It was Stormkee's first expedition in a hundred years since its founding, and it was under such difficult circumstances that Lord Duke decided to attack.

After all, Storm Castle has been suppressed and beaten by the Valley of Monsters for a hundred years, and has always been the cannon fodder of Alpine City, so it is impossible to have a little resentment in my heart. One can imagine how much hope the inhabitants of Stormcastle had for this war.

Now that the Storm Legion has returned, and with so many horses in hand, the outcome of the war is clear.

"Long live Storm Castle!"

"Long live your lord!"

"Storm Legion, forward, forward, forward!"

The slogan of the mountain and the tsunami came surgingly, and every citizen of Storm Fort shouted with all their strength, this victory came too suddenly and unexpectedly, it can be said that it injected a shot in the arm for all the residents of Storm Fort, and it also proved that the Storm Legion after the military reform can no longer be the same as before!

Duke walked into the castle amid the cheers, but in addition to his joy, there were many wounded who needed to be treated in time. Although this surprise attack broke through the mountain gates, and the street fighting also made the mountain rock cavalry regiment useless.

However, in the face of the absolute superiority of the soldiers of Alpine City, Duke's Storm Fortress still paid more than two hundred casualties, and it is estimated that it would be good if one hundred of them could fully recover in the end. And this can basically be regarded as a veteran, the loss of a tenth of the veteran still makes Duke feel a little distressed, with the current number of the Storm Legion, any soldier is extremely precious.

However, the loot brought by winning is also rich, not to mention the problem of money, the more than 500 war horses brought can make Storm Castle arm another 300 storm cavalry. Because the cavalry cannot be one horse and one person, the minimum standard is to ensure one person and two horses, and the three most powerful cavalry regiments of the Holy See on the mainland are all guaranteed to be one person and three horses.

There is also cavalry training is different from the infantry of the Storm Guard, if you want to train a useful cavalry, it will take at least three months to half a year, which is only a good use, the real elite cavalry has not been on the battlefield for a year and a half, and it really can't make a name.

After all, there are nomads in this world, who have been on horses all their lives and are born with a great advantage in riding.

However, Duke is also very indifferent to this, because history has proven that in the face of absolute productivity and advanced technology, the nomadic cavalry is generally crushed by farming. After all, in large-scale cavalry corps operations, the advantages and disadvantages of individual cavalry and archery can no longer affect the battle situation, and the full equipment of the storm armor is really difficult to shoot through with the power of bows and arrows in this world.

At least the projectile that the nomadic cavalry is good at is not powerful enough, and it is necessary to shoot straight through the armor with heavy arrows.

At the same time, this expedition to Alpine City made Duke still feel that the military strength of Storm Castle was far from enough, and winning this time was not a matter of strength, but more of a result of luck and a sneak attack. If it weren't for the name of the cheap dad in the future, and the Imperial Army and the Bright Army joined the battle, it is estimated that this expedition would have overturned.

Now that financial resources were no longer a problem, Duke was once again preparing for a massive expansion of the army, this time the number of recruits was placed on the scale of 1,000, with 300 horsemen with riding experience joining the Storm Troopers and the remaining 700 joining the Storm Guards. Let the military strength of the entire Storm Legion reach the scale of 2,500 men.

However, this recruitment is almost the limit of Storm Fort's current manpower, because Storm Castle has a total of 30,000 to 40,000 people, excluding the old, weak, women and children, plus the low life expectancy in this world, the young and middle-aged people who can really use it are barely three-tenths of the appearance.

Soldiers make up a tenth, and miners, hydro factory workers, and other industries make up at least a tenth. Moreover, the spring ploughing and the infrastructure planned by Duke in the coming year will also need manpower, and the shortage of young and middle-aged people will gradually emerge.

And the bigger problem is that Storm Fort is synonymous with danger on the mainland, and in the eyes of the world, it is similar to Syria in the future, and there may be a risk of war and death at any time, how can anyone be willing to come to live in Storm Fort on a large scale?

Therefore, in the absence of a large number of people to replenish it, Stormcastle's human resources were almost squeezed to Duke's limit, and he even began to consider recruiting female workers from Stormcastle to do some less physically demanding jobs.

However, all these ideas need to survive this winter, and it will not be possible to realize them until the spring of next year.

During the period of time when Duke led the Storm Legion away, the Storm Sentinels also kept a close eye on the movements in the Monster Valley. And due to the large-scale equipment of the telescope, the sentinels also have a better understanding of the dynamics of the monster valley, and at the same time, the danger of the sentries is greatly reduced.

It's just that the news from the sentinel makes Duke feel very strange, because the necromancer figure that appeared before in the monster valley has disappeared during this time, and even the ice demon figure that usually appears on the edge is rarely seen. It was as if the Valley of the Monsters had gradually calmed down, without the slightest tension of the previous invasion of the army.

It stands to reason that Duke should be happy about this situation, but he does not dare to take it lightly, and is very worried that it is a precursor to a storm. However, as long as the monsters don't attack for a day, then Duke's chances of defending Storm Castle are increasing day by day. If it can be delayed for another month or two, then the 2,500 soldiers equipped with storm armor in Storm Castle may not have the strength to fight against the monster army.

For the next few days, Duke was busy recruiting troops, and through successive wars, the prestige of the Storm Legion in Stormcastle reached a peak, and it was very easy to recruit a thousand men. Moreover, Duke also prescribed a stricter physical training plan, and any 5-kilometer run in later generations was copied, just to let the fighters have enough physical strength to carry the weight of the Storm Armor.

However, for this "eventful winter", the calm is only temporary, because the storm suddenly appeared two uninvited guests, and they are not yet human, they are the sea tribes who have attacked the hydroelectric factory before.

In the face of the sudden arrival of the Sea Clan, to be honest, Duke was still a little nervous in his heart, because objectively speaking, the Sea Clan is even far beyond the existence of the current monster army, after all, the Sea Clan is a super race that occupies the sea. Although Duke doesn't know if the sea in this world is as vast as the earth, it should not be much smaller according to the current worldview, which shows the scale and horror of the sea tribe.

If there is a full-scale war with the Sea Clan, and the French Empire does not support it, Duke will really run away now......