After the redemption of the prisoners of war, the relationship between the two armies improved a little, and the upper nobles such as Richard and Simeone also had a little more mutual trust.

As reinforcements arrived, Richard's strength grew stronger and stronger, gradually surpassing the enemy. There was a tacit understanding between the high-level leaders of the two countries, Richard did not provoke a conflict and expand the war, and more than 100,000 troops of the two countries fell into confrontation.

When the war began, Richard expanded his army to 3,000 recruits.

Because these recruits are on the battlefield, they are not in a position to complete a year of combat skills training, so they can only take on second-line tasks while learning breathing methods and various combat skills.

The regular army of the Dawn Plane not only needs to recognize the golden drum command and learn to line up, but also needs to master a variety of combat skills, such as archery, spearmanship, swordsmanship, fighting and wrestling, and so on. It often takes a long time to train before being integrated into the regular army.

The soldiers who did not complete the training were only slightly stronger than the serfs, and the regular troops led by Haaland could defeat these 3,000 recruits with just one squadron.

The captives left behind by the Sixth Legion numbered less than 7,000 people, and these people had completed the training of recruits, and some of them had made meritorious achievements in battle, and exchanged for the Eunice family's fire breathing method, and their quality was better than that of recruits.

Since the Younis family was unwilling to continue to ransom them, Richard collected the 7,000 prisoners of war and scattered them into the recruits. Seven thousand prisoners of war with combat experience were recruited, and the combat effectiveness of the recruits increased by a few points.

The time entered June, and the second, fourth, fifth, and sixth infantry brigades rushed to the front. With the addition of four infantry brigades, Haaland led nearly 12,000 troops, in addition to Richard controlling ten new formations of about 10,000 men.

Richard drew 300 officers of all ranks from among the veterans of Haraland's leadership, installed them in ten new brigades, and then taught the soldiers the breathing method of apprenticeship.

Generally speaking, traditional countries such as the Delong Kingdom will strictly restrict supernatural powers, and ordinary people have almost no channels to practice the breathing method except for nobles and servants who directly serve the nobles. If you can't master extraordinary power, the class will naturally not flow.

The United Kingdom on the East Coast has a special system that is relatively more open, and will teach the breathing method to the soldiers who have made great achievements, and there will be a little mobility between classes.

In the face of the orc invasion, the Grant Kingdom needs to mobilize all its forces to deal with the race war, the spread of the breathing method is more extensive, and there is even a professional class in the country. Although this class is not a nobleman, it also has some extraordinary powers, and some professional families are even stronger than hereditary barons.

Before the Haaland family was promoted to hereditary nobility, it was a typical professional family.

The Duke of Haland, established by Richard, because of the sinister external environment, spread extraordinary knowledge more widely, as long as you join the field army, intelligence department, security army, auxiliary forces and other violent agencies, the first three layers of the breathing method will be taught.

With this opening, capable people will stand out. Although the Haaland family is not well-established, it has only been more than ten years since he was promoted to hereditary nobility, and many people have been cultivated.

The first soldiers to learn the breathing technique, such as Jennings, had been promoted to the rank of Rank 6 Warrior. In other great aristocratic forces, the sixth-order warriors can also be regarded as middle and upper-class.

In addition to training warriors, the magical power mastered by the Harand Leader has also increased by leaps and bounds.

In just over ten years, the Harland Mage Association has cultivated three mid-level mages, Wendy, Annie, and Butler, and there are dozens of low-level mages combined, ranking third in the Grant Kingdom in terms of strength, second only to the Grant royal family and Grand Duke Jonathan.

The Duke of York has been established for hundreds of years, and he is still a member of the Grant royal family, and his congenital conditions are far better than the Harland family, but the magic power in his hands is no longer comparable to the Duke of Haraland. The selection of talents within only one family is far less than the millions of people in the Duke of Haaland.

After entering June, the front between the Kingdom of Grant and the United Kingdom on the East Coast has stabilized, and the high-level officials of both sides have begun to send envoys to communicate. Although the two countries did not sign a peace pact because of the Delong Kingdom, the principle of not expanding the conflict was agreed upon at the top level.

The United Kingdom of the East Coast is no longer committed to the effort, and the Kingdom of Delong alone cannot change the situation.

Even if Anton, the legendary knight of the Delong Kingdom, personally led the troops, he did not break through Steven's defense. On the contrary, Steven concentrated seven or eight high-level professionals, and almost left Anton on the battlefield.

After the death of Duke Breener, although the Grant family did not promote a new legend, in recent years, there has also been a blowout of talent. Shane, the vice president of the Magic Council, was promoted to the Nine Rings, and Heaton, a member of the Grant family's branch, was also successfully promoted to the Epic Knight, counting the court nobles, high-ranking officers, and the total number of ninth-order professionals serving the royal family exceeded twenty.

In terms of top talent, the Haaland family has little background. William, the only one promoted to the rank of ninth-order warrior, served as the commander of the Central Legion, and was considered a person who served the royal family.

The only one who is commendable is Richard, Sophia and Wendy, although they are talented, have not fully grown up. The number of high-ranking professionals led by Haaland is a few points weaker than that of other dukes. Even if it is the Duke of Guise, there are three ninth-order professionals in the service, far exceeding the Duke of Haaland.

It takes a long time to train high-level professionals, and it is impossible for the outside world to have such talents to defect, and it will take another ten years for Haaland to make up for this weakness.

At that time, Sophia is estimated to be promoted to the Nine Rings, and Jennings's strength will also be greatly improved, in addition to the opportunity to impact the legendary realm, Wendy and Audrey are also two. Ten years later, it is estimated that both of them can be promoted to the top rank, and counting Richard, Haaland is no longer a small number of talents, as long as these people grow up, they are enough to lead the territory to the top.

After entering July, the war had gradually stopped, and after Anton was defeated and wounded, the Delong Kingdom seemed to accept its fate and did not take the initiative to provoke the war.

The autumn harvest began in August, and the Grant royal family began to count meritorious deeds and prepare for knighthood.

In this southern invasion war, the Kingdom of Grant annexed 160,000 square kilometers of land of the Delong Kingdom, but Silvermoon Island was lost, and the Count of Marcel lost half of the territory. According to the current control area, the net profit of the territory is 148,000 square kilometers of land, and seven or eight large counties can be set up.

From June onwards, the Council of Nobles continued to negotiate, and by the end of August, the benefits had been distributed.

The Grant royal family will create two new central provinces in the south, and Commander Steven will leave the royal court and be promoted to hereditary earl as the new grand noble.

In this battle, the power of the Grant royal family expanded again, with the creation of a new branch of the noble county of Steven, and the establishment of two southern provinces, which together acquired about 60,000 square kilometers of land.

Haaland, the three dukes of Guise and Duran, who invested a lot of resources in the war, each received a county.

Because Richard took the initiative to take responsibility and saved Steven's army. Roger's kingdom reciprocated the favor and said good things for the Haaland family when dividing the territory. The territory of the Harland family is included in the former Duke of Isaac.

This territory covers an area of more than 19,000 square kilometers, and it is still 200 kilometers away from the front line.

It's a pity that the Haaland family has no strength and is distracted to operate in the south.

Richard's children are still too young to run the territory here, and although the brothers are adults, Richard is not at ease with them if they invest a lot of manpower and material resources in the south.

After consulting with King Roger, Richard made the decision to exchange the Southern Territory for the Northern Territory.

Exchange the new southern county for Grotta Province.

Richard had planned to exchange the province of Geda, but the province of Geda had been developed for many years, and there was still the favorable terrain of the Dragon Canyon.

The royal family of Grant also invested a lot of resources in the province of Geda and established the Knight Academy. The geographical conditions of Heihe Fort are superior, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Roger Kingdom is not willing to agree.

The royal family was willing to exchange the province of Gascoigne.

There are a large number of local noble territories in the province of Gascoigne, and most of the territories directly under the royal family are in the area of Fort Blaze in the northern part of the province, with a total area of just over 8,000 square kilometers. In exchange for this province, it is also necessary to reconcile the internal aristocratic contradictions.

Richard did the math and felt like a loss.

After communicating with Roger's kingdom several times, Richard decided to exchange the southern county for the province of Grotta.

Although Grotta Province covers an area of 26,000 square kilometers, which is larger than the southern territory, the mountainous terrain is more than half, and the geographical location is still on the front line of northern Xinjiang, so its value is far less than that of the southern territory.

Although the situation in the southern region is also unstable, the combat effectiveness of the Delong Kingdom is far inferior to that of the orcs, and the pressure it faces is completely different.

There was a serious imbalance in the value of the two domains, and Richard demanded compensation from the Nalach province of the Roger kingdom and the annexation of the Black River Valley of Rach province to the Dukedom of Harland.

After thinking about it for more than ten days and consulting with the nobles of the court, King Roger finally agreed to Richard's conditions, and annexed more than 9,000 square kilometers of the Heihe River valley in Lahe Province to the Duke of Harland.

After all, after the transaction is completed, the Zachary Department of the Iron Lion Legion stationed in Grotta Province can be transferred to the south, and a northern army can be transferred to the south, which is equivalent to transferring part of the responsibility of defending against orcs to the Duke of Haaland, and the pressure on the royal family will be greatly reduced.

Zachary is also a famous general of the Grant Kingdom, and after transferring the Iron Lion Legion to the south, Zachary can command the entire army in an emergency.

William was an old subordinate of Zakary, and it was easy for Zakary to coordinate his command after he was transferred to the south.

The royal family deployed two main armies in the northern frontier in the newly occupied areas in the south, which was enough to deter the army of the Delong Kingdom and maintain the stability of the battle front. Moreover, the two dukes of Guise and Duran have expanded their territories and will not choose to retreat. The Royal Guard will also be stationed for a few years to help maintain stability in the southern occupation zone.

After the Black River Valley of Lahe Province was assigned to the Dukedom of Haaland, the Flying Eagle Castle and the Riverbend Ferry Castle were all assigned to the Dukedom of Haaland.

The land on both sides of the Black River is fertile, and the population is not small, according to rough statistics, counting the province of Grotta, there are about 170,000 serfs and more than 60,000 freemen who are included in the Duke of Haaland.

Of course, the southern region has a larger population, and the southern county under Richard's name has a population of more than 400,000 people.

The royal family joined forces with the three dukes to swallow 120,000 square kilometers of land in the south, and the remaining 28,000 square kilometers of land were handed over to other nobles of the Grant Kingdom to divide.

Although the four dukes of York, Lorraine, Fox, and Edward sent troops, they did not have commendable feats, so they could only give a consolation prize, and the family was given a barony.

The four barons were located near the province of Iliano, far from the front line, and were suitable for the duke's second son to inherit.

Of course, the territory area in the south is not very large, and the barony is only about 300 square kilometers, which is equivalent to one-third of the barony in the northern Xinjiang region. However, the southern territory is a plain region, and its economic power is greater than that of the northern region.

The four marquis in the east and the four earls in the south contained the six legions of the United Kingdom on the east coast, each of which was divided into a viscounty, covering an area of about one or two thousand square kilometers, and the territory was scattered near the provinces directly under the crown family.

The family of the Counts of Marcel received special care, and the new territory covered an area of more than 3,000 square kilometers, and the two territories were not far apart, which could be exchanged and merged with the southern nobles, although the United Kingdom on the east coast occupied more than 6,000 square kilometers of land, and the overall loss was not too heavy.

The family of the Earls of Silvermoon Island also received a consolation prize and was given a viscountdom.

Compared with the pre-war Silver Moon family, there is the largest gap and has lost the status of a great nobleman.

After all, he lost the battle, lost his territory, and according to the decree of the Grant Kingdom, he had normally lost his nobility.

King Roger is still willing to give him a chance, and the Silvermoon family is already grateful.

Richard's Rohmon and Raphael both made great achievements and were awarded a barony.

William led the Grizzly Legion to a meritorious record, and six senior officers within the legion were awarded knighthoods, and William fought three times before and after, accumulating sixteen great merits, and was awarded the third barony.

If the three baronies were to be exchanged and merged, William would receive viscountdom.

It's a pity that the merger is no longer possible, and these three baronies are divided into different regions, and William chooses to inherit them to different sons.

William wrote a letter to Richard and decided to leave the barony to George to inherit. William married three formal wives, each of whom would inherit a barony.

Richard wrote to communicate with George, and in September George left the north and went to the south with a large amount of money.

Compared with Ron, George has a maternal family to rely on, and Lady Ola has earned more than 30,000 gold coins with the influence of the Harland family. Coupled with a sum of money funded by Richard, George was able to use more than 50,000 gold coins, and he also used William's relationship with Richard to recruit many soldiers in the Grizzlies and Harland.

Moreover, George's territory is not far from William's residence, and he can get William's help at an emergency moment, and the start situation is far better than that of Richard and Ron.

After George went to the south to manage his territory, Lady Aura rushed to the south with her children, and the property of Blackriver fell into Richard's control. William's commercial channels and intelligence forces left in northern Xinjiang were all merged into the Haaland territory.

(End of chapter)