Chapter 77: Deep in the Enemy’s Territory

Chapter 77 Deep into Enemy Territory
After conquering Fort Malt, Richard took the allied forces of the nobles to rest in the castle for a while.

The wounded soldiers needed to be treated, the shortfall in the main squad needed to be replenished, and supplies needed to be transported to the territory.

In this way time passed for more than twenty days, these twenty days Richard used his authority and directly disbanded a squadron of the city defense army and integrated it into the second squadron of Harland’s territory, the seventh squadron of the eighth brigade of the Wild Lion Legion, and enriched the main squadron’s strength.

Baron Sophia, Baron Les and other nobles also conscripted territorial folk to replenish battle losses.

The influx of new recruits had weakened the fighting strength of the noble private army by quite a bit.

But the war wasn’t over yet and there was no time for them to train.

Even if their fighting strength was weakened, they still had to be put into the war.

The orcs didn’t care if your fighting strength was weak, they would attack when it was time to attack.

By early June, the battle credit for the annihilation of the Shamrock Brigade by the Noble Allied Forces was also rewarded.

The Noble Council rewarded the annihilation of the Shamrock Brigade with a great merit.

But this great merit needed to be divided among the six main officers.

In addition to the two commanders, Richard and Baron Les, the three barons, Sophia, Dak, and Bazel, all received battle credit.

There was also the Berserkers Legion Squadron Leader, Dida, who should also share the merit.

In the end, Richard got three medium merits, Les and Dida shared two medium merits, and the three Sophia had one medium merit each.

In this battle, Richard had killed Acting Grand Captain Basteluan, who was a fifth-order Minotaur, and was rewarded with three medium merits.

Killing a first order orc rewarded one minor merit.

The other soldiers of Harland’s territory, killed quite a few orc officers, including Wolf Cavalry Squadron Squadron Leader Ralmin, four third-order serpentine men, and seven or eight low-order minotaurs and boars. In total, they received two medium merits and six small merits.

The soldiers who had made meritorious achievements were rewarded by Richard with a large amount of gold coins in exchange for their military merits.

Almost all of the merits of this battle were registered to Richard, accumulating eight medium merits and seven minor merits.

After the start of this orc invasion war, Richard had repeatedly made meritorious achievements.

Together with the three great merits rewarded by the heavy stone thrower, Richard had accumulated six great merits, eight medium merits, and two small merits.

If William could also make enough merits in this war, the Harland family could also receive a baronial collar.

Richard was very close to his own hereditary peerage.

By the middle of June, with the refurbished noble allied army, Richard followed behind the main army corps and crossed the Eagle Mountains to serve as a logistical force for the Northern Legion.

The Orc Empire was very large, with a territorial area of over 80 million square kilometers, equivalent to one and a half Asian and European continents.

But more than half of these 80 million square kilometers were no-man’s land of permafrost, not suitable for living creatures to survive at all.

Even for the physically strong orcs, there are only a very few tribes of Ice Bears that are active in the permafrost zone.

There is also a portion that is contaminated by the Mists of Death, which contains a number of undead creatures that are a hidden danger within the Orc Empire.

Although the Orc Empire has a huge territory, its national power is far inferior to the Holy Glory Empire.

The Sacred Radiance Empire had a territory of thirty million square kilometers, a population of over one billion, and a military force of over two hundred legions.

The main forces of the Church of the Seven Gods were also in the Holy Radiant Empire.

Nowadays, the Holy Radiant Empire was the most powerful force in the Morning Glory Continent.

Humans could suppress the orcs and elves, occupy the middle continent area with the best geographical conditions, and drive the powerful dragons to the other dimension.

The Sacred Radiance Empire and the Church of the Seven Gods were the main pillars, and they had made the most important contribution for humanity to become the hegemon of the Morning Glory Plane. The Orc Empire actually consisted of one tribe after another, with very average internal organization and coordination.

Many of the tribes were also filled with hatred towards each other.

There were very many conflicts between different races.

For example, when the wolf-heads and lion-heads are hungry, they hunt and kill the deer-people and sheep-people.

The reason why the orcs were able to come together was purely due to the oppression of powerful races and external pressure, forcing them to join together.

For example, the minotaurs, boars, foxes, wolf-headed men, lion-headed men, snake-bodied men, eagle-bodied men, and Behemoths are known as the eight royal clans of the Orc Empire.

They united and formed the Orc Empire.

The emperor of the Orc Empire was not hereditary, but had to be elected by the top of the eight royal clans.

Every Orc Emperor was a very powerful Legendary Professional, some were even stronger Demigods, and there were only a handful of powerful human Professionals that could be compared to them.

After the Northern Legion entered the Orc Empire, they began a large-scale looting. They were organized in brigades and spread out across the vast grasslands.

In just twenty days, they had mapped out a dozen or so orc tribal quarters and captured a large number of orc slaves.

Richard led the noble allied forces and followed the Northern Legion to mix in some loot as well.

By late July, the orc empire was furious and mobilized two main army corps to counterattack, and consecutively annihilated two brigades of the Northern Legion.

Only then did the Northland Legion centralize their forces and slowly withdrew to the southern foothills of the Eagle Mountains with their army.

The orc legions tried to attack, but were viciously smashed back by the heavy stone throwers, killing and injuring many people instead.

Furious, the orcs even sent out two legendary professionals with their elites to attack the Northern Legion’s supply wagons.

Legendary warriors are exceptionally powerful, a legendary professional, the combat power is enough to fight with the same central legion’s main brigade.

If there were Legendary Professionals hiding in the shadows and constantly attacking, the threat posed would be far more troublesome than a main army brigade.

This kind of super terrorist, unless one has accurate intelligence and sets up traps to capture them. Otherwise, if a Legendary Professional fought a guerrilla war, even a powerful kingdom would have no way of taking them down.

Two Legends struck at the same time and immediately achieved very good results.

The heavy stone thrower brigade was heavily defeated by the orcs, most of the heavy stone throwers were destroyed, and some of them were also captured by the orcs.

The orc army got a taste of the sweetness and once again let the legendary professionals take risks, once again launching a surprise attack battle in the dead of night.

As a result, this time it backfired and fell into the Northern Legion’s trap.

The Orc Legendary Professional was trapped by the Legion’s magician, six or seven high-ranking warriors surrounded him, and the elite of the Orc band was eliminated by the Northern Legion.

In the end, the legendary boar man Ramsuk died in the hands of Martins, the legionary of the North, so that he obtained the honorable title of “hog hunter”, and became the second hereditary earl in the northern region of the Kingdom of Grant.

In recent decades, the orcs have never lost any legendary professionals in the wars with the Kingdom of Grant.

Every time they invaded, they were able to capture many slaves from the North.

The production techniques of humans surpassed the orcs by quite a bit, and the more humans captured, the productivity of the orc empire would increase.

As for the dog-heads, goat-bodied men, werewolves, and lions who died in battle in the southern foothills of the Eagle Mountains, they were all consumables to the eight royal clans of the Orc Empire, and could not be considered humans at all.

The war deaths of the Orc Empire’s top brass this time had finally made the Orc top brass wake up a bit.

(End of chapter)