"Abner, what is the price of porcelain on the mainland now?"

Duke suppressed his anger and asked Abner, who was reporting to the audience.

"In the early days when we sold porcelain, this kind of coarse porcelain could reach 50 gold coins if it was transported to Andorra la Vella or further afield. Later, with our mass production, the price of porcelain also fell very rapidly, but now Andorra still costs 10 gold coins each, and 20 gold coins a little further away is still no problem. Other countries further afield, they are not affected by production, which is far from enough. ”

Hearing Abner's answer, Duke felt even more unbearable in his heart, this dog's mountain city, with a profit far more than ten times his own, is still so low the price, it is really a bit crazy.

It is estimated that because of the tension of the war, he has repeatedly tolerated the price reduction of Alpine City, so let that group of guys feel that they are easy to bully.

Remembering that Abner had told Alpine City about the military strength of Alpine City before, there were 10,000 members of the Third Legion of the Empire, 5,000 members of the Holy See's Light Army, 2,000 men of the Rock Knights, and 1,500 soldiers of the City Lord's Guard. This kind of military power almost has the ability to crush Storm Fort.

It's just that with the gradual understanding of this world, Duke probably also knows that the Third Legion of the Empire in Alpine City is only stationed in Alpine City, and they are directly under the orders of Emperor Henry VII, and the city lord does not have the right to command the transfer. Unless the monsters have broken through the Storm Castle and continue to march towards Takayama Castle, they will go out to defend.

Moreover, the Knights of the Rock is not completely owned by Alpine City, half of which belongs to the Prince of Andorra, and theoretically the fiefdom knights directly under the Alpine City Lord himself only have about 1,000 Rock Knights and 1,500 City Lord Guards.

As for the Holy See's Light Army, it is equivalent to the existence of a third party.

Although compared to the Storm Knights of Storm Castle with more than 100 people, and the Storm Guard, which has also expanded to 1,500 people, it still has an advantage in numbers, but it is not like the previous crushing situation. Moreover, Storm Castle still has six hundred auxiliary soldiers, except for the fact that the gap between knights is too large, and it already has the ability to fight in a single battle.

At the same time, Duke believed that after his soldiers were equipped with the most advanced armor on the mainland, coupled with the dual experience of Ice Demon and Sea Clan, as well as the fierce folk customs of Storm Castle, he was confident that he would be able to defeat the armed forces of Alpine City.

Countless historical experiences have told Duke that the truth is only within the range of cannons, and if they don't show their strength, Alpine City really thinks that Storm Castle is the soft persimmon it was at the beginning?

"Abner, go down first, and let Cassel and Eren come over. ”

"Yes, my lord. ”

It didn't take long for Cassel and Alan to arrive in the hall at the same time, but when they saw Duke's unkind face and called both of them at the same time, it was almost certain that something was going on.

"Allen, how many people are equipped with the new Warframe of the Storm Legion now. ”

"Tell my lord, with the recent production and the previous equipment, there are now nearly a thousand people in the entire Storm Castle Legion equipped with new types of armor, but a large part of them have not yet drawn runes. ”

When he heard this amount, Duke had a point in his heart, which basically means that the backbone of Storm Castle has been equipped with new armors, and the others that are not equipped should be newly recruited to expand the army.

"Cassel, if you recruit from the knight's territory, and count the spare horses and soldiers who can ride, how many more cavalry can you probably add?"

Although Storm Fort currently only has a hundred or so cavalry, in fact, there are spare horses in the knight's territory, which is counted as war potential, after all, it is impossible for a real cavalry to have one person and one horse, and the general cavalry power guarantees one person and three horses, so that there is a number of rotations and substitutes.

"If it weren't for long-distance raids, with one man and one horse, the number of storm troopers could be expanded to three hundred at the moment. ”

Hearing that the cavalry war mobilization could reach three hundred, Duke frowned, this number was still too far behind the thousands of Rock Knights. Although the new plate armor is very strong, the impact is still unavoidable.

Under the cavalry charge, even if the opponent just doesn't break your armor, as long as you knock the opponent off the horse, in this kind of chaotic battle, the one who falls off the horse can't actually avoid the fate of being trampled by the horse, and the plate armor defense can't do this.

Moreover, Storm Castle has only developed a new type of plate armor so far, and there is no change in attack equipment such as long swords and sabers. It doesn't have enough attack power, so it can only be considered a tin can.

"If we build siege equipment now, and add the cover of the mage, how sure are the Storm Legions that they will be able to storm a castle like Storm Castle?"

Duke now understands that due to the presence of magicians in this world, the city defense equipment is very backward. After all, it has not yet entered the era of hot weapons, and the long-range bows and crossbows of cold weapons are simply fixed target positions in front of magicians, especially fire magicians like Gandalf, and can be easily ignited and cleared.

That's why when Stormcastle guarded the Ice Demon tentatively attacked, Duke found that Stormcastle didn't have a large fortification equipment, because it was not a problem of Stormcastle, but the entire continent of Europa was in a backward stage in terms of large-scale garrison equipment.

In the face of Duke suddenly asking so many questions, Cassel and Alan feel that something is not good, and the lord is clearly planning an attack!

"My lord, with all due respect, may I ask you which place these are going to attack?"

After all, Eren was the old man who had followed Duke to Stormcastle, and he had been Duke Otto's personal soldier, so he asked this question first.

"That's right, I'm attacking a place. Duke replied coldly.

"Where?"

"Alpine Castle!"

When Duke said the word Alpine City, Cassel and Alan in the audience looked at Duke in shock, they didn't expect that the place Duke wanted to attack would be Alpine City.

Not to mention that Alpine City both belonged to the Fran Empire, Duke and Alpine City Lord both belonged to the imperial nobles, so it was difficult to attack each other. Let's just talk about it, even if you want to fight, the difference in strength between Alpine City and Storm Castle is so big, and Storm Castle is still on the side of the active attack, Lord Lord, is this crazy?

If it was before, Alan must have thought that it was a boy like Duke, who didn't know anything about military affairs, and he had a reckless behavior. But after going through so many things, Duke has shown his absolute strength as a lord, how could he make such a low-level mistake, this is really incomprehensible, what is going on behind the scenes?