The dwarves are still a relatively honest race, and it is no exaggeration to say that without Duke's help, they can only hide in the remote cave of Mont Saint-Michel to blow the cold wind.

Maybe Hammer just wanted to help his tribe find a place to stay, but after this period of contact and getting along, especially after experiencing Duke's performance in the Battle of Stormkeep, he has now completely surrendered to Duke, and feels that he is the wisest leader in the human world.

Of course, this is only one aspect, on the other hand, Duke promised to make a large amount of wine to support the Hammer tribe after the harvest of grain in the autumn. This time, the dwarf, who was addicted to alcohol, followed Duke even more desperately, so if he wanted to join the Hammer Tribal Alliance, he must be completely loyal to Duke and Stormcastle.

There are still many small dwarven tribes who can't accept this request of the hammer, after all, the two sides have experienced a brutal racial war, and the dwarves have driven from the fertile plains to Mont Saint-Michel to blow cold winds. This kind of hatred can't be eliminated overnight, and it can't be resolved by an unknown lord like Duke.

In the face of these dwarves who were unwilling to be loyal, Hammer was also very straightforward, directly refusing them to stay in the dwarf town, and even ignoring the friendship of the clan. In Hammer's words, the reason why dwarves have lived in low caves and burrows for thousands of years is because they are so stubborn that they regard any other race as their enemies.

It's not just humans in this, but also elves, orcs and dwarves don't have a good relationship, and as for the sea tribe, it's not to mention, it's just people from two worlds. In comparison, humans are at least close relatives of dwarves.

In fact, this can't be said to be dwarves, in addition to the friendship between humans and elves back then, the beasts are almost the image of the public enemy of the whole people, the sea tribe has always been lonely overseas, in this world without the Age of Discovery, there has not been much contact with the races on the continent.

In addition to these bumps, Duke is most concerned about the strength of the dwarven legion. These guys are born craftsmen and warriors, and their strong bodies and natural anti-demon attributes make them all good at fighting in Storm Castle in the future.

However, this time Duke was a little disappointed, compared to the Hammer Tribe, a large tribe with a complete structure, these small tribes defected to are ordinary craftsmen, and most of them are old and weak, women and children. And there is no such thing as the Iron Hammer Tribe, and there are five hundred war sheep cavalry.

But even so, Hammer selected about a thousand people from them, of which 800 were added to the Dwarven Legion, and now the number of the entire Dwarven Legion has reached 2,300, and the War Sheep Cavalry has also reached the size of 700, and the number of the entire Dwarven Legion has reached 3,000.

If it weren't for the fact that war sheep were too rare and more difficult to cultivate than human war horses, Duke would definitely do his best to build a war sheep cavalry regiment. Because although this is a sheep, it is much more ferocious than a war horse, and it also remembers the climbing attribute that ignores the terrain, which is simply the most perfect war mount Duke has seen so far.

The dwarven legion Duke only needs to provide raw materials and salaries, and the other things are handled by the Hammer tribe themselves, so even if it is an additional thousand people, it is only an expense of a few thousand gold coins per month for Duke, and the pressure is not very great.

With the expansion of the Storm Army and the Dwarven Legion, the total military strength of Storm Fortress now reaches 8,200 men. Among them, the 1st and 2nd regiments of the Storm Army remained unchanged, maintaining the scale of 3,000 people. The logistics regiment is also supplemented with a thousand people, part-time in the role of a reserve army.

In addition, there are 1,000 new recruits in the new regiment, and since it has been trained for half a month, it can only be regarded as a force on paper, and the other is 200 storm cavalry.

The Storm Cavalry Regiment has always been a pain in Duke's heart, the number of cavalry in Storm Fort is not large, plus the death of the sentry cavalry and the attrition of the war, even if it is selected as much as possible, it can only be maintained at a scale of about two hundred. Moreover, the consumption of raising cavalry far exceeds that of infantry, especially the war horse is simply a delicate creature, which is much more precious than the BMW of later generations, and it is impossible to have enough qualified war horses to expand the cavalry regiment.

However, in the last Battle of Storm Castle, hundreds of excellent war horses from Alpine City and the Teutonic Knights of the Holy See were gathered, and since last year, Storm Castle has always had its own breeding plan, and has been constantly trying to buy war horses from other territories, and now Storm Castle has more than 500 war horses in addition to breeding war horses.

Duke intends to use this time to grit his teeth and tighten his belt to expand the Storm Troopers to five hundred, or even more than a thousand within the next year. If the future war tank is the king of land warfare, then the cavalry of this world can also be called the king of land warfare, and if you want to conquer and completely destroy your opponent, cavalry is an indispensable existence!

Duke finished looking at the military deployment, and then turned to the news reported by the hydroelectric plant. The first news that caught his eye made Duke's heart beat violently, as he saw the news of the successful forging of the barrel reported by Bruru, and began to assemble it for the live-fire test.

After reading this, Duke paid attention to the last date signature, which was the report submitted three days ago, and according to the current progress, it should still be in a kind of testing stage, so the report of the experimental results was not submitted.

To understand that Duke wants to truly change everything in this world, it is almost impossible to overthrow the Holy See by conventional force alone. The only secular power that can compete with the Holy See is the union of the twelve great empires on the continent of Europa.

However, the continent of Europa does not have the atmosphere of great unification in ancient China, and what can barely be regarded as a unified empire is the Roman Empire title used during the war of the five tribes thousands of years ago. Even this kind of short-lived title of unification has passed thousands of years, and there is little hope of integrating the entire secular armed forces against the Holy See.

Relying on the step-by-step development of Duke's territory, there is a theoretical possibility, but in fact the possibility is about equal to zero. The reason is very simple, the accumulation and development ceiling of this world are fixed.

Take the simplest cavalry as an example, the number of cavalry in the three cavalry regiments of the Holy See has reached hundreds of thousands, accounting for the upper half of the entire Europa continent, and it is also the most elite half. Not to mention gathering hundreds of thousands of cavalry, even if it is gathering hundreds of thousands of war horses, I don't know what year or month.

So if you want to defeat the accumulation of thousands of years of the Holy See, you can only use the tactics of overtaking in corners, and firearms are the corners of overtaking!