Soros and Jennings were transferred to the south, and the northern defense line was handed over to Wilde, Roman, Loss, Morgan and others. Silf and Wendini followed Richard on his southern expedition, and Sutton was appointed by Richard as the commander-in-chief of the Shanbei Line, responsible for commanding the army on the northern front.

Because of the 45,000 elite troops drawn from the northern defense line of the Eagle Mountains, Richard incorporated new recruits into the army several months in advance to fill the personnel gap in the northern defense line.

The vassals in Harlan's domain also gathered 8,000 troops and put them under the command of his cousin Morgan, who guarded the third military station.

If the orcs make any changes, the Harland Leader can also get the support of the nearby Wild Lion Legion and the noble alliance of the three northern provinces.

Richard had already obtained full authority from King Roger, and in the event of an orc invasion and war, Sutton would have supreme command.

Piero, the commander of the Legion of the Wild Lions, is also under Sutton's command.

By September, Haaland's army had completed its assembly, and on the sixth day of September, Richard marched south with an army of 45,000.

In this southern expedition, in order to avoid trouble with military rations, Richard carried 600,000 sheep.

Because the sheep walk slowly, the daily march speed is about forty or fifty miles. 600,000 sheep, camels, mules and horses for carrying grain, and more than 800,000 head of livestock to provide logistics.

800,000 head of livestock, which needs to be provided with forage and grain every day, is astronomical.

According to the estimation of the logistics department, the sheep and livestock led by Haaland eat more than 40 square kilometers of grass every day. If you encounter a large area of the Gobi desert on the way, the sheep, camels and horses will probably starve to death.

Therefore, before the daily march, Richard needed to let the Lion Cavalry reconnoiter the air and plan the marching route.

Fortunately, it was September when the troops went south, and the autumn of September was high and fat, and it was the autumn harvest season of the Grant Kingdom.

During the march, forage is relatively easier to collect. Even so, Haaland led a lot of farmland and livestock to eat a lot of food along the way, adding a great burden to the provinces along the way.

Richard consulted with Roger's kingdom and decided that the Duke of Harland and the royal family of Grant would take out a part of the gold coins to subsidize the provinces in transit.

When the soldiers crossed the border, the losses were naturally not light. The viscounts and barons who passed by on the march south, although they were reluctant in their hearts, had no way to take Haaland to lead tens of thousands of troops, and they could not raise troops to fight, which was tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, and the nobles were unwilling to do it. Only a part of the supplies could be taken out and Richard was asked to quickly cross the border.

It was only on October 3 that Richard entered the county of Stevens with his army. At this moment, the coalition forces of Earl Steven and the southern nobles have completed their assembly and come to the front line.

The two dukes, Edward and Fawkes, prepared earlier, arriving in Ferdinand's province in late September, and under the command of William, began to fight against the kingdom of Delong.

Edward and Fawkes fought against the orcs all year round, and their combat effectiveness was much stronger than that of the soldiers of Guise and Duran in the south.

Before the start of the war, Harris, Duke of Edward, made a very successful pre-war mobilization.

"My dear soldiers, the Edwards have made the decision to go south from now on. The enemy in the south is the weak soldiers of the Delong Kingdom, who are like girls in battle, and can only let us roam the roam.

Starting today, we will leave the cold north and enter the warm and rich south.

We now have nothing, but having defeated the enemy, we will soon have food, land, houses, mills, waterwheels, slaves, and even beautiful women.

If we want to live a good life, we have to go through a big battle.

Winning the game, we grabbed money, food, and girls, and lost the dead ball and pulled it down. We are from the North, and death is our partner.

As your duke, I, Harris, am not afraid of death, and am willing to take you to defeat the sissy of the Delon kingdom and let you have everything you deserve.

Anyway, we have a bad life, and we can win if we dare to fight. ”

The southward development is almost the unanimous opinion of the Duke of Edward, if the orcs make the soldiers of the Harland lead afraid, the soldiers of the Duke of Edward also dare not fight the orcs.

Although there is something wrong with the mentality of this army, they have excellent skills and tactics and rich war experience, and their combat effectiveness far exceeds that of the soldiers of the Delong Kingdom.

Now the morale of Duke Edward has been stimulated, and he is like a tiger descending from a mountain in battle. In less than half an hour, it broke through the formation of the army of the Delong Kingdom from the front.

Although the Delong Kingdom organized 260,000 troops to fight against the Western Front on a battlefield hundreds of kilometers wide, it was a pity that it was defeated in a big battle, and the 150,000 elite soldiers of the Grant Kingdom seemed to be overwhelming, directly penetrating the defense line arranged by the Delong Kingdom.

The Delong Kingdom suffered a big loss, and it was unable to hold its ground even after retreating for 200 kilometers. They wanted to set up a defensive line in several castles north of the Mara River, but William and his elite troops attacked and captured the city at night, and finally they were forced to retreat to the south of the Mara River.

By the time Richard entered Steven's province, the Western Front had already achieved very brilliant results, and with the addition of the buffer zone, the Kingdom of Grant had pushed the border three hundred kilometers south, occupying more than 100,000 square kilometers of land.

Now William's troops have been divided into two routes, and the two dukes of Edward and Fox have moved their troops to the west, commanding more than 56,000 soldiers to attack the two dukedoms of East and Orlando in the Delong Kingdom, protecting the flanks of William's Ministry and seizing territory by the way. After capturing these two major dukedoms, it was able to complete the expansion of more than 100,000 square kilometers of land.

After the defeat of the Western Front of the Delong Kingdom, Duke Anton was hurriedly dispatched to support the Western Theater with elite cavalry.

Anton is a legendary first-order knight and a warlike officer.

After this person came to the south bank of the Mara River, he crossed the river by boat with the Warcraft cavalry that night and raided a stronghold of the Western Front.

In the next few battles, William suffered a little loss, and the Western Front had already lost more than 8,000 soldiers.

With the reinforcements of 3,000 Warcraft cavalry under Anton, 20,000 heavy cavalry, and the two dukes Edward and Fox divided their troops to the west, the army of the Delong Kingdom moved back to the disadvantage and stabilized the situation.

Although the Western Front stabilized, the Central Route Army Zachary also led five corps to the south.

Zachary was very elite, and there were three squads of Lion Knights on the front line, with the advantage of reconnaissance in hand, and Zachary was very aggressive, even crossing the Mara River and hitting to the south of the Mara River.

The Grant Kingdom struck with all its might, and the Delong Kingdom was immediately embarrassed, and in a panic, the Delong Kingdom hurriedly asked the East Coast United Kingdom for help.

After receiving a letter of help from the Kingdom of Delon, the United Kingdom of the East Coast decided very quickly. In the face of the ferocious attack of the Grant Kingdom, the United Kingdom of the East Coast gritted its teeth and mobilized twenty-four legions to participate in the battle with almost all its might.

The Delong Kingdom is a decaying kingdom founded a thousand or hundreds of years ago, and various interest groups within it are intertwined and suck the blood of the country. Although the population is more than 50 million, and the products are stronger than those of the Grant Kingdom, the combat effectiveness of this country's army is very average, and the losses in the war with the Grant Kingdom are very miserable.

The United Kingdom of the East Coast is still young and far from rotting, and the vitality within the country is stronger than that of the Kingdom of Grant, and although the army is not as experienced as the Kingdom of Grant, its combat effectiveness is not weak. The country originally had twenty-three corps, but because of the pressure of the war, five corps have been expanded in the last five years.

Today, the total strength of the United Kingdom on the East Coast has a total of 28 legions, plus the naval troops, and the front-line troops exceed 600,000, which is 100,000 more than the Grant Kingdom.

In order to suppress the expansion ambitions of the Grant Kingdom, the United Kingdom of the East Coast dispatched more than half a million regular troops this time. Among them, there are as many as fifteen legions to help in the Delong Kingdom, and the number of regular troops is as high as 300,000.

The other nine legions, plus 40,000 sailors, stormed the eastern coastal areas of the Grant Kingdom, and the four marquis of the east continued to ask for help from Nolan.

The Eastern Front was in an emergency, and the messengers for help kept rushing to Nolan, and the Roger Kingdom personally went out to take the three legions of the Royal Capital Guards to the two marquis counties of Allen and Visia to help the four marquis stabilize the battle line.

After Richard led his troops into Steven's province, reinforcements from the United Kingdom on the east coast also entered the kingdom of Delong almost at the same time, supporting all fronts.

The central region was the most under pressure from the defenders, and the United Kingdom on the east coast mobilized six legions, plus 100,000 Delong Kingdom troops, to push Zakary back to the north bank of the Mara River.

The defenders on the eastern front of the Delong Kingdom were the weakest, with only 40,000 local troops left, plus 30,000 remnants of the two dukes of Hubble and Isaac. Although the army is quite numerous, its combat effectiveness is actually very sparse, and it is estimated that it will not be able to defeat the coalition army of Earl Steven and the southern nobles.

Hearing that Duke Harland, the most brave and warlike Duke of the Grant Kingdom, led his troops south, the United Kingdom of the East Coast committed nine legions on the Eastern Front. The commander of the army is also the famous commander-in-chief, the legendary 2nd Order Mark Dean.

Richard led his troops south, and soon entered the Duke of Hubble in the kingdom of Delong.

In the last Three Kingdoms War, the Duke of Hubble suffered heavy losses, with only more than 20,000 people left in the 50,000 army, and 60% of the land was lost.

Duke Hubble still had some hereditary land, and Duke Isaac had lost his land, and now only one Castle of Sharon remained, and there were 8,000 soldiers left, barely supported by the money and food of the Delong royal family. Some viscounts with a thicker foundation are now better than Duke Isaac's.

Richard was stationed in the northern Hubble Mountains, and Haraland's air scouts began to penetrate deep into enemy territory.

The Lion Crane and the Wyvern are both high-level soldiers, and they enter the southern region of the Hubble Mountains to reconnoitre, as if they have entered a no-man's land.

Mark Dean stood on a big tree, raised his eyes to look into the air, looked at the bipedal wyvern in the sky, estimated the distance in his heart, and finally sighed: "The bipedal wyvern flies too high, beyond my range." The bipedal dragoons led by Haaland are equipped with a special alchemy item that can observe targets from ten kilometers away.

With this special magic item, the enemy does not need to scout in close proximity, and only high-level mages can set traps to ambush the enemy's high-altitude scouts.

Enemy air scouts are raging, our every move is under the observation of the enemy, so it is not okay to be so passive. Order the rear, let all the magicians of the royal capital come to the front line to help. Find a way to kill some griffins and wyverns to suppress the enemy's flying classes so that their scouts can't be so high. ”

Although the United Kingdom of the East Coast does not have legendary mages, the magic learning environment is a few points better than that of the Kingdom of Grant. The Seven Dukes' families established a magical academy in Kanas Castle, open to the domestic nobility. Relying on this magic academy, there are more than two thousand official magicians in the United Kingdom on the East Coast.

And the Grant Kingdom, plus the magicians trained by the great nobles, the total number is less than six hundred.

The number of magicians in the United Kingdom on the East Coast is not only large, but also the quality of the Grant Kingdom is a few points. In the Kanas Academy of Magic, there are six magicians with nine rings, and more than thirty magicians with more than seven rings. The number of high-level mages is ten times that of the Harland Lord.

It is precisely because of this background that Mark Dean has the confidence to mobilize high-level magicians to the front line.

If it were Richard, he would never use a high-level mage like this.

In fact, in the last war, the United Kingdom on the East Coast dispatched high-level magicians to attack the Harland Magic Hot Air Balloon Force, and was finally set a trap by Sophia, using a starlight bomb to kill an eight-ring mage.

With the continuous reconnaissance of the lion and the bipedal wyvern, Richard has found out the situation of the enemy garrison in the southern part of the Hubble Mountains.

Richard scattered the sheep he carried in the county of Stevens and the province of Helen, leaving the Earl of Steven and the nobles to guard the grain roads and protect the sheep, and he himself took ten days' supplies and led the army of Harland to the west, preparing to capture the Castle of Ssalon in the west of the Hubble Mountains, bypassing the dangerous mountain city defense line and attacking the enemy's territory.

Haaland's soldiers were well-trained, and because there were strong scouts in the sky, Richard did not consider camping on the road during this operation. There was no need to build a strong camp, and Haaland led the army to move very quickly, and in just two days, he marched 130 kilometers and appeared near the castle of Salon.

According to the reconnaissance of the Lion Cavalry, the main forces of the United Kingdom on the east coast were deployed in the passes of the Hubble Mountains, valleys, and grain stations. More than a hundred kilometers wide in the Hubble Mountains, on the east coast of the United Kingdom were deployed four corps with a garrison of more than eighty thousand.

In the castle behind the Hubble Mountains, there was also the garrison of the United Kingdom on the east coast, and in this direction, Richard's opponents had a total strength of more than 220,000 troops.

In the vicinity of Saron Castle, the defenders were relatively weak, with only 8,000 troops from Duke Isaac, plus reinforcements from three brigades from the United Kingdom on the east coast, for a total of 14,000 troops. However, the Golden Hill Castle, forty kilometers behind the Castle of Salon, was home to a regiment of the United Kingdom on the east coast, with a total strength of about 20,000.

The 34,000 defenders of the two castles can be regarded as the left flank troops of the Eastern Front of the Delong Kingdom, and these two troops are about a hundred kilometers away from the main force, even if they are faster, it will take two days to travel.

Richard was ready to take a black tiger out of his heart and eat the enemy before reinforcements from the United Kingdom arrived on the east coast. The reason why Richard has this ambition, in addition to the starlight bomb, is that Haaland has a powerful artillery.

This year, Haaland led the formation of three new artillery squadrons, which were equipped with eighteen magic cannons, and all participated in this southern expedition.

The range and accuracy of the magic cannon, far exceeding that of heavy trebuchets, is a very terrible siege weapon, a cannonball smashed on the city wall, the lethality is very considerable, even if the enemy has a strong castle fortifications, Richard is confident of a complete victory, eat this enemy in a short time.

(End of chapter)