The countdown to the expedition has arrived, but the production of the Storm Armor still does not meet Duke's expectations. Because under the current production capacity of Storm Castle, the production of fifty pairs of Storm Warframes a day is already the limit, not to mention the Sea Clan Warframe, which is still a super-large one.

This kind of plate armor production efficiency, if it is placed in other territories, it is estimated that you will wake up with a smile when you dream, because generally it takes more than ten days for a craftsman to build such a piece of plate armor. Other territories want to mass-produce plate armor on a large scale, either by accumulating over time, or by relying on the number of craftsmen to pile up.

Therefore, in general, the royal arsenal has tens of thousands of craftsmen, relying on the exaggerated number of craftsmen to fill the shortage in output.

Even so, plate armor is still very precious on the mainland, only elite troops can be equipped, it is good for ordinary troops to have pieces of armor, the worst peasant army, the good ones have two pieces of iron, and the bad ones are only bamboo and cotton armor.

For example, the Storm Army is fully equipped with plate armor, and it is estimated that there is no second one on the entire continent except for the Holy See. And the Holy See is not starting from scratch, they rely on the accumulation of more than a thousand years of ruling the continent to make all the Holy See troops equipped with excellent armor, forming a crushing of the secular power of the empire on the continent!

After more than a month of restarting full production, only 2,000 pairs of fish-man armors were produced, and even half of them were not equipped. But when these armors were sent to the Storm Fortress, Fasqi and the former leaders of the fishmen even looked straight at them, because this was a real complete version of the Storm Armor, and the quality and protection were not comparable to the previous shrunken monkey version of the armor, which naturally made the Sea Clan happy.

With these two thousand Fishman Warriors equipped with Storm Armors, they can basically ensure the safety of the sea around the Storm Fortress. And with the Storm Army's expedition imminent, Duke can only stop the production of the Sea Clan Warframe, and let the hydroelectric factory work overtime to produce 1,000 sets of standard Storm Type 1 Warframes to replace those that were damaged after the previous battle, and leave hundreds of sets for backup.

Because there is basically no way to repair such a thing as plate armor, and when you go to the northern defense line, there is no possibility of supply and replacement, so you can only bring some to the past. Although Duke didn't plan to go to war, but wanted to do business, it was impossible for others to think that the Storm Army was easy to bully and take the initiative to find trouble or something, so it was better to take precautions!

In addition to these, the expeditionary corps has also been chosen, which is the first and third regiments of the storm army. In the past, the strongest of the Storm Army has always been the First Regiment, but during this period of time, the First Regiment of the Storm Army has participated in too many battles, and after constantly replenishing with new recruits, the veteran rate of the First Regiment of the Storm Army has actually fallen below half.

On the contrary, the 2nd Regiment of the Storm Army has experienced these battles, and the casualties are far less than those of the 1st Regiment of the Storm Army, not only the proportion of recruits is maintained within a healthy number, but also a lot of combat experience has been gained.

Needless to say, the 3rd Regiment of the Storm Army is currently the youngest unit of the Storm Army, and it has experienced the fewest battles, and it is a regiment built mainly by new recruits. So for this expedition, Duke chose the 1st and 3rd Regiments of the Storm Army, so that these two regiments could gain some experience in fighting and marching, after all, the commander of the 2nd Regiment of the Storm Army had marched to Marseille once before.

As for the second legion, which is relatively strong at the moment, it can just defend Storm Castle with the dwarven legion and the fish-man legion, so Duke is more at ease.

The troops for the expedition have been chosen, and the rest is to prepare for the expedition. In addition to these 3,000 main combat troops, Duke also selected 2,000 logistics troops as the support force for this expedition, responsible for the logistics support of the entire expeditionary corps.

According to the general ratio of a soldier's logistics, at least two civilian men are needed, and the 3,000 people of the Storm Army are equipped with 2,000 logistics personnel, which is actually a very small number. The main reason for this is because the northern defense line will be responsible for the supply of Storm Fort, and Duke only needs to care about the consumption along the way, and the other point is the application of the Storm Carriage.

During this period of time, almost all of the Storm Carriages produced by the Storm Carriage Factory were not sold, but all of them were purchased by the Storm Army. For this expedition, Duke prepared a thousand storm wagons, and all the soldiers' weapons, armor, and supplies could be transported by wagons, and light action could greatly increase the efficiency of the march.

If it weren't for the fact that the output of the Storm Wagon Factory was really limited, the monthly output was still maintained at about 800 vehicles, and the transportation of various engineering minerals in Storm Castle was also inseparable from Storm Carriages, and the animal power of Storm Castle was really insufficient, otherwise Duke at least planned to prepare more than 2,000 Storm Carriages, so that the Storm Army would become a "motorcycle" army, and such a long daily march could be upgraded from the current twenty or thirty kilometers to fifty or sixty kilometers.

If it is possible to build a concrete "high-speed" highway or a neat railway in the future, the daily march speed will reach 100 kilometers per day. This kind of marching speed will crush any strength on the mainland, and Duke can do a mobile war of concentrating superior forces at any time with more and less!

And after Duke left himself, the development plan of Storm Castle was ready, except for those that had been prepared before, that is, to let the civil affairs officer Bashir continue to find a way to attract more people to Storm Castle. At the same time, Duke plans to open a huge trade market in Storm City, where Storm Castle specialties such as ironware, horse-drawn carriages, and even porcelain are traded directly in the Storm Market.

Of course, in order to be able to attract merchants and people to come, the storm market will be the lowest price. At the same time, the storm market will open a storm car dealership, providing one-stop service for transporting people and goods, and use these business means to open the reputation of storm fort, so that you don't have to work hard to find people, but absorb human resources.

In addition to these, once the personnel grows in the future, the Storm Logistics Force will be replenished with 5,000 people, and the Storm Recruits in the reserve will also be increased from the current 3,000 to 5,000 people, which are all the war potential of the Storm Fort. Because Duke can expect that with the stunning appearance of the Storm Army this time, Storm Castle will encounter the attention of giants from all sides in the future, and even Emperor Fran will find a way to find out the details of Storm Castle.

If you want to deter these giants, and not have the idea that the Prince of Andorra wanted to annex the Storm Army before, then you must use strong force to make them retreat in the face of difficulties. That's how Duke's style is, or it's low-key and forbearing. If there is no way to cover it up, it will burst out in a high-profile manner and show off your muscles in an all-round way