In the years since Richard entered the Red Moon plane, Harland has been expanding its army, not only increasing the number of technical troops such as artillery and magic airships, but also building more magic ships and steam ships.

After more than three years of accumulation, the number of Haaland's territorial naval forces has now reached 7,000.

Of the 7,000 naval forces, about 2,000 are river fleets, and the remaining 5,000 or so naval forces are active in the coastal waters.

Although Haaland has a large magic ship flagship and can sail in the ocean, because there is no hydrographic data for the voyage and he is not familiar with the route, the Haaland territorial naval force has not left the offshore sea and entered the ocean adventure in recent years

There are two major arteries in the territory of Haaland, the Heihe River and the Samba River, but there are snow crystal fish in the waters of the Heihe River to spawn, and the navigation period is only half a year. Although the situation of the Samba River is better, it is geographically located further north, and the freeze period is as long as four months.

Due to the limitations of climate and geographical environment, every winter, the Harland River Fleet has to anchor and take refuge in the warm Xiaguang Harbor in the south.

Located 280 kilometers south of Starlight Castle, Xiaguang Harbor is a settlement built by Harland's Collar in recent years.

This port city is located in the southern part of the province on the east coast and has a relatively warm climate. The harbor does not freeze all year round, and it is a natural harbor where large ships can be berthed.

After three years of development, more than 8,000 people live in the vicinity of Xiaguang Port.

Nowadays, the coastal area of Haaland has become a total of three port cities, from north to south are Haikou, Xinghui and Xiaguang, of which the population near Xinghui Port is the largest, and the Heihe estuary city is the focus of Haaland's operation, with a population of about 30,000. The two cities of Haikou and Xiaguang have a population of less than 10,000.

With the construction of the harbor city, Haaland has also focused on the development of the eastern region, and in the past three years, because of the large increase in fiscal revenue, the proportion of military spending has decreased, and there is financial resources to continue to build magic ships.

As of the spring of Dawn 3280, Haraland has launched nine magical ships, two of which are large flagships that use the Legendary Core as an energy core. The number of steamships built is much higher, plus the river flotilla has already launched thirty-two ships.

After seven or eight years of development, the number of ships in Haaland's territorial waters has been comparable to that of the Sith Kingdom. Because it is equipped with a large number of magic crystal cannons, it is almost a dimensionality reduction strike compared to the opponent, and its combat effectiveness far exceeds that of coastal countries such as the East Coast and Sith. By surprise, he can even defeat hundreds of magical ships of the Divine Radiance Empire.

Despite its strong water power, Haaland's navy did not provoke naval battles with its neighbors. For the past three years, the Offshore Fleet has been under Sutton's command, training and familiarizing itself with magical ships, while undertaking transportation missions to support the Red Moon plane.

After Sutton returned from Hawkins Castle, Richard decisively gave the order, and the two major fleets of the offshore and inland rivers poured out, carrying the second army straight to Silvermoon Island. Haaland led the noble coalition to act as the second echelon, waiting for the fleet to win before freeing up its hands to transport to the southern front.

Sutton has travelled this route several times in recent years and has a wealth of sailing experience. It took only three days for the Haaland Territorial Naval Force to come to the waters of the Silver Moon Islands and discover the United Kingdom's sentinel ship on the east coast.

The Silver Moon Islands are located northeast of the mouth of the Oram River, just 120 kilometers from the mainland. This archipelago was originally the territory of the Kingdom of Grant and belonged to the Earl of Silvermoon Island.

Twelve years ago, the Kingdom of Grant lost the naval battle, the Earl of Silvermoon was killed in battle, and the Silvermoon Islands fell.

In the years that followed, although the United Kingdom of the East Coast suffered a lot of losses on land, losing more than 100,000 square kilometers of territory, and the legendary knight Markion died in the war, Silvermoon Island remained in the hands of the United Kingdom of the East Coast, and was the forward base of the East Coast invasion by sea.

There are more than 30 islands in the Silver Moon Islands, most of which are small and lack fresh water. Only three islands are more than 300 square kilometers in size, with seasonal rivers and abundant freshwater resources.

The main island of Silver Moon is the largest, with an area of more than 8,000 square kilometers, and the eastern part of the island is relatively gentle, while the western part is mountainous. Yinyue Island has been developed for many years, and there are more than one million acres of fertile land on the island. A sizable harbor was also built in the eastern part of the island, with a large number of supply ships moored.

In order to maintain the sea transportation line and protect this batch of supply ships, the main fleet of the United Kingdom on the east coast, more than 70% of which is stationed near Silvermoon Island, is mainly composed of ten magic ships.

After discovering the enemy, the East Coast Magic Ship immediately sounded the alarm and used the magic conch to relay the information to the rear.

As soon as the alarm sounded, Haaland led the sailors to rush up, and the ship's magic crystal cannons opened fire, pouring a large amount of ammunition on the enemy ship.

Although there is an attack circle on the magic ship, the magic attack distance is relatively short, and most of the magic is defensive magic, and the effective distance is about twenty or thirty meters away from the magic ship.

The Harland Crystal Cannon, according to different calibers, different charges, and different attack distances of alchemy bombs, generally speaking, the range of army guns is about five kilometers, and the range of naval guns can reach up to sixteen kilometers.

Although the range of the Magic Crystal Cannon was far less accurate than that on land due to the turbulence of the ship, the range of sixteen kilometers was enough to easily annihilate the enemy ship.

The magic ship is equipped with a magic crystal cannon, as if it were a weapon across the ages.

In the middle of the naval battle, the magic crystal cannon appeared, and immediately showed a devastating advantage.

Although the United Kingdom navy on the east coast was brave, it was still easily annihilated by the navy led by Haraland.

Having annihilated the enemy ships, Richard immediately launched a landing battle.

Before the army landed, it was still the magic crystal cannon that launched the artillery battle.

Haaland led the ships, each equipped with a large number of magic crystal cannons. Generally speaking, a steamship will be equipped with six magic crystal cannons, a small magic ship will be equipped with twelve magic crystal cannons, and a medium magic ship will be equipped with twenty. The two large flagships are equipped with more than sixty magic crystal cannons, and the twelve main guns on each flagship have a range of up to sixteen kilometers.

The fleet of the Harland Territorial Naval Force has two large flagships, three medium-sized magic ships, four small magic ships, thirty-two steam ships, and the fleet is equipped with up to 420 magic crystal cannons. The number of gunners who manipulated the magic crystal cannon exceeded three thousand.

If this batch of magic crystal cannons is placed in the army, it will be enough to reorganize into eighty artillery squadrons, so that the artillery in the army will be expanded by more than half. From this point of view, Richard's emphasis on the Navy can be seen.

Not counting the money spent on building ships and training sailors, the gold coins invested in equipping the navy's more than 400 magic crystal cannons alone have exceeded one million.

If it weren't for Haaland's industrial production capacity and skyrocketing revenues, Richard would not have been able to build so many warships like dumplings.

More than forty warships lined up, and each salvo fired two hundred alchemy bombs. Such a high-intensity artillery bombardment suddenly caused the defenders on the east coast to be killed and wounded.

Although the United Kingdom on the East Coast has more than 10,000 troops left behind on Silvermoon Island, there are still strong strongholds such as castles. However, the lack of shore defense artillery and the lack of means to deal with the magic crystal cannon caused the defenders of Silvermoon Island to be beaten passively, and only held out for half a day, and before the army led by Haaland landed, the defenders had already collapsed.

According to post-war statistics, Haaland suffered less than 100 casualties before he wiped out the defenders of Silver Moon Island.

Most of the casualties among Haaland's soldiers came from the pursuit battle.

After conquering Silvermoon Island, Harland led the capture of a large number of supply ships.

These supply vessels are basically traditional wooden sailing vessels, which have very small loads and are largely not capable of navigating autonomously. Relying on a wooden sailboat to sail is very dangerous in the Dawn plane, not to mention the terrifying creature of the deep-sea monster, even if you encounter a low-level demonic beast in the ocean, the fish-man race, you can easily scuttle the wooden sailboat and overturn it. Only under the protection of the magic fleet can wooden sailing ships sail in the offshore seas.

Compared with wooden sailing ships, the steamships made by Haraland are safer, not only equipped with magic crystal cannons, but also steel plates on the outside of the hull, and the hull strength is far greater than that of wooden sailing ships. Because of the use of a steam engine as power, the speed and agility are better than that of a sailing ship, and when sailing offshore, as long as you do not encounter deep-sea monsters, you can cope with most dangers.

Despite this, Richard did not dare to let the steamship sail alone, let alone keep the steamship far from the shoreline.

The seizure of supplies from the East Coast Army greatly reduced the supply pressure on the troops led by Haaland.

Silvermoon Island was a supply base for 200,000 troops on the east coast, and the hoarded food was enough for Haaland to lead 20,000 troops to eat for three years. After seizing Silvermoon Island, Richard no longer needed to mobilize ordinary materials such as grain, salt, cloth, and timber from the rear, and more importantly, he successfully cut off the supply line of the 200,000-strong army on the east coast.

According to the count, Haaland seized more than 80,000 tons of grain, tens of thousands of cotton cloths, and more than 100 tons of salt on Yinyue Island, and captured more than 18,000 prisoners. Of these, fifteen thousand were sailors on wooden galleons, and only three thousand soldiers. In addition, there are more than 300,000 people on Silvermoon Island, and 99% of these people are serfs, all of whom were the property of the earls of Silvermoon Island at the earl.

Haaland led a windfall on Silvermoon Island, and the United Kingdom on the East Coast was already in danger of defeat on all fronts.

After receiving the news of the loss of Silvermoon Island, the 200,000 landing troops of the United Kingdom on the east coast immediately fell into chaos.

The front line of the army on the east coast had only enough food to eat for twenty days, and now the back road was cut off, and the naval fleet was completely annihilated, and it immediately fell into an extremely dangerous situation.

Seeing that the annihilation of the whole army was imminent, the East Coast army began to struggle to the death, frantically attacking the army of the Grant Kingdom, hoping to break through the defense line, enter the core of the Grant Kingdom to plunder, and survive by fighting to feed the war.

The East Coast army began to fight hard, and for a while, whether it was the four marquis of the east or the royal guards, the casualties suddenly increased, and in just three or four days, the defenders suffered more than 14,000 casualties. The attacking East Coast army suffered more than 30,000 casualties.

Such a crazy attack made the four marquis of the east feel heavy pressure. However, they knew in their hearts that the East Coast army was already jumping over the wall, and in order to withstand the enemy's final madness, the four marquis of the east took out the accumulated foundation, and in order to protect their family property, the backbone of their command also fought desperately, blocking the enemy on the front line.

Unable to defeat the enemy head-on, logistics and supplies were cut off, and the remaining 160,000 troops on the east coast were suddenly in a dilemma.

The forward attack suffered heavy casualties, and it was impossible to break through the enemy's defense, and it was also difficult for the strong man to open the supply line backward because of the lack of magic ships.

Killed and wounded 30,000 people, temporarily lost the ability to attack, retreated without magic ships, could only wait for death on the tidal flats, unable to advance or retreat, so that this army of up to 160,000 people was on the verge of collapse.

It barely lasted for more than ten days, and when the food ran out, part of the army broke up, part of it came out of the camp, handed over its weapons, and surrendered to the kingdom of Grant.

Grant fought with the East Coast for more than ten years, and after five battles, this time he finally disabled the United Kingdom Navy on the East Coast, and completely annihilated a front army and ten corps on the East Coast.

After screening the captives, Harland led and the Grant Kingdom carefully selected, and selected 60,000 elites from the captives, and the Grant royal family, the Harland family, and the four eastern marquis each selected 20,000 captives and incorporated them into their own legions.

Then after a three-day rest, the three legions of the Grant royal family chose to return to reinforcements, two to reinforce King Roger, and one to the empty Nolan.

About 20,000 prisoners were recruited, and the three Praetorian Guard regiments were seriously overnumbered, with the total number of each regiment reaching twenty-five or six thousand. More than 50,000 troops were sent to the front, and despite the unstable morale of the captives and the fact that the reinforcements had just experienced a major battle, King Roger finally stabilized the situation and put down the rebellion of Elena and the Scarlet Horn.

Although the rebels were defeated and the rebellion was quelled, the Grant royal family was unable to leave the backbone of the Venus family. Under the cover of the legendary magician Elena and the legendary knight Charlemagne, the backbone of the Venus family successfully withdrew from the battlefield. For the Grant royal family, not hitting the Venus family hard is a hidden danger after all.

After completely annihilating the United Kingdom Maritime Front on the east coast, Richard led the coalition army of the four marquis in the east and divided his troops to the south. The Counts of the South were joined by an alliance of 80,000 troops from the south by land, while Richard used the leapfrog tactic to once again rely on the navy to attack the coastline of the United Kingdom on the east coast.

Although the alliance of the four marquis in the east was closer, only 400 kilometers away from the front line, Haaland led the army to sit on the power of the sea, and in just two and a half days, they crossed a distance of more than 600 kilometers to attack the stronghold south of the Andorra Mountains.

With the power of the magic crystal cannon, Haaland led his army to capture several coastal castles with ease, and the front of the army was directly south of the Mara River.

Haaland led his army to stir up the storm behind the Andorra Mountains, and the Four Marquis of the East and the Seven Counts of the South joined forces to break through the natural defense line of the Andorra Mountains in one fell swoop.

Suddenly, the Andorran Front of the United Kingdom on the east coast was also attacked from the back, and the rear route was cut off.

The Andorran Front intended to break the encirclement and break through from the southwest, but was surrounded and annihilated by the combined forces of Richard and the nobles of the Kingdom of Grant.

In this war, the Grant Kingdom paid the price of 30,000 troops and completely annihilated the two front armies of the United Kingdom on the east coast, and in just ten days, the east coast lost 300,000 soldiers, and it was on the verge of extinction.

(End of chapter)