The head of the family installed a prosthetic leg on the broken arm Liu, which is as easy to use as a real arm.

Broken arm Liu was the first veteran to be fitted with a prosthetic leg. Because his surname is Liu, everyone calls him Broken Arm Liu. The blacksmith's surname is Guo, and his name is Guo Xu. The carpenter's surname is Zhang, and his name is Zhang Yang.

This news, combined with the appearance of Liu, who had a broken arm, quickly caused a huge response among the guards.

The head of the house has decided to equip all the guards with prosthetic limbs or legs, and even create special weapons according to the characteristics of each person. For example, if the prosthetic limb is made directly into the shape of an iron hook or a small round shield, the owner will not only not affect the combat effectiveness because of the lack of an arm, but the combat effectiveness will be better than before.

Liu's appearance made all the guards convinced of the news.

"Swear to follow to the death, never give up!" All the guards have this in mind.

In order to improve efficiency, Ma Shuo quickly arranged for all the guards to conduct the mapping of the situation and the measurement of relevant data. At the same time, Ma Shuo singled out all the blacksmiths, carpenters, and leathermen on the mountain, and organized them into several groups, led by Guo Xu, Zhang Yang, and a veteran named Qi Mo.

The task of the blacksmith team is to create iron components of prosthetic limbs or legs according to the pattern and the dimensions of each person. Because everyone's situation is different, this job is still more troublesome to do, and it must be debugged one by one.

However, when there are more people, the efficiency is much higher. Over time, more and more guards were equipped with prosthetic limbs or legs. At first, these guards naturally didn't particularly adapt to the sudden extra things, but after a few days of active adaptation, these guys smiled one by one.

At the same time, after these guards got used to prosthetic limbs or legs, Ma Shuo taught them two sets of martial arts respectively. With the corresponding martial arts, these guards are really like tigers, and their strength is increasing at an astonishing speed.

Not only that, but because of the cultivation of martial arts, they have become more and more proficient in the control of prosthetic limbs or prosthetic legs, and these fake things gradually seem to be really part of their bodies.

Time passes quietly, and the cottage is one day at a time.

In the newly reclaimed wasteland, except for the seeds that Ma Shuo found, the others were planted with the most common grains of the Great Qin people. Because of the waterwheels, and the fact that these wastelands have been barren for a long time, the land is very fertile, and the growth of various crops is very good. Such a situation fills the hearts of those who are responsible with joy.

The population of the cottage has increased to three thousand, of which about a thousand can be trained as a basic fighting force. After the training of these 1,000 people, although they could not catch up with the elite border army, their overall strength was no longer comparable to that of ordinary mountain bandits.

The team of craftsmen has also increased from a few people to more than 30 people, among which blacksmiths and carpenters are still the mainstay, and there are some other skills. Of course, the master of brewing is managed by Kangding alone, so he is not in the team of craftsmen.

These craftsmen, except for some of them who are from the mountain bandits who are constantly being co-opted, are all special slaves that Fan Zeng bought from the human market.

During this time, Fan Zeng sent people to send various supplies over twice. As a result, as the route became more and more proficient, and Mark's men and horses deliberately cleaned up the mountain bandits on this route, the safety along the way was improved, and the number of materials transported each time increased significantly.

In addition to supplies, Fan Zeng also sent a batch of newly purchased slaves. It included both artisan slaves, some able-bodied laborers, and some young women. At the same time, a group of about 50 guards followed, making the escort team expand to 100 people.

When the number of guards increased, Ma Shuo reorganized these guards, and selected the twenty strongest guards from among them to form his personal guard, first designed special weapons for them, and divided a part of the blacksmiths to build them.

Everything is progressing in an orderly manner.

Including Ma Shuo himself, he also insists on polishing his body and practicing martial arts every day, and his own strength is also getting stronger day by day.

"Big brother, I've recruited enough people. You say, what are we going to do next? On this day, Ma Shuo had just finished his morning workout, and before he had time to eat, Mark walked in from outside. After this period of suppressing bandits, Mark's thousand-strong team finally collected enough elite mountain bandits, reaching the level of full strength, and even a lot more.

"How much has been incorporated?" Ma Shuo has been busy with things in the cottage, so he doesn't know too much about the progress on Mark's side.

"Fifteen, now there are fifteen hundred. I was divided into fifteen teams of thousands. Mark said proudly.

"One thousand and five! It's almost for now, but this thing can't be stopped. I'll think about how to get it. Now, you take a thousand people with you and go back to your life. At the same time, let those guys see the blood of the barbarians, and turn them into real border soldiers. For the remaining 500 people, I will stay and make other arrangements. In the future, I will regularly send people to rotate with the people in your team, so that everyone has seen the blood of barbarians. Ma Shuo explained his plan to Mark.

The main task of the 1,000 people in the cottage is to guard the cottage. The five hundred people left behind, as well as those guards, will be the capital for Ma Shuo to continue to develop, and these people will be the real elite force in Ma Shuo's hands.

Ma Shuo's arrangement, Mark did not hesitate to carry it out. Among the 500 people who remained, there were 50 veterans of the original border army. These fifty people are basically the hundred chiefs and even chiefs among the five hundred people, and with these positions, Ma Shuo doesn't have to worry about those mountain bandits who have been forcibly co-opted dare to use their brains.

What's more, Ma Shuo's veteran guards will also be incorporated into the team as a warlord, and the killing aura of those veterans is enough to deter those mountain bandits.

Slap and give a date.

Ma Shuo's food for these guys is absolutely not to say, and the salary is also sufficient, and it is all given in advance for the month. As soon as these two moves were made, those guys immediately smiled, and the resistance in their hearts immediately disappeared without a trace.

Carrots and sticks! Ma Shuo quickly recovered these co-opted mountain bandits to the point of death, and became the first controllable force in his hands.

However, people do have it. But there are still two practical problems in front of Ma Shuo.

First of all, the issue of weapons. Ma Shuo doesn't have a fixed source of weapons for the time being, so the weapons in the hands of these people are still the same guys they used when they were mountain bandits, varied, and the quality is average, which obviously doesn't match their current identity.

Secondly, the number of horses is limited. In fact, according to Ma Shuo's concept, he is ready to build a very mobile team. However, there were now only about forty horses at full duty, and most of them were ordinary horses, which could not meet the needs of real cavalry.

Mark, not a single horse, except for his own mounts and the scouts' horses, all the horses obtained by the bandits this time were given to Ma Shuo. Including weapons, Mark also left as many of the best as possible to Ma Shuo's five hundred people. After all, when his thousand-man team returns to Zhenmanguan, he will still be able to apply for unified equipment.

Even so, the two questions are still Ma Shuo's biggest headaches.

It seems that Fan Zeng needs to pay attention to the collection of weapons and horses while collecting food. Ma Shuo thought in his heart.

"Family master, there's a secret letter from Steward Fan, and it's urgent!" When Ma Shuo first thought of Fan Zeng, Fan Zeng had already sent someone to deliver an urgent letter.