After the Goddess's Birthday, the new class of students in Haaland's realm is about to start school.

This year, the recruitment of students in Haaland's territory has done a good job, with the number of new students exceeding 6,000, an increase of 23 percent compared to last year.

Last winter, more than 2,400 people graduated from more than a dozen primary schools in the territory. These teenage students entered society, and the average quality of territorial citizens improved a little.

Nowadays, primary school graduates are no longer assigned jobs, and the government and the military only recruit some good members from them.

If you want to have a good future, it is best to graduate from high school. However, it is very difficult to get into middle school, the admission rate of middle school is less than 30 to 1, and last year the four middle schools only enrolled a total of more than 90 students, and the average school only recruited one class.

After the goddess's birthday, because the number of students was too small, Richard found his cousin Flora, who was in charge of education, to talk.

In the last decade or so, Flora and Jennings have become important members of the dukedom.

Jennings has made many achievements, his professional rank has been continuously improved, and he is already a heavyweight officer in the army, and now commands half of the corps, responsible for operations in one direction. His power in the army is second only to Richard and Soros, and he is almost the third person in the army of Haaland's territory, and his status is becoming more and more important.

Flora was in charge of education and was also a heavyweight in the territory.

Flora's extraordinary talent is very ordinary, three days of fishing, two days of drying nets and practicing the breathing method for more than ten years, and she is still a medium-sized warrior student, and practicing the breathing method has only improved her physical fitness. But she has a very high IQ and a particularly good memory. Over the years, the education department has been managed in an orderly manner, which has contributed greatly to the development of the territory.

Richard approached Flora and asked her for her advice on the expansion of the middle school.

"Although the literacy rate in the territory is improving rapidly, there are very few people who really master advanced knowledge, and the research institutes in the territory continue to draw outstanding students from secondary school graduates, and the development of secondary education is a little slow.

In recent years, we have only trained more than 200 middle school students, less than one-tenth of whom have stayed in school. Besides, this year's enrollment has been completed, and I don't think it's appropriate to change.

The expansion of secondary school enrollment can be implemented next year, but the fourth brother, you promise me that graduates with excellent knowledge should also leave some for the education system. ”

Listening to Flora's request, Richard thought for a moment, and finally nodded: "The students in the middle of the ranking can give you eight places." The best 20 students still have to be allowed to do research. ”

Nowadays, secondary school graduates are in short supply in the job market, and less than 100 secondary school students are graduated every year in the Haaland territory, and scientific research institutes, industrial departments, military systems, and civilian systems are vigorously recruiting high-quality talents.

Richard attaches the most importance to scientific research institutes, and every year they are able to select the best group of students.

Then there is the military system and the civilian system, relying on their dominant position, to select another batch. The education system, the industrial sector, can only choose the remaining students picked by others.

It's not that Richard doesn't pay attention to the education system, even the worst middle school students have IQs far higher than their peers, and they are very good people in the territory.

Because the enrollment probability is very low now, those who can be admitted to middle school are all high-IQ students. This kind of high-IQ student, who mainly relies on self-study to learn knowledge, has much lower requirements for teachers than ordinary students.

The curriculum studied in Haaland's primary school was much more difficult than that in Richard's previous life.

In addition to not learning foreign languages, the mathematics knowledge that needs to be learned in the five years of primary school has involved graphs, functions, solid geometry, algebraic equations, etc., which is about the same level as Richard's eighth grade in his previous life.

Chinese requires being able to memorize tens of thousands of commonly used words, write various official documents proficiently, and master some classic classical literature.

In addition, there are courses such as history, geography, military science, music, and art from the third year, and the academic burden is not easy, and you need to master a lot of knowledge points.

The average age of students entering school is also around ten years old, and the aristocracy may have started school earlier.

Of course, the hereditary aristocracy basically has tutors, and the content of the teaching is also different from that of the school, in addition to general knowledge, it also involves some management, psychology, economics, and the art of the emperor also needs to be learned. In addition, the aristocracy also had to master a certain amount of extraordinary knowledge, which was the experience accumulated by the hard work of their ancestors.

None of the children of Richard's eleven hereditary vassals went to school in the public schools of Haaland's territory, and they all invited tutors to complete their studies, including Richard's uncle Soros and third uncle Tony. On the contrary, Richard's own children have all entered the school, and the children of ordinary families are far ahead of their thinking.

The age of entry is relatively late, and the students will of course be more sensible and generally very studious.

In order to select outstanding talents, Haaland's territory has a particularly difficult graduation exam every year, and there are many super-syllabus knowledge points.

There are many kinds of these super-syllabic knowledge points, which are generally not mastered by primary school teachers, and those who can get high scores generally rely on talent and self-study.

Even secondary school graduates with poor grades have strong self-learning ability, and their quality is extraordinary. After all, the enrollment rate of middle school students in Haaland's territory is very low, and the difficulty can be compared with the 211 in Henan Province in the previous life.

After talking to Flora about the expansion of the middle school, Richard began to be responsible for testing the magic qualifications of the freshmen, and this year there were more than 6,000 new students, and more than a dozen magicians were busy for more than ten days before the new students were tested for their magical qualifications.

Of the more than 6,100 freshmen, only 53 were found to have magical qualifications. None of these fifty-three people were top-level talents, and even the average talents were pitiful, and only four of them were on the Mage Association's key focus list.

Fifty-three students with magical qualifications enter a special class, and they first have to learn the basics for a year before they can get into the meditation method, and after graduating from elementary school, they are basically intermediate and advanced mage apprentices.

Some talented people can become official mages in school, and they often graduate early.

After testing his qualifications, Richard ordered the Lion Cavalry and the Magic Hot Air Balloon Team to strengthen the reconnaissance of the Northern Theater of Operations, while joining forces with Wendiney to speed up the creation of the Steel Golem.

By the time March came, the materials for the Steel Golem had been exhausted.

Twenty-three materials, eighteen steel golems were created, and these steel golems were also sent to the front line of Hurricane Castle by Richard and Wendini.

March is the beginning of spring, the temperature is starting to warm, the snow has melted, the farmers are about to start spring ploughing, and the land of the Duke of Haaland is about to usher in a busy scene.

In March, reconnaissance missions in Haaland's territory became more and more frequent, and traces of orcs began to appear.

In recent years, a great war has broken out between the Divine Radiance Empire and the Orc Royal Court, and the power of the Orc Empire has been contained in the central and western regions, and the eastern battlefield can only maintain the situation with its original strength.

Especially in the Grant Kingdom battlefield, in recent years, it has gradually become impossible to maintain the battle line. In just over a dozen years, two commanders of the front army have been killed in battle.

First, the legendary boar man was killed in battle, and was defeated by the Grant Kingdom to penetrate the Eagle Mountain Front.

Then there is the legendary dragon vein kobold who was besieged and annihilated by the Duke of Haraland.

The battle line of the orcs has retreated again and again, and has retreated from the southern foot of the Eagle Mountain Range to the northern part of the Eagle Mountain Range.

Seeing that the orc army was approaching, Richard immediately gave Viscount Bolton an order to retreat.

The Viscounty of Bolton is the territory of the elves, which has been established for a relatively short time, less than a year, and except for a few elves, there are only a few indentured slaves in charge of construction.

Before the orc army approached, everyone retreated to the Twin Star Castle. Withdrawing with the Viscount of Bolton, there were also personnel stationed in the Demon Hunter City.

The combined number of personnel in these two places has exceeded 3,000. There are many high-level professionals in the two places, and the combat force is very capable.

On March 12, before the orc army appeared, the personnel of the two places had already retreated to the Twin Star Castle. In the meantime Richard's order had been served, appointing Martin as commander of East Grotashire.

Although Sutton has the highest professional rank and the most honorable title, he used to only command small-scale elite mercenaries and has no experience in leading large armies.

Richard was not worried about his ability to command a large army, and of course it was impossible for him to carry the burden and serve as the commander of the army.

Although Wilde has experience in commanding large armies, he has few meritorious achievements in Haaland's territory, and it is difficult to command the proud generals under Martin.

However, Richard transferred the two elite troops of the Special Squadron and the First Squadron to Sutton, and formed the Sutton Detachment together with the elves and witchers, and stationed troops on the periphery of the Double Star Castle and was responsible for fighting in an independent area.

In order to facilitate logistical supplies, Wendini handed over the legendary space bag to her brother, and Richard also gathered the three small and medium-sized space bags in Haaland's territory and handed them over to the Sutton detachment to extend the combat time of the Sutton detachment.

Four space bags, a total of 140 cubic meters of space, if all carry food supplies, about 110 tons more.

Sutton's detachment was not very numerous, adding up to less than five hundred soldiers.

Among them, the elven squadron has the smallest number of members, counting the half-elves of the Bolton family, with a total of only twenty-nine members. The number of special squadrons is also not large, adding up to fifty-two members. The 1st Squadron was fully manned, and slightly overstaffed, with a total of 162 officers and men, with the Witcher Squadron having the largest number, adding up to 228 men.

Despite the small number of people, the quality of the Sutton detachment is very capable, not to mention the strength of the elven squadron, there are many high-level professionals and they are very good at fighting, and the members of the special squadron are also carefully selected by the whole army and are good at sneak attack operations.

The first squadron is the backbone of the territorial infantry, and it is also an all-professional squadron.

The Witcher Squadron is not a regular army, but they are good at surviving in the wild, and they are very effective in the jungle.

In addition, the Witcher Squadron is also an all-professional squadron, and even if you don't know how to line up, you can fight a dozen guerrilla warfare and raid warfare.

On March 16, several armies of orcs had appeared in the northern part of the Eagle Mountains.

The first was in the Grotta direction, where reconnaissance revealed eighteen main groups of orcs, with a total strength of less than two legions.

Six of the orc brigades approached the Twin Star Castle and engaged in an outpost battle with Martin's army.

A large group of orcs acted as surprise soldiers and went around to attack the Barony of Vito, but was blocked outside the castle by the combined forces of the four barons of Morgan, Vito, Grumment, and Vader.

Another orc brigade made another detour and attacked Barony Morgan on the west side of Barony Vito, but was stopped by the combined forces of Barony Bernie, Jose, and Wendy in the rear.

Eight orc battalions attacked the East Grotta area, and fierce battles broke out with six infantry battalions under Martin's command.

The Sutton detachment also received combat duty to attack the logistics line of the Eastern Grotta orc army.

The situation in the West Grotta theater is no less difficult, with an entire orc legion Canyon Castle wanting to break through the defenses of the Soros Ministry.

The West Grotta theater commanded by Soros has the 4th Brigade, 10th Brigade, 11th Brigade, 17th Brigade, Legion Guard Brigade, five infantry brigades, the Scout Cavalry Brigade, the 2nd Warcraft Cavalry Brigade, the 3rd and 4th Magic Hot Air Balloon Squadrons, and the main army adds up to more than 10,000.

According to common sense, it is not difficult to block an orc legion, but Soros's opponent is the orc elite legion, numbered the thirteenth legion, which has always been the trump card of the orc front, and used to mainly fight against the Duke of Jonathan.

This orc legion has many professionals, and there are very many snake-body tribes in the recruiting area, and the legion has strengthened the snake-body heavy infantry brigade and the half-orc archer brigade, which is very good at attacking fortifications.

Despite the heavy casualties in the attack on the castle in the canyon, and the number of dead and wounded snakes has exceeded three hundred, the madness of the orcs has not diminished.

The camp outside the castle has been breached by the orcs, and the defenders are forced to retreat to the castle in the canyon.

Without the hillside camps on either side to stop them, some small armies of orcs began to climb the mountains and infiltrate behind the canyon castle.

The Norman at the back of the canyon castle and the king's castle are all garrisoned by auxiliaries, and the auxiliary soldiers are sparsely combat, and it is difficult to go out of the city to fight and solve the infiltrated orc army.

As a last resort, Soros could only reduce the garrison of the castle in the canyon and use the scout cavalry to clear out the orc infiltration troops.

After the battle in the direction of Grotta, the orcs in other areas gradually began to appear, and an orc legion also appeared in the direction of Tani Canyon, but the combat effectiveness of this orc legion was average. Although the strength of the defenders of the Jennings Department was not as strong as that of Soros, they easily blocked the orc attack, and the battle was not fierce.

On the front of the Lothar Basin, a main army of orcs was discovered through reconnaissance, numbered the Seventeenth Legion. This legion is the trump card of the Starnik Front, and it has also strengthened the Serpent Heavy Infantry Brigade and the Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry Brigade, two all-professional armies, which are very brave and good at fighting.

This time, the Seventeenth Army was also mobilized to the Grant Front, which was used in front of the Duke of Haaland.

In the direction of the Snow Mountain Castle, six infantry brigades appeared in the orcs, and guarding this direction was the allied army of Pratos and the nobles of the Black River Castle, and Richard appointed Baron Sharp as the commander.

The aristocratic coalition army commanded by Sharp had a total number of 6,000, and in order to strengthen the strength in this direction, Richard also sent 24 infantry brigades to strengthen this front.

(End of chapter)