Naturally, the horse whistle will not refuse.

He wanted to absorb all the Native Americans of North America, not to mention the Navajo people, whose language also belongs to the Apache language, and is considered a relative of the Apaches, and sometimes even directly considered part of the Apaches.

"Welcome, Apache Sleeping Bear City welcomes all Native people." Ma Whistle said.

The Navajo Clan was a little excited, and it could be seen that their situation was a little tight, and they had come to take refuge.

The horse whistle led them to pitch a tent in Sleeping Bear City, and explained the law to them.

"Alcohol restrictions?" Sleeping Bear's alcohol restrictions often leave newcomers confused or repulsed.

"That's right, we have implemented a ban on alcohol, and your existing spirits will be bought by someone, and you are not allowed to keep them privately, which is a very important rule. If there is anything you don't understand, you can go to the liquor pharmacy and ask. "If you must drink, you can go to the drinking house." ”

"We'll follow it." The chief nodded.

Ma Whistle asked, "How many of you are in total?" ”

"One hundred and eighteen in all."

118 people.

Ma Whistle calculates the total population of Sleeping Bear City, and with the addition of this clan, the population of Sleeping Bear City has exceeded 2,500 people.

He personally records the identity of each new resident and has a brief conversation with them in order to get them to know himself.

"Great Chief." Just then, a voice came from the side.

Ma Whistle turned his head to look: "It's a wolf, you're back, what's the result?" ”

The person who came was the vertical wolf he sent to the Comanche Forest tribe more than ten days ago, and the vertical wolf at this time was dirty, obviously just rushed back, and it seemed that it was raining on the road.

"I've already brought everything I need to say, and I did see Square Face in the Forest Tribe." The wolf paused, then continued, "But the owl is reluctant to hand over its square face, and even says that it is considering attacking us. ”

"Consider?"

Wolf: "Yes, apparently he knew the power of the sleeping bear, so he didn't make a decision right away. I don't think he's going to really attack us, but we should be on guard. ”

Ma Whistle pondered for a moment, then nodded, "Okay, I see." You're doing a good job, go back and rest first. ”

When he had completed the census of the new arrivals, he went to the army to find Thick Shoulders.

Just as most of the teaching work was entrusted to other teachers, most of the menial tasks of the army were handed over to the officers, who himself was mainly responsible for the training of officers and regular evaluations.

An army capable of conscription and combat must not only have qualified commanders, but also have a strong grassroots level.

Ma Sentry believed that even if he died violently now, the army he built would not collapse directly, and it was even possible to grow on its own according to his plan.

At this moment, Thick Shoulder was leading his hundred soldiers for various training, and not far away were the other two centurions and their soldiers, the three of them competing with each other, competing for training results.

"Great Chief." When Thick Shoulders saw the horse sentry, he immediately gave a military salute, and the horse sentry had already taught the soldiers the military salute he was familiar with.

Ma Sentry first briefly inspected the training, and then motioned for Thick Shoulders to come with him.

"Shi Chang leads Ge Shi to continue training!" Thick-shouldered ordered, then turned and followed the horse whistle to a short distance.

"Thick-shouldered, I'm going to form a militia." Horse whistle coined a word.

"Militia?" Thick shoulders really don't quite understand,

"You are soldiers, and the militia is half soldiers and half people." "You have to do a lot of training almost every day, you have to carry your weapons with you every day, you have a salary as a soldier, you have to deal with the most dangerous enemies...... The militia, on the other hand, only conducts a small amount of training, and most of the time it is an ordinary person, with no formal salary, and also undertakes auxiliary work in the war. ”

Thick Shoulders understood and nodded.

"There are currently 2,500 people in Sleeping Bear City, and I plan to draw 600 of them to form a militia, and when the wheat harvest is completed, we will officially start training. You're primarily responsible. ”

In the past, Indians could basically be described as all soldiers, but with continuous development, this state of affairs will certainly not last forever.

After all, development implies division of labor, just as the development of living things is always accompanied by the differentiation of cells.

In fact, the process of division of labor in Sleeping Bear has already begun, and it is fast.

A year ago, the soldiers under the sentry were half-civilian and half-soldiers, but now they have been largely professionalized.

Whether in terms of characteristics or combat effectiveness, the current three hundred soldiers of Sleeping Bear can already be regarded as professional soldiers.

If he could, Horse Sentry would like all the 2,500 men in Bear City to be professional soldiers, but that's obviously not possible.

Even three hundred professional soldiers are already a lot, more than a tenth of the total population. Without the revenues from Clarktown's taxes and clothing companies, he would not have been able to maintain the existence of this army without a breeze.

Therefore, if you want to continue to reasonably expand the scale of the military, Ma Sentinel can only develop the militia, let the militia share some of the low-difficulty military tasks, and can quickly transform into professional soldiers at critical moments.

After talking to Thick Shoulder for a long time, Ma Whistle said, "...... Three hundred professional soldiers, six hundred militiamen, just three people in a group, one professional soldier with two militiamen. We can incorporate such a part of the training process to develop our ability to work together in small groups. ”

"Ability to work in small groups?" Thick-shouldered thoughtfully.

Ma Sentry nodded: "This is a vital ability, I hope that in the future, our soldiers, any three of them, can cooperate closely, even if they are deep behind enemy lines, they can maintain a high will to fight and iron discipline, and carry out combat missions in an orderly manner." ”

Thick Shoulders seemed to simulate such a scene in his mind, and said yearningly, "If we can do this, we may become the most powerful army in North America." ”

"Not the Americas, but the world." "Even if the whites were united, they would be beaten all over the ground by such an army." ”

The selection of the militia was done quickly—almost all the adult males in Sleeping Bear City were gathered.

However, the formal training did not begin immediately, after all, it was the end of June, and the winter wheat harvest was about to begin.

During this period, in addition to paying attention to wheat, Ma Whistle also frequently communicated with the gunsmith Browning.

Since moving into the cabin, Browning has become quite accustomed to the life of a sleeping bear, and has even learned a lot of Apache language semi-voluntarily, and has also taught some English to the Apache people semi-voluntarily...... No way, who told him that a dozen Apache apprentices surrounded him every day to learn gun-making techniques from him.

Ma Whistle himself is one of the apprentices, and from time to time he comes to learn some gun-making skills, although he is far from a professional, but he can already turn the things that he talked about in his previous life into reality.