Philip stayed in the farm and factory for more than ten days, and handed over the investigation report to Richard before the goddess's birthday, through Philip's investigation materials, Richard had a general understanding of the situation of the grassroots farm and factory.

The farm is in good shape, after all, it is the third year of reclamation, and the location is not far from Fort William.

As the saying goes, under the feet of the Son of Heaven, the law is strict. Richard often inspected the vicinity of Fort William, where the bureaucracy was more restrained. Coupled with the continuous cultivation of talents by the Haaland leadership, bureaucrats with management skills and basic knowledge are no longer scarce, and the officialdom is a little clearer than that of 20 years ago.

Twenty years ago, there were almost no clean officials in Haaland's leadership, and 99 percent of the bureaucrats would find ways to make money for themselves as long as they had some power.

Over the years, Richard has eliminated and dealt with corrupt officials one after another, and established an auditing and supervision system. Most bureaucrats now are engaged in power rent-seeking, and they are more civilized than they were 20 years ago.

Today, in Philip's village, the average life expectancy of indentured slaves has increased to forty-eight years, barely enough to eat, and a set of clothes to wear a year, because it is relatively close to the coal mine, and there is still coal for heating in winter. In addition, twice a year, doctors from the Tulum coal mines would go to the countryside to treat indentured slaves and occasionally distribute free medicines. Compared with the first half of the lives of these serfs, the past few years in the Haaland leadership have been regarded as the best and happiest years of living conditions.

Philip's flour mill, because it is a state-owned factory, is not badly paid, and the workers generally have a monthly salary of four silver coins, and they can also receive sixty catties of flour every month. If you work alone, you can make the whole family live without food and clothing for a year. If you can pass the training and become a skilled worker, the monthly salary will be increased to eight silver coins, and the benefits can be comparable to that of the main legionnaires.

Through Philip's investigation report, Richard observed that the economy near Fort William had improved greatly, and the people in the capital area had solved the problem of food and clothing and gradually developed to a higher level.

Of course, Richard can't rely on a report from Philip, the kid, to make decisions, he will read the official statistics, he will also read the intelligence of the intelligence department, and a few days before the goddess's birthday, he will also carry out a surprise attack, and personally go down to the grassroots to take a look.

Time passed in a flash, ushering in the year 3274 of the Dawn Calendar.

It's been twenty-eight years since Richard crossed over to the Dawn Plane.

Twenty-eight years is a long time, enough to make Richard's three views change to a certain extent, becoming more like an indigenous, compared to when he just crossed over, his way of thinking seems to have changed as if he was a different person.

Shortly after the Goddess's Birthday, Richard sent Philip to the Third Legion.

Although the training in the army was very hard, after last year's decentralization training, Philip's character has matured a lot, and he has also honed his strong endurance. After a period of adaptation, under the secret care of Jennings, Morgan, and Levine, he slowly integrated into the army.

Philip's changes over the past year have surprised Sophia, and she has thought in her heart: "Richard's method is really good, it seems that in the future, the descendants of the Haaland family should find a way to let them exercise and accept the hardships of life for a period of time." ”

After settling Philip, the schools in the Harland Collar have been opened, and with the increase in the number of freedmen in the territory, six more elementary schools have been added in the New Year, and now there are forty primary schools and ten secondary schools in the Haaland Collar.

Haaland Ling Primary School is not the kind of small mountain primary school, because of the relative shortage of educational resources, education in remote mountainous areas has always been abandoned, and Haaland Ling's schools are all established in relatively prosperous large strongholds.

There are no 50,000 or 60,000 people in the vicinity, and there will be no infrastructure such as schools and hospitals at all. Therefore, every primary school has at least two or three thousand students.

The total number of students enrolled in 40 elementary schools and 10 middle schools has exceeded 100,000.

This year, there were as many as 23,000 new students, and from this batch of new students, two hundred and thirty-six children with magical talents were found in the territory, and these children were all selected to enter the magic academy.

Starting from last year, these magically gifted children will no longer go to school with ordinary people, and all of them will enter the magic academy, counting this year's freshmen, there are already more than four hundred students in the magic academy. The most qualified children have been promoted to the rank of High Mage Apprentice and should be able to advance to become professionals in their third year of learning magic.

Coupled with the children of the Academy of Magic, the Harland Mage Association already has one thousand one hundred and fifty members, almost twice as many as the Grant Mage Association, and the number of people already meets the standards of large magic organizations, and the foundation of the Harland Mage Association is even stronger than the average large magic organization.

Last year, a total of three people were killed in the Mage Association, and thirty-seven people advanced, and now the number of official mages in Haland's leadership has reached three hundred and five, and the number of mages is about the same as that of the Grant Mage Association.

It took Haaland more than 20 years to catch up with the 600 years of accumulation of the Grant family. This is entirely due to the fact that Haaland is more open-minded and has a wider selection of materials, and does not rely on pedigree as a selection condition.

As the number of freedmen increases, Richard will build more schools, Haaland will have a wider range of talents, and talent will emerge like a blowout.

Soon after the new students entered the school, the climate became warmer and warmer, and the time entered March in a flash, and the northern Xinjiang region was about to enter the spring ploughing season.

The heavy snow had melted in March, and horse-drawn wagons continued to roll over the mountain valley roads of the Eagle Mountains to replenish their baggage to the northern mountain defense.

Now Haaland leads an army of 140,000 people, of which 80,000 are left in Eagle Province to defend against orcs.

Although Richard was very supportive of the development of Eagle Province and continued to emigrate to Eagle Province, due to the poor foundation, the population of Eagle Province was less than 600,000 by the end of last year.

Because the time for clearing the land is relatively short and the grain output is relatively average, in the last year or two, it is still necessary to transfer grain from the central government, the three major provinces of Vera, and Heihe, and the Eagle Province is simply unable to supplement the logistics for the garrison.

From the richest and most prosperous Heihe, the central province, over the two or three hundred kilometers deep Eagle Mountains, to thousands of miles away to transport grain and baggage, the loss is very serious, even for the well-stocked Haaland, the pressure is very heavy, and the burden is heavy.

However, the orcs were still stationed in the direction of Priland, and Richard did not dare to draw a large number of troops from the North Mountain defense line, and before the railway line was built, Harland had to face the difficulties of logistics and supply.

Richard and the staff department made a lot of plans, and decided to grab an orc in the spring of this year.

The Priland region is an orc town, and there are not only a large number of orc tribes living nearby, but also a large area of arable land, which has captured hundreds of thousands of humans to farm.

By capturing this part of the cultivated land that had matured into the Priran, the army in the northern part of the Eagle Mountains would be able to replenish nearby. There is no need to transport grain from the rear, just transporting other baggage is relatively simple for Haaland.

In fact, four years ago, Richard inflicted heavy losses on the orc army, annihilating the elite 17th Legion of the orcs, and then launched a surprise attack to defeat Preeland. However, because the supply line was too far at that time, and the main force of the orcs was cruising on the outer line, in the end, Richard could only abandon Prilland and go all out to manage the Beishan defensive line.

Now four years have passed since the last battle, and the army led by Haaland has increased by 60,000, and its strength has far exceeded that of four years ago, while the orcs lost the battle of the Samba River, and their strength is not as strong as four years ago.

In addition, Richard had been operating the North Hill Line for four years, building more than a dozen fortified strongholds, and shortening the logistics and transportation lines by more than half.

In this attack on Prilland, Richard also had the intention of continuing to weaken the orcs and fighting a decisive battle with the orcs of the Eastern Front of the Steppe Governorate.

Haaland began stockpiling supplies in March, and it wasn't until April that supplies were ready.

On the eve of Richard's preparation, Wendini was about to give birth.

Elves have a much longer pregnancy cycle than humans, and generally have a very large span, usually between three and nine years. As a rule of thumb, the longer the pregnancy cycle, the higher the talent of the elves.

Half-elves have a strong elven bloodline, and the pregnancy cycle is also longer than that of humans, Richard and Wendinie's child has a quarter of elven blood, and Wendini's pregnancy cycle is as long as sixteen months.

Before the child was born, Richard had already discussed with Wendini that if it was a girl, it would be named Isabella, and if it was a boy, it would be named Rex.

Wendini gave birth to a boy, although he was just born, he was very good-looking.

Richard met with the child, talked briefly with Wendini for a while, and rushed to the front with his own soldiers overnight.

Soros led the Second Army and the Third Army to cross the Samba River from Snow Mountain County and led the troops to attack Priland.

This army has 40,000 regular troops, 20,000 auxiliaries, and has also strengthened three Warcraft cavalry squadrons and five magic crystal artillery squadrons, totaling 60,000 infantry, 2,000 Warcraft cavalry, and 1,030 artillery troops. The total strength was about 64,000. This army was the Northern Front.

Richard led the First Army from Station 10 to find an opportunity to cross the Samba River and cooperate with Soros's troops. Along the way, four artillery squadrons were also strengthened, the first brigade of magic airships, and the second and third brigades of magic hot air balloons were attached to Richard, with a total of 20,000 infantry, 1,000 monster cavalry, 1,000 artillery, and more than 2,000 aerial reconnaissance troops. With the addition of the headquarters personnel, the total strength is 25,000, and this army is the southern front.

Sutton led the elven archers, the witcher troops, the Haaland led the noble coalition army, the fourth brigade of the Warcraft cavalry and other troops, with a total strength of 16,000, to cross the river in the east of Priland and surround the Priland area from the flank.

The three-way army totaled the orcs in the Priland region from three directions, with a total strength of up to 110,000.

Although the aristocratic coalition led by Sutton is poorly equipped, the quality of the soldiers is also very good, and they are all carefully selected from the major aristocratic coalition forces. There are more than 30 high-level professionals, as well as bipedal dragon knights, elven archers, demon hunter troops, Warcraft cavalry and other elite soldiers to cooperate in the battle. On the surface, the combat effectiveness is better than that of strong soldiers like the Northern Legion.

But whether or not they can bring out the full combat effectiveness of the aristocratic coalition is also a test for Sutton's command art.

The three-way army marched in unison, approaching the Priland region, causing the orc army to panic immediately.

In particular, the flying troops led by Harland are generally active in the sky over Priland, and in just two or three days, they have killed more than 300 harpies.

The cultivation of flying arms is difficult, and one legion of orcs is generally composed of 160 harpies, and the loss of 300 harpies in two days almost empties of the two legions. Such heavy casualties have been too much for the orcs to bear, and the harpy people have suffered serious blood loss, and they no longer dare to easily take to the air to fight.

The casualties inflicted by the orcs on the Harland Territory were almost negligible, shooting down only eight magic hot air balloons, a magic airship, killing two griffin knights, and wounding a two-legged wyvern.

In the Dawn Plane, although the Harpy is a relatively weak flying class, it is also a third-order professional when it becomes an adult.

Usually three or four harpys can compete with fifth-order griffins, but with the cavalry on the back of the griffin, often three or four harpys can't beat the well-equipped griffin knights, after all, in addition to allowing the griffin to use bloodline spells, they can also use magic items such as burst arrows and alchemy bombs.

Normally, half a squad of Harpies will have a higher chance of winning against a Lion Knight.

As for the two-legged Wyvern Knights, a team of twelve Harpys can't compete with it, and Harland has fifty Wyvern Knights, hundreds of Lion Cavalry, as well as magic airships, magic hot air balloons and other flying arms, and the air power has far surpassed that of the Eastern Front of the Orc Prairie Governorate.

The six hundred Harpyx soldiers assembled near the Prairie Governor's District were soon beaten by the flying forces led by Haaland and did not dare to take to the air.

There were no flying classes in the sky, and the orcs near Priland suddenly fell into serious passivity. Now the orcs can only rely on the Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry to personally participate in reconnaissance activities through the ground.

Although the Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry is also a professional soldier, its combat effectiveness can compete with the Warcraft Cavalry, but in the open field, it can't beat the bipedal Wyvern and Lion Cavalry.

Scattered reconnaissance is easy to be ambushed and killed by flying troops, and centralized reconnaissance lacks efficiency, resulting in particularly poor reconnaissance results, and it is easy to fall into the trap of Haaland's army.

Soros was near Prilland and successfully mobilized the elite and annihilated three squadrons of Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry, and Richard also crossed the Samba River and successfully ambushed the two hundred Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry that had been gathered.

The reconnaissance troops were ambushed continuously, which also made the orcs extremely painful, snake people, harpy people, silver moon wolf cavalry, and half-orc archers are all orc elite troops, and it is not easy to replenish the losses.

After repeated defeats in the past five years, the loss of the orc elite has been relatively serious, and with the magic crystal cannon put into the battlefield, the snake body heavy infantry has gradually been reduced to an obsolete class. Every time he fought with Harland's leader, the orc commander did not dare to let the snakes concentrate, and lost the ability to hit head-on, and now they can only let the snakes be scattered in the ordinary orc army.

Now that the decisive battle has not yet begun, first the harpy man was beaten and did not dare to rise into the air, and then the Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry suffered heavy losses.

Before the decisive battle came, the elite orc professional army lost more than eight hundred men. Such a situation made the legendary gnoll's heart ache severely.

The situation has developed to this point, and the orc top brass has become very clear that the strength of the Eastern Front is no longer comparable to the Duke of Haaland, whether it is defensive or offensive.

The war is not going well, and the legendary gnolls are already planning to withdraw their troops.

(End of chapter)