487 Capture Takayama Castle

Watching Lincoln leave, Duke understood that today's victory was far from the end, but the beginning of a larger struggle. Even with the help of Count Filip, it is only to block the accountability of the French Empire, and it cannot make the Prince of Andorra swallow this breath, you must know that this is the actual control of the Prince of Andorra after all, and the meat in his mouth was bitten back by Duke, which is unacceptable to anyone.

Another point is the Alpine Light Army, before Storm Fort was because the castle was too small, there was no way for the Holy See Army to be stationed at all, so Storm Fort only had a church and no Holy See Army. And the Cult of Light is not stupid, even the French Empire itself doesn't want a place like Storm Castle, can it send a Holy See army to help the French Empire resist the Ice Demon?

After all, as long as the Storm Castle has the existence of the Holy See Army, once the Ice Demon attacks, if the Holy See does not make any moves, how can it be worthy of his so-called God who loves the world? But as long as the Light Army is not in the Storm Castle, as for how the people of the Storm Castle kill the Ice Demons, this is all a matter for the French Empire, and even the final abandonment has nothing to do with the Holy See.

But now that Stormcastle has occupied Alpine City, it can be said that Alpine City and the territory population of nearly one million people around him is the real development potential of Stormcastle in the future. According to Duke's previous style of acting and attitude towards the Holy See, this 5,000-strong Bright Army stationed is simply a time bomb, which may lead to a war between the Storm Army and the Holy See at any time, so Duke must find a way to get the Bright Army away, and there is only one way to get rid of it, and that is Kasmai!

No matter what happened to Carsmail at the beginning, but now Carsmail has become a hardcore in the Duke group, except for saying that he believes in the god of light, but what he actually does is all an apostate. At this stage, Kasmai generally doesn't even bother to say anything, unless Duke is ridiculing him, he will righteously insist that he is a believer in the Lord.

When he bribed Cardinal Leonard, he promised him a position as bishop of Ayutthaya, or even an archbishop like Andorra la Vella. But Kasmai himself understands that he is tied to Stormcastle, and his life in Stormcastle is getting more and more leisurely, and if he really wants to go to a big city to become a bishop, maybe something will happen.

So Kasmai never mentioned this period after that, and since Kasmai himself didn't say that he wanted to upgrade, Cardinal Leonard naturally treated it as if it didn't happen, and he saved a lot of things. Now Duke feels that this time has become an uncle, there is no problem for Kasmai to be the bishop of Alpine City, the highest responsible person of this kind of Holy See must be Stormcastle's own people!

Thinking of this, Duke immediately sent a herald to Stormcastle, preparing to bring Castle over to settle the matter. After taking a look around the Alpine City Lord's Mansion, Duke received a message from Karl, the commander of the Third Regiment of the Storm Army, that is, they had taken control of all the Imperial Eleventh Legions, and in addition to the Imperial Eleventh Legion, the Alpine Army had also been assembled and waiting for Duke to make the final arrangements.

Hearing this announcement, Duke was not in the mood to stay in this alpine castle for long, to be honest, Duke had no new feeling for this kind of medieval castle for a long time, and the castle was not very good in terms of living conditions, damp, dark, deserted and other unfavorable conditions. If the ordinary small castle is fine, like the back garden of Storm Castle, there are some people such as witches, as well as housekeepers and servants, it can be a little more lively.

For a big castle like Alpine Castle, except for a little guard at the door, basically the entire castle collar has a lingering gloomy feeling, Duke really doesn't want to live in this kind of castle, and he doesn't even want to stay any longer.

Duke led a group of storm army generals to the barracks outside the city, and the problem was that the medieval city was fundamentally different from ancient China, they were all based on a castle, and a few fortresses or national capitals would have tall and wide walls to enclose all the people.

Although Alpine City was a big city in the Franco-Empire, he still didn't have the financial resources to build a besieging wall. With the exception of the castle lord's fortress and some upper-class citizens living in the castle, most of the alpine citizens were surrounded by the castle, forming an open town.

The high mountain military camp and the military camp of the Imperial Eleventh Army are naturally placed outside the city, just like the Storm Army, there is no such large open space in the city to settle it. When Duke walked out of the city gate, he saw that the Storm Battle Banner was already flying at the highest point of Alpine City, and all the soldiers guarding and patrolling the city gate had become his own storm army. For this kind of change, Duke has an irrepressible pride in his heart, after all, he can be regarded as in a sense, truly starting his own road of expansion.

At the same time, Allen also specially sent a part of the soldiers as a guard team to patrol the whole city to ensure order. Preventing people in the city from committing various crimes during the chaos of the battle is also a common occurrence in times of war. However, Duke knows that if he wants to conquer the hearts of the people of Alpine City as soon as possible, ensuring the stability of Alpine City is the first priority, and only if the people of Alpine City feel that they are not affected and have better development in the future, they will naturally support Duke as their new lord.

When they came to the barracks outside the city, the Gao Shan Army and the Imperial Eleventh Army were divided into two phalanxes and lined up neatly. However, the momentum of the two sides was indeed completely different, and the soldiers of the Alpine Army formation obviously had a kind of excitement on their faces, because the officers had already told them that they could join the Storm Army in the future if they wished.

After all, the Alpine Army had fought against the Storm Army before, and they were very familiar with the Storm Army's combat record, equipment, and iron-blooded temperament. Especially after the reform of the Storm Army later, ordinary soldiers were able to obtain Fengtian and become knights through military merits, which stimulated the ordinary lower-level soldiers of the Gaoshan Army, which was the treatment they really wanted.

So now that they have such an opportunity to become a member of the killing machines like the Storm Army, they are naturally willing to do so in their hearts.

But when the Eleventh Legion of the Empire saw Duke appear, there was an uncontrollable fear on their faces. The reason is very simple, it has been cut by Duke's storm army outside Andorra in the first place, and now it has fallen into the hands of Duke, can there still be a chance to live?

Talk to Fili and encounter the Bright Army dealing with the Imperial Army