Di Yi, the new general of the Northern Jin Dynasty, was ordered to supervise the three prefectures of Beiling, Nanling, and Hongyang, sit on the border, and clean up the armament.

Because Hongyang was newly attached, the territory was not stable, so Di Yi temporarily set up his general's office in Hongyang Mansion to prevent small chaos.

As Di Yi's confidant general, Yan Kui also set up the Pingbei General's Mansion in Xiaoguan, in case there is a change in Hongyang, he can lead the troops to rescue as soon as possible.

Xiao Guan, Pingbei General's Mansion

Guangshan led an old man dressed as a scribe to the backyard and said to Yan Kui, who was reading a book in the pavilion.

"General, the guest has arrived."

Yan Kui put down the book and looked at the old man, who hurriedly knelt down: "Student Liu Wan, I've seen General Yan." ”

"Get up."

Yan Kui asked the old man to bring a stool and asked, "When will Fu Yin take office?" ”

The old man replied respectfully: "The holy decree is issued, and the Fuzun will send students to deal with the previous affairs, and he himself will be handed over in the ministry, and now he has set off, and he should go to the government office in the near future." ”

Yan Kui nodded, and said: "After Lord Zhou arrives, he will send someone to congratulate him, and the general should also send someone over, you must be prepared and don't neglect the general's people." ”

"Don't worry, general, we will do our best." The old man laughed.

Yan Kui bowed slightly, and his tone became much softer: "After Lord Zhou takes care of it, the general will naturally go to Fucheng to discuss the recruitment of troops and salaries with Lord Zhou."

Your Majesty asked me to prepare 80,000 border troops, but now I will have 50,000 soldiers and horses, and these 30,000 vacancies must be filled by the end of this year, otherwise the military department will be held accountable, and it will be difficult to explain. ”

"Military intelligence matters should be taken seriously, and students must bring the general's words to the government."

Seeing that Yan Kui moved out of Emperor Liyang, the old man was a little nervous, raised his sleeve and wiped the sweat on his forehead, and replied respectfully.

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After that, Yan Kui had a few more words with the old man, the old man said goodbye and left, and two people immediately flashed next to the pavilion, it was Chen Xingxiao and Gong Fa.

"Second brother, you have to explain so much to a master, if there is anything, just explain it directly." Gong Fa was dressed in a light green brocade robe and said to Yan Kui with a big grin.

At the beginning, Yan Kui brought out eight small families from Daliu Village, built a militia group, fought bandits, and went to the front line, he went all the way, and these eight people also drank a lot of soup.

Qin Wu, Qin Shi, Shi Yong, and Zhang Dong were all seventh-rank generals, and Fu Zhiming, who was in charge of logistics, and He Chun, who was in charge of intelligence, were now ranked as sixth-rank lieutenants.

As for Gong Fa and Chen Xingxiao, the most outstanding of the eight, they are now even more expensive generals with five miscellaneous numbers.

Among them, Gong Fa can only serve as a general for the time being because of his lack of merits, and he has no military power in his hands, while Chen Xingxiao, who has made great contributions in Jun County, is now leading an army alone, with 10,000 soldiers under his command, and he is considered a number of generals under the command of Yan Kui.

It is worth mentioning that the two subordinates Yan Kui received when he suppressed the bandits, Jiao Hui and Long Guang, are now also partial generals.

They and Yan Kui can be regarded as one person who has attained enlightenment, and the chicken dog has ascended to heaven............

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Compared with Gong Fa, who has a straightforward personality and is very arrogant, Chen Xingxiao has a cautious personality, and when he heard what Gong Fa said, he immediately reprimanded: "What the second brother did has his own intentions, use your rough blank to rap here." ”

Chen Xingxiao's archery skills are superb, and his ability is strong, and he has always been a leader in the crowd except for Yan Kui, seeing him speak, Gong Fa didn't dare to talk much, and honestly poured herbal tea into his stomach.

Yan Kui looked funny, asked both of them to sit down, and then explained the identity of the master Fang Cai.

The previous Beiling Mansion Yin was killed when the Zhou army attacked the city, and later because Beiling was occupied by the Zhou army, so the imperial court did not interfere with Beiling, until the end of the peace talks, the Zhou army returned to the Beiling Mansion City, and Emperor Liyang ordered the Ministry to choose a new Mansion Yin - Zhou Huaidao.

The master Liu Wan just now was specially sent by Zhou Huaidao to Beiling in advance to fight the front station, after all, Beiling had just been recaptured, and there were a lot of messy things, Zhou Huaidao wanted to take office in peace, so he naturally made more preparations.

Among them, Yan Kui is now ordered to garrison Beiling, which is regarded as an official with Zhou Huaidao, although the two are not subordinate to each other, but Yan Kui's grade is here, and he has military power, Zhou Huaidao naturally did not dare to offend, and sent people to come over to worship the dock.

As for why Yan Kui talked so much with that master Liu Wan, it was because he heard that this Zhou Huaidao seemed to be close to King Jing.

In order to prevent this guy from making a name for himself in private, Yan Kui specially knocked and knocked in advance to remind and warn.

"So, this Zhou Huaidao and we are not all the way?" Gong Fa asked.

"It's not about not going all the way, he is his governor, I am my general, he doesn't provoke us, we don't have to pay attention to him, we are safe with each other, if they don't know each other........."

Yan Kui's eyes flashed, although he didn't say it explicitly, but his meaning was not expressed in words, Gong Fa smiled, everything was not in words.

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Zhou Huaidao was a trivial matter after all, Yan Kui didn't say much, chatted briefly, and then turned the topic to recruiting supplementary soldiers and horses.

To tell the truth, Yan Kui didn't expect Emperor Liyang to trust him so much, and he was in charge of an army of 80,000, which was considered to be the top among the many third-grade heavy generals in the Northern Jin Dynasty.

After all, there are so many soldiers and horses in the whole country, plus the Beijing army and the government troops in various places, there are hundreds of thousands of people left to guard the towns in various places, and there are a total of 16 people in Sanpin, Sizheng and 4 towns, Siping and 4 An, which is not enough at all, not to mention that there are Quartet generals who are higher than him.

Therefore, although he is a three-grade heavy general, there are not a few who do not have military power in his hands, or he lives in the capital, or as a deputy general, almost all of them are the henchmen of Emperor Liyang who are in charge of the army as independently as Yan Kui.

It stands to reason that although Yan Kui made a lot of contributions in this war between the two countries, in terms of qualifications, it can be said that he is the weakest of the three heavy generals, and the good thing of commanding 80,000 troops cannot fall on him.

When Yan Kui just received the order, his heart was also full of puzzlement, and after thinking about it for several days, he barely found a little way out of it.

There are three reasons why he is particularly favored by Emperor Liyang, the first is because of Di Yi.

Di Yi defeated the Western Zhou Dynasty, was promoted to a general, and sat on the border, seemingly trusted by the emperor, but if he tasted it carefully, Emperor Liyang was not unwary of him.

The three border provinces, Hongyang, and Nanling's town guard troops, all of which were newly transferred from Gyeongju and Jizhou, had not heard of any involvement with Di Yi before that, and it was obvious that this was deliberately preventing Di Yi from supporting his own troops.

However, precautions are precautions, and Di Yi wants to dominate the border after all. There can't be no old general by his side, Yan Kui, Di Yi's confidant, naturally jumped out and served as the general of Beiling Town.

Like Yan Kui, there is also Qin Qi, who is now officially appointed as the chief soldier of Nanling, which can be regarded as supporting Di Yi in the local area.

In addition, Di Yi himself commanded a border army, and the addition of several times gave General Di enough confidence to control the situation.

But at the same time, because of the new arrival of the generals in Nanling and Hongyang, the people are not in harmony, although the situation of the border army is stable, it will not become Di Yi's word.

Divide and co-opt, and exclude him, which is also a standard imperial trick.

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Leaving aside the "go-to-go" between Di Yi and Emperor Liyang, let's move on to Yan Kui's analysis.

In addition to Di Yi's reason, the second reason for Yan Kui's guess was because of his personal reputation.

Although Yan Kui is considered to have shallow qualifications in the army, he did show a lot of limelight in this war, and his prestige in the border army is extremely high.

Emperor Liyang intended to take advantage of the two countries to strike the war, reorganize the new border army, and consolidate the border defenses, so he naturally hoped that the morale of the border army would be high, so that Yan Kui, a meritorious general, would become the best candidate to sit on the border and maintain the morale of the army.

After talking about the second one, let's talk about the third reason, that is, Yan Kui's background.

Yan Kui was born recklessly, relied on military merits to ascend to the throne, not to mention that his foundation was clean, and he was on the throne quickly, except for a faint ambiguity with King Duan, he never intersected with any forces.

Compared with other terrifying three-rank generals with complex connections and connections, Emperor Liyang naturally preferred the "pure" Yan Kui to hold military power.

As for the ambiguity between him and Duanwang, let's not talk about whether the two are really in an alliance or not, even if Yan Kui really votes for Duanwang's disciples, it just balances the shortcomings of Duanwang's heavy military force.

What's more, with Yan Kui joining, King Duan has enough force in his hands to wrestle with King Jing, who has a wide range of experience in the military.

Although the battle for succession may be more fierce, the throne of Emperor Liyang is also more stable.

These three reasons were quietly figured out by Yan Kui according to the current situation in the Northern Jin Dynasty, although they may not all be right, but there are also five or six percent of them.

Thinking about this, Yan Kui suddenly had a lot of jealousy in his heart about the Emperor Liyang who had only heard his name but had not seen him.

It is said that the current emperor of the Northern Jin Dynasty is lofty, and he has the style of the former emperor Taizu, Yan Kui has never had an impression, but now he is in charge of the leopard, and he has increased a little awe of his top boss in his heart.

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However, no matter what Emperor Liyang had in mind, the matter of guarding Beiling was a good opportunity for Yan Kui.

Especially now that he has a shortage of 30,000 soldiers under his command of 80,000 soldiers, it just so happened that Yan Kui took advantage of the opportunity to recruit new soldiers to add systematic soldiers to it, and changed the imperial army into a "private army" that was only loyal to himself.

Now, there are about 50,000 soldiers and horses under Yan Kui, of which there are only more than 10,000 systematic soldiers, including the white-robed army, plus ordinary soldiers who are full of admiration for Yan Kui, there are about 20,000, and the proportion of Yan Kui's diehard loyalty in the whole army is about forty percent.

And if Yan Kui can replace all 30,000 recruits with systematic soldiers and supplement them into the camp, then the number of people who are completely loyal to Yan Kui will exceed more than sixty percent.

Although it is only an increase of 20%, don't forget that the total number of soldiers and horses has increased by 30,000.

More importantly, the combat power of 30,000 system soldiers and 30,000 recruits is very different, once the recruits enter the camp and become an army, the combat power of this army under Yan Kui's command will rise gradually.

Even if it is not as good as the old border army that has gone through a hundred battles before, it is also a rare elite in the army.

Therefore, Yan Kui attached great importance to this matter, and planned to personally go out to be responsible for "recruiting" new soldiers, and this time he called Chen Xingxiao and Gong Fa to assist him.

These two people are his confidants, convenient for command, and trustworthy, otherwise Yan Kui would not dare to guarantee that he can "transform" 30,000 elites as if nothing happened.