The Lord of the Rings: Lords of Middle-earth.

Chapter 752 The Great Expedition

Five years was enough time for a lot of things to happen. Roland's Lagrande Kingdom was temporarily on the right track. The only thing that bothered Roland was that the main quest had been changed due to the system restart update, otherwise Roland would have been able to get the reward by now. After all, the area from the Rapids City to the southern part of the Lulong Fortress was firmly controlled by the kingdom. Towns were springing up one after another. These small towns distributed along the banks of the Rapids River could be said to be the kingdom's current blood warehouse. They controlled large tracts of villages and farmland to provide blood transfusions to the Rapids City and the Lulong Fortress.

As for Roland's vassals... in fact, the only two who have real potential for development are Duke Apophis Breo and Lord Ismir. Five years of ups and downs have trained them to be able to stand on their own.

As a die-hard fan of the Misty Mountains, Lord Apophis Breo has inherited the King's Landing family's spirit of fighting to the end, and has fully demonstrated the nature of a stubborn King's Landing. No matter how harassed he was by monsters, orcs, goblins and other creatures, he refused to move, but instead tirelessly reinforced the King's Landing Fortress. As a result, the refugee refresh mechanism really allowed the boy to survive. With a population of nearly 3000 and elite soldiers, Apophis Breo directly divided the Misty Mountains into two, cutting off the connection between the northern and southern mountains. With Rivendell behind him, Apophis Breo had no fear and communicated with the orcs several times. However, due to the last Forbidden War that beat the Ringwraiths of Gumbadar Fortress to vomit blood, Apophis Breo felt like a monkey is king when there is no tiger in the mountain.

However, the benefits of Apophis Breo's control of the Old Pass are obvious. Mordor's control area is directly divided by the entire Raglan Kingdom - Woodland Kingdom - Beorn Territory - King's Landing Territory - Rivendell! The connection between the northern region's Gunbadda Fortress and the Orc Kingdom of the Misty Mountains and Mordor was cut off. Although there are many loopholes in this line of defense, especially the territory of the Beorn people, it is impossible to block their own territory with just a Rosgar Castle Fortress. Fortunately, the assistance of the woodland elves is barely acceptable. After the entire line of defense was opened, the northern orc army could no longer go south recklessly. If they wanted to go south quietly, they could only choose to go to the northern wasteland to bypass the Dongyi and turn into Mordor. It's not that Roland looked down on the orcs, but with the orcs' organizational ability, it is estimated that there would be few people left when they reached Dongyi.

Of course, there is also a representative of "mediocre", Lord Ysmir, who sat on Windhelm Castle and was a mature Middle-earth sticky candy. He was praised by King Roland more than once for his true teachings. With a population of less than 5000, the Lord's territory had a 300-man professional army (Nature Guardians) and Goblin Knights! He can be regarded as a representative of the new era of the kingdom's lords who are aggressive! It was probably because Windhelm Castle, which was still Windhelm Town three years ago, was plundered by wandering trolls. After hundreds of soldiers were killed and injured, Lord Ysmir suddenly realized in the ruins of Windhelm Town, and the gears of fate began to turn from then on!

Ysmir led Ymir and the surviving subjects to rebuild Windhelm Town and expand it into Windhelm City. Then, as if he had opened up his Ren and Du meridians, he maxed out his skills in guerrilla warfare, looting, and fighting to support the war. He led the Goblin Knights who came and went like the wind deep into the Dark Forest to forage for grass and valleys, and he was truly a nomadic person... Then, he shouted the slogan "Where the enemy can go, I can go too" on the ruins of Windhelm City, and became the Little Khan of the Dark Forest.

After turning into a "werewolf", Ysmir forced all the foreign tribes within a radius of hundreds of miles to migrate. The most ridiculous thing was that he became the first ally in the entire alliance to attack the Dol Guldur Fortress after the Battle of Windhelm (the battle where Sernar defected). Due to the powerful deterrent power of the Kingdom of Lagran, Khamul and Lidillias, who were worried about a fraud, had to endure their anger and just watched Ysmir and the Goblin Knights shit on their heads without making any noise... In fact, Ysmir didn't even know that he had reached Dol Guldur. Ysmir, who inherited Roland's unique buff of getting lost, didn't realize that he had rushed back and forth to Dol Guldur until he bumped into the door of the Star Elves' house...

  In this way, Ismir became the one who had to escape from the Dark Forest. He finally calmed down after being chased by a group of armored earth dragons. However, he had already recorded the territories of those earth dragons in his little notebook, and planned to join forces with the king to deal a trick on him when the time comes!

It would be good if things develop in this way, but unfortunately Roland is destined not to be a peaceful person. With the primary city in his hand, there is no reason for Roland to give up the control of Raglan Plain. He has to pin down the position of Raglan City and defend it well so that the orcs south of the Rapids cannot get through. There are also patrols of the Iron Hill Dwarves to watch over the north. The entire vast Raglan Plain will become the biggest blood bag in the north. Roland dares to say that I can fight you like this for a year relying on the Raglan Plain!

So Roland chose to start a great expedition for the kingdom! This was destined to be a battle as grand as the Battle of Azanulbizar!

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"The Vanguard Knights have set off! General Omsk and the knights are leading the way!" Renault tightened his armor and said.

"The kingdom is in trouble for you! Do your duty! Protect the kingdom for me!" Roland patted Renault's shoulder gently.

"I will! As long as I'm alive, Lulong Fortress will not fall! The same goes for Jiliu City. Lord Yunfeng will protect Jiliu City!" Renault saluted Roland with a knight's salute and looked to the north. Yunfeng stayed in Jiliu City and did not come to Lulong Fortress, but Adolf Heinrich followed.

"Isn't the remaining strength of the kingdom too weak? Our high-level professionals have all followed me on the Eastern Expedition..." Roland frowned. After all, the top combat forces of the kingdom had been taken away by him. Only Renault and Dos Anthony were left in Lulong Fortress. The situation in Jiliu City was better because in addition to Yun Feng and old man Adile, there was also Ajax left behind. The rest of the high-end combat forces had basically been drained by Roland.

"Compared to the high-level combat power, I am more worried about the soldiers..." Renault complained to Roland with a dark face.

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