Chapter 57 Outpost Battle 2

In today's battle, Richard made accurate judgments. He took advantage of the orc squadron's carelessness and seized the opportunity to wipe out an orc squadron with superior forces, chopping off more than a hundred orc heads. [6][9][s][h][u][x][.][c][o][m]

He also captured more than 40 orc captives. Only about ten orcs escaped from the battlefield.

After the battle, Richard immediately counted the casualties and used healing magic for the injured soldiers.

The Harland territory is still under development, and no priests of the Dawn Church have been stationed there for the time being.

Although there are many priests of the Dawn Church, they are scattered in dozens of countries and are far from enough.

If you want priests to enter the territory, you need to build a good relationship with the church.

The Harland family has no relationship with the church, and the priests don't want to come to the desolate territory to suffer.

Besides, Richard has made some reforms in the territory, and he doesn't want outsiders to enter.

There are two magicians, Richard and Wendy, in the territory, which is enough to use healing magic for the people and soldiers.

"Three soldiers from the first squadron were killed, six were injured, and two were seriously injured."

"Four soldiers from the second squadron were killed, two were seriously injured, and seven were slightly injured."

After the battle, Martin and Heyman reported the casualties to Richard one after another.

More than 20 casualties, and a complete squadron of orcs was annihilated. Richard was very satisfied with this exchange ratio.

Besides, the seriously injured ones did not have broken arms or legs, and they could recover after a few months of rest.

After experiencing the war, the wounded soldiers will gain more combat experience and their combat effectiveness will also be enhanced.

After this battle, Richard's impression of Martin changed slightly.

If he continued to play tricks today and did not take the initiative to intercept the orc squadron leader, causing Wendy to have an accident, Richard might enforce battlefield discipline after the war and chop off his head.

Fortunately, Martin took responsibility, and Richard did not need to kill a chicken to scare the monkey.

Richard did not intend to let Wendy participate in this battle today, but Wendy took the initiative to ask to participate.

As a noble in the North, he will inevitably experience various battles in his life.

Seeing Wendy volunteering to fight, Richard agreed to her request.

Before the battle, Richard arranged for Jennings to protect Wendy, so that she could cast spells in the safest place and feel the atmosphere of the battlefield in person.

Unexpectedly, after the battle, Wendy went to the front row to cast spells conveniently and became the primary hunting target of the orc captain.

If Martin had not restrained the orc captain, relying on Jennings, he would never be a match for Haru Finn.

In today's battle, Richard killed two orc professionals and gained 3,000 experience points.

It has been four months since killing the rhinoceros. In the past four months, Richard has improved all his skills and learned a new first-level spell, freezing ray.

Recently, Richard is still learning grease.

Although he has become a second-level magician, he has not learned any second-level spells yet.

Including the magic knowledge exchanged with Sofia, the Harland family has collected six second-level spells.

However, the magic patterns of second-level spells are more complicated, and it takes a long time to learn a second-level spell. It is more cost-effective to learn more practical first-level magic.

This battle killed eight orc professionals and wiped out a squadron of orcs.

Richard stripped off the orc materials that could be used and sent the heads to the Black River Fort City Hall to ask for credit from his superiors.

When he served in the Mad Lion Legion, he only needed to send the orc heads to the Legion Headquarters.

Now that he has left the Mad Lion Legion and become a noble private army, the fiefdom of the Harland family is under the jurisdiction of Black River County. If there is a war, the baron's private army will also be under the command of the Black River County Mayor.

The Black River County Mayor also needs to send the orc heads to Lightburg, the capital of Geda Province, and after verification by the provincial governor, send them to the Noble Council for signature and seal, and the war credits will be issued.

The local area is different from the military. The military structure is relatively simple. Everything is for victory. The certification of war credits is very fast, and basically fairness can be guaranteed.

The local area is more scattered, and there is also a county level, which often requires some management. The noble lords have established connections, and the war credits can be recognized and issued smoothly.

However, the Northern Frontier has been experiencing war for many years, and the Council of Nobles attaches great importance to the affairs here.

Once the nobles are angered, they will complain at the noble meeting and let the upper class of the Kingdom of Grant hear it. The provincial governor will also be in trouble and can only deal with the people below to calm the anger of the nobles.

Therefore, the officials who check the heads and issue military merits will not be too excessive.

In short, how to grasp the scale?

How do nobles and bureaucrats play games? It is a relatively deep knowledge, and no one can easily cross the line.

If you cross the unspoken rules that are tacitly agreed by each other, you will be targeted by most people and there will be no good results.

Richard is more introverted and is not good at managing personal connections and building relationships.

This time, I went to Black River Fort to ask for merit, and I still relied on William to smooth the relationship.

For several consecutive days, more than fifty gold coins were spent, and gifts were given to five or six heavyweight bureaucrats. Finally, the correct message came from the City Hall of Black River County.

This operation was not very meaningful, but it got off to a good start and actually eliminated a squadron of orcs. The Council of Nobles also wanted to get a good start, and generously gave Richard a medium merit.

Eight orc professional heads, one level three, two level two, and five level one, exchanged for a medium merit and two minor merits.

Among them, Richard killed a level three wolf-headed man and a level two dog-headed man, and obtained five minor merits.

Heyman killed a level two wild boar man and was awarded two minor merits.

Wendy killed a first-level minotaur and a first-level wolf-headed man, and was awarded two minor merits.

Bradrick and Vincent each killed a first-level dog-headed man and were awarded a minor merit.

The last first-level wild boar died at the hands of senior warrior student Pierce.

Heyman is already quite old, and his two sons have average talents and have just entered the Grant Kingdom Knight Academy. Now he has no plans to accumulate merits to advance to hereditary nobles, but instead plans to use merits to exchange for some money to buy some land for his children.

Heyman used two minor merits to exchange for ten acres of paddy fields and twenty acres of dry fields in his territory.

Bradrick, Vincent, and Pierce are all slave soldiers.

Bradrick is a contract servant with a relatively high status, and Richard rewarded him with a bottle of Tenghui potion.

Vincent and Pierce are not free yet. They can achieve what they have today because the Harland family spent resources to cultivate them.

Now Vincent has become a professional, and his status has been upgraded to a contract servant. He needs to serve the Harland family for ten years before he can be free.

Pierce is still an ordinary slave soldier, and he doesn't even have a salary.

In order to boost morale, Richard gave the soldiers a salary after the war, and each soldier was given a salary of six silver coins.

Pierce killed the orc professional, and Richard rewarded him with ten gold coins.

As a soldier born as a serf, Pierce was already satisfied with getting ten gold coins.

This battle won two medium merits and two small merits, all of which were counted in the name of the Harland family.