Hearing Andy's explanation, Duke was directly stunned, you must know that Count Filip and his son Ott can be said to be Duke's old rivals, he came to this world to establish the Storm Army and took the initiative for the first time, which was to fight with Alpine City.

Later, Duke and Takayama City can be described as falling in love and wanting to kill, basically all kinds of pit dads have the background of Alpine City. But after so many battles, Alpine City is also Duke's most familiar enemy. Duke didn't expect this Ultra to be so ruthless, and he directly killed his brother and usurped the throne. Even his so-called second brother Tok has not yet made the move to kill Baker to inherit the duke's position.

Of course, this may have something to do with the fact that Teucer does not have the courage and ability, after all, Duke Otto's influence in the army is unparalleled, not to mention anything else. If you don't get rid of Duke Otto, even if you kill Baker, you won't be able to control the lion army. And Duke Otto's character must not choose to compromise, even if it is to kill Teucer and cause the duke's heir to become vacant, he will not tolerate Teucer's behavior.

"Ott is really ruthless. ”

Duke muttered a sigh of emotion, but soon it occurred to him that this could be an opportunity, that is, the Prince of Andorra could control Count Filip, making him his puppet, and finally effectively control Alpine City, avoiding the suspicion and action of the central royal family.

You can do the same yourself, and find a way to get in touch with Count Filip, maybe he has the intention of cooperating with him.

"By the way, Andy, what is Count Filip's attitude now, giving in or having a resistance mentality?"

Faced with Duke's sudden question, Andy could only shake his head and reply: "Lord Lord, this is a military matter, and during your absence, only Lord Fei Duo has the right to know this information." ”

When Duke first arranged the Storm Firm, he actually had the intention of an intelligence base in a sense, especially the Storm Firm in Alpine City, because he was afraid of Duke's settlement after the defeat at the beginning, there were more intelligence spies, and it can be said that Alpine City was simply infiltrated into a sieve by the Storm Army.

However, Andy, as a commercial officer, only knew that it had the role of an intelligence station when he opened the Storm Firm, but the content of any intelligence should not be known to unrelated personnel, and according to the important level of intelligence, the highest level was only known to the military chief of Storm Fort. When Duke was in Stormcastle, he naturally saw it himself, but before Duke went to the northern defense, only Fei Duo knew about these contents.

Only this time to welcome Duke's return, the other Stormcastle officials came to Storm New City to greet Duke, but Fedor did not come. Because Duke didn't officially come to Storm Castle for a day, then he is still the de facto boss of Storm Castle, and the threat of the Ice Demon and the ambition of the Shark Tribe have not been completely eliminated, so Fedor must be in charge, which is his duty.

If Fei Duo really came here to greet him directly, Duke would think that Fei Duo was overwhelmed, compared to the army leader who grew up as a soldier like Allen, Fei Duo once had the culture and insight gained from his aristocratic status, so that he had the potential to become an independent leader in the army, and Duke has always been cultivating in this direction, after all, it is impossible for Duke to go to the battlefield himself in every major war in the future.

"I see, the storm market is developing very well, and you are all lucky. ”

Duke encouraged and exaggerated Andy at this time, and then led the Storm Army to continue to the front of Storm Castle, and only when he entered the City Lord's Castle could he truly return home.

When I left the Storm Market, it was actually not very far from Storm Castle, after all, the territory of the entire Storm Castle was not very large before, if it weren't for the fact that in order to prevent ice demons and increase the sense of belonging of some knights, Emperor Fran gave some land around Storm Castle, maybe now the entire Storm Castle is just a simple military fortress, and there is no sphere of influence at all.

Just like Duke's previous fortress of Alakou on the grassland, it was only a purely military role, without any agricultural and commercial existence, and there were enemies all around, so naturally there could be no such thing as arable land and farms.

However, just like the welcome ceremony in Stormtown, almost the entire city of Stormcastle came out to welcome Duke and the Stormtroopers. In addition to the respect and adoration for Duke, another point may be that the family and relatives of the Storm Army want to see if their children, father, and husband can come back alive. In many cases, the expeditions of the Middle Ages represented a point of no return.

But this time there were not too many tears and sadness, more the joy of reunion. Because of the Duke expedition battle this time, because of the unexpected effect of the musket, it directly led to a significant reduction in casualties. For example, in the previous battle to solve the First Army of the Empire, if it weren't for the appearance of muskets, not to mention whether it could be won, even if it was a victory, half of the Storm Army that could stand here today would be a miracle.

As a result, the muskets completely changed the tide of the war, and the casualties of the entire storm army were only one or two hundred, and the real death rate was reduced by double digits, which was definitely an amazing achievement, and this kind of casualties were not worth mentioning for a war of 10,000 people.

At this time, Fei Duo also led the Storm Army's rotating soldiers, standing on both sides of the city gate to welcome Duke. However, most of these soldiers are from the logistics army and the new regiment, and the main force of the real storm army is placed in the monster valley defense line. Because lately the number of ice demons has started to increase in a strange way, and the creatures of hell have also begun to increase.

Coupled with Duke's previous "forward" strategy, the Storm Army's defense line has been built on the edge of the Monster Valley, which is naturally much more dangerous than before in Storm Castle, where there is a Seine River, and the Ice Demon also clearly feels the threat of Storm Castle, and they are no longer as contemptuous of Storm Castle as before, so it will be more difficult for Ice Devils to deal with in the future.

In addition, the sea of death, the fiasco of the Shark Tribe, also alerted the Sea Giant Tribe who had been watching from the wall before, after all, no matter what happened to the Shark Tribe and the Wave Tribe, they could be regarded as the internal struggle of the Sea Clan. As a result, now that Duke's Storm Castle has joined, it has become a race war. And the Pearl of the Sea, which the Sea Giant Tribe has always wanted, is now in Duke's hands.

This caused a conflict of interest between Storm Castle and the Sea Giant, which had nothing to do with each other. The last time the Shark Tribe attacked, there was a shadow of the Sea Giant Tribe's support weapon behind it, and in the face of the Shark Tribe's fiasco, the Sea Giant Tribe had already put the Storm Castle in the enemy's position, so Fei Duo also had to guard against the Sea Giants, after all, they were stronger than the Shark Tribe!