Duke told Fedore his plan very confidently, the current storm army can be described as different from the past, and the 50,000 Andorran prince's army really can't pose a big threat to Storm Castle, it is nothing more than slowing down the development of Storm Castle.

Because what Duke fears most is that the Prince of Andorra will use his geographical advantage to directly block the commercial trade of Stormcastle, which is the real blow to the current Stormcastle. If this is the case, it is estimated that he does not have to wait for the Prince of Andorra to attack him, but on the contrary, he will take the initiative to attack the Prince of Andorra.

And if the Prince of Andorra had been smarter and had chosen to defend the city and only play the caravan that had fought against the Storm Castle, then Duke would have been in a period of headache for a long time to come. However, it is not difficult to solve this problem, that is, to establish a strong enough cavalry to protect the caravan, as long as it can attack the army of the Prince of Andorra a few times, it will naturally be able to make him no longer dare to attack arrogantly.

Of course, this is just Duke's worry in his heart, he thinks that Andorra can be regarded as a prince-level figure, and playing this kind of tactics used by the weak with a small lord under his own hands should not be able to pull his face to do this, Duke is just taking precautions.

"Your Excellency, the Prince of Andorra has settled here, what if the news of the capture of Alpine City reaches His Majesty the Emperor? Even if Alpine City is not a direct vassal of His Majesty the Emperor, this can be regarded as a challenge to the bottom line of the Empire, and Henry VII will express his attitude no matter what. ”

Fei Duo began to call His Majesty the Emperor, and then subconsciously called Henry VII's real name. After all, under Duke's subconscious influence, the influence of the Fran Imperial Power in Storm Castle has been reduced to the freezing point, and Fedor, seriously, there is still an inexplicable grudge with Henry VII, how his father lost the title of Lord of Marseille, even Duke doesn't know now.

"Fei Duo, now the Emperor of Fran himself is unable to protect himself, he has no ability to attack the Storm Castle, at most he will say a few words in performance, and then let the Prince of Andorra and our Storm Castle kill each other, so you can rest assured that we have not touched the core interests of the Emperor of Farran. ”

Duke said lightly, now with the winter coming soon, after experiencing the attrition of the Northern Frontier, it is estimated that the Milan Empire has been waiting for the Rhine to freeze, and then directly attack the French Empire, unifying the two countries to complete the dream of the Grand French Empire.

And the barbarians have experienced such a war with heavy casualties, they must have a very difficult time this winter, if the northern steppes want to survive this cold winter, they have only one way to go, that is, the forces of several four khanates, attack the French Empire or the Hans Empire, and plunder the materials for the winter.

According to the news brought by the storm trading house before, the Second Legion of the French Empire has returned to the northern border, and the Royal Knights of France have been assembled to deal with sudden changes at any time, and there is only one possibility for this change, that is, the barbarians have broken through the northern defense line and ravaged the entire northern territory of the French Empire.

After all, after experiencing Duke's tearing up of his face in the northern camp before, Duke Otto's attitude has become ambiguous, and he does not have the determination to desperately defend the northern defense line of the empire before. It is said that he had moved the people of the frontier inland, while shrinking the entire Lion Army to several major cities.

If the pressure on the defense line is really great, Duke Otto is likely to abandon the defense line and guard his main cities, as well as the main grain-producing areas in the southern zone. As for the barbarian cavalry "borrowing" from their own territory to attack, it is none of Duke Otto's business, even if it hits the imperial capital, only Henry VII has a headache, after all, this empire belongs to his Henry family.

Moreover, Duke also heard that Henry VII wanted to transfer troops from other territories, but those lords were basically in disobedience, and the current number of soldiers gathered was less than 10,000. And even Prince Edward, under the pretext of guarding against the Milan Empire, refused Henry VII's request to transfer troops, which can also be clearly seen from this point that Henry VII's son felt that something was wrong, and at this time only the army was in his own hands, which was the real sense of security.

In addition, Duke is the grapevine, Henry VII plans to expand the army and increase the army, but the French royal family has no money, so Henry VII plans to increase taxes, from the current one-tenth, directly double the whole people, to the point of two-tenths. It may not seem like much, but you must know that in this world, the papal see's tithes and Mass money will account for 20 percent, and the peasants are not directly royal, and their own lords collect taxes, and even land rents, etc.

It would be good if the peasants themselves could get two-thirds of the money after the tax was levied all the way, but now they have to take one-tenth of the tax, and the burden on the peasants will be further increased. It can only be said that there was no tradition of peasant uprisings in the Middle Ages, otherwise this idea of raising taxes would directly stimulate a peasant uprising.

Duke doesn't want to make any comments on Henry VII's desperate approach, he can only say that Henry VII belongs to the kind of character who has a low eye, full of desire to revive the strength of the original French Empire, but in practice, he has not made any achievements. And the more it declined, the more suspicious it became, which led to even loyal subordinates like Duke Otto.

From Henry VII's body, Duke saw the shadow of Chongzhen at the same time in the late Ming Dynasty, and the empire was already full of holes when it was handed over to them, but because of his suspicion and fickleness, it still accelerated its demise, which can be called a wave of hurried operations after directly GG the situation, for this kind of emperor, Duke does not have much sympathy.

Seeing Duke's resolute will, Fei Duo also understood that the annexation of Alpine City was a matter that should be sooner rather than later, and since it was decided, he would strive to directly occupy Alpine City before the heavy snow closed the road, and then release his forces to deal with the ice demons behind. Because this year's Ice Demon is even more weird, maybe there will be a sudden attack at some point.

After Fei Duo left, he directly contacted the dark line of Alpine City, and asked them to have one last negotiation with Count Filip, if it really didn't work, he would skip the route of Count Fili in Alpine City, and directly contact the Alpine Army to open the city gate, since Storm Castle was ready to take risks, then there was nothing to fear.