Five and a half counties.

Yang Yi's initiative to join increased the actual jurisdiction of Ma Shuo, the county guard of Yumen, to five and a half counties.

All civil matters were handed over to Bai Xuan, the magistrate of Yumen.

Ma Shuo's focus is still on the military. Yang Yi, as a general of the Yumen Army for many years, has actually very rich experience in commanding troops. As the general of the Auxiliary Qin, Ma Shuo's military horses under his command were naturally called the Auxiliary Qin Army, and Yang Yi's men and horses were naturally directly incorporated into the sequence of the Auxiliary Qin Army.

In order to unify the management, and at the same time take into account the actual support capacity, after discussing with Yang Yi, Ma Shuo and Yang Yi unanimously decided to reorganize all the auxiliary Qin troops.

Ma Shuo's original men and horses, plus the rest of the Yumen Army brought by Yang Yi, now add up to 2.67 million horses. This amount is actually quite a lot, and it is actually very stressful to rely on the area of five and a half counties to support it.

Therefore, Ma Shuo decided to streamline his troops and control the total number of troops to about 200,000.

The first step is to weed out the old, weak, and seriously injured and lose their combat effectiveness. After this wave, the rest of the Yumen Army directly lost more than 40,000 people. Then, Ma Shuo's side streamlined it by more than 20,000. Of course, after these people were reduced, most of them were converted into ordinary border people, and they were given arable land in suitable places, and villages were established to settle them.

Among them, those who have a skill are left alone in the workshop and supported as skilled workers. Of these, there are about five or six thousand. The participation of this group of people has suddenly increased the productivity of the workshop.

Soon, however, some highly skilled craftsmen emerged from this group of people.

After the reorganization, the 200,000 horses were still divided into two parts: cavalry and infantry.

Under Ma Shuo's command, there were originally four battalions of cavalry, each with 5,000 people, a total of 20,000 people. There were 10,000 cavalry in the rest of the Yumen army, and after the combination, there were 30,000 cavalry under Ma Shuo's command.

30,000 cavalry, the original Sixiang battalion remains unchanged, and the 10,000 people from the rest of the Yumen army are divided into two battalions, which are called tiger battalions and wolf battalions. For the time being, Ma Shuo did not interrupt these cavalry in the rest of the Yumen Army, but only stationed a group of marching horses to them during the reorganization. On the one hand, these marching horses should be responsible for recording military exploits, and on the other hand, they should assist the commanders to do a good job in the ideological work of the soldiers, and the focus should be on spreading the ideas of the auxiliary Qin army and improving the ideological realm of all soldiers.

With the two newly added cavalry battalions, Ma Shuo equipped them with saddles and horses in the shortest possible time, and at the same time changed their weapons, replacing all the original bronze weapons with iron weapons.

Ma Shuo's generosity subdued the hearts of the remnants of the Cloud Gate Army at once. Whether it is a saddle, stirrups, or iron weapons, it can increase the combat effectiveness of cavalry while increasing their chances of survival.

The 100,000 infantry of the remaining Yumen Army was reorganized and five new infantry battalions were built, namely the A-shaped battalion, the B-shaped battalion, the C-shaped battalion, the T-shaped battalion, and the E-shaped battalion.

Since then, there have been a total of ten battalions of infantry under Ma Shuo, with a total of 170,000 horses. The main reason for this is that in addition to the five newly formed battalions, which are at full capacity, the original five battalions are all in a state of dissatisfaction after this downsizing. On average, each battalion was about 6,000 men.

However, judging from the current situation, it is no longer appropriate to recruit soldiers within the five counties.

Therefore, Ma Shuo was not too anxious, but let the battalions take their time and find suitable opportunities to gradually fill up.

Now, the five and a half counties under Ma Shuo's rule are connected together, and generally appear as an irregular triangle, narrower in the north and wider in the south. Its western border is still mainly bordered by barbarian occupations. Its northeastern border borders the areas occupied by the Western Protectorate and the remnants of the Suobarian Army.

As for the remaining one sideline, on the other side is the 100,000 Mountain area, which does not belong to any of the forces.

Faced with such a situation, after discussing with Yang Yi, Ma Shuo readjusted the location of the garrison under his command.

First of all, it is close to the area of the 100,000 mountains, which is not the focus of defense for the time being, but it cannot be without defense, so it is enough to temporarily place an infantry battalion that is not less than enough to divide it into two parts and hold two key passes.

This time, the Golden Battalion was arranged here.

The western defense line, because of the border with the barbarians, has more places to defend. Ma Shuo arranged three infantry battalions and a cavalry battalion here. Among the three infantry battalions, two are newly organized, namely the A-word camp and the B-shaped battalion, and the other two are the fire character battalion in the five-element camp. Among the remaining six infantry battalions and five cavalry battalions, the Muzi battalion in the Guyang County mining area cannot be moved, and the Qinglong battalion, as a personal guard battalion, needs to always follow Ma Shuo's side.

On the side of Huangsha City, Mark's command still has a foot battalion and a cavalry battalion. In addition, the Tuzi Camp has been brought to the Barbarian Domain by Wuyan Muchi and has begun the expansion of the secret base. In this way, there are actually only three infantry battalions and three cavalry battalions that can be arranged. These people are inside the horse. Ma Shuo left two cavalry battalions as a mobile force, and the rest were placed on the northeast defense line.

In the five counties, there is no more camp left for the time being, because the situation in the internal area is still relatively stable for the time being, and everyone hopes to live a stable life after the war, but no one will be idle and have nothing to cause trouble.

Of course, although there is no brand battalion, there is actually a group of centaurs who will patrol and roam around the five counties from time to time, ready to deal with possible situations at any time, and this force is the women's army led by Qi Jing and the Ninth Princess Wan'er - the women's battalion. The current women's battalion has developed to a considerable scale, with a number of seven or eight thousand people, divided into two parts, the left battalion and the right battalion, which are respectively managed by Qi Jing and Wan'er.

Because Qi Jing's identity is Ma Shuo's wife, Qi Jing's left camp is also known as the lady camp. And because Wan'er is the ninth princess of the Great Qin royal family, her right camp is also called the princess camp.

In addition, in fact, there is a hidden force under Ma Shuo's rule, that is, the hidden guard. The tentacles of the hidden guards are already very extensive, and although most of the personnel are responsible for intelligence gathering, some of them are also a very effective mobile force if they are organized. At the very least, there is no problem with the use of this special force to maintain law and order.

After the reorganization of the people and horses, Ma Shuo did not immediately start the expansion operation, but seized the time to continue to focus on training. Whether it is the original battalions or the battalions reorganized by the rest of the Yumen Army, if they want to be invincible in the future expansion and reconquest battles, they need to constantly improve their combat effectiveness.

Iron also needs its own hardness, this is the same truth. Ma Shuo knows very well that he should not put his hope on anyone, and it is never hopeful to rely on others.

However, he doesn't rely on others, but others have already taken the initiative to come to the door-