Eric's contribution is quite big. The first group has to charge forward in almost every battle, and Eric is even more so.
The hatred between the Xianden regiment and the demons was already deep. After being activated with blood, they were extremely heroic in every battle.
Among them, Eric, the dragon knight who always fights at the front, played a great inspiring role.
On the other hand, as a knight officially conferred by the empire, Eric had one foot on the threshold of the nobility.
And his personal reputation is unparalleled, at least within the Western Empire.
He took the initiative to serve Xu Lai and saved Xu Lai a lot of things.
When most of the rebels heard that even Eric had followed Xu Lai, they surrendered without saying a word.
Of course, there are a few careerists, but they really can't get up.
In addition to the rebels, the people of the Western Empire were more likely to accept Xu Lai because of Eric's relationship.
They settled directly in the Eagle Empire without any hesitation, and Eric was definitely a big factor.
Eric has made great contributions, and since he was already a knight before, it is certainly more than enough to confer a baron and a viscount.
But these two titles are not enough for him to obtain specialized attributes.
But if Eric is canonized as an earl, in addition to increasing the annual financial expenses, the key lies in what other old people will think.
Regardless of the fact, Tahan, Joseph, Aaron, the Eboka brothers, Urdola, and Wei Yihong were all the first people to follow Xu.
Even if Aaron and the others were less successful, Jimmy Martell had only just been promoted from viscount to earl.
If Eric is to be promoted, these old people must give an explanation.
Xu Lai completely occupied Lionheart City, plus the Western Empire City occupied by Tahan and Reina during this period.
The territory of the Eagle Kingdom has almost doubled, but the population has not increased much, probably only by two to three million.
Moreover, even if the entire Western Empire, including those cities in the Northern Empire, were captured, the population would probably increase by more than one million at most.
Equivalent to the population of the entire Western Empire, including Long'an City, Wasteland City and other cities with relatively large populations, the total population may be only over 10 million.
Calculated in this way, plus the millions of people on the grassland and the two to three million people who migrated, the entire Eagle Kingdom probably does not exceed 20 million.
In other words, the Eagle Kingdom has a land area that far exceeds the previous Western Empire, and its total population is not even one-fifth of the previous Western Empire.
Of course, this is not Xu Lai's fault, but also thanks to Xu Lai.
If he hadn't transferred to the Western Empire in time, it would have been difficult to find a living person in the entire Western Empire.
A population of 20 million is enough for Xu to continue to promote several generals, but only generals are not enough.
The gap between generals and heroes is too huge. At least two or three high-level generals are equivalent to a mid- to low-level hero.
In the coming hero, Xu Lai's level of trust is too low. Even if he were to be promoted and used this time, he would not be given too much power.
After much thought, Xu Lai believed that he still had to select some people among the indigenous people and his own people to use.
Since rewarding Eric would make the old man dissatisfied, then he might as well reward him together.
In fact, at the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China, Xu Lai should have been awarded a reward.
It's just that the Eagle Kingdom at that time only occupied the grassland area. The area was large, but the population and cities were very small.
This place has been granted the title of a count and there are more than a dozen titles inherited from the empire. It will be too crowded if it is further divided.
Now there is an entire territory larger than the Western Empire. If it is not enfeoffed, it will easily alienate the subordinates.
If you want to enfeoff, you can't be petty, let alone do it casually.
The key is that the object of Xu Lai's enfeoffment must come.
These people stay in various cities. Not to mention how long it takes for them to arrive, the work at hand must be handed over.
Reina wouldn't be able to leave for a while anyway. There were hundreds of thousands of people pressed into the military camp. Even if some officers and those with lower quality were eliminated, there would still be at least 100,000 people.
Even with the help of Eric and the officers of the First Regiment, it would not be possible to reorganize these people in three to five days.
In the next period of time, Xu Lai gave up all his work. Even Su Ya was forced by Xu Lai to give up her work.
Tahan and Yanfeng were ordered by Xu Lai to knock down several cities in the Northern Empire.
Haosen has already conveyed the news to Xu Lai that King Aled of the Northern Empire has agreed to the deal proposed by Xu Lai.
Even to show sincerity, the Northern Empire has taken the initiative to display soldiers at the border of the Eastern Empire.
The Eastern Empire and the Undead are anxious, and they have offended Xu Lai, who took away the strongest gryphon army. They have to worry about Xu Lai's revenge at any time.
Under such circumstances, the Eastern Empire did not dare to go head-to-head with the Northern Empire.
Not only did they not dare to be tough, but they took the initiative to shrink their troops. Except for important cities on the border, ordinary towns and villages were abandoned.
The Northern Empire has also established a country, and King Aled is also a bit ambitious.
What's more, the Northern Empire also swallowed up at least 5 large and medium-sized castles by Xu Lai.
At this time, the Northern Empire naturally took all these towns into its pocket without any hesitation.
At this point, whether the Northern Empire wanted it or not, it had completely offended the Eastern Empire.
Yuwen Shaoguang was not a generous person, and what Xu Lai took away was just the Royal Griffin Knights, which he had no control over in the first place.
The Northern Empire actually annexed more than a dozen towns and dozens of villages from Yuwen Shaoguang.
Not to mention whether the Eastern Empire can recover, even if they drive away the undead, they will probably attack the Northern Empire as soon as possible.
Xu Lai needs to cultivate his health, but what needs cultivation is the war-torn grassland and the Western Empire.
Speaking of which, the Qingfeng Legion didn't exist long ago.
Although the wave of recruits he brought out grew up quickly and experienced many battles, they had only been in the army for more than half a year.
After the teleportation array relies on the heart of the castle, only a few mages are needed to manage it, and large-scale teleportation can be maintained using energy stones.
Xu Lai specially approved the Qingfeng Legion to take a month-long vacation.
Each person's 10-day rest period is divided into 20 rounds, and a group of people are released every day. After a month, the entire army will be assembled.
This month, Eric's new army should be reorganized, and a large-scale enfeoffment ceremony will be held in a few days.
He used this month to visit every manor outside Lion Heart City with Su Ya, Elena, and Anna, who had not been out for a long time.
Roland was responsible for guarding, while Elvi and her angel army were left behind in Lion Heart City by Xu Lai.
Also staying behind was Jian Yuan, who was promoted to the Eagle Kingdom's intelligence chief, and the intelligence officers he recruited.
During the month of Xu Lai's absence, Jilong handled government affairs while Jian Yuan secretly collected intelligence.
The main targets are the movements in Lionheart City and the movements in the Southern Empire.
The establishment of the Eagle Kingdom was still too short, and the development of intelligence work was not smooth. Fortunately, Xu Lai is rich and attaches great importance to intelligence work. Although he spends money freely, his manpower may not be trustworthy, but at least it is sufficient.
Elvi stayed to guard the palace. With their group of seraphs here, no matter how hard the others tried, the sky wouldn't fall.
Xu Lai himself was leisurely vacationing in various manors, admiring these private mansions that once belonged to the capital's powerful people.
The scale of these manors may not be as large as those on the grassland, but their decoration level and unique style are not as good as those on the grassland.
Originally, Xu Lai wanted to just hang around and get through this month comfortably.
It would be best to wait until Elena gives birth to the child, otherwise Xu Lai may not have the mind to do anything during this period.
Unfortunately, things backfired. For a busy person like Xu Lai, good times never last long.
News came from Jian Yuan that the Southern Empire was planning to mobilize its forces to retaliate against Xu Lai because of the loss of 200,000 elite infantry and royal archers.
But this was not the reason for Xu Lai to end his vacation early. The Southern Empire had to assemble troops, and Xu Lai also had to assemble his own coast defense force.
It is impossible to deal with the Southern Empire without a strong enough fleet.
Coincidentally, after Xu Lai confiscated a large amount of gold coins and resources from Lion Heart City, he had enough capital to produce warships at full capacity.
What forced Xu Lai to end his vacation was a mission from the elves.
Reina personally took them to find Xu Lai. Xu Lai owed a favor to the elf, and it was hard to shirk it.
"The undead have broken through the Forest of Green and are entering the Emerald Forest where the World Tree is located.
According to the original Light Alliance Agreement, we contacted the bishops of several temples, but they all expressed that they were unable to do anything.
We really have no choice but to come to you for help. ”
As soon as they met, the elf ranger in a green cloak knelt on one knee in front of Xu Lai.
Xu Lai has seen a lot of elf messengers, and this is the first time that Reina personally brought them here.
Obviously, this elf messenger has a close relationship with Reina.
However, although Xu Lai has been promoted to king now, the elf is an envoy from another country after all, and there is no reason to kneel to the king of a foreign country.
For the proud elf to kneel down on one knee for Xu Lai can only show that the situation on the elf side has indeed reached an urgent moment.
Xu Lai quickly helped the female ranger up and said decisively:
"Don't worry, elves are the most important allies of humans and the most important friends of the Eagle Kingdom.
I will definitely do my best to help you. ”
Xu Lai's words made all the elves present, including Reina, breathe a sigh of relief.
Different from all the elf messengers I had seen before, these elves wore close-fitting leather armor and spoke very simply, without any courtesy at all.
Xu Lai actually liked this method very much, so he did not deliberately try to manipulate the other party and simply agreed to help.
The next thing that needs to be discussed is the form of help.
What Xu Lai wants most is to continue to provide supplies as before.
But if it was just like this, there was no need for the elves to specially send people here, they would still send this kind of unspeakable ranger.
If Xu Lai didn't like this kind of straightforward character, another leader would definitely not give him a good look.
And this time, Reina also specially accompanied him. In the past, she had always avoided suspicion in order not to embarrass Xu Lai.
Of course Reina also knew that as long as she appeared here, she was using her influence to put pressure on Xu Lai.
If Xu Lai doesn't give Reina face, it will inevitably hurt the relationship between both parties, which is something neither party wants to see.
Since he knew that he still wanted to do this, it only meant that the elf had really reached the edge of extreme danger.
The elves rely on the World Tree to survive. The World Tree can emit huge and pure life energy, which is the key to the elves' longevity.
As an immortal species, elves have extremely poor reproductive capabilities.
It can be said that once the World Tree is lost, the elves will basically be exterminated.
At the same time, it is also because the World Tree has the purest and most terrifying life energy in the world, and it is also what the undead most want to obtain and destroy.
Most of the undead and necromancers believe that the only thing in this world that can help them resurrect into living creatures is the World Tree.
The remaining undead believe that the World Tree is the origin of all life in this world.
Even many anthropologists strongly agree with this view.
In short, these undead believe that as long as the World Tree is destroyed, all living things in this world will become extinct.
At that time, the entire world will be lifeless and lifeless.
Without life, there would be no death. Without life, there would be no undead souls.
Therefore, most of the undead chose to attack the barrier, including the undead wizard Sandro, who ranked second only to the abyss lord Kerrigan in the temple.
Sandro has two sets of combined treasures, both of which are unique level artifacts.
One set is a cursed armor that can inflict the four major curses of Slowness, Possession, Weakness and Impending Disaster on the enemy at the beginning of the battle.
The other set is even more perverted, able to summon the corpses of those killed in battle into powerful undead warriors of your own side.
An ordinary necromancer can at most summon the war dead into skeleton soldiers.
But Sandro, with the blessing of the Ghost King's cloak, can summon dead warriors, knights and other physical professions into level 5 dark warriors.
After legal professions such as mages, priests, and elven druids die in battle, they will be transformed into level 5 corpse witches by the ghost king's cloak.
Even though it is only level 5, you must know that many legal professionals do not have level 5 themselves.
After becoming an undead, his strength not only did not shrink, but actually increased by one level.
With these two sets of artifacts, the elves were able to fight the undead for so long thanks to the favorable location.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that the undead did not attack the elves with all their strength.
Although the undead have no feelings, their spirits still exist and they have an extremely strong need for recognition.
These few undead careerists try to rule the world forever with their immortal undead bodies.
One of the four kings of the undead, the death knight King Leoric.
Unable to exert his combat advantage in the forest, Death Knight Rodhart, also one of the Four Kings of the Undead, chose to attack the Human Empire.
The most suitable and adept at dealing with the undead are undoubtedly the priests of the Human Empire.
It's a pity that while the elves abided by the agreement and came all the way to support, the human priests forgot about the original contract.
Of course, these priests cannot be entirely blamed. Who caused the temple and the holy city to be destroyed by demons. (End of chapter)