Once the steam locomotive is developed, the entire Europa continent will become an economic colony of the Storm Territory, and even if it is the same blood, the amount absorbed by the Duke Storm Territory will far exceed that of the Holy See, and Duke is a commodity that is clearly priced, and there is no antipathy to the common people.

As long as it surpasses the Holy See in terms of economic strength, then other aspects can be smashed with money, and when the time comes, what major imperial magic masters, unlimited supply of their magic crystals for magic research, and even use money to hire elven mages or something, Duke believes that even if it is inferior to the Holy See in terms of magical power, it is estimated that there will not be too much of a gap, after all, there are no natural magicians in this world who belong to the Holy See, and the number of mages in the Holy See should be five or five in number, and there is no accurate data on the quality of Duke.

Of course, all this scene is the time when Duke is currently in self-YY, and the official operation of the steam train is estimated to be calculated in years, so this is all for later. Duque's focus is on the present, and that is the situation in Andorra City.

"Andorra la Vella we are not moving for the time being, but we must be ready to attack, and I believe that within a month, the situation in the empire will change even more. At that time, no matter what happens, it will be the time when our Storm Territory will attack Andorra City, and when the time comes, we will unify the Andorran Princely Kingdom, all our trade routes will be completely unblocked, and the strength of the entire Storm Territory will reach the hegemony level!"

Duke can be regarded as telling his own intentions, Andorra City must be beaten, because he is simply a lock for the development of the Storm Territory, if the key is not in his hands, then the Storm Territory will always be locked in this place, and the price to be paid for development will be multiplied.

But once Andorra was conquered and the Andorran kingdom was unified, Duke was like a fish in the sea and a bird in the sky, and the subsequent development was no longer a problem. And this decision time is one month, and this month the French Empire will inevitably react, either by sending troops to fight, or by choosing to acquiesce. And the other Fran lords probably couldn't help it, and would follow the attitude of the Falan Emperor and make a statement.

If Henry VII had attacked the Eastern Lands and won, everything would have come to an end and a return to the way it had been. But once you lose or don't fight, everyone starts to learn from each other. However, at present, Henry VII is directly under the 50,000 imperial army, plus the army owned by the two princes, it is still unlikely that the general lord will directly declare independence, and it is even less likely to attack the French Empire to replace it.

After all, the other Lords of France did not know what Henry VII's relationship with his two sons was. If Henry VII still has control over the forces of these two princes, then in fact, the entire French royal family still has nearly 150,000 troops, which can already be called a terrifying number for ordinary lords to say that the maximum strength of tens of thousands of troops.

And if it is really possible to control these hundreds of thousands of troops, then the real combat or counterinsurgency force may not be just the number of hundreds of thousands of troops. Because in the face of such a powerful central power, some other minor lords will obey the call and send troops to assist the Central Imperial Army, so in the face of such a royal army, the other lords basically have no right to resist.

You must know that when the Fran Empire was still strong, the permanent garrison of the empire was only about 100,000. Now because of the beginning of the troubled times, the major territories have begun to expand their armies frantically, which has actually increased the military strength of the French royal family. It's just that this increase in military power has nothing to do with Henry VII, and they can only be regarded as warlords.

So the only thing Duke can do at the moment is to wait, and it doesn't have to be very long, and the results will be available in a month. If Henry VII subdued the Marquis of Steven, then Duke himself would admit it, and make a fortune in low-key business and accumulate strength, and now with the addition of millions of people in Alpine City, the source of troops is no longer a problem, and Duke will have to endure the expansion of tens of thousands of troops in a year, and then capture Andorra City in one fell swoop.

However, this possibility is very small in Duke's opinion, not to mention the strength of Marquis Steven himself and the defensive power of the fortress. What's more important is the support of the Milan Empire behind it, when the Milan Empire doesn't need to send more, just come with an army of 50,000 to support the Eastern Territory, Henry VII is only 50,000 troops, how can he conquer the Eastern Territory?

"Alan, you wait for my order to be given to Copperbeard, the production of muskets can be over for the time being, and the current quantity and reserves can be used, let all the workers and boring machines go to forge storm cannons, and try their best to forge larger calibers. Even everything is based on power, and lightness and transportation capacity can be appropriately abandoned. ”

Duke had already begun to prepare, because seriously speaking, the fortresses of this era were too difficult to overcome, and even surpassed some castles in ancient China in a sense. Therefore, in the wars of this era, most of the fighting intentions to conquer the fortress were either directly smashed and trampled on the fortress by super magic meteorites from the sky, or they relied on siege tactics to fight for a few years and grind it out.

Duke couldn't conquer an Andorra City in a few years, and that would be disastrous for the Storm Territory. As for using super magic, Duke didn't think about it for a while. Because super magic requires at least a few high-level magicians or a grand mage to cast it.

Gandalf, the only archmage in the Storm Territory, is a hidden figure and cannot be discovered by the Holy See. There was nothing to use with the Ice Demon in the Monster Valley before, after all, it was also a place beyond the reach of the Holy See's whip, and he could do whatever he wanted.

But Andorra City is different, this is the core territory of the human city, and the control of the Holy See is very strict, and there are even Holy See troops stationed in it. And the Holy See, as the supreme existence on this continent, still has to maintain an attitude of God loving the world on the surface, and the casualties of super magic for civilians are also very huge, generally before the war between the two countries, if you want to use super magic, you need to notify the Holy See, so that they can organize civilians to evacuate the Holy See army from the city, which is almost the rule of the human empire on the continent.

With Duke's current posture, how could he be stupid enough to take the initiative to report the Holy See's own magical power, so there is basically no way to do this, and can only adopt the method of modern warfare such as artillery!