In addition to helping the fish-man tribe transform, Duke also discussed with Fasqi to absorb as many fish-people scattered groups and small tribes as possible in the Sea of Death.

Unlike continents, the ocean is so large that it's impossible to find it if you want to hide. Moreover, the area of the Sea of Death adds up to at least the laughter of an empire, and it is impossible to find only a few million fish-people at present, and in the entire Sea of Death, there are countless scattered fish-people races.

Because fish-people don't need to work together like humans, as long as you want, you can even just catch a few fish a day to eat. Therefore, in addition to the three major tribes of the Sea of Death, there are still countless fishmen, and what Fasqi needs to do is to absorb them all as much as possible, instead of only accepting the fishmen of the Wave tribe like before.

Because the development of the Storm Navy in the future will require enough sailors and marines, there is nothing more suitable in this world than the Fishmen. Perhaps in addition to the high-tech job of operating sails, they are not suitable, and the fish-people can be said to be natural sailors!

According to Duke's plan, there will be at least tens of thousands of people in the future navy, of which about 10,000 are human technical workers, and the rest are fish-man soldiers. According to the current human body structure and proportion, it is impossible for the Storm Fish-Man tribe to support tens of thousands of fish-man warriors with these hundreds of thousands of people, and there are also reserve troops and logistical problems, so the number of people in the Storm Fish-Man tribe must reach at least hundreds of thousands.

In fact, Duke also wants to further improve the scale of the dwarves, but compared to the fish people, it is too difficult for the dwarves to find and absorb their fellow clans, Duke has gone through two or three years of hard work, and now the storm dwarf tribe plus the newly born is less than 30,000 people, and it is becoming more and more difficult to find near the storm fort, if you still want to find the big dwarf tribe, then you have to cross the border.

When Storm Castle had a small territory before, even if it was a small cross-border, the big lord wouldn't take it seriously. But now it's different, Stormcastle has such a strong military force, any crossing of the border will be seen as a precursor to invasion, Duke now has little ambition for other territories except for the Andorran Prince, and he does not have the ability to swallow other territories, so he must maintain relatively friendly relations with other territories in order to continue business.

The fish-man army's attack was done, and Duke also returned to Alpine City at this time, as the front line of the current storm territory, Duke basically didn't go to Storm Castle, because now the pressure of the northern Andorran army is far greater than the pressure of the ice demons in the south.

Because this year's Ice Demon is really strange, and now it's February, and there is no trend of Ice Demon gathering at all, let alone the kind of tentative attack in previous years. You must know that this year's Storm Castle is not like in previous years to rely on the Storm Castle defense, but took the initiative to repair the Storm Barrier Wall to the territory of the Ice Demon, according to the arrogant and even arrogant character of the Ice Demon, there is no action, which really makes Duke feel puzzled.

But if the Ice Demon doesn't move, Duke will naturally not be sad, because if the Ice Demon hasn't attacked this winter, then their chances of attacking next winter will be smaller and smaller, and even Duke has the idea of counterattacking the past. After all, if the northern defense line has no way to invade Andorra City, then Duke wants to expand his territory, so he can only develop to the south, in Duke's opinion, the relatively warm monster valley can directly make crops from the current stage of one crop a year to two crops a year, which means that the future grain production of the Storm Territory will be doubled.

Doubling is not a small number, and in the context of the current situation, being able to produce food is a guarantee of war potential. I don't know if it's because the Xiaoice period is coming, but now the north of the entire French Empire is getting colder and colder, and even many crops are about to reach a situation where there is no harvest.

This also indirectly led to the attack of the barbarians this year, if it weren't for the Holy See's intervention and Duke Otto's final choice to send troops, maybe Emperor Henry VII of France would not have survived this winter. Of course, the Fran Empire should not be destroyed, because the barbarians do not have the basis to occupy the Fran Empire in front, after all, the Holy See and other empires will not sit idly by and watch a foreign country appear in the core territory of mankind, and they will still be beaten out.

It's just that once the central power is destroyed at that time, then the chaotic dispute of the French Empire will come, and each territory will completely separate itself to seize territory, which is the opportunity that Duke is looking forward to.

The Ice Demon has no tendency to attack, and the Prince of Andorra has probably measured the difficulty of the attack, and has always chosen to accumulate strength and wait for the opportunity, but has given the Storm Territory a rare and peaceful winter.

Duke stayed in Alpine City for two days, and thought that the Alpine Army's training camp had almost been completed, so he took the Storm Carriage to the Storm Barracks to review the results of their training, and at the same time officially asked the Alpine Army to declare allegiance and be incorporated into the battle sequence of the Storm Army.

Inside the Storm Barracks, this time there were tens of thousands of Storm Army members on the high mountain standing neatly on the school grounds, waiting for Duke's arrival. Because today is not only the incorporation ceremony of the Alpine Army, but also the ceremony of the Storm Army's expansion again, after all, there are millions more people in Alpine City, and the army is the best place to increase their sense of identity, Duke has already expanded the Storm New Army and the Logistics Army before, and the previous Storm Logistics Army will also be officially incorporated into the Storm Army combat unit, so that the combat effectiveness of the Storm Army will be improved again.

When tens of thousands of Storm Army soldiers saw Duke coming, they directly shouted the slogan "Hello Lord", Duke also responded with a sentence "Serve the people of the Storm", and tens of thousands of Storm Army also responded again: "Fight for Storm Territory!"

This is not because of how bad Duke is, but because the previous parade troops did not shout any slogans, and it always felt a little unimposing. So after thinking about it, I borrowed the experience of later generations and made up these few standard slogans to use when reviewing the troops. As a result, I didn't expect this way to be quite good, at least I shouted these two voices before starting, and the state was concentrated in an instant.

The troops that were reviewed by Duke this time were all "recruits" who were about to be incorporated into the battle sequence of Storm Castle, and the one that made Duke feel the most important was the last 3,000 Storm Cavalry. It is because of the appearance of these 3,000 Storm Troopers that it can be regarded as the real end of the history of no large-scale human cavalry legions in the Storm Territory!8)