In the battle of Easter Castle, Haaland's territory lost no more than 500 men, so he ate a large piece of fat.

After capturing Easter Castle, Richard ordered the meat population to be counted and supplies collected, while ordering the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade to collect the population in the Dukedom of East.

After more than ten days of continuous operations, the Warcraft cavalry divided their troops to defeat thousands of villages and three castles, and according to the general statistics of the staff officers, there are now 360,000 people concentrated near the castle of East.

These 360,000 people were captured prisoners of war, except for the 30,000 auxiliaries whose families were free people, the rest of the nobles and commoners, as long as they could not pay the ransom, they would be classified as indentured slaves.

Having swallowed such a huge amount of fat, Richard, of course, wanted to keep the fruits of his victory, and tried to withdraw from the kingdom of Delong.

Counting the 50,000 indentured slaves purchased some time ago, this time the southward movement to the Harland territory was a great success, and the total population of the territory will increase by more than 400,000.

To feed a population of 400,000, the annual food needs are about 100,000 tons. Fortunately, Haaland led the army to get the Duke of East's grain depot completely, plus the surplus grain collected from Easter Castle, a total of about 130,000 tons.

However, it is not an easy task to send 130,000 tons of grain and 400,000 people to northern Xinjiang, and it requires a high degree of organization.

Immediately after conquering Easter Castle, Richard began to organize the people.

The indentured slaves near Easter Castle were organized into a squadron of auxiliaries in units of thousands.

A thousand households have a population of about five or six thousand people.

The 360,000 indentured slaves were divided into 70,000 households, and Richard scattered 8,000 auxiliaries within the seventy thousand households.

Among the 8,000 auxiliaries, a total of six squadrons of veteran soldiers led by Haaland served as the backbone, and Richard promised to give the auxiliaries land and make them free people, as long as they did not fight hard battles, the morale of the auxiliaries could barely be maintained.

The reorganized auxiliary forces were divided into six squadrons, and with eight hundred casualties in two battles, there are now only about 4,300 of the 6,000 elites in Haaland's territory.

The combat strength has been reduced by a quarter, and a huge amount of loot has been eaten, from Richard to ordinary soldiers, and now they all want to go home quickly.

The morale is like this, and the army led by Haaland no longer wants to continue fighting in the Delong Kingdom.

On the first day of April, Haaland led his army to withdraw from Easter Castle.

With a population of 360,000, the speed of retreat is naturally not fast, and the retreating army of 70 thousand households stretches for more than 100 miles, although a lot of preparations have been made, there is still chaos on the road, and many indentured slaves are trying to escape.

After only one day's walk, more than 1,000 fugitive slaves were hacked to death along the way. These fugitive slaves are basically nobles in the Duchy of East.

In order to protect the spoils of war, Haaland's more than 4,000 elites were also restricted, and if they encountered the enemy, they could hardly fight.

Fortunately, Haaland had bipedal dragoons who could monitor the enemy's movements from afar, giving Richard time to prepare in advance.

Otherwise, let the enemy's cavalry rush, hundreds of thousands of people will be confused, and if you can't do it, you will reproduce the scene of Liu Huangshu Xinye's escape.

Drifen flew through the air on a bipedal wyvern and saw a chaotic team of indentured servants.

In his sight, a dozen auxiliaries escorted several fleeing nobles up, cut off their heads without hesitation, and then insulted their wives and daughters in front of everyone.

Seeing this scene, Drifen's face suddenly felt a little unbearable.

Dreiffin was born into the nobility of the Delong Kingdom, and it stands to reason that he hated the invaders of the Grant Kingdom very much. But he became an indentured servitude, and it was Richard who saved his life, gave him a second chance, and brought his relatives back to the Harland Domain. As a nobleman who has lost his fiefdom, he must now fight for the second rise of his family.

Drifen turned his head, and after a slight struggle in his heart, he still sympathized with the landless nobles of the Duke of East.

After all, from aristocrats to slaves, many people simply can't accept it. It was a normal choice for the aristocracy to run away, and if they were caught, they could be beheaded, so why insult their families?

Haaland led the aircraft tightly, and this scene actually meant that he had lost control of the situation.

Seeing this, Drifen immediately landed, stopped the atrocity, and saved seven or eight women and children.

The Haaland Territory has been in place for more than a decade, and generally speaking, the rank of captain is between major and colonel.

The captain of the main brigade led by Haaland is generally a colonel, the captain of the group at the bottom of the number is generally a lieutenant colonel, the captain of the city defense force is usually a major, and occasionally there is an auxiliary captain with the rank of captain.

The leader of the bipedal dragoon squad served by Derefen happened to be a position at the level of a captain. In fact, anyone who is selected as a Wyvern Knight will be awarded the rank of major. Drifen's command is all mid-level professionals, and although the number of bipedal dragoons is small, the importance is even slightly higher than that of the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade.

Although he has not been in Haaland's leadership for a long time, Drifain's military rank has been promoted from lieutenant colonel to colonel, and now he has not only recovered his free body, but has accumulated two great achievements and achieved a very good start.

Drifen carried the rank of colonel on his shoulders, far more than the captain of the auxiliary corps. He ordered the atrocities to be stopped, and then, in front of the squadron leader of the auxiliaries, severely punished several officers who had violated discipline, and beheaded several auxiliaries who insulted women. After settling the women and children, Driven once again mounted a wyvern on his own reconnaissance mission.

In the evening, visibility was no longer enough, and Drifen returned to the group. He went directly into Richard's military tent and said, "Today I flew about one hundred and sixty kilometers to the south, and I only saw some scattered reconnaissance teams in the Delong Kingdom, and the enemy in the south did not pose much threat to us. ”

It didn't take long for the bipedal dragoons who had scouted from different directions to return, and through their reports, Richard knew that the number of enemies in the south was small, and the Dukedom of Orlando in the west was threatened by Duke Duran's department, and he did not send a chasing team.

The only thing that can threaten the safety of Haaland's army today is the mobile corps led by Duke Anton, which is located in the northeast. The position of Duke Anton has the potential to cut off Richard's retreat.

Richard pondered for a long time and arranged his tasks for tomorrow.

"Tomorrow's focus will be on the northeast. The Warcraft cavalry brigade should also be gathered and separated from the serf ranks. ”

Seeing that Richard was still staring at the map, Drifin hesitated a little, but finally made an opinion: "Our march speed is too slow, and we have only walked about ten kilometers today.

With such a speed of marching, it would take about a month to rush back to the Duchy of Guise. Marching with hundreds of thousands of people, the loopholes are too big, otherwise we can improve the organization of the auxiliary forces by giving up part of the population and half of the population, and we will be able to go faster on the road. ”

Before Driven could finish speaking, Richard waved his hand and said, "It's not that far. If these 300,000 people are successfully returned to the territory of Haaland, we will have the basis to develop the northern part of the Eagle Mountains.

Moreover, the mobile corps led by Anton not only has one of our enemies, but also two units of Duke Guise and the Northern Legion nearby. Even if the Northern Army was pinned down by the Second Front Army of the Delong Kingdom and could not send the main reinforcements, there were about 20,000 men under the command of Duke Guise. ”

"But both we and the Duke of Guise have already snatched a great deal of booty, and after the plunder, the soldiers are afraid that they will not be willing to take on the hard battle. Besides, we don't trust each other with Duke Guise, and we both have the idea of making each other a substitute. The two armies could not cooperate sincerely, and I am afraid that they were not Anton's opponents. ”

Anton himself is a legendary second-order knight, and there are about 3,000 Warcraft cavalry under his command, and the rest of the foot cavalry are also elites drawn from the Delong Kingdom. Whether it was the southward detachment led by Haaland or the regiment of Duke Guise, the field battle was not at all the opponent of Anton's mobile corps.

Despite the legendary fourth-order magic item of the Starlight Necklace in his hand, the number of troops led by Haaland was relatively small, and the current army with combat effectiveness was only more than 4,000 people. Even if Richard released three starlight bombs and crippled the three thousand Demon Beast cavalry under Anton's command, he would not be able to defeat more than ten times the remaining opponents.

The current situation is already a matter of choice, if Anton has his sights on Duke Guise, Richard will be able to take the opportunity to escape with the spoils.

If Anton had set his sights on Richard, Duke Guise would probably have fled first and would not send troops to help.

The next day's march was still very chaotic, slow as a snail, and it was busy until the evening, and it was only about ten kilometers away. However, by the next day, the number of escaped slaves was much smaller, perhaps because the road was littered with headless corpses.

The march lasted about five or six days.

Several thousand households behind the palace finally left Easter Castle, the long march stretched for more than a hundred miles, Richard ordered the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade to act as the vanguard, the first brigade behind the palace, the guard brigade, and the twenty-eighth brigade walked in the middle.

The distance between the three armies was several tens of miles, and it was already difficult to concentrate and fight a large-scale battle at this time.

After leaving Easter Castle, the pace finally increased, and after a week, the huge marching party was able to walk about thirty miles a day.

The slaves, pushing wheelbarrows, carrying young and old, slowly entered the buffer zone between the two countries, and at this moment, through the reconnaissance of the bipedal dragoons, Richard already knew that a fierce battle broke out between the Duke of Guise and Anton's army.

After all, Anton is not a fool, of course, he will fight a more threatening opponent.

Duke Guise is not only a traitor to the kingdom of Delong, but also has a territory in the south, so of course he is a priority opponent.

The Duchy of Haaland was in the north, and only occasionally went south to fight the Grass Valley. In other words, Richard will also give priority to attacking Duke Guise.

In just a few days, Anton and his mobile corps have surrounded the Duke of Guise's headquarters.

This time, when they went south to fight in Grass Valley, the two armies of the northern border of the Grant Kingdom and the Grizzly Bear were pinned down by the first and second armies of the Delong Kingdom, and they did not achieve much success.

Earl Steven and the coalition of Southern nobles were also blocked by the Ninth Army on the East Coast, the army of Duke Hubble.

Although the Zakary Iron Lion Legion grabbed tens of thousands of serfs, there were also the 13th Army and the 6th Army on the East Coast nearby, and they only barely managed to keep the results.

Because Anton drew heavy troops from the western defense line and formed a mobile corps, the three dukes of Haaland, Guise, and Duran all entered the belly of the Delong Kingdom with a large army.

Among them, Richard achieved the greatest result, defeating the main force of the Duke of East, destroying 50,000 enemies and grabbing a population of 360,000.

Duke Duran also invaded the two dukedoms of East and Orlando, and grabbed a population of about 100,000.

The Duke of Guise was the most aggressive in his army, and at one point stormed the vicinity of the castle of Saint-Sis, grabbing a population of 250,000. It's just that Taila hate, targeted by Duke Anton, surrounded near the buffer zone.

After being surrounded by Anton, Duke Guise preemptively sent messengers to ask for the nearby Northern Legion and the army led by Haaland to send troops to help.

After receiving the letter of request for help, Rabe, the commander of the Northern Legion, reluctantly dispatched three brigades to support Duke Guise, but was blocked by reinforcements sent by Anton.

When the letter for help was delivered to Richard, Richard had already led his troops into the buffer zone for three days, walking about 50 kilometers.

At this moment, if you send troops to relieve the siege, it is useless to have fewer people. If Richard personally led the team, Haaland led the army out of the nest, although it was possible to save Duke Guise, but hundreds of thousands of indentured slaves lost their protection and had no ability to deal with the risk.

Now that Haaland's army has taken care of itself and barely controlled the migration of hundreds of thousands of people, Richard will certainly protect the interests of Haaland's territory and will not send troops to help.

On the contrary, he also took advantage of Anton's encirclement and annihilation of the Guiss army, urged the auxiliaries, and asked the indentured slaves to speed up the march. took advantage of the Duke of Guise as a substitute for the dead, so as to reduce the losses and escape with the loot.

Taking advantage of the thirteen days that Anton fought for to encircle and annihilate the Guise army, Richard walked 250 kilometers of land with hundreds of thousands of people in one go, and by the time the news of the siege and annihilation of the Duke of Guise's headquarters came, Richard had already fled back to the interior of the Grant Kingdom.

By this time, it was late April, and the war had lasted for more than fifty days before it finally ended.

In this battle, the army of the Grant Kingdom actually did not have a unified command, and the troops almost spontaneously went south to fight the grass valley, although they lost the Guise legion, they also attacked the hinterland of the Delong Kingdom, and several legions combined to grab about 500,000 slaves.

The army of more than 100,000 fought several good battles, which greatly dealt a blow to the war potential of the Duke of East, and annihilated about 100,000 troops of the Delong Kingdom before and after.

However, the Grant Kingdom lost the Guise Legion in formation, plus the battle losses of various divisions, and the total was more than 40,000 people. According to the exchange ratio of the wars in recent years, in fact, it is already a big defeat and a loss.

The Delong Kingdom has a large population, with a total population of more than 50 million, and most of the troops lost are third-rate troops such as provincial city defense troops, even if they lose 100,000 troops, they can be replenished in a relatively short period of time.

Moreover, the Delong Kingdom has been defeated many times in recent years, and there have been many battles with losses of more than 100,000. Fought a number of defeats, raising the threshold for bearing losses. In this battle, the main force of the Delong royal family was not damaged, but it annihilated the Guise army in formation, improved the strategic situation on the border, and the price was bearable.

And Duke Guise was killed, the main force of Duke Guise lost about half, and the territory still faced a battle between heirs, and it was basically impossible to organize an army within ten years and go south to fight in the grass valley.

The Dukedom of Guise has lost one of its main legions, and there is a big gap in the southern defense.

If this gap is not blocked, the cavalry of the Delong Kingdom can break through this gap, enter the Grant Kingdom to rob, and fight the grass valley in reverse.

Now the Duke of Guise is unable to plug the gap, so he can only continue to let the royal family contribute and send a legion south to plug the gap.

Going south to conquer the Delong Kingdom, the royal family got the greatest benefit, and of course they couldn't stay out of it at this time, so they had to continue to send a guard regiment from Nolan to the south and garrison it in the border area of the Dukedom of Guise.

Today, in the southern border area, the Grant royal family has stationed three guard regiments and three border army regiments, and the total number of the main force has reached about 150,000.

The royal family left only one army of wild lions in the northern border area, with a total of 24,000. Without a large army stationed, the influence will naturally slowly wane, and it will slowly be surpassed by the Haaland family.

(End of chapter)