After two major wars at Stormfort before, the entire Storm Army has plummeted from 8,200 at the peak before the war to 5,200 after the war. The three main regiments, including the Dwarven Legion, are all short of staff, and even the logistics regiment is not satisfied.

In terms of cavalry, not to mention the storm human cavalry, even the dwarf war sheep cavalry has almost been defeated, and it can be said that the storm army is already in a state of no cavalry.

Now with the income of 650,000 gold coins, excluding the compensation of the previous pension and the purchase of winter materials, there are probably 200,000 gold coins left. And in the future, after the winter of Storm Castle, the trade route of the Imperial Capital Storm Merchant Bank will expand, and it is very likely that it will be able to provide an income of 200,000 gold coins per month, so at this moment, Duke finally begins to have spare money and confidence to rebuild a more powerful storm army!

In addition to these, the most important point is that the Hammer's search for dwarves in the Saint-Michel Mountains has finally made a qualitative breakthrough. He found a dwarven tribe about the same size as the Iron Hammer Tribe, called the Rock Tribe, with about 5,000 people.

And one very important thing is that the number of war sheep in this tribe even exceeds that of the previous Iron Hammer tribe, and the number of war sheep that can be used has reached thousands of heads. If you count the remaining war sheep of the Hammer Tribe, if the breeding training goes well, Storm Castle will have a complete army of war sheep cavalry, that is, the size of 1,500 people.

And the rock dwarf tribe of 5,000 people also has dwarven warriors of up to 1,000 people, and this high proportion of military and civilian ratio is related to the special composition and life span of the dwarf tribe. After all, their ultimate lifespan is at least twice that of humans, that is, they generally have a lifespan of two hundred years, so their suitable military age is far beyond that of humans, which can be called the point where all soldiers are soldiers.

In addition to the Rock Dwarven Tribe, Hammer also found an even more powerful tribe of Dwarves at the far end of the Saint-Michel Mountains, their name is the Black Iron Tribe, and according to the reported Hammer Dwarves, the number of people should be at least 20,000.

In the Saint-Michel Mountains within human territory, it is a very rare thing to reach such a large dwarven tribe of 20,000 people. If such a powerful dwarven tribe can be merged, then the strength of Storm Castle will be directly raised to a higher level, and even in order to show the sincerity of Storm Castle, Iron Hammer personally went to the Black Iron Tribe to talk to them about fusion.

But the result was a failure, this powerful dwarven tribe had no idea of surrendering to a small territory like Stormcastle, and was not even willing to cooperate. Even for the Iron Hammer Tribe's subjugation to humans, the Black Iron Tribe unabashedly expressed their contempt, believing that the Iron Hammer's behavior defiled the dignity of the dwarves!

In the face of these contemptuous words, the irascible Iron Hammer almost didn't fight in the Black Iron Tribe, and naturally the negotiations collapsed.

But fortunately, with the addition of the Rock Tribe and some other idle small tribes, this time the Iron Hammer has also brought in a total of tens of thousands of dwarves to join. And due to the easing of financial pressure, the dwarf city has also been able to continue to start, and the living pressure is not very great with the addition of 10,000 people.

With the addition of 100,000 humans and 10,000 dwarven legions, plus the winter trimming has plenty of training time, this time Duke can be regarded as a big one, and plans to play a big ticket, at least so that the storm army will no longer have a shortage of troops in the next few years!

So Duke directly selected 10,000 strong men from among the 100,000 refugees, which is also a common phenomenon among refugees. Because many of the elderly, weak, women and children cannot afford the fright and hunger caused by fleeing, the mortality rate is much higher than that of young and strong men.

Of course, this 10,000-strong army Duke could not be completely integrated into the Storm Army's combat troops, and even if Storm Castle had a little money to spare, it couldn't afford such a huge army cost. Because Storm Fortress is now not only a human army, but also a sea clan army of up to 5,000 people, as well as a dwarven army that is about to be expanded.

Previously, the shortage of the main combat regiment of the Storm Army was about 1,500 people, and Duke directly added the previous logistics regiment and the new regiment to the main combat regiment, and made up for the personnel of the two main combat regiments. After all, compared to complete recruits, the logistics regiment and the recruit regiment can be regarded as having experienced a war and seen a little blood, and they are not pure recruits, which is also of great help to the recovery of combat effectiveness.

With the "regularization" of the logistics regiment and the new corps, basically the logistics regiment and the new corps have been completely established. Duke directly selected the most elite and strong 1,500 people from the 10,000 newly recruited soldiers, and gave the title of the 3rd Regiment of the Storm Army, and selected a battalion commander named Carl from the previous two wars as the commander of the 3rd Regiment of the Storm Army.

In the previous two wars, Karl fought very bravely, and had a talent for tactical management. Especially on the beach battlefield, when the Shark Tribe Sea Clan was preparing to attack the gap between the two armies, Carl reacted immediately and led the soldiers of the second battalion of the first regiment of the Storm Army to resist the interspersed fish-man warriors of the Shark Tribe.

At the same time, Carl also has the strength of a mid-level swordsman, and he is only one step away from the breakthrough of a high-level swordsman, as long as he can obtain a higher-level swordsmanship cultivation method, the time to cultivate his fighting spirit and become a high-level swordsman is just around the corner.

For the cultivation method of sword qi, it is not a problem in Storm Castle. Because Duke has persuaded Alan and them to disclose all the exercises and experiences they have cultivated to the Storm Army, and compile them into teaching materials, so that they can all improve their swordsmanship.

You must know that originally in this world, these swordsmanship techniques are all secrets, except for family members or special student relationships, they will not disclose the swordsmanship they practice. Duke felt that this method was very much like the ancient Chinese master-apprentice inheritance, which could only be spread among the masters, and eventually led to resting on one's laurels and not getting a better breakthrough.

Swordsmanship is a killing technique, and what is needed is continuous actual combat training and confrontation with more masters, in order to improve the loopholes in the skills, and learn from each other's strengths to reach a higher realm. Therefore, Allen and the others announced the cultivation exercises, and the final result was the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the entire Storm Army.

And with the Storm Army having three main regiments, Duke also directly upgraded the establishment of the Storm Army, and the three main regiments were combined to form the First Army of the Storm Army, with Allen as the commander of the corps. In normal times, each regiment trains separately, and once Duke has no direct command in wartime, Allen will have the command of three corps, which can be regarded as a legal backup command of the Storm Army!