Chapter 76 Dividing the Spoils

After the war, Richard immediately ordered to clean up the battlefield, count the casualties, and treat the wounded with all efforts.

The supplies looted by the orcs had not been seized yet, in order to prevent the orc army from receiving the news and slaughtering the prisoners.

Richard discussed with Baron Rice and decided that the soldiers should march quickly without rest after the war to seize the Malte Castle and eliminate the orc army that managed logistics.

In this orc invasion, the Shamok Brigade achieved good results, conquered the Diram Baron Territory, and successfully looted the territories of Baron Rice, Baron Dark, and Baron Bazel, and robbed a lot of gold coins and people.

Although the situation was already very dangerous, Bastruan was still unwilling to give up the spoils, and let a half-crippled wild boar squadron escort the prisoners and stationed in the Malte Castle in the Diram Baron Territory.

Richard led his troops into the Diram Baron Territory, intending to conquer the Malte Castle first and destroy the orcs' stronghold.

However, they were worried about not having supplies and prisoners to drag them down, so the main force of the orcs traveled light and escaped the encirclement.

After the orc brigade was annihilated, it was already evening.

Richard and Baron Rice joined forces and decided to take the elite to attack Malte Castle overnight.

Malte Castle was under-defended, with less than a hundred wild boars left.

Facing Richard, the elite soldiers and generals that Baron Rice had mobilized were simply vulnerable and were annihilated before dawn.

At this time, the casualties had been counted.

"The second squadron had 22 killed and 53 injured, including seven seriously injured and disabled, and more than half of the casualties.

The seventh squadron of the eighth battalion of the Mad Lion Legion had 12 killed and 31 injured.

Sophia's squadron had 36 killed and 48 injured, with a casualty ratio of more than 70%, and most of the backbones were lost.

The city defense squadron had 16 killed and 38 injured."

Having commanded many battles, Richard's heart was as hard as stone.

The heavy casualties were just a number to him.

The situation in the northern border of the Grant Kingdom is grim, and even survival has become a problem. People from this place are not sentimental and have a heart as hard as steel.

Although Richard occasionally thinks of his previous life when he dreams at midnight. He misses that peaceful and happy life very much.

But after waking up from the dream, he is still a cold and ruthless noble officer in the northern border.

There are a lot of supplies piled up in Malte Castle, and there are more than 10,000 people.

It is different from the last orc war.

In the last war, although Richard led his troops to defeat the remnants of the Wald Brigade and seized a large number of people and money.

But the commander-in-chief of the last war was Baron Harden, and Richard was just a newly appointed squadron leader. The Harland family was not a hereditary noble, and their status was far from that of Baron Harden.

Even if a large amount of gold coins were seized and 6,000 people were captured, Richard did not dare to be greedy.

He angered Baron Harden and assigned him a mission that was sure to kill him. At that time, no one could speak up for him.

In this war, the Harland family has become a hereditary baron, and finally has human rights.

Richard had made great military achievements and was also the commander of the noble coalition.

Having seized supplies and rescued people, he had a lot of say.

"According to statistics, the total population of Malte Castle is 10,700, of which 1,200 are from the Dark Territory, 600 are from the Bazel Territory, and 2,400 are from the Baron of Rice. The remaining 6,500 are all from the Baron of Diram.

In addition to the population, a large amount of coins were seized in the castle, totaling 46,000 gold coins.

In addition, 6,000 kilograms of iron ore and 1,400 kilograms of copper ore were piled up, and the grain in the warehouse was piled up into a mountain, about more than 3,000 tons.

In addition, a lot of livestock were seized, including 30 war horses, more than 100 oxen, thousands of pigs and sheep, and several Warcraft war horses.

There are also some farm tools, hemp ropes, cloth, and herbs."

Listening to Dida's report, Richard called Baron Rice, Baron Dark, and Baron Bazel to the conference room, and then handed them a list.

"Here is the list of seized supplies. Send someone down to count them.

Count the captured people in your territory first and then take them back.

The remaining population of Dirham Territory is 6,500. Our Harland family will get 3,000 and the Sofia family will get 1,500.

Baron Rice will get 1,000, and Baron Dark and Baron Bazel will get 500."

Richard glanced at everyone and saw that everyone was still calm and did not speak up to object. He suppressed the idea of ​​killing the chicken to scare the monkey and continued: "The population of Harland and Stopa Territories is sparse, so they will get more.

In terms of gold coins, Baron Rice will get 10,000, and Baron Dark and Baron Bazel will each get 6,000. Our Harland Territory will get 8,000, Stopa Territory will get 4,000, the Seventh Squadron, the City Defense Squadron and other participating troops will get 6,000, and the rest The six thousand still need to be taken care of.

The animals and war horses will be divided equally among the five territories, but the magic beast war horses will be given to our Harland Territory.

The food will be divided more in our Harland Territory, and we need to take away two thousand tons. The rest will be divided equally among the four of you. You can take more of the ore and sundries. We only need one tenth.

The collection of books in the Diram Territory will be sent to Vickburg first. Everyone will have a share and can copy it once.

His family's breathing method, the Barbarian Bull Breathing Method, has only four levels, and can only be practiced to the first-level professional. Now it is in my hands. If any family wants to copy it, they can come to me.

My opinion is this, who agrees and who disagrees? "

Richard originally planned to see who opposed, and then write it down in the little notebook, and send him to die in the next battle.

Unexpectedly, Baron Les and others were quite satisfied. They all gave thumbs up and praised Richard as a fair commander. It seems that these guys are smart people. As long as they can get by, they will not stand out.

In this battle, Richard was not only the commander of the noble coalition, but also made the most important contribution, so the Harland Territory received the most generous spoils.

Through several battles, the Harland Territory gained about 9,000 people, which was exchanged for more than 50,000 gold coins.

The Diram Territory has been operating for hundreds of years, and the essence has been eaten by Richard.

The cruelty of the competition between noble territories can be seen from this.

But according to the values ​​of the Grant Kingdom, no one will sympathize with Baron Diram. Just like the last orc war, no one will sympathize with Baron Stopa.

The northern lords of the Grant Kingdom, once they fail to operate their territories, their entire family will be killed by orcs, and their people will be plundered by nearby nobles or become captives of orcs, and the ending will be even more tragic.

Every three years, after the orc invasion, there will be failed lords.

Some of these hereditary lords, like Sofia, can stand up again.

Some will lose their hereditary noble status and fall to the professional family class.

Of course, every time the orcs invade, there are also people who have made military achievements and were promoted to hereditary nobles, completing the leap of class status.