The land within 100 kilometers of the station's defense line was largely deserted, and after the war ended this year, Richard sent only a small number of sheep-like slaves to graze cattle in the area.

Although the Harling led the rescue of more than 200,000 people from the northern prairies, they were largely settled in Martins County, south of the Eagle Mountains.

Because the northern foothills of the Eagle Mountains are a war zone, the back and forth tug-of-war must be intense, so Richard will not establish a large settlement in this area in the short term.

Without a sufficient population, it has been difficult to replenish the defensive line of the station.

Since the return of the army in May, Richard has continuously sent transport teams to transport truckloads of grain to the grain cantonment points north of the Eagle Mountains.

Sometimes he and Wendini took matters into their own hands, using the Starlight Bottle and the Legendary Space Bag to help transport food, and they could transport five hundred tons of wheat in one trip, enough to feed a thousand soldiers for a year.

Richard and Wendini made more than a dozen trips, and the efficiency of transportation was equivalent to that of three auxiliary brigades for more than half a year.

Because the road conditions in the northern part of the Eagle Mountains are very poor, there are only simple passages built by orcs, which cannot be passed by four-wheeled carriages, and the transportation of grain can only rely on simple tools such as camels and wheelbarrows, which require a lot of labor and time.

In order to strengthen the grain transportation work, Richard specially mobilized 8,000 city defense troops and public security troops to strengthen the transportation force, and by mid-July, tens of thousands of tons of grain were finally transported to the grain storage station.

Richard moved the main army of Haaland to the northern part of the Eagle Mountains, which was actually at high risk.

Once the heavy snow covers the mountains in winter, it will be difficult for the forces south of the Eagle Mountains to effectively reinforce them. If the northern defense line is attacked by the orcs, it must be tested alone.

Moreover, the core strongholds of the defense line are all rebuilt from orc stations and grain stations, which are far less solid than canyon castles, twin star castles, and hurricane castles, which will undoubtedly reduce the advantage of the defenders. So we must hurry up, take advantage of this time when the orcs are defeated, and hoard a large amount of supplies on the front line.

After defeating the orc army, Richard inspected Martins County in May and June, coordinating the resumption of production, and in July he crossed the Eagle Mountains, supervising the transportation of logistics and supplies, and coordinating the defense line of the station.

Compared to the Harland Leader, the Orc Assault Station has a shorter supply of defenses.

Because the core area of the northern prairie where the orcs are entrenched is not far from the defense line of the military station. Most of the orcs live a nomadic life, and although they have been slaughtered by Richard a lot this year, as long as the army of Haland's territory is withdrawn, the orc tribe will soon return.

With the support of a large number of orc tribes in the savannah, it was not difficult for the orc army to be resupplied.

Now that the orc logistics line has become shorter, and there is no need to cross mountains and mountains, it is no longer difficult to transport grain, and there is no need to accumulate three years to cross the Eagle Mountains, and the war between Harland and the orcs will become a constant battle.

The intensity of the war will also be more intense.

Since July, the two sides have fought many outpost battles.

Because of the high density of orcs in the southern region of Priland, the scouts in the territory of Harland, every time they carry out a reconnaissance mission, they will fight against the orc nomadic tribes and the main legionnaires of the orcs.

In just over a month, the reconnaissance brigade lost more than 200 soldiers, and Richard had no choice but to order a reduction in the frequency of reconnaissance.

After moving the line forward to the edge of the northern savannah, the army of the Haaland realm would bleed every day. Since July this year, the two sides have been fighting almost every day.

Even if the Harland Scouts could be exchanged for ten, or even one for hundred, as long as the orcs in the Prairie Governorate gritted their teeth and persevered, relying on the huge number of races, in the end, the Harland Scouts could not hold on, reduced the frequency of reconnaissance, and began to choose to avoid the war.

It is not an easy task to gain a firm foothold in the more than 50,000 square kilometers of land in the northern part of the Eagle Mountains. During King Charles' time, several main armies in the north of the Northern Frontier had invaded the area north of the Eagle Mountains, but they could not gain a foothold and could only let the soldiers plunder.

Advancing the defensive line to the north of the Eagle Mountains, even the Kingdom of Grant could not do this.

Now that the Duke of Harland has a foundation in the middle of the Eagle Mountains, with a population of more than 1.7 million, and a relatively good industry, even the level of magical civilization is very developed, it is easier to support the war in the northern part of the Eagle Mountains.

However, managing the land in the northern part of the Eagle Mountains is still a long-term job, and I am afraid that it will take several years to confront the orcs.

Since the beginning of the war, the war machine in Haraland's territory has been running at full capacity, and weapons and equipment have been continuously manufactured, with large quantities of steel armor, bows and arrows, alchemy bombs, scorching ray guns, and force field shields being transported to the station's defenses.

Second-line corps such as the public security army and the urban defense army are also strengthening their equipment and training. They are also almost always equipped with steel plate armor, which has become very easy to make with the invention of the steam air hammer.

If the production capacity is fully liberalized, Haaland's territory can manufacture 100,000 pieces of plate armor a year.

Time flew by, and one day in mid-August, Richard arrived at Station 11, and Wilde, the commander of this defensive line, went out of the city to meet him in advance.

After four months of renovation, the No. 11 military station was greatly expanded, and a civil engineering wall extending three kilometers was erected outside the station.

Tall logs were erected on the outside of these walls, rammed earth inside, and the walls were four or five meters wide, and two smaller civil engineering castles were built in the south of the wall, forming a three-dimensional defense line with the No. 11 military station.

All three castles were equipped with heavy trebuchets, and during this time, the auxiliaries who operated the trebuchets used local materials and fired a large number of pottery bombs in advance.

Richard and Wilde walked around the vicinity of Station 11, watched the soldiers' drills, inspected the fortifications, and deduced the weaknesses of the line on the sand table.

In the afternoon, Richard was just about to go with Wilde to the 12th military station, fifty kilometers away, when suddenly an urgent letter arrived at Richard.

The letter was sent by Rogge, and the content was very simple.

In August of this year, prospectors in the Harland Territory discovered a mysterious lake in the dense forest northeast of the Snow Mountain Castle, where the concentration of magic is very active and the lake water is particularly sweet. I'm afraid there is a long underground river that connects to the nearby water system.

It stands to reason that most of the lakes in the Eagle Mountains are alpine saltwater lakes, and this lake is still north of the Eagle Mountains and cannot be connected to the Heihe River system in the south of the Eagle Mountains.

Such a strange situation was reported, and it immediately attracted Richard's attention. He immediately stopped the inspection, personally dispatched the elite personnel of the Harland Mage Association, and summoned Sutton, Silver, mother and son to visit the lake together.

The lake is a typical mountain lake, surrounded by an active volcano with no nearby water supply or outflow from a river.

The shape of the lake is crescent-shaped, with an area of about 30 square kilometers, and because of the relatively short time of discovery, the depth of the lake has not been explored.

Coming to the vicinity of the lake, Richard clearly felt that the concentration of magic in this area was very high, and the number of magical beasts in the vicinity was also significantly larger.

On the way to Richard and the others, they successfully hunted a fifth-order fire-breathing ox. You must know that in the Eagle Mountain Range area, there are not many fifth-order wild demonic beasts.

Now that the Harland Mage Association is strong, even if the legendary monster is nearby, Richard dares to fight, even if it doesn't use the starlight bomb, Richard, Wendini, and Sophia combined, with Sutton and Sylph, the two ninth-order knights, have a good chance of winning.

Pilosa, the death knight of the Kingdom of Stark, encountered the combination of Haaland's territory, and was also not spared.

The soldiers of the Guard Brigade made several simple rafts and began a simple survey using some tools.

This alpine lake is located directly north of the main peak of the Eagle Mountains, about forty kilometers away from the Snow Mountain Castle, because it is far away from the orc supply line, whether it is a magic hot air balloon or a lion cavalry, it is rare to scout in this area, such a large lake is still the first time that the territory of Harland has been discovered.

As soon as the soldiers of the guard brigade left the shallow water, a silver light struck a soldier, but fortunately, on the raft sat the deputy captain of the guard brigade, Sox, who quickly intercepted this silver light.

Suddenly, Sox's hands felt sore.

"Be careful, quickly withdraw it, it's the bloodline spell silver lightning released by the snow crystal fish."

Richard had very good eyesight, and he was very knowledgeable, and he could see clearly the reality of this white light.

Although the Snow Crystal Fish is only a second-order demonic beast after maturity, the power of the bloodline spell Silver Light Lightning is a little smaller than that of the magic missile, and the individual combat power cannot be compared to the Iron Wildebeest. However, this type of Warcraft is a rare super-large-scale group-living Warcraft, with a population of thousands, and a larger school of snow crystal fish will have a population size of more than 100,000 or million.

Even the alien beasts in the deep sea did not dare to easily provoke a large school of snow crystal fish. The fishermen on the east coast of the Central Continent were even more disgraced when they saw this kind of magical beast.

Every autumn, millions of snow crystal fish swim up the river to spawn in the rivers and streams of the plateau on the east bank.

Because the population size of the snow crystal fish is too large, it is very dangerous to go into the water to catch this magical beast, and the Duke of Jonathan can only catch a small amount in some special river sections.

Because thousands of snow crystals can be caught each year, Duke Jonathan's Tencel Elixir is in sufficient supply to trade this precious resource.

Due to their large population, snow crystal fish have few natural predators, they are very brutal, have sharp teeth, and can eat gold, silver, copper and iron. This monster fish is a terrifying piranha population, and if you encounter a large number of snow crystal fish on the route, you can often gnaw through the bottom of the ship and eat all the living things on the ship. It is rumored that even the legendary knight is not immune.

Even if the magic ships built by the coastal countries with a lot of money, they will immediately run away to avoid fighting this monster when they see a swarm of snow crystal fish. Because tens of thousands of silver lightning spells are coming towards the magic ship, even if a large magic circle is arranged on the magic ship, it will still be pierced by thousands of spells.

According to some books, snow crystal fish are basically active in the northern waters of the central continent, and their spawning grounds are also in the eastern coast plateau. The territory of Haaland is still three or four hundred kilometers away from the plateau on the east coast, and it stands to reason that snow crystal fish rarely spawn in the middle reaches of the Heihe River, but I did not expect to find them in this alpine lake.

Hearing Richard's reminder, Sox hurriedly ordered the soldiers to row desperately to the shore.

Although Sox didn't know what the risks were, hearing Richard's reminder immediately alerted him.

In the hearts of Sox's generation, Richard is like a great king recorded in ancient books. Even if his life ends now, it is already a legend in the Kingdom of Grant, enough to be celebrated for hundreds of years.

Richard has struggled in the northern Xinjiang region for 18 years and has become the idol of thousands of young people in northern Xinjiang. Countless people followed his example and joined the army in the hope of achieving a class jump through the war.

Sox grew up in the Haaland collar as a teenager and admired Richard even more. He is Roland's eldest son, his talent follows his father, he is only twenty-eight years old, and his professional rank has been promoted to the fourth order.

Roland is a very senior officer in the Haaland Territory, and if you count it from the beginning, he has served the Haaland Territory for seventeen years. He was so gifted that he was promoted to a mid-level professional before the age of thirty, but because he commanded the brutal defense of Platos, Roland was physically disabled and never advanced again.

Shortly after the end of the defense of Platos, William was promoted to hereditary baron, and Roland celebrated the Goddess's Birthday and entered Haaland's territory at William's invitation.

In the past seventeen years, Roland has been conscientious and has made some contributions, but because his professional level cannot be improved and he can't keep up with the great development of the territory, he has been promoted very slowly over the years, and he is still jumping back and forth at the level of captain.

There is extraordinary power in this world, and the strength of high-ranking officers can turn the tide of battle to a certain extent and decide victory or defeat. Individual combat effectiveness had a much greater impact on the outcome of the war than in Richard's previous life. In a country with a strong militaristic ideology such as the Kingdom of Grant, the professional rank is not high, and it is difficult to be promoted to a high-ranking officer.

The same is true of the Duchy of Haaland, the military system naturally believes in strength, and those who cannot be promoted to high-level professions are destined to be unable to be promoted to the rank of regimental officer.

Although Roland is very old, he was the No. 3 person in the army led by Haaland in the early days, but now, his actual status has been declining, and many old subordinates have surpassed him.

After more than ten years of accumulation, Roland's father and son have accumulated four major merits and three medium merits, which are less than half of the promotion to hereditary nobles.

Roland is only forty-eight years old, not too old, his eldest son Sox is very talented, he has already broken through the fourth order at a young age, and his position in Haaland has gradually caught up with Roland.

Hearing Richard's reminder, Sox's order was very decisive, and in just two or three minutes, the raft was in shallow water.

At this moment, the raft has been gnawed by dozens of snow crystal fish.

Seeing this scene, Wendini, Sophia and others hurriedly released a powerful freezing technique, freezing the water near the raft and helping Sox and the others escape to shore.

Seeing the prey fleeing, the snow crystal fish still did not give up and jumped up on the ice. Because of his slow movement on the ice, he was easily caught ashore by Richard and others.

Catching dozens of snow crystal fish, Richard's face suddenly showed a bit of joy.

Although the snow crystal fish has no special products, it is also risky to catch this thing, but after all, it is a monster fish, and the internal organs of the fish can also refine the Tenghui potion, and the fish meat can help the warriors to strengthen their bodies and strengthen their foundations.

Catching hundreds of snow crystal fish every year is a valuable resource for Haaland's territory.

After discovering the presence of snow crystal fish in the water, Richard immediately stopped exploring the lake, and Richard did not want to let the soldiers take the risk easily.

He named the crescent lake Snow Crystal Lake and quickly developed a fishing strategy.

Snow crystal fish have a shark-like sense of smell and can smell blood from far away. They have few natural predators and a very low IQ, so as long as they set traps, they are relatively easy to catch.

Richard had a group of magicians join forces to freeze the ice near the shore of the lake, then drop the bait in the deep water, and some of them were caught by the collapse.

(End of chapter)