You have a small army all gladly willing to die or you. All of them growing weed in their homes to the cause. When troops are send in your warriors defeat them in a brutal urban battle. They they seize four more blocks of territory as a penalty for violating the new republic's peaceful border. The people in the houses where recruited or held for ransom to support the cause. The government has backed off. At least for now. You declare victory and a three day drunken stoned party follows. Twenty seven new recruits and come to join the cause. They brought weapons food and meds.