Lord Harland

Although the Earldom of Philip in the South has experienced war, it still has 34,000 square kilometers of land and a population of nearly 700,000. This territory is fertile, has moderate heat and cold, and has four distinct seasons. It is a very good territory, although there are no big nobles. Although he was willing to exchange, it was very far away from Northern Xinjiang, and it was impossible for Richard to give up this piece of fat to others.

Even if it is not easy to manage the enclave for a long time, Richard can take it out and distribute it to other children to expand the influence of the Haaland family to the south. Since he was unwilling to give up the Earldom of Philip, he could only leave the Wilde Army with 10,000 auxiliary troops to garrison. In order to deal with the lion cavalry of the Lion Kingdom, Richard also left the first brigade of bipedal dragons and magic airships to ensure air superiority. , you can detect the enemy's build-up in advance and mobilize your troops quickly.

Now, in addition to the vast territory in the northern Xinjiang, the Harland family also owns two counts and two baronies in the south, but these four territories are not in one place.

The Earldom of William is located in the southeast of the Kingdom of Grant, and the Earldom of Philip is located in the southwest of the Kingdom of Grant. The distance between the two counties is more than 800 kilometers. Even if a two-legged dragon or a lion knight is used to deliver the message, it will take forty hours, almost no time. Ways to cooperate in combat.

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

The last territory came from third uncle Bernie. Bernie was promoted to the ninth level last year. In July this year, he took over the position of commander of the Wild Lion Legion and made contributions in the war. The new territory was sealed in the Campa Province.

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

After more than 20 years of development and the hard work of two generations, especially the management of three people, Richard, William and Bernie, the Harland family has become a great aristocracy second only to the royal family. Not only did they conquer a large territory, they also had a very deep influence among the border troops.

Two brothers, William and Bernie, successively served as commanders of the frontier armies. They participated in the smuggling business in Harland with their soldiers. They established a large number of contacts in the Grizzly Bear and Mad Lion legions. In fact, they had great influence on Richard's northern frontier. Pioneer has also been a great help.

After repelling the orcs, Richard led the first legion, the demon hunter brigade, the elf archers, and the warcraft cavalry back to the Harland territory. Then a group of civil servants were dispatched, led by Ehaqir, to the southern part of the Grant Kingdom to take charge of the local government affairs of Earl Philip.

Ihakir is about seventy years old and still looks very strong and energetic.

This old man was a fruit farmer for Baron Dirham twenty years ago. After the fall of Malte Castle, he became a slave. After the war, he was rescued by Richard.

Because he showed some management skills when selecting and managing slaves, and had experience in 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 Ihakir was not young when he joined the Harland leadership, he was very studious and almost learned writing and basic arithmetic by himself. He has also mastered the legal provisions of Harland Territory and can handle some government affairs.

In more than twenty years, Harland has grown from a small border barony to a behemoth. Ihakir has also kept up with the development of Harland and grown into a qualified senior manager to develop for his family. Foundation.

Before being transferred to Philip Earldom, Ihakir had already served as the Sheriff of Wright County in Halland Territory.

Serving as the consul of Philip Earldom this time is a crucial step for Ihakir. Going up further will be cabinet ministers, provincial consuls and governors.

This time Richard transferred Ihakir to the south. In addition to letting him manage the territory, he also planned to let him transplant brown sugar trees in Earl Philip's territory. 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 a thousand and hundreds of kilometers, and the transportation cost is very high. Compared with the honey produced in the south, it is actually not competitive enough.

For example, in the Saint Sith Castle of the Kingdom of Delon and the Castle of Kanas of the United Kingdom on the East Coast, the price of brown sugar is slightly higher than that of honey because the cost of transportation and smuggling is too high. Although the selling price is several times higher, almost all profits fall into the hands of transporters, smugglers, and sellers. Harland, the brown sugar producer, does not actually earn a very high income.

If brown sugar trees are successfully planted in the south, transportation costs can be reduced a lot, and smuggling channels do not need to be handled by border nobles. They only need to let foreign sellers peel off a layer of skin, and the Harland leader will get the bulk of the trade revenue.

After Richard led his troops back to the territory, it was already around mid-November.

Starting from April this year, Richard went on an expedition with his army and returned to his territory in November. Before he could rest for a few days, an urgent message was sent to Richard's desk.

The intelligence came from the Puliland area. As Richard led his army south, there were more and more undead in the north of Puliland. The pressure from the border nobles was increasing, and they were gradually unable to withstand it.

Throughout this year, the total number of mercenary casualties has been about 4,000. If it were not for the continuous replenishment of new blood, this gap could be barely closed.

Not long after Richard returned to Fort William, he hosted a knighthood ceremony for two large mercenary captains. These two barons are both from the United Kingdom on the East Coast. Their identities are similar to Rand. They are both middle-class nobles from the East Coast. One of the two barons is named Hamilton and the other is Samp. They are both the main line. A character who deals with private matters.

Hamilton is the leader of a band of thieves, and Samp controls a gang. Both of them heard about the news of Rand's ennoblement, so they brought their brothers to the north of Pryland. Sure enough, after about a year of struggle, Thumper and Hamilton were knighted and gained territory.

In just one year after the new policy was formulated, Richard captured nine barons. Relying on the power of these nine barons and cooperating with the Fifth Army Corps stationed in Pulilan, he successfully blocked the undead from the south.

This time the Border Baron urgently called for help, mainly because of the discovery of legendary undead creatures in Bolton Forest.

After receiving a letter from the nobles in northern Puliland asking for help, Richard prepared to bring a small number of elites to go to the rescue.

Entering December of the Dawn Calendar 3275, the north-south arteries of Harland Territory have been completely connected. Getting on the train from Heihebao North Station, you can easily enter the northern part of the Eagle Mountains by train.

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

Richard led the first brigade of Warcraft Cavalry, Harland led the mage regiment, the demon hunter squadron, the elf archers, the second brigade of magic airships and other troops, the Lion Cavalry, first took the train to the Samba River Station, and then crossed The frozen Samba River rushed to Beleni Castle before the goddess's birthday.

In this year's war, although the Harland Griffin Cavalry suffered some attrition, they also captured a lot of captives and added a lot. With the addition of the newly enlisted Griffins, the number actually increased by more than a dozen.

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

Although the lion cavalry of the two countries has increased a bit, it is far inferior to that of the Kingdom of Lane. Although there have been a lot of battle losses in all directions this year, the number of lion cavalry in the Lion Kingdom has not been reduced.

With the size of the griffons in the Lion Kingdom, forty adult griffons can be cultivated a year. The reason why the scale was maintained at 300 in the past was mainly to save resources, because 300 griffons were enough to fight the orcs.

Now with the Grant Kingdom as an opponent, the Lane Kingdom has issued a decree banning the export of gryphons, and will expand the number of gryphon cavalry to a thousand within fifteen years, regain air superiority, and completely annihilate opponents in the air.

Harland led the gryphon cavalry with only a slight increase. According to the current population size, up to ten griffins can be cultivated a year. The number of wyverns is even smaller, and only three to five can be replenished every 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 of this year, Haaland led the formation of the Second Magic Airship Brigade, and this was considered his first time to participate in a combat mission.

There were gryphon cavalry and magic airships performing reconnaissance missions, and the situation on the battlefield was quickly clearly understood.

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

Bolton Forest is the name of the wizarding era and has a very long history.

The Harland Territory has mastered the ancient map of the Offland region. Due to the war between gods in the Wizarding Age, the ancient map already has major errors compared with modern geography.

There are still large areas of virgin forest in the northern part of the prairie and in the southern part of the Boreal Icefield.

According to Harland's rough reconnaissance, this vast virgin forest covers an area of ​​at least one million square kilometers, which is slightly larger than the area of ​​the Duchy of Harland.

Now, although the Harland leader has pushed its sphere of influence across the Samba River, it actually only controls a few areas near Pulilan. There are large tracts of unclaimed land in the east and west of Pulilan. If you go from east to west, it will If the actual controlled territory is advanced to the Puliland line, at least 600,000 square kilometers of land can be added. If it is advanced to Bolton Forest, the area of ​​the Duchy of Harland will be expanded to about 2 million square kilometers.

In this area, Richard has defeated the Orc Eastern Front and there is no competitor in a short period of time. The only factor limiting the expansion speed of Harland Territory is insufficient population.

In this year's war, the Harland Territory lost a large area of ​​land and increased its population by about two million. However, the population of 700,000 is in the south. The direct population in the northern Xinjiang region, plus the orc captives rescued by Richard from the Grand Duchy of Stanik, is only over 9.4 million. Counting the population controlled by the vassals, it is just over 1,000. 10,000 years ago.

Although ten million people is not a small number, Harland controls more than one million square kilometers of land. The population of 10 million is far from mature, and there are still many wastelands in the territory. The east coast provinces in the coastal areas are not developed, let alone the grasslands in the northern part of the Eagle Mountains.

It may take a long time for the Harland leader to extend its tentacles to Bolton Forest.

The undead creatures that came down from the North Icefield have been controlled by the wisdom lock for many years and can only rely on instinct to move. Although the number of undead is large, it is not difficult to deal with them because they do not have much wisdom.

The nine barons on the border couldn't solve it, just because they didn't have enough strength.

Now that Richard has personally brought reinforcements, as well as the legendary master Sylph, they are enough to withstand this legendary skeleton in terms of high-level combat power.

Richard asked the Border Baron army to act as bait, constantly destroying the undead creatures. He fought several beautiful battles in a row and killed more than 100,000 undead creatures.

Tens of thousands of undead professionals alone were killed by Harland's army.

In these few battles, hundreds of soul crystals were found, including six high-level soul crystals, which was equivalent to going to the undead world to attack the undead lair three times, which was enough for Harland to use for three to five years.

Although the undead in the undead world are all professionals and have a higher probability of producing soul crystals, going to the undead world to hunt the undead is also very risky, because there are undead kings and legendary lichs in the undead world. Leaking traces and exposing the plane passages will be a big trouble for the Dawn Plane.

Unless absolutely necessary, Richard did not want to enter the world of the dead to hunt undead creatures. Compared with the power controlled by Harland, entering the world of the dead is still slightly insufficient.

Because of their low IQs, the undead kept falling into the traps set by the leader of Harland. The number of undead under the legendary skeleton became fewer and fewer, and gradually there were only about 20,000 to 30,000 left.

The last 20,000 to 30,000 undead were eaten here and there by Harland, and soon the legendary undead were reduced to being alone, and died due to the cooperation of Sylph, Sophia and Richard.

After killing the legendary undead, Leader Harland can once again refine the legendary Styx potion. Only this time, the contribution of the magicians of the Mage Association was not enough.

Richard's mental power has reached 60 points, and taking the Styx potion is of no use. Wendy, Sophia, and Wendy also have mental powers above 40 points, and the effect of taking the Styx potion is only about half. Moreover, Wendy, Sophie Ya has 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 potion, it can only be reserved for magicians with greater territorial potential. However, whether Eve, Butler, or Anne, their contribution to the Mage Association is far from enough, it is impossible to be allocated a treasure of this level. .

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

After killing the legendary undead creature, which relieved a crisis for the Pryland area, Richard returned to Fort William with a large amount of seizures. Using these captured undead materials, Harland leader refined approximately 1,500 undead ray guns. Including part of the previous refining, Harland Leader already has 2,500 undead ray guns, which is more than the searing ray guns.

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

More than twenty brigades were equipped with magic firearms. This has led to a large increase in the consumption of magic crystals. After all, a piece of magic crystal can only release spells more than ten times.

In a battle, Harland would consume thousands of magic crystals.

Fortunately, in the exchange of territories this year, Harland added a medium-sized magic well dragon nest, and the number of magic crystal charges increased again to support this kind of luxurious battle.