The battle plan for the initiative has been determined, and after the order is issued, the three main regiments of the First Army of the Storm Army and the musket team of 500 people began to march in the direction of the Monster Valley, preparing to build a defensive line on the other side of the Seine River to completely block the Ice Demon's idea of attacking.

In addition, two infantry regiments of the dwarves are on standby, in the role of supporting troops. If the Ice Demon does not plan to fight a decisive battle, then these two dwarven infantry regiments will be used as rotation troops to rotate with the Storm First Army to achieve the effect of joint training, after all, the way of dwarven heavy infantry will also be eliminated in the future, and firearms will become the main force of the war.

The most pressure in this is the newly formed War Sheep Cavalry Regiment, as a cavalry regiment of 1,500 people, this time Duke has very high requirements for them, and their responsibility is to comprehensively investigate the movements of the Ice Demon.

Because the Ice Demon had attacked once before, even if it was a serious injury, but according to Duke's estimate, there were at least more than 10,000 Ice Demons in the Monster Valley, because the Monster Valley was so big, it was basically equivalent to a province, and Duke didn't believe that there were thousands of monsters in total.

This is only the number of ice demons, and the creatures of hell are not included, so the ice demons still occupy an absolute advantage, and if they want to offset these advantages, they need to rely on guerrilla tactics and information leadership. Hit your superior forces to crush your opponent's scattered forces and choose to evacuate before the opponent's large forces are encircled.

As long as the ice demons are hurt, with the importance they attach to the race, they are absolutely unwilling to consume the storm army like this, and will eventually choose to evacuate to avoid the battle, then Duke's strategic purpose will be achieved. After all, he never thought of being able to destroy the Ice Demon, as long as he could survive this winter, he would be satisfied.

Another important reason is that at present, of the three regiments of the First Storm Army, only two main regiments can wear armor, and the third newly formed corps actually does not have storm armor. In addition, the second army of the dwarves, only the first regiment of the dwarves can be fully equipped with battle armor, the other dwarves are using their previous inventory, and half of the dwarven war sheep cavalry is also unarmoured, which is used as pure reconnaissance cavalry.

This is due to the fact that after the previous battle, the wear and tear of the plate armor and the expansion of personnel have left the entire Storm Castle without enough armor to use. And all aspects need to be built, otherwise there will be a situation of freezing to death, as well as a huge financial hole, so that Duke has never had the opportunity to produce armor and weapons, after all, the state of defense and the training of recruits can accept it without armor.

It's just that even Duke didn't expect that the Sea Clan would have such a huge fortune, which directly made Storm Castle run at full strength again, and also bred Duke's ambition and fighting spirit, wanting to make Storm Castle start and develop normally in the winter, so there was a winter attack plan this time.

It can be said that Duke's preparation was also inadequate, so he relied more on the intelligence advantage of the war sheep cavalry. This is also the biggest advantage of human beings against the ice demons, that is, the entire ice demon race, they do not have the existence of cavalry, because as magical creatures, they can only transform humans into their own kind, and this transformation ritual has no effect on other creatures.

After all the battle plans were formulated, the Storm Army had already begun to march in the direction of the Monster Valley. The storm carriage produced in the early stage was also delivered to the storm logistics army, although this time it was still a battle at home, but the winter factors also had very high requirements for logistics supplies such as heating and food.

Therefore, this time, in addition to exercising the combat capability of the Storm Army itself, it is also an exercise for the logistics army, so that they can familiarize themselves with the material deployment of the new storm carriage, and lay the foundation for the future expedition of the Storm Army. If nothing else, the Storm Army will go to the northern border at the beginning of spring next year, find a way to trade with the barbarian tribes in the name of the frontier, and form a new heavy cavalry force that has been storming the human race!

The Storm Army's initiative made the entire Storm Fort boil, especially some of the old residents of the Storm Fort before, not only did they not have the slightest fear and opposition, but they excitedly took to the streets to see the Storm Army out of the city to attack.

Because Storm Castle has a history of more than 100 years since the day it was built, but except for a few times when the Holy See Army and the Imperial Army counterattacked, Storm Castle has been under the threat of being beaten and breached for a hundred years, and every Storm Castle citizen feels a kind of fear and despair every year.

A hundred years have also challenged the endurance of the people of Storm Castle, they have been waiting for this day for too long, rather than dying in fear, it is better to die bravely in the attack! It's just that the lords of Storm Fort before didn't have Duke's determination to defend Storm Fort to the death, they were either forced to become lords helplessly, or they used Storm Fort as a springboard for them to brush up their reputation, let alone develop an attack, it would be good to be able to attack without running away when the ice demon attacked!

Now that the day has finally arrived, they can see their powerful Storm Army take the initiative to attack the Ice Demon, which will be an epoch-making day for Storm Castle!

In addition to the Storm Army starting to march, the five thousand Storm Sea Clan Army also began their own actions, they themselves are the elite selected from the tens of thousands of Wave Tribe Fishman warriors, so objectively speaking, their foundation is better than that of human recruits, but slightly inferior to the dwarven warriors.

However, due to the follow-up of the environment, the fish-man warriors are basically the same as the orcs, and they are still in a very upright stage. There is no problem with personal combat effectiveness, but it is relatively weak in legion combat, which is why the Storm Army was able to win more with less against the Wave Tribe in the previous sneak attack and the later battle against the Wild Shark Tribe in the beach battle.

A rabble, unless they have an absolute advantage in numbers, will never be able to fight against the regular army.

During this period of time, the Storm Sea Clan Army received more training in discipline and formation, which can be regarded as the initial results. It's just that there is a gap between humans and the sea tribe, and Duke has no intention of involving them in this battle, after all, there is still a threat from the wild shark tribe on the other side of the ocean.

Therefore, during the interval when all the Storm Army troops were attacking, all the Storm Sea Clan troops were transferred to the Storm Fortress to prevent the Shark Tribe from suddenly attacking Storm Fortress at this time. With the current strength of the 5,000 Storm Sea Clan Army, there should be no problem fighting against 10,000 Shark Warriors, and if all of them can be equipped with customized Storm Armor and better weapons, Duke is even confident that they can use the unfinished fortress to fight against the 20,000 Shark Army.

Of course, in addition to guarding against the Shark Tribe, they also help defend the hydro factory. It can be said that Duke has prepared all the defensive back-ups, and the only thing left is to attack!