After careful consideration, Richard executed some of the most stubborn captured officers, and then transferred two squadrons from the Guard Brigade and the First Brigade to act as the backbone and mix with the captive soldiers, and organized the captive soldiers as auxiliaries, so that they could cooperate with the main force in battle.

There are more than 300 backbone officers serving as junior officers, which is enough to maintain the stability of the auxiliary force.

With the addition of 1,400 soldiers, the logistical pressure on Richard's department was even heavier. Fortunately, a battle was won, a batch of grain was captured, plus the wounded horses left on the battlefield, they could still eat for a while, and the logistics could barely support it.

After another three days of defeating the enemy, Richard and his army finally crossed the buffer zone.

At this moment, the hinterland of the Delong Kingdom was already in chaos, and the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Grant Kingdom had penetrated deep into the enemy's territory, and the farthest troops even reached the vicinity of the capital Saint-Sisse Castle.

At the castle of Saint-Sisse, Duke Anton looked at the huge map and fell into hesitation for a while.

Duke Anton is the nephew of King Henry, and the strongest person in the Delong Kingdom, he is a second-order legendary knight, although he does not have too high a talent in commanding troops, but his strength in charging into battle is very strong.

In the last two years or so, Anton has won several small battles, defeating William, Steven, Duke Duran and other generals of the Grant Kingdom.

"The enemy comes every year to fight the Grass Valley, and it can't go on like this. I think we should give up some of the population and strongholds. Concentrate your forces and annihilate a force of enemies. The two Dukes Duran and Guise have too much hatred and stubbornness against us, and I think we should target them."

Anton looked at the map, and messengers kept sending information to him, and after thinking for a long time, he made up his mind.

After making a decision, Duke Anton immediately took action, withdrawing from more than ten castles on the front line, and concentrating an army of 50,000, including 3,000 Warcraft cavalry, ready to eat the army led by Duke Guise.

Due to the fact that Haaland led the army to have bipedal dragoons, the information on the battlefield was almost one-way transparent.

As soon as the Delong Kingdom made a decision, it was immediately noticed by the Wyvern Rider.

It was discovered that the enemy's forces were beginning to concentrate, and they were relatively close to the Duke of Guise. Richard sent the Wyvern Knight to inform Duke Guise, and at the same time accelerated his actions, running a hundred and twenty kilometers in just one and a half days.

Along the way, the soldiers of Haaland's territory did not even set up camp, and at night risking being attacked in a village, they appeared unexpectedly near Easter Castle.

Easter Castle was the capital of the Duchy of East, and nearly 200,000 people lived near the castle.

There are six principalities in the north of the Delong Kingdom, among which the two Dukes Guise and Duran are treason and join the Kingdom of Grant with their territories. The Duke of Sark was also annexed by the Kingdom of Grant a few years ago, and Duke Hubble lost three-quarters of his land, and the nobility was almost completely lost, and now it is not as powerful as an earldom.

Now the only ones who still have strength are the two dukedoms of East and Orlando.

The Duchy of Orlando is located in the southern part of the Grand Duchy of Stanik, which has a special relationship with the Kingdom of Grant, and its troops are mainly concentrated on the border.

The Duchy of East, which borders the Duchy of Duran, has lost more than a million people to more than 20,000 kilometers of land due to the wars of recent years, which have reduced more than 20,000 kilometers of land to a buffer zone. Compared with three years ago, the strength has weakened by three or four percent, and now it only controls a population of about 1.3 million and has trained more than 50,000 soldiers.

Because of being on the front line, the Dukedom of East has the Royal Deron garrison, and relying on a capable army of the royal family, it can maintain the battle line and hold the city of East in the past two years.

Now that the royal army has just been transferred, Haaland and his soldiers have appeared nearby.

On the castle of East, Duke Cowen looked at the large formation of the army led by Haaland, turned his head to the legion commander Zeppelin and said, "The enemy seems to be only seven or eight thousand men, and some auxiliaries. Our defenders numbered thirty-six thousand, six times as many as the enemy. Now that the enemy is looting and arresting people outside the castle, I feel very ashamed on my face, Commander Zeppelin, why don't you lead your troops out of the city?"

"Dear Duke, although we have thirty-six thousand soldiers, it

Among them, 20,000 are recruits who have been trained for less than a year. The enemy army is a strong army in the north of the Grant Kingdom, from the famous Duke of Haaland, and we may not be able to win in a field battle."

Duke Curvin patted the city walls vigorously, clearly disagreeing with Zeppelin's opinion.

"My dear Uncle Zeppelin, perhaps you are right, but it is not more stable to hold on. But our population is now just over a million left. Most of these populations settled in the countryside in the wilderness, and if this army was allowed to wreak havoc in the territory. Our demographic and economic losses would be extremely heavy, and without the serfs outside the castle, we would not have the strength to support 50,000 soldiers. What's the use of a soldier if he can't protect his territory?"

Seeing that Duke Cowen insisted on asking for a battle, although Duke Zeppelin had little confidence, he could only follow the duke's order to send his army out of the city.

Originally, the Duke of East led the soldiers to shrink in the castle, which was still a little troublesome for the Harland soldiers, but now that the enemy dared to come out and send them to death, Richard immediately ordered the Warcraft cavalry who were robbing outside the city to shrink their formation, and gave the robbers to the auxiliaries. He personally led the main force and met the army of Easter.

Less than a kilometer out of the city, the army formation was crooked, and there was a problem with the scheduling.

Finding that although this army was numerous, it was a fish-belly army, Richard immediately released a starlight bomb at the flag of the Chinese army, and personally launched a fierce attack on the enemy with the Warcraft cavalry.

The commander of the Zeppelin Legion was just about to give the order to the whole team, when a thick white light suddenly fell nearby, and in an instant, there was a loud bang from the heavens and the earth, and the violent energy instantly hit him. Before this ninth-order knight could react, he lost his life in an instant.

After the Starlight Bomb fell, it not only killed the Zeppelin Commander, but also killed the flag guard, and hundreds of people died in an instant at the headquarters of the Easter Legion, and more than 2,000 people were incapacitated.

Such a terrible scene suddenly made more than half of the recruits collapse.

The recruits fled in a ragged runway, disrupting the veteran formation, and in the blink of an eye, the formation of the Esther Legion was already in disarray.

When Duke Kewen at the head of the city saw this terrible scene, he was instantly stunned, seeing that the formation outside the city began to collapse, some guards with war experience reacted quickly, and immediately carried Duke Kewen down from the city and began to prepare to flee for his life.

The defeat outside the city was decided, and the interior of Easter Castle was also plunged into serious chaos. Panicked aristocrats and bureaucrats crowded the south gate of the castle with their families in tow.

Taking advantage of the chaos of the East Legion, Richard led the Warcraft cavalry to take the lead, and the Flame Horse released spells together under the command of the knight, and seven hundred scorching rays fiercely hit the enemy's flank, and the Warcraft cavalry also shot arrows, easily crushing the large array and destroying the three Easter Legion teams.

Haaland led the 1st Brigade, the Guards Brigade, and the 28th Brigade also moved quickly and stormed the middle of the Easter Regiment.

The two armies worked together very well and broke through the Esther army formation in a very short time.

"Surrender or kill, surrender and kill!"

After breaking through the enemy formation, shouts were immediately heard on the battlefield.

More than one-third of the people of Haland's territory are slaves from the Delon Kingdom, and there are also many people from the Delon Kingdom among the generals of the army, such as Jennings, Drifin and so on.

With the same language, it is natural to be able to communicate with the soldiers of the Delong Kingdom.

Hearing the familiar sounds on the battlefield, many soldiers discarded their weapons in a panic and surrendered to save their lives.

Seeing that the enemy army had been defeated, Richard immediately ordered the Warcraft cavalry to bypass Easter Castle and block the south gate.

At this time, Duke Kewen, who was the fastest runner, had already fled the south gate with more than a hundred guards, and because of the urgency of the situation, he didn't even have time to take his family with him. The remaining part of the nobles who reacted quickly also fled a few hundred people from the south gate.

When Richard arrived at the South Gate with the Monster Cavalry, the nobles in Easter Castle had already broken out into a fierce civil strife in order to fight for the escape route, killing each other and killing many people.

After locking the south gate, these people saw that there was no hope of escape, and they scattered and returned to their homes.

Haaland led a small number of soldiers, and the first time he needed to control the city points, so

Richard did not divide his troops and pursued those who fled.

The chaos in the castle lasted for about an hour, and it was only after Haaland led the soldiers to take control of the castle and killed hundreds of rebels and scoundrels by the way that he took control of East.

After the capture of Easter Castle, Richard immediately transferred a group of logistics staff officers from the headquarters and took two elite squadrons to count the spoils.

After more than ten years of leading troops to fight, Richard had never conquered a big city of this scale.

With a population of more than 200,000 people near Easter Castle, it is a large city no less large than the Black River Castle. The size of the population and the positioning of the city far exceeded the castles of Buurson and Nero conquered by Richard.

Early the next morning, seeing that Adjutant Green's eyes were red and his face was full of joy, Richard opened his mouth and asked, "Has the treasury been counted?"

"I was busy all night last night, and I've already counted some of them. There are 330,000 coins in the vault of the Duke of East, and by asking the mistress of the Easter family, we also dug up the private treasury of the Easter family, and also found 460,000 gold coins, plus some of the precious jewelry of the Easter family, we have harvested millions of gold coins of the Delon Kingdom in this battle. 「

Although the gold coins of the Kingdom of Delong are not compatible with the gold coins of the Kingdom of Grant, the Kingdom of Grant prohibits the circulation of gold coins from other countries. However, the gold coins of the captured Delong Kingdom still play an important role.

This money can be circulated within the territory of the Delong Kingdom, which plays an important role in opening up smuggling routes for the Haaland family. In addition, precious metals such as gold, silver, and copper are smelted, which are also priceless.

"Collect the coins and hand them over to the back office. What about the rest of the takeaways?"

Green replied: "Six large warehouses were found, estimated at more than 80,000 tons. In addition, there are more than a dozen grain stores in the castle, plus the grain in the hands of the free people, it is estimated that more than 100,000 tons can be made.

We also captured 300 flaming horses, 1,400 enchanted armor, more than 3,000 enchanted weapons, and 8,000 iron armor in the castle, which can equip tens of thousands of elite soldiers by our standards.

In yesterday's battle, we also captured a lot of important people.

The first was the wife of the Duke of Curwen, who was born into the royal family of Delong and was the sixth daughter of King Henry. Caught the Duchess of Cowen, according to the standards of the nobility, we can get a ransom of 150,000 gold coins.

Then there are Duke Kewen's four sons and two daughters, the eldest daughter of the duke is a concubine, which is also worth a ransom of 100,000 gold coins, and the rest of the children are concubines, and they can only get a ransom of 350,000 yuan. The six court ladies of the duke are even less valuable, and they can get a ransom of 10,000 or 20,000 gold coins at most.

In addition to the Duke's family, we also captured more than 300 people, who are close relatives of the hereditary nobles of the Duke of East. These people are willing to write letters to their relatives and should also receive a lot of ransom.

The magicians of the Duke of Easter did not escape either, all of them were of Easter blood, and there were fifty-six in total including the mage's apprentices. President Wendini has interrogated the magicians of the East family, and their meditation methods and laboratories have fallen into our hands.

From the Mage Tower of the Duke of East, we have seized 16,000 Crystals, more than 60,000 discarded Crystals."

The Harland Mage Guild has mastered the magic crystal charging technology, and the discarded magic crystal is also of great use to the Haaland territory, and its value is no less than that of the magic crystal.

After so many years of collecting, the Haaland Leader Mage Department has mastered more than 200,000 discarded magic crystals.

After years of continuous acquisition of discarded magic crystals, even the Grant royal family received rumors and sent people to try to exchange magic crystal charging technology, but Richard Lion opened his mouth and asked for the exchange of five provinces, because the two sides had too many differences, and the deal was not reached.

Today's Duchess of Haaland is already sitting on the second in terms of strength. Even the royal family did not dare to offend easily, but had to spend a lot of effort to win it over.

After taking control of Easte Castle, Richard selected the elite from the rout, expanded the auxiliaries to 8,000 men, and then gathered all the population and prepared to withdraw.

Richard selected this new group of auxiliaries from the serf class as much as possible, and then promised to go to northern Xinjiang to divide land for them, make them freedmen, and pardon their families.

Because Richard swore an oath in public, the morale of the new auxiliaries was quite stable.

Expanded auxiliary

After the army, the army under Richard already had 14,000 people, but the real combat effectiveness was the 6,000 veterans led by Haaland, and the main responsibility of the auxiliaries was to maintain order and escort hundreds of thousands of prisoners.

After conquering Easter Castle, Harland led his mouth full of oil, and in just a few days, Richard sent a Warcraft cavalry brigade to continuously capture people from the vicinity of Easter Castle, and even ran to the royal territory at the farthest.

In more than 10 days, more than 300,000 serfs were caught.

At the same time, because of the war, about 500,000 serfs fled into the south, even if Duke Kewen regained the lost territory and lost more than 800,000 people, without the army population, the Duke of East would lose its potential and could not cope with the cruel aristocratic competition.