The orcs cooperated with the two fronts and invaded south from the Silver Wolf Mountains, and the pressure on the Grand Duchy of Starnik was heavier than that of the Kingdom of Lane.

Although Archduke Jonathan has withdrawn 120,000 troops, and the Linus family Haldane has pinned down the enemy, the losses of the Grand Duchy of Starnik are still very heavy, and more than a dozen border castles have been conquered by orcs, and a large number of border barons have been lost.

Because of the sudden invasion of the orcs, Grand Duke Jonathan and the Linus family army were surrounded by the orc army.

It's just that Grand Duke Jonathan has sufficient reinforcements and can contain a large number of orcs, although the retreat route is cut off by the orcs, and the situation is not too serious.

But the Linus family does not have the energy for the Ryan Kingdom to risk sending reinforcements. Orcs don't care about the contradictions between Jonathan and Linus, as long as they are human nobles, they are all enemies of the orc army.

Seeing that the situation was critical, Haldane had no choice but to risk breaking through. He is a legendary second-order knight, who has an amazing fighting ability and is under the charge of Haldan, breaking through the encirclement of the three orc legions in one fell swoop. But in this battle, the Linus family suffered a big loss, losing more than 10,000 people.

In this war, the Linus family did not pick a bargain, first lost 6,000 soldiers in the battle with Jonathan, and then killed and injured more than 10,000 people because of the orcs. The Linus family itself only has 40,000 old foundations, and has lost more than forty percent of its strength, and it is impossible to replenish it in a short period of time.

After receiving a letter from Duke Jonathan asking for help, Richard decided to lead his troops north to help the Grand Duchy of Starnik defeat the orcs.

In this year's Five-Nations War, Haaland's casualties were not very serious.

The left-behind army fought with the Yunhai slave trapping group of the Sith Kingdom, and lost more than 3,000 people, the casualties were mainly from the auxiliaries, and the losses of the regular army were very light. Although the auxiliaries suffered many casualties, they were relatively easy to replenish.

In addition, Harland in the northern part of the Eagle Mountains led the main force and confronted the orcs of the Eastern Front of the Steppe Governor's District, and several small-scale battles broke out, with more than 800 casualties. The defenders of the Priland region fought with the undead who went south from the Northland Ice Fields this year, losing more than 400 people.

The Southern Expeditionary Army led by Richard fought several battles with the Kingdom of Lane, with a total loss of more than 6,000 people. On all fronts combined, Haaland led the army to lose about 10,000 people.

With the addition of new recruits to the army this year, the number of troops under Haaland's command has reached 156,000, including 112,000 regular troops and 44,000 auxiliaries.

Last year, after conquering the Priland region, Richard formed the Fifth Army, the legendary magic ship was successfully built, and the Black River Water Army was formed, which were all regular army formations, and the lack of personnel could only be supplemented by auxiliaries.

The 156,000 troops suffered more than 10,000 casualties a year, and the casualty rate was about 6.5 percent, which was not very serious. In addition, more than half of the wounded soldiers can be re-integrated into the army, and this year's actual attrition is only more than 3,000 killed in battle, and more than 1,800 seriously wounded.

The army suffered light casualties, and its combat effectiveness could be well maintained, and it had enough strength to help the Grand Duchy of Stanik defeat the orcs.

Another reason why Richard was willing to help in the war was that he was ready to negotiate with Archduke Starnik to exchange the Duke of Madison's territory occupied this year for Duke Jonathan's dukedom.

If the exchange of this territory is completed, the territory of Haaland's territory in the northern Xinjiang will be connected and very complete. Occupying a large area of territory in the north, it already has the foundation to form a kingdom.

Richard led troops north for reinforcements, which could make the Grand Duchy of Stanik owe favors.

The most important point is that Richard's reinforcements to the north are actually paid, and winning the battle against the Grand Duchy of Starnik will inevitably reward him, whether it is land or other resources, he must always give Haaland a share.

Richard led his troops north, and the newly occupied areas also had to leave heavy troops. After much deliberation, Richard decided to have Wilde's Fourth Army stationed at Novena Castle, with the Duke of Madison leaving 30,000 auxiliaries at the garrison.

Haaland led the auxiliaries, and the combat effectiveness was also not weak, equipped with a large number of steel armor and alchemy bombs, because Harland led the auxiliary army could provide a large number of Tenghui potions, and the professional officers of an auxiliary squadron were roughly three or five, which was equivalent to the level of the sixth brigade of the Wild Lion Legion that Richard served that year.

According to the feedback on the battlefield, it can compete with the regular legions of the Ryan Kingdom. But it is a little worse than the border army of the Grant Kingdom.

Because the nine elite legions under the jurisdiction of the Grant royal family are also equipped with a large number of alchemy bombs, although the royal family cannot sell them to the outside world and steal business with Haaland, they are equipped with enough alchemy bombs, and their combat effectiveness is stronger than twenty years ago.

In particular, the four legions of the North, Grizzly Bear, Wild Lion, and Iron Lion, placed in the eastern countries of the Central Continent, are all regarded as first-class strong soldiers, and with the same strength, they can defeat orcs in field battles.

Richard left an army of 50,000 to defend his newly captured territory, and he personally led an army of 24,000 to the north to reinforce the Grand Duchy of Starnik.

Before heading north, Richard also left the First Brigade of Magical Airships, the Knights of the Wyverns, at Novena Castle, to strengthen Wilde's reconnaissance power. With this force, Wilde was able to detect the enemy's movements in advance and call for reinforcements when the enemy was attacking and mobilizing supplies.

Haaland has a dream tree, which can be used as a magic radio station, and the transmission of information is very easy, and every night Richard will enter the dream of an important intelligence officer and communicate briefly with the stationmaster of an important intelligence station.

After the end of the war, Wilde finally received enough merit to advance to the hereditary aristocracy. However, it is uncertain where his territory is sealed.

Because the war has just ended, the Grant Kingdom has not yet had time to be knighted and rewarded.

Richard had just entered the Grand Duchy of Starnik with his troops, and good news immediately reached his ears. The first is Sophia, who breaks through the bottleneck after a meditation and is promoted to the rank of Nine-Ring Magician.

After being promoted to the Ninth Ring, Sophia's spiritual power increased to forty-nine points, and she was only one step away from awakening her fifth talent.

Sophia is three years older than Richard, and at the age of forty-two, she was promoted to the Ninth Ring, and she has a long time to hit the bottleneck of the legend. She had refined a bottle of eaux-de-vie, and she had more than two hundred years to live. With this foundation, as long as you don't encounter major accidents, the promotion legend is basically nine out of ten.

During this time, not only Sophia was successfully promoted, but Richard's eldest daughter Margaret also broke through the bottleneck, Margaret was promoted to the four-ring magician at the age of seventeen, and the progress of meditation was a few points faster than Sophia.

In this war, in order to let the children receive exercise, Margaret went south with the army, while Philip stayed in the northern frontier, under the care of Jennings and others, and felt the war firsthand. Even during the battle, Philip personally killed a kobold.

Although Richard only led a legion and an army of a few thousand professionals to the north, the attack power of this force was quite strong.

After entering the area of the Silver Wolf Mountains, Harland led the army to take the initiative and captured the Hawkins Pass in one fell swoop, cutting off the supply lines of the two orc legions.

Harland has a magic crystal cannon, the starlight bomb in Richard's hand is powerful, and the ability to attack head-on is extremely strong, and the six thousand orcs left behind can't stop the attack of the Harland army.

The supply lines of the two orc legions were easily cut off by the Harland leader.

Haaland led the main army on the battlefield, and Mellonra decisively ordered the withdrawal of the army.

After receiving the order from the headquarters, the orcs in the direction of Starnik retreated to the northern part of the Silver Wolf Mountains with a rich booty.

Richard and Haaland led the army, decisively attacked and advanced westward, penetrated deep into the middle of the Silver Wolf Mountains, and took the initiative to attack an orc army, crushing the enemy and rescuing seventy or eighty thousand prisoners.

This time the orc invasion, taking advantage of the civil war between the five human beings, has already reaped a lot of benefits. Not only did it capture dozens of castles of the Ryan Kingdom in the northern part of the Silver Wolf Mountain Range, expanding its territory by more than 100,000 square kilometers, but it also pushed the defense line through the middle line of the Silver Wolf Mountain Range and reached the southern foot of the Silver Wolf Mountain Range.

This battle rendered decades of expansion of the Kingdom of Lane in the Silver Wolf Mountains useless, with the loss of more than 600,000 people, 80,000 troops, and dozens of border nobles suffering heavy casualties. Coupled with the loss of more than 200,000 square kilometers of territory in the south, the Kingdom of Lane lost nearly 400,000 square kilometers of territory, occupying about a quarter of the total territory, which hurt the roots.

In this war, King Lane lost 120,000 soldiers, and the loss of the population was also extremely serious, adding up to about 3 million. In this year's war, because of the orcs' turmoil, the Ryan Kingdom can be described as a big defeat and a serious loss in national strength.

The kingdom of Ryan suffered a big loss, and the Grand Duchy of Starnik was also uncomfortable, allowing the orcs to invade the territory directly under the royal family, and the border nobles suffered heavy losses, and hundreds of thousands of people were robbed by the orcs. Although the Delong Kingdom and the United Kingdom of the East Coast were not defeated and maintained the front, they did not regain their territory, and fought a fierce battle, but it did not benefit them to lose money and money.

Only the Kingdom of Grant, although the national strength has been greatly depleted, after all, it has expanded more than 200,000 square kilometers of land, and it can give land to meritorious soldiers and knights, and there is no need for the big nobles and the royal family to pay for it.

More than 200,000 square kilometers of land is enough to be divided into two dukedoms, although this land is all brought down by the Harland Lord, but without the 600,000 troops of the Grant Kingdom, the Haaland army will not be able to get such a big benefit and defeat the enemy.

In the end, several great nobles of the Grant Kingdom communicated repeatedly, and after discussing with the Grand Duchy of Starnik, the newly expanded territory was turned into a duke and three counts.

Among them, Haaland received the greatest credit, divided into a dukedom, an earldom, and the remaining two counties, one was divided into six viscounts, twenty-four baronies, and was distributed to the nobles of the Grant King's national merits. The remaining lands of the province also belonged to the crown.

Because of the large amount of land captured in this battle, the three provinces are relatively large, each with an area of more than 30,000 square kilometers. The developed land in the south was relatively small when the fief was divided, and the viscount was only 2,000 square kilometers, while the baron was only about 300 square kilometers because he was better bullied.

The six viscounts, plus the twenty-four baronies, have a total area of 19,000 square kilometers, and the remaining territories directly under the royal family are also about 13,000 square kilometers.

Moreover, although many of the nobles who obtained fiefs came from the big nobles, such as the six viscounts, they all came from the six duke families of the Grant Kingdom. But these nobles were nominally directly under the royal family.

The essence of this battle is that the Haaland Territory has expanded 130,000 square kilometers of land, the royal family has directly expanded about 45,000, and the remaining 46,000 square kilometers of land belong to other great nobles of the Grant Kingdom and the newly promoted military nobles.

For example, the four marquis in the east and the seven earls in the south all gained something after the war, and only thirteen territories were given to the newly promoted military nobles, which was actually very rare.

Of course, with the addition of vassals under the great aristocratic system, this year's battle of millions of people has promoted more than twenty hereditary nobles. For example, Wilde, led by Haaland, has accumulated enough military merits in this battle, and Richard is also ready to seal him to the Southern Territory, and the Fourth Army under Wilde, Richard is also ready to let them hold on for a long time.

After the demarcation of the territory was completed, Richard directly approached Archduke Jonathan and asked for the southern dukedom to be exchanged for the Jonathan family's territory in the Grant Kingdom.

Although Duke Jonathan's dukedom has a dragon's nest, a natural medium-sized magic well, which is of great value, in order to avoid becoming a thorn in Richard's side and flesh, and in order to concentrate the territory in one place, Archduke Jonathan thought about it for a day and decided to agree to Richard's proposal.

Richard had more than 1.2 million serfs in the southern territory, and the Duke of Jonathan also had a population of 1.6 million, and the two sides reached a population exchange by the way, and in the end, Duke Jonathan only needed to relocate two legionnaires and territorial bureaucrats, plus their families, about 300,000 people.

After the two dukedoms were exchanged, Duke Haaland's territory had been connected, with an area of more than one million square kilometers, and the population had increased to nearly 10 million people, including Richard's county in the south.

The three counties in the south were named Novena Province, Kampa Province, and Philip County, because Richard was the biggest hero of this war, and the right to name the new territory naturally belonged to him.

After the division of the territory, Roger's Kingdom transferred a Royal Janissary to Novena Castle, and Wilde withdrew the Fourth Legion to Count Philip.

Due to the transfer of the royal family and other aristocratic troops, the Haaland Command also slowly reduced its garrison to the south, and finally only maintained about 32,000 men. However, the Knights of the Wyvern, the First Brigade of Magic Airships stayed in the south for the time being.

It's not that Richard doesn't want to exchange the territory in the north this time, it's a pity that the Roger Kingdom wants Harland to put some of his energy in the south, after all, the alliance of Ryan, Delon, and the East Coast has put more and more pressure on the Grant Kingdom, and without the full support of the Harland Lord, the Grant Kingdom can't withstand it at all.

The royal family was reluctant to exchange territories, and Richard had to find the nearby Duchy of York and the Grand Duchy of Starnick.

The Grand Duchy of Starnik also considered this, hoping that the Harland leader would put part of his forces on the border of the Kingdom of Lane to protect his south. The Duke of York is also reluctant to exchange territories, after all, with the Harland Territory in the north, the Duke of York does not need to face the threat of the orcs, and of course is unwilling to devote its energy to the south to fight against the powerful Kingdom of Lane.

(End of chapter)