Faced with the surrender of the dwarven leader, Duke's face showed a victor's smile, he also jumped off his horse, drew his sword and put it on the shoulder of the hammer leader, and said to him formally: "I, Duke von Otto, accept your allegiance in the name of Stormcastle!"

"Storm Legion, forward!" Alan roared as he drew his sword.

"Forward, forward, forward!" all the Stormtroop soldiers shouted once again, cheering for the strength of Stormkeeping.

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The attachment of the Iron Hammer tribe, to be honest, was completely unexpected by Duke, he originally thought that the tribe where Copperbeard was located was just a small tribe of a few thousand people who were hungry and cold, and it was estimated that it was mainly composed of old and weak women and children.

But I never thought that the Iron Hammer tribe where Copper Whisker is located still has a formed dwarf army, which is definitely a rare thing for the dwarf tribe that is still in the human country, because once the dwarf tribe in the human country has an army that exceeds the warning line, then it will cause the vigilance of the country where it is located, and even go to the conquest.

It seems that the Saint-Michel Mountains, which stretch for hundreds of kilometers, have given the Hammer Tribe the best cover to keep them in today's military force.

And dwarven tribes with complete armies are also very rare, and loyalty to human lords is very rare, and there are few countries on the entire continent with dwarven armies. Because although dwarves are not as tall as humans, they far surpass humans in strength, magic resistance, and lifespan, and belong to naturally strong warriors. If there's a flaw, it's that dwarves don't have magical talents. So Duke was able to get a complete army of dwarves, which has to be said to be a kind of luck.

According to his previous agreement with Copperbeard, Duke divided a territory on the southwest side of Stormcastle near Mount St. Michel to the dwarves, and planned to build them a dwarven town according to the miniature version of the Stormtown plan.

As a result, Hammer refused Duke's kindness, and the dwarves relied on their own strength to build a city on the mountain, only using the cement provided by Duke. I have to say that cement is a product that has won unanimous praise from the dwarves, compared with the previous way of building cities, the efficiency is not known how many times faster, and it is equally strong.

As for the dwarven legion, Duke did not break them up for the time being, the 1,000-strong hoplites were organized into a separate dwarven legion, and the 500-man ram cavalry was also organized into a dwarven cavalry regiment.

At the same time, Duke was also amazed that the dwarven tribe of 5,000 people could have an army of 1,500 people. However, I later learned from Copperbeard that dwarves are almost all soldiers, and the average lifespan of dwarves is more than two hundred years, as long as it is a male man, he can become a brave warrior.

One of the things that satisfied Duke the most was the five hundred ram cavalry, not to look at the fact that these dwarven cavalry were much shorter, but the bounce power of this dwarven war sheep was amazing, far surpassing that of human war horses. Moreover, the war sheep basically ignores any terrain, even the cliff ram cavalry can charge up.

Once, during the war of the five races, the ram cavalry of the Dwarf Empire, the wolf cavalry of the Orc Empire, and the black panther cavalry of the Elven Empire were called the three top cavalry on the continent, and then the human knights came out.

What Storm Castle lacks most at the moment is the size of the cavalry, which can almost determine the outcome of a war in the Cold Weapon Era. If the Spartan Legion had not been encountered in the original encounter in Andorra City, and any cavalry unit had been replaced, the weak defense line of the 1,000-strong Storm Army would have been quickly torn to pieces.

Although Storm Castle currently claims to have 400 cavalry, it is still the original 100 cavalry that can really be used. Later, the three hundred cavalry recruited from Gaoshan City on war horses were still in the most basic stage of riding training, and they had been on their horses for a while, let alone become elite cavalrymen. Now that the dwarven ram cavalry has joined, Stormcastle's shortcomings have been temporarily compensated.

At the same time, Duke also recruited some professional wranglers, focusing on cultivating the number of horses in Stormcastle to ensure the supply of future wars. And let the dwarven cavalry also communicate with the storm cavalry to learn riding skills, and shouted the slogan of common progress......

The arrival of the dwarves, except for making Stormcastle lively, actually didn't make too many waves. After all, the dwarves live in a separate place, and the two sides do not have much contact during the winter.

However, for the hydroelectric factory, it has changed a lot at this moment! The dwarves are the best blacksmiths in the world, and their arrival has made the steelmaking of Storm Castle much easier, except for the manganese steel with relatively high requirements for forging weapons, even the steel used to cast storm armor no longer requires witches or dark mages to control the blast furnace, which in a sense also relieves the pressure on the mages of Storm Castle.

After all, as a group of witches were transferred to become doctors, the number of people who controlled the magic array decreased, and the work intensity of the witches increased a lot.

The size of the arsenal has also expanded several times, and dozens of skilled dwarven masters have begun to forge weapons such as swords, spears, shields, and other weapons for Stormcastle. As long as the raw materials are sufficient, it will take less than a month for the entire Stormfort Legion to be fully equipped with new manganese steel weapons.

However, the bulk of the production of hydroelectric factories is not weapons, but building materials such as agricultural equipment and steel bars. Spring is coming soon, and Stormcastle has more than 50,000 more mouths, and more wasteland must be cultivated to meet the food needs, otherwise relying on the purchase of grain from Alpine City, Stormcastle's financial pressure is still very high.

Moreover, to build a reinforced concrete city, the demand for steel materials is also astronomical. Therefore, those dwarves who were slightly less skilled became civilian craftsmen. Not only that, but thousands of dwarves have joined the Stormcastle mines, working at full speed to extract raw materials for the hydroelectric factory.

There are now more than 20,000 miners in the entire Mont Saint-Michel mining area to deliver raw materials to Stormcastle. After all, whether it is limestone and clay produced by cement, iron ore and coal for weapons, and magic crystal, etc., which require a large number of miners to excavate, and the mining efficiency of this world is backward, and the output is basically piled up by the number of people.

At this time, Duke deeply missed Watt's steam engine, if it could be successfully developed, then just talking about mine drainage and transportation, it could save a quarter of the labor and increase the output by 30%.

It's just that the steam engine and other equipment are not used, this is a truly epoch-making product, and the complexity is far more than what hydraulic machinery, it is unrealistic to want to build it in just a few months, and it takes time for any leapfrog development of science and technology.

The steam engine was out of hope for a short time, but while Duke was inspecting the weaponry, he saw a long tubular thing next to a dwarven master. At first glance, Duke didn't care, but when he got closer to take a closer look, Duke was stunned.

If the steam engine started the industrial revolution, then this thing started the revolution of war!