Chapter 442 Legendary Undead

Although the southern Philip Earldom has experienced war, it still has 34,000 square kilometers of land and nearly 700,000 people. This territory is fertile, with moderate cold and heat and distinct four seasons. It is a very good territory. Although no nobles are willing to exchange it and it is very far away from the northern border, Richard will not give up this piece of fat meat and give it 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 Harland family to the south. Since he is unwilling to give up the Philip Earldom, he can only leave the Wilde Legion with 10,000 auxiliary soldiers to garrison. In order to deal with the Lion Cavalry of the Kingdom of Ryan, Richard also left the two-legged flying dragon and the first battalion of magic airships to ensure air superiority, so that he can discover the enemy's assembly in advance and mobilize troops for rescue.

Now the Harland family, in addition to the large tracts of territory in the northern border, also has two earldoms 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 two earls are more than 800 kilometers apart. Even if the two-legged flying dragons and lion knights are used to deliver messages, it will take 40 hours, and there is almost no way to cooperate in combat.

As for the Barondom of George, it is located in the Isaac Province. It is now considered to be in the south-central part of the Kingdom of Grant and is far away from the border.

The last territory comes from my third uncle Bernie. Bernie was promoted to the ninth rank last year. In July this year, he took over the position of the head of the Mad Lion Legion. He made contributions in the war and the new territory was sealed in the Province of Kampa.

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

After more than 20 years of development, the hard work of two generations, especially the management of Richard, William, and Bernie, the Harland family has become a great noble family second only to the royal family. Not only has it conquered a large area of ​​territory, but it has also had a deep influence in the border army.

The brothers William and Bernie successively served as the commanders of the border army. They took their soldiers to participate in the smuggling business in Harland Territory and built a large number of connections in the Grizzlies and Lion Legions. In fact, they also provided great help to Richard's expansion in the northern border.

After repelling the orcs, Richard returned to Harland Territory with the First Legion, the Demon Hunter Brigade, the Elf Archers, and the Warcraft Cavalry. Then a group of civil servants were selected and led by Ihakir to the southern part of the Kingdom of Grant to manage the local government affairs of the Earl of Philip.

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

This old man was a fruit farmer of Baron Diram twenty years ago. He became a slave after the fall of Malte Castle and was rescued by Richard after the war.

Because he showed some management skills in identifying and managing slaves, and had experience in taking care of fruit trees, he was sent by Richard to take care of brown sugar trees, and then gradually became the manager of the brown sugar industry.

Although Ihakil joined Harland Territory at an early age, he was very studious and almost self-taught. He learned the text and basic arithmetic. He also mastered the legal provisions of Harland Territory and could handle some government affairs.

In more than 20 years, Harland Territory has grown from a small border barony to a behemoth. Ihakil has also kept up with the development speed of Harland Territory and grown into a qualified senior manager, laying the foundation for the development of his own family.

Before being transferred to the Earl of Philip Territory, Ihakil had served as the governor of Wright County in Harland Territory.

This time, serving as the governor of the Earl of Philip Territory is a crucial step for Ihakil. Going up is the cabinet minister, provincial governor and governor.

This time, Richard transferred Ihakil to the south. In addition to letting him manage the territory, he also planned to let him transplant brown sugar trees in the Earl of Philip Territory. Then develop a brown sugar industrial park nearby and sell a large amount of brown sugar to the south.

After all, the distance from the Eagle Mountains to the southern part of the Grant Kingdom is several thousand kilometers, and the transportation cost is very high. Compared with the honey produced in the south, it is actually somewhat less competitive.

For example, in the Saint Sis Castle of the Delong Kingdom and the Kanas Castle of the East Coast United Kingdom, the price of brown sugar is slightly higher than that of honey because the cost of transportation and smuggling is too high. Although the price is several times higher, the profit almost falls into the hands of transportation, smuggling, and sales. Harland, the brown sugar producer, does not actually make too much income.

If the planting of brown sugar trees in the south is successful, transportation can reduce a lot of costs, and the smuggling channels do not need to be handled by border nobles. It only needs to let foreign sellers peel a layer of skin, and Harland will get the bulk of the trade income.

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

Starting from April this year, Richard led the army to the expedition and returned to the territory in November. Before he could rest for a few days, an urgent intelligence was delivered to Richard's desk.

Intelligence comes from the Prilan region. As Richard led his army south, there were more and more undead in the north of Prilan, and the pressure on the border nobles was increasing. Gradually, some of them could not bear it.

This year, the total casualties of mercenaries have been about 4,000. If it were not for the continuous replenishment of new blood, this gap could only be barely filled.

Shortly after Richard returned to Fort William, he presided over the ennoblement ceremony for two large mercenary leaders. These two barons are from the East Coast United Kingdom. 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 people who handle private matters for the main vein.

Hamilton was the leader of a bandit group, and Samp controlled a gang. Both of them came to the north of Prilan with their brothers after hearing the news of Rand's knighthood. Sure enough, after about a year of struggle, Samp and Hamilton were knighted and gained territory.

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

This time, the border barons urgently asked for help, mainly because legendary undead creatures were found in Bolton Forest.

After receiving the letter of help from the nobles in northern Prilan, Richard prepared to go to help with a small number of elite troops.

In December of the 3275th year of the Dawn Calendar, the north-south artery of Harland Territory had been fully connected. From the North Station of Black River Fort, it was easy to transport by train to the north of the Eagle Mountains.

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

Richard led the first battalion of Warcraft Cavalry, Harland's mage regiment, the demon hunter squadron, the elven archers, the second battalion of magic airships and other troops, the Lion Cavalry, first took the train to the Samba River Station, then crossed the frozen Samba River, and entered the Berani Castle before the Goddess's birthday.

In this year's war, although the Harland Lion Cavalry suffered some casualties, it also captured a lot of prisoners to replenish, and with the newly enlisted Lions, it expanded by more than a dozen.

Now the number of Lion Cavalry has increased to 120. The number of adult Lion Cavalry of the Grant Royal Family has also increased to about 80.

Although the Lion Cavalry of the two countries has increased a little, it is far less than that of the Kingdom of Ryan. Although there have been a lot of casualties in various directions this year, the establishment of the Lion Cavalry of the Kingdom of Ryan has not decreased.

With the scale of Lion Ducks in the Kingdom of Ryan, forty adult Lion Ducks can be bred in a year. In the past, the scale was maintained at 300, mainly to save resources, because 300 Lion Ducks were enough to fight against the orcs.

Now with the opponent of Grant Kingdom, the Kingdom of Ryan has issued a decree to prohibit the export of Lion Ducks and to expand the Lion Duck Cavalry to 1,000 within 15 years to regain the air advantage and completely annihilate the opponent in the air.

The Lion Duck Cavalry of Harland has only increased slightly. According to the current population size, more than ten Lion Ducks can be bred in a year at most, and the number of Wyverns is even smaller, and only three to five can be supplemented each year. If you want to quickly increase the number of flying soldiers, you can only rely on magic airships and magic hot air balloons.

In October this year, the second magic airship brigade of Harland was formed, and this was the first time to participate in combat missions.

With the Lion Duck Cavalry and magic airships performing reconnaissance missions, the battlefield situation was quickly understood.

It is true as the nobles of Prilan said, a group of more than 100,000 undead appeared inside the Bolton Forest.

Bolton Forest is the name of the wizard era, and it is very old.

Harland has mastered the ancient map of the Opharan region. Because of the war of gods in the wizard era, the ancient map has a large error compared with modern geography.

There are still large areas of primeval forest in the north of the prairie and the south of the northern ice field.

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

Although Harland has pushed its sphere of influence beyond the Samba River, it actually only controls a few areas near Prilan. There are large areas of unowned land in the east and west of Prilan. If the actual control of the territory is pushed from east to west to the Prilan line, at least 600,000 square kilometers of land can be added. If it is pushed to the Bolton Forest, the area of ​​the Duke of Harland will expand to about 2 million square kilometers.

In this area, Richard has defeated the Eastern Front of the Orcs and there will be no competitors in the short term. The only factor that limits the expansion speed of Harland Territory is insufficient population.

In this year's war, Harland Territory seized a large area of ​​land and increased its population by about 2 million. However, 700,000 people are in the south, and the direct population in the northern border area, plus the orc captives rescued by Richard from the Grand Duchy of Stannic, is only more than 9.4 million. Including the population controlled by the vassal, it is just over 10 million.

Although 10 million people is not a small number, Harland Territory controls more than 1 million square kilometers of land. 10 million people are far from mature. There are still many wastelands in the territory. The eastern provinces in the coastal areas have not been developed, not to mention the prairie in the north of the Eagle Mountains.

It will probably take a long time for Harland Territory to extend its tentacles to Bolton Forest.

The undead creatures coming down from the northern ice field have been controlled by the wisdom maze for many years and can only move by instinct. Although there are many undead, they are not difficult to deal with because they don't have much wisdom.

The nine barons on the border can't solve it, just because they don't have enough power.

Now Richard came to reinforce, and with the legendary master Sylph, they were able to withstand the legendary skeleton in terms of high-level combat power.

Richard let the Border Baron Army act as bait, constantly eliminating waves of undead creatures, and fought several beautiful battles in a row, killing more than 100,000 undead creatures.

Harland's army killed tens of thousands of undead professionals alone.

In these 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 nest three times, enough for Harland to use for three to five years.

Although the undead in the dead world are all professionals, the probability of producing soul crystals is higher, but the risk of hunting undead in the dead world is also very high, because there are undead lords and legendary liches in the dead world. Once the traces are leaked and the plane channel is exposed, it will be a big trouble for the Dawn Plane.

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

Because of their low IQ, the undead kept falling into the traps set by Harland. The number of undead under the command of the legendary skeleton was decreasing, and gradually only about 20,000 to 30,000 remained.

The last 20,000 to 30,000 undead were eaten by Harland. Soon the legendary undead became a lonely man and died at the hands of Sylph, Sophia and Richard.

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

Richard's mental power has reached 60 points, so taking the Styx potion is useless. Wendy, Sofia, and Wendy's mental power also exceeds 40 points. Taking the Styx potion has only about half the effect. Moreover, Wendy and Sofia have already taken a legendary Styx potion. Taking it again can only increase magic power by 15 points, which is better than nothing.

In order to maximize the value of the Styx potion, it can only be left to magicians with greater potential in the territory. However, whether it is Eve, Butler, or Anne, their contribution to the Mage Association is far from enough, and it is impossible to get this level of treasure.

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

After killing the legendary undead creature, it is considered to have resolved a crisis for the Prilan area. Richard returned to Fort William with a large amount of captured items. With these captured undead materials, Harland Lord refined about 1,500 undead ray guns. In addition to the part refined before, Harland Lord already has 2,500 undead ray guns, which is more than the number of scorching ray guns.

There are now more than 4,500 soldiers using magic guns.

More than 20 battalions are equipped with magic guns. This has led to a significant increase in the consumption of magic crystals. After all, one magic crystal can only release more than ten spells.

In a battle, Harland Territory will consume about several thousand magic crystals.

Fortunately, this year when the territory was exchanged, Harland Territory added a medium-sized magic well dragon nest, and the number of magic crystals charged increased again to support this kind of luxurious battle.