Lord Harland.

Chapter 249 Flanking Defensive Battle One
Pratt let the orcs camp at the foot of the mountain five miles away from the Fortress. After nightfall, he climbed up the hillside. Relying on his night vision talent, he continued to observe the defenders of the Fortress to see if he could find any flaws.

The torch swayed gently in the night wind, and red sparks burst out from the top of the torch. Soldiers were constantly patrolling the walls of the fortress. The iron armor reflected light under the moonlight. The soldiers were orderly and without any panic.

Pratt was very patient. He waited until the second half of the night and witnessed with his own eyes that the defenders of the Fort Garrison completed two defense changes.

He thought to himself: "The defenders should be stationed every four hours. Every time the defense is changed, it is quiet and there is no panic at all. There are elite soldiers stationed, and the night attack seems to have no chance of winning."

The night was like water and looked very peaceful, but Platt was distraught.

Pratt observed the whole night, and he was very clear in his heart that although the military depot was quiet, it was full of murderous intent.

Facing the complete city defense fortifications, if you attack the castle rashly, you will inevitably suffer bloodshed and no casualties.

However, the orc army arranged for the Platt Army to fight in this direction, and there was no room for bargaining at all.The combat mission of Platt's Legion is to find a way to break through the defense line of Harland's territory and disrupt the northern area of ​​Fort Heihe.

On the front line of the battlefield, Platt knew in his heart that the orc headquarters had underestimated the strength of Harland's territory, and it might be very difficult to achieve the strategic goal.

Early the next morning, Platt sent the harpy to scout the deployment of the troops in Harland's territory.

The invisible people scattered out and entered the sky above Harland's territory, and some even flew to the side of Black River Fort to investigate the situation of the Northern Army.

Now there is a magic hot air balloon in the territory of Harland. When the harpy flies over the barracks, the magic hot air balloon can be launched into the air to fight and force back the small number of harpy.

There are sharp archers on top of the magic hot air balloon. It usually takes four to six harpies to attack from all directions to destroy a magic hot air balloon. During the attack, the harpy will be shot and killed by the sharp archers.

Even if the magic hot air balloon is blown up with an energy missile, the members of the magic hot air balloon team are equipped with parachutes, so it is not easy to kill the magic hot air balloon crew.

It is difficult for harpies to reproduce. There are only 120 harpies in an orc army. It takes a few harpies to shoot down a magic hot air balloon.

After a few aerial battles, as soon as the harpy found the magic hot air balloon rising into the sky, he immediately used his speed advantage to leave far away to avoid fighting the magic hot air balloon.

In addition, the reconnaissance brigade of the Harland Territory has the magic beast cavalry as the backbone. The magic beast cavalry has very strong combat effectiveness, and they are not afraid of the harpies hunting and blocking, and the scope of intelligence and reconnaissance has expanded a lot.

Although the intelligence and reconnaissance of the orcs is still at a disadvantage, compared with a few years ago, the situation has greatly improved.

In this battle of the orc invasion, the army in the territory of Harland also had a certain amount of intelligence on the battlefield.I also have a general understanding of the movement of the orc army.

Pratt attaches great importance to intelligence work, and must investigate clearly the situation of the army in Harland's territory. Even if some harpy scouts are lost, they waited for six days at the barracks.

Within six days, the Harpy carefully scouted Heihe County, and even flew into the Dragon Canyon, scouted the mobilization of the Grant Kingdom Knight Academy, and completed the assembly.Lord Canyon and the nobles of Brenner County also organized a coalition to reinforce the northern front.

After analyzing the situation, Platt believes that the fighter plane has not yet appeared.

Fighting the soldiers of Harland's territory now is simply reckless.Even if there were heavy casualties and the fort was conquered, Fort William stood in the way.

If you fight one castle after another, even if you wipe out your own army, it will be difficult to penetrate Harland's territory.When the Northern Territory Legion, the Cavalry Regiment of the Knight Academy, and the Allied Forces of the Nobles of the Gerda Province were mobilized, their legion would inevitably be encircled and wiped out.

Platt had no backing in the upper echelon of the Orc Empire, and it was able to climb to the position of legion commander because of its cunning and combat skills.

Since the fighter plane did not appear, Platt withstood the pressure. He chose to camp in the north of the military depot and had no plans to attack the city.

The number of soldiers under Li Cha's command is relatively small, and even with the help of alchemy bombs in a field battle against the orc army, there is not much chance of winning.

Both sides responded with inaction, time passed day by day, and April entered in a blink of an eye.

In mid-April, the first turning point suddenly appeared in the war situation.

The orc commander on the eastern front adopted tactics of besieging Eagle Fort, and the main force was hidden in the south of Eagle Fort, luring the Grizzly Legion into a decisive battle.

The Grizzly Legion couldn't hold back, fearing that Eagle Fort would fall, and rushed to reinforce it when they were not strong enough.

In this battle, the orc army successfully defeated the Grizzly Legion.The Grizzly Legion lost six brigades, and even the Beast Cavalry brigade lost more than half of its troops.

The Grizzly Bear Legion is the backbone of the main force in Lahe Province. After the main army was defeated, the situation in Lahe Province suddenly became very bad.

The first person to suffer was Richard's neighbor, Viscount Nelson.

Although Viscount Nelson's resistance was very fierce, and it could be said that the battle was the last one, but the strength of the two sides was too great. In late April, Flynn Castle fell, and the orcs broke through the Heihe defense line, and they could break through to Heihe without any worries. to the south.

Flynn Castle is the main castle of Viscount Nelson. Its status is similar to that of Fort William in Harland. West to avoid war.

There were as many as [-] refugees who fled from Viscount Nelson to Graveson Castle, including [-] soldiers of the Nelson family.

After receiving the information, Li Cha hurried to Graveson Castle, and resolutely drove away the members of the Nelson family and incorporated [-] soldiers.

Members of the Nelson family all have noble status, and Roland has no authority to deal with them at all.If he wanted to swallow this army of soldiers and the refugees in Nelson's territory, he had to ask Richard to do it himself.

Richard is a hereditary viscount, higher in status than the remaining members of the Nelson family, and a reserve major general, the supreme commander of a strategic direction.

The northern part of the Heihe Fort area is the war zone under the jurisdiction of Li Cha.

As long as he is not a hereditary nobleman, Li Cha has the authority to kill first and play later.

Richard personally rushed to Graveson Castle to preside over the reorganization of the army, and the remaining members of the Nelson family did not dare to stop them.

If they were chirping, they were not Viscount Nelson, they had their heads chopped off by Richard, and they had no place to seek justice.

These Nelson family members were all kicked out of the army by Richard.

Without the interference of this group of people, Harland's territory successfully swallowed [-] soldiers.

Viscount Nelson is on the front line, and the pressure to defend against the orcs is very high. The soldiers in the territory will basically practice breathing as long as they have the conditions.These 300 soldiers have the quality of more than [-], which can be compared with the soldiers of Harland Territory.

In addition to more than 600 soldiers, the [-] refugees were a windfall that was swallowed by Harland's territory. Of course, it was impossible to return it to the successor, Viscount Nelson.

The remnants of the Nelson family planned to take refuge in the powerful Harland territory, but they didn't expect Richard to eat people without spitting out their bones.

The population and soldiers were wiped out by the territory of Harland, which naturally made the members of the Nelson family angry. Some young people even threatened to sue themselves in the noble council, but were beaten and stopped by their parents.

It is now a period of war, and Li Cha is the supreme commander of the Gravessen area. At this time, he has lost his head, and there is no reason at all.

Annoyed Richard, killing all the remnants of the Nelson family can be pushed to the orcs. Whether the members of the Nelson family can survive is actually up to Richard.

The hereditary nobles in northern Xinjiang live in a very harsh environment. Li Cha led troops to fight at the age of 16, and it has been 12 years now.

In the past 12 years, the situation in northern Xinjiang has changed. Some nobles climbed up and were promoted to titles, while some nobles and their families died.There are also nobles who lost their territories, got a sum of money and moved to the capital, lost their noble status, and the efforts of several generations were ruined.

If the Harland family can grow and develop, Richard will naturally not be merciful at critical times.

As long as the members of the Nelson family are obedient, Richard does not intend to do anything wrong.

Regarding the tragic situation of the Nelson family, Li Cha also felt a little hurt.Although he devoured the soldiers and population of Nelson's territory, he had no intention of killing the members of the Nelson family.

The young people in the Nelson family didn't know that the noble council was a tool for the great nobles to bargain with the Grant royal family.Small nobles actually don't have much authority in the noble council.

The strength of the Harland family has reached the standard of a great noble, and the treatment in the noble council is also extraordinary.

The Nelson family went to the aristocratic council to sue, and there was a feeling that someone in the hall sued the lord for why.

Even if the aristocratic council made a judgment against Harland's territory, when the population was returned, it was justified and justified, and it could be negotiated when it was executed.

You say that this person is a serf of the Nelson family, but they say no, how do you prove it?

Is it possible to use a soldering iron to brand a mark, which is also easy to destroy.

Besides, the territory of Harland covers more than 8000 square kilometers, and now has a population of nearly 30. How to find the serfs of Viscount Nelson is also very difficult?

It is estimated that in the end it will be a mess and let Li Cha return some population.

With a population of more than 7000, a few thousand can be returned at most.

Ordinary serfs, of course, would stay in Harland's territory.Even if the free people were reduced to indentured slaves, it would be safer to stay in the territory of Harland.

Only the middle and upper strata of Nelson's territory, who have broken bones and tendons with the Nelson family, can follow the Nelson family and rebuild the territory.

These people used to live in good conditions, but being reduced to contract slaves is very different. They must not accept such a change in their hearts.Li Cha was also unwilling to let them stay in Harland's territory. He harbored resentment and caused messy things to affect the development of the territory.

This group of people was screened out by Richard. There were more than [-] people in total, and they were all taken away by the Nelson family.As for some of the gold and silver that the members of the Nelson family carried, Richard was not greedy.

This sum of gold and silver, which adds up to about [-] gold coins, is the capital for the Nelson family to turn around.

When the Harland family managed the territory, the initial capital was only a few thousand, and they borrowed some from relatives, which was only [-].

If the succeeding Viscount Nelson is very capable, he still has a chance to stand up.

The Viscounty of Nelson fell, and the eastern part of Harland's territory became the front line. Although [-] Nelson family soldiers were recruited, the strength to defend Graveson Castle was still weak, and Graveson had become the weak point of the defense line.

Realizing that the war situation had changed and the defense line was weak, Li Cha immediately chose to seek help from Heihe Fort.

Because the war situation was not serious, Heihe Fort dispatched [-] city defense troops as the first wave of reinforcements.

Because he didn't trust the remnants of the Nelson family, Richard dismantled the six hundred soldiers and added them to the six brigades in Harland's territory, and then transferred four infantry squadrons to Graveson Castle as an organizational system.After completing this step, Graveson Castle already had nine infantry squadrons, six auxiliary squadrons, and the number of defenders had exceeded two thousand.

Li Cha had just completed the rectification in Gravesen, and the Northern Frontier Corps received a request for help from Feiyan Castle.

After the defeat of the Grizzly Legion, the situation in Lahe Province became very bad.

Although the Kingdom of Grant invested the strongest force in the province of Lahe, with one main force and two second-tier legions, the orcs also invested four legions in the province of Lahe, the number of which exceeded [-].

Now seven orc brigades restrain the defenders of Flying Eagle Castle, and six brigades are approaching Grizzly Castle to fight against the remnants of the Grizzly Legion.The four brigades dispersed and looted in the northern part of Lahe province.

A main army went south to attack Feiyan Castle, and thirteen brigades gathered in the southern part of Viscount Nelson's territory. They would invade Gerda province at any time, attack the direction of Heihebao, and contain the main northern army of Gerda province.

The strategic location of Feiyanbao is very important, and it is the most important strategic stronghold in the eastern part of Gerda province.

The castle is located on the north bank of the Wright River and entered Wright County, the core territory of the Gedda Province, by water.If Feiyan Castle cannot be defended, Wright Castle is also in danger of falling.

Fort Wright is located in the hinterland of Gerda Province, and apart from the Cavalry Regiment of the Knight Academy, there is no strong army nearby.

This is the most affluent area in Gerda Province, and it is also the territory directly under the Grant royal family. Wright County has a population of hundreds of thousands.

If Wright County falls, Nolan will definitely be held accountable.

After receiving Feiyanbao's request for help, although the head of the Arab Army was under a lot of pressure, he still decided to send reinforcements to help the Feiyan Army maintain the situation.

Compared with the main army, the number of soldiers in the second-line army is only [-], and there are no magic beast cavalry and mage regiments in the establishment, and the weapons and equipment are also inferior.

The most important thing is the will to fight, the combat experience, the second-line legion is not as good as the main force.

The Feiyan Legion's [-] soldiers were no match for the [-] elite soldiers from the Harland Territory even in positional warfare.Facing the attack of a complete orc army, the Feiyan army couldn't stand it for too long.

(End of this chapter)