World Online

by Srtyi

Earth Online – a virtual MMORPG that takes place in the future year of 2190 – a game that everyone will bet their futures on. Set in a map that is ten times the size of real-world Earth, players battle for supremacy in the first game to feature personal adventure, territory construction, and grand warfare. For every death you experience in the game, your level would drop back to 0.

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Chapter 313- One Up One Down

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Before the meeting, Ouyang Shuo introduced Du Ruhui to the officials seated.

Hearing that Du Ruhui was once a high minister of the army, Baiqi had a flash of light in his eyes. Ge Hongliang on the other hand sunk down as his premonition came true.

As for the others, they didn't have the right to voice their opinions.

The meeting officially began and Ouyang Shuo directly announced the reorganization of the Military Affairs Department.

"The Combat Logistics Division will now become the Combat Logistics Department. Under it will be the three divisions as well as the cave military factory. Apart from grain and equipment, the department is also in charge of the reserve force and daily training. The director of military affairs will become the director of the Combat Logistics Department, the other 3 Secretaries will remain."

As Ouyang Shuo's words were completed, the expressions of everyone seated were very complex.

On the surface, it looked like Ge Hongliang's rank didn't change and was moved laterally; actually, in terms of power he was just in charge of logistics and his power largely decreased.

Ge Hongliang kept the same expression, bowing and saying, "Yes, my lord."

Going back to his seat, Ge Hongliang heaved a sigh of relief, it was like a huge rock had landed on the ground. The pressure on him was making it hard to breathe and this arrangement was a sort of a release.

Ouyang Shuo nodded. Seeing Ge Hongliang act so calm, he was pleased.

After setting up the Combat Logistics Department, their position was very important and concerned the life of the entire army. If Ge Hongliang didn't put in effort, Ouyang Shuo wouldn't let him stay for long.

Song San and the other 2 Secretaries, upon seeing Ge Hongliang being so calm, also felt many different thoughts.

One couldn't say that Ge Hongliang didn't try his best. It was just that there were too many generals in the army and the competitive spirit was too high, so no matter how much he tried, he could only step back.

Hence, one could see that the lord chose his talents in such a way: those that were worthy would be promoted while those who weren't would be removed.

Thinking about that, the three Secretaries were nervous. Even the director could be replaced, as Secretaries, naturally they could be as well.

No one was irreplaceable, and having a high position didn't mean that they wouldn't be touched.

Song San was more panicked. As the territory continued to increase, the outer environment became more and more complicated, and the position of the Military Intelligence Division became more and more important.

The more important the division was, the higher the pressure was on Song San. He was scared that there would be a day that the marquis relieved him of his position.

Ouyang Shuo looked around and continued, "The Combat Logistics Department belongs to the Military Affairs Department, and at the same time, a War Division and a Military Law Division would be created under the Military Affairs Department. The War Division will be in charge of war planning and commanding, the Military Law Division would be in charge of military law. Du Ruhui will be the director of the Military Affairs Department and the secretary of the war division. The secretary of the Military Law Division will currently be left empty.

The military law secretary would also be called the military Chief Justice, and he needed to find one who wasn't afraid of power and could do his duty unfazed. Shanhai City temporarily didn't have such a talent.

At this point, the Military Affairs Department had control of 4 key areas: military intelligence, military law, war and combat logistics. With Du Ruhui's ability, he would be able to rebuild the prestige in a short amount of time.

The overall general Baiqi and military affairs director Du Ruhui each controlled one aspect. Baiqi was mainly in charge of war time commanding and troop training, while Du Ruhai was in charge of daily building and war time protection.

As the dust settled, Song San and the others were delighted but didn't dare show it.

The Military Affairs Department was so weak that Secretaries like them didn't have power to speak up. Now, changing directors to one who had vast experience, was highly capable, and highly trusted, it was a huge advantage to be his subordinates. With someone backing them, they didn't need to be bullied by the 3 divisions.

As for how the personality of their boss was like, they would find out as they worked with them.

With the appointment of Du Ruhui, in the 4 departments of Lianzhou Lord's Manor, apart from Cui Yingyu, the leaders were all historical people.

The next day, the clerk room reported the appointments of Du Ruhui and Ge Hongliang to the various military headquarters.

Ouyang Shuo delegated a lot of power to Du Ruhui. The building of the War Division and the Military Law Division was passed onto him. Du Ruhui had the authority to take people from the military or the Army Military Academy to add to the Military Affairs Department.

Du Ruhui was a person who worked fast, and in the same day, he followed Ge Hongliang to inspect the reserve force and the 4 military workshops. On the second day, he went to the various division camps to see.

Gaia second year, 1st month, 4th day

The Rattlesnake Mercenary Group leader, Black Mamba, visited Shanhai City.

Black Mamba came in secret and didn't bring any of his subordinates. He was an ex-special forces member. In reality, he was a famous personality, but in the game he was unusually low profile.

The planet migration as well as Earth Online in truth gave everyone the opportunity to start over afresh. One's relationships and information would have to be reformatted and changed.

Black Mamba realized this point and wanted to make use of the game, leading a bunch of his brothers and complete a wonderful revival.

Changing was never an easy thing. Although Black Mamba did a lot of preparation, he lacked an opportunity or to better put it, a spark.

Ouyang Shuo had taken the initiative to be that spark, and it was the opportunity that Black Mamba yearned so much for.

The both of them clicked instantly once they met. As the cooperation between Shanhai City and Rattlesnake Mercenary Group continued to progress, the private relationship between Ouyang Shuo and Black Mamba also deepened, and it wasn't just a normal business partner relationship.

The 500 strong crossbows that he promised had all been delivered to the Rattlesnake Mercenary Group, increasing their strength substantially. They also recently did some large scale buying and selling and had received a lot of rewards.

Towards Ouyang Shuo's good intentions, Black Mamba remembered them deeply in his heart.

His personality was similar to that of Gong Chengshi. He was an unrefined person with a little bit of clinginess.

The only difference was that Gong Chengshi, that brat, had the tendency to look for trouble and was looking to be beaten up.

Black Mamba was different, bold and exquisite, cold and warm, four different personality types perfectly combined in his body. To brothers, he would help out at all costs, while to enemies, he was cold and ruthless.

The meeting place was arranged to be at Ouyang Shuo's reading room.

When they were conversing, they were both very casual.

"I heard that during this auction, little brother, you once again took the limelight!" Black Mamba teased.

Ouyang Shuo laughed. "Heh, I nearly got killed. Jingdou really isn't safe, ah!"

Black Mamba's eyes focused. "Little brother is talking about the assassination? I've heard about it but it was just random rumors. Can you tell me exactly what is going on?"

"It's the Blood Sword."

"Blood Sword?" Black Mamba frowned. He had absolutely no clue.

"Even I stumbled upon them by accident, much less you." Ouyang Shuo lied and said, "Talking about that, they can be considered to be the same trade as you."

"How so?" Black Mamba had unknowingly sat straight up.

As one always said, people from the same trade were enemies. Black Mamba had to pay attention.

"Have you heard of Canhua?"

"Canhua? The most mysterious killing organization in real life? Don't tell me they are Blood Sword?" Black Mamba got emotional and his words were much faster and one question followed another.

"That's right, it's them!"

"No wonder!" Black Mamba sighed. "If it was them then this is nothing special as their styles are exactly the same."

Reaching up to this point, Black Mamba looked at Ouyang Shuo with a complicated expression and praised. "Little brother's identity really makes me curious. Be it us or Canhua, we can't escape your eyes." In truth, Black Mamba's heart wasn't as calm as what he appeared to be.

Ouyang Shuo laughed but didn't make a sound.

He didn't have any mysterious identity. It was just that he was relying on his advantage of having two lives. He naturally wouldn't explain it even though the both of them were friends.

Many times, for one to maintain a little mystery was a good trump card to keep.

If one played this card right, it would make the enemy worry about you and be more cautious when plotting against you. At the same time, they will respect you and think twice about betraying you.

Hence, Ouyang Shuo naturally wouldn't reveal this trump card. In his last life, he was betrayed and that made him stone-hearted. He wouldn't totally trust a person.

Ouyang Shuo remembered that a person once said that: If one didn't want to be betrayed, the best method was to not give them a chance or a reason to betray you.

Ouyang Shuo firmly believed in that statement.

"If Blood Sword is Canhua, that makes things hard." Black Mamba skipped over the topic and didn't talk about it again. He understood that everyone had their secrets and to maintain a long lasting relationship, one shouldn't touch each others' secrets.

"In reality, have you guys made contact?" Ouyang Shuo asked.

"We actually have." Black Mamba said bitterly, "We were doing an escort mission. In the end, our escort target was their assassination target."

"You guys fought?"

"If not, what?" Black Mamba raised his arms wide, his laugh was a little depressed. Thinking about that encounter, he still had some regrets. "That time, we sacrificed a total of 30 brothers and still didn't manage to save the target." That was also one of the few failures of Rattlesnake.

Even the famous Rattlesnake had failed under the hands of Canhua, so this enemy was certainly different.

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Chapter 314-Snake and Rat

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The truth that Blood Sword was actually Canhua shocked Black Mamba.

At this point, Black Mamba finally understood why Ouyang Shuo had asked him to come to Shanhai County, so he took the initiative to say," Little brother, what do you need me to help? If I can do it, I definitely will!"

Ouyang Shuo nodded, "Then, I wouldn't hold back. I hope that you could help me investigate them and find out the location of their base."

"Investigating them is no problem," Black Mamba said without hesitation, "I also want to deal with them and bury the hatchet!"

When he thought about the brothers that had died, Black Mamba felt heartbroken. In reality, Canhua were like ghosts. He had put in a lot of effort, but he still didn't manage to find their base.

He always thought about that issue, and it had become one of his greatest regrets.

He didn't expect to have a chance to fight against them once more in the game!

"Little brother, do you have any clues?" Blood Sword obviously followed the style of Canhua; they had prepared for an entire year before they appeared in Jingdou.

The game map was ten times larger than real life, so to find them was harder than ascending the heavens.

"The members of Blood Sword all have two identities—one in the light, and one in the dark. Their location is definitely in one of the imperial cities, but that might not be their base. It might be a shop or a teahouse. They could even be in the Yamen; everything is a possibility," Ouyang Shuo recalled what he had known about the Blood Sword in his last life.

Even so, his understandings of the Blood Sword were very limited.

They were simply too mysterious!

In his last life, up until Ouyang Shuo died, the leader of Blood Sword was still a mystery.

"Just these?" Black Mamba felt a little disappointed.

Ouyang Shuo nodded, "I only know this."

"How do they receive their missions?" Black Mamba asked the crux of the problem.

"Based on my understandings, the one in charge of getting the mission is a middle man. He will pass the information to the headquarters of Blood Sword through a secret method. Then, the headquarters will assign missions to the members. From start till end, the members won't have any relationship with the client," Ouyang Shuo explained.

"These bunch of tortoises. They really are mice that won't see the light," Black Mamba couldn't help but scold, "Can we find some clues through the middleman?"

Ouyang Shuo shook his head, "I'm afraid that will be very difficult. The middleman they choose are all work occupation players. Even if we find them, they wouldn't tell us anything. Furthermore, with the communication methods in the game, even the middleman won't know much about them."

"No matter what, there's still a chance. In this game, there is something worse than being dead. I don't believe that if we catch the middlemen, he won't say anything," Black Mamba bared his white teeth.

If one talked about interrogation techniques, Black Mamba was a professional.

"I will inform the various offices in the imperial cities and help you all investigate. We can put our point of focus in Quanzhou. There, Shanhai County has a little influence," Ouyang Shuo had no choice but to reveal a small trump card.

Black Mamba's eyes brightened, "Little brother, you really are amazing, even managing to influence the imperial city. I really admire you."

"Elder brother, you must be joking. I'm just lucky because of Mazu."

"With the clues that you have provided, we will not be grasping at straws." Black Mamba laughed, "Don't worry, little brother. Give me a little time, and I will find their rat hole."

"Thank you, brother. If you need anything, just ask!"

"Why are we saying such words. You." Black Mamba waved him off, "This matter is also Rattlesnake's matter, so you don't need to worry."

"Great!" Ouyang Shuo nodded, "Let's go and have a drink!"

When he heard Ouyang Shuo mention drinking, Black Mamba instantly grew excited and laughed, "Haha, I also have that intention. I really want to drink your Three Flowers Wine."

"When you return, I will prepare two big jars for you. I can promise that you will never be able to finish drinking it." Ouyang Shuo knew that Black Mamba viewed wine as his life. As such, he took the opportunity to return a favor.

"That's definitely necessary. Little brother really knows me!" Black Mamba didn't hold back.

The paired downed the wine and started to talk about everything.

With half a kilogram of wine in his belly, Black Mamba was on cloud nine. Suddenly, he thought of the teaching squad still in Shanhai County and asked, "How are Viper and Cobra. They didn't lose my face, right?"

Ouyang Shuo had bad alcohol tolerance, and he wasn't used to drinking strong wine. Luckily, this was a game. If not, it would be really spicy and choking. Although one couldn't get drunk, a person with poor alcohol tolerance would turn red if they drank a lot.

Ouyang Shuo's face was already as red as a monkey's butt. If you mentioned it, he couldn't even speak fluently anymore, "How...How can that be, them two.., Are…talents, they make the special… special force, good training, making them up to...Up to par..."

Ouyang Shuo really wasn't exaggerating, Cobra and Viper adapted to the cold weapons era and their battle conditions, instilled the modern special forces battle methods into the cold weapons era, and came up with several different ideas.

Ouyang Shuo couldn't help but praise their ideas.

Apart from basic physical training, the special forces had to undergo four different types of training.

Firstly, fighting technique. Each person needed to master every type of weapon, which included swords, bows, spears, crossbows, axes and more. Each special force member could fight in many methods, areas, and times. They could fight in places like alleys, during the night, and they could also chase and escape from danger.

After the end of the training, Ouyang Shuo also planned to prepare suitable cultivation techniques for them to improve their combat strength.

Secondly, mobile technique training. Horse riding was a necessary skill and caring for the horse was also a basic requirement. Apart from that, they needed to learn how to sail a boat and cross rivers and seas.

In the future, as the territory continued to expand, there might be mounts like war elephants and wolves.

Thirdly, infiltration techniques. Parachuting, climbing, crossing enemy territory, understanding maps as well as long distance traveling—one had to be good at all of these.

Parachuting and climbing were the two training skills that Ouyang Shuo paid the most attention to. During the battle of Changping, the success of parachuting gave Ouyang Shuo hope and confidence.

Fourthly, investigation and spying techniques. Mainly infiltrating, listening, capturing, interrogating, drawing and describing the environment as well as other methods. One also needed to know how to communicate with hidden signals.

The spies in the Military Intelligence Division also had to undergo such training.

All in all, to prepare these training programs, Cobra and Viper had put in a lot of effort.

"That's great. If not, I'm going to teach them a lesson!" Black Mamba was really a wine barrel as his facial color didn't even change a little bit.

"Big brother has the luck to have so many great people. I'm so envious." Under the influence of the wine, Ouyang Shuo stopped thinking about his words and just spoke what came to mind.

"Hehe, little brother, you don't need to envy me! I heard that the number of historical people in Shanhai County is about to pass into the tens, and you even have the war saint."

"Yes, my territory is so big, I have so many people but its still not enough."

"You ah you!" Black Mamba pointed at Ouyang Shuo and laughed.

"And don't lay your eyes on Cobra and Viper; they aren't for sale!" Black Mamba was still a little worried and added.

Ouyang Shuo smiled and appeared a little embarrassed. Luckily, he was already red from the wine. If not, it would be a little awkward. He actually did think of poaching Viper and Cobra.

After they spent time with one another, Ouyang Shuo had found out the strengths of Cobra and Viper.

Viper was a more muscle type of guy. When training the members, he had his own style, especially in weapons use and grappling techniques. In these apects, his abilities were insane.

If he could poach him over, he would be the best choice to train new troops.

Cobra was different. Like his name, he was a little cold. In terms of intelligence gathering, he had a unique talent.

Song San and Leng Qian also couldn't help but praise him. Lengqian was honest—in front of Cobra, he felt completely useless; it was like he didn't know anything.

Ouyang Shuo had wanted to poach him over to lead the Military Intelligence Division.

If he thought about it, with Cobra sitting at the helm, be it obtaining information or the accuracy of the information, it would be several times higher.

As for the problems of trust, Ouyang Shuo wasn't worried.

Since the Rattlesnake Mercenary Group were already on board, there was no reason to get off. Ouyang Shuo would think of a way to tie them straight onto then war chariot of Shanhai County.

Ouyang Shuo didn't expect that even though Black Mamba looked like he drank a lot, he was still very clear headed. Black Mamba easily looked through his intentions and immediately rejected them.

Ouyang Shuo didn't mind as it was to be expected.

Black Mamba not agreeing today just meant that their relationship wasn't close enough. Or, putting it in another way, the chips that Ouyang Shuo had put out weren't enough to move Black Mamba.

As long as both sides had the same goals, once Ouyang Shuo managed to tie down the Rattlesnake Mercenary Group to Shanhai County, everything would be settled.

Black Mamba cared about relationships, but he cared more about interests. If he could gain excellent rewards for letting go of Cobra and Viper, he would definitely agree.

Black Mamba was also a very arrogant person. Thus, Ouyang Shuo was very confident in his read of the Black Mamba's character.

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Chapter 315- Perusing Steel Technique

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After he sent Black Mamba off, Ouyang Shuo returned to the Lord's Manor.

After they came back from Jingdou, Song Jia had already returned to Dongli Sword Sect. Currently, the huge Lord's Manor was really empty.

Bing'er was on her holidays now, so this little brat that had behaved herself for half a year could finally relax. At this time, she had brought little black and little white to god knows where to play.

This little brat was different from before; she wouldn't stick to her brother for the entire day.

After he drank a little wine, Ouyang Shuo felt slightly dizzy and just went back to his reading room to rest.

In the afternoon, Ouyang Shuo brought two Guards and went toward Research Institute No. 7.

When he saw that it was the end of the year, Ouyang Shuo wanted to understand what the research institute had managed to do in half a year. As for what they did in their day to day workings, Ouyang Shuo didn't bother.

The research institute was located in the east region and its building style was similar to the Alchemy Workshop beside it. A huge empty space laid behind the institute—they used this area to test out their creations.

Sun Xiaoyue's grandpa, Old Sun had spent much of his time in the Beihai Shipyard. The ones mainly in the institute were alchemist Magnus and Thermal weapons master Liumo. They were currently moving toward steelmaking.

The work at the research institute made the Magnus really excited. When he saw Ouyang Shuo, he said warmly, "Oh! Lord, welcome, welcome!" As he spoke these words, he really wanted to hug Ouyang Shuo.

When the Guards behind Ouyang Shuo saw this, they immediately ran up. Their left hands ready to draw their swords, as they assumed a defensive position.

When Magnus saw such a situation, he laughed. Ouyang Shuo wasn't the small lord from before.

"Is Liumo here?" Ouyang Shuo hadn't seen his sworn brother in a long time.

As a westerner, Magnus was more open-minded. As such, he just laughed off this awkward situation and smiled, "Liumo is in the testing field. He's testing out the steelmaking technique."

"Oh? Has the steelmaking technique succeeded?" Ouyang Shuo felt delighted.

"Of course!"

"Go, let's go take a look!" Ouyang Shuo couldn't wait.

The olden Chinese steelmaking technique started during the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period. At the time, they mainly used two techniques—carburizing and decarburization. As the demand for steel increased, the supply couldn't keep up. At the later stages of the West Han period, the stir smelting technique came into being, which pushed steelmaking into its mature stage.

Smiths would forge iron at high heats for over a hundred times until it became elite steel. At the start of the Wei dynasty, the elite steelmaking technique became the most prosperous.

During the period of the Northern and Southern dynasties, steelmaking technology experienced another huge breakthrough with the perfusing steel method.

The perfusing steel method made use of both raw iron and worked iron. Raw iron had a high carbon content, as such its melting point was lower. The smiths let the melted raw iron perfuse into the gaps of the worked iron, which increased its carbon content and created steel.

During the Sui Tang period, this technique was commonly used and proliferated.

During the Song and Ming Dynasty, with cold smithing and air hardening techniques, the types of steel and their properties all increased. The steelmaking technology at that time led the world.

Unfortunately, during the Qing Dynasty, the king decided to lock up the country. As a result, China's technology didn't progress, and the westerners surpassed them.

The research institute had managed to recreate the perfusing steel technique from the Sui and Tang period.

As a thermal weapons expert, Liumo knew the olden steelmaking techniques like the back of his hand. He also had had access to the various books on the subject in the book collection house. Despite these factors, replicating the perfusing technique had a high level of difficulty.

The research institute had opened for half a year. After constant trial and error, they finally gained some results. If not, why would one say that technical manuals were precious? If they had one for the perfusing steel method, they wouldn't need to go through all these troubles.

In the backyard, there sat a huge furnace with a complete set of facilities.

Liumo busied himself in front of the furnace, as he taught the blacksmiths how to control the fire.

When they saw Ouyang Shuo, the blacksmiths bowed and greeted him.

Ouyang Shuo waved them off and asked them to continue their work.

"Brother Liu!" Ouyang Shuo called out.

As the territory expanded daily, Liumo and the other players' attitudes toward Ouyang Shuo changed. Although they didn't worship him like the aboriginal people, they wouldn't act so casual.

Liumo was a skill maniac. Hence, he didn't care much about such matters.

The two started talking in the backyard.

Based on Liumo's description, the perfusing steel method was only the first step.

Next, Liumo was prepared to build on the base of the perfusing steel method and breakthrough. Then, they could catch up with the western countries.

One factor was the choice of fuel.

Olden steelmaking used wood as fuel and didn't use any phosphorous solvents. As such, the amount of phosphor in the olden steel was very low. The temperature of the furnace was also too low and couldn't merge the iron.

Liumo wanted to replace charcoal with coal.

Ouyang Shuo frowned; this was a problem. The main regions for coal in China was in the Mongol and the Henan region; Lianzhou totally didn't have any coal.

Feng Qiuhuang's Fallen Phoenix County coincidentally fell into the Henan Region.

It seems like he needed to have a good conversation with Feng Qiuhuang.

"About the coal, I will find a way to solve it. Big Brother Liu, you don't have to worry!"

"Great!" Liu Mo was elated.

As the steelmaking technique had already taken shape, Ouyang Shuo decided on the spot to create a large scale steel factory to satisfy the territorial steel needs.

For the location and construction, Ouyang Shuo gave all the authority to Liumo.

When he returned to the Lord's Manor, Ouyang Shuo immediately sent Feng Qiuhuang a letter to discuss the coal deal.

Ouyang Shuo wanted to invest in a large scale coal mine within her border through the Four Seas Bank. The coal obtained would specifically be sent to Shanhai County.

Of course, one needed to find a coal mining technical manual. If not, it would all be for naught.

Coal was called black stone during the olden times, and its uses weren't common. To find such a technical manual, one needed to spend a lot of effort.

Ouyang Shuo directly sought the help of the Hequanji Chamber of Commerce and the Cui Chamber of Commerce to help him search.

Mulan County, Lord's Manor.

After the New Years, the temperature in Lianzhou Basin started to slowly turn cold.

Looking out of her window, Mulan Yue was out of sorts. After coming back from Jingdou, she had heavy thoughts and would look out through the window in a daze.

If one didn't know, they would think that she was thinking about her lover.

Li Feixue stood behind her, as she played with the dagger in her hand. The dagger was really exquisite, a gift from Mulan Yue when they went to Jingdou.

After the battle of Zhennan Pass, Li Xuefei had joined Mulan County. At the start, her father's death made her very solemn and demoralized, but Mulan Yue's care helped her walk out of the shadow. Hence, she was very reliant on Mulan Yue.

So, she insisted on staying at Mulan Yue's side to take the role of her personal guard.

Li Feixue might look like a small girl, but her martial arts skills weren't to be trifled with. With her by her side, Mulan Yue was safe. As such, Mu Guiying could spend most of her time in the barracks.

Without Mu Guiying, Mulan Yue became more independent and stronger. Her strength and ability started to show in the territory.

The little brat was able to aptly deal with territory matters.

Running a County was a big challenge to Mulan Yue.

Luckily, she had a talent for developing the economy of the territory. With her personality that didn't want to lose, she ran the county well.

If not, the Mulan Yue in Ouyang Shuo's last life wouldn't be one of the three heads of the Lianzhou Basin, who would not lose in a battle against Ba Dao and Xiaofeng Canyue.

Her ability to learn from others was her strong point.

The local specialties of Shanhai County inspired her, so she pushed for cole planting.

As expected, the oil was very popular and helped the County profit.

Not only that, Mulan Yue also brought in the colored silkworms industry from Shanhai County and ran it well.

The economic ability of Mulan County wasn't that bad amongst the Shanhai Alliance.

In terms of administrative organization, she copied Shanhai County's model.

Dealing with administrative matters was her weak point.

The NPCs that spawned, although they weren't as old school as the olden chinese, but they still had doubts in a female lord.

This was the reason why most female lords couldn't become as famous.

Mulan Yue wasn't like Bai Hua and Feng Qiuhuang, who had a bunch of people at their sides. She lacked training, so she could only take things step by step in regards to administrative matters.

She passed a large portion of it to her subordinates to handle.

"Feixue, go call Sister Mu," Mulan Yue turned around and said.

"Ai!" Li Feixue replied. She stored her dagger and ran off. Her braid flung around in the air, and she looked really cute.

A few moments later, Mu Guiying rushed over.

"Sister, I thought about it. It's time to move Mulan County under Brother Wuyi's territory," Mulan Yue said something shocking; this was the matter on her mind. Finally, she had her answer.

Mu Guiying remained quiet. She knew that once Mulan Yue made a decision, it was hard to change it.

"Ok, let's make a trip to Shanhai County."

"Sister, you agree?" Mulan Yue said happily.

"Of course, I support you!" When she saw Mulan Yue slowly grow, Mu Guiying felt happy.

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Chapter 316- Mulan Stronghold

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Gaia 2nd year 5th day, Mulan Yue visited Shanhai County.

Before she came, Mulan Yue had already told Ouyang Shuo beforehand. Hence, Ouyang Shuo had made strict preparations. All four directors were present, including Baiqi and Du Ruhui, who had rushed back from the city west camp.

Ouyang Shuo also invited some of the members of the Shanhai Alliance to witness this historical moment together.

Mulan County officially left the Shanhai Alliance. It canceled the ally contracts and became a part of Shanhai Territory. They will leave all decisions—both internal and external—to Shanhai Territory.

Mulan Yue and Ouyang Shuo signed a contract that changed their relationship from allies to superior and subordinate.

Mulan County's name will be changed to Mulan City.

They will set up the Mulan House, which included Mulan City and its three subsidiary counties, with Mulan City as the governing area.

Ouyang Shuo used his position as the Lianzhou Marquis to officially appoint her as the prefect of Mulan House. He also gave the people in Mulan House director level authority.

Hence, be it in theory or in actuality, Mulan County was now a part of Shanhai Territory.

Apart from his plans for Mulan House, Ouyang Shuo also had plans for Mulan Yue.

Mulan Yue was a rank 1 earl. Apart from Ouyang Shuo, she was the second noble in the territory. Hence, apart from the prefect position, Mulan Yue would also receive a noble's treatment.

The Lianzhou Marquis could change the position based on appointment, but the noble title would forever remain.

Ouyang Shuo made Mulan House Mulan Yue's permanent residence. Additionally, 20% of the house's income would enter her account as her expenses.

Apart from that, the Construction Division would build an earl manor in Shanhai County and Mulan City to act as her accommodation.

Ouyang Shuo's arrangements ensured that Mulan Yue's interests weren't affected. When the game ended, she could obtain high amounts of achievement value.

Bai Hua and the others were dazzled; they all had their own thoughts.

"Wuyi really put in a lot of effort and money into this."

"That's right. I'm actually a little envious of her. She became a noble and does not need to care about administrative matters. She is enjoying a status similar to a lord; she's living like a god!""If the other small lord's learned of this contact, they will be so envious that they vomit blood. The difference is like night and day!"

"How is that the same? Yue Yue is a member of the Shanhai Alliance!"

"That's right; it can't be compared!"

"I think that's enough. Even if you all are sucking up to Little Yue Yue, you don't need to exaggerate it so much, right?"It wasn't only Bai Hua and the others. Even Mu Guiying and the old members from Mulan County relaxed after they saw their princess being treated so well. Their fear of being ostracised disappeared.

After the ceremony ended, the other members of the Shanhai Alliance all left.

Ouyang Shuo asked Mu Guiying to stay behind to discuss the matter of military organization. Mulan Yue left the meeting hall. She was now only a prefect, so she wasn't involved in military matters.

Mulan City, as an ex-grade 3 city, had a similar military organization to Shanhai County. The three subsidiary territories all had a city protection unit; this didn't need reorganization.

The main camp had four regiments, a total of 10 thousand people. They had one cavalry regiment, one sword-shield soldier regiment, and two archer regiments.

Ouyang Shuo wanted to recruit Mulan City's city protection regiment from the existing reserve forces. With these four regiments as a base, they would form up the 4th division of Shanhai County.

Mu Guiying would take up the role as the major general of the fourth division.

With that, the fourth division separated from the Mulan House; Baiqi and the Military Affairs Department would lead it. Similarly, the Lianzhou Lord would pay their salary.

The salary that Mulan Yue previously paid totally couldn't compare to Shanhai County's salary. If one thought about it, the soldiers would gain an increased sense of belonging to Shanhai County.

This would also greatly benefit the reorganization of the Military Affairs Department.

After they formed the fourth division, Shanhai County would have four divisions that could take part in battles, which amounted to a total of 54 thousand men. Coincidentally, they could just form a legion.

Ouyang Shuo temporarily didn't have any plans to form a legion.

Be it in terms of military or administration, one needed to consider balance.

If they formed a legion, Baiqi was his only choice for General. Now, Baiqi didn't have an actual appointment. He mainly just needed to take charge of wartime commanding.

The moment he became the General, the situation would change. Baiqi would control all the forces, which will pose a huge challenge to Du Ruhui who Ouyang Shuo had just appointed.

Naturally, Ouyang Shuo wasn't afraid that Baiqi would betray him or something. However, he just needed to made a good environment for Du Ruhui.

He needed to wait until Du Ruhui had reestablished the prestige and position of the Military Affairs Department. Then, he could think about setting up the legion. At that time, a balance would be naturally reached.

Of course, be it Baiqi or Du Ruhui, they had to answer to Ouyang Shuo. He held the highest position in both military and administration. Everyone had to answer to him.

Returning to the topic.

The fourth division was a mix of infantry and cavalry. It was similar to the first division.

As for the base of the fourth division, it would be located at Zhennan Pass.

When he thought about Zhennan Pass, Ouyang Shuo had a headache.

The current pass was too small and at one side of the Basin. It was not suitable for investigating the situation of the enemies.

"Do any of you have any suggestions regarding the pass?" Ouyang Shuo asked.

The participants for this meeting, apart from Mu Guiying, were Baiqi and Du Ruhui.

Du Ruhui had just entered, so he wasn't familiar with the territory, especially in regards to the Zhennan Pass. So, he kept his silence and didn't voice out his opinion.

Baiqi had come a little earlier than Du Ruhui, but Zhennan Pass was under Mulan County's jurisdiction back then. As such, although he had heard of it, he didn't personally see it. Hence, he wouldn't voice his opinion.

Only Mu Guying could answer him.

She was very solemn; she naturally had the right to speak of Zhennan Pass. This was also the Marquis' first test, so she had to show some skill.

She bowed toward Ouyang Shuo and cupped her fist toward Baiqi and Du Ruhui. Then, she said, "North of Zhennan Pass would be Xunzhou, where the Taiping Country uprising starts from. As expected, they will be our strongest enemy in the near future. Hence, before they have a firm footing, we must find a suitable spot in Xunzhou to set up a base. Only then can we advance and retreat as we wish."

"The current Zhennan Pass is old. If we place a large number of troops there, we cannot fend off the attack and defend Shanhai Prefecture. The pass is also too close to the Basin. To its north is a 100 meter long canyon. Out of it will be the Xunzhou area. I investigated before and found that the further north we went, the wider the canyon got. The exit is 100 meters wide. If the enemy builds a pass at the north exit, they could block off our route."

Ouyang Shuo nodded, everything had its pros and cons. Lianzhou Basin only needed to defend Zhennan Pass from external threats. Conversely, they could only use the pass to reach the outside world.

Mu Guiying continued, "My suggestion is to set up a large scale fortress at the north of the canyon. Then, we can station a large number of troops. Outside the fortress is all

plains, so we can attack Xunzhou at any time."

Military fortress and a pass were two different concepts.

A pass had the function of collecting tax and acted as a passageway.

A military fortress was a small city. It had all the necessary facilities and had permanent defenses for long term defense.

A pass was easy to attack. On the other hand, attacking a military fortress was harder than ascending the heavens.

Her suggestion was similar to what Ouyang Shuo had in mind. He laughed, "Good, let's do it like that. The name of the fortress will be Mulan Stronghold. The Mulan House will be in charge of its design. The fourth division will be stationed there."

"Yes, my lord!"

After they set the direction, the Military Affairs Department handled the specific military organization. The various departments and divisions would work together on the design and construction. Ouyang Shuo didn't need to worry about that.

With the speed at which Taiping Country developed, there was definitely enough time to build the fortress.

Ouyang Shuo wanted to know what the forces of Taiping Country would feel when they waltz forward and saw such a gigantic fortress.

On the topic of Taiping Country, they should have made their move. Only thing was, which territory was the unlucky one that Hong Xiuquan first targeted.

Ouyang Shuo left the three of them to discuss, as he left the main hall and found Mulan Yue. He brought her to his reading room.

To tell the truth, Ouyang Shuo hadn't expected her to make such a decision. For her to make this suggestion to him saved him that little bit of awkwardness.

This was why Ouyang Shuo felt a little closer to Mulan Yue.

The impression that she gave him was a little naive with a hint of annoyance.

But now, his view of her had totally changed.

On the surface, Mulan Yue was still clueless. As she followed him into the reading room, she looked around. She totally seemed like a curious little brat.

When he saw such a scene, Ouyang Shuo could only shake his head and sigh.

Toward Mulan Yue, Ouyang Shuo held high hopes. He hoped that her foresight wouldn't be restricted to Mulan House.

The future territory would be indescribably vast.

Ouyang Shuo hoped that she could fight forward and become a governor for him. A person who could help him defend an area.

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Chapter 317- Hong Xiuquan

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Xunzhou, Taiping Country Base.

Compared to the other peasant uprisings, talents filled the movement that Hong Xiuquan led in Taiping Country. At the start of the uprising, there were Yang Xiuqing, Feng Yunshan, Xiao Chaogui, Feng Changhui, and Shi Dakai—these five core members. Out of the five, Shi Dakai was really good at war and a much-needed general.

The five of them had met their ends in similar manners.

Feng Yunshan and Xiao Chaogui died in battle at the start of the uprising. During the middle portion, Yang Xiuqing grew arrogant from his victories and Feng Changhui murdered him. Not long after, Hong Xiuquan executed Feng Changhui.

The only lucky survivor, Shi Dakai, left because of Hong Xiuquan's jealousy toward him. Shi Dakai brought away his forces and fought independently. But due to his distance from the base, he couldn't escaped death.

Apart from the core five, there were the Tian Official Lin Fengxiang, Di Official Li Kaifang, Chun Official Hu Yihuang, Xia Official Lai Hanying, Qiu Official Zheng Lichang, Dong Official Xu Zhongchang and more. These people were all capable leaders.

Near the end of the uprising, Li Xiucheng, Chen Yucheng, and the like appeared in Taping Country. These were young leaders, Li Xiucheng was the most elite among them. Moreover, he was very loyal.

Based on the settings that Gaia created, these core members would appear too after the leader of the uprising appeared in the wilderness.

Of course, Gaia removed their negative experiences like jealousy, betrayal, arrogance, and biases.

The members of the uprising group that appeared in the wilderness all had the same dream and motivation.

They aimed to build their ideal country in the wilderness.

Hence, the moment Hong Xiuquan appeared in the wilderness, he had tens of generals besides him. In addition to his nearly bug-like refugee recruiting skill, he had three thousand refugees in less than five days.

Because of his appearance, the lords in Xunzhou found that their refugee spawning rate had dropped. In truth, Hong Xiuquan had taken them all away.

With three thousand refugees, Hong Xiuquan had the basic strength required to stand up in the wilderness.

As it was an uprising group, they were naturally all soldiers.

Over 10 generals, one main one deputy, split into units. They had split the three thousand refugees into six units. The generals made use of this time to give these refugees some basic training.

Next, they needed to take down a territory and build their base.

The player territories in the wilderness that survived till this day had at least reached grade 3 town, so their population had reached 10 thousand. The better ones had upgraded to grade 1 County and had a population upper limit of 20 thousand.

In addition to the subsidiary territories, the lords had a more optimistic situation.

If the three thousand refugees in the uprising army tried to take down a player territory, it would be akin to throwing an egg at a rock. The refugees were using vegetable knives to fight against a proper army—merely courting death.

In history, the uprising army used their numbers to gain an advantage. They had limited chances to create upsets as underdogs against bigger forces.

However, Hong Xiuquan had no choice but to take the chance.

One could describe the recruited refugees as a bunch of locusts. They could not produce grain, they brought too little food, and they were about to die in a few days.

Thankfully, their identity gave the uprising army a good cover.

As the leader of the uprising army, Hong Xiuquan had many ideas. After many days of observation, he chose a suitable territory and prepared to act the next day.

Early in the morning, he arranged Shi Dakai to lead a unit. They would act as new refugees and walk toward the city gates. When the guards saw the shabbily dressed refugees, they didn't pay much attention despite the wrong numbers. After all, the numbers in these few days didn't have a pattern. It could suddenly increase by a hundred and no one would care. They would just allow them in.

The moment he entered, Shi Dakai made use of the chance to lead the troops to attack. The vegetable knives in their hands killed the guards, and they successfully took down the city gates.

The troops that hid outside the gates swarmed out and entered the city after they saw the plan succeed.

When he saw the army enter, Shi Dakai made the decision to gather the weapons the guards had left. Then, they rush toward the armory. He clearly knew that the strong forces were at the barracks. If these men came to reinforce, they wouldn't stand a fighting chance with such noob equipment.

Hence, they would only have a chance of winning if they managed to take down the armory.

The generals took down the various important points and were ready to fight. As the leader, Hong Xiuquan didn't slack off. He started to spread his beliefs and faith to recruit the masses.

In this territory, the people didn't have a high level of patriotism and happiness. The lord was violent and the residents and commoners held a lot of resentment toward him. After Hong Xiuquan tempted them, many of them joined his forces.

Hence, with both things considered, victory was in their sights.

Shi Dakai's forces successfully took down the armory, but they had suffered heavy casualties.

The refugees couldn't bother to celebrate and just entered the armory. They simply took any weapon they saw. Besides, they wouldn't know how to use them anyways. They also randomly wore the armor.

After they equipped themselves, the leader gathered the refugees outside the armory, and they prepared for battle.

With such a delay, the proper army from the barracks had finally started to move toward the uprising army.

The proper army of a grade 3 Town had a total of a thousand men that were all well equipped and properly trained. If the opponent was just a normal group of three thousand refugees, these men could take them down without a problem.

Unfortunately, ten elite generals led these three thousand refugees, so victory or defeat was hard to predict.

Under the buffs of the various generals, the combat strength of the uprising army surged.

Furthermore, Hong Xiuquan had scary charisma. The refugees that he recruited were all firm believers and weren't afraid to die. Hence, the morale of the uprising army was really high.

A war was about to start.

At this point, there was no tactics to speak of—only head to head battle.

In the midst of the battle, both sides were equal. People would fall at every moment, which created a very gruesome scene.

At this very moment, the overlord Hong Xiuquan arrived!

The commoner force sauntered behind him. In a short hour, he had recruited a thousand members. His powerful brainwashing ability was really scary.

At the start of the uprising, everyone respected Hong Xiuquan.

Hong Xiuquan arrived at the middle of the battlefield. He braved the arrow rain. Then, he started to try and persuade the proper army to put down their weapons and join the uprising army.

Charm filled his voice. Unknowingly, one would be tempted.

Power filled his actions, and he filled people with hope.

He was the messenger sent from the heavens to save the brothers with problems.

Hong Xiuquan's temptations, in addition to the heavy casualties from the war, made several members of the proper army lose their will to fight. They stayed in the same spot and did not move.

Compared to the normal soldiers, the generals were more clear headed. Hence, they weren't tempted. They tried their best to shout and wake the men up. They order the soldiers to fight.

Unfortunately, Hong Xiuquan was too much of a bug.

The proper army was like dominos, as more and more of them got tempted. The officials tried their best, but no matter what they tried, the soldiers wouldn't move.

Shi Dakai and the other generals of Hong Xiuquan were also good. They did not bother with those soldiers that did not move. They only attacked those who defended.

With that, the situation on the battlefield had become totally one-sided.

As time passed, those that Hong Xiequan tempted looked at their officers with weird eyes. As these soldiers stared at them, the officers felt a shiver down their spines.

These experienced officers knew that if they tried to force the soldiers to fight, the soldiers might kill them on the spot.

Although Hong Xiuquan didn't manage to tempt the smart ones, they still made the intelligent choice and surrendered, joining the uprising army.

At this point, the uprising army had gained a total victory.

The lord of the territory was a middle-aged man cooped up in the Lord's Manor. After he knew that the army had lost, he gave a bitter smile and quickly teleported away.

At the start of the uprising, only a few players were willing to join the uprising army. Most lords had backbone and didn't want to listen and be under NPCs.

The fall of the territory meant that Taiping Country officially had a footing on Xunzhou.

To the uprising army, ruling a place wasn't too hard. The commoners weren't afraid of them and everything developed in the right direction.

As expected, the Taiping Country uprising army was the first of its kind to take down a player territory. This action officially announced the start of the information piece.

Hong Xiuquan had shown his unbeatable charm out in the wilderness. He made use of his guile and broke the spirit of a thousand men.

The lord that left wrote everything that happened on the forums, which caused an uproar amongst the players.

Now, all the players genuinely felt the terror of the uprising. A huge change was about to come!

Some lords in Xunzhou were afraid that the moment they woke up, a huge uprising army would be outside their city wall.

Some of the others learned their lesson. They started to improve the lives of their people and made them happier.

As for whether or not it was too late, only the heavens knew.

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Chapter 318- Dragon Head

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The events at Xunzhou failed to attract Ouyang Shuo's attention.

No matter the strength of the uprising army, they couldn't come to Lianzhou Basin in a short time amount of time. On the contrary, the expansion of the Taiping Country would help him destroy the other small territories in Guangxi. In the end, it would result in a situation where one person would take it all.

At that point, Ouyang Shuo would just step out to clean it up. As long as he destroyed the Taiping Country, he would own the entire Guangxi.

The Taiping Uprising Army was merely a living target in his eyes.

It wasn't that he had grown arrogant and wanted to make use of the Lianzhou Basin to take down Taiping Country. He also had other trump cards, which would come into play when the time came.

At that time, whoever dared to underestimate Lianzhou Basin would end up in big trouble.

To put it another way, east of Xunzhou, Wuzhou, there was still Chiyou City.

When two tigers fought, one was destined to get hurt.

Ouyang a Shuo could just watch on as the tigers fought.

As for whether things would proceed as he had expected, it was still unknown.

The ripple that the Mulan House caused and everything else slowly subsided. Shanhai Territory had regained its normality.

The only matter that gave Ouyang Shuo a headache was the issue regarding war horses. To form up the 4th division, one had to mention the Qingfu horses. The other three other divisions all used Qingfu horses. Hence, Ouyang Shuo had to handle things fairly. Changing the war horses of the 4th division to Qingfu horses also climbed up his priority list.

Unfortunately, the various grassland tribes had already become wary of Shanhai City after the Tianqi tribe stirred up the waters. They did not want to trade with Shanhai City. As such, attempting to purchase Qingfu horses from them wasn't a practical idea.

After trade broke, Ouyang Shuo grew more and more worried about the grassland tribes.

Although the Lianzhou Basin had good weather and didn't have winter, the grassland wasn't suitable for herding close to the new year. Hence, the livelihoods of the herdsmen and shepherds became a big problem.

If they could not purchase food from Shanhai City, Ouyang Shuo had grounds to suspect that the various tribes would start a war.

Ouyang Shuo had ordered the Military Intelligence Division to increase their investigation into the grassland tribes and immediately report news. The leader of the second group, Leixun, was given the orders to do so.

However, the intel from Leixun puzzled Ouyang Shuo puzzled. The tribes had no intention for war and no tribe had asked for the herdsmen to join the army.

Everything seemed really weird.

The calm grassland seemed like it was on the verge of a huge storm.

Ouyang Shuo could only order the Military Logistics Department to quickly draw up a battle plan and craft logistics to get ready for a war; he ordered the Shanhai House to speed up the building of the city wall. They would prioritise the north wall and make it into an unbreakable fortress.

As the military size increased, the situation would change. In order to start a large scale war, he could not simply move the troops and immediately fight like before.

As they said, before the soldiers moved, the grain would move first.

For a huge war, they needed to prepare large amounts of grain, horses, chariots, arrows and many equipment. It was not something they could complete in a short time.

The four military workshops and the cave military factory had thousands of workers who rushed day and night to craft batch after batch of items. They sent the items to the various camps for them to equip themselves.

Especially the newly established fourth division, they only had the system gifted equipment from the class change, far from the standards of the Shanhai City army.

The newly appointed combat logistics director Zhu Hongliang was so busy that he did not even have time to eat.

Baiqi and Du Ruhui were busy preparing the military forces. They had also brought their personal guards, who entered the grasslands to take a look at the environment to prepare for the battle.

Baiqi's mind would not stop at any moment, as he continuously thought and found methods to outsmart the enemy. He mainly focused on the investigation and preparation work before the battle.

Du Ruhui was also very experienced and he had a sharp eye. He was a great military advisor and his tactics and war ideas were better than Baiq,i who was from the warring states period.

The two of them worked together and helped put Ouyang Shuo at ease.

With the two of them at the helm, Ouyang Shuo could take time and effort to look at other things.

For example, the Qingfu Horses.

The only way to obtain Qingfu Horses now was from the Jifeng Valley horse stables.

The stables had sent out four thousand Qingfu Horses before and they only had a hundred left.

The nurturing of a warhorse was a lengthy process. In such a short time, Ouyang Shuo definitely did not want to use the horses in the horse stables.

From a long term stand point, such a great horse like the Qingfu Horse could not meet the needs of the expanding army. Even if he unified the whole Lianzhou Basin, the amount of Qingfu Horses would still remain limited.

In future wars, one would need to use hundred or even hundreds of thousands of troops. Even if one owned all the Qingfu Horses in Lianzhou Basin, it also would not be enough.

Hence, Ouyang Shuo had decided to build the horse stables to plan for the future.

Of course, it was only a backup solution. It helped to ease the problem but not solve it. The best method was to find another mount.

For this method, Ouyang Shuo had some ideas. In his last life, he remembered some superior mount production areas. As long as the time was right, he could break the lack of mounts in the army.

For the time being, it was hard for him to make any decisions.

Mu Guiying understood his tough situation. She said that they could slow down the changing of war horses since the Mulan Stronghold was the main priority.

And hence, they settled the matter for the time being.

Another thing that worried Ouyang Shuo was the Beihai Shipyard.

When Ouyang Shuo passed the ship making manual over to them, he instructed them to quickly build ships, as he badly needed vessels.

They met his expectations. On the 15th day of the 1st month, after hundreds of smiths and workers in the shipyard rushed day and night, they built the first turreted ship. It was ready to enter the water.

When Ouyang Shuo received the news, he personally rushed over to Beihai City to witness the moment.

Apart from Ouyang Shuo, the Shipyard special advisor Old Sun, Zheng Dahai, and Pei Donglai were all at the dock. Baiqi and Du Ruhui were busy with army matters, so they could not get away. Otherwise, they definitely would not miss this chance.

The Beihai Shipyard was right next to the Beihai Bay. There were two large scale docks and more than ten medium sized ones.

The first turreted ship was in one of the large scale docks, as it waited to enter the water.

The giant boat was over five stories high and could carry three thousand men. Not only did it have a menacing outer appearance, the boat had spears and flags. It had the ability to attack and defend like a castle on water. The head of the boat had a iron point which they sailors could use to ram other ships. It also had a stern rudder so it would never steer off course.

As expected, the turreted ship also made use of the watertight bulkhead technology.

At the two sides of the turreted ship, there were six clapper poles.

The clapper poles were used to smack enemy ships. They were around five arms in length and were made up of a pillar, a cross pole, and giant rocks and potters tied to the head. The pillar helped support the cross pole and allowed it to swing around and smack the enemy boats with the giant rocks. Ropes connected the potters to the cross pole. As such, one could manually turn it to pull up the cross pole and raise the giant rock.

Such a destructive weapon was the nightmares of enemy ships before the birth of cannons.

If it was not for the time constraints, Old Sun would have wanted to modify the turreted ship to make it even scarier. Successfully creating an olden ship naturally made a ship specialist like Old Sun emotional.

As for Old Sun's efficiency, Ouyang Shuo was very pleased.

Of course, the turreted ship was not perfect and without flaws; it also had weaknesses.

The weakness was that it was too high and unstable, so its ability to withstand waves was weak. Hence, it was suitable for fighting in rivers or nearby seas, but not suitable for long distance travel.

If not, a storm could capsize the entire turreted ship.

Thanks to the protection of Mazu, the Shanhai City navy could largely avoid this weaknesses. The specialty of the hidden building raised the protection from storms by 40%, which ensured that the ships would remain safe as long as they did not face a huge storm.

Zheng Dahai, who was beside Ouyang Shuo, decided to test the waters when he saw the marquis so delighted and pleased, "Marquis, please name the turreted ship!"

Ouyang Shuo was in fact really pleased, so he smiled, "The territory's symbol is a dragon so this first boat will be called the Dragon Head."

"Great name!" Old Sun butt in and laughed, "it's auspicious!"

Ouyang Shuo nodded. Dragon Head would be his flagship, and it follow him out to sea, "Captain Zheng, immediately complete the relevant functions and features of the Dragon Head. A few days later, I'll set it out to sea."

"Yes, my lord!" Zheng Dahai froze, he did not expect the marquis to rush so much. It seemed like he needed to make the smiths work overtime for a few days. One must know that a huge quantity of features and facilities must be added to a large scale boat.

Ouyang Shuo looked at Pei Donglai," General Pei, the Beihai Fleet will follow us out to sea."

"What is your destination?" Pei Donglai felt confused.

Ouyang Shuo gave a mysterious smile," Qiongzhou Island."

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Chapter 319- Yazhou

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Editor: Jun

The Qiongzhou Island in the game was a utopia and it was also another strategic location that Ouyang Shuo planned for.

After the game map was expanded 10 times, the size of the Qiongzhou Island reached 350 thousand square kilometres, bigger than even Lianzhou Basin. North of it, the Qiongzhou Strait intersected with Lingnan, west of it was Guangxi and Vietnam, east of it was the Yizhou Island, southeast of it were the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei.

During the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court set up the Qiongzhou House on the island and split it into 3 states and 10 counties.

Out of the 3 states, Danzhou was to the west of the island. In terms of geography, it was closest to the Lianzhou Basin. Hence, in theory it would be a good place to come ashore.

Ouyang Shuo instead turned his eye to Yazhou at the southmost area of the island. Compared to Danzhou, it was more suitable to be used as a military port.

Yazhou would be the best base for Ouyang Shuo to use to enter the ocean.

Choosing Yazhou was a huge risk to Ouyang Shuo.

This was because on Qiongzhou Island there lived the Li race, Miao race, Hui Race as well as many other aboriginal races, amongst which the Li race had the longest history. These aboriginals mostly gathered in the middle and the south. Yazhou, which was located at the southmost area of Qiongzhou Island, was naturally the place where the various races gathered.

Choosing Yazhou would mean that he had to immediately face the threat of the aboriginal people.

In the last life, based on what Ouyang Shuo got from the forums, the lucky players who survived on the island built their territories to the north and east of the island, as that was where the Han Race gathered.

Gaia 2nd year 1st month 16th day, Lianzhou Lord's Manor.

Ouyang Shuo gathered the 4 directors and Baiqi for a meeting.

"2 days later, I'll lead the Guards regiment and the Beihai Naval fleet out to sea, I predict that I will only return around New Year's Eve. As for the matters of the territory, I'll leave to all of you to discuss and settle together."

When Ouyang Shuo said those words, they were all shocked.

The military affairs director Du Ruhui, who had just been appointed, was puzzled. The grassland situation was getting more and more serious and intense, and war might break out at any moment. In this kind of situation, the lord still wanted to leave, how could it not make him feel crazy?

Baiqi was unaffected. When he was in the Qin Country, he was used to controlling everything, and as long as the lord gave him enough power, he would be able to do a good job commanding the battle.

As for Fan Zhongyan and Tian Wenjing, they were in charge of the administrative matters of the prefecture, so to them it wasn't much of a problem. What they were worried about was with the Lord away from the territory, how the soldiers and the commoners would feel.

Out of the 5 heads, Yingyu had the least experience. As long as it had nothing to do with financial matters, she wouldn't make a sound. The recent storm in the territory had the spear pointing straight at her.

There were rumours that said that she was relying on the Marquis's love and trust and being his sister to climb to such a high position. In terms of ability, it was said that she was worse off than the other 3 directors, and not suitable to take up important tasks.

These rumors made Yingyu feel immense pressure and she often had sleepless nights. Although she didn't do anything against her conscience, she was unable to keep everyone from talking. Sometimes during the dead of night, Yingyu would start to doubt herself.

During this period of time, Yingyu was like a thin sheet of ice, unable to retaliate against such rumors; she could only try her best to succeed and use her results to prove them wrong.

When Ouyang Shuo got the news, obviously he was furious and ordered the Procuratorate Division to investigate. Whoever was creating those rumors would be punished.

Yingyu's hard work and knowledge was what Ouyang Shuo took notice of, what nepotism?

Ouyang Shuo was enraged. Apart from being heartbroken for Yingyu, he started to worry about this evil air in the territory. As the territory continued to grow and expand, more and more different types of people would appear and make it really messy and chaotic.

As various interests intersected with one another, it would make things complicated.

The villager spirit and carefree feel during the village building days were long gone.

This was something that Ouyang Shuo didn't want to see, but it happened in front of him. Ironically, he had no way to stop it. The Lianzhou Marquis title had raised his position and separated him from the commoners.

"What's the purpose of your trip?" Fan Zhongyan asked.

"My purpose is the island out at sea- Qiongzhou Island. I want to build another territory there to increase our strategic advantage." Ouyang Shuo briefly explained.

Ever since Bing'er entered the game, Ouyang Shuo helped choose the Lord gamemode as he had already had plans for Qiongzhou Island.

The reason why the plan hadn't come into fruition had 3 reasons.

Firstly, the territory wasn't stable, and it wasn't right to rashly open another territory; secondly, the Mengchong warship didn't have the ability for long distance travel; thirdly was that there wasn't a suitable village creation token. Tokens below silver rank were just not good enough.

The 2nd system auction had totally solved Ouyang Shuo's problem.

Hence, after the Dragon Head smoothly entered the water, Ouyang Shuo was raring to go.

On this trip, not only did Ouyang Shuo bring large amounts of troops, he brought a high number of basic level officials, various artisans, talents, and resources to ensure that the moment they got here they could get a stable footing.

Apart from that, he took some of the salt workers from Beimu Saltpans and was ready to open more saltpans at Yazhou.

About Ouyang Shuo's plan, the marquis wanted to open up and conquer new lands so they really had no reason to oppose. As for his safety, with the guards regiment there was pretty much no big problem.

Ouyang Shuo gave Baiqi the power to move the entire army and command it when he wasn't around. Be it starting a war or ending it, he would make the decision.

He appointed Fan Zhongyan the head of the civil servants, and he would be in charge of all administrative matters.

After appointing the two in charge of the military and administration, Ouyang Shuo immediately dismissed everyone. As for specific arrangements, he would find them individually, and there was no need to discuss those during the meeting.

After the meeting, Ouyang Shuo asked someone to go to Donglai Sword Sect to inform Song Jia to ask her to come along.

Yazhou was basically the Sanya in reality. During the new year, it was a good time to travel. Ouyang Shuo wanted to take this chance to bring Song Jia and Bing'er along and have fun at the seaside.

Before that, Ouyang Shuo had told Xiuwen to build a villa by the seaside at Beihai City so he could bring Bing'er to play.

Unfortunately as things were busy, it wasn't able to be completed.

After the villa was completed, it had always been empty. Ouyang Shuo heard that Gu Xiuwen had sent people there to clean it up to ensure that it was in a decent state.

After New Years, with the weather of Lianzhou Basin, it wasn't suitable to play by the seaside.

With a better place to go to now, Ouyang Shuo naturally wanted to make up for his mistakes.

One was work and one was play. Although Ouyang Shuo was a lord, he didn't want to just focus on work; taking breaks was something that was absolutely needed.

Furthermore, although the territory was important, loved ones were too.

Ouyang Shuo couldn't remember how long was it since he played with Bing'er. The time he spent with her was less than previously in real life. Thinking back to his promise, Ouyang Shuo felt ashamed.

In the afternoon, Old Sun suddenly visited.

"Ouyang, I heard you want to bring your sister to Yazhou for a holiday?" Old Sun didn't beat around the bush and asked directly.

Ouyang Shuo nodded and smiled. "Why? You want to go too?"

"I'm so old, why will I go to Yazhou? Furthermore, this is the busiest time for the shipyard, I couldn't leave even if I wanted to." Old Sun shook his head.

"Then your meaning is?" Ouyang Shuo didn't understand.

As Sun Xiaoyue's grandfather, he understood his granddaughter. That brat shared the same house with him for a year and naturally fell for him. This added with the charm he showed in the game, she was in love with him.

Unfortunately, he was already taken.

Ouyang Shuo that little kid had suddenly liked Song Jia and made it such a way that he was definitely marrying her.

Seeing his granddaughter so down, Old Sun was anxious too.

Old Sun sometimes hated that her granddaughter was too honest and didn't fight for what she wanted. Furthermore, she had known Ouyang Shuo first, and before Song Jia was officially married, she still had a chance.

Since that his granddaughter didn't fight, as her grandfather, he naturally needed to create a chance for her. Hearing that Ouyang Shuo was bringing Song Jia and Bing'er to Yazhou, that was why he rushed over to ask.

"It's like this, little Yue has been busy with the city planning for Shanhai City. I was thinking that it would be a good time for her to go with you to Yazhou and relax. Let me tell you, I only have this one precious granddaughter, so I can't let her be too tired of the territorial matters."

Old Sun's words had a hidden meaning.

A little awkwardness flashed across Ouyang Shuo's face. "Ok, as long as she wants to I don't mind." No matter how slow he was, he understood the meaning.

Old Sun nodded, as he said what needed to be said. Ouyang Shuo also wasn't dumb. He sighed to himself. Granddaughter, grandpa can only help you up to here.

"Ok, then I'll be off!" Old Sun stood up and left.

"Take care!" Ouyang Shuo got up to send him off.

Old Sun waved him off. "No need, as long as you understand my wishes it's okay."

"Ai!"

Ouyang Shuo sighed as he froze on the spot.

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Chapter 320- Black hearted Prefect

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As the Lord's Manor expanded, Cui Yingyu and Qing'er also obtained their individual courtyards. Ouyang Shuo even arranged for Bing'er to stay alone to develop her independence. Zisu would personally take care of her.

Although the Lord's Manor had expanded once again, they continued the dining tradition. No matter how busy Cui Yingyu and Qing'er were, they would rush to the main courtyard to eat with Ouyang Shuo.

Ouyang Shuo made such arrangements because he did not want distance to affect their relationship.

Compared to Cui Yingyu, who the rumors affected, Qing'er was doing well. Her garment workshop had expanded once more, and it had become the largest workshop in Shanhai City. At this stage, just the tailors alone reached hundreds of people.

The orders the workshop accepted was not limited to the Financial Department welfare packages, as they took orders from commoners, the various settlements, and even the Chamber of Commerces.

For the next step, Qing'er wanted to bring in some weaving machines to build a large scale weaving workshop to solve the problem of material supply. In addition to the large scale garment shop, they basically covered the entire industry process.

In the future, Qing'er was even prepared to rent a large area in the west to set up mulberry gardens and cotton gardens to solve the problem of source materials.

Qing'er was personally in charge of the tailor shop, the designs, and the high class customizations.

She had used the industry chain theory that Ouyang Shuo had taught her to perfection.

As the industry expanded, Qing'er's profits kept increasing. She had achieved her dream of being rich. Her personal assets had reached ten thousand gold, which made her one of the rich people in the territory.

Ouyang Shuo had never expected her to possess such a talent.

However, she was still lacking in a certain aspect. Due to her complete obsession with money, she had neglected her skills. Although she was the first talent to become a master, she was not the first to become a grandmaster.

Even if you did not mention the grandmaster blacksmith Wanghao, even the master level shipbuilder Zheng Dahai was on the verge of a breakthrough after building the Dragon Head.

Regarding this matter, Ouyang Shuo especially looked for Qing'er and described the problem to her. He really did not want to see her talent in tailoring wasted for nothing.

As for the effect of his words, only time would tell.

The progress of the garment workshop basically mirrored the expansion and growth of the shops in Shanhai City.

After privatization, the first batch of workshop and shop owners basically got rich if nothing special happened.

As the quantity of wealth increased, the amount of merchants also followed.

Firstly, they had higher requirements for living conditions. The merchants were not happy with the small courtyards built by the Construction Division. Instead, they wanted to buy land and build their own villas and mansions.

To say the least, they were envious of the official residence area.

Luckily, the Shanhai City planning was done, and the Construction Division worked together with the Shanhai House to choose a piece of land that wealthy merchants could loan. This would allow the merchants to build their houses.

In the plans of the Shanhai City region, the core area where the Lianzhou Lord's Manor was located was known as the imperial city. Outside of that was the inner city, which included the area inside of the city wall of Qiushui County and Friendship County.

The region outside the city walls were known as the outer city.

The outer city took up 600 square kilometers, the size of eight Chang An cities. Shanhai House could afford to use such a huge region freely.

Purely from renting land, Shanhai House earned 50 thousand gold, and this earning continued to increase.

Apart from the merchants, the commercial ability of the soldier's families could not be neglected.

As time went on, the generals and the people in the army all married. Their large salary ensured that their families could live a rich life.

For the families of the soldiers, the territory gave them preferential treatment.

Shanhai House similarly planned a bigger region in the outer city for the housing of the soldiers' families. Their living conditions were much higher than normal commoners and they had more complete facilities.

Of course, one needed to pay for it and the sales price was not cheap. Though this method, Shanhai House prefect Wei Ran had wiped away all the hard earned salary of the soldiers.

Because of that, the soldiers termed him as the black hearted prefect and some of them even made noises at the Military Affairs Department.

The military affairs director Du Ruhui felt helpless. After all, Wei Ran was making logical and correct decisions. Furthermore, the splitting of duties and power meant that although he was the military affairs director, he had no power over Wei Ran.

When Ouyang Shuo heard about this matter, he just laughed it off. He did not expect for Wei Ran to have such an economic mind and replicate the modern housing industry in Shanhai City.

Apart from lending out land to let the rich build their mansions, Wei Ran eagerly tried to persuade the various Chamber of Commerces to buy land and build various workshops.

The Cui Chamber of Commerce were the first. With a price of 20 thousand gold, they bought a piece of land along Friendship River. Hequanji was not far behind and with a price of 30 thousand gold, they bought an even bigger piece of land.

The closer it was to the river, the more popular the land was.

Of course, everything had a process. The Chamber of Commerce could not simply purchase any piece of land they wanted; they had to fit with the overall planning of the city. They could only buy land in certain areas, and the land they bought must be grouped up and could not be all over the place.

Only after the land in one region was sold would the next region start selling.

Not only that, Wei Ran also personally rushed to Xianyang to persuade the Chamber of Commerces there to invest in Shanhai City and build their branches.

His words were really effective, till date, two had already agreed.

The construction of Shanhai City also attracted the attention of Quanzhou.

Based on the good relationship between the two, Wei Ran advertised the plans and development of the city to attract the commoners from Quanzhou to move over. With his action, another wave of migrants from Quanzhou started.

In just Quanzhou, there were four Chamber of Commerce that were willing to settle in Shanhai City.

After he tasted success, Wei Ran's ambitions grew. He started to contact the various offices in the system imperial cities and promoted their development plans. He attracted the Chamber of Commerces there to settle down in Shanhai City.

After all that, Shanhai City grew really famous, and its name spread all around.

Wei Ran wanted to use the assets of the people and their strength to collectively build Shanhai City.

If one thought about it carefully, Wei Ran really was black hearted. Not only did Shanhai City not sell the land, it also acted as the developers of the land, one upping the people in real life.

With such a method, Shanhai City could gain large amounts of funds, enough to support its future building projects. The Financial Department was still worrying about funds for the city but Wei Ran had already solved this issue on his own.

One must know that the wall building project was just a portion of the plans for Shanhai City. After it was built, the inner roads and the public facilities all needed investments.

Solely based on the financial subsidies and handouts from the Financial Department, these projects were obviously not viable.

This was also the reason why Ouyang Shuo did not interfere; they lacked money! After this matter, Wei Ran also managed to gain a footing in Shanhai City, and he had established his prestige.

Of course, for the entire construction of the city to really reach completion, they would need at least need one to two more years.

Back to the topic.

During dinner, Ouyang Shuo raised up the matter about going to Yazhou.

For this long trip, Zisu definitely was going to follow him.

Bing'er had heard this news long ago. She knew that Yazhou was the beautiful Sanya, which made her delighted.

In reality, Ouyang Shuo had brought her there once, and this little brat remembered that scene vividly.

"I also want to go!" When Qing'er saw Bing'er so happy, as she incessantly described the beautiful scenes at Yazhou, Qing'er grew really curious and started to bug Ouyang Shuo.

"Sure!" Ouyang Shuo naturally wouldn't object.

"Yay! Brother is the best!"

Just as Ouyang Shuo had predicted, Qing'er and Bing'er, these two brats, were really close and had become like a pair of real siblings.

"Brother can I bring little white too?" Bing'er suddenly thought of her partner. Little white laid in her arms. When she heard her little master speak, she looked at Ouyang Shuo with its sparkling eyes. It totally did not look like the royalty of the wolf race.

"Of course!" Ouyang Shuo could not reject.

Little White was really smart, and she could understand their conversation. When she saw Ouyang Shuo agree, she smiled till her eyes had closed up.

"What about little black?"

Ouyang Shuo felt speechless, "As long as you want to, you can bring anyone."

"Great!"

Cui Yingyu, who was sitting at the side, had a face filled with sadness when she saw the two little sisters playing around. Cui Yingu had a tough life, as one of the four directors, she could not get away and could only envy them.

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Chapter 321- God

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The next day, Song Jia returned to the Lord's Manor.

Under the leadership of Song Jia, the sect was doing great.

Of course, compared to Wudang, Quanzhen, etc big sects during the Song and Ming Dynasties, she was far off.

Firstly was that there was only 1 sect cultivation technique. She didn't have any other secret manuals that she could take out.

Secondly, the number of experts in the sect were too rare. Apart from Song Jia, there wasn't another expert and were all just students. Even Song Jia herself, because she cultivated for too short a time, wasn't famous in the field.

Thirdly, the potential of the disciples were horrendous. After the system released the potential system, Song Jia checked out the stats of the disciples and found that the number of A rank students were very lacking.

The only talented disciple was Cui Tianqi.

The difficulty of running a sect didn't seem to be less than the difficulty of running a territory.

To be a good sect leader wasn't easy.

As the history in the game pushed through the the Spring and Autumn Era, martial arts wasn't that famous yet. When it reached later into the game and with Tang and Song Dynasties, the various sects would all appear in the wilderness.

At that point, the battles of the underworld would truly begin.

Hence, Song Jia had to grab this precious opportunity to raise the strength of Donglai Sword sect. If not, when Wudang, Shaolin, etc. famous sects appeared, Dongli Sword sect would never get famous.

The problems that she faced were also something that Ouyang Shuo temporarily had no idea how to solve. When Li Feixue followed Mu Lanyue to Shanhai City, Ouyang Shuo had wanted her to move to the Dongli Sword Sect.

Unfortunately, she was reliant on Mu Lanyue and wouldn't leave her.

Song Jia also had ideas and turned her sights to boxing master Lin Yue. He was running the dojo and was normally very low profile.

She wanted to invite him to become an elder at the sword sect and set up a hall naming it Baji Hall which he would be in charge of.

Hence, she would get both an expert and a secret manual.

The terms she handed out were great; she was also very confident.

The first time she went over, however, she was directly rejected.

Song Jia wasn't one to give up easily and she was thinking about how to persuade Lin Yue, she even asked Ouyang Shuo to help her out.

Ouyang Shuo was half a disciple of Lin Yue so he knew his personality. He was a resolute person who definitely wouldn't because of him asking change his mind.

Thinking of the past, Ouyang Shuo had invited Lin Yue to join the army and was similarly rejected.

The matter was delayed all the way until now and there was still no change.

Ouyang Shuo had hinted to Song Jia about the weakness of Lin Yue. Because of his illness, he was a little low on self esteem.

A person without any goals was real scary, how would one convince him? Any title or credit would not be able to tempt the current Lin Yue.

However, if one was able to find a treasure that was able to cure him, with his character, such a great help would naturally cause him to agree to anything.

Upon hearing Ouyang Shuo's plan, Song Jia was happy but also worried. She was happy that she found a direction to work towards, but worried that the medicine was hard to search for.

As for the secret manuals, Ouyang Shuo regretted selling all of them. He could have at least kept a few.

If he wanted to buy them back today, the price would be too huge.

After the auction, the super trading platform had many secret manuals that appeared. When Ouyang Shuo sold his, it was around 700 gold, earning him a lot.

The players that sold this time were worse. One book sold for 1000, making the adventure mode players furious, but they had no choice but bear the pain and buy it.

If Ouyang Shuo guessed correctly, the mysterious seller would be Feng Qingyue from Swordsman County. This young lady was really able to keep patient, waiting for a whole half a year.

After this sale, Swordsman County would probably earn 70-80 thousand gold at once.

Starting from yesterday, large amounts of men and resources, under the coordination of the Combat Logistics Department and the Household Registration Department, had started to gather at the Beihai Harbor. The boats coming to and from the river passage were endless.

Hearing that the Lianzhou marquis was about to travel, many sharp Chamber of Commerces quickly came along and said that they were willing to arrange a group to follow him.

When Ouyang Shuo heard the news, he shook his head in amusement.

As expected, merchants had an adventurous spirit. They knew clearly that an unexplored island had shocking wealth, resources, herbs, and many treasures for them to discover.

If there was no army protecting them, the Chamber of Commerces wouldn't dare to venture out to sea.

After the Beihai Shipyard stopped making Mengcheng Warships, they used their spare time and built a batch of large merchant ships. Their random act today certainly came in handy.

Ouyang Shuo ordered Zheng Dahai to sell all the merchant ships to the Chamber of Commerces. Purely based on that, the shipyard earned 20 thousand gold and made the first profit of the shipyard.

As worldwide trading proliferated, the future shipyard had huge potential. Ouyang Shuo told Zheng Dahai to split the shipyard into two. One part was to build warships and the other was for merchant ships.

Apart from the Chamber of Commerces, the military also started to move.

Receiving the military order, the Guards regiment temporarily stopped their training at the special forces camp and returned. They reached Beihai City first and made use of these two days to get familiar with the Dragon Head. It was their first time following their lord on a long journey, so the colonel Wang Feng was careful and didn't dare to be careless.

What he was worried about was that some soldiers would be seasick and affect their combat strength.

As for the Beihai Naval fleet, they were already prepared.

Just as everyone was getting ready for the long journey, Ouyang Shuo instead went to the Mazu temple.

With the spreading of the Mazu faith, more and more people started to swarm and visit the Mazu Temple. The Culture and Education Division had specially recruited a bunch of faithful believers to help to take care of the daily duties of the temple.

The abbot chosen was a 40 year old lady, and she looked very kind. Seeing the Marquis personally visit, she immediately came forward to welcome him.

Ouyang Shuo went to pray to Mazu, after which he said, "Abbot, I'm here to bring the Mazu Statue out to sea."

The Mazu Statue in his words wasn't that real statue in the temple but another that he asked someone to carve.

Although his statue couldn't be compared to the real one, as it was strengthened by the incense, there was a bit of god power added to it. It shall follow them out and spread the Mazu faith, which was the secret weapon that Ouyang Shuo planned to use to affect Qiongzhou Island.

The abbot said sincerely, "Marquis is trying hard to spread the Mazu faith around; Mazu will definitely protect you and ensure you have a safe journey!"

Ouyang Shuo nodded.

What was next was welcoming the statue.

It wasn't a small thing; there was a full process. If not, one would be insulting the god.

The abbot hosted it and respectfully moved the Mazu statue out of the temple, with the temple maids protecting it all the way until the Dragon Head. On the Dragon Head, there was a specially-built temple room which would be the temporary place for the statue.

Not only that, the Mazu temple also sent out 4 nuns to go out to see with them. They would be in charge of the future workings of the Mazu Temple on Yazhou.

Ouyang Shuo definitely wouldn't think that his actions in future days would bring how much trouble for the territory.

Mazu and the various gods on Qiongzhou Island's battle of faith had started. The battle between gods was sometimes more cruel than the battle between people.

Gaia 2nd year 1st month 18th day

Ouyang Shuo brought some of the maidservants from the Lord's Manor and rushed to Beihai City.

The current Beihai Bay was filled with people. Numerous sailors, artisans and coolies hired by the Chamber of Commerces were hauling resources onto the boat.

On this trip, apart from the Guard's regiment and Beihai Naval fleet, there were 1000 men following. Ouyang Shuo was prepared to directly build the new territory.

After the turreted boat was completed by the shipyard, there would be a second and a third batch of migrants.

The Dragon Head was docked in the harbor; the giant boat was standing out amongst the fleet.

As there were many Chamber of Commerces that joined in, the fleet was huge, there was 1 large turreted boat, 30 Mengcheng Warships, and 20 merchant ships.

"Such a huge boat!" The maidservants were shocked, and seeing that they were setting it out to sea, they were all excited.

Ouyang Shuo smiled and brought them on board. At this point, the Guards regiment had already boarded and were in position.

At 10 AM, the fleet set off.

Yazhou was 2155 nautical miles away from Beihai City. The fleet was traveling at 14 knots, with the speed buff from the Mazu temple, the 30% increase in speed made them reach 18.2 knots.

When the winds were strong, they could reach 26 nautical miles per hour.

Under normal circumstances, they could travel 400 nautical miles in a day. Hence, if things went smoothly, they just needed 5 days to reach Yazhou.

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Chapter 322- Sending a Signal

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As the sun rose up and shined onto the boundless Beihai Bay, it was really eye catching. The naval fleet from Shanhai City were formed up like a swallow migration formation and proceeded forwards.

This has already been the 3rd day they had travelled, and they would reach Yazhou in 2 more days.

Onboard the Dragon Head, Bing'er was chasing Little White and was playing happily.

Behind her followed Blackfang and Little Green. Little Green was a baby Nian beast and was the size of a calf. Compared to the light green armor of its parents, its armor was pure green, with its bloodline becoming more pure. It was because of its armor that Bing'er decided to name it Little Green.

The Nian Beast originally lived in the deep oceans and seas so it knew how to swim and dive. After boarding the Dragon Head, Little Green was like a fish in water and he would dive into the ocean to catch fish and prawns.

In the deep ocean, not only were there the basic fish types, but one would also see a group of sharks once in a while.

Little Green was really fierce, and facing the overlords of the ocean, it wasn't afraid. It rushed across, and with a scratch with its claws, it could easily kill a giant shark.

The bite of the shark had totally no effect against the armor of Little Green.

It was the real overlord of the ocean.

Apart from sharks, there were even aquatics animals that evolved into spirit beasts like squids and tortoises. No matter what animal, compared to the Nian beast it was a lot weaker and became its food.

Ouyang Shuo had a feeling that Little Green was growing at observable speeds over these past few days.

Maybe the ocean was the true home of the Nian beast.

Ouyang Shuo cooping the Nian Beasts up at the back mountains of the territory was actually a mistake.

Little Green who grew by the day could already act as a mount for Bing'er. That little brat would ride on it when it was bored. When she was happy, Little Green would even bring Bing'er for a little swim in the ocean.

The speed at which Little Green swam in the ocean was super quick, as fast as the Dragon Head.

Bing'er's laugh had a sort of magic that attracted all sorts of spirit beasts and made them happy.

With Bing'er having preferential treatment, Song Jia and Little Yue were both so envious. The Guards regiment soldiers, upon seeing the special ability of Bing'er this little princess, had a totally different impression of her.

As for Blackfang, it was in a worst state. It was only a basic wild beast and in front of spirit beasts like Little Green and Little White, it was at a disadvantage. Needless to say, Blackfang had a portion of the wolf race, and hence he was terrified of Little White. If it wasn't for the consolation of Bing'er, Blackfang would not even dare to go close to Little White.

Blackfang was fearful of Little White but was also loyal to it.

The natural strength of the bloodline attracted Blackfang to forever protect Little White.

Bloodline was in actuality a magical strength.

In the sky, Xue'er flapped her wings and flew around. She was the most harmless and also the most fearless.

The four of them were like the four heavenly guardians protecting Bing'er and made everyone envious.

Ouyang Shuo was also feeling a little salty, as Blackfang and Little White had signed contracts with him. Blackfang was still okay, it was loyal and still recognized him as its master. Little white was cold and didn't even bother with him.

Sometimes, Ouyang Shuo even wondered if Bing'er was the main character of the story. One time, he checked her stats and was so shocked that his mouth was agape.

Name: Ouyang Bing

Title: Nil

Territory: Nil

Occupation: Chivalrous Expert (Side Occupation)

Level: 1

Merit Points: 0/100

Rank: Nil

Reputation: Unknown (0/100)

Bone Structure: 20

Comprehension: 15

Luck: 20

Charm: 20

Command: 5

Force: 5

Intelligence: 5

Politics: 5

Talent: Soul of Nature (Possesses high affinity with spirit beasts)

Cultivation Method: Nil

Skill: Basic Gathering Skill, Basic Diplomacy Skill, Basic weapons mastery

Equipment: Nil

Out of Bing'er's stats, her bone structure, luck and charm were all maxed out. She had also gotten a talent straight from birth, and it was the extremely overpowered Soul of Nature.

Thinking about his own pitiful luck and charm, Ouyang Shuo could only laugh bitterly.

Ouyang Shuo was looking forward to what unexpected benefits they would reap when she set up the territory at Yazhou.

In the last life, Ouyang Shuo heard that if a lord had high luck, the system could give extra rewards; if one had high charm, one could attract more advanced talents to move over to the territory.Under the protection of Mazu, the rest of the journey was very smooth.

Gaia 2nd Year 1st Month 23rd Day

The naval fleet had successfully reached Yazhou Bay.

Before reaching it, the fleet had passed two small islands. Legend had it that a fairy loved a fisherman and was punished by becoming two islands, the Xigu Island and the Yunu Island.

In the game, the Xigu Island was 12 square kilometers wide. The mountain had a verdant steep, and the towering cliff was like an axe. These two items could be modified to be the sentries for Yazhou Bay.

Yazhou Bay, the most western bay in Sanya.

When the naval fleet reached Yazhou Bay, it was close to dusk, and the Sun's afterglow was beautiful beyond words.

"So beautiful!" Song Jia muttered like a fairy that came down from the heavens.

Facing such a beautiful scene, even the noisy Bing'er also quieted down.

The top of the Yazhou Bay was the entrance of the Ningyuan river into the ocean. The Ningyuan river was the longest river to the south of Qiongzhou Island, and originated from the center where the Li race was gathered at.

Ouyang Shuo chose the disembarkation point to be at the eastern region where the Ningyuan river entered the ocean.

After going onshore, the sailors started to haul all the resources down from the ships. As there was simply too much stuff, they could only haul down the important ones like tents and food first.

The Guards regiment went deep into the island and started to set up defenses.

Wang Feng left 2 units to act as guards, and he brought 3 units to go forward to investigate.

The disembarkation point was a vast beach, and the soft sand under the shine of the setting sun made it look like a golden island. Crossing the beach, it was a boundless wilderness. Different from the Lianzhou Basin, there were trees and grass growing all over. One couldn't see carefully the objects in the distance, and the environment seemed very complicated.

As it was already late and their sight was affected, Wang Feng didn't dare to venture too deep. He only brought his soldiers and fanned out, patrolling the area around the beach. This beach seemed to be untouched by other people.

The loud fleet seemed to have shocked and alerted the wild beasts in the area.

The moment they had went near the forest, they were attacked by the beasts. They suddenly jumped out from the bushes and trees, showing their claws and sharp teeth.

Luckily, each member of the Guards regiment had been through many battles and facing the suddenly appearing beasts, they didn't panic, drawing their Tang blades and engaging.

Fighting one on one, the soldiers weren't at any disadvantage. After all, they were all rank 9 and above elite soldiers.

As the shine of the blade crossed, soon all the beasts were cleared out.

Just as Wang Feng heaved a sigh of relief, it was like they had stabbed a beehive. With the death of the wild beasts, more appeared out from the forest, some of which were huge and weren't normal beasts.

Wang Feng froze, he remembered the desolate beasts that the marquis had mentioned.

"Guys, don't panic. We will form up in small squads and defend together!" Wang Feng shouted.

"Yes!" The Guards regiment were well trained and quickly changed their formation.

Wang Feng had aimed at the desolate beasts and personally grabbed his spear. He was in charge of clearing out the main threat.

A slaughter had started without any signs on the beach.

Originally, Song Jia and the rest had already gotten off the boat and were playing with water by the beach and enjoying their holiday. Suddenly hearing the sounds of killing, they turned around.

"Form up, prepare to defend!" The Guards regiment troops who were left behind quickly formed up to defend the people.

"Marquis, should we go assist?"

Hearing the commotion, The Beihai Naval Fleet Commander Pei Donglai came over and asked.

Ouyang Shuo looked really calm and waved him off. There's currently no need to. Wang Feng hasn't requested any help, which means that it's under his control. Send my orders, all of you stay at your positions and wait for orders." He believed that those wild beasts were no match for the Guards regiment. In Wang Feng, he had absolute faith.

"Yes my lord!" Pei Donglai backed down and started to assist the Guards regiment to form up the defense.

The merchants who followed the fleet, upon seeing such a huge group of beasts, started to panic. Luckily, they saw the lord being so calm, and the troops he brought were so well trained. That was why they didn't retreat. If not, it would have been so embarrassing.

"Wuyi, everything will be fine right?" Song Jia and the others rushed over.

Ouyang Shuo shook his head and smiled. "It's alright. Bring Bing'er back to the boat first!"

"Ok!" Song Jia was fast and decisive. She knew that she wouldn't be of any help and would instead distract Ouyang Shuo, so she might as well just return to the boat.

As the sky set, Wang Feng led his troops and rushed back. Their faces were solemn and serious.

The soldiers who returned were all stained with blood. Some of them were injured, but their morale wasn't affected much.

"What's the situation?" Ouyang Shuo asked.

"Marquis, I have went to investigate and the beasts in the island are plentiful and they are very strong. There are also scary desolate beasts which harmed our brothers. Hence, I suggest that before we build up our defense, it's better for us to spend the night on the boat."

Ouyang Shuo froze. "What's the strength of the desolate beasts?"

"They are really strong. When fighting one on one, I can only take down two at once. Facing one needs at least the strength of one squadron." Wang Feng had a lingering fear. Apparently, the desolate beasts on the island had left a deep impression on him and sent a signal to the Guards regiment.

Ouyang Shuo nodded. The Guards regiment were in fact the best of the best. For them to face trouble at the hands of the desolate beasts seemed like the beasts' strength was more than what he had expected.

"Let's follow what you said and arrange for the people to retreat back onto the boat. We will spend the night there." Ouyang Shuo's last instructions was so as to not make any rash decisions before understanding more about the island that they were on.

"Yes my lord!" Wang Feng turned around to make arrangements.

Ouyang Shuo raised his head and looked out at the bushes and trees that were slowly covered by darkness. It was like there was a fierce beast hiding within and staring coldly at these bunch of intruders.

As Ouyang Shuo expected, a pair of eyes were staring at them in the bushes. It was the native people who lived on the island.

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Chapter 323- Five Finger Mountain

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As the 1st Sun slowly rose, the bright glow signified the start of a new day.

During the night, there were constantly sounds of desolate beasts roaring in the island, making one's hair stand. Ouyang Shuo had barely had any rest in last night and woke up really early.

He walked out of the cabin and went up onto the 1st layer of the boat, looking towards the distance.

Using the morning glow, the beauty and brilliance of Yazhou was exemplified.

The coast of Yazhou was the famous golden coast; what covered the entire beach area was a natural salt pan. Undeniably, sea salt would become the main economic avenues of Yazhou Territory in the future.

Northern Salt Fields couldn't even be compared to the Yazhou Shore.

Across the golden coast was the endless plains, wild grass proliferated. The Ningyuan river was like a huge dragon as it swerved left and right on the plains.

The fertile soil of the Yazhou Plains and the presence of saltwater made this a good place for agriculture.

Qiongzhou Island, which was located on the tropical region, had enough water and sunlight and was the most suitable to grow rice. Other plants like sugarcane, potatoes and corn were also very suited for this climate.

Apart from that, rubber and coconut which were common in tropical regions also had a bright future. Especially rubber, which was a highly important aspect in Ouyang Shuo's strategic plans.

Looking across the plains, there was the Five Finger Mountain.

The Five Finger Mountain was the tallest mountain range in Qiongzhou Island. It was located in the middle of the island and got its name due to there being 5 peaks which made it look like five fingers. The area was covered by tropical rainforests and there were layers upon layers of them.

The Five Finger Mountain wasn't the mountain range that Sun Wukong was crushed by in the Journey to the West, but there were other legends in which players had triggered special quests in the last life.

Ouyang Shuo remembered that player was called Wu Mingzhi whose occupation was a chivalrous expert, and he was also a solo player who liked to explore.

One time, he suddenly had an idea to rent a big boat in Quanzhou and float out in the ocean towards Qiongzhou. After thousands of near-death situations, he finally reached the Five Finger Mountain.

The tragedy was that Wu Mingzhi got lost.

Luckily for him, he probably sowed good karma. Just as he had lost his way, he had unintentionally walked into the house of one of the indigenous people.

Coincidentally at this moment, a bunch of pirates raided.

Wu Mingzhi didn't hesitate and used his strong martial arts to chase them away. After they left, to thank Wu Mingzhi for saving their life, the family gave him a sword.

Originally, Wu Mingzhi didn't care much about the reward. After all, they were just a normal family in the mountains, what treasure could they have? He didn't expect for that sword to actually be a god weapon.

Wu Mingzhi then realized that he had stumbled across an adventure quest.

The adventure quests that Gaia set didn't have any system notifications when the player triggered it. The choice was totally up to the player. If Wu Mingzhi had chosen to leave, he would have no affinity with the quest.

After he left, he shared his experience on the forums. However to protect that family from being hounded by other players, he didn't reveal their exact location.

Who knows, maybe Wu Mingzhi who was lost didn't even know where he was at.

After leaving the Five Finger Mountain, Wu Mingzhi relied on that god weapon and became one of the experts amongst adventure gamemode players. He made a name for himself in the underworld and was envied by many.

In this life, who knew who would become that lucky person?

As Wu Mingzhi didn't reveal the exact mission location, for Ouyang Shuo to find that family in the vast mountains was like finding a needle in a haystack. Needless to say, he had to conveniently face a water bandit's attack. If not, he wouldn't be able to trigger the adventure quest.

Everything coming together was actually what the luck stat was for.

With Ouyang Shuo's luck, he pretty much didn't have any hope of that happening. However, Ouyang Shuo could send Song Jia in and try, although her luck wasn't as high as Bing'er's, she was at 18 points.

Apart from the legend, the Five Finger Mountain was a treasure vault with many natural resources.

In the Five Finger Mountain, there were 1400 plant types, 150 types of high class wood, over 1000 medicinal herbs and 100 odd famous Five Finger Mountain flowers.

The mountains were a good place for spirits, and they nurtured many rare spirit beasts and desolate beasts. Amongst which was a spirit butterfly known as the golden spotted butterfly. It was very famous in the last life and highly adored by female players.

The golden spotted butterfly was not only beautiful, but it was also good at medicinal arts and illusions, making it the ideal pet for adventure mode players.

Conquering the Five Finger Mountain was one of Ouyang Shuo's goals for this trip.

In the last life, Ouyang Shuo remembered that Feng Qiuhuang had spent 100 thousand gold to buy one golden spotted butterfly, which became one of her representative icons, leading the craze for female players and pets.

Because of the presence of the golden spotted butterfly, the Five Finger Mountain became one of the training hot spots for adventure gamemode players in the last life. Large numbers of adventure gamemode players teleported to Qiongzhou Island and ventured deep into the mountains.

They hoped to be able to catch on golden spotted butterfly and become rich overnight.

Even if they didn't manage to, the Five Finger Mountain was also an ideal leveling spot. There were many high level desolate beasts, even some bosses which made it suitable for leveling up.

Of course, those weak players wouldn't think about it as they were too noob to gain anything.

Ouyang Shuo remembered that in the last life there was a player territory near to the Five Finger Mountain which earned tens of thousands of gold solely on teleportation costs.

Needless to say, the huge numbers of adventure gamemode players spending in the territory also helped its economy to develop.

Such a huge treasure trove, Ouyang Shuo naturally wouldn't give it up. At most he could build a subsidiary territory at the outskirts of the mountain to be used to welcome the adventure gamemode players.

As for how to promote it, Ouyang Shuo already had an idea.

The northern and eastern sides of the Yazhou Plains were basically circled by the Five Finger Mountain range. To the west was a vast grassland which one couldn't see the end of, so it would also be the main development direction of the territory.

Such a vast and fertile soil, wasn't it the best place to develop agriculture?

The south of the plains was the end of the Five Finger Mountain range and was another famous mountain on the island, the South Mountain.

It was the mountain located in the southmost portion of the China region, and was termed as the land of prosperity. There was a phrase in China: prosperity like the East Sea and longevity like the South Mountain. The mountain referred to this mountain.

The South Mountain was also the place where Buddhist Dharma was spread out from. Legends had it that Guanyin Pusa and Tang Sen had all stepped foot on the South Mountain and spread around Buddhism.

In the last life, as the Tang Dynasty joined into the game progression, the South Mountain temple appeared on the mountain. The god that the temple worshipped was Guanyin Pusa,

Ouyang Shuo couldn't predict how the future South Mountain Temple would affect the Mazu Temple as after all based on legends, Mazu was inspired by Guanyin Pusa.

Apart from that, South Mountain also had a small paradise. It was one of the few in the China region which was one of the mysterious regions that players could repeatedly explore.

In the last life, the South Mountain paradise was unintentionally found by an adventure gamemode player in the 4th year of gaia. Now that Ouyang Shuo had arrived on Yazhou, naturally he wouldn't miss out the chance to explore it.

The future South Mountain Paradise, apart from the Five Finger Mountain, would be another hotspot for adventure gamemode players.

All in all, Yazhou was a treasure island.

The prerequisite would be that Ouyang Shuo needed to have a firm footing on the island.

The engagement last night had displayed the dangers and cruelty of Yazhou. To be able to be stable in Yazhou, even though Ouyang Shuo had made a lot of preparations, it still wasn't easy.

What was in front of him were two choices. One was to enter the plains to find a suitable village building spot. The other was to temporarily stay by the ocean and build a port.

Both had its pros and cons.

If it was to build the village, they could immediately set up the teleportation formation to obtain reinforcements; there would also be new refugees, which meant their army would only get stronger.

The weakness would be that they currently had nothing. If they went too deep, they might be attacked by beasts and indigenous people.

With the strength of the Guards regiment and the Beihai Naval fleet, if there were too many enemies, not only would there be heavy casualties, they might even be overwhelmed.

The current situation in the Lianzhou Basin didn't allow Ouyang Shuo to move large amounts of troops. After all, Lianzhou Prefecture was the root of the territory, and they couldn't lose it.

As for building the port, the strengths and weaknesses were very apparent.

The strength would be that they would be safe. From the observation yesterday, Ouyang Shuo found that be it desolate beasts or indigenous people, they basically wouldn't come out from the bushes. So the chances of them being attacked would be very small.

The weakness would be the low efficiency. Building a port wasn't done in a day. Before it was finished, a large portion of the people would be useless and have nothing to do.

Apart from that, grain was a huge problem. They only brought limited grain, and without using the super trading platform or getting any supplies from Shanhai City, they could only last for half a month.

Half a month wasn't enough to complete a large port.

Firstly, they had limited workers, and secondly, the wood and stone resources were limited. Ouyang Shuo predicted that with their current circumstances, they needed at least 2 months before barely completing it.

Ouyang Shuo was in a terrible situation.

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Chapter 324- Three Pronged Method

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After eating his breakfast, Ouyang Shuo gathered the core members of the group for a meeting. Apart from the Guards regiment colonel Wang Feng, was Pei Donglai, Secretary Bai Nanpu, Song Jia and Sun Xiaoyue.

Ouyang Shuo briefly described his views and asked for their opinions.

As military generals, Wang Feng and Pei Donglai wouldn't say their views on such a strategic decision as furthermore this wasn't their specialty.

Song Jia was here to have fun, so naturally she wouldn't interfere in his decision. Sun Xiaoyue joined the trip as the overall architect, so she was in charge of the planning and organization of the new territory.

The only one who could express his views was only Bai Nanpu.

Ever since the day he became Ouyang Shuo's secretary, 10 months had passed. The impression that he gave Ouyang Shuo was that he was really low profile.

Although the position of secretary was similar to that of a assistant, it was a tough job. His responsibility apart from organizing the letters. He was also in charge of spreading instructions and helping with administrative matters.

Sometimes Ouyang Shuo would ask him for his opinion on some matters written in the letter.

Each part of his job was important, and to do it well, one would hold tremendous power. Hence, the secretary was a very popular person and was even one whom everybody wanted to make friends with.

What astonished people was that Bai Nanpu as a secretary was like an invisible person. Usually, even Ouyang Shuo wouldn't notice his presence.

More mysteriously was that when Ouyang Shuo needed him, he would appear at the appropriate moments. The letters placed on his desk were always so neat and well arranged.

Ouyang Shuo also hadn't heard about Bai Nanpu meeting any officials in private. He was always in the secretary office, either dealing with letters or reading.

Fan Zhongyan had given Bai Nanpu an evaluation, saying that he couldn't see through this young secretary, and that his perseverance and resilience were scary.

That's right, "scary" was the word that Fan Zhongyan had used.

Fan Zhongyan was one of the 3 heads of the civil servants in the territory. For him to evaluate you as 'scary' meant that you were really special.

At that moment, Ouyang Shuo had just laughed it off, but secretly he started to pay closer attention to this secretary.

Overall, towards this secretary, Ouyang Shuo was extremely pleased. As for his subtlety, Ouyang Shuo felt that it wasn't a problem.

For this long trip, Ouyang Shuo specifically brought him along to give him some training. After all, after being the secretary for a long time, his eyes were opened but he didn't have any administrative experience.

Ouyang Shuo wanted to let Bai Nanpu lead the early administrative works of the Yazhou Territory. Before leaving, he also specifically tracked him down to have a deep conversation.

Although he didn't say it directly, Bai Nanpu probably understood his intentions.

Meeting hall

Noticing the glance from the marquis, Bai Nanpu knew that the lord was waiting for him to answer. This answer was a test for him.

The previous words from the marquis had ignited a series of thoughts in his hard. The meaning from which made even his cool character feel emotional and excited.

Becoming an official and leading a territory was the dream of everyone.

What was better was to lead such a place like Yazhou, the importance of which didn't need to be further emphasized.

As for how to open up Yazhou, Bai Nanpu had pondered about it throughout the night before obtaining a short rest.

Bai Nanpu calmed himself down and said, "Marquis, I feel that to build the territory first is not right. The risk is too big, and isn't the rational decision. Furthermore, we also have the Chamber of Commerces following us and we can't endanger them or it would affect your honor." Bai Nanpu's words were the same as rejecting the first suggestion.

Ouyang Shuo nodded, not agreeing or disagreeing.

Bai Nanpu continued, "Building the military port is also too slow. At this moment, I suggest to split into three parts and work all at once."

"Have a go!"

"Firstly, the military port will proceed as usual, it would be of the utmost importance. Secondly, contact Shanhai City to form up the second batch of people, bringing over more workers and grain. Thirdly, explore the island and the region around us to better prepare to build our territory." Bai Nanpu came out with his 3-part plan.

Ouyang Shuo nodded, finally revealing a smile. "Not bad!"

Bai Nanpu relaxed and went back to his seat.

Ouyang Shuo looked around and started to give out orders. "General Pei!"

"Yes my lord!"

"Split the Naval fleet into two. Half will return to Beihai City and guard the next batch as they come here. The other will monitor the region around the island and draw up a nautical map and on the way, get rid of the pirates. It's best if you are able to make a round trip around the island and obtain first hand intel."

"Yes my lord!" Pei Donglai was good at this, and as such he was filled with confidence.

"The Dragon Head will be under your charge!"

"Thank you my lord!" Pei Donglai was elated; he had been wanting and yearning for the Dragon Head.

If one were to make a decision between beauties and warships, Pei Donglai would definitely choose the latter.

Ouyang Shuo continued. "Wang Feng!"

"Present!"

Towards Wang Feng, Ouyang Shuo was warmer and it could be seen from his greeting.

"Split the Guards regiment into two. Three units will be to defend the camp and the rest will be to kill the beasts at the outer parts of Yazhou. Remember, remain in a unit until you reach the village building area. Apart from that, arrange an elite squadron to go deep into the island and get intel about the indigenous people."

Compared to the wild beasts and desolate beasts, Ouyang Shuo was more wary of the indigenous people who didn't appear. If he didn't know the current state and know more about his environment, he couldn't be at ease.

No matter how strong the desolate beasts were, they had a hunting region. The indigenous people were different, they have lived here for generations and knew every nook and cranny well. With such a huge population, they would also have strong warriors and also smart shamans, a strong enemy for the travelling army.

Different from the mountain barbarians, the indigenous people here wouldn't easily bow down to food. If Ouyang Shuo wanted to buy their hearts using some grain, it was nearly impossible.

The Five Finger Mountain had huge amounts of food and without winter, the indigenous people had no lack of food.

The Guards regiment soldiers had all basically underwent a period of special forces training, and in terms of intel gathering they naturally had a bit of skill. Hence, Ouyang Shuo didn't bring the Military Intelligence Division over.

"Yes my lord!" Wang Feng was given a heavy responsibility.

After Ouyang Shuo delegated military duties, he looked once again to Bai Nanpu. "As for the building of the port, you will be in charge. Apart from that, remember to choose a plot of the shore to reclaim the salt pans. The salt workers must be given some work to do."

"Yes, my lord!" Bai Nanpu held the emotions on his heart and nodded. The plan that the marquis had made was more detailed and better than his suggestions, making him feel that his experience was lacking.

Ouyang Shuo nodded and was ready to to announce the end of the meeting. Using up so much time, the troops and people outside were waiting to receive their duties for the day.

Suddenly, Sun Xiaoyue stepped out. "Wuyi, I have a suggestion."

"Oh?"

"It's like this. I suggest that when the Guards regiment are clearing out the wild beasts, they could open up a region along the ocean which can be used to build a farm."

"Farm?"

"Based on the weather of Qiongzhou Island, this period is suitable to grow some vegetables. Apart from that, there should be large numbers of wild pigs and cows on the island. If we can obtain their calves, we could rear a batch of animals. With that, we could solve our food problems. Even if it means we will build the territory later, our group will be self sufficient and can last for a long time." Sun Xiaoyue said her thoughts.

After finishing, her heart was beating. She didn't know why she wanted so hard to help Ouyang Shuo and also why she so badly wanted his recognition.

Ouyang Shuo nodded. If based on her suggestion, there would be plenty of benefits and all the people brought over would all have something to do.

"Good, this idea is not bad." Ouyang Shuo turned and looked at Bai Nanpu, "Note it down!"

"Don't worry my lord." Although Bai Nanpu lacked creativity, he was really good at following orders and would do it to the best of his ability.

Song Jia sat to the side and gave Sun Xiaoyue a glance, but instantly returned back to normal.

This time Ouyang Shuo had taken up the role of a boss and passed around responsibilities while he didn't join in.

At this stage, if such things needed his personal management, it meant that he had failed and that he wasn't a passable lord.

Ouyang Shuo wanted to use the chance to spend time with Bing'er and Song Jia.

As for exploring the South Mountain Paradise, it would have to wait until the territory was built. With just him and Song Jia, they didn't have the ability to explore the mysterious region. Thinking about it, he probably had to invite Little Aunt down to help.

Of course, before the territory was built up, he wouldn't inform Little Aunt. It wasn't because he didn't trust her, but it was because he didn't trust the other members.

The betrayal by the Snow-war Rose Mercenary group the previous time showed that even if it was the core of the team, there were things that they couldn't totally control.

Ouyang Shuo had no choice but to be careful.

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Chapter 325: Iron Armored Beast

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Lianzhou Basin._

Two men in black were in the wilderness, meeting in secret.

"How are the preparation going?"

"Everything is in place!"

"Great!"

"I heard that guy isn't in the territory?"

"That's right, it's been confirmed."

"Hehe, evildoers don't deserve to live!"

"Stick to the plan, let's keep in contact."

After a few simple sentences, both of them quickly left and disappeared into the wilderness.

Just after they left, in one of the bushes not far away, walked out a young man. He looked ordinary and dressed ordinarily, the only thing special was a small bird perched on his shoulder.

The teen looked towards the men that had just left and muttered, "A bunch of rats, did you think being sneaky would let you escape our investigation and spying?"

After he finished, he said some words to the little bird on his shoulder. After it heard them, it flew in the air and towards the boundless sky, quickly disappearing.

Gaia 2nd year 1st month 27th day.

On the shore closest to South Mountain, people continued to move around, and it was really busy. This was the building place of the port. The exact location and design was all done by Sun Xiaoyue.

When she was still in Dali, Sun Xiaoyue was already an advanced architect. After half a year of training in the territory, she had upgraded to a master-ranked architect. For her to be in charge of the port design was highly suitable.

The planned South Mountain Harbour was bigger than Beihai Harbor, and it was going to act as the future military harbor.

The harbour was close to the South Mountain, so it was easy to obtain resources. Bai Nanpu had already arranged artisans to open up a quarry and a sawmill.

The carts that went to and fro South Mountain and the harbor were incessant.

To the west of the South Mountain was 5 kilometers of shoal. On it were large numbers of salt workers who were busy reclaiming the saltpan. The size of the first batch would be 10 thousand Mu, similar to another Beimu Saltpan.

On the western side of the shoal was the beach. The yellow sand was found everywhere and this was the famous Golden Coast.

Beside the shore was a two-story wooden building.

On the balcony on the second floor, was a bamboo deck chair. Ouyang Shuo and Song Jia were comfortably lying on it and enjoying their holiday.

If there were cold glasses of drinks, life would be perfect.

On the beach in front of the little building, Bing'er was barefoot and playing around with the four little beasts. Little Green swam in the river and would catch a big fish every once in a while, making Bing'er cheer.

Little White also followed and jumped into the ocean, being hugged by Bing'er. The little fella shook off the water on its hair unhappily which made Bing'er totally wet.

"Ya!" Bing'er grumbled before laughing out loud.

Blackfang was loyally protecting its little master and occasionally would be able to eat the fish that Little Green had caught, making it delighted and satisfied.

Not far away, Zisu was holding onto food and a blanket, waiting for them.

The scene in front of them made Ouyang Shuo feel very blessed. Sometimes, it was really that simple.

Ouyang Shuo stretched lazily and looked at Song Jia to the side and said, "Resting for a few days, I feel so at ease."

"You lazy bug!" Song Jia threw him a judging eye.

"Tomorrow I should go and stretch. These few days, Wang Feng has been facing some trouble."

The Guards regiment was having a hard time clearing out the wild beasts and desolate beasts. Not mentioning the wild beasts which grouped up which made it hard to kill them, the desolate beasts were the biggest enemy of the Guards regiment.

The desolate beast that they faced that in the evening were only one of the weaker ones at the edge of the island.

As they ventured further in, the desolate beasts got stronger and stronger. Wang Feng once said that he could handle two at once, but now even handling one was tough.

Ouyang Shuo had no choice but to move one more unit to participate in the operation.

"I'll go too!" After playing for a few days, Song Jia was getting restless.

"No!" Ouyang Shuo shook his head. "This is a military operation. You're a girl, so the soldiers will end up fearing for you."

"Hen, don't look down on people!"

"You ah!" Ouyang Shuo knew Song Jia was highly competitive and didn't want to crush her spirit. "I know a suitable place, but who knows if you dare to go?"

"I definitely dare!"

"Five Finger Mountain!"

"Five Finger Mountain?"

"That's right, it's a treasure trove for high level players and if your luck is good, you might experience a lucky break." Ouyang Shuo recalled the legends of the Five Finger Mountain.

"Really?" Hearing about a fortuitous encounter, Song Jia's eyes brightened.

"When have I ever lied to you. The problem is that it's far away and dangerous if you go alone, you would die in an instance."

"It's not as bad as you say." Song Jia wasn't so easy to fool," I'm not like the Guards regiment, so large and easy to spot. If I travel alone and be careful, I can totally avoid all the desolate beasts and indigenous people."

Ouyang Shuo nodded, agreeing with her.

"Just nice. My martial arts have reached a bottleneck, and I need some practical training. Such a great time!"

Martial arts which weren't practiced in battle were ones that were unable to be used on the big stages.

Song Jia had been cooped up in the sword sect and needed some field training.

Ouyang Shuo thought about it and took out something, passing it to her, "If you go, I'll support you all the way. remember to bring this."

"What's this." Song Jia took it, it was a little doll.

"This was the substitute doll that I bought from the first auction."

"Ya, isn't this the legendary substitute doll?" Song Jia looked at the doll in her hands in awe," I heard that it was being sold for sky high prices and no one sells it."

"Of course. As players level up, apart from us lords, everyone else doesn't want to die. This can allow players to revive without any punishment, of course it is sought after."

Song Jia thought about it and returned the doll back to Ouyang Shuo."This training needs to be a life or death trip. If I bring this, then it will be an insurance and I'm not sure if I'll still be able to fight with all my strength and give it my all."

Ouyang Shuo's eyes brightened. In the last life, he was also an adventure gamemode player so he obviously understood what she was saying.

If a person knew that even if he died there wouldn't be any consequences, then he would just choose to charge forward.

A real warrior would make use of courage and intellect at the crucial moment to try to survive and not go forward brainlessly.

"To be able to think like that, your training has partially succeeded."

Song Jia smiled.

The next day, Song Jia ventured out alone.

In the morning, one person and one sword disappeared into the wilderness.

Seeing her walk away, Ouyang Shuo turned around, "Let's move out!"

The Guards regiment including Ouyang Shuo didn't sit on war horses. Their mounts could only wait till the territory is built before being able to teleport them through the teleportation formation.

Ouyang Shuo took out his Tianmo Spear and walked at the front of the group. Moving past the bushes, in a short time, they managed to reach the place that they cleaned up till the day before.

The wild beasts on Qiongzhou Island included wild pigs, Long-armed apes, leopards, and bulls. The wild pigs and rhinoceroses usually lived on the plains while the Long-armed ape and the leopards rested in the forests on the Five Finger Mountains.

As for the desolate beasts, they came in all forms and types.

The common desolate beasts were evolved from the few types. Either their size increased, or a certain body part changed. For some rare desolate beasts, one probably needed to flip open books to be able to identify them.

Of course, in front of the strong scouting skill of players, all information was instantly obtained.

After reaching their destination, the Guards regiment soldiers started clearing out wild beasts orderly. They were in groups of squads and stuck close together, like a highly efficient killing machine and pushing forwards.

Facing the normal wild beasts, Ouyang Shuo wasn't going to interfere. The reason he came today was to train his spear techniques against the desolate beasts of the island.

The Yang Family Spear technique was trained to the 4th level, and there was a huge gap until the 5th level, which needed the technique to be imbued into one's mind.

To break through to the 5th level, what was most important was practical fighting. Only by using the different strokes and stances in battle would one be able to become well versed in them and adapt to anything that was thrown at them.

Facing an attack, one wouldn't need to think and their instincts would help them make the right choice. One would have lightning quick reactions, and the spear in their hand would react as quickly as their mind thought about it, only then would it be called imbued in them.

Just as Ouyang Shuo was deep in his thoughts, a low roar broke out.

Along with the roar, from the bushes walked out an iron armored beast which looked really ugly.

The giant beast was 5 meters long and 2 meters high, weighing in tonnes. Looking from afar, it looked like a meat mountain and gave one a strong suppressive feeling, making it hard for one to breathe.

The giant beast's body was thick and stupid, and its four short limbs were like 4 metal poles that supported its heavy body. Its body was covered with an armor-like skin, filled with hard scales and shining in the light.

Its huge head was like that of a cow with a single horn, similarly as hard as iron and shining in the sun. What was amusing was that at each side of its head were a pair of small eyes.

The giant beast roared as it charged towards the Guards regiment. As it trampled on the wilderness, the ground shook and the nearby trees and bushes ruffled.

"Form up!" Wang Feng didn't dare to take it lightly.

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Chapter 326- Devil Possession

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Seeing the iron armored beast charging towards them, Ouyang Shuo was actually quite excited. He used his scouting technique to check out the stats of this desolate beast.

Name: Elite Iron Armored Beast (Desolate Beast)

Level: 70

Race: Rhinoceros

Skill: Ice (Ability to activate the power of ice), Charge (Raise the combat strength by 60%)

Combat strength: 480 points

Evaluation: Evolved from a basic rhinoceros, got its name from its iron armor.

Desolate beasts were the same standard as spirit beasts. The higher their level, the higher their combat strength. The iron armored beast in front of them was at a terrifying level 70 and could make use of ice. It wasn't an easy opponent.

Based on the settings of Gaia, a rank 1 soldier had a basic combat strength of 15, increasing by 5 at every rank, jumping by 10 when it became a trained soldier. Hence, a rank 4 trained soldier had 40 combat strength and each increase in rank would mean an increase by 10 points and 20 when it upgraded to an elite soldier.

Hence, a rank 7 elite soldier had a basic combat strength of 90 and every rank up would give him 15 points. When it upgraded to a war elite soldier, it would have an additional 30 point increase. A rank 10 war elite soldier had a basic combat strength of 165 points, increasing by 20 every rank. The highest rank 12 war elite soldier had a basic combat strength of 205.

A rank 9 elite soldier had 120 basic combat strength, and when it class changed to basic general, it increased by 50 to 170 points, similar to that of a rank of 10 war elite soldier. Class changing to intermediate general, it would mean a 100 point increase to 270 combat strength, exceeding that of a rank 12 war elite soldier.

Class changing to an advanced general, the basic combat strength could reach a shocking 500 points.

Apart from basic combat strength, weapons and cultivation methods would have an added points, different from person to person. For example, Wang Feng, who was only an intermediate general, his combat strength was at 400. But even as the strongest soldier in the Guards regiment, facing the iron armored beast, Wang Feng was weaker than it in terms of combat strength.

Ouyang Shuo wanted to solo this beast and asked Wang Feng and his troops to stand down.

The iron armored beast, upon seeing a human dare to face it alone, was so furious that white steam shot out from its nose, instantly becoming enraged. It's thick limbs looked small, but when it started running, it was like a whirlwind that rushed at Ouyang Shuo at fast speeds.

While running, the head of the beast would slowly lower and reveal its sharp horn. One could imagine that by being pierced by the horn, one would definitely be torn right apart.

Ouyang Shuo focused; he grabbed the Tianmo spear in his head, calming himself down and not moving. The yellow internal strength rushed around in his body, slowly infusing into the spear. Strengthened by the internal strength, the Tianmo spear had a golden pattern on it, making it look exquisite and mysterious.

The devil bloodline in Ouyang Shuo's body started to move, and it looked like it was close to boiling over.

10...8...6...4...2...

Ouyang Shuo could already smell the stench from the body of the iron armored beast, the wind alone that it brought blew Ouyang Shuo's hair, making it swing in the air.

Wang Feng and the other soldiers who were standing at the side were so nervous that they watched on with bated breath.

The iron armored beast, upon seeing that the human in front of it was not moving, it felt that Ouyang Shuo was definitely scared silly. It was a desolate beast and didn't have a merciful heart. It bent forward and used the strength of all four limbs, jumping towards Ouyang Shuo.

The huge and ugly head thrusted forward and the sharp horn was like lighting as it aimed for Ouyang Shuo's chest. It was ready to enjoy the enemy's fresh blood and taste its victory.

It was hard for one to imagine that such a huge body could actually accomplish such a swift and flexible action.

Ouyang Shuo was also surprised. Luckily, he had vast experience and didn't panic. He side-stepped and avoided the horn of the beast.

Seeing that it had missed, the iron armored beast shook it off and tried to charge once more. The shining horn was about to pierce the side of Ouyang Shuo's body.

At this moment, Ouyang Shuo was taking in his breath, and trying to avoid it was highly difficult.

Ouyang Shuo was helpless and could only fall to the ground to avoid it. The reaction speed of the desolate beast was far greater than what he had expected.

After two tries and not succeeding, the iron armored beast was totally furious. Seeing that the enemy actually fell to the ground, it didn't think and raised its limbs to stomp. If this stomp hit, no matter who it was, they wouldn't be able to withstand it.

Although Ouyang Shuo was in a bad situation, he was still clear-headed. He was clear what kind of attack he was going to receive when he fell to the ground, so he prepared in advance.

He rolled to the side and once again avoided the attack of the iron armored beast.

The iron armored beast didn't care and used its two front limbs to stomp one after the other, not giving Ouyang Shuo any chance to rest. The huge impacts was like lightning, striking again and again.

Ouyang Shuo was like he was in the middle of an iron pole forest. The sky above his head would have pole after pole dropping down. If he had a misstep, he was going to die a terrible death.

The terrifying potential of dying had stimulated the adrenaline in Ouyang Shuo. The devil bloodline in him was like hot oil and was about to split apart.

Seeing that it couldn't handle the enemy at its feet, the iron armored beast suddenly opened wide its mouth and sucked it, before spitting out. Only to see hail formed from the cold air striking towards Ouyang Shuo.

Before the hail even came close, Ouyang Shuo already sneezed.

The area of effect of the hail was simply too big, and Ouyang Shuo had no way to escape. Ouyang Shuo immediately felt his body freeze up and his reaction speed slow down. What was more terrifying was that the cold air was seeping into his body and was going to freeze his blood.

This was bad. Ouyang Shuo was alarmed and instantly rotated his internal strength to counteract the cold air. The golden internal strength helped to make Ouyang Shuo's body return to normal.

After spitting out the cold air, its body also trembled. It was apparent that this move had used up a lot of its energy. Seeing the enemy being frozen, the iron armored beast wouldn't give up such a chance and stomped down. How are you going to dodge this time?

Ouyang Shuo gave a cold smile. He side-stepped and got away from the front limb. Making use of the iron armored beast being stunned, he flipped his body up and stood up.

Everything happened in an instant and dazzled everyone.

Getting away from the iron armored beast, Ouyang Shuo shouted, the bloodline in his body reached its limit, and finally burst apart.

"Devil possession!"

In an instant, the devil bloodline that was hidden in Ouyang Shuo's body was awakened. Stimulated by the blood of the devil, the golden internal strength in his body sped up.

As the golden internal strength merged with the devil blood, the gold and black mixed, making it look grand and mysterious.

The power of the bloodline had changed Ouyang Shuo's body and allowed him to use tremendous strength.

One could see the muscles in his body protrude and he seemed to have grown one size bigger. A bloody aura burst out from his body, making one petrified.

Being stimulated by the devil blood, the Tianmo Spear's spear spirit also fully awakened. The tip of the spear gave out a black, eerie, glow.

Activating the devil possession, Ouyang Shuo's combat strength had doubled. He held onto the spear and suddenly had the feeling that the iron armored beast in front of him wasn't that scary anymore.

The evil blood aura that came out from Ouyang Shuo caused the beast to freeze and even retreat a step. When it regained its senses, its embarrassment turned into anger.

It was a desolate beast, how could it be insulted like this. The iron armored beast roared out.

As it roared, the scales on the iron armored beast stood up and shone in the light.

The real battle was finally going to start.

Ouyang Shuo shook the Tianmo Spear and went on the offensive. The iron armored beast was totally covered by the armor and it's only weakness was its eyes. Unfortunately, it's eyes were too small and were protected by its eyelids, so it wasn't easy to hit.

The Tianmo Spear pierced forwards at the neck of the iron armored beast. Ouyang Shuo wanted to test out exactly how thick the scales of the iron armored beast were.

"Ding!" As the spear head and the scales met, a crisp sound resounded.

The huge strength made the neck of the iron armored beast tilt and the spear instantly lost its penetrative ability. Ouyang Shuo was reluctant to give up and slashed across its body. Sparks flew as the spear hit the scales.

The screech as iron scratched iron deafened everyone.

This fella's scales were actually all metal. Who knew how much iron essence it had to grow out all these scales.

Fighting head to head, Ouyang Shuo wasn't at a disadvantage.

With the manic character of the iron armored beast, it wasn't one to not retaliate when hit. Seeing the enemy being unable to do anything about the scales, it started being arrogant and charged once more towards Ouyang Shuo.

After falling for it once, Ouyang Shuo wouldn't make the same mistake and dodged the charge.

Just as the iron armored beast went past him, Ouyang Shuo pushed with his left hand, using one of the moves in Bajiquan: Tyrant guides the horse, to strike the heavy armor. The fist brought with it internal strength and passed through the armor and spread into the body of the iron armored beast.

That move was totally unexpected. A little more and the iron armored beast would have had internal injuries.

The iron armored beast was also amazing. The moment it was attacked, it immediately retaliated. It used its back limb to kick out at Ouyang Shuo.

Ouyang Shuo was astonished and avoided it.

This fellow was really not simple; its combat ability was shocking. If one could train it into a mount, it would be amazing and similar to Luo Sha.

Although Ouyang Shuo was frightened, his reaction wasn't slow. After avoiding it, it stabbed forward with the spear, the place he aimed at was the butthole of the iron armored beast. It's real soft spot.

Throughout the entire body of the beast, only this spot wasn't protected by anything.

The Tianmo Spear pierced in with lighting quick speed and entered into its body. The spinning spear was like a drill which mashed up the innards of the iron armored beast.

The iron armored beast felt its ass being burst open and let out a painful growl.

Wang Feng, who was viewing the battle, clenched his butt cheeks upon seeing what had happened. A cold air blew across and he felt a shiver down his spine.

Ouyang Shuo, on the other hand, kept a straight face.

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Chapter 327- Blessing In Disguise

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As the butt of the iron armored beast was pierced by Ouyang Shuo, it was lethally injured. It decided to give its all and use its ultimate skill.

The iron armored beast braked in its tracks and turned around to face Ouyang Shuo. It once again opened its mouth and took in a deep breath; its stomach was bloated like giant meatball.

Ouyang Shuo froze. He knew that the iron armored beast was going to go crazy. Being stabbed by the Tianmo Spear, the iron armored beast was already bleeding internally, Ouyang Shuo was prepared to slowly wear it down, but it seemed like that wouldn't be possible.

The stomach of the iron armored beast suddenly revealed a blue light, looking extremely mysterious. It was obviously preparing to launch its ice techniques. It spit out and a huge blue ball was sent forth.

The blue sphere was emanating cold air. After all, it was formed by the pure ice energy.

Ouyang Shuo didn't dare to be careless and avoided it, and the blue sphere brushed past him.

What terrified Ouyang Shuo was that the blue sphere had a spirit. It stopped and turned around, chasing after Ouyang Shuo.

My god, what is that? Is he in a magical world? Ouyang Shuo didn't dare to believe it.

Ouyang Shuo pushed his speed to the max and made sharp turns to try and escape from the chasing blue sphere. Unfortunately, no matter how he tried to feint to escape it, the blue sphere was like it had eyes and chased closely after him.

Running like this wasn't a solution, and Ouyang Shuo didn't want to wait to die.

He ran and turned around to observe the sphere behind him.

On the surface it was a sphere of ice energy and there was nothing special about it. In theory it shouldn't be able to chase an enemy.

Unless the problem was the iron armored beast?

Ouyang Shuo turned and looked at the iron armored beast. Only to see it lay there and not move at all. It's stomach had already totally shrivelled and it appeared really weak.

Only that ugly head and those funny looking small eyes stared at Ouyang Shuo as he turned around.

When Ouyang Shuo went left, the eyes of the beast would go left; when he went right, the iron armored beast would look right. Its eyes never left Ouyang Shuo.

Was the blue sphere controlled by the iron armored beast?

Ouyang Shuo decided to give it a try.

Since it is controlled by the iron armored beast, there must be a distance restriction. As long as Ouyang Shuo ran far away, he didn't believe that the blue sphere could still follow him.

Ouyang Shuo did just as he thought. He stopped strafing right and left and just ran straight.

In an instant, the distance between Ouyang Shuo and the iron armored beast had past 100 meters.

He turned his head around. As expected, the blue sphere started to shake and wasn't as fast as before. The eyes of the iron armored beast also had a bit of anxiety.

Ouyang Shuo was not really calm. He knew that his guess was correct and continued to run forwards.

When the distance exceeded 200 meters, the sphere stopped chasing and started to fly back to the iron armored beast.

200 meters was the control limit of the iron armored beast.

Ouyang Shuo's eyes constricted, and a thought flashed through his mind. He finally thought of an item that was similar to the scene in front of him. Based on information, some lucky spirit beasts or desolate beasts would develop an inner pellet.

The inner pellet not only could increase the strength of the desolate beast, but it was also an attack method. The desolate beast could force the inner pellet out of its body and control the attack.

The reason why Ouyang Shuo didn't think about the inner pellet was because the beasts that managed to nurture a pellet was too rare. Out of 10 thousand, there might not even be one.

He totally didn't expect that the first one he met would nurture a inner pellet.

Such good luck!

Based on Ouyang Shuo's luck, he totally didn't dare to believe that such a good thing would land on his lap.

The inner pellet had multiple uses...

If players directly used the inner pellet, not only could it greatly increase inner strength, but there was also a chance to get a second talent. If you passed the inner pellet to a priest and he made it into a pill, the effects would be shocking.

Ouyang Shuo ran towards the iron armored beast, shouting at Wang Feng, "Quick, stop that ball. Don't let the beast return it back into its stomach."

The inner pellet leaving the body was a hard to get opportunity. At this point, the effect of the pellet would be the best. If one killed the desolate beast and obtained the pellet, the effects would be greatly reduced.

Wang Feng and the men were still on high alert and were ready to jump to help their lord. Hearing their lord's orders, they didn't even bother about the reason and immediately surrounded the beast.

The Guards regiment were well trained and didn't swarm forward. Only the most elite charged in front, and they were all basically lieutenant grade officers.

The elite squad was split into two, one under Wang Feng's lead surrounded the beast to make it distracted while the other ran towards the blue sphere to block it.

When the iron armored beast saw such a situation, it panicked. After releasing the inner pellet, it was unable to move and could only allow the enemy to attack it. This was also the reason why the desolate beast didn't release the inner pellet. If it wasn't that Ouyang Shuo really pissed it off, it wouldn't have done that.

Wang Feng's combat strength was similar to that of the iron armored beast, and he took up the role of the main attacker. He was also ruthless and followed Ouyang Shuo's plan to attack its butt.

The brutal scene had once again occured.

The iron armored beast had totally started going crazy. It started to direct the inner pellet to attack the Guards regiment soldiers. At this point, the inner pellet had returned to within 100 meters and its speed was quick. Ouyang Shuo wanting to escape it was already a little dangerous, much less for the Guards regiment soldiers. Even though they were the elite of the elite.

Whoever was hit by the inner pellet was instantly sealed and became an ice statue.

In a moment, the Guards regiment had heavy casualties.

Even so, none of them backed off.

Wang Feng, upon seeing his men being massacred by the iron armored beast, immediately stabbed the spear into the butt of the beast, pushing all the way until he hit the internal organ.

This wasn't it as Wang Feng turned the spear and mashed its innards. However, the life force of the iron armored beast was very strong, and it still commanded the inner pellet to attack the soldiers.

Luckily at this time, Ouyang Shuo had finally rushed in. He took up the duty of dealing with the inner pellet. After all, the iron armored beast was already hurt and was only barely holding on, so its control of the inner pellet wasn't so quick.

In front of Ouyang Shuo, the inner pellet was no longer a threat and could be easily dodged.

Seeing that the marquis had it handled, the Guards regiment soldiers backed down. They didn't forget to carry the bodies of their friends away and try to break the seal to save them.

Five minutes later, the iron armored beast had finally died through the loss of too much blood.

The inner pellet shook and fell right into Ouyang Shuo's arm.

What was magical was with the death of the beast, the inner pellet had shrank and became a pellet the size of a pearl. Although it was still blue, it didn't feel cold anymore holding it in his hand.

Ouyang Shuo took out a wooden box from his storage bag and placed the pellet within it.

Keeping the inner pellet, Ouyang Shuo didn't go to check on the corpse of the iron armored beast, and instead went to the frozen guard regiment soldiers. These soldiers were frozen not long ago and could still be saved.

Ouyang Shuo raised his palm and pressed onto the statue. The internal strength was injected into his palm and onto the ice. This ice was made up of a special energy which can only be resolved by internal strength.

Under the injection of the golden internal strength, the statue could be seen to melt at an observable rate.

Two minutes later, one ice statue was totally melted. The soldier inside was still alive but he had been badly hurt and needed to rest for a while.

Ouyang Shuo didn't dare to rest in his laurels and continued to melt the other ice statues.

In a short time, there were actually 10 soldiers that were frozen so Ouyang Shuo had to race against time.

What was bad was after melting the 2nd statue, Ouyang Shuo used up half his internal strength. This meant he could only save 4 of them. As for Wang Feng, even though he trained in Bajiquan, his internal strength was normal and not special, so he couldn't melt it.

Just as Ouyang Shuo melted the third statue, his body jolted, and a strong weakness enveloped him from within. The devil possession could only last for half an hour and had reached its max.

The disadvantage of the devil possession would be weakness like one had a huge disease.

This was also understandable. For all the energy in a person to burst out in a short time was a huge burden on the body. If Ouyang Shuo didn't want to hurt himself, he could only use that once a month.

Ouyang Shuo's body regained its normal size and a weakness spread from within his body. For the next week, he couldn't use his martial arts.

Even so, Ouyang Shuo continued to melt the statues as it concerned a person's life.

Forcefully pushing on, he barely melted the 4th statue before using up all the internal strength in his body. At this moment, his face was ashen white and he couldn't even stand properly.

Seeing the marquis trying so hard to save the life of their brothers, the soldiers were touched to tears.

Ouyang Shuo shook and he directly sat on the ground and started to rest and rotate the Yellow Emperor Internal Cultivation Technique to replenish his internal strength. At this point, his dantian was totally empty and he didn't even have a single strand of internal strength.

The first time he used up all his internal energy and tried to rotate the cultivation technique, a sharp pain spread from his meridians. This was actually very dangerous. Experienced cultivators would never use up all their internal strength and would leave a single strand to help rotate their internal technique.

If not, the pain that Ouyang Shuo was experiencing would occur.

Luckily, Ouyang Shuo's meridians, under the long term nourishment of the golden internal strength had became very firm and strong. When the Dantian successfully formed its first strand of internal strength, Ouyang Shuo heaved a sigh of relief as he had passed the hardest part.

Thinking about it, he really worried for nothing.

What he didn't expect was the new internal strength was really pure.

Did this count as a blessing in disguise?

Ouyang Shuo wouldn't dare to do this next time, as who knew whether he would be able to handle it?

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Chapter 328- Way of the Emperors and Kings

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When Ouyang Shuo finished cultivating, two hours had already passed. The internal strength in his body had regained to around 20%. If he wanted to fully recover, he needed another 3-4 days of rest.

With such a delay, the remaining 6 frozen soldiers had all really died.

Ouyang Shuo gave out a long sigh and didn't say anything.

Ouyang Shuo got up and walked beside the corpse of the iron armored beast. The whole body of the iron armored beast was a treasure, so Ouyang Shuo naturally wouldn't waste it, using his advanced gathering skill and getting to work.

"System notification. Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for gathering 225 iron armored beast scales, one perfect horn, 540 units of desolate beast meat!"

Iron armored beast scale: Quality: 10, high grade armor scale, tougher than iron, light and is a good material to craft armor.

Perfect iron armored beast horn: Quality: 12, Black, oval shaped, on the surface it was dark black while insides it was slightly grey. High quality medicine, helps to cool one down, cure injuries and remove poison.

Desolate beast meat: Quality: 8, Medium grade ingredient, after consuming can strengthen body by a certain amount.

This were all good stuff!

Ouyang Shuo put the scale armor and horn into his storage bag, and gave the desolate beast meat to the soldiers. To the current Ouyang Shuo, the strengthening effects of the meat weren't of much use.

After ensuring everything was okay, the Guards regiment buried the bodies of the dead and continued their operation.

Maybe this region was the territory of the iron armored beast, as during the following period of time, they actually didn't meet any desolate beasts. The operation continued really smoothly, and in a day, they had moved forward by 2 kilometres.

Just as they previously planned, they kept the pups of the wild pigs and the calves of the rhinoceroses and reared them. The pigs and rhinoceroses that were killed weren't wasted as the pig meat and the rhinoceroses skin and tendons were all gathered by the Guards regiment.

The large amounts of wild pig meat that was gathered had largely alleviated the food crisis.

Close to nightfall, the Guards regiment returned with large rewards.

Near the harbour, a temporary base had been set up, and it was bustling. Ouyang Shuo directly returned to his little house by the seaside and didn't join in.

Who knew whether Song Jia was successful on her trip.

During the next few days, Ouyang Shuo didn't head out and stayed in his little house, adjusting his body condition. After 5 days, the side effects of the devil possession had all gone away and his internal strength had returned to normal.

Although Ouyang Shuo was in Yazhou, through the forums, he knew everything that happened elsewhere.

In a short half a month following the Taiping Country uprising army, the Chen Sheng, Wuguang uprising army and the Huangjin uprising army all appeared in the wilderness.

The year of the uprising had officially started!

Following the 4 uprising armies getting into position, the number of alliances between players had quickly increased.

Alliances like the Brother Alliance, Brotherhood Alliance, Baihe Alliance, Lashou Cuihua Alliance, Little Student Alliance, etc. all started posting on forums to invite all the lords to ally with them to fight against the uprising army.

Their alliance mottos were all really eye catching.

"Real Brother, we will die together or we will create greatness together!"

"Brotherhood and loyalty, we will take care of one another, form an alliance with our blood. Attack evil together!"

"Little students, we are invincible!"These types of alliances were pretty much useless as they attracted attention but they didn't do much.

The real alliances were all in the dark and were over a small area or region. Only these kinds of alliances could survive, maybe even do well, and become the rulers of a region.

At this point, under the forceful push of the uprising army, the strong and weak in the China region were slowly separated.

About the strong people in each region, although they couldn't be compared to large powers like Yanhuang Alliance, they did have absolute prestige over a certain region. Even Yanhuang Alliance wouldn't be able to destroy them easily if they wanted to.

In the end, they would all affect the China region.

The road in front of Ouyang Shuo and the Shanhai Alliance was long and arduous.

After selling all their authentic secret manuals and earning large amounts of gold, Swordsman County had new activity. The Qingyang Sword Sect started to become a public sect and recruit disciples from player groups. All of this was free.

Apart from that, Feng Qingyang also used heavy rewards to invite various experts to join the sect. Their targeted audience weren't just players, but were also the experts from the aboriginal people.

In the field of martial arts sects, with Feng Qingyang representing the Swordsman County, they had the absolute advantage. The insider news they got in this area was much more than other large powers.

The expansion of the Qingyang Sword Sect was obviously in preparation for the future, to get ready for the appearance of the big sects.

Feng Qingyang was determined to compete and beat the future Wudang, Huashan Sects.

To martial arts families, the territory battle wasn't their real goal. Compared to war, what they were interested in was to take over the underworld and be the real overlord, the best martial artists in the entire underworld.

Even when the reached planet Hope, a strong martial arts sect had influence comparable to any other power or territory.

Especially with the fact that everyone in the world would be practicing martial arts, running a sect had its benefits.

It was hard to say what all of this had anything to do about Feng Qingyue.

Shanhai Alliance members had good news to share.

Bai Hua and Feng Qiuhuang, after a period of raider clearing operations, had finally reached the needed merit point mark and upgraded to rank 3 Marquis. Bai Hua was given the title of Consonance Lord, and Feng Qiuhuang was the Caifeng Lord.

At this point, the top 10 marquis in the world had all gotten in to place.

Out of the 10, the China region took up 3 and made people envious.

After upgrading to marquis, Consonance County and Fallen Phoenix County both applied for the territory upgrading quest. If they were successful, before the lunar new year they would both become prefectures.

Shanhai Alliance's influence in the China region had reached a historical peak.

Gaia 2nd year 2nd month 3rd day.

In his silent room, Ouyang Shuo took out the wooden box with the inner pellet.

After adjusting his body condition to its optimal state, Ouyang Shuo was ready to use the inner pellet. The best time to use it was within half a month of obtaining it. As time went on, the effect would be greatly reduced. In a short time, Ouyang Shuo wouldn't be able to find a priest to help make it into a pill, so he could only eat it.

The inner pellet was still shining a blue light and lying quietly in the wooden box and looking really mysterious.

In the last life, although Ouyang Shuo had never used an inner pellet, he had a rough knowledge on how to use it. It was actually very simple, just directly swallowing it.

Ouyang Shuo didn't hesitate and placed it directly into his mouth.

What was magical was that the moment it entered Ouyang Shuo's mouth, it dissolved into a cooling liquid and flowed down into Ouyang Shuo'a stomach, magically entering his dantian.

Ouyang Shuo's dantian, after 5 days of recovery, had already returned to normal. Thousands and thousands of internal strength formed up into a golden fog, and it was really thick like a golden cloud.

The golden cloud covered the core region of the dantian and spread out across the entire dantian. After his internal strength was squeezed dry, the new internal strength would be purer and stronger, the golden cloud would also be thicker.

The moment the liquid entered the dantian, Ouyang Shuo felt a cooling sensation which started from the stomach and spread over his body.

Ouyang Shuo immediately focused and observed the situation in the dantian.

The moment the blue liquid entered his dantian, it was like when an ice cube was placed in boiling oil, initiating a chain reaction.

One could only see the golden internal strength was like crazy and swarmed forward, wanting to consume the blue liquid. Quickly, the blue liquid was totally covered by all the golden internal strength.

The magical moment appeared!

After the golden internal strength consumed the blue liquid, it actually had a tinge of blue and gave off a chilly feeling.

That wasn't all. When all the blue liquid was finished, the golden internal strength actually started to consume each other. They wrapped around each other and tried to consume one another, forming little balls. The mysterious golden balls started to collapse inwards and shrank and shrank.

In the end, thousands of golden internal strength strands turned into a drop of primordial energy the size of a rice grain.

In less than 10 minutes, there weren't any strands of internal strength left, and all of them were drops of primordial energy.

This wasn't all, the primordial energy started to consume one another and became larger drops of primordial energy. In the end, it became a liquid form of primordial energy the size of an egg.

This liquid ball started to collapse inwards and started to shrink and shrink.

As the ball continued to shrink, the golden color became more pure and eye catching. The blue color that it had obtained had disappeared and dissolved in the primordial energy.

In the end, the liquid ball transformed into the purest primordial energy the size of a rice grain.

Ouyang Shuo's internal strength had underwent a form change, from gas to liquid. It also went from internal strength to primordial energy.

This also meant that Ouyang Shuo's cultivation had broken through to the 6th layer.

Just at this moment, a system notification sounded out by his ear.

"System notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for using the iron armored inner pellet, successfully obtaining a second talent!"

"System notification: Congratulations Player Qiyue Wuyi for cultivating to the 6th layer, giving birth to the cultivation method specialty!"

This series of surprises made Ouyang Shuo squeal in joy.

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Chapter 329- Lianzhou!! Lianzhou!!

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Ouyang Shuo first took a look at his second talent.

Ice: Attacks have an icy effect

A very simple description with only a few words. Ouyang Shuo thought back to when Song Jia was training, and in the air there was an icy chill. The difference was that as it was a talent, it didn't need to be ignited from within; Song Jia's ice needed to be sparked off using internal strength.

For the specific effects, Ouyang Shuo needed to find out for himself in battle.

Ouyang Shuo then took a look at the new specialty born from the 6th layer of cultivation. The name seemed really amazing, but who knew what the effects were?

Way of the king: The cultivation route created by the 3 emperors and 5 kings, raising sensory abilities and giving birth to the aura of a king.

Another dumb description. Ouyang Shuo was about to go crazy. What sensory ability? What aura of a king? Gaia didn't explain anything.

Ouyang Shuo thought hard about it and still didn't understand anything. Cultivating to the 6th layer, his internal strength had became primordial energy and the primordial energy upper limit was 100 points.

Wow, he had to start from scratch again.

Ouyang Shuo tried again. Now he could only rotate 3 cycles a day, and each cycle would increase 1 point of primordial energy. This meant Ouyang Shuo needed only a month to break through to the 7th layer.

On the surface, cultivation seemed to have became much easier. Ouyang Shuo didn't believe it. With how Gaia is, it had definitely dug deeper holes for Ouyang Shuo to fall into.

The fight with the iron armored beast revealed to Ouyang Shuo his weaknesses. Out of all his cultivation techniques and martial arts, he had an internal cultivation technique, a spear technique and a palm technique, but the only thing he lacked was a dodging technique.

Although his cultivation technique and spear techniques had some movement skills, those weren't pure dodging techniques, so they weren't that effective.

During land battles, without a movement technique, one would be at a heavy disadvantage. If he had one during that battle, Ouyang Shuo wouldn't have been in such a bad state. When the opportunity came, he had to find a movement technique secret manual.

After breaking through, Ouyang Shuo joined in the beast clearing army. He could feel that the Yang Family Spear technique was at his bottleneck and needed practical battle.

Every day, Ouyang a Shuo would at least kill one or two desolate beasts. As for inner pellets, he couldn't even think about it. They wouldn't be able to be so lucky.

What Ouyang Shuo had mastered was of great use against the desolate beasts. Unfortunately, the desolate beasts were weak or too ugly and weren't suitable to be mounts.

If not, Ouyang Shuo would have wanted to tame one to act as his mount.

Ouyang Shuo's addition made the operation much smoother, and it proceeded at breakneck speed every day. Ouyang Shuo predicted that in just half a month, he could clear until the village building spot he had chosen.

Just as Ouyang Shuo was trying to take over Yazhou, thousands of miles away, Lianzhou Basin was undergoing a huge change.

Ever since it became winter, various signs showed that the grassland tribes were about to launch a large scale wall against Shanhai City. Amongst this, there were signs of Broken Blade County being involved.

As for where to start this story, Ba Dao had actually mixed in with the Tian Qi Tribe.

The two biggest enemies of Shanhai City in the Lianzhou Basin had actually joined up. Needless to say, the Yanhuang Alliance was always hiding behind Broken Blade County.

After Bai Hua and Feng Qiuhuang upgraded to marquis, it was a huge provocation towards the Yanhuang Alliance.

If this continued, Yanhuang Alliance would be left in the dust by Shanhai Alliance. This was something they wouldn't like to see.

Using Broken Blade County to cause trouble for Shanhai City and maybe even taking it over was the best possibility. In the case of the Yanhuang Alliance, this was an amazing move.

The 3 sides had come to an agreement, and after the auction, they were planning their killing blow.

After a month had passed, the time was right.

The first to attack were the grassland tribes.

The various grassland tribes who were holding it in for a long time had suddenly announced war. In a moment's time, all the farmers and herders prepared their war horses, bows, and grain, and started to gather in the barracks.

The young men were all familiar with bows and horses, and totally didn't need training as they were all passable cavalry.

Usually, the herders were split up into small groups based on the herding region. During war, these small groups would become the base of the grassland army.

In a short 5 days, the army had gathered.

With Tian Qi tribe as the leader, the grassland tribes had gathered 50 thousand men. Tian Qi tribe alone had gathered 15 thousand. The east commander Daiqin acted as the commander while Lahkshen was his deputy.

The last member of the 3 generals of the Tianqi tribe was the Guards commander Beiritie China. He led 8000 troops to defend the northern region to spy on Mulan City and defend their home.

Mengke Kehan listed out all the sins that the Shanhai City had done towards the grassland tribes.

"The despicable Shanhai City, destroyed the Tianling tribe, even trying to put the blame on others and spoil the relationships between the tribes; they sneak attacked the west region and caused the grasslands to be in chaos for 6 months; they sent troops to destroy the Tianfeng tribe. They are ambitions and dangerous. They have committed so many sins and cannot be spared. Blood must be paid by blood!"

"Blood debt! Blood debt!"

In a moment, everyone was excited and ready for war. For some of them, this was the first time they heard about the sins of Shanhai City and they were furious, their hesitation and doubts were thrown right out the window.

Mengke looked at the army below him and was delighted, it was like he was 10 years younger and had gone back to the glory days. In the eyes of the tribe leaders behind him, unease and worry flashed across in their eyes.

As time passed, the 7 mid-sized tribes who are able to stand against Tianqi tribe would not allow the Tianqi tribe to rule over them again.

Against the big enemy, the tribe leaders could only temporarily set aside such thoughts.

Fifty thousand warriors waltzed towards the Shanhai City.

At the same time, the only division in Broken Blade County exited their city and gathered at the border, looking straight at the 3rd division.

Based on the strength of the Broken Blade County Division, they definitely couldn't handle the 3rd division. Ba Dao knew that and directly asked the Yanhuang Alliance for help.

Yanhuang Alliance was also spontaneous and arranged Sha Pojun to lead 5000 troops to assist. The advance army would be in charge of holding down the 3rd division.

Be it Ba Dao or the Yanhuang Alliance, before the grassland alliance engaged, they wouldn't initiate the fight.

The grassland alliance was a great knife.

The Shanhai City protection squad including the 2nd division at the city north camp and the city protection division were a total of 27 thousand people, half of the grassland alliance.

The northern outer wall was completed and could be used. The problem was that the east and west were still empty and couldn't defend against the grassland alliance.

This meant that Shanhai City couldn't use the wall as a defensive barrier, and could only fight head to head.

The reason why Mengke chose such a time to attack was because of that. He knew that once the outer wall was completed, it would be extremely difficult for the cavalry of the grassland alliance to take them down.

This was a once in a lifetime opportunity.

The Military Intelligence Division knew the movements of the grassland alliance straight away.

As for the various tribes, the Military Affairs Department was worried about them. during this period of time, the military investigation had not stopped. Various war preparations had already started 1 month ago.

It wasn't the time to panic for Shanhai City.

Mulan Yue had contacted Ouyang Shuo through the alliance channel straight away. Although Mulan County was outside of the alliance, Mulan Yue was added to the alliance channel as a member of the Shanhai Territory.

When Ouyang Shuo got the news, he wasn't shocked. The only thing that surprised him was that the grassland tribes were working together with Broken Blade County. This also taught him a lesson: don't underestimate your opponent.

When the Military Intelligence Division found out, Ouyang Shuo had already left. Hence, he had no clue.

He let Mulan Yue send his orders that all military action would be passed to Baiqi and Du Ruhui. During war time, they could make all the decisions and didn't need his permission to act.

Ouyang Shuo also didn't forget to tell Mulan Yue to remind Baiqi and Du Ruhui that all military plans must include the fact that the Yanhuang Alliance could teleport in to help.

The teleportation to fight wars was really strange to Baiqi and Du Ruhui. Without him personally there, Ouyang Shuo had to made sure they understood these things.

Mulan Yue was really solemn and expressed that she would take up the duty that Ouyang Shuo was supposed to have.

The alliance channel was unable to contact people individually, so all the members found out. When they got the news, they expressed concern and said that they could send their army to assist.

Ouyang Shuo firstly thanked them and reminded them that apart from assisting Shanhai City, they should set up defenses against the tricks by the Yanhuang Alliance.

Ouyang Shuo wasn't worried that Shanhai City was broken into. He was worried that Yanhuang Alliance would use them as a distraction and attack another ally territory instead.

Such things were pretty common by Di Chen in the last life.

Ouyang Shuo's reminder made all of them frown. Especially Gong Chengshi, who was the eyesore of Yanhuang Alliance, and he was hated by Di Chen, being the easiest target.

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Chapter 330- A Black Cloud Tries to Destroy the City

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The Battle of Lianzhou was the biggest main map war between aboriginals and lords since the game was started.

Both sides added up to over 100 thousand troops.

Such a sudden war had made Shanhai City the focal point of the China region once again. Ouyang Shuo not being there also added a layer of mystery in this war.

The eyes of everyone were all focused on the Lianzhou Basin.

Many supported Ouyang Shuo who was a commoner player, and were sweating for him.

The current situation was highly disadvantageous for Shanhai City. 3 forces working together, whether Shanhai City was able to withstand this was a huge question mark.

No one felt that Shanhai City could easily get out of this situation. The best situation would be for them to hold on, leaving a broken Shanhai City.

Some people even started taking bets and betting how long Shanhai City could hold on for.

Not only players from the China region, even everyone in the world was looking at it. This was only because the main person was the best lord in the whole world. Hence, attention was being paid to him.

American Region, Free Territory.

Jack Dawson muttered, "Our old friend is going to take another step forward!"

"Are you so sure that the Lianzhou Marquis will win this battle?"

"Heh, if he cannot handle this small problem, how is he worthy to be my opponent?" Jack was confident."We must start to prepare to act against the aboriginals. We are too merciful." Jack said as he laughed, but his words were cold and ruthless. "Tell them if they don't surrender, we will wipe them out."

"No problem."

British Region, Avic Ford

William shouted unhappily at his secretary. "The Lianzhou lord already has the ability to start a 100 thousand man war, look at what we are doing?"The secretary kept silent and the atmosphere was a little awkward.

William calmed himself down and asked, "How's the research on the steam machine?"

"Everything is going smoothly. In about 1.5 years, it would be good."

"1.5 years? Too slow! Too slow!" William was furious and was unhappy with the efficiency, he looked like he was going to rage again. "To reach the glory of the old British empire, we must be quicker!"

William was a noble in real life, and his dream was to rule the seas and colonize the Earth.

"Yes, I will quicken things up." The secretary said carefully.

"1 year, remember. I only give you 1 year! If you can't give me a good answer after a year, you know the consequences."

"No problem!"

The secretary was feeling really bitter, but he didn't dare to object.

Annan Region, Haiphong County

Haiphong County lord Ruan Tianque was solemn. "Our neighbor is really shocking!"

"Ya! He just destroyed Black Shark who was disturbing the seas."

Talking about Black Shark pirates, Ruan Tianque's face twitched. The Haiphong Town had nearly died under their hands, and when they wanted to retaliate, Black Shark was killed by Shanhai City.

"I really hope the Lianzhou Marquis will lose. If not, he will be a problem for Annan." Thinking about the future country wars, Ruan Tianque frowned. To have such a strong neighbor, one would definitely worry.

"To talk about country war now, would it be too early?"

"Early? No, not at all. If he wins this, the Lianzhou Lord wouldn't have any opponents. Who would he turn his eyes to?""Locate the northern territories and tell them that forming an alliance must proceed quickly." Ruan Tianque had a weird expression on his face, as ruling the north of Annan had been his dream, and now it was hard to succeed.

"It isn't easy; these fellows are all arrogant. Why would they submit?"

Ruan Tianque gave a mysterious smile. "Hasn't the chance presented itself? We just use the Lianzhou Marquis as an enemy and see how they could be at ease."

"Lord is smart!"

Lianzhou Lord's Manor, Meeting hall.

The 4 directors and Baiqi were all having a meeting. Military intelligence secretary Songsan, 2nd division major general Luo Shixin, City Defense Division deputy Zhao Sihu and Shanhai City prefect Wei Ran were all here.

As it was war time, Baiqi was in charge.

After Songsan reported military intelligence, the meeting hall was in a silence.

Military affairs director Du Ruhui spoke first, "The outer wall definitely can't be defended. Since that's so, why don't we give it up and retreat to within the inner cities?"

"No!" Wei Ran immediately objected. "The outer city is building has large living areas and Commerce regions. Once we leave it, our economic loses will be immeasurable."

Since Wei Ran was appointed, he spent all his work on the outer city. For the army to desert the outer wall would mean all his hard work would have gone to waste.

"I also have doubts." Zhao Sihu said. "Not talking about the outer city being destroyed. If we retreat and defend the inner city, we will have to split into 3, the grassland troops are all cavalry, so they can cut off the contact between the three inner cities and make us fight for ourselves."

Baiqi wasn't affected by Wei Ran and Zhao Sihu, looking at Du Ruhui. "Do you have other plans?" Although he had known him for less than a mouth, but he was impressed with his ability. He had foresight and definitely would have thought about the problems raised.

The moment Baiqi said those words, Zhao Sihu's face flushed red; he was ashamed. He was too rash and eager to prove himself so he didn't consider the deep meaning in Du Ruhui's words.

Wei Ran looked really bitter as the outer city was his brainchild and he didn't want to see it lost.

Du Ruhui looked at Zhao Sihu, and his eyes brought with them encouragement and consolation. "Retreating to defend the inner city doesn't mean giving up the outer city. Giving up the wall doesn't mean not defending. Just as General Zhao said, the enemy is cavalry and aren't good at sieging.

"The outer city could act as our frontline defence. As for economic losses?" Speaking up to here, Du Ruhui was expressionless. "This is war. We are the defending party, so we definitely will have losses. Not talking about the outer city, even the city will have losses. This is a large-scale war, and to win we need to be able to make sacrifices."

Du Ruhui was expectedly a determined and quick thinking person.

Wei Ran was still very bitter and was about to retaliate. After thinking about it, he returned to his seat and didn't say a word.

Baiqi, seeing the situation, heaved a sigh of relief. He was afraid that Wei Ran wouldn't agree. The splitting of army and administration wasn't for nothing. Du Ruhui during wartime had absolute power over everything.

The reason he invited Wei Ran was because there were some military operations that needed his help. As for affecting military plans, he wasn't powerful enough as a prefect.

In the territory, only the lord could affect military plans.

The rumours were that of the father-in-law and son-in-law, one controlled the military, and the other the prefecture. Now that the lord wasn't here, the territory was all theirs.

Although Baiqi never had such a thought, he had to pay attention to it.

Wei Ran was also an old fox, and he obviously heard the rumors. Hence with such considerations, he suddenly gave up the argument with Du Ruhui.

As for his losses, he would be the one to have to deal with them.

"Director Du can relax, the Administration Department and Internal Affairs Department will help to calm down the masses." Fan Zhongyan helped the civil servants express their attitude and support.

Du Ruhui nodded.

What was next was the reorganization of troops. With only the 2nd division and city protection division, it would be hard to defend. But to attack and destroy the enemy was too difficult.

Although the marquis didn't make it clear, Baiqi guessed that he wanted to use this battle to settle the Lianzhou Basin and set the foundation for territory expansion.

Hence, he needed to move the other divisions to help out.

The 3rd division was blocked off by Broken Blade County. The 1st division would definitely be moved and the defenses of the west region could temporarily be given to the various city protection squads.

The crux of the problem was whether or not to move the 4th division.

The 4th division had always been a secret. Be it the scouts from the grassland or the spies from Broken Blade City, no one knew it existed.

They only knew that Mulan City had a large city protection squad. Hence, the grassland tribes arranged 8000 people to pay attention to the city.

The 4th division had basically switched up all their equipment and their combat strength had increased a level. The grassland army thought that their defensive power was still at the regiment stage.

This, this was the greatest battle changer.

After discussing, Baiqi decided to not use the trump card.

The last problem was whether the Beihai Naval fleet needed to join in.

The Beihai Squadron who returned from Yazhou. As the shipyard hadn't completed the turreted ships, the 2nd expedition was delayed and the squadron remained in Shanhai City.

"Let them wait for orders just in case." Du Ruhui being decisive didn't mean he wasn't careful. In this kind of battle, one more strength was another chance.

"I agree!" Baiqi supported this, and hence everything was decided just like that.

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Chapter 331- Scheme

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After the meeting, the cogs of the territory war machines had stated spinning.

Lianzhou Lord's Manor announced a state of war, and all cities were in lock down. People could only enter but not leave. All relays were closed and the sending of letters was prohibited.

The Military Affairs Department used the Feng bird to spread the orders to the various divisions.

When the 1st division received the orders, they instantly left the city west camp. The 2nd division left the city north camp and before leaving they destroyed the camp. The third divisions was in the city east camp and waited for a chance. The 4th division secretly left Zhennan Pass and gathered in Mulan City.

The city protection division was in charge of increasing the Defence work of Shanhai City.

Before the war started, the scouts of both sides had already started killing one another. Joining the scouting Mission on the side of Shanhai City, apart from the military intelligence division spies, there were the 2nd division and city protection division scouting squads.

Based on riding skills, the grassland cavalry were naturally better; but on scouting, they were far off.

Every movement of the grassland alliance army was seen by the scouts. And every important intel was spread back to Shanhai City by the Feng Birds.

The commander unit apart from Baiqi, there was Du Ruhui's war division. After a month's preparation, the structure of the war division was set up and this was the first time it was shown.

The war division was made up of 12 people chosen by Du Ruhui, 6 from

Quanzhou or Dali Army and had vast experience; the other 6 were believers in the philosophy in war so they were very knowledgeable.

Two of them helping one another, it was perfect.

The war saint effect was still working as Everyday there will be people who come over to the city.

Under the instructions of Ouyang Shuo, the building of the Army Military Academy was very smooth and the main body was basically finished, half a month more and the whole project will be done.

The role of the war division was to make use of the intel and come up with a battle plan and act as Advisors.

The highly efficient intelligence network, highly skilled Advisors, logistics prepared beforehand... du Ruhui made the Military Affairs Department into a weapon for the army and was what Ouyang Shuo had always wanted for the department.

All this, from the standpoint of the grassland alliance was unimaginable. Since the start of the war, both sides were already on different levels.

With the support of the Military Affairs Department, it made the commanding of Baiqi easier and have less things to worry about.

Gaia 2nd year, 2nd month, 7th day, the 1st division arrived in Shanhai City.

Based on the arrangement by the commander group, the 1st division was in charge of the Defence of Shanhai City Region, city protection division was in charge of friendship city region while the 2nd division was in charge of the defense of the Qiushui City Region.

The next day, the grassland unit had arrived outside Shanhai City. The first group had 15 thousand cavalry, and they were led by deputy general Lakhshen.

The army decided to set up camp at the original city north camp, and the camp they set was directly opposite of the Friendship City Region, right across the river.

Closely after the first group, the main army of Daiqin arrived in the afternoon.

Alliance army tent.

Daiqin was a 30 odd years old male. He had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his hair was tied into 5-6 braids, a typical mongol male.

Daiqin was sitting in the lead seat, and below him were the important leaders of the alliance. Apart from Lakhshen, the remaining 7 generals each represented one tribe.

The grassland army meeting was always decided by one person.

Daiqin looked around and said, "In the battle tomorrow, our main goal is to take down the city protection river. Who is willing to be the vanguard and help open us up to victory?"

Lakhshen immediately stood up and said loudly, "Commander, I'm willing!" The other generals seeing that Lakhshen was willing, didn't say anything.

Seeing that, Daiqin's eyebrows frowned, he purposely said, "Ok good, the vanguard also needs to be the good warriors of our Tian Qi tribe, I approve!"

As he said those words, the other 7 generals were unhappy and requested to lead them to battle.

"I'm willing!"

"Yes commander, such a matter like being the vanguard should be left to our Tianying Tribe!"

"Commander, Tianshu Tribe is willing!""Good!" Daiqin laughed. "Since that's the case, Hari Chagai and Hu Leigen will lead 10 thousand men as the vanguard and take down the city protection river.

Hari Chagai was from the Tianying Tribe and Hu Leigen was from the Tianshu Tribe.

"Thank you commander!" Both of them were excited.

"Commander!" Lakhshen appeared a little anxious.

Daiqin waved him off and didn't let him continue on. "This is already settled, so we will move on."

Lakhshen returned back to his seat in anger.

Seeing that, Hari Chagai and Hu Leigen were both even more pleased.

After the discussion, all the generals went back, only leaving Lakhshen.

Seeing Lakhshen stay back and having something to say, Daiqin regained his calmness.

"If you have any doubts, just say them."

"Commander, why don't you see me?" Lakhshen was unhappy.

Daiqin's face showed that he expected it and asked Lakhshen to calm down. "You ah, don't you know the purpose of Kehan starting his war?"

"Purpose? Isn't it for revenge and to destroy Shanhai City?" Lakhshen didn't understand.

"Dumbass!" Daiqin raised his voice. "War isn't a child's game, and our brothers aren't tools for revenge."

After being scolded by Daiqin, Lakhshen's face blushed red. "Commander, please clear my doubts."

"Lakhshen, not only did hate blind your eyes, it also blinded your head. You weren't so rash last time." Daiqin didn't care about his face and continued, "Destroying Shanhai City was the most obvious purpose. Most importantly, Kehan wants to use this war to establish our position in the grasslands."

Lakhshen was shocked and understood.

"The position of overlord, what does it depend on? Military. Only by crushing the others can we tame them; everything else is fake. The war tomorrow will have heavy casualties. Your men are all the elite of our tribe, so how can we send them to fight?"

Lakhshen felt a shiver down his spine, Daiqin wanted to use this battle to weaken the other tribes. Thinking about those deep eyes of Kehan, Lakhshen flinched.

"Commander is a genius!"

Daiqin's face relaxed once again. "Ok now go rest, we will have many hard battles for you to participate in. Remember that our conversation is only between both of us."

"Understood!"

"Now go!" Daiqin waved him off, took up the book on his table, and started reading.

As Lakhshen left the tent, his face was ashen white. He felt that in the tent sat a beast and was just a wolf in sheep's clothing.

On the 9th day of the 2nd month, the Sun rose, and the land was totally red.

The seasonal wind from the valley brought with it the salty smell of the ocean.

Early in the morning, the alliance army had started to get busy. The night before, 50 thousand troops moved out and dug out large amounts of soil from the grasslands and placed them in straw bags.

Sacks of dirt were stacked up in a mountain in front of the camp, making them look majestic.

In front of the barracks, a 10 thousand man army was ready; they were the vanguard forces for today.

Hari Chagai and Hu Leigen rode their horses to the front of the group.

They wanted to motivate their men before the war.

"Warriors of the Tianying Tribe, the commander gave us this mission, which means he recognizes our bravery. We must battle beautifully, understood?" Hari Chagai took the lead.

Hu Leigen on the side used a louder voice and shouted out, "Tianshu tribe sons, we don't need to say anything. Kill the Lianzhou Marquis, take over Shanhai City!"

The morale was sky high and covered the land.

Such a scene would definitely made the blood of every men boil.

To the men and sons of the grassland, bravery was their highest goal.

The highest honor of a warrior, higher than even their own life.

The other soldiers of other tribes, upon seeing such scenes, looks of envy filled their faces.

The soldiers were discussing and ranting that their general was stupid and didn't get them the chance to fight the first fight.

The remaining 5 generals, upon hearing their discussions, their faces were really ugly.

Hu Leigen looked at Hari Chagai from afar, and his eyes had a bit of provocation.

Hari Chagai was naturally unhappy and shouted, "Let's go!"

"Buhe Haga!" The sons of the Tianying tribe replied to their general with the highest honor.

Seeing the army leave the barracks, Daiqin from afar had a weird expression on his face.

Lakhshen stood beside Daiqin. In his heart, he felt bad for Hari Chagai and Hu Leigen. They were used like pawns and were still so happy about it.

Who knows, the two of them might think that Daiqin were giving them a chance to become famous. Thinking about that, Lakhshen glanced at Daiqin. In his eyes were weariness and fear.

Daiqin didn't notice that; he was really calm like the wind.

Walking out of the barracks, the 10 thousand men were split in two. Hari Chagai was in charge of the west side of the city protection river, while Hu Leigen was in charge of the east side.

Such an arrangement made the two generals butt heads and compete with one another from the start.

There was no second best olden scripture, and no one remembered the second best martial artist. No one would want to lose. Needless to say, whoever took down the city protection river would be the bravest warrior on the grasslands.

The dirt bags that were prepared were taken up by the soldiers and were ready to be used to fill up the river.

The army waltzed forwards like two black lines, charging towards the city protection river.

The war had officially started.

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Chapter 332- Changing the Moat into a Path

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On the city wall, Zhao Sihu looked on at the advancing grassland army; his face was one of perseverance.

Under the instructions of Daiqin, Hari Chagai and Hu Leigen chose the river area that was farther away from the Friendship City Region. Daiqin's intentions were obvious, avoiding the inner city area of Friendship City and directly breaking into Shanhai City.

His small act was calculated by Baiqi.

On the only part of the outer wall that was built, 10 thousand archers were lined up. The god machine unit were lined up in the middle of the north wall; the bowmen and crossbowmen from from the city protection division were sent to the east side; the bowmen and crossbowmen regiments of the 1st division were assigned to the west of the north wall.

On the east and west, the grassland army came carrying sandbags. Before they even came close to the city protection river, a rain of arrows enveloped them.

The arrow rain made it hard for them to move forwards.

With every step forward, hundreds of soldiers would be hurt.

On the west, Hari Chagai was green, and in his heart, a bad feeling started to form.

The enemy was right in front of them, so he couldn't think too much. He had already ordered the troops only to advance and not retreat . If not, he would lose the face of his entire tribe.

Thinking about this, Hari Chagai raised up the sand bag over his head and covered his head while charging forwards.

Hari Chagai's actions instantly succeeded and had an effect.

The soldiers learned from their general and advanced while braving the arrow rain.

As the arrows hit the sandbag, the arrow stopped and was no longer a threat to the soldiers. It was a natural barrier, even more effective than shields.

All of a sudden, the soldiers on the west side moved quickly and managed to reach the city protection river.

Their goal was to fill up the river and to provide the army with a pass to cross.

On the city walls, in the 3rd regiment of the first division, the archer regiment colonel Jiangkai laughed coldly upon seeing the enemy use such an old method, "I really want to see how you guys will go back."

As expected, once the grassland soldiers threw the sandbags into the river, they didn't have any cover and was under fire from the arrow rain.

In that moment, death spread.

What was more painful was that the lucky ones still needed to carry a second sandbag to continue to fill up the river.

If it wasn't for their strong resilience, normal people wouldn't have the courage to make the second trip.

Hari Chagai, as the general, had guards raising shields for him when he went back, so naturally he was safe.

Unfortunately, shields weren't the standard issue, and normal soldiers didn't have such equipment.

A short 300 meters became a region of death. Every second, there would be someone dying. The 5000 man army was getting smaller and smaller every moment.

Seeing such a scene, Hari Chagai's face turned black, and he wasn't as confident as before. He could feel that he was scammed and he was scammed really badly.

The 5000 man army was 90% of the army of the Tianying tribe. If they all died here, Tianying tribe would be eaten up by the neighboring tribes.

Thinking about this, Hari Chagai felt a shiver down his spine.

"Go, report to the commander, say the enemy firepower is too strong and we request backup!" Hari Chagai wasn't dumb and knew to ask for some backup.

Since he was going to die, he'd rather drag some other tribe to die along with him.

"Yes!" The guard turned around and rushed.

Alliance army commanding unit.

The commanding unit had built a high platform, looking across at the battlefield from there, one could see everything.

On the high platform, Daiqin stood in the center, and beside him were Lakhshen and the other 5 generals.

When the 5 generals saw the slaughter on the battlefield, they turned white and were silently happy that they weren't rash yesterday. If not, the ones to get rained upon by arrows would be them.

Hari Chagai's personal guard rushed to the high platform at his fastest speed.

He directly knelt down, panicked, and said loudly, "Commander, the enemy firepower is too strong. We can't handle it, we need backup."

The moment he said that, the generals on the platform all had different looks on their faces.

Only Daiqin still had a casual expression and laughed, "Didn't Hari Chagai say yesterday that he was going to succeed? Why? It's only half an hour and he can't hold on?"

Although Daiqin's words were said with a smile, they were enough to make one embarrassed to death.

The guard's face turned red. His lord was insulted, and as a guard, he felt greatly insulted and embarrassed. Luckily, he was still rational, and thinking about his brothers dying on the battlefield, he cried, "Commander! You are magnanimous, please forgive our stupidity!"

As he reached the last few words, he was on the verge of tears. "Commander, please leave some face for the Tianying tribe! Our boys really tried their best, no one can say that we weren't courageous."

As his words were said, everyone's expression changed. The soldiers around also dropped their mocking expressions, and they changed to ones of respect. Thinking about it, under such an arrow rain, the Tianying Tribe didn't back off. They were indeed great men.

If it were them instead, they wouldn't be able to do any better.

Daiqin kept his smile and praised that guard. He really wasn't simple. With a few sentences, he changed the whole situation.

One wouldn't expect that beside the brutish and stupid Hari Chagai would be such a talent.

Just as Daiqin was about to speak, the personal guard of Hu Leigen ran over. He panted as he said, "Commander, the enemy firepower is too strong, request to retreat!"

"What nonsense!" Daiqin was furious and everyone instantly quietened down. "Do you think the military order is a joke, retreating as you wish?""Go back and tell Hu Leigen that I have made plans. If he tries to retreat, I'll take his life myself!" Daiqin stared at the terrified guard. In his eyes, one could see his contempt.

Both were guards, but the distance was just so huge!

"Understood!" Hu Leigen's guard replied before running off.

Daiqin definitely wouldn't let them die out. He wanted to suppress the other tribes but the prerequisite would be that they won the war. If not, it would all be for nothing.

He had mocked the personal guard of Hari Chagai so as to let the Tianying Tribe remember his good grace, such that it would be better for the future.

Although Daiqin was a general, he had a brain for governance and politics.

After the small interruption, Daiqin turned to the generals and asked, "Who is willing to help the two tribes?"

All of them looked at each other, respecting the Tianying tribe was one thing, but rushing over to assist was another. That was real and actual casualties; no one was a fool.

"Why? Don't tell me that the men of the grassland are all soft eggs and cowards!" Daiqin was unhappy, and at the same time he made a gesture towards Lakhshen.Lakhshen understood; he knew that it was time for the Tianqi tribe to come into play. Although Daiqin was the commander of the alliance, he couldn't force the other tribes too badly, at the crucial moment, he had to act too.

If one said that the vanguard troops were volunteered, the Tianqi tribe not joining was still understandable; but if now the Tianqi tribe let other tribes sacrifice themselves while they did nothing, then that would be a problem.

No matter how good Daiqin was, he wouldn't be able to convince the rest.

Needless to say, the other tribes also had qualms and caution towards the Tianqi Tribe. If the biasness was too obvious, the other generals weren't fools to be played by Daiqin.

"Commander, I'm willing to assist!" Lakhshen stepped up.

"Good! You will lead 5000 men to assist the Tianying tribe." Daiqin smiled, he expression changing as fast as flipping a book. "Is there any other who is willing to assist the Tianshu tribe? If no one then I'll have to choose."

Lakhshen had stepped out, and the other 5 generals were now waiting to get picked.

At this point, they had no say and couldn't reject.

"Commander, I'm willing!" Tiangou tribe's Xirigou Lige stepped out.

Daiqin nodded, the Tiangou tribe and Tianshu tribe were secret allies, so for him to step out wasn't unexpected. "Ok you'll lead 5000 men to assist the Tianshu Tribe."

"Understood!"

Daiqin looked at Lakhshen and Xirigou Lige and said solemnly, "Remember, you have to level the river today. No retreating or you will be beheaded."

"Yes!"

The two armies walked out of the barracks to assist the Tianying and Tianshu tribes.

Zhao Sihu stood on the city wall, and seeing reinforcements, he muttered, "Baiqi really predicts things like a god!" He turned around and told his personal guards, "Send my orders, cavalry get ready!"

"Yes!"

After the reinforcements rushed there, Hari Chagai and Hu Leigen heaved sighs of relief. In a short hour they had lost a half of their strength. If they tried to hold on, the army was going to fall apart.

The only difference was that Hari Chagai was touched and thankful for the assistance. Hu Leigen was angry about the insult which Daiqin gave him.

Lakhshen looked at the arrow rain in front of him and froze. It didn't look like much from far away, but close up, it was really terrifying.

In a short period of time, the arrows formed up layer after layer on the ground.

It was difficult for the Tianying tribe to survive to now. Thinking about that, Lakhshen was also courageous and sent all his forces up.

When the reinforcements came, the rate at which they filled up the river sped up.

One could see that the river was about to be stopped and blocked in half.

Victory was in their sights, and both tribe armies were excited. They have finally gotten out of that nightmare.

Suddenly, the north gates of Friendship City opened. Cavalry burst out of the gates and charged straight at the Tianshu and Tiangou tribes.

To fill up the city protection river, the grassland army used their cavalry as infantry, facing the sudden rush of cavalry, there was nothing they could do.

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Chapter 333- Fight and Retreat

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The city guards division cavalry, under the leadership of deputy Major General Zhao Sihu, started to assault the alliance army.

Facing the Shanhai City cavalry who were like wolves and tigers, the alliance army which was on the verge of collapse couldn't even put up a fight. One charge by the cavalry, and the army on the east side was broken into bits.

What happened next was a one sided massacre.

The soldiers on the west side were getting ready to defend but upon seeing the Shanhai City army only attacking those on the east, they were relieved.

Hari Chagai felt that he had a total change of luck.

Alliance Army Commanding Unit.

Daiqin stood on the high platform, and upon seeing the Shanhai City army act, he smirked.

Since he dared to send out the vanguard force, he was obviously prepared. A 10 thousand man army was already laying in wait, just for such a situation to occur.

Daiqin was afraid of the enemy being like turtles and hiding inside. Since they were willing to come out, he was happy to oblige. Based on his orders, the cavalry forces not only had to save the Tianshu tribe and Tiangou tribe, but they also had to destroy the enemy.

The only thing that made him feel surprised was that the timing that the enemy chose was sublime.

Daiqin didn't hesitate and waved his flag. The cavalry forces who were hiding in the barracks burst out like an arrow and dashed into the east battlefield.

Zhao Sihu was a really wary and alert person. Furthermore with Baiqi's instructions, after killing for a while, he immediately asked the troops to retreat back into the city before the reinforcements arrived.

The cavalry who were there to reinforce, seeing the enemy retreat laughed out loud and mocked.

10 thousand cavalry, scolding under the city wall was quite majestic.

On top of the wall, the soldiers of the guards division were all furious.

Zhao Sihu looked down and gave a cold smile.

If it wasn't to prepare against the Yanhuang Alliance, with the 3 divisions, even in a head to head battle, it was enough to destroy the grassland army.

Under the protection of the 10 thousand cavalry, the situation on the east stabilized.

At this point, the grassland alliance army had taken down the city protection river after suffering heavy casualties.

Seeing the Shanhai city troops retreat, Daiqin shook his head in regret. He waved his flag once more and asked all his troops to advance.

Since they had already taken down the river, naturally he would move the camp to protect it and prevent Shanhai City from opening up the river again.

The huge army immediately started to pack up and move.

Zhao Sihu stood on the wall and looked at the huge army that covered the land, not making a sound. He focused and analyzed their troops, trying to see through their weakness.

There was really a weird aspect.

At the back of the alliance forces, there were 10 huge chariots. It was covered by cloth, so one couldn't see what it was. It was a bit too tall for one to say it was a grain cart.

Zhao Sihu didn't dare be slow and informed the guard to tell Baiqi.

When the alliance army finally set up camp at the north of Shanhai City, the sun was setting.

After the city protection river was taken down by the alliance army, the north city wall became a lone island.

The same night, the archers of the 1st division and city protection division left the wall. The archers of the first division formed up another defensive line in the outer city, while the city protection division was in charge of defending the Friendship City Region.

The Shanhai City army had totally given up on the north city wall.

The first day of the war ended just like that.

Shanhai City didn't even lose a single soldier and killed off 8000 men.

No matter if it was Daiqin or Baiqi, both knew that this was just an appetizer.

The real battle was about to start.

In the dead of night, there was total silence.

Alliance army camp.

A man dressed in black appeared at Daiqin's tent.

"Shouldn't you all act already?" Daiqin seemed to be familiar with this man and in his tone was one of slight unhappiness.

During the first day of the war, the alliance army already had heavy casualties, so naturally Daiqin was unhappy.

"Relax, the reinforcements are coming!" The man in the black shirt was expressionless.

"When's the exact time?" Daiqin wasn't pleased with his answer.

"The most crucial time!" The man didn't care. "Whats most important is for you to bait their main force and clear or the outer obstacles to create a chance for the final battle."

"I don't need you to teach me!" Daiqin was cold. They were risking their lives in the front line while the man hid in the shadows, obviously it was easy for him to say such a thing.

"I hope you all can have a victory tomorrow!"

After saying that, the black shirt man exited the tent and disappeared in the darkness.

After he left, Daiqin dissed, "Rat!"

The next day, the sun rose up as usual.

As the sun shined on the soil of the Lianzhou Basin, it was unable to give anyone a feeling of warmth.

War was always so brutal.

Because of war, the farmers outside of the city couldn't farm, and the workshops in the city didn't open up. The commoners were afraid and terrified that when they woke up they would be prisoners.

"Have you heard, yesterday the enemy took down the city protection river!"

"The grassland barbarians are really strong!"

In the midst of the people, the original men from the Tianfeng Tribe's face changed and they were overwhelmed with emotions.

They exchanged glances, looking excited but also nervous.

On the high buildings on the side of the road, two Military Intelligence Division spies were like hunters staring at their prey.

The calm Shanhai City was being pushed forward by a hidden current.

In every war, the dark side of society would slowly be revealed.

The discussions between the people naturally couldn't stop the war.

At 10 AM, the war began once again.

Daiqin led 12 thousand men and sat in the city north camp to survey the Friendship City Region.

The remaining 30 thousand troops were split into two, going around the north city wall and going straight for Shanhai City.

The west was led by Lakhshen; the east by Xirigou Lige.

The two armies were like a nail, embedded straight into Shanhai City.

In the current outer city, apart from the buildings, anything valuable was all moved into the inner city.

As Lakhshen entered the outer city, the scene in front of him shocked him.

The vast empty land of the outer city were laced with huge amounts of arrow turrets and barricades. This was especially true at the sides of the bridge towards Qiushui City and Shanhai City.

Apart from that, on the ground were scattered large amounts of iron barbed wires.

Be it the barricades or the barbed wires, they were all prepared by the Combat Logistics Department long time ago. The strong military industry showed its worth in battle.

Not only that, on the bridges were high numbers of soldiers. On the bridge towards Qiushui City, a cavalryman stood there solemnly, the flag he waved was of the 2nd division cavalry.

On the bridge towards Shanhai City, the 1st division's 1st regiment sword shield soldiers laid in wait.

Baiqi's strategy was simple. Before the enemy showed everything they had, Shanhai City army would not go all out and would use the land to their advantage.

Even if the war was ugly, as long as it was effective, Baiqi didn't care.

Lakhshen felt numb and had a feeling of being unable to attack.

"General, what should we do?" The deputy official was also helpless.

Lakhshen's face turned black and shouted, "What can we do?"

Without removing these obstacles, the cavalry would be unable to proceed.

Helplessly, the alliance could only send out their daredevil force to clear out the obstacles.

Clearing everything, it was a bloodbath.

The Shanhai City archers stood on top of the archer tower and shot down. The alliance army could only shoot one or two arrows from their war horses and vent their frustration.

What was worse was that before the daredevil squad cleared the area to below the archer tower, the archers retreated and escaped.

Lakhshen was furious and scolded aloud. Where was there such a despicable fighting method?

When Daiqin received the news, he was also fuming. Now he knew what the black shirt man said about clearing the obstacles.

That stupid rat had obtained intel but hid it from them.

When Daiqin's reaction was spread to the troops on the east and west, Lakhshen and Xirigou Lige shivered and thought that their commander was angry at their speed.

Helplessly, they could only grit their teeth and send out more men out to die.

Throughout an entire morning, the daredevil squad was changed and changed.

Only just before noon did they manage to clear all the obstacles to the north of Friendship river and Qiushui river.

In just a morning, the alliance army lost 4000 men.

Using the break in the afternoon, Lakhshen asked Daiqin whether he should continue clearing the obstacles on the opposite shore or surround Friendship City.

What he got was that he had to take down the bridge.

Daiqin was also helpless, as he himself also wanted to directly attack Friendship City.

But if they didn't take down the bridge and block the passageway between the three cities, when they attack, they could be pincered in and surrounded.

At 2 PM, the intense battle over the bridge officially started.

This was the first real battle between Shanhai City army and the grassland alliance army. Even at the start, it was already very explosive.

One bridge obviously couldn't hold so many men.

On the narrow bridge, both sides gave their all.

In less than half an hour, the bridge was strewn with bodies. The fresh blood seeped into the gaps of the wooden floor and dyed the bridge red.

At the farther portions of the battle, to make space, soldiers had to throw the corpses off the bridge. The corpses thrown into the river floated up and looked like hell.

Apart from the battle for the bridge, both sides also shot at each other using the arrow towers.

The killing shouts made the commoners and residents in the inner city terrified.

All the way until 4 PM, under the fearless charging of the grassland alliance army, the Shanhai City army retreated and both bridges were taken over by the alliance army.

War had started to turn towards the direction that favored the alliance army.

As for the truth about the war? Everything was still unknown.

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Chapter 334- Surrounding the City

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2nd month 11th day

The grassland alliance troops surrounded the Friendship City Region.

After two days of slaughter, the alliance had 37 thousand men left and only the city protection division defended Friendship City. In terms of numbers, the alliance army didn't have the absolute advantage.

Apart from that, Daiqin arranged 2000 troops to guard the 2 bridges.

Although the grassland army was mainly cavalry, it didn't mean that they didn't know how to siege.

For this battle, the alliance army had been preparing for a long time.

One of which were siege machines. Apart from the simple siege ladder, the alliance also prepared a secret weapon, the trebuchet.

The trebuchet was provided by the Yanhuang Alliance.

If Ouyang Shuo could obtain the technical manual through raiders, naturally the Yanhuang Alliance could too.

Chances were equal.

The trebuchet was sneakily transported to the Tianqi tribe around half a month ago, and was kept a secret.

Today, the mysterious veil was finally revealed.

When 30 odd trebuchets were placed on the northern side of Friendship City, Zhao Sihu's face was bitter.

He had already reported the intel to the commander group, and they had also sent spies to find out what it was.

Unfortunately the alliance army kept it a secret, and anyone who tried to get close were mercilessly killed. As such no spy was able to get near it.

At 9 AM sharp, with the explosive sound of the trebuchets, the siege had begun.

Large amounts of stones were flung into the inner city by the trebuchets, destroying anything that could be destroyed. Be it archer towers or houses, none of them could hide.

Especially the arcuballistas mounted on the north city wall, they were the targets of the trebuchet.

Arcuballistas were the absolute counters to cavalry, so why would Daiqin let them off?

However, it front of the three-bow arcuballistas, normal trebuchets didn't have an advantage.

The range of the trebuchet was 400 meters, while the three-bow arcuballistas could reach 500 meters.

Hence, the trebuchets were totally in the range of the arcuballistas.

The god machine unit returned the favor and rained down bolts at the trebuchets.

Be it the trebuchets of arcuballistas, they were all very exquisite machines. Hence, the moment they were hit, they were easily broken and couldn't function normally.

In this battle, the god machine unit won.

Of the 30 odd trebuchets, in less than an hour, 20 were destroyed.

In comparison, only 10 arcuballistas were destroyed.

The god machine unit had once again done a miracle.

At the high platform of the alliance army, Daiqin's face was totally black. He remembered that when the Yanhuang Alliance gave them the trebuchet, they swore that Shanhai City had no way to defend against it.

Who would have thought that right from the start, his trebuchet strategy would fail?

At the crucial moment, he still needed the grassland children to fight. Daiqin was more and more annoyed by the Yanhuang Alliance. He send the orders for the army to use the sieging ladder and charge towards Friendship City.

With the protection of the god machine unit, whichever army wanting to siege it, the task was highly difficult.

With such a killing machine coupled with the archers on the city walls, they were a real life human life collector. Before the large grassland alliance could come close to the wall, they had suffered heavy casualties.

The thinly equipped soldiers were like wheat in the fields and got harvested batch by batch.

What was good was that the grassland alliance army was fearless, braved the arrow rain, and resolutely rushed towards the city wall. When they got near the wall with much difficulty and latched it on, what awaited them was an even bigger catastrophe.

Numerous rolling wood and huge stones pelted downwards from over the wall, taking away life after life.

Siege battles were all along the most brutal ones.

In the battlefield where blood and meat flew around, if one wasn't cruel enough, he would collapse instantly.

The siege lasted until noon, and Friendship City was still as strong as rock. The alliance didn't have a single soldier that managed to get on the wall and cause a threat for the city protection division.

In the end, without the trebuchet, the grassland alliance army was still weaker.

On horses, they were heroes; at sieging, they were total noobs.

Making use of the break, the city protection division could finally take a breather. With only one division to defend such a huge area, it wasn't as easy as it seemed.

As for the arcuballista archers of the god machine unit, these were strong men as they had been continuously operating the arcuballista. Not only did they use up all their energy, but their hands were also swollen and shaking.

Not only the strong men, but those soldiers in charge of throwing the rolling wood and stone had it tough too. The enemy was really too fearless and kept on attacking. They could only follow and move around the rolling wood and throw it down.

The continuous battle had totally exhausted the soldiers.

Luckily at this time, the Combat Logistics Department had arranged for the commoners to bring delicious and warm rice.

The alliance army was similarly cooking rice, but their atmosphere was really depressing.

Their morale had been crushed by problem after problem, and was at its lowest. Some soldiers even felt despair and that no matter what, they wouldn't be able to take down Friendship City.

This depressing mood that spread around the camp made Daiqin frown.

For him to hold on until now was for the promise reinforcements by the Yanhuang Alliance. Those stupid rats still not appearing at this time, what tricks were they playing?

The alliance army was on the verge of collapsing, and one small mistake would push them over the edge.

Daiqin could feel in the eyes of the various tribe generals that they had the intention of retreating. In the end, the only one with a deep hatred for Shanhai City was the Tianqi tribe.

If it wasn't that Shanhai City had endless amounts of riches, they wouldn't have responded to Kehan's call and lead their troops to attack the city.

3 days had passed and they haven't achieved anything. Their army was half destroyed.

Whoever it was, they wouldn't feel good.

In the afternoon, under the pressure of Daiqin, the alliance army launched another assault on Friendship City.

The current alliance army's morale had dropped tremendously and they weren't as fierce as before.

After a noon of readjustment, the city protection division had barely managed to recover. After some casualties, they managed to block the alliance army assault.

The third day has ended just like that.

Night, alliance army tent.

Daiqin was furious, he wasn't as calm and easygoing as before.

The meeting that just ended, the 6 tribe generals, apart from Hari Chagai who kept quiet, the other 6 pressured him to disperse the troops of not they would leave.

Those bunch of rats!

Do they think dispersing the army will make things fine? When you bare your fangs, wanting to close your mouth wasn't that easy.

After this battle, when Shanhai City recovered, would they let them off?

Stupid to the maximum!

To the alliance army, there was already no way out.

Advancing was a road filled with thorns; retreating was a cliff.

Unfortunately, no one believed his words. They'd rather be an ostrich and not give their all.

Bastards!

Daiqin raged, and he smashed the things in his tent.

Lakhshen stood at a side quietly. This was the first time he saw Daiqin lose control, so even when he loses his senses, even he will lose control of himself.

Lakhshen realized that he wasn't as fearful of him anymore.

Daiqin turned around and seeing Lakhshen's expression, he immediately regained his senses.

"You go back first!" Daiqin regained his calmness.

"Yes!" Lakhshen backed out of the tent quietly.

Daiqin looked at the view of Lakhshen's back, giving a weird expression.

Not long after Lakhshen left, the black shirt man visited the tent once again.

When Daiqin saw the black shirt man, all his pent up anger was released. He pulled out the crescent knife by his wait and held it at the neck of the men, "Where's the reinforcements that you promised? Give me a satisfying answer or else you won't leave here!"

The black shirt man was unfazed. "General, why are you so angry?"

"Asshole! It's because of all of you. Those generals are about to leave. I probably can't escape but your hopes are now all lost." Daiqin was really going to be angered to death, he gritted his teeth as he said.

"The reinforcements will come tomorrow!" The black shirt man wasn't fast or slow and didn't bother about the knife at his neck.

Daiqin's eyes froze and he kept the crescent knife back into his sheath. "Are your words true?"

"General will know tomorrow, when have I lied to you."

"Good, I'll trust you one last time." Daiqin was helpless, now he could only advance and his only hope was the reinforcements.

The black shirt men laughed coldly, his grasp of human nature was at the peak. The timing at which the Yanhuang Alliance would act was predicted and strategized by the advisors from the military.

On the surface, he was still expressionless. "Goodbye, tomorrow I still need you to put up a good show for us."

"Hen!" Daiqin didn't answer.

The black shirt man didn't care and left, disappearing into the darkness once again.

In the night, a 20 thousand man army appeared in Lianzhou wilderness. The army was like a ghost, silently staring at Shanhai City.

Amongst the slowly advancing army, there was Chun Shenjun, Xiong Ba, and also a special existence, Baiqi's old friend, Zhao Kuo.

Zhao Kuo rode on the horse, looked towards Shanhai City, and muttered, "Wu An lord, we are going to meet again! This time I'm not going to lose to you."

Shanhai City was welcoming its greatest danger.

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Chapter 335- Shanhai City Is Lost?

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Walking in the morning sun, the 20 thousand reinforcements from Yanhuang Alliance sneakily appeared to the west of Shanhai City.

At the same time, to the east of Shanhai City, a 20 thousand man army led by Zhan Lang and Feng Qingyang appeared, charging straight at the city east camp.

In Broken Blade County, Di Chen and Wandering Magic led 5000 elites to assist Sha Pojun's unit.

Amongst the group, there was an old general- Lianpo.

Adding with the 5000 that Sha Pojun led, the Yanhuang Alliance had invested 50 thousand of their elite.

Their strategy was to surround the city and not attack. The Broken Blade County city protection division pincered the 3rd division together with the 10 thousand elite from Yanhuang Alliance and the 20 thousand led by Zhan Lang.

After destroying the 3rd division, they would proceed west and siege Shanhai City.

Their appetite was unexpectedly huge.

Their plan wasn't only that. Di Chen and Chun Shenjun also used their connections and contacted the various big power lords to send troops and form up at the border of the various Shanhai alliance allies.

Their goal was to prevent them from sending reinforcements.

One had to say that they were making a huge move.

If they succeeded, not only would Shanhai City be totally destroyed, but the Shanhai alliance would also be greatly affected.

With that, the Chinese region would belong to Yanhuang Alliance and return to the path that Di Chen and them planned. The changes that Ouyang Shuo had triggered would then cease to exist.

This was the strongest blow that the Yanhuang Alliance dealt since they formed.

Even as their opponent, one would have to say that they made a good move.

Ouyang Shuo had no idea was happening with any of this.

Daiqin, seeing the reinforcements arrive, heaved a sigh of relief in the alliance army tent, .

Early in the morning, the various tribes had started to pack up and were ready to leave. Seeing the suddenly appearance of reinforcements, the various generals rushed to the tent to ask Daiqin what was happening.

Daiqin gave a simple explanation and then said, "The reinforcements have arrived. It's time to attack Shanhai City."

"We will follow commander's orders!"

At this time, obviously no one would want to retreat and disperse the troops.

The 20 thousand reinforcements were like a strengthening agent, and once again raised the morale of the troops.

Compared to the alliance army tent, the Shanhai City commander unit had a more serious atmosphere.

Baiqi's eyebrows were locked. What he was worried about wasn't the 20 thousand reinforcements but the position they came out from wasn't correct. Based on logic, they should have came from the east, so how did they come from the west?

The count of the commander unit was something only Ouyang Shuo could answer.

To be able to keep contact with him, Mu Lanyue had remained in the Lianzhou Lord's Manor.

When she got the news, she relayed it to him straight away.

The alliance being able to come from the west means that one of the lords had destroyed the contract and allowed them into Lianzhou.

As it had special meaning, the contract in game had lawful implications. The player breaking the contract would have to be punished.

To prevent such a thing from happening, he made strict demands. If one went against it, not only must he pay heavy economic consequences, but must also go to jail.

Not only that, a one sided breaking of the contract will also affect the player's credit evaluation and was detrimental to both his life and game.

In conclusion, the consequences were very heavy.

He didn't expect for the Yanhuang Alliance to actually have such huge connections.

Ouyang Shuo was unable to think about what conditions Yanhuang Alliance had promised to allow that lord to be willing to go to jail.

The bottom line of the Yanhuang Alliance was far more than Ouyang Shuo expected. The connections and influence of these old men were simple terrifying.

Usually one wouldn't notice, but the moment they bared their fangs, it was a bloody slaughter.

In this aspect, Ouyang Shuo was just a rookie and wasn't on their level.

Ouyang Shuo had no time to think, and his first reaction was to ask Mu Lanyue to remind Baiqi to take a look at the east. Since the west broke their contract, the east side would as well.

Yanhuang had planned so well, so they probably covered everything.

If the east had allies as well, the 3rd division would be in deep trouble.

In truth, Ouyang Shuo didn't place any high hopes on his reminder.

Since the allied troops to the west appeared, it was already too late. Ouyang Shuo just hoped that the Military Intelligence Division was sharp and could catch the eastern troops to buy some time.

As for the allies of Shanhai Alliance, Ouyang Shuo had only one sentence: adapt to changes.

As one said, danger was a chance.

If they could make use of the chance and expand their strength, they could clear those people around them. As for Shanhai City, it didn't need reinforcements at this time.

Ouyang Shuo's words helped stabilized the chaotic situation within the alliance.

After calming down, it was time to make a plan.

Right now, it was far from when victory and defeat was decided.

Hearing Mu Lanyue's words, Baiqi kept silent. He ordered all the divisions to stop their movement. Following which, he stayed in the room alone, planning for god knows what.

Lianzhou East Region.

Before, the prevent the mountain barbarian tribe from talking to Chiyou City, the military intelligence group had planted many eyes around the east region. Following which was the Battle of Lianzhou.

Tianqi Tribe working together with Broken Blade County was found out by the military intelligence 1st group.

As compared to the area in the west, the entire east region was under surveillance by the military intelligence 1st group.

Hence, the moment the east army appeared, they were found by the military intelligence first group. The spy immediately used the Feng bird, informed the city east camp, and asked the 3rd division to make preparations.

Zhanlang was around a day away from the city east camp. If they rushed, it was less than a day's journey.

The high speed of the Feng bird had earned the 3rd division half a day of time.

This half a day allowed the 3rd division to escape death.

The moment the intelligence officer in the camp received the intel, he immediately reported to major general Er'Lai.

When Er'Lai received the news, he immediately gathered or the colonels for a meeting.

"There is no time, whatever ideas you have, throw it out." Although Er'Lai was fierce, he was very civil when he did things. He knew his weakness, and hence was able to listen to the ideas from his subordinates.

The tent suddenly quietened down.

Those generals were basically brutish. They could bring soldiers out to battle, but such suggestions were too much for them.

Out of the five colonels, Er'Lai had high hopes for one of them; he was the second regiment colonel Lei Jingtian. Lei Jingtian came out of the Leidian Tribe and Gushan County Magistrate Leifan was his brother.

Although Lei Jingtian was a mountain barbarian, his senses were sharp and he was good at using troops.

As expected, seeing no one speak, Lei Jingtian stood out and said directly, "The enemy is two to three times ours. Relying on the city east camp, we can't defend it. I feel that we should retreat before the enemy arrives."

"Retreat, to where?"

"Gushan County!"

"Gushan County?"

"That's right. Firstly, mostly mountain barbarians live there and the independent regiment was housed there. Secondly, the county has good defenses, and is much better than the city east camp.

As his words were heard, all the generals agreed.

"Agreed!"

"Agreed!""Ok, that's settled. All of us will retreat to Gushan County."

"General, we must plan it well and not let the enemy see any weaknesses." Guards unit major Liaokai reminded.

"En, we really need to plan." Er'Lai brushed his moustache and turned to the intelligence officer. "Immediately send all our intel and plans to the commander unit. At the same time, ask them what we should do next."

"Understood!"

In truth, when the Military Intelligence Division spy located Zhan Lang, they had sent two reports, one to the city east camp and the other back to the headquarters.

The only thing they needed to inform the commander unit was only the issue with retreating.

Time was tight and after dispersing, the city east camp started to get busy.

To not alert the 3rd division, Di Chen's forces hid in Broken Blade County and didn't show themselves.

Opposite the city east camp were only the Broken Blade County city protection division and Sha Pojun's forces.

Both armies were at a standstill for many days and nothing happened.

To trick the enemy, Er'Lai had specially arranged a guards unit, the only cavalry unit in the 3rd division to provoke the enemy.

The main army had quietly left through the back of the camp.

Of all this, Ba Dao and Sha Pojun didn't have any clue.

The hatred both of them had for Ouyang Shuo was deep in their bones. Every moment, they would imagine the feeling of the upcoming revenge.

As time went on, Yanhuang Alliance's plan was revealed.

The forums were in an uproar and they were basically mourning Shanhai City.

"Shanhai City is about to be destroyed, Yanhuang Alliance is more skilled!"

"Yanhuang Alliance had stayed quiet, but when they act, it's truly shocking!"

"Well played Yanhuang Alliance!"

"The situation in China Region is changing, who will commoner lords look to now?"There were all kind of comments. Some were cheering while some were sad. Be it people who opposed or supported, no one felt that Shanhai City could get out of this.

At this moment, the professional commentators that Yanhuang Alliance hired had announced that Yanhuang Alliance had considered far ahead and the complacency and arrogance of Shanhai City had given them the chance.

Even the global forums were shocked at such a change.

Jack Dawson, who felt that Shanhai City would survive, was speechless. The China Region really had many hidden tigers and dragons, the competition in it was so intense.

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Chapter 336- Empty City Plan

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At 5 PM, the troops led by Zhan Lang had rushed near the city east camp.

Seeing him appear, Di Chen also led his troops out of the city and both forces had successfully surrounded the city east camp as planned.

As it was already late, both forces agreed to fight the next day.

It was because of that decision that provided enough time for the 3rd division to escape.

That afternoon, the Feng bird released by the Military Intelligence Division from the city east camp had flown to Shanhai City with the new intel.

The way things stood, the 3rd division was fine. With Gushan County's support, they could at least last for 4-5 days.

With these few days, they could plan and prepare.

Baiqi, was preparing a huge gift for the enemy.

After settling the camp, Zhan Lang brought Zhao Zhuang, climbing up the high platform and viewing the city east camp in front of them.

"The camp, why is it so quiet?" Zhao Zhuang had some doubts.

Zhan Lang paid attention and frowned. "It is too quiet!"

"Do we need to arrange spies to go investigate?"

Zhan Lang shook his head. "No need, anyways tomorrow morning we will launch the attack."

"Ok, I'll go take a look at our troops." Zhao Zhuang turned around and left.

Zhan Lang looked at the fading back of Zhao Zhuang and nodded. Towards him, Zhan Lang was very pleased, although he wasn't talented like Zhao Kuo, his personality wasn't very likeable, and he didn't speak up much.

He, however, had a quality which Zhan Lang admired. He did everything he was told.

Zhao Zhuang had quietly arranged everything about the army advance, finding a suitable camp spot, planning the camp, getting the resources, arranging the sentries, etc.

Under Zhao Zhuang's supervision, everything ran well and Zhan Lang didn't need to worry.

This was a general that allowed one to relax.

The next day, the alliance army launched their assault on the city east camp.

What was weird was that facing the advancing enemy, the city east camp was still very quiet.

Seeing that, a feeling of unease rose up in Zhan Lang's heart.

The attack was unexpectedly smooth and without any resistance, they managed to enter the camp.

At this time, even a fool would realize that something was wrong.

The two armies gathered in the city east camp.

Seeing the empty camp, Zhan Lang and Di Chen's faces were really ugly.

In the camp, the scarecrows which had armor on were staring at the alliance army, like little clowns mocking them...

"Dammit!" Sha Pojun shouted. He swung his sword and broke a scarecrow to vent his anger.

Di Chen was more calm, he went beside Zhan Lang and asked, "What do you think?"

"It's obvious, our army has been monitored so they had news early. I think they retreated yesterday in the afternoon." Zhan Lang was a little anxious.

This kind of feeling when things weren't in your control was certainly uncomfortable.

Di Chen nodded and agreed with Di Chen's analysis. "The northern and southern sides are blocked by us, so where can they escape to?" As he said to here, he called out to Ba Dao whose face was also black and asked, "Are there any subsidiary territories in this region?"

"Yes. To the west there's Friendship County; east near the hundred thousand mountain, there's Gushan County. These two territories are under Shanhai Territory."

Di Chen nodded and continued, "Which direction do you think they escaped to?"

"This..." Ba Dao was stunned and he wasn't sure.

Just at this moment, Zhao Zhuang and Lianpo walked over.

Di Chen respectfully asked, "General, have you found anything?"

Lianpo brushed his moustache, "Based on my observations, they escaped last afternoon, and they should have went east." As expected from an old general, he had vast experience.

"Is there a chance that they were purposely trying to mislead us?" Zhan Lang was still worried.

"There is such a chance." Although he said that, in truth he was still very sure of his answer. But because of the situation, he just didn't want to be too direct.

Being retorted like that by Lianpo, Zhan Lang's facial expression changed.

Zhao Zhuang who was standing at the side had an awkward expression. He understood Lianpo too well.

"Cough!" Di Chen helped Zhan Lang get out of the awkwardness and looked at Ba Dao. "Is there anything special about Gushan County?"

Ba Dao's only role in this was to answer nicely. "Gushan County is a mountain barbarian run county; the mountain barbarian race stays there." Apparently, Ba Dao had done a lot of work on Shanhai Territory.

"Oh, ya!" Ba Dao suddenly smacked his head and said loudly, "Apart from a city protection unit, they also have a fighting regiment, probably to defend against the beasts in the hundred thousand mountains!"

Di Chen and Zhan Lang looked at one another, having made their decision.

It seemed like the 3rd division was most probably at Gushan County.

Di Chen looked around and raised the morale, saying loudly, "The enemy just retreated and are probably nearby. Even if they reach Gushan County, they can't prepare for the battle. A small county can't defend against our huge army."

"That's right. The enemy retreating meant they didn't have the confidence to face us, they are cowards." Zhan Lang stepped out an said, "Now we will go towards Gushan County."

"Advance to Gushan County and destroy the 3rd division!" Wandering Magic shouted.

"Advance to Gushan County, destroy the 3rd division!"

The roar deafened and spread through the wilderness.

In a moment, the morale of the alliance army skyrocketed as they reorganized their forces and marched towards Gushan County.

The 3rd division rushed day and night and finally reached Gushan County in the early morning. It was also a coincidence that at the exact same moment, the alliance army was attacking the city east camp.

County Magistrate Lei Fan had received the news and personally welcomed them.

The core members were in the County Manor meeting hall.

Apart from the generals, were the independent regiment colonel, the city protection unit major as well as Lei Fan joining the meeting.

It was an emergency, so after Er'Lai gave a rough overview, a state of emergency was announced.

"Based on wartime rules, as the main general at the city east camp, in the highest commander in the east region, receive my order. The Gushan County independent regiment and the city protection unit are now under the 3rd division."

"Yes commander!" The two generals stepped out to receive the order.

Er'Lai nodded his head, looking towards Lei Fan and saying, "County Magistrate Lei, it's a state of emergency so all commoners regardless of age or gender must follow military orders."

"No problem!"

At the start of the Battle of Lianzhou, the various Houses had received the level one warning from the Lord's Manor. Lei Fan was smart and had started preparing combat logistics.

"What's most important is that we must announce a recruitment, to recruit all the young men into the reserve force for them to help us defend the county."

"General don't worry, everyone in the county have a common goal!" Lei Fan was very confident.

"Good, time is of the essence, lets go prepare!"

"Yes!"

After the meeting, the county started to get busy.

With more preparations done now, they would be able to lose less blood later on.

The mountain barbarians were expectedly bloodthirsty, and the moment a call to arms was announced, hundreds and thousands of young mountain barbarians registered.

The 3rd division was made up of all mountain barbarian warriors. Their elite equipment, rich salary and a high status made them admired by all the young mountain barbarians.

To have the chance to join the army, of course they were eager to join.

The entire Gushan County had suddenly come alive.

Shanhai City.

After Chun Shenjun and Xiongba led their 20 thousand troops and rushed to Shanhai City, they set up camp to the west.

When the reinforcements arrived, Daiqin had a conversation with Chun Shenjun.

The result was that both sides left unhappily.

The divide between the both of them was which city to take down first.

Daiqin wanted to attack Friendship City, the reason being that it needed a soft push to be taken over after the heavy attacks of the grassland alliance army.

Chun Shenjun didn't agree as he only had one goal which was the Shanhai City Region.

As for Qiushui City, both of them neglected it.

Although they knew that on the walls of Qiushui City hung the army flag of the 2nd division, they also knew that the second division were made up of cavalry and weren't good at defending cities.

Firstly was that Qiushui City weren't hit by anything yet and secondly was that its value wasn't high.

Different from Daiqin, the ambition of the Yanhuang Alliance was to totally take over Shanhai City, and to do that, they had to destroy the stone Steele in the Lianzhou Lord's manor.

Hence, Chun Shenjun didn't want to waste his troops to attack Friendship City. He wanted to persuade Daiqin to attack Shanhai City together with him.

Although in this operation it could be said that the entire Yanhuang Alliance participated in it and it was a cooperation of all of them, this didn't stop Chun Shenjun from being selfish.

Based on his thinking, if he could take over Shanhai City together with the grassland alliance before Di Chen and Zhan Lang arrived, that would be great.

If that were the case, be it in the Yanhuang Alliance or the China Region, he will be the absolute star.

With such selfish thinking, Chun Shenjun had been bugging Daiqin. To persuade him, he made many promises that slowly tempted him.

Both of them were making small calculations, but they didn't know that the current Qiushui City was an empty city.

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Chapter 337- Transition

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Baiqi had played a wonderful empty city plan right under the noses of the alliance army.

When he had given out the city defense roles, the 2nd division had sneakily hid in the Shanhai city barracks. As for the soldiers patrolling at the city gate of Qiushui City, they were just a bunch of reserve force members dressed like cavalry.

The only 2nd division soldiers that were there were the cavalry unit that defended on one end of the bridge.

As what Zhao Sihu was worried about was that if the 3 divisions defended the inner cities, they would be forced to fight alone and for themselves.

The war happened as predicted.

The allied army had taken control of the 3 bridges and thus cut off contact between the three cities.

Hence, Baiqi decided to sneak the 2nd division into Shanhai City.

To bluff the enemy, Baiqi had ordered them to hang the 2nd division flags on the city wall of Qiushui City. During the battle over the bridges, it proved once again that the 2nd division was inside Qiushui City.

As they had their own goals, be it Daiqin or Chun Shenjun, they didn't bother about Qiushui City.

To Baiqi, how to move and use the 2nd division depended on the layout of the enemy.

If the alliance army focused on attacking Shanhai City, then the 2nd division will sneak attack.

If the enemy was unable to immediately take down Shanhai City, then Baiqi would transition to dealing damage.

What it would result in would be that under the continuous assault of Shanhai City, they would have heavy casualties and would be forced back. Even with reinforcements, they wouldn't be able to attack.

To Baiqi, this was the best decision.

The only change was the problem with the 3rd division.

Luckily at the crucial moment, the Military Intelligence Division had worked its magic and helped them escape.

Receiving the intel from the Military Intelligence Division, Baiqi made the decisive step.

And this was also the biggest present Baiqi prepared for the alliance army.

2nd month 13th day

It was the turning point of the Battle of Lianzhou.

On this day, the 3rd division had retreated to Gushan County and escaped from being pincered.

On this day, Di Chen and Zhan Lang met up in the city east camp and decided to attack Gushan County.

On this day, Chun Shenjun tried to persuade Daiqin to attack Shanhai City together.

The key was:

On this day, the 2nd division teleported from Shanhai City to Mulan City.

After confirming that Shanhai City was temporarily okay, Baiqi activated both trump cards, the 2nd and 4th divisions, and targeted Beiritie China's forces.

He only had 8000 cavalry, and inside Mulan City was two divisions, one of which was the trump card of the Shanhai City Army.

Together with the newly built city protection regiment, the total strength was close to 30 thousand.

Before the 2nd division left, Baiqi left Luo Shixin with a few words: end it fast.

Time was of the essence for Shanhai City.

The empty city plan could only work for a while, and if time is dragged out, it would definitely fail.

Luo Shixin immediately ordered them to prepare for battle and promised that in a day he would destroy their forces.

To achieve that goal, after Luo Shixin teleported, he discussed with Mu Guiying and both of them chose to surround Beiritie China's forces.

Mu Guiying led the 4th division and city protection regiment from the front to attract attention.

The 2nd division sneakily went out of the west gate and circled behind their forces to break their escape route.

In these few days, Mulan City was very silent and nothing occured.

As the main general, Beiritie China naturally wouldn't let down his guard.

The soldiers on the other hand were different. Some were grumbling about their mission to spy on the sea. From their point of view, charging towards Shanhai City and plundering its riches was the most glorious.

What they didn't know was that their friends not only didn't obtain a single copper, but that 20 thousand of them died on the battlefield.

Things in this world were actually so magical. When you are envying others, they are envying you too. Those who attacked Shanhai City were envying Beiritie China's forces for being safe.

Hence when Mulan City's south gate suddenly opened and a huge army waltzed out like a black swarm, the grassland cavalry troops were stunned.

"Sneak attack! Sneak attack!"

"Quick, prepare for battle!"

"Cavalry units form up!"

"Prepare the horses! Prepare the horses!"Various noises spread out in the camp, and it was total chaos.

When Bieritie China got the news, he walked out of the tent and onto the high platform.

The 4th division was made up of light cavalry and infantry with the main force being infantry. There was only one light armoured infantry regiment protecting the left wing. The right wing was the city protection regiment.

The center was the biggest and formed up of sword shield soldiers, spearmen, and archers in that order.

The huge army charged forwards in an orderly formation, shocking the heavens.

Beiritie China's eyes focused as he knew that the enemy had finally acted. He was originally a hot blooded person and being cooped up for so many days made him feel uncomfortable. Seeing the enemy troops come out, his blood boiled.

Although their number were more than expected and twice the number of the grassland cavalry, Beiritie Ahci wasn't fazed and he believed in his invincible iron cavalry that they would be able to crush the enemy.

The grassland cavalry were well trained and in a short time, they formed up.

Beiritie China rode his Qingfu Horse and walked to the front of the army, waving them forward to attack.

The cavalry started charging fearlessly towards the enemy.

Before they even reached the front, the 4th division archers gave them a warning.

After the 4th division was re-equiped, the bows that they used were all elite equipment produced by the bow and crossbow division, be in range or precision they were all of high grade.

The arrow rain that covered the sky was like a huge net that rained down on their heads.

The grassland cavalry had misjudged the range of the archers.

All of a sudden, both humans and horses fell onto the ground.

The vanguard forces of the grassland cavalry were like wheat getting harvested as one by one they were killed in the arrow rain.

The powerful arrow rain made the grassland cavalry cower in fear. They hadn't faced such a powerful weapon before and their own bows were like toys in comparison.

Beiritie China had a serious expression on his face and wasn't as confident as before.

He was a rash person and the blood on the battlefield ignited the blood in his heart.

He decided to risk it all and give it their all to continue their charge into the enemy.

The short 500 meters was destined to becoming a killing field.

Finally after paying heavy casualties, the grassland cavalry had bumped into the sword shield soldiers and spearmen of the 4th division.

The high speed cavalry had a destructive effect on them.

The sword shield soldiers weren't like the heavy armoured mountain barbarians which were able to withstand the charge of any cavalry. One could see that the middle army was about to be broken right through.

At the crucial moment, the light cavalry at the sides cut in.

With the help of the light armoured cavalry, the attack of the grassland cavalry was affected and their attacking momentum was messed up.

Making use of this chance, the center group under the lead of Mu Guiying formed up once again to prevent the cavalry from charging through.

The grassland cavalry were strong as expected.

They had, under the situation of being under armoured and outnumbered, to be able to deal so much damage, they were really worthy to be called the grassland iron cavalry.

Just as the situation entered a stalemate, a huge rumbling spread out from the back. The deafening sound was even louder than the charge of the grassland cavalry.

Beiritie China was astonished. He turned around to see and in an instant he was on the verge of giving up.

Before his army was a huge force of cavalry charging forwards. They were wearing shiny armor which under the sunlight reflected a golden shine.

The 2nd division had arrived at the crucial moment.

Before the grassland cavalry could even react, the 2nd division had already rushed to the front, and together with the 4th division had totally surrounded the grassland army.

What happened next was a total slaughter!

Two hours later, the remaining grassland cavalry couldn't hold on and decided to surrender.

In this battle, apart from the 3000 who surrendered, the remaining ones all died.

Their commander, one of the 3 generals of the Tianqi tribe, had died.

The Sun hung overhead and shone down, revealing a beautiful red glow.

The death of Beiritie China was a turning point to the grassland tribes. It signified that the grassland tribe rule of the middle region was over and the time of Shanhai City had arrived.

In the later parts, the various grassland tribes named the place where Beiritie China died as the origin of blood.

Time after time, some grassland herders would come over and mourn and remember the glory of the past.

His death was the turning point of the Battle of Lianzhou.

After the battle, the prisoners were sent back by the city protection regiment back to Mulan City. Along with the prisoners was the head of Beiritie China which would be teleported back to Shanhai City.

As the main force of this battle, the 2nd and 4th divisions would directly continue on in the battle. They would follow the orders of the commander unit and continue fighting.

The 2nd division went east, and their target was the empty Broken Blade County, to totally destroy the Broken Blade County city protection division to help out with Gushan County.

As for the 4rth division, they came down south towards the base of Tianqi Tribe.

The two divisions were like two assassins, under the planning of the commander unit, to take out the heads of the enemy.

In the blue sky, a wild goose flew across, both sad and lonely.

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Chapter 338- Striking at the Foot of the Problem

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It was still the 13th day of the 2nd month, and all the things that happened today was enough to make one dazzled.

At 1 PM, the 2nd and 4th division set out.

At 2 PM, the head of Beiritie China was sent to the commander unit.

At 5 PM, Di Chen and Zhan Lang's forces had reached Gushan County and cornered it.

At 6 PM, Chun Shenjun finally persuaded Daiqin, and he agreed to attack Shanhai City.Night, Shanhai City.

The Military Affairs director brought one guard and secretly advanced towards the grassland alliance camp.

Daiqin was in the tent and met Du Ruhui alone.

Du Ruhui entered the black tent and said, "General, are you okay?"

Daiqin said roughly, "If you have anything just say it."

"General is indeed frank!" Du Ruhui didn't care and smiled. "I would like general to retreat!"

"What?" It was like he heard a huge joke and said in a low voice, "Do you believe that if you continue to stay stupid things, I'll kill you?"

"Why not general? First take a look at the present we prepared for you?"

"Present?"

"Bring it forward!" Du Ruhui waved his hand and the guard brought a wooden box in front to the table.

Du Ruhui made a gesture to invite Daiqin to open it, saying calmly, "Please take a look. I believe that when you see it, you will change your mind."

Daiqin's eyes froze. He knew that the other party was a capable person and definitely wasn't bluffing him.

For him to visit so late at night, he must have something important.

"Why not have your guard open up the box!" Daiqin said.

Who knew whether there were any hidden weapons. Although the risk was low, Daiqin still didn't want to.

Du Ruhui nodded.

The servant opened the box only to see a bloody head in the middle of the box.

"Ah!" Even with the calm demeanour of Daiqin, seeing the thing in the box, he couldn't help but call out.

"Commander!" The Guards outside the tent immediately wanted to rush in.

"I'm fine! Stay outside." Daiqin prevented the Guards from entering.

"Yes commander!" The guard replied and silence was restored.

Only then did Daiqin regain his senses and stared at the head in the box, saying coldly, "Beiritie China?"

"That's right. This afternoon, his forces were totally killed by ours and some surrendered. Not only that, Shanhai City's 4th division has already set out toward Shenjuan Lake Camp." Du Ruhui gave a simple description of what happened.

Daiqin felt a shiver down his spine and his face was extremely ugly. He gritted his teeth. "Do you think with just one head that I'll trust you?"

As one of the three generals of the Tianqi tribe, he knew that the current Shenjuan Lake Camp was just a defenseless camp.

The army of the tribe were all in the alliance army and what remained were just a small amount.

When he thought about how the tribe's noble families like Kehan and even his own wife was going to be attacked, his face turned ashen white.

"If you don't believe, you can go check it out. As for whether or not you reach in time is another story."

Daiqin's face was totally white. He didn't dare to take the risk and said solemnly, "Ok, I'll retreat my troops tomorrow."

Du Ruhui shook his head and laughed.

"What? What do you want? Don't go overboard!" Daiqin gritted his teeth and scolded.

"Overboard?" Du Ruhui suddenly kept his smile and said coldly, "General actually dares say that I'm going overboard? When you attacked our city, did you think that you were going overboard? When you attacked Friendship City, did you think that you were going overboard? Why? Now that I want to destroy your home you come and talk to me about this?"

A majestic aura spread out from Du Ruhui.

The current Du Ruhui made one fearful as what he represented was the entire Shanhai City.

Daiqin's face blushed red and he didn't speak.

Inside the tent was a really awkward silence.

"Speak, what exactly do you want?" After a long time, Daiqin said once again, his voice was now really bitter and sad and lacked the confidence as before. "As long as you promise not to harm my tribe I'll agree with everything."

Du Ruhui nodded, it seems like he had finally tamed this wild tiger.

"With the crimes you committed, no punishment would be too much." Du Ruhui said solemnly, "Luckily for you the Marquis is merciful and is willing to give you guys a way out."

"Please elaborate!" The prestige of Daiqin was totally crushed.

"The grassland tribes will come under Shanhai Territory and enjoy the same treatment as ordinary residents."

In the afternoon, the news of the big victory had spread back to the commander unit and they contacted Ouyang Shuo for his opinion. To Ouyang Shuo, integrating all the grassland tribes was the best choice.

Ouyang Shuo wasn't one to do things on a whim.

"This..." Daiqin was speechless. "I'm only a general, I can't make the decision."

"Don't worry, we won't put you on the spot." Du Ruhui continued. "As for surrendering, my Marquis will discuss with Kehan and the other tribes. What you need to do is to lead your troops to go under Shanhai City."

Daiqin sighed and muttered, "Maybe this is the decision of the heavens. The Lianzhou Lord uniting Lianzhou is not something one can prevent."

Thinking about the fate of the various grassland tribes, Daiqin didn't know whether to worry or be happy.

In this year, the various tribes had been cooperating and breaking up, cooperating and breaking up with Shanhai City.

Both sides had done close trading and also hated one another because of the betrayal.

Daiqin's foresight was so far in the future. To him, when the relationship between the grassland tribes and Shanhai City was the closest, he felt the impact of Shanhai City's resources on them.

Surrendering and living in Shanhai City wasn't a bad choice.

"Don't worry, I won't have any second thoughts. Tomorrow I will lead my forces." Daiqin looked at Du Ruhui and said, "As a criminal in this war, I'll also take up responsibility."

In his words, Daiqin already had the intention to die.

From his perspective, the Lianzhou Marquis was kind-hearted and could allow normal soldiers to survive, but as a commander, he would definitely not be let off.

At the crucial moment, Daiqin showed the courage and responsibility of a general.

This was a real man that was worthy of respect.

Du Ruhui looked at Daiqin with a complicated expression. "General doesn't have to do this. In truth, the marquis hopes that you will forget about the past and continue to work for the Shanhai City army.

"?" In Daiqin's eyes, a glimmer of hope shone.

When Du Ruhui saw the doubt in Daiqin's eyes, he said, "General doesn't need to have doubts. Have you heard of Shaobu? He had fought against Shanhai City, and now he's also extensively used by the Marquis."

Daiqin nodded, and hope rose up in his heart.

Which man wouldn't want to conquer territories and build up fame and a career?

"Your prestige, the marquis had long heard about it. It's only that he isn't in Shanhai City and is unable to meet you personally. The marquis wants me to tell you that as long as you are willing, you can lead a division."

In the short conversation, Du Ruhui had many good words for Daiqin.

Daiqin's heart shivered. The promise made by the Lianzhou Lord definitely meant something. Thinking about the 4 major generals of the Shanhai City, which one wasn't a famous general?

He thought he was definitely going to die and now seeing hope, he couldn't hold back the emotions in his heart and said, "Thank you for your good grace, I'll work hard to repay you!"

Du Ruhui stood at the side and silently nodded.

When Daiqin regained his composure, Du Ruhui continued, "As for the battle tomorrow, we need you to help us out."

"Sure, please speak!" Daiqin had already adjusted to his new identity.

"Tomorrow morning, you will lead the army as usual to attack Shanhai City..."

In the tent, Du Ruhui started to discuss the scheme with Daiqin, spreading the order of the commander unit.

It was only in the dead of night when Du Ruhui prepared to leave.

As for how Daiqin was going to convince the other generals, it wasn't his problem. He believed that with Daiqin's ability and the head of Beiritie China, it was enough to shock them.

The 4th Division didn't attack Shenjuan Lake but instead, all the camps of the tribes were in their range. Du Ruhui wouldn't believe that any leader will be so stupid to do anything out of the ordinary."

On the grasslands were their wives and their families.

One had to say that Baiqi striking at the root of the problem was such a brilliant strategy, turning the whole situation around.

Before leaving, Du Ruhui said, "Oh yeah, there's still one more thing I forgot to tell you."

"Please speak!"

"The original Tianfeng tribe leader Dari Ahci and his followers had been taken down by the Law and Order Division and sent to jail, awaiting the court's decision."

"..." Daiqin had no words.

Dari Ahci was contacted by him. The goal was to use them to open up the Shanhai City gate.

They didn't expect that before the operation even began, it would be blown up by Shanhai City.

It seemed that Dari Ahci was under supervision by Shanhai City. Thinking about how Dari Ahci was acting so confidently, Daiqin could only give out a bitter laugh.

As for Shanhai City's spy methods, Daiqin understood another layer of it.

Daiqin himself understood that the reason that Du Ruhui brought this up was to remind him that since he was surrendering, to not play any tricks. If not, he would be killed.

"You can relax!"

At this point, Daiqin didn't have any other thoughts.

"Good!"

Du Ruhui stood up and left, disappearing in the night.

The night sky was dark like ink and it was really quiet.

A new day was about to begin.

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Chapter 339- Going Berserk

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2nd month 14th day, Gushan County.

The blistering sun rose from the east and shined brightly on the earth.

As the sunlight shined outside Gushan County, it reflected off the armor of the huge army.

The 30 thousand man alliance army had joined up with the Broken Blade County city protection division and totally surrounded Gushan County.

Using their storage bag, the alliance army brought a large amount of siege weapons.

A hundred trebuchets were lined up at the front of the battlefield into a line.

Gushan County was only a county grade governed area. No matter how rich Shanhai Territory was, they couldn't fix large numbers of three-bow arcuballistas on its city wall.

The entire Gushan County had only 4 sets, and facing 100 trebuchets, they appeared to be lacking.

"Shoot!"

The commanding officer shouted as the 100 trebuchets fired forwards, a sky full of rocks pelting straight at Gushan County.

The huge rocks smashed into the city wall and when it landed, there was a deafening sound.

Like lighting striking, the rocks exploded at the border of the 100 thousand mountain.

The huge explosion scared off the animals as they escaped deep into the mountains.

The whole situation was very majestic.

Not only that, amongst the normal rocks, there were some burning with alchemical fire oil. These special rocks when lit up were like giant fireballs flying in the air.

The fireball was like it had shot out of a volcano, giving one the feeling of the apocalypse, causing shivers down one's spine.

Such power could nearly compare to that of a cannon.

In the olden times, the trebuchet was known as a cannon and was the best siege weapon in the cold weapons era.

The reason was because of that.

A step forward, and trebuchets could even shoot gunpowder weapons, increasing its strength to an even higher level.

Some evil people might even shoot poison or corpses, letting the corpses spread diseases around. This method was highly devious and was one of the earliest forms of bioweapons.

Anyone who was hit by the rock was unable to survive.

The unfortunate soldiers were smashed into meat paste and the arcuballistas were dislodged from the walls. Even the strong and firm city wall had a few cracks and openings.

The power of the siege weapon was evident.

Luckily within 20 meters of the wall, no houses were allowed to be built. Usually some temporary shops or food carts would be set up there.

During the war, such vendors had closed shop long ago.

If not, 100 trebuchets were more than enough to crush this region.

Along with the trebuchet showing it's might, the alliance army started to attack.

The closely packed soldiers carried the siege ladders as they braved the arrow rain, charging fearlessly towards the city wall. From above, the alliance army was like a black tide, determined to drown Gushan County.

The 3rd division was a pure infantry division and their types included heavy armoured infantry, spearmen and Mo Knife soldiers. The only thing they lacked were archers which was highly disadvantages for them in a defense.

At the crucial moment, Er'Lai could only let the cavalry independent regiment to act as the archer regiment and cooperate with the city protection unit to barely be able to launch an arrow rain.

Zhan Lang noticed the lack of archers and pushed forth his troops to attack.

At this point, the alliance army had successfully reached the bottom of the city wall.

What followed next was their real nightmare.

In a day, Er'Lai managed to recruit 3 thousand reserve force members.

For these mountain barbarians, although it was their first time, they were totally unafraid. Their only duty was to continuously throw down rolling wood and stone pieces.

As there were too many alliance army troops, no matter how they threw, they would definitely hit someone.

As for the soldiers that managed to climb the wall, the 3rd division would handle them.

Although the 3rd division couldn't do long range battles, in short range, they were invincible.

Be it the heavy armoured infantry or the spearmen, all of them were experts in close combat.

Hence, although the alliance army managed to climb the wall, they were forced to retreat time after time by the resolute defenses.

The current city wall was like a meat grinder, making one fearful of it.

Di Chen stood at a high point. Looking at the battle situation in front of him, he couldn't help but be awed by it.

"The Shanhai City heavy armoured infantry are really worthy of their praises."

Zhan Lang nodded. "It's time to send out trump card team!"

During the 2nd system auction, Zhan Lang and Di Chen both obtained items. Be it to Suozi armor or Shanwen armor, they were both elite armors.

In a month's time, the two of them used the armor as a base, and both of them built a trump card force.

Although it was just one unit, it couldn't be underestimated.

Especially with the Shanwen armor which was one of the most elite infantry armors.

Di Chen nodded and agreed with Zhan Lang.

Zhan Lang waved his flag and the 2 trump card units broke out of formation. Under the cover of the normal army, they started to siege the city wall.

Er'Lai was on top of the wall, shooting his bow left and right and engaging in quick slaughter. Seeing that the enemy rushing up were well equipped, he didn't care much and swung his halberd, sweeping them off the wall.

The mountain barbarian heavy armoured infantry facing the Shanwen armor infantry still held the upper hand. They were all people who had been through countless battles. They were born with immense strength, thus the so called trump card unit was nothing in their eyes.

The only difference was killing one or two.

Even so, the two trump card units had slowed down the tempo of the 3rd division.

The alliance army took the chance to quicken theirs.

Huge amounts of soldiers started to successfully climb up the wall and engage with the third division.

All of a sudden, danger loomed at every corner of the city wall.

After all, the 3rd division didn't have the numbers advantage and for the other side to suddenly have a new force, they couldn't handle it.

What made one even more worried was the moment the alliance army was able to gain a footing on the city wall, there would be even more reinforcements.

If they weren't able to push back this wave, the Gushan County city wall might be lost.

Luckily, Er'Lai showed off his might once again upon seeing such a situation.

He swung his halberd and specifically aimed at the Shanwen armor heavy armoured infantrymen. For each one he struck, none survived.

Er'Lai was the fierce beast of the olden times.

When he showed his might, he was like an Asura, no one could stop him.

When he appeared, calamity followed and bloodshed was bound to happen.

In an instant, the Shanwen armored infantry had heavy casualties, and they were nearly all wiped out.

Seeing their general show his skills, the mountain barbarians roared out like wild beasts, the eyes were bloodshot and their muscles protruded. The blood of the wilds hidden in their veins were stimulated and the immediately all became desolate beasts.

"Berserk! It's actually berserk!"

Di Chen and Zhan Lang panicked.

That's right, the mountain barbarians soldiers went berserk.

The current mountain barbarians had a huge increase in strength and were simply unstoppable.

The alliance army that climbed up the war were slaughtered, and in fear, they backed off.

All of the sudden, the control of the city wall returned to the hands of the 3rd division.

Seeing their brothers suddenly go berserk, the 3000 reserve forces were happy and also envious.

This was an olden legend amongst the mountain barbarian tribes, and today it finally came true.

One must know that this was the greatest goal of all mountain barbarian warriors.

In countless of years, all the mountain barbarians who were able to go berserk all became leaders in the tribe.

And now in the battlefield, hundreds and thousands of mountain barbarian soldiers actually all turned berserk together.

Everything was because of Er'Lai.

It was like he came from the wilds and brought with it the aura of his time, triggering the bloodline and with the exciting battle, all this occurred.

Seeing Er'Lai's strength, Lianpo couldn't help but feel awed.

Di Chen and Zhan Lang's faces were indescribably ugly.

Seeing victory was in their grasp, and suddenly this happened?

Their trump card unit had basically been wiped out, and to launch another sneak attack was impossible.

"Lord, let me go!" Zhao Zhuang requested to fight.

"No!" Zhan Lang refused.

What a joke, the current Er'Lai was an invincible presence. Although Zhao Zhuang was strong, he wouldn't be able to do anything. He didn't want to lose another general after losing his trump card unit.

"Ai!" Zhao Zhuang let out a long sigh.

As a general, to not be able to join in such an intense battle was a regret.

"Retreat, today's battle ends here!" Di Chen was still very calm.

Zhan Lang nodded and ordered the troops to back off.

"Lord doesn't need to worry. They can berserk once but not twice; there will definitely be side effects. Their troops are mostly used up, so tomorrow we will definitely take down Gushan County."

Lianpo had vast experience and his words summarized everything.

"Good!"

Hearing his analysis, the numerous soldiers managed to get out of their depression and sadness.

"Let them live for one last day!" Sha Pojun's eyes were totally red.

Ba Dao was shouting, but deep down he feel heartpained.

In this battle, his city protection division acted as the frontline and had heavy casualties.

In his heart, he also started to waver. To join the war between Yanhuang Alliance and Shanhai Alliance, was it the right decision? Up until now he hadn't even gotten a single benefit and instead had became a lackey for the Yanhuang Alliance.

Most crucially, Ba Dao didn't feel a single shred of dignity.

In their eyes, he was probably a useless chess piece.

Or a dog?

Ba Dao laughed bitterly.

The world is tough, being a lord wasn't easy!Zhan Lang stared at the city wall quietly, and unease built up in his heart.

He wasn't as optimistic as the others.

Time, the crucial thing was still time.

Many days had passed since they entered Lianzhou, and they hadn't even achieved a single battle objective.

A few days later and the Shanhai City army was still totally quiet.

It seemed like they were only defending and didn't make any moves.

However, with such a huge army, and also with such a general like Baiqi, Shanhai City's actions were out of the ordinary.

Weird!

Zhan Lang sighed and walked into his tent.

Seeing the enemy retreat, Er'Lai heaved a sigh of relief.

The mountain barbarian soldiers had awoken from their berserked state.

Er'Lai had received orders from the commander unit that he had to defend.

At most 2 days.

In the north of the wilderness, the 2nd regiment were using their fastest speed to make a long distance assault.

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Chapter 340- Life is All About Acting

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The same day, Shanhai City.

At the same time that the alliance army attacked Gushan County, Chun Shenjun and the grassland alliance launched their assault on Shanhai City.

Chun Shenjun and Xiongba led 20 thousand troops and focused on the west of Shanhai City.

Thirty thousand grassland alliance troops attacked the north, and at the same time guarded the bridges to prevent reinforcements.

The west was the core region of Shanhai City.

As they had come to an agreement with the grassland alliance army, the 1st division had to mainly defend the west.

As for the north, only a few reserve force members were stationed there.

The war at Shanhai city, because of the cooperation of the grassland alliance, wasn't as intense as that of Gushan County.

Although the alliance army did bring huge amounts of trebuchets, Shanhai City wasn't Gushan County, and all the city walls they had numerous arcuballistas. Their defense was absolutely shocking.

Hence, solely relying on the 20 thousand alliance troops, they could do nothing about the defense of the 1st division.

As a light cavalry and light infantry mixed division, the 1st division had sword shield soldiers, spearmen and archers, the best combination to defending city walls.

In a morning, the alliance army had heavy casualties but didn't achieve anything.

Shanhai City was as strong as rock as it stood tall in the wilderness.

Chun Shenjun wasn't a fool and the weird actions of the grassland alliance, he had noticed it all.

In the afternoon, Chun Shenjun went to find Daiqin.

"General, what is the meaning of this?" Chun Shenjun's face was extremely ugly and he burnt the bridge instantly.

Daiqin said apologetically. "I had no choice. I eagerly supported your decision to Attack; but the other generals have their opinions. They grumbled and said that you came too late and caused them heavy casualties. Hence, this siege, naturally you will be in charge and we will be in charge of dealing with Friendship and Qiushui County.

Chun Shenjun froze.

The last few days, he watched on and caused many deaths of the grassland alliance army.

He didn't think that karma would strike back so quickly.

Luckily he was really well trained and he smiled. "I didn't delay on purpose, we had already rushed day and night, I hope you can explain that to them and I wish we can put aside all this and cooperate. As long as we take down Shanhai City, wouldn't we recuperate all losses?"

"You are right, I'll try my best."

Chun Shenjun didn't have absolute faith and could only helplessly make another promise. "As long as you help us out, I promise that after I take down Shanhai City, you will be in charge how about that?"

Daiqin laughed bitterly in his heart. If his home was safe, he would naturally agree. Unfortunately, Shanhai City was so highly skilled. Even if you promised mountains of gold and silver, it would be useless.

Putting it another way, if the grassland army didn't lose many troops and generals and could take down Shanhai City quickly, Daiqin would also have such a thought. If they could take down the city, naturally he could use it to protect his family. Unfortunately, the current Shanhai City was something they couldn't take down in one or two days.

When they eventually manage to achieve that, the grasslands would probably be dyed red.

Daiqin looked at Chun Shenjun with apathy. This guy was probably still having dreams about taking over Shanhai City.

Daiqin's face didn't have any weird expression as he said emotionally, "Really?"

"Of course!"

In truth, Chun Shenjun was cursing in his heart: this bunch of brainless barbarians, a simple promise and they believe it. When I really take over the city and the alliance army gathers up, what say will you guys have?

The two old foxes looked at one another, both thinking that they had victory in their grasps.

Their smiles had a tinge of sincerity but it was mostly fake.

If one didn't know, one would think that they were really close friends.

Xiongba, who followed along upon seeing Chun Shenjun's smile, felt a shiver down his spine.

Just as both sides engaged, the city protection division housed at Friendship City sneakily left the city, going across the city protection river, turning west, over the Friendship river and going behind the alliance army.

At this point, the Shanhai City army had totally surrounded Chun Shenjun's forces.

To prevent alerting the enemy, the grassland alliance army continued to help siege.

They only needed to wait for the 2nd division to take down Broken Blade County, and then this army could take down Chun Shenjun's forces.

The huge net created by Baiqi was finally in place, and they just waited to reel it in.

The attack in the afternoon became more intense under Chun Shenjun's rushing. To help the grassland alliance act, Shanhai City had to send more soldiers to defend the north.

Even so, the siege was still a failure.

Chun Shenjun had no reason to doubt Daiqin and could only return to his tent.

The day's battle came to an end just like that.

2nd month 15th day, the Battle of Lianzhou reached its most crucial day.

In the morning, the 2nd division whipped their horses and finally reached Broken Blade County.

After reaching Broken Blade County, Luo Shixin didn't immediately attack and instead like Heiqi led the 4th regiment and attack the territory that Zhan Lang teleported in from.

This time, Baiqi wanted to totally destroy the escape route of the alliance army and trap them in Lianzhou Basin.

The appearance of the huge army was something the Broken Blade County wasn't prepared for.

The current county was like an empty city.

Facing the strong 2nd division, they just rolled over and died.

The 2nd division entered effortlessly, and the sounds of horse hooves spread out.

If it was that before leaving, Baiqi instructed them not to kill the innocent, which would infect their rule of Broken Blade County, Broken Blade County would have probably become a living hell.

After entering, Luo Shixin led his troops and went straight for the lords manor.

It still had some defenses, but unfortunately, facing the 2nd division, they was all useless.

In less than half an hour, the lord's manor was taken over.

Lin Yi led his few generals and entered the meeting hall and attacked the stone steele.

At this moment, Ba Dao received a system notification.

"System Notification: your territory is under attack!"The sudden notification made him tremble in fear. He didn't know what to do and immediately informed Di Chen and Zhan Lang.

The current alliance army was getting ready to launch its 2nd assault on Gushan County.

Hearing the news, Di Chen and Zhan Lang both felt uneasy.

"Is it the Shanhai City army?" Di Chen wasn't so calm anymore.

"Apart from them, who can it be?" Ba Dao totally panicked.

"How did they appear?"

"Who knows?"The alliance army held a discussion but they couldn't find a solution.

The development of the situation was far more than they expected.

Without detailed intel, even a general like Lianpo couldn't do anything.

Seeing such a situation, Ba Dao shouted out, "I don't care, I'm leading my troops back before it's too late!" In his words, he had totally lost his patience with the Yanhuang Alliance.

"It's too late, why not help us take down Gushan County!"

Di Chen tried to stop the rash action of Ba Dao, the territory stone steele could at most last for an hour so there was no point in rushing back.

Strictly speaking, his suggestion wasn't wrong.

Unfortunately, the party he was trying to persuade was a lord that had lost all rationality.

"Help you?" Ba Dao mocked, he was practically shouting. "My territory is about to be taken over, how can I help you? Take down Gushan County, stop bragging! Without 2-3 days you can't do it! At the beginning I shouldn't have listened to you and just signed the contract with Shanhai City, I could have become a rich man."

Ba Dao went crazy, his words weren't as courteous as before.

"Are you shameless?"

Sha Pojun couldn't stand it anymore. Towards Ba Dao, he didn't have a good impression of him.

A nameless player who only had a relationship with the Yanhuang Alliance because his territory was in the Lianzhou Basin. If not, who would bother with him?

Ba Dao's face was as black as charcoal. He stared at Sha Pojun and shouted, "Go to hell!"

After that, he immediately led his troops and left.

"You!"

Sha Pojun was furious and wanted to chase.

"Enough!" Di Chen rolled his eyes at Sha Pojun. "Isn't it enough? Haven't you lost enough face?"

Di Chen looked at Sha Pojun with unhappiness. this rash fellow couldn't do his part and instead messed things up. Originally he had a chance to persuade him but Sha Pojun had totally pissed off Ba Dao.

Seeing Di Chen so mad, Sha Pojun shivered and didn't dare to speak.

All of a sudden, the alliance army fell apart.

Seeing Ba Dao leave, the heads of the Yanhuang Alliance looked at one another.

Zhan Lang acted as the mediator and said,"Ok, ok, everyone calm down."

"Yes, the crucial thing now is what we should we do next." Piao Linghuan followed, trying to shift their attention.

As the words registered, there was total silence.

That's right, what should they do?

Not talking about whether or not they could take it down, even if they did, they would suffer heavy losses. Would they have the ability to attack Shanhai City then?

Any smart person would know that before their siege even ended, it was already a failure.

A depressed emotion spread out amongst the alliance army.

Thinking back, when planning for this, everyone was so pumped up. Thinking about giving Qiyue Wuyi a taste of his medicine and giving him that killer blow, everyone was so exicted.

During the start of the war, everything was smooth and as expected.

On the forums, everyone was mourning for Shanhai City.

However, when did the situation start to change?

All of a sudden, no one could give a definite answer.

After a long while, Di Chen stood up and said, "Let's retreat!"

As the breeze blew across, there was total silence.

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Chapter 341- Reeling in the Nets

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Seeing the alliance army retreat, cheers spread out within Gushan County.

To the residents, war was an evil that they best stayed away from and they would rather not see.

On the city wall, the generals came to E'Lai's side.

"General, why did the enemy suddenly retreat?" Lei Jingtian asked.

E'Lai guessed that it had probably had something to do with the commander unit.

"Who cares!" Hu Yibiao said.

"General, what should we do next?"

"Attack!"

Er'Lai immediately made the decision that no matter what, they couldn't let the enemy retreat comfortably.

"Wouldn't that be taking a risk?l Lei Jingtian was a little hesitant. "What about Gushan County?"

Er'Lai wave his hand. "They have no intention to attack Gushan County already, let the independent regiment defend in case."

"Gather the troops and move out!"

"Yes general!"

Just like that, the 3rd division followed closely behind the alliance army and monitored their every movement.

Ba Dao led his city protection division away, and tried to save Broken Blade County.

However before his army even covered 5 kilometres, a notification sounded out in his ear.

"System notification: your territory have been occupied, all players inside will be teleported to Dali!"

"No!"

Ba Dao led out a sad scream, instantly turning into a white light and disappearing from the Lianzhou Basin.

Ba Dao's ending made one shiver in fear.

At this point, the three overlords of the Lianzhou Basin had all disappeared and Lianzhou Basin was unified.

A new era was about to begin.

Seeing their lord suddenly disappear, the city protection division didn't know what to do, they were like abandoned children who sat in the wilderness.

After occupying Broken Blade County, Luo Shixin didn't stop and continued to move west.

Broken Blade County was occupied, so the teleportation function had disappeared, there was totally no need to defend.

Luo Shixin's goal was the retreating alliance army.

Halfway there, the army conveniently met the abandoned Broken Blade County City protection division.

"Which force are you from?" Guards unit major Suwang asked.

The deputy major general of the division recognized the Shanhai City army and guessed that they were the reason for the disappearance of the lord. Unfortunately, they had lost all courage to go against Shanhai City.

"We are the city protection division of Broken Blade County!"

Luo Shixin smiled. "What a coincidence! Broken Blade County is occupied by us, are you willing to surrender?"

The soldiers upon seeing the situation all looked at one another, they did think about taking revenge but they didn't have the ability to do so.

"We surrender!"

"We surrender!"A flurry of surrenders were heard and it didn't stop.

"Great!" Luo Shixin was delighted with the city protection division, turning around and saying, "Sun Chuanlin!"

"Present!" Sun Chuanlin went to the front.

"You lead your men and bring the city protection division back to Gushan County."

"Yes general!" Although Sun Chuanlin had some doubts, he followed the orders.

Seeing the army leave, Suwang asked doubtfully, "General, why did we send them to Gushan County?"

Luo Shixin smiled, "The reason is simple. Broken Blade County is their old home and where their family is at. The moment they returned, things might escalate."

"General is smart!"

The other colonels also felt immense respect for Luo Shixin's wit.

Luo Shixin waved them off," move off! We might have a huge battle waiting for us!"

"Yes general!"

Shanhai City.

The 2nd division occupying Broken Blade County had long ago spread to Ouyang Shuo.

"System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for occupying Broken Blade County, rewarded 1000 merit points."

Ouyang Shuo immediately informed Mu Lanyue through the alliance channel and asked her to inform Baiqi.

At the same time, Ouyang Shuo also said something in the channel. "Guys it's time to reel in our nets!"

Instantly, the channel was bustling.

"I was waiting for these words, these fees days have been horrendous!"

"Hen, those people who looked down on the Shanhai Alliance, it's time to teach them a lesson!"

"That's right, slap them, papapa!"It was apparent that the mourning of the public towards Shanhai Alliance on the forums had affected their feelings.

Everyone was feeling cooped up and quietly arranged their troops. They waited for the situation at Shanhai City to be settled before sending out their troops, giving the territories around them a lesson.

It was a sudden movement, like that of a gun.

In the China Region, Shanhai Alliance territories all attacked at the same time, sending out all their troops.

The allies of the Yanhuang Alliance to date hadn't gotten any news.

Facing the huge army, they were unable to react.

All of a sudden, a huge territory war swept over the China region.

All of a sudden, various people with information went online.

The forums went into an uproar.

The proactive strike from the Shanhai Alliance members didn't seem normal.

Everyone didn't understand what was happening.

One could only be sure that something unusual had definitely happened in the Battle of Lianzhou.

The nosiness of the players had started to burst apart and spread.

Unfortunately, be it Ouyang Shuo or the Yanhuang Alliance, neither were interested in revealing the latest developments on the forums.

As for the lord players in Lianzhou, during wartime, they didn't even go out and knew nothing about the Battle of Lianzhou.

Various commentators started to use all the methods they could to gain new intel about the Battle of Lianzhou.

No matter how noisy it was in the outside world, the momentum of Shanhai City wasn't affected.

When Baiqi gained the news that Broken Blade County was occupied, he jolted to his senses.

The time has came to reel in the nets.

"Men!"

"Present!"

"Fire the signal bullet and order the city protection division and grassland alliance army to immediately reel in the nets!"

"Yes!"

The guard turned around and quickly two signal bullets shot up into the sky.

In the grassland alliance army tent, Daiqin upon seeing the signal, his heart felt very complicated.

He had no time to think and immediately waved the army flag.

Receiving the military orders, the grassland alliance army that was attacking the city wall immediately backed off.

In less than half an hour, they had successfully gathered up.

Daiqin walked to the front of the army and waved his hand forward, the army immediately turned to the west and went to the north side of the alliance army.

At the same time, the city protection division that was camped at the west attacked.

At this point, the alliance army was surrounded.

On the north was the 30 thousand strong grassland alliance army; east was Shanhai City city wall with the first regiment defending; south was the mountain range with nowhere to go; west was the city protection division.

The alliance army, with only 15 thousand men, was surrounded by 56 thousand men.

The alliance army was in a state of chaos.

"Lord, we are surrounded!"

"Those grassland barbarians betrayed us!"

"I know!"

Chun Shenjun gritted his teeth. Only he schemed against people, no one had ever schemed against him.

Daiqin, ah Daiqin, if I get out of this, I won't let you go!

"General, what should we do?" Chun Shenjun asked Zhao Kuo for help.

Zhao Kuo's face was black as well. From the start he thought he had a chance to compete with Baiqi. He didn't expect that before they even engaged, he had lost.

Luckily after the battle of Changping, Zhao Kuo was a lot more calm. "We can only charge west and use the teleportation formation and leave."

"Okay!"

Chun Shenjun led Zhao Kuo lead the troops to break out.

He didn't expect to hear news in his ear that made him freeze in his spot, his face ashen white.

"Lord, what happened?"

Zhao Kuo didn't understand why Chun Shenjun would suddenly be like this.

The current Chun Shenjun was like he lost his soul and his face was as white as a ghost.

The alliance channel spread that the 2 player territories to the east and west that they bribed had been destroyed .

The two lords didn't forget to inform them after they were teleported to Dali and remind them that they did their job and for them to remember their promise.

The moment the news was out, the alliance channel was dead silent.

Not only Chun Shenjun, even Di Chen and Zhan Lang stood still on the spot.

The alliance army was in a desperate situation.

The one that destroyed the east territory naturally was the 4th regiment led by Heiqi.

The one that destroyed the territory to the west was the city protection regiment that was guarding Tianfeng City.

Before that, Ouyang Shuo had already ensured that the territories on both sides didn't have any soldiers left.

Compared to the Military Intelligence Division first group, the special operation group in charge of the west didn't notice Chun Shenjun's appearance and was berated by Du Ruhui.

After the scolding, Du Ruhui demanded that the special operation group investigate which territory broke the contract and allowed Yanhuang Alliance to teleport.

The leader had long changed from Songsan to a new elite spy.

Being scolded by the director, naturally he would be furious and left his men with harsh words. "Guys if we can't find out which territory it is, I have no face to see the Marquis and I can only kill myself. but before I do that, I will kill all of you first."

All of a sudden a cold breeze spread out in the group.

The special operation group spies were like hunting dogs, checking each and every house. Finally they found a clue and confirmed which territory it was.

Getting the intel, Baiqi immediately gave the order for the Tianfeng City city protection regiment to monitor it and get ready to destroy it.

The whole plan had totally blocked off any road for the alliance army to escape.

"Lord?" Zhao Kuo asked once more.

"Oh!" Chun Shenjun regained his composure and said bitterly, "We have nowhere to go!"

"What?" Zhao Kuo was alarmed.

"The territory in charge of sending us back has been destroyed. We have no place to retreat to!"

The moment his words registered, the army tent was dead silent.

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Chapter 342- Abandoning Men

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2nd month 15th day. Nighttime. Shanhai City.

The moon shone outside Shanhai City, making it look sad.

Outside the west gate, it was a scene of devastation.

After surrounding the enemy, Baiqi didn't give the alliance army any time; he just launched their attack.

The armies from all three directions suppressed the alliance army until they couldn't move.

After an afternoon of battle, the alliance army lost. They either died in battle or they surrendered.

In this battle, Chun Shenjun was killed, and Zhao Kuo was captured.

The list in this battle was enough to hurt the backbone of Chun Shenjun's territory. Not only did Zhao Kuo get captured, but all his elite generals were either captured or killed in battle.

This was a huge blow to Pill Sun County, whose military wasn't strong in the first place. Especially the capture of Zhao Kuo, which would be the greatest loss for Chun Shenjun in this year.

It seems that Chun Shenjun would need a long time to heal this wound.

The Battle of Lianzhou was destined to be the Battle of Waterloo for Chun Shenjun.

When Zhao Kuo was captured, he was mentally prepared for execution.

What was weird was he wasn't sent to the prison but escorted to the Lianzhou Lord's Manor.

Ouyang Shuo had plans to use Zhao Kuo.

As a lord, the main goal was to put suitable people in suitable positions.

Zhao Kuo had a stage that belonged to him.

With Chun Shenjun's death, he dropped all his equipment. Based on what Mulan Yue said, out of the equipment, there was a piece of platinum rank jewelry suitable for Ouyang Shuo. As for what it was, she didn't want to tell him and wanted him to unravel the mystery when he came back.

As for the other main character of the Yanhuang Alliance, Xiongba received a different treatment.

Xiongba was prepared to die but instead he was given a chance to live.

Baiqi listened to Ouyang Shuo's instructions, releasing Xiongba and his important generals. He allowed them to teleport out from the Shanhai City teleportation formation, leaving Lianzhou Basin.

The reason Ouyang Shuo did this was to build a relationship with Xiongba and also to plant a seed amongst the Yanhuang Alliance.

Secondly, he purposely wanted to split Chun Shenjun and Xiongba. The two of them were in the same camp, but they experienced totally different treatment. Even if Chun Shenjun could see through the devious intentions of Ouyang Shuo, he was still petty towards Ouyang Shuo.

Xiongba couldn't reject such good intentions.

To a lord, he himself dying wasn't important.

The death of basic soldiers were still okay.

The key was the generals. The moment they died, it would be a catastrophe to the army. Thinking about developing the talents from scratch again, it would be highly difficult.

This move by Ouyang Shuo was an outright scheme but Xiongba couldn't refuse.

After the battle, the various troops started to tabulate casualties.

The alliance army had 8000 troops that surrendered, and they were all locked up.

Shanhai Army also had casualties.

The grassland alliance army lost 2000 men and 28 thousand remained. What awaited them was a reorganization by the Military Affairs Department.

The city protection division lost 4000 men, which was the highest number. The main casualties happened when the grassland alliance army attacked Friendship City.

Hence, this was why the city protection division was wary of the grassland alliance army.

Because of this, even Zhao Sihu and Daiqin had an awkward relationship.

This problem wasn't one that was easy to solve.

As for the 1st division, they lost 1500 men, which was considered good.

After dealing with the alliance army to the west, Baiqi turned his attention to the alliance army to the east.

After the battle, he ordered the 1st division to rest up for a night before rushing to the east war region.

The city protection division would stay in Shanhai City, and the grassland alliance army would wait for reorganization.

Before the tribes officially surrendered, Baiqi was still wary of the grassland alliance army and didn't want them to leave his sights and enter the battlefield.

The same sunset, the same coldness.

Wilderness, east alliance army tent.

Di Chen, Zhan Lang, Wandering Magic, Sha Pojun, Lianpo, and Zhao Zhuang had gathered together.

"The troops to the west were destroyed. If everything happens as expected, tomorrow, Shanhai City will attack us. Do any of you have any ideas?" Di Chen took the lead.

Total silence, the continuous blows had made everyone feel despair.

"We can only fight to the death!"

"Fight to the death? Even if we fight to the death, can we walk out of Lianzhou Basin alive?"

"Then, we can't surrender, right? Even if we die, we must bite off a piece of them!"

"Stupid!"

"You!"

"Be serious!" Di Chen was a little ruffled.

Di Chen's methods were deep, much more so than Sha Pojun's. Upon knowing that Broken Blade County was attacked, Di Chen had used a hidden method to contact his family.

Learning of what happened in the Battle of Lianzhou, the elders of the family were astonished.

They gathered their knowledge and resources to think of a plan.

The only plan would be to persuade another territory to break the contract.

This was difficult but not impossible.

On this earth, there was nothing that was absolute. It only depended on whether you paid a high enough price.

Based on the strength of Di Chen's family, they naturally had the ability.

Thinking about it, at the latest, they would have a result tonight.

What Di Chen needed to think about was how to escape from the Shanhai City army. The 3rd division were like hunting dogs, close on their heels.

If they waited until tomorrow, there would definitely be more troops surrounding them.

At that point, even if they contacted the territory, he wouldn't be able to lead the troops to teleport out.

The only way was to abandon someone to save the rest.

Thinking about that, Di Chen's eyes swept across everyone seated and kept silent.

It was impossible for all of them to leave. There definitely needed to be one or two left behind to attract Shanhai City army's attention.

Lianpo was someone he definitely needed to bring away. Zhan Lang was his best ally. Since he left, Zhao Zhuang would have to leave too.

What remained was only Wandering Magic and Sha Pojun.

Piao Linghuan was the best friend of his enemy Xiongba, so he was the first to be abandoned.

What was left was Sha Pojun.

Thinking about his rashness and also about the relationship between him and Chun Shenjun, Di Chen decided to abandon this pawn.

As he decided on his plan, Di Chen felt relaxed and slowly looked at everyone who were fighting.

Out of all of them, only Zhan Lang could notice the weird expression on Di Chen's face.

In the end, the meeting ended unhappily.

Zhan Lang stayed to the end and as expected, Di Chen called for him.

Upon hearing his plan, Zhan Lang felt very conflicted.

His style of doing things was totally different, but Zhan Lang couldn't blame Di Chen.

After all, everyone was different.

"I'll remember this good grace!"

Zhan Lang said as he walked out of the tent.

Di Chen looked at the fading back of Zhan Lang, not saying anything. Being born in a family like his, how would everything be as he wanted?

At night, a 100 man group left the camp and disappeared in the wilderness.

The next day, the alliance army woke up.

Sha Pojun and Wandering Magic noticed that Di Chen and Zhan Lang were missing.

This was also true for their generals.

"We were abandoned!" Wandering Magic was furious.

Sha Pojun snarled, "Di Chen!"

The two poor bugs that were abandoned looked at one another speechlessly.

He knew that Xiongba was released by Shanhai City. Sha Pojun was the enemy of Qiyue Wuyi, so he would definitely die here. Maybe he had a chance to not die together with him.

"Now, what should we do?" Sha Pojun asked.

Wandering Magic, who had other thoughts in his head acted, as if he were helpless. "Before they reach us let's just stick to here!"

"What stick to here? Since we are going to die here, why not lead our troops to kill them!"

Wandering Magic knew that his chance had come.

On the surface, he was still unaffected, "Ok, let's discuss in my tent."

"Go!"

When he entered the tent, he was immediately taken down by Piao Linghuan and died under his blade.

Sha Pojun, if you wanted to blame something, just blame yourself for being too arrogant!

Thus, like this, Sha Pojun was totally abandoned.

After killing him, Piao Linghuan took the news of his death and sent people to tell the 3rd division that they were willing to surrender.

When Er'Lai heard the news, he gathered the generals to discuss.

"There's something wrong with this!" Lei Jingtian was a born conspiracy theorist.

"Who cares whether it's a scheme; let's take them down first!" Zhang Daniu continued, "Let's let Baiqi and the Marquis decide the rest."

"That's right, take them down first!" Er'Lai nodded in agreement.

Things were decided just like that.

On the 16th morning of the 2nd month, Piao Linghuan led the alliance army and surrendered.

After they surrendered, the 2nd division arrived.

Upon seeing the situation, Luo Shixin was shocked. He thought that he would need to fight again.

As for the 1st division, they had just left Shanhai City not long ago.

The Battle of Lianzhou had ended in such a comical way.

After getting Ouyang Shuo's agreement, Wandering Magic and his generals were all released.

With that, the Battle of Lianzhou had officially ended.

In this battle, Yanhuang Alliance had lost everything. Not only that, there would be subsequent betrayals about to happen. Cracks had already formed in the alliance.

Sha Pojun and Di Chen had totally burned the bridge, and he was enemies with Wandering Magic.

Chun Shenjun and Xiongba weren't on the same page. To protect Wandering Magic, Xiongba and Sha Pojun were against one another.

All in all, it was a total mess.

Only Di Chen was okay; his strength wasn't greatly affected, and he even managed to get a great ally like Zhan Lang.

This helped solidify Di Chen's position as the leader of the Yanhuang Alliance.

Di Chen, who was slowly maturing, was getting scarier and scarier.

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Chapter 343- The Dust Settles

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After the Battle of Lianzhou ended, the aftermath continued.

Not mentioning the Shanhai Alliance members, who struck out in all directions and quickly expanded their territories, the players cared about the star—Shanhai City.

The two lords who had their territories destroyed secretly sold the information to Bai Xiaosheng.

Bai Xiaosheng combined the information with other intel and wrote a long analysis online.

The moment he posted it up, it immediately caused an uproar.

Only then did the players know that the Battle of Lianzhou was actually turned around. The Yanhuang Alliance not only failed to gain the upper hand, but were instead in dire straights. They did not gain anything and also lost things in the process.

The moment this news was out, naturally, people were stunned.

All of a sudden, everyone everywhere was face palming.

"Shanhai City turns it around!"

"Yanhuang Alliance is badly hurt and is no longer able to compete with the Shanhai Alliance!"

"Retreating to advance, Shanhai City planned it out well!"

"Bait! It was a bait!""Asura Baiqi is really invincible; the alliance army is no more!"

"Chun Shenjun dies for the second time against the Shanhai City army!"

"Sha Pojun died three times!"

"The biggest joke of the China region, Yanhuang Alliance returning to the peak? Haha~"

Apart from the mocking, there were a few people supporting Ouyang Shuo.

"Qiyue Wuyi rules over Lianzhou!"

"He didn't even need to personally act and defeated the Yanhuang Alliance. What a god!"

"Big powers have collapsed; commoner players rise!"

"Shanhai City shocks the world once more!"On the forums, it was another bickering session. Those who were mourning for Shanhai City, who supported Yanhuang Alliance, were now embarrassed. They didn't dare to hang around on the forums.

The normal players went to enjoy the atmosphere, while those who really cared felt fear in their hearts.

Be it Jack from the American Region or Ruan Tianque from the Annan Region, they were all looking very serious.

The nearby Dongying Region and Gaoli Region were even more silent.

Amongst the noise, what players craved for were the details of the battle.

Unfortunately, apart from the Shanhai City Commander unit, no one would know the specifics of the entire war.

Nobody knew until the Army Military Academy was set up and War Saint Sun Wu invited Baiqi to teach about the Battle of Lianzhou and make it a case study.

Baiqi even took time off to purposely teach students for a semester.

His first lecture would be about the Battle of Lianzhou.

The Battle of Lianzhou also became another brilliant example of Baiqi combining many tactics like defending, surrounding, distance war, and head on fighting, all into one.

The only difference was that this war was more complicated with teleporting and communications needed to be taken into account.

Baiqi was undoubtedly learning and using his newly acquired knowledge as he progressed.

When he faced the allied army teleportation, he also used his own teleportation to the extreme. This was the first time the 2nd division teleported, and it was a master stroke that single handedly won them the war.

Baiqi used such a method to announce his existence.

Shanhai City had once again stunned the world.

Just as the forums mocked, after this battle, the Yanhuang Alliance needed to keep silent for a while.

They needed to slowly heal up and power up in the darkness.

As for them really sinking into the abyss, Ouyang Shuo wasn't sure that would happen.

The various powers had deep pockets, and they showed that in the Battle of Lianzhou.

Especially at the last stage when Di Chen managed to escape really terrified Ouyang Shuo. To be able to convince a lord to ally with you under such conditions….

Furthermore, the ones to really make use of all their resources in this battle were Chun Shenjun and Sha Pojun. The other allies only lost some teleportation costs and some elite soldiers.

To the territory, these could be accumulated and slowly recovered over time.

From this battle, Ouyang Shuo didn't dare to underestimate these old powers.

In the last life, he was an adventure mode player and didn't even have the ability to fight with the Six Tyrants of Handan, so his knowledge of them was limited.

Was the strength displayed by Yanhuang just the tip of the iceberg?

Everything was unknown.

After the Battle of Lianzhou, every grass and tree in Shanhai City was revealed to Yanhuang Alliance. There were no more secrets to speak of, and this was also why Ouyang Shuo rushed to explore Yazhou.

He had to win some strategic benefits for the territory and hold some more trump cards.

Apart from that, the determination revealed by the Yanhuang Alliance also scared Ouyang Shuo.

In this battle, the Yanhuang Alliance plotted and their goal was obvious—to take him down.

As Shanhai Alliance's influence rose, he had become the eyesore of the Yanhuang Alliance and naturally should be removed.

The way Yanhuang Alliance acted was also slowly coming to light.

They wouldn't usually attack, but the moment they did they would go all out.

Ouyang Shuo felt overwhelmed that a commoner like him was able to challenge all the big powers in the China region.

In the journey to become an overlord, one didn't have any time to rest.

After the war, the Military Affairs Department entered overdrive.

The first thing was to reorganize the military.

During this battle, the 4 divisions and the city protection division lost a total of 12 thousand men. The heaviest casualties came from the 3rd division and the city protection division, as they fought a tough war.

In terms of prisoners, Beiritie China had surrendered 3000 men, the grassland alliance army had 28 thousand men, Chun Shenjun's forces had 8000 men, 7000 from the Broken Blade County city protection division, and 20 thousand from the east alliance army for a total of 66 thousand men, a huge and terrifying number.

The first step would be to select members from the prisoners to reinforce the casualties. After filling in the gaps, the remaining 54 thousand prisoners would wait to be reorganized into the 4 divisions.

As the number of prisoners was too huge, Ouyang Shuo personally ordered the Military Affairs Department to cut off some injured or lousy soldiers and make them retire.

The main goal would be the grassland cavalry and the Broken Blade County city protection division. Some of the cavalry were recruited before the war; the latter were just randomly formed.

As for the alliance army, they were basically all elite, so apart from some loyal members and the injured, the rest were all kept.

The Military Affairs Department's mission was to organize 3 divisions as well as 2 city protection regiments. Including the cavalry independent regiment was also in the reorganization plan.

The remaining prisoners were sent to the reserve forces.

Apart from reorganizing the military, the Military Affairs Division had to take care of post war matters and logistics.

Of course, they also had to calm down the situation on the grasslands.

After the east alliance army surrendered, Baiqi ordered the 2nd division to rush to the grasslands and help the 4th division calm down the situation.

Before this, Mu Guiying had led the 4th division to directly enter Shenjuan Lake. Before the Tianqi tribe could react, they captured all the noble families and the royal family.

The mission of the 2nd division was to capture all the noble families of the seven medium-sized tribes and bring them to Shenjuan Lake for Ouyang Shuo to handle when he returned.

In truth, when they got the news that the grassland alliance army had failed, all of them had given up. The war had squeezed dry all the forces of the tribes, and to form another huge army was impossible.

Before they could have any thoughts, the 2nd division arrived.

The noble families had no choice and could only follow the instructions.

The last mission was for the Beihai Naval Fleet.

During the Battle of Lianzhou, the Naval fleet didn't do anything and basically had no chance to do anything.

After the battle, they sent the second batch of migrants to Yazhou.

The second batch had more workers, especially masons, bricklayers, and carpenters. Apart from that, they also brought huge amounts of resources and vegetables that could be stored for the long term.

Baiqi had asked Ouyang Shuo if he needed to arrange a huge army to act as reinforcements at Yazhou.

Ouyang Shuo thought about it and rejected that plan. For the military, he had it planned out and it needed him to return before implementing plans.

Apart from military affairs, Ouyang Shuo had plans for the administrative blueprints of the Lianzhou Prefecture.

Setting up Broken Blade House, and after changing its name from Broken Blade County to Broken Blade City, Yishui County and Gushan County would be under the jurisdiction of the Broken Blade House.

Following which, Ouyang Shuo announced two appointments: Yishui County County Magistrate Zhou Haichen would be the prefect of Broken Blade House, while Zhao Dewang would replace him.

The two of them didn't need to wait for Ouyang Shuo to personally appoint them. They took up the jobs straight away.

What was placed in front of Zhou Haichen was a dirty job that needed him to calm down civilians, regain productivity, and also plan for future development.

This tested his all around ability. His performance would decide whether he would have a part to play in the future blueprints of the territory.

The city wall projects of Tianfeng City had reached their end, within which Zhao Dewang took a lot of credit. Naturally, Ouyang Shuo wouldn't treat this old worker of his badly. He sent this old worker to Yishui County, which had immense potential.

As he was limited in education and skill, his future would most likely end at this stage.

As for the plan for the grasslands, it would wait until Ouyang Shuo was back.

Just like that, Mulan Yue helped Ouyang Shuo spread the message and settled all of the Lianzhou Prefecture major issues. What remained would be handled by the 4 departments.

After settling everything, Ouyang Shuo turned his gaze toward Yazhou.

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Chapter 344- The Girl in the Family Grows Up

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2nd month 7th day till the 16th day

The Battle of Lianzhou lasted a total of 10 days.

In these 10 days, the building in Yazhou didn't stop for even a second.

Under the guidance and leadership of Bai Nanpu, the harbor, saltpans, farms, quarries, and logging farms were all built. Everything was basically in order and they just needed to wait to harvest the fruits of their labor.

The Guards regiment felt depressed that they had missed out on the Battle of Lianzhou. To these guys who loved to fight, they really wanted to join that battle. They didn't dare to blame the Marquis and could only vent their frustrations on the wild beasts and desolate beasts.

During these 10 days, the Guards regiment were like they were on drugs. They went all out, hunting beasts everyday at first light until sunset before they returned to the camp.

The nearby wild beasts were killed, and the efficiency of their operation increased. The work planned for half a month was now near its end.

The next day, Ouyang Shuo was going to bring Bing'er to set up their territory.

Gaia 2nd year 17th day, Yazhou.

After breakfast, Ouyang Shuo called out to Bing'er, who was about to go out and play.

During this period of time, the little brat acted like she was crazy. The beach wasn't near the main area and the nearby region was already explored and visited by her.

Because of this, Ouyang Shuo had to arrange four guards to keep her safe.

Every day, she would bring the four little beasts and fool around, making it hard for Ouyang Shuo to even see her.

The bigger she got, the more independent she grew.

Because of the age gap, Ouyang Shuo even got the feeling that his daughter was growing up.

"Baby, don't go out today. I'll bring you to do something interesting."

"What interesting thing?"

Ouyang Shuo decided to act playful and knocked on her little head, "You'll find out when you get there!"

"Oh!"

Bing'er touched her head, as she looked at her bad brother.

Hen, brother must be jealous of Bing'er playing around all day, so he wants to bully me.

It must be like this!

Thinking about that, the cute Bing'er decided to forgive her brother.

The little brat copied what Ouyang Shuo usually did, putting her hands behind her back, taking short steps and saying, "Brother, let's go. Bing'er will play with you today."

Ouyang Shuo shook his head in amusement.

Walking out of the camp, the Guards regiment were in formation waiting for them.

Apart from that, Bai Nanpu had also brought the Chamber of Commerce leaders along.

To these people, today was a historical day. All those who held a certain position naturally would come over and want to witness this.

Seeing this, Ouyang Shuo decided to give a short speech and recap on the difficulties of this journey, as well as what he hoped for the future of Yazhou.

To the various Chamber of Commerces who had supported him, Ouyang Shuo was really thankful.

Ouyang Shuo was experienced in these kinds of speeches, and he gave an exceptional one.

At 8 AM, the forces went out towards the village creation point.

The place that Ouyang Shuo chose was in the north south direction and was the central region of the Ningyuan river and South Mountain. Twenty kilometers east would be the Yazhou Bay. Sixty kilometers to the east was the Five Finger Mountain.

With the hard work of the Guards regiment, the few tens of kilometers around the area was fully cleared out and had become a safe zone.

Ouyang Shuo took out the silver village creation token and called Bing'er to his side. As her guardian, he could control her territory, but the building had to be done by her.

On the way there, Ouyan Shuo had already explained the basics to Bing'er.

She was smart and naturally understood everything. She could feel that this was extremely important to her brother, so she was very focused and serious.

Although this little brat liked to tease her brother, deep inside, she really loved him.

Bing'er received the village creation token from Ouyang Shuo's hand and stabbed it into the ground. Following this, she bit her white and tender finger and dripped a drop of blood onto it.

Throughout the whole process, Bing'er didn't even frown.

All the other people, upon seeing that, couldn't help but nod.

Strictly speaking, Bing'er was the princess of this army. Seeing her so tough at such a young age, being able to withstand the pain of biting her finger, she really had the aura of a lord.

As the fresh blood dripped onto the token, it turned into a silver light.

The light burst forth into the sky and burst apart. The silver luster spread all around to the borders of the territory before disappearing.

At the same time, where she stood, a silver stone steele slowly rose up. It was three meters tall and one meter wide. Bing'er placed her hand onto it. Instantly, a system notification sounded.

"System Notification: Congratulations player Ouyang Bing for successfully building a village, please name your village!"

"Yashan Village." Bing'er read out the name that her brother told her.

After she said that, the words appeared on the stone steele.

"System Notification: Player Ouyang Bing is underage, a guardian can be set to help manage the territory. Will you assign a guardian?"

"Yes!" Bing'er said as she assigned Ouyang Shuo as her guardian.

"System Notification: Guardian fits the requirements, successfully assigned!"

At the same time, a system notification sounded out by Ouyang Shuo's ear.

"System Notification: Player Ouyang Bing has chosen you as her guardian, you will have equal rights as her and have control over Yashan Village."

Before it finished, a few more system notifications sounded out in his ear.

"System Notification: Player Ouyang Bing has high luck, village creation token has upgraded and has become gold rank, congratulations!"

"System Notification: Player Ouyang Bing has extraordinary charm, awarded emperor rank historical general Fan Lihua, congratulations!"

"System notification: Player Ouyang Bing has extraordinary talent, rewarded hidden building spirit beast hall, congratulations!"

What a god, Ouyang Bing was really overpowered!

With that, the starting point of Yashan Village was higher than even Shanhai Village.

At this moment, Ouyang Shuo had to admit that he was jealous. Jealous of his sister.

At the beginning, he made use of his last life advantage to complete the village building quest before obtaining a gold rank village creation token and an emperor rank summoning token.

Bing'er, on the other hand, didn't need to do anything and just used her natural luck and charm to get the exact same thing.

What was more overpowered was that there was a hidden building.

That little brat had obtained all the good stuff. How would one not be jealous of her?

Thinking about his pitiful luck and charm, Ouyang Shuo felt very bitter.

Ouyang Shuo continued to configure the territory.

After which, he took a look at its stats.

Territory: Yashan Village

Lord: Ouyang Bing

Assistant Lord: Qiyue Wuyi

Title: None

People's thoughts: 70

Security: 75

Population: 1570/200Territory specialty: take a look at Chapter 6Existing Buildings: Village grade Lord's Manor, Basic Market

Hidden buildings: Spirit Beast Hall

Basic Building list:The stats of Yashan Village were largely similar to when Shanhai City had started. The only differences were the population and the hidden building.

For the population, the Guards regiment was not included inside. The population included all the masons, talents, and basic level administrative personnel.

Ouyang Shuo took a look at the stats of the spirit beast hall.

Name: Spirit Beast Hall

Type: Hidden Building

Function: Helps to evolve and improve spirit beasts

Specialty: Increase attraction rate of special talents by 10%, territory fame increased by 10%.

Evaluation: A hall specially designed for spirit beasts. At most three spirit beasts can train inside at once. Their training time cannot cross one hour a day.

The introduction was simple but its effects weren't.

The moment the spirit beast hall appeared, Little White and Little Green eagerly rushed in.

Just at this moment, the free general from the system rushed over from the village entrance.

She was riding a white horse and wore a red dress and silver armor. She wielded a long knife in her hand. Her beauty was unparalleled like that of a pear in full bloom. She was one of the four famous heroines in China—Fan Lihua.

She ran in front of Bing'er, getting off her horse, and kneeling on one leg, "Greetings, princess!"

Bing'er had seen such things before. After all, she had spent so much time in the Lord's Manor.

The little brat helped her up and called out, "Pretty Sister!"

"Haha!" The beauty laughed and instantly liked this little princess.

Ouyang Shuo took a look at her stats.

Name: Fan Lihua

Title: One of the Four Heroines

Dynasty: Tang dynasty

Identity: Yashan Village General

Occupation: Special level general

Loyalty: 80

Command: 75

Force: 80

Intelligence: 78

Politics: 50

Specialty: Smart and courageous (raise morale by 40%), conqueror (raise movement speed by 30%); insight (raise troops Attack by 20%)

Cultivation Method: Xiurong Knife Technique

Equipment: Xiurong Knife

Evaluation: Smart and courageous, beautiful beyond compare, righteous, cares about the large picture, and fights evil with good. A magnanimous woman and a very strong martial artist.

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