Andorra's orders were swiftly carried out, and a pair of Andorran troops went to the Holy See to consult with Ole, while another group of Andorran troops rushed to Andorra's most prosperous central street, preparing to shut down the Storm Merchants.

But when they arrived at the Storm Firm, they found that the door of the Storm Merchant House was closed, and in the face of such a situation, the Andorran army did not hesitate at all, and directly smashed the door open, only to see that it was empty.

Long before Duke decided to attack Alpine City, he had given orders to the Storm Traders in Andorra City to clear their goods as soon as possible and prepare to evacuate. Because these have long been expected by Duke, not only the trading houses of Andorra City, but also the entire trade route through Andorra City Duke is ready to be attacked, and before there is no way to deal with this matter for the time being, Duke has asked customers in the Andorran Kingdom to go to the storm market to trade to minimize the risk.

Therefore, the current Andorra City Storm Comptoir has all been evacuated a few days ago, how to say that there are still tens of thousands of gold coins in the goods and deposits, Duke will not be stupid enough to give all these things to the Prince of Andorra.

When the news of the empty Storm Comptoir was reported to the Prince of Andorra, his white and chubby face was simply distorted with anger. It can also be seen from this that Duke has long been ambitious, and he still underestimates Storm Castle. It was also from this incident that he understood that Abel's advice before was very important, and if he attacked Storm Fort so rashly, he would definitely suffer very heavy losses.

Andorra la Vella was in full swing, but Duke was not idle, training the army and pacifying the populace, and with the arrival of November, the first heavy snow finally fell. Heavy snow in normal places means that you can rest peacefully when you enter the winter break, but the heavy snow in Storm Castle is indeed the most vigilant time of the year, because the strength of the Ice Demon will increase dramatically in winter.

For example, the ice spear that was projected before, if it was placed in the summer, it required the ice demon to use his own magic origin power to condense into a strange blue ice spear. But in winter, the endless snow and ice make them no longer short of weapons, as long as they can condense into shapes with magic, which is a big difference.

And with the Ice Demon being able to convert children, according to the Sentinels of the Storm Wall, they may have completely made up for the loss of the Ice Demon caused last year, and even become stronger this year, coupled with Duke's forward pressure policy, the Storm Army can only rely on a thin layer of separation wall, instead of being guarded by a three-dimensional fortress like before, it can be said that the Storm Army's absolute defense capability has also declined.

The arrival of the heavy snow made Duke shift the attention of Andorra City to the Valley of Monsters, and he directly transferred three thousand Storm Fishmen Army to support the defense line of the current Storm Wall from the Seine River, as for the Storm Fortress Fishman base, with the gradual formation of the Storm Fortress now, about two thousand people are almost too much to hold, after all, the previous attack caused huge casualties to the Shark Tribe, unless they don't even want their own lair, desperately attacking the Storm Fortress.

But this kind of thing is not very likely, the Wild Shark Tribe has felt the strength of the Storm Castle, and their army has been beaten from nearly 40,000 people at its peak, only about 20,000 people have been beaten, they have no desperate capital, if they lose this time, maybe the Wild Shark Tribe will be counterattacked by the Storm Fish Army to exterminate the race.

And there are also the Sea Giant Tribe behind their backs, they did not participate in the dispute between the Wave Tribe and the Wild Shark Tribe before, it does not mean that they are some kind people, they just have a mentality of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight. Whoever is weak, he will come out and coerce to seize the Pearl of the Ocean, this Pearl of the Ocean Wave Tribe has it, and the Shark Tribe also has it, and the Sea Giant is also coveting it.

The 3,000-man Storm Fish-Man Army supported the past, plus the 1,500 men of the War Sheep Cavalry Regiment, and now the entire Storm Wall defense line has another 4,500 soldiers. Duke is still not very confident about this number, but there are no formal combat troops in his hands, after all, two Storm Army human regiments and a dwarf legion are gathered in Alpine City, and the other human legion and lover regiment are placed within the scope of Storm Castle's lair and hydroelectric factory, one is Duke's lair, and the other is the current industrial center of Storm Castle, neither of which can be given up.

The others are the Storm Musketeers and the Knights, who are still in training, and these two need to go through at least three months of formal training before they can have basic Storm Military discipline. Duke didn't want to interrupt their training plan, after all, once the training was completed, their strength would increase exponentially, and if they wasted time now, when the Ice Demon or the Andorran army attacked, they would pay a lot of unnecessary sacrifices!

However, Duke is not as urgent as he was then, because although the regular army is gone, Stormcastle still has 5,000 logistics troops and 5,000 recruits.

Putting aside the kind of militia recruits, the logistics army can be said to be the quasi-professional army of Fort Storm now, especially when it was in the northern defense line, the logistics army was directly used as a formal combat unit. Moreover, these 5,000 logistics troops have also undergone the rotation of expeditions, and they have all been tested in actual warfare. Moreover, these 5,000 logistics troops have been receiving regular training for more than a year and a half, and Duke can say without exaggeration that the training volume and time of many regular troops in this world are far inferior to those of Storm Fort.

So they were completely worthy of a battle, so Duke replaced the 2,000 logistics troops that supplied Storm Castle and Alpine City with new soldiers, because it was now entering the winter break, and the large-scale use of new soldiers at this time would not affect the production of Storm Fort, and it would also be able to give these recruits a good workout.

At the same time, all the five thousand logistics troops were sent to the storm wall, in addition to the logistics tasks they should undertake, there is also a point to let these logistics troops come into contact with the combat effectiveness of the ice demons, with the further expansion of the storm fort in the future, Duke plans to recruit one or two regiments of elite troops from here to further enrich the combat forces of the storm army, and the other point is to let the recruits transfer a group of stronger ones to replace the gap in the logistics army.

Eventually, 10,000 new recruits will be recruited from the current one million people in the Alpine Territory to receive militarized training, which will greatly improve the combat capability of the future Storm Fort.