Chapter Nineteenth: The Soldiers' Promotion

  Yang Tian returned to the village with 19 four-stage pinnacle soldiers, leaving Wu Ma and others to continue sweeping away the remaining medium and small camps. Anyway, they had dry rations, so they didn't have to worry about going hungry.

  Returning to the village, Yang Tian did not stop, letting his soldiers stay in the village, and he walked alone towards the direction of the Liú Kòu camp. It is estimated that Da Niu has already killed most of the sentries, and Yang Tian's trip can just recruit some people to surrender.

  Everything was as expected. When Yang Tian arrived at the location, he happened to see a large group of bandits coming out of their camp. The Big Cow was hiding on one side.

  Yang Tian and Big Cow reunited, first throwing the newly acquired "Primary Inner Strength" to Big Cow, stopping Big Cow from expressing his excited thoughts, letting him reuse his old tricks to delay time.

  "You insignificant little thing, you've disturbed me three times already. Do you think I'm afraid of you?" The leader of the bandits was so angry that he puffed out his mustache and glared with wide eyes when he saw Big Bull appear again.

  But the big cow doesn't care about these, laughing: "Whether you're afraid or not is none of my business. If you have the skills, come down and fight with me for 300 rounds! Otherwise, catch me first!"

  The leader's eyes rolled, and he said: "Fight? Let's fight! I'll come to meet you right now!" After finishing speaking, he rode his horse forward a few steps, but then stopped moving, probably waiting for the big cow to arrive.

  The great cow is much smarter than this leader, how can he not know his tricks? He laughed and said: "If you really want to fight, I'll let your subordinates retreat 100 meters. Otherwise, if we fight together, they will surround me and it will be troublesome! I don't want to give my life away for nothing!"

  "The... " The leader's scheme was exposed, and he became enraged, saying, "Withdraw then! ...You little ones! You retreat first, wait for me to capture this little brat!"

  Those bandits' wisdom is no match for this leader's, so of course they won't persuade him. Thus, they all retreated a hundred meters as ordered.

  The big shot just casually said it, but unexpectedly this leader actually let his own men retreat.

  An opportunity lost is gone forever. The great bull had been eyeing that fine horse for a long time, and now he didn't even bother to greet him, but instead charged at the chief with his iron spear.

  The leader also didn't expect this guy to be so ignorant of the rules, and in his haste, he raised the long spear in his hand. With a loud crack, the wooden handle of the spear snapped, and the iron tip was about to pierce the leader's chest. However, the leader's martial arts skills were not weak either, and with a swift movement, he dodged the rapidly approaching spearhead on horseback.

  The big cow's arm rotated, and the iron spear in his hand changed from a thrust to a chop. The leader was just in a situation where his old strength had not yet been exhausted and his new strength had not yet been born, how could he let this spear go, let alone that he was inferior to the big cow's martial arts by a large margin? Suddenly, he was smashed by the iron spear, spitting blood, and fell from the horseback.

  A great hero saw the opportunity and jumped onto the horseback, pointing his gun at the leader's chest. The leader died on the spot. The great hero didn't dare to stay for long, he used his gun to lift up the corpse and rode the horse away quickly.

  The whole thing only lasted for about ten seconds. By the time the distant onlookers realized something was amiss and were preparing to come to the rescue, Big Cow had already run far away.

  At this time, Yang Tian also left with a satisfied expression. Because just now he successfully released the surrender technique again, and his charm burst out once more, unexpectedly surrendering 403 people, among whom there was even an S-level NPC, what a huge surprise! Moreover, there were actually 18 A-level NPCs, truly a blessing from heaven! However, B-level NPCs were a bit scarce, only 23, but thinking about it, having so many A-level NPCs and being a bit short on B-level ones is also normal.

  Yang Tian met with Big Cow and saw the tall horse he was leading, Yang Tian couldn't help but feel envious. However, thinking that this horse could now be used to greater value in Big Cow's hands, he let it go.

  While searching through the leader's corpse, Yang Tian's face lit up with a smile, because in this leader's bosom there was actually a primary martial arts hall construction blueprint.

  Basic Martial Hall: Teaches villagers basic self-defense skills, strengthens their bodies, and allows them to become apprentice martial artists. Can slightly increase morale and public safety. Soldiers within the territory have a certain chance of learning basic martial arts skills. The success rate of learning depends on the level of the martial artist, the martial hall, and the soldier's aptitude.

  Building Conditions: Basic Martial Artist, 200 stone materials, 200 wood materials, 1000 copper coins.

  The primary martial arts hall is a building that can be built by itself in a second-level village, so its value is not very high. But does Yang Tian dare to upgrade the second-level village now?

  This primary martial hall construction drawing can be said to be the one he needs most now. As long as the primary martial hall is built, he will soon have a batch of high-ranking soldiers, and his leveling efficiency will increase significantly at that time.

  As for needing a primary martial artist to build, Yang Tian didn't put it in his heart at all. Because getting a primary martial artist is very simple, just remove the armor and return to the fields, you will become a martial artist. And with the territory of the martial arts hall, players or NPCs can also change their profession to martial artists under the guidance of the head of the martial arts hall.

  With this extraordinary blueprint in hand, Yang Tian immediately returned to the village.

  Bring a B-level NPC to the military camp and directly convert him into a martial general. This soldier was one of the first batch of soldiers who followed Yang Tian, and his current level is already 18th. Due to the lack of a martial arts hall before, Yang Tian did not let them add intelligence attributes, so this soldier directly converted into a high-level martial general. Then delete the name of this martial general from the Martial General Monument, and in the blink of an eye, he became a high-level martial artist.

  Yang Tianma arranged for 10 people to start building an intermediate martial arts hall without stopping.

  An hour later, the intermediate martial arts hall was built! As for the resources needed to build the intermediate martial arts hall, it can only be considered a drop in the bucket for Yang Tian now.

  At the moment when Yang Tian built a good intermediate martial art hall, most of the soldiers standing behind Yang Tian had already successfully grasped the skill.

  Among them, 5 A-level soldiers with higher initial attribute points successfully grasped intermediate skills and became sixth-level soldiers. Three A-level and ten B-level soldiers became fifth-level soldiers. It's worth noting that B-level NPCs also have a 100% chance of grasping primary skills.

  In the afternoon, Yang Tian led the 18 soldiers who had grasped the skills and the Big Cow to ambush and kill the bandits who were lured out. With this batch of fresh troops, killing the bandits became much easier.

  With the leader killed, these bandits are now easier to lure out and kill. However, this phenomenon will only last for a day, as by tomorrow at this time, new leaders will have spawned again.

  Yang Tian hesitated, should he take this opportunity to kill a large number of bandits or just kill the newly refreshed share to recruit more NPCs tomorrow?

  After a long consideration, Yang Tian still decided to kill only over a thousand people and keep the number of bandits in the camp at around eight thousand.

  Although Yang Tian led fewer soldiers today than yesterday, and without the commander's bonus from Wuma, he had an advantage in rank. With 7 fifth-rank soldiers and 5 sixth-rank soldiers, Yang Tian fought more easily. To know that a sixth-rank soldier is almost as powerful as a low-ranking general.

  The humanoid monsters were indeed much higher in experience than the wild beasts, let alone these humanoid monsters being fourth-tier soldiers. In just one afternoon, more than a dozen privates led by Yang Tian had leveled up 2 levels, and three A-level privates had become sixth-tier soldiers. Yang Tian himself finally reached level 22. Yang Tian sighed: Now leveling up is really too difficult, in such a crazy two days he only leveled up 2 levels. However, he didn't think about it, if other players were to level up from 20 to 21, they would probably have to spend four or five days. Successfully changing jobs to become a general, having super strong martial arts skills, and being part of an NPC army with great strength, all these guaranteed Yang Tian's rapid leveling speed.

  In the evening, with the new recruits, the villagers returned to Baiyun Village. Now that there are many people in the village, they don't have to worry about building houses for the common people. In these two days, Wang Lao has arranged for a large number of houses to be built for reserve use.

  Yang Tian had just returned to the village when Wu Ma also brought back his soldiers, but these soldiers were at most level 11 and didn't meet the conditions for learning skills, so Yang Tian could only wait for now.

  As for the new recruits, Yang Tian still sent all A-level and B-level NPCs to the military camp for training. The S-level female NPC Liu Xiang was sent by him to the primary tailor shop. He now has high-ranking soldiers, but lacks better equipment, unable to fully utilize their combat power, which is not what Yang Tian wants to see.