Now the defense line of Haaland's territory is 500 kilometers wide, and it will take half a month to transfer troops from the direction of Platos-Snow Mountain Castle in the west to East Grotta County.

On the 500-kilometer-wide defensive line, there are four separate battlefields, and the rest of the area is subject to brutal reconnaissance battles every day.

The defensive line was staggered, and the main army held each other back, locking Haaland's ability to lead the army to maneuver like a huge chain. Every line of defense cannot be relaxed, once the orcs are allowed to enter, they will burn and loot in the territory, and the population will lose a lot of blood, even if the orcs are defeated, it will be meaningless to the Haaland territory.

Because the orcs have the advantage of strength and can divide their forces to fight, from the perspective of the strategic situation, the situation in Haaland's territory has always been very bad. Each front had to be divided, and the main forces could not be assembled at all.

The Sutton detachment fought twice in a row, although the scale was not large, but it was constantly changing the strategic posture and untying the chain.

"Tell the soldiers, clean up the battlefield quickly. We had just annihilated the orc brigade, and the nearby enemy forces had not yet noticed. Please keep up the good work, immediately reinforce Barony Morgan, and wipe out all the orcs. ”

After the formation of the Sutton detachment, Richard was given the right to arbitrarily act on the spot.

In this war, Sutton had enough authority to command the vassal coalition army, auxiliary troops, security forces and other second-line corps.

Moreover, Grumand and Vader are also experienced people, and they immediately understood Sutton's strategy.

Sutton obviously wanted to take advantage of the enemy's division of troops to annihilate the orc soldiers, and then gather a noble alliance to cut off the orc food route.

This strategy is upright from the point of view of the art of war, the so-called accumulation of small victories into big victories, once the Eastern Grotta orcs are annihilated, the West Grotta orcs will be attacked from both sides, and the orc situation will become very dangerous.

Sutton left a small number of soldiers to guard Fort Tor, and hurried to Fort Morgan with 2,000 officers and men.

The defenders of Fort Morgan were the three barons Bernie, Jose, and Wendy.

Barony Wendy's is run by Richard instead, and it has developed very well, and has trained 500 soldiers, but this army has been established for a relatively short time. Richard drew a number of backbones from the regular army, and its combat effectiveness was only slightly stronger than that of the city defense army.

The José family is an old aristocracy in the province of Gabria, which has been passed down for hundreds of years. Despite three generations, the family is remarkably united.

In just 100 years, the José family has branched out, and five members of the family have been promoted to hereditary barons. Although they are not big nobles, they are the strongest group of viscount families.

After José was promoted to hereditary baron, he received support from various branches, and he had a baronial private army of 600 men, which was stronger than the Barony of Wendy.

Barony Bernie is the weakest, now there are only four hundred noble coalition troops, and the three legions combined, with a total of 1,500 soldiers, but their commanders are far less good at fighting than Grumment, Vida and others.

After all, Bernie and Wendy are not in the territory, and this aristocratic coalition lacks high-quality mid-level commanders.

After the defeat of the Orcs in Barony Vito, some of the routs fled to Barony Morgan's side, where they were soon spotted by orc scouts outside the castle. Through the narration of the rout, the orc captain quickly sensed that the situation was already very bad.

Now his brigade is under the fortified city, and there are human elite soldiers eyeing it next to him. After sensing that the situation was not good, the orc captain immediately became suspicious and had a plan to retreat.

The orc captain reacted quickly and gave the order to retreat before the Sutton detachment arrived, and although Baron Jose in the castle was aware of everything, he felt that he could not fight the orcs in the field and had no intention of pursuing.

The orcs had just withdrawn, and were spotted by the Wyvern Knight halfway through.

Due to the heavy losses of the magic hot air balloon team in the direction of Grotta, Richard directly transferred the Wyvern to the Grotta battlefield.

Although Haaland has few bipedal wyverns, his combat effectiveness far exceeds that of the Harpy.

The bipedal wyvern itself is a high-level demonic beast, while the ordinary harpy is only of the third order, and the speed and distance of the bipedal wyvern are far beyond that of the harpy, if it is encountered in the air, it will immediately be a crushing situation.

The four bipedal Wyvern soldiers were transferred over and immediately took the initiative in the reconnaissance battlefield. When the Wyvern Knight found out about the orc's retreat, he immediately passed it on to Sutton's detachment and directly informed the orcs of their marching route.

Now in the direction of Grotta, the information of the orcs is almost unilaterally transparent to the territory of Haaland, and the Sutton detachment seems to have opened a map, directly cutting off the retreating orc brigade by detouring the mountain road.

The combat effectiveness of the orc brigade was far inferior to that of the Sutton detachment, not to mention that there were two thousand noble coalition troops to help in the battle.

Suddenly, the shouts of killing shocked the valley, and the commanders such as Grumment, Vader, Morgan, and Vito descended like tigers, and the orcs could not resist for too long, and they were annihilated by the coalition forces.

In less than ten days, the Sutton detachment was active behind enemy lines, winning three battles and three victories, with less than seventy casualties, annihilating two main armies of orcs and one auxiliary brigade, with a total strength of more than six thousand.

Of course, the aristocratic coalition also participated in the battle, with a total of about 500 casualties. For the casualties of the aristocratic coalition, Richard did not need to be compensated, he only needed to issue some merits, but this merit was far from the Sutton detachment.

After annihilating the Orcs, Sutton ordered his soldiers to clean up the battlefield while ordering Baron José to lead his troops together.

By the afternoon, Baron José had already arrived with his troops, and when Sutton had joined the three forces, the total strength had reached more than three thousand four hundred.

He led this army and went straight to the orc food station.

The northern part of the Eagle Mountains is the famous northern grassland, which is very vast, with a depth of more than 1,200 kilometers from north to south and a total width of 2,400 kilometers from east to west.

Coming down from the East Coast Plateau, along the Dukedom of Haaland, the Duchy of Edward, the Duchy of Fox, the Grand Duchy of Starnik, the Kingdom of Lane, the Duchy of Larson, and the Duchy of Crimea, the total area of this steppe is more than three million square kilometers, which is larger than the two northern powers of the Kingdom of Grant and the Kingdom of Lane combined.

The Orc Empire has established a satrapy in this vast grassland to unify the operations in this region.

The orcs of the Grant Kingdom were divided into the Eastern Front of the Steppe Governorate, and generally had twelve to eighteen legions under its command.

Over the years, the orcs have suffered defeats in the Grant Kingdom and have lost several legions.

Today, the Eastern Front of the Steppe Governorate has a total of fourteen legions, except for two legions that serve as reserves to protect the logistics line, the remaining twelve legions have all participated in the battle.

In such a vast area, the two orc legions simply could not support the logistics line. Therefore, a large number of grain points can only be left for the orc auxiliaries to garrison, once the Eagle Mountain Range is hit, the orc's food channel becomes extremely weak.

Sutton and his soldiers easily set up two grain stations in the northern part of the Eagle Mountains, cutting off the supply line of the Eastern Grotta orcs.

In the process, Sutton also rescued 6,000 human slaves, because they could not be brought back to the rear, so they could only give them some orc weapons and equipment and settle them in the grain station.

After Sutton cut off the East Grotta orc food route, the East Grotta orc army immediately fell into a panic.

This orc army was blocked by Martin in the Twin Star Castle, and was unable to break through the East Grotarshire defenses. Now that the back road has been cut off again, the grain and grass can last for more than ten days at most, and even if it relies on the auxiliaries, it can barely support it for about 20 days.

If you want to ask for help from the headquarters, the passage in the air is cut off by the bipedal Wyvern Soldier, and you rely on the ground messenger to ask for help from the rear, that is, you can't wait for help, and when the letter arrives, the reinforcements rush over, and you have to wait for at least a month.

In desperation, the orc legion leader Rumira could only choose to withdraw his troops and go back to open up the transportation line.

The orcs were going to withdraw, and Martin certainly wouldn't let them get their way.

There are bipedal flying dragons and magic hot air balloons staring at the sky, the canine teeth of the two camps are staggered, the orcs have just acted, and the twin star castle immediately sent soldiers to attack, in order to avoid the collapse of the army, the orcs can only turn back and fight.

By this time, Martin was in no hurry to fight the orcs.

The orcs were unwilling to bear large casualties, and could not retreat every time, and after several battles, the orcs withdrew very unsmoothly, but lost 2,000 soldiers.

After delaying for four or five days like this, seeing that the situation was getting more and more dangerous, the orc legion commander left two brigades to break off, and then retreated decisively with three brigades.

This time, despite the successful withdrawal, the two brigades after the break were completely annihilated by Martin's army.

After Martin completely annihilated the rear troops, he led his army to chase all the way.

Along the way, the orc legion will not only face infantry attacks, but also be thrown alchemy bombs in the air by the Wyvern Knights and the Magic Hot Air Balloon Team.

The war has been fought so far, and the Harpies in the direction of East Grota are already at an all-round disadvantage, and the brutal air battle has been fought for more than ten days, which has exhausted the air power of the orcs in the direction of East Grotta.

Now there are only more than thirty harpies left under Rumila's command, and they can only survive, and once they take off, they are immediately targeted and killed by the team of bipedal wyverns and magic hot air balloons.

The orcs had to defend themselves against air raids at all times, and the speed of their march was affected, and they couldn't get too far behind Martin.

In this way, along the way, the strikers of the Martin Department fought several small battles with the orcs, and once again annihilated half of the orcs.

The distance between Martin and the main force of the orcs was no more than thirty kilometers, and the troops only bought Rumira Legion Commander for most of the day.

Rumira retreated all the way, and the retreat had turned into a rout, and now only two and a half of the six brigades remained, and the losses had exceeded seven thousand.

The losses of Martin's division added up to less than 1,003, and the number of soldiers killed in battle was only more than 400, and the combat effectiveness was still undiminished.

Rumira led the remnants of the defeated army and wanted to attack the grain depot where the Sutton detachment was stationed. After laying down the grain station, you can not only get supplies, but also hold on to the danger and hold on for a period of time, waiting for reinforcements to come.

It's a pity that the orcs were demoralized, and as soon as they organized an offensive, they were attacked from the flanks by the Sutton detachment, and the continuous blows broke down the orcs, and a large number of deserters began to appear.

Rumira finally led the guards to repel the Sutton detachment, stabilized the team, and was just about to bypass the grain station, but was stopped by the defenders of the grain station.

The orcs mustered up the last of their remaining courage and broke through the defense line of the aristocratic coalition commanded by Grumand and others, and the first brigade of the Martin Department had already arrived at the front line.

The first brigade is the strongest combat fighting brigade in the infantry of Haaland's territory, this brigade has a strong fighting will, outstanding physical fitness, they wear heavy armor, march for eighteen hours in a row, and on the way there are several battles with the orc broken troops, walk one hundred and forty kilometers of mountain roads, directly into the battle, directly lay the victory of this battle.

Under the blows of the Sutton detachment and the first brigade, the orc legion was completely annihilated, and the eight orc brigades on the East Grotta front were surrounded and annihilated by the cooperation of Martin and Sutton.

In this battle, the East Grotta Department of Haland's territory successively annihilated eight orc main brigades and two half-orc auxiliary brigades, and completely annihilated 21,000 orc troops.

And their own casualties add up to only 2,600, including 400 city defense troops, 800 noble coalition troops, and the casualties of the main army add up to 1,400 people, of which the Sutton detachment has more than 100 casualties, the first brigade has more than 300 casualties, and nearly 80 are physical exhaustion on the march.

The big victory in the direction of East Grotta means that Haaland has already freed up some of his main forces and unchained them.

Because the soldiers were already very tired, Martin and Sutton ordered the soldiers to recuperate for three days, and after recovering their strength, they continued to move to the northwest area, preparing to cut off the logistics line of the 13th Orc Legion.

While Martin and Sutton were victorious, the battle in the western part of Haaland's territory was becoming more and more dangerous.

Eighteen brigades of orcs crossed the Kaya River several times and attacked the rear of the Gascoigne province, and a brutal fierce battle broke out with the allied forces of the nobles of the Gascoin province.

Five groups of orcs divided their forces on the south bank of the Kaia River, frequently pulled and mobilized the noble coalition army, and took advantage of the weakness of the noble coalition army to annihilate the 6,000 noble coalition troops in the Gascoigne province, and in the process also captured five baronial castles, and Richard's neighbor Barony Paul was not spared.

After the capture of Barony Paul, the Orc army marched north into the southwestern part of Dukedom Harland, but was stopped by the defenders of the Iron Lion Castle.

There are 4,000 allied troops of the nobles of Rohmon County and Brena County in the Iron Lion Castle, 700 cadets of the Knight Academy of the Grant Kingdom, plus more than 2,000 city defense troops, security forces, and auxiliaries who operate trebuchets, and a total of 7,000 troops for defense.

The orc army tried several times, but could not capture the Iron Lion Castle, and instead continued to penetrate deep into the Duke of Harland, plundering the southern foothills of the Eagle Mountains.

In just a few days, the population of this area lost 13,000, tens of thousands of houses were burned, and the economic losses in gold may exceed one million.

Because the orcs had broken through the two lines of defense in the county of Martins and the province of Gascoigne, and the western side of the Duke of Harland was exposed to the orc soldiers, Richard immediately wrote an urgent document to ask for help from the Northern Legion.

Now that the war has been fought, the situation has gradually become clear, and the commander of the Northern Legion, Rabe, has already made a decision to reinforce the Flame Castle with the main force of the Legion and put the orcs besieging the Flame Castle into the encirclement.

After receiving Richard's letter asking for help, he did not send reinforcements from soldiers.

With no reinforcements from the Northern Legion and continued to lose blood in Haaland's territory, Richard weighed it for a long time and decided to launch a decisive battle at Hurricane Castle before the conditions were fully ripe.

Originally, Richard was going to consume the orcs for a while, wait for the orc army to be exhausted, and then launch a decisive battle.

But now there is an urgent need for reinforcements in the rear, and reinforcements must be added in a short time.

If troops are withdrawn from the front, the forces of the front line will be diminished, and the war will continue to drag on. If you start a decisive battle and defeat the orc army, you can naturally transfer troops to the south to stabilize the front when you have your hands free.

(End of chapter)