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

Chapter 858 The Gradually Calming Year 2952

"Ugh! Puff!" Ruhl vomited and then squeezed out a mouthful of river water from his stomach.

"Ugh!" Ruhl's face suddenly changed as he vomited, and then he spit out a small fish about one finger long from his mouth with a strange look on his face.

"Dragon God! Be careful!" Roland shook his head speechlessly.

"Caslo! Get someone to reinforce this place!" Roland shook his head. The wooden docks might indeed have insufficient load-bearing capacity. In addition, this was a flat river bank, and the silt was very soft, so it was not surprising that the docks would sink.

"Let's go! Come with me into the city to change clothes, and leave the rest to the guys and soldiers!" Roland pulled Ruhl up and walked towards the city without saying a word.

Roland dragged the dizzy Ruhl into the city of Lagrande like a puppet, and then threw him to the servants. The servants would help Ruhl to appear in front of Roland decently again.

Sure enough, after a while, Ruhl came over with still wet hair.

"Greetings, Your Majesty!" Ruhl knelt on one knee, touched his chest and expressed his loyalty to Roland. This was the first time that Ruhl entered the capital since the liberation of Lagrande City. In the past, the transportation of materials was completed by Kaslo with space equipment!
"Get up, no need to be polite! I'm quite surprised that Nyx asked you to come this time!" Roland said with emotion.

"Her Majesty means that we need to use this artery. After all, the Rapid River is our mother river. The convenience and low cost of shipping are incomparable advantages. We must learn to get used to restoring the transportation function of the Rapid River. We can't always let the dragon knights serve as the transport team, right?" Ruhl smiled and stood up.

"Well, she has a point, but I still have to thank you for overcoming all kinds of difficulties and opening up the route. Did you encounter any danger along the way?" Roland asked with concern.

"No, His Majesty Mogus is accompanying the team to escort the transport, and he has killed several magical beasts that showed up!" Rul shook his head and smiled.

"Mogus is here? Why didn't I see him?" Roland turned his head and looked behind Ruhl.

"He should be at the back, right? His Majesty Mogus guarded the fleet all night last night, so he might not be up yet!" Ruhl nodded.

"What? Were we ambushed by monsters?" Roland touched his nose.

"It's not a monster! It's the orcs from the south bank!" Ruhl smiled bitterly.

"That's it!" Ruhl took out a bone arrowhead and handed it to Roland.

"We are often harassed by these orcs along the way. Although they can't cause any harm, they are indeed annoying!" Ruhl shrugged speechlessly. After all, it was really disgusting to have a bunch of sticky candies sticking to him!
"Then you didn't think of chasing them away?" Roland asked curiously. His armed caravan was no pushover! This was an armed caravan! "Use it! There is no other use except wasting crossbows!" Ruel shrugged. It was not cost-effective to use the kingdom's expensive crossbows to shoot at those orcs who only had canoes!
"And I found that many orcs started to sneak across the north bank! I have written a letter and sent it to the Lulong Fortress by carrier pigeon! I hope General Renault can send troops to clean it up!" Ruhl sighed.

"The orcs have crossed the river?" Roland frowned. He was lucky that he didn't go looking for trouble with them! But the orcs actually dared to come here to seek death?

"Yes! They crossed the river! I saw several groups of wandering orcs that had successfully crossed the river and some were preparing to cross the river! His Majesty Mogus has rendered them harmless!" Ruhl nodded, smiled and said the coldest words.

"The most serious one is Beidu Fort! The water flow in that area is gentle, and the orcs can easily cross the wide fast-flowing river!" After looking at the sand table in Roland's side hall command center, Ruhl immediately walked over happily to point out the location to Roland.

"No wonder!" Roland nodded in understanding. As the largest and most gentle ferry in the north, Beidu, the crossing conditions there were originally very good! Beidu Castle was developed precisely because of Beidu. Unexpectedly, the orcs actually used these terrain advantages before them!
"The garrison of Beidu Fort is..." Roland frowned, and suddenly couldn't remember who was stationed in Beidu Fort.

"It's Baron Lance!" Ruhl said respectfully. He was currently just a lord who had just joined the ranks of the nobility, and he was still very envious of Lance who was destined to be a hereditary baron.

"Lance! That's fine! He's very steady!" Roland breathed a sigh of relief. As the most stable person in the kingdom, Lance didn't have any outstanding qualities. In other words, he was mediocre and cautious. But Roland liked mediocre and cautious people as his subordinates. Although they might not have any flashes of inspiration, they could still do the work perfectly! In short, he didn't seek merit, but only avoid mistakes!
He trusts Lance Rolland very much. After all, he is his old man. Although his abilities are much worse, he is still a qualified consul!
"But Baron Lance doesn't have many soldiers under his command, so he probably needs to ask for help!" Ruhl shook his head and was not optimistic about Lance alone. After all, the vast territory of Beidu Castle needed to be cleared, and Lance couldn't monitor every hostile target with the few troops he had!
"Then leave it to Renault. After all, Lance's current military strength has no problem protecting itself!" Considering that there were only a few scattered orcs, and Renault's Lulong Fortress was blocking him, Roland decided to leave everything to them. After all, he was not a master of micro-control, and he couldn't give a stupid order to move the shield 5 meters to the left. Roland, who firmly believed in the saying that everyone has his own expertise, readily left the tactical decision to his subordinates.

"That's fine!" Ruel nodded, but he didn't say anything. After all, Roland was after the entire Lagrande Plain, not the narrow strip of land along the Rapid River! So the probability of the kingdom taking a defensive stance was extremely low!

"Is there any big event in Rapid City?" Roland looked at Ruel curiously.

"There's nothing like that in Stormwind, but there was a joke in Windhelm. Baron Ismir wanted to save materials to build buildings, so processing and utilizing wood was the best option. A large number of wooden buildings were soaked and rotted after the heavy rain in the past few days, and as a result, the city walls collapsed!" Rul said embarrassedly, covering his face.

The new city area expanded by Ishmir still could not escape the erosion of rivers and rainwater. This is the embarrassment of saving stone in wooden and stone structure buildings.

"..." Roland was so embarrassed that he almost jumped out of the castle. Don't they know that carbonizing the wood can increase its lifespan?

"Oh, by the way! There has also been a truce in the Lion Territory!" Rul said seriously. Apophis Breo, who had been fighting the orcs from the Misty Mountains for a long time, finally ceased fire in the autumn of this year. It was not because he was scared, but because Apophis Breo found that developing people's livelihood was more important than beating up the orcs.

"Oh my God! Thank God! These two are finally safe and sound! I hope they can spend the year 2952 of the Third Age well!" Roland sighed. After all, it was beyond Roland's expectation that these two warmongers had been fighting for so long. Although the intermittent small fights were not very noticeable, the degree of bloodletting on the orcs would definitely surprise them when they came to their senses!
"Who said it wasn't! Duke Apophis Breo has even dragged the elves into this for a long time! I guess the elves in the valley don't want to fight anymore." Rul covered his face with his hands while laughing.

"Tsk! He dragged all the elves of Rivendell into this?" Roland couldn't help but give a thumbs up.