Lord Harland.

Chapter 172 of Lord Harland's text volume: Cutting off the back road Zakli won a great victory, which played a decisive role in the safety of the province of Geda.

There are eight orc legions under Kilam's command, with more than 170,000 main orcs and 80,000 auxiliary troops. The war has continued until now, and there are still about 140,000 main orcs and 60,000 auxiliary troops.

The Grant royal family is the strongest in the province of Lahe, followed by the province of Gerda, and the weakest in the province of Gascoigne.

The Lach Province not only has the main force of the Grizzly Bear Legion, but also the two second-line legions of the Flying Eagle and the Feiyan. Together with the strongest noble coalition, it has contained three orc legions, with a main force of 60,000 and an auxiliary force of 30,000.

Even Killam's headquarters was placed in Lah Province.

In addition, the Duchy of Jonathan, which borders the province of Lahe, is the most powerful duchy in the Kingdom of Grant.

Once the war in Lach Province is unfavorable, reinforcements can also be requested from Duke Jonathan.

Kilam did not dare to weaken the troops in this direction.

If troops are mobilized from the Lach Province, they will immediately be unable to suppress the Grant royal family's army.

In addition, in the northeast of Lahe Province, there is also Earl Roger.

The strength of the Earl of Roger is not weak. With the support of the Duke of Jonathan, it withstood the attack of an orc army.

The number of troops that Killam invested in the Earl of Roger was about .

If you don't plan to conquer the Earl of Roger, you can transfer several brigades from this direction to join the battle in Gerda Province.

Of the remaining hundreds of thousands of troops, the orcs from Geda Province invested one legion, eight brigades, and about 50,000 auxiliary troops.

The heaviest losses were in this direction. Zachary killed 14,000 of the main force, and the army commanded by Richard killed 5,000 in two battles. Counting the defeated orcs, the orcs' losses had exceeded 30,000.

Now there are only troops left, of which are auxiliary soldiers with weak combat effectiveness.

In the province of Geda, the aristocratic coalition of Heihe County commanded by Richard had three thousand troops, the aristocratic coalition commanded by Viscount Luomen had five thousand troops, and the main force of the Northern Army was still intact with 20,000 troops.

The comparison of military strength and combat effectiveness has been out of balance.

In order to maintain the front line, reinforcements must be dispatched to Gerda Province.

Killam invested a lot of troops in the direction of Gascoigne Province this time. Including an orc army that attacked Earl Martins, the total number exceeded .Among them, there are about main orcs.

Although there were many casualties in the battle, there are still 48,000 main troops and 26,000 auxiliary troops.

Of the main forces, were used to suppress the main force of the Gascoigne Province, the Wild Lion Army, and were used to fight against the noble coalition forces.The remaining were ready to be invested in the Duke of Edward to support the operations of another orc front army.

This time they invaded the Kingdom of Grant, the central army commanded by Killam was the main force, and the orcs in the other two directions needed to cooperate with the central army.

Now that he had received a request for help from De Luncey and Gunderson, Killam could only take care of himself first, and dispatched five brigades of orcs from Gascoigne Province to support them.Five thousand auxiliary soldiers were also deployed to fight with the support soldiers.

Felix Castle, where Richard was stationed, was not far from Heihe Fort, and the battle report was received the next day.

After the orcs retreated, Richard restored communication with Black River Fort. He immediately sent the report of meritorious deeds, along with more than 5,000 orc heads.

Now Drunci and Gunderson, the remnants of the Orc Legion, are besieged by Zachary in Castle Graveson.

Richard and Viscount Luomen also received orders from Zachary.

Zachary ordered their two armies to join forces, go north from Fort William, and station troops at the northern entrance of the Harland Valley to cut off the orcs' food routes and block the orcs' reinforcements.

The Northern Legion is preparing to besiege Graveson Castle for a long time and eat the orcs in the west of Dren.

It is very dangerous to expose your back to the enemy.

Drenxi's orc army, because it had a strength advantage in the early stage and fought too smoothly, ignored this weakness and made this serious mistake.

After receiving the order, Richard joined Viscount Roman, and soldiers marched north along Fort William, and once again came to the north entrance of the canyon.

The north entrance of the Harland Canyon is a three-way intersection, which is a relatively important traffic artery in the Eagle Mountain Range.

Gunderson once established a military depot here, and left a brigade stationed there.

However, this brigade was defeated by Li Cha, because the situation was unclear, and the territory was threatened by Gunderson's troops. After the war, Li Cha gave up this strategic point.

Although the orcs have regained the military depot, there are only a few hundred garrisons inside.

These hundreds of garrisons were all defeated by Li Cha's subordinates. Of course, they couldn't withstand the attack of the noble coalition forces in Gerda province.

The coalition forces of Li Cha and Viscount Roman cut off the western retreat of Deren, and Zachary led the Northern Army to surround the remnants of Deren's western remnants in Gravesen, but they were unable to attack the city.

The main force of the Northern Legion is more than people, and there are about orcs in Gravessen Castle.The orcs in the castle still have the power to fight. If they want to conquer this fortress, the Northern Army must destroy at least half of the soldiers.

After analyzing the situation on the battlefield, Zachary believed that the time for a decisive battle was not yet ripe, and chose a long-term siege.

Although there is not much food stored in Graveson Castle, there are about 8,000 captured human slaves. The orcs can rely on cannibalism to survive for two or three months.

It sounds cruel, but this is a race war to the death.

Cannibalism is not uncommon in war, let alone orc cannibalism.

Time passed like this day by day, and by late April, five groups of orcs had just completed the 300-kilometer mountain road, from the territory of Earl Martins to the north entrance of Harland Canyon.

Facing the prepared noble coalition, the eight thousand orc reinforcements had no chance of winning and could break through the defense of the noble coalition.

During the past ten days, under the leadership of Li Cha, he used the camp left by the orcs to strengthen the fortifications.

The orcs made a tentative attack and retreated after suffering hundreds of casualties.

The coalition forces of nobles in Gerda Province blocked the northern entrance of the Harland Canyon. If they want to bypass this place, they have to walk at least kilometers more on the mountain road.

The logistics line is too long, and the food road may be cut off at any time.

If you want to rescue the remnants of De Lunxi, you must pull out this nail.

If you want to pull out the nail, five brigades of orcs are not enough.

The Orc Reinforcement Commander dispatched the Harpy again and wrote a request for help to Killam.

As time dragged on to May, the situation in the northern frontier of the Grant Kingdom changed again.

Duke Jonathan led the troops to repel the orcs.

The Orc Eastern Army couldn't hold back, and had moved closer to Killam.

In order to deal with the enemy in the east, Kilam now has no reinforcements at all.

For a while, the Gerda province fell into a long-term sit-down war, and neither humans nor orcs took the initiative to attack.

Instead, they constantly dispatched scouts to investigate the opponent's actions.

In order to deal with the harpies, Richard and Thoros even led a small group of scouts to set up traps and hunted down six or seven harpies.

The harpy suffered a loss and quickly learned a lesson, not easily lowering the altitude, and the efficiency of obtaining orc information was also a bit lower.

Time passed slowly like this, and lasted until July.