Although the southern Countdom of Philip has experienced war, it still has 34,000 square kilometers of land, nearly 700,000 people, this territory is fertile, moderate hot and cold, and has four distinct seasons, it is a very good territory, although no big nobles are willing to exchange, and it is very far away from the northern frontier, and it is impossible for Richard to give up this piece of fat and give it to others.

Even if it is not easy to manage the enclave for a long time, Richard can take it out and give it to other children to expand the influence of the Haaland family to the south. Since he was unwilling to give up the Count of Philip, he could only leave Wilde's legion with 10,000 auxiliaries to garrison, in order to deal with the griffin cavalry of the Ryan Kingdom, Richard also left the first brigade of bipedal wyverns and magic airships to ensure air superiority, so that the enemy's assembly could be detected in advance, and the troops could be assembled and deployed.

Now the Haaland family, in addition to the territories in the north, also has two counties and two baronies in the south, but these four territories are not in one place.

The county of William is located in the southeast of the Grant Kingdom, and the county of Philip is located in the southwest of the Grant Kingdom, and the two counties are more than 800 kilometers apart.

As for the Barony of George, it is located in the province of Isaac, which is now considered the south-central part of the Grant Kingdom, and is far away from the border.

The last realm came from the third uncle, Bernie, who was promoted to the ninth rank last year and took over as the commander of the Lion Legion in July this year, and took over the role of captain of the Lion Legion in July this year, and the new territory was sealed in the province of Kampa.

Because Bernie has a military position, this barony is temporarily managed by Bernie's fourth son, Charlie, and this territory is relatively close to Countdom Philip, so they can take care of each other.

After more than 20 years of development and two generations of hard work, especially the management of Richard, William, and Bernie, the Haaland family has become a great nobleman second only to the royal family. Not only did he conquer a large area of territory, but he also had a very deep influence in the border army.

The two brothers, William and Bernie, successively served as the commanders of the border army, and participated in the smuggling business of the Harland Collar with the soldiers under their command, and managed a large number of contacts in the Grizzly Bear and Wild Lion legions, and actually provided great help to Richard's development of northern Xinjiang.

After repelling the orcs, Richard returned to Harland with the First Legion, the Demon Hunter Brigade, the Elven Marksman, and the Warcraft Cavalry. Then a group of civil officials were sent to the south of the Kingdom of Grant under the leadership of Ihakir to manage the local affairs of the Count of Philip.

Ihakir is about seventy years old, and he still looks very strong and mentally well-read.

Twenty years ago, the old man was a fruit farmer for the Baron of Dirham, who was saved by Richard after the fall of Marte Castle and reduced to slavery after the war.

Because he showed a little management talent in the selection and management of slaves, coupled with the experience of taking care of fruit trees, he was sent by Richard to take care of the brown sugar trees, and then gradually became the manager of the brown sugar industry.

Although Ikhakir joined Haaland at a young age, he was very studious, almost self-taught, and learned writing and basic arithmetic. He also has the legal provisions of Haaland's collar and can handle some government affairs.

In more than 20 years, the Haaland Territory has developed from a small border barony to a behemoth, and Ihakir has also kept up with the development speed of the Haaland Territory, growing into a qualified senior manager, laying the foundation for the development of his family.

Prior to his transfer to Earldom Philip, Ihakir had already served as the Warden of Leyte County in the Harland Domain.

This time as Consul of Count Philip was a crucial step for Ikhakil, and further up the ranks were Cabinet Ministers, Provincial Consuls and Governors.

This time Richard transferred Ihakil to the south, and in addition to letting him manage the territory, he was also preparing to let him transplant brown sugar trees in Earldom Philip. Then a brown sugar industrial park was developed nearby, and a large amount of brown sugar was sold to the south.

After all, the distance from the Eagle Mountains to the southern part of the Grant Kingdom is 1,000 kilometers long, and the transportation cost is very high, and compared with the honey produced in the south, the competitiveness is actually somewhat insufficient.

For example, in the castle of St. Siss in the kingdom of Delong, and the castle of Kanas in the United Kingdom on the east coast, because the cost of transportation and smuggling is too high, the price of brown sugar is slightly higher than that of honey. Although the price is several times higher, almost all the profits fall into the hands of transportation, smuggling, and sales, and Haaland and the brown sugar producer actually did not earn too much income.

If the cultivation of brown sugar trees in the south is successful, the transportation will reduce a lot of costs, and the smuggling channels will not need to be handled by the border nobles, only need to let the foreign sellers peel off a layer of skin, and Haaland will get the bulk of the trade revenue.

When Richard returned to the territory with his troops, it was around mid-November.

Richard had been on a campaign with a large army since April this year, and only returned to the territory in November, and before he could rest for a few days, an urgent message was sent to Richard's desk.

The intelligence came from the Priland region, and as Richard led his army south, there were more and more undead in the north of Priland, and the pressure on the border nobles was increasing, and gradually some of them could not stand it.

In the whole year of this year, the total number of casualties among the mercenaries has been about 4,000, and if it weren't for the continuous replenishment of new blood, this gap could barely be closed.

Shortly after Richard returned to Fort William, he presided over the knighthood ceremony for two large mercenary captains. These two barons are both from the United Kingdom of the East Coast, and their identities are similar to those of Rand, both are middle-class nobles from the East Coast, and the two barons are named Hamilton and Samp, and they are both characters who deal with private affairs for the main vein.

Hamilton is the leader of a band, and Samp is in control of a gang, and both of them have heard of Rand's knighthood and brought their brothers to northern Priland. Sure enough, after about a year of struggle, Samp and Hamilton were knighted and gained territory.

In just one year after the new policy was formulated, Richard took over nine barons, relying on the power of these nine barons, and cooperating with the Fifth Army stationed in Priland, to successfully block the undead heading south.

This time, the Baron of the Frontier urgently called for help, mainly because the legendary undead creatures had been found in the Bolton Forest.

After receiving a letter of help from the nobles of northern Prilland, Richard prepared to go to the aid with a small number of elites.

In December of the year 3275 of the Dawn Calendar, the main arteries of the north and south of the Harland Territory have been fully connected, and from the Heihebao North Station, you can easily transport it by train and enter the northern part of the Eagle Mountains.

The railway line even extends to the south bank of the Samba River, about 80 kilometers from Prryland.

Richard took the first brigade of the Warcraft cavalry, the Harland leading mage regiment, the witcher squadron, the elven archers, the second brigade of the magic airship and other troops, and the lion cavalry, first took the train to the Samba River station, and then crossed the already frozen Samba River, and rushed to the Castle of Belleny before the goddess's birthday.

In this year's war, although there were some reductions in the number of Haaland griffin cavalry, they also captured a lot of supplements, and with the addition of new griffins, they expanded by more than a dozen.

Now the number of lion cavalry has increased to one hundred and twenty. The adult griffin cavalry of the Grant royal family has also increased to about eighty.

Although the number of lion cavalry in the two countries has increased somewhat, it is far inferior to that of the Kingdom of Lane. Although there were a lot of battle losses in all directions this year, the strength of the Lion Cavalry of the Kingdom of Lane did not decrease.

With the scale of the Lion Crane in the Ryan Kingdom, it can breed forty adult lions a year, and the reason why it was maintained at three hundred in the past was mainly to save resources, because three hundred lions were enough to fight against the orcs.

Now with the Grant Kingdom as an opponent, the Ryan Kingdom has issued a decree prohibiting the export of the Lion Crane, and wants to expand the number of Lion Cavalry to 1,000 within fifteen years, regain air superiority, and completely annihilate the opponent in the air.

Haaland led the griffin cavalry only slightly increased, according to the current population size, a maximum of more than ten lions can be cultivated a year, and the number of bipedal wyverns is even smaller, and only three to five can be replenished each year. If you want to quickly increase the number of flying troops, you can only rely on magic airships and magic hot air balloons.

In October this year, Haaland led the formation of the second magic airship brigade, and this time it was the first time to participate in a combat mission.

With the Lion Cavalry and the Magic Airship on reconnaissance missions, the situation on the battlefield was quickly clarified.

Indeed, as the Prieland nobles said, a group of hundreds of thousands of undead appeared inside the Bolton Forest.

Burton Wood, the name of the wizarding era, is very old.

Harland has mastered the ancient map of the Ofalan region, and because of the Wizard Era's divine warfare, the ancient map has been greatly wrong compared to modern geography.

In the northern part of the savannah, there are still large areas of primeval forest in the southern part of the Northland Ice Sheet.

According to Haaland's rough reconnaissance, this vast primeval forest covers an area of at least one million square kilometers, which is slightly more than the area of the Dukedom of Haaland.

Although the Harland Territory has pushed its sphere of influence across the Samba River, it actually only controls a few areas near Prilland, and there are large areas of terra nullius in the east and west of the Priland region, and if the actual territory is advanced from east to west, it can increase at least 600,000 square kilometers of land, and if it advances to Bolton Forest, the area of the Duke of Harland will expand to about 2 million square kilometers.

In this area, Richard has already defeated the Orc Eastern Front, and there is no rival in a short time. The only factor that limits the speed of Haaland's expansion is the lack of population.

In this year's war, Haaland has taken large tracts of land and added about two million people. However, the population of 700,000 in the south and the direct population of the northern Xinjiang region, plus the orc captives rescued by Richard from the Grand Duchy of Starnik, were only more than 9.4 million, which was just over 10 million when you counted the population controlled by the vassals.

Although 10 million people is not a small number, Haaland controls more than a million square kilometers of land. The population of 10 million is far from being fully developed, and there is still a lot of wasteland in the territory, and the eastern coastal provinces are not developed, let alone the savannahs in the northern part of the Eagle Mountains.

When Haaland extends his tentacles to Burton Woods, I'm afraid it will be a long time coming.

The undead creatures that came down from the Northland Ice Fields have been controlled by wisdom for many years, and can only rely on instinct to move, although the number of undead is large, but because they don't have much intelligence, they are actually not difficult to deal with.

The nine barons on the border can't solve it, it's just because they don't have enough strength.

Now that Richard has personally reinforced, and there is also Silver, a legendary master, who is enough to withstand this legendary skeleton in terms of high-level combat power.

Richard used the army of the border barons as a decoy, constantly destroying a stream of undead creatures, and fought several beautiful battles in a row, killing more than 100,000 undead creatures.

The undead profession alone was killed by the army led by Haaland tens of thousands.

In these few battles, hundreds of soul crystals have been found alone, including six high-level soul crystals, which is equivalent to going to the necromantic realm to fight three undead lairs, which is enough for Harland to use for three or five years.

Although the undead in the necromantic realm are all professionals, the probability of producing soul crystals is higher, but the risk of hunting the undead in the necromantic realm is also very great, because there are undead kings and legendary lich in the necromantic realm.

As a last resort, Richard didn't want to go into the necromantic realm to hunt undead creatures. Compared to the power controlled by Haaland, entering the necromantic realm is still slightly insufficient.

Because of the low IQ, the undead continue to fall into the trap set by Haaland's leader, and the undead under the legendary skeleton are getting fewer and fewer, and gradually only about twenty or thirty thousand are left.

The last 20,000 or 30,000 undead were led by Haaland to eat a piece of east and west, and soon the legendary undead were reduced to a lonely family, dying in the alliance of Sylph, Sophia and Richard.

Having killed the legendary undead, Harland can once again refine the legendary Styx Elixir. Only this time, the contribution of the mage guild magicians was not enough.

Richard's mental power has reached sixty points, and it is useless to take the Styx potion, Wendini, Sophia, and Wendy's mental power are also more than forty points, and the effect of taking the Styx potion is only about half, and Wendy and Sophia have already taken a legendary Styx potion, and taking it again can only increase fifteen points of magic power, which is better than nothing.

In order to maximize the value of the Styx Elixir, it can only be reserved for magicians with greater potential in the territory, but whether it is Eve, Butler, or Anne, their contributions to the Mage Guild are far from enough, and it is impossible to get a treasure of this level.

Even if the legendary Styx potion is refined, the Harland Leader will exchange treasures with the Grant Mage Association.

After killing the legendary undead creatures, which was considered to have solved a crisis in the Priland region, Richard returned to Fort William with a large number of captures. With these captured undead materials, Harland led to refine about 1,500 undead ray guns. Combined with some of the previous refinements, Harland Leader already has two thousand five hundred undead ray guns, which is more than even the scorching ray guns.

Today, there are more than 4,500 soldiers using magic guns.

More than twenty brigades, all armed with magic guns. This has led to a large increase in the consumption of magic crystals, after all, a single magic crystal can only release more than ten spells.

And in a battle, Haaland will consume about a few thousand magic crystals.

Fortunately, this year's territory exchange, the Harland Territory has added a medium-sized Mana Well Dragon's Lair, and the number of magic crystal charges has increased once again to support this extravagant battle.

(End of chapter)