Lord Harland.

Chapter 459 The war resumes
A large-scale deployment of troops by the army will inevitably be accompanied by a large-scale mobilization of supplies. Naturally, this situation cannot be concealed from the opponent's scouts.

Entering February of the Dawn Calendar 3278, Richard discovered that a large number of enemy troops in the rear were mobilizing to the frontline castles such as Penler, Korola, and Polya. Richard knew in his heart that once the enemy's mobilization was completed, the offensive would be very rapid.

The front line was tight. Although the recruit training had not been completed, Richard still incorporated 6,000 recruits into the army. At the same time, he immediately sent a message to Green in Luyin Castle in the rear, asking Green to rule Sutton and continue to recruit elites to the Red Moon. Increase the plane's troops.

Due to the cost limit of opening the plane portal, Harland can only add one or two thousand troops to the red moon plane at most in a month. In order to avoid a large number of deaths from illness, Richard requested that only elites be transferred to the red moon plane.

Although the Harland leader has an army of 170,000, the elites are only 26,000 professionals and 35,000 advanced apprentices, totaling more than 60,000 people.

These 60,000 people are the backbone of the entire army, and it is impossible for them all to be mobilized to fight in the red moon plane.

Now the Harland Territory controls more than one million square kilometers of land, and the surrounding situation is not stable. The elites who can be mobilized to enter the Red Moon Plane, Richard calculated carefully, and found that the maximum number is only 24,000. The 24,000 people still need to be deployed two to three years apart to facilitate the army to replenish its backbone.

Today's Harland leader, due to the successful development of Snow Crystal Lake, controls the entire Eagle Mountain Range, and the scale of hunting monsters has greatly increased. It can produce about 30,000 Tenghui potions every year, and can train about 3,500 warrior professionals a year. Hundreds of people. The scale of this promotion has surpassed that of the Lion Kingdom and is at the leading level among the eastern countries.

Although there are many promotions for Harland's warriors, it is very rare for knights to be promoted. As early as more than ten years ago, the Harland Territory mastered the method of refining the bloodline enlightenment potion. However, refining this potion requires a lot of precious resources. The output of the Harland Territory is not very large, and it can only barely maintain it. Basic supply.

Compared with Grant, Lane and other countries, the number of knight professionals who advance in the Harland Territory every year is relatively rare. This is not only limited by the production of bloodline enlightenment potions, but mainly because there are not so many people with knight blood in the Harland Territory.

It has a direct population of more than 1.1 million, and the number of free citizens is as high as 7.4 million. The land tax alone can collect about 2.5 million a year, plus other miscellaneous taxes. Last year, the tax alone was collected. 3.67 million. Coupled with the income from various officially controlled enterprises, Haaland's fiscal revenue last year exceeded 6 million.

Such a huge investment has promoted the Harland Railway project to achieve great development.

Used to support the army, it can increase two and a half main legions.

Of course, the territory has expanded to the present extent, and the population statistics are no longer accurate, and can only be roughly estimated based on household registration.

In terms of financial revenue, the Dukedom of Harland has surpassed the kingdoms of Delong, Grant, and Lane, and is only slightly worse than coastal countries such as the East Coast and Sith.

Although Richard entered the red moon plane, he received information from Harland every ten days. Although the information was lagging behind, it did not affect the communication between the two planes.

Recently, Rogge sent last year's economic statements to Richard through Sutton and Green.

After all, the Harland family has not been prosperous for a long time. He does not have much knight blood, and most of the backbone of his subordinates do not have aristocratic status. In the huge Harland Kingdom, only fifty or sixty knights are promoted every year, while in the Grant Kingdom, more than 300 knights are promoted in a year, and in the Lane Kingdom, the number can reach 500.

As Richard entered the red moon plane, Harland's products also began to enter the red moon plane. Although the profit will be relatively small in a short period of time, once Richard establishes a foothold in the Red Moon Plane, this market will gradually be monopolized by Harland.

After all, the Red Moon Plane has a population of close to 200 million, and the population controlled by the Dawn Church and the Holy Radiance Empire also exceeds 70 million. Although very few of these 70 million natives have the spending power, once Richard takes over the power of the Holy Glory Empire and develops the economy, the market size will also expand rapidly.

Although the railway bridge across the Samba River and the Black River has not yet been built, it has connected three sections of the railway line from Pulilan to the Samba River, Black River Fort to Wright Fort, and Flame Castle to Maple Leaf Castle.

Through the report sent by Rogge, Richard discovered that Harland's steel production last year exceeded 300,000 tons, and the railway mileage exceeded 2,400 kilometers. Last year alone, Harland Territory built 500 kilometers of railways, and invested more than 700,000 gold coins in the railways. This scale is higher than the expenditure on civil servants in the territory.

As of February 3278, the total population of Harland Territory had exceeded million, of which the population directly controlled by the territory was approximately million, and the population owned by vassals was .

Whether Harland's economy can continue to develop rapidly depends on the evolution of the situation in the Red Moon plane.

Among the eastern countries, the magical power controlled by the Harland Territory has far exceeded that of Grant, Lane and other powerful countries. Ranked second after the United Kingdom on the East Coast.

Now the section from Songtao Castle to Martins Castle has been opened to traffic, and the Western Ring Line and the Central Ring Line of the Eagle Mountains are connected to the grid. The entire Eagle Mountains area has three north-south railway lines, and connects all important town bases.

If we want to improve this situation, we can only rely on marriages from generation to generation, so that the high-level nobles in the territory will gradually have knight blood. To reach the size of the Grant Kingdom, it would take at least hundreds of years of marriage.

Through frequent communication through letters, Richard mainly decides on major issues led by Haaland. However, in the event of an emergency, Richard granted Undine the right to make emergency decisions, and Harland led the power, which Undine could mobilize at critical moments.

Large-scale investment in railway construction has been made for more than ten consecutive years, with the total investment approaching 3.8 million gold coins.

The household registers record the population of those who are divided into fields and taxed. The total number of illegal households in Harland Territory is estimated to be one to two million. Even though Richard strictly prohibited private slaveholding and the Harland Territory also introduced laws, this kind of thing was still banned repeatedly, and private slaveholding still appeared in the daily production of the Harland Territory.

Because of the comprehensive selection policy formulated by Richard, Harland has trained quite well in leading magicians. As of the latest information sent, the Harland Mage Association already has 527 magicians and 2,800 magician apprentices.

Next, the focus of railway construction shifted to the west of Halland Territory, the 360-kilometer section from Maple Leaf Castle to Padin Castle.

When this section of the railway opens to traffic next year, the journey from Harland to the border of the Grand Duchy of Stanik will be shortened to two and a half days.

Nowadays, daily commodities such as alcohol, brown sugar, steel products, toilet soap, glass products, etc. have sunk to the low-end market and spread to the free people. This not only enriches the market and improves people's living standards, but also makes Harland more popular. Randland has a stronger tax source.

Just when Richard was seizing the time to mobilize his troops and strengthen his troops in the Red Moon plane, the situation in the Dawn plane suddenly changed.

In February of the year 3278 of the Dawn Calendar, the three countries of Delong, East Coast, and Lane spontaneously started a war.

Three years ago, the five countries signed a short-term peace contract because of the orcs' move south.

Now that the three-year peace contract has not expired, the three countries have sacrificed the people who signed the contract and launched a war again.

This time, the Grant Kingdom was still besieged on three sides.

The United Kingdom on the East Coast used the most force, dispatching half a million troops, still divided into three fronts. There were 160,000 troops on the sea, and they went upstream along the Oram River to fight against the coalition forces of the four eastern marquises.

In recent years, with the rapid development of the Grant Kingdom, the strength of the four eastern Marquises has increased a lot. Not only have they branched off into many branches, they have also plundered a large number of serfs and reclaimed a lot of wasteland.

With the increase in population and food, the military strength of the four marquises also expanded, with a total of 120,000 noble coalition troops.

Although the coalition of 120,000 nobles could not defeat the 160,000 troops on the east coast, they could barely stabilize the battle line. This time they did not ask for help from the Grant royal family.

In addition to the sea route, the United Kingdom on the East Coast deployed twelve legions to attack the four adjacent counts of Paulus, Zachary, Marcel, and Charlotte in the Kingdom of Grant.

The main direction of using troops is in the Andorra Mountains, and it is obvious that they want to regain lost territory and recapture important strongholds in the south of the Andorra Mountains.

The four counts on the front line were short of troops and immediately asked for help from the rear.

After receiving the letter asking for help, the three Earls William, Wimble and Steven immediately rushed out. Under William's command, they stationed troops along the Mara River, threatening the hinterland of the East Coast United Kingdom, forcing the East Coast United Kingdom to divide its troops, and incidentally supporting the front line. Four Counts.

On this battlefield, the seven earls of the Grant Kingdom had a total of 150,000 soldiers, and the east coast side had an army of 240,000. However, the Grant Kingdom occupies a favorable location and can barely maintain the situation.

The last west-route army of the East Coast Kingdom had 200,000 troops, approaching the southern territory directly under the royal family, fighting against the four most elite armies of the Grant Kingdom: the Northern Army, the Grizzly Bear, the Iron Lion, and the Mad Lion.

The Grant Kingdom had the smallest number of troops along this route, less than 100,000, but the four northern armies were brave and good at fighting. They could easily fight against the 200,000 troops on the east coast, and easily blocked the enemy south of the Mara River.

The United Kingdom on the East Coast is in full force, and the Kingdom of Delon is also mobilizing desperately. In the past three years, King Anton has almost stayed in the army and personally trained soldiers on the front line. The army of the Kingdom of Delong has gone through several reforms and downsizing, reducing the size of the army to 300,000. However, these 300,000 troops have a completely new look, and their combat effectiveness exceeds There used to be an army of millions.

The 300,000 troops were pressing forward. Even though Fox, Edward, and the three Dukes of Guise were stationed along the river, they still could not bear the pressure and began to ask for help from the Grant royal family. The royal family mobilized four Guards regiments and an 80,000-strong army to go south, and cooperated with the 120,000-strong army of the Third Duke of Fox to barely hold the north bank of the Mara River.

The main force of the Three Kingdoms Alliance is still the Kingdom of Lane. This time, the Kingdom of Lane dispatched 600,000 troops and aggressively attacked the west of the Kingdom of Grant.

The first is the Northern Route Army. The Kingdom of Lane is still spearheaded by Haldane, the legendary knight of the Linus family, advancing eastward along the Silver Wolf Mountains with an army of 100,000. Archduke Jonathan led two legions and a coalition of 40,000 northern nobles to stop the enemy.

Duke Jonathan's total force along this route is 80,000. Although it is less than the enemy, fighting on the inside has a higher chance of winning.

There were about 200,000 people in the center of the Kingdom of Lane, and they attacked the heart of the Grand Duchy of Stanik along the Oram River.

The commander in charge of this aspect of the Grant Kingdom is Macmillan, the eldest son of Archduke Jonathan. He led two legions of the Jonathan family and an 80,000-strong army of the four Dukes of Stanik, but he could not stop the advancement of the Kingdom of Lane.

In just twenty days, seven letters asking for help were sent to the rear.

In desperation, the Duke of York led three legions into the Grand Duchy of Stanek to block the enemies in this direction.

In the Mara River Basin in the south, the Kingdom of Lane deployed a heavy army of 300,000 troops.

There are a lot of garrison troops in this direction, including more than 20,000 men of the Fourth Army of Halland stationed in Earl Philip, and 6,000 second-line auxiliary troops. The Grant royal family also has two regiments of guards stationed in Novena and Campa. Two provinces. There are 60,000 elite troops and 20,000 auxiliary troops on the border alone.

In addition, after the war started, the two Dukes of Lorraine and Duran could not stay away and recruited 100,000 troops to reinforce the front line.

Although the front line has increased to 180,000 troops, facing the 300,000 troops of the Lion Kingdom, the pressure is still very heavy.

At this moment, except for the Harland Territory, the Grant Kingdom has no available troops.

Although Richard entered the Red Moon Plane, and the power of the Harland Leader was deeply involved in the disputes in the Red Moon Plane, Rogge, who was stationed in the territory, knew clearly that the Harland Leader and the Grant royal family were now closely related. Grasshopper, one is prosperous and one is prosperous, one is destitute and one is destitute.

Unless there is a way to break the Three Kingdoms Alliance, Leader Harland can only act in solidarity with the Grant royal family.

Moreover, Wilde's Fourth Army Corps was still in the south, and it made no sense internally to abandon this Army Corps.

This was the root reason why King Roger left this fertile territory to the Harland family.

Earl Philip now has a population of more than 1.4 million, and is still the Harland family's grip in the south. Even Richard can't make up his mind to give up this territory.

The situation on the front line was tight and there was no time to wait for Richard's decision. Rogge reported to Undine and decided to use the power of emergency decision-making granted by Richard to dispatch the second army, a new sixth army, plus 20,000 auxiliary troops, a total of six Ten thousand troops reinforced the Earldom of Philip.

With the addition of Haaland's 60,000 troops, the battle line barely maintained a balance.

The key to this battle lies in the western battlefield, where both sides used a large number of flying units.

The first is the Lion Cavalry. The Lion Kingdom dispatched as many as 400 Lion Cavalry, and the two nobles Harland and Grant also participated in the front-line battle with 200 Lion Cavalry.

In addition, Harland leader also dispatched two magic airship brigades, with more than 60 magic airships active on the front line. In addition, the great nobles of the Grant Kingdom also used magic hot air balloon troops, and more than 500 groups of magic hot air balloons appeared over the front line.

Although the Lion Kingdom had more Lion Knights, it was unable to gain air superiority and instead fell into a brutal strangulation battle. In just one month of fighting, the lion knights of the Lion Kingdom had lost more than 60 people.

(End of this chapter)