldiers. A three-ring magician can defeat an ordinary squad of soldiers, which is relatively easy to do.

Now twelve elite veterans, through the power of equipment, can defeat the three-ring mage.

If these devices were to spread, the threat of magical power to secular power would be greatly reduced.

Moreover, Sophia's research has very good prospects. As research progresses, it is not necessary to create a combination of protective magic items with a higher range.

Moreover, research can also extend to other magical fields, representing countless directions.

This research means that ordinary fighters can also rely on the strength of equipment and combinations, and their combat effectiveness has skyrocketed.

Zooming in on history, this research will lead the way in the development of the times, and change the balance of power and power in the Dawn Plane, just like the legendary priest who created the warrior's breathing method.

Of course, this kind of magic shield is not easy to make, and it requires a high cost.

The shield is made of oralmostalum smelted precious magic ore, and in order for the magic nodes to communicate, the recipe for the inscription magic inscription solution requires the use of highly valuable mythril.

A shield is not labor, and the cost of materials alone requires about one hundred and twenty gold coins. Such a cost is a few points higher than that of Warcraft War Horses.

Due to cost constraints, Richard could only equip elite soldiers. He carefully selected sixteen squadrons from the elite infantry in Harland's territory, each drawing a small team, and the first batch was equipped with a new magic shield.

Crafting one hundred and ninety-two magic shields not only requires a lot of gold coins, but also wastes a lot of Sophia's time, after all, only she can inscribe magic runes now.

After researching the magic energy shield, Richard took the time to return to Fort William.

Because Sophia is short on time, it is impossible to make a magic energy shield every day. So Richard carefully analyzed the magic energy shield manufacturing process, split the magic runes into twelve parts, and taught them to different people.

In addition, the shield alloy material, the inscription and the solution formula need to be kept strictly confidential, and the process is split to different people.

The use of various means makes it much more difficult to leak secrets. Fortunately, Haaland's territory now has a royal seal, which is very useful in preventing leaks.

Richard came out of the Harland Mage Guild and went straight to the Magical Alloy Research Center.

At the heart of the Magic Alloy Research Center is the Magic Alchemy Furnace.

The technology for crafting the Alchemy Furnace of Magic in Harland's Territory comes from the Tower of Death, and the Harland Mage Guild has a deeper understanding of the nature of magic than the Tower of Death.

The Tower of Death's magical alchemy furnace uses a fire-type core as an energy core.

The first magic alchemy furnace built by the Magic Alloy Research Center is a copycat product, copying the construction plan of the Tower of Death, and also using the fire attribute magic core as the energy core.

Although the Fire Attribute Demon Core is not particularly rare, it is also not an easy task to find.

In addition to hunting fire-attribute magical beasts, the Harland Collar can only trade with nearby mage organizations, because the magic alchemy furnace is used very frequently, and ensuring the stability of the energy supply has become an important matter.

And using the magic core of the fire-attribute demonic beast as an energy source, the supply is indeed unstable.

In order to solve this trouble, five or six years ago, Richard and a few auxiliary researchers changed the design drawings of the magic alchemy furnace, using the magic crystal as the energy core, and adding a flame transformation rune circle.

The addition of a flame transformation rune array is equivalent to redesigning the blueprint of the magic alchemy furnace, and after many experiments, it took more than two years and many difficulties to overcome many difficulties before the new generation of magic alchemy furnace was successfully manufactured.

Because the new magic alchemy furnace has added new rune circles, the volume has almost doubled compared to the original magic alchemy furnace, and the use of magic bricks has also skyrocketed, resulting in the construction cost doubling, almost reaching 10,000 gold coins.

Despite this, in order to get rid of the dependence on the fire attribute magic core, even if the construction cost increased a lot, the new magic alchemy furnace was still built with gritted teeth. After all, the Haaland Leader lacks a fire attribute magic core, not a magic crystal.

Up to now, the magic alchemy furnace in Haland's territory has been researched to the third generation, and the third magic alchemy furnace has been completed.

There are three magic alchemy furnaces, and the Magic Alloy Research Center is constantly investing in different magic metals to create different magic alloys. Over the years, we have accumulated a lot of valuable experience and successfully manufactured a variety of special alloys.

Haaland Lingfist Commodity Rolling Bearings are the products of Alloys Laboratories.

By manufacturing rolling bearings, the Magic Alloy Laboratory amassed a large amount of money, and without spending a penny of the territory, it improved a small number of designs, built a third magic alchemy furnace, and successfully created a new Magic Alloy.

The key part of making a magic energy shield is not only the combination of runes, but also the materials themselves.

If the magic conductivity of the manufacturing material is poor, even if the magic energy shield is made, it is basically not practical. In addition, the adaptability of super magic metal and magic energy is also a key indicator, if the adaptability is low, it will lose a lot of magic energy, increasing the cost of equipment use, if the cost is too high, the cost performance is too low, the equipment is also useless.

In addition to the magic conductivity, the density, hardness, and durability of the material itself are also very important indicators. These physical indicators determine the physical defense properties of the Magic Energy Shield.

(End of chapter)