Previously, in the Storm Castle Human Legion, there were three official combat legions, with a total of 4,500 people, and at the same time, in the Storm Castle territory, there were as many as 5,000 logistics troops, which basically reached a one-to-one ratio.

Don't look at the number of logistics troops, it seems to be quite a lot, but in this world, the ratio of one to one is really not high, and it can even be described as very low. Because the logistics supply in this world is very difficult, if you count the followers of the people, maybe the logistics supply ratio of one to two or even one to three is very normal, which is equivalent to a soldier needs three logistics to supply their needs on the battlefield, which is a very terrifying ratio.

Thanks to Duke's emphasis on logistics, the Storm Army's logistics ratio is basically the lowest in the world. Moreover, the logistics army of the Storm Army is not part-time, it is as simple as a civilian husband, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are professional soldiers, and they can go directly to the battlefield at any time.

Therefore, among the troops reviewed this time, there are the 5,000 logistics troops of the previous Storm Army, who have experienced the logistics battles of the northern defense line, as well as the commercial transportation of various storm trading houses, in addition to not completely killing people, it is no exaggeration to say that they are already a very professional professional army in this world.

And this time, the five thousand logistics troops of Storm Castle will be directly integrated into the combat forces of the Storm Army, and Duke still intends to adopt the sequence of three corps, because of the problem of going out and fighting before, Duke deeply feels that the number of 1,500 people in a regiment is seriously insufficient, basically it is true that several regiments must be mobilized to fight in order to force the barbarians, and it is impossible to cooperate perfectly between regiments, after all, the commanders are different, and the will to fight is also different.

It's like Allen, as a veteran, is more conservative when he specifies the battle plan. Fedor, a descendant of the nobility, has the most diverse tactics. As for the last rookie leader, Karl, he is the most radical of them all, and often has some surprise battle plans. And the soldiers under them are basically the character of the follower commander, and at this time, there will be a certain inconsistency between the cooperation between the two regiments.

After all, there were no various radio communication methods in this era, and the direct coordination between the two regiments basically depended on tacit understanding. The standard regiment of 1,500 men may be very suitable for the kind of small-scale operations in later generations, but in this era, 1,500 men is a bit insufficient, so Duke plans to directly break up the 5,000 logistics army into three regiments, so that each combat regiment can be increased to the size of 3,000 men.

As for the extra 500 logistics troops, Duke plans to place them in the Storm Post Station under construction, and in the future, the Storm Post Station will adopt militarized management, one for every fifty kilometers, and no less than 30 soldiers will be stationed at each post station, so that since it can provide rapid communication in the war, and it can also be used as a guard tower in normal times, it can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

According to the standard one-to-one logistics ratio of the Storm Army, the current personnel required by the Storm Logistics Army are as high as 10,000, and the previous proportion of the Storm New Army is only 5,000 people, and it is still not enough to transfer all of them to the Storm Logistics Army.

Therefore, Duke has carried out a comprehensive recruitment work within the territory, and with the new increase in the population of one million, it is not difficult to recruit soldiers at all. In particular, the residents of Alpine City basically know that they can get the opportunity to divide the land in the Storm Army, and owning their own land in this world has an indescribable allure for the people at the bottom, and they can even sacrifice their lives for it.

And with the extremely increase in the number of call-ups, Duke now has the qualifications to select the source of soldiers, and the difficulty of selecting new recruits for the logistics army of the 5,000 Storm Army has also increased, which indirectly reduces the strength of the old and new soldiers.

In addition to directly recruiting five thousand Storm Logistics Corps, Duke also recruited ten thousand Storm recruits according to the previous standard. However, compared with the reserve paramilitary force of the Storm Logistics Army, the selection requirements for Storm recruits are much lower, after all, they only train intensively during the winter break, and usually train for four days a month, so the requirements for them are naturally not very high.

These fifteen thousand people are basically subjects of the Alpine Territory, and it is not difficult to expand the recruitment, so it can be seen that Duke's rule, at least in the Alpine Territory, still has a high degree of support. At the same time, with the addition of these fifteen thousand people to the Storm Army sequence, it has also invisibly increased the Alpine Territory's sense of identity with Duke, even if it is a change of lord in the future, it is estimated that Alpine City is also Duke's final say, after all, this is already a whole of interests.

In addition to the expansion of the Storm Army's troops, Duke's most important thing this time is to announce the birth of two new troops, one of which is naturally the Storm Musket Team that has always existed before, and now they will be officially upgraded to the Storm Musket Regiment, consisting of the original 1,000-strong musket team, plus the Alpine Army specially trained in these three months, to form a total of 4,000 musket troops.

The 4,000-strong musket regiment was to be divided into two regiments, the first of which was headed by the furnace, and the second was the nephew of the furnace, Flint. The two of them, the experienced dwarves, will directly serve as the leaders of the human legion, which is another manifestation of the fusion of the storm army.

Compared with the training of other troops, the training cost and time of the musket team can be said to be the lowest, which is why hot weapons will completely replace cold weapons, because efficiency and cost cannot be compared.

It's like the Alpine Army, they didn't even know what a musket was before, but after three months of mechanized training, they have been able to perfectly master the three-stage shooting, and all that remains is the proficiency on the battlefield. And they are all veterans of the previous Alpine Army, so the battlefield is not like the recruits who will have all kinds of negative emotions of fear, so it can be said that this musket team can be pulled into the battlefield at any time.

If you change to an ordinary heavy infantry, the kind of direct slashing and slashing, and you have to maintain your own formation, the requirements for soldiers are increased exponentially. It takes three months to train a musketeer ready to go to battle, and if the time is urgent, it can even be shortened to a month.

However, if you want to train a heavy infantry that can go to the battlefield at any time, this time may be calculated in years, and this cost gap makes Duke decide that the heavy infantry of the Storm Army will probably maintain the current scale in the future, and will develop units with hot weapons, such as artillery!8)