In the thirteenth year of Liyang, on the nineteenth day of the first month

Duanwang's handwritten letter was finally delivered to Yan Kui, and at the same time, a piece was sent, as well as a treasure knife given to Yan Kui by Duanwang.

To tell the truth, Duanwang is indeed a real person, saying that he gave Yan Kui a treasure knife, he really didn't fool people with any kind of goods, of course, this also shows that Duanwang really values Yan Kui, so he made the capital.

This knife sent by Duanwang, the name is called Broken Yue, it is a Chaoyang chopping horse, knife, the system is a bit like a short simple knife, the length is four feet three inches, weighs twenty-one pounds, the whole body is made by the famous craftsman in Beijing with a hundred refined iron, cut gold and broken jade, extremely sharp, and it is difficult to find a thousand gold.

Yan Kui once asked Guangshan to hold an ordinary saber and slash at this broken Yue.

Only two times.

The saber split in two and broke off from it, and only a slight white mark was found on the blade of this broken Yue knife.

Tut~

It's not a magic weapon, but it's a high-quality blade.

Duanwang, a prince of the prince, gave such a treasure knife to Yan Kui, a small six-rank military attaché, which really promoted Yan Kui and gave him enough face.

This is not Yan Kui's self-deprecation, but everyone has this view.

Even Father Yan, who had always been eccentric, knew that Yan Kui was appreciated by the prince, so he didn't care about the cold war with Yan Kui, and ran back from Fucheng to see this broken Yue, and went to the Yan family ancestral hall in the backyard to worship his ancestors.

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The people around him attached great importance to Duanwang's appreciation of Yan Kui, but Yan Kui himself did not fluctuate much about it.

A knife, although it is sharp, but after all, it is not as good as his own Shattered Star Mace, even the blue light sword he placed in the system space is not weak in the slightest, and it is even faintly better.

If it wasn't given by King Duan, it would be better to give it to others, Yan Kui had already rewarded it to his subordinates, even if he kept this knife now, Yan Kui didn't carry it with him, but handed it over to a personal guard next to him, and the good name asked him to look at the knife, in fact, Yan Kui was too lazy to take it himself.

In addition to this Broken Yue Knife, the handwritten letter written by King Duan to Yan Kui is also very interesting.

In the letter, King Duan handed over Yan Kui with the dignity of a dignified son, with sincere words and a friendly attitude, and the words were full of appreciation for Yan Kui, and the meaning of winning over was very obvious.

Frankly speaking, if Yan Kui was not a human being in two lifetimes, but a local native, he would not be able to be moved by King Duan's virtuous heart.

Even now, Yan Kui did not have much recognition of the loyalty and convenience of the monarch and ministers due to the influence of his thoughts in his previous life.

But after reading the letter from King Duan so sincerely, although he couldn't talk about being grateful to him and bowing his head to him, he also had some good feelings about this courteous and generous King Duan.

However, good feelings are good feelings, Yan Kui didn't have the heart to take refuge in this Duan King at this time, and when he came, he was not interested in participating in the battle for succession.

This kind of thing related to the throne is too complicated, one is not good is countless bloody storms, although the rewards are rich, but there are many risks, compared to it, Yan Kui hopes that he will rely on his military exploits to take the position, although it is also very dangerous on the battlefield, but Yan Kui has his own confidence in this.

Thinking about the opposite, this kind of court battle of deceit and intrigue, Yan Kui is not good at it.

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Secondly, Yan Kui's main energy at this time is focused on the war between the two countries that may break out soon, and he has no time for anything else.

On the way back from sending Hua Wenzheng to Yan Kui that day, after hearing the information that the border was about to start a war from Xiaodian, Yan Kui took the situation that the old merchant said to heart, and sent the dark web to the border to inquire about the situation, and at the same time paid attention to the merchants returning from the border and asked about it.

Sure enough, Yan Kui got the news from the merchant who returned from the border that he both wanted and did not want to hear............

The border troops stationed on the border of Beiling and Nanling are indeed preparing for war.

When the two countries start a big war, regardless of whether it is offensive or defensive, once the army of more than 100,000 or hundreds of thousands is activated, then all kinds of preparations must be made, and this preparation will definitely be small, even if the imperial court intends to keep it secret, it will inevitably spread the wind.

Those merchants who walk on the border are all old oilmen who have been on the border for many years, and the Jin and Zhou countries have frequent wars, and similar actions have often happened in previous years.

It is precisely because of this that Yan Kui, after synthesizing the statements of several groups of merchants, became more and more sure of the fact that the border was about to go to war.

Although Yan Kui is now under the command of the bandit army, it is unlikely that he will be transferred to the front line, but Yan Kui still feels that he has to prepare early, just in case.

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So, Yan Kui began his "plan to improve the combat effectiveness of the militia group", to put it bluntly, he took advantage of this free time to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops under his command.

As I said before, not counting the personal guards and logistics troops, there are about 1,500 ordinary soldiers of the new army under Yan Kui, and after attacking the White Snake Valley, the casualties of the new army are close to 10%, and after the pension, Yan Kui immediately supplemented it with systematic soldiers.

I forgot to mention that in the previous battle in the White Snake Valley, Yan Kui earned a lot of merit points.

The details are not carefully calculated, but they are roughly divided into three types, Yan Kui personally kills bandits, captures bandits, and rewards the White Snake Valley victory system.

First of all, the number of people Yan Kui personally killed was not large, only more than 20 people, because there was a leader among them, so the system gave him 43 merit points.

In terms of captives, it is relatively good-looking, in the calculation of the system, She Gui led people to surrender to Yan Kui, which is also considered a prisoner, so the heroes of the White Snake Valley who were "captured and surrendered" have 321 merit points in their scattered and scattered ways.

Among them, She Gui and the leaders of the White Snake Valley contributed more than half, and because of this, Yan Kui regretted it slightly.

If you kill these people, you will probably get a few hundred merit points.

Tsk, this is hundreds of elites who can fight and kill, it's a pity, it's a pity............

Yan Kui looked at the lively She Da master, and felt distressed that he didn't sleep well in the middle of the night, and at the same time, Yan Kui's inadvertently revealed his eyes of regret (anger) and (overflow) when he was distressed, which also made a group of people led by She Gui tremble for several days.

In addition to the 364 merit points killed and captured, the system gave Yan Kui a high evaluation of the extermination of the White Snake Valley with very few casualties, and rewarded 300 merit points.

You must know that Yan Kui fought two battles to destroy the Black Wind Ridge before, and the system rewarded 100 merit points respectively, for a total of 200 merit points.

The strength of the White Snake Valley is much worse than that of the Black Wind Ridge, but the merit points given to Yan Kui by the system of exterminating it are one-third more than last time, which shows that the system also thinks that Yan Kui fought this battle beautifully, so the merit points rewarded are also high.

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664 merit points.

This is all Yan Kui's harvest about the White Snake Valley, no, there is still a stubble that Yan Kui almost forgot.

Last time, Heifengling was destroyed, and the bandits in Qingyuan were basically cleared, and the system rewarded 100 merit points for this, but this time there was no such reward for the extermination of White Snake Valley, Yan Kui estimated that it was because there were still many small bandits in Teng County who had not been cleaned up, so the system did not say anything.

However, if he leads his troops to exterminate all these small bandits and purge the bandits in Teng County, will the system reward another 100 merit points?

Yan Kui felt that it was very likely and could give it a try.

Moreover, now the Fucheng side does not let him move a line of sky, but it does not make Yan Kui unable to clean up the small bandits in Teng County.

In Yan Kui's view, the matter of clearing out small bandits in Teng County is not risky, but there are many benefits.

First, Yan Kui can earn more meritorious points.

Even if the bandit system in Teng County is not rewarded, but if these small groups of bandits are sorted out and only by capturing and arresting people, they can earn at least one or two hundred merit points.

Second, more money and food can be seized.

Although Yan Kui made a lot of money in the White Snake Valley, how could there be too much money, and now a big battle is about to be fought, and there is no shortage of soldiers, Yan Kui, but the food and ordnance can not all be pointed at the imperial court, Yan Kui has to prepare early.

Third, Yan Kui wanted to train soldiers by the way.

Not to mention the system soldiers, those old members of the militia and the newly recruited rookies are really not elite, and they are more bloody, they are all mixed with themselves with a horse spoon, and they are fellow villagers, Yan Kui does not want them to die on the battlefield in the future.

In the end, Yan Kui wanted to buy the hearts of the people in Teng County, and then whitewash his reputation in Teng County.

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The people of Teng County are not all fools, although Yan Kui did not make a move in the matter of the Guo family before, but afterwards, the title deed of the Snake Yang Valley and Jin San's Snake Yang Vine Plantation left by the Guo family was written in Yan Kui's name.

In addition, when Yan Kui fought in the White Snake Valley, Jin San actively prepared grain and grass in the rear and provided logistics, and anyone with a discerning eye saw the relationship between Jin San and Yan Kui, so Yan Kui began to appear in Teng County as the mastermind behind the destruction of the Guo family.

Although the reputation of the Guo family is not very good in Teng County, it is also the home of the richest man, and it still has some prestige in the hearts of the people of Teng County.

It wasn't until the fall of the White Snake Valley that Yan Kui's reputation rose from low to high, and gradually improved, but there were still some slanderous words between them.

Therefore, Yan Kui plans to take advantage of this time to eradicate the bandits in Teng County to re-establish his new image and reputation among the people of Teng County.

The majority of the people at the bottom are very simple, and they are also very realistic, as long as Yan Kui solves the bandit trouble that has plagued Teng County for several years, and effectively surrounds the people with a safe and secure hometown, everyone will be truly grateful to him for his achievements in suppressing bandits.

As for the Guo family......... Who's that?

The richest man in Teng County?

I don't know, anyway, he didn't give us a penny, who cares if he lives or dies............

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The next step plan was determined, and Yan Kui summoned the generals for a meeting.

Before, for some reason, General Hong rewarded Yan Kui for exterminating the White Snake Valley and making great contributions, but later, he may feel that he is indeed a little excessive, and he is afraid that his generals will feel hurt by this and reduce their willingness to make meritorious contributions.

Therefore, Hong Guangbing later added a part of the reward to Yan Kui, but this time the reward was not Yan Kui's, and it was mainly for the generals and soldiers.

Needless to say, ordinary soldiers were given some more rewards, and all the generals were promoted and promoted.

Chen Xingxiao, who burned the granary, made the greatest contribution, and was awarded the title of general from the seventh rank and promoted to two levels, while Guangshan, who also participated in the battle of burning grain, also got a thousand households from the eighth grade.

Gong Fa and Jiao Hui were each promoted to one level, and the eight and nine grades in front of them became positive, and although the rest of them were not promoted, they also received a lot of rewards and qualifications.

There was nothing to say at the meeting, a group of rabble, and there was no need for Yan Kui to come out in person.

So, Yan Kui ordered a thousand new troops, Chen Xingxiao as the main general, Zhang Dong, Shi Yong, Qin Wu, and Qin 14 people as auxiliaries, and within a month, the bandits in Teng County were cleared.

In the fourteenth year of Liyang, on the twenty-first day of the first month, Chen Xingxiao and others brought a thousand new troops into Teng County.

On the afternoon of the next day, the first group of bandits were all ambushed, indicating that the entire Tengxian bandits ushered in a catastrophe............