At three o'clock, the sky is not dawning.

Thirty-six one-horned black-hoofed horses pierced through the night, stepped on the wind and snow, and galloped out from eight gates in the east, south, west, and north directions of the shield herd city.

Within three days, 36 skilled heralds will deliver the notice of urgent recruitment to the government offices of 930 counties in 74 counties in six prefectures in western Xinjiang.

Recruitment, this is a good prescription for the current chaos in the Shield King's Mansion.

It can not only turn the displaced people into soldiers and pacify the localities, but also use this to enrich the armament and resist the strong enemy from abroad, killing three birds with one stone.

The Shield King's Mansion is very concerned about this.

Therefore, although the speed of fast horse transmission and post station transfer is not the fastest among all the communication methods that can be used in the Tuhao Empire, they still choose such a way to transmit information.

Because some news will only attract enough attention if it is conveyed grandly enough.

The solemn transmission of military orders has indeed had an effect. At least the chief officials of the prefectures, counties, and counties at all levels who received the information did not dare to slack off in the slightest.

Three days later, the six states in the western region of the Tuhao Empire, regardless of the size of the city or county, began a round of large-scale recruitment.

Five hundred and sixty miles northwest of Dunmu City, there is an eagle's beak town built across the pass, guarding the main road from the west to the east, controlling the throat of the south and north, the situation is dangerous, it is really the first important town in the northwest of the Tuhao Empire.

Of the twelve outpost earthen forts that the Tuhao Empire had fallen a few days ago, four were directly west of Eaglebeak Town and eight were in the northwest, all about 100 miles away.

Eagle's beak town is the gateway of the country, although it is a county seat, its city wall construction is not inferior to the general state capital. Its north side is full of high mountains and mountains, and the south side is mostly huge ravines and deep ravines, and no one passes through it all the year round, so there are only two gates in the east and west, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Wupinzhong Town General Tang Feng was in a low mood.

He has been guarding the West Gate to recruit troops for four days, and there are quite a few homeless people who have come to sign up one after another, but he has not yet met the one that can make his eyes shine. Thinking that such a group of uneven homeless people would become his subordinates in the future, his heart was extremely panicked. It is said that Sun Wang, the general of the lower town of the East Gate, has made a lot of gains and has recruited many good seedlings with great potential.

This made him even more depressed.

The east gate is the inner gate, and it is basically impossible to encounter the enemy. The west gate is the outer gate, and the fire news is frequent, so the guards have always been more elite than the east gate. As Tang Feng, the main general of Ximen, he naturally had to suppress Sun Wang, both openly and secretly. However, this expansion of the army actually allowed Sun Wang to get a better source of soldiers, and if he made a mistake, in time, the strength of the army will be reversed in the future, then it should be Sun Wang who pressed him, how can he not be in a hurry?

But it's useless to be anxious, whoever recruits the soldiers is whoever's.

Who made him the one who guarded the West Gate? In the past, because of the West Gate, he was assigned the most elite soldiers. Now because of guarding the West Gate, he can't recruit good soldiers, who will blame him?

"No matter how bad the soldier is, Lao Tzu can still train stronger combat power! What's more, the recruitment is not over yet, and it is still unknown who is better!" Tang Feng said hatefully.

However, he knew in his heart that the twelve outpost forts outside the West Gate had fallen, and the West Gate was already the front line of the Northwest Frontier, and the longer it dragged on, the fewer people would come and go here. When no one arrives in the end, it means that the time is not far off for the enemy to launch a large-scale attack. As for the checkpoint defense line arranged sixty miles outside the West Gate for early warning, in his mind, I am afraid that it will not even play the role of a buffer.

Feeling depressed, he went out in his cloak and strolled to the city wall to check on the recruitment.

Outside the city gate, a large open space has already been cleaned up, flags are displayed, equipment is listed, large and small stone locks, stone benches, and dumbbells are lined up, two huge stone lions are majestic, and the blood crystal armillary sphere used to test soul power is also covered with red silk cloth, waiting for the arrival of the strong man.

Knowing that there was going to be a war, the inhabitants outside the city had already moved to the city, and the broken thatched huts and dilapidated houses where the civilians had lived had been demolished, and the materials obtained were either used to protect the moats or used as weapons on the city walls.

Outside the city, except for more than 100 officers and soldiers who were still helplessly carrying out orders, a few people who did not know the so-called were sitting lazily at the base of the city wall, and there was no trace of anyone else.

The sky and the earth are vast, and the wind and snow are cold.

But in the distance, two figures, one thin and one fat, stepped on the snow and came in steps.

Tang Feng stared at it, as if it were two hunters, carrying the prey to the city to exchange money.

These two people, one is slim and thin-waisted, with a lean figure, well-defined eyebrow bones, and dark eyes, and the other is burly and strong, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a tiger head and a tiger brain, carrying prey on his shoulders at will, and his childishness has not been shed.

Both of them turned out to be thirteen or fourteen-year-old boys.

The bearing of these two people is not simple.

Tang Feng was slightly curious in his heart.

The capable young man said: "This snow wolf has been dead for two days, the skin is hard, the meat is unpalatable, and it is not worth a few dollars. Recently, there has been a lot of wind and snow, so let's not go to the mountains first, and find a place to rest when we are full. ”

The tiger-headed boy swallowed a mouthful of saliva and nodded, "I think so too." Let's change the meat first, and then the wine!"

"No, no. You can do without alcohol, change more meat, and preferably have some rice. The lean boy pondered.

The tiger-headed boy was hungry and panicked, thinking that although the wine was delicious, the meat was more satisfying, and it was indeed more cost-effective to change the meat, so he agreed to his idea. Looking up, I suddenly saw a large number of sergeants at the gate of the city, standing in two queues, the table was laid out, and there were two big characters written on a big wooden card, I don't know what they were doing.

"Hey, it's so lively!"

The two quickened their pace, crossed the treaded bridge over the moat, and came to the front of the military column.

The lean young man leaned under the wooden sign and asked the sergeant, "Hey, man, what is this word?"

When the sergeant saw that he was rude, that he was young, and that he was not the target of the army's recruitment, he did not have a good face, and said in a rough voice: "Recruitment!"

The capable young man didn't care either, and asked, "How can I become a soldier?"

The sergeant glanced at him and said, "You can't do it!"

"Why can't we?"

The sergeant was too lazy to take care of it, waved his hand and said, "Look for yourself!" It turned out that under the two big characters of the wooden sign, there were still a few lines of small characters engraved.

The capable young man said: "I can read and write, do I still need to ask you?"

Although the sergeant was extremely reluctant, he had to explain: "We only recruit soldiers over the age of fourteen, and we must awaken the martial spirit!"

The lean young man was stunned for a moment, and the tiger-headed young man hugged him and said, "What kind of soldier should you be?" There is no wine and no meat, the most important thing for us to eat now is to eat!"

The sergeant sneered and said, "Who said that there is no wine and meat to be a soldier? When you are selected as a soldier, you will immediately be given five catties of fragrant roasted and marinated black mutton and two catties of soju! I see that you, a snow wolf, are not worth so much!"

The tiger-headed boy suddenly became interested, and said, "Then I want to be a soldier, take me to sign up!"

The sergeant was overjoyed when he saw that he was attracted to him, but he knew that the two did not meet the requirements for recruitment, and if they were brought to sign up, they would inevitably provoke a good scolding from the record, but it was not worth it, so he ignored him.

The tiger-headed young man shouted a few words, and for no reason he caused a roll of his eyes, and felt very humiliated in his heart, grabbed the sergeant's collar and shouted: "If you don't take me to sign up, you won't bring it!

Several voices suddenly exploded: "What are you doing!"

"Presumptuous!"

"Bold!"

"Catch him!"

When the two teenagers came to inquire about the conscription, all the sergeants looked at it, and because they were young, they didn't care. Unexpectedly, the two ignorant people were fearless, and they dared to provoke the recruiting sergeant in front of them, is it tolerable, which is unbearable?

Immediately, more than a dozen sergeants surrounded him with spears.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the capable young man grabbed the tiger-headed boy and wanted to slip away, while scolding: "Nima's fat man will cause trouble for Lao Tzu!"