Lord Harland.

King Roger received the news of the civil strife in Grand Duke Stanek only slightly later than Duke Jonathan.

Before Duke Jonathan sent people to the royal capital, the Grant Kingdom's court had discussed many times whether to intervene in the civil war in the Grand Duchy of Stanik?

There are three continents in the Dawn Plane.

The Eastern Continent is still a dense jungle, occupied by elves and lizard people. It has not been effectively developed and is rarely inhabited.

A large part of the western continent is polluted by the aura of the undead, and dwarves live in the mountains near the coast.

Only the Central Continent has the largest area and the best climate conditions. It is the focus of competition among various races in the Dawn Plane.

Humans occupy the most fertile land in the Central Continent and suppress the orcs in the cold and desolate northern plateau. In terms of strength, humans are already the overlords of the Dawn Plane. If the Holy Radiant Empire united with several magic kingdoms, it would be more powerful than the orcs, dwarves, elves, and lizardmen combined.

It's a pity that there are many internal conflicts in the human countries, especially the magic kingdoms on the west coast of the mainland. In order to contain the Holy Glory Empire, they even collude with the orcs to jointly contain the power of the Holy Glory Empire, resulting in the current situation.

The Grant Kingdom is located in the northeastern region of the Mid-Continent, with four nearby human countries bordering the Orc Empire.

The relationship between these countries is more complicated.

There is a side of mutual cooperation and common resistance against the orcs, and there is also a side of conflicts and annexation of territories.

Among the five countries, the three grand duchies are weaker, while the Grant Kingdom and the Lion Kingdom are stronger.

If the Kingdom of Grant intervenes in the civil war of the Grand Duke of Stanik, King Lane will definitely not sit back and watch the Kingdom of Grant control the Grand Duchy of Stanik, or a full-scale war may break out.

In terms of national power, the Kingdom of Lane is stronger than the Kingdom of Grant. However, once the army is trapped in the Grand Duchy of Stanik for a long time, it may cause the Grant Kingdom to fall into a turning point from prosperity to decline.

Despite the high stakes of interfering with the Grand Duchy of Stanik, King Roger still wants to send troops to fight.

Now the strength of the Jonathan family is already very strong, and its development has also fallen into a bottleneck, which puts a lot of pressure on the Grant family.

If the Jonathan family is supported to become the Grand Duke of Stanik, the strength of the Jonathan family will inevitably be dispersed and the energy will be concentrated on the Grand Duchy of Stanik.Through negotiations with the Jonathan family, the Grant royal family can also take back part of the developed territory of the Jonathan dukedom, which will be used to award military meritorious nobles, making the internal structure of the kingdom safer.

The Jonathan family can also get a bigger stage and usher in better development.

In this way, the two most powerful families in the Grant Kingdom will both usher in healthy development, and internal friction will become smaller.

King Roger originally planned to intervene and was thinking about how to persuade Duke Jonathan. Unexpectedly, Duke Jonathan came to the door. The two parties hit it off and joined forces to create issues in the Noble Council. The eldest brother and the second eldest brother joined forces, and the third eldest brother did not object. The issue of sending troops suddenly became very hot and was quickly voted through.

After the noble council voted to send troops, the Kingdom of Grant began to mobilize.

The first is the army of the Duke of Jonathan, dispatching two-thirds of the force, a total of two legions.

In order to express his support for the Jonathan family, King Roger also dispatched a second-tier central army. This army is exactly the Iron Lions of the Zachary Division, which is neither loved by mother nor father.

Nolan also issued an order, requiring the nobles of the three northern provinces closest to the Duke of Jonathan to jointly send troops and reorganize them into a legion. In addition, the five dukes of Edward, Fox, York, Lorraine, and Duran sent four thousand troops each to form a similar formation. for a legion.

All in all, the Intervention Army has a total of five legions, of which the Jonathan family sent the largest number of troops, almost called the best of the best, with a total strength of .The Iron Lion Legion has been reorganized, but it is not full, with a total strength of .

The five dukes bordering the Grand Duchy of Stanek each sent 4,000 troops and organized them into a large army of 20,000 people.

The three northern provinces required troops, including troops from Lah Province, troops from Gerda Province, troops from Gascoigne Province, and troops from Harland Territory. Combined Legion.

The five legions added up to a regular army of 92,000. The total number of serf troops transporting grain and grass along the route exceeded 200,000.

These 200,000 serf soldiers were mainly drawn from other provinces. Although the four Earls and Marquises of the South did not need to draw the main force to participate in the battle, they did need to allocate food, gold coins, and supplies. Together with the Grant royal family and the Jonathan family, they paid for the intervention army. .

When forming the Intervention Army, the royal family also specially issued an edict, requiring the nobles in all provinces to recruit elites and not to use serf soldiers to make up the numbers. The royal family and the Jonathan family will strictly inspect them.If the transferred soldiers are not qualified, they will face high fines.

When the order came down, it was almost February.

Today there are about eleven thousand soldiers in Harland territory, of which four thousand are new soldiers. Although the recruits had been training for about half a year, they seemed to be well equipped and in neat formation, no different from the elite.

But Li Cha knew in his heart that these recruits were just appearances and could only fight a dozen battles to defend the city.

When encountering a really hard and bloody battle, the recruits have not seen a lot of blood and their psychological endurance is not strong enough, so they can easily collapse.

Originally, the recruit training period in the Harland Territory was one year. After completing the one-year recruit training, they were scattered among the veterans and accompanied by the veterans to ensure that the recruits would not panic on the battlefield.

Now that the recruit training has not been completed, the recruitment order has arrived, and Richard can only end the recruit training early.

After receiving the order to recruit soldiers, Li Cha thought for a moment, and decided to call in the elite to join the battle.After a meeting with the officers below, he decided to lead the Scouting Cavalry Brigade, Hot Air Balloon Squadron, Territorial Mages, the Third Squadron of the Beast Cavalry, the Second Brigade of the Infantry, and the Sixth Brigade of the Infantry, with a total strength of about .

Nowadays, a brigade in Haaland territory has a total of eight squadrons organized and trained. Counting some personnel from the headquarters, the strength is about 1,300 people. Compared with when the brigade was first established, the number of personnel has doubled.

Because a lot of recruits have been recruited this year, the real combat effectiveness of the infantry brigade may be a little weaker than it appears on paper.

After drawing up the troops, Richard led the soldiers from Harland's territory to Fort Wright to assemble.

Hearing that Richard was participating in the war with four thousand elite soldiers, Duke Jonathan rushed to Fort Wright despite his busy schedule, talked to Richard in person, and appointed him as the commander of the combined army of the three northern provinces.

Today, in the northern region, there are five nobles, three dukes and two earls. Duke Jonathan is the commander-in-chief of the intervention army. The three nobles, Edward, Fox, and Martins, will not join the intervention army. The troops will be sent by branch members.As a matter of course, it was Li Cha's turn to be the commander.

All the noble coalition forces in Gedda Province must be assembled at Leyte Fort. The province has recruited 4,000 noble coalition troops, 1,000 from Brenner County, 1,000 from Romon County, 600 from Wright County, 600 from Canyon County, and 8 from Heihe County. Hundreds of soldiers participated in the battle.

Richard carefully inspected this batch of soldiers and found that the quality of the soldiers was good or bad. The number of professionals was small, but the number of experienced veterans was quite large.

Richard could even see some soldiers in their thirties and forties. Through questioning, he found that although these soldiers had not practiced breathing techniques, they had a lot of war experience and had participated in many orc invasion battles. There were a few who were better than Richard. They have more war experience.

The equipment of the noble coalition looked very ordinary, and there were not many iron armors. The officers who lead the troops are rarely direct descendants of nobles, most of them are branches of nobles, and even the second sons of nobles are rare.

Li Cha thought to himself: "It seems that most of the nobles in Gerda Province have no plans to join the war. An army has a small number of professionals. Even if they have war experience, it is difficult to fight against the enemy's elite. But defending the city At that time, relying on war experience and fortifications, ordinary people have the opportunity to kill professionals, so it may not be able to play a role?"

Richard waited at Fort Wright for seven or eight days, and 5,000 troops from Lach Province also came to gather.

The province of Lach borders the Dukedom of Jonathan. The Jonathan family has a great influence on the nobility of this province, and the soldiers they mobilize are more elite than those of the Gedda province.

After joining the army of the Lach Province, Richard led the coalition of nobles by ship, entered the Black River along the Starks River, and went upstream to the Castle of Saint Fes in the Gascoyne Province. Three thousand soldiers from the province of Scone had been waiting at the Castle of Santa Fe for three or four days.

After passing Santa Fes Castle and walking for more than a hundred kilometers, the current of the Black River became turbulent and it was difficult to sail safely. Richard led the coalition of nobles from three provinces to disembark near Palani Castle.

Duke Edward had already stocked up a batch of grain in Palani Castle in advance, which was enough to feed the coalition of nobles from the three provinces for twenty days.

The next stop is to pick up food and grass at Partin Castle in the Duke of Fox, and this batch of food and grass is only enough for one month.

There were nearly 100,000 intervention troops, and nearly 10,000 tons of food were consumed in a month by eating horses and chewing. Such a huge transportation demand could not be solved by relying on the Grant Kingdom.

If Harland hadn't invented new alloys, manufactured rolling bearings, used a large number of four-wheeled carriages, and improved the transportation capacity, half of the military rations would not be able to be solved.

With today's transportation capacity, only five thousand tons of grain can be transported to the Grand Duchy of Stanik every month. After entering the Grand Duchy of Stanik, the food problem will require the intervention army to find a way to solve the remaining half.

In fact, the intervention army had only one way to collect food on the spot.

The serfs in the Dawn Plane do not have much food at all, and it is difficult to feed themselves. If they want to collect food, they can only snatch it from the hands of the nobles. When the time comes, the resistance will be fierce.

Li Cha led the coalition of nobles from the three provinces to walk for fourteen days, and arrived at Patin Castle, which is only a few tens of kilometers away from the Grand Duchy of Stanik, and is already close to the front line.

In order to prepare for the war, a batch of baggage was stored in Padin Castle in advance. In addition, more than 300 craftsmen fought with the coalition forces from the three provinces.

The grain hoarded in Patin City is only fifteen days old. Counting the ten days of military grain saved by Li Cha and carried with the army, the military grain of the coalition army of nobles from the three provinces is less than one month.

The next batch of military rations will be delivered to Padin Castle in twenty days, and the quantity is only 500 tons. Five hundred tons of food seems to be a lot, and 16,000 soldiers can only survive for ten days if they eat horse chews.

Restricted by food roads, the intervening army could only fight separately.

Duke Jonathan led the Iron Lion Army with a total of 60,000 troops as the northern front, Richard led the coalition forces of the three provinces with 16,000 troops as the center line, and Sonny Fox, the third son of Duke Fox, led the coalition forces of the five Dukes with 20,000 troops as the southern front.

The army on the northern front was personally commanded by Duke Jonathan, and he shouldered the heaviest responsibility. He was responsible for defeating the main force of the Grand Duchy of Stanik and attacking Kleiners Castle.

The main task of the center line troops led by Richard is to attract the attention of the central noble garrison and cooperate with Duke Jonathan in the battle.

The task of the troops on the southern front is the lightest, and they are responsible for containing the other nobles of the Grand Duchy of Stanik. The opponents also hide the dark lines of the Jonathan family, so there is almost no danger.Relatively speaking, the food road is the shortest, and there is no shortage of supplies.

As soon as a ray of morning glow appeared in the sky, Li Cha led the soldiers to have breakfast and left the border.

The scouting cavalry entered the territory of the Grand Duchy of Starik yesterday, and fought with some private troops of the border nobles.

The reconnaissance force under Richard's command is very strong, including the Magic Hot Air Balloon Squadron, the Lion Knight Squadron, and the Warcraft Reconnaissance Cavalry. Not only can they conduct aerial reconnaissance, but they are also very powerful in ground reconnaissance.

The Grand Duchy of Stanik does not have a lion knight, and there is no way to resist the aerial reconnaissance force of Harland's territory.

The Magic Hot Air Balloon Squadron carried telescopes and traveled to several nearby castles for more than 100 kilometers, and they have figured out the enemy's true and false status.

The reconnaissance cavalry brigade is centered on monster cavalry, and with experienced scouts, its strength is far superior to that of ordinary frontier barons. Yesterday, it turned upside down the surrounding hundred and ten kilometers, and caught a lot of tongues.

By interrogating the prisoners and combining the information obtained by the Duke of Fox and the information obtained by the Magic Hot Air Balloon Squadron, Richard also had a general understanding of the enemy's situation.

The aristocratic situation of the Grand Duchy of Stanik is different from that of the Kingdom of Grant. The territories of the four dukes in the country are all in the safe south.The area of ​​the territory is also relatively small, about to square kilometers, slightly larger than the Earl of Harland, and not as large as the Earl of Martins.

The strength is not as good as the duke family of the Grant Kingdom. They only formed a legion, which is equivalent to the four marquises in the east of the Grant Kingdom.

Because of the heavy pressure on the northern defense line, the four Dukes of Stanek mobilized their troops and jointly organized a legion to station in the north to cooperate with the Stanik border guards. Including the coalition of local nobles, the number of troops in the Grand Duchy of Stanik to defend against the orcs exceeds 120,000, which is exactly half of the total strength.

Under normal circumstances, the Linus family has a strong control force. Relying on the Grant Kingdom's intervention army of less than , it is almost impossible to defeat the main force of the Grand Duchy of Stanik and overthrow the rule of the Linus family.

But when the intervention army was organized, the Grand Duchy of Stanik was already in chaos.

Solaman's rule didn't last long at all. In February, he was overthrown by Baldwin and Haldane.

The fake peace between Baldwin and Haldane didn't last long either, as the two quickly erupted into a more brutal battle for the throne.

It was already early April when Richard led the coalition forces from the three provinces into the Grand Duchy of Stanik. The civil war between Baldwin and Haldane not only did not end, it intensified.

In less than four months since the death of the old king, there have been two political purges and five large-scale battles in the Grand Duchy of Stanik, consuming more than troops.

These 40,000 troops are all controlled by the Linus family. Now, there are only about 60,000 troops left at the Linus family's disposal. It is difficult to control the situation in the Grand Duchy of Stanik.

After Duke Jonathan led his troops into the Grand Duchy of Stanik, the coalition forces of the nobles on the northern border had chosen to stand by and watch.

Even if Baldwin shook hands with Haldane and made peace, he would have no advantage compared to the main force on the northern front led by Duke Jonathan.

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