Emergency mobilization order.

This military order issued by the headquarters of the town barbarian army is an emergency mobilization order. Because it has become inevitable for barbarians to storm the pass on a large scale, in order to prevent the barbarians from breaking into the pass and causing losses to the border people, the city lords' mansions are specially required to expand the size of the city guard within half a month, and the number of people will be increased to twice the existing scale.

At the same time, the government affairs of each city lord transferred a battalion of veterans of the existing city protection army, and reported to the Zhenmanguan Pass within ten days to be used as the reserve army of the Zhenman.

After receiving this military order, Ximen Xiong was mixed. Happily, the loss of the right battalion can be covered up in a logical way. The worry is that 3,000 new people will be recruited at once, and where will they find the source of troops.

Of these 3,000 people, he Ximen Xiong did not dare not recruit. Because his Huangsha City is the closest to Zhenmanguan, once the barbarians break through to Zhenmanguan, Huangsha City will be the first to be impacted.

"Sir, what do you think of this?" Brother Simon hadn't been so polite to his confidant for a long time, which was enough to show that the city lord had reached a very nervous moment.

"My lord, there are two paths. First, let every house in the city come out. Depending on the strength of each family, they will be assigned to join the city guard, and those who refuse will be punished as barbarians. Second, recruit Anshan bandits. The brains of the henchmen and staff spun quickly, and after a few glances of the eyeballs, they came up with two solutions.

After listening to these two suggestions, Ximenxiong did not make a decision immediately, he was weighing the pros and cons. After the last time he suddenly destroyed the Huang family, Huangsha City was already the dominant situation of the City Lord's Mansion, that is, the Xiong family was completely honest, shrinking and transferring a lot of industries, and the main forces of the family had withdrawn from Huangsha City and moved to other places.

However, except for the Huang family and the Xiong family, who were able to compete with the City Lord's Mansion at the beginning, Huangsha City was not without other smaller families, after all, where there were people, there would be power. For example, the two deputy city lords, they actually represent a force behind them. It's just that when the Huang family and the Xiong family were there, they were both considered to be the forces of the City Lord's Mansion.

I believe that with the current power of the City Lord's Mansion to squeeze the other families and forces in Huangsha City, this family and force will not have the courage to resist. Take this opportunity to weaken the power of each family, but not too hard. Therefore, Simon Bear has already agreed to this suggestion in his heart, but he is thinking about a degree.

Recruiting mountain bandits, this is also a good way. However, if you want to recruit an army bandit, you have to pay a certain price, not only to promise an official position, but also to have silver. Therefore, how much to recruit is also a trade-off issue.

"Both of his suggestions are good ideas. Mr. Lao bothered about this matter. Since it was the other party's proposal, Ximenxiong simply handed over these two things to the other party to be responsible.

Soon, one order after another spread from the city lord's mansion. With the spread of these orders, the entire Huangsha City suddenly became lively.

When the City Lord's Mansion began to get busy, Ma Shuo and the others also started to get busy.

First of all, all people and things that do not need to stay in Huangsha City will be evacuated in the near future and go directly to Panlongling.

Second, we should continue to expand the scope and quantity of resource collection, and collect all things that are useful for the development of cottages in large quantities and transfer them out as quickly as possible.

Third, continue to buy people by personnel. This time, both men and women need it. Because Ma Shuo had to take into account the balance of the population and the sustainable development of Panlong Ridge.

With the existence of Fan Zeng and Bai Xuan, two military advisor-level figures, and Ma Shuo's own intelligence level that is now beyond ordinary people, various arrangements were quickly implemented. With the brand for the military camp, Ma Shuo doesn't have to worry about the City Lord's Mansion for the time being, at least the other party doesn't dare to target his side openly for the time being.

For a while, Ma Shuo was idle.

However, this leisure did not last long. A letter from Zhenmanguan made Ma Shuo surprised and delighted.

The letter was sent by Mark, but the contents were given by Li Mu.

Accompanying the letter was a letter of appointment, appointing Ma Shuo as the captain of the Bianrong Colonel of the Shanzi Battalion of the Zhenbarian Army. The captain of the border army is not a formal border army establishment, it belongs to the non-staff personnel of the border army, and there will be no such appointment in peacetime, and it will only be set up in a special period when the military strength of the barbarian army is insufficient. Lieutenant Benjon was able to recruit soldiers and form militia regiments on his own.

A Bianrong lieutenant can probably form a militia of 1,000 people, which is equivalent to the level of a thousand commanders. The militia groups formed do not enjoy the official treatment of the border army, but once they need to participate in the war, the border army will still provide the corresponding basic equipment.

When the special period is over, the militia will be disbanded. Therefore, the setting up of the lieutenant of Bian Rong is equivalent to a means of expanding the army in wartime, and doing everything possible to mobilize civilian forces to participate in the war against the barbarians.

Li Mu got Ma Shuo an appointment as a captain of Bianrong, which was really a good thing for Ma Shuo to rain in time, so that his Panlongwei could justifiably appear in front of the world.

Of course, the appearance of Captain Bian Rong also means that the current situation in Zhenmanguan is really very critical.

The change in the situation in Zhenmanguan actually appeared not long after Ma Shuo and the others left the Huangsha Canyon. After the defeat of the barbarian advance force, there were constantly barbarians gathering from the barbarian domain towards Huangsha City, and in just half a month, there were more than 500,000, and the follow-up barbarians were still coming.

500,000 barbarians, which has already exceeded the total number of barbarian troops. Faced with such a situation, the barbarian army was under great pressure. As a last resort, just in case, the headquarters of the town barbarian army issued an emergency mobilization order to draw manpower from various cities to form a reserve army. At the same time, it also temporarily opened up the establishment of militia groups such as Ma Shuo's Captain Bian Rong to mobilize the defense forces in the border areas as much as possible.

Captain Bian Rong can command a militia of 1,000 people. However, because it is not a regular army, it itself has no rank. However, Ma Shuo's situation was a bit special, because he had helped Li Mu a lot before, especially by training ten apprentices, which greatly reduced the injury rate of Li Mushan's battalion and reduced the impact of combat attrition a lot. Therefore, this time, Li Mu also appointed Ma Shuo the position of a thousand commanders of the Shanzi Battalion at the same time.

Mark is the commander of the Twenty-First Force. Ma Shuo is the commander of the 22nd Thousand People. However, Li Mu also told Ma Shuo not to use the name of the commander for the time being, and to form a militia in the name of the captain of Bian Rong first. Obviously, Li Mu's arrangement was based on his own considerations.

"Master, this is an opportunity!"

Knowing about Captain Bian Rong and the commander of the thousand commanders, Bai Xuan and Fan Zeng invariably said to Ma Shuo.