The audience in the naturalization camp venue was still listening quietly at the beginning, but as Xiao Pingguo's topic deepened, gradually, people began to talk to each other.

Obviously, He Sizhi had already delivered the information, and then, many people in the crowd were cheering, and more people were showing smiling faces, and the atmosphere in the venue gradually boiled.

At the same time, more than 3,000 men and women from the Second Naturalization Battalion and the Naturalization Village also held a meeting in the courtyard, and Hou Xianglin and Kang Da, on behalf of the Governor's Palace, announced the same thing to the people - to reward the recruitment of volunteers to defend the city.

These people from all over the world, of different races and colors, have now received a message: the Australian Federation is recruiting volunteers to defend Xin'an City with a generous reward---- and those who are willing to participate in the battle to defend the city will have the trade labor contract between you and your spouse (specifically the naturalized village) shortened by two years after the victory, and will also receive at least ten taels of silver per person "Battle Allowance", if you are injured or disabled and lose your ability to work, the Australian Federation will give you a pension.

If you die in battle, the Commonwealth will bury you properly, and a monument will be erected on you, engraved with your name, and then your spouse and children will be immediately granted freeman status, employment, and the Commonwealth of Australia will allocate you more than double the original area of land and a monetary allowance sufficient for you to raise your children according to the original trade contract......

Of course, there is only one precondition: we have defeated the enemy, and the flag of the Australian Commonwealth will continue to fly on the walls of Sin'an City.

That evening, the Governor's Palace's roster of volunteers was counted, and 4,121 of the 5,679 men and women in the trade workforce became volunteers.

As soon as the results were compiled, everyone present knew the meaning behind the data - the rest of the people who did not participate in the defense of the city were all women and children.

In other words, all the men in the naturalization village of the naturalization camp have joined the ranks of volunteers to defend the city.

This result made everyone very excited, and they also felt a little emotional, they remembered what Sun Lao said in the telegram yesterday: If you plant good causes, you can reap good fruits - well, this is a bit insensitive, but this is indeed an indisputable reality......

February 5, 1660 at noon, Sin'an City.

The scorching sun steamed over the land that had just fallen after a heavy rain, and the cooler air from the ocean mixed with the hot flashes on land, shrouding the entire city and the nearby wilderness in a humid and sultry fog, a weather phenomenon that often occurs in the rainy season along the tropical rainforest coast.

Just when the people in the city felt that the heat was unbearable, several long horn sounds suddenly came from the west and south directions outside Xin'an City, which made the soldiers of the garrison on duty on the wooden wall suddenly wake up.

In the South City Gate Cave, a garrison officer and a soldier with a trumpet hurriedly ascended to the lookout of the city tower, and the officer put his hand on the pergola to look out, and after a while, he saw several small black dots on the horizon that were moving vaguely in his direction.

Soon, the small black dots became clear, and the soldiers on the wooden wall and the lookout could see clearly, they were several fast horses and knights on horseback, and the knights in the distance wore helmets, armor, scimitars at their waists, bows and arrows, and blue and white feathers stuck in their helmets.

"It's the Horde's bush scouts back, it's just...... Why did these guys come back so early today? ”

The officer muttered something in his heart, then turned his head and ordered the trumpeter next to him to blow the trumpet in response.

Soon, the galloping knight responded with a horn on horseback - a standard method of battlefield communication, and understanding the horn sound was a necessary skill for the junior officers of the Sinseong garrison.

The sound of the trumpet from the lookout of the city gate drifted into the distance again, and the fast horses on the horizon were still galloping forward, with no intention of stopping.

Normally, the knight would turn over and dismount at the gate gate, deliver a piece of paper or a message to the guards waiting at the gate, and then get on his horse again and gallop away.

Today's residents of Xin'an City know that those knights are jungle scouts of the Loka tribe, and in recent days, people have seen more and more such scenes.

However, this time it was a little different, the soldiers and officers who were blowing the trumpets on the lookout heard the distant trumpet in response, their faces changed greatly, and the officers immediately shouted to the soldiers who were guarding outside the city gate, opened the city gate, and directly let the scouts ride into the city.

This scene also took place outside the West Gate, and at this moment, in the distance outside the south and west gates of Sin'an City, a total of six fast horses were galloping towards the south gate and the west gate almost at the same time.

After a few trumpets were heard in the distance, the wooden gate of the West City Gate Cave was also quickly opened, allowing the fast horses to pass directly through the city gates, and went straight to the governor's palace along the east-west arterial road in the center of the city.

This scene also surprised many citizens on the streets, and some sensitive people suddenly realized that the war that had been haunting people's hearts for two months was probably really coming......

The conference room on the second floor of the Governor's Mansion of Xin'an City, at present, this place has become the operational headquarters, at this moment, all the traversers in Xin'an City are gathered here, everyone's expressions are very serious, they are listening to Hou Xianglin's report on the completion of the city defense fortifications.

At this time, there were many people in the room - Peng Qiang, the captain of the Yiwuxuan, and Hu Xiaolin, the first mate.

The two had arrived in Sin'an City for four days with the Yi Wuxuan, and the two of them were excited and a little relaxed at the same time.

The reason is very simple, the excitement is because there is a battle to fight, just imagine that you can stay on the ship and safely sweep the enemy on both sides of the Xin'an River with three-inch naval guns and two twin 20-millimeter machine guns, that refreshing scene is not ordinary.

And easy because the enemy came in time, did not delay the business of the Yi Wu Xuan too much - if the Yi Wu Xuan waited for a long time in Xin'an City, it would obviously cause dissatisfaction among the family bosses, according to Captain Gu's arrangement, the Yi Wu Xuan will undertake a very busy route transportation: the round-trip voyage from the Red Wharf to Jinxia, since July last year, Zhu Beiguo and his brothers have opened up this route, and the market prospects and profits that several ports along the way can create, especially the profits of the arms trade, It's not too much to say that it can make the big guys in the family crazy.

Although, the Red Mansion will definitely not let Yi Wuxuan leave Xin'an City because of business, and ignore Xin'an City's partners, in that case, everyone will not accept it emotionally.

But if you really wait too long in Sin'anseong, everyone here knows how huge the trade profits lost by the shareholders will be.

Twenty days ago, after a meeting and discussion of all the traversers in Sin'an City, the Supreme Committee of City Defense was formed, Lao Ba was elected as the chairman of the committee, Lao Wang and Governor Xiao Pingguo were the vice chairmen, and all the other traversers were members of the committee, and the responsibility of the committee was to discuss and decide on major city defense matters and make major decisions related to them.