After the musket shooting experiment and the cold weapon slashing, Duke is very satisfied with the performance of the cotton armor, as long as the future storm musket enters the period of Mini bullets, then Duke will eliminate all the storm armor and wear this cotton armor instead.

This not only greatly reduced the burden on the soldiers, but also reduced the burden of logistics and the speed of the march. After the storm carriage does not need to pull so many storm armors, the marching speed of the storm army can soar from the current thirty kilometers a day to fifty kilometers, if the horses mixed with the monsters can be cultivated on a large scale in the future, then the march route of the storm army will reach hundreds of kilometers per day, which is definitely worthy of the four words of soldier and god speed in this world!

Just as Duke was about to leave the Storm Barracks, Alan came behind Duke at this time and whispered to him: "Lord Lord, the army of the Milan Empire has invaded, and this time the French Empire may not be able to protect itself." ”

When he heard this, Duke was stunned for a moment, because he never expected that the Milan Empire would choose to attack at such a time. Because the time has entered the end of February, the Rhine River will thaw in a month at most, and the melting snow will also cause the roads to be muddy, and then the Milan Empire will be unable to advance or retreat, how could they choose to attack at such a time, and they are not so stupid, right?

However, this kind of thing is also a big thing for Duke, just like those ambitious lords, Duke is also waiting for the moment when the French Empire can no longer hold on, so that he can justifiably rebel, otherwise according to the current situation, if Duke chooses to raise the flag to rebel at this time, he may become the target of public criticism.

And Duke has another reason that he doesn't want to say, that is, because of Princess Jina, he doesn't want to be the one who destroys the French Empire, otherwise how should he face Princess Jina in the future? Although he shouldn't care about this kind of personal relationship between children and daughters in the face of the great cause, people have feelings after all, and Duke can't be the kind of person who will do anything for the sake of hegemony.

So after Duke praised the almost cotton armor research and development team, he left the storm camp with Allen, and after coming to the relatively closed environment of the carriage, Duke asked Allen: "What the hell is going on, how could the Milan Empire choose to attack at such a time?"

"Because of the barbarians. In fact, the strategic plan of the Milan Empire this year does not have the idea of attacking the French Empire. But this attack by the barbarians swept through the interior of the Francois Empire, causing a great loss of vitality to the Francoian Empire, how could the Milan Empire give up in the face of such a good opportunity?"

"It's just that because of logistical preparations and so on, I can't attack at the first time. Although the winter offensive solved the biggest problem of crossing the river in Milan, it also caused them serious logistical supply problems, and it was delayed until the recent preparation of the Milan Empire. ”

Hearing Allen's explanation, Duke instantly understood that the Milan Empire had no plan to attack before, but after knowing the horn of the barbarian attack, he was ready to come over to pick peaches. However, the logistics of this era were too difficult to prepare, and it was only recently that the Milanese Empire was ready to attack.

"And how is the response of the Franco-Empire?"

"Not very good. ”

Alan shook his head and continued: "After the Milan Empire attacked, the first to defend was the Imperial Army led by Prince Edward, and they were also the main army defending against the Milan Empire. But this time, the Milan Empire sent at least 100,000 troops, and there were also magic legions and siege equipment troops, which caused a lot of pressure on Prince Edward, and he directly asked Emperor Fran for help. ”

"But because of the last barbarian invasion, the imperial army suffered heavy casualties, and even the palace forbidden army and the royal knights who guarded the imperial capital lost more than half, and later called on the lord's army to carry out the king. If it weren't for the fact that the Holy See finally cut off the logistics of the barbarian army with Duke Otto, it is estimated that all the other central territories of the French Empire except for the imperial capital would have fallen,"

"But the last time was an alien invasion, the Lord of Fran has a natural antagonism towards the barbarians, once the territory is occupied by the barbarians, it is not a matter of being a noble lord, but it is impossible to live, all of them are very active in helping the Emperor of Fran to resist the barbarian invasion. But this time it's completely different, the Milan Empire and the French Empire are actually the same species, even if they are occupied by the Milan Empire, these nobles are still nobles, and they can even use the word unity, so basically no lord is willing to send troops to help, and the central army does not have much strength. ”

When he heard these things, Duke didn't know what to say, in fact, the French Empire was not yet in a desperate situation, after all, although these lords did not send troops to help, they did not step on a foot and add strength to this edifice that was about to fall.

It's just that according to Allen's description, it should be difficult for the French Empire to survive, and it is very difficult for Prince Edward's tens of thousands of troops to even protect themselves.

"How's Princess Gena?"

Duke asked the question of his relationship, because when the barbarians invaded last year, he heard that Emperor Henry VII of France gave Princess Gina the right to land and form an army, and now it has been several months, Princess Gina has the eleventh legion and a small number of disciples of the Frontier Knights, and there should be thousands of troops.

"After Princess Gina took over the Eleventh Legion of the Empire from Prince Edward, she asked the Royal Knights to train according to our Storm Castle model, and it is said that she also wants to train a professional army. However, Emperor Fran's support for Princess Gina is very limited, not because His Majesty the Emperor is unwilling to support, but because the years of war have dried up the treasury of France, which is basically maintained by raising taxes. ”

"So this time Emperor Fran didn't transfer the news of Princess Jina, it is estimated that he also thinks that relying on Princess Jina's thousands of people has no effect, and our intelligence officers have not heard about Princess Jina, her territory is too far away from Storm Castle. ”

After understanding these things, Duke has nothing to ask, after all, he doesn't want to meddle in these things, just wait and see what happens. If the French Empire can't hold on, or the other lords choose to rebel, then Duke is likely to consider taking the initiative to attack the Prince of Andorra, after all, only by occupying the Prince of Andorra can it be regarded as unifying the entire Andorran territory and having the capital to become a prince. Even if the Milan army wants to attack, it is estimated that the losses will have to be weighed, so that Duke can officially become a prince with real power!