Chapter 16 True and False News
The Sixth Squadron suffered heavy casualties and was transferred to Harden Castle by Captain Sharp to rest. Along with them, there were dozens of wounded soldiers from the Eighth Squadron.
Harden Castle is 30 kilometers west of the Pratos Mountains and forms an obtuse triangle with the Flame Castle and Pratos Castle.
With the Pratos fortress group in front, Harden Castle is already considered the rear, and the second-line troops, the City Defense Army, are now stationed in the castle.
After the Sixth Squadron was transferred here, with Baron Harden's order, the City Defense Army immediately allocated soldiers to supplement them in an organized manner. This batch of supplementary soldiers is of high quality and looks strong and tough. Two soldiers are already high-level warrior students, enough to serve as grassroots officers.
There is also a sharpshooter whose archery level has reached level three and can barely operate the enchanted crossbow to kill the enemy.
It seems that this batch of supplementary soldiers should be carefully selected. Now it is a wartime state, and the Sixth Squadron still has the order of Baron Harden, the highest commander of the defense line. The City Defense Army did not dare to neglect it and fool with new recruits.
Prevent the Sixth Squadron from complaining to the superiors and holding them accountable.
After the reinforcements came in, the Sixth Squadron was strengthened. When the wounded returned to the team, they could continue to form two squads to complete the organization.
Ron was a grassroots officer and was given priority to be treated by the priest after the battle.
After using the healing spell, his injuries have recovered by more than half and he can now move normally. He will be almost fully recovered after resting for ten days.
In this battle, Richard grabbed the heads of two professionals and gained 2,500 experience points.
"It seems that killing miscellaneous soldiers will not increase experience points. I don't know if killing professionals with lower levels than me will increase experience points after my level is increased?"
Richard thought to himself and silently opened the attribute panel.
Richard Harland
Strength: 8.7
Agility: 2.6
Physical strength: 3.8
Spirit: 9.1
Mad Lion Legion Breathing Method: Level 4 (256/10000)
Grant Kingdom Basic Swordsmanship: Level 3 (521/4000)
Archery: Level 4 (574/10000)
Riding: Level 3 (489/4000)
Northern Legion Fighting: Level 2 (581/2000)
Experience value: 2500
In recent days, Richard has been training hard, and the experience of various skills has increased slightly. However, it is still far from the advancement.
Especially the breathing method related to the professional level, I have just started to practice.
If you practice the breathing method step by step, it may take two to three years to advance.
The combat effectiveness of a professional mainly depends on attributes, equipment and skills.
When the professional level is improved, the main increase is the attribute. A good breathing method will have a slightly larger bonus to the attributes after advancement, and it also has a special killing effect of fighting spirit attributes.
Even if the breathing method of the Mad Lion Legion is not as good as the top breathing method in the Dawn Continent, the difference is not too big, and the overall evaluation is already top-notch.
It is rumored that the breathing methods practiced by the three legions in the North are all breathing methods treasured by the royal family of the Grand Duchy of Stannic.
A hundred years ago, a brutal internal struggle broke out in the Duchy of Stannic. The Jonathan family was driven out of power by the domestic nobles and exiled to the Grant Kingdom, a relative of their in-laws, and became the current Duke Jonathan family.
A part of the Jonathan family's heritage was also handed over to the Grant royal family. This includes high-level breathing methods.
The Grant royal family used these three breathing methods to mobilize some resources to establish three main legions and invested in the Northern Frontier Development War.
The Duke of Jonathan's territory, the three northern provinces, and the fortress on the southern foot of the Eagle Mountains were all spoils of victory in the development war a hundred years ago.
Richard is now in the war, and the most important thing is to enhance his combat effectiveness.
Adding 2500 experience points to the breathing method has no effect on improving combat effectiveness.
The most urgent task is to improve various skills. The archery that helps the most in combat has been upgraded to the fourth level and cannot be upgraded for the time being.
The only thing that can be upgraded now is the basic fighting skills of the Northern Legion.
Richard added 1500 experience points to the Northern Legion fighting skills, and the attribute panel changed immediately.
Fortunately, Richard added all the remaining 1,000 experience points to the breathing method of the Mad Lion Legion. This 1,000 experience points is equivalent to Richard's hard training for a month.
After adding the killing experience, Richard's attribute panel became.
Richard Harland
Strength: 8.7
Agility: 2.6
Physical strength: 3.8
Mental strength: 9.1
Mad Lion Legion Breathing Method: Level 4 (1256/10000)
Grant Kingdom Basic Swordsmanship: Level 3 (521/4000)
Archery: Level 4 (574/10000)
Riding: Level 3 (489/4000)
Northern Legion Fighting: Level 3 (81/4000)
Experience: 0
For a period of time afterwards, the Sixth Squadron has been resting in Harden Castle. Richard began to adapt to the Level 3 basic fighting technique to avoid being embarrassed on the battlefield due to unfamiliar skills.
In this way, the Sixth Squadron spent ten days of leisure time.
Suddenly Richard received news from the front that the orc army had once again launched an attack on the Pratos Fortress Group.
This time, there were as many as two and a half battalions of orcs attacking the city. Except for the battalion that was crippled last time, the other two were fresh troops.
This time, the orc army did not take any risks and chose to advance steadily.
In the past two or three days, the battle at the front has been very tense.
Richard found that the number of wounded soldiers withdrawn from the front line had increased a lot, and the total number had exceeded 300.
Among the wounded were the wounded from Baron Harden's cavalry regiment.
Through talking with the wounded, Richard heard that Baron Harden led the team to charge again, killed the sixth-level orc commander, and defeated the main orc brigade, thus stabilizing the front line and repelling the orcs.
After two defensive operations, the Eighth Brigade had suffered a total of 400 casualties. Although the front line had not lost an inch of land, it was difficult to support the defense line by relying on the Eighth Brigade to hold on.
The orcs also began to cross the Pratos Mountains and began to infiltrate into Baron Harden's territory.
The news from the front kept changing.
One moment it was said that Baron Harden was ready to abandon the Pratos castle group, and the next moment it was said that Baron Harden insisted on holding on and waiting for reinforcements.
The wounded soldiers who retreated said all kinds of things, and even Richard, who was at the battle in person, was a little confused.
In the Baron's castle, in addition to the Sixth Squadron, there were several city defense squadrons stationed. In addition, Baron Harden also left a few officers and brought some serfs to protect his family.
Not only did the city defense army not have enchanted equipment, but each squadron only had a dozen soldiers practicing breathing techniques. The backbones of the city defense army were drawn to supplement the sixth squadron, which made them suffer.
Several squadrons combined could not beat a squadron of the main army.
Even if the sixth squadron had just completed its replenishment, Richard could lead a charge to defeat hundreds of city defense troops.
The combat effectiveness of the city defense army was already very poor, and the serfs were even worse.
The serfs in the castle were not even fully equipped with weapons. Many of them held hoes and dung forks, and had very few armors and bows and arrows. Except for a few officers who looked good, they were useless. Facing the attack of the orcs, they could not play any role in the field battle and could only be used to defend the city.