The deal between Stormfort and the Barbarians can be said to be a win-win situation if it goes well, but Duke's ambitions are too great, and he also overestimates Stormcastle's production and affordability.

When the second batch of logistics troops rotated over, it brought Fei Duo's report, and now the production capacity of Storm Castle has reached its limit, and the death rate in the mine has reached the number of dozens of people per month. This is not a very high number in this world, and the death toll in the Stormcastle mines has reached this level every month.

It's just that after the application of the Duke steam pump, coupled with the protection of miners and the strengthening of treatment, the accident rate can be called a linear decline, and the mortality rate at the lowest time is less than ten people a month, which is a very low mortality rate in a super mine of more than 50,000 people in the Middle Ages.

But even if it is desperate mining and production, the output of storm armor and iron tools cannot meet so much consumption. After all, the construction of the Seine Bayou Fortress and Storm New City also requires a lot of building materials, not to mention that a separation wall is still being built in the Valley of Monsters to protect the newly reclaimed riverside farmland.

Therefore, the trade with the barbarians every month with thousands of horses and thousands of cattle and sheep was almost crushing the storm army.

Of course, this is only one aspect, and if you can't do it, Storm Fortress can still postpone other projects, and make every effort to ensure the deal with the barbarians, and other things will be left later.

However, there were two very bad news from Fedor, which was the main reason why Duke decided to judge that the deal could not be sustained. The first point is that the Stormfish People tribe found that about 20,000 warriors of the Shark tribe have been assembled, and they seem to be equipped with newer and more powerful weapons and equipment.

The gathering of warriors of the Shark Tribe put a lot of pressure on the unfinished Storm Sea Clan Fortress, and all fishing and hunting were almost stopped, and the 5,000 Storm Fish People army was all stationed behind the Seine, ready to deal with the attack of the Storm Shark Tribe.

At the same time, Fasqi's communication with the Sea Giant Tribe also completely failed, and after learning that Fasqi led the Wave Tribe to be loyal to the human lord, and at the same time dedicated the Sea Clan's treasure Ocean Pearl to Duke, the Sea Giant Tribe was very angry. Not only did they refuse Fasqi's request for help, but they also reprimanded them for betraying the Sea Clan.

And with more and more detective information later, Fasqi discovered that the reason why the Shark Tribe can have so many weapons and equipment is not only human weapon styles, but also many sea clan weapons and equipment. From these Sea Clan weapons, it can be seen that the Wild Shark Tribe is currently receiving help from not only humans, but also other Sea Clans behind it.

Judging from the current situation in the Sea of Death, the only people who can provide these equipment are the Haitian Elf race, and the Haitian Elf are a subordinate race of the Sea Giants, and it is impossible to sell weapons and equipment to the Shark Tribe without the permission of the Sea Giant Tribe. Therefore, Fasqi speculated that the Sea Giant Tribe not only gave up the strategy of containing the Wild Shark Tribe, but even turned to supporting the Wild Shark Tribe, wanting to completely annihilate the Storm Sea Tribe.

It was this high-pressure situation under the city that made the food supply of Storm Fortress even more difficult, after all, the consumption of 100,000 Sea Clans was much greater than the consumption of 100,000 humans because of their size.

In order to deal with the threat of the Sea Clan, the current production of the Storm Armor must be equipped with the remaining Storm Army, and it is impossible to wait until the war breaks out, and the remaining Storm Logistics Army and the Recruit Corps do not even have basic armor.

The restrictions have exposed a problem that has always been very painful, that is, the supply cannot reach the speed of development. Duke had to make a choice, whether to risk the attack of the Storm Fortress Shark Tribe Sea Clan and continue to trade the Storm Armor and Iron Weapons to the northern border, or terminate the trade with the Barbarians to ensure the stability of Storm Castle first.

Duke had been hesitating between the two options, one was the current predicament, and the other was the long-term development of the Storm Army. Is it gambling that the Shark Tribe will not dare to attack the Storm Fortress, or will the Storm Fortress prepare for war with all its might.

Just when Duke hesitated, the storm dwarf army in the Monster Valley came with very important news, that is, they found that the number of ice demons began to change, and a group of strange Xiaoice demons appeared, as if they had just been converted.

You must know that this situation has never appeared in Storm Castle before, and even in the hundred years of Storm Castle's 100-year city history, this situation has not been found. Of course, Storm Castle has never attacked the Valley of Monsters for hundreds of years, and the specific situation of the Ice Demon is not very clear.

But this strange situation has happened, and it has to be taken seriously by the Storm Army, at least this situation means that the Ice Demon still has a race supplement, but the point of this supplement is not the Storm Castle, because the Storm Castle has not been taken away in the past two years, so the Ice Demon can only be replenished from other human empires.

However, there are three different human empires around the territory of the Monster Valley, and the information exchange in this era is not developed, so Storm Fortress can't know where the ice demons come from.

It was because of the threats from all sides that Duke had to give up continuing to trade with the barbarians, and first use material power to maintain the stability of the old nest of Storm Castle.

When Duke explained the reason for abandoning the deal, Karl and Allen looked very bad, they didn't expect that the storm situation had already deteriorated so much after only three months.

"My lord, the situation in Stormcastle is tense now, should we return to Stormcastle?"

Karl asked Duke, Storm Castle was their home, and it was naturally extremely important.

"We can't do it back for the time being, because we don't have enough horses, and the important thing is that we don't have enough reason to go back. Generally, the rotation of the border is based on half a year to a year, the time of the storm army is not enough, and the other point is that there is no war in the storm fort, all of this is our combat readiness, and the Emperor of Fran will not agree to this. ”

"Another and most important point, that is, what if the Emperor Fran sends the Storm Army to garrison the northern defense line under the banner of help, but instead mobilizes other troops of the empire to go to the Storm Castle?

"If you want to get this good reason, it is to let the confrontation of the northern line of defense end, once the northern line of defense is no longer confrontational, there is no need to place so many troops in the border area. If this war plan can be successful, the French Empire, the Hans Empire, and the barbarians will not have the strength to continue, and we will be able to return to Stormcastle!"