"Your suggestion is good. I'll bring it up with the council. For now, I can approve three units for your City Guard, totaling eighteen hundred men. You can begin recruiting and training in preparation. Once the Valley Entrance Fortress is complete, the City Guard can send men straight there to garrison it.
"However, this must not interfere with recruitment for the Expeditionary Army. Those who are married and have families can serve in the City Guard. Those without family obligations who are willing to fight abroad must be assigned to the Expeditionary Force first.
"Also, with so many High Elves and Wildhammer Dwarves living in Quel'Danil Mountain Valley, trouble can easily break out. You must keep an eye on that as well. You can follow the Seaside Plain's example and establish police stations and a militia system.
"In the villages where the Wildhammer tribespeople live, appoint village chiefs and organize militias just as in the human villages on the Seaside Plain. However, every officer serving in the police stations must be a High Elf.
"As for... the villages where the High Elves live... besides stationing High Elf armed police units there, give each village a quota of one hundred militia members."
"One hundred?" the trusted officer exclaimed in surprise. "Isn't a quota of one hundred militia members too many for a village of a thousand people?"
"Yes, it is rather a lot, but it's necessary. The Valley Entrance Fortress is quite a distance from Quel'Danil City. If the fortress comes under a fierce surprise attack and the troops in the city can't reach it in time to provide support, we'll be in trouble.
"In that situation, we can order the village militias to rush to the fortress and help the troops defend it. Therefore, the militias in all the elf