That's right, that's what Duke is really doing all of this, which is to rely on the natural amphibious superiority of the Fish-Man Warriors to build a super navy that belongs to Stormcastle!

You must know that in the early days of the Great Voyage, in addition to the general artillery shooting, what really wanted to decide the outcome was the hand-to-hand fighting style such as gang jumping. Because neither the power nor the rate of fire of the early artillery can be compared with the missiles of later generations.

There would often be a sea battle that lasted four or five hours, and many ships were hit by dozens of shots, but after the battle, there was no, and everyone drove back to their home port for repairs. Not to mention this kind of early naval battle, even in the modern Sino-Japanese War, Dingyuan and Zhenyuan were at an absolute disadvantage, and they still did not sink after hundreds of cannons, but held a meeting at the Beiyang Naval Base.

Of course, although this kind of modern naval warfare is unsinkable, there will be no gang jumping. However, in the Middle Ages, hand-to-hand combat was still an indispensable form of warfare.

The biggest advantage of Duke's choice of fish-man warriors is that they won't drown. The ocean is destined to be a dangerous place, and if a soldier falls on a rock, he will face an uncertain situation. Moreover, gang jumping has been a role that only brave and elite soldiers can play since ancient times, because they need absolute courage and strength, otherwise they will be sent to death in the past.

It is precisely because of the extremely high risk of jumping gangs, for the sake of flexibility and the fact that they will not drown immediately if they accidentally fall into the sea, they do not dare to wear heavy armor. In other words, the biggest reliance of the Storm Castle, the Storm Armor will not be of much use at sea, and if the Thirty Kilogram Armor accidentally falls into the water, then this is not a protective armor, but a life-threatening armor.

Coupled with the attributes of the plate armor, it is destined to be unable to wear quickly, and the storm armor has been reduced as much as possible, and it is replaced with the full-body knight armor of ordinary nobles, and it still needs the help of a few attendants to put it on, and it is naturally the same when you take it off.

Due to the manpower limitations of Storm Fort, every soldier of the Storm Army is extremely precious, especially this kind of elite soldiers, if they are allowed to jump into the gang, the pressure on the Storm Army will be very great. Fish-man warriors don't have these concerns, they have enough strength and the talent to breathe in the water, and they can go to the gang with heavy armor.

This advantage will crush the weak navies of other countries and territories. In fact, seriously speaking, Duke is not the first to come up with this method in the world, because the trade of inland sea routes such as the Mediterranean Sea is not backward in this world, on the contrary, it is very developed.

In the beginning, the sea monsters and other hostile forces in the entire Mediterranean were destroyed, and the coastal countries used fish-man warriors. Warriors: They are not like the Storm Castle as an organized Sea Tribe, but in the form of mercenaries, recruiting Fishman warriors to fight for themselves.

Duke has never been interested in the recruitment of mercenaries, because a soldier who fights for money, not to mention his loyalty and credit, will to fight is definitely not high. The only thing that human beings can make willing to give up their lives is definitely not money, but what soldiers have to protect and hold onto.

Therefore, Duke believes that once he succeeds in establishing a professional navy, he will completely crush those miscellaneous mercenaries. First open up these territorial markets along the Sea of Death, and when the power is strong, and then annex the Mediterranean, the largest inland sea market in the Middle Ages, then Storm Castle will no longer have to worry about financial problems.

But that's all for later, and Duke is basically in a state of burnt out now. With the addition of 100,000 Sea Clans, although they are still able to fish and hunt, there is still a big vacancy and they need the support of Storm Castle.

Of course, simple food support is still within the scope of Stormcastle's current commitment, after all, the continuous construction of new carriages allows Stormcastle to purchase food and other necessities from any territory of the Principality of Andorra.

Moreover, the population and the size of the cities in this world are much more powerful than those of the Middle Ages on the earth, and the scale of 100,000 people is not an exaggerated number. To be precise, it's because Stormcastle is so weak that it seems like a lot of 100,000 people.

But food is only a small aspect, and the construction of Ocean City is where Duke really feels a lot of pressure. Not to mention directly accommodating the entire Wave Tribe, even if it only accommodates 50,000 people, a big city of 50,000 people is an impossible thing for Storm Castle, which is tantamount to building another Storm New City.

You must know that Storm Castle is currently spending money on more than this one, the construction of Dwarf City, the construction of Storm New City, and the resumption of work of the hydraulic factory are facing a shortage of tens of thousands of Storm Armor, as well as the pension and treatment of thousands of Storm Army casualties, each of which is a huge amount of money for the current Storm Castle.

It was easy for Duke to promise, but when he really wanted to carry on that promise, it made all kinds of difficulties for Stormcastle City Hall and finances. Because now that Storm Fort is facing the sky, it may not even be possible to get a single item, let alone start construction in full swing.

After communicating with the city hall and the Ministry of Finance, Duke finally came up with a reluctant solution. That is, the construction of Dwarven City has been temporarily stopped, because they basically have a prototype, and it will not be difficult to survive this winter, and wait until the profits earned by the Storm Merchant House alleviate the financial crisis, and then continue to build Dwarven City.

On the other hand, the construction progress of Storm New Town has been delayed again, and now Storm New City has a basic prototype, in addition to the scale that cannot accommodate 50,000 people, there is no problem with houses that can accommodate 30,000 or 40,000 people.

So the situation in Storm New City is very similar to Dwarf City, at least there is no problem in escaping the cold of this winter, at most the family is a little crowded. Relatively speaking, this kind of living conditions have been qualitatively improved, whether it is for the poor peasants who lived in the valley of Fort before, or for the displaced people who came to Fort Storm because of the border war.

Even compared to the cities of the general territory of this world, even if it is a half-finished Storm New City, it can be regarded as crushing in all aspects, so there is no problem in making do with it.

It's just that Michelangelo was strongly dissatisfied with this matter, as the designer and chief architect of Storm New Town, it can be said that this Storm New City with future attributes has devoted all his efforts. As an ascetic, he even put aside his devout belief in the Cult of the Light for a while, mingled with Duke and the heretics, and concealed the situation in Stormcastle.

As a result, this big city with a plan of 100,000 people, from the beginning of the city wall, to the back directly shrunk by half to 50,000 people, and now even the general continues to shrink, and the pursuit of art such as sculpture and murals is even more distant, which is simply unacceptable to Michelangelo!