Princess Gina also felt very helpless about Marquis Barton's resistance, because it was an incomprehensible thing to use the lord's private army of 3,000 people to defend the elite army of the empire with 8,000 people. lā

But she also understood that the consumption of tens of thousands of soldiers in the Northern Army was already a heavy burden on the French Empire. In the southeast, because of the Milan Empire, it is necessary to maintain the Eastern Army led by the eldest brother Edward, so it can only find a way to transfer back some soldiers to relieve the huge pressure brought by logistics.

Even because of the increase in taxes in the past two years of war, there are signs of rebellion in some of the empire's territories. You must know that once the rebellion of the lords within the empire appears, it is far more terrible than the invasion of foreign enemies, and it will be a matter of shaking the foundation of the rule.

"Marquis Patton, you have to trust your father's judgment and the strength of the Storm Army. Although it may be due to the decrease in the number of people, the pressure on the defense line will increase. But I will apply to Duke Otto and ask him to cooperate with the emperor's defense as much as possible. I believe that after more than a year of confrontation, both the barbarians and the Hans Empire have fallen into a state of exhaustion, and they should be able to ensure that nothing goes wrong. ”

Hearing Princess Kina's answer, Marquis Barton had nothing to say, after all, this was already a fait accompli and could not be changed. In the same way, he didn't have much hope for what Princess Jina said, Duke Otto's lion army still had to guard against the most powerful beast legion, how could he have the spare strength to cooperate with the emperor's defense?

Marquis Patton has even prepared for the worst, that is, the storm army of 3,000 people, as long as they don't drag their feet to destroy the emperor's defense line, the rest can only rely on the emperor's first army to resist the guards legion, and when they can't bear it, they will tell the emperor to see whether the emperor wants the northern defense line or insists on going his own way.

With the retreat of Marquis Patton, Princess Gina also fell into a kind of entanglement, and the two rescue operations of the Storm Army gave her an understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Storm Army, at least comparable to the elite troops of the Second Division.

But the number of the Storm Army is so small that three thousand people cannot reach the combat effectiveness of eight thousand in any case. More importantly, why did Duke choose to do this, and once these 3,000 people were transferred, would there still be defenders in Stormcastle? Thinking of this, Gina felt that in the year since she left Stormcastle, she knew less and less about Duke, and the man became more and more mysterious......

A 600-kilometer march is only half a day for a modern train, but a full month for the Storm Army. As the Storm Army left the Storm Castle and began to enter the territory of other lords with the Storm Battle Banner, it caused all kinds of sensations and combat readiness almost immediately.

Because the sudden appearance of such a well-equipped legion made the lords of other territories feel an incredible feeling. Even when passing through Andorra City, the Andorran prince's army was on full alert for Duke's storm army, and the Andorran prince did not expect that there was such a strong army in his territory.

Seriously, the Prince of Andorra has noticed Duque and seen the strength of the Storm Army. But no matter what, the storm army was only about 1,000 people before, no matter how strong the combat strength was, what kind of storm waves could these more than 1,000 people stir up on the Europa continent? Unless they were all dragon knights, they could rely on more than a thousand dragons to make the entire Europa continent look sideways, and it was obvious that Duke's storm army didn't even have mounts, let alone giant dragons.

In addition to these, the absorption of the Imperial Eleventh Legion and the Frontier Knights also diverted the attention of the Prince of Andorra, and since then, Storm Castle has not done anything major except for business, so the Prince of Andorra has slowly forgotten about these things.

As a result, I never expected that in the course of a year, when the Storm Army reappeared, it had reached the scale of 5,000 people, and it was still 5,000 people in full armor. And just these 5,000 troops are equipped with 1,000 storm carriages, which is an incomparably luxurious extravagant extravagance.

You must know that the Storm Carriage, because Storm Castle is not sold on a large scale, has already been speculated in the market for hundreds of gold coins. The specially modified ones have reached the price of thousands, and have been converted into private carriages by some nobles, which are much more comfortable than the old carriages of the past.

Not to mention the price of the Storm Armor, just these 1,000 or so Storm Carriages are worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins on the market, and a small castle like Storm Castle can have so many gold coins?

In addition, the speed of this expansion is too fast, just from the pace of marching and the discipline that does not squint, it can be seen that the storm army is definitely not a random recruitment of 5,000 people, this is definitely an elite soldier. But you must know that the Prince of Andorra himself, who has absorbed the Eleventh Legion of the Empire and the Frontier Knights for a year, has not achieved such an effect. The only good thing is the Third Legion of the Empire, after all, this is the regular army used by the French Empire to fight against the Ice Demon before, and the foundation is already good, so it naturally maintains its combat effectiveness.

So the Prince of Andorra couldn't understand all this at all, and even vaguely felt in his heart that Duke would become a hidden danger to himself. This feeling is very subtle, because it stands to reason that Storm Castle is just a projectile land, and the Storm Army is nothing more than this in front of the French Empire and the Holy See, but this shadow in the heart of the Prince of Andorra has always lingered a little.

However, with the order of the Emperor of the French Empire, although the territory passed through was very nervous and unexpected for the Storm Army to enter, they were still smoothly released. About sixteen days after the march, the Storm Army led by Duke came to the territory of Marseille in the Duchy of Bute, which was the farthest place Duke Storm Army had reached before, and in a sense, this place could be regarded as an "old acquaintance".

The Marseille territory faced the mighty storm army, and although it had been reported before, and the edict of the Emperor of France had been displayed, the Marseille territory was still well defended, just like the territories that Duke had passed through before.

However, this time it was not the logistics officer Yarman who died before, but Count Bute himself led more than 3,000 Marseille troops, and came to Duke's storm army in a mighty way, after all, Duke and Princess Gina had a very unpleasant time in the Marseille territory before, and even killed four of Yarman's entourage, and Count Bute was naturally afraid that Duke would take advantage of the opportunity to pass through the Marseille territory to do something.

A lord who has reached this level cannot fail to understand the principle of prevention before it happens.