Seeing the appearance of the dwarf in front of him, Blu Ru was simply angry and funny, so he said helplessly: "I also know that you are a little anxious, but it is useless to be anxious about some things, we can only try to see what the limit caliber of the hydraulic boring machine is, after all, the lord once said that practice is the only criterion for testing the truth!"

"Okay, I'll hurry up and let the blast furnace prepare the blank, I have to hurry. ”

There was no nonsense at this time, he hurriedly went to the steelmaking blast furnace workshop, first forged a batch of different caliber blanks out of the mouth, and then said, if it really doesn't work, then the copper whiskers can only use the inverted mold, just use sand and other casting molds, it will be easy to form a little small bubble in the gun wall, this bubble will seriously affect the strength of the barrel of the artillery, and the final result is the familiar explosion.

So before there was no better process method, and with the interview of the artifact of the hydraulic boring machine, now the arsenal of Storm Castle is basically reluctant to use the method of casting molds, and would rather boring out the barrel little by little, so that the barrel basically does not have to worry about the problem of exploding.

The arsenal is intensively carrying out cannon casting operations here, and the rest of the storm territory is naturally not idle. The combat units have all been in a state of intensive training, and at the same time, Stormcastle has once again started recruiting recruits and reserves, because Andorra la Vella is also a large city with more than three military forces. If it weren't for Duke's brazen capture of Alpine City, he directly absorbed the remnants of the Alpine Army and the Eleventh Army of the Empire, and directly dealt a blow to the strength of the Prince of Andorra.

Otherwise, if you give the Prince of Andorra a little more time, it is estimated that the Alpine Army will be completely digested, and the strength of the 50,000 army can be said to be one of the hegemons of the French Empire, and now it is almost directly defeated by one-third of Duke, which can be regarded as laying the most solid foundation for the next attack.

Logistical preparations have also begun, and all kinds of food and military supplies can be said to be sufficient. Moreover, the most important aspect of attacking Andorra City is not that the logistics of the Storm Territory are powerful, but that the distance between Andorra City and Storm Castle is relatively close, and the distance from Alpine City to Andorra City is less than 100 kilometers, which greatly reduces the pressure on logistics.

Moreover, the logistics side has begun to develop canned food, which will be a qualitative change for the army's logistics. The cans developed by Duke and the logistics department are not the kind of iron cans that later generations, because compared to the current scientific research strength of Storm Castle, how to achieve 100% sealing is still a problem, so the cans developed by Duke are the earliest kind of glass cans.

Compared with tin cans, the disadvantages of glass cans are self-evident, and fragility is their biggest flaw. However, the development of glass in the European Middle Ages is still relatively prominent, unlike the lagging development of ancient China, which has developed towards glass. And with the birth of the magic blast furnace, the temperature control of fired glass has become simpler, so the cost of producing glass parts in Storm Castle has also been greatly reduced, which is the most important way to make canned food appear early and lay a solid foundation.

For example, the first canned food in Storm Castle was pasteurized pieces of meat in broth, then poured into glass bottles, and finally plugged with a wooden cork like red wine, and finally sealed with wax. In this way, it can basically be completely sealed, and there is no need to worry about food spoilage after long marches. Another big advantage is that at least in the summer, you don't have to think about cooking on a fire, and you can eat directly with broth against dry food.

Before, it was either simply eating dry food and a little jerky, which basically belonged to the state of choking to death. The rest of the meat is pickled food, which must be cooked before it can be eaten, which will greatly delay the marching time, and it does not have the good taste of broth.

Of course, the glass can is just a kind of over-the-top device at the moment, and Duke's ultimate goal is to put it on the tin can. In this way, the logistical supply problem of the Storm Army will be raised to a higher level in the future. In the era of cold weapons, in fact, in the end, the war is to see who has good logistics, and in most cases, if the logistics cannot be supported, it is equivalent to failure, and canned food will be the key to changing the logistics supply.

At the same time, the Storm Recruits expanded the army by 20,000 again, and the previous 10,000 recruits were also transferred to the logistics army, bringing the number of logistics troops to as many as 20,000. You must know that if the current Storm Army's soldiers are not counted in the navy, the land soldiers are already in their early 20,000s, and the previous 10,000 logistics troops basically can't meet the logistics needs, even if because of the existence of the storm carriage, the Storm Army's demand for the logistics army is not like the exaggerated numbers of one to two or even one to three in other territories, but the scale of one to one, Duke thinks it is still necessary, after all, there is no so-called civilian man in the storm fort, and all military operations are handled by the regular army.

Therefore, the expansion of the army of 20,000 people is also a big thing for the Storm Territory, but the recruitment process and efficiency are a bit beyond Duke's expectations, because as soon as the news is released, 20,000 people have been recruited within three days.

And the reason why these people are so positive is because the treatment and reputation of the Storm Army have laid an extremely solid foundation before. The people of Alpine City have been waiting for a long time to join the Storm Army, so they will respond to it.

At the same time, the addition of 20,000 military personnel will be a very heavy burden for the finances of the Storm Territory, after all, Duke's requirements for the logistics army are to be treated as a regular army, that is, they must be fully equipped, and recruits need at least half armor. Therefore, the production of 20,000 sets of armor is directly the expenditure of millions of gold coins. If it weren't for Duke Textiles making a little money, he wouldn't dare to continue to expand his army at all.

Everything in Stormcastle is preparing for tension, and the situation in the Fran Empire is also changing tensely. Just as Duke had predicted, Henry VII did not dare to gamble in the end, and instead of sending his direct legions to attack the Eastern Territories, he chose a tacit attitude.

Henry VII's attitude naturally made everyone see the weakness of the royal family, and the other territories of the empire began to follow suit, directly expelling the imperial army stationed before, and the French empire began to fall into a state of full-scale civil strife.