Chapter 60 – Help Arrives

Chapter 60 – Reinforcements Arriving
At the end of every war, the first thing a commander does is always to count the casualties.

This was not because the commander was cold-blooded, but rather the brutal demands of the battlefield.

As a qualified commander, one must always be clear about how much power was left in their hands and how much they could take on.

After Richard came down from the city, he immediately dispatched messengers to each squadron to count the casualty figures.

As the messengers kept coming out and coming in, the casualty figures became clearer.

“The first squadron has six killed in action, eleven lightly and seriously wounded, two of which will be left disabled.”

“The second squadron has nine killed in action, thirteen lightly and seriously wounded, and no disabilities.”

“The new squadron lost five killed in action, nine with minor and serious wounds. The slaves who assisted in the battle were killed eight, wounded twenty-three, only five seriously.”

“The Auxiliary Squadron suffered the greatest casualties, with seventeen killed, eleven severely burned, and twenty-six lightly burned.”

“Casualties were just under one hundred and forty, if you count just the regulars, casualties were about just over one hundred, the two main squadrons combined suffered thirty-nine casualties, counting the twenty-two casualties from the annihilating orc squadron, the main squadron suffered over sixty casualties, over twenty percent casualties, and already in need of a full complement.”

Richard did not move on the surface, but his mind was secretly thinking, he turned his head and said to the messenger, “Are the battle results tallied clearly?”

“The orcs didn’t take the seriously injured with them when they routed, they were all beheaded by us. This battle killed 532 orcs, including 28 third-order serpent-bodied men, 4 third-order eagle-bodied men, a third-order dog-headed man, a third-order boar-man, and a third-order minotaur.

In total, there were thirty-five Third Order Orcs, eleven Second Order Orcs, and sixteen First Order Orcs.

The orcs’ one-hit wonder attacking force had its bones broken by our stone throwers.”

Hearing the summarized results of the battle, Richard though estimated that it would be quite good, not realizing that this battle had almost crippled a fully loaded orc brigade.

Just by beheading the orc professionals, he got one large merit, four medium merits, and three small merits.

This victory was considered a flagrant victory, and should be rewarded with a large merit as well.

Richard had the scouts pull off the serpent-bodied man’s scale armor and cut off the serpent-bodied man’s head, sending it to Black River Fort to report the merit.

At the same time, he sent his soldiers to collect the corpses of the orcs, burn them in a fire, and then dig a big pit to bury the ashes.

Attacked Fort William once and almost had his bones broken by Richard.

Maruland lost the courage to continue attacking the city, and had already taken the orc brigade and went to the northern pass of Harland Canyon to set up camp and garrison.

Having repelled the orcs, Powell took the scouts and observed the changes in Maruland’s camp every day.

Seeing the gradual increase in orc soldiers, three brigades of orcs were gathered in a few days.

Powell didn’t dare to be slow and immediately brought the information to Richard.

After discovering the orcs’ attempt to start increasing their troops, Richard immediately asked for help in the direction of Platos and Black River Fortress.

The Platos defense line was still manned by Richard’s old unit, the 8th Brigade, which was not in contact with the orcs yet.

After receiving the information brought by Richard, although there were some conflicts with Roland in the past, the relationship with Richard was also very ordinary.

Captain Sharp still gave face and sent the sixth and seventh squadrons to assist.

Nowadays, the sixth squadron is the leading squadron of the eighth brigade, and the squadron leader is still Diarra, but three years have passed, and Diarra has successfully advanced to the third-order professional.

Although the seventh squadron was a bit worse, it was also fully loaded, and many of its soldiers had participated in the last orc invasion war, and were very experienced.

After the last orc invasion war, the eighth brigade performed well and was given priority by the legion.

Nowadays, the combat power of the 8th brigade has been improved, although it is not as good as the three main brigades, the combat power in the legion is already in the middle.

Richard served as deputy squadron commander in the sixth squadron, and was also the former squadron commander of the seventh squadron.

The officers who came to Fort William to reinforce him, Richard knew them all very well. After sending a large number of Orc Professional heads to Black River Fort, Black River County Municipal Officer Spencer Allen was a bit incredulous.

Institutionally, the Harland Collar was a noble directly under the crown.

But economically Harland Territory was subject to Black River County.

In times of war, Harland is also obliged to send soldiers to follow the command of Black River County.

Seeing so many orc heads with his own eyes, Spencer was still a bit unable to accept it in his heart.

He had been in the North for many years and clearly knew the strength of each noble family.

Even Baron Harden, who was highly successful in battle, with his family cavalry regiment had not killed so many orc professionals at once.

The Harland family was merely a newly promoted noble, so why did it even have such a powerful strength?
Could it be that the Harland family was faking on heads?

In the past, there were also such greedy hereditary nobles who bought out the officials who counted the battle achievements, befriended the nobles of the royal capital court, and utilized the head forgery technique to even obtain three baronies.

After this matter was discovered by the royal capital, the Grant Kingdom showed unprecedented anger.

Three hereditary barons, twenty-six direct nobles lost their heads, and anyone who took bribes in this matter, or turned a blind eye in the way, was beheaded by the council of nobles.

This includes a court earl, a court viscount, a province consul, and two border county municipal officials.

Military honors and knighthoods are the roots of the Grant Kingdom and the foundation of the rule of the great nobles.

Whoever dares to dig up the foundation of the kingdom is an enemy of all the great nobles.

But seeing an orc professional head with your own eyes, so fresh and so lifelike?

Again, it made Spencer a little skeptical.

In order to figure this out, Municipal Officer Spencer didn’t carry much of an entourage with him, and accompanied three squadrons of city defenders to Fort William.

Seeing a large number of orcs messing around with weaponry, as well as piles of serpentine human scales piled high.

Spencer no longer suspected that the Harland family war effort was faked.

But with the strength of the Harland family, why could they defeat a large group of orcs?

Was it just by the treacherous terrain?

Spencer thought it was far from enough.

Normally, a baronial family couldn’t stand up to a large group of orcs attacking.

At the brigade level, there were serpentine heavy infantry, eagle scouts, and with the orc officers scattered throughout the squadrons, there were over a hundred professionals.

Even if it was the main army, it would be hard to hold out in a square engagement.

There must be some special power that allowed the Harland family soldiers to gain a great advantage in a defensive battle.

Was it a secret weapon, or did the Harland family get a powerful treasure?
For example, the Legendary Magic Scrolls could hit a large group of orcs, and with the Harland Family’s soldiers, it was enough to crush the orcs and achieve a great victory.

Spencer decided to personally go to the Harland territory to see and find the cause.

The municipal officer personally arrived at the Harland family territory, and Richard immediately brought the main officers out of the city to greet him.

And at the banquet that followed, he introduced the important people in Fort William to Municipal Officer Spencer.

(End of chapter)