On December 10th, there are still 20 days left before the New Year in this world, and it has also entered the coldest time of the year.

If it were Storm Castle in previous years, except for the City Lord Guard and the Border Knights, they would basically huddle in the room on this day, trembling and waiting for the days to pass quickly.

But this winter was completely different, and tens of thousands of Storm Army soldiers had gathered together, goose-feathered snowflakes falling on their armor. Black and white blended into everything, but no one shook off the snowflakes on their bodies, but looked at Duke on the high platform with a resolute face.

"Warriors of the Storm Army, today will be a historic moment, and it will also be remembered forever by the Storm Fortress! From today onwards, we in the Storm Fortress no longer need to ask for the help of the Imperial Army and the Holy See Army, and we will no longer have to survive under the sharp blade of the Ice Demon. And we will launch an attack and use the sword in our hands to tell the Ice Demon who is in charge of this territory!"

"Attack, attack, attack!"

The tens of thousands of soldiers of the Storm Army roared angrily, although they had already known about this military operation, but when Duke said it himself, they were still extremely enthusiastic, after all, Duke was the spiritual belief of the entire Storm Castle, and they firmly believed that under the leadership of the Lord, the Storm Army would be invincible!

As long as you don't fall, as long as the fighting spirit in your hearts is not extinguished, then this day is bound to come. We have been beaten too many times in the past hundred years, and the number of sacrifices and deaths has been too great, but the Storm Army cannot be cowards who will be beaten passively forever!"

"From today onwards, the Ice Demon will also succumb to our armor and steel shield, and kneel under your steel blades, Storm Army, forward!"

"Forward, forward, forward!"

As the slogan of the Storm Army sounded, the Storm First Army, of four thousand five hundred people, began to walk out of the barracks and march in the direction of the Monster Valley. At the same time, the 5,000 logistics troops began to be on standby, which would ensure all the needs of this Storm Fort counterattack.

In addition, the Storm Dwarves have also begun to march, and their camp will be changed from Storm Barracks to Hydro Factory, because in a sense, the Hydro Factory is the closest fortress to Storm Castle to Monster Valley. At the same time, the War Sheep Cavalry Regiment began to explore the Monster Valley as a squad platoon as soon as possible, which was also the first time Duke officially explored the specific situation of these ice demons in the Monster Valley.

Through the investigation of the war sheep reconnaissance cavalry, it was found that these ice demons usually do not gather together, but live in the monster valley with a scale of about 100 people like a village. And they are not without food and drink, in some camps, the war sheep cavalry found the remnants of the demonic beasts and the magic crystal ore, these ice demons are to absorb the magical energy in the demonic beasts and the magic crystal, as their own body energy supply.

At the same time, the War Sheep Cavalry also discovered a secret, that is, the ice demon did not live in the interior of the Monster Valley as they thought before, but lived in the surrounding direction of the entire Monster Valley, like a ring surrounding the entire Monster Valley.

Because in the Monster Valley, all of them are dense primeval deep forests, and there are various types of Warcraft in them, and the reason why the Ice Demons surround them is that the Warcraft in the Monster Valley are all blocked, just like creating a very large "sheepfold", and these Warcraft are all their captive livestock.

You must know that Warcraft has a very great value in this world, and almost any race covets these Warcraft. For example, the most powerful Knights of the Holy See, the Dragoons of the HRE Empire, and the Hussars of the Warsaw Empire, and even the wolf cavalry of the orcs and the dwarven war sheep cavalry, are all Warcraft in a sense.

Therefore, once there is a Warcraft origin in this world, unless it is in a dangerous unknown area, it is basically impossible to avoid being contested by the major empires and the Holy See. As intelligent creatures, the Ice Demon obviously knows the attraction of these demonic beasts to other races, so they choose to surround the monster valley and keep all the demonic beasts in captivity as their prey.

At the same time, because of their actions, human beings have this fear of the Monster Valley. Think about how many Ice Demons there are even on the periphery, if you count the core area, then how many Ice Demons will there be. In addition, there is nothing valuable in the Monster Valley, so naturally neither the Fran Empire nor the Holy See are willing to risk huge losses to attack the Monster Valley, and it is already very good to be able to help defend.

Even with the decline of the Fran Empire, they were even planning to give up the source of magic crystals like Storm Castle, how could they still be interested in the Valley of Monsters?

So all of this was discovered by Duke, a stunned young man, by accident, and only Duke really built Storm Castle as his own home, and replaced it with those previous lords, as long as he thought that the time would come, who would be willing to do this kind of counteroffensive, or who would have the ability to do this kind of counteroffensive.

Maybe even the Ice Demon didn't expect that Storm Fortress would have the ability to counterattack, and under the surprise attack of the Storm Army, more than 1,000 people were killed in five Ice Demon villages on the periphery. Now that the Storm Army has experienced several wars with the Ice Devils, it is not as crushed as before, using heavy shields and heavy armor, plus the fire support of the musketeers, basically one or two hundred Ice Demons have no ability to resist in the face of the Storm Army.

You must know that even if it was a year ago, the main guard of Storm City with more than 1,000 people, let alone a field attack on the Ice Demon. Even if it relies on the defense of Storm Ridge, there is basically no confidence that it can be defended.

At that time, as long as the ice demon attacked, he would first ask for help from Takayama City, because the third legion of the Imperial Army was stationed there with 5,000 men. If you can't even deal with the Imperial Army, then you can only ask for help from Andorra City, where the Holy See's Army of Light and the Teutonic Knights are stationed, and basically only need to rely on these armies to defend it, and Storm Castle can survive the winter.

But now this situation is completely different, in front of the formed battle array, the scattered ice demons actually don't have much of a threat. The warriors of the Storm Army have also made rapid progress in the experience of these battles, and the battle flag of the Storm Army has been completely planted on the territory of the Ice Demon.

In order to prevent the Ice Demon from counterattacking, the two regiments of the Storm Dwarf Army were no longer stationed in the hydroelectric factory, and began to approach the Valley of Monsters. In this way, the main force of 7,500 soldiers of Storm Castle has all entered the Monster Valley!

At the same time, in a huge cave in the Valley of Monsters, the Ice Demon General Anubir was sitting on an icy chair, while an Ice Demon below was reporting information to him.