Winning this battle, the orcs finally accepted the reality, ceded a large area of territory, and withdrew to the north bank of the Samba River.

After the battle, the area on the south bank of the Samba River was completely owned by the Haaland, which covered an area of more than 60,000 square kilometers and was fertile soil. If the south bank of the Samba River can be developed, the population carrying capacity of Haaland's territory will be doubled.

Last year, after winning the Battle of the Eagle Mountains, the Harland Territory expanded to the northern steppe region, and the Royal Family Reward merged the Earldom of Martins into the Harland Territory, adding 90,000 square kilometers of land.

With the victory in the battle of the Samba River this year, Haaland's territory has increased by more than 60,000 square kilometers, bringing the total area to 280,000 square kilometers.

In terms of area, it is already equivalent to three dukedoms.

Such a vast territory area, according to the unspoken rules of the Dawn Plane, is enough to establish a Grand Duchy.

Although the strength has reached the level of the Grand Duchy, it is not easy for Richard to wear the Grand Duchy crown and become independent from the Kingdom of Grant.

Wars are frequent in the Dawn plane, and the nobles respect strength, and in terms of military strength, the Haaland family is enough to establish themselves as grand dukes. However, the Dawn Plane has strict political rules, and the aristocracy is more conservative and traditional.

If the great nobles want to wear the crown of the Grand Duke and the King and break away from the original feudal monarchy, they must be recognized by the Holy Radiance Empire and canonized by the Church of the Seven Gods.

Richard has a close relationship with the Dawn Church, and should be able to get the Dawn Church canonization relatively easily, but in order for the Divine Radiance Empire to recognize it, he must make meritorious contributions to the human race.

Only by making meritorious contributions to the survival of mankind can you leave the feudal monarch of the Grant royal family.

Otherwise, the Haaland family will inevitably be constrained by the royal family and obey the royal family's orders to a certain extent. Economically, politically, a part of the benefits were ceded to the feudal monarch.

If Richard raised troops to rebel, even if he had the opportunity to overthrow the Grant royal family, he would not be recognized by the nobles of nearby countries and countries. On the contrary, it will be attacked by the nobles and become a laughing stock.

Counting the vassals of the great nobles, the Grant royal family has more than 600 hereditary nobles, and the combined number of noble alliances exceeds 300,000 people, although this force is loose, it is not weaker than the royal family. The great nobles combined also had an army of nearly 300,000.

Without the approval of the nobles, even if Haaland's military power exceeds that of the royal family, he must obey the royal family's orders to a certain extent.

The Battle of Samba was very influential, not only repelling the orcs, but also extending the territory to the north bank of the Samba River. It also completely hurt the orcs, so that the orcs did not dare to invade the Harland territory easily.

This battle also brought a great shock to the Kingdom of Grant, and when King Roger received the battle report, he couldn't believe it at first.

Nolan sent six emissaries in a row to the territory of the Duke of Haaland to inquire. In order to get the real situation, the royal family even used some spies planted in the Duchy of Harland, and some of these spies even became the captains of the regular army and entered the ruling class of the Harland territory.

Since the Harland Territory has shown great potential, the great nobles of the Grant Kingdom have all intended to install some people in the Harland Territory. Although the intelligence department has cracked many espionage cases, there are still many spy personnel hiding in the shadows, and some have even infiltrated the core departments.

The intelligence department has no good way to deal with the rats that are very hidden, so they can only stare wide-eyed and monitor every move in the territory.

The royal family planted a heavyweight spy in the Harland Collar, this person happened to participate in this war, received a lot of information, and through repeated comparative analysis, the royal family finally determined that the Haraland Collar defeated the orcs.

Through this battle, it was clearly revealed that the army led by Haaland is now the strongest soldier in the Grant Kingdom.

Although the royal family has nine elite legions, it has also trained six second-line corps, plus the total strength of the city defense army and the security army in various places exceeds 400,000, which is far more than the scale of Haaland's territory.

And Haaland led only 65,000 regular troops, 40,000 city defense troops, security troops, and 6,000 recruits, and the size of the army was far inferior to the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Grant royal family. The number is roughly equivalent to one-third of the royal family.

But through this battle test, the combat effectiveness of Haaland's army has surpassed that of the royal family by a few points.

After all, even if the royal family gave everything they had, the nine central legions went into battle together, plus the second-line legions, it would be difficult to block the onslaught of more than a dozen legions of the orcs.

Although the nobles of the Grant Kingdom have never heard the phrase "power comes out of the barrel of a gun", the implicit meaning of this sentence is that because of years of war, they have a deeper understanding of power.

After receiving this information, King Roger knew in his heart that the relationship with Harland would have to be adjusted a little from now on.

Through this battle, Harland has proved that he can withstand the orcs mainly by his own strength without much support from the royal family.

After the Battle of Samba, the Kingdom of Grant will gradually form two power centers of Nolan and Fort William.

In fact, with the transfer of the Iron Lion, Grizzly Bear, and the Three Legions of the Northern Frontier to the south, the influence of the royal family in the three northern provinces is getting weaker and weaker, and the nobles of the Northern Frontier are not fools, and they know in their hearts who is protecting them.

Especially the nobles close to Haaland's territory are now basically following Richard's military orders.

The orcs at the No. 10 military station were defeated, and the divisions in other directions naturally had to withdraw their troops.

On the way to withdraw, looking at the demoralized orc army, the commander of the grassland governorate Melonla, said with a sad face: "The pearl of the prairie will be lost in my hands after all. ”

Seeing that Meronla was in a very low mood, the legendary gnoll man persuaded, "Perhaps, we should ask the royal court for reinforcements?" As long as the royal court sends us a few elite legions and adds a few legendary dukes, we will definitely be able to defeat the Haaland Lord. ”

Merlona waved her hand, clearly disagreeing with what the gnolls had said.

"The royal court's energy is mainly focused on the Holy Radiant Empire, which has fought many defeats in recent years, and has been drawing soldiers from the six major satrapies. Over the past 30 years, we have organized six legions to support the royal court. The pressure on the royal court is greater than ours, and it is impossible to support us. After losing this battle, Priland has become a chicken rib and will soon fall into the control of Haaland's leadership.

According to the information we have, as long as the north bank of the Samba River is successfully developed, Lord Haaland will inevitably cross the river north and capture the city of Priland. ”

"Honorable Commander, how much time do you think Lord Haaland can leave us?"

Melonla pondered for a moment, thought for a moment, and said: "According to the development speed and economic scale of Haaland's leadership, the south bank of the Samba River should be able to be successfully developed in about ten years." When the time comes, we will inevitably lose the Pryland region. ”

"There is a ten-year buffer for us to retreat the tribes of the Priland region to the eastern steppes."

Mellona shook her head and said: "In the long run, if you lose the Priland region, the eastern grasslands have been reduced to death, and they will eventually fall into the hands of Duke Harland.

Although the Eastern Front suffered a defeat this year, the loss of troops was not serious. But for two years in a row, they could not break through the defense line of Duke Haaland, and the soldiers had lost confidence in victory.

I decided to organize a large army next year and launch a fierce attack in the direction of the Eastern Front a year in advance, this time we will mainly pinch soft persimmons, concentrate our forces on attacking the two dukes of Edward and Fox, and in the direction of Duke Haraland, we will strike and rest. ”

Listening to the decision made by Meronla, the legendary jackal was shocked, he was the commander of the Eastern Front, he knew the situation of the Eastern Front, and knew that the strength of the Eastern Front could no longer compete with the Grant Kingdom as a whole.

In the past two years, the Eastern Front of the Orc Steppe Governor's District has organized a huge force and fought three wars with Harland's leadership, with extremely heavy losses. Not only was the seventeenth and thirteenth armies annihilated, but also a large amount of grain and baggage were consumed, almost emptying the wealth accumulated by the orcs.

After suffering a serious defeat, he should recuperate and recover in recent years, and I don't know why Mellonra still wants to start a war.

As a subordinate of the person in charge, the legendary gnoll man asked.

"We don't have much baggage next year?"

"If there is no baggage, let the soldiers eat people, eat sheep's bodies, and eat kobolds."

Hearing Melonla's determination, the legendary gnoll was more cautious. "Isn't that too risky?"

The legendary gnoll is one of Merlonla's most important assistants, but his work is not done properly, and he does not obey orders in the war, and Melonla's strategic goals are difficult to implement.

In order for the legendary gnolls to cooperate, his ideological work must be done.

"Now we have suffered heavy losses and the morale of the army is weak, and we must fight a victory as soon as possible to restore confidence. Although the Harland Lords are very strong, they have a strong competition with the human dukedoms such as Edward and Fawkes, and they are not monolithic internally, and there are deep contradictions.

In the last ten years, there has been little major cooperation between them. In the two years of war, Edward, Fawkes and other human dukes did not send reinforcements to Haraland, which shows their true relationship. In next year's war, we will focus on the two dukedoms of Edward and Fox, and Lord Haaland will most likely stand by and will not take the initiative to participate in the war.

I have a lot of confidence in this.

In addition, the attack next year will also be unexpected by the enemy, and we have been attacking once every three years for all these years, and the enemy must not be prepared to disrupt the rhythm, and I think we can achieve greater results. ”

After a few detailed discussions, Mellon La convinced the legendary gnolls to prepare for a major offensive next year.

Richard could not have known about the orc's scheme.

After the Battle of the Samba River, Richard immediately mobilized Haaland to lead forces and began to clean up the battlefield and treat the wounded.

In the Battle of Samba River, although a lot of results were achieved, only the No. 10 soldier stood on one battlefield, and 20,000 elite orcs were annihilated. Zooming in to the entire territory, the Haaland Territory, plus the Wild Lion Legion, the noble coalition, annihilated more than 38,000 orcs.

After the war, the Grant royal family also rewarded Richard with a new county, and the southern part of the Samba River was nominally handed over to Richard.

Today, Richard has a duke and three counties under his name. Richard's number of children was very small, and he himself did not want to divide his territory among different children, so he made his own favor decrees. Therefore, through the Council of Nobles, the territory was divided into two, the southern territory of the Eagle Mountains was the Duke of Harland, and the northern territory of the Eagle Mountains was the Duchy of Sophia.

After winning the Battle of Samba, Richard's prestige was a few points higher than that of King Roger, and Wang Du naturally agreed to his unexcessive request.

Now as long as Richard does not rebel openly, the royal family will win over Haaland.

After the Battle of the Samba River, Richard's status in the Kingdom of Grant has been significantly improved, even surpassing the previous Archduke Jonathan.

Although Richard swallowed such a large piece of fat, but now that the Haaland family has swelled into a behemoth, the royal family is also very cautious about touching the interests of the Haaland family.

Because Richard resisted the orcs in the north, the royal family was able to send elite troops to the south and expand to the kingdom of Delong. Compared with the powerful and fierce orc empire, it is naturally easy to expand to the south.

King Roger naturally saw this very accurately.

Richard was given a large amount of land, and the officers under his command also made meritorious deeds, and this time there were two people in the fiefdom.

One is the Viscount of Rohman, and the Rohm family has made great contributions in several battles. After the deliberation of the Rohm family, it was decided to give the new territory to Corien, the third son of Viscount Rohman.

Viscount Rohmon is a vassal of the Grant royal family, and it stands to reason that he should find the royal family to reward the territory for his military exploits.

However, in recent years, the nobles of Geda Province have basically followed Richard to fight, and the royal family has not expanded its territory in northern Xinjiang, and may not be willing to give out its territory to reward Corion.

After the war, Viscount Rohmon found Richard and prepared to go to the noble council to carry out activities, intending to make his son Corion a vassal of Richard.

Corien is thirty-five years old and very close to Richard, although he is the concubine of the Viscount of Romon, he is the most talented person in the Rohmon family, and at the age of thirty-five, he is already a sixth-order knight. Because of his many meritorious contributions, he has a great prestige in the army of Viscount Rohman.

Corrion is not the first heir of the Rohmon family, and the situation becomes awkward. In this case, when Viscount Rohmon dies, I am afraid that the Rohm family will inevitably face a brutal bloody struggle.

If you can seal the territory in the Harland Territory and expand the cake, the Romon family will be able to smoothly resolve the conflict, and it will also be able to develop its influence to the Harland Territory.

As the Northern Legion moved south, losing its strong military deterrence, the nobles of Geda Province were seriously divided, especially the nobles near the Eagle Mountains, although they were nominally vassals of the Grant royal family, but in fact they had become vassals of the Harland family.

After the Battle of the Samba River, Haaland received a large amount of borderland, and Richard readily agreed to Viscount Rohman's request.

Another barony was given to the Soros family, and this barony Soros was ready for Audrey to inherit.

After following Richard for nearly twenty years, his uncle Soros has been awarded three baronies, and if the territories are merged, the Soros family will be promoted to viscounts, upgraded to a middle aristocratic class.

Under normal circumstances, the titles should be merged, but the Soros family is in a special situation, and it is not only Soros who has made meritorious achievements, but the three brothers and sisters of Kent, Morgan, and Audrey have all made great achievements, and in order to maintain family cohesion, Soros must have a bowl of water.

The two baronies, Corrion and Audrey, were in the northern region of Twin Star Castle, which Richard intended to leave to his vassals.

Barony Audrey is located south of the Viscounty of Bolton and east of the Barony of Lost. The Barony of Corion is located to the east of the Barony of Martin and to the east of the Barony of Audrey.

The area of the two baronies of Corion and Audrey is not very large, only more than 800 square kilometers, and the territory is basically primeval forest.

Plus Audrey, Corion. There are already nine barons and one viscount in this area.

After years of development, Richard already had a noble vassal under his command who was not weak. The number of noble coalition troops adds up to more than 6,000 people, but compared with the 100,000 noble coalition troops directly under the royal family, there is no comparison.

(End of chapter)