By the time Richard arrived at the battlefield with three infantry brigades, the orcs were already in a situation of being besieged on three sides. Targeted by the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade, the orcs could not retreat at all, and were soon surrounded and annihilated by the combined forces of the nobles of Haaland and Geda Province.

In the East Grotta theater of operations, the Sutton detachment worked closely with Martin's division and annihilated eight orc brigades, with a total loss of 16,000 orcs.

In the direction of West Grota, the thirteenth army of the orcs stormed the castle of the canyon for thirteen days, and the Soros department withstood the test, withstood the fierce attack of the orcs, and the siege battle was fought in more than ten days.

In the direction of Nite Canyon, the Jennings Department cooperated with the Marcus Department who went north from Hurricane Castle and also fought a big victory, annihilating 8,000 orcs.

In the main battlefield of Hurricane Canyon, Richard destroyed the 17th Orc Legion in a battle, annihilating this fully equipped elite Orc Legion and destroying more than 26,000 enemies.

In the area of the southern foothills of Platos, Richard led the southward detachment to cooperate with the aristocratic coalition led by Viscount Rohmon and also eliminated five orc brigades, destroying more than 10,000 enemies.

There was no fierce battle in the direction of the Snow Mountain Castle, but the orcs already knew that defeat was inevitable, and they had plans to retreat.

The war has been fought until now, only on the Duke of Harland's battle line, the orc side has already lost more than 30 brigades in formation, and the main force has been annihilated by more than 70,000, and the defeat of the war is inevitable.

In the Kaia River Valley, eleven orc brigades were besieged by the Wild Lion and the Northern Legions, and the situation was also extremely bad.

Less than twenty days after the start of the battle, the orc front had been completely shaken, and although the orc legions in the east and west directions had some successes, they could not fill the gap at all.

Counting the one legion that was encircled near the Flame Castle, the orcs lost four and a half of their main legions.

Although the orc army is large, it is still very difficult to replenish four and a half legions at once.

Although the maturity period of orcs is generally short, kobolds can reach adulthood in three or four years, and it is not difficult to replenish ordinary soldiers, but it is not easy to train professional officers, and it takes a long time.

After annihilating the kobolds at the southern foot of the Eagle Mountains, Richard led more than 10,000 troops to reinforce in the direction of Flame Castle.

Rabe, the commander of the Northern Legion, did not support Harland's territory in order to gain merit, causing a large part of Harland's territory to be plundered by the orcs, although some were later rescued from the orc captives, and the total population was slaughtered by the orcs for more than 8,000.

The material damage is even more incalculable, and tens of thousands of houses have been burned down. Many corpses were thrown into the well by orcs, and it was completely polluted. The bridges were burned by the orcs, the reservoirs were dug up by the orcs, and most of the food in the area was burned.

According to rough statistics, the loss in gold coins exceeded one million.

The southern foothills of the Eagle Mountains were originally an area rich in the Harland Territory, and although there was little industry, the agricultural conditions in this area were very good. In addition, it is not far from Heihe Fort and Flame Fort, which can be connected by the Kaiya River, and the flow of goods is very large, and it has a relatively developed water transportation industry.

As a result, years of accumulation were destroyed by a war. According to estimates by territorial officials, it will take at least three years for the economy to return to its original size.

Because of this, Richard and Rabe already have a knot in their hearts.

The reason why Richard increased his troops to Fort Flame was actually to eliminate the hidden danger in this direction.

If the hidden danger is not eliminated, he leads his troops north to attack the rear of the orcs, and the royal army's army deliberately indulges the orcs to enter the Harland collar to plunder, and the situation will be very ugly at that time.

It's not that he maliciously speculates on others, this time Haaland led a lot of losses, because Richard trusts the Northern Legion too much.

It is better to rely on people than on yourself, and only by forcing the two legions of the North and the Wild Lion to fight with the orcs can this hidden danger be eliminated.

Seeing Richard coming with his troops, Rabe, in order to avoid an ugly face, immediately ordered the Northern Legion to storm the orc camp and annihilate the orc legion before Richard.

According to the practice of the Grant Kingdom, Richard's status is much higher than that of the main army commander, and once Richard is reinforced, he will inevitably get the command of the battlefield.

In order to prevent Richard from interfering in command, the two legions of the Northern Territory and the Wild Lion fought bravely and bloodily, and the orc legions they fought were all wiped out. Because the time was too fast, the Northern Legion and the Wild Lion Legion suffered more casualties, and the total number of troops was reduced by 9,000.

Richard led his troops halfway through when he received news that the orcs in the direction of Flame Fort had been annihilated. He left behind two infantry battalions and appointed Viscount Rohmon as commander of the coalition forces and Commander Comte as deputy commander, commanding the coalition forces to defend the western side of Haaland's territory.

Richard led the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade and the Guard Brigade all the way north, rushing from Hurricane Canyon to the north of the Eagle Mountains. Although Richard was only in his thirties, he had a wealth of experience in leading troops into battle, and it has been a full eighteen years since he first went into battle at the age of sixteen. Veterans with 18 years of war experience are relatively rare to zoom in to the entire northern Xinjiang region.

In the past 18 years, this is the second time that Richard has crossed the Eagle Mountain Range to fight.

Fifteen years before the last time the Eagle Mountains were crossed, Donny Martins, the commander of the Northern Legion, set a trap and killed the commander of the Orc Front, the legendary Girat the Boarman, and used a heavy trebuchet for the first time to annihilate a main Orc legion.

Relying on the prestige of this battle, the army of the Grant Kingdom crossed the Eagle Mountains along the Kaia River and the Kelania Valley, and entered the hinterland of the Orc Empire to plunder.

Through this battle, Richard gained a population of nearly 10,000 and accelerated the development of Haaland's territory.

The scene of fifteen years ago was close in front of him, and Richard's mind seemed to go back to fifteen years ago. In that war, he and Sophia were fledglings, and they were still small people in the Northern Expeditionary Army, responsible for raids and guerrilla operations.

Fifteen years have passed, and things have long been different, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition, Donny Martins, has been killed in battle for many years, and the Northern Legion has also changed several commanders, and his father William has been transferred to the South, and he has become the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition.

The orcs attacked the territory of Haland, losing 70,000 troops on this front, and the rear was already extremely empty.

Richard led his army all the way north, as if entering a no-man's land, swept through the orc territory, and all the orc tribes encountered along the way were slaughtered by Richard.

The struggle for survival between races has no mercy at all.

Eighteen years of brutal war have changed Richard's three views to a certain extent, making him hard-hearted.

Whether they are dying or decrepit, or the orc babies who are waiting to be fed, they all died under the butcher's knife under this cruel military order.

Wherever armies passed, the orc tribes were exterminated.

Richard's army galloped north to the Orc core city of Priland.

The vast majority of the orcs in the northern steppes live a nomadic life, and although the orc tribes have territories and winter and summer pastures, they do not have a fixed stronghold.

Priland is a rare settled city in the savannah, and hundreds of thousands of orc nobles live nearby.

Although orcs have extraordinary bloodlines and have far more professionals than humans, they also have flaws in their evolutionary process. The vast majority of orcs are far less flexible than humans, do not have a pair of flexible hands, and are not good at making tools and developing manufacturing.

Unless the orc civilization can develop to a certain extent and create high-IQ artificial intelligence and robotic arms, it can make up for this shortcoming.

Since more than 2,000 years ago, when humans and orcs fought for the first time, the orc high-level discovered this weakness.

The orc leadership thought of many ways to improve, the first was to capture humans and cross with humans, giving birth to a half-orc race.

The second is to cooperate with the magical countries on the southwest coast to serve as bloodline test subjects for magicians, and improve bloodlines and bodies with the help of magicians' research.

The third is to capture a large number of human beings as slaves, and use human creativity and hands-on ability to improve this defect.

Over the years, the orcs have invaded every three years, and most of the captured human slaves have been escorted to a few core cities in the rear.

The orc city in the north of the Grant Kingdom, the largest is Priland.

Because there are a large number of human slaves in Priland, a large amount of cultivated land has been cultivated, and the settled population is very large, and the orc nobles basically settled in the city of Priland.

Seeing that the large army of Haaland's territory was divided into three routes, and the forward was already eighty kilometers away from Priran, the headquarters of the Orc Eastern Front was now in chaos.

In just over a dozen years, the Eastern Front has killed two legendary commanders.

Due to the serious losses, the orc royal court did not care about sending the duke to serve as the commander of the front army.

The Orc Royal Court did not send anyone down, and the Grassland Governorate could only send a ninth-order giant to serve as the acting commander of the front army.

This acting commander has not been in office for a long time, and his foundation is relatively shallow, and this year is the first time he has commanded hundreds of thousands of troops to fight.

Although the Commander of the Giant Owl attached great importance to the territory of Haaland, he sent four and a half legions on this front, and also adjusted the offensive direction of the elite legions, hoarding the main force of more than 100,000.

The orcs had intended to break through the defenses of Haaland's territory and retake the geographically important mountain stronghold of the Lothar Basin. Unexpectedly, in three years, the population of Haaland's territory has doubled, and the number of regular troops has expanded from less than 20,000 to 50,000.

The most critical problem was that Richard used the Starlight Necklace on the frontal battlefield for the first time, and three consecutive starlight bombs severely damaged the elite Orc Legion, and then commanded the army to wipe out the 17th Legion.

A small number of the 17th Army fled back to the rear and reported the situation to the Commander of the Giant, whose accounts of survivors frightened the Commander of the Giant and did not dare to fight the army of Haraland's territory.

In fact, there were not many orcs in the Priland area, and the reserve team roughly assembled nineteen brigades, with a total of less than 40,000. The retreating Thirteenth Legion also had 18,000 elite soldiers, plus some other chaotic routs, and the number of orc troops organized by the Commander of the Giant Owl exceeded 70,000.

The northern steppe is considered a rich place in the orc empire, and the orc commander of this governorate has a strong influence in the orc royal court. There are thousands of orc tribes living in this vast prairie, with a total population of more than 150 million, which is more than the five human nations near the northern prairie combined.

However, most of the orcs are low-end populations such as kobolds and sheep-like people, and the fertility rate of the orc race with strong fighting is low, which is very rare, and most of them still live in urban areas with the best conditions.

Now that Richard is approaching Priland with the army of the Harland Territory, the Commander of the Giant Boss has pondered for a long time before deciding to abandon the city, and the overall decision is to clear the field of the fortified wall, and not to fight a decisive battle with the army of the Harland Territory before the information of the Starlight Bomb is clear.

As soon as the orc army fled, Harland led the capture of Pryland with ease.

Although many human slaves in the Priland region were killed and relocated by orcs, Harland led the army to rescue more than 100,000.

After capturing the Priland region, Richard gave his soldiers a few days of rest and counted the results.

After entering the northern part of the Eagle Mountains, the army of the Harland Territory killed a large number of orcs, plus all kinds of chaotic races, which exceeded a million. More than a dozen orc supply depots were laid down before and after, and together with the capture of Priland, 260,000 human slaves were rescued.

When he arrived at the city of Priland, Richard found that a large number of human slaves had been slaughtered by the orcs, and these slaves were mainly old people and children, and it seemed that they did not have the physical strength to migrate with the orcs.

Seeing this scene, Richard's face suddenly turned pale. He ordered sharply: "Kill all the orc captives, and pile the heads together to build a Jingguan." ”

The reason why Richard issued this genocidal policy was not only the factor of the race war, but also the lack of food.

Entering the northern part of the Eagle Mountains, it becomes very difficult to resupply. Agriculture in the northern steppes was slow, and the orc tribes relied mainly on animal husbandry. Marching and fighting lacked food supplies and required soldiers to plunder.

Fortunately, there are flying classes such as the Bipedal Wyvern Knight, the Lion Knight, and the Magic Hot Air Balloon Team in Haaland's territory, which can detect the traces of the orc tribe through high-altitude reconnaissance methods, so that the enemy has nothing to hide.

In order to facilitate the supply of the army, Richard ordered the second-line corps to drive the sheep raised in Haaland's territory to the north of the Eagle Mountains, using goat's milk and mutton as military food, and using the nomadic supply method to continue to fight in the northern steppes.

After Prillan killed all the orcs, in the following period, the army of Haaland's territory continued to penetrate deep into the north, looking for the main orc force for a decisive battle.

The Commander of the Giant Owl commands the orc legions, and has always adopted a strategy of avoiding but not fighting. Compared to humans, the orcs are more hard-working and survive in the wild for a longer period of time.

For the next month, the two sides chased after me, as if playing hide and seek on the prairie.

Along the way, as long as the orc tribe is found, Richard will order them to be wiped out.

Under this genocidal policy, the army of the Harland Territory entered the northern savannah for a month, killing more than three million orcs of all races.

They went deeper than 800 kilometers into the northern steppe, and only stopped until the food consumption was too great and the number of sheep was reduced below the danger line, and they slowly retreated to the north of the Eagle Mountain Range.

(End of chapter)