Fight!

Li Mu and Ma Shuo teamed up to take Guyang County, which made Li Lingwei's descendants a lot stronger, and naturally, Li Lingwei's voice in the Western Xinjiang Protectorate also quietly improved a lot. However, this is still not enough.

For Li Lingwei, or for the entire Western Xinjiang Protectorate, it needs enough land to develop. According to the previous plan, the first target of their attack should be the territory of the Yumen Army and the territory of the Lock Barbarian Army.

This time, it was the Western Xinjiang Protectorate and the Yumen Army who fought. First of all, the Yumen army attacked, which was naturally related to the capture of Guyang County. With the Western Xinjiang Protectorate in Guyang County, it also has a foothold for direct confrontation with the Yumen Army. When necessary, the Western Xinjiang Protectorate could send troops from Guyang County to carry out multiple strikes against the Yumen army.

It's just that this time Li Mu didn't cooperate with Ma Shuo again, and the reason for this is unknown. On the side of the Western Xinjiang Protectorate, the three factions have all sent people, and the nominal commander-in-chief is Li Mu, the deputy governor of the Pingxi Army, and the young protector of the Metropolitan Protectorate.

The three factions, with a total of 100,000 horses, attacked Mengzi County, which was controlled by the Yumen Army. Obviously, this time, the Western Xinjiang Protectorate wanted to take a new piece of land by its own strength, and did not want to share the benefits with others.

When the Yumen army learned that the Western Xinjiang Protectorate had actually sent troops to Mengzi County, it naturally did not dare to show weakness, and immediately dispatched 70,000 or 80,000 horses in the fastest time to block the other party's way in a tributary of the Chishui River, which was less than 100 miles away from Mengzi County.

The two sides set up camp across the tributaries of the Chishui River and confronted each other across the river.

When Ma Shuo got the news, it was already two days after the confrontation between the other party. For two days, there were no large-scale clashes between the two sides, but tentative attacks took place every day, so there were daily casualties among soldiers.

However, because of the treatment methods taught by Ma Shuo before, there are now many specialized medical personnel in Li Lingwei's descendants, as long as they are not seriously injured and killed, basically those wounded have been well treated, which greatly reduces the losses of Li Lingwei's descendants.

"Come on, please come over!"

Ma Shuo had been staying in the cottage all this time, and now, he needed to discuss some things with Bai Xuan.

Soon, Bai Xuan walked in from outside.

"I've seen the Governor!" Now, all Ma Shuo's subordinates call Ma Shuo the governor, and this governor of Ma Shuo is the governor of the Ma family. Bai Xuan's current identity is the general and logistics director of the Ma Family's army, and he has a lot of power, and he can be regarded as the top few figures in the Ma Family's army. However, in front of Ma Shuo, Bai Xuan was still very low-key.

"Bai Junshi, Li Mu came over there and took a few batches of things?" Ma Shuo first inquired about the transaction with Li Mu. At the beginning, the two sides agreed to cooperate to take the iron ore area, and Ma Shuo would provide them with iron weapons. Of course, this provision is not free, but only a priority supply, and the price to pay is still to be paid, but you can enjoy the preferential treatment at the lowest price.

"Back to the Governor. So far, three groups of people have come over there. They took 50,000 iron arrowheads, 10,000 iron knives, and 10,000 iron spearheads. ”

"At the moment, how are we stocked?" Ma Shuo asked again.

"Our inventory is still very sufficient, there are 500,000 iron arrowheads, 50,000 iron knives, 100,000 iron spear heads, 30,000 spears, 10,000 iron tire bows, 30,000 crossbows, 50,000 shields, 750,000 arrow shafts, 50,000 sets of light armor, 10,000 sets of heavy armor, 100,000 single clothes, 70,000 cotton clothes, 150,000 cloth shoes, and a number of other materials."

Hearing the inventory reported by Bai Xuan, Ma Shuo was still very happy. Whether it is Ma Shuo or Bai Xuan, everyone knows very well in their hearts that it is naturally impossible to sell all good things to others, and they must have enough inventory in their hands. These stocks seem to be a lot, but with the continuous expansion of the army, these materials are actually not too rich.

Therefore, Ma Shuo told Bai Xuan that in terms of weapon manufacturing, it is necessary to speed up and increase production. At the same time, there are attempts to develop new weapons and more lethal weapons. For example, heavy crossbows, such as catapults, etc.

"How is the relocation going?" Ma Shuo thought for a moment and asked again. Ma Shuo has actually been very concerned about the relocation, which is related to his future net worth.

"Back to the governor, this matter was handed over to Li Xue. Judging from yesterday's report, the progress is going smoothly at present, and Captain Wuyan Muchi's side has successfully taken the surrounding territory, and it has not attracted the attention of the barbarians. ”

Although Bai Xuan didn't personally grasp this matter, the person in charge named Li Xue basically had to report to him every other day. Not only that, Bai Xuan will also learn about the progress of things from another perspective through the hidden guard.

Li Xue, a young man discovered by Bai Xuan, was twenty-seven or eighteen years old and had read books. However, because of family reasons, he offended people, so he didn't achieve anything in his career, and he was a down-and-out scholar. However, this guy is still very capable.

When Bai Xuan found him, his condition was not very good, and he was thrown into the slave market as a slave. Therefore, Li Xue was bought, he was bought back by Fan Zeng from the slave market and sent to the cottage, and then he was discovered by Bai Xuan.

For this reason, after Fan Zeng learned about the situation, he regretted it for a while, regretting that he didn't check it carefully at the beginning, and cheapened Bai Xuan for nothing. Talents like Li Xue, Fan Zeng's side is actually very much needed.

This time, Bai Xuan handed over the relocation to Li Xue. Now it seems that Bai Xuan still used the right person.

"Good, good! The White Army Division has a discerning eye for talents. Since it is a talent, we can't miss the treatment that should be given. First of all, he was exempted from slavery, and he was appointed as a resettlement envoy, and he enjoyed the treatment of six grades. Ma Shuo thought about it and said to Bai Xuan.

As the power under his command became bigger and bigger, in order to reward attendance and punish laziness, Ma Shuo also began to gradually regulate his own forces. On the part of the army, there is naturally a strict hierarchy. On the civil side, although it is not particularly strict, Ma Shuo has also carried out a preliminary classification internally, which is divided into nine grades and eighteen grades.

The lowest is from the ninth grade, and the highest is the first grade. At present, Fan Zeng and Bai Xuan have the highest grade, which is from the third grade. That is to say, at present, the civil aspect under Ma Shuo has not surpassed the existence of Congsanpin. Of course, this is also deliberate by Ma Shuo, and he needs to leave room for the future.

From the six grades, in fact, in the current civil sequence, it is already very high. A county order is only seven products.

On Bai Xuan's side, everything was fine, which made Ma Shuo realize that he could take the next step.