Because there was enough food and straw on the road, and the battle on the front line was not fierce, Richard was not urged to march quickly, and when he entered the kingdom of Delong, he had already walked on the road for twenty-seven days.

The reason why the coalition army of the northern provinces led by Richard walked slowly was to take the army on the road for a while longer.

Although Richard had already commanded the Triple Provinces coalition once, this time the officers who participated in the war were quite different. It is still relatively unfamiliar between the upper and lower levels, and it is a very good thing to run in for a period of time on the road, and to command the army.

When Richard entered the kingdom of Delong with the Left Army, the time had already entered April, and the climate was very warm. The reason for the delay until April was entirely due to the slow pace of decision-making, and in late January the Duke of Guise cleared up the meeting of nobles, and it was not until mid-February that the decision was made to send troops. By the time the Intervention Army was organized, it was already March, and the road was a little slower, and after the Left Route Army joined the battlefield, the time had already entered April.

At this moment, the middle route army and the right route army, which were relatively close to the marching distance, had already entered the Delong Kingdom to participate in the battle.

The headquarters of the Duke of Duran of the Right Route Army, which was closest to the battlefield, completed mobilization in late February, and crossed the border on the sixth day of March.

Although the right army was smaller, with only one legion, it appeared on the battlefield very suddenly. At that time, the two dukes Isaac and Hubble of the Delong Kingdom joined forces and trapped the Grizzly Legion who entered King Delong to take over. After Duke Duran led his troops into the kingdom of Delon, he cooperated with William to defeat the combined forces of Hubble and Isaac in one fell swoop, and won the first battle.

After the two armies combined, they broke through the Duke of Isaac, and then fought a second major war with the kingdom of Delon. In this battle, Duke Duran and William won another great victory, annihilating one and a half legions of the Central Army of the Delong Kingdom.

After this battle, the coalition army made persistent efforts, defeated the coalition forces of the three local legions of the Delong Kingdom, and won three battles and three victories, penetrated more than 600 kilometers into the enemy's territory, and entered the royal capital area of the Delong Kingdom, which shocked the nobles of the Delong Kingdom three times a day.

Because of the victory between the Grizzly Legion and the combined forces of Duke Duran, the troops besieging Duke Guise had no backup and had to be forced to retreat, and this remnant army could only rely on the dangerous terrain to barely keep Duke Guise in the area north of the Hubble Mountains.

After the middle route army under the royal family entered the Delong Kingdom, it also made great progress, defeating the three central legions of the Delong Kingdom, penetrating 400 kilometers deep into the enemy's territory, and entering the hinterland core of the Delong Kingdom.

Based on the information coming from all directions, Haaland's staff officers drew up a simple map.

Richard looked at this simple map and did a little math, and found that in just one month after the start of the war, the territory captured by the Grant Kingdom had exceeded 150,000 square kilometers, roughly equivalent to five or six provinces.

Now the two major dukedoms of Isaac and Hubble in the Delong Kingdom have lost more than half. Sack Castle, the capital of the Duke of Isaac, has been conquered by the Middle Route Army, and the members of the Duke's family have fled to Salonn Castle with the remnants of the defeated army. Although the Duke of Hubble still has a certain amount of strength, relying on the natural danger of the Hubble Mountains to block the Duke of Guise, it is only a little surviving, and the army has lost six or seven percent.

In addition to the heavy losses of the two border dukes, the kingdom of Delong has already lost four northern provinces.

Although the population of the Delong Kingdom is larger than that of the Grant Kingdom, the land is more fertile than the Grant Kingdom, and even the number of nobles is more than that of the Grant Kingdom, the Delong Kingdom, which has been in peace for a long time, is far less good at fighting than the army of the Grant Kingdom.

In this battle, the Grant Kingdom only mobilized three central legions, four noble legions, and less than a quarter of its strength, and the Delong Kingdom was already in disarray and suffered heavy losses.

In order to resist the six legions on the front line of the Grant Kingdom, the Delong Kingdom mobilized all its forces, withdrew the troops defending the United Kingdom on the east coast, ordered all the nobles in the country to fully mobilize, and organized more than 20 legions to stabilize the situation and maintain the balance of the front.

After Richard entered the kingdom of Delong with the Left Army, the front line had stabilized.

Steven, the commander-in-chief of the Intervention Army, issued an order asking Richard to lead his troops to sit in the rear and take charge of logistics.

Steven was only a court count, far inferior to Richard and Duke Duran and others, and according to common sense, Richard or Duke Duran and Duke Guise should be appointed commander-in-chief of the three armies. Because all three of them are hereditary dukes, they can represent the high-level of the Grant Kingdom, and even if they sign a treaty, they have more status than Steven.

But this time, the largest number of troops were the Royal Janissaries. In this battle, the Royal Praetorian Guard sent two legions and was the main core of the intervention army. In addition, the Grizzly Legion is also a central legion, and it obeys the orders of the royal family, and King Roger must of course arrange his own people in the appointment of commanders. So Steven was appointed commander-in-chief, and the three dukes of Richard, Duran, and Guise all had to obey orders.

Upon receiving orders from Commander-in-Chief Steven, Richard immediately transferred his army to Sark.

At this time, the front-line army was divided into three roads, left, center, and right, and two corps of Duke Guise's department on the left, which was more than 100 kilometers away from the Northern Xinjiang Coalition Army, about three days' journey.

After two months of hard fighting, the Duke's army suffered considerable losses, with 6,000 casualties and more than 10,000 suffering from disease. However, this army is closest to home, the logistics are the most adequate, and there are many clergy in the rear, who can use magic to cure diseases. Duke Guise also had a large number of locals under his command, and Richard basically didn't need to worry about logistical supplies.

There are a large number of slaves from the Delong Kingdom in the territory of Haaland, and there are also many people from the Delong Kingdom in the army, such as Jennings, Sula and other key members, all of whom are from the Delong Kingdom. Richard led his troops into the kingdom of Delong, and he didn't even need a local guide to move freely.

There are a large number of officers and soldiers who are familiar with the local area, and the specific command can also make it easier for Richard.

The commander of the Central Route Army was the commander-in-chief Steven, and this one was three hundred kilometers away from Saxburg, on the banks of the Blue Moon River, and was already in the core of the Delong Kingdom. From an overall point of view, the situation of this part is somewhat dangerous. Under siege on three sides by eleven enemy legions. Compared with the other armies, the army under the command of the Middle Route Army is the most unfamiliar to the Delong Kingdom.

The reason why Steven was able to fight at a distance of 300 kilometers was mainly maintained by raiding. It doesn't last long, and the pressure on this part of the grain is very heavy.

Although Duke Duran and the Grizzly Legion on the right side fought farther and had already touched the royal capital area of the Delong Kingdom, it was just that the right army had laid down several large warehouses, and the materials inside were piled up, and Richard didn't need to worry about it.

Among the three route armies, only the middle route army needs to transport grain in a short time.

Richard settled his headquarters, then dispersed the scout cavalry to scout the details of the occupied area. As the cavalry continued to send back information, the situation in the occupied area gradually fell into Richard's mind.

After the outbreak of war, the border areas were suddenly plunged into chaos. The destruction of the territory by the transit of the army was great, and countless civilians were displaced by the war.

Although the two dukes of Hubble and Isaac have been defeated and lost a lot of land, there are still many local supporters who secretly resist the rule of the Grant Kingdom

The occupation forces of the Kingdom of Grant had very weak local rule, and it was difficult to collect taxes and grain.

The most troublesome thing is that the war has affected spring ploughing. Once spring ploughing was affected, by autumn Richard would not only have to supply more than 100,000 troops, but also more than 3 million people in the occupied areas.

Therefore, the most urgent task at the moment is to calm down the people in the occupied areas and immediately start spring ploughing.

After Richard settled the army, he immediately issued the first spring ploughing order, organizing the population of the occupied areas to start spring ploughing.

Ninety-nine percent of the land in the Delong Kingdom belonged to the aristocracy, and the serious class solidification led to the fact that there were only a few yeoman farmers in the country. The middle class was very badly eroded by the aristocracy, and the land belonged almost exclusively to the aristocracy.

A war destroyed the ruling order of the Delong Kingdom, and the nobles of the Delong Kingdom in the occupied area were swept away, and a large part of them died in the war, and the only remaining part could only hide in the shadows.

Even without the nobility, the serfs did not dare to cultivate the land of the nobility at will. After thousands of years of rule, the serfs' fear of the nobility seeped into their souls, because of the decree prohibiting the spread of transcendent knowledge, the nobles of the Delong Kingdom could easily suppress the serfs and commoners.

Seeing that the spring plowing season was about to pass, Richard gave an order to draw the backbone of the army led by Haaland and organize the serfs to plough in the spring.

Many of the soldiers in Haaland's territory are literate and have learned breathing, and in addition to not having knightly blood, they are almost no less than the nobility of the Delong Kingdom in terms of ability. With these equivalent presiding over the new nobility, the occupied territories quickly settled down, especially in the area close to the castle of Sark, where production was quickly resumed due to the greater manpower input.

After a spring rain, the wheat seedlings gradually grow out of the soil. With the start of spring ploughing, the occupied areas gradually fell into stability.

Once the occupied territory had stabilized, Richard ordered the Northern coalition forces to further divide their forces and station them in the castles. There are garrisons in local castles, so it is relatively easy to collect grain and taxes.

Because of the destruction of the war, the loss of manpower and material resources in the occupied areas was heavy, and the front-line grain supply depended not only on the occupied areas, but also on the Duke of Guise, the Duke of Duran, the province of Ilya, and the province of Maryland.

Several provinces in the southwest are the famous and wealthy provinces of the Grant Kingdom, and the manpower and material resources of these provinces are very important to the intervention army.

After the war between the Grant Kingdom and the Delong Kingdom, in just two months, the Delong Kingdom lost more than 100,000 square kilometers of land and 120,000 troops.

Such a tragic situation not only frightened the kingdom of Delong, but also shocked the United Kingdom on the east coast.

The United Kingdom of the East Coast is a special country consisting of seven ducal families, a country with no royal family, and national affairs are decided by a parliament controlled by the great nobility.

This special national situation has led to a relatively relaxed rule in the United Kingdom on the East Coast, and due to the serious involution in the country, the upward channel is even smoother than that of the Kingdom of Grant.

Seeing that the Delong Kingdom was so weak, in order to prevent the Delong Kingdom from being annexed by the Grant Kingdom, the East Coast United Kingdom decided to intervene in this war.

In order to make the division famous and mobilize more forces, the United Kingdom of the East Coast first signed an alliance treaty with the Kingdom of Delong, exchanging 80,000 square kilometers of land in the southeastern border area of the Kingdom of Delong for the United Kingdom of the East Coast.

After the treaty was signed, the United Kingdom on the east coast was divided into three routes, and seven corps were also dispatched to participate in the war.

One way the main force into the county of Marcel, the main army of the United Kingdom on the east coast, a total of three legions, plus logistics auxiliaries, a total of nearly 100,000 people.

An army of 100,000 invaded, and the county of Marcel immediately suffered heavy losses, and in just seven or eight days, most of the territory was lost, and seven or eight thousand troops were annihilated.

The southern direction of the Kingdom of Grant was not the focus of defense, and only a few counties had some elite soldiers under their command.

Seeing the heavy losses of the Count of Marcel, the three counts Paulus, Charlotte, and Wemble, formed a noble alliance and formed three legions to block the enemy.

In addition to attacking the main force of the Countdom of Marcel, the United Kingdom of the East Coast also sent a large army from the border area of the three countries into the Dukedom of Hubble, with only one legion on the way, aimed at the coalition forces of the northern provinces led by Richard.

In addition, the United Kingdom of the East Coast also mobilized a fleet and concentrated three legionnaires to attack the Earl of Silvermoon Island in the Kingdom of Grant.

Although the Earl of Silvermoon Island had an elite fleet under his command, its strength was far inferior to that of the United Kingdom on the East Coast, and the fleet was soon defeated, and Silvermoon Island was lost, except for a few noble members who settled in Nolan, the vast majority of the members of the Silvermoon family died in the war to defend the territory.

After capturing Silvermoon Island, an advancing stronghold, the United Kingdom on the East Coast soon launched a landing war. It's just that the four marquis in the coastal area are not weak, and the coalition formed by them defeated the advance of the United Kingdom on the east coast.

With no chance of victory on the front, the large army of the United Kingdom on the east coast, taking advantage of the superiority of the fleet, began a large-scale attack on the coastal towns of the Kingdom of Grant.

Because of the trade competition of the United Kingdom on the east coast, the economy on the eastern coast of the Grant Kingdom is not developed, and the coastal territories are scattered in the hands of the four marquis of the east, the Earl of Charlotte and the Earl of Paulus.

The northern coastal region is even more barren and wild, and it is rumored that there are dwarven tribes living in this area. The northern coastal forest has almost 300,000 square kilometers of land and is close to the Duke of Jonathan. When the Duke of Jonathan completes the development, manpower and material resources will be invested in this area and develop this mountain forest.

Because there is no economic center in the coastal area, the loss of the Grant Kingdom is not serious, although the East Coast United Kingdom has the advantage of fleet, but it cannot hold the life of a continental country like the Grant Kingdom.

After committing seven legions, the pressure on the Kingdom of Grant was not very serious.

There are still five central legions under the direct command of the royal family that can be dispatched, the seven noble legions of the northern border defense orcs have not yet been mobilized, and the Duke of York and the Duke of Lorrain can also be drawn five legions to participate in the war. When it comes to the critical moment, the Jonathan family of the Grand Duchy of Starnik can also mobilize an army of 100,000.

As long as the orcs do not invade on a large scale this year, it will be relatively easy for the Grant Kingdom to resist the small-scale attack of the United Kingdom on the East Coast.

In the war with the continental kingdoms, sometimes naval superiority was not decisive.

In critical battles, you can only rely on infantry.

The infantry combat effectiveness of the United Kingdom on the East Coast is not weak, but it is still not as good as the elite soldiers tempered by the Grant Kingdom in fighting against the orcs for many years.

If the foot battle is not won, it will naturally not make the Grant Kingdom feel pain.

This time the symptoms of yang are particularly serious, today are serious cough and runny nose, how is it not good, after the yang feeling particularly unrefreshed, walking a few steps out of breath, if everything goes well from this year to resume the update, if there is repeated estimates and ask for leave.

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