Among the remaining two direct members of the royal family, only Princess Gina and the little prince Harry are the only ones.

Harry is only twelve years old this year, although the requirements for adulthood in this era are relatively early, but a prince at this age may not be able to suppress the arrogance of the border guards.

All the choices came and went, Princess Gina was the most suitable person, as a princess, she did not have to worry about her threatening to the throne, and Henry VII also doted on this daughter. But the problem is that when Ji Na led the army for the first time, there was a very bad precedent of failure, and the entire Frontier Knights and the Imperial Eleventh Army collapsed, so Ji Na's reputation among the military bosses was not very good.

This time, he commanded the first and second Guards regiments of the empire, and if you look at the strength alone, it is even about the same as the strength of the army commanded by the eldest son Edward, and it is a very important position. Henry VII feared that Gina would not be able to take on such a heavy responsibility, which would end up with bad consequences.

"Lazer, although I have four children, I really don't know who to send to lead in this situation. ”

Hearing Henry VII's emotion, Lazer just smiled and said: "All the princes and princesses are dragons and phoenixes among people, and any one of them can take on this important task." ”

"You don't have to say nice things, in fact, I don't have any choice, just let Princess Gina pass. Anyway, it's just a nominal commander, if there is really an emergency scene of war, the commander of the Guards can take over her and transfer the whole army, and even Duke Otto can take responsibility, so it shouldn't be a big problem. ”

In the end, Henry VII made the choice to let Princess Gina go to the northern defense line to lead the Imperial army.

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It's been a month and a half since the last Battle of Stormkeep, and it's January, the coldest day of winter.

It's just that compared to previous years, this year's Storm Castle is still in full swing on this cold day, and even the New Year is much more lively. And in the past month or so, Duke has been very comfortable, basically without any major plans and actions, and he has enjoyed a rare leisure time.

However, during the Chinese New Year, he also gave some holidays to the technical workers of Storm Castle, and the production efficiency was reduced to about one-third of the usual, and only the necessary personnel on duty were retained, and the rest were all on vacation.

You must know that there are no so-called statutory holidays in this world, let alone holidays, salaries and year-end bonuses. Therefore, Duke's behavior simply made the entire Stormcastle residents grateful to Dade, and even many old people said with red eyes that they had been in Stormcastle all their lives, and they had never seen such a good lord.

In the past month or so, the runes of Dumbledore, the president of the Magic Association, have also been transmitted. According to Dumbledore's description in his heart, as long as this kind of magic rune is supported by enough magic crystal energy, it can ensure that it can resist large-scale magic attacks below the high level and will not be fatal.

Of course, injuries and the negative effects of magic are unavoidable, after all, this is already the limit of mass-produced magic armor, if you want to improve your ability, it is estimated that you will have to use special materials to make magic armor.

At the same time, this new type of rune, even in the face of high-level large-scale magic arrays, can greatly reduce the mortality rate, so that the entire army can maintain basic combat effectiveness, so that there will not be the previous necromancer situation, a black cloud will shroud the past, and basically this battle will not be able to fight.

As for the forbidden spell-level magic, I don't know, if you are lucky, the soldiers in the fringe area can survive, but there is no way to experiment with this thing, everything can only be guessed, so Dumbledore didn't say much in the letter.

In addition, there are single magic attacks, which Dumbledore also did not write, for the previous reason, no empire has the ability to squander magic to the extent of attacking a single soldier. Because soldiers are really on the battlefield, human life is not counted, it is just a number and consumables, and the magic power is limited.

No mage has the ability to unleash dozens of single high-level magic in a short period of time, and even mid-level magic is very difficult. And the sacrifice of dozens of soldiers on the battlefield is insignificant, so the armor's defense against individual magic has never been a consideration.

In other words, with this powerful magic resistance rune, plus the dispel ability of the mage of Storm Castle itself, the Terran soldiers basically have magic resistance. Not to mention that Storm Castle has alien soldiers that are not found in other territories, such as dwarves and sea tribes, they all have innate magic resistance, and if combined, it is almost impossible for mages below the future magus to influence the storm army, and the level of mages in this world, an empire is so many, basically Duke cannot meet at this stage.

Of course, the cost of such a powerful magical protection ability is unimaginable. Not to mention the quality of the armor itself, the magic crystals needed on it alone are estimated to be about two hundred gold coins, and this is still the cost price of Storm Castle's production.

At this time, Duke couldn't help but think of the U.S. Army in later generations, those seemingly inconspicuous individual equipment, but as a result, a soldier was equipped, and the equivalent of RMB instantly reached the level of hundreds of thousands. If you count all kinds of individual imaging equipment, it is even more sky-high!

Now the Storm Force has the idea of developing the American army in the future, and Duke never thinks that in the era of cold weapons, the concept of treating soldiers as consumables is correct. Because the value of one elite soldier is far more than ten recruits. But if you think it's a good deal, the money spent by ten recruits may not be as much as that of one elite soldier.

In addition to the need to divide troops under special circumstances, Duke firmly believes that the policy of elite troops is the future development trend. It's just that the cost of such a storm armor is too high, even with equipment like a hydraulic hammer forging machine, Duke can't afford the equipment of 20,000 storm troops. If this is changed to other territories, unless it is the level of the empire that develops with the power of the whole country, it is impossible to think of it.

Therefore, Duke can only postpone the Storm Army's full outfit plan, thinking of producing this kind of armor with new magic runes drawn in small batches. At the same time, Duke ordered this armor to be called the Storm II armor, and the previous natural code name was the Storm One.

However, even so, Duke is still under pressure to produce it, as the current shortage of Storm One is still as high as more than 10,000 units. In particular, the group of big men of the Sea Clan's battle armor consumed more materials than the two dwarves. It's just that now that the Sea Clan soldiers have become his subjects, Duke can't favor one over the other, so he can only grit his teeth and hold on!