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Chapter 377- Legalism

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After the chess game finished, the atmosphere totally changed. White Snake's heart tightened, as he knew that the crucial moment had arrived.

"Legalism talks about personally setting an example, so what happened to mister?"

Ouyang Shuo took the initiative to ask the difficult question. He mocked Wei Yang for giving up on himself.

"I failed to push my ideology out in the end. It was like the bubble of a dream bursting, so how can I not?"

Wei Yang's eyes flashed with a glimpse of loneliness and pain.

"How can you say you failed when the ideology that you taught is one of the pillars of society?"

Ouyang Shuo was not exaggerating, Wei Yang could be considered one of the first total revolutionaries of China. His legalism school of thought did not just affect the Qin country. Its effects even went beyond its time period, influencing the following thousands of years of Chinese history.

"Qin Country only lasted for two hundred years. Obviously, it was a failure."

Once he entered the wilderness, Wei Yang naturally gained knowledge about the five thousand years of Chinese history. As a result, he felt incredibly dejected.

He was an ideologist with a strong passion; he promoted legalism in the Qin Country and pushed for them to change. Although he died in the end because of his ideologies, that did not cause him to have any regrets.

Only the fact that his ideologies had vanished caused him to feel regret.

Ouyang Shuo shook his head, "Mister, you should think about it this way. The reason why the Qin Country lasted for two hundred years was because they firmly believed in your ideas and did not progress. Thinking about those times, mister entered the Qin Country. You did not accept a position and entered the wilderness to observe them, to create suitable laws. Why? As it was crafted for them."

When Wei Yang heard those words, he fell silent and did not give a reply.

With his talents, he obviously understood the meaning in Ouyang Shuo's words. Despite that, it was hard not to be emotionally invested because he was involved in the whole matter.

Ouyang Shuo continued, "With your talents, spreading the name of legalism is what you should do. Change with the times and adapt your laws. If you continue to just drink in tea houses, you would be insulting your work."

When Wei Yang heard his words, he dejectedly said, "Where's Duke Qiao?" The success of his ideology was largely due to the support of the Duke.

To meet such a person was really a once in many lifetimes opportunity.

When Ouyang Shuo heard these words, he stood up and bowed, "Although I'm not good enough, I'm willing to be your Duke Qiao."

Wei Yang was moved, Ouyang Shuo's words were like a promise.

The promise of a lord was worth its weight in gold.

At that moment, the atmosphere froze, making it hard for one to breathe.

Ouyang Shuo waited with bated breath for Wei Yang's reply.

After a long while, he let out a sigh, stood up, and adjusted his clothing. Then, he bowed and said, "Lord!"

With this bow, they had sealed the master and servant relationship.

White Snake, who had witnessed the whole entire process, could not help but feel impressed and amazed.

Name: Wei Yang (God rank)

Title: Shang Lord

Dynasty: Warring States (Qin)

Identity: Shanhai City Resident

Loyalty: Civil servant

Command: 72

Force: 35

Intelligence: 88

Politics: 95

Specialty: Legal System (Raises administrative efficiency by 25%, territory honesty by 30%), Iron-faced (raises prestige by 20%), open and fair (raises honesty by 20%)

Book: Shang Lord Book

Evaluation: Wei Yang, believer of legalism, a strong administrative personnel. Helped the Duke of Qin set up laws to punish the dishonest and protect the weak in a way that balanced the odds. The punishments he set out were based on the severity. He convinced the people to farm, and convinced everyone to focus on that one thing. He used troops to expand the land, the troops were the riches of the country, helping to make the Qin Country invincible.

After he recruited Wei Yang, Ouyang Shuo did not continue to say in Jingdu. He simply went back to Shanhai City on the same day.

When he went back, he did not immediately arrange duties for Wei Yang. Based on Wei Yang's character, he needed to observe Lianzhou before he could suggest changes.

Ouyang Shuo arranged two Guards to follow him. Although Lianzhou was peaceful, there were still small groups of bandits; it was not totally safe.

At the same time, Ouyang Shuo passed a token to Wei Yang. With this token, he could meet anyone in the prefecture and no one would stop him.

Ouyang Shuo had already planned out Wei Yang's appointment.

Out of the three big departments, the Internal Affairs Department that controlled laws and punishment in the territory suited him the most.

Hence, Ouyang Shuo had to arrange something for the current director Tian Wenjing. If Ouyang Shuo just made him the deputy director, it would be a waste of Tian Wenjing's talents. The territory lacked civil servants, so Ouyang Shuo could not act so stupid.

Hence, he wanted to let Tian Wenjing lead Yashan City.

If events went smoothly, he would be the choice of governor for the future Qiongzhou Prefecture.

This was the best place for Tian Wenjing to show off his abilities. It would also allow him to lead a whole area. He was a model governor during the Qing dynasty.

Allowing him to preside over Yashan was the most suitable.

Ouyang Shuo had finished a series of arrangements, which made Yashan City's roots more and more stable. All they needed was a strong personnel to enter the fray.

Be it Sun Xiaoyue or Bai Nanpu, they lacked the talent to do so.

In the early half of the year, before Taiping Country threatened Lianzhou Prefecture, Ouyang Shuo would place his energy into Yashan City to form a strategic base.

The next day, Ouyang Shuo called Tian Wenjing over to his room.

"Wenjing, do you want to govern an area?"

When Tian Wenjing heard these words, he was stunned.

If it was to govern, with his position, the role of prefect would be beneath him. Furthermore, Lianzhou Prefecture did not have any empty slots—only Yashan City had space.

Don't tell me?

When his thoughts reached this point, his heart started to tremble in excitement.

Naturally, he was clear about the strategy to explore Qiongzhou Island. He also knew the strategic importance of the island. Even if you did not mention the future, the current Yashan City was only less important than Shanhai City.

"What you're saying is?"

Compared to the others, he had a far better composure.

Ouyang Shuo held really high hopes toward this important official, "I want you to take up the role of mayor of Yashan City. However, it won't be limited to that. You will handle the matters of Qiongzhou Island."

When Tian Wenjing heads this declaration, he grew emotional.

Governor! The first governor of the territory!

Facing such a huge responsibility, no one could remain calm.

However, Tian Wenjing was still Tian Wenjing; this cold-faced director could remain so calm it was terrifying. He quickly collected himself, "Then what about the Internal Affairs Department?"

Wei Yang's arrival was really low-profile, so Tian Wenjing still did not know about it.

Ouyang Shuo nodded, "Wei Yang has already come to our territory and is now touring it. When he returns, you should go acquaint yourself with him before you leave for Yashan City."

"Wei Yang?"

Finally, Tian Wenjing could not contain himself, as he exclaimed in surprise. The name of the Shang Lord was too shocking.

"That's right!"

Ouyang Shuo nodded. It was not an easy task to make this cold-faced director so shocked.

"Congratulations lord!"

After ending the conversation, Ouyang Shuo left Tian Wenjing with these words, "Use this period of time to think about how to make Yashan City and Qiongzhou Island great!"

"I won't let you down!"

Just as Ouyang Shuo was about to say something, a system notification sounded out in his ear.

"System Notification: Congratulations Player Qiyue Wuyi, territory martial artist Lin Yue has recovered. Additionally, after breaking through a bottleneck, he has become a fist style grandmaster. Player is rewarded two thousand merit points."

Grandmaster, the second one in the territory was born.

Lin Yue certainly did not disappoint. In a short month, he had recovered and even improved to become a grandmaster.

Shortly after, another system notification rang out.

"System Notification: Congratulations Shanhai City for giving birth to a grandmaster martial artist, awarded the title Home of Fist Styles. Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi."The moment the system notification sounded out, the players were naturally amazed.

Shanhai City kept on producing miracles, causing players to call it the city of miracles.

Hence, this system notification did not cause much uproar.

The only effect was that players that specialized in fist styles were now a lot more interested in Shanhai City. One could predict that in the future, there would be more players who would head for Shanhai City to learn their martial arts.

After Tian Wenjing left, Ouyang Shuo looked at the stats.

Home of Fist Styles: Raises territory resident body quality by 10%, raises their familiarity with fist styles by 10%, raise prestige of fist styles by 10%.

Incredible. Its stats were even stronger than the ones the Home of Martial Arts granted with the creation of the Dongli Sword Sect, especially for fist style users.

Be it in the militants or residents, they would all benefit from this.

Even Ouyang Shuo, who trained in Bajiquan, experienced a raise in his ability.

At this point, Shanhai City already had five titles, 'The World's First Prefecture, Land of Military Strategists, Home of Forging, Home of Martial Arts, and Home of Fist Styles.

Just at this moment, another system notification sounded out in his ear.

"System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi, territory's titles Home of Martial Arts and Home of Fist Styles can be merged, will you merge them?"

"Merge!"

"System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi, territory titles have merged successfully. Shanhai City has obtained the title . Original two titles have disappeared."

: Raises resident body quality by 30%, raises fist style familiarity by 10%, raises territory fist style prestige by 10%.

Note: This title can be further upgraded to Land of Martial Arts. Upgrade requirements are to obtain two more terms like home of sword arts, home of spear arts and more.

Ouyang Shuo was speechless, the merger was just a simple stacking of effects. The only thing he looked forward to was the final title—Land of Martial Arts.

However, to obtain that title, he needed two more martial arts grandmasters, how difficult!

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Chapter 378- Teen Swordsman

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With the merger of the titles, Ouyang Shuo thought that maybe the other titles like Home of Forging could also merge.

For example, Home of Forging, Home of Tailoring, and the like could merge into a title that encapsulated all work occupation players.

There seemed to be a chance if one thought about it that way.

The regretful matter was that the lucky break that Qing'er still had not obtained the lucky break she needed to break through to tailoring grandmaster. On the other hand, master rank shipbuilder Zheng Dahai had a chance to become a grandmaster through the Ming Dynasty Shipbuilding Technical Manual.

Since Lin Yue had upgraded, the necessary matters had to be completed.

The moment Song Jia entered Five Finger Mountain, they had lost contact with her. Till date, she had not returned.

Hence, Ouyang Shuo had to help out with the sect matters.

In the afternoon, Lin Yue arrived as expected.

After becoming a grandmaster, his aura had changed. Although he still restrained his aura, he had undergone a qualitative change.

Before this, he had no choice but to restrain his aura and energy since he could not control it. Now he could freely manipulate it as he wished, making him look really stable.

There were already no need for formalities between the two of them.

"Lord, the Bajiquan Dojo disciples are all ready. They can go up to the mountains at anytime."

The way Lin Yue handle things was always so decisive and crisp.

Ouyang Shuo nodded, "The dojo in the city does not need to be closed down. Brother can arrange a good disciple to run it. The place can act as the outer building of the Dongli Sword Sect."

With the buff of the title, it was the best time to recruit disciples. Dongli Sword Sect was located so far away. Moreover, it was not a place that could handle many disciples.

When Lin Yue heard these words, he laughed, "Lord has thought it through. Let's do it as you say."

Lin Yue was emotionally invested in the Bajiquan Dojo, so if he did not need to close it down, that would be for the best.

"Sect Leader Song is not here. As such, I'll personally accompany you up the mountain tomorrow."

Lin Yue did not reject this proposition. For someone from the underworld, joining a sect was a grand matter. It was acceptable to have the lord personally come along.

The two of them had a brief conversation before parting ways.

4th Month 8th day, Shanhai City.

Ouyang Shuo brought four Guards to lead the five hundred odd Bajiquan Dojo disciples to Dongli Sword Sect.

Without Song Jia, Cui Tianqi and Banxia performed the daily duties in the sect. When they heard the news, both of them led all the disciples and waited to welcome them.

After not meeting for half a year, Cui Tianqi had already become a handsome teen that brimmed with energy.

Based on Song Jia's words, Tianqi had strong potential, and his comprehension was also very high. He had already gotten a grasp of both the Nin Yin Cultivation Method and the Yuenu Sword Technique.

If placed in the underworld, he would be considered an exceptional teen.

The negative aspect was that this originally open and extroverted kid now had a more dark aura that incited fear. This was probably a result of him training in the Nin Yin Cultivation Method. Ouyang Shuo also heard that in the sect, this elder brother had really high prestige. He was also very strict to all the other disciples, making all of them fear him.

Luckily, he was a cultivation maniac, and he spent most of his time training in his room or practicing in the back mountains. He rarely hung out with the other disciples.

On the other hand, Banxia, as the elder sister, was not strict toward them. As a result, none of the disciples showed disrespect toward her.

When a male cultivated the Nine Yin Cultivation Method, he would become dark; if a female cultivated it, her charm would grow as her strength increased.

Banxia originally looked good, so it was no wonder she charmed many male disciples.

"Greetings, lord!"

Cui Tianqi led all the disciples to kneel down.

Ouyang Shuo nodded. He walked beside him, patted his shoulder, and smiled, "Not bad!"

Cui Tianqi's heart felt warm; his relationship with the lord was highly complicated. The lord was his benefactor, his brother, and also his liege.

Obtaining the lord's praise was undoubtedly the greatest joy.

Unfortunately, since he gained mastery of the Nine Yin Cultivation Technique, Cui Tianqi had forgotten how to smile. His current expression looked very stiff. Moreover, when he smiled, it looked worse than crying.

When Ouyang Shuo saw this, he kept his silence.

Every successful person had to invest a lot to reach their current level.

For example, Banxia. Both of them became disciples at the same time, and her potential was not bad either. However, her skill was far from Cui Tianqi's. Why was that?

The environment of the sect, the honor of the position of elder sister, and the love and attention she received.

All of this made her forget why she became a disciple in the first place. Furthermore, she even thought that her influence in the sect was higher than Cui Tianqi.

She also looked down on his crazy training.

The difference between the two really made one emotional.

Ouyang Shuo was not her master, so naturally, he would not lecture her. He just slightly smiled.

Banxia similarly had complicated feelings toward the lord. She was grateful and respected him; she even worshiped him.

All of this changed during that morning.

The lord wanted to set up rules in the manor. He did not care about their master-servant relationship and kicked her out. If Zisu and the rest did not beg for her, Banxia would not even have a chance to become Song Jia's disciple.

In that instant, hatred grew in her heart.

That thorn still grew in her heart; she could not totally remove it.

Half a year had past, and she still felt really complicated when she saw the lord once again.

Compared to half a year ago, the man in front of her had become more and more charming. His every action displayed his might and prestige.

In front of the lord, she unknowingly displayed her charm. She hoped to get him to notice her. When she learned that the lord was coming, she specially woke up early and dressed up.

Unfortunately, Ouyang Shuo had seen so many beautiful girls. In his eyes, Banxia was just a green apple.

He only slightly smiled and did not spend any time on her.

When Banxia noticed that, her heart felt cold, and the smile disappeared from her face.

"Let's go to the main hall!"

"En!" Cui Tianqi nodded as he led the way.

After half a year of construction, Dongli Sword Sect had grown more and more majestic. It had the appearance of a large sect, at least in terms of infrastructure.

In the main hall, Ouyang Shuo officially introduced Lin Yue to them.

Ouyang Shuo looked around, "Brother Lin is a fist style grandmaster. He has accepted the position of elder in the sect. When your sect leader comes back, we will have the official ceremony. At the same time, he will open a hall known as Baji Hall for the teaching of Bajiquan."

When Lin Yue heard these words, he stepped up and cupped his fist at everyone in greeting.

"Welcome Elder Lin!"

"Welcome Elder Lin!"

All the disciples shouted; it created a really ecstatic scene.

The sect developing and expanding more was naturally a good thing to them.

"Elder Lin will handle matters during the period that your sect leader is not here."

Ouyang Shuo announced a series of rules to ascertain Lin Yue's position in the sect. Basically, Lin Yue was the second-in-command in Dongli Sword Sect.

"Yes, lord!"

All the disciples replied unanimously. However, their voices were not as loud and united as before.

Joining the sect was one thing, the sect having another leader was a different matter.

Naturally, the disciples felt wary and alert since Song Jia was not in the sect. As a matter of course, they did not feel as relaxed now that a new elder would come in to handle daily matters.

Especially Banxia, her heart jolted.

Banxia was similar to a young master in the sect. After all, Cui Tianqi basically did not care about matters.

Lin Yue's arrival removed her from her position of power.

When Ouyang Shuo saw this scene, he frowned. However, after he thought about it, he did not lecture them. He believed that Lin Yue had ample ability to handle all of them and develop some prestige.

Who was Lin Yue? Naturally, he saw through everything that was happening. Before he came, he had already predicted this much. Of course, he was not afraid.

Ouyang Shuo dispersed them after announcing these matters.

Banxia led Lin Yue toward the prearranged courtyard.

Ouyang Shuo called Cui Tianqi to have a conversation.

"Lord, Sister Banxia…."

Cui Tianqi stopped; he looked really calm, but he had many thoughts in his heart.

Ouyang Shuo waved him off, "Let's not talk about her. Tianqi, what plans do you have now that Elder Lin is taking over?"

"Plans?" Cui Tianqi did not understand, "Train!"

Ouyang Shuo shook his head, "To become a real expert through purely training is not possible. You need to go out and explore like your master."

"Can I?" Excitement flash across his eyes.

"Of course. Why don't you pack up and leave the mountain today? If you do not want to go alone, you can choose a few other disciples."

"En." Cui Tianqi nodded his head furiously.

Ouyang Shuo took out a heavy sword and a gold ticket; he passed these items to Cui Tianqi. The heavy sword was specially designed; it was a highly valuable dark gold weapon.

This was not Ouyang Shuo acting biased, since this weapon did not suit Banxia.

"Lord?"

Cui Tianqi recognized the specialness of this sword and felt astonished. When he looked at the gold ticket, he saw that it was a thousand gold, which freaked him out. Since a young age, he had never seen such a huge amount.

"Take it. Without a good weapon, how can you train?" Ouyang Shuo smiled, "The gold is what your Sister Yingyu told me to bring."

"Thank you, lord!"

Cui Tianqi felt warm in his heart. When he thought about his sister, he felt very thankful and grateful.

"When you go off, you should go and see your sister. She misses you, and she'll be delighted to see you progress so much."

"En!"

"Ok, since that's all, I'll take my leave!" As Ouyang Shuo stood up, Cui Tianqi quickly followed.

Ouyang Shuo patted his shoulder once again, "You do not need to send me off! Continue training hard. When you become a true expert, I've plans for you!"

"Yes!"

To help the lord was Cui Tianqi's ultimate goal.

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Chapter 379- Mighty Lord

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On the 4th month, 10th day, Cui Tianqi brought eleven fellow disciples down the mountain toward the Lord's Manor.

When Lin Yue heard that Cui Tianqi would head out to train, he sent six of the disciples with the most potential from Baji Hall. They totalled at twelve, six males and six females, including Banxia.

Ouyang Shuo recommended they head for the Five Finger Mountains. Who knows, they might bump into Song Jia.

The administrative matters of the Lianzhou Prefecture were now running smoothly. Ouyang Shuo did not need to personally handle all of the matters. Bing'er had also started school, so the entire Lord's Manor had become much colder.

Little Green and Little White were together with Xue'er. They had been training together in the Spirit Beast Hall. Who knows what changes would happen to them.

Since Ouyang Shuo needed to wait for Wei Yang's return, he purposely pushed back his trip to Yashan City.

Ouyang Shuo made use of this free time to pay more attention to training his martial arts. The assassination attempt in Jingdou had affected him after all.

Ouyang Shuo started to place more emphasis on his own strength. After all, even though he had guards, increasing his own strength was still safer.

Situations change. In the future, there would definitely be times when the guards could not protect him.

Even the Yellow Emperor Internal Cultivation Technique needed to be cultivated daily. Apart from that, there was also the tiring training of spear techniques and palm techniques.

Ouyang Shuo would not just train alone. He would also find a few Guards to spar with him. First, he would take on one, then two, then three, slowly increasing.

Ouyang Shuo could feel his body and skills improving everyday. Every time he trained, the Guards would hurt him; it was really painful for him.

In an intense fight, one would definitely get hurt.

Ever since his Yellow Emperor Internal Cultivation Technique reached the sixth layer, he had welcomed tremendous progress.

At the start of the third month, when he was touring Lianzhou Prefecture, he had already broken through to the seventh layer. The new upper limit for his primordial energy was five hundred points.

Even with this increase, Ouyang Shuo's efficiency did not change. He could only increase the energy by three points each day. If things went smoothly, it would take him till the seventh month to reach a break through.

Every time the technique increased a level, it did not just bring an increase in primordial energy, as it also increased the strength of his meridians. The expansion of his dantian would also result in an all round improvement of his body.

One could say that only by training the technique to the sixth layer could they be considered a martial arts practitioner. At this stage, the strength of his body had reached that of one ox.

Do not look down on such a level, as it was actually really amazing.

A normal person could be considered really strong if they had the strength of a hundred kilograms. The power of one ox was six hundred kilograms, which was enough to shatter rocks.

Every time he leveled up his Yellow Emperor Internal Cultivation Technique, his strength would increase by one ox unit of strength. As a result, Ouyang Shuo, who had reached the seventh layer, had reached the power of two oxen.

With one punch, he could kill a man even without using his Bajiquan.

When he wore the current 45 kilogram armor, it felt really comfortable. Moreover, he could wear it for long durations without feeling worn out.

The 35 kilogram Tianmo Spear felt like an extension of his body—like it was a part of him.

Not only that, the primordial energy helped him to recover quickly. Oftentimes, when Ouyang Shuo trained till he was drained, he would use the Yellow Emperor Internal Cultivation Technique at night. After that, he would fully recovered by the next day.

Under the nourishment of the Yellow Primordial Energy, the injuries to his muscles that the training and cultivation caused all disappeared. They became as good as new.

Not only that, the toughness of his muscles also rose, which gave rise to flexibility and explosiveness.

A strong body, terrifying explosiveness, and a fast recovery speed.

Finally, Ouyang Shuo could be considered a passable general thanks to these three positive facets stacked upon one another.

As his body quality continued to rise, the combat experience hidden in his subconsciousness from his last life started to awaken.

In his last life, Ouyang Shuo did not gain the title of the 'Two-faced Shura' by luck.

His combat experience did not fit with his body due to its relative weakness. Hence, it had hid itself in his mind and did not awaken along with his memory.

Hence, although Ouyang Shuo was an adventure gamemode player in his past life, in terms of martial arts, he had to start from scratch when he reincarnated.

Additionally, as this portion of his memory awakened, his skills also improved quickly.

In his last life, Ouyang Shuo had wielded the halberd, a similar weapon to the spear. Hence, after his combat memories awakened, his spear technique vastly improved day by day.

In a short time, his Yang Family Spear Technique broke through to the fifth layer. At this point, he had achieved mastery through comprehension. Next, there were only two more layers—peak of perfection and back to basics.

After comprehending the technique, Ouyang Shuo did not need to think about which stroke to use. Instead, he would subconsciously adapt based on the enemy's attack.

His adaptive abilities on the battlefield rose tremendously thanks to this.

The battlefield was an unpredictable ground. It was a place with different strokes, different angles. As such, the adaptive ability of a martial artist was the most important factor.

Even more so when one was surrounded.

Martial God Zhao Zilong from the Three Kingdoms Era could effortlessly fight thousands of troops. Apart from his skill in the spear, his adaptive ability was another reason for his might.

Of course, Ouyang Shuo had just reached a passable level. He could only show the strength of the Yang Family Spear Technique when he achieved perfection.

Out of the Shanhai Alliance generals, Shi Wanshui and Luo Shixin were both spear masters. Their spear skills had reached the pinnacle of perfection.

As for the highest level, back to basics, it was impossible unless one had become a spear grandmaster.

Hence, compared to Luo Shixin, Ouyang Shuo was still a huge distance away.

Apart from the Yang Family Spear Technique, Ouyang Shuo also tried to merge Bajiquan into his spear technique to create his own art.

This was a huge goal.

To merge martial arts techniques, one needed to totally understand both techniques.

The basic requirements would be for his Bajiquan to also reach the level of mastery through comprehension. Luckily, as Lin Yue had reached fist style grandmaster, the territory had received a title. Hence, it had gotten much easier for Ouyang Shuo to train his Bajiquan.

He had a feeling that in less than a month, he could reach that level.

Apart from his improvements in spear techniques, the awakening of his past memories also brought him a huge surprise.

In his last life, the other techniques that Ouyang Shuo trained were basically all gold rank, except for two king rank techniques—one halberd and one movement technique.

The halberd technique was useless now.

Hence, Ouyang Shuo searched his memory. After spending an extensive amount of effort, he managed to let his famous martial art, Floating Ghost Shadow, appear in the game once more.

"System Notification: Congratulations Player Qiyue Wuyi for the self-created technique, Floating Ghost Shadow. Player is rewarded ten thousand reputation points!"

The Floating Ghost Shadow Technique was considered a king rank movement technique. Since it inculcated special techniques, it was an authentic secret technique.

In his last life, Ouyang Shuo's use of the Floating Shadow Ghost, in addition to his bloody eyes when he killed, earned him the epithet of Shura.

This technique helped him to fill the gap of not possessing a movement technique.

In a short half a month, Ouyang Shuo's ability took a huge leap.

It was not an exaggeration to say that the generals in the territory, apart from Shi Wanshui and Luo Shixin, were all not his opponent.

Ouyang Shuo even dared to fight Daiqin, who was called the black tiger of the grasslands. In Shanhai City, his force stat could rank in the top 10.

Out of all the of generals, Baiqi had the highest stats, followed by Er'Lai and Shi Wanshui. Then it was Luo Shixin. Further behind was Fan Lihua and Mu Guiying.

As for Sun Bin, although he had created his own fist technique, he was only slightly stronger than a normal person. Lin Yi, Wang Feng, and Zhao Sihu were the three at the back.

Not only that, the ten thousand reputation points that the system awarded him let his reputation stat break a hundred thousand points and upgrade to .

Next was the last grade for reputation points, known as . However, it needed one million points, which could not be done in a short time.

He could only reap such great rewards by joining world wars. It was also the meaning behind the title. Only by winning against other countries could one be well known in the world.

"System Notification: Player reputation points have broken one hundred thousand, becoming . Specially awarded the title Mighty Lord, congratulations!"

As for the last stage, the title he would earn was most probably Overlord.

Mighty Lord: Raises good feeling of historical people by 45%, raises historical people recruitment success rate by 20%.

Undoubtedly, after he gained this new title, his fame amongst the circle of historical people had risen.

One could foresee that in the future, many more historical people would come over to Shanhai City.

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Chapter 380- Zhao Kuo's Plan

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4th month 25th day, Shanhai City.

Military Intelligence Secretary Cobra reported the latest military intelligence to Ouyang Shuo.

When Ouyang Shuo appointed Cobra, the Lianzhou Basin had just been unified. At that time, Cobra had helped to reorganize the Military Intelligence Division.

Team one was in charge of intel gathering around the hundred thousand mountains and Chiyou City. Team two was in charge of Xunzhou, where Tianping Country was located.

The special operations team was in charge of the highest level of intel gathering work. For example, they would enter Chiyou City and Taiping Country.

With this, the position of the special operations team was higher than teams one and two.

The spies and members of the divisions exited Lianzhou Prefecture and focused on their intel gathering missions.

Within the prefecture, the Black Snake Guards were in charge of the remaining player territories, mountain barbarians tribes, and grassland tribes.

Ouyang Shuo could only use the Black Snake Guards for this purpose before he established the Safety Division.

With Cobra's appointment and a large number of the original Rattlesnake Mercenary Group members joining, the strength of the division grew. Moreover, their intel collecting ability rose by several levels.

Cobra met Ouyang Shuo mainly to report about Taiping Country and Chiyou City.

In these four months, Taiping Country had acted like locusts—unstoppable as they swept past Xunzhou.

Taiping Country had taken over all the territories in Xunzhou.

After taking over, the uprising army started to build their capital, and they named it Tianjing.

In history, the Taiping Country rose quickly but fell quickly too, especially due to the corrupted nature of their king, Hong Xiuquan.

After the Taiping Army entered Tianjing, they immediately expanded the Yamen into the Tianwang House. They destroyed many houses and used millions of labor force. In 1854, they rebuilt the area. The entire area within a five kilometer radius of the palace was grand and glistening.

If one set a bad example, the rest would follow.

The construction of the East King House also used up large amounts of wealth and resources. For example, the dresses, coronation attires, horses, and the like were all very extravagant. Apart from that, the king also continued to choose pretty ladies to enter the palace.

According to history, his palace had close to thousands of beauties.

Based on the arrangements of Gaia, the core members of the uprising army would not have any memories of this kind of affair. Only their leader would have a perfect and intact memory.

This basically meant that Gaia helped revive the leaders of the uprising armies.

Hence, after learning from his past mistakes, he would not do the same things when leading the Taiping Country. Instead, he would strive to rule and build his ideal country.

After building their capital, the uprising army started to expand.

After learning from his past mistakes, he did not randomly crown kings and lords. Yang Xiuqing, Shi Dakai, and Xiao Chaogui all appeared as generals.

Hong Xiuquan would stay in Tianjing and command and lead from there. The uprising army had twenty thousand troops in each direction. They called themselves the Hundred Thousand Army because their goal was to expand their territory in one swoop.

In the east, Xiao Chaogui and Feng Yunshan led the troops to Attack Zhen An.

On the north, Shi Dakai and Li Kaifang led troops to attack Guiling.

On the east, Yang Xiuqing and Li Fengxiang attacked Wuzhou.

On the south, the two young generals Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng attacked Lianzhou.

Out of the four directions, the Hundred Thousand Army on the west and the north were unstoppable. The players there either surrendered or got destroyed.

The uprising army was like a snowball, growing larger and larger.

The lords in Guangxi had even formed an alliance; their name was really sad. They were known as Dare to Die Alliance. Unfortunately, they stood no chance against the uprising army.

The fall of Zhen An and Guilin was something that would happen sooner or later.

On the east, they faced the strong Chiyou army.

Ever since building Chiyou City, Chiyou had led troops and taken over the entire Wuzhou. For the uprising army to attempt to invade Wuzhou, they would naturally face resistance.

The Chiyou army was entirely composed of elite mountain barbarian warriors.

The uprising army that Yang Xiuqing led naturally took down the player armies easily. However, it was too great a task to fight against the elite mountain barbarians.

The hurriedly formed uprising army was just like a peasant army. Apart from their morale and their general's ability, they were especially lacking in terms of weaponry.

Yang Xiuqing did not feel demoralized about the east troops being forced back. Instead, he set up the east camp on the border of Xunzhou and Wuzhou. They took this chance to start training their army and establishing discipline.

As Chiyou City's population restricted them, they did not take the initiative to strike.

The east side entered a stalemate just like this.

On the south, there was also another stalemate.

In the middle of the 4th month, Li Xiucheng and Li Yucheng led their twenty thousand strong army to strike against Lianzhou. When they rushed to the canyon and saw the giant stronghold, they were stunned.

The current Mulan Stronghold was one and a half months away from completion. However, the outer walls were already built. Only the internal structures and defensive constructs were left.

The uprising army that had not even brought basic siege weaponry had no methods at all when faced with such a huge stronghold. Helplessly, they could only set up the south camp five kilometers away from the stronghold.

Because of the situation at hand, Baiqi personally took control of Mulan Stronghold. The 3rd and 4th divisions of the Dragon Legion also entered the stronghold and camped there.

It was okay if they did not come, but if they really did come, they would be in for some trouble.

Once he heard the report, Ouyang Shuo kept silent and did not say anything.

With the strength of the Dragon Legion, they could destroy the enemy south troops and take down Tianjing if they attacked and used this opportunity. They could destroy the whole uprising army right now.

The crux of the problem was whether this was really the best time?

With the settings of the wilderness, to lords, land was not important. Population and other resources were the most precious.

This was the difference between territory wars and real-life wars.

If purely based on a fighting for land perspective, Ouyang Shuo could just use the Dragon Legion to attack not only Guangxi; he could even sweep up Lingnan easily.

But the problem was what would happened next.

Accepting an area with a lot of land but little people was detrimental instead of beneficial.

Hence, the battle over territories was a huge test of the ability of a lord to grasp the correct timing.

If the war started early and the fruits were not ripe, it would not be worth it. If it was too late and the enemies were ready, taking them down would not be easy.

The appearance of Tianping Country was a huge opportunity for Ouyang Shuo.

If he could let them attack Guangxi and make it strong, then attack them and claim the fruits of their labor, it would be the best conclusion.

This was also another huge strategic plan since his poisonous insects in Lianzhou Basin. He termed this plan as raising wolves.

Compared to poisonous insects, the hard part about raising wolves would be to avoid them eating you.

With the rate they were expanding, they would definitely take down Zhen An and Guilin, even maybe further toward Yunnan and Guizhou.

At that point, would the Dragon Legion really be able to stop them?

It would be difficult.

However, if he attacked now, Ouyang Shuo did not feel that it was right. If he took them down now, Dare to Die Alliance and Chiyou City would benefit.

To take down the Dare to Die Alliance would also be a difficult matter.

Undoubtedly, if they saw the chance, Dare to Die Alliance would be like Broken Blade County. They would ask for help from Yanhuang Alliance.

Ouyang Shuo did not want every fight to be so tough.

He wanted to easily take over the entire Guangxi Region.

Hence, to fulfil this strategic objective, the difficult part would be to allow Tianping Country to expand, while also ensuring that they remained under control. At the same time, he needed to defend against Chiyou City.

Do not underestimate Chiyou City.

Based on Cobra's report, they had around thirty thousand troops. If needed, they could get twenty to thirty thousand more from the tribes.

All the mountain barbarian tribes on a hundred thousand mountain had already moved to Wuzhou.

Not only that, the other region's scattered mountain barbarians, including the river barbarians, had all gathered in Wuzhou. Wuzhou had become the main base and home for the barbarian race.

If they did not solve this problem, Chiyou City would similarly become a cancer.

There was news that Chiyou was preparing to build Jiuli Country in Wuzhou.

The moment this country was built, the ambitions of the mountain barbarians would be strengthened.

When that time came, even if they could attack Jiuli Country, it would be unknown whether he could recruit people like the times with the mountain barbarian tribes.

The situation that faced Shanhai City was not optimistic.

Ouyang Shuo did not forget that he was the number one enemy in Chiyou's eyes.

He had to deal with the problem of how to face Tianping Country and Chiyou City.

Luckily, he was not fighting alone.

After Cobra left, Ouyang Shuo sent a message to Mulan Yue. He asked her to tell Baiqi to come over the next day for a meeting.

4th month 26th day.

9 AM, Baiqi returned back to Shanhai City through the Mulan House teleportation formation.

Ouyang Shuo gathered Du Ruhui and Zhao Kuo, along with Commander in Chief Baiqi to discuss about the situation in the north. Cobra was also authorised to join in.

Under the instructions of Ouyang Shuo, he reported the intel from yesterday.

After that, Cobra directly left.

The following meeting was highly classified, so Ouyang Shuo could only allow the four of them to sit in.

Ever since Zhao Kuo became the secretary of the War Division, he had not shown any of his ability. After listening to the report, his eyes brightened.

He knew that his time to shine was here.

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Chapter 381- Going Through Lingnan

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Ouyang Shuo briefly introduced his raising wolves plan. Then, he looked around and said, "This is the current situation, so please state your opinions."

As soon as his words sounded out, Zhao Kuo stepped out and bowed, "Lord!"

"Please speak!"

Ouyang Shuo knew that Zhao Kuo possessed really good strategic foresight.

Thinking back, the Zhao Country had accepted Shangdou from the Han Country because of Zhao Kuo. Although they lost in Changping, the original strategy was correct.

If not, the Qin Country would have easily taken down Shangdou, and the Zhao Country would have been lost even faster.

Zhao Kuo unintentionally looked at Baiqi. Based on their ranks, Baiqi should speak first as the commander-in-chief. Who knew what Baiqi was feeling now that Zhao Kuo had snatched the opportunity.

Baiqi remained expressionless on the side; no one could see what he was thinking.

Zhao Kuo shook his head, facing such an opponent, he really was inferior, "In the face of the current situation, we need to make a strategic choice between Taiping Country and Chiyou City. To take down Taiping Country, then wipe out Chiyou City, or take down Chiyou City, then wipe out Taiping Country?"

When Ouyang Shuo heard those words, he nodded.

In truth, with the way that both sides were developing, he had to control one. If not, the Dragon Legion would be unable to stop and keep both powers in check.

"Based on your strategy, it's apparent that we should not attack Taiping Country. Hence, the only choice would be to take down Chiyou City first. With that, we can eliminate the threat from a hundred thousand mountain. We can also increase our troops and build one or two more heavy armored infantry divisions".

Zhao Kuo tossed out his view—take down Chiyou City.

"What do you all think?"

Ouyang Shuo did not take a stance. He just asked for the opinions of Du Ruhui and Baiqi.

Du Ruhui's specialty was his decisiveness, not coming up with plans.

When Baiqi heard the plan, he said, "I also agree with taking down Chiyou City. Only that if we want to attack them, we need to go across Xunzhou. What plans do the Military Affairs Department have about that?"

When Zhao Kuo heard these words, he froze. He was gleeful that Baiqi had agreed with him, but he did not expect Baiqi to directly throw out such a hard question.

To attack Chiyou City from Lianzhou, there were only two roads. Firstly, they could head out of Mulan Stronghold from Xunzhou into Wuzhou. With that, they had to face both the south and east forces.

It was obvious to deny this route.

The only remaining way would be to go across the hundred thousand mountains.

Thinking about this, even Ouyang Shuo felt a headache.

It was the hundred thousand mountains, even when the Military Intelligence Division spies went through, they felt into a bad state. it was highly difficult for a huge army to move through.

Apart from the 3rd division's two mountain barbarian heavy armored infantry regiments, the others did not have the confidence to say that they could definitely do it.

However, Ouyang Shuo did not dare to use these regiments to attack Chiyou City.

The position of Chiyou in their hearts was really too high, so making them attack Chiyou City was really taking a huge risk.

Even under the restrictions of military law, although they would not do anything out of hand, their morale and focus would both definitely be affected.

Why not just not let them go to the front lines?

The more troublesome part was that half of the Dragon Legion were cavalry. How could they cross the mountain?

Facing Baiqi's question, Du Ruhui and Zhao Kuo both pondered. Especially Zhao Kuo, who yearned and desired to beat Baiqi, even in terms of strategy.

All of a sudden, the reading room became quiet.

Ouyang Shuo looked at Zhao Kuo, only to see cold sweat appear on his forehead.

It was obvious that Zhao Kuo was thinking really hard.

Ouyang Shuo really hoped that this war secretary could bring him some surprises.

After a long while, just as Ouyang Shuo started to feel a little disappointed, Zhao Kuo suddenly raised his head as his eyes glistened.

"I've got it! Lord, I found a solution!"

Zhao Kuo suddenly stood up and started dancing; he could not hide the happiness and excitement in his voice.

Ouyang Shuo laughed, "Please speak!"

When Zhao Kuo saw this response, he felt a little embarrassed. He calmed himself and sat back down, "Lord, actually there's another place in Xunzhou that we can use to enter Wuzhou and that's Zhaoqing."

"Zhaoqing?" The one that asked this question was Du Ruhui. As the director of Military Affairs, he understood the surrounding area. Although Zhaoqing was connected to Wuzhou, it was within Lingnan.

"That's right!"

"But Zhaoqing is in Lingnan, and it's totally not connected to the territory. How will we reach it?"

Du Ruhui did not understand Zhao Kuo's confidence.

When Zhao Kuo heard these words, he laughed confidently, "There are two ways."

"Oh? Speak!"

Du Ruhui did not expect that Zhao Kuo would actually think of two methods.

"First would be for the army to teleport to Tianshuang County before travelling to Wuzhou."

"That would not work!" Du Ruhui immediately rejected this possibility; he felt a little disappointed in his heart, "Attacking Chiyou City, we need to send at least three to four divisions, along with huge logistical support. It would cost fifty to sixty thousand gold. It's not suitable."

As the Military Affairs Director, Du Ruhui had to consider the financial expenditure.

Since the financial expenditure of the military had risen by the day, the Financial Department was already complaining. Luckily, Ouyang Shuo had personally helped to appease both sides.

As the director, Du Ruhui naturally felt a lot of pressure that the troops and generals could not feel.

Attacking Chiyou City would use a lot of gold and resources.

Furthermore, after taking it down, one could foresee that it would not be a positive on finances. It could even become a burden with the building ability of the mountain barbarians.

One did not even need to mention the one or two new divisions that would come out of it.

Du Ruhui could imagine the face of Cui Yingyu. This time, he naturally would not approve of such a wasteful military operation.

When Zhao Kuo heard this reaction, he was not discouraged and said, "Since that's the case, then we will use the second method."

"What is it?"

When Du Ruhui heard this, he was already riled up and not as calm.

Zhao Kuo said, "First, we take down Leizhou. Then we cross Zhaoqing to attack Wuzhou."

The moment he dropped these words, everyone was astonished.

His idea was really bold.

To take down Chiyou City, Zhao Kuo actually suggested they start a pre-war war. First, they would take down the southest point of Lingnan. Then, they would use Zhaoqing as a stepping board to attack Chiyou City.

Leizhou was an ocean away from Qiongzhou Island and was just a forest away from Lianzhou Prefecture.

Before this, Ouyang Shuo had already thought about taking down Leizhou to prevent others from disturbing Qiongzhou Island.

His suggestion was totally the same as Ouyang Shuo's Lingnan strategy.

One had to say that it was really bold.

Ouyang Shuo and the others had a fixed thought; they had never thought of entering through Lingnan.

Even Baiqi's eyes brightened up; he looked at Zhao Kuo with praise.

The current Zhao Kuo was very calm. Faced with Baiqi's praise, he did not look delighted or happy. It was apparent that successfully one upping Baiqi had wiped out the knot in Zhao Kuo's heart.

With that, it was like gaining a new lease of life.

Zhao Kuo was very thankful, thankful that he had joined Shanhai City.

Ouyang Shuo's eyes were like lightning and he saw all of this.

He was also very happy. Before this, Zhao Kuo was very emotional when he did things and would not have become a good secretary. Now, Zhao Kuo could be said to be on the right path.

Ouyang Shuo looked around, "I agree with his suggestion. What's next would be for you to make a battle plan for me to review!"

"Yes, my lord!"

Du Ruhui and Zhao Kuo both stood up and bowed.

In the Shanhai City military, the Military Affairs Department would do the war planning. The leading generals would only be decided during the war.

Ouyang Shuo looked at Baiqi, "Commander, do you have anything to say regarding these arrangements?"

In contrast to the other generals, as the commander-in-chief, Baiqi had the right to participate in such high-level decision making. He was not a general that just followed instructions.

When Baiqi heard these words, he thought about it before he said, "We cannot easily give up on the route from a hundred thousand mountain. We can still arrange an infantry force to go across the mountains to sneak attack."

This suggestion displayed his ability.

One actual force and one surprise force; this was the right way to use troops.

When Zhao Kuo heard this proposal, he also felt awed. He really could not underestimate Baiqi.

"Please describe your plan!"

"The 3rd division will defend Mulan Stronghold. The mission to cross the mountain will be given to the 1st division. The remaining second and fourth will form the main force and enter through Zhaoqing. To play it safe, it's better if we make use of the Guards regiment."

Shanhai City would use four divisions, a total of 54 thousand troops. Their goal was to storm and take down Chiyou City before Taiping Country could react.

Ouyang Shuo nodded, "Okay. The Guards regiment and the 2nd division will perform the mission of attacking Leizhou."

The 4th division will temporarily camp in Mulan Stronghold!"

For one small Leizhou, they did not need to move three elite divisions. Moreover, once they sent out troops, they would expend a huge amount of resources.

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"It's better if Baiqi leads the Battle of Leizhou." Ouyang Shuo had no intentions of personally commanding the battle.

"Yes, my lord!"

After confirming everything, Ouyang Shuo dispersed the meeting.

Next up were matters such as war planning, logistics support, army organization, and the like. The Military Affairs Department would handle all of this.

This was another huge battle after the Battle of Lianzhou. Moreover, just the prefecture preparation work needed half a month or longer.

To attack Leizhou, the fastest method would be from the sea. Hence, the Military Affairs Department also needed to work together with the 1st division of the Beihai Bay Squadron to transport troops and resources.

Ouyang Shuo asked to see Black Mamba after dispersing the meeting.

"The territory plans to take down Leizhou, so it's time for the Black Snake Guards to act. Tell the Quanzhou intel station to quickly infiltrate the various territories in Leizhou and help the military gain an advantage." Ouyang Shuo was really direct.

When Black Mamba heard this news, he was jolted awake and solemnly said, "Do not worry, my lord!"

The Black Snake Guards were formed after heavy investment; it was finally time to check out the fruits of their labor. Black Mamba knew what this meant for them—there was no room for error.

"Go!"

After Black Mamba left, Ouyang Shuo sat alone in his reading room, closing his eyes and thinking.

The Battle of Leizhou was a battle that Shanhai City could not afford to lose. Additionally, it was the first time they would fight outside their territory. It was a huge test on the abilities of the members responsible for logistics and intel.

Apart from activating the Black Snake Guards, the Military Intelligence Division was also in action. Their mission would be to gain details about the geography of Leizhou and the size of the armies of the various territories.

The two intel organizations both had their importance.

As the lord, Ouyang Shuo had to consider more things. He needed to plan for the future of Leizhou. When they set up the Leizhou Prefecture in the future, the position of governor was the biggest problem.

The territory temporarily did not have a passable civil servant that could take up this task. Out of all the prefects, only Wei Ran had the ability. Unfortunately, Shanhai City needed him.

Among the people in the departments, Fan Zhongyan could do the job, but he was also immovable. He had moved Tian Wenjing to Yashan City, so he needed Fan Zhongyan to steer the ship.

Not only that, Leizhou was located outside of the territory. How to manage it was also another problem.

All in all, this matter was highly complicated.

Ouyang Shuo had a headache thinking about this. The current civil servants that the territory possessed were really too little.

Everything would straighten itself out when the time came.

Ouyang Shuo could only console himself like that. However, this kind of mentality was not one that a lord should have.

In the afternoon, Ouyang Shuo called Fan Zhongyan for a talk.

He told Fan Zhongyan his plan of attacking Leizhou and Chiyou City, "Xiwen, from now on, you must choose civil servants that have the potential to take over Leizhou and Wuzhou."

When Fan Zhongyan heard these words, he was placed in a tough spot.

The building of Yashan City and Shenjuan City had taken away two batches of civil servants from him.

Even with the Xinan University, as well as the students from the colleges in each House, the basic-level officials could not handle the demands of two prefectures.

When he saw Fan Zhonguan's expression, Ouyang Shuo smiled, "Xiwen, you do not need to frown. The most important thing is to choose some young civil servants. As for the basic-level ones, we can choose from their local population."

When Fan Zhongyan heard this, his expression relaxed, "If that's so, I understand!"

Ouyang Shuo waved him off, "Ok then, go get busy!"

"Yes, my lord!"

After Fan Zhongyan left, Ouyang Shuo wrote a letter to Song Wen.

Tianshuang County was located in the Zhaoqing Region. As such, Ouyang Shuo hoped that when they passed through Zhaoqing, the Tianshuang County could provide some logistical support.

In order to thank them, the Shanhai army would stop over at Zhaoqing for a period of time to help them unite Zhaoqing. Whether or not they could grab the chance, it would depend on Song Wen's strength.

Other than this, the Leizhou Region also had some members of the Tianshuang Alliance, so Ouyang Shuo asked Song Wen to provide him with a list. Ouyang Shuo would let them off lightly if they were willing to surrender.

After finishing up all these matters, Ouyang Shuo could finally heave a sigh of relief.

All these plans pretty much set the stage for the Battle of Leizhou. Now, he needed the army to fight the war, while he was in charge of clearing away all the obstacles outside of the battlefield.

4th month, 28th day.

In the morning, Shanhai City welcomed a special guest—Jingjian from the Qin Country. He was the one that supported Wei Yang; his most important right-hand man.

When he heard that Wei Yang took up a role in Shanhai City, Jingjian purposely came over.

This was the influence of the high-level people. For example, Jiangshang's appearance had attracted Sun Wu, which then attracted Sun Bin.

As the one that pushed for legalism and one of the huge powers of the Qin Country, Wei Yang's influence could not be underestimated.

Among all of this, the title of Mighty Lord also had a hidden effect.

Jingjian was a lanky middle-aged man. Since he was a general, his body was very strong. He was a warm person. However, his heart was really tough, and he was a really good talent.

Ouyang Shuo personally welcomed him and temporarily housed him in the Lord's Manor.

Name: Jingjian (King Rank)

Dynasty: Warring States (Qin)

Identity: Shanhai City resident

Occupation: civil servant

Loyalty: 75

Command: 55

Force: 55

Intelligence: 55

Politics: 70

Specialty: Worthy Talent (Raises reputation of territory by 5%), concerned about the nation (raises efficiency by 20%)

Evaluation: The favored official under Duke of Qin. He once pushed and supported Wei Yang.

After looking at his stats, thoughts filled Ouyang Shuo's mind.

These all-round stats could be considered ordinary, and he did not have any real outstanding points. However, the hard to understand part was the lack of any obvious weaknesses. He could easily adapt to both military and administrative positions.

Since Jingjian came over because of Wei Yang. When arranging his position, Ouyang Shuo naturally had to consider this point. Fortunately, Ouyang Shuo had planned to make some changes to the Internal Affairs Department.

Coincidentally, the next day, Wei Yang returned to Shanhai City.

When he learned that Jingjian had come over, Wei Yang was exceptionally delighted. Before this, he had not kept in contact with the people from the Qin Country. He did not expect the moment he appeared in Shanhai City, his old friends would come along.

Old friends meeting was naturally a happy occasion.

When he saw Wei Yang's expression, Ouyang Shuo guessed that in Wei Yang's one month tour of Lianzhou, he had gained some new thoughts. When he returned and met his old friend, it was happiness upon happiness.

That evening, Ouyang Shuo held a feast to welcome the two.

During the feast, naturally Ouyang Shuo accompanied both of them.

Wei Yang was delighted. He talked a lot about what he saw and heard on his trip.

The foundations of Lianzhou Prefecture were a lot better than he had expected. Compared to the old Qin Country, it was a level higher.

Lianzhou, which he spent so much effort to run, was the life's work of Ouyang Shuo. Be it the standard of rule or the life of its residents, they were both above the passing mark.

Of course, it was not without its problems.

The aspect that left the greatest impression on Wei Yang was that as the income gap increased, the rich had started to grow more powerful. Furthermore, far away from the main camp, some bad things were brewing.

All of these matters were the job of the Internal Affairs Department.

As expected of Wei Yang, he could see the crux of the problem.

After the feast, Ouyang Shuo brought the two into his reading room and handed them their jobs.

Both of them were relatively happy with their jobs. Toward the adjustment to the structure of the Internal Affairs Department, Ouyang Shuo sought their opinions, and they were both happy with it.

4th month 30th day, Ouyang Shuo held an administrative meeting.

Before he started the meeting, he introduced Wei Yang and Jingjian to everyone. Both of them were famous figures. With a simple mention of their names, everyone knew them.

Especially Wei Yang, whose name was really famous.

Ouyang Shuo looked around, "Before we begin, I'll announce a few personnel changes."

The moment his words sounded out, the main hall fell into total silence.

"Tian Wenjing will be the new Yashan City Mayor. Wei Yang will replace him as director."

The first change was already shocking.

They did not expect Ouyang Shuo to change the director.

From director to mayor was a drop in a grade, but there was no emotion or change in Tian Wenjing's eyes. The smart officials could probably guess that within this matter was a great opportunity.

Tian Wenjing and Wei Yang both stepped out and accepted their appointments.

"Thank you lord, for your trust!"

Wei Yang stepped forward and bowed.

When Wei Yang appeared, Procuratorate Secretary Song Yin was delighted. Strictly speaking, he could be considered half a disciple of the legalism school of thought.

Ouyang Shuo continued, "The name of the Auditing Division will be changed to the Supervisory Division. Apart from the original duties, they will be in charge of supervising the officials and civil servants of each House and County."

Yet another huge bomb.

The new Supervisory Division, with its additional power and role, could definitely be considered among the top three.

"Auditing Secretary Qinsheng will be moved to the position of Secretary of Taxation. Original Secretary of Taxation Quan Lifei will become the Shanhai House Taxation Secretary."

The main hall remained totally silent.

Qian Lifei became the second person after Songsan to be demoted. At this point, his face was ashen white. The other secretaries were all highly anxious.

The message that the lord sent today was really obvious; there was no one that was safe. The able would be promoted, while you would be demoted if you did not have the ability.

Ouyang Shuo announcing these changes in appointment acted as a warning to all of them. Following these appointment changes, he said, "Jingjian will replace Qinsheng as the Supervisory Division Secretary."

"Thank you lord, for your trust!"

At this point, the new round of personnel appointments had come to an end.

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Chapter 383- Land of Legalism

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Although the administrative meeting ended, the aftermath lingered.

The reallocation of Tian Wenjing was like a layer of dense fog that no one could see through.

However, news that the lord wanted Tian Wenjing to manage Qiongzhou Island slowly spread. Only then did a light bulb light up in all of their heads. No wonder he was not dejected and instead looked pumped and excited.

A governor of an entire prefecture was comparable to a director. In the foreseeable future, governors would also be the highest level administrative personnels.

Qinsheng becoming the Taxation Secretary did not raise any questions or cause any waves. With his experience and ability in the Auditing Division, managing the Taxation Division would not be hard.

Qinsheng's reallocation actually benefited and helped to strengthen the Financial Department.

On the other hand, the appointment of Jingjian instantly raised the value of the secretaries in the Lord's Manor by several grades.

Not long after Zhao Kuo became the war secretary, a civil servant historical person finally become a secretary. As the territory continued to develop and expand, such a situation would become more and more common.

As a matter of course, this came with the instability of the other secretaries' positions.

The demotion of Qian Lifei shocked all the civil servants.

Previously, Songsan was demoted to deputy secretary, similar to dropping half a grade. Meanwhile, Qian Lifei went from a Lord's Manor secretary to a secretary of a House, a full grade lower.

If one also considered the organization of the prefecture, he would be considered to have dropped two grades.

No one knew the reason for his situation. They did not know why he was not liked and promoted by the lord. Even his boss Cui Yingyu was kept in the dark.

It was apparent that Ouyang Shuo had no intentions of explaining this.

After the administrative meeting, Tian Wenjing brought Wei Yang and Jingjian to take up the duties of the Internal Affairs Department. The next day, the lord would accompany him to Yashan City.

The moment Wei Yang officially took up the job, a notification sounded out in the China region.

"System Notification: Legalism representative figure Wei Yang has taken up a role in Shanhai City, managing internal affairs and accepting disciples. He also meets the three requirements of a school of thought moving in, legalism school of thought has officially moved into Shanhai City.""System Notification: Legalism school of thought has moved into Shanhai City, rewarded Land of Legalism title. Congratulations, player Qiyue Wuyi!"Legalism could be taught and spread in the Internal Affairs Department. Members of the department were believers in the school of thought. Naturally, since Wei Yang had taken up the role of director, legalism had officially moved into Shanhai City.

The moment the notification came out, the China region was sent into an uproar.

Last time, when the military strategists moved in, the players were already prepared for it. This time, it was just too sudden. No one expected that in such a short amount of time, the Lianzhou Lord could rope in Wei Yang.

"Legalism legend, Wei Yang, please accept my kneel!"

"I'm a legalism disciple. I'll follow Wei Yang wherever he goes!"

"Forming a team to go to Shanhai City, please register quickly!"Undoubtedly, the players mainly talked about Wei Yang.

Even Ouyang Shuo himself became a bystander.

With the legalism school of thought moving in, the philosopher debate quest that he started had finally taken its first step. He was now only six months away from the completion deadline.

It was such immense pressure just thinking about it!

Ouyang Shuo suppressed the worry in his heart and took a look at the stats of the title.

Land of Legalism: Civil servant's honesty increased by 25%, chance of civil servants breaking through bottlenecks increased by 10%, quality of civil servants increased by 15%, purifying the administrative environment by 20%.

As a huge school of thought comparable to the Philosophy of War, its stats were equally strong.

Ouyang Shuo nodded his head in pleasure; his hard work was worth it.

Thanks to the buff from the title, the quality of the civil servants in the territory received a huge upgrade. For the territory that would soon expand quickly, it was a huge saving grace.

5th month 1st day, Yashan City.

Ouyang Shuo and his group appeared at the Yashan City teleportation formation.

Outside of the it, secretary Bai Nanpu was respectfully waiting. As for Sun Xiaoyue, she would not purposely come over to welcome him. She was probably fooling around with Qing Sikou and Lin Jing.

With these three women at the same place, Yashan City had become more bustling than expected.

Ouyang Shuo walked out of the formation. When he saw Bai Nanpu, he patted his shoulder, "Great job, it has been tough on you!"

When Bai Nanpu heard these words, he felt really emotional, "To be able to work for the Lord, it is my honor!"

In truth, news about the administrative meeting yesterday had already spread to Yashan City. Bai Nanpu knew about the small earthquake of changes that had happened. The meaning was certainly different to gain recognition from the lord at such a time.

Ouyang Shuo nodded and turned toward Tian Wenjing, "This is Yashan City, how is it?"

Tian Wenjing smiled, "To say the truth, it is much better than I expected."

Since they built Yashan City, only two and a half months had passed.

Looking around, the inner city wall had already been built and work on the outer wall had already started. The planning of the inner city was roughly in place, and the city was managed and organized well.

The outer city was still in a mess, and there were construction sites everywhere.

Such a seen was enough for it to be worthy of 'Not bad.'

Tian Wenjing took a look at Bai Nanpu and said, "You are amazing!"

How would Bai Nanpu dare to accept such praise? He stuttered, "I do not dare to accept such glory. For Yashan City to have such a scale, it is all because of Sister Sun's planning. I only did some simple logistical work."

Tian Wenjing wanted to continue on, but Ouyang Shuo waved both of them off and said, "Let's talk in the Town Hall."

Strictly speaking, Yashan City belonged to Bing'er.

Hence, based on Ouyang Shuo's instructions, they built a town hall to act as the administrative work office outside of the Lord's Manor.

As for the Lord's Manor, Sun Xiaoyue temporarily lived in it.

As the Tiger Legion that moved into Yazhou, they had started to sweep out the aboriginals and the raiders. Firstly, to help eradicate the dangers, and secondly, to help raise Bing'er's rank.

After an extended period of time, the merit points accumulated raised Bing'er to rank 1 viscount. She was just a little away from rank 3 earl.

Hence, strictly speaking, Yashan City was still a grade 3 town. As such, it could only get seventy-five refugees everyday.

The next step was to help her reach rank 3 earl. This would allow the city upgrade to a grade 1 county. At that time, the city could have a daily refugee spawn rate of three hundred.

As for the raider's siege when the territory upgraded to county, there was nothing to fear with the presence of the Tiger Legion.

Town Hall, meeting room.

Bai Nanpu started to describe the construction situation in Yashan City. From the sides, Ouyang Shuo and Tian Wenjing listened on intently.

Firstly, the administrative structure. Based on the territory standards, Bai Nanpu had already built up the structure of the town hall with basically personnel taken from Shanhai City.

A portion of these people were also recruited from the refugees.

One must not forget that the village token of Yashan City was also gold rank. Occasionally, usable talents would spawn.

Toward the personnel arrangements of Yashan City, Ouyang Shuo would not interfere. He just left it up to Tian Wenjing.

Secondly, the construction projects.

The South Mountain Harbor had already been constructed and many merchant ships travelled to and fro between there and Beihai Harbor. After three batches of migrants, the sea route was basically set, and it was really safe.

Furthermore, the Beihai Bay Squadron 1st Division had been clearing out the pirates around Beihai Bay.

The future merchant trade routes would only get safer.

Some of the merchants from Quanzhou had already started to think about setting up trade routes from Quanzhou straight to South Mountain Harbor.

Of course, this was only a plan for the future. Currently, this region was littered with pirates. Without a navy, merchants would not dare to do such a thing.

The inner city construction of Yashan City was basically completed and only the outer city remained.

Based on the city organization, be it shops or workshops, they were all built in the business region in the outer city.

Hence, the outer city would be more bustling and exciting than the inner city.

Thirdly, industry planning.

Shili Beach's first stage of saltpans had already been reclaimed, and it had started to produce salt. Each month, it could produce eight thousand gold in profits, the largest till date for Yashan City.

Outside the city, many million mu of farmland had been reclaimed to plant crops. The planting of rice had already been completed, and they were growing nicely.

Things like the sugarcane garden, rubber plantations, carrot farms, tea garden, and the like, as well as pig styes intersected in the middle of the farmland. Overall, it created a really interesting scene.

Due to population restrictions, Thread and the Chamber of Commerces ran the farmlands and the gardens. Yashan City only collected land rent, agriculture tax, and business taxes from them.

The factor that attracted the Chamber of Commerces was not just the resources in Five Finger Mountain.

The various farms and gardens were also a huge treasure trove. The natural environment in Yashan was really too suitable for the planting of sugarcane, rubber, and the like.

Fourthly, the territory defences.

The Tiger Legion belonged to the wilderness fighting force. It was not housed inside Yashan City. Instead, they were situated five kilometers north of the city.

Obviously, in Sun Bin's eyes, the aboriginals in the north were the biggest threat to the territory.

In the city, due to population restrictions, they had only set up one city protection unit. Their main job was the daily patrol of the city and to solve internal disputes.

In contrast to Shanhai City, Yashan City was a complicated place with many players. Occasionally, there would be disputes and conflicts.

After hearing Bai Nanpu's report, Ouyang Shuo nodded his head. The development of Yashan City was far better than he had expected.

Tian Wenjing was really delighted. With such a base and infrastructure, he was a lot more confident in making Yashan City the second biggest city outside of Shanhai City.

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Chapter 384- Mountain Army

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At 10 AM, Ouyang Shuo ordered the officials in Yashan City to see him. He also announced the appointment of Tian Wenjing.

After Bai Nanpu completed the turnover, he would return to Shanhai City. Yashan City's training would become one of his greatest riches.

To show his support for Tian Wenjing, Ouyang Shuo did not move into the Town Hall. Instead, he stayed in the Lord's Manor. Although the town grade manor was shabby, it was still okay to stay in for a period of time.

Ouyang Shuo was not a person greedy for such enjoyments in life.

When he walked into the Lord's Manor, Sun Xiaoyue, Linjing, and Qing Sikou were all coincidentally there.

When she saw the four Guards behind Ouyang Shuo, Lin Jing teased, "Stupid brat, you're getting more and more powerful!"

When Ouyang Shuo heard these words, he could only keep silent. After all, she was his elder. Deep in his heart, he kind of enjoyed this teasing. As his position and power increased, there were very little people who would dare to treat him in such a manner.

It was cold when you were so high up.

When Qing Sikou saw their exchange, she felt that it was really interesting. The Lianzhou Lord that everyone looked at highly was just a little boy being mocked.

Ouyang Shuo asked the Guards to step down. Then, he sat opposite his little aunt, "Have you all passed through the South Mountain Cave yet?"

"Soon!"

Lin Jing frowned when she thought about this issue.

The exploration in these two weeks had really been an unforgettable experience. After all, the three guilds had taken turns. They were far different from the Blood Evil Mercenary Group, who had entered all by themselves.

Although two months had passed, they still had not fully explored the cave. However, from her words, the exploration had reached a crucial moment.

In a week, they would pass the cave if nothing went wrong.

Who would claim the riches was still unknown.

Although the three guilds were allies, in this exploration, they were competing against one another. Their exploration progress was kept a secret from one another.

He saw that her expression seemed really confident.

The reason why Ouyang Shuo paid attention to the exploration speed was because it concerned his plans.

He could officially open up to adventure gamemode players the moment they completed the exploration. The first batch of players would mainly be members of the three guilds. Apart from them, small teams would also be picked.

The Black Snake Guards and the Military Intelligence Division would set up an intel station here at the same time. This would strengthen their control over Yashan City and allow them to monitor every move in the city.

Ouyang Shuo turned and looked at Qing Sikou. He smiled and asked, "Guild leader Qing, are you okay here in Yazhou?"

After he had tried so hard to move Thread into Yazhou, this lord had come around one month later. It did not feel right.

Qing Sikou did not mind and nodded her head, "It's much better than I expected."

Thread had taken root in Yazhou. Using the resources that she had gathered in Jingdou, they had invested in numerous workshops and shops in Yashan City. Outside the city, they had also opened up four manors and two farms.

Their investments in Yashan City was even crazier than the Chamber of Commerces.

The ten thousand members left in Thread were not only loyal, but they were also intermediate rank and above. This just happened to nicely fill up the gap of talented individuals in Yashan City.

The current Thread was a power in Yashan City that could not be underestimated.

As for rare resources, they bought these from the elite groups or from the headquarters of the three guilds. As Yashan City started to grow more open to the public, rare resources would not be a problem anymore.

Thread was on the road to being reborn.

Even though she had talked to Ouyang Shuo before, Qing Sikou was still expressionless. This woman definitely would not reveal her thoughts and feelings to people easily.

Her coldness was a level higher than Bai Hua's.

Oddly enough, she actually became close friends with Sun Xiaoyue.

Sun Xiaoyue was not ready to move before Yashan City was built. Leading the construction of a city gave her a huge sense of achievement.

Naturally, Sun Xiaoyue would not speak any words of thanks toward him.

A tacit understanding had formed between the two of them.

In the afternoon, Ouyang Shuo headed for the Tiger Legion camp.

Since Yashan City had already gotten on the right path, in addition to Tian Wenjing taking charge, Ouyang Shuo would not interfere too much. The only thing that worried him was the clearing of the aboriginals.

For the minute details, he needed to discuss with Sun Bin face-to-face.

Sun Bin was a master of formations. He had built up the main base of the Tiger Legion with well with hidden formations. In the camp, apart from the troops that were sent out to clear the aboriginals, the remaining trained in the fields.

The whole army camp, apart from the sounds of training, lacked any other sound.

Sun Bin's strict rule was evident.

On the way to the commander's tent, Ouyang Shuo met a young soldier and nearly bumped into him.

The soldier was holding a sack of potatoes that weighed around fifty kilograms. It looked like he was about to feed the horses in the stables. He effortlessly carried the huge sack.

Maybe because he was in a rush, but he did not see Ouyang Shuo.

"Who dares to bump into the lord!"

The guard took out his blade and wanted to take down the soldier.

Ouyang Shuo raised his head. The soldier was only around seventeen to eighteen years old. His skin was slightly tan. He was really tall but exceptionally strong like a leopard.

He could feel the soldier's bloody scent and untamable spirit. This was really interesting; a small soldier actually had such an aura.

When he heard how the guard referred to Ouyang Shuo, the soldier was so nervous his heartbeat quickened.

However, this was not a result of fear, but a result of excitement.

As he had trained the Yellow Emperor Internal Cultivation Technique to the seventh layer, his senses had grown really sharp. He had captured the emotional changes to the soldier.

Really weird!

"Sorry lord, sorry lord!"

At this point, the soldier regained his senses and knelt on the ground. The words that came out of his mouth were not fluent. It was like he had just learned to speak them not long ago.

Ouyang Shuo frowned and stopped the guard, "Stand up!"

"Thank you lord; thank you lord!"

The soldier picked up the potatoes and quickly left.

The guard walked up and said softly, "This person is a little unusual."

Ouyang Shuo nodded, "Contact the Black Snake Guards to investigate. Remember, do not alert him."

"Yes, my lord!"

After this small interruption, Ouyang Shuo finally arrived at the commander tent.

"Lord!" Sun Bin sat on his wheelchair and greeted Ouyang Shuo.

Ouyang Shuo nodded and sat down, "Talk about the situation regarding the aboriginals!"

Qiongzhou had two big groups. One was the desolate beasts, and the other was the Li Race Aboriginals. Especially in the Yazhou Region, the Li Race tribes were scattered everywhere.

The arrival of the Tiger Legion naturally alerted all these tribes.

In the beginning, the tribes retaliated. Unfortunately, in front of an elite army, the aboriginals still using wooden spears could not compare. Furthermore, they fought on plains, so they were badly defeated.

When the aboriginals saw that things were not going well, they backed off into the Five Finger Mountains.

The deep mountains and forests were their real home. Even Sun Bin did not dare venture in carelessly.

The war situation had entered a stalemate just like this.

Luckily, the plains region was enough to let Yashan City gain a foothold.

Hence, Sun Bin's strategy had changed. The current mission of the Tiger Legion was to clear out the beasts and desolate beasts on the plains. They also had to train their forces.

Of course, to the aboriginals that retreated into the Five Finger Mountains, Sun Bin did not give up and sent out spies to investigate, preparing them for future military operations.

The Li Race were really the king of the forests and mountains. Even the well-trained spies from the Black Snake Guards got lost in the mountains or fell into traps.

There were more than thirty spies that were sacrificed in the Five Finger Mountains.

Based on the military organization, one division only had one scouting squadron. All the spies in the legion added together were only two hundred men.

These sacrifices could not be considered small.

The Five Finger Mountain was about to become a forbidden region.

Luckily, when Sun Bin saw one plan failed, he made another.

On the grassland fields, the Tiger Legion had already destroyed ten Li Race tribes and captured thirty thousand of their people.

80% and above of the prisoners were sent to work in the various farms and gardens. The remaining 10% and above, around five thousand people, were all young and strong men. They were chosen to enter the army.

Sun Bin's strategy was to train the Li Race teens into a strong mountain region army. He was ready to use the Li Race warriors to fight against other Li Race members.

One had to say that this plan was really bold.

If Ouyang Shuo had not given Sun Bin the power to make decisions before he left, Sun Bin would not have dared to do this. One must know that in normal circumstances, the Military Affairs Department must raise the idea and Ouyang Shuo must approve it for one to organize and expand the military.

Ouyang Shuo only decided to give him such power because Qiongzhou Island was located out in the ocean, and Sun Bin was also a god rank genera.

To make the Li Race teens submit was not an easy task. Training a loyal force was also a tough matter.

Since Sun Bin was so confident, Ouyang Shuo was also looking forward to it.

Ouyang Shuo suddenly thought of the soldier that he had met, Don't tell me that he was a Li Race teen?

Just at that moment, the Guard that left walked into the tent, "Lord, that soldier's identity has been identified. He's a newly recruited Li Race teen."

As he had expected.

Toward the doubt on Sun Bin's face, Ouyang Shuo explained in simple terms what had just happened.

"The lord's meaning is that the fellow's identity is not so simple?"

Sun Bin was a really smart person, from Ouyang Shuo's words and actions, he could roughly guess everything. With the power and rank of the lord, if it was just a normal soldier, he would not have made such a big fuss.

"Let's just wait and see!" Ouyang Shuo turned toward the guard, "General Sun will be in charge of the investigations."

These things could not be considered difficult for Sun Bin.

"Yes, my lord!"

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Chapter 385-Good Fortune

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Ouyang Shuo left the barracks and returned to Yashan City.

That night, he held a banquet in the Lord's Manor to welcome the various power representatives in the city. These people included the team leaders from the three guild's elite forces as well as high-level players from Thread, some of the heads of the Chamber of Commerces, and even the leaders of the Li Race tribes that surrendered.

Apart from that, there were also the civil servants that Tian Wenjing led and the generals Sun Bin headed.

Ouyang Shuo took this banquet as an opportunity to push Tian Wenjing to the forefront.

Most importantly, through the banquet, Ouyang Shuo sent out a clear signal that Yashan City would continue to focus on becoming an open society where everyone could coexist.

Before this, Bai Nanpu had managed Yashan City, and he did not even have a title.

The various powers were worried about the future of Yashan City.

The lord personally coming out and making things clear at this moment instantly gained the welcome of everyone.

Ouyang Shuo was the absolute star of the banquet.

The various powers came forward to drink with him to strengthen their friendship. Ouyang Shuo was already accustomed to toward such occasions. His smile was really natural, as he enjoyed the night.

The next day, Ouyang Shuo was involved in many opening ceremonies and feasts.

After they received the message from the Lianzhou Lord, the Chamber of Commerces naturally were happy. They came forward to invite him to attend their shop opening ceremonies.

Even the shops that were opened before reopened with a grand ceremony.

Under the persuasion of the other members, even the cold Qing Sikou had to personally come out and invite Ouyang Shuo to attend the opening ceremony of Thread's largest overall store, Yi Pin Xuan.

The members of Thread worshipped Ouyang Shuo. The occurrences at Jingdu square were unforgettable.

Needless to say, Star Alliance had recently been embroiled in a tough battle. They were not as strong as before. All of this happened because the Lianzhou Lord was taking revenge for them.

The Thread members were mostly girls. During the opening ceremony, all of them surrounded Ouyang Shuo.

The girls simply went to war. They pulled him over for autographs and pictures, while some of the bolder ones even hugged and kissed him.

It was simply too terrifying when girls went crazy.

Players all had selfie functions. Ouyang Shuo did not dare to think about what Song Jia would think when these photos were placed on the forums.

He begged for Qing Sikou's help, but she just stood at the side and watched on.

In the end, he barely managed to escape under the protection of his Guards.

"Wah, Brother Wuyi is so handsome!"

"Yeah, even when escaping, he's so handsome. I really love him!"

When Ouyang Shuo heard these words, he ran even faster.In the day, he attended the opening ceremonies. At night, the Chamber of Commerces invited them to their mansions for feasts. The feasts were incredibly grand and even better than the one at the Lord's Manor.

Seafood and delicacies, wine and great food, all of these were just the surface. The various performances were the part they put a lot of effort into.

Merchants liked to compete to see who was better.

Some performed dances, and some were more creative; they came in all types. Some even asked for help from their main base to teleport some famous songstresses.

Ouyang Shuo welcomed all of this.

He was determined to go all the way in terms of bonding with his people.

When they saw the delight of the Lianzhou Lord, some of the Chamber of Commerces grew even bolder. For example, a middle-sized Chamber of Commerce from Quanzhou arranged a beauty to take care of Ouyang Shuo.

It would be a lie to say that the beauty before him did not tempt Ouyang Shuo. He was also a virgin, so how could he resist such a temptation?

However, the moment he thought about the female tiger at home, his desires were extinguished, and he declined their good intentions.

Ouyang Shuo could not fall asleep that night.

The next day, when Sun Xiaoyue heard about this matter from one of the guards, she directly rejected that Chamber of Commerce's application for land.

When that Chamber of Commerce learned this news, they were in tears.

In the future, no other Chamber of Commerce would do such a thing.

Amidst all the festivities, five days passed.

Based on Ouyang Shuo's plan, he would stay a week or so in Yashan City before he headed back.

Leizhou, Chiyou City, Taiping Country….

In the upcoming time, Shanhai City would face foe after foe. He could not feel at ease if he left the main camp for long periods of time.

Unexpectedly, he received a message from Song Jia.

After three odd months, her training had come to an end, and she was on the way back. Not only that, she had actually completed the secret quest.

One had to say that nothing could stop you when luck knocks on the door.

Legends had it that Ahli and Wumai had five children. They were said to have lived a hard life, farming half a mu of land.

One night, Ahli dreamed of a white-haired saint, who told him about a treasure hoe and a treasure sword.

The next day, their whole family went to work, and they really found these two treasures. They used the sword to cut trees and the hoe to farm. As a result, their lives grew better.

Many years later, Ahli died. The children followed their mother's wishes and buried the treasure sword along with their father.

A scum known as Yawei spread the news to pirates. The pirates gathered hundreds of people to the place. They even killed Wumai and captured the five children.

Yawei placed all of them in chains and tortured them to reveal the location of the treasure. However, none of them revealed the location, and they were all killed.

Their bravery touched all the animals in the region. The beasts united and killed Yawei and the pirates.

The animals shifted large quantities of rocks and mud to make five high graves to bury them. These five burial mountains looked like five fingers pointing upward, hence they were called Five Finger Mountains.

On New Year's Eve, Song Jia entered Ahli's house. However, this time, he had not passed away.

She has not triggered the mission. Naturally, she would not know how special this family she lived with was. She just treated them as a temporarily layover.

After training for a period, she would return to the house to rest.

Just a week ago, Ahli suddenly passed away.

With this, the quest activated. If she had left a step earlier, she would have probably missed this great opportunity.

Next, the events that happened to Wu Mingzhi in Ouyang Shuo's last life basically happened to her.

She made use of her martial arts to destroy the pirates. After she chased them away, to thank her, the family gave her the treasure sword.

Based on Song Jia's words, she also found two treasures on the bodies of the pirates.

As for what these treasures were exactly, Song Jia refused to tell him.

Ouyang Shuo decided to just stay in Yashan City until she returned.

5th month 8th day, Song Jia returned.

When she left, it was the start of autumn. Back then, the city was not even built. When she returned, it was already summer.

After training in the Five Finger Mountains, her aura had totally changed. She seemed like a sharp sword that inspired fear.

A swordsman of a generation had officially stepped foot into the underworld.

Ouyang Shuo also noticed that the sword by her waist had changed. The Qingfeng sword from before was changed to the treasure sword.

Since they had just met, Ouyang Shuo did not want to ask about the treasure sword.

Since they had not seen one another for so long, they got close, and no one dared to disturb them.

She looked at Ouyang Shuo, "Wuyi, the forums say that there is a playboy. Do you know who he is?"

When Ouyang Shuo heard these words, he froze. As he had expected, the photos from the Thread opening ceremony were posted online.

A group of girls surrounding him was really shocking.

As a result of this event, the Brother Wuyi Fan Club even started a war with Thread on the forums. Thread was not good at fighting. However, in terms of arguing, they were still pretty good.

Both of them went at each other and fought unhappily.

Since Ouyang Shuo's reputation was too big, this event naturally spread across the entire China region.

In the end, even if Song Jia did not want to pay attention to it, she could not.

As the person in the picture, Ouyang Shuo could only keep silent.

He also knew that those girls did not have any bad intentions. They were just little girls playing around.

If Ouyang Shuo came out and tried to clear things up on the forums, he would be just asking for it.

"Jiajia, let me explain!"

Just as he was about to speak, Song Jia suddenly raised her index finger and shushed him, "Dummy, I'm just kidding. Do you think that I don't trust you?"Ouyang Shuo was speechless; she had teased him once again.

When she saw his stunned expression, Song Jia burst out laughing.

"You actually dare to tease me. Watch how I teach you a lesson!"

Ouyang Shuo charged toward Song Jia.

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Chapter 386- Navy General

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Ouyang Shuo leapt toward Song Jia, hugging and tickling her.

Song Jia feared tickles the most. She immediately begged, "Haha, Wuyi, I'm wrong, haha, I won't dare anymore."

"Call me husband!"

"Husband, haha, I really don't dare anymore."

After fooling around, their clothes were really unkempt.

The next day, Song Jia showed Ouyang Shuo her gains from the trip.

Firstly, the reward from the hidden quest, one of the top ten famous swords—Chunjun Sword.

Name: Chunjun Sword (God Weapon)

Hardness: 87

Sharpness: 85

Toughness: 84

Specialty: Blade Breaker (May break opposing weapon if hardness is lower than the Chunjun Sword. Unique, cannot be dropped, cannot be traded).

Killing Technique: Water Hibiscus (releases sword energy. Like the light from the stars, formless and unavoidable). Cooldown time: one week.

Evaluation: Chunjun Sword is a unique sword. It has an appearance like a shining star. When looking at it in the light, it seems like water in a pond. The sword is crafted from tin from the mountains, copper from the lakes, thunder from the heavens, and coal that the gods used. It is truly a heavenly sight.

Next, the spirit beast, a Golden Spotted Butterfly that Song Jia caught on the mountain. In order to capture this spirit butterfly that she called Little Gold, Song Jia had stood in the bushes for five days and five nights.

If she did not have the military grains pills supporting her, she definitely would not have survived.

Name: Golden Spotted Butterfly (Spirit Beast)

Level: 68

Specialty: Illusion (can instantly place the enemy into an illusion that lasts for thirty seconds). Cure (stops blood loss and helps to regain strength and energy).

Combat power: 120

Evaluation: The Golden Spotted Butterfly is exquisite and beautiful. The queen of butterflies. Its wings shine with a green light, and it has curved golden green spots on its front. On its back, it has a few golden yellow spots. Its back wings are shaped in a long and sharp manner with a golden speck at the end.

Armed with the Chunjun Sword and the Golden Spotted Butterfly, Song Jia could enter the top 10 among adventure gamemode players. In addition to her Nine Yin Cultivation Technique and her Yuenu Sword Technique, top three was not a dream.

In the hands of NPC disciples like Cui Tianqi, the Nine Yin Cultivation Technique was only based on how well they trained. However, in her hands, it had layers like the Yellow Emperor Internal Cultivation Techniques.

In contrast to the Nine Yin Cultivation Technique of the legends, the one that Gaia created was only an internal cultivation technique. It did not record other martial techniques.

It had nine layers. After tiring cultivation, Song Jia had reached the 5th layer. As for the Yuenu Sword Technique, she had reached the 4th stage—perform with ease.

For Song Jia to have her achievements of today, apart from her talent, focus and diligence were the key. Not many adventure gamemode player could dive deep into the mountains and forests and spend three months there.

The current Song Jia had the style of a sect leader.

After she learned that Lin Yue had chosen to join the Dongli Sword Sect, Song Jia felt elated. She was raring to go back immediately. As for the disciples that were training in the Five Finger Mountains, she did not want to disturb them.

If one does not experience rain, how will there be a rainbow?

Before she left, Song Jia gave Ouyang Shuo the two items she obtained from the bodies of the pirates.

Two items: one map, one token.

Beihai Bay Treasure map (3): Beihai Bay has given birth to a very famous pirate, who people called Blood Slaughterer. After he died, all his riches disappeared. Prior to his death, he buried his treasures in a forsaken island and drew a map. He split it into three and passed a section to each of his three most trusted generals.

That was interesting. It was actually this map.

Ouyang Shuo had obtained the first map when they attacked Yue'er island. With that, they only lacked the second map. Then, he could search for the treasure.

Now, this mysterious treasure really tempted Ouyang Shuo.

Of course, to obtain the last part of the map, he needed fate and a lot of luck.

Just like how Song Jia had obtained the third piece of the map. Who would have expected an ordinary pirate to hold it?

The token was a summoning token—an item that all lords dreamed of.

This was a king rank summoning token. Who knows what talent he could summon with it?

Ouyang Shuo did not mind who it was. If it was a civil servant, he had a use for all of them. If it was a general, Ouyang Shuo wished to summon a navy general.

After sending Song Jia off, Ouyang Shuo could not wait any longer. He tore the token, only to see a white light shine across. An average looking middle-aged general was summoned.

"System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi, recruiting king rank historical person, Cai Mao. Rewarded reputation points 100, congratulations!"

When the middle-aged general saw Ouyang Shuo, he kneeled on the ground and solemnly said, "General's name is Cai Mao. Greetings, lord!"

Wow, he actually summoned a navy general.

Although Cai Mao was not so famous, he was actually a pretty strong navy general during the Three Kingdoms Era. Especially in terms of training the navy, even Zhou Yu feared him.

"General, please rise!"

Ouyang Shuo walked toward Cai Mao and helped him up.

Name: Cai Mao (King Rank)

Dynasty: Three Kingdoms

Identity: Yashan City General

Occupation: Advanced General

Loyalty: 75

Command: 80

Force: 75

Intelligence: 50

Politics: 45

Specialty: Wave treading (movement speed on water increases by 10%), water combat (raise sailor's combat power by 15%), navy training (efficiency of training increased by 25%)

Cultivation Technique: Nil

Equipment: Han Sword

Song Jia was really Ouyang Shuo's lucky start.

Since he had summoned Cai Mao, he could start the construction of Yashan City's navy construction.

Ouyang Shuo had no choice but to stay in Yashan City longer because of this small accident.

On the same day, he pulled Cai Mao along and had a long conversation with him regarding the construction of the navy.

The next day, Military Affairs DIrector Du Ruhui teleported over for a discussion.

Based on the original Nanyang Navy organization, the future Yashan City would have a Yashan Squadron. As such, Cai Mao had arrived at just the right time.

Ouyang Shuo immediately decided to name him the Chief General of the 1st division of the Yashan Navy Squadron.

The Beihai Shipyard built all the warships of the navy. Pei Donglai had also trained a batch of sailors. As a result, they just needed to let the sailors sail toward South Mountain Harbor to finish the process.

Cai Mao needed to recruit real navy soldiers and train them into an army.

Cai Mao appeared very confident about the mission the lord had handed him. That was to be expected. After all, training a navy was not anything difficult with his experience.

In the future, when Yashan City had created its 1st division, Qiongzhou Island would become a step safer. The navy could also sail deeper into the seas and eradicate various pirate organizations.

All in all, the addition of Cai Mao was equivalent to obtaining a squadron.

Shanhai City had finally obtained a decent navy general.

After dealing with the Yashan Squadron, two days had already passed. Just as Ouyang Shuo was about to return, a system notification sounded out in his ear, which stopped him in his tracks.

"System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi, Nian Beast Little Green has trained well in the Spirit Beast Hall. It has automatically become the protector of Yashan Town, player awarded 500 reputation points!"

"System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi, descendant of the Wolf God, Little White, has trained well in the Spirit Beast Hall. It has automatically become the protector of Yashan Town, player awarded 500 reputation points!"

That was unexpected. The two had actually become protector beasts of the territory.

The mysterious Spirit Beast Hall was really something one could not grasp. Just a short while had passed, but the two of them had broken through.

Ouyang Shuo did not care about this. He simply went and checked their stats.

Name: Little Green (Spirit Beast)

Home: Yashan Town protector beast

Level: 45

Skill: Slayer (raises fury stat by 85%), Charge (raises combat power by 70%)

Combat Power: 100

Specialty: Deterrence (Raises territory safety by 25%), protector (raises territory defence by 15%)

Cultivation Method: Black Qilin Seven Purgatory Technique

Evaluation: Fierce beast of olden legends; the descendant of the fierce dragon and the black qilin. As a protector beast, its qilin blood can be stimulated, and it can evolve.

Compared to its parents, little green's stats were better. Most crucially, it also had a cultivation method, which showed its potential.

The name of the cultivation method also raised many thoughts and ideas in his mind.

Did this mean that if Little Green trained this technique, it had a chance to become a real Qilin God Beast?

Name: Little White (Spirit Beast)

Home: Yashan Town protector beast

Level: 40

Skill: Telepathy (can communicate with all wolf-type beasts), Charm (Charms enemies with its appearance)

Combat Power: 85

Specialty: Deterrence (Raises territory safety by 25%), Protector (raises territory defence by 15%)

Cultivation Method: Wolf God Manual

Evaluation: Legends have it that the white wolf was royalty in the wolf tribe, and the descendant of the Wolf God. It has a high position among all wolves; they all worship it.

Compared to Little Green, the stats of Little White were even more insane. This little fellow really had a mysterious past. Its potential was even higher than Little Green, who could become a qilin.

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Chapter 387- The Situation in Leizhou

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5th month 12th day, Ouyang Shuo returned to Shanhai City.

After Little Green and Little White became protector beasts, they were all the more unwilling to leave the Spirit Beast Hall. Ouyang Shuo went to take a look at both of them and Xue'er before returning to Shanhai City.

Ouyang Shuo looked forward to the future achievements of these three.

The moment he returned, Ouyang Shuo called for Du Ruhui, Zhao Kuo, and Cobra. Half a month had passed since he asked them to come up with a plan, so Ouyang Shuo felt that they should have made some new progress.

Cobra was the first to report, "The Leizhou Region is of similar size to the Lianzhou Basin. There are twenty-seven territories, twenty-two grade 2 counties, and five grade 3 counties. There are no grade 1 counties."

When Ouyang Shuo heard this information, he nodded his head.

If he took down Leizhou, not including Qiongzhou Island, his territory would double in area.

Six months had passed since the Battle of Changping.

Even if no new battle map showed, the ranks of the lords would rise from killing raiders and bandits. Most had basically reached rank 2 earl and above.

With this conjecture, the ranks of Di Chen and the others should not be far from rank 3 Marquis.

Ouyang Shuo remembered that the fourth battle map in his last life activated with the birth of the fifth prefecture. The current China region already had three prefectures. As long as two more from the Yanhuang Alliance ranked up to Marquis and upgraded, they were really close to the fourth battle.

The prefecture quests were nothing to the big powers.

Cobra paused before he continued, "The territories in Leizhou have pretty much all hit their upper limit, which means that a grade 2 County has two regiments of around five thousand. The five grade 3 counties all have a city protection regiment. The entire Leizhou region has around 180 thousand troops. If we add the subsidiary territories, to be safe, we can say there are around two hundred thousand troops."

Two hundred thousand men. If they all grouped up together, it was enough to destroy the Dragon Legion.

Luckily, the situation had not escalated to such a bad state.

Song Wen had already replied Ouyang Shuo. Eight territories in Leizhou had joined the Tianshuang Alliance, all grade 2 counties.

As for these territories, when they saw that his army had gained the advantage, Ouyang Shuo believed that they would know what to do.

Black Mamba reported that they had completed their infiltration of five territories.

With that, it was the same as nullifying a third of the enemy.

Even so, based solely on the Dragon Legion's 2nd division and the Guards division, it was hard to smoothly take down Leizhou, not to mention the casualties.

Ouyang Shuo was confident that under the buffs of the territory, thanks to their elite equipment and overpowered generals, Shanhai army could take on three times their number.

If one considered Baiqi, Shanhai City Army could go one against four. More would be a huge test.

Furthermore, considering that the Battle of Leizhou would mainly consist of sieging, it was even more difficult. Hence, conservatively speaking, he needed to throw in another one or two divisions to successfully take down Leizhou.

Out of the four divisions of the Dragon Legion, the 1st division needed to go past the hundred thousand mountains, and the 3rd needed to guard Mulan Stronghold. As such, only Mu Guiying's 4th division could move.

Moving them would involve a certain amount of risk.

The moment he used the 4th division, in addition to the Guards division taking part in the attack, the entire Shanhai City defence would lie in the hands of the city protection division. Without any reserve forces, this was a very dangerous prospect.

Ouyang Shuo thought about it and decided to keep the three thousand palace Guards in Shanhai City. Although he did not feel that the Yanhuang Alliance would choose to attack at this point, he still had to defend his territory.

Playing safe was always the best virtue.

At the same time, the Dragon Legion 1st division would push back the time that they would cross the hundred thousand mountains. They would temporarily camp in Tianfeng House, near the hundred thousand mountains.

When the situation in Leizhou stabilized, Shi Wanshui would lead them on a long and arduous journey to deal the killing blow to Chiyou City.

With that, the city had the city protection division and the palace Guards, while on the outside, they had the 1st and 3rd divisions defending. There should be no problems.

Even if Yanhuang Alliance tried to attack, they could not take down Shanhai City.

Moving the 4th division was only to equal the numbers.

Ouyang Shuo's goal was to quickly take over the entire Leizhou. Hence, the best method was to throw in another division.

Once he thought about this, Ouyang Shuo raised his head and looked at Du Ruhui, "Send orders to the Tiger Legion, order the 1st division to prepare to enter the Leizhou battlefield. The 2nd division will prepare to defend Shanhai City at any moment."

"Yes, my lord!" Du Ruhui nodded.

"Leizhou is near the ocean, so there might be sailors. During the Battle of Leizhou, the Beihai Bay Squadron's 1st division will join in to monitor the ocean situation."

Although they could not help with the sieging, they could act as a great special surprise force. Counting in the sailors, Shanhai City would send seventy thousand troops to this battle.

Shanhai City was destined to stun the world once again.

After the military meeting ended, the war machine which was Shanhai City started to turn.

The 2nd and 3rd divisions of the Dragon Legion left their camps and did not gather in Shanhai City. Instead, they boarded ships disguised as merchant ships along the Friendship and Qiushui rivers. From there, they went down the stream to Beihai Harbor.

The Guards division made use of the darkness to leave the city and rush to Beihai Harbor.

As Beihai City developed, they had built a commercial harbor at the other side of the territory. The merchant ships could not come close to Beihai Harbor. As it was a military harbor.

The 1st division of the Tiger Legion would board warships from the South Mountain Harbor and head straight to Leizhou.

The warships prepared for the Yashan Squadron had already left from Beihai Harbor. After they received supplies in South Mountain Harbor, they would send the 1st division toward Leizhou.

Just like this, before anyone knew anything, Shanhai City had gathered all their men and resources.

The navy would play a large and important role in the upcoming battle.

The entire Beihai Bay was the territory of the Shanhai City navy. Here, they could do whatever they wanted.

His plans for becoming the overlords of the sea were finally coming into fruition.

Since the army they moved was too huge, the Beihai Bay Squadron 1st division could only send one division at a time. Hence, they needed to build a sentry base in Leizhou.

Luckily between Leizhou and Lianzhou, the shortest route was only a day, while the longest route was four to five days.

Although they were both besides the ocean, Leizhou was very different from Lianzhou Basin. Lianzhou Basin only had one ocean entrance, and it had a limited shoreline.

Leizhou was like a carrot; a huge half or it laid in the ocean. In terms of geography, it was east and west small, while north and south long.

Based on this strategic geography, Baiqi decided to split the troops into three and attack together.

The north would be the 4th division of the Dragon Legion that Mu Guiying led, while the middle was the Guards division that Lin Yi led. Baiqi would follow them and act as the commander. The south was the 1st division of the Tiger legion that Fan Lihua led.

Lastly, the 2nd division of the Dragon Legion that Luo Shixin led. It was the only cavalry division. It used its huge mobility to act as backup.

Baiqi planned to sweep up a huge half of Leizhou before anyone could react.

If not, once the twenty-seven territories worked together, it would be a huge problem.

For this battle, Ouyang Shuo had no choice but to break the alliance rules; he bought one thousand trebuchets from Consonance City.

Mu Guying and Fan Lihua both took three hundred, while the Guards division took four hundred.

Ouyang Shuo had basically swept up three to four months of Consonance City's trebuchet production.

Apart from the trebuchets, Ouyang Shuo also bought a hundred siege chariots and five hundred siege towers. In addition to the thousands of scaling ladders that Shanhai City made, this would totally change the face of the Battle of Leizhou.

Buying this set of siege weapons alone had used up 35 thousand gold.

Toward Ouyang Shuo's actions, as the military coordinator and contacter, Zi Luolan grumbled a lot.

As for why he bought so many at once, although his allies were curious, they did not ask. Even Zi Luolan just randomly sprouted words and did not mean it.

Toward the understanding from his allies, Ouyang Shuo naturally felt very thankful to them. The Battle of Leizhou was a battle that Shnahai City could not afford to lose. He had to be careful.

Apart from siege weapons, Ouyang Shuo also bought a huge amount of grain from the various Chamber of Commerces.

When the troops gained a footing in Leizhou, the various merchant ships would transport millions of units of grain to Leizhou.

It was the same as saying that the Chamber of Commerces would help to solve half of the grain transport problem.

Once the grain was transported to Leizhou, how it was transported internally would depend on Shanhai City. For this, the Combat Logistics Department arranged fifty prisoners to enter Leizhou.

Fortunately, the spring sowing season had just ended. Otherwise, it would be difficult to amass such a huge prisoner force.

One must know that the construction projects in Lianzhou Prefecture had never stopped, and the demand for labour was terrifying.

Based on rough calculations, solely on the logistics, Shanhai City had spent sixty thousand gold. As a result, they had used up the fifty thousand that Ouyang Shuo had saved up in his storage bag.

This amount did not consider the costs of the military workshops and factories. If those were considered, the sum would easily pass a hundred thousand.

If not, why would one say that war was based on one's economic ability.

After a huge war, if one could not achieve their goal, it was enough to cause the economy of a territory to collapse.

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Chapter 388- Cool Vanguard

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They needed to make an outpost. At the same time, they needed a place to act as the logistics base of the army. Hence, the first goal of the army was the grade 3 counties.

The target of the north troops was the grade 3 County, Hengshan County. It laid on the north-west side of Leizhou. The target of the middle troops was Leishan County, which sat in the middle of Leizhou. The south troops target was Hai An County, which stood at the southmost point.

With that, out of the five grade 3 counties, three were removed. They had taken out the hard bones of Leizhou.

Most importantly, these three counties were located at the border of Leizhou. After the army landed, they did not need to make any detours. They could just launch their attack. If not, Baiqi would have rather chosen to attack a grade 2 county.

A lone army behind enemy lines was what a military strategist worried the most about.

As the plan was set, the troops set out.

5th month, 15th day, the Guards division acted as the vanguard force and attacked first.

As the overall commander, Baiqi set out together with the Guards division. Ouyang Shuo, on the other hand, returned to Shanhai City after sending the troops off at Beihai Harbor.

As a lord, he also had his responsibilities.

At the current moment, the most important matter was for him to manage Shanhai City. With him there, he could calm the masses, and others would not dare to make any moves.

Beihai Harbor was still a certain distance away from the middle of Leizhou.

5th month, 18th day, the Beihai Bay Squadron 1st division reached their destination. They stopped in a place known as Motu Harbor Bay. Nearby, apart from a small fishing village, there were no military personnel present.

One week earlier, the Black Snake Guards had investigated this small fishing village with three hundred to four hundred people. The village consisted entirely of NPC villagers, and there were not any players.

To prevent adventure gamemode players from accidentally entering the fishing village, the Quanzhou intel station even arranged a snake guard to standby. Hence, the squadron could come to shore at ease.

To dock an olden warship was not as simple as finding a spot. These warships needed a harbor or a bay. If not, there was a chance for the ship to be stranded, especially in the case of huge warships like the turreted ship.

After the divisions docked, the Guards division followed and sneaked ashore.

Apart from the army, they also needed to unload the siege weapons and logistic supplies.

They got busy all the way till noon before they completed this task. At this time, the division returned. Now, they were in charge of sending Mu Guiying's 4th division toward the second destination in the north of Leizhou.

At the three landing points, the Black Snake Guards made specific arrangements.

Black Mamba had given an order for them to show the value of the Black Snake Guards during the Battle of Leizhou.

After the army gathered up, they prepared themselves for a day in the fishing village. For many of the soldiers, this was the first they had traveled on a boat. It was unavoidable that they would feel uncomfortable and could not directly head to battle.

Appear from that, there were the war horses that were transported along with the troops.

Compared to soldiers, the Qingfu horses were much more valuable, and they needed a good rest.

As the big army rested, a group of people could not. They were the patrol squadron of the division.

Under the leadership of their captain, all the patrol members walked toward Leishan County.

Their mission, apart from confirming a correct route, was to clear obstacles along the road.

After all, the Military Intelligence Division had only spent half a month in Leizhou, so they could only investigate the rough geography of the area. For the specific geography of a region, the various divisions had to depend on themselves.

The first day of the Battle of Leizhou passed peacefully.

Fifty kilometers away, Leishan County did not even know that a huge army had snuck under their noses.

Early morning of the next day, the army had rested for a day and a night. They were fully energized.

The real war was about to start.

In the wee hours of the morning, the moment they formed up, they did not waste anymore time. They rode on their Qingfu horses and rushed toward Leishan County.

At this time, any further delays would mean a chance of being exposed.

The most difficult part was the transportation of siege weapons.

Although these weapons were really amazing, they were a pain to transport.

Baiqi made the decision to leave two units to take charge of the transportation, while the main force rushed forward.

The morning air of Leizhou was foggy and really humid.

The Guards division made use of the dim light and the cover of the fog. Like a spectre, they swiftly proceeded under the leadership of the scouts.

Baiqi never used his troops in an orthodox manner.

The way he saw it, to attack the enemy so that they could not react, he needed to send a vanguard forward to take down the city gate. This would allow him to prevent a siege battle.

If the entire army charged forward, the sounds of the rumbling hooves would be enough to shock the enemy. Hence, the vanguard force had to be a small group, ideally a unit.

With the strength of a unit, it seemed impossible to take down the city gate of a grade 3 county even if they sneak attacked.

The chips in Baiqi's hands were the unstoppable elite of the Guards division. These soldiers were war elite soldiers chosen from each division. Each individual could take on five times their number.

Baiqi was highly confident in them.

After Baiqi spoke of his plan, Lin Yi volunteered to lead the charge.

"Commander, I'm willing!"

When Baiqi heard his words, he decided right away, "Okay, you will lead the personal Guards unit to act as the vanguard. The 1st regiment will be the frontline and follow closely behind. I'll lead the rest."

The personal Guards unit, the most elite unit in the Guards division. No other unit was more suitable to act as the vanguard.

Lin Yi was also a really strong general.

The combination of the two made Baiqi really confident.

"Thank you, commander!"

Lin Yi bowed and leaped onto his horse. He led the personal Guards unit, breaking away from the main force and charging quickly ahead.

Closely behind them was the 1st regiment. Their duty was to ensure that after the vanguard unit took down the city gates, they could reinforce them.

If not, everything would be wasted.

Under the command of Baiqi, the huge army was like cogs in a machine, relying on and helping out one another.

At 9 AM, the personal guards unit led by Lin Yi rained down on the city gates. They were like soldiers from the heavens; the enemy did not even have time to react.

The city protection forces even thought that they were their men who were returning from patrol.

When they were less than five hundred meters away, the city protection force saw the shiny Mingguang Armor. Finally, they realized that the enemy was attacking.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" The guard shouted.

The originally peaceful city gate instantly grew busy. The commoners that were queuing up to enter were pushing their way in, fighting for their lives to enter the city.

"Close the gates. Quick, close the gates!"

The general in charge of guarding the gates shouted.

"General, the city gates are blocked by the people. We can't close it!"

"Chase them away. If they won't leave, kill them!"

His face instantly turned cold. If they lost the city gate, he would be beheaded. At that point, there was no mercy left.

"Yes!"

The soldiers immediately spread the orders.

"Archers, ready!"

The general still was not at ease. He asked the archers on the city walls to prepare themselves.

"Yes, general!"

The moment the military orders were sent, the city gate grew even more chaotic.

At the start, the guards told the commoners that the enemy was just aiming for the gates. They would not harm them, so the guards asked the commoners to just stay outside.

However, the commoners did not even listen to these words. Instead, they tried to squeeze into the city.

When they saw such a scene, the guards were helpless. They could only use their blades.

"Ah, the military is killing people!"

At this point, the situation totally blew up.

Such a deterrence made a portion of the civilians terrified. They really start to leave.

Just as the guards were ready to pull up the bridge, the personal Guards unit arrived.

The five hundred meter distance was just a short charge.

"Personal Guards unit, charge!"

Lin Yi unsheathed his Tang Blade and led the troops.

"Kill!"

The personal Guards unit would not bother about the lives of the civilians. Whoever stood in their way, they would kill. At this point, they were rushing against time, and they could not show any mercy.

"Shoot the arrows! Don't let them come over!"

The enemy general was shocked when he saw such a scene. How was there such an elite army?

The Guards division, iron soldiers.

The personal Guards unit, the strongest iron of them all.

Under the leadership of Lin Yi, their hearts were like stone. They did not bother about the arrows and resolutely rushed straight for the city gates. Nothing could stop them.

Finally, right before the gates were about to close, Lin Yi's forces managed to arrive.

"Kill!"

As Lin Yi waved his blade, a light shimmered as heads fell to the ground.

"Kill!"

In less than five minutes, the hundred city gate guards were all slaughtered. None were left alive.

The personal Guards unit had successfully taken down the city gate.

"Cut the ropes!"

After taking down the city gates, Lin Yi remained as calm as usual.

"Yes, general!"

"We can't let them cut the ropes. City protection unit, follow me, kill them!" The city protection general was also a vicious character. He led the guards down the city walls to welcome the battle.

"Ants!"

When he saw the enemy charge over, Lin Yi did not even look them in the eye. He simply waved his hand, "Kill them!"

"Yes, general!"

Five hundred personal Guards facing around one thousand city protection guards. Despite the numerical difference, the personal Guards showed zero fear.

The moment they engaged, the difference in strength was obvious. The normal city guards were totally not their opponents.

The city protection force was beaten badly; their corpses piled up all around the city gate.

Lin Yi did not participate in this massacre. He rode on his horse and looked at the horizon, only to see a huge army rumbling toward them.

Under the shine of the sun, they reflected a bright golden glow.

The 1st regiment of the Guards division had arrived.

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Chapter 389- Huwei General

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The 1st regiment rushed to the battlefield. When they saw that their troops had already taken down the city gate, the 1st regiment colonel ordered the troops to charge.

"Charge!"

When the city protection general saw that the enemy still had reinforcements, he panicked, "Defend, our reinforcements will arrive soon. We can't let the enemy succeed, or the territory will be in danger!"

"Rather die than retreat!"

The remaining city protection forces gave it their all to defend.

"Tsk!"

Lin Yi looked at them coldly. He whipped his Qingfu Horse and instantly appeared before the general. At the same time, Lin Yi stabbed out with his spear.

The general was shocked. He raised his blade and struck out at the spear. With a loud dang sparks flew from the collision.

A powerful energy spread out from the spear and numbed the guard general's hand. As a result, he nearly lost his footing.

Even with the added momentum of the charge, such power could stun the guard general.

He knew that he definitely was not the opponent of the young general before him.

In the instant that he hesitated, Lin Yi attacked again.

Lin Yi's long spear was highly flexible. Since he had stunned the enemy, he took the opportunity to fake a stab before he aimed straight for the guard general's chest.

"Ah!"

The guard general spat out a mouthful of fresh blood. He slowly lowered his head; he looked at the spear embedded in his chest with disbelief.

Lin Yi expressionlessly pulled out his spear, which caused blood to spurt out.

The guard general knelt on the ground and died right there.

A city gate general could not survive three of Lin Yi's moves.

"Great!"

The personal Guards unit soldiers cheered on for their general.

On the other hand, the city guard soldiers were astonished, and their morale instantly plunged to a freezing point.

"Quickly, clear the city gate entrance!"

Lin Yi's expression remained the same, as he personally led the killing.

"Yes, general!"

After a long, drawn out battle, the city protection unit finally failed to hold on and were forced back.

"General, the 1st regiment is here!" greeted the colonel.

Lin Yi nodded, "Arrange a unit to defend the city gate. The rest, come with me."

"Yes, general!"

Lin Yi knew that the current enemy troops were unstable. Additionally, they lacked intel about the battlefield; this presented a perfect opportunity. With the 1st regiment, he had complete confidence of fighting the enemy division.

If they waited for the rest of the troops to arrive, they would definitely have to fight head-on against the enemy troops.

"Kill!"

The invincible iron cavalry were like a black flood. They surged into the city and directly headed for the Lord's Manor.

The shops along the streets had closed earlier when the killing at the city gates started. On the large streets, there was not a single person. It created a very cold and chilly scene.

The residents looked through the gaps of their doors at the iron cavalry that galloped across the streets. The current events terrified them.

Another chaotic time!

The guards regiment had only traveled for a short distance before they met the city protection division.

They had just exited the barracks and were about to head assist the city gates. Who would have expected the enemy to breach their city in just twenty minutes?

Since they had met in a narrow passage, the brave would come out victorious.

"Charge!"

Lin Yi did not hesitate at all, as he ordered the cavalry to charge forward.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

The guards division was menacing.

"Get into formation!"

The general of the city protection division had no choice but to order his forces to form up and defend. The narrow streets caused the forces of the city protection division to drag out into a long line. As a result, the front could not see the back.

"Raise your shields!"

Under the orders of their commander, the sword-shield soldiers at the front raised their shields.

"Arrows!"

The archers at the back started to aim at the enemy troops.

All of this seemed systematic and none of them panicked.

Unfortunately, the city protection division was faced with the overpowered guards division. Their shields were like paper.

The guards division was like a lawnmower. They charged forward at 75 kilometers per hour, stamping over the enemies before them into cold corpses.

The narrow long streets became the nightmare of the enemy.

How fast was the charging speed of the Guards division? The archers of the city protection division were the best people to ask about that.

When they took out the arrows from their quivers, the enemy was still a kilometer out. However, when their armed themselves and got ready, the enemy was only five hundred meters away. When they finally aimed and were about to shoot, the enemy was right in front of them.

Sword-shield soldier formation?

Get out of my way!

Cavalry formation?

Get out of my way!

Spearmen formation?

Get out of my way!

Archer formation?

Trample them!

The city guard division was closely packed on the long streets. However, such a formation was useless against the Guards division.

The Guards division was like an Asura from hell. They mercilessly reaped life after life.

One formation after another. Torn apart one by one like paper.

The army that had seemed so orderly and well-formed instantly became a pot of mixed-up porridge.

The cavalry knocked aside numerous soldiers, who fell into the smelly drains on the side. Injured soldiers instantly filled up the drains.

"How can this happen?"

When he saw the strength of the enemy, the city protection division commander's face turned ashen white.

"General, we can't defend. What should we do?"

As they had lined up into formations on the streets, they did not have any space to make any other movements. The face of the commander looked really ugly right now. He shouted, "What can we do? We have no way back. We can only fight to the death!"

"Fight to the death!""Fight to the death!"

Unfortunately, facing the iron cavalry that showed no signs of slowing down, their shouts were not in unison. Purely relying on raising morale could not win them the war.

Despair flashed across the face of the city protection division commander.

The Guards division was like a god weapon that bisected the city protection division into two.

Under the leadership of Lin Yi, all the soldiers were determined. No matter who the opponents were or how many they numbered, the Guards division would only charge, charge, and charge.

Blades flashed across, spears stabbed forward, and horse lances charged.

There were simply too many enemies; they could not kill them all. A large half was left in chaos and chased to the sides of the streets.

Facing such an enemy, the city protection division did not dare to take them head-on. They just stared in shock, as the enemy charged toward the Lord's Manor.

The Guards division had created another record.

With the strength of just a single regiment, they had broken through an enemy five times their number.

"General. Should, should we give chase?"

"It's useless!" The commander gave up, "Such a strong army isn't something we can contend with!"

One hour later.

It only took one hour for the Guards division to take down Leishan County.

When Baiqi led the rest of the troops to Leishan County, the Shanhai territory flags already hung from the city walls. At this time, the group in charge of transporting the siege weapons were only halfway there.

The Guards division had opened the war on a good note, which earned them glory and honor. This was the first battle since they were built, and they had performed as expected.

At the time that Leishan County was taken, Ouyang Shuo was alone in his reading room.

Suddenly, a system notification sounded in his ear.

"System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for taking down Leishan County, rewarded one thousand merit points."

Ouyang Shuo smiled, as he picked up his teacup and took a sip.

Less than an hour after the battle, Ouyang Shuo received an in-depth battle report from Black Mamba through the relay.

Using the relay, the Black Snake Guards formed a highly efficient network. Each team and force had members of the Black Snake Guards, who followed them to spread the latest orders and intel.

Ouyang Shuo raised his head. He remained silent for a while before he shouted, "Men!"

"Yes, my lord!"

Bai Nanpu walked in.

"Give my orders. The Guards division has performed well. Reward major general Lin Yi with the title of Huwei General and grant him a badge to commend his bravery. The other warriors will also be rewarded."

"Yes, my lord!"

This was the first time Ouyang Shuo had given a general a title because of war deeds.

Apart from Wang Feng, who became the general of the palace guards. Ouyang Shuo had given him the title of palace general. Before this, only Baiqi and Sun Bin had military titles.

Baiqi was the commander-in-chief, while Sun Bin was the great general

If one followed the old system of the Han and Tang Dynasty, this was the highest level of reward.

The title of Huwei General was often handed to generals that displayed valiant efforts in battle.

During the Three Kingdoms Period, Yujing, Lumeng, Zhaoyun, and the like got this title.

For Lin Yi to receive this title was already an utmost honor. It was also a first in Shanhai City.

One could predict how excited the other generals would be when the news spread out. They too would hope to receive such a title.

The Battle of Leizhou was the best opportunity.

In this way, the friendly competition between the Shanhai generals also began.

With reward also came motivation.

In the future, Ouyang Shuo would grant ranks to the generals based on their military credits and contributions.

After obtaining a title, it would not change until the general gained enough achievements to upgrade their title.

After taking down Leishan County, the middle forces treated it as the main camp. Following which, large amounts of siege weapons and grains were transported from the harbor to Leishan County.

Leishan County was temporarily under military rule.

When the lord of Leishan County revived in Quanzhou, he still did not know what had happened.

Even at this point, he did not know who had attacked and destroyed his territory.

After taking down Leishan County, Baiqi did not sweep out to destroy the other bases because he did not want to alert the others. The destruction of one territory could just be an accidental occurrence. If many fell one by one, even a dumb person could guess what was happening.

Baiqi was waiting for the other two groups of troops to arrive.

21st day, the Beihai Bay Squadron returned to Beihai Harbor.

23rd day, Mu Guiying led the north side forces to their destination.

24th day, Fan Lihua led the south side forces to their destination.

25th day, Luo Shixin led the 2nd division to start their journey to Leishan County.

The Battle of Leizhou had begun on all fronts.

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Chapter 390- Hidden Killing Intent

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Yazhou, Tiger Legion station.

The moon hung high in the dark night sky. Only a few little torches burned brightly.

In the camp of the mountain army under construction, two young soldiers made use of the chance when patrolling to come into contact with one another.

When Sun Bin set up the mountain regiment, apart from the colonel and the majors taken from the 1st and 2nd division, the remaining captains and sergeants were all selected from the Li Race Tribes.

The Li Race soldiers were really wild. They naturally used martial art skills as the only standard to determine the boss.

The ones with high skills would become sergeants.

Those with even greater skill would become the captain.

They were both dressed in the clothes of captains; their positions in the military were not low. They could be said to be unordinary.

"Young tribe leader, I've found out that the 1st division has boarded a ship. However, we don't know where they've left to," said a thin-faced middle-aged man. He had a long scar on his face. It looked like some wild beast left it.

When he talked and the scar on his face moved, he looked very vicious.

"That's great. It's really an opportunity sent by the heavens."

If Ouyang Shuo was present, he definitely would have noticed that this young tribe leader was the soldier that had knocked into him. His name was Shanzhu, and he had the title of the bravest warrior of the Li Race Tribe.

Shanzhu's identity was also not simple. Out of all the Li Race tribes, he was the young tribe leader of the largest tribe. The leader of that tribe was called the Li Race Ruler.

One could see that his position as the young tribe leader was very important.

When the normal tribe leaders saw Shanzhu, they would have to bow in respect.

For Shanzhu to earn the title of bravest warrior, he did not depend on his identity. Instead, he relied on his fighting results.

Since he was eight, he had started to enter the mountains to hunt.

The first time he hunted, he killed a 150 kilogram wild boar.

During that time, this event caused a huge uproar. However, that was only the start of his story.

Following which, everytime that he hunted, he managed to kill the most ferocious of beasts. His prey included creatures such as wolves and leopards. Even the strongest black bear was not his match.

Because of his ability and his bravery, Shanzhu was appointed as the deputy leader of the tribe hunting squad at merely ten years of age.

When he was fifteen, he became the leader of the hunting squad. His name and reputation spread far and wide, and he was deemed as the only choice for the next tribe leader.

At this time, Shanzhu's targets had already changed to desolate beasts.

Shanzhu was born with god-given strength. During his hunting time, he had created and perfected a set of killing techniques that were effective against even desolate beasts.

Apart from hunting, Shanzhu did not even blink when it came to killing.

Although Li Race tribesmen came from the same roots, they often got into fights because of hunting spots.

Rumors had it that a Li Race soldier had to cut off the head of an enemy before he could be considered to have come of age. If not, the tribe would not recognize him.

Through this, one could see the ruthless and merciless nature of the battles between the tribes.

And Shanzhu, who had gotten his first kill at the age of ten, broke the record for being the youngest to have come of age.

Since then, his name had reverberated through the mountains and the forests, terrifying the enemy.

The nearby tribes, in an attempt to stop this tumor from growing, attempted to assassinate him several times. However, they did not succeed.

When Shanzhu reached the age of fifteen, there was already no one who dared to face him head-to-head.

After Shanzhu took charge of the hunting squad, the tribe grew bigger and bigger each year.

The Tiger Legion moving into Yazhou also became a turning point of Shanzhu's life.

When he saw each tribe being beaten back by the Tiger Legion, as the young tribe leader, he decided to volunteer.

One time, the Li Race tribe he was assisting to fight against the Tiger Legion was about to lose. They wanted to wanted to bring Shanzhu away. However, he thought of an idea; he wanted to infiltrate the enemy as a prisoner and gain intel.

Such a method could be considered really bold.

Luckily for him, Sun Bin coincidentally wanted to create a mountain regiment. As a result, the strong Shanzhu was naturally chosen; he was even promoted to captain.

Shanzhu was also a hardworking person. He studied the Art of War, as he investigated the enemy.

When he saw the 1st division leave the camp, Shanzhu started thinking about activating his tribesmen who had retreated to the Five Finger Mountains. They would attack the Tiger Legion.

Shanzhu was not only strong, but he was very smart too.

In his short encounter with the Tiger Legion, Shanzhu clearly knew that if he could not deal a deadly blow to the Tiger Legion before the mountain regiment formed up, they would not have any chance in the future.

"But the 2nd division is still here. Can we win?"

The scar-faced middle-aged man was a little hesitant. The 2nd division had surrounded and captured his tribe. So many strong and courageous warriors could not even struggle under the might of the 2nd division.

"Heh, don't we still have people on the inside? As long as the mountain regiment acts, victory is in our hands."

Many prisoners in the mountain regiment still recognized and worshipped this young tribe leader. Naturally, they would be loyal to him. This scar-faced man was one of them.

"Young tribe leader is smart!"

The two could be considered as careful. After a few sentences, they left and disappeared into the darkness.

Little did they know that a pair of ghostly eyes were staring at them from within the darkness.

"Hei, the prey has finally taken the bait!"

Even Shanzhu would not believe that solely because of that meeting with Ouyang Shuo, the Military Intelligence Division would spy on him. The division monitored all of his actions.

After learning of his identity, general Sun Bin still did not decide to act yet.

Firstly, Sun Bin admired Shanzhu. He had the intentions of appointing him as a major. Based on Sun Bin's thinking, he wanted to develop a few Li Race generals to become majors or even major generals.

Only true blue Li Race warriors could tame and placate other Li Race warriors.

Secondly, Sun Bin wanted to take the chance to investigate their motives.

In the dead of night.

In the commander tent of the Tiger Region, the flame was still shining bright.

The orange-yellow light gave one a sense of warmth.

Sun Bin sat on his wheelchair inside the tent, using the light to read his war books. Before he came to Yashan City, he had borrowed over ten war books. Every night, he would research and analyze them.

The guard on duty walked in, "Commander, the Military Intelligence Officer wants to meet you!"

"Please let him in!"

"Commander, there's a new development with the big fish!"

When Sun Bin heard these words, he placed down his book and rushed forward, "Quickly speak!"

The officer repeated everything that he had seen from head to tail.

After a long while, Sun Bin sighed, "Unfortunate, really unfortunate!"

"Commander, did you overestimate him?"

Seeing Sun Bin sigh so regretfully, the officer felt a little peeved.

Sun Bin shook his head, "You won't understand."

"Then what should we do next? Should we just take them down?"

The officer knew that the territory was fighting a huge war in Leizhou. At this time, they could not allow anything to happen to Yazhou.

"Take them down? No." Sun Bin shook his head resolutely, "Amidst the danger, there's a chance. I was worrying that I had no way to get them out. Since they chose to leave the mountains, I'll gladly welcome them."

When the officer heard these words, he did not express his views.

He was only an intel personnel and could not interfere in military decisions.

Sun Bin also did not expect him to give any reply, "Continue to monitor them."

"Yes!"

The officer backed off.

The full-scale invasion of Shanhai City was like a huge bolt of lighting, blowing Leizhou apart.

5th month 24th day, Mu Guiying led the north side army and took down Hengshan County.

5th month 25th day, Fan Lihua led the south side army. After a day of battle, they took down Hai An County.

The next day, with the three grade 3 counties as cores, the three armies crazily swept forth. Each army basically swept up Leizhou at the speed of a city every two days.

Beitan County, Jishui County, Liangdong County, Chengyue County, Songzu County, Dianjie County, and Qianshan County.

One after another, the territories fell. The moment the residents of the territories woke up, they realized that their lord had already changed.

The reincarnation hall in Quanzhou had stream after stream of players reviving.

Those who did not know would think that outside Quanzhou City, a huge war had occurred. Who would have expect that these players were killed in their territories?

The entire Leizhou screamed and cowered under the might of the Shanhai City army.

In less than a week, half of Leizhou had fallen.

Leizhou was shocked; Lingnan was shocked; the entire China region was shocked.

Who would have expected that the Lianzhou Lord would have such ambition to use his troops to attack Leizhou like this?

In contrast to the uproar that Ouyang Shuo had created, the Yanhuang Alliance seemed unusually quiet.

Yanhuang Alliance seemed to have no intentions to interfere. In Leizhou, many lords sought help from them, but they were all rejected without exception.

Hence, there were rumors that Yanhuang Alliance were afraid and did not dare to accept the challenge.

Ouyang Shuo naturally would not be so arrogant. The way he saw it, there were two reasons.

Firstly, even if they helped, they would gain no benefits.

They were not stupid enough to let others use them as a weapon.

Secondly, they could not be distracted, as they were preparing for their own military actions.

After a period of inaction, Yanhuang Alliance, be it members or the internal workings of the powers, they had washed away all their differences.

The important matter before them was to raise their rank to Marquis. If not, everything else was useless.

They also needed to quickly rise. Without a battle map, the uprising armies were the best target. As long as you took them down, the merit points awarded would definitely be more than joining one battle event.

After all, this was an actual extermination of a rebellion on the main map.

Since Yanhuang Alliance did not interfere, Ouyang Shuo was naturally delighted.

To smoothly run the ten territories that he had taken over, Ouyang Shuo sent the four directors to Leizhou.

All of them would each take care of one aspect each.

Du Ruhui would be in charge of choosing people from the prisoners to form an army; Fan Zhongyan was in charge of choosing civil servants and assigning roles to them; Wei Yang was in charge of law and order and also the investigation of the important people; Cui Yingyu was in charge of rebuilding the economy and restoring it.

They each brought their helpers to run between each city.

Ouyang Shuo was in Shanhai City as usual, taking overall control of the situation.

Based on the current situation and momentum, taking over the whole Leizhou was something that would happen soon.

However, 6th month, 3rd day, the situation in Leizhou suddenly changed.

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Chapter 391- Yanhuo Yaonie

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Since more than half of Leizhou had fallen and Yanhuang Alliance had no intentions of helping out, one of the lords stepped forward. He was the lord of Yanluo County, Yanhuo Yaonie.

Yanluo County was also a grade 3 county, located in the south-middle portion of Leizhou. It was situated right next to Leizhou Bay. Compared to the other three grade 3 counties that had fallen, Yanluo County was temporarily okay due to its geographical location.

Lord's Manor, Meeting Hall.

As the master, Yanhuo Yaonie sat on the lord's seat.

On the left of the hall, there were five lords. Their territories were located in the mid-south region of Leizhou. Amongst them, there was a man around twenty years old, who looked a little anxious. His name was Po Zuozi.

Po Zuozi's territory was known as Tanmu County.

Based on the attacking speed of the south troops, in less than two days, Tanmu County would be taken down.

Hence, Po Zuozi was the most supportive and eager about this lord's gathering.

On the right sat two men with big backgrounds. The one in front was an old man with a round face; he looked merciful. His name was Bao Shuya, a subordinate of Yanhuo Yaonie, and his most important civil servant.

In truth, although his ability was not good enough to manage everything, he was still a capable official. The reason he lacked fame was because of Guanzhong, who appeared during the same era.

Living under his shadow, Bao Shuya would naturally appear a lot duller.

Name: Bao Shuya (King rank)

Dynasty: Spring and Autumn (Qi)

Identity: Yanluo County Prime Minister

Occupation: Civil Servant

Loyalty: 80

Command: 45

Force: 30

Intelligence: 70

Politics: 70

Specialty: Righteous (Raises honesty of territory by 40%), Promotion of talent (raises development of talents in territory by 25%)

Evaluation: With him at the helm, everything will be safe. Forming miracles and good relationships with people, he becomes known.

Besides Bai Shuya was a middle-aged general dressed like a scholar. He looked really cold and handsome; his face was like a sword. His appearance would instantly inspire fear.

This middle-aged general was Caogui.

When talking about Caogui, one would definitely have to raise up the historical famous text, Caogui War Theory.

Name: Caogui (King rank)

Dynasty: Spring and Autumn (Lu)

Identity: Yanluo County city protection division major general

Occupation: Advanced General

Loyalty: 80

Command: 75

Force: 45

Intelligence: 55

Politics: 70

Specialty: Motivation (Raises troops morale by 30%)

Evaluation: Advisor-type general. Makes use of his knowledge to fight tough battles and to take unexpected victories.

Although Caogui was weaker compared to Luo Shixin and other generals, he was still an exceptional general. The harder to understand aspect was his fortes—strategy and beating stronger enemies.

Bao Shuya and Caogui, one civil servant and one general; these two were Yanhuo Yaonie's trump cards.

Yanhuo Yaonie was a very low-profile person. Even though he possessed two historical characters in his territory, no one outside knew.

Only at a crucial moment was he willing to expose his trump cards.

When they saw these two people, the five lords who had come over felt a little more confidence.

In their territories, they also had one or two historical characters. However, it was highly difficult to find their names in history books.

Some were totally unrecorded in history.

The most famous one was called Bai Lishi. He was the son of Bai Lixi, also a general.

Bai Lixi was an official that Qin Mu used five black sheepskin to exchange from the market. This famous official helped the Qin Country become one of the five giants during the Warring States Period.

The famous one was Bai Lixi but his son?

"Guys." Yanhuo Yaonie looked around at everyone," Shanhai City is coming with bad intentions. It's highly crucial that we unite if we want to get past these troubling times."

The lords all nodded in agreement.

"Brother Yaonie, what idea do you have? Just say it out and we will follow you."

"That's right, just say it."

"Great!" Yanhuo Yaonie was delighted, "Since all of you trust me, I'll say it directly. We must form an alliance. Making use of our teleportation advantage, we will attack and catch the enemy off guard!"

The moment his words landed, the hall fell into a frenzy.

"Brother Yaonie, forming an alliance is okay. The problem is based on your plan, we will gather our forces together. If we do so, what will happen to our territories? Without an army defending them, we will be taken down in seconds." The lords were also smart; they were not dumb.

"Stupid!"

The one that spoke up was not Yanhuo Yaonie but Po Zuozi.

Po Zuozi stood up emotionally and loudly said, "Don't you guys know the simple theory that if the lips die the teeth will feel cold? If we can't destroy them, what is the use of a dead city?" He looked at one lord and shouted word by word," What use is there?"

The lords were unable to give him a reply.

"Let me ask you. With your forces, do you have confidence in defending against them?"

The meeting hall fell silent once again.

Out of everyone present, none of them would dare to say that they could go up against Shanhai City's army.

Think about it, in just one week, they had taken down ten territories. Such a bloody battle reward and achievement could let all the lords present accept this cruel reality.

Seeing that the lords were all deep in thought, Yanhuo Yaonie said once again, "The situation is as such. We should all just accept the facts. We can only give our all and hope for the best."

"I agree!"

"Agreed!"

With this, the alliance was formed.

Following which would be the specific battle plans and strategies.

In this aspect, they needed Caogui. As the major general of the city protection division, he could also take the role of commander of the alliance army.

The combat strength of all six territories together totaled close to forty thousand.

Their target was the south side troops.

6th month, 2nd day, Tanmu County.

Under the leadership of Fan Lihua, the south side army finally arrived at Tanmu County.

Only to see that there was just a small amount of guards on the city walls.

"General, there seems to be too little enemies."

Fan Lihua frowned, as she realized that something was up.

"Lets not care about that and just attack!"

"Yes, general!"

Since disembarking into this land, the south side army had swept ahead and claimed everything in their path. The successive victories made all the soldiers, including their general, underestimate their opponents.

Even though Tanmu County looked a little weird, Fan Lihua did not take it to heart.

The siege went smoothly.

In less than an hour, the vanguard squad claimed the city wall.

Fan Lihua frowned, "There's something wrong. Order the troops to be wary!"

"Yes, general!"

After they entered the city, they actually found no one on the streets.

This was quite usual.

During every siege, the residents would hide.

The clattering of the horse hooves was really ear piercing.

The moment the whole army entered the city, things changed.

Suddenly, a secret door appeared on the city gate they had already taken down. From it, many troops swarmed out and shut the gates.

"No good, we are trapped!" Fan Lihua was alarmed and shouted, "Form up, defend!"

It was too late.

Only the sight of all the streets swarmed with many soldiers greeted them.

The worst part was that a large number of archers had appeared on the roofs.

The arrow rain pelted straight toward the army.

In an instant, they suffered heavy casualties.

"General, what should we do?"

"Why are you panicking? Sword-shield soldiers cover and destroy the shop boards, form a defensive formation and just defend."

Fan Lihua would not dare to hide in the shops. If the enemy set these places on fire, the entire army would be lost.

"Yes, general!"

The 1st division was undoubtedly an elite force; they did not panic.

The sword-shield soldiers formed up to block the arrows, while the archers at the sides shot back. The strong bow and hard crossbows showed their strength. Although the enemy had the height advantage, the 1st division managed to go head-to-head with them.

The archers on the roofs were shot and corpses rolled down one after another.

The threat from the roofs were slowly negated.

As for the other soldiers, they bravely rushed to the shops at the side and pulled down boards.

Fortunately, there was a grain shop at the side filled with grain. The soldiers shifted bags of grain onto the streets to form a simple defense.

Relying on this, the 1st division actually miraculously survived.

Caogui sat on one of the arrow towers in the city gate and looked at the south side troops, "As expected from an elite army, they can adapt in such a situation."

In a situation where they did not possess an absolute advantage, Caogui did not dare to fight them head-on.

If not, who would lose was not that certain.

The war was now in a stalemate.

However, everyone knew that this was just temporary.

Fan Lihua stood behind one of the wooden boards. She shook her head in regret, as this was all her fault. She did not expect that in a short few days, the enemies would create a regional alliance.

Making use of the teleportation formations, the enemy had caught them off guard.

Luckily, the 1st division were not scrubs. As long as they fought normally, they stood a chance.

Fan Lihua's trump card was Luo Shixin's division.

As long as he led the 2nd division of the Dragon Legion over, this problem would be solved. Not only that, the alliance would be in big trouble.

With that, the mid-south portion of Leizhou would have totally fallen.

Fan Lihua was waiting; Caogui was waiting too.

Although the alliance army had an advantage and twice the numbers, Caogui did not have the confidence of killing them all.

Caogui was also waiting for reinforcements.

Yanhuo Yaonie had contacted other territories to pull them into the alliance. Then, they would teleport over to Tanmu County.

Both sides were in a race against time.

Luo Shixin's forces needed at least two days to rush over.

Could Yanhuo Yaonie's reinforcements arrive within these two days?

All of this was unknown.

The news that the south side troops were trapped had spread all around Leizhou.

This victory came at a really opportune time.

The invincible image of the Shanhai Army was immediately destroyed.

The Battle of Leizhou experienced its biggest change yet.

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Chapter 392- Falling into the Trap

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The situation in the mid-south of Leizhou let the north region see a glimmer of hope.

Under the organization of the last grade 3 county, Gantang County, the seven territories swiftly formed an alliance. They gathered a nearly fifty thousand strong army to fight against Mu Guiying's north-side army.

The commander of the alliance army was the major general of Gantang County's city protection squad, Weizhang.

When talking about him, one had to mention one other person, the representative figure of the strategist school of thought—Zhang Yi.

Weizhang and Zhang Yi had a similar relationship to Baiqi and Wei Ran. They were an official in the imperial court recommending a general he trusted.

After the king died and Qin Wu inherited the throne, Zhang Yi was chased out of the country. Similarly, Weizhang was chased out, and his stories were not recorded.

Undoubtedly, Weizhang was also a good general.

Name: Weizhang (King rank)

Dynasty: Warring States (Qin)

Identity: Gantang County major general

Occupation: Advanced General

Loyalty: 80

Command: 75

Force: 85

Intelligence: 55

Politics: 45

Specialty: Push-on (Increases troops movement speed by 15%)

Evaluation: Weizhang, a strong general, date-of-birth not detailed. In 312 BC, he defeated the Chu Country at Danyang, killing eighty thousand and taking over Hanzhong.

Under the leadership of Weizhang, the alliance army restricted the attack of the north-side army.

As the situation in Leizhou entered a stalemate, the entire battle entered its second stage.

Leishan County, army camp.

Baiqi sat in front of his desk. Behind him was a map of Leizhou that the Military Intelligence Division provided.

Although the situation had changed, Ouyang Shuo did not give Baiqi any new orders. Instead, he granted Baiqi the power to do whatever he wanted. Ouyang Shuo would not interfere.

The trust of the lord touched Baiqi; he needed to use results to return this trust.

Luo Shixin's 2nd division had already set off for Tanmu County to save the south-side troops. Now, the only unit that Baiqi could use was the Guards division.

The mid-south and the north region had formed alliances, so the only place that remained a defensive whole was the middle. The Guards regiment was still charging around and taking over land.

"Men!"

"Present!"

"Send my orders. Guards division 1st regiment will go and attack Yanluo County. Beihai Bay Squadron 1st division will proceed to Leizhou Bay and assist the 1st regiment."

"Yes, general!"

Baiqi was about to set out to kill the head. If the Yanluo County was surrounded, the middle-south region alliance would face a bad situation. Would the lord of the county choose to save the alliance army or his own territory?

As for the problems the north faced, Baiqi was not worried. Both sides were stuck in a standstill. With Mu Guiying's ability, she would not make the same mistake.

Although the battle situation in Leizhou looked bad for Shanhai City, in truth, the end neared. As long as they took down both alliance armies, Leizhou would quickly collapse.

Now, it would depend on whose plan was more highly skilled.

Just as Leizhou changed, thousand of miles away in Yazhou, a change also brewed.

6th month, 3rd day, morning.

The salty morning breeze blew up the morning mist.

At the borders of the Five Finger Mountains, the birds were chirping atop the trees.

Suddenly, the peace and quiet of the forest was shattered.

Rumbling noises spread out from within the forest.

A while later, a red wave broke out from the forest and charged out.

Upon closer inspection, they were all Li Race warriors.

Each soldier wore red armor and wielded either a pike or a hunting knife. They all had bows on their backs. Their faces had mysterious patterns drawn on with god knows what ink.

This was a battle for revenge.

In the words of the tribal leaders, the stupid invaders had taken over the land that belonged to them. Moreover, they made them unable to hunt boars and leopards.

They needed to use the blood of the enemy to strengthen their honor.

This time, the Li Race tribes had gathered sixty thousand troops. They had suddenly exited the mountains to attack the Tiger Legion.

The troops waltzed forward, sweeping everything in their path.

They let out weird shouts as they passed, like hunters heading to claim their prey.

The moment the army walked out of the forest, a signal bullet flew into the sky and burst apart. Like they had received an order, a signal bullet would rise up ever two to three kilometers.

Looking into the sky, the signal bullets formed a dragon that stretched from the Five Finger Mountains to the base of the Tiger Legion. The whole process took less than fifteen minutes.

And this time, the Li Race army were hundreds of kilometers away.

Tiger Region commander tent.

"Commander, the fish has taken the bait!"

The major general of the 2nd division, Daiqin, walked into the tent.

Sun Bin was really calm; he did not even look up from his book, "Stick to the plan."

"Yes, general!" Daiqin quickly left.

In the mountain regiment base, the soldiers were doing their drills.

Amongst the group, a few soldiers that were not focusing. This included the Li Race young tribe leader, Shanzhu. He had already used a mysterious method to contact his tribe.

Today was the day that they had agreed to attack.

Tiger Legion had separately made the mountain regiment base. It had walls all around, making it easy to patrol.

Daiqin rode his war horse and walked in front of the group. Following behind him were the Guards unit soldiers.

"General!"

The two colonels of the mountain regiment came over and bowed. They seemed confused and did not know what was happening. To keep matters secretive and confidential, these two had not learned anything about the plan.

"Gather the troops."

Daiqin did not explain anything and just gave his orders.

"Yes, general!"

The two colonels turned and left.

"Gather!"

The people of the regiment started to chatter. Amongst them were many soldiers connected to Shanzhu. They knew that today was the day. At this time, any change would trigger their sensitive moods.

They all turned around and looked toward him.

He felt a shiver down his spine and had a bad feeling. He could be considered calm, as he formed up along with the other soldiers.

No matter how slow the colonels were, they could smell the unease in the air. Their faces grew solemn and serious.

"General, the mountain regiment has gathered!"

Daiqin rode on his horse and said, "I order all of you to put down your weapons."

The weapons for the mountain regiment were all Tang Blades. Since they were doing drills, they had brought along their Tang Blades for practical training.

The colonel shivered. They did not ask anything or saying anything. They simply sent down the orders.

"All of you put down your weapons. Put them back into the armory."

"Hua!"

The group was sent into an uproar once more, and the unease started to grow.

"Why must we put our weapons down?"

"Yeah, what for!"

Some soldiers retorted unhappily.

"Impudence!" The colonel fumed and scolded, "This is an order! You have trained for so long already. Have you forgotten the most basic discipline?"

"We don't want to!"

The soldiers did not bother and continued to cause a racket.

Their faces instantly turned black. In front of the major general, their own troops were so ill disciplined, which caused them to lose all face.

Shanzhu, who stood amongst them, also looked really ugly. With his instincts, he could feel that their operation had already been revealed.

At this time, if they placed down their weapons, it would be asking for death.

When he thought about this, he strengthened his grip on the Tang Blade, and his eyes grew cold.

Seeing Shanzhu like that, more soldiers broke out of the formation and gathered around him. Amongst which, the faces of those who were not by his side turned ashen white.

Everyone knew that something big was happening.

"Are you all trying to rebel?"

At this point, Daiqin rode over on his horse.

Shanzhu stared right at him, not saying a word.

The air froze at this instant, making it hard for one to breathe.

A mutiny was about to occur.

Daiqin's face instantly turned cold, as he waved his hand forward.

With this action, closely packed archers in the wooden walls around the camp appeared one after another appeared. These archers were the cavalry of the 2nd division.

Tens of thousands of arrows were aimed right at the mountain regiment.

"Hua!"

The group fell into chaos once again. The faces of those who backed Shanzhu looked ashen white. The situation was obvious. If they tried to act, they would all die.

Shanzhu's face was white too.

He knew that he had failed.

Not only him, his entire tribe had failed.

Amusing, really amusing.

Amusing that he thought that he was smart and did not think that he was being monitored. At the current moment, he could only give it his all and try to save some dignity.

Thinking about this, he raised the Tang Blade in his hand and loudly said, "Warriors, use the blood of the enemy to reclaim our honor. Are you willing to follow me in death?"

"Die together!"

"Die together!"

As expected from the hot-blooded youths of the tribe.

Daiqin did not react. He moved the internal energy in his body, his voice spreading into the ears of everyone, "Shanzhu, is it?"

"Yes!"

Shanzhu was prepared to give it his all.

Daiqin shook his head, "To think that the commander liked you. You're just a coward!"

"You!" Shanzhu raged, "The honor of warriors cannot be taken away from us!"

"Stupid!"

Daiqin scolded out; his voice buzzing in all their ears.

"Your death here will be quick, but have you thought about your people? To want to be a hero and not think about your tribe, what kind of hero are you?"

When Shanzhu heard these words, his face grew even whiter.

"Surrender, give your people a chance!"

Ding!

The Tang Blade dropped to the floor and let out a crisp sound.

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Chapter 393- Failing Because of Wine

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The two mountain regiments, a total of five thousand warriors, started to collect the weapons and lock up the rebels. The Military Law Division would trial Shanzhu and the other main people who fanned the flames.

After settling the internal tumor, Daiqin led the 2nd division to welcome the sixty thousand Li Race army. To recruit them, shedding some blood was definitely necessary.

After hearing Sun Bin's report, Ouyang Shuo even sent the three thousand palace Guards over to help.

To win against a huge army with a smaller number of men, the best way would naturally be to set a trap.

When the Li Race army approached the Tiger Legion camp, they saw a quiet and silent camp.

The commander of the army was Shanzhu's father, Shan Hu.

"Leader, it looks like an empty camp!"

The one who spoke up was a young warrior known as Shanying. His combat strength was only lower than Shanzhu's.

"Did the enemy escape?"

"There's a chance that this is a trap. The enemy is really cunning!"

"Then what should we do?"

All of them started to discuss this matter, as they did not know what would be the best course of action. The current scene in front of them was something they had not expected.

Shan Hu frowned, "Shanying, bring a squad over to take a look!"

"Yes!"

Shanying was also really courageous. He brought a hundred men and entered just like this.

"Be careful of traps!"

Shan Hu was still worried, so he reminded Shanying.

"Don't worry, commander!"

Shanying and his men carefully entered the camp.

Looking around, they found no one. On the bare ground there were empty sacks of rice. Some sacks had broken, and the white rice grains had fallen to the ground.

Apart from that, there was also some meat, yellow beans, and the like.

"Captain?"

The members all looked toward Shanying.

"Let's search the houses."

Shanying looked like a really arrogant fellow, but he was a very careful person deep inside.

"Understood!"

The soldiers all focused and searched house after house.

Ten minutes later, they all returned.

"Reporting to the captain, there's no one!"

"No one!"

"Nobody!"

"Heh, those bunch of cowards must have escaped." Shanying laughed, "Let's go back to report to the tribe leader."

"Yes!"

Shan Hu led the troops and waited outside the camp; he did not hear any fighting sounds. As such, he got a little worried. He did not know what happened to Shanying that made him not appear.

Just at this moment, Shanying ran out.

"Leader!"

"How is it?"

"It's an empty camp with grain and meat thrown all over. They probably left in a hurry."

"Have you searched everywhere?" Shan Hu was still worried.

"We have searched it all. Even the houses have no one left."

"Great." Shan Hu was delighted. He turned his head and said, "Listen up, we will all go in and rest for a day. Tomorrow, we will attack Yashan City."

"Great!"

The troops cheered, as their morale was at an all time high.

The Tiger Legion camp was built based on four divisions. Hence, there was enough space for the sixty thousand Li Race soldiers.

Seeing the rice and meat scattered around, the soldiers cheered. When they opened the granary and saw the stacked up rice and meat, they were ecstatic.

There was even wine in the corners of the granary.

Wine, the love of the Li Race Tribe warriors.

When they smelled the wine, the soldiers all drooled.

"Tribe leader?"

Shanying took the lead, looking expectedly at Shan Hu.

Shan Hu was also happy, "look at how hungry you guys are. Tonight we will have a feast!"

"Great!"

The soldiers leaped up in happiness. The smart ones had already ran out of the granary and spread the news.

Instantly, the camp bustled with excitement.

Shan Hu kept his smile and pulled Shanying to the side. He ordered, "Check if the grains have any drugs."

"Understood!"

That night, the camp was lively with noise and excitement.

The warriors had fun with singing, dancing, eating meat, and drinking wine.

They continued all the way till the late of night. Finally, the warriors returned to their tents after their sergeants chided them.

Only then did the camp slowly quieten down.

Shan Hu was still worried. He arranged for troops to take shifts to prevent a sneak attack.

Undoubtedly, his worries were unfounded.

The entire night, not a single person appeared.

This lasted all the way till the middle of night. At this time, the outside of the camp was so dark you could not even see your own hands. Finally, Shan Hu returned to the camp.

In such darkness, if you were to attack, you would be just asking to lose.

The huge camp started to quieten down until the sound of insects could be heard.

One soldier after another started to climb out of their tents to look for a toilet.

As there were simply too many of them, a huge line formed up.

Some of them could not hold it in and found an empty spot to solve their problems.

All of a sudden, a huge stench filled the entire camp.

As time moved on, more and more soldiers shouted out in pain. They shouted, as they ran out to deal with their problems.

Even Shan Hu was not an exception.

"Stupid Han Race people. They are too cunning!"

Shan Hu held his stomach as he yelled out.

"Go, call Shanying!" Shan Hu was furious, "Ouch!"

"Yes!"

The soldier held onto his stomach, as he went looking for Shanying

A while later, Shanying rushed over. He seemed to lack strength and energy.

"Didn't I ask you to check if there was any poison?"

When he saw Shanying, Shan Hu immediately scolded.

Shanying sulked, as he innocently replied, "We checked everything, from the grain to the meat. We fed it to the animals."

"Then what is all this?" Shan Hu was furious.

"The wine." Shanying replied confidently, "It must be the wine."

"Wine?" Shan Hu was stunned and instantly believed his words, "Dammit, I'll never ever drink wine ever again. It messes up everything!"

The guard at the side had a face full of disbelief.

Who did not know that the tribe leader treated wine like his life.

"Leader, what should we do?"

"What can we do?" Shan Hu muttered, "How many men didn't drink it?"

"No one!"

The Li Race warriors loved to drink and all of them knew how to consume alcohol. Those who had poor alcohol tolerance would even be laughed at. Hence, the whole army was tricked. They had drank more than a thousand vases of wine.

In the night, the army kept on going to the toilet. Some even decided to just do their business on the empty ground.

Overnight, the entire army became weak shrimps.

The next day, the entire camp was horrifyingly smelly.

The next day, when the 2nd division surrounded them, the soldiers all covered their noses.

It was simply too smelly!

Daiqin rode on his horse. Upon seeing such a scene, he really worshipped and respected Sun Bin.

"Rush in and capture them all!"

"Yes, general!"

During wartime, their battle tactics and discipline were obvious.

They were covering their noses moments ago, but when they were ordered to head in, it was like they had no noses. They expressionlessly charged in.

The Li Race soldiers were now weak. Facing the Shanhai Army, they just surrendered.

Seeing that things had proceeded smoothly, Wang Feng, who had followed behind the army, bid goodbye to Sun Bin.

"General, I'll take my leave!"

Sun Bin, who was sitting on his wheelchair, laughed, "Go, help me thank the lord!"

Just like this, the strong and menacing sixty thousand men Li Race army was taken down.

After locking them up, the first order from Sun Bin was to clean up the camp.

Only after a full day of cleaning did they manage to rid the smell.

Shan Hu, Shanying, and the other main members were brought into the commander tent. They had a resentful look.

"Why, unhappy?"

"Despicable!" Shan Hu's eyes were as big as a cow's.

"If you all really hid in the Five Finger Mountains, I wouldn't have done anything. But you all decided to come out, so I have a hundred ways to beat you. Do you believe me?"

"Stop bragging!" Shan Hu did not care.

Sun Bin shook his head and turned to the guard, "Bring him up!"

"Yes!"

Quickly, Shanzhu and the scar-faced man were brought into the tent.

"Shanzhu!"

Shan Hu was stunned. However, happiness flashed through his eyes.

Originally, he had thought that in such a situation, Shanzhu was most probably dead. He did not expect him to still be alive and well.

"Father!" Shanzhu solemnly said with a face full of guilt.

"How is it? Do you still have confidence in defeating us?" Sun Bin asked.

"Hen!" Shan Hu knew that since Shanzhu was exposed, his plan had failed long ago. However, he still insisted, "We aren't afraid of you in real combat!"

Unexpectedly, Sun Bin nodded, "This I believe."

Shan Hu was stunned. The young man in front of him was really weird.

"On the battlefield, what matters is the outcome. And the outcome is that we won and you lost. Am I right?"

Shan Hu was stunned and furiously said, "If you want to kill me, just do as you wish."

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Chapter 394- Surrendering

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"Why would I kill you?"

Sun Bin naturally would not do such a stupid thing.

The position and meaning that Shan Hu held amongst the Li Race aboriginals was exceptional. If they really killed him, Yashan City would become mortal enemies with the Li Race. In such a scenario, it would be impossible to recruit them.

"Then release me!"

Since he saw that nothing would happen to his life, Shan Hu grew arrogant once again.

"Release you? Impossible."

Sun Bin has been reading war texts and learned of Zhu Geliang, who captured and released Meng Huo seven times. Naturally, he would not do something so dumb that wasted time and energy.

"You!" Shan Hu was furious, "What exactly do you want?"

"Cooperation!"

"Cooperation?"

"That's right!"

"Hen, our Li Race lives here. We definitely won't cooperate with all you Han people." Shan Hu was defiant. He had a strong sense of distrust toward Han people.

Sun Bin shook his head in regret, "You don't want to cooperate? Then I have no choice but to kill all of you. I really want to see how the old and sick left in the mountains can fight against us."

It was easy for Sun Bin to speak these words, but his description sent a shiver down their spines.

"Hen, kill us if you wish. The Li Race doesn't have any cowards."

Shan Hu remained adamant. Even after knocking into a wall, he did not want to turn back.

"Good, what guts you have there!" Sun Bin nodded. His face suddenly turned cold, "Men!"

"Present!"

Four guards walked into the room.

"Drag them all out and behead them for all to see!"

"Yes, general!"

The guards dragged Shan Hu and the other two out.

Shan Hu was stunned. One moment, this young general was so relaxed. The next, he was so cold and vicious; the speed at which he changed was totally unexpected.

Stupid Han people, they are really too cunning.

A tinge of regret flashed through his heart. However, it was impossible to make him admit his mistake.

"Stop!"

The one that spoke up was Shan Hu's son, Shanzhu.

When he saw that the situation was not right, Shanzhu regained his composure. If no one would speak up, it probably would not be just them. The entire tribe would be dragged into this.

Compared to Shan Hu, Shanzhu was younger and his thinking was more open. Especially after living in the military for a time, the experience made him realize the excitement of life.

Being cooped up in the tribe was like sitting in a well and looking at the sky.

When he was locked up, he kept on thinking, How should the tribe proceed? Is walking out of the mountains really a mistake?

Even if he did not talk about other matters, just the Han people's Art of War attracted him.

"Speak!"

Sun Bin waved his hand to stop the guards.

He just wanted to scare Shan Hu. He would not really kill them.

Sixty thousand people, Sun Bin was definitely not such a cold killer.

When Shanzhu heard this response, he turned and said, "Father, I feel that we should hear them out before making a decision."

Shanzhu was at a loss; he had to take into account the face of his father.

Shan Hu gave out a loud "hen," which was a silent acceptance of his proposal.

Shanzhu looked toward Sun Bin, "How do we cooperate?"

Shanzhu felt really complicated about Sun Bin. Shanzhu treated him as an enemy, but he also looked at him with respect. Especially after he heard Daiqin say that Sun Bin had high hopes for him. Those words made him feel even more complicated.

"As for the specifics, I have no power to decide. You must speak with the lord."

Sun Bin was only a general. Naturally, he did not have the power to make such decisions. Although the lord had granted him much power, Sun Bin knew his limits and would not cross it.

If not, that would be a huge crime.

Following the rules and power boundaries were the bottom line and rule of every great leader and general.

"Ok. General, please bring us to the Lianzhou Lord."

When in someone else's house, one had to lower one's head.

For an unknown reason, Shanzhu's mind flickered to the memory of when met the Lianzhou Lord.

What would the future hold?

The next day, under the accompaniment of Sun Bin, Shan Hu and Shanzhu teleported to Shanhai City to meet Ouyang Shuo.

After he received the news, Ouyang Shuo waited for them in the main hall.

As they were still prisoners, they entered in a tied up state.

When Ouyang Shuo saw this, he said, "Guests from afar. Men, release their ropes."

"Yes, lord!"

"Marquis?"

Sun Bin was a little worried. He knew how strong Shanzhu was. The moment they untied him, it would be bad if he tried to fight his way out.

"Dont worry!"

Ouyang Shuo smiled with confidence.

Although Shanzhu was strong, Ouyang Shuo had nothing to fear with his current strength. There were even guards waiting outside to help him, just in case.

When the guards heard his orders, they released the prisoners.

As the guards backed off, Shanzhu really thought about taking the lord hostage.

However, when he saw Ouyang Shuo's stable and large figure, Shanzhu felt a shiver run down his spine. He realized that he could not see through his opponent.

When he saw Shanzhu not cause any problems, Sun Bin heaved a sigh of relief.

Ouyang Shuo did not mind and smiled, "Please sit!"

Both of them sat at the sides, while Sun Bin faced Ouyang Shuo. The four directors were in Leizhou now, so it was not convenient for them to come over.

Since the two of them had entered the main hall, they judged Ouyang Shuo, and they realized that he was not ordinary. After fighting and killing beasts in the mountains, they had acute, beast-like senses.

Based solely on their instincts, they could feel the strength and killing intent from the Lianzhou Lord. It was like they were facing the king of the mountains and forests. They felt totally restricted.

As Ouyang Shuo's memories had returned, the killing aura from his last life had started to influence him. The Yellow Emperor Internal Cultivation Technique locked down this aura.

On the other hand, this killing aura stimulated the devil bloodline.

If Ouyang Shuo was not paying attention, this killing aura would leak out.

With their auras totally suppressed, they lost all their confidence.

They were up against a lord that they could not take lightly.

Before the meeting, Ouyang Shuo did not talk about the Li Race tribes. Instead, he introduced the life of the mountain barbarians and the grassland tribes in Lianzhou.

When Shanzhu and Shan Hu heard his description, they felt awed.

Not talking about the grassland tribes, the mountain barbarians were a tribe equal to the Li Race Tribe. Since the Lianzhou Lord could recruit them, this showed that he was a real ruler.

If it was just as the Lianzhou Lord had stated, getting off the mountains would be a great idea.

Shanzhu was delighted; he felt that his decision was correct.

Looking at the shocked state of the two, Ouyang Shuo added, "If you have doubts, you can move over to Lianzhou Prefecture to have a look and see if what I'm saying is true. After which, we can move onto discussion."

Shanzhu and Shan Hu exchanged glances and stepped out, "We can trust the lord."

"Great!"

Ouyang Shuo smiled.

Sun Bin sat at the side. When he saw how the lord had managed to persuade them so easily, he felt amazed.

From the meeting, it was decided that the more than twenty tribes would move into Yashan City. They would end their hunting lifestyle and become farmers. They would open up settlements on the west of the city with tribes as a unit.

Based on the territory's strategy, each tribe would be granted free land, farming tools, and a month of grain and resources. If they needed more grain, they could borrow it from the city granary.

At the same time, to take care of those who were not willing to farm, Yashan City built the first subsidiary territory—Ningyuan Town, at the foot of the Five Finger Mountains.

The future Ningyuan Town would act as the sentry post for adventure gamemode players who entered the mountains. Yashan City was too far away, so it was not a convenient place to restock and replenish.

One could look forward to the future prosperity of Ningyuan Town.

Ouyang Shuo naturally would not take all of the sixty thousand troops that surrendered. Most of them would be sent back to their tribes to become farmers.

Keeping in line with the strategy of having an elite army, Ouyang Shuo ordered Sun Bin to form three mountain regiments using the elites out of their forces.

In addition to the current two, they formed a mountain division, which became the 3rd division of the Tiger Legion.

The major general position would temporarily be left empty.

Shanzhu, who Sun Bin favored, became the deputy major general and colonel of the 1st regiment. Meanwhile, Shanying became the colonel of the 2nd regiment.

With Shanzhu's successful appointment, Shan Hu did not feel as doubtful.

Toward Ouyang Shuo, Shanzhu felt really thankful.

Name: Shanzhu (Gold rank)

Identity: Tiger Legion 3rd division deputy major general, 1st regiment colonel

Occupation: Intermediate General

Loyalty: 75

Command: 55

Force: 85

Intelligence: 45

Politics: 40

Specialty: God given strength (Raise troops' fighting power by 15%)

Cultivation method: Nil

Equipment: Nil

Evaluation: The bravest warrior of the Li Race, born with god given strength.

As expected of someone with a god given talent. Without any training, he was straight away an intermediate general. After Sun Bin taught him for a bit, Ouyang Shuo expected Shanzhu to upgrade to advanced general.

As for the problem of cultivation method, Ouyang Shuo immediately thought about the technique that Er'Lai trained in.

If there was a chance, he would just ask Er'lai to teach Shanzhu.

With this, the South of Qiongzhou Island was finally peaceful.

The population of Yashan City had ballooned to over 160 thousand. Based solely on this battle, Bing'er's merit points had quickly risen; she was now a rank 2 earl.

On the same day, Yashan City became a grade 2 county.

At the same time, the Battle of Leizhou entered a crucial stage.

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Chapter 395- Hanging on a Thread

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Leizhou, Tanmu County.

An originally unattractive, humble, and small city became the hotspot of the entire Battle of Leizhou.

Overnight, the small city that could be considered prosperous swiftly fell apart due to war. Death floated in the air, and the busy commercial streets became a wasteland.

The clean stone floors had become dirty and chipped, smudged with puddles of blood. In the drains at both sides, bodies had piled up. The faces of the deceased were simply covered up without a proper burial.

The fire had burned down the shop walls that had carvings and paintings. Parts of the buildings had collapse and smoke from the embers bellowed.

All this scenery described the cruelty of war.

Under the orange setting sun, Caogui stood on the city wall, his eyebrows tightly locked.

A full day and night of attacking.

The south side Shanhai Army, who were trapped in the streets, still stood strong. They were resolute like a mountain.

Caogui had tried all kind of methods, fires, sneak attacks, night attacks, and the like. All of these strategies were useless. The enemy troops were like the undead, their stubbornness alarming.

No matter what you did, I won't budge.

The north side of Leizhou had also formed an alliance. Consequently, this reduced the danger on that side, which also meant that his lord, Yanhuo Yaonie, failed to recruit any new members.

The north and south were separated and rendered apart. Each side fought for themselves.

To survive, one could not act noble.

Yanhuo Yaonie begged the north alliance army to assist Tanmu County and destroy one side of the enemy. The reply they receive was 'Why don't the south side troops teleport to Gantang County instead?'

Yanhuo Yaonie was left speechless.

Not everyone had the same courage and strategic foresight as him. Before being totally pushed to the wall, people would only care about their own interests.

After one full day, only two territories joined the south alliance, which brought them to ten thousand men.

Yanhuo Yaonie sent someone to pass the message—there would be no further reinforcements.

Caogui did not dare to wait anymore. He started to launch successive assaults against the enemy. He knew that the Shanhai City cavalry forces were rushing day and night over to Tanmu County.

The stubbornness of their army had exceeded Caogui's expectations.

Caogui could not imagine how a female general managed to train a bunch of hot-blooded men to become so strong and resolute. The balance of the war had started to tilt in the enemy's favor.

"Men!"

"Present!"

"Send my orders—retreat. The army will rest for a night. Tomorrow morning, we will launch our final assault."

Caogui was like a compulsive gambler; he had decided to bet it all.

"Yes, general!"

Following the rushed bell sounds, the alliance army backed off like a flood.

"Phew!"

Fan Lihua let out a sigh of relief.

"General, from the look of their formation, it seems like they won't sneak attack us tonight, "said the 2nd regiment colonel, Liaokai.

Fan Lihua nodded, "Even so, we cannot let our guards down."

"Understood!"

"Call Zhaoyan overl. It's his turn!"

"General?" Liaokai was astonished; excitement flashed across his eyes.

"General Luo has already sent a message. Before noon, the reinforcements will arrive."

The Military Intelligence Division used the intel network formed from Feng Birds to send crucial intel quickly and efficiently.

"That's fantastic!"

Liaokai felt very emotional. Finally, the tough days of the 1st division would come to an end.

"Go!"

Fan Lihua waved him off.

"Yes, general!"

Zhaoyan was also a general since the start of Shanhai territory. He was the colonel of the 1st regiment. His men were all sword-shield soldiers; they were the absolute main force during the day battle.

The reason why the 1st division could last until now was because of them.

Compared to Liaokai, who was flexible and smart, Zhaoyan was just a pure, courageous, and fierce general.

Zhaoyan rushed over. His armor and helmet were stained with blood, and even the Tang Blade in his hand was dripping.

If one did not know better, one would think that he was a ghoul that had crawled out from hell.

However, the soldiers around him did not show signs of fear. Instead, they respected and worshipped him.

Normal soldiers were the ones that respected such courageous and strong generals the most.

"General!"

Zhaoyan smiled and bowed.

Fan Lihua nodded, she did not mind Zhaoyan's appearance. Although she was a girl, she had been through all kinds of fights and wars as a general.

Such a small matter could not shake her.

One had to say that this calmness alone was enough to amaze all the men of the 1st division. Even Zhaoyan did not dare get out of hand in front of Fan Lihua.

"Go wash up and choose five hundred elite. Stick to the plan."

Zhaoyan's eyes brightened up, as he loudly said, "Understood, I'll definitely complete the mission!"

"Remember, the successful or failure of this entire battle depends on you."

Fan Lihua instructed solemnly.

"General, don't worry, there will be no mistakes. If there are, you can take my head."

Fan Lihua nodded and waved him off, "Go and prepare!"

"Yes, general!"

Zhaoyan bowed once more before he confidently walked out.

Under the cover of the night, Zhaoyan led five hundred of the most elite members of the 1st regiment to sneak out from the back of some shops. They disappeared into the night sky.

As the alliance army was preparing for the battle tomorrow, they failed to notice this.

6th month, 5th day, morning.

The most important day in the Battle of Leizhou had arrived.

Early in the morning, the alliance army gathered up once more.

Fifty thousand troops swarmed up from all fronts toward the enemy camp in a relentless assault.

The alliance army commander, Caogui, had given the orders—this attack must succeed!

All the soldiers would either die on the battlefield or step on the bodies of the enemy and proceed forward. There was no third option. They would kill those who tried to escape.

For this, Caogui had specially set up a supervision squad to follow behind the soldiers and kill anyone who tried to escape.

The bloody military order made the alliance army soldiers shiver in fear.

They had to give it their all this time; they had to succeed.

"Kill! Kill! Kill"

At a place that could not be seen, Luo Shixin led the 2nd division of the Dragon Legion to rush over.

Suddenly, due to just his instinct as a general, he raised his head and looked at Tanmu County in astonishment. He could feel a strong killing aura that encapsulated the city.

This definitely was not anything good.

Luo Shixin smacked his horse and hollered, "Speed up!"

"Yes, general!"

Caogui once again walked out into the city wall. This time, he did not walk to the commander seat. Instead, he stood besides the war drums. He took the sticks and helped to smack the war drums, raising the morale of the troops.

The thunderous war drums reverberated throughout the city.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Using the tempo of the drums, the fifty thousand alliance army attacked from both sides of the streets. Many archers appeared on the roof; they aimed their arrows at the enemy base.

This battle of life and death had officially started!

South side army base.

Fan Lihua still looked confident, which reassured all the soldiers.

"General, they are attacking!" Liaokai walked over.

Fan Lihua was expressionless; this colonel always liked to spout meaningless words. She did not turn back and calmly said, "Is everything prepared with Zhaoyan?"

"At 3 AM, the Feng Bird sent a message. They told us that everything is done."

"Great." Fan Lihua was relieved, "Tell the soldiers that they have to defend until noon!"

"Yes, general!"

This was the Tiger Legion's hardest battle so far.

As they were too deep inside enemy territory, their logistics and supplies were cut off. They did not have any food, so they could only use the rice that they had found to make pots of porridge.

Even the water was dug up from the drains.

The soldiers lacked medical supplies. They had used up all their supplies since too many of them were injured. Now, they could not even find a clean bandage.

Even so, the soldiers of the 1st division continued to fight valiantly.

They could continue because their general ate the same food as them, drank the same dirty water as them.

Following such a general, they did not mind dying for her.

Under the pressure of the alliance army, the 1st division was pushed back.

To achieve this, the alliance army had paid a heavy price. Every step forward, hundreds died. It was hard to imagine that the ratio of casualties was one to five.

When he thought about how the enemy did not have any supplies but could still hold on so well, even Caogui was filled with respect.

This was a bunch of men that deserved respect, a true elite force.

Although there were heavy casualties, Caogui felt more and more relaxed. The scales of the war now favored them. Any price was worth it as long as they could annihilate the enemy.

Caogui slammed the drums and continued to rile up his troops.

The longer the battle dragged on, the more intense it grew.

At 11 AM, outside the county, the clatter of thunderous horse hooves suddenly rang out.

Caogui, who was on the city wall, felt a shiver run down his spine.

Not good, how did the enemy reinforcements arrive so fast?

As they were pressed for time, Caogui could not think too much.

Luckily, he was a general with vast experience.

He knew that the most negative situation that you could predict was often the one that had the highest chance of happening. If you predicted the situation to turn very bad, it would be that bad.

Hence, Caogui had arranged a two thousand men army near the city.

With them defending, the cavalry reinforcements could not break the city gates.

As long as they destroyed the south side army before the reinforcements took down the gate, the situation would remain under their control.

Caogui had this confidence.

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Chapter 396- Leizhou Ruler

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However, this confidence did not last for long.

In less than half an hour, a messenger ran over in a panic. His face was ashen white, as he said, "General, it's bad. The enemy reinforcements are in the city!"

"What?"

Caogui freaked out; his body trembled, and he nearly lost his footing.

He instantly dashed up and grabbed the collar of the messenger. He scolded, "Bullsh*t. The city gate has two thousand troops defending it, how could it fall so fast? I'll kill you for faking military intel!" As he spoke, he wanted to pull out the sword at his waist.

Caogui's actions left the poor messenger petrified. His neck was restrained, so he could not breathe. He felt a shiver run down his spine; this time, he was dead.

"General, general!"

Luckily, a guard rushed over and saved the messenger.

These words alerted Caogui, and he came to his senses. He tried to calm himself down. With a slightly shivering voice, he asked, "How was the city gate broken?"

The messenger took two quick gulps of air, and his red face slowly returned to normal. He looked guiltily at Caogui. Then, he carefully said, "The enemy hid a small force that the defence force could not adapt to. Under the attack of both forces, inside and outside, the gate quickly fell."

The one that hid inside the city were naturally Zhaoyan and the five hundred elites.

Last night, Zhaoyan had led his troops to infiltrate the civilians near the city gate. The moment Luo Shixin's forces arrived, they immediately charged out.

"Hidden troops?"

Caogui was really smart; he managed to figure out what had happened.

"We were careless!"

Caogui did not expect the enemy to still hide a unit in such a desperate situation. This battle, Caogui had lost; he had totally lost.

A huge sense of failure overwhelmed him; he felt like his soul had left his body.

"General, what should we do now?"

"How?" Caogui muttered.

After a long while, he finally managed to force out the words—let's surrender.

Caogui did not want the soldiers to die for nothing. Fighting on no longer held any meaning.

There was a moment of silence.

Like jumping from heaven and right into hell, this kind of feeling was really uncomfortable.

"Let's surrender!"

Caogui repeated his words once more. This time, his tone was a lot more resolute.

Lord, I've failed you.

In his eyes, a desire for death flashed out.

The rumbling of horses sounded out on the streets. It was a total nightmare for the alliance army that were attacking.

The iron cavalry charged in from afar, knocking people from the back and sending them flying forward.

In just a moment, the alliance army suffered heavy casualties.

Luckily. this nightmare arrived fast and ended fast too.

In less than ten minutes, white flags hung from the city wall. The alliance army soldiers immediately threw down the weapons in their hand. They were afraid of being slaughtered by accident.

Compared to the sad and terrible state of the alliance army, the south side troops were naturally celebrating.

They had accomplished it. They had held on under the attacks of fifty thousand men.

As expected of the 1st division of the Tiger Legion.

After celebrating, a huge sense of tiredness and lethargy overcame them. In order to prevent night assaults from the enemy, the soldiers had not experience a good night sleep for a full two days.

Some of them did not care about the blood and gore on the battlefield. They just directly fell asleep.

The soldiers used the corpses on the battlefield as pillows.

When Luo Shixin led his troops and arrived, this weird scene greeted him.

As the alliance army had surrendered, the battle of Tanmu County ended in Shanhai City's complete victory.

Fan Lihua stood on the broken battlefield; her face lacked even a tinge of happiness.

This victory was simply too hard fought.

During this battle, the 1st division of the Tiger Legion had lost three thousand soldiers, including one colonel and six majors. If you added in the injured, they had a casualty count of close to a third.

This was the time since the formation of the Shanhai City army that a colonel died.

The list was heavy.

The dead colonel was the 1st division cavalry regiment colonel, Li Mingliang.

Li Mingliang was also a long serving general. Since the establishment of Shanhai Village, Ouyang Shuo had utillized him, all the way from sergeant to captain to major, and now, to colonel.

No one expected him to fall in the battle of Tanmu County.

The atmosphere of the battlefield was really depressing.

When she saw the situation, Luo Shixin led the troops to lock up the prisoners.

Of the fifty thousand alliance army men, only thirty thousand were left. Amongst them, some were injured and needed to retire. In the final parts of the battle, the monitoring squad had executed thousands.

This battle was simply too brutal.

Fan Lihua was a very resolute female general. After feeling affected for a while, she quickly recovered.

Round up the prisoners, heal the wounded, clear the battlefield.

Apart from that, they had to complete the occupation of Tanmu County, restore its order, and apply military rule to the county.

Post war work was simply too complex.

Po Zuozi, the lord of Tanmu County, had already escaped when Luo Shixin and his troops attacked.

Out of all the prisoners, the one with the highest profile was still Caogui.

When she had time, Fan Lihua specially paid him a visit.

On the city wall, Caogui had tried to kill himself, but the Guards stopped him.

When Fan Lihua received the news, she immediately sent men to monitor Caogui to prevent him from killing himself. It was not easy to capture him. If she let him die, Fan Lihua did not know how she would have the face to see the lord.

When all the lords received the battle report, there was absolute silence.

Everyone was clear that the mid-south region of Leizhou was lost, and there was no way to recover it.

Some of the lords did not wait for the Shanhai City army to arrive. They just took all their assets and left.

The entire mid-south region of Leizhou was thrown into chaos.

Some raiders even took the chance to raid the territories.

Leizhou desperately needed a lord to restore order.

That afternoon, the 1st Guards regiment arrived outside Yanluo County.

The lord, Yanhuo Yaonie, had already received the news of the alliance army's defeat.

In contrast to the other lords that surrendered, Yanhuo Yaonie's method was a bit weird. He directly exited the city to surrender.

When the 1st regiment saw his actions, they felt a little hesitant. They were afraid of a trap.

The lesson that the south side forces learned was still clear in their minds. The ones who were responsible for that event were right in front of them.

When Yanhuo Yaonie saw the the 1st regiment not move forward, he did make any astonishing move. He simply brought out Bao Shuda and carried the lord's stamp to surrender.

Upon seeing that, the 1st regiment finally put aside their worries and entered the city.

Weirdly enough, he did not leave. Instead, he moved into a mansion beside the Lord's Manor with his man, Bao Shuda.

The 1st regiment colonel did not make any decisions. After occupying the county, he reported everything that had happened to the main camp and waited for further instructions.

This wait was a big half a month.

As the Battle of Tanmu County had ended, Baiqi was also busy. A battle report was handed over to him almost every hour.

There were some asking about logistics, some about prisoners, some about the next steps, and the like.

However, Baiqi could not leave the reports alone; he had to personally approve them. At such a time, how could he bother about such small matters? The battle reports had stacked up on his desk and no one had asked about it.

As the alliance army fell, Luo Shixin continued up north to help the north troops. As for the mid-south region, Fan Lihua would clear up all the loose ends.

Under the lead of Fan Lihua, the 1st division of the Tiger Legion charged forward at the speed of one city a day. They used just a week to sweep up the mid-south region.

All the raiders ran away in all directions.

The chaotic mid-south region instantly quietened down.

The various officers and officials who took over the cities complained to their superiors about how busy they were.

The four directors did not have any time to listen to their complaints. The directors were far busier than them.

Investigating scholars, appointing officials, dealing with prisoners, calming down the masses….

They were so busy that they did not even have time to eat themselves. They could only eat while listening to reports. They would also give instructions at the same time.

Fan Zhongyan was busy, but Du Ruhui was frightened.

The entire 1st division was busy clearing raiders and territories. They had taken over sixty to seventy thousand prisoners, but they only had one regiment looking after them.

When he thought about this matter, Du Ruhui was so worried that he could not fall asleep.

His officials were so busy in Leizhou. Meanwhile, Ouyang Shuo, as the lord, was lazing around in Shanhai City. He had no intentions of helping out.

As Luo Shixin's troops proceeded north, the battles there were simple and easy.

They easily helped the Guards division wipe out the middle of Leizhou.

Following which, both forces went further up north.

When the troops reached the north side army, the entire north region was already cleared out.

Only then did the north alliance regret not listening to Yanhuo Yaonie's suggestion. They had all lost as a result.

The loss of the Tanmu County alliance army was like the push of the first domino. After which, the entire Leizhou region battle situation collapsed.

Although Weizhang was a great general, he could only surrender when up against three divisions.

The battle lasted till almost the end of the sixth month before Leizhou was completely taken down.

Leizhou was about to welcome a new ruler!

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Chapter 397- rewarded based on performance

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6th month, 20th day, Ouyang Shuo arrived in Leizhou.

Ouyang Shuo held an administrative and military meeting in Leishan County to arrange the post-battle plans.

Secretary Bai Nanpu stood behind him.

On the left of the main hall, commander-in-chief Baiqi sat at the head spot. The four major generals sat behind him. On the right sat the four directors, apart from them, no one else was present.

The moment the meeting started, Bai Nanpu read out a series of rewards.

"Dragon Legion 2nd division swept across the plains from south to north. Major general Luo Shixin is awarded the title of Yingyang General for his contributions and bravery. The soldiers of the 2nd division will also receive rewards."

Luo Shixin stepped out and kneeled onto the ground on one knee. He emotionally said, "Thank you, lord, for the reward!"

During the Battle of Tanmu County, if the 2nd division had not rushed their troops over the limit, the war might have ended in a different way. Their contributions to the battle were undeniable.

Receiving the title of Yingyang General was expected.

"Dragon Legion 4th division fought well, sweeping the north region. Major general Mu Guiying is awarded the title of Xuanwei General for her contributions and bravery. The soldiers of the 4th division will also receive rewards."

Mu Guiying stepped forward to show her thanks.

"Dragon Legion 1st division overturned a tough situation, sweeping the south region. Major general Fan Lihua awarded the title of Zhaolie General for her contributions and bravery. The soldiers of the 1st division will also receive rewards."

Fan Lihua stepped out to thank Ouyang Shuo, but her expression looked a little unnatural.

Of the three forces sent out, only her troops were ambushed. How would she not feel embarrassed?

At this point, the four major generals that participated in the Battle of Leizhou were all given titles.

After the rewards, the four directors reported on the post war situation.

The first to report was naturally the Military Affairs Director, Du Ruhui.

"In the Battle of Leizhou, the four divisions lost a total of 6,400 men. 7,500 have suffered light injuries, while 1,500 are heavily injured."

After hearing the injury report, Ouyang Shuo frowned.

He had not expected that Leizhou would be such a tough nut to crack. He would need to pay around twenty thousand gold solely for post war compensations.

Du Ruhui continued, "The Military Affairs Department rounded up a total of 114,300 prisoners. Amongst them, fifteen thousand are heavily injured and plan to retire."

They had captured over a hundred thousand prisoners. They must quickly arrange jobs for them. Otherwise, they would incur a sky high sum.

"How are the quality of the prisoners?" Ouyang Shuo asked.

When Du Ruhui heard this question, he solemnly replied, "Not so optimistic. The war prisoners, out of all the prisoners, are all city protection forces. As a result, they lack experience. The worst part is that after the battle, some of them have already developed a hate of war. Forcing them to stay wouldn't be a good choice."

Ouyang Shuo nodded, "Since that's the case, choose the elite. Just retire those who don't pass or hate fighting."

"Understood!"

"Let me think about it." Ouyang Shuo took a moment before he raised his head, "Out of the prisoners, split them into two types. One for city protection and the other for wilderness fighting."

When he mentioned this, Ouyang Shuo turned his head and looked at Fan Zhongyan, "Leizhou will become Leizhou Prefecture. The five grade 3 counties will act as the core to create three houses, namely Leishan House, Hengshan House, Hai An House, Gantang House, and Yanluo House. The remaining twenty-three counties will be split according to region into the five houses."

Fan Zhongyan nodded solemnly. This time, he needed to appoint one governor, five prefects and twenty-two county magistrates all at once.

Ouyang Shuo looked at Du Ruhui, "Based on the Shanhai City arrangement, a county will have one city protection unit, a House will have a city protection regiment, and the prefecture will have a garrison division."

"All things considered, solely the defence forces will need thirty-seven thousand people. As for the wilderness fighting forces, form two divisions. One would be under the Tiger Legion as their 4th division. The other will temporarily be an independent 1st division."

Du Ruhui nodded, based on the arrangement of the lord, thirty-six thousand people will be out of jobs. This batch of people would turn into reserve forces.

The costs to cut the army was also another huge sum.

Ouyang Shuo turned to Baiqi and Du Ruhui, "The three major general spots, do you two have any recommendations?"

During this battle, they had captured a total of three historical generals, namely Cuigui, Weizhang, and Bai Lishi. The problem laid in the suitability of using fallen generals as major generals. Which general would take on which division?

Of the three divisions, the position of the garrison division was the lowest.

Apart from that, the newly built Tiger Legion 3rd division also lacked a major general.

The way he saw it, they had a lack of generals.

The main hall suddenly became quiet.

This was the first time that Ouyang Shuo had asked for their opinions on the choice of major general and did not make the decision on his own.

Du Ruhui looked at Baiqi and said, "Lord, regarding the choice of major general for the garrison division, I think it's best to choose from one of the colonels."

"That makes sense." Ouyang Shuo nodded.

The Leizhou garrison division would be in charge of the Leizhou Prefecture. Apart from all the defense matters, they also had a hidden mission to suppress the unlawful and chaotic elements.

Under such circumstances, if one used a Leizhou general to take charge, it was not suitable. The major general of the garrison division looked useless, but they were actually very crucial.

Ouyang Shuo looked at Baiqi, "For the position of garrison division major general, we should just choose from the colonels who performed well in the battle. Who do you think is the most suitable?"

As the overall commander of the Battle of Leizhou, Baiqi naturally had the highest say.

When they heard these words, the four other major generals looked nervously at Baiqi.

If the colonel that was promoted came from their division, it would undoubtedly be a huge honor.

Baiqi took a deep breath and slowly said, "I feel that the 1st regiment colonel of the 1st division, Zhaoyan, is a suitable choice."

"Ok then. That's settled."

This time, Ouyang Shuo totally went with Baiqi's choice.

After settling the matter of the major general of the garrison division, Ouyang Shou had some rough plans regarding the arrangements of Caogui and the other two, "Caogui will be the major general of the 3rd division, Bai Lishi will be the major general of the 4th division of the Tiger Legion, while Weizhang will be the major general of the independent division."

"Yes general!"

Du Ruhui supported these appointments.

The 3rd division was the mountain division. They had a good deputy major general in Shanzhu, but they lacked a little in terms of strategic ability. Hence, placing the military strategist Caogui there was a good move.

Two of them, one strategic and one stormy in martial arts, the perfect match.

Seeing this, it seemed like the lord had really high hopes for Shanzhu. He even arranged such a good teacher for him.

"Lord, talking about Caogui, I have something to report."

"Speak!"

"After we captured Caogui, he has tried to kill himself many times. It will be not easy to persuade him and make him willingly serve you," Du Ruhui said.

"Oh? Such a thing happened?" Ouyang Shuo raised his eyebrows, "It seems like the lord of Caogui is someone amazing, making his men so loyal."

"If I don't remember wrongly, he's a general of Yanluo County."

"That's right. The lord is called Yanhuo Yaonie. He also has a civil servant known as Bao Shuya."

The one who spoke these words was administration director, Fan Zhongyan.

"This is interesting, Leizhou actually has some hidden dragons." Ouyang Shuo smiled, "Are there other captured civil servants apart from Bao Shuya?"

"Yes." Fan Zhongyan nodded, "There's also He Shiwen and Zang Wenzhong."

"Oh?"

Ouyang Shuo did not have much impression of these two.

This was because countless people acquired a certain degree of fame during the Warring States Period.

"I know a bit about these two." Different from Ouyang Shuo, Fan Zhongyan read books for fun, so he knew a lot about history.

"Oh? Please tell!"

"Zang Wenzhong was from the Lu Country and worked with four lords. He has open thinking; he removed passes to increase business and trade. He also has great knowledge and isn't afraid to learn new things."

Ouyang Shuo nodded. This person seemed like a great civil servant.

"Shiwen is a musician and can be considered a master during that period." Fan Zhongyan only gave a simple introduction of Shiwen, as he knew the lord would not be interested.

As expected, Ouyang Shuo only nodded.

A musician could only be sent to the Xinan University to teach. They would not be of much use.

Just when Fan Zhongyan introduced the two them, Baiqi had a weird expression on his face.

Only after talking about Yanluo County did Baiqi remember a battle report he had thrown to a corner. He had a shocking memory. After just one sweep, he roughly remembered everything.

The colonel of the 1st regiment of the Guards division had reported that Yanluo County was weird. The weirdest part was their lord.

When he thought about this, Baiqi said, "Lord, to convince Caogui, the words must come from the lord Yanhuo Yaonie."

"How so?"

Baiqi repeated the essence of the battle report.

"Such a weird thing actually happened?" This news hooked Ouyang Shuo's interest, "It seems like I have to go and meet this lord."

Even without mentioning Yanhuo Yaonie, Ouyang Shuo was really interested in Bao Shuya.

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Chapter 398- Picking up a Burden

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After listening to Baiqi, Ouyang Shuo thought about the matter and said, "Men!"

"Present!"

"Bring a group of men over to Yanluo County. Bring Yanhuo Yaonie and Bao Shuya to Leishan City."

"Yes, lord!"

Fan Zhongyan's eyes focused, "Lord, are you going to make Leishan City the main governing area of Leizhou?"

"That's right!"

Out of the five Houses, Leishan City and Yanluo City were both located in the middle of Leizhou, so both were suitable. However, compared to Leishan City, Yanluo City was better built.

It was totally unexpected for the lord to choose Leishan City.

The governing body of an entire prefecture was really important.

Ouyang Shuo did not bother to explain his decision and said, "Receive my orders, Bao Shuya will be the Leizhou Prefecture governor, Zang Wenzhong the Lianzhou Prefecture Broken Blade House prefect, and Zhou Haichen will move over to become the Leishan House prefect."

A light bulb lit up in Fan Zhongyan's mind, so that was the reason.

Bao Shuya taking the position of governor was not too unexpected. He had ample ability to rule a Prefecture. Of course, this was partially due to the territory lacking talents.

Even so, they had to appoint him away from Yanluo County. As a result, they had to sacrifice Yanluo County and not choose it.

Governance was just so cruel.

At the same time, the lord sent Zhou Haichen, who he trusted, to Leishan House. He would keep an eye on Bao Shuya.

He trusted him but also kept a lookout on him.

It seemed contradictory, but it was a genius idea.

Ouyang Shuo continued, "The other four prefects will be chosen from Leizhou civil servants. Of the twenty-two county magistrates, half will be from Leizhou, while the other half will come from Lianzhou."

"Yes, my lord!"

With that, they had solved the local interests, while promoting officials from the main camp at the same time. Some of them would also bring over the ruling methods of Lianzhou Prefecture.

Based on Fan Zhongyan's words, Leizhou Prefecture had a group of decent officials. They were appointed roles in their original territories and were the right hands of their lords.

Ouyang Shuo would naturally make use of these officials. Of course, he could not avoid the most basic criss-cross appointment. Apart from that, the Internal Affairs Department would strictly investigate and monitor them.

At this point, Ouyang Shuo had settled the prefecture matters in just a few sentences. It might seem casual, but he had actually already set up the basic structure and principle.

The Administration Department would perform the necessary tasks. Fan Zhongyan certainly had the ability to implement these matters.

After discussing the official matters, financial director Cui Yingyu took over.

Ouyang Shuo raised his head. When he saw Cui Yingyu's bitter face, he roughly guessed that the economic situation looked bad.

"Originally, the economy of the Leizhou Prefecture could be called barely passable. However, this whole battle made the situation worse. Without mentioning the destruction of the territories, the worst part is that the lords brought all their gold with them when they left. Now, there is not a single copper left in the treasury of all the Leizhou territories."

After she spoke till this point, she sighed, "The Financial Department roughly calculated that a hundred thousand gold is needed to restore the economy and infrastructure."

As her words landed on their ears, everyone present gasped.

Ouyang Shuo's face also grew darker and darker.

Shanhai City had already spend over a hundred thousand gold even before the Battle of Leizhou started. In addition to the compensations to the families, the expansion of army and the retrenchment of soldiers would require another huge sum.

Ouyang Shuo thought that he could obtain a gold mine after occupying Leizhou. Who would have thought that he would receive a burden instead?

"Is it really that bad?"

Cui Yingyu nodded affirmatively, "This is also the most conservative calculation. Apart from repairing the cities, if the five Houses need to expand and build outer walls, it would look even worse."

The five Houses definitely needed to expand. Especially Leishan City, which would become the prefecture grade governing city. If it did not reach a hundred square kilometers, it could not take the role.

When she saw Ouyang Shuo's face turn cold, Cui Yingyu carefully said, "Of course, the economy of Leizhou is pretty good. As long as we tide past these times, the financial income is really sizeable."

"Additionally, Leizhou is besides the sea and can replicated the well-developed ship building and salt industries. We can also move over industries like the colored-silk."

"That's not enough." Ouyang Shuo shook his head, "Only moving over industries is not going to cut it. The Financial Department must develop the territory's potential and develop new industries and open new sources of income."

"Understood!"

Ouyang Shuo's expression relaxed slightly, "At this point, we can only try to raise funds. We will borrow all the necessary gold from the Four Seas Bank. If it is not enough, let's just obtain the needed gold from the various Chamber of Commerces."

As the Four Seas Bank continued to grow and develop, they had started to hold a huge amount of savings.

Ouyang Shuo's so-called borrowing used the future income of Leizhou Prefecture as down payment. He would also return the money with a certain amount of interest.

It seemed preposterous, but it was a normal action in modern day society. Four Seas Bank treasurer Meng Zhida was a huge financial personnel, so he could definitely handle this matter.

"Chamber of Commerce?"

"That's right." Ouyang Shuo nodded, "Tell the various Chamber of Commerces that we will allow them to set up branches in Leizhou if they are willing to help us get through these tough times."

Ouyang Shuo believed that the various Chamber of Commerces would be able to see the development potential of Leizhou Prefecture.

As long as there were profits to be made, the Chamber of Commerces would be willing to help out.

Furthermore, Ouyang Shuo was just borrowing from them, and he would return the funds with interest. He was not asking for donations.

Cui Yingyu's eyes brightened up, "No problem." She was thinking about whether she should ask her father to make the Cui Chamber of Commerce loan a huge sum to them.

With the help of Lianzhou Prefecture and Yashan City, the Cui Chamber of Commerce was doing exceptionally well.

When he saw Cui Yingyu's excited expression, Ouyang Shuo sighed.

He was helpless.

If he told others that Shanhai City needed to borrow money to survive, none of his allies would believe him. Shanhai City was the richest amongst the rich in their eyes.

It seems like he needed to speed up the development of Yazhou.

Ouyang Shuo also needed to find other ways to increase the sources of money.

Lastly, Internal Affairs director Wei Yang reported on his investigations into Leizhou Prefecture.

After they took down Leizhou Prefecture, under the iron fist of Wei Yang, the unstable elements on the surface were completely wiped out. The difficult part was the hidden powers that tried to blend in using the chaos.

It was not easy to deal with these people.

Out of them, there were a few loyalists of their old territory, merchants that lost everything, and civilians that lost their families.

This job needed the Internal Affairs director to persist on for the long haul.

Luckily, with his ability and leadership, it would be a relatively simple matter. Anyone who tried to sow chaos and cause problems would be cruelly treated.

On this aspect, Ouyang Shuo had a very strong stance.

After Wei Yang completed his report, the entire meeting came to an end.

In the next few days, Ouyang Shuo personally stood charge at Leishan City and met a host of generals and officials. He paid special attention to the newly appointed major generals and prefects.

On a particular day, while Ouyang Shuo was meeting Weizhang, a system notification sounded out in his ear.

"System Notification: Congratulations War-Snow Rose mercenary group led by Snow Rose for passing the public mysterious region, South Mountain Cave, for the first time. Rewarded ten thousand reputation points, congratulations player."Compared to the week that Lin Jing promised, they were a full month late. It seems like the elite squad faced some problems when killing the final boss.

The moment the notification sounded out, the adventure gamemode players exploded. Just the words 'public mysterious region' were enough to drive them crazy.

It was a public mysterious region, the first one since the system opened mysterious regions.

Players asked around to find out the exact location.

Naturally, people asked members of the War-Snow Rose mercenary group the most. Unfortunately, Yazhou remained a huge secret, and normal members did not know about it.

However, one person with connections managed to find out that South Mountain Cave was located near Yashan City.

All of a sudden, Yashan City became the center of attention.

When players wanted to teleport over, they found out that the teleportation formation was restricted to certain people only.

As for riding over on a boat, don't kid me!

All of a sudden, the forums were sent into an uproar.

Players grumbled and insisted that Yashan City be opened to them. Some people even scolded. These people acted like Yashan City should naturally be open to them.

Toward this, Yashan City kept silent.

Without Ouyang Shuo's instructions, they would not open the teleportation formation.

The next day, Ouyang Shuo ordered that the current city only open itself to members of the Shanhai Alliance guild alliance. As for other players? Not at the current moment.

Ouyang Shuo was not a philanthropist.

Based on Lin Jing's words, the South Mountain Cave dropped strategist equipment.

Coincidentally, Qingfeng Pavillion and Tingyu Floor were mainly composed of strategists. War-Snow Rose Mercenary group had almost every occupation, so they also had many strategists.

At such a time, they naturally had to meet their internal demand first. Such alliance benefits would help to increase the members sense of belonging to their guilds.

One could foresee that in the future period of time, the three guilds would have many members swarm into Yashan City. To take care of this, Ouyang Shuo sent a letter to Song Jia to let her take charge of Yashan City. She would be in charge of adventure gamemode player matters.

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Chapter 399- End of Huangjin

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On the 6th month, 25th day, guards escorted Bao Shuya and Yanhuo Yaonie into Leishan City.

Once they met, Yanhuo Yaonie opened up, "Lianzhou Lord, I guess you have some questions for me?"

"That's right!" Ouyang Shuo said expressionlessly.

"The theory is simple. If I cannot become a lord, so I'll become the right hand of a lord; that's my style."

Ouyang Shuo nodded.

"What makes you so confident that I will use you?"

In the eyes of players, Ouyang Shuo could not be considered an open player. Instead, he seemed strict and unfriendly. The matter with Yashan City South Mountain Cave was a perfect example.

"Lianzhou Lord, why don't you take a look at my stats."

Yanhuo Yaonie laughed confidently and showed his stats bar to Ouyang Shuo.

When Ouyang Shuo raised his head and scanned Yanhuo Yaonie's stats, his eyes froze.

Yanhuo Yaonie was also a general. His stats could be considered normal. However, two things astonished Ouyang Shuo. Yanhuo Yaonie's innate talent—Naval Warfare Adept, and the king rank cultivation method—Surging Wave True Technique.

Naval Warfare Adept: During naval warfare, raises cannon or bow range by 10%, raises ship speed by 20%, raises warship defense by 25%, reduces chance of ship sinking by 15%.

It was a totally overpowered talent, simply made for a navy general. No wonder Yanhuo Yaonie was so confident. With such a talent, being a lord was simply a waste.

Ouyang Shuo could not imagine what would have happened if the Ming Dynasty warship building technical manual from the auction had landed in Yanhuo Yaonie's hands. What kind of broken lord would be born if that happened?

Not only that, the cultivation method he trained in was similar, and it helped to buff his talent.

This guy was really lucky; he actually found such a matching authentic secret manual.

"State your terms!"

One had to say that Ouyang Shuo felt really tempted.

The lack of navy generals was the weakness of Shanhai City. Ouyang Shuo would not want to let any go.

Weirdly, in his last life, Ouyang Shuo had not heard of such a lord. Who knows if he was too low-profile, or if he was KO-ed early like now.

As long as it was not an infamous player, Ouyang Shuo was confident of ruling over them.

"I've heard that Shanhai City has built a Beihai Bay Squadron. I just want to work in the squadron."

"That simple?"

"Yes, that simple." Yanhuo Yaonie was very frank, "Compared to being a lord, I want to roam the seas. Instead of being restricted to China, why not attack other regions?"

Ouyang Shuo kept silent. In his last life, the reason why this fellow was not famous probably had something to do with this.

"Ok, I agree!"

"Ah?"

This time, it was Yanhuo Yaonie's turn to feel surprised. He did not expect Ouyang Shuo to agree so quickly.

"You feel very shocked?"

"That's right!" Yanhuo Yaonie nodded, "The Lianzhou Lord from the rumors is not someone who trusts other lord players."

Yanhuo Yaonie was beating around the bush to avoid directly saying that Ouyang Shuo was too wary of other players.

Ouyang Shuo smiled, "Times have changed. Shanhai City already has a perfect system, so if you try anything funny, I'll know."

Yanhuo Yaonie was shocked yet again. He did not need to be so direct, right?

"Of course, the place of appointment has to change. The Beihai Bay Squadron is more of a close water squadron. With your specialty, it's better if you go to the Yashan Squadron."

"Yashan Squadron?" It was already very impressive for Yanhuo Yaonie to know of the Beihai Bay Squadron, but he knew nothing about the Yashan Squadron.

Ouyang Shuo roughly explained, "The leader of the 1st division of the Yashan Squadron is Cai Mao. You can work under him and be his deputy!"

"No problem!"

Yanhuo Yaonie's eyes brightened. He was not sad or dejected because of the low position.

He also knew that although he had an insane talent, he lacked practical experience. The chance to learn from Cai Mao was a blessing.

When he thought about that, Yanhuo Yaonie bowed, "General greets the lord!"

At this point, Ouyang Shuo had genuinely persuaded and awed him.

If you doubt someone you would not use them, but if you use someone, you would not doubt them. Such magnanimity was not something a normal lord could achieve.

Undoubtedly, this decision would be his changing point in the game. When the sailors get their break, he would have a stage to display his brilliant skills.

Just as Ouyang Shuo was busy calming down the situation in Leizhou Prefecture, the Huangjin uprising army in the north had reached their end.

Earlier in the 6th month, Di Chen had started to plot a plan to destroy the uprising army.

At this time, it was not long since Shanhai City had started the war in Leizhou. Naturally, Di Chen had his own problems, so he rejected the Leizhou lords call for help.

After half a month of communication and discussion, Di Chen used all the methods available to him, not even using his family, to successfully make the thirty odd territories in Jingdou form a temporary alliance.

Although the lords knew that cooperating with Handan County was helping the enemy, they could only form an alliance to face the Huangjin uprising army that was growing stronger day by the day. They would think about the consequences later.

After all, if the Huangjin uprising army wiped them out, everything would be for naught.

One had to say that in terms of recruiting and persuading players, Di Chen was leagues ahead of Ouyang Shuo. Adding Juedai Fenghua into the mix, who helped thread the needles, the alliance formed up really smoothly.

6th month, 16th day, Lianpo acted as the commander of the Jingdou alliance army. He led a total of 150 thousand men to launched their assault against the Huangjin uprising army.

At this time, the uprising army had cleared out Zhending House; they were ready to expand outward.

120 thousand troops split into four directions and attacked outward.

Similar to the Taiping Country uprising army, famous generals filled their ranks. Apart from the three brothers Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, and Zhang Liang, there was also Zhang Mancheng, Bocai, Han Zhong, and the like.

In addition to Zhang Jiao possessing his memories from the past, they formed a deadly force.

Who would have expected that the alliance army would deal a fatal blow to Zhang Jiao at such a moment.

Lianpo took the chance when the uprising army split their troops to lead the alliance army to battle. They destroyed the north and east forces in just four days.

The north general Zhang Man died, while the alliance captured the east general Zhang Liang and deputy Bocai. At the same time, there were a few small generals that the lords split up amongst themselves.

With the first battle ending in a victory, the morale of the alliance army rose. As a result, they did not even bother about the south and west troops. They just directly attacked Zhending City.

The ones in charge of Zhending City were Zhang Jiao and Yi.

General Yi died in history because Tang Zhou leaked a secret. Naturally, he became Zhang Jiao's right hand man. He led thirty thousand guards to defend the city.

With the base under attacked, even with his memory, Zhang Jiao could not do anything. He could only recall the south and west troops and order them to save the king.

Zhang Jiao fell right into Lianpo's trap.

Lianpo attacked Zhending City to bait the reinforcements. Then, they changed targets.

A tragedy fell just like that.

The south and west troops that had hurried back were ambushed. In just two days, both forces were broken down.

The south general Zhang Bao, the west general Guanke, and some small generals were either killed in battle or captured.

In this battle, it was a total victory for the alliance army. Not only did they recruit many rare generals, they even recruited many prisoners. Their morale had reached its peak.

The prestige and honoor of Di Chen in Jingdou naturally climbed.

The only one that was not friendly with him in Jingdou was probably Stone County.

Wufu's Stone County belonged to the Shanhai Alliance. Naturally, they were excluded from the alliance army. In this war, he became a total passerby.

After decimating the south and west troops, the alliance army started to surround and siege Zhending City.

At the Zhending City gate, Zhang Jiao looked out at the stream of forces. He had a dejected expression on his face. He did not expect that even after reviving, he could not change the fate of Huangjin.

Destiny was always so cruel.

Yi walked over and said, "General, let's take the chance to escape. Even if I die, I'll definitely be able to protect you."

"Escape? To where?" Zhang Jiao's eyes showed that he had already given up, "Even if we escape, we will have to live in hiding. What's the difference between that and dying?"

"If we survive, we do not need to feel afraid!"

Zhang Jiao shook his head, "You do not need to try and persuade me. Just let me die together with the city."Yi was speechless.

6th month, 22nd day, the alliance army launched its final assault on Zhengding.

The Zhending City protection force viewed death as a reprieve.

The hundred thousand civilians inside the city were all loyal Huangjin believers.

In this battle, they let the alliance army see and realize the meaning of passion.

Under their relentless assault and their use of trebuchets and scaling ladders, they finally broke through after five days. Their losses in the siege alone was more than all the previous battles combined.

Zhang Jiao and Yi both died in battle.

Along with them, twenty thousand soldiers and several tens of thousands of civilians had perished.

As Zhending City fell, a system notification announced the end of the Huangjin uprising army.

The moment the notification sounded out, the China region was sent into an uproar.

Only half a year had passed and the Huangjin uprising army was already destroyed; this really made one feel respect and worship.

Di Chen's prestige and fame ballooned; he chased right for Ouyang Shuo.

Based on the merit points from this battle, Di Chen became a rank 3 Marquis.

Handan County would soon upgrade to prefecture.

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Chapter 400- Heroes Rising

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After occupying Zhending City, the atmosphere within the alliance army became really weird.

In this battle, the alliance army had captured Zhang Liang, Bocai, Hanzhong, as well as Guan Ke. They had obtained twenty odd small generals and eighty thousand prisoners.

Such a huge cake, how would they split it?

Apart from that, there were the territories that the uprising army had occupied, especially Zhending City, who would take it?

The interests involved in this matter were simply too huge.

The lords were not dumb. In order to defend against Handan County eating up all the rewards, they had formed smaller alliance earlier to go up against Di Chen.

Di Chen was also really tempted, if he could make use of this battle to destroy the alliance army, the entire Jingdou region would belong to him.

Unfortunately, he was up against a bunch of smart people. None of them were that stupid. In this battle, the lords were really wary of Handan County.

During this war, be it in terms of generals, equipment, or battle strength, Handan County had sent higher level personnel than the other territories.

Hence, many other lords formed up into groups to rival him. After five days of discussions, they finally decided on how to split the cake.

In the end, Handan County would receive Guan Ke and two other generals, as well as ten thousand prisoners.

As Zhengding City was too far away from Handan County, Di Chen had no choice but to give it up.

An alliance formed from the five closest territories took the city; they would manage it together.

After splitting the cake, the alliance disbanded and everyone went off in their own directions.

Di Chen rode on his horse. He turned back to look at Zhending City and muttered, "The benefits I gave out today will one day return to my hands."

The end of the Huangjin uprising army only caused a small ripple in the chaos of the China region.

Gaia 2nd year, the year of chaos was not over just like that.

As they entered the second half of the year, the various territories started to surround and fight back against the remaining uprising armies.

In the middle region.

The Chengsheng Wuguang uprising ran rampant around the mid plains.

Chun Shenjun was located in the Luoyang Region, while Piao Linghuan and Sha Pojun were in Xianyang. Feng Qiuhuang was in Taiyuan. These three regions boxed in the mid plains.

The one closest to the uprising was Fallen Phoenix City.

In contrast to Wufu, Feng Qiuhuang had already formed up an alliance army with the other Phoenix Alliance members to face the uprising army.

Although Chun Shenjun, Piao Linghuan, and Sha Pojun had some animosity between each other, they would still group up to fight against the Chensheng uprising army.

The mid plains were different from Jingdou, as it covered a far bigger region. To replicate Di Chen's feats was impossible. The only people that were closest to fighting them was the Luoyang Alliance, a regional alliance.

Although they asked for help, unfortunately for them, neither side was willing to send forces. It was similar to what Ouyang Shuo had considered.

Zhongyuan was in a struggle under the suppression of the uprising army.

It was only a matter of time before they occupied the entire Zhongyuan. At that time, Chun Shenjun, Feng Qiuhuang, Piao Linghuan, and Sha Pojun would show their might.

The only change happened in the Zhongyan province, imperial city Luoyang.

If the uprising army was arrogant and stupid and tried to attack Luoyang City, they would just be courting destruction. Ouyang Shuo knew that each imperial city had a hundred thousand men strong elite force housed.

In the first few years of the game, no territory would dare to touch the imperial cities.

Southeast Region.

Compared to the middle plains region, the southeast region was much bigger, covering over five to six provinces. Zhanlang, Xiongba, Gong Chengshi, and Xunlong Dianxue were all located in separate provinces.

Coincidentally, the base of the Huangchao uprising Army was located in the Wannan Province.

Connected to that province was Jianye Region, where Blood Red County was located, Jiangnan Province, where King County was located, and Jiangzhou Province where, Black Lion County was located.

As for the Quangzhou Region, where Xunlong County was located, it had nothing to do with the Huangchao uprising Army. If he wanted to join this battle, he could only teleport to Black Lion County and attack together with Gong Chengshi.

The difference with the mid plains region was that Jianye Region was very long and narrow. Zhanlang's territory was only two hundred to three hundred kilometers away from Wannan Province.

Based on the news, Zhanlang had copied Di Chen and formed up an alliance with the lords in the Jianye Region. They would attack Fengyang City, where the Huangchao Uprising army was based.

Of course, compared to Jingdou, Jianye Region was only a quarter in the size. If he wanted to make use of one battle to totally destroy them, it would not be so easy.

Especially with the destruction of Huangjin, it would definitely make the other uprising armies wary.

Zhan Lang's goal was just to earn merit points and to raise his rank to Marquis soon.

The weird part was obviously the southwest region.

Feng Qingyang's territory was located in Shu, which was nearly impossible to attack. Shanhai City, Consonance City, and Tianshuang City formed a three way pincer on Taiping Country.

However, Ouyang Shuo's attitude was not obvious at this moment. Shanhai City did not attack Taiping County. Instead, they went to attack Leizhou. Be it Bai Hua or Songwen, they had both sought his opinion and asked about his intentions.

Ouyang Shuo made it clear that he temporarily had no intentions of attacking Taiping Country.

Bai Hua and Songwen could only keep silent.

After all, the territory which was truly connected to the Taiping Country uprising army was Shanhai City.

Be it Consonance County or Tianshuang County, they were still a distance away. Especially Tianshuang County. With Chiyou City between them, it was basically impossible for them to attack Taiping Country.

If Shanhai City did not attack, the two could only stay put and not move.

The only one badly affected was the Willing to Die Alliance located in Guangxi Prefecture.

Just when Shanhai City went to attack Leizhou Prefecture, the north and west troops of Taiping Country had successfully taken down Guilin Prefecture and Zhen An Prefecture.

The Willing to Die Alliance had fallen.

After taking over three prefectures, Hong Xiuquan officially announced in Tianjing the setting up of the Taiping Country.

Hong Xiuquan could still be considered logical. After setting up the country, he did not opt for a quick expansion. Instead, he started to consolidate the prefectures he had taken over.

At the same time, he ordered his generals to start forming an army. They needed to train the original peasant army into a real army.

The strength of the Taiping Country was like a snowball, rolling larger and larger.

Ouyang Shuo naturally did not just watch on as this matter developed.

Be it the Military Intelligence Division or the Black Snake Guards, they both made use of the chaos for infiltration.

Shanhai City's plan was progressing steadily.

In the entire 6th month, the flames of war rose up in the China region.

Apart from Shanhai Alliance and Yanhuang Alliance, many regional alliances started to show themselves. The most dazzling ones were naturally the Dare to Die Alliance, Luoyang Alliance, and Wannan Alliance.

The common point of the three was that they were all directly facing the invasion of the uprising army.

The Dare to Die Alliance was already destroyed, so how long could the other two alliances last?

Who could survive, and who would drown out?

This was just the beginning.

The flames of war in the next half of the year would only burn brighter.

7th month, 1st day, a system notification sounded out in the China region.

"System Notification: Congratulations player Di Chen for becoming the 4th player in the China region to upgrade to Grade 1 Prefecture, awarded 3,800 merit points."In just one week, Handan County had managed to upgrade.

This upgrade meant that the time of prefectures was slowly creeping forward.

After they upgraded, Handan County had reached the same starting line as Shanhai City again. On the same day, Di Chen announced on the global channel that he would recruit two hundred thousand adventure gamemode players to move into Handan City.

Two hundred thousand players was pretty much the advantage in population that Shanhai City had accumulated in this half a year.

To attract players to move over, Di Chen listed a bunch of benefits on the forums. One of these benefits included a mansion for each family.

The moment the news got out, the China region was in an uproar.

Adventure gamemode players were exceptionally warm to the idea, as they had enough of being cooped up in the imperial cities. If they could receive a mansion, they would be willing to do anything. Furthermore, Handan City did not make them do anything; it was all for free.

As the competition between the guilds grew more intense, more players, especially those in small groups, would choose to leave the imperial city because they were having a hard time.

Di Chen's proposal exactly aligned with their needs.

The moment the post went out, Handan City received many tens of thousands of applications.

It was apparent that Handan City was going on a totally different path from Shanhai City. With his family supporting him, Di Chen was confident in managing all the players.

Not only that, using his performance in the destruction of the Huangjin uprising army, all the uncertain elements from before were temporarily wiped out.

Di Chen's family had reached an agreement to support Handan City's development. All their resources, be it the above ground ones or the hidden ones, would all start to funnel into the city.

Although he was half a year later than Shanhai City, their development speed was not slower. The further behind, the bigger the platform to show the family's strength.

The more terrifying aspect was that compared to the arrogance he possessed when he entered the game, Di Chen had grown more task-oriented and mature.

One had to say that the lord gamemode in Earth Online really helped to train and develop leaders.

Di chen's growth was the best example.

Gaia wanted someone that could take control and rise up; there was no difference between a commoner and someone from a big power to it. It would not be biased to one side.

Di Chen's family would probably feel very happy about this.

Compared to the achievements in the game, a superb heir was the biggest gain to the family.

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Chapter 401- Huge Change

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7th month 1st day, night, Leishan City.

The Lord's Manor of Leishan County had already been changed into the town hall of Leishan Prefecture.

Ouyang Shuo chose to reside in a quiet little courtyard in the west of the city. He set down these principles for himself to try his best to not interfere in the running of the town hall.

He did not want to take all the attention and rights from the prefect.

Hence, after Bao Shuya's appointment, Ouyang Shuo left the town hall.

Along with Bao Shuya's appointment, the organizational structure of Leizhou Prefecture, the five prefects and the twenty-two county magistrates were all appointed with the help of Fan Zhongyan.

The Four Seas Bank had already set up a branch in Leishan City and contact points at the various House counties. A huge sum of funds flowed into the construction of Leizhou Prefecture.

A bank was a basic structure for a grade 2 town. As such, the Four Seas Bank did not need to construct new banks. They just had to change the signboard and train a batch of workers.

The banknotes that the Four Seas Bank distributed were naturally circulated in Leizhou Prefecture too.

The circulation of the banknotes naturally pleased all the various Chamber of Commerces.

Be it the Cui Chamber of Commerce or the Hequanji Chamber of Commerce, their businesses had spread across Lianzhou, Qiongzhou, and Leizhou. With the banknotes, together with the Four Seas Bank, transactions would become a lot more convenient.

As Shanhai Territory grew stronger and stronger, the various Chamber of Commerces of the imperial cities also started to gather in Shanhai City.

Especially the Cui Chamber of Commerce. They utilized Shanhai City to experience a complete rebirth. This made the other Chamber of Commerces in Dali envious, and they all contacted the Financial Department to request to move into Shanhai City.

The business division naturally would not reject them.

There were now over ten Chamber of Commerces in Shanhai City. The businesses and industries there were becoming more and more prosperous.

The financial director Cui Yingyu was really skilled. In just a few days time, she had managed to raise 150 thousand gold from the Chamber of Commerces; a sum far greater than the amount needed.

The Cui Chamber of Commerce itself decided to loan fifty thousand gold.

Ouyang Shuo welcomed all this money. One could foresee that the future Zhaoqing Prefecture and Wuzhou Prefecture would similarly require huge amounts of construction funds.

Relying solely on the financial aid of Lianzhou Prefecture was definitely insufficient.

With the biggest financial problem solved, the newly appointed governor Bao Shuya had a stage to perform. Compared to Yanluo County, Leishan Prefecture was a more suitable stage.City West Courtyard.

Although it was not big, it was exquisite. With guards waiting outside, it was certainly safe. Ouyang Shuo would usually stay in the courtyard and welcome people from the Leizhou Prefecture.

The uproar and noise in the day seemingly had no effect on Ouyang Shuo's cultivation.

In his room, Ouyang Shuo sat cross-legged on his bed, closing his eyes as he cultivated. The golden primordial energy was like a stream, slowly flowing along his meridians.

As the number of layers in the Yellow Emperor Internal Cultivation Technique increased, Ouyang Shuo's meridians were strengthened and opened. Till date, all twelve organ channels had totally opened.

Out of the Qijing eight meridians, the Ren Meridian had opened. As such, if he managed to open the Du Meridians, he would breakthrough to the 8th layer.

Every time he went up a layer in the cultivation technique, the route of flow through the meridians would also change and become more complicated. One rotation cycle would also last longer and longer.

At this point, Ouyang Shuo had reached the most crucial moment.

If one saw it, they could see that he was on the brink of breaking through; he was just one step away.

Ouyang Shuo moved the golden primordial energy. It rotated faster and faster, even forming brushing sounds against the walls of his meridians.

In the end, the primordial energy prepared to infuse itself into the Du Meridian.

A piercing pain spread out from within his meridians.

The huge pain made huge beads of sweat form on Ouyang Shuo's forehead. At the same time, steam rose from above his head.

Ouyang Shuo gritted his teeth. He could not give up, if he did, his efforts would all be for naught.

"Break for me!"

Hong!

The golden primordial energy unleashed its strongest blow. Finally, it broke the walls of the meridian. It was like a wild horse released into the wilderness, charging into the empty meridian and filling it up.

Ouyang Shuo carefully controlled the primordial energy. After he rotated a round in the Du Meridian, he slowly backed out and returned the energy to his Dantian.

"Phew!"

"System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for successfully opening the Ren and Du Meridians. Bone structure 5, Comprehension 4, Luck 1, Charm 2, all other given stats 5. Congratulations player!""System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for successfully cultivating to the 8th layer of the Yellow Emperor Internal Cultivation Technique. Bone structure 2, Comprehension 1, all other given stats 1. Primordial energy upper limit increased to two thousand points. Congratulations player!"

The Ren and Du meridians were two of the main channels in the human body. If they were both opened, many other meridians would open. This would improve one's body quality, the strength of their bones and muscles, while also improving circulation.

If the two meridians were not open, the primordial energy would accumulate in the Dantian. If one did not train hard, it would slowly dissipate. However, if the Ren and Du meridians were opened, the primordial energy could flow all over the body and circle all around. It would not dissipate, and it would even grant the body a level of protection.

Opening the Ren and Du meridians was a very symbolic event for Ouyang Shuo. His body had once again improved on an existential scale. He had experienced a true rebirth that let his power reach that of three oxen.

The moment he broke through, his real body inside the game cabin also started to mutate.

If someone saw him, they would see a golden glow glisten on the surface of his body. It looked mysterious but noble. Under the control of the AI, a huge quantity of nutrition fluids was injected into Ouyang Shuo'a body.

At the same time, his body excreted a huge amount of black waste. It formed a film over his body. The cleaning function of the game cabin cleaned up the waste until not even a single speck remained.

After the cleaning process, Ouyang Shuo's body appeared crystal clear. It looked like he had ice muscles and jade bones. Strand after strand of primordial energy flowed slowly under his skin.

At this moment, the huge migration fleet was slowly proceeding forward in the dark universe.

In the middle of the fleet, there was a huge spaceship that several guard ships closely protected. This was the flagship of the entire fleet—its brain and heart.

This was because the main machine of Gaia was in the flagship.

To put it another way, the entire flagship was modified to become Gaia's main system.

On the hundred odd guard ships, there were around 80% of the military of the federation. These soldiers were not allowed to enter the game. Their only mission was to ensure the safety of the fleet.

The soldiers who could enter the game had left the force earlier.

In the flagship, there were people with A or S permission levels. Apart from them, there was one more core team.

The mission of this team was to ensure the smooth running of the fleet. They would also keep in contact with the explorer team on planet Hope to set up future plans.

These workers were also not allowed to play the game.

Even if they logged in, it was on a casual basis. They could not affect the runnings of the game.

The moment Ouyang Shuo's body mutated, Gaia received a notification.

Ding!

"Spaceship number ZGMD105, game cabin serial number ZG10050078 has triggered game clause number 51, reaching requirements for level D permission level, please confirm!"

"Confirm!"

The one giving the confirmation was a young woman with a low but really pleasant voice.

"Confirmation complete, following federation rule number 51-002, granting game cabin serial number ZG10050078 higher grade nutritional fluid, raising AI level of cabin, raising the citizen's permission level."

Ding!

"Connecting high-grade nutritional fluid!"

Ding!

"Game cabin serial number ZG10050078 AI level upgraded!"

Ding!

"Citizen number ZG350825216810058271's permission level increased to D."

After the notification, Gaia returned to normal.

This series of events remained unknown to Ouyang Shuo.

He only knew that after the Yellow Emperor Internal Cultivation Technique leveled up to the 8th layer, he could increase his primordial energy by five units every day. With his normal cultivation speed, he needed another three hundred days to upgrade once more.

The road was long and arduous!

7th month 5th day, Leizhou Prefecture.

After ten days of reorganization, the 4th division was already in place, and the newly built three divisions were already completed. The soldiers that were retrenched were sent to the various Houses.

What remained was the slow and hard process of training the forces.

Based on the Military Affairs Department's plan, the 1st division of the Tiger Legion, as well as the newly built 4th division, would sail from Hai An City back to Yashan City.

After calming down and settling the Li Race aboriginals in the south, Ouyang Shuo personally ordered Sun Bin to attack the middle and north regions after they built the 3rd division.

He wanted to settle the entire Qiongzhou Island within two months.

The Guards division would follow Ouyang Shuo and return to Shanhai City.

The 2nd and 4th divisions of the Dragon Legion, as well as the independent division, would remain in Leizhou Prefecture.

The next step would be for these three divisions to continue up north to attack Zhaoqing Prefecture.

Of course, the city protection division of Tianshuang County would also help them in this battle.

Ouyang Shuo still left the command of the troops in the Battle of Zhaoqing to Baiqi.

Compared to Leizhou Prefecture, the situation in Zhaoqing was a lot better.

Firstly, with the Leizhou Prefecture as the logistics base, they had no problems with supplies and resources.

Secondly, they had Tianshuang County helping them.

In addition to the high morale they possessed from taking down Leizhou, it was only a matter of time till they took down Zhaoqing. The only problem would be the future of Zhaoqing.

Song Wen was smart and sent a letter to Ouyang Shuo. He stated that after Zhaoqing Prefecture fell, Tianshuang County was willing to copy Mulan County and merge into the Shanhai Territory system.

Ouyang Shuo was really happy to accept this proposal.

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Chapter 402-Nanjiang Governor-General House

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After checking and inspecting the three newly built divisions, Ouyang Shuo stepped onto his path back home.

At this point, all the military and administrative matters of Leizhou Prefecture were on point, and Ouyang Shuo did not need to personally look over all of them.

The next day, Ouyang Shuo left Leishan City and rode a warship from Heitu Harbor back to Shanhai City.

Heitu Harbor was the place where the Guards division had disembarked onto land. Compared to a month ago, this place had become a huge construction site and was really boisterous.

In the future, this would become a large-sized port directly connected to Beihai Harbor. The trading route between the two would form an important passageway that the Lianzhou Lord's Manor would manage.

Although Leizhou Prefecture was a lone territory, with this naval route, commuting between the two territories would become really convenient. Even a normal merchant ship would need only four days to travel this distance.

At the same time, Hai An City and Yanluo City would each have a harbor. The Hai An City Harbor was mainly used to connect Leizhou Prefecture to Qiongzhou Prefecture.

The Yanluo City Harbor would connect to Lingnan's Jiaozhou Prefecture and even to the imperial city, Quanzhou.

Along with the establishment of Leizhou Prefecture, the sea trade of Shanhai City entered a high speed development phase. Because of the geography of Lianzhou Prefecture, sea trade would become their most important connection to the outside world.

7th month, 9th day, Ouyang Shuo returned to Shanhai City.

The Guards division and the four directors returned alongside him.

Since they had the perfected the organization structure of Leizhou Prefecture, the four directors would naturally return. In the month that they left Shanhai City, the administrative matters of the Lord's manor were already enough to give them a headache.

After returning to Shanhai City, Ouyang Shuo started a huge revolution of the territory structure.

Along with that, he naturally made a series of personnel arrangements.

After the establishment of Leizhou Prefecture, there was a need to consider the future Qiongzhou Prefecture and Zhaoqing Prefecture. Ouyang Shuo felt that the time to upgrade the Lianzhou Lord's Manor had matured.

First, he would officially establish the Lianzhou Prefecture City Hall, separate from the Lianzhou Lord's Manor. As expected, he appointed Wei Ran as governor of Lianzhou Prefecture.

He chose Shenjuan City to be the governance area of Lianzhou Prefecture. Currently, the city was still being built.

Additionally, he took this chance to officially split Shanhai City from Lianzhou Prefecture. It would become an independently run region and the future capital city.

There were two reasons for setting Shenjuan City as the governance area.

Firstly, Shenjuan City was located in the middle of Lianzhou Prefecture.

Secondly, the position of governance area would increase and promote the growth of Shenjuan City.

Since Ouyang Shuo had appointed Wei Ran as the governor, Wei Ran had to leave Shanhai City. This helped to cool the rumors about him and Baiqi. Moreover, it was a blessing toward the development of Lianzhou Prefecture.

After officially building the Lianzhou Prefecture, they would also build the garrison division to take charge of the daily defense of the prefecture. As for the city protection division, they would be in charge of defending Shanhai City.

The establishment of the garrison division was similar to liberating the Dragon Legion. The 1st division, which was in charge of protecting the prefecture, could now move into Mulan Stronghold.

As for the members of the garrison division, Ouyang Shuo aimed for the prisoners of Zhaoqing Prefecture to fill this role.

Hence, he could only build the Lianzhou garrison division after taking down Zhaoqing Prefecture. Ouyang Shuo chose Hu Yibiao for the role of major general.

Hu Yibiao was the 4th regiment colonel of the 3rd division. Similar to Zhaoyan, he was also a strong and experienced general that Shanhai City developed.

Although this batch of old generals could not become the major generals of a wilderness fighting division, they could still manage a garrison division. This was also the last help Ouyang Shuo would provide to this batch of generals that had been with him since the start.

After Shanhai City became independent, he would create the role of Shanhai Magistrate.

For the position of first Shanhai Magistrate, Ouyang Shuo chose the newly appointed Broken Blade House Prefect, Zang Wenzhong.

Zang Wenzhong stuck out due to his administrative thinking and his identity as an outsider.

Gushan County County Magistrate Lei Fan would take over as the prefect of Broken Blade House.

Lei Fan was always an official that Ouyang Shuo looked up to. During the Battle of Lianzhou, he showed exceptional talent. Ouyang Shuo naturally wanted to use this chance to promote him.

At the same time, Ouyang Shuo officially named Tian Wenjing as the governor of Qiongzhou.

At this point, the Lord's Manor officially ruled over three prefectures.

In the future, more prefectures would enter the ruling scope of Lianzhou Lord's Manor. As for whether or not he wanted to create an organization structure above the prefecture grade, it would probably happen many years later.

The most difficult problem right now was the unofficial state of Lianzhou Lord's Manor's rule over the territories.

Based on the settings of the game, the territory of the Lianzhou Lord's Manor was limited to fifty thousand square kilometers. However, its actual ruling area extended fifteen to sixteen times greater than the set amount.

In Ouyang Shuo's last life, Di Chen and the others also met a similar problem.

The only solution was to ask for the positions of governor, provincial governor, or governor-general from the imperial court. Only then could one have jurisdiction over the territories they had taken over.

Undoubtedly, Ouyang Shuo needed such a position.

Such an important position naturally would not come for free.

One of the requirements would be to pay a certain fee to the imperial court every year. Not only that, if one did not have a certain level of reputation, the imperial court would not accept you.

The imperial court that Ouyang Shuo chose was naturally the one in Dali.

After all, the Dali Imperial Court had granted him the position of Lianzhou Lord.

Since he had made a decision, Ouyang Shuo chose a messenger to travel to Dali to meet the king.

Based on Ouyang Shuo's intentions, he wanted to become the Governor-General of Nanjiang. In turn, he would build the Nanjiang House.

One had to say that his appetite was really big.

The position of governor meant absolute control, while the position of general meant that he could lead troops. As such, a governor-general was an overall ruler, the biggest official of an entire region.

Nanjiang simply covered a really huge region.

Ouyang Shuo wanted to change everything in one step. Before he set up a country, he would use the structure of the Nanjiang Governor-General House to prevent the need for constant change.

In his last life, Di Chen and the others had all asked for positions to rule a region. For example, the position of Huajie Governor. They would build up a provincial governor house before slowly climbing up.

Who would act like Ouyang Shuo and attempt to directly climb all the way up?

In all likelihood, the Dali Imperial Court lacked the power to make the decision. They would need to ask the Quanzhou Imperial Court. Only then would Gaia approve his request.

This was going to be really difficult.

Luckily, Shanhai City had a bit of a relationship with the Quanzhou Imperial Court. Especially with the aid of Mazu, their relationship had grown closer and closer.

For this reason, Ouyang Shuo possessed such confidence.

If he did not have such beneficial elements, Ouyang Shuo definitely would not have even thought of such a thing.

Next, he had to decide on who to chose as the messenger.

Different from the intense wars during the Spring and Autumn Era, the war between the lords in the territories usually ended in mutual destruction.

Hence, the use of diplomats and messengers were not as important as that in history. Not only did Shanhai City not set up a diplomatic department, he could not even find a professional diplomat.

When he thought about this matter, Ouyang Shuo felt a headache.

Helplessly, he could only ask the four directors for their opinions.

"Who do you all think should be the diplomat?"

The four directors looked at one another; they did not know how to reply.

The financial director Cui Yingyu could not be the diplomat. As a woman, she was still okay in the territory. After all, with Ouyang Shuo's protection, no one dared to say anything. However, to enter the court, the emperor would not even want to see her.

Administration director Fan Zhongyan? It would not work.

Fan Zhongyan was a just and fair person. If Ouyang Shuo wanted to show the prestige and strength of the territory, Fan Zhongyan was naturally a good choice. However, this trip was a private event to try and obtain an official position. Naturally, Fan Zhongyan was unsuitable.

The ones that remained were Du Ruhui and Wei Yang.

Ouyang Shuo had no choice. He immediately decided to send both Du Ruhui and Cui Yingyu to Dali.

Du Ruhui would take the role of ambassador. His main duty was to meet the emperor and form a strong relationship. Cui Yingyu would be the deputy ambassador. She would use the power of the Cui Family to hold activities.

On the other hand, Wei Yang and Jingjian would visit Quanzhou.

Ouyang Shuo knew that Jingjian was an ambassador for the Qin Country. As such, he had a certain amount of experience.

After choosing the ambassador, he needed to prepare a gift.

Apart from the meeting gifts for the various officials, the most important aspect was setting the yearly payments.

To obtain the position, Ouyang Shuo had decided to give it his all.

He personally decided that Shanhai City would give twenty thousand gold, ten thousand sets of colored silk, fifty kilograms of White Tea, a hundred strings of precious pearls, and two thousand jars of three flower wine to each imperial court.

The total sum value of the goods was over a hundred thousand gold.

Ouyang Shuo knew that only these territory specialties could move the emperor. Normal goods would just be throwing his own face.

Out of all the lords, probably only Ouyang Shuo could manage to take out such a huge sum.

The moment his words left his mouth, the four directors took in deep breaths.

Luckily, the four of them were people with foresight. When Ouyang Shuo suggested the building of the Nanjiang Governor-General House, the four of them understood what it meant for the territory.

One could say that if they were successful, it would be a monumental event for the development of Shanhai Territory.

Compared to taking over Leizhou Prefecture, this was just as important.

Du Ruhui and Wei Yang stepped out and bowed. Then, they solemnly said, "Do not worry, lord. We will not let you down!"

In truth, with such a huge yearly payment as the base, their chances of success were really high.

Just because of that, the two of them seemed really confident.

Ouyang Shuo nodded and did not say anything more.

The next day, the two ambassador teams brought their gifts and left.

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Chapter 403- Game Hotfix

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Just as Ouyang Shuo was planning on how to obtain his position, the battle on the southeast front had entered a crucial moment.

7th month, 2nd day, Zhan Lang and twenty odd territories in Jianye Region formed a 120 thousand men strong alliance army. They crossed over the the border of the Wannan Province to attack Fengyang City.

Blood Red County's mysteries middle-aged general finally appeared and acted as the commander of the alliance army. Under his leadership, the alliance army suddenly appeared right outside Fengyang City on the morning of the 8th.

The Huangchao uprising army was caught completely off guard.

After learning a lesson from the Huangjin uprising army, they did not expand in all four directions. Out of their 110 thousand men, they only sent sixty thousand down south. The remaining fifty thousand all camped in Fengyang City.

Compared to people like Hong Xiuquan and Zhang Jiao, Huangchao and Chensheng were a little weaker in terms of attracting the masses.

The difference in strength of the various uprising armies was really evident.

The destroyed Huangjin uprising army had 150 thousand troops. After Taiping Country took over Zhen An Prefecture and Guilin Prefecture, their numbers reached a terrifying 180 thousand. The Chengsheng, Wuguang uprising army only had 120 thousand men. Huangchao was even more pitiful at just 110 thousand men.

Even so, it was still highly difficult and really risky for the Jianye Alliance army to try and attack a city guarded by 50 thousand men.

No one felt that they could smoothly take down Fengyang City.

One must know that Huangchao was a through and through nutcase. In history, under the circumstances where their grain supply was cut-off, Huangchao started a large-scale planned cannibalism activity.

Such a thing was totally unheard of and rarely happened in history.

In the first three days of the war, as expected, the alliance army launched a relentless assault but it did not work.

Fengyang City stood tall.

Just as everyone thought that the alliance army would fail badly, their chance came.

The one that broke the balance was the Blood Red Army that Zhan Lang had trained in secret.

The Blood Red Army temporarily only had one division, the soldiers all retired military personnel. They all wore Suozi Armor, and the army was heavily disciplined and well-structured.

The three days of attacking was just a trick to lower the Huangchao Army's guard.

On the morning of the 4th day, the hidden Blood Red Army finally made their move.

Their probings during the first three days allowed the middle-aged general to see clearly the defence schedule and mechanism of Fengyang City, allowing him find their weakest point.

The Blood Red Army precisely attacked this weakest point.

The huge army braved the arrow rain and proceeded toward the city wall in an orderly formation. The three days of siege was not totally useless, as the city protection rivers outside were totally leveled.

The army quickly arrived under the city walls for a really small price.

When they stood at the foot of the city walls, the Blood Red Army soldiers' actions made one drop their spectacles.

The ones at the front, row after row, followed their training to toss out stone slabs from their storage bags.

Stone slab after stone slab was quickly passed to the front and placed at the foot of the city wall.

Following which, the first soldier backed down and a soldier from another unit went up. They took out the stone from their back and formed the second layer.

Just like that, layer after layer was formed.

In less than half an hour, the Blood Red Army had braced the rain. With discipline and fearlessness like steel, they built a flight of stairs under the city wall.

This flat of stairs led from the bottom of the wall all the way to the top.

The soldiers on the city walls were stunned. With their little knowledge, how could they understand such a magnificent and mind-blowing construction process? It just seemed like magic.

The alliance army also watched on with their mouths agape.

Just like that, the Blood Red Army made use of the player storage bag to create a brand new siege method.

Obviously, this strategy was premeditated to catch the enemy off guard.

While the others remained shocked, the Blood Red Army naturally would not stand there and wait. The soldiers stepped onto the stairs and easily attacked up the wall.

What followed next was imaginable.

During a city wall defence, once a point was broken through, it would cause a whole scale collapse. As the Blood Red Army showed off their might, the morale of the alliance army ballooned. The taking down of Fengyang City was within sight.

After an afternoon of battle, Fengyang City officially fell.

Huangchao was a famous coward and was really experienced in escaping. When the Blood Red Army managed to breach the wall, he had already brought a group of people and left.

As long as the south army lived, his chances of rising up again remained.

Before his departure, he ordered his men to burn up all the grain in the city.

As they were a travelling army, their grain supply and logistics were a problem. Since Huangchao had led some troops to escape, the alliance army could only give up and not chase him.

As for Fengyang City, it was sold to the Wannan Alliance.

Although they did not succeed, the Blood Red Army grew instantly famous overnight in the China region.

When the other lords received the news, they felt amazed that such a siege tactic actually existed. It seems like adventure gamemode players were becoming more and more attractive.

Immediately, many lords were prepared to build a similar player squad. Of course, it was nearly impossible to become as fearless and regimental as the Blood Red Army.

Unfortunately, a system notification wiped such thoughts from their minds.

"System Notification: Due to players using storage bags or communication methods during war time to gain a huge advantage, badly affecting the game balance, the game will have an update.""System Notification: During war time, players cannot use their storage bags, guild channels, alliance channels, global channels, or any similar communication method. Players are also restricted from logging onto forums."The moment the notification sounded out, the players were sent into an uproar.

Zhan Lang and his Blood Red Army were really famous this time. To make the strong Gaia god change the game all of a sudden was a first since the game's release.

Compared to the adventure gamemode players who were just watching the fun, lord gamemode players felt totally annoyed.

The moment the update was out, Gaia had totally nullified the advantages of players during war. Such tactics as the one they had just seen would cease to exist.

One had to say that it was a real waste.

This time, Gaia was really ruthless. It did not allow players to use storage bags or communication channels, and even forums were disallowed. This meant that during war time, players were on a similar level to NPCs.

The only difference being that players could revive after dying. Unfortunately, the death penalties made it the same as just dying.

When Ouyang Shuo heard the system notification, he had a really complicated look on his face.

When the tactic the Blood Red Army employed was revealed to the public, Ouyang Shuo had already expected such an outcome.

This series of changes were totally the same as what had happened in his last life.

No matter who managed to figure out such a tactic, Gaia would come up with a hotfix to remedy the problem.

Hence, all of this did not surprise Ouyang Shuo.

His revival had changed many things. At the same time, there were some things that still proceeded along its intended path. Even he could not affect these matters.

Zhan Lang had probably foreseen such an outcome when he designed this tactic.

Hence, he would throw out this killer tactic at the most crucial battle.

Similarly, Zhan Lang had obtained huge benefits. Through the merit points gained from killing the uprising army soldiers, Zhan Lang had surpassed Chun Shenjun and upgraded to a rank 3 Marquis.

The upgrade of Blood Red County was imminent.

At the same time, this event meant that the fourth battle loomed.

The hotfix that Gaia applied would have vast consequences and effects on future territory wars. Any lord with a brain would know that this fix did not just have the effect of stopping insane tactics.

Some specifics on the battlefield would change too.

For example, Ouyang Shuo and Di Chen had previously used storage bags to transport siege weapons. The system even prohibited this kind of tactic now.

This update also nullified the strategy Ouyang Shuo used during the Battle of Muye.

Apart from that, the restriction on communications affected war time information spreading.

During the Battle of Lianzhou, the Yanhuang Alliance made use of the alliance channel to communicate over regions. Such a method would not appear in future wars and battles.

The only way left was a messenger system.

At this time, the Feng Bird system that Shanhai City had established grew exceptionally precious.

In the future, other players would discover similar communication networks. After all, the creatures in the game were more vast than in real life and more mysterious.

Apart from the Feng Bird, there were the common messenger pigeons. They could even employ rats and the like.

Based on the logic of Gaia, the future wars would have a decreased chances of players cheating. Gaia would likely restrict and stop the current mailing system at a certain time.

War was becoming more and more realistic.

Be it lords or generals, the number of elements they needed to consider was increasing.

Most simply, just the problem of logistics was enough to give them a headache. In ancient times, logistics decided the outcome of war; it was pretty much a lifeline.

A series of adjustments and changes would follow.

Who could adapt to the new rules and changes? Who could rise up and shine?

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Chapter 404- Territory Luck and Prosperity

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Xiangyang Region, Pill Sun County.

After learning that Zhan Lang had reached rank 3 Marquis, Chun Shenjun's face grew dark and solemn.

Zhan Lang had chased up from behind him. As a result, Chun Shenjun not only lost to Di Chen, even his position as second in the alliance was in danger.

Moreover, Chun Shenjun was helpless and could not do anything.

Pill Sun County was located in Jingzhou, south of Jingchu Province and eighteen thousand miles away from Luoyang Region—the location of the Chensheng Wuguang uprising army.

Relying on the huge amounts of funds his family had amassed, Chun Shenjun trained up a huge elite army. Furthermore, he managed to get the famous general Tiandan to join him.

Unfortunately, Zhan Lang was still faster than him.

Chun Shenjun felt furious; he smashed all the things in his reading room once more.

7th month, 14th day, Dali.

It had been three days since Du Ruhui and Cui Yingyu arrived in Dali.

The two of them made use of the Cui Chamber of Commerce to build strings and bridges. These connections allowed them to make contact with the middle-level officials. Through these contacts, they formed relationships with the officials in the imperial court.

In the end, through the imperial court officials, they spread the word to the emperor.

They had expended a vast amount of gold and resources. After two days, they finally met the Dali Emperor.

Imperial palace, Jinluan Hall.

"Lianzhou Lord subordinate Du Ruhui greets his majesty!"

The emperor sat high up on his dragon throne, dressed in a dragon robe. Strangely, the emperor's face was a blur; a thin layer of fog obscured the emperor's real face.

"Why did you come to see me?"

The emperor's voice was also fuzzy and indistinct.

"My master, the Lianzhou Lord, is really thankful for your title and specially wants to gift something to the imperial court," Du Ruhui said as he passed the gifts he had prepared to the eunuch.

The eunuch carefully accepted the gift and passed it to the emperor.

As the emperor opened the gift, he remained emotionless. After a long while, he said, "The Lianzhou Lord is really filial, I should reward him. Speak, what reward does the Lianzhou Lord seek?"

"Thank you, your highness, for your reward. My lord will definitely not let you down." Du Ruhui carefully said, "The Lianzhou Lord has been exploring and developing the Nanjiang Region. He hopes to be granted a name or title, while he works for the emperor to repay your kindness."

"The Lianzhou Lord really has a huge appetite!"

The emperor was not a simple person. Instantly, he understood the meaning in his words.

"My lord does not dare to be greedy, he only wants to help your majesty open up new lands. He wishes to be an official that guards the animals and the resources."

"?" The emperor did not understand.Du Ruhui did not reply. At this point, silence was gold.

After a long while, the Dali Emperor took a glance at the gifts and said, "I approve!"

"Thank you, your majesty!"

Du Ruhui was delighted. At least he did not let down the Lord.

At the same time, Quanzhou.

In contrast to Du Ruhui and Cui Yingyu, Wei Yang and Jingjian had a much smoother time.

Not because of any other reason, but solely because of their special gift—a Mazu Statue blessed by the flames of incense in the Mazu Temple.

The civilians of Quanzhou had long looked forward to such a statue.

Ouyang Shuo sending away the Mazu Statue was similar to losing a huge batch of Shanhai City tourists.

Such a heart pain!

The emperor of Quanzhou personally attended the Quanzhou Mazu Temple opening ceremony. Wei Yang took this chance to successfully met the Quanzhou Emperor.

The ensuing question and answer were swift and decisive.

The emperor did not lose much from granting the title of governor-general to Ouyang Shuo. Anyways, the wilderness was not their territory. Moreover, since they could receive such a huge yearly payment, why not?

Of course, Ouyang Shuo's rank played a crucial important role in the whole affair.

He was the first person in the world to be granted the title of Lord.

Shanhai City was also awarded the title of World's First Prefecture.

With all these factors stacking up, he managed to increase the chances of success.

The calculations within were not as simple as one would think. It was nearly impossible for Bai Hua and Feng Qiuhuang to receive a similar treatment even though they were also given titles.

Of course, compared to Di Chen, Bai Hua and Feng Qiuhuang still had their advantages.

7th month, 16th day, Shanhai City.

The two ambassador teams returned to Shanhai City and brought the two imperial decrees from the emperors.

Ouyang Shuo received the two imperial decrees and a notification sounded out near his ear.

"System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi, both the Dali Emperor and the Quanzhou Emperor have conferred you a title. Will you accept the position of Nanjiang Governor-General?"

"Yes!"

"System Notification: Appointed as the Nanjiang Governor-General, awarded the personal seal of the governor-general!"

With a flash, the two imperial decrees in his hands merged together. Then, a grand looking golden seal appeared.

The Nanjiang Governor-General Seal was much more exquisite than the Lianzhou Lord Seal.

From now onward, the Lianzhou Lord's seal would act as his personal seal. As for official letters, he would make use of the Nanjiang Governor-General Seal.

Name: Nanjiang Governor-General Seal

Type: Accessory

Specialty: Watch over Nanjiang (the territory under the lord's jurisdiction is not limited to the land area of the territory. The entire Nanjiang will be under the authority of the seal wielder, protected and recognized by the imperial court).

Evaluation: With this seal, the lord can establish Houses and appoint officials under his command.

The function of the seal was shown in the specialty [Watch over Nanjiang]. The moment one was protected and recognized by the imperial court, the sentiments of the people in taken over territories would swiftly rise.

The retaliation of the local groups and loyalists would also become too weak to matter.

Once granted power, everyone would submit to you, such was the situation.

If not, Ouyang Shuo would not have tried so hard to obtain such a position.

Just when Ouyang Shuo was checking out the stats of the seal, another notification sounded next to his ear.

"System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi, the Nanjiang Governor-General seal and the Lianzhou Lord Seal can be merged into the Gold Qilin Seal to help unseal it slightly. Will you merge it?"

Ouyang Shuo was elated.

"Merge!"

Ouyang Shuo did not hesitate at all. The Gold Qilin Seal was an important key to building a country. As such, Ouyang Shuo was willing to do anything to unseal it.

"System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi, the Nanjiang Governor-General Seal and the Lianzhou Lord Seal have successfully merged into the Gold Qilin Seal. The two seals have disappeared and the stats of the Gold Qilin Seal have changed!"

With a "Shua" sound, the two seals turned into two golden lights and entered the Gold Qilin Seal. The dark surface of the seal instantly brightened.

Name: Gold Qilin Seal (platinum rank)

Type: Accessory

Specialty: Ward off devils and spirits (incorruptible and helps to chase away evil), Watch over Nanjiang (the territory under the lord's jurisdiction is not limited to the land area of the territory. The entire Nanjiang will be under the authority of the seal wielder, protected and recognized by the imperial court), Conferred Lord (increases sentiments of people by 10%), Injection of Luck (the Gold Qilin Seal has received the added buffs of two huge titles, guiding the luck and people sentiment into the golden seal to help unseal it. The higher the local sentiment and the larger the territory, the faster the seal will break).

Evaluation: This is a sealed emperor seal. It requires the injection of a country protector Qilin essence to be unsealed.

It seems like the functions of the two golden seals were to help inject the luck and prosperity of the territory.

Luck and prosperity were largely mentioned in Fengshui. It was a mostly imaginary concept with no actual presence. When Gaia was gathering details about Fengshui, it had added its settings into the game.

To players, the luck stat in the game was a manifestation of a person's prosperity.

A lord cared the most about the prosperity of the territory and the future dynasty. If it was not strong, calamities could strike and cause unrest amongst the people.

In the game, luck and prosperity had to do with the governing standards and people sentiment. Gaia wanted to use this stat to make the lords care more about the people.

A common goal of the people and a unified sentiment were the greatest prosperity of the people.

At the same time, the luck and prosperity of a nation would affect the lord. Hence, Ouyang Shuo's luck stat would strengthen or weaken due to the territory prosperity.

All in all, the two depended on one another.

After merging, the Gold Qilin Seal gained the stats of both the other seals. It even gave birth to a new speciality—Conferred Lord.

This was a case of one plus one being greater than two. This merger was similar to the territory title merger and received a similar effect.

After the merging, Ouyang Shuo was only left with one seal. He could not use one for work matters and one for personal matters.

Next, a system notification sounded out in the China region.

"System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi. Both the Dali and the Quanzhou Imperial courts have conferred you a title. Appointed as the Nanjing Governor-General, granted the right to build the Nanjiang Governor-general house."The moment the notification sounded out, the players all felt confused. The title of Nanjiang Governor-General seemed really huge, but the players did not know of its actual use.

However, based on the fact that it could cause a system notification, it must hold some hidden meaning to it. As expected of the Lianzhou Lord, he could do what other players could not expect.

Compared to the adventure gamemode players, the lord gamemode players paid more attention to this notification.

Especially Di Chen and the others, who wanted to guess the deep meaning behind all of this.

As for Bai Hua and the others, Ouyang Shuo directly informed them about the matter.

Instantly, all of them wanted to try and receive the role of provincial governor from the imperial court.

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Chapter 405- Battle of Julu

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Jingdou, Handan City.

"Nanjiang Governor-General?" Di Chen muttered to himself.

As expected from the multi-talented and well-read Fenghua Juedai, she was very clear about what the role of Governor-general represented. She directly explained the matter, "Nanjiang ah, the Lianzhou Lord really has a huge appetite."

"He, he wants to rule over the south?"

Di Chen's voice sounded a little weird. It was like he did not agree with Ouyang Shuo's thinking, but it also seemed like he was gloating. Shanhai City and Handan City, one north and one south, it was probably impossible for the two territories to meet in the game.

On the other hand, his old opponents, Xiong Ba and Chun Shenjun, one was located in Jiangnan Province, the other in Jingchu Province. In the near future, their territories would most likely connect with that of Shanhai Territory.

Thinking about how these two fellows needed to face Qiyue Wuyi in the future, he felt delighted deep inside.

"Why did he request for this position for no reason?"

Di Chen could not understand this matter.

"It probably has something to do with the Battle of Leizhou that has just ended!"

"Oh?"

Fenghua Juedai frowned, "The Lianzhou Lord is the first lord to occupy two prefectures. Right after the Battle of Leizhou, he applied for such a position. It is definitely not a coincidence."

Di Chen nodded, breaking into a slight grin. His job was a lot more relaxed thanks to Fenghua Juedai making plans and strategies for him. When compared to other strategists, Fenghua Juedai was comparable or even better.

If she was in the olden times, she would be comparable to Zuo Wenjun and Ban Zhao, both talented women.

"Go investigate!"

Fenghua Juedai was the leader of Handan City's intel collecting network.

Fenghua Juedai nodded; her brows still locked.

"What's up?" Di Chen did not understand. He rarely saw such an expression from her.

"Don't you find it weird?"

"Weird? What's weird, who's weird?" Di Chen felt really confused now.

"Lianzhou Lord!"

"What's up with him?"

"His understandings toward the game seems too advanced. Since the start, he has been able to take the lead and stay in front of every player. If he was just a beta player, he probably could not do that."

Di Chen's eyebrows rose, "If you put it that way, it really seems like the case." He paused for a while, before continuing, "How's the progress with investigating his real-life identity?"

"That's what I find weird." Fenghua Juedai sighed, "Using our lead on Lin Jing, we finally found out his real-life identity. The problem is that he's just a normal student that has just graduated."

"What about his sister?"

"That little brat is a lot weirder. We wanted to use the civilian information network to search up her personal information. However, Gaia encrypted it, and we do not have the permission level to check it out."The two looked at one another, speechless. Your personal information must hide some secret if Gaia encrypted it.

Nobody knew that this was a huge misunderstanding.

Gaia discovered that Bing'er possessed huge innate talent. Naturally, it encrypted her personal information.

However, this misunderstanding made Ouyang Shuo's life a lot easier.

Although it was said that he had already reached this level and was unafraid of his identity being revealed, stopping people from spying was still the best.

One had to say that Bing'er was really his lucky star.

7th month, 20th day, yet another system notification.

"System Notification: Congratulations player Zhan Lang for becoming the 5th player in the China region to upgrade to Grade 1 Prefecture, awarded 3600 merit points!""System Notification: the China region already has five prefectures, triggering the battle system. The fourth battle—the Battle of Julu, will begin in three days. Friendly Reminder: only lords with grade 3 counties and above can join."The Battle of Julu was the battle that made Xiang Yu famous; it was the most well-known piece in .

Zhang Han had just destroyed the main Chu Army force. Liu Bang had split his troops to go toward the west. Only Xiang Yu and his remaining few men were left. Giving it their all, they destroyed the hundred thousand Qin forces that Wang Li headed. They also destroyed the two hundred thousand troops Zhang Han led.

Xiang Yu killed Su Jiao, captured Wang Li, made Zhang Han surrender, and totally turned the face of the battle. Xiang Yu pulled the rebellion army from the borders of death and pushed them toward victory.

During this battle, many of the Qin Country's main force died.

However, such a glorious battle left many doubts and questions in the minds of future generations.

For example, Xiang Yu had only brought three days of grain, and they had decided to give it their all. However, Wang Li only surrendered two months later. Moreover, in , they clearly state that he surrendered to the cowardly prince army that did not join the battle.

Xiang Yu's forces managed to single handedly defeat Zhang Han without needing the prince's army to help. They destroyed Wang Li right under the nose of Zhang Han. Despite that, why did they fail to destroy Zhan Han in six months after gathering up with the prince's army?

Furthermore, Zhang Han suggested an alliance that Xiang Yu accepted on the surface before launching a sneak attack. Even that was not enough to destroy Zhang Han.

Xiang Yu's strength was undoubted, and his contributions and merits were undeniably. This general was an absolute monster in battle, and his military commanding ability was also top notch.

Summing up the various sad hero stories, the future generations would remember this West Chu Country king.

However, if you were just talking about the Battle of Julu, the truth had a layer of mist obsure it. What was the logic behind Wang Li's surrender? Moreover, the helplessness when Zhang Han accepted reorganization, and the Qin Dynasty internal conflict, all these matters became a mystery.

No one knew how Gaia would interpret this historical battle.

Compared to the Battle of Changping, the requirements for the Battle of Julu had risen by two grades.

Out of the remaining two thousand territories in the China region, all of them were above grade 1 county, while most were grade 2 counties. As for grade 3 counties, there were around four hundred.

Based on the settings of the battle, a grade 3 county could not bring three thousand troops. If all the grade 3 counties joined in, the overall numbers would reach 1.2 million.

Such a terrifying number of men would far exceed the numbers of troops present in the Battle of Julu.

During this battle, the most important variable was the players.

This would be the first time that the players brought more troops than the soldiers in the camps.

Why was Ouyang Shuo so sure about this?

Because grade 3 county was a huge bottleneck. If one could pass it, their future was limitless. If one could not, they would be bound for elimination, either by other players or the uprising army.

After the Battle of Julu, the time of prefectures would arrive.

Hence, any lord with ambition would not miss this battle. This would be their best chance to rank up to rank 3 Marquis.

If they missed the chance, it would be too late to feel regret.

Facing such a huge army, the strength of just one alliance seemed really pitiful. Be it Shanhai Alliance or Yanhuang Alliance, they could not call the shots in the battle.

Among the Shanhai Alliance, Ouyang Shuo brought twenty thousand troops, while Bai Hua and Feng Qiuhuang brought ten thousand each. The rest brought three thousand.

After adding all their troops together, they would have 52 thousand men, only 4% of the total.

As for Mulan Yue, since her territory had merged with Shanhai City, she could independently lead troops. Yashan City was in a similar situation.

Xunlong Dianxue, Xiong Ba, and the like were blocked by the rank 3 Marquis requirement. Hundreds of other players had caught up to them.

Their only advantage was that they were just one step away from rank 3 Marquis. Undoubtedly, after the Battle of Julu, they could all upgrade to a prefecture.

A month ago, Ouyang Shuo had started to think about the role they would play in this battle. What role would the Shanhai Alliance play?

After a month, Ouyang Shuo finally had an answer in his heart.

The moment the system notification sounded, the members of the alliance gathered in Shanhai City once again.

The Lianzhou Lord Manor sign had been removed and replaced with the Nanjiang Governor-General sign.

In the main hall, the members split up and sat.

As for the choice of camp, they were undoubtedly going to choose Qin Country.

Not because of any other reason but because of Baiqi.

Since Baiqi was such a Qin Country military god, be it Wang Li or Zhang Han, they would automatically give up their commanding rights. If Ouyang Shuo did not utilize such an advantage, he would be a fool.

Although Ouyang Shuo respected Xiang Yu, he had no choice. Amongst the players, there were many who also respected Xiang Yu. Who knows what choices they would make?

The moment the system notification went out, Ouyang Shuo sent a letter to Baiqi to ask him to quickly return.

As for the Battle of Zhaoqing that had yet to occur, they could only push it back. During the battle map, player's territories were protected and could not be attacked.

Hence, even if Ouyang Shuo wanted to attack Zhaoqing, he could not do so.

Similarly, the uprising army would take a break and not attack players.

Apart from recalling Baiqi, Ouyang Shuo also recalled another huge General—Er'Lai.

Summoning Er'Lai was naturally to go against Xiang Yu.

Er'Lai would lead the 1st regiment of the 3rd division of the Dragon Legion to join the battle. The other forces included the Guards division and the three thousand palace guards.

In addition to the personal guards unit that Baiqi brought, they had five hundred heavy sword soldiers and a total of 19,500 men. As for the remaining five hundred, Ouyang Shuo gave up the spots.

They had formed the Shanhai City Army long ago.

Ouyang Shuo would not summon another group of troops just for five hundred more soldiers. In a battle of millions, five hundred soldiers were just a drop of water in the ocean.

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Chapter 406- Deploying Troops

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"Wuyi, what are your views on the Battle of Julu?"

The moment Bai Hua said these words, all the members turned and looked at Ouyang Shuo.

In their hearts, Ouyang Shuo's battle understanding was many levels higher than them. The reason why Shanhai Alliance could obtain such stellar results in the first three battles proved this.

Unknowingly, everyone started to get used to listening to Ouyang Shuo's arrangements.

When Ouyang Shuo heard her words, he frowned.

This was not a good sign. If everyone started relying overly on him, they would slowly lose the energy of a team. Ouyang Shuo was not a god, so for some battles, he would not have an idea.

Using the strength of the team to the greatest extent was the best method.

"The Battle of Julu affects many interests and things. It is impossible to team up with a large portion of players like the last three battles. This not only concerns whether or not one can upgrade to prefecture. Hence, scuffles would occur, even within camps."

Ouyang Shuo looked around and continued, "As such, during this battle, we must mentally prepare ourselves for Shanhai Alliance to not be the only shining star."

The moment his words landed, everyone started thinking.

Amongst them, the ones that were the most nervous were naturally those that had not upgraded to prefecture. Xunlong Dianxue and Gong Chengshi were slightly better, as they were just one step away from rank 3 Marquis.

After the Battle of Julu, it would not be much of a problem for them to rank up to rank 3 Marquis.

As for Wufu and Song Wen, they were in a neck and neck battle with the other lords.

"With Baiqi on our side, big brother, are you worrying too much?" Gong Chengshi asked.

Ouyang Shuo shook his head, "Baiqi's use is definitely undeniable. The problem lies with Gaia. With your knowledge of Gaia in this year and a half, don't you think that Gaia will restrict it?"

"Yes!"

"So, even though Baiqi can help us, it will only be within the rules. It can't affect other players. With Baiqi's personality, he will also treat all troops the same." Ouyang Shuo paused for a moment, before continuing, "Hence, we should toss aside wishful thinking and prepare for a hard war."

"I agree with big brother." Xunlong Dianxue stepped out, "It's time to let the lords in the China region witness our brutality."

When Ouyang Shuo heard these words, he nodded his head and laughed.

"And also, during the battle period, I might disappear for some time. Don't be too alarmed if that happens." Ouyang Shuo alerted them first, in case misunderstandings arose in the battle map.

Feng Qiuhuang looked at Ouyang Shuo, squinting her eyes viciously and smiling, "Wuyi, what are you going to do? Can you bring me along?"

Ouyang Shuo was speechless.

One must imagine how a goddess suddenly acting tough and gangster must feel.

What Ouyang Shuo felt was such an impact.

Of course, he knew the meaning behind Feng Qiuhuang's words. During this battle, apart from him, neither Bai Hua or Feng Qiuhuang had any pressure. Moreover, everytime Ouyang Shuo acted alone, he would obtain unexpected gains.

"Bring me too!"

Bai Hua joined in.

These two goddesses, who were arrogant in their territories, returned to their usual personalities among the alliance.

As for the others, they could only drool in envy. They knew that during the Battle of Julu, their mission would be to follow the main force and earn merit points.

As for other thoughts, that would have to wait for next time!

In truth, Ouyang Shuo did not want to go solo for this matter. If not, he would not have announced it, "Then prepare five hundred elite forces. When we are in the battle map, follow me to hunt."

"Great!"

The two goddesses were delighted, their expressions indescribable.

At this point, the Shanhai Alliance meeting came to an end.

At the same time, the Yanhuang Alliance were similarly meeting in Handan City. As for what they discussed, it would only be truly revealed during the battle.

A huge war was about to begin.

22nd day, Er'Lai led the heavy armored mountain barbarian infantry troops back to Shanhai City through the teleportation formation.

That afternoon, the cave military factory sent over 150 thousand military grain pills.

During the battle map, Ouyang Shuo could not use his storage bag to transport pills. He would give this batch of pills to the soldiers to bring along.

Of course, the ones who received the pills were the three thousand palace guards. Each member received fifty.

Each pill was placed in a grain bag, a small pouch. At the same time, the Military Logistics Department also prepared a leather water bag for each cavalry.

When a water bag was fully filled with water, it would hold enough to supply a day's worth of water for a soldier.

The learned how to create the leather water bag from the grasslands after recruiting the tribes that surrendered. The leather used was tailored with leftover materials from the Armory Division.

The palace guards were the elites of the elites, so their consumption was also shocking. One palace guard, including his horse, needed to use five military grain pills a day. Hence, fifty pills would only last for ten days.

Large-scale use of military grain pills was no longer possible.

23rd day, 5 PM, Baiqi rushed back to Shanhai City.

Along with him were the five hundred iron eagle swordsmen that he had personally trained.

Baiqi's expression was a little complicated.

After coming to the main map, Baiqi had learned everything about the history of the Qin Country.

They had swept over the lands and finally conquered all six countries. However, they could not last for over three generations, making Baiqi disappointed.

As a person from the Qin Country, his patriotism toward the Qin Country was something others could not understand. Even Wei Yang probably did not feel it as much as Baiqi.

Now, Baiqi would join the Battle of Julu. He would see his country and soldiers once more. As a military god in the Qin Country, such a special feeling was something that outsiders could not comprehend.

That night, Ouyang Shuo had a deep conversation with Baiqi in his reading room.

Gaia 2nd year, 7th month, 24th day, 9 AM, a system notification sounded out.

"System Notification: 209 BC, twelve years after Qin Shihuang took over the entirety of China, the internal court experienced internal conflicts, throwing the country into chaos. With the original noble families of the six counties as the core, the rebellion army and the Qin Dynasty army started an all out war around the nation.

"208BC, the main force of both sides gathered around Julu City, undergoing a huge battle that would decide their fates. This battle ended in a victory for the rebellion. The fourth battle map—the Battle of Julu officially opens!"

Twenty thousand of the most elite Shanhai City soldiers gathered in the square, ready to go.

After checking the requirements for joining the battle and the number of people joining, they chose the camp….

The Battle of Julu was split into the Qin Dynasty Camp and the anti-Qin Camp. Naturally, Ouyang Shuo chose the Qin Dynasty Camp.

"System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for activating the battle map teleportation. Teleportation number: 19,500 men."

During the second system update, battle map teleportations stopped collecting transportation fees from the players.

If not Ouyang Shuo, would fall into bankruptcy once more.

"System Notification: Teleportation begins!"

After a short while of the sky turning and their vision blurring, Ouyang Shuo and his men appeared on the Julu battlefield.

"System Notification: Welcome player Qiyue Wuyi to the Qin Dynasty camp, Jiyuan City."

210 BC, after Qin Shihuang died, Hu Ke under the help of Zhao Gao and Li Si managed to grab the emperor spot through schemes and continued to rule with brutality and cruel acts, making the entire nation unhappy.

The Chensheng Wuguang uprising in 209 BC started the anti Qin sentiments. Before the Battle of Julu occurred, the 6 counties during the warring states period, Zhao, Qi, Yan, Wei, Han, Chu all succeededin obtaining their own land and weapons.

And the Qin Imperial Court lacked the preparation for this. The number of anti rebellion personnel they could activate were only two forces, the Zhang Han army and the Wang Li Army.

The Zhang Han army was made up of criminals from Yuanli Mountain and when the war broke out, they numbered 300 thousand.

As they were criminals and the time that they were formed was relatively short, their combat strength although was weaker than the main Qin Army force, but they still had some skill.

Wang Li's army was the Qin Army that was camped in the north. As one of the main forces of the Qin Army, they were highly disciplined and their specially was fearless, quick and smart cavalry.

As Qin North army was around 300 thousand as they had the job of guarding the border, they couldn't be shifted down south.

When Qin Shihuang was at his peak, these troops still hadn't went down south. One could see how strong the Qin Army was that didn't even need them to

Move so many troops.

During the Battle of Julu, Wang Li led 150 thousand elite troops to go down south.

Both forces added together, there were a total of 450 thousand men.

At that time, south of the yellow river till the Huai river which originally belonged to Chu Country was where the uprising voices were the loudest. So the two forces of the Qin army came here to head anti rebellion operations.

Zhang Han destroyed Zhang Chu of the uprising army then Xiang Liang of the Chu Country, killed the Qi King Tian Dan, wiping out the Wei King Wei Jiu, pretty much destroying all the anti Qin powers south of the yellow river.

As for Wang Li's army, history books only recorded that he was defeated.

At this point, north of the yellow river an internal conflict occured. The Zhao King Wu Chen was originally a general of Chensheng who after being ordered to Attack Zhao Country, took down Handan and called himself the Zhao King.

His subordinate Li Liang was furious due to him being humiliated by Wu Chen's Sister and killed both of them.

The prime minister Zhang Er and Chen Yu escaped, conferring the title of old Zhao Country noble family member Zhao Xie as Zhao King. They defeated Li Liang who chased after them causing Li Liang to ally with Zhang Han.

With Li Liang's intel, Zhang Han had a better understanding of the uprising north of the yellow river. After Zhang Han defeated the main Chu Army force and killing Xiang Liang, he crossed the river to Attack the Zhao Country.

At this point, the Battle of Julu begun.

The situation in Chu land got better and Zhang Han felt that the uprising army wouldn't cause a huge threat so he swiftly went up north. The first step was to defend Guangyang Path such that the rebellion army couldn't go down south and take over Luoyang.

This strategic point was Jiyuan. Jiyuan City would become the main base of the Qin Army.Qin 2nd generation 2nd year 9th month, Wang Ali's army surrounded Julu.

A month later, Zhang Han's army broke through Handan.

After which, as the land had deep resentment and rebellion intent, to prevent them from rebelling, Zhang Han destroyed the city wall and moved the people within the river.

This move planned to remove the hidden cancer which was growing between their main base and Julu while also getting grain and shipping it to Jiyuan.

Zhang Han swept Handan and the neighbouring region, sending the sizeable amount of grain back to Jiyuan City. As there was no more grain, the locals could only move to other places.

What happened next was Zhang Han reinforcing Wang Li's army.

Zhang Han at this point had split his troops to go to the south of Julu and to Jiyuan. They built a tunnel from south of Julu through to the yellow river. With this, there was a complete grain route to reach Wang Li's army.

After Julu was surrounded, the connections of Zhang Er came into play. Anti Qin forces kept on coming but facing such a huge and strong Qin Army, no one dared to proceed forwards and only looked on from afar.

At this point, there were a total of 80 thousand Zhao Army troops within and outside of the city.

Adding together all the anti Qin forces, there were 300 thousand men.When Zhang Han and Wang Li attacked Handan and Julu, King Chuhui ordered Song Yi and Xiang Yu over to help. Song Yi didn't want to save the Zhao Country so he decided to be a bystander.

After the Chu Country army set off, he stopped at An Yang for 46 days.

Song Yi commanded the troops, bringing Xiang Yu to camp at Julu, Yuzhou as well as An Yang to wait for the right chance. The other generals Qing Bu and General Pu had reached the battlefield and camped near the yellow river, waiting for Song Yi's orders.

Xiang Yu who had a deep hatred for the Qin Country decided to kill Song Yi and take over command. He led 60 thousand men to gather with Qing Bu and General Pu.

Out of the 60 thousand Chu Army, the core made up of Jiangdong Baqian disciples took up 30 thousand.

Hence, the entire anti Qin alliance reached 400 thousand men.

On such a huge battlefield, both sides had similar numbers.

However in terms of combat strength, the Qin Dynasty army was slightly stronger.

When Xiangyu rushed over to the Yellow river, it had been 2 months since Julu was surrounded.

The time period that Gaia set the war at was when Xiang Yu and his troops rushed to the yellow river. And the camp for the anti Qin players was set at the camp beside the river.

If no players interfered, the most extravagant battle in the Battle of Julu was about to occur.

Zhang Han had built up a 10 kilometre grain transport route from south of Julu to the yellow river, sending men to defend it.

Xiang yu's tactic was to send when to sneak Attack a part of the passageway to cause grain shortage and weaken their combat strength before sending their main force across the river.

As for the Chu Country sneak Attack, as they had a lot of grain they couldn't bring over, to be able to steal the grain from the enemy, Xiang Yu decided to give it their all and only bring 3 days of grain to ignite the fighting spirit of the Chu Army.

What happened next was capturing Wang Li and making Zhang Han surrender.

To players, this huge war had just begun.

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Chapter 407- Baiqi Takes Charge

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Battle Map, Jiyuan City.

After teleporting to Jiyuan City, Ouyang Shuo passed the commanding rights of the Guards division over to Baiqi. Ouyang Shuo himself would only lead the Palace Guards.

This time, the Shanhai Alliance Army was not segmented after it joined the war. They were not reorganized like the first three battles. Their own generals led them, while Baiqi took the overall command.

Zhang Liao from Consonance City, Wang He from Fallen Phoenix City, Qinqiong from Xunlong County, and the like.

After registering in the inner city, the players were assigned to the barracks at the west of the city. Just when the Shanhai Alliance members had some free time after registering, the system notification sounded out.

"Battle Report: Battle of Julu, total of four hundred lords, total number of 1,244,500 men. The Qin Dynasty Camp has 228 lords and 714,500 troops; the Anti-Qin Camp has 172 lords and 530,000 troops."

Shanhai City choosing the Qin Dunasty camp was an open secret.

After the last three battles, the lords in China finally grew some brains. During this battle, many of them decided to choose the same camp as the Shanhai Alliance.

As for the Yanhuang Alliance, needless to say, they all chose the Anti-Qin Camp. This choice was not a result of any incredible plan or tactic. Instead, they made this choice based on their pride; they did not want Baiqi to order them around.

Both camps had their strengths and weaknesses, so there were not any obvious advantages for choosing either.

As for the lords who chose the Anti-Qin Camp, half of them had dreams of recruiting Xiang Yu. Ouyang Shuo could only weep for these lords. With the character of Xiong Ba, how would he let such a person slide?

In his last life, no one managed to recruit him.

Of course, some of the lords who knew history turned their eyes to a quiet general under Xiang Yu's camp.

His fame in the later parts of life rivalled Xiang Yu's. He even tempted Ouyang Shuo a lot. Unfortunately, they were not in the same camp, so he was helpless. If not, he would have wanted to try to recruit him.

In the Anti-Qin Army, there was also a group of really famous people like Xiao He.

These people were following besides Liu Bang and were currently in Peng City. Peng City was four to five hundred kilometers away from the Julu battlefield.

King Chu Huai granted Liu Bang the title of 'West Conquering Army Commander'. However, he only had a few thousand men under him. Even though he was really courageous, he did not dare to head west and attack the Qin Country base.

"Battle Report: As the Anti-Qin Camp is weaker than the Qing Dynasty Camp, based on the battle rules, the Anti-Qin Camp will automatically receive a 25% Defence buff."

The difference in the amount of soldiers of the two camps was 184,500, a massive difference.

"Battle Report: Based on rank and merit points, the Qin Dynasty Camp representative figure is Qiyue Wuyi, rank 2 Marquis. Anti-Qin Camp representative is Di Chen, rank 3 Marquis."

Di Chen's position as the player representative had grown more and more stable.

"Battle Report: Officially opening the battle contribution point trading in the Commerce City; players can choose to use their points to exchange for items."

Finally, after the merit point rewards, Gaia threw out another huge bait.

Ouyang Shuo took a look at Commerce City; it sold a huge variety of items. There were even five weapon technical manuals.

In contrast to the super trading platform, the special items in Commerce City were all unique and none of them were repeated. The moment someone bought an item, other players could not trade for it.

Ouyang Shuo counted the number of items in the entire Commerce city; it totalled at two hundred for both camps of players. In theory, half of the lords could buy a special item.

In truth, there obviously was not such a good thing.

Taking Ouyang Shuo as an example. If he accumulated enough points, he would buy several items.

Ouyang Shuo took a look at the special items; the prices were not cheap. The most expensive ones were the five equipment crafting technical manuals.

The Guangyao Armor technical manual cost forty thousand battle contribution points.

Without mentioning how many lords could achieve such a high amount, even if they could, it was hard to say if they would be willing to spend it. After all, their main goal was to raise their ranks.

In conclusion, the opening of the Commerce City was good and bad for the lords.

At the very least, it provided an extra choice.

After settling down, Ouyang Shuo directly brought Baiqi to visit Zhang Han.

Jiyuan City, Lord's Manor.

Zhang Han was a fearless general of the Qin Dynasty. He fought all over the lands; no one dared to go against him. However, because of Zhao Gao's scheme, he surrendered to the Chu Country.

In history, the most believable reason for why he surrendered was Zhao Gao's worries that Zhang Han was destabilizing and threatening his position.

Hence, Zhao Gao badmouthed him to the second-generation king and made him wary of Zhang Han.

The pain and fear from the king's lack of trust forced Zhang Han into surrender. If not, Xiang Yu could not have defeated him.

What happened to Zhang Han was largely similar to what had happened to Baiqi.

Prime minister Fanju could be said to have caused Baiqi's death.

One could say that this was a common problem in the Qin Country.

Similar to Xiang Yu, Zhang Han had also taken his own life. The only difference being that Xiang Yu was remembered and worshipped in history, while because Zhang Han was a defeated general. As a result, he drowned away in the pages of history.

There were people that commented that Zhang Han was only weaker than Baiqi. They felt he held a higher position than even Wangjian.

However, those were only the words of one family.

Talking about it, Zhang Han really had a little connection with Shanhai City, as his ancestor was Jiangshang.

Hence, Ouyang Shuo was confident about recruiting him.

Zhang Han was in the hall to receive Ouyang Shuo and Baiqi.

Looking at him, the current Zhang Han had just gained victory in the south, so he seemed really confident. As a result, his thin features did not look as scary and uncomfortable.

Ouyang Shuo paid attention to specifics however and felt a sense of sadness emanate from him.

After taking down Handan, Zhao Gao started to feel wary of Zhang Han. The sharp Zhang Han probably guessed that the imperial court had started to have a negative change toward him.

When he attacked the south, the king really trusted him, granting him all the power he needed. Even Wang Li was under his command.

Who was Wang Li?

The grandson of the famous general, Wangjian, the son of Wang Ben!

The Wang family's three generations were all famous generals.

With that, one could see Zhang Han's ability.

"Player representative Qiyue Wuyi greets the general!"

Ouyang Shuo bowed and greeted Zhang Han.

Baiqi, who was sitting behind him, looked at Zhang Han with interest.

Zhang Han nodded. Then, he raised his head and looked at Baiqi. His actions were simply too eye catching.

As he looked up, he froze.

He looked the same. Exactly the same!

The painting of Baiqi was something that all the generals in Qin had seen before.

"Th-this general is?"

Zhang Han, who was always calm and composed, was now a little rattled.

"Baiqi!"

Baiqi looked at Zhang Han, as a flash of praise entered his eye. A god general like him could appraise someone with just a look.

It was apparent that Baiqi paid attention to this fellow's ability.

Baiqi's voice was really calm, but it was like a bolt of lightning in Zhang Han's ear.

"Wu An Lord! It really is you!"

Zhang Han was astonished, as he bowed.

"Zhang Han greets the Wu An Lord!"

Based on the settings of the game, the China region would cross five thousand years. As a result, such scenes would commonly happen. Hence, Gaia made certain changes to the NPCs.

When Zhang Han saw Baiqi, he would not ask questions about revival, or why he was not dead. He would just accept it, saving a lot of time.

Baiqi nodded, accepting his greeting.

After the greetings, the three of them sat down.

Zhang Han naturally would not dare to sit in the main seat. He wanted Baiqi to sit there. However, Ouyang Shuo was Baiqi's lord. Of course, he could not sit below Baiqi.

This resulted in Ouyang Shuo sitting in the main seat.

Ever since the battle maps started, this was an unprecedented even. A player representative was actually sitting in the main seat of the camp.

Luckily, Ouyang Shuo was smart and just kept silent throughout the entire process.

As for the question and the answers, they were already exchanged between Zhang Han and Baiqi.

Zhang Han did not even hesitate and told Baiqi about everything that happened in this year, the battle situation, as well as the current problems they faced. After finishing, he bowed once more, "Wu An Lord, please command the troops, Zhang Han is willing to lead them!"

He was going to hand over his power!

Ouyang Shuo looked at Zhang Han; the meaning in his look was indescribable.

To be able to give up power so easily, Zhang Han really was not a simple person.

Power was the life of a general.

Zhang Han giving it up power was similar to giving up his life to Baiqi.

If it was another general, Zhang Han naturally would not do so. One must know that the current him had not met any failures; he was just building up his fame and contributions.

However, Baiqi was different, he was the god general of the Qin Country.

Changing generals all of a sudden was the worry of military strategists.

However, such a worry was non-existent to Baiqi. His reputation in the Qin Country was simply too huge. When he died, all the people prayed to him.

Hence, none of the soldiers would reject him. Instead, they welcomed him.

As for the other general, Wang Li, he would not likely do the same as Zhang Han. He was the most traditional Qin Country soldier, so he worshiped and respected Baiqi to the core.

Just like that, Baiqi easily obtained the Qin Dynasty Camp commanding rights.

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Chapter 408- Fall Back

Translator: ryangohsf

Editor: Nora

After Baiqi took over control, a system notification sounded out in Ouyang Shuo's ear.

"System notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi, General Baiqi has obtained the commanding rights to the Qing Dynasty Camp, rewarded fifty thousand battle contribution points, battle contribution points multiplier increased by 20%."

Overpowered!

Fifty thousand points were enough to make other players bleed with jealousy. The multiplier also meant that if Ouyang Shuo obtained ten thousand points, he would get an extra two thousand.

With the battle results of the Shanhai City Army, Ouyang Shuo would receive a huge amount.

Following which was another battle report.

"Battle Report: Shanhai City General Baiqi has achieved a hidden requirement and obtained the commanding rights of the Qing Dyansty Camp. Baiqi will replace Zhang Han to lead the 450 thousand troops as well as the player forces."

The moment the notification sounded out, the lords felt really conflicted.

The lords in the Qing Dynasty Camp felt like they had taken the right side. Baiqi leading them was much better than Zhang Han doing so.

Most importantly, the commands of the imperial court would not affect Baiqi.

After he received the commanding rights, he first ordered Wang Li's troops to retreat and back off to Jiyuan City.

This order was totally unexpected.

Even Zhang Han did not understanding the rational.

"Wu An Lord, it was really difficult for us to surround them. Why did we retreat?"

Baiqi shook his head, "In your opinion, solely based on them, can we take down Julu?"

"No!"

Zhang Han resolutely shook his head. If they could, they would not have failed to make any progress in two months. Looking back at the Battle of Julu, history had forgotten one hero.

This hero was the Zhao Country official Chen Yu.

It was mentioned that Li Liang murdered Wu Chen and his sister.

After Zhang Er and Chen Yu escaped, they conferred Zhao Xie as king and defeated Li Liang.

That Chen Yu was this Chen Yu.

The real tactician and planner of the Battle of Julu was Chen Yu.

How so? Let us see what he did during this battle.

Firstly, he gathered the scattered forces.

After Julu was surrounded, Chen Yu sought reinforcements and formed the army north of the river.

Secondly, communicating with Julu City.

During the period where Zhang Er and Zhao Xie were trapped in Julu, they could only get into contact because of Chen Yu.

Thirdly, linking up Xiang Yu's army with the Zhao Army.

Xiang Yu killed Song Yi. As for leading the troops to save Julu, and the communication between the two armies, Chen Yu orchestrated all of this.

Hence, inside and outside the city, the true core of the communications was Chen Yu.

Under the linking of Chen Yu, relying solely on Wang Li, it was difficult to take down Julu City.

The moment Zhang Han spoke, before Baiqi could explain, Zhang Han frowned. Thinking carefully, asking the troops to return seemed like the right choice.

With the addition of the player troops, the Qin Army could go and assist the Wang Li Army. However, they could not forget that the Chu Army opposite the yellow river also similarly had over five hundred thousand players.

It was the same as saying that to attack Julu, the Qin Army would split into two.

A portion was in Julu City, a portion was in Jiyuan City.

If the two armies could link up with one another, it would be fine. The hard part was that Xiang Yu's Chu Army were stuck between the communication line of both armies.

They were like a snake being stepped on.

Continue attacking Julu? They could not take it down in a short time. Defend and wait? They would be under threat.

They were in a really bad situation.

Under Baiqi's instructions, they prevented the situation where Xiang Yu destroyed the Wang Li Army while Zhang Han watched on. However, to use this to defeat the Anti-Qin Army was highly difficult.

At best, both sides would enter a stalemate. However, who knows when that would end. If they did not pay attention, the Chu Army might catch a loophole to take them by surprise.

Hence, after Baiqi understood the situation, he decisively gave up the encampment of Julu, making them turn around to defend Jiyuan City.

This was a case of Baiqi not using soldiers based on common logic.

Retreating was just the first step in his strategy, as he had further considerations.

The way Baiqi used troops was that he like to ponder, ponder about the opponent, ponder about the battle. He could often find the decisive action and point out the key of the battle.

Seeing that Zhang Han had understood, Baiqi continued, "The key to this battle is grain."

After Zhang Han took down Handan, he transported all of the grain to Jiyuan City. Hence, in history, when the Zhang Han Army was trapped for half a year, they still had sufficient grain.

As for the Anti-Qin Alliance, if the encirclement of Julu was broken, their grain problem would be solved in the short term.

In truth, the danger lurked within the player army.

As they say, fortune and misfortune were closely related.

Anything had its pros and cons.

The fifty-three thousand player force in the Anti-Qin Camp brought with it huge combat strength. At the same time, it brought a huge burden on the logistics of the alliance army.

When Julu City was surrounded, the grain in the city was already insufficient.

If would be okay if it was only the alliance army, they could probably sustain themselves for half a month. However, with the player force, they would run out in less than a week.

In a pleasant coincidence, the surrounding region lacked grain that the enemy could collect.

Hence, comparing the two, the Qin Army housed in Jiyuan City were in an infallible situation.

At the same time, Baiqi made a complete analysis on Xiang Yu's character.

Based on his personality, he definitely would not drag things on with the Qin Army. The only way out would be to use his most familiar method; he needed to forcefully attack Jiyuan City.

With that, the Qin Army would possess the strategic advantage.

All of the sudden, the Qin Army held the absolute advantage.

One had to say that Baiqi's plan was a level higher than Zhang Han's.

When Zhang Han heard it, he was in awe and worship.

The following discussions focused on how to ensure the smooth retreat of Wang Li's forces and how to avoid being attacked. In this aspect, Zhang Han was experienced and did not need Baiqi's instructions.

On the first day, Baiqi changed the whole landscape of the battle.

Of course, Xiang Yu's personal strength and terrifying explosiveness was an unpredictable factor. Whoever dared to underestimate him would be asking for defeat. He did not hold the title of strongest general in the ancient times for no reason. In history, be in Wang Li or Liu Bang, they all lost under his hand.

When Xiang Yu led the Jiangdong Warriors to go berserk, it was an alluring sight.

The Battle of Julu was far from reaching a foregone conclusion.

In the following two days, under the cover of the Zhang Han army, Wang Li and his forces successfully returned.

Before his troops left, they gathered up all the grain in the camp. They destroyed the grain that they could not bring away and left nothing behind for the alliance army.

At the same time, Xiang Yu had just finished the organization of the player force.

After learning that the Wang Li Army had left and the encirclement outside Julu City was unexpectedly undone, he immediately ordered his troops to cross the yellow river and move into Julu City.

At the same time, the three hundred thousand prince army that were sitting on the fence followed. At this point, the Battle of Julu was heading in a totally different path from history.

Each camp held a city and were north and south of one another.

Jiyuan City was located at Shuizhi Town, west of Anyang. At this place, in the north, south, and west directions were mountains like that of a pocket. Shuizhi Town was at the bottom of the pocket.

Anyang City sat nicely in the opening of the pocket.

West of Shuizhi Town was a road that crossed the mountain range through Linzhou. Then it went down south to enter Henei Prefecture, which was the back of Zhang Han's forces.

The location was highly treacherous. The water ridges possessed both shallow and deep water regions, which traveled from west to east, forming a natural barrier.

After Baiqi gained control of the army, he arranged the troops to rush construction work on the front lines of Jiyuan. He arranged three separate works all the way until they reached under Jiyuan City.

Although they retreated to defend Jiyuan City, Baiqi wanted to proactively defend.

Building defence projects was his strong point.

At the same time, Baiqi also reorganized the 450 thousand Qin Army and the seven hundred odd thousand player force. He assigned them to various defence regions.

The 150 thousand Wang Li Army, which were mainly light cavalry, were assigned to the position of reserve army. They would be in charge of assisting various points of the battlefield.

Of the three hundred thousand Zhang Han Army, 150 thousand would camp in Jiyuan City. The remaining would form a defensive chain using the three defensive projects as the core.

The seven hundred thousand odd player force were either arranged on the three defensive works or on the city wall.

Each group had their own specific duties.

With that, for the player army, if they wanted to gain battle contribution points, they had to outdo their enemies at the regions they took charge of.

Victory was all in their own hands; if they lost, they could not blame others.

Baiqi's plan totally reduced the chance of the player force having internal conflicts.

Toward this arrangement, the lords in the Qin Dynasty Camp naturally had nothing to say and the doubts in their hearts were wiped out. After Baiqi gained command, they had originally thought that he would act bias toward the Shanhai Alliance.

The truth proves that they were just too wary about him.

Baiqi really managed to treat everyone equally.

The only weird thing was that Ouyang Shuo's three thousand palace Guards had disappeared in Jiyuan City.

After that, until the battle ended, the lords in the Qin Dynasty Camp would not see him. Bai Hua and Feng Qiuhuang were also along with him.

Toward this matter, although the lords had their doubts, they did not take the matter to heart.

As long as the Shanhai City Army defended Jiyuan City, anything else would not be a problem. In such a huge battle, the influence of a single lord was really minute.

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