After about five minutes, a high mountain army finally made up his mind and walked out of the group. After having a person take the lead, I soon saw a large number of people coming out one after another, wanting to leave the army.

However, the expressions on their faces were still very frightened, they were worried that this was Duke's way to test them, and if they disobeyed Duke's attitude like this, would they be retaliated?

Duke proved that they had thought too much, because Duke simply waved his hand, asked the registrar to go over and register their information, and then directly handed them five real gold coins

In fact, Duke can not pay at all, but Duke understands that many soldiers who leave the army, if they are allowed to leave, will be a factor of social instability. And if they are given a certain amount of start-up capital, they can go home and reunite with their loved ones, and get through the first difficult days, and they will slowly wear away the killing atmosphere brought by the army.

So five gold coins to buy social stability, which is a very good deal.

With the first person to take the money and walk out of the barracks, this time the mountain army understood that it was not Duke fooling them, but that they could really take the money and go. In an instant, the blackened soldiers left the team and chose to take the money back.

For this kind of scene, Duke's hundred-year-old Allen and other storm army generals have a little bad looks, in their opinion, Duke is really good to these mountain troops, it would be good not to catch them to dig mines, and actually give money to let them go? And they have come out so much at once, do these guys really think that Storm is rich?

However, Duke's face was not much unusual, because he knew that the army of this era, except for the storm army and a small number of directly subordinate troops, most of the army was recruited from the peasants, even the mountain army.

These mountain troops cannot be said to be temporary troops, but the gap with the elite professional soldiers is still obvious, they are farmers themselves, and there is nothing wrong with taking money home to farm. Moreover, the Storm Army does not need so many soldiers, and it takes time to absorb and digest it, and Duke even thinks that as long as there are ordinary people left, it is good.

But the result was much better than Duke expected, and the mountain army of 7,000 men was finally left with 5,000 men. Especially the 2,000 mountain cavalry, few of them chose to leave.

Duke didn't have any surprise about the stay of the Alpine Cavalry Regiment, because unlike ordinary soldiers, these Alpine Cavalry are the real professional army in this world, they originally relied on conquest to eat and expand their territory, and it was not a normal thing to fight with the Alpine Army, and it was not a normal thing to fight with the more promising Storm Army?

Seeing that the five thousand people finally stayed, Duke also began to speak at this time: "You are very welcome to choose to stay and become a member of the future storm army. But I'm going to say that the Storm Army only needs to be elite, not rubbish! You will receive the most rigorous training, and if you don't qualify, you will be kicked out of the Storm Army, and you will not even have a settling-in fee of five gold coins. ”

"And the Storm Army demands absolute loyalty and obedience, from today onwards, you will be branded with the Storm Army, and now I tell you the first military order, which is complete obedience, understand?"

"Got it!"

The high mountain army below immediately felt that the momentum was wrong, and they all pulled their voices to answer Duke's questions. Now they are beginning to understand a little bit why the Storm Army is so different and so powerful, it is because of Lord Duke's relationship.

The 5,000-strong Alpine Army was absorbed, and Duke immediately asked Alan to lead them to the Storm Barracks, where they would receive a period of Storm Military training, so that they could completely eliminate some of the old military habits and become a professional army like the Storm Army.

For the arrangement of these 5,000 people, Duke also has a preliminary plan in his heart, that is, 2,000 mountain cavalry, directly incorporated into the storm cavalry force, plus the 1,000 trainee cavalry that have been trained so far, directly form two storm cavalry regiments, let Cassel serve as the first commander of the storm cavalry, and Lincoln serve as the second commander of the storm cavalry, ending the history of no human cavalry troops in Storm Castle before.

And Duke will adopt a mixed posture, so that the 1,000 rookie cavalry and others in Storm Fortress can make faster progress and become a cavalry unit with real combat effectiveness.

Of course, now that the cavalry regiment is there, the remaining thing that gives Duke a headache is the equipment problem. Cavalry not only needs storm armor for warriors, but also special armor for war horses, and it also ensures the consumption and rotation of horses in the future, so the alpine horse farm and storm horse factory are combined and merged into a more top-level horse factory, which is also a big challenge for the future capital needs of storm castle.

The Storm Troopers problem is settled, and the other three thousand infantry are still the same, and Duke does not have the idea of forming all of them into Storm Infantry Regiments, but intends to organize them into Storm Musketeers.

Before the Storm Castle, there was already a 1,000-strong musket team, but such a musket team did not have a formal wartime establishment, which means that it was not fully joined in the Storm Army sequence, and it was still an experimental unit.

This is unfair to the Storm Musket Team, and the future development of Storm Fort firearms is not something that can be solved by a thousand-man squad. Duke had always wanted to formally build a modern firearms army, but Storm Fort's human resources were really limited, and even the ratio of troops had reached the scale of militarism, and if there were more soldiers, the burden on the economy would be too heavy.

But now that these 3,000 mountain troops have solved this problem, Duke will create the third branch of the Storm Army, that is, the Storm Muskete Army, in addition to the Storm Cavalry and Storm Infantry, and these 3,000 people will be fused with the existing 1,000 Storm Musket Corps to form two reinforced regimental musket teams.

Among them, the first regiment of the Musketeers will be the head of the Dwarven Musketeer Stove, which is also his long-standing dream, that is, to revive the glory of the Dwarven Musketeers. The second regiment commander let the nephew of the stove, Flint Shi, take the role, and he also knows the musket very well, and has a wealth of experience to train these future musket soldiers.

After dealing with the affairs of the Alpine Army, Duke had already found that the sky was overcast, and escorted the Imperial Army soldiers, plus the Alpine Army soldiers sent to the barracks, so that the 5,000 Storm Army attacking Storm Fort was dispatched to 2,000 people at once, making Duke feel that the army was a little insufficient, so he could only urgently dispatch another Dwarven Legion to support from the wall, and the Sea Clan Fish-Man Army took over the position of the Dwarven Army.