World Online

by Srtyi

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

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Chapter 761 – Scheme within a Scheme

"Many thanks! Are your injuries okay; do you need to treat them first?"

Caiyun Zinan cupped his fists; this was the first time he felt some friendliness toward Qiyue Wuyi.

Ouyang Shuo shook his head and smiled, "It's just a small injury. Lord Caiyun, this person tried to assassinate the Financial Director of Shanhai City. Based on our territory law system, I'll need to bring him back to the territory and hand him over to the Procuratorate Division. You won't oppose that, right?" As he spoke, Ouyang Shuo looked toward Caiyun Zinan with deep meaning.

Caiyun Zinan was stunned; his brain worked quickly, and he managed to understand what Ouyang Shuo was referring to.

If Lin Fen was moved to Shanhai City, he would not be able to suicide and return to his territory. With that, Fire City would be like a piece of juicy meat, there for the taking.

Previously, Zhang Liang had suggested to Caiyun Zinan that they merge internally in the City-State to reduce internal problems.

However, the matter was easier said than done.

When it was time to execute it, Caiyun Zinan was unable to find a suitable target. Any target he tried to merge with would cause a storm in the City-State.

Wasn't Lin Fen City the best choice?

"Lin Fen has done such a matter. Naturally, he should be handed over to Shanhai City." Although these were Caiyun Zinan's words, he felt a shiver run down his spine.

Caiyun Zinan was not sure how much consideration or how much Qiyue Wuyi was plotting with that suggestion. Not mentioning other matters, Shanhai City had dug up their merger plan at the very least.

"Terrifying!"

At that moment, Caiyun Zinan felt an unprecedented darkness for the future of the City-State. He could feel that a giant shadow covered the skies of the City-State, ready to swallow them at any moment.

Along with Lin Fen's betrayal, the City-State was simply a battlefield.

"The skies are going to change!" Caiyun Zinan sighed.

Ouyang Shuo smiled; he roughly knew the exact emotions that Caiyun Zinan was currently feeling. He did not say anything; he just waved to Xu Chu at the bottom and told him to come up.

When he saw Xu Chu, Lin Fen truly felt that he would not be able to escape. In fact, there was a chance that he would be locked up for the rest of the game. If that really happened, what was the use of the escape route planned for him?

"Caiyun Zinan, you're a coward! I'm a member of the City-State, how can you let an outsider do this? Traitor! Coward!" Lin Fen scolded; he had already lost his rationality.

"You're a traitor of the City-State. What rights do you have to say such words?" Who knows whether Lin Fen's words had hit the right spot or if Caiyun Zinan's embarrassment had turned into anger? His words were not as calm as before.

"Coward, the City-State is going to be destroyed in your hands."

Caiyun Zinan turned around, not bothering to speak to Lin Fen anymore.

Ouyang Shuo looked on coldly and finally spoke, "Bring him down!"

"Yes Monarch!"

Xu Chu was like an iron tower, locking up Lin Fen to the point where the latter could not even move, much less kill himself. This person dared to harm the Monarch, so Xu Chu was definitely going to teach him a lesson.

Lin Fen's face was ashen white; he scolded as he was walked away.

Since he had fallen into the hands of Shanhai City, with the personality of his backer, he definitely would not try to save him. To that person, a useless chess piece would be abandoned.

The more he thought about it, the more he regretted.

Ouyang Shuo looked on at Lin Fen's fading figure in silence, unknowingly smirking.

"Lin Fen really helped us there."

Ouyang Shuo wanted to punish Lin Fen mainly to shake the foundations of Xiangnan City-State rather than for revenge.

"A leader of the City-State chose to abandon an ally and merge with his territory for a piece of juicy meat." If such a rumor spread out in Xiangnan City-State, who knows what interesting thing would happen.

Caiyun Zinan truly lacked composure; Ouyang Shuo and easily baited him. He lost his judgment and committed a grave mistake in the end.

If Zhang Liang was present, he would have stopped Caiyun Zinan.

When Lin Fen scolded him, maybe Caiyun Zinan felt that something was not right, which caused him to be furious. Unfortunately, it was too late for him to turn back at that point.

"This assassination was the best assist!"

There was a certain phrase, 'Gaining fortune from a calamitous encounter.'

Thinking about that, Ouyang Shuo instantly felt that the gun wound was not as painful anymore. The western gun that Lin Fen had used was kept in Ouyang Shuo's storage bag.No one would care about a failure.

Ouyang Shuo smiled, "Let's continue to sign the agreement!"

"Great."

West Gate Big Official, who had remained silent throughout all this, smiled.

Caiyun Zinan also smiled; however, his smile contained a trace of bitterness.

Only when the trade agreement was signed did West Gate Big Official give out a long sigh of relief. He was really afraid that the entire agreement would go up in flames.

West Gate Big Official was located in the north of Chuanbei Province, which was near Zunyi in real life. The most famous item in the territory would be Maotai Wine.

Maotai Wine had a long history and was one of the top three white wines in China. In reality, Maotai could be compared to Scottish Whiskey French Cognac as the world's top three famous alcohols.

In comparison, Shanhai City's Three Flowers Wine was far too lacking.

The tragedy was that although he had the Maotai Wine Brewing Technique, he was located inland and could not find a way to sell it.

Hence, this was a big worry to West Gate Big Official.

The trade deal with Shanhai City was undoubtedly a saving grace for him.

Although there were restrictions on exports of similar products in the agreement, West Gate Big Official was actually aiming to borrow Shanhai City's trading paths to link to imperial cities like Quanzhou and Jianye.

If one thought of it in a certain way, this problem could definitely be solved.

"Happy cooperation!"

After the agreement was signed, West Gate Big Official took the initiative to shake hands with Ouyang Shuo.

"Happy cooperation!"

Ouyang Shuo smiled.

Ouyang Shuo had hopes of recruiting West Gate Big Official.

Along with Bai Hua merging into the Shanhai City System and the matter with Xunlong Dianxue, Shanhai Alliance was going to face a cruel test.

Ouyang Shuo had considered injecting some fresh blood into Shanhai Alliance.

West Gate Big Official was one of the people he was considering. If he could, Ouyang Shuo did not mind using such a method to peacefully merge with Chuanbei Province.

However, this matter involved so many things, and Chuanbei Province was not West Gate Big Official's alone. In the province, the various powers had all buried some hidden chess pieces within the City-State.

Not talking about the things far away, news had it that Liu Bei and Feng Qingyang, these two allies, had already turned their eyes to Chuanbei Province.

Internally, it was also really chaotic.

Hence, for this matter to truly come to fruition was extremely difficult.

"Everything will fall into place!" Ouyang Shuo laughed to himself. At least the meeting today was a good start.

At this point, the agreement signing had come to an end. The ripples this caused would last for a really long time.As the whole show had come to an end, Ouyang Shuo hurried back to Sanjiang Town for a doctor to help tend to his wounds. Only now did Ouyang Shuo realize that his entire hand had lost feeling.

The western gun was truly special, and the killing strength was shocking. If it was Fan Li who was hit, he definitely would not survive. That night, Ouyang Shuo took a look at the stats of the gun.

Name: Western Flintlock Pistol (Dark Gold Rank)

Maker: unknown

Shooting Type: fixed fire

Power: low average

Range: low average

Accuracy: average

Reloading Speed: slow

Shooting Speed: average

Evaluation: the pistol first appeared in the mid to end parts of the 15th century. Its recoil is huge, but the power is relatively low. The barrel of the pistol is bigger than a rifle, slow to shoot and has poor accuracy.

Compared to a rifle, a pistol was more convenient to carry and could be hidden for assassinations. Lin Fen's assassination attempt made use of the strength of the Western Flintlock Pistol.

If he did not possess super strong sensory abilities, the assassination would have succeeded.

After the matter, Fan Li was exceedingly touched by Ouyang Shuo, and his loyalty increased by 15 and broke through 90.

This also meant that after returning to Shanhai City, in terms of territory matters, Fan Li would be more focused and passionate.

Thinking about this point, it was another case of good fortune from a calamitous encounter.

Actually, thinking about it afterward, Ouyang Shuo felt that taking that bullet was for nothing. As the Business Saint, Fan Li was in the Confucius Temple, so he could be revived there even without a similar 'General Soul'.

However, since the situation was an emergency, Ouyang Shuo had no time to think and just stood up.

He truly regretted it now.

Since Ouyang Shuo did not bring a substitute doll, if he had died on the spot, he would have returned to Shanhai City.

With that, he would have to start his cultivation from scratch.

The reason why he did not bring a substitute doll was not out of arrogance or forgetfulness. It was because he did not want to leave a way out for himself as that would impede his cultivation.

If not, with the substitute doll, it was like having a protection talisman, making him fight recklessly.

If one did not fear death, they would not be able to truly understand the meaning of death.

Be it the Yellow Emperor Internal Cultivation Technique or the Tianmo Spear Code, they were both top class skills that could affect real life. Ouyang Shuo did not want it to affect his true cultivation because of substitute dolls.

Hence, he did not want to bring them along.

If he really died then, his cultivation would not be only matter affected. Based on how tense the situation was, if Ouyang Shuo was killed, no one would be able to calm down Xu Chu and the others.

A chaotic battle would be unavoidable.

If that was the case, the enemy would have achieved their goal.

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Chapter 762 – Coal for Equipment Exchange

Ouyang Shuo did not stop after leaving Sanjiang Town. He brought the Personal Guards and three thousand Divine Martial Guards to rush day and night, and they finally reached Shanhai City at the 11th month, 22nd day.

The moment he returned, there were a bunch of matters that needed him to handle. The Nanjiang Governor-General House that had just calmed down once again bustled with excitement. People came and went, mostly the various managers of the divisions.

Ouyang Shuo had reached Shanhai City at seven. After brushing up, he ate some breakfast before going to the reading room to handle administrative matters.

It was hard to find such a diligent Monarch.

In the guest room, a group of officials had gathered to wait for the Monarch to meet them.

The first one that Ouyang Shuo saw was Zhang Yi and Combat Logistics Director Xiahou Dun. They wanted to discuss the matter regarding the corporation with West Chu.

A day ago, the envoy group sent by tHonglu Temple had smoothly returned from Peng City. They brought back the kind intentions of West Chu Overlord Xiang Yu, who was extremely interested in the cooperation plan.

"So what you're saying is that West Chu does not want gold for the coal but equipment instead?" Ouyang Shuo asked Zhang Yi.

"Yes."

Ouyang Shuo smiled, "Xiang Yu seems to have considered all aspects."

West Chu was located east of Zhongyuan, so it was pincered in the north and south by Di Chen and Zhan Lang. Meanwhile, on the east, Hanwu Emperor was not friendly toward West Chu because of history.

To say that they were facing enemies from all four sides was completely true.

Hence, even if West Chu obtained gold from the trade, they would not be able to buy anything, so goods for goods trade would be the best choice.

"Then, should we reject West Chu?" Zhang Yi asked.

"No." Ouyang Shuo shook his head and smiled, "Why should we? Accept their offer."

Ouyang Shuo had ordered Honglu Temple to contact West Chu for two reasons. First, to solve the coal shortage problem. Secondly, he wanted to support them and let them fight against Di Chen and Zhan Lang.

The equipment and weapons trade was a win-win.

Ouyang Shuo instructed Xiahou Dun, "In terms of prices of the weapons and equipment, as long as we take 30% profits, it's fine. When needed, we can give them a batch in advance as a deposit for the coal."

Xiang Yu was a person who coveted small advantageous. If one did not let him see gains, he might not be motivated. Ouyang Shuo was worried that West Chu would not be motivated to dig the coal and the coal production would be affected as a result.

"Understood!"

Only after Xiahou Dun became the Combat Logistics Director did he understand how deep the foundations of Shanhai City were. In comparison, the equipment and weapons from the Three Kingdoms were not even on the same level and were just broken copper armors.

"Monarch, do we need to push for an alliance with West Chu?"

During this visit, Xiang Yu's attitude was a little conservative. He only agreed to the coal trading plan. He did not express any clear view on an alliance.

It seemed like the Shanhai City Army defeating him in the Battle Map was still a humiliation for him. He could not accept it so quickly. Hence, he was not willing.

Ouyang Shuo smiled, "Let's let nature take its place; we do not need to force the matter."

Since the Xiang Family completely controlled West Chu, there was not much that the Honglu Temple could do. As opposed to doing those small acts that might irritate Xiang Yu, it was better to not do anything.

Ouyang Shuo believed that as long as Xiang Yu tasted the benefits of the weapons, he would take the hook. To West Chu, using useless black earth to exchange for elite equipment was totally worth it.

"Understood."

Ouyang Shuo suddenly remembered something and said to Xiahou Dun, "Oh right, Yuan Rang, Consonance City has the siege weapons industry that the Combat Logistics Department needs to take care of. Build relevant factories in each prefecture, especially near the borders to ensure that we have enough siege weapons."

As Consonance City was once the giant of Yunnan Province, they had an extremely strong foundation. The moment it merged with Shanhai City, Kunming Prefecture immediately became one of the best prefectures in the territory.

The harder to come by part was that Consonance City had a few special industries. Especially the military industry, which was going really well and could be considered one of the best in Shanhai Alliance.

This merger was undoubtedly an upgrade to the military industry of Shanhai City.

Xiahou Dun replied, "During this period of time, Consonance City has sent people over to discuss the military industry merger. Currently, there has been progress and things are moving smoothly."

"Really?" Ouyang Shuo smiled. It seemed like Bai Hua was really good at her job.

Speaking of Bai Hua, Ouyang Shuo had thought of another matter. The other three girls of the four flowers had already reached Shanhai City and were waiting for Ouyang Shuo to appoint them.

A short while ago, while Ouyang Shuo was touring the three prefectures of Lingnan Province, Bai Hua had especially written him a letter to say that the three sisters did not want to stay by her side and wanted to develop in Shanhai City.

After the territory merged, Kunming Prefecture had a new system. In addition to the law system, the three sisters could not do as they wished like before.

Hence, why not just let go?

When Ouyang Shuo received the letter, he was naturally delighted. The three sisters were all talents, and they definitely would be able to find a stage in Shanhai City to shine.After he sent away Zhang Yi and Xiahou Dun, Ouyang Shuo told Bai Nanpu to invite the three sisters.

Looking at the back view of this secretary, Ouyang Shuo suddenly thought about something. Looking at the time, Bai Nanpu had been around him for two and a half years; he had the role of secretary since the start of the first year.

Even till now, he was doing things diligently.

'I should find a time to send him out to train.' Ouyang Shuo was thinking.

Just as Ouyang Shuo was deep in thought, a girl's voice sounded from outside the door, "Wow Lord, you are such a busy man."

The person had not even arrived but her voice already did.

While saying that, Luo Zilan, Hong Yong, and Tsing Yi all walked in.

"Please sit!"

Ouyang Shuo smiled; he did not reply to Zi Luolan's teasing.

Seeing Ouyang Shuo himself, the three of them instantly quietened down.

"Bai Hua has already told me about your situation. Just tell me your thoughts, we can talk freely today." Ouyang Shuo personally poured tea for the three of them.

The three of them had a part in Consonance City, so Ouyang Shuo needed to compensate them as well for the merger, not just Bai Hua. In the future, the three of them would have similar titles and land.

"You'll agree to any request?" Zi Luolan looked at Ouyang Shuo sheepishly.

Ouyang Shuo nodded, "As long as it is logical, I will."

'Tsk!' Zi Luolan scoffed. For some reason, she had really wanted to meet Ouyang Shuo. Who knows why, but when she really saw him, a random anger sparked in her heart.

Probably because the guy in front of her was just too calm and composed.

"Second sister!" Tsing Yi lightly tugged Zi Luolan's shirt and reminded her. They no longer had the identity of allies. Now, he was their Monarch.

They were familiar with one another, but one could not take it too far.

Seeing the situation get a little awkward, Hong Ying was the first to speak, "I want to take up a role in the military."

"That's fine." Ouyang Shuo nodded, "How about you go to the 3rd division of the Fan Lihua legion?"

During the Battle of White Stone City, the Fan Lihua legion had suffered heavy losses, and even the 3rd division Major General had died.

Hong Ying was the Major General of the Consonance City Guards Division. Along with the merger of Consonance City, the Guards Division was temporarily a Guards Independent Division under the charge of Huo Qubing.

To prevent people from gossiping, Hong Ying had already resigned from her old job. To take up the role of Major General in the 3rd division was no problem at all.

"That's great!" Hong Ying's eyes lit up. It was not because of other reasons but because of Fan Lihua. "I've heard about this heroine. I'm more than willing to work under her."

As expected from a soldier, she was straight with her words.

When Ouyang Shuo saw her reaction, he smiled.

"What about you two?" Ouyang Shuo asked Zi Luolan and Tsing Yi.

Zi Luolan calmed herself down before saying, "You know me, I'm best at diplomacy. If possible, I would like to work at Honglu Temple."

"That's great." Ouyang Shuo nodded and smiled, "I'll set up an Outreach Division under the Honglu Temple to be in charge of outreach and diplomacy with other player groups. You would be the secretary, how about that?"

"I can understand diplomacy with player powers, but what do you mean by outreach?" Zi Luolan did not understand.

In modern days, promotion and outreach were really important, but this game was set in ancient society. How would one promote and advertise?

Ouyang Shuo smiled, "Shanhai City had created the Shanhai Times long ago just that we have not been running it well. I want to put it under the charge of the Outreach Division to strengthen the influence of the newspaper in the territory. How's that, do you have confidence?"

Zi Luolan's eyes lit up, "No problem."

"Then that's settled." Ouyang Shuo nodded, turning to Tsing Yi, "What about you?"

Not only was she the smartest out of the four of them, but she was also one of the top three female advisors in the wilderness. In the last life, she was on the same level as Juedai Fenghua.

"I have not thought about it."

When in Consonance City, Tsing Yi existed as the idea maker and the thinker of the group, so she did not have any exact role; this made it really awkward when she came over to Shanhai City.

In contrast to Consonance City, Ouyang Shuo had too many capable people beside him. Apart from his officials and generals, he also had the Chief Secretary and Chen Gong who came recently.

In comparison, Tsing Yi did not have much of an advantage.

When Ouyang Shuo heard her words, he frowned. When Bai Hua had written the letter to him, he had started to plan for the three of them. The arrangements for Zi Luolan and Hong Yi were thought up long ago.

If not, the position of 3rd division Major General would not have been empty for such a long time.

The only one Ouyang Shuo could not settle on was Tsing Yi.

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Chapter 763 – Cabinet Structure

Just as Ouyang Shuo was contemplating her position, Bai Nanpu walked in and bowed, "Monarch, Lu Bu, Gao Shun, and Chen Gong have all requested to see you."

Ouyang Shuo was stunned. He did not expect Lu Bu to be so anxious. Ouyang Shuo raised his head and said, "Let the three of them wait for a while."

"Yes Monarch!"

Bai Nanpu turned around and left.

When Tsing Yi heard this, she got up and said, "Why don't we talk next time? I'm doing well now too."

What a thoughtful woman.

Suddenly, a lightbulb lit up in Ouyang Shuo's mind after he saw Bai Nanpu, and he said, "Are you willing to do a desk job?"

"Oh?" Tsing Yi was surprised.

Ouyang Shuo's line of thought was extremely, "There are currently too many memorials that I need to handle. If there was someone to help me with them and write opinions on the memorials, it can make my job more efficient. Are you willing to do such a job?"

When he saw Bai Nanpu, Ouyang Shuo suddenly remembered that Bai Nanpu was the manager of a department, and he should not be at his side at every moment.

Based on modern day terms, Jia Xu as the Chief Secretary was like his personal secretary, and Bai Nanpu as the secretary was like the manager of the office. Hence, what Ouyang Shuo needed was a personal assistant.

Tsing Yi in front of him was a great choice. Although she was young, she was really calm. As she had been around Bai Hua for so long, she was extremely proficient at administrative matters.

The rarer part was Tsing Yi's incredible intelligence.

Tsing Yi also understood.

This was a job that combined the modern day personal assistant and ancient grand secretariat. It did not seem like an important job, but it touched on all the secrets of the territory. Moreover, she could make use of her intelligence to give advice on the memorials to lessen Ouyang Shuo's workload.

In olden times, all documents to the king would be read through first by the grand secretariat. Speaking of which, one had to talk about the ancient cabinet system.

The system was formed during the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuan Zhang removed the central secretariat and prime minister, giving the power to six departments. The emperor would take charge of the administrative duties of six departments and hundreds of divisions. In truth, the emperor was taking the job of the prime ministers; this pushed the power of the Monarch to the peak.

Although this helped to consolidate the emperor's power, it was a lot of work for the emperor. When there were too many memorials, the emperor would even have to go through many sleepless nights.

Even an incredibly diligent emperor like Zhu Yuan Zhang could not take it. In the end, he found a few experienced elders to help him.

These people were either grand scholars or scholars.

And each one of them could only advise but could not make any decisions. Each one of them had the title of grand secretariat, but their position was extremely low, having no power to speak of.

During Zhu Di's time, the cabinet was formed. After which, the power that originally the prime minister had was in the emperor's hand. The rights to discuss was passed to the cabinet and the administrative rights to the six departments.

The current cabinet was just the emperor's personal secretaries and was not an organization with power.

During Yong Le's reign, the duties of the cabinet grew heavier, helping to run the six departments and becoming an advisory and decision making organization for the emperor. During Zhu Zhan Ji's time, their power rose even more and became a more perfect administrative process.

All memorials in the country, be it big or small, even suggestions by the people, would go through the people and be sent to the emperor to browse. Then the matter would be handed over to the cabinet. They would then write their thoughts and send them to the emperor for approval.

With that, the power of the cabinet was similar to the power of some of the eunuchs, forming a power chain. The cabinet and the imperial service bureau where the eunuchs worked at worked together to handle the administrative matters and six departments.

Amongst which, the most famous people were Zhang Ju Zhen and the eunuch Feng Bao.

At the latter stages of the Ming Dynasty, although members of the cabinet were not ministers, they had the power of ministers.When Shanhai City established their country, they would definitely need to set up the cabinet. However, how to run it to raise administrative efficiency and reduce power plays was a difficult question.

With such a transition period, Tsing Yi's position was similar to that of a scout.

She was also a smart person and knew the importance of this role. She hesitated, "I do not think I can do it?"

Ouyang Shuo smiled, "You cannot do it? Yes, you can."

"Okay, I'll try." Tsing Yi nodded.

"That's great!"

Ouyang Shuo had extremely high hopes for Tsing Yi.

Zi Luolan looked at Ouyang Shuo warily, "Oi, are you trying to make her your female secretary?"Ouyang Shuo was speechless.

When Tsing Yi heard her friend's words, her face turned red.

"Let's end our conversation here today. I still need to meet Lu Bu." Ouyang Shuo said, "Tsing Yi you stay."

"Ok."

Tsing Yi nodded, officially taking the role.Regarding the appointments of Lu Bu and the other two, Ouyang Shuo had a rough idea. Amongst which, it involved the adjustment of the Military Affairs Bureau structure. Since Lu Bu asked to see him, Ouyang Shuo decided to call Du Ruhui and Zhao Kuo over to hold a last minute meeting.

A short while later, all of them entered the reading room.

Amongst them, one of them was really tall and big. He had boiling blood and emitted an extremely strong aura - Lu Bu.

Just by looking at him, one could tell that he was an exceedingly strong general.

The strength of Lu Bu was something few in China's entire history could compete with. Even Er'Lai, Xu Chu, and Ma Chao were a distance away from him.

Behind Lu Bu was a man with a full mustache. He had an extremely sincere and honest look. Needless to say, this loyal person was the troop training master, Gao Shun.

Beside Gao Shun was a scholar with a broad face - Strategist Chen Gong.

"Greetings Monarch!"

Lu Bu, Gao Shun, and Chen Gong all bowed, officially setting the master-servant relationship. After spending a period of time here, even the highly arrogant Lu Bu had nothing to say.

It was best to be able to work in such a territory.

"Please rise."

Ouyang Shuo said whilst he checked out their stats.

Name: Lu Bu (Emperor Rank)

Dynasty: East Han

Identity: Shanhai City General

Occupation: Special Rank General

Loyalty: 70

Command: 72

Force: 100

Intelligence: 65

Politics: 50

Specialty: Fierce General (raises troops morale by 30%, raises troops movement speed by 25%, raises troops attack strength by 35%)

Cultivation Method: Heavens Breaking Halberd Technique (24 strokes)

Equipment: Red Hare Horse, Fangtian Halberd, Beast Face Head Swallowing Armor

Evaluation: Lu Bu has the ferocity of a tiger, creator of miracles, only brings victory.

As expected from Lu Bu, the one with unparalleled strength; his force stat had reached 100. If Ouyang Shuo fought Lu Bu now, he probably could not win.

Name: Gao Shun (King Rank)

Dynasty: East Han

Identity: Shanhai City General

Occupation: Advanced General

Loyalty: 70

Command: 88

Force: 72

Intelligence: 60

Politics: 45

Specialty: Training Troops (raises leveling speed of soldiers by 40%, raises morale of soldiers by 15%)

Special Soldier Type: Formation Crushing Unit

Cultivation Method: nil

Equipment: Six-side Han Sword

Evaluation: Gao Shun is a pure and honorable man; he does not drink and does not take bribes. He led 700 troops, and each attack broke through any trap or formation. His troops were known as the Formation Crushing Unit.

Gao Shun had truly surprised Ouyang Shuo, not only did he have a special soldier type, his specialty was also extremely overpowered, and it helped to save almost half the time of training troops.

Ouyang Shuo planned to grant Gao Shun a high position.

Name: Chen Gong (King Rank)

Dynasty: East Han

Identity: Shanhai City Strategist

Occupation: Special Rank Strategist

Loyalty: 75

Command: 70

Force: 52

Intelligence: 85

Politics: 72

Specialty: Winning by Strategy (raises success rates of strategies by 25%, raise combat confidence by 20%, reduces enemy morale by 10%)

Evaluation: Chen Gong used his intelligence to win against the enemy, but he cannot be overused in case he gets too immersed in it.

Compared to Jia Xu, Chen Gong was less famous but could also be considered a top class strategist.

Tsing Yi, who was asked to join such a huge occasion at the get go, was obviously nervous.

When she saw how Ouyang Shuo easily recruited an Emperor Rank general, a King Rank general, and a King Rank strategist just like that, she could not help but feel sad for other Lords.

Apart from the prominent Lords, the other Lords in the wilderness could only dream about gathering these three. However, they had chosen to come over to Shanhai City.

The gap was simply too huge.

If another territory gained their allegiance, one would immediately treat them as an honored guest. They would even fear that they had not treated these three well enough.

What about Ouyang Shuo? Lu Bu had to ask to meet him, and Ouyang Shuo did not even meet them one by one. He just tossed them into a meeting right away.

He had treated them a little too lightly.

However, Lu Bu and the two did not show any displeasure. They bowed after they entered; one could not see any unwillingness in their actions, and they were not unhappy.

Even an arrogant general like Lu Bu acted extremely respectfully the moment he saw Ouyang Shuo.

This was the gap.

The current Ouyang Shuo brought with him the aura of an emperor. This was not something other Lords could compete with.

In their eyes, the Monarch was their master, and they would not look down on him or be biased against him just because he was a player.

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Chapter 764 – Training Division

In the reading room, the military meeting officially began.

Ouyang Shuo had invited Du Ruhui and Zhao Kuo over because this matter involved the appointment of Zhao Shun.

"The Military Affairs Bureau lacks a position to train soldiers. I want to set up the Training Division to be in charge of the daily training of the soldiers. What do you all think?"

Du Ruhui was the first to speak, "I agree with what the Monarch's words. As the military continues to expand, war would not be common and would instead become a rarity. Hence, the daily training of the soldiers would become more and more important, even to say that it affects the combat strength of the entire army. Hence, we need to have a proper organization handling the matter."

"That's right. I also suggest that we can put the Training Division in charge of the recruitment and management of reserve forces and start training soldiers from the source."

Since the two elders of the Military Affairs Bureau had made their stand, naturally no one else would oppose.

Ouyang Shuo smiled, "Your suggestion is great; let's do that. As for the position of secretary, I want to put General Gao Shun in charge. However, I do not know if General is willing to take up such a lowly post?"

As he spoke, Ouyang Shuo looked toward Gao Shun.

Gao Shun's specialty was pretty much born for training troops. Ouyang Shuo could not think of anyone that was a better choice than him for the role.

Everyone present focused their attention onto Gao Shun.

Gao Shun already had a feeling when he walked in, so he was really calm right now. To be able to take up such an important task right away, such treatment was something he had never received when he was under Lu Bu.

The amazing part was, who knows if it was planned or not, but his appointment was given to him before Lu Bu.

Gao Shun noticed Lu Bu's face twitch. This was a person that did not know how to hide his thoughts. After entering the wilderness and joining Shanhai City, the Lord and official relationship between the two had officially come to an end.

Who knows why, but Gao Shun felt sad because of it.

The Monarch in front of him was truly magnanimous and was not someone normal Lords could compare to.

Gao Shun got up and walked to the center of the hall and bowed, "Thank you Monarch, I will try my best!" His tone was sincere and solemn.

"Good, then that's settled." Ouyang Shuo smiled.

In truth, the main star of this military meeting was Gao Shun. As for Lu Bu and Chen Gong, Ouyang Shuo also had some plans for them. Lu Bu would continue to learn in the Army Military Academy. Once the Battle of Yunnan ended, he should get at least a Legion General position.

Chen Gong would be appointed in the Nanjiang Governor-General House and would be a strategist and advisor below Jia Xu.

When Shanhai City establish their country, the Imperial Court Structure would not have any pure advisors or strategists. They would be appointed by the role and not making roles to appoint people.

Ouyang Shuo had thought about making Chen Gong a military advisor in one of the legion corps. However, the four marshals were all intelligent people, and their mind for strategy was not worse than Chen Gong.

To put Chen Gong there would not achieve much.

The Three Kingdoms was special as Lords fought one another, and it was a really chaotic time. The true establishment of countries and empires only came at the end of the Three Kingdoms Era. Only then did the stage for strategists arrive.

Such a weird occupational ecosystem was rarely seen in other dynasties.

After arranging everything, it was already close to noon.

At 2 PM, Ouyang Shuo once again appeared in the reading room.

The moment he sat down, Black Snake walked in. It seemed like he had been waiting outside the door. In the morning, some officials, including heads of chambers of commerce, had waited in the guest room for three to four hours but did not manage to see the Monarch.

Black Snake went all in, not even leaving during noon. He waited right outside the courtyard.

When he saw Black Snake, Ouyang Shuo laughed helplessly, "Are you all really trying to keep me here?"

"Lord, please do not be angered!"

Ouyang Shuo waved his hand, "Speak. What matter do you have?"

"It's like this. Didn't the Monarch instruct us to find a guild known as Liangshan Mercenary Group? We have found them and have already arranged for people to infiltrate." Black Snake replied.

Ouyang Shuo was stunned. His thoughts floated away as he said in an indiscernible manner, "Really?"

"It was also a huge coincidence. That Mercenary Group is also in the list that applied to move here. Their guild is not too bad, and the Civil Affairs Department had already investigated them. If nothing goes wrong, they should be able to move here." Black Snake reported another piece of intel.

It seemed like this was the reason why Black Snake wanted to find Ouyang Shuo so hurriedly.

He could not deduce what kind of conflict the Monarch had with this unassuming Mercenary Guild. Logically speaking, one was a Monarch so high up and the other was just a small character.

There should not be anything going on between the two.

As the head of intelligence, Black Snake could feel that there was some secret within, but he did not dare to step in to investigate what it was.

To do so would be courting death.

Not mentioning other matters, solely the commander of the Shanhai Guards, Shen Buhai, was not a simple character. During this period of time, Black Snake felt that there was a pair of eyes quietly staring at their ash courtyard.

They investigated the matter, but they could not find any clues.

Black Snake was sure that the Shanhai Guards were monitoring them. As one of the elites in real life China Mercenary groups, Black Snake was the best at intel gathering and anti-investigating techniques.

He thought that going against the ancient people was just too easy.

Who knew that Shen Buhai would give him such a good lesson?

Modern day intel gathering was more systematic and more logical, but it was not omnipotent. Furthermore, the wilderness did not have the advanced tools of real life, making it far more difficult.

The ancient people's knowledge was endless, and their experience from investigations was passed down from generation to generation. Such skills would not appear in any document, but they truly existed.

Not mentioning other matters, in terms of developing and controlling spies alone, there was already a whole lot to do.

Generation after generation of accumulation, simply terrifying.

If one underestimated them, one would definitely fall hard.

It was obvious that Black Snake had taken such a loss. From that day on, he became more careful. In the dark, he had also strengthened and modified the Black Snake Guards. He did not want to be suppressed like that by the Shanhai Guards.

It was not a fight for power, more of a fight for some breathing room.

The battle between the two intel organizations was just beginning.

Ouyang Shuo naturally knew all of this as Shen Buhai had reported it to him. The current Shanhai Guards had completed a massive net over the whole territory, covering it completely.

Ouyang Shuo was also extremely glad that the two intel organizations were having such a competition.The report from the Black Snake Guards helped Ouyang Shuo realize that the time to deal with the Liangshan Mercenary Group had already arrived, and it should not be dragged on any longer.

"To what degree has the Black Snake Guards infiltrated the Liangshan Mercenary Group?" Ouyang Shuo asked.

Black Snake replied, "Liangshan Mercenary Group is only a large-sized guild, and their member count has not even reached the 10 thousand full number. The guild uses a team leader system, and their main profits come from missions or being hired."

"Apart from guild leader Song Pu, they have two more deputy guild leaders; they are the Yi Zhangqing and Zhang Zi Yue that you have mentioned. Till date, one of the most elite Black Snake Guards, Snake Guard Number 55, has obtained a position of deputy team leader. Apart from that, there are many Snake Guards and Black Guards hiding amongst their elite squads."

The efficiency of the Black Snake Guards was extremely high; they had reached the core of the Liangshan Mercenary Guild in such a short time.

"What's the Number 55's evaluation of the core members?"

Ouyang Shuo wanted to know whether his three brothers and sisters had undergone a huge change in the game. If that happened, he would not know how he should handle it.

"Guild leader Song Pu is a general who is really fair and passionate; he's really loved and respected in the guild. In the Quanzhou Mercenary Circle, he can be considered to have a little fame." Black Snake introduced Song Pu's situation first.

When Ouyang Shuo heard these words, he laughed coldly to himself.

That's right. In the last life, before that matter, wasn't Song Pu a good brother? He was exceedingly righteous and took care of members of the guild really well, treating everyone warmly.

Song Pu also treated their families extremely well, taking out a portion of the guild expenses to fund the families. Especially the elderly, he helped them pay their rents.

Hence, in the circle, people often said that although the Liangshan Mercenary Guild was not super strong, it was the most humane mercenary guild.

Using their good name, the mercenary guild was able to accept jobs and barely continue running.

Song Pu was warm, but he did not have any business mind. Moreover, he did not know how to be diplomatic. Consequently, the financial situation of the mercenary guild was not good.

If not, in the last life, Ouyang Shuo would not have had such a tough life even though he was one of three leaders of the guild.

The further the game went on, the more the price of normal goods would be inflated, and house prices would increase. Overall, this would make it difficult for players to live in the imperial cities. Some of the elderly did not have any skill and were just pure casual players.

The imperial city Imperial Courts did not have any welfare for players, so it all depended on the players to solve their problems themselves.

Not mentioning casual players, even combat occupation players were having it tough. Along with the outer regions of the imperial city being explored, the players lost their place to kill monsters and their source of quests.

Now, the most popular quests were the ones given out by the imperial cities. Players would fight tooth and nail for it on every occasion.

In comparison, the lives of work occupation players were much safer.

Under such circumstances, the growth of mercenary guilds was promoted and helping Lords to fight wars was a good idea.

Breaking away from the imperial cities and searching for a new way to survive became the challenge for large guilds.

Ouyang Shuo knew that the Gaia year 4 system update would have something especially targeted at this.

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Chapter 765 – Equipment Development Hub

Black Snake continued to report, "Deputy team leader Yi Zhangqing is a strategist; he is a really low profile person and is the genius behind the mercenary group. Deputy team leader Zhang Ziyue is a chivalrous expert and basically does not participate in guild activities normally".

Ouyang Shuo nodded; the three of them were not too different from the last life. Even in the last life, Ouyang Shuo did not have much understanding of second brother Yi Zhangqing as he was simply too low profile.

Apart from talking about guild matters, he was like an invisible man. Ouyang Shuo also spent a lot of time doing quests outside, so they spent very little time together.

In the last life, Zhang Ziyue treated Bing'er really nicely and basically treated her like a little sister. The two of them often did quests together outside, and their relationship could be considered close.

However, they became total strangers in this life.

"I understand their situation; let Number 55 continue to lay in wait." Ouyang Shuo was down-hearted.

"Understood."

"If there's nothing more, you can leave."

Ouyang Shuo waved his hand as there were still many matters that were waiting for him to handle.

Black Snake did not leave right away and said, "Monarch, there's still one more matter. Last time, you ordered us to check if there were any other Lords in the north who have come into contact with the Mongol Tribe. From the current situation, apart from Fengxiang City, no other territory has come into contact with the Mongols. It just seems like a total coincidence."

Ouyang Shuo remained silent.

Ouyang Shuo was extremely vigilant towards the Mongol Tribes.

"Even so, let's not put down our guards and tell the Jingdu Intel Station to keep watch. The moment something occurs, immediately report." Ouyang Shuo instructed.

"Understood!"

Following which, Black Snake left; he also knew that the Monarch's time was extremely precious.After Black Snake left, Ouyang Shuo sent an imperial decree to the Civil Affairs Department to ask Director Pei Mo to allow Liangshan Mercenary Group to enter Shanhai City through the normal process.

As long as Liangshan Mercenary Group came over to Shanhai City, they would not be able to escape from his clutches.

After a short while, Combat Logistics Director Xiahou Dun, who had come in the morning, brought Armory Division Secretary Wang Gao, Bow and Crossbow Division Secretary Wu Peng, and Grandmaster Ou Zhizi into the reading room.

This meeting had been planned in advance.

Along with the merger with Consonance City, Shanhai City now had many equipment making technologies. Not mentioning warships, in terms of armor, they had the Ming Dynasty Mingguang Armor and the Song Dynasty Buren Armor, and for weapons, they had the Tang Blade, the Horse Lance, and the Song Dynasty bow and crossbows as well as shields. Apart from that, they also have a full range of siege weapons.

All of these technologies were basically purchased by Ouyang Shuo through the system auctions. In the recent year and a half, the territory equipment and weapons had started to become stale.

The only big breakthrough was the Ming Dynasty Cannon.

In terms of cold weapons, due to the advancement in steelmaking technology, the crafting process had been renewed, raising the toughness and sharpness of the weapons.

Logically speaking, the huge technological accumulation of Shanhai City could help them get away from the restrictions of technical manuals, and they should be able to have one or two breakthroughs on the original base to come up with items more advanced than the era the weapons had come from.

However, that did not happen.

The reason had both objective elements and problems of cooperation between departments. The four military workshops each had their own responsibilities, so they did not think about improving a stage and reaching another level.

They really could not keep going on like this.

After witnessing the strength and power of the P1 Type Cannons, Ouyang Shuo realized that he needed to have an overall upgrade of the territory military industry, especially in terms of the cold weapons region.

Before returning to Shanhai City, Ouyang Shuo had already revealed his thoughts to Xiahou Dun.

Now, it was time to see what kind of answer this Combat Logistics Director could give him.

"Speak. What are the thoughts of the Combat Logistics Department?" Ouyang Shuo went right to the topic.

Xiahou Dun said, "The criticism of the Monarch regarding the Combat Logistics Department truly makes me ashamed."

The letter from the Monarch was extremely direct. If Xiahou Dun was not just appointed and did not have much to do with the mess, he would have probably been scolded pretty badly.

Ouyang Shuo waved his hand, "You do not need to apologize; talk about your specific plans."

"Yes." Xiahou Dun nodded. "The Combat Logistics Department is considering taking five to six master level craftsmen from the Armory Division and the Bow and Crossbow Division to put them all together to research and develop new crafting technology. Apart from that, we would like grandmaster Ou Zhizi to lead this team."

When Ouyang Shuo heard this suggestion, he said, "Ou Zhizi is a God Rank swordsmith, and he is very experienced. Having him lead the team is a really good experience. But this is far from enough. Moving so few people might cause conflict and not bear many results. We must do much more to revolutionize this."

"How about we set up an Equipment Development Hub under the Combat Logistics Department with Ou Zhizi in charge? This place will gather all the grandmasters in the territory. In weaker areas like heavy swords, war horse equipment, and similar equipment, we will spend money to hire grandmasters from the imperial cities. Hence, we will form a stellar lineup to be in charge of equipment research and development."

"On the other side, we will also borrow people from the No.7 Research Institute, asking them to send one or two steel experts to the Equipment Development Hub. Magnus's experimental lab can also be merged into the hub. All in all, in the future, the Equipment Development Hub would become the brains of the cold weapons of the territory."

"One more point, the hub should not lock itself up and must not do things alone. They must regularly communicate with the shipbuilding departments, No.7 Research Institute, and Xinan University to increase the hub's knowledge and broaden their horizons. Only then can they improve further."

After saying so much so quickly, Ouyang Shuo was really thirsty, so he took up the teacup and drank a large mouthful of tea.

Xiahou Dun and the others were sitting there like students. Each of them was holding a book and recording diligently, afraid of missing out on any information.

After checking and checking and confirming that he did not miss out on anything, Xiahou Dun raised his head and said solemnly, "Monarch's words have opened my eyes; we have been too conservative. I will make a specific plan regarding the Equipment Development Hub for the Lord to read over."

"That could not be better." Ouyang Shuo nodded. Then he turned around to look at Ou Zhizi and said, "Regarding the hub, I'll depend on you, grandmaster."

Ou Zhizi was incredibly engrossed in the Monarch's words. Ouyang Shuo's foresight was truly deep and vast. If his plan was followed, their prospects would truly be endless.

"Do not worry Monarch, I will do all I can." Ou Zhizi said.

Ouyang Shuo smiled and nodded, "If there's anything you need, grandmaster can directly report to me in the manor." Ouyang Shuo was really determined to make this plan of raising the standards of the cold weapon in the territory work.

"Yes Monarch!"

With that, the matter of establishing the Equipment Development Hub was set.

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Chapter 766 – Industrialization Department

After he sent Xiahou Dun and his group away, Ouyang Shuo welcomed the last batch of officials for the day. This batch included Administration Director Xiao He, Financial Director Fan Li, Industry and Development Planning Director Cui Yingyu, and the person in charge of the No.7 Research Institute, Liu Mo.

Amongst them, there was also an old man.

This was the most important meeting for Ouyang Shuo today, and he had purposely left it for the end.

Ouyang Shuo drank a mouthful of tea, calming his tired senses. In just a day, he had approved the West Chu coal for equipment exchange, settled Zi Luolan and the other two sisters, set up the Outreach Division, Training Division, and the Equipment Development Hub.

Using the gaps in between, he also dealt with important intel as well as matters regarding Liangshan Mercenary Group.

Such a closely packed schedule was something that Ouyang Shuo had not met with before. First, he had been away for too long, and there were many matters that he needed to personally solve; secondly, the Battle of Yunnan was imminent, so Ouyang Shuo needed to make use of the moment of peace to quickly deal with administrative matters before rushing over to Consonance City.

This meeting involves the territory industrialization.

A month ago, the No.7 Research Institute had met expectations, creating the steam engine and the sewing machine. They had completed the process of turning technical manual to real items.

What was next was to build factories and a seamless production chain to turn the item into a product.

Apart from that, No.7 Research Institute had garnered huge progress in their research on the Atlantis flying device. If everything went well, they would be able to craft the first local mimicry flying device by the 3rd month.

Along with the P1 Type Cannon, the research of the No.7 Research Institute had been really stellar. Hence, Ouyang Shuo kept his promise and transferred 500 thousand gold over to Liu Mo.

The territory industrialization had reached a crucial point, and it looked like a huge explosion was imminent.

While Ouyang Shuo was still touring Lingnan, he ordered the Administration Bureau and Financial Bureau to see how they could remove divisions related to industrialization to make a management organization that purely focused on that.

This organization would be called the Industrialization Department.

The newly established Industrialization Department would be directly managed by the Nanjiang Governor-General House and not by the four bureaus.At the start of the meeting, Xiao He made a detailed report on the structure of the Industrialization Department.

At the current moment, the department in charge of industrialization was the Industry and Development Planning Department under the Financial Bureau. Apart from which, the Technology Division under the Science, Education, Culture, and Health Department was related to industrialization, so it would be moved to the Industrialization Department.

Hence, the core officials of the Industrialization Department would be from these two places.

The No.7 Research Institute would also arrange a batch of relevant experts to enter the department as technical advisors. Some of them would take on administrative roles to help the Industrialization Department run.

The research experts were not just people who focused solely on knowledge and research. Some of them were technology officials for the federation or people in charge of relevant organizations, thus their administrative experience was not lacking either.

These people were the true backbone and brains of the Industrialization Department.

The director of the department was chosen from the No.7 Research Institute; the director would be the old man - old Chen. In reality, he was in the federation scientific committee.

There would be three organizations under the Industrialization Department, including the Technology Division in charge of dealing with relevant technology, Industrialization Division in charge of planning and factory construction as well as Firearms Division in charge of firearm research and development.

The relevant warship research would also be moved under the Industrialization Department under the charge of the Industrialization Division.

One could foresee that the newly built Industrialization Department would be one of the core departments of the territory, controlling the industrialization lifeline of the territory; it would play the role of the captain of the ship.

Ouyang Shuo gave his seal of approval on the document that Xiao He passed to him, officially signaling the formation of the Industrialization Department. Ouyang Shuo directly asked, "What plans does the department have for the sewing machine and steam engine factory construction? Have you chosen the place?"

Old Chen was naturally extremely excited as he did not expect that he could still participate in core administrative matters after entering the game. As a high-level federation officer, Old Chen saw through how the game ran.

It was already obvious that the young man in front of him would plan an important role when they arrived on planet Hope. Thinking about it now, his role had a truly deep meaning.

Hence, although the industrialization in the territory now was like that of a primitive society when compared to modern times, Old Chen did not dare to treat it lightly.

Before coming, Old Chen had deeply contemplated this question and replied, "The Industrialization Department recommends to move all relevant factories to Zhenhai City."

"Oh? What's the reason?"

Ouyang Shuo was truly surprised. He thought that they would have chosen Shanhai City instead. After all, Lianzhou Prefecture had been changed to a Zhili Prefecture, which meant that there was a lot of land in the basin that could be used.

Old Chen laughed and explained, "First, Zhenhai City has a natural bay like Jiaozhou Bay. This is something that Shanhai City cannot compare to. Without mentioning how Shanhai City is located inland, even Beihai Bay acts as a military harbor, which makes it really congested. Along with the voyage trading, there are too many merchant ships jamming the area up. The future Beihai Port is going to face this problem."

Ouyang Shuo nodded, agreeing with Old Chen's analysis.

Unknowingly, the increased prosperity of Shanhai City created a challenge to Beihai Port. In the past, Ouyang Shuo had tried to build all the best facilities and things at Shanhai City.

Thinking about it now, it was a bad decision.

As the territory developed, it was time to nurture new areas; they could not add too many functions to Shanhai City. As the future Capital City, Shanhai City should be the political, cultural, and military center.

As for industrial, economic, and trading centers, they could choose other cities to play such roles.

Lingnan Province's Zhenhai City was a fantastic choice. In reality, the Zhenhai City region was part of the famous Pearl River Delta economic zone.

'It seems like the time has arrived to push forward the development of Zhenhai City.' Ouyang Shuo thought to himself.

Old Chen continued, "Compared to Beihai Bay, Jiaozhou Bay is closer to Jiodong Bay in Ludong Province and Beihai Port in the north of Jingdu, reducing the time to transport coal, which is highly beneficial to developing industrialization."

"One more point, Zhenhai City is located at the end of the Zhujiang river system, and it can radiate the results of industrialization to Lingnan, Chuanbei and Yunnan Province."

Ouyang Shuo nodded and smiled, "Old Chen, you have convinced me; let's follow your plan."

"Ok." When Old Chen heard that, he was delighted.

At that moment, Fan Li suddenly spoke, "Monarch, there's one thing we have to pay attention to. The route from Jiaozhou Bay to Jiaodong Bay needs to cross the Yizhou Straits. King City's Penghu Squadron should be patrolling the area. I'm worried that a large-scale transportation of coal would be intercepted by them."

Ouyang Shuo nodded, "This is actually a problem. But you do not have to be overly worried about it. Based on the plan set by the Military Affairs Bureau, if the Battle of Yunnan goes well, this problem will be solved."

The problem Fan Li spoke of made Ouyang Shuo even more determined to take care of Yizhou Island.

"Since the Monarch has considered everything, I do not need to worry." Fan Li said.

Even though he said that Fan Li still had doubts in his heart. Not only was he a Business Saint, but he was also extremely smart about military affairs. Fan Li could not imagine how the results of the Battle of Yunnan would affect Yizhou Straits.

However, since this involved military secrets, Fan Li could not ask more. After all, he was just the Financial Director.

Seeing that Fan Li had finished speaking, Old Chen said, "Monarch, the Industrialization Department still has something that needs to Monarch to decide. It is regarding the steam engine technology. Should we share it with our allies? When to share? How do we draw the line?"

Old Chen asked a series of questions.

Luckily, Ouyang Shuo was prepared for that, "Since the steam engines and sewing machines are already made, Shanhai City already has a head start. Let's just give them the rights. However, we cannot blindly spread it. What I mean is to give it to Stone City and Fallen Phoenix City. They are both coal producing regions, so the help of the steam engine will quicken the coal digging rate."

"As for West Chu, we will not give them the technology but sell them the finished product instead. As for Gong Chengshi and Xunlong Dianxue, we will give them the sewing machine technology. The South Lords mainly focus on silkworm breeding so the sewing machine can help them improve their industries."

Ouyang Shuo's strategy was to split up the power. With that, it would not pass the five territory limit whilst also helping to raise the strength of his allies.

"As for the specifics, the Industrialization Department will look into it."

Old Chen nodded.

Just at this moment, someone objected. It was Cui Yingyu, "Monarch, I do not oppose passing the technology to Black Lion City but Xunlong City?"

Her words caused the atmosphere of the reading room to turn a little awkward.

The unhappiness between Shanhai City and Xunlong City was something all the officials knew about. Fan Li and the others could not understand what the Monarch was planning. However, they did not want to express their doubts.

Cui Yingyu boldly opened up this wound.

When Ouyang Shuo heard her question, he was not angry but simply smiled. He had obviously thought about Cui Yingyu's question and had his reasons behind it.

Xunlong City had a possibility of betraying the alliance, but Ouyang Shuo did not want to show any biasness before Xulong City actually did anything.

Especially when Lingnan had just stablished and war would start on the west. Maintaining a stable east would be much more suitable for their current strategy.

If they were biased against Xunlong City, with his petty character, who knows what chaos he would cause?

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Chapter 767 – Z1 Type Warship

How could the rights to certain technology compare to the overall strategy of the territory? As such, Ouyang Shuo decided to hand the sewing machine technology to Xunlong City.

The one given the rights would not be able to pass on the technology to another person. Hence, Xunlong City would not be able to teach anyone else the sewing machine technology.

Even if Xiong Ba wanted to use the sewing machine in schemes or plots, it would not be much. After all, Ouyang Shuo intended to release both technologies to the entire China region at a suitable time.

No matter how they fought with one another, it could only be called an internal conflict. During the future country wars, the two alliances would have no choice but to work together.

Ouyang Shuo was more than willing to raise the technology tree of the China region.

"Since I have already thought about this, there's no need to dwell much further on this topic." Ouyang Shuo shelved her opposition.

Cui Yingyu glanced at Ouyang Shuo, nodding and not saying anything else.

Noticing that the atmosphere was getting awkward, Fan Li cut in, "The Financial Bureau also has something to report. The wood trading deal with the ASEAN states have gone through the first round of discussion. They raised an additional term; they wish to have the rights to purchase Shanhai City warships."

Ouyang Shuo shook his head, "Their appetite is really huge."

The ASEAN Lords were not fools or friendly people. In the Nanyang region, all the ASEAN state squadrons were suppressed by Shanhai City.

To build a strong navy to face off against Shanhai City was the priority of all the ASEAN states.

Xingzhou Squadron Fleet Admiral Yanhuo Yaonie had written a letter to Ouyang Shuo, saying that the navies of Java, Johor, Luzon, and the other states were all showing signs of rising up once more.

If it was not for the Xingzhou Squadron suppressing them, the situation would have gone sour. Hence, Ouyang Shuo built the Nanyang Navy Headquarters after the Battle of Red Cliff ended.

One of the uses was to pressure the navies of the various ASEAN states.

Apart from Nanzhang, the rest of the ASEAN states were either near the sea or island states. Hence, they did not lack sailors, and their seafaring skills were decent. Their only weakness would be that in terms of warship building technology, they were behind China.

This was the only reason they would turn their attention to the Shanhai City warships.

"Inform the Business Division negotiation team to tell them that we can sell the warships to them, but there's a strict limit to the number of turreted warships that they can buy. Also, in terms of price, raise it by at least two times." Ouyang Shuo gave an unexpected answer.

Naturally, they should rip off the ASEAN countries when they could do so.

In the game, before the federation was established, countries would rake in over ten times of profits from export prices underpinned by technological breakthroughs.

Ouyang Shuo did not even feel the slightest of psychological barrier in setting this price.

"In terms of negotiation, they also need to pay attention to the technique and try to exaggerate the quantity of wood needed for each warship as well as the time to produce one. Also inform the Lords of the ASEAN states that whoever wants to buy needs to first sell at least twice the wood to us. First come, first serve. Whoever sells us the wood would get the warships first."

The ASEAN was not a united group, so Ouyang Shuo believed the Lords would fight to be the first to sell wood to Shanhai City if they could get the warships earlier than the others.

This was an unexpected surprise.

Since they had a need for Shanhai City warships, it was like Shanhai City having a stranglehold over them. As such, they had no choice but to take a step back in terms of wood trade negotiations.

At the very least, they could not raise the price during the negotiations.

Ouyang Shuo did not choose to sell the warships to the ASEAN states because he was greedy for gold. Rather, the shipbuilding group was already building a new type of warship known as the Z1 Type Warship. It would mesh the strengths of both the Ming Dynasty Warships and the English Man O' War, creating a revolutionary upgrade.

The dragon bones in the experimental warship made use of the black dragon bones that Ouyang Shuo found on the dragon island. After it was completed, it would become Ouyang Shuo's new warship.

Ouyang Shuo knew that the English Man O' War type warships would be the future of warship development because modern day iron warships were built on the basis of these and developed.

The iron warships that Shanhai City would make in the future would require them to first understand the Man O' War battleship technology completely. At the same time, the Ming Dynasty Turreted ships had many useable points that could be incorporated into the new type of battleship.

Combining the two, using the strengths to cover up the weaknesses, they would create an even stronger warship.

As long as the development of the Z1 Type Warship succeeded, along with equipping them with the P1 to P2 type cannons, Shanhai City would be able to give the Nanyang Navy a makeover.

At that time, the turreted warships that the ASEAN navy had would be of no challenge to them.

If was the same as saying that the ASEAN states were just emptying their pockets and using plenty of elite wood to buy eliminated warships. In the end, they were still controlled by Shanhai City.

Ouyang Shuo wanted the Business Division to negotiate and buy some more time for them to develop the new warship. The amount of wood resources needed to build the Z1 Type Warship was an ocean like amount and needed to be amassed beforehand.

If they could earn a large amount in the process, why not make this trade?

When Fan Li heard that, his eyes lit up as he said, "I will send your words to the negotiators."

"That's good." Ouyang Shuo naturally believed that Fan Li would be able to handle it well.After sending away Fan Li, it was already 5 PM.

Seeing that there was some time before dinner, Ouyang Shuo did not meet anyone and started to deal with the memorials. In the reading room, there was one more person; naturally, it was the newly appointed Tsing Yi.

After joining three meetings in a row, Tsing Yi's eyes were truly opened up.

Each management staff in Shanhai City was a giant, and they all had their own views and thoughts. It was amazing how Ouyang Shuo could control all of them and push all the right administrative decisions to make all these old foxes yield.

Tsing Yi's eyes shone bright upon seeing that.

A focused Ouyang Shuo had an unusual charm.

Hence, Tsing Yi felt an even larger pressure. Although she looked soft and weak, she was a extremely determined person. Since she accepted the job, she wanted to do it well.

Ouyang Shuo did not bother about her thoughts, swiftly dealing with the memorials. There were four types of memorials that had the rights to be passed to him.

First, memorials from intel organizations like the Black Snake Guards and the Shanhai Guards.

Basically, these were passed on from Black Snake and Shen Buhai. When Ouyang Shuo was in Shanhai City, most of them would be reported face to face.

Secondly, the war fighting generals.

Based on the rule, Legion Generals and above, including navy fleet admirals, could directly report intel to Ouyang Shuo. Lower ranks like Major Generals did not have this right.

Thirdly, the various Governors.

The Governors, including the City Magistrates of Friendship City and Jidian City, all had the rights to deliver the memorials to him. In fact, they had to at least report once every month.

When the Prefects faced an emergency, they could break the rule to report. As for what was defined as an emergency, the Administration Bureau had specific rules. If it exceeded this range, one would be bypassing their superior.

Fourthly, the people in charge of the major organizations of the Nanjiang Governor-General House.

Apart from the four Bureau Directors, directors and secretaries could report to Ouyang Shuo. Of course, unless it was a huge problem, normally such things would just be reported to the four Bureau Directors.

Considering everything, there were 50 to 60 people who had the ability to report to Ouyang Shuo directly. Considering sudden and unexpected situations, this number would be even larger.

It was still okay when Ouyang Shuo was here as some matters could be handled face to face. When numerous departments were involved, he could also pull all the in charge personnel in for a meeting.

The moment he was not in Shanhai City was when the problems starts.

Problems faced could only be communicated through memorials so many correspondents would be done for just one matter. For those matters involving many departments, it was even worse.

When Ouyang Shuo was outside, he did not have any time in the day, so he could only read and work on them at night. Hence, it was no wonder that he needed to burn the midnight oil in Lingnan.

Luckily, Gaia had such an efficient relay system. Both letters and memorials could be transported quickly like emails.

If not, a Lord on the outside would not be able to care for territory matters.

The reason why Gaia did that was to be more humane. While caring for the Lords, it also trained their ability to deal with administrative matters.

The memorial Ouyang Shuo was reading was from Xingzhou Governor Pei Mo. it was regarding guilds being set up. Hence, Pei Mo sought Ouyang Shuo's opinion.

For anything that involved players, the Governors would often be more careful.

Qing Sikou had a sharp eye and knew that the ASEAN states around Xingzhou Prefecture were a massive raw material base. For a purely work occupation guild like them, it was naturally a huge opportunity.

Now, she applied; naturally, it was because she saw that Shanhai City had stabilized their position in the region.

"That girl is really smart." Ouyang Shuo smiled and shook his head, writing in red: Agreed, handle with discretion.

After handling memorial after memorial, 6 PM had unknowingly past.

Just at this moment, a head popped in. It was Bing'er, who ran in and shouted, "Brother let's eat! You have been busy since returning and did not even eat."

This little lady had become a real busybody.

Ouyang Shuo stretched, "Ok, I'm coming." He turned around and looked at Tsing Yi, "Tsing Yi, it's time for you to end work."

"Yes."

Tsing Yi naturally would not have her meal together with Ouyang Shuo.

When they merged with Consonance City, the Construction Division had built a residence for Bai Hua. The three sisters all stayed there now.

A busy day had finally come to an end.

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Chapter 768 – Mountain and Sea Entertainment Holdings

While they were eating dinner, Song Jia took the chance to raise a matter, "Wuyi, I've already taken care of the investment matter."

Ouyang Shuo smiled and nodded, "That's great, so swift. You invested in your own name?"

"Of course not," Song Jia shook her head and proudly said, "You already said you wanted to rule the entertainment industry, so I dragged Bai Hua, Yue Yue, Bai Xue, and Little Aunt to form a holdings known as the Mountain and Sea Entertainment Holdings.

"Wow!"

Ouyang Shuo took in a deep breathe; these four partners she roped in were truly four rich females.

As the ex-Lord of Consonance City, Bai Hua was extremely rich. After the merger, the salary from Kunming Prefecture was also a sizeable amount; naturally, her assets would only rise.

Mulan Yue was in a similar situation to Bai Hua.

Bai Xue was the female leader of the Bai Trading Company, so she was rich. On the other hand, Little Aunt Lin Jing was one of the two heads of War-Snow Rose.

Ouyang Shuo started to look forward to the future.

Out of the four of them, Bai Xue's investment was one that surprised Ouyang Shuo. Bai Hua, Mulan Yue, and Lin Jing were all players and were familiar with the entertainment industry, so their investment was pretty normal.

After all, Ouyang Shuo's foresight had been proven correct time and time again, and he was an undoubted genius.

As an NPC, the entertainment industry was a total foreign thing to Bai Xue. Who knows whether her investment was to please this future queen or if she saw a business opportunity within?

Maybe both?

"How much gold have you all gathered?" Ouyang Shuo was really curious.

Song Jia laughed, "I've invested the one million you passed to me, so we hold 50% of the shares. Bai Hua invested 400 thousand while the rest each invested 200 thousand."

"Well done." Ouyang Shuo gave her the thumbs up.

Such generosity; for an entertainment holdings to get 2 million gold in investment was probably unprecedented in the entire China region!

Ouyang Shuo asked, "What specific plans do you have?"

Song Jia nodded; she wanted to hear Ouyang Shuo's view, "Apart from the current capital, our only assets would be 40% shares of Pingcheng Studio. Hence, the only job of our holdings is to assist them in getting a good movie done."

"You have not recruited others?" Ouyang Shuo was really curious.

The five partners were all busy people, and even Song Jia represented Ouyang Shuo to go to the imperial cities for events.

Hence, it was necessary to recruit people to help them.

Most importantly, the five of them were total outsiders to the entertainment industry. Without experts helping them to manage it, no matter how much funds they amassed, they would not be able to cause any huge waves.

Speaking of which, Song Jia was having a headache about this matter, "Yes, but it is not going smoothly. Actors, singers, directors, and other such people in real life have all changed their names in the game. We do not dare to do start some high-profile recruitment online."

Since the entertainment group had the name of Mountain and Sea, anyone could guess the background of the group.

Players in the wilderness all had a common consensus that any industry Shanhai City had its eyes on would prosper. The story of Shanhai City using the salt industry to prosper had already spread through the wilderness, becoming a legend.

If players noticed the recruitment news, it would cause a new round of competition.

Song Jia was unwilling to see this happen; hence, they could only proceed quietly.

But in such a huge place, it was truly difficult to find any of them. In real life, these people were so extravagant and high profile, but they basically blended in in the game.

People like Wu Ping Cheng that had not given up were the rare exceptions.

Ouyang Shuo smiled, "Since I came up with the idea, I naturally have to do something too. Tomorrow, I'll tell Black Snake to use the Black Snake Guards to search for movie-making talents."

The information network of the Black Snake Guards had already spread all over the wilderness into every corner of the imperial cities. However, the celebrities in real life were now normal people so finding them would not be easy.

However, as long as they could find a few, they could use them to find more.

"It's best if we can buy over the top talents and give them good treatment. It does not matter if we feed them for nothing. The bond breaking terms must be really high to prevent them from jumping ship." Ouyang Shuo said.

Song Jia's eyes lit up, "Then I do not have to worry so much anymore."

Ouyang Shuo continued, "Once we dig up the talents, we really cannot just pay them for sitting around. With the amount of gold we have, we absolutely can film another movie. As long as we split up the release dates with Jiangshan Beauty, it would not be too much of a problem."

"We also have such an intention. We originally wanted to film a Wuxia movie. However, since the underworld is not apparent, the wilderness does not really have a Wuxia craze." Song Jia was without a doubt a Wuxia fanatic.

Ouyang Shuo smiled, "do not worry; there's so much time in the future. But your thoughts are right; it is not the right time yet. For now, the topic of war is the best choice."

Song Jia glanced at Ouyang Shuo as her eyes revealed a weird expression, "Bai Hua also said the same thing and recommended to shoot a war movie."

"Then let's shoot one."

Song Jia shook her head, "We have not even thought about what to shoot. This is the 1st movie of the organization, so it must be an astounding success."

A lightbulb lit up in his head as he suddenly thought of someone, "I have an idea."

"Quick speak!" Song Jia was excited.

"Why not shoot Huo Qubing? He has so many fangirls and even many strong men like him. He's undoubtedly a celebrity in the wilderness." Ouyang Shuo smiled.

"Uncle Huo Qubing is so handsome!"

Suddenly, such a sentence popped out from beside them; it came from Bing'er that little brat.

Bing'er was good friends with Huo Qubing's niece, Huo Chengjun, and she was a loyal fan of Huo Qubing.

On the other hand, Huo Chengjun was a fan of Ouyang Shuo.

The two of them often quarreled about who was more handsome.

"Sigh, little girls!"

Ouyang Shuo did not bother about Bing'er and looked toward Song Jia.

Song Jia looked at the cute Bing'er and laughed, "This idea is not bad. The problem is that Huo Qubing is leading troops, you can't exactly ask him to join in, right?"

"Isn't it easy? You can find a substitute actor that looks like Huo Qubing, or find a mask that can change the looks of the actor. We can first shoot the main structure and wait for the Yunnan Battle to follow Huo Qubing and shoot the actual scene. Won't that be more intense than a planned scene?"

Ouyang Shuo was someone who had been through all of this, so he had some knowledge of how movies in the last life were shot.

This was the biggest charm of the game. The historical people that Gaia birthed were all living stars of the wilderness, true celebrities.

For them to personally join in the movie shooting process, even if one did not want the movie to be big, it would.

Thinking about it, it would be like sitting in a time machine in real life and going back in time to shoot a movie with those historical figures in it.

To shoot a movie like that, along with some special effects and editing, it would definitely cause an explosive craze.

The game world made all these impossibilities possible.

Want to shoot a movie with the Qin Shihuang and Hanwu Emperor? Okay, go to Xianyang and Luoyang Imperial Palace.

Want to shoot Shaolin and Wudang? No problem, when the two sects appear, their doors will be opened.

Want to shoot pirate movies, historical biographies, and the like? As long as one had enough resources and imaginations, there was nothing that could not be done.

It was this different world that would help the entertainment industry blow up in the game. During the five years of Gaia that he had been through, only a small part of this curtain had been opened.

There was still so much room for imagination.

Apart from the above few, one could push out innovative ideas and creations. The top players in the game might even have a chance to become mega superstars.

The future prospects were unimaginable.

Ouyang Shuo's words stunned Song Jia, opening up a huge door for her toward an unimaginable world.

At this moment, the future entertainment industry shark had awakened.

"Wuyi I know what to do." Song Jia was filled with confidence.

Ouyang Shuo smiled, "I'll be looking forward to it."

Who knows what changes and impact these words would bring for the wilderness? Even they themselves did not what explosive changes they would cause to the wilderness.

The next morning, under the blazing sun, Shanhai City was exceedingly bustling.

The newly appointed Training Division Gao Shun brought along a few members of the Military Affairs Bureau and left Shanhai City. He would proceed to all the Garrison Division and reserve forces to do an all-round review.

Gao Shun was extremely smart; he knew that as the newly appointed training secretary, he did not have any might. Hence, he turned his eyes to the Garrison Division and reserve forces.

His idea was to go from the bottom up to solely rebuild the training system of the entire army.

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Chapter 769 – War Starts

On the same day, Financial Director Fan Li left Shanhai City and rushed to Lion City. After he arrived, he would discuss with the negotiation teams of the Business Division and help hold the discussions with the ASEAN countries.

Thread guild leader Qing Sikou also headed to Lion City. She had already obtained the relay of Xingzhou Prefecture Governor Pei Mo and was invited over to discuss establishing a branch guild.

In contrast to other branch guilds, Thread's branch guild would have workshops and shops as well as farming land outside of the city.

There were many things that Pei Mo needed to discuss with Qing Sikou as Thread was a huge investment in Lion City.At the border of Guilin Prefecture thousands of miles away, the first guild from Chuanbei Province had already crossed the border. They would follow the official path to Shanhai City, renting a merchant boat at Shanhai Port and sailing out to sea.

Guilin Prefecture Governor, who had already taken up the role, set up the first custom at Sanjiang Town; this place would be in charge of checking the goods entering and collecting tax.

Taxation officers from the Taxation Department had already moved into the customs checkpoint.

Anything that entered the territory would be taxed by the Taxation Department. The local officers only had the role of assisting and did not have the power to collect tax.Zhen An Prefecture south of Guilin Prefecture was busy too.

Since a month ago, hundreds of thousands of people had gathered to move all the grain amassed in the Dragon Legion Corps camp toward Consonance City.

The grain supplies of Consonance City alone were not enough for 400 thousand troops.

When they finished transporting the grain, it would be around the time that the 2nd Guards Legion and the 4th Dragon Legion arrived in Kunming Prefecture. The Battle of Yunnan was imminent.

The clouds signifying war had gathered over the skies of Yunnan, growing thicker and thicker.

Along with the Dragon Legion Corps moving to Kunming Prefecture, their original camp had become the base of the 3rd legion of the Leopard Legion Corps. The three legion corps were on their way to completing their internal reorganizations.This was a pretty normal day for Shanhai City, busy but orderly.

Facing the rising sun, Ouyang Shuo was filled with energy and appeared once more in the reading room.

Following which, there would be the endless meetings once more.

Between the meetings, Ouyang Shuo also needed to appear at specific places to show his face. During war time, Ouyang Shuo needed to stabilize and calm down the hearts of the people all the more.

Especially as migration reached its peak, Shanhai City's population had boomed and become rather messy place.

The Shanhai City bailiff forces formed from the Lianzhou Prefecture Garrison Division had to patrol the streets to solve all kinds of disputes and maintain law and order.

The current Shanhai City started to look more and more like a Capital City.

Apart from the officials and heads of the chambers of commerce, Ouyang Shuo also met those in charge of various associations, guilds, and mercenary groups.

11th month, 25th day, Lin Jing came to Shanhai City.

She journeyed here because she had a special mission.

As what was mentioned before, at the end of the 3rd year of Gaia, the lives of the major guilds would be exceedingly tough. Due to the effects of the achievement value exchange, they did not lack money but did not know what to spend it on.

To make matters worse, their levels rose slower and slower. They were pretty much at a bottleneck. Higher-level players could only gain levels through exploring mysterious regions.

The problem was that mysterious regions were incredibly valuable.

The super guilds lost sense of their direction and needed someone to give them a new way.

Under normal circumstances, such guild matters were not something Lin Jing should ask Ouyang Shuo.

But many things proved that Ouyang Shuo has a special understanding of the game, so Lin Jing arrived in Shanhai City under the persuasion of Xie Siyun.

In the reading room, Ouyang Shuo smiled when he heard the description of his little aunt.

To adventure gamemode players, the 4th year of Gaia was an exceedingly crucial year; it was a milestone year. Anything that happened in that year would be able to flip the scales and fix positions.

Ouyang Shuo wanted to remind his little aunt long ago, but he did not get a chance.

"There will be a chance for you all in the 4th year of Gaia." Ouyang Shuo said expressionlessly. Suddenly, he lowered his tone, "The problem is, are you all ready?"

"What do you mean?" Lin Jing frowned.

Ouyang Shuo asked a weird question, "In Jianye, do you have the ability to destroy all the other guilds if they team up?"

"Are you joking? Of course not." Lin Jing did not know what he was going on about.

She was arrogant, but she was not that arrogant.

As the number two guild in the China region, she had over 300 thousand members including branch guilds; her guild was one of the absolute giants.

However, in the imperial cities where there were over ten million, what was she even?

Even as the various territories continue to attract players and many imperial city players flowed outward, the number of players in Jianye was still above eight million.

Deducting casual players and the elderly, there should still be three million professional players.

Of this three million, after deducting work occupation players, solo players, and small groups, around two million were guild players.

It might not be the exact amount, but there are no less than 600 guilds registered in Jianye.

With that, how would they be able to go against all of the other guilds? There was no guild in China with that ability.

Too many ants would be able to bite an elephant to death.

Ouyang Shuo was not surprised and said, "Since that's the case, start working. No matter what you do, ensure that you can turn this impossible scenario possible."

In the 4th year of Gaia, each imperial city would throw out a juicy piece of meat. This juicy meat was a way for guilds to break through the bottleneck and there was only one per a city.

An intense chase and battle was bound to occur.

Even a tiger of the mountains could not guarantee it could enjoy its prey alone, much less super guilds.

When Lin Jing heard his words, her eyes reflected a solemn light, "Little Shuo, did you hear any insider news?"

"I cannot say anymore. You must know that the 4th year of Gaia will be both a chance and a challenge to the guilds. If you want to win, you must be prepared to be ganged up on."

Ouyang Shuo did not want Gaia to focus on him, so there were some things that he could not be too specific on.

"I got it."

Lin Jing nodded, choosing to trust Ouyang Shuo's words.

Although her expression was serious, she felt rather relaxed in her heart.

The feeling of despair did not arise from the road ahead being tough; rather, it came from being unable to see the road at all. With his advice, she knew what to do.

With the development of super guilds till date, a large-scale improvement was impractical. Even merging with smaller groups would cause problems in management.

Think about it, how many enterprises in real life had over 300 thousand people? Even if there were, they were global enterprises, and their members were spread across major cities.

There were basically none that had 300 thousand members gathered in just one city.

Furthermore, the modern enterprises had mature management systems and societal laws to restrict and control players; it was a lot more advanced than management in the game.

Hence, 300 thousand members was basically the ceiling for super guilds. To expand more might actually cause them to collapse instead.

Since they could not expand, they could only use other methods such as alliances, cooperation, and destruction. As one of the top guilds, these act were really common.

To develop to date, they had been through all kinds of waves and used all kinds of methods.

Hence, Lin Jing was extremely confident.

With such confidence, Lin Jing happily left Shanhai City.

"This trip was totally worth it."After sending Lin Jing away, Ouyang Shuo was also filled with many thoughts.

To adventure gamemode players, the 4th year was going to be an extremely bloody year. There would be many giants who would fall and new stars would rise.

But that did not have much to do with Shanhai City.

After all, both sides belonged to totally different systems and were not directly connected to one another. To truly affect the other party, Shanhai City would need to upgrade to Capital City.

12th month, 1st day, after spending a week in Shanhai City and dealing with administrative matters, Ouyang Shuo once again set off. He brought the Divine Martial Guards and teleported over to Consonance City.

Along with his arrival, the Battle of Yunnan would slowly start.

The various media outlets once again gathered in Consonance City.

After he arrived, Ouyang Shuo lacked the mood to bother about the outside world; he simply gathered the relevant people to do a last battle meeting.

After which, the four legions in Consonance City moved out. As for the two legions on the way, they would not pass Consonance City and would directly proceed to the battlefield instead.

The meeting location was not within Consonance City but in the camp outside the city.

In the tent, Baiqi, Huo Qubing, Shi Wanshui, Zhang Liao, Jia Xu, and Bai Hua had all gathered. Apart from that, the people in charge of the three intel organizations present.

To let these three gather together was actually a supremely difficult task.

Ouyang Shuo sat at the top seat and Xu Chu stood behind him like an iron tower.

"General Baiqi, you may speak."

Ouyang Shuo called for West Conquering Commander Baiqi right away.

"Monarch, the battle preparations have been completed according to the plans of the Military Affairs Bureau, nothing has been missed out. The only thing to think about is that till date, we still do not know where the 200 thousand Alliance Army is housed."

As he spoke, Baiqi's gaze swept past the three head of intel.

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Chapter 770 – Blanket-style Search

The three intel heads felt ashamed when Baiqi looked at them like that.

The 200 thousand Alliance Army troops of the Yanhuang Alliance were like ghosts, disappearing in the Yunnan Mountains. No matter how they searched, they could not find a single clue.

If they had not confirmed that the Alliance Army had teleported to Yunnan, they would have suspected it was fake news.

Yanhuang Alliance had done an extremely good job of keeping their movements secret. Difeng, Chun Xiao, War Song, and their other intel organizations all showed Black Snake Guards level counter-intelligence.

When Ouyang Shuo saw that, he could not understand it, "200 thousand troops should definitely have some grain consumption, right? You did not manage to find any relevant intel from this?"

Shen Buhai shook his head, "With all the intel organizations staring at them, the Lords of Yunnan City-State would not dare to make any large-scale movements of grain. I suspect that the City-State prepared the grain before the Alliance Army had arrived."

They truly were careful.

From the lesson of Lingnan City-State, Yanhuang Alliance had become even more careful this time, and they had considered all possibilities. Even within Yunnan City-State, there were few who knew where the Alliance Army went.

Ouyang Shuo nodded before looking at Baiqi, "Then we will send the Flying Squad to engage in a blanket-style search in the mountains." Ouyang Shuo was ready to use his killing strike.

Only Ouyang Shuo could command the Flying Squad. After the Battle of Guiping Pass, they had returned to the Shanhai City air force base to resupply.

Ouyang Shuo did not believe that the enemy would be able to avoid the scouting of the 'air force'.

"That's great." Baiqi also had no other choice. After all, the war was about to start, yet he did not even know where the enemy was located. This was the first time that Baiqi had met such a tough task.

Ouyang Shuo jumped across this topic and asked, "Commander Bai, how are you going to arrange the six legions? If you need anything from the territory, speak."

The Military Affairs Bureau was only in charge of the overall strategy but not the specific tactics. As for the West Conquering Army, it was all up to Baiqi as a matter of course.

Even Ouyang Shuo would not interfere with the arrangements of the West Conquering Army. He asked to understand the situation and to show his support to Baiqi.

A seismic war not only involved the front lines but also the back.

Ouyang Shuo came to Consonance City this time to take charge of the backlines. Consonance City had just merged into their system, so Ouyang Shuo was worried that there might be some lacking points between the cooperation of Bai Hua and the West Conquering Army.

With him present, the situation would naturally be different.

When Baiqi heard that, he naturally understood what the Lord meant and introduced his plans in detail.

As of the current moment, Yunnan City-State has control over three-and-a-half prefectures. Apart from Mengding Prefecture in the south, Tengyue Prefecture in the west, and Dongchuan in the east, the remaining half would be Dali, where the imperial city was located.

The four prefectures were all connected to Kunming Prefecture, meaning that Kunming Prefecture was the middle, facing enemies from all four sides.

The West Conquering Army would split into three forces, entering Mengding, Tengyue, and Dongchuan Prefectures.

Based on the strategy, Dali would not be a part of their plans for the Battle of Yunnan. Ouyang Shuo temporarily did not want to provoke the imperial city. If he did, it might turn back to bite him instead.

The million guards in the imperial cities were not just there for show.

Apart from the army, when one attacked the imperial city, one had to consider the player element. The moment a native player attacked an imperial city, it would send out war missions to recruit imperial city players to fight against the enemy.

Even if only half of the eight million players accepted the quest, it was terrifying enough. Even in the 4th year of Gaia, imperial cities were absolute prohibited zones for Lord gamemode players.

No matter how arrogant he was, Ouyang Shuo did not think about stepping on such a land mine.

The 200 thousand Alliance Army of Yunnan City-State was still housed in Mengding Prefecture. Hence, it was destined to be the main battlefield. If nothing too surprising happened, it would be an extremely tough battle.

As for the 200 thousand Yanhuang Alliance troops, although they were not sure about their exact location, from how they were covering and hiding their tracks, they obviously wanted to launch a sneak attack.

If one used teleportation well, it was a truly exceptional sneak attack tactic.

From how they successfully hid their army, Yanhuang Alliance was obviously exceedingly confident about this matter; they would not repeat the same mistakes as Lingnan City-State.

Compared to Lingnan, the Yunnan landscape was far more complicated. Each prefecture could not allow too many troops. The West Conquering Army was forced to split into three.

The paths of the three prefectures were hard to tread, and the moment one of them was ambushed, the other two would not be able to rush over to help.

Hence, this gave an advantage to the Alliance Army. For the West Conquering Army to repeat what they did at Lingnan and perform a counter encirclement was impossible.

Hence, Baiqi had arranged for a legion to stay back in Consonance City. The one chosen was the newly built 2nd legion of the Guards Legion Corps, the famous Tiger Leopard Cavalry.

The Tiger Leopard Cavalry was the first pure cavalry legion of Shanhai City, and they had the highest mobility.

Based on the newest intel, they had already passed Zhen An Prefecture and would reach Consonance City soon. On the other hand, the 4th legion of the Dragon Legion Corps would take four to five days to reach the Zhen An Prefecture border.

"Based on the commander's opinion, where would the Alliance Army choose to ambush us?" Ouyang Shuo asked.

Baiqi shook his head, "Everywhere is possible, but I think they might choose three ambush spots in particular. Based on how the battle proceeds and how we arrange things, they would then settle in one."

"So it means we can misdirect them?" A light lit up in Ouyang Shuo's eyes.

"That's right. As the uncertainty regarding the exact ambush point is too great, the only way would be to bait them out. Only then we can take back the initiative of the battle."

Uncertainty was a fatal threat in battle, but any famous general would try to wipe out all these uncertain factors. Even if one paid some sacrifices, if would be worth it.

Ouyang Shuo nodded. Since Baiqi had a plan, that was great.

Shanhai City was not weak, and Yunnan City-State also had many of their moles. However, they were unlucky; those who knew the insider news were not friends of Shanhai City.

"I predict that at the start of the war, the enemy would take a defensive approach and even give up some cities to lead us deep in and challenge our grain supply."

The roads in Yunnan were mountainous and narrow. Maintaining the long grain transport line was a tough task. Such a line could be easily attacked by enemy troops at every moment.

Any elite troops charging out from the mountains could easily deal fatal damage.

This weakness was one that the enemy would definitely not let go of. In contrast to the Battle of Lingnan, the West Conquering Army was not sneak attacking, and the various cities had enough time to move their grain.

If things went sour, the enemy could easily burn all the grain.

Hence, the biggest test in the Battle of Yunnan would be grain, so Ouyang Shuo had rushed over to Consonance City.

More recently, Kunming had moved 200 thousand laborers to help the army transport grain. The Kunming Prefecture Garrison Division and the Independent Guards Division would be in charge of guarding the grain.

The 200 thousand laborers were basically all the available labor in Kunming, causing all economic activity to stop. The effects of war to the territory were not limited to the frontlines.

Luckily, it was still the winter season and various agriculture industry activities had come to an end. If it was at the start of the farming season, the effect on the economy would be fatal and unimaginable.

Apart from that, Zhen An Prefecture also sent laborers, around 120 thousand of them. The next day, the Zhen An Prefecture Garrison Division protected them all the way to Consonance City as the 2nd grain transport squad.

Not mentioning Shanhai City, Yunnan City-State was probably suffering huge problems due to this war.Baiqi continued, "As the war pushes in, and we get too deep into enemy land, the enemy might use their elite forces to sneak attack our tired army. If they also use teleportation tactics, the results would be highly detrimental to us."

Ouyang Shuo's expression was extremely solemn, "General, you're saying that we have to play it safe?"

Baiqi said, "I predict this battle will last for a long time, so I need Monarch to give me permission for that."

Every day the war dragged on, a massive quantity of resources would be consumed. To fight a battle of attrition would test the foundations of both sides.

Such a matter was not something Baiqi had the power to decide on. As such, he could only seek permission.

When Ouyang Shuo heard that, he did not hesitate and said resolutely, "Do as you have planned. I'll support you all the way. I'll personally take charge of Consonance City to monitor the backline resources."

"Thank you Monarch."

When Baiqi heard that, he gave a deep bow as his thoughts drifted away.

He recalled the Battle of Changping when the Qin King personally monitored the grain for him.

Hence, Baiqi knew the deep meaning behind Ouyang Shuo's words. Behind all of this, they were betting the foundations and reserves that the territory had spent so much to amass.

The atmosphere in the tent instantly became solemn and stirring.

Ouyang Shuo looked around with eagles eyes, saying slowly but resolutely, "To the territory, this battle is one we cannot afford to lose. We must go all out. No matter the price we have to pay, we need to take down Yunnan to create an unshakeable base for establishing our country."

As he said these words, he stood up and cupped his fists, "Generals, thank you all!"

When they heard him, they instantly felt hot blood rushing to their heads, and their blood boiled up inside of them. All of them knelt on the ground and solemnly said, "We will protect the honor of the territory!"

Along with the resounding proclamations, the war machine was up and running.

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Chapter 771 – One More Won't Make a Difference

12th month, 2nd day, Consonance City.

Huo Qubing led the Guards Legion Corps 1st legion up north into Dongchuan Prefecture.

This would be the right troops and the only force that consisted of only one legion.

Dongchuan was the smallest prefecture in Yunnan Province and only a few player territories managed to survive there. Furthermore, there was Dali Prefecture between them and Tengyue and Mengding Prefectures, so they were pretty much on their own.

Logically speaking, Dongchuan had the least strategic value. It would be best if they crushed the main forces of the Alliance Army and took care of it later.

In truth, Baiqi treated Dongchuan Prefecture extremely seriously and sent out the strongest legion of the West Conquering Army to take care of it.

He wanted to use the invincibility of the Guards Legion as well as their strength at fighting sudden battles to take down Dongchuan Prefecture quickly; this would help to stabilize the hearts on the main battlefield.

Apart from that, it could also act as a warning to Dali Prefecture.

Secondly, the situation in Dongchuan Prefecture was extremely chaotic.

Not because of other reasons but simply because north of Dongchuan Prefecture was the Shu Lands. Due to the animosity between the Shu Imperial Court and Shanhai City, the Military Affairs Bureau was not sure if they would enter the battle.

The best method would be to occupy it first and block the way down south for the Shu Lands.

Hence, Dongchuan also became the ideal spot to ambush for the Alliance Army. Out of the three ambush spots of the Alliance Army that Baiqi had thought of, Dongchuan Prefecture was the most probable.

As such, Baiqi sent Huo Qubing to complete this mission.On the same day, the 2nd legion of the Dragon Legion Corps led by Shi Wanshui and the 3rd legion led by Zhang Liao headed west to attack Tengyue Prefecture.

This group was in charge of the middle; Shi Wanshui took the role of main general and Zhang Liao was the deputy.

These two legions were both battle-hardened legions. With Shi Wanshui in charge, in addition to Zhang Liao who was familiar with Yunnan, their cooperation would be great.

Baiqi had tremendously high hopes for this group.

The symbol of Yunnan City-State, Lord Qin Feng's Tengchong City, was located in Tengyue Prefecture.

It was easy to know that Tengyue Prefecture was going to be a tough nut to crack. Qin Feng was not a good person. At the crucial moment, he would definitely choose to protect his own territory.

Hence, the second ambush point the Alliance Army could choose was most likely to be Tengyue Prefecture.

Qin Feng was the person connecting Yunnan City-State and Yanhuang Alliance. Di Chen and the others definitely would not want Qin Feng to be eliminated too early, and they would definitely act at the crucial moment.

Based on Baiqi's plan, if the attacks of the middle troops went smoothly, they could turn from Tengyue Prefecture into Mengding to meet up with the left troops.

The left troops would be personally led by Baiqi. This group included the 1st legion of the Dragon Legion Corps and the 4th legion that was on the way. They would immediately go down south and head into Mengding Prefecture.

Although that was the case, Mengding would be the prefecture where war broke out the latest.

Baiqi's plan was to move the troops to contain the 200 thousand men Alliance Army but not attack. Once the middle and right forces had results, they would go all in.

Three routes of troops, each were using a different strategy.

Luckily, the ones leading the legions were famous generals and could all execute his strategy. They could also change and adapt based on the situation on the battlefield.

If not, he really would not have dared to do this.

This was the strength of Shanhai City.

Each general was an all-round upgrade to an army.The three armies waltzed toward the battlefield from three different directions. Following behind them was the closely packed grain transport forces.

As long as the battle had not ended, the grain transport carriages on the paths would not stop.

Ouyang Shuo stood on the city wall, quietly looking on as the army left. His upright body and red cape became a beautiful scene on the city wall.

Each soldier would unconsciously turn around to look at him. Although they could not see him clearly, he gave them power, a power that supported them whilst they proceeded to kill the enemies.

Ouyang Shuo stood there for the entire day without even eating his lunch.

During that period of time, Bai Hua came over many times to try and persuade him to go and eat, but she was rejected. When Bai Hua saw that, her expression was complicated, and she sighed.

To Ouyang Shuo, this was his duty.

The soldiers were fighting for the glory of the territory. As their Lord, as the highest commander in the army, if he did not do anything, Ouyang Shuo would feel guilty.

The sun set from the west and dusk beckoned.

The orange sunset was like an elegant dress for the city. That upright body still stood without moving. Under the cover of dusk, it was like he was dressed in golden armor.

He only moved and left after the last unnamed soldier disappeared into the horizon. Even with his cultivation, his body felt numb from standing there for the entire day.

"No matter what, it's worth it."

Ouyang Shuo looked up into the skies. He could feel the killing intent and war intent of the army; it was slowly forming up in the skies, gathering into an invincible aura.

The Personal Guards and the three thousand Divine Martial Guards were by his side for the entire day. Seeing him turn around, they bowed in unison, and the worship in their eyes became even more evident.

"Let's leave!"

Ouyang Shuo waved his hands, and they disappeared from the city wall.

As night covered Consonance City, Kunming Prefecture, and the entire Yunnan, it was extremely quiet. Under this facade, the flames of war were well and truly lit, lighting up the night sky.

Consonance City, Governor Manor.

Bai Hua had specially waited for Ouyang Shuo to eat together.

Bai Hua was helpless seeing how stubborn Ouyang Shuo was. She could only instruct the chefs to make a huge table of delicious dishes to personally welcome Ouyang Shuo.

On the table, Bai Hua passed some fish over to Ouyang Shuo, "Thank you for the appointments of Zi Luolan and the others."

Ouyang Shuo smiled, "There's no need to thank me. Just don't blame me for snatching them over. They are all great help."

"It's time for them to spread their wings and fly. What can they achieve by staying at my side?" As the leader of the four, Bai Hua had actually worried about them for a long time; she even sounded more like a mother.

Being one's sister for long would make one like their mother.

Bai Hua glanced at Ouyang Shuo and asked, "Why did you make Tsing Yi your personal secretary?"

'Puchi!'

Ouyang Shuo nearly spat out the fish.

"What personal secretary? She is my helper. Don't tell me you think the same as Zi Luolan? That I have something toward Tsing Yi? I'm innocent." Ouyang Shuo was speechless.

"Even if you have any thoughts, it's okay."

"What?"

Ouyang Shuo's eyes were wide open; he did not believe that these words actually came from Bai Hua.

Bai Hua was extremely calm, "She has feelings for you so it wouldn't be anything surprising."

"But I'm already married." Ouyang Shuo's brain was swelling.

"You're a man destined to become an emperor, so what's one more?" When she said those words, Bai Hua's hands were sweating, and her heart could not help but jump.

Who knows how much courage it took for her to speak those words?

Ouyang Shuo noticed her unusual expression, "Let's not talk about that, it sounds so weird. I promise you I only picked her for her talent and not for anything else."

Bai Hua's face was a little ashen white as she forced a smile, "I'm just testing you. Hearing you say that, I feel relaxed."

"That's great."

Ouyang Shuo smiled. He acted like he had not noticed that something was up with Bai Hua.

The atmosphere at the table instantly became extremely awkward.

"Let's talk about grain." Ouyang Shuo changed the topic, "It seems like Baiqi says this battle will last for a really long time. The Combat Logistics Department has insufficient grain prepared. Can Kunming Prefecture assist them in buying local grain?"

"If not, we will have to ask the Combat Logistics Department to purchase from Zhen An and Xunzhou. Apart from grain, the food for the horses is also a problem."

Bai Hua relaxed herself, "Do not worry. I've already coordinated with the Combat Logistics Department. If grain is broken, I'll resign."

Ouyang Shuo waved his hand, "You do not need to say that. I have faith in you."

The next morning, Ouyang Shuo once again called the heads of the three intel organizations as he wanted to see them.

Apart from asking them to closely work with the West Conquering Army and collect the required intel, he also needed to confirm the safety of their chess pieces in Yunnan City-State.

Ouyang Shuo said, "The prowess of Difeng, Chun Xiao, and War Song is something all of you have witnessed. They are not much worse off than us. Hence, we must ensure our chess pieces have not been revealed, especially that most crucial piece. It directly affects the outcome of this war."

"This..."

Shen Buhai, Black Snake, and Cobra's expressions were solemn; they did not dare to make any promises. If they took a wrong step, it would be a 10 thousand feet drop.

"Why don't I personally go to confirm it?" Black Snake suggested.

Ouyang Shuo nodded, "That would be the best."

"Great, I'll go immediately!" Black Snake nodded.

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Chapter 772 – Sharp Turn Down

12th month, 5th day, Yunnan Province.

The 1st Guards Legion led by Huo Qubing had reached the frontlines and crossed the border, starting the first battle in the Battle of Yunnan.

In the next week, their progress through Dongchuan went unusually smoothly.

With the help of the cavalry forces, the Heavy Armored Mountain Barbarian Infantry Division acted as the main force. The 1st legion attacked strategic lands all the way, not facing any problems. City after city easily fell into the hands of Shanhai City.

The siege weapon making technology of Consonance City was produced on a large-scale by smiths and artisans in the city to rush out countless siege weapons.

The three forces all brought along large amounts of siege weapons to assist them in the battle.

Even so, the smoothness of the process exceeded their expectations. As it was too smooth, it made Huo Qubing wary; the enemy might be planning an ambush.

The only normal thing was probably the grain problem.

All the granaries in the cities that they had taken down were completely burnt and emptied out. What was worse was that even the grain in the houses of the civilians had been taken.

Such a situation was not limited to the main cities but also the affiliated cities.

Apart from food to survive, the houses of the people in Dongchuan Prefecture did not have any excess grain. Before the war, the Military Affairs Bureau had sent an order prohibiting them from taking food from the people.

Du Ruhui warned the generals, "Even if we are hungry, we cannot snatch the food of the people. Whoever goes against this order will be severely punished."

The goal of the Battle of Yunnan was to destroy the Yunnan City-State, not to destroy the local economy, people, and their sentiments. If their army really fooled around, it would be hard to make the people trust them again.

Anywhere the army passed, they were unable to find much grain and could only take it from the grain transporting forces.

During this week, with the help of the Flying Squad, the three intel organizations conducted a blanket-style search. Weirdly, they still could not find any traces of the enemy.

It was like the 200 thousand troops had not even appeared in Yunnan Province.

Without a doubt, the armies of Yanhuang Alliance had already moved away.

This time, the Alliance Army was like a layer of mist hanging over the skies of Yunnan, making this battle even more uncertain.

Under such circumstances, Huo Qubing did not dare to take the risk. The 1st legion did not dare to split up to increase their speed and just took down city by city.

Apart from that, Huo Qubing also focused on the protection of the grain supply, sending the two cavalry regiments from the 1st division to help monitor and protect them.

With their ability, even if they met the 200 thousand alliance troops, it would not be too bad if they were prepared.

Hence, his strategy was to be prepared for a sneak attack but not lose out on a good opportunity.

The 1st legion continued as planned and pretty much swept through the entire Dongchuan at a rate of two cities every three days.

As for the weird situation the right troops were facing, Baiqi ordered for the middle and left troops to slow down and maintain their strength.12th month, 15th day, Dongchuan Prefecture.

In just 10 days, the entire Dongchuan Prefecture basically fell under the hooves of the 1st Guards Legion, only left the city at the north was left - Yongren City.

This city was located at the intersection of Yunnan Province and the Shu Lands. If one walked 200 miles in, they would reach the famous city of iron in real life - Panzhihua.

Panzhihua's iron resources were 70% of that of the Shu Lands, one of the four largest iron regions in China. Its titanium source was also the largest in the world. It also had the third most vanadium in the world.

The Panzhihua region in the game was located within Swordsman City's territory.

The iron ore industry naturally became one of their pillar industries. However, due to the difficulties of transporting iron making it rather inconvenient and hard to sell, it was difficult to make profits.

There were no trains in the game, so one could not transport large batches of iron ore; especially across land, where transporting such resources posed even more of a problem.

Hence, Feng Qingyang could only sit on this treasure mountain but could not change it into actual gold. At most, he could rely on the shocking iron ore reserves to develop his military industry.

However, due to the lack of technologies and technical manuals, their military industry was barely surviving.

Hence, Feng Qingyang had one of the worst situations amongst all the members of Yanhuang Alliance. In the various huge battles, including wilderness matters, Swordsman City did not have a huge say.

As one of the heads of Yanhuang Alliance, Feng Qingyang was not as famous as Di Chen and Chun Shenjun. Even Xiong Ba and Zhan Lang were more famous than him.

Even Wandering Magic had been in the spotlight more often than him.

Hence, only then did he totally give up on running the territory and focus on martial arts; he wanted to work with the Shu Imperial Court to form a win-win situation.This morning, Huo Qubing led his troops and arrived ten miles outside of Yongren City.

"General, it seems like the enemy has not set an ambush in Dongchuan. We have worried for nothing." The one who spoke was the newly appointed 1st division Major General Ma Teng.

As an East Han General, Ma Teng greatly respected the West Han general Huo Qubing. He did not look down on him despite his age and treated him really seriously.

If one used generations to consider, Huo Qubing was from the same generation as Ma Teng's ancestors.

If it was anyone else commanding them, Ma Teng might not be happy about it, but their commander was Huo Qubing, someone they all trusted and respected.

Not only that, Ma Teng also warned Ma Chao and Ma Xiu to treat him more respectfully.

Ma Teng only respected Huo Qubing while Ma Chao totally worshipped him. He knew that he was strong but lacked a strategic mind.

On the other hand, Huo Qubing was a god of strategy. Which young general during the Han Empire did not worship Huo Qubing?

Chasing one's idols was not something that only modern day people did.Huo Qubing rode on his warhorse, looking out at Yongren City; a look of uncertainty filled his eyes. During the whole way here, the Alliance Army they had predicted did not appear.

Looking at the situation, Yunnan City-State had treated Dongchuan City-State as a chess piece to be given up. Or in the eyes of the Lords, Dongchuan did not have any strategic value, so why not just give it up?

But based on his intuition, Huo Qubing felt that things were not that simple. His uneasiness continued till today, and he still could not find the source.

"Would Yongren City be a trap?"

The intel from the Military Intelligence Division showed that there were no signs of troops inside. Even the neighboring regions were checked out; there was no one.

If the Alliance Army wanted to sneak attack, the only possibility would be to teleport over while they sieged. However, if that really happened, they would not cause much of a threat to the first legion.

Huo Qubing calmed himself down; he looked at Ma Teng and said, "Do not let down your guard. Order the troops to attack!"

As a soldier, before he received proper intel, Huo Qubing would not stop attacking because he felt uneasy.

As long as they took down the city in front of them, the entire Dongchuan Prefecture would fall into their hands. If that happened, their actions would have a direct influence on the entire battle.

The first blood of the war belonged to the Guards Legion.As the order was given, the war drums sounded out and the siege began.

The main force was the two Mountain Barbarian Divisions with the two Cavalry Divisions protecting the wings. The one in charge of the backlines was the Iron Armored Beast Division.

At 10 AM, using the siege weapons, the Mountain Barbarian Division successfully pushed in under the city walls. Next was the arduous siege, which the mountain barbarians were proficient at.

If everything went well, the city in front of them that looked exceedingly normal would fall before nightfall.

Just at this moment, the situation changed.

The teleportation formation at the center of the city suddenly shone with a blue light. An unceasing number of soldiers walked out and gathered on the field.

Each force gathered up, led by their officers to the various city gates.

In less than ten minutes, the intelligence division spies hiding there received the news. However, it was too late to use the Feng Birds to spread the news.

The spies took the risk of exposing their identities and pulled the signal bullets.

With a 'Pew!' a red signal bullet representing the presence of enemies exploded out in the air.

When Huo Qubing saw the signal bullet, not only was not he not nervous, he even heaved a sigh of relief.

The unknown always made one nervous.

The moment the Alliance Army showed themselves, taking off their veil, Huo Qubing had nothing to fear.

"Send down the orders, ask the frontline to retreat."

Since the Alliance Army had shown themselves, Huo qubing would not be so arrogant to think that he could take them down so easily. Even if they got in, it would be a chaotic battle.

To a mixed legion like them, a chaotic battle within the city would be disadvantageous.

Hence, Huo Qubing was ready to fight the 200 thousand strong Yanhuang Alliance Army outside the city. Even if he could not win, he was confident about containing them until reinforcements arrived.

One must not forget that the 2nd Guards Legion was lying in wait in Consonance City.What Huo Qubing did not know was that a calamity was approaching. The entire battlefield would turn on its head because of this battle.

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Chapter 773 – Darkest Day of the Guards Legion

The army that appeared in the city was not 200 thousand but just 150 thousand.

Yunnan City-State had also played such a trick; the camp that the Military Intelligence Division thought had 200 thousand troops only had 50 thousand.

The remaining 150 thousand had quietly moved away and hid themselves.

Although the City-State Alliance Army was formed from the troops of the various territories, the Lords could not control the movement of the Alliance Army.

The commander handled the daily workings of the Alliance Army, and a committee meeting would decide the battle instructions. More accurately, it was decided by the leader of the committee.

The current commander of the Yunnan City-State's Alliance Army was Sui Dynasty General Zhang Xutuo.

Zhang Xutuo was recognized as the cornerstone of the Sui Dynasty and had led troops to calm down Yang Qiong, Wang Bo, and other rebellion armies. Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin, and other young generals were all under him before.

66 A.D., Zhang Xutuo fought against the Wagang Army. However, he wsa surrounded by Li Mi, Xu Shiji, Wang Bo, and more, dying in battle. When he died, he was only 52 years old.

When his soldiers received the news, they cried for days on end.

Along with Zhang Xutuo dying, it was like the Sui Dynasty had lost their last hope, unable to calm down the rebellions.

Apart from being brave and strong, Zhang Xutuo gave the impression of being extremely loyal. During the ending years of the Sui Dynasty, powers pose and ruled various lands.

Only he remained truly loyal to the Sui Dynasty; he would rather die in battle than surrender. No wonder he was so loved by the soldiers.

Such a loyal soldier was truly a rare sight.Due to the uniqueness of the Battle of Yunnan and after learning from the Battle of Lingnan, the committee voted that Qin Feng would be in charge of the committee.

This also meant that the moles Shanhai City had planted would not know where the Alliance Army was hidden. If they asked, they would risk exposing themselves.

When the moles received the intel and passed it to the Black Snake Guards, who then passed it to the Guards Legion, the Alliance Army had already teleported to Yongren City.

As for the 200 thousand Alliance Army of legend, they had disappeared.

The military intelligence spy in the city could not tell if the troops coming out were from the Yanhuang Alliance or the Alliance Army. Naturally, they felt that it was the Yanhuang Alliance Army.

With that, it gave a wrong signal to Huo Qubing.

The reason the Yanhuang Alliance Army teleported over was to destroy the Guards Legion and not help defend Yongren City. Hence, after they gathered up within the city, they did not stay for long.

As Huo Qubing had expected, they came out of the city and formed up, facing off against the Guards Legion Corps 1st legion.

Killing intent filled the air.

70 thousand vs 150 thousand.

To Huo Qubing, this was not much of a problem.

If they truly wanted to fight, Huo Qubing would not even need reinforcements, and he would be confident about winning. Weirdly, after forming up, the enemy did not attack; it was like they were waiting for something.

The atmosphere became more and more serious, making it hard for one to breathe.

Just as Huo Qubing was confused and wanted to take the initiative to attack, the rumbling of horse hooves sounded from the north; even the ground shook.

Looking out, a long black line appeared. It was moving south at a visible rate, slowly forming into an endless black flood.

This black flood was the 200 thousand Yanhuang Alliance troops.

The Alliance Army did not even hide in Yunnan Province but in Shu Lands north of Yongren City, within Swordsman City. No wonder the three intel organizations could not find anything.

Who would have expected that the Alliance Army was not within the province?

As Yongren City was located at the north border, it was an ambush point that the Yanhuang Alliance Army had selected long ago. No matter who they chose to attack Dongchuan Prefecture, it would be ambushed.

200 thousand Yanhuang Alliance troops and the 150 thousand Alliance Army for a total of 350 thousand troops; they were going to give a shocking blow to the Guards Legion.

70 thousand vs 350 thousand.

A difference of five times. No matter how strong the Guards Legion was, they could not handle it. Looking at the black flood approaching, Huo Qubing's face turned green.

The Yanhuang Alliance Army lineup was truly stellar, with General Wuqi as the main general, Lianpo, Tian Dan, and more. Yanhuang Alliance was really going all out, sending the strongest generals of their territories.

Appearing on the horizon was only the 100 thousand cavalry. The remaining 100 thousand infantry had snuck behind the Guards Legion.

With that, it formed a huge trap.

350 thousand troops had locked the Guards Legion down in the wilderness outside of Yongren City.

This was destined to be the humiliation of the Guards Legion."General, let's lead the troops and break out!"

Ma Teng looked around at the enemy troops closing in, his expression really solemn.

Huo Qubing was expressionless, "How to break out? The cavalry can, but what about the mountain barbarians?"

"We cannot care about so much. For some of us to escape is better than all of us going down right!" Ma Teng was not afraid of death, but he did not want Huo Qubing to do anything foolish.

Even if the Guards Legion went all out, they would be unable to win. The only chance would be to breakout before the encirclement was completed.

"General, we cannot hesitate anymore."

Seeing the enemy get closer and closer, "Ma Teng's expression got anxious.

Just at this moment, Shihu, Lei Jingtian, and Shan Zhu rushed over. The three young generals knelt on the ground and cupped their fists, "General, please leave. We will hold them off."

When Huo Qubing saw that, his expression was really complicated, "You all know what that means, right?"

"To die on the battlefield is our honor." As the representative, Shihu said, "I believe you will not let us sacrifices be in vain and will take revenge for us."

When Huo Qubing heard that, he could not even bear to look at them, looking forward, "I swear if I do not take revenge I'm not human."

Although his voice was not loud, it contained an unbreakable will.

Fate was just so cruel.

When the Guards Legion was so close to eternal glory, it gave them such a fatal blow.

Huo Qubing kept his emotions and started to plan how to break out. The Iron Armored Division ended up as the vanguard and was in charge of tearing through the enemy defenses.

The two Mountain Barbarian Divisions would form up on the spot to hold down the enemy to buy time. One Cavalry Division would help protect the wings of the infantry.

If not, the mountain barbarians who were attacked from three directions would not be able to hold on and would be crushed quickly.

Hence, only one Cavalry Division could escape.

Ma Teng requested to fight and chose to stay. He would lead the 1st division to help the three Mountain Barbarian Divisions delay the enemy.

The 1st division was one of the oldest Cavalry Divisions in Shanhai City. From the start, it was taken from the Luo Shixin division and was also the first army group to pass the army group trials.

When Huo Qubing saw that, he had basically nothing left to say.

Ma Teng was the one who suggested leaving, but he chose to stay at the crucial moment.

Huo Qubing was touched.

"General, let me show my strength once again."

Huo Qubing did not say anything, nodding quietly.

A tragic feeling spread across the entire army. No one knew how many Guards Legion soldiers could see the sun tomorrow.As a God General, Huo Qubing's mental strength was exceedingly strong.

Since the plan was set, he automatically tossed aside the unneeded emotions and feelings, starting to work like a cold machine. His mission was to bring as many soldiers as he possibly could.

When the invincible Iron Armored Beast Division changed toward the infantry troops from the back, it revealed the bloody road to breaking out.

The strong iron armored beasts, each equipped with specially made armor, were like tanks charging at the Alliance Army.

This was the strongest Cavalry Division in the wilderness. In the Battle of Lingnan, they had terrified the enemy. On the battlefield of Yunnan, they were similarly strong, fighting for the honor of the Guards Legion.

Can you imagine the effect of rows of iron tanks charging into a group of people?

Outside Yongren City, it was such a scene.

Under the leadership of Shanzhu, the Iron Armored Division went all out, giving up on defense. The only thing they thought about was to, 'Charge, charge, and charge!'

The Alliance Army soldiers in the front were like paper, instantly crushed to pieces and stepped on. They were really flattened, and a huge amount of infantry troops disappeared.

Such an aura was simply alluring.

If the Alliance Army was not similarly filled with elites and their commander was a famous general that alone would have crushed their will to fight.

"Stop them!"

It was not easy for the Alliance Army to set up such a stunning trap, so how could they allow the Guards Legion to leave like that?

The huge army was like a flood, charging at the Iron Armored Beast Division. The scene was like a bunch of ants fighting a group of elephants.

Although the elephants were strong, they were still outnumbered.

After paying a heavy price, the Alliance Army finally contained the charge of the Iron Armored Beast Division. The huge iron armored beasts were surrounded, unable to get out.

Destruction was just a matter of time.

To Shanhai City, each iron armored beast was extremely precious. Who would have expected nearly all of them to fall here?

Huo Qubing's eyes were blood red as he led the 5th division along the bloody path that the iron armored beasts had opened up for them and charged. He was getting ready to break out.

No matter whether or not they managed to escape, this day would definitely be the darkest day of the Guards Legion.

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Chapter 774 – Ma Teng Dies in Battle

The route that the Guards Legion was trying to break out through was a tragic route covered in fresh blood.

There were continuously people who fell and people who successfully broke out.

On the battlefield where blades swung, no individual could decide their own fate. The soldiers could only form into a line and use teamwork to decide their survival.

The huge battlefield was a fight between people trying to break out and those trying to stop them.

Killing shouts filled the skies, and blood flowed like rivers.

The cries of the iron armored beasts could also be heard.

On the battlefield, dust flew and blood boiled; the place was like a furnace that contained the fates of hundreds of thousands of people.

Huo Qubing led the 5th division and charged fearlessly forwards. With the iron armored beasts opening the way and the infantry and cavalry covering them under the lead of Ma Teng, they finally charged out.

"Do not let Huo Qubing escape!"

The Alliance Army did not give up just yet as they sent their most elite Cavalry Force to chase after the Shanhai City troops.

The cavalry all set out on elite Mongol Warhorses, which were on the same level as the Qingfu Horses that the Guards Legion rode on. Helplessly, Huo Qubing could only activate his specialty.

Cavalry Battle: raises troops morale by 30%, raises cavalry movement speed by 50%, raises cavalry killing strength by 35%, raises cavalry forces stamina by 40%.

The specialty of a God General was just so overpowered, widening the gap in an instance.

However, the Alliance Army was like a pack of hunting dogs, chasing behind them and not giving up before they had successfully caught up.

The Guards Legion fled till nightfall. Apart for quietly resting up for three hours, they did not stop any other time. Only then were they able to successfully escape from the enemy.

The process was extremely brutal and intense; words could not describe it.Dongchuan Prefecture, unnamed wilderness.

"Stop, rest up!"

Huo Qubing asked the troops to rest up for the second time as he noticed that the Qingfu Horses were already foaming, and it seemed like they were not able to hold on.

With a 'Shua!, the high speed moving army instantly stopped. Their actions were still exceedingly orderly.

The soldiers did not bother about their wounds that were still bleeding; they took out their water canteens, first feeding their war horses and also giving them military grain pills. To them, their horses were their lives, even more important than their spouses.

Seeing their horses in such a state, the cavalry soldiers felt pain in their hearts.

As the strongest legion in the territory, they received the best treatment. For example, only the Guards Legion was given military grain pills.

Thanks to this, they were able to hold on till now. When escaping, the soldiers did not even have time to get off their horses to eat, much less cook food.

As for the cities that they had already taken down, they did not dare to enter as they did not know if there were any enemy ambushes.

When they were attacking Dongchuan Province, to end the battle quickly, the Guards Legion had hurried from city to city. They did not even have the time to lay down effective control of any of the cities.

The news the Guards Legion had lost had probably already spread to all the cities in the prefecture, so who knows what the people inside were thinking.

As the situation was an emergency, to successfully break out, the Guards Legion even abandoned the grain, heavy equipment, and two P1 Type Cannons on the battlefield.

During their escape, the grain transport group also fell prey to the enemy. Not only was large amounts of grain intercepted by the enemy, even the men transporting the grain were killed.

The Alliance Army was a pack of hungry wolves, not even hesitating to attack civilians.

When the leader of the Garrison Division soldiers in charge of protecting the civilians saw that, he gritted their teeth and told them to go hide in the forests to try and escape.

This ambush was a catastrophe for Shanhai City.Huo Qubing looked at the remaining generals and soldiers beside him, looking really exhausted. The continual activation of his specialty had a huge toll even for a God General like Huo Qubing.

"Go calculate how many men we have left." Huo Qubing instructed the deputy officer.

"Yes general!"

The situation of the various troops was reported extremely quickly.

Although the Iron Armored Beast Division was strong, their stamina could not be compared to war horses. Even if they managed to breakout, they were still killed in the chase.

Ma Teng's division, which was in charge of holding off the enemy, was encircled and none of them escaped. In the end, only around 10 thousand of them managed to get out, less than a division.

When Huo Qubing heard the report, he was totally silent; he did not know how he would explain this to the Monarch.

Although the intel departments had messed up, he had not conducted a detailed scouting before attacking Yongren City despite his role as the main general.

If not, even if the enemy laid in wait in the Shu Lands, they would not have been able to cross the border and surround them without them finding out.

For the sentries of the Guards Legion to be removed by the enemy so easily was truly an embarrassment.

"Return to Consonance City!"

After resting up for two hours, Huo Qubing ordered once more. Dongchuan Prefecture was not a place where they could stay behind in anymore. Now they could only take it step by step, returning to the headquarters before discussing further action.

After a short while, the cavalry disappeared in the wilderness.

Dongchuan Prefecture, Yongren City.

As night fell, the battle finally ended.

Corpses were strewn across the battlefield, blood flowing like rivers.

During this battle, to crush the 1st legion of the Guards Legion Corps, the Yanhuang Alliance Army had paid a heavy price. They lost 30 thousand men and the Alliance Army lost 40 thousand men.

The Yanhuang Alliance Army mainly lost troops when they tried to surround the Iron Armored Beast Division. On the other hand, the Alliance Army had suffered losses under the hands of the mountain barbarians and Ma Teng's division.

Of course, their battle rewards were extremely great too.

During this battle, they had killed 45 thousand people and captured 15 thousand. Even general Ma Teng had fallen on the battlefield.

The Guards Legion was an extremely strong army. Even under such circumstances, they did not want to surrender. The prisoners obtained were basically forced into surrendering.

Hence, they were mostly cavalry.

At the later stages of the battle, the mountain barbarian warriors basically all activated their berserk state. In the end, only two thousand mountain barbarians were captured because the side effects of the berserk state made them weak, and they could not resist capture.

If not, it would be difficult for any of them to survive.

The mountain barbarian tribe was just so fervent and passionate. They would rather die than be prisoners just like their ancestor Chiyou. Although they were brutish, they were true men.

The Yanhuang Alliance commander Wuqi looked at the battlefield and exclaimed, "As expected of the Guards Legion of Shanhai City!" Under such a situation, they still managed to kill so many.

Although they won this battle, it was the case killing a hundred enemies but losing a thousand of your own. After this battle, there was not much change in the numbers of both sides.

Such an outcome had totally exceeded Wuqi's expectations.

Before the battle had started, who would have thought it would end like this?

Of course, after all, they won!

The greatest meaning to this battle was not the remaining numbers on both sides but their morale.

Think about it. Even the strongest Guards Legion of Shanhai City was crushed. To the Alliance Army and Yanhuang Alliance Army, who else would they fear?

Hence, they held the strategic initiative.

On the contrary, the rumored Invincible Shanhai City Army suffered such a loss, and it would be hard for them to adjust in a short time.

The battle in the main battlefield slowly started to favor Yunnan City-State.

"Let's return!" Wuqi ordered.

After hurriedly cleaning up the battlefield, the Yanhuang Alliance Army and the Alliance Army did not spend too much time in Yongren City and teleported away to Qin Feng's Tengchong City.

This arrangement showed that Yunnan City-State was not following Shanhai City's tempo.

Who knows what they were planning?

After the army left, the defenses of Dongchuan Prefecture were temporarily left to Swordsman City. Based on the agreement, they would send 40 thousand troops over.

'Letting go of Dongchuan Prefecture' was one of the agreements, and this entire battle planning was started a few months ago.

Apart from that, they had another mission, which was take charge of the prisoners.

Similarly, based on the agreement, all the prisoners from the battle would be split amongst Yanhuang Alliance. Yunnan City-State would get none of them.

The way the Yanhuang Alliance did things was just so overbearing.As the army left, Yongren City became peaceful once more. Apart from the stack of bones outside the city, it was like nothing had happened.

Anyone would know that this place would become famous for this battle.

Shanhai City Guards Legion Corps 1st legion had been ambushed here and nearly all fell. This news quickly spread throughout the wilderness.

This was the biggest defeat for them since they appeared in the wilderness. The ones who lost was also the most famous Guards Legion.

The entire forums exploded.

Even players from other regions were focusing on this battle.

All of a sudden, voices from many media outlets expressing their condolences and dissing Shanhai City became extremely common. Many experts predicted that the arrogant Shanhai City was going to trip and fall this time.

Not mentioning whether they could take down Yunnan City-State, if they could retreat in tact was already a problem.

The dark clouds above Yunnan welcomed the bright light of the sun. The light of victory started to wave at Yunnan City-State.

In the eyes of the experts, the result of this war was starting to becoming clearer and clearer.

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Chapter 775 – Boys, Welcome Home!

12th month, 19th day, Consonance City.

The remainder of the Guards Legion Corps 1st legion had rushed day and night back; they were ready to meet the Monarch.

Three days earlier, the intelligence that the Guards Legion had faced an ambush was already passed to Ouyang Shuo. The news had infuriated him, making him smash the table into pieces.

The fury of the Monarch, the weather changes.

Dark clouds hung over Consonance City. Everyone acted extremely careful in order to not further anger the Monarch. Black Snake had hurried back, and he had nearly committed suicide as an apology to the Monarch.

As it was intel error that had caused the Guards Legion to be ambushed and even the entire Yunnan battlefield situation to change, Black Snake and the other intel heads were responsible for this failure.

Black Snake had spent days and nights in the Monarch's courtyard and still did not manage to see the Monarch.

When he finally met the Monarch, the only words he received were, "Use results to make up for your mistakes."

When Black Snake heard that, he gave a really deep bow and left, disappearing into the darkness.

Similarly, Shanhai Guards Commander Shen Buhai and Military Intelligence Division Secretary Cobra silently left.

The intel network that the territory had spent so much on building had actually dropped the ball at such a crucial moment, what irony.

To calm down the repercussions of the Dongchuan battle, Ouyang Shuo had no choice but to gather Du Ruhui, Zhao Kuo, and Chen Gong over to Consonance City whilst also sending letters to Baiqi, Jia Xu, Shi Wanshui, and the others to keep in contact.

All of them were busy for a full two days before they finally managed to make adjustments to their battle plan.

The Black Snake Guards had also finally found out the news of the Yanhuang Alliance Army and the Alliance Army teleporting over to Tengchong City.

In view of this trend, Baiqi suggested they change the strategy of both the middle and left troops and Ouyang Shuo approved it.

The middle troops led by Shi Wanshui and Zhang Liao would slowly push on forward to maintain the pressure on Tengchong City. At the same time, the west troops led by Baiqi would quicken their occupation of Mengding Prefecture.

More importantly, in case the Yanhuang Alliance Army used the teleportation tactic once more, Baiqi had planned a black chess piece to counter it.

At the current moment, their entire strategy moved along with the black chess piece plan. As such, Ouyang Shuo needed the Black Snake Guards to atone for their sins to ensure that this plan came to fruition.When he learned that the Guards Legion had returned, Ouyang Shuo, who had remained expressionless these few past days, surprisingly walked out of the courtyard to welcome them personally.

"Monarch!"

Seeing Ouyang Shuo, Huo Qubing immediately dismounted and kneeled on the ground. He cupped his fist and tragically said, "I've disappointed the Monarch, please punish me."

Ouyang Shuo went up to console him, "The defeat in this battle is not your fault."

"Monarch, it is!"

Huo Qubing still felt extremely guilty, and self-blame covered his face. He totally did not expect that his first defeat would come so quickly; this was undoubtedly a huge blow to the prideful Huo Qubing.

Ouyang Shuo insisted on helping him up, "Come up!" As he spoke, Ouyang Shuo raised his head and looked at the remaining Guards Legion soldiers behind him.

During their attempt to break out, the soldiers were basically assailed by the defending soldiers from all sides. Their bodies and faces were covered in scars, and their hunger and exhaustion were evident, making them look terrible.

Even so, it was not enough to crush them.

The Monarch's scolding worried them the most. The Guards Legion was the sharpest sword in his hand and represented the inextinguishable honor of the territory.

However, at that moment, they had fallen.

Even a hint of disappointment on the Monarch's face would be enough to make all these soldiers feel ashamed to death.

If they did not need to rush back to Consonance City to receive further orders, these soldiers would have rather just killed themselves along the way. Seeing the Monarch gaze over, the soldiers all avoided his gaze, lowering their heads.

When Ouyang Shuo saw that, he had a pained expression. He noticed the anxiousness and sense of disgrace in their eyes. Looking at those eyes that had lost their luster and confidence, he felt heart pained.

Just at this moment, the influential and unique voice of the Lord sounded.

"Boys, raise your heads and lift your chests up. Look ahead of you, the only place we can regain our lost glory is the battlefield. Hold tightly onto your weapons and continue to fight for the honor of the Guards Legion."

More and more soldiers raised their heads and looked at the Monarch.

At this moment, they were like abandoned children that had finally found their way home, and they all had extremely complicated expressions.

"Boys, welcome home!"

Ouyang Shuo's smile was like the glow of the sun, its warmth shining down on their broken souls, washing away their exhaustion and calming down their anxious hearts.

Muffled cries spread out from the army; it was low and suppressed but also sounded a little like cries of relief.

They secretly used their dirty sleeves to wipe away their tears, leaving some filth at the corners of their eyes. However, their expressions were extremely happy and relaxed.

The panicked and worried soldiers all found their direction.

"Monarch!"

All of them kneeled on the ground emotionally, "We will forever follow you, Monarch!" His words made the soldiers feel that no matter how big the crisis or toughness ahead was, it would always be worth it.

The Guards Legion would never fall.

When the following Bai Hua and the others saw this scene, they were in awe. How would Di Chen and the others even know what kind of spirit was behind the rise of Shanhai City?

As long as such a spirit was not extinguished, Shanhai City would never fall.That night, Ouyang Shuo did not prepare any sort of feast for the returning soldiers.

He knew that they were a prideful bunch. Since they had lost a battle, they would not accept such ceremonies. These would only make them feel even more ashamed and awkward.

Ouyang Shuo only instructed the army to give them food as usual and not provide any extra care. Of course, during the day, Ouyang Shuo had especially made a visit back to Shanhai City.

In the martial temple, Ouyang Shuo used the King Rank General Soul to revive Ma Teng. The moment he walked out, his first request was to return to his forces.

When Ouyang Shuo saw this, even he felt weird.

It seemed like Huo Qubing this Guards Legion Corps Marshal, had totally convinced this old general.

Although that was the case, Ouyang Shuo did not accept his request.

After all, he was quite old and had just experienced death, so it would not be appropriate to throw him back onto the battlefield right away. After learning the news of his father's death, Ma Chao, who had already led his troops to Consonance City, panicked.

If it were not for Ouyang Shuo stopping him, he would have led the troops to Dongchuan Prefecture.

Secondly, he planned to let Ma Teng cooperate with the strategic plans of Shanhai City.

Ouyang Shuo instructed him to show his face a lot in the city and to show depressed emotions to trick the spies in the city.

Originally, Ma Teng did not understand why the Monarch would issue such commands until Ouyang Shuo showed him a scroll.

"Do not worry Monarch, I will do my best!"

In truth, after dying once, he still had some lingering fear in his heart. If he rushed back onto the battlefield, he might experience some psychological barrier.

Furthermore, Ma Teng did not want to worry Ma Chao and the others.

When Ouyang Shuo saw that, he nodded his head in delight. It seems like his general was still quite a rational person.

Whilst leaving Shanhai City, Ouyang Shuo brought away a certain person. He was Lu Bu, who was studying at the Army Military Academy. Lu Bu would temporarily replace Ma Teng and help take charge of the 1st division.

12th month, 20th day, Consonance City outer city barracks.

Under Huo Qubing's leadership, the Guards Legion had gathered up in the camp. Yesterday, the Monarch had announced that he was going to give them all a surprise.

In the morning, Ouyang Shuo brought Lu Bu and came to the drill grounds.

"Monarch!"

Huo Qubing rushed over. Since he knew what the surprise was, he felt extremely emotional.

Ouyang Shuo smiled and took out a scroll from his bag; this was the Group Revival Scroll he had obtained when they raided Sky Wolf Island in Somalia.

Name: Group Revival Scroll

Type: Special Item

Restriction: one time use, restricted to Lord gamemode players

Function: Can pay a certain amount of gold to revive dead soldiers, no upper limit. For 10 thousand troops and below, each soldier costs 10 gold. For every 10 thousand added thereafter, each soldier would cost 10 more gold.

Note: Advanced Generals and above, including historical generals, cannot be revived.

Ouyang Shuo had not thought that he would have to use this scroll so early on. The Guards Legion was the strongest legion in the territory and the Iron Armored Beast Division and the Heavy Armored infantry Mountain Barbarian Divisions could not be replaced.

Hence, using the scroll at this time could be said to be worth it.

Ouyang Shuo opened the scroll and heard a constant stream of System Notifications.

"System Notification: Player is using the Group Revival Scroll, please select resurrection target!"

"Shanhai City Guards Legion Corps 1st legion."

"System Notification: Locking onto the target, checking."

"System Notification: The Guards Legion Corps 1st legion fell outside Yongren City five days ago, 45,728 people fell, please choose how many to revive."

"All of them." Ouyang Shuo did not hesitate.

"System Notification: Reviving 45,728 people will use up 1,286,400 gold, will you proceed?"

"Revive!"

Without mentioning a million gold, Ouyang Shuo would still make the same choice even if it was much more.

"System Notification: Confirming revival requirements, reviving instantly."

With a 'Shua!', a white light shone across the drill grounds. As the white light passed, the soldiers who had fallen in the battle at Yongren City, apart from the Advanced Generals, had all appeared.

Ouyang Shuo looked at these soldiers and happily said, "Boys, welcome home!"

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Chapter 776 – Setting a Camp at Every Step

The Guards Legion soldiers would never be able to forget the scene in front of them for the rest of their lives.

Right in front of them, their brothers that had died in battle were all well and alive on the drill grounds. Outsiders could not possibly understand their current feelings.

The fallen Guards Legion had been miraculously revived.

"You're home, brothers!"

The soldiers on the drill grounds were unable to control their emotions, hugging one another.

Most of these brothers who rose from the dead were those that covered for their retreat. To see them once more had lessened the guilt the 5th division soldiers felt.

It also made them even more emotional and touched by the Monarch.

Regretfully, Shihu, Lei Jingtian, Shan Zhu, and Shi Bao, these four Advanced Generals, were not in the list to be revived. Ouyang Shuo did not know whether they had died or if they were captured.

Ouyang Shuo hoped that they were indeed captured.

If that was the case, at least there was still hope of them returning. If they died, then there was truly nothing Ouyang Shuo could do. Ma Teng was a historical general so Ouyang Shuo had received a System Notification when he died.

As for the other four of them, he had no information.

The spies hidden in Yongren City were going around trying to confirm the status of these four generals.Whilst the Guards Legion soldiers calmed down their emotions, Ouyang Shuo announced some appointments. Lu Bu would temporarily replace Ma Teng as the Major General of the 1st division.

At the same time, the Deputy Major Generals of the 2nd and 3rd divisions would replace their Major Generals. As the 4th division deputy Major General was Shi Bao, Ouyang Shuo could only appoint a colonel.

The army did not lack generals, and this was just a makeshift.

As for the 15 thousand captured soldier shortfall, Ouyang Shuo did not fill it up with members from the Independent Division.

This position was still left for them.

Ouyang Shuo believed that even if they lacked 15 thousand troops, the Guards Legion Corps 1st legion would still be the strongest legion.

Especially after experiencing this setback, their fighting spirits had been ignited.

After adjusting the personnel arrangements, Ouyang Shuo was ready to leave the barracks but Huo Qubing stopped him.

Seeing that the Guards Legion Corps 1st legion had been revived, Huo Qubing requested to fight, "Monarch, I am confident about taking back Dongchuan Prefecture within five days. Monarch, please allow us to take action."

"No." Ouyang Shuo shook his head.

"Monarch?"

Huo Qubing could not understand. From his perspective, he felt somewhat wronged like the Monarch did not trust the Guards Legion, like he did not trust this marshal.

"Let's speak here." Ouyang Shuo turned around and left the drill grounds and move to a corner of the barracks. The following Personal Guards spread out to defend the area and prevent anyone from getting close.

Ouyang Shuo smiled and explained, "It is not that I do not trust you. Think about it, in their eyes, the Guards Legion Corps 1st legion is unable to fight anymore. You are a wildcard that can send them to hell at a crucial moment. As for Dongchuan Prefecture, what is that? If Swordsmen City wants it, let them have it. As long as we win in the main battlefield, we can take it back easily."

The ten day of battle involving the Guards Legion had achieved some use. They had wiped out the troops in Dongchuan and destroyed all the teleportation formations.

With that, the enemy would not be able to do anything or make any plans in Dongchuan Prefecture.

They did not move on Dongchuan Prefecture now so as to not alert the enemy. Swordsman City would not set troops and threaten the safety of Kunming Prefecture if they did not take action; it was also to numb the Yanhuang Alliance Army and Yunnan City-State to make them put down their guard.

Consequently, Ouyang Shuo had turned his sights onto Mengding and Tengyue Prefecture. As long as Baiqi's black chess piece plan succeeded, Shanhai City would have a high chance of victory.

The just revived Guards Legion Corps would play a huge part in this plan. Ouyang Shuo gave a brief introduction of the plan, making Huo Qubing's eyes light up.

In the end, his eyes were shining brightly.

Huo Qubing took in a deep breath and calmed his thoughts, "I understand Monarch. I'll follow your arrangements." Killing intent brewed in his eyes; its target was the Yanhuang Alliance and the alliance armies.

The next time they met, he was going to take revenge.

Ouyang Shuo felt relaxed when he saw that Huo Qubing understood. He gave a final instruction, "The soldiers of the 1st legion have been through such a huge change after all, so I doubt they can adapt all of a sudden. As the marshal, just rest easy and stay in the camp to help them adjust. Remember, we must be at our best battle condition to welcome the toughest battle. The toughest steel must be used at the most crucial moment."

"Yes Monarch!"

Huo Qubing bowed solemnly.

Through this incident, Huo Qubing suddenly felt that he had become closer to the Monarch. In his heart, he had the feeling that the Hanwu Emperor was in front of him.

Ouyang Shuo smiled before leaving.

Tengyue Prefecture, Tengchong City.

Di Chen, Chun Shenjun, the other Yanhuang Alliance members, the Lords from the Yunnan City-State with Qin Feng as the representative, as well as Wuqi, Tian Dan, Lianpo, and other generals had gathered in the hall.

Their goal was to discuss the next step they would take.

"Lords, we cannot be happy too early. The main force of the Shanhai City Army is still alive and the balance of our two sides has not been broken. Since Shanhai City fell prey last time, they would definitely be careful this time. A lion is hard to fight and a careful lion is even more difficult to handle."

"Hence, whether or not the next step in our plan can succeed would be the key to this battle. Yongren City only opened up the proceedings to the true battle. To win the entire war, we must be ready to pay a heavy price. If not, the enemy can turn the tables at any moment."

When Wuqi talked about 'paying a price', there were a few people in the hall with weird expressions. They were all Lords of the Dongchuan Prefecture who were now left with nothing.

Although both the City-State and Yanhuang Alliance had made promises before the war to give them appropriate compensation, the previously agreed upon compensation was battle rewards.

One must not look at how badly the various media outlets were describing Shanhai City. They themselves knew how strong Shanhai City was. Just as Wuqi had said, the loss of the Guards Legion was not enough to decide the entire battle.

In his words, they needed to make more sacrifices.

As for who to sacrifice?

The Lords of Dongchuan Prefecture turned their eyes to the Lords of Mengding Prefecture.

When the Yunnan City-State negotiated with Yanhuang Alliance, they were already mentally prepared. Even with the help of Yanhuang Alliance, it was impossible for the City-State to escape unharmed from Shanhai City.

The only problem was how high a price they would need to pay and whose interests they would end up sacrificing.

As the top Lord in the City-State, Qin Feng was not speaking and had obviously come to a consensus with Di Chen and the others. If not, the Yanhuang Alliance Army and the Alliance Army would not have teleported over to Tengchong City.

After all, Mengding Prefecture was the main battlefield they had planned beforehand.

It was obvious that Qin Feng's thoughts had changed regarding this matter.

When the few Lords from Mengding Prefecture thought about the current situation, their expressions became exceedingly ugly. They understood what the greater sacrifices Wuqi spoke of referred to.

After Dongchuan Prefecture, Mengding Prefecture was going to become the next sacrifice.

Yanhuang Alliance had calculated everything. Dongchuan Prefecture was messed up by Shanhai City, but it still ended up in the hands of Swordsman City.

Who knows what kind of tricks they were going to pull off in Mengding Prefecture?

Whatever it was, it was not good news to the Lords of Mengding Prefecture.

As expected, when Wuqi voiced his plan, the faces of all the Mending Lords collectively turned ashen white like a bunch of insects being abandoned and thrown into the wilderness.

A freezing wind swept inside the closed meeting hall, sending a chilling sensation down their spines.

In the following week, the Yunnan battlefield seemed extremely stale.

The left troops led by Baiqi did not proceed smoothly. One must not look at how they had gathered their forces in Tengyue Prefecture as they had not totally given up on Mengding.

Each city, apart from the troops based there, also had Alliance Army soldiers to assist.

To make matters worse, based on the battle plan set by Wuqi, each city would gather all the manpower from their affiliate territories for reorganization.

This did not only include the city protection forces but also included the bailiffs, protection forces of aristocratic families, students from dojos, and wandering experts.

According to Wuqi's words, anyone who could fight was not to be let go of.

Not only that, the territory also pushed out recruitment orders to recruit all the strong young men to equip them with weapons and form a civilian force.

Other labor forces were moved to help the troops defend.

Wuqi's plan was to use every person available to defend to the death.

This was simply too terrifying.

Each territory that the left troops took down required a lot of effort to defeat. The enemy troops would make use of their advantage to try to efficiently kill the enemy.

Apart from a frontal assault, many of them harassed the grain transport units.

This caused the left troops to suffer heavy casualties.

Helplessly, Baiqi could only use the reserve force, the 3rd legion of the Leopard Legion Corps to assist them. Only then did they manage to quicken their pace.

Even so, their progress was far from expected, and they even suffered heavy losses. In a week, they had lost 30 thousand troops. Only then did they take down half of Mengding.

And the time was already pointing toward the 4th year of Gaia.

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Chapter 777 – 4th System Update

Wuqi's plan had made it extremely difficult for the left troops led by Baiqi. This plan was truly vicious. No matter which side won, Mengding was destined to be left as a wasteland.

Baiqi also felt a headache because of that. Since the enemy was making use of all the civilians, Shanhai City was killing the locals. Even if Shanhai City took control of Mengding Prefecture, it would be difficult to raise their sentiments and gain their support because of the deep hatred.

But they had to fight.

Such a vicious plan was not used in Dongchuan because the Yanhuang Alliance had seen it as their territory and was unwilling to take such measures.

In contrast, Mengding Prefecture was surrounded by Shanhai City and could not be used by them, so why not?

The only pitiful ones were the Lords of Mengding Prefecture, who were buried along with them. Only now did the Lords of Yunnan City-State see that Yanhuang Alliance was just a pack of wolves.

Unfortunately, they had boarded the train and could not get off.Even though the advance was difficult, Baiqi was still doing other things.

Whilst attacking Mengding, the black chess piece plan was underway.

The grain and weapons transport squads of the left troops had already occupied a large portion of Mengding. A portion of the resources would disappear sneakily to who knows where.

And this was a part of the plan.

The Battle of Yunnan was slowly proceeding towards its peak. As for how it would end, it would test the chess skills of both sides.

As the 4th year of Gaia drew closer, the attention of the wilderness was temporarily taken away from the Yunnan Battlefield.

The players started to look forward to the impending system update as well as the information piece. High-leveled players also looked forward to the 1st global auction.

Even Ouyang Shuo had to make a trip back to Shanhai City.

Of course, the Battle of Yunnan would not stop because of this. However, Baiqi predicted that this stalemate-like situation would last for 10 days to half a month.

Hence, Ouyang Shuo suppressed his worries and rushed back to Shanhai City to deal with some emergency matters.Gaia 3rd year 12th month, 30th day, a System Notification sounded out around the world.

"World Notification: This is the 3rd anniversary since the start of Earth Online, and the game will be welcoming its 4th system update. Effective immediately, please head online to check the specific contents."

Be it adventure gamemode players or Lord gamemode players, they all paid a lot of attention to the yearly system updates. A slight change would affect their future plans.

In the 3rd system auction, Gaia removed the Super Auction Platform, country channels, guild channel, alliance channel, and player levels.

The goal was to make the game more real.

A year had passed and after suffering from all the pain, the players had started to get used to the new rules.

At the same time, new media, film, mercenary guilds, and other groups appeared to add life to the game.

Who knows what new changes the system update would bring? The moment the notification was out, Ouyang Shuo immediately went onto the forums to take a look.

1: Relationships with imperial cities.

Imperial cities and player territories can officially have four relationships: enemy, neutral, friendly, and close.

The relationship between the two would be decided by the more negative one.

For example, if the Dali Imeprial City said it was neutral to Shanhai City but Shanhai City listed them as an enemy, both sides would be enemies.

Such a setting was to prevent one-sided relationships.

The relationship level would affect the interaction between the imperial cities and player territories. As for the specific effects, the players would need to find out on their own.

One thing could be confirmed that if both sides were enemies, it would be difficult for the Lord to recruit people from the imperial city in question. Even normal trading would be affected.

Before this, when Chengdu announced their animosity toward Shanhai City, it was just Liu Bei making a statement. This system update would allow them to confirm the relationship.

Hence, Ouyang Shuo did not hesitate; he listed Chengdu as an enemy and the rest as friendly.

Now, all that was left was to see what kind of relationship they had with Shanhai City.

Ouyang Shuo saw right through the point of this update. It gave much more room for the imperial cities to act and let them have more influence in the wilderness.

This was Gaia slowly loosening their reigns on the imperial cities.

Each imperial city was not just an imperial city. They had millions of troops and numerous civil servants and generals. Its population was also in the tens of millions.

And all these people were trapped in an imperial city that had one prefecture of land at the most.

Each imperial city was like an atomic bomb. The moment it exploded, it could form an empire and stun the wilderness.

In the special environment of the China Region, the future imperial cities would become the enemies of player territories.

2: Opening up the arena.

Earth Online had some settings that pained adventure gamemode players; specifically, the cruel death penalty and the lack of ways to spar.

In the game, PK between players was with real blades and spears. Even if it was friendly, one could kill the other party if one was not careful.

At the end of the 3rd year of Gaia, as the outer regions of the imperial cities were being cleared out, the playability of adventure gamemode players was reduced, causing resentment to build up.

Now, Gaia had finally answered their requests and opened up the arena. Players had a place to PK now and would not incur any penalties from losing.

Not only that, the arena would also have a point system where players could exchange points for equipment.

To some PK maniacs, this was great news.

Even if one was not a PK maniac, they could still use the arena to raise their skills and battle strength.

3: Opening up guild cities and underground world.

This update was the biggest one this time.

In the Gaia 4th year, the nine imperial cities would establish a Satellite City outside for adventure gamemode players.

At the same time, this Satellite City could be occupied. As long as a guild takes down the Satellite City and defended it successfully for 24 hours, it would belong to them.

Hence, the Satellite City was known as the guild city.

Having a city as a guild base was the dream of every guild.

At the same time, to increase the vibrancy and attractiveness of the guild city, to raise its manageability, Gaia had linked the underground world to the guild city.

Based on Gaia's words, there would be a vast and endless world underground with stronger beasts and bandits, and many more resources and quests.

Just that simple description meant that the underground world was a heaven for adventure gamemode players. In the future few years, the underground world would be the main active location of these players.

With how vast the game map was, how big was the underground world? Even when the game ended, there would probably still be places that adventure gamemode players had not touched.

Of course, the underground world would only be opened to give an advantage to gamemode players and not Lord gamemode players.

The entrance of the underground world was in the satellite cities.

With that, the guild that owned the Satellite City could use it as a base to explore and attract more players to help build the Satellite City.

To the guild, this was simply a whole new milestone.

And this was the secret that Ouyang Shuo had revealed to Lin Jing.

One would know even without thinking that the fight for these nine satellite cities would be extremely cruel. The moment one occupied the city, their position as an overlord would be unshakeable.

The moment this update was out, the blood of all adventure gamemode players boiled.

The elders and guild leaders were all rubbing their hands in excitement; their eyes were red as they wished to go on the battlefield right away.

4: Constructing Imperial City sect dojos.

At the same time as opening up the satellite cities, the nine imperial cities would open up sect dojos that were different from normal dojos. The sect would teach all the basic martial arts of the specific Wulin sect.

When players joined a specific dojo, they would be joining that sect.

To adventure gamemode players, this was a huge revolution. Players noticed that the underworld that everyone was looking forward to was slowly revealing itself.

If the satellite cities were for the large guilds, then the sect dojos were for all the adventure gamemode players. These two updates solved the current issue that adventure gamemode players were facing.

The future of adventure gamemode players instantly became filled with endless imagination.

A bigger, more interesting game world was slowly revealing itself to the players.Gaia did not show any favoritism this time. The sect dojos were not only opened in all nine imperial cities but also the prefecture grade territories. Lord players could choose what sect dojo to open based on their personal preferences.

The sects they could choose included the five clans, 13 factions, and 81 sects in Wulin.

The five clans included Shaolin, Kunlun, Wudang, Emei, and Lotus.

The 13 factions included Xiaoyao Faction, Asian Mountain Faction, Devil Mountain Faction, Hengshan Faction, Shushan Faction, Black Mountain Faction, Secret Faction, Shendu Faction, Emei Faction, Green City Faction, Haiwai Faction, and Kongdong Faction.

The last 81 sects were numerous and included Baji Sect, Taishan Sect, Mantis Sect, Black Tiger Sect, Long Spear Sect, Kaoshan Sect, Eagle Claw Sect, Medicine King Sect, and Five Tiger Sect.

Ouyang Shuo was truly dazzled by the choices that he had.

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Chapter 778 – Information Piece: Wulin Arrives

Based on the setting by Gaia, a Grade 1 Prefecture could have five sect dojos, a Grade 2 Prefecture 10 sect dojos, and a Grade 3 Prefecture 15.

At for Capital City grade, one could have 25 sect dojos.

What needed to be mentioned was that a sect dojo was different from a sect. Although a sect dojo could appear in imperial cities or player territories, the various sects or factions needed to appear in the wilderness first based on the dynasty.

A sect dojo was only the warmup version of a sect and only taught basic stuff.

Shanhai City was now a Grade 3 Prefecture so Ouyang Shuo could choose 15 sect dojos. He would choose the five clans for sure. As for the remaining 10 slots, he would need to ponder about it.

Long Spear Sect, Baji Sect, and Five Tiger Sect had relationships with Shanhai City, so he naturally needed to choose them. Next would be Xingyi Sect, Five Phoenix Blade Sect, Medicine King Sect, Zihui Sword Sect, and Sichuan Tang Sect; these five huge sects.

As for the remaining two slots, Ouyang Shuo chose Xiaoyao Sect and Haiwai Sect.

Ouyang Shuo did not choose randomly. All these sects were ones that could possibly cooperate with Shanhai City. If he had chosen incompatible ones, it would be a waste.

Other territories were probably choosing sects in the same manner.Apart from the four huge update points, there were five more relatively smaller updates.

5: Raise of troop movement speed.

Due to the player territories expanding, too much time was spent on moving troops. Gaia had decided to increase the basic movement speed of troops by five times.

This meant that be it infantry, cavalry, navy, or even grain transport troops, all their movement speeds were raised by five times. A month long trip would only require a few days now.

Not only that, if one had territory buffs and general buffs, it would work off this base that had been increased by five times.

Hence, this could result in a six to seven times increase in traveling speed. Hence, the ten times increase in game map area had been solved.

At a future suitable time, Gaia would probably increase this once more, totally nerfing the teleportation tactic of players.

As for how this new update would affect the Battle of Yunnan, Ouyang Shuo was not too sure about it.

At the very least, it could quicken the pace at which Baiqi's left troops took down Mengding Prefecture, and it would not be anything good for Yunnan City-State. After all, Yunnan City-State relied heavily on the teleportation tactic.

6: Removal of territory land area stat.

The stat in the territory stat bar did not match the true size of a territory. This situation was not limited to Shanhai City and most territories were like that.

Hence, Gaia decided to remove this stat.

7: Slow down the construction speed of buildings.

The construction speed in game had special speed buffs, making it faster than in real life. A house in real life that needed half a year to build could be completed in just a few days in the game.

This update slowed down this building speed; this would increase the construction time of each building by at least three times and even five times for some.

What it slowed down was not only construction of buildings but also the construction speed of ships, cannons, and the like. Previously, the turreted ships built by Shanhai City shipyards needed at most half a month to reach completion.

Now it probably needed more than that, even close to two months.

This would definitely be a huge blow to the shipbuilding industry and cause a huge impact, largely reducing production.

This move was also to make the game closer to reality. Moreover, it increased the costs of production of territories. It would be a huge challenge, especially to the basic infrastructure of the territory.

Lords needed to continuously climb up the technology tree and raise the construction efficiency.

This act by Gaia was truly thought out well.

8: Modifying the alliance settings.

Territories that have already joined alliances or formed City-States could not form alliances with anyone outside. For example, the cooperation between Yanhuang Alliance and Yunnan City-State would not be allowed.

Similarly, Shanhai City would not be able to ally with members outside of Shanhai Alliance unless the member in question joined the Shanhai Alliance. Otherwise, they would be breaking the rules.

For example, the Mediterranean Alliance that Shanhai City had built as well as the Shanhai City-Phoenix Alliance all broke the rules.

As for the alliances that were already formed, Gaia did not take any action as these were formed prior to the time it pushed out the new rules.

9: Unlocking more building and crafting technology.

In the wilderness, each technical manual was extremely precious and were treasures to their Lords. Due to the rarity of technical manuals, the differences in technology standards between territories were too huge.

With Shanhai City as an example, their equipment was a massive level above the other territories, and they had sole possession of many things like shipbuilding and cannons.

In Gaia's eyes, such a situation had to be stopped.

Hence, in the following period of time, Gaia would throw a lot of technical manuals into the wilderness. As long as the Lords tried, they could obtain any normal technical manual.

The meaning behind this was to break the technology barrier and raise the overall technology level of the wilderness. The time of Shanhai City using their technology advantage to reap huge profits had passed.

Gaia's act could not be said to be unfair.

After all, compared to the low price that Shanhai City had obtained the manuals for, the profits they got were already rather sizeable, and they should not be so greedy to hog it any longer.

Gaia wanted to stimulate creativity to make the territories make innovations regarding the old technology to improve and form new technological advantages.

This entire process was pushing forward the technology of an entire territory.

In the future planet hope, Lords would face many unknown challenges and sticking to the past and following the rules was a method that held no future. Along with the environment in the new planet, performing a second research and development was the right way to go.

The reason why Ouyang Shuo established the Equipment Development Hub and the Industrialization Department was because of this. With weapons and equipment as an example, when the Tang Blade technology was released to the wilderness, Shanhai City would have already created an upgraded version.

Hence, he could still keep his technological advantage; this was not something that could not be taken back and levelled out.

This was his advantage from the last life. Without his ability to see ahead, how could Shanhai City keep their lead?

Of course, to the other Lords, this update was undoubtedly a good one. If one did well, they could close their gap from giants like Shanhai City in a short time.

Shanhai City could also make use of this chance to make up for their shortfalls like glass making technology and rubber making technology.

This was a miracle for the industrialization of the territory.Looking at the system update, Ouyang Shuo was filled with thoughts. The ones who had profited the most were still the adventure gamemode players. As for Lord gamemode players, it was still uncertain.

Different from other games, Gaia's update was not to hot fix bugs but to push out new content.

Similarly, there was a bigger principle at play, which was to develop and train stronger Lords. If one did not understand this higher principle, one would not understand the updates.

As the main tool of the federation, Gaia had been perfecting Earth Online. The basis of perfection would be the quests and activities going on in the game.

Hence, apart from the yearly update, many small details had been refreshed and updated unknowingly. Such adjustments included changes to the forums, the weather, and even the ecosystem.

Just as Ouyang Shuo closed the forums, a System Notification sounded out in his ear

"System Notification: Imperial City Chengdu/Dali has set Shanhai City as their enemy."It seems like the Dali Imperial Court did not approve of Shanhai City attacking Yunnan City-State. Thinking about how Shanhai City needed to obtain the recognition of Dali when it upgrades to Capital City, he realized he had a huge problem at hand.

"System Notification: Imperial City Jingdu/Jianye/Xiangyang/Chang An has set their relationship with Shanhai City to neutral."

These four imperial cities were ones without emperors in charge, so such a matter was expected.

"System Notification: Imperial City Quanzhou/Xianyang/Luoyang have set relationship with Shanhai City to friendly."

Quanzhou had many trading deals with Shanhai City and along with Mazu linking the two, it was normal that they were friendly. However, Ouyang Shuo did not expect that Qin Shihuang and Hanwu Emperor would both be friendly toward Shanhai City. It seems like this matter had something to do with Baiqi, Xiao He, Huo Qubing, and the others.

Just as Ouyang Shuo was ready to proceed toward the Silver Prayer House, another System Notification sounded out.

"System Notification: As this is the 3rd year since Earth Online has started, we will be releasing the 3rd information piece: Wulin Arrives. Please log onto the forums for specific details."The moment the notification sounded, many adventure gamemode players, especially the chivalrous experts, knew that the underworld had arrived.

Some players even linked the new system update to the information piece. Wasn't the opening of the sect dojos related to this information piece?

Gaia also had a reason for releasing this information piece now.

The Battle Map had already passed the Three Kingdoms Era so the Wei and Jin Dynasties were up next, followed by the Sui Tang and Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. At this time, the roots of the various Wulin sects were being slowly spread around.

As the Battle Maps were pushed out, many sects would appear in the wilderness and enter the spotlight.

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Chapter 779 – State Your Wish

The last two information pieces were for Lord gamemode players while this third one was aimed at adventure gamemode players.

Along with the information piece being released, apart from more sects entering the wilderness, wandering experts, dejected martial artists, hidden wulin families, lost martial art legacies, martial art adventure quests, and more would enter the wilderness. It would form up a huge and prosperous underworld for players and an exciting Wulin.

What made their blood boil was that the adventure mode for adventure gamemode players had arrived.

In contrast to Battle Maps, Gaia would combine information from books, movies, and novels to make underworld sub maps.

Each sub map would have special trigger conditions and different ones would have different participation requirements. Some were solo, some were group, and some were competitions.

Not only could players have the chance to learn various secret manuals in the sub map, but they would also be able to obtain various God Weapons and cultivation pills, even disguising masks, pear flower torrential needle rain, and other special items.

Like the Battle Map, the Wuxia sub maps had time limits and would close once it reaches a certain requirement. The time flow in the sub map would also be the same as the Battle Maps.

The Wuxia sub map would add to the adventuring lives of the players.

Of course, this was Gaia's way to improve the overall body standards of all the people.

The release of the information piece showed that Gaia's research on martial arts had reached an all new stage and had obtained a critical breakthrough. Gaia had unearthed all the legendary ancient techniques Gaia and placed them into the game.

Players would challenge the growth of their bodies through cultivation to prepare themselves for the future in planet Hope.

Consequently, no player would take this matter lightly.

The greatest possibility would be that with the information piece being released, a large number of work occupation players or casual players would kill themselves to change their class to chivalrous expert.

In the future period of time, as more and more secret manuals appeared, the entire wilderness would enter a cultivation craze. Moreover, this affected Lord gamemode players to an extent as well.

In history, the relationship between the Wulin sects and the Imperial Court was always uncertain and in the dark.

The sects were all established in the wilderness, so it was unavoidable for them to deal with the territories. It was either cooperation or going against them.

As the player skill levels increased, it would become a hidden problem to the safety of the territory.

Without a doubt, along with this information piece being published, the wilderness would become much more exciting and bustling. Ouyang Shuo was already considering forming an organization that focused on managing Wulin people.

His final goal was to use martial arts to manage martial arts and develop martial artists for the territory. No one would be able to ride above the territory.

The future Wulin was destined to be a bloody affair.

Apart from that, Ouyang Shuo was also considering another problem. Along with the information piece being published, what kind of changes would occur to Swordsman City and its Lord Feng Qingyang, who had always aimed to become a sect leader?

And what effects would those changes have on Yanhuang Alliance and Shanhai City? Who would Dongchuan Prefecture, which they were currently managing, go to?

It was obvious that the information piece was like a mist over the wilderness. When the mist dissipated, who would be the winner and who would lose everything?

Ouyang Shuo did not know either, and the list of things he needed to think about grew more and more.

Just at this moment, another System Notification sounded out.

"World Notification: To celebrate the successful running of the game for three years, Gaia will hold the first world auction at 10 AM on the 4th year, 1st day. 10 rarely seen items will be auctioned off. Friendly Reminder: players joining the auction have to have more than a million gold."The moment the notification sounded out, the world was thrown into an uproar.

There had been rumors regarding the global auction long ago. Gaia let the information leak to control the flow of top items so that rare items would not depreciate.

Secondly, it wanted to promote competition between people from different countries as a start to country wars.

However, the players had not expected Gaia to go all out. It only allowed players with at least one million to enter, blocking out 99% of the players.

One must know that the China region, the area with the highest number of rich people, its most expensive God Weapon set was only sold for 1.35 million.

This was also after the achievement value exchange event.

Normally speaking, it would not have crossed the one million mark.

Who knew that in just a year, a million gold would become merely the baseline? Consequently, players without a million liquid gold would not be able to enter the auction.

Among the Shanhai Alliance, only Ouyang Shuo had the qualifications to enter the auction. After reviving the Guards Legion Corps 1st legion, Ouyang Shuo retrieved 300 thousand from the Financial Bureau to make up four million.

With this four million gold on hand, Ouyang Shuo was uncertain how many items he could obtain. Amongst which, there were a few items he absolutely needed. As for the rest, it was all up to fate.

After all, guild leaders like Blood Romance would take out the funds they stored in the Four Seas Bank to join the global auction. Ouyang Shuo did not allow the Four Seas Bank to loan money to Feng Qiuhuang and the others for this matter.

Furthermore, it did not feel right to use the bank money to join the auction. If this was revealed, it would be a huge blow to the reputation of the Four Seas Bank.

Ten items that everyone in the world would fight for.

Yanhuang Alliance had two to three people who had the ability to join this event. At the very least, Chun Shenjun and Di Chen would not miss it. This also once again proved that the further behind it fell, the stronger the Yanhuang Alliance would grow.

Along with the system report, many players were feeling dejected. Before it even began, the historical moment that they had previously been looking forward to had already ended.

At this point, the year end show of the Gaia 3rd year had come to an end.

Shanhai City, Imperial City.

Once again closing the forums, Ouyang Shuo said to Bing'er, who was sitting beside him, "Let's go!"

As the end of the year had arrived, the two hidden buildings Silver Prayer House and Recruitment Hall could be used once more. As for the General Appointment Stage, it could be used once in two years, so he had to wait for the next year.

Last year, Ouyang Shuo had Bing'er help him summon God General Zheng He, so he wanted to use her luck to obtain the greatest benefits from the two buildings this time around.

Ouyang Shuo truly looked forward to the shocking talents she would summon.

Before going to the Recruitment Hall, Ouyang Shuo brought Bing'er to the Silver Prayer House. The Silver Prayer House opened twice a year, and the last chance was wasted because Ouyang Shuo was out at sea.

There was another reason behind this visit.

A day ago, the spies from Yongren City told them that Shihu, Lei Jingtian, Shanzhu, and Shi Bao had all died in battle.

When he heard the news, Ouyang Shuo was stunned. He did not believe that the four generals nurtured by him would die just like that.

At that moment, he truly felt despaired and lost.

Thinking about this matter, the only way to revive them was the Silver Prayer House. The highest type of prayer in the Silver Prayer House was a miscellaneous type prayer.

Ouyang Shuo was only praying that he could use such a method to revive the four of them.

Hence, Ouyang Shuo brought Bing'er along.

The moment he walked into the Silver Prayer House, Gaia stunned Ouyang Shuo.

"System Notification: Hidden building activated, other people cannot interfere, and the Lord needs to personally act. Otherwise, the prayer will not work."This was obviously targeting Ouyang Shuo's cheating act last year.

"No choice, I'll have to do it myself."

Ouyang Shuo gritted his teeth and arrived before the spinning wheel. Luckily, the breakthrough of the fate dragon meant that his luck stat had reached 22. Although it was not as overpowered as Bing'er, it was not that bad.

Thinking of which, Ouyang Shuo focused and connected with the fate dragon. He wanted to use the power of the fate dragon to momentarily raise his luck stat.

After the Battle of Lingnan ended, the fate dragon became more and more sentient and immediately formed a spiritual connection with Ouyang Shuo. At the same time, Ouyang Shuo felt a mysterious power transmit itself to his spiritual world.

At the same time, a System Notification sounded.

"System Notification: Congratulations Player Qiyue Wuyi for obtaining the buff of the fate dragon; an addition of 15 points in luck for five minutes."

This was a rare opportunity. Ouyang Shuo took it extremely seriously and immediately took action.

"System Notification: Please choose prayer type!"

Ouyang Shuo immediately chose the golden ingot.

"System Notification: Prayer type confirmed. Please choose the prayer mode."

"Self-decided Prayer."

"System Notification: Prayer mode confirmed, please state your prayer!"

Ouyang Shuo calmed himself and said, "Pray to revive Guards Legion Generals Shihu, Lei Jingtian, Shanzhu, and Shi Bao."

"System Notification: Wish confirmed, calculating..."

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Chapter 780 – Hai Rui Hai Qingtian

During the time when the system was calculating, Ouyang Shuo felt that each second was a torture. In reality, only 10 seconds had passed before a System Notification sounded out in his ear.

"System Notification: Congratulations Player Qiyue Wuyi, thanks to the buff of your luck stat, this wish has not crossed the upper limit of 100 thousand and can be fulfilled. Will you make this wish?"

"Yes." Ouyang Shuo's voice started to tremble.

Along with the deduction of 100 thousand gold Ouyang Shuo, there was a 'Shua!', and four white lights appeared in the hall. When the white lights faded, four generals appeared.

"Where is this place, the netherworld?"

Shihu and the others obviously did not understand what was going on. They turned around, only to see Ouyang Shuo smiling brightly.

"Monarch?"

They could not believe it.

Ouyang Shuo smiled, "This is Shanhai City; you have all been revived." He gave a brief explanation of the prayer matter to the four generals.

Although they could not really understand, at least there was one thing that they knew - they were alive!

"Greetings Monarch!"

The four of them all kneeled on one foot. Soon afterward, their expressions became rather down.

Ouyang Shuo understood their thoughts and laughed, "Get up. The boys have all been revived a week ago. They are all at Consonance City and are waiting for you to return."

"Really?" A bright light shone from their eyes.

They really did not expect that they could escape death and be revived once more.

Using this chance, Ouyang Shuo decided to sense the condition of the fate dragon. To his shock, it was seemingly wilting after the short connection. He was so shocked that he immediately broke the connection with the fate dragon.

It seemed like this prayer succeeding had all to do with the fate dragon.

However, when he saw that the usage of the buff consumed a huge amount of the fate dragon's energy, and its body had started to fade once more, Ouyang Shuo did not dare to use it for the Recruitment Hall.

After all, Ouyang Shuo was someone who could weigh the pros and cons of something.

As he walked out of the Silver Prayer House, Ouyang Shuo said to the four of them, "Now, sneakily rush back to Consonance City to report to Marshal Huo Qubing. Remember, do not let anyone see you before you enter the barracks."

"Yes Monarch!"

Shihu and the others all solemnly bowed before they turned and left.

Along with the four of them returning, the Guards Legion Corps 1st legion had truly risen from the ashes.

Looking at those four well-built figures, Ouyang Shuo let out a pleased smile. Although he had paid a heavy price, at least he did not let down the mountain barbarian tribes and the Guards Legion soldiers.

Shanhai City, Recruitment Hall.

When Ouyang Shuo walked out of the Recruitment Hall, there was a middle-aged scholar besides him. Although this man looked exceedingly cold and handsome, he had eye bags below his eyes, and his cheeks were caved in. At first glance, one would know he was not someone easy to get close to.

This person was the talent that Ouyang Shuo had summoned, one of the 24 ministers of the Ming Dynasty, Hai Rui.

Name: Hai Rui (King Rank)

Title: Hai Qingtian

Dynasty: Ming Dynasty

Identity: Shanhai City Civil Servant

Occupation: Civil Servant

Loyalty: 75

Command: 35

Force: 30

Intelligence: 70

Politics: 80

Specialty: Upright and Honorable (Raises territory honesty level by 40%, raises tax collection by 5%, raises people sentiment by 10%.)

Evaluation: He was born a commoner and worked his way up. He gained a reputation for his uncompromising adherence to upright morality, scrupulous honesty, working against poverty, and fairness.

The famous name of Hai Rui was like lightning to the ears; he was a truly famous official of the Ming Dynasty. While he was alive, although he was a part of the four rules, the time he was actually in office was not much.

In the 20th year of Jiajing, he participated in the official examinations and was appointed as a clerk of education. He looked down on corruption and sought to deal with corrupt officials, earning him the love of the people. He dealt punishments to the rich and corrupt, stopping them from taking bribes and forcing them to return the money to the people.

However, since Hai Rui was too stubborn and strict, he was seen as someone who did not know the rules of the official field. Even Zhang Juzheng, who was a famous minister at that time, did not like him.

Hai Rui's specialty mainly buffed the honesty of the territory and the people sentiment. It also helped increase the taxes and tax revenue of the territory.

On the topic of Hai Rui, he actually had a little bit of relationship with Shanhai City.

Hai Rui was born in Qiongzhou Prefecture and wrote the Ruling Li Strategy and also the Making Peace with Li Strategy.

The Li here referred to the Li race natives of Qiongzhou Prefecture.

Hence, Ouyang Shuo was planning to push him to Qiongzhou Prefecture. His clean and honest image would be of great help to the rising voyage trade of Yashan City.

As for the current Qiongzhou Governor Tian Wenjing, he could be sent to Yunnan Province.

Hence, Hai Rui's appointment would have to wait till after the Battle of Yunnan had ended.

Ouyang Shuo was going to temporarily place him in the Internal Affairs Bureau to let him familiarize himself with the territory structure and the territory law system.

After personally sending Hai Rui over to the Internal Affairs Bureau, Ouyang Shuo returned to the Governor-General Manor.During dinner, Song Jia talked to Ouyang Shuo about the progress of the Mountain and Sea Entertainment Holdings. With the help of the Black Snake Guards, their poaching job was going extremely smoothly.

Thanks to the great recruitment sign of Shanhai City, basically everyone accepted Song Jia's invitation unless they were truly determined not to come out. Their current members already had the ability to start filming Huo Qubing.

Speaking of which, Song Jia laughed, "Luckily, the team in charge of filming Huo Qubing has not been formed. If not, and we filmed it outside Yongren City, it would look really bad."

"Regarding the matter of Huo Qubing, let's shelve it for now. It's the crucial moment of the Battle of Yunnan, so let's not make him any busier."

Song Jia could sense Ouyang Shuo's unhappiness, so she changed the topic, "Wuyi, what are your thoughts on the information piece?"

After their marriage, Song Jia basically stopped interfering in underworld matters. Recently, she had not spent much time with Dongli Sword Sect because she was worried about the entertainment holdings.

The current sect was led by Lin Yue and had over two thousand disciples.

Even so, her wuxia heart had not faded. Along with the information piece being published, her cold heart suddenly ignited once more.

Song Jia was really looking forward to the wuxia map.

Ouyang Shuo smiled, "I wanted to talk to you about this. During these two days, there will be people coming over to set up sect dojos, a total of 15. I think you should inform Lin Yue to contact them and form relationships."

"What sects are there?" Song Jia was curious.

Ouyang Shuo stated the 15 sects that he had chosen; Song Jia felt confused when she heard these names. Some of their names appeared in dramas and novels.

Out of all the sects that Gaia had brought into the game, most of them were not as magical and godly as mentioned in novels. Naturally, they were not as famous.

Normally, those basic kungfu arts in novels like Tan Leg could become their own sect. Hence, even Ouyang Shuo did not have much knowledge regarding most of these sects.

"It seems like I have to do my homework on this." Song Jia was a really smart girl and immediately understood where Ouyang Shuo was going with this.

Asking Lin Yue to come into contact with the sects was naturally to try and send the Dongli Sword Sect into the underworld.

With the way Ouyang Shuo did things, he would aim to make the Dongli Sword Sect into an unparalleled existence since he wanted to enter.

It would be impossible in real life.

But this was the game. With Shanhai City as its shield, along with its relatively lengthy existence, such a goal was not impossible.

Thinking about this, Song Jia got really excited.

However, considering her current status, she could only act behind the scenes and let Lin Yue take charge. Even though she was behind the scenes, she still needed to have an understanding of the situation.

When Ouyang Shuo saw that Song Jia understood what he meant, he smiled, "Wuxia novels have a legendary sunflower queen, so why can't you be one."

"Of course." Song Jia smiled.

Ouyang Shuo said, "I have to remind you, Feng Qingyang's Qingyang Sword Sect is the top sect in the wilderness. It also has their aristocratic family supporting them. For Dongli Sword Sect to rise up, they would have to face this strong enemy."

"Do not worry. Even if you did not say it, I would have reminded Lin Yue. Since our two sects have the word sword in our name, and we are both sword sects, let's battle it out with sword techniques." Song Jia said.

"So confident?" Ouyang Shuo felt that it was weird, "Both you and Lin Yue are not known for swords. Do you have a secret weapon?"

"Temporarily not."

Song Jia gave him a mysterious smile but did not reveal anything.

Ouyang Shuo nodded and did not ask anymore. As long as Song Jia knew what she was doing, it was fine.

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Chapter 781 – Global Auction (Part 1)

Gaia 4th year, 1st month, 1st day, 10 AM, a System Notification sounded out.

"World Notification: The 1st global auction officially begins. All players in the world that meets the requirements will automatically receive an invitation. Once the invitation is accepted, the player will be teleported to the auction venue."At basically the same time, Ouyang Shuo heard a System Notification in his ear.

"System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi, found that your assets have reached four million, fulfilling requirements, will you join the global auction?"

"Join!"

"System Notification: Confirmed, teleportation begin!"

With a 'shua' a blinding white light shone and Ouyang Shuo was teleported to an unknown map, the legendary city in the skies.

Legends had it that the city in the skies was where Gaia lived, and it was hidden in the clouds, floating around the entire planet. Every day and night, it monitored every continent and ensured that the game runs properly.

In the city, there were God Generals, fairies, and various beasts. There were even rumors that the leaders of the federation lived in the city and enjoyed their life there.

It was not an understatement to say that the city in the skies was the most mysterious presence.

Who would have guessed that Gaia would actually choose to hold the first global auction at the city in the skies? It boosted all their excitement and made the trip alone worthwhile.

The sky auction venue was located at the west side of the city. The players were teleported here and could not walk out of the area. The mysterious city in the skies was indeed still a mystery to everyone.

Ouyang Shuo knew that not only the global auction but even the future martial arts competitions would also be held here. In truth, the city in the skies was just a place Gaia used to hold global scale events.

It was not as mysterious as the rumors said.

As they all teleported at the same time, Ouyang Shuo appeared together with everyone else who met the requirements. Looking out, there were no more than a hundred people in the auction venue.

Some of them were people Ouyang Shuo had met before like William and Henry, and there were also people who he did not have a chance to meet like Jack Dawson.

There were even more players that even Ouyang Shuo as a person that reincarnated did not recognize. In the last life, how would he have the chance to join such a high-class event?

Now, even on a global scale, Ouyang Shuo was the most eye-catching sight. When players sitting around him saw him, they all greeted him extremely warmly and introduced themselves.

All the China region Lords sat in one line. Apart from Ouyang Shuo, Di Chen, and Chun Shenjun, there were only two others from China, the guild leaders Blood Romance and Xie Siyun.

The appearance of the satellite cities had captured the attention of the guilds. Even the top 10 guilds would not dare to use their precious funds on the auction without a certain foundation.

What was truly coincidental was that Henry sat a row in front of Ouyang Shuo.

"Old friend, long time no see!" Henry warmly greeted and smiled, "Shanhai City has been making so many big waves after returning from the Mediterranean, I'm truly envious."

Ouyang Shuo smiled, "We can meet soon."

"Oh, you are going on another voyage?"

Hearing his words, not only Henry, even Di Chen and the others sitting beside him focused.

Di Chen and the others were not all that envious with how many people Ouyang Shuo knew. Speaking of contacts, Di Chen knew nearly everyone here. Ouyang Shuo's appearance did not change much, and the top players of each country were still the representatives of the huge powers.

As one of the top people in the Chinese circle, Di Chen had many interactions with these people in real life.

However, their territories were still currently limited to their own countries and did not have much cooperation in the game. Naturally, they did not have much to talk about. When country wars started, that would be a whole different matter.

Ouyang Shuo smiled and shook his head, not directly answering the question. Instead, he started to talk about the situation in the Mediterranean. As Jidian City was a lone city outside, Ouyang Shuo hoped to obtain some relevant information about it from Henry.

After talking for a while, Henry suddenly pointed to a place near the left to the front, "That young man called Caesar has been really active."

Ouyang Shuo looked at where Henry pointed. This was the first time Ouyang Shuo saw the legendary Caesar, one of the future heads of Europe. He truly looked handsome and strong.

Caesar seemed to have noticed Ouyang Shuo's gaze, and he suddenly turned around and gave him a provocative eye.

When Henry saw that, he said with displeasure, "That kid truly is arrogant."

Ouyang Shuo smiled, thinking to himself, 'Interesting!'

In the last life, Caesar was one of the top Lords in Europe and looked down on the other players in the world. He was probably unhappy about Shanhai City entering the Mediterranean.

Henry wanted to control the Mediterranean, so he definitely had many conflicts with this Caesar. This French friend was not really that simple. In fact, he wanted to make Shanhai City fight with Caesar.

Ouyang Shuo only wanted to maintain the normal running of the trade route and not get involved in their disputes. As long as Caesar did not actively challenge the Mediterranean Squadron, Ouyang Shuo would not want to act.

Let's just leave Henry to deal with him.

At this juncture, the auction officially began.

"Let's talk next time." Ouyang Shuo patted Henry's shoulder, telling him to calm down.After the simple opening speech, the auction immediately began.

The auction model was the same as the regional auctions.

The auctioneer smiled as he walked up to the front and said, "Now to start the first item."

The first beauty walked in front and removed the red cloth on the tray, revealing a token.

"Village Creation Upgrade Token; this item can upgrade village creation tokens below that of Gold Rank by one rank. Base price 500 thousand, no buyout, please make your bids." The auctioneer introduced.

As expected from Gaia, the first item was so amazing already.

Most of the Lords present, excluding Ouyang Shuo and a few others, used the specially obtained Silver Rank creation token. Their starting point was a level worse than that of the Gold Rank village creation token.

Now, Gaia had given them a chance to make up for their regrets. However, the price was truly not cheap. The starting bid was already 500 thousand, so who knows how high it would go for in the end?

Ouyang Shuo let out a calm smile.

He was only going to watch this show unfold.

After 20 minutes of intense battle, the token landed in the hands of Jack Dawson for a million gold.

As the son of the richest man in the world, who knows how much gold he had exchanged for during the achievement value exchange event? To Jack Dawson, this item was worth the one million gold.

In his eyes, only Shanhai City could be seen as his competitor. After he learned that Shanhai City had used a Gold Rank village creation token, he had always wanted to upgrade the token of Free City.

He searched far and wide but could not find a way to upgrade the token.

Who knew that he would be able to see such a token in the auction? Hence, he decided to obtain it matter what.

Ouyang Shuo noticed that Chun Shenjun had also bid. Only when the price passed 800 thousand gold did he give up; he probably had other intentions.Very quickly, the second auction item was revealed; it was a scroll.

The auctioneer pointed at the scroll and introduced, "This scroll is The Map of the Underground World (Incomplete). No matter which player obtains this item, they'll gain access to 1/5th of the information of the underworld in their country. Base price 500 thousand, no buyout, please make your bids."

After the 4th system update, the mysterious underground world had become the focus and hot topic of all players. Some players wildly wondered if the various underground worlds were linked together.

This incomplete map had become the item of contention for all the guild leaders.

This round of the auction was more intense than the first. After half an hour, the item was obtained by Blood Romance for 1.5 million gold.

Due to the size of the China Region, it was truly worth it for him to use such a sum to obtain the map. Even if he only had 1/5th of it, it could be compared to any country in any other continent and even a few of them added together.

Hence, the final competitors for this item were from China, Russia, and America. Blood Romance obtaining this item with so much gold meant that he was probably confident about taking down the Satellite City in Xianyang.

"Congratulations!"

Ouyang Shuo was just sitting to the left of him, so he congratulated Blood Romance right away.

Blood Romance smiled and sincerely said, "Thank you."

Sitting in such a hall, the five players in the China Region naturally grouped up. Even Di Chen and Chun Shenjun sent their congratulations.

Xie Siyun, who was similarly a competitor, did not lose her demeanor.

China region taking down something was worth celebrating about.Just as Ouyang Shuo and the others were congratulating him, the third item was revealed; it was another token.

The auctioneer said, "This is a teleportation token. After use, the player can add a teleportation formation to any place in the territory. Base price 500 thousand, no buyout, please make your bids."

When Ouyang Shuo heard that, his eyes lit up.

This teleportation token was exactly what Ouyang Shuo wanted.

Shanhai City had six teleportation formation cities, Shanhai City, Yashan City, Zhenhai City, Consonance City, Lion City, and Jidian City.

It seemed like a lot, but it was not enough when compared to their land size.

With this token, Ouyang Shuo could change his strategies; especially their overseas strategy, which needed this token badly.

Not that long ago, when Shanhai City became a Grade 3 Prefecture and added a teleportation formation in Jidian City, the situation had totally changed.

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Chapter 782 – Global Auction (Part 2)

Ouyang Shuo was not the only one who had the ambitions of obtaining this token.

Any Lord that wanted to expand, especially expand overseas, wanted the token. For example William, Caesar, and Jack all wanted this item.

The 4th system update had greatly increased the movement speeds of troops. Lords who were held up in their own country's fights would not be interested in this item at the moment.

Hence, when the price reached 900 thousand, there was only Ouyang Shuo and the other three left.

"1 million!"

Ouyang Shuo bid a critical point price.

No matter how good this token was the Lords could not waste their resources. After all, this was just the third item.

"1.1 million gold!"

The one that bid was Caesar; he turned around and gave Ouyang Shuo yet another provocative look. Looking at this, William and Jack decided to give up and let them fight it out.

Ouyang Shuo did not bother and expressionlessly said, "1.3 million gold!"Caesar's eyes froze. He wanted to con Qiyue Wuyi but looking at this fellow's expression, he was unsure if Qiyue Wuyi wanted the token or was trying to set a trap for him.

If he followed and Qiyue Wuyi did not follow, that would be a catastrophe.

Caesar hesitated and decided not to bid. He was not rash and would not waste his gold just because of his emotions.

With that, Ouyang Shuo obtained the teleportation token with 1.3 million gold. From start to finish, his expression did not change at all.

When Caesar saw this lack of expression change, his brows rose.

'Did I con him?' Caesar was confused.The following three items were all precious items for adventure gamemode players. There were God Weapons, hidden occupation scrolls, and a strong cultivation method.

Ouyang Shuo did not want any of these items, so he just sat and watched quietly.

On the contrary, the adventure gamemode players were going all out. Especially the western players, who wanted to obtain the god staff. In the end, the item went for 1.8 million gold.

After these three items were auctioned off, another hour had passed.

The tempo of the auction was extremely quick. There was no pause in between items; it was simply one item after the other.

The seventh item was one that was especially made for the China region - Kunlun sub map key. With this item, players could activate the Kunlun sub map.

Kunlun had the end of the Song and start of the Yuan Dynasties as its historical background. It described the story of how Liang Su went from a wanderer to an expert of a generation. It was deemed as one of the Wuxia classics of the 21st century.

This novel was millions of words long due to the descriptive passages about the underworld. There were many up and downs and great character descriptions. The contents within included underworld heroics love and hate, geography, mechanisms, formations, and many other aspects.

Like how China had the information piece released, other countries had similar ones with different backgrounds.

Of course, China had the most related sub maps as their culture was the deepest and most rooted.

Hence, the fight for the seventh item was limited to only Blood Romance and Xie Siyun.

"800 thousand!"

Blood Romance bid once more; he turned around and looked at Xie Siyun with a smile, "This is my final bid." The two of them could be considered half an ally and business partners, so Blood Romance did not want to go all out.

Furthermore, he had already obtained the underground map and had only limited funds on hand.

When Xie Siyun heard that, she hesitated. However, in the end, she bid 850 thousand, obtaining the key.

During such a global occasion, the two truly could not fight too intensely with one another. Furthermore, it was just a key, so one would not know exactly what they would get.

Xie Siyun hesitated because she had received Ouyang Shuo's message.

Considering her wish, Ouyang Shuo suggested that he was willing to use 200 thousand to exchange for her rights to enter the sub map.

Kunlun was a five-man sub map, so for Ouyang Shuo to invest 200 thousand was already a lot.

This was a win-win situation. Obviously, she would not decline his offer.

Even if Ouyang Shuo did not talk about money, with their relationship, Xie Siyun would agree if Song Jia wanted to join. However, it would be hard to explain to her guild members in such a scenario.

On this point, Ouyang Shuo was truly thoughtful.As the dust settled, the auctioneer started to introduce the 8th time, "Devil Prohibition Scroll. After use, the player can prohibit use of teleportation scrolls in an area of a thousand miles, lasting for one day. Starting bid 500 thousand, no buyout."

When Di Chen and Chun Shenjun saw this item, their expressions tightened, and they pretended to casually glance at Ouyang Shuo.

Ouyang Shuo laughed to himself as he knew what Di Chen and the others were worried about. If this was before the Battle of Yunnan, Ouyang Shuo would have bought it but now it was not something he would use.

If he really bought it, it would adversely affect Baiqi's black chess piece plan instead.

Noticing their expressions, Ouyang Shuo confirmed that the Yanhuang Alliance was using a teleportation tactic again and were afraid the scroll would spoil their plans.

Not buying was not buying, but he should put up a show at the right time.

Ouyang Shuo smiled and bid, "600 thousand gold!"

Ouyang Shuo was not the only one interested in this item. A one thousand mile radius was huge, even in the game.

If one used this item well, it would be enough to decide the outcome of an entire war.

"700 thousand gold!"

"800 thousand gold!""1 million!"

The bidding price rose quickly. In the midst of all of this, Ouyang Shuo bid once more.

"1.2 million!"

The one who bid was Russian Region Lord Pushkin; this was also the first time he had bid.

Anyone who roughly understood him would know that his family was an absolute shark, big in both politics and business.

When Ouyang Shuo saw that, he purposely pretended to feel regretful and gave up.

When Di Chen and Chun Shenjun saw that, they secretly heaved sighs of relief.

Similar to the China region, Russia was also huge. Within the country, Pushkin was facing many competitors, so he was interested in this scroll.

As for the other Lords in Europe, including William, Henry, and Caesar, they did not bid since the start of this item because their position in their countries was already solidified and no one could shake their place.

In the end, the scroll fell into Pushkin's hands.The auction was nearing its end with only two items left.

Ouyang Shuo was a little disappointed. He brought four million and could only spend 1.5 as he had not seen much that he liked. He was hoping that the last two items could surprise him.

The ninth item was a red-white circular ball the size of a fist.

"Territory Prosperity Beast; after use, the player can summon a territory prosperity beast. Starting bid 500 thousand, no buyout, please make your bids."

"Prosperity beast, what's that?"

The Lords were all stunned. They knew of protector beasts but knew nothing about prosperity beasts.

"Is it a lucky item?"

The Lords looked at one another. Who would spend hundreds of thousands on a lucky item?

But with the way Gaia acted, how could it put a useless item up for the auction? The only possibility was that the prosperity beast had some special skill.

When Ouyang Shuo heard that, he was tempted and excited. He knew a little about this matter; the prosperity beast had a skill that could bring luck to the territory.

Just that alone made it special.

Even so, Ouyang Shuo did not act and allowed the other Lords to bid.

"550 thousand gold!"

"600 thousand gold!""700 thousand gold!"

"750 thousand gold!"This was the slowest item in the auction.

"800 thousand gold!"

Ouyang Shuo bid for the first time.

Instantly, the other Lords were tempted.

"Do you know what the specialty of the beast is?" Henry turned around and asked.

How could Ouyang Shuo speak the truth? He smiled, "This is the first time I've heard of it. Gaia is auctioning this item, so it must be something good. I would rather buy wrongly than give up a potentially good item."

"Rich!" Henry gave him the thumbs up and dropped out of the race.

A few rounds continued and the price rose to a million. Di Chen and Chun Shenjun both bid.

One must not look at how Di Chen did not have any good impressions of Ouyang Shuo; he still praised the latter's foresight.

"1.3 million!"

Ouyang Shuo bid once more, scaring away many competitors.

All of them could be considered rich, but no one dared to be like Ouyang Shuo and spend over a million for a chance.

This was the difference.

"1.4 million!"

Di Chen gave up but Chun Shenjun gritted his teeth and bid again.

When Ouyang Shuo saw that, he remained expressionless, "1.5 million. This is my final bid. If you want it, bid again and it's yours."

"I'm not a fool!"

"Then thank you." Ouyang Shuo smiled.

Chun Shenjun felt a little regretful and wanted to bid once more. At the crucial moment, Di Chen stopped him and said softly, "Do not fall for his trick."

Di Chen wanted to see Chun Shenjun make a fool out of himself but not today and not in such a place.

Chun Shenjun was astonished and looked at Di Chen with gratitude. In the end, Ouyang Shuo obtained the Territory Prosperity Beast with 1.5 million.

At this point, only the last item of the auction was left.

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Chapter 783 – Problems of the Voyage Route

Every single item in Gaia's auction was a masterpiece, and this was no exception. The final item was finally revealed, and it was a token.

At first glance, it looked similar to the village creation token.

The auctioneer smiled and introduced the item, "This item is the Satellite City token. After it is used, the player immediately obtains the rights to the Satellite City. Starting bid 800 thousand gold, no buyout, please make your bids."

"Woah!"

The moment his words finished, everyone sucked in a deep and cold breath.

Gaia's magnanimity knew no bounds.

This time, all the guild leaders in the world could not hide their greed toward this token, and their eyes turned red. The bidding price soared and reached 1.5 million in just 10 minutes.

The various guild leaders now became extremely careful.

When the price rose to 1.8 million, Blood Romance dropped out. Although he the ability to potentially obtain this token, he still had to decide whether this item was worth it or not.

Blood Evil Mercenary Guild was the best guild in China and had an absolute rule over Xianyang. Even if they fought for the Satellite City using normal means, there was still a high chance they could take down the Satellite City.

Hence, Blood Romance chose to back out.

When the price rose to two million gold, guilds like them who had enough power to fight for the city would all choose to drop out. Those who still bid were those guilds that were not confident about obtaining victory.

Naturally, it was not difficult to understand their mentality.

If it were not for Ouyang Shuo reminding Lin Jing to make the War-Snow Rose Mercenary Guild sign alliance contracts before the system update came out, Xie Siyun would probably fight for this item.

After an intense chase, the token was finally taken by an American guild leader for two million gold.

During this auction, the China and America regions had done exceptionally well.

As everything came to an end, Gaia really did not care and just kicked everyone out of the place. When Ouyang Shuo returned to Shanhai City, it was already 3 PM.

He had only spent around three million gold during this auction, which was much lower than what he had expected. He spent less than he expected because most of the items were targeted at adventure gamemode players.

Out of the ten items, six of the items were prepared for adventure gamemode players. Out of the remaining four, Ouyang Shuo managed to obtain two of them, which was truly a remarkable achievement.

In the 4th year of Gaia, Gaia had started to pay attention to the adventure gamemode players who accounted for 99% of the player base. Gaia had injected some new blood into the adventure gamemode.

As for Lord gamemode players, they were left on their own.After returning to the Governor-General Manor, Ouyang Shuo took out the Teleportation Token.

"System Notification: Found that player Qiyue Wuyi has special item, Teleportation Token. Will you use this item?"

"Yes!"

"System Notification: Please choose the city to build the teleportation formation in!"

"Friendship City."

"System Notification: City choice completed; the teleportation formation is being created."

"System Notification: Discovered that Friendship City is located overseas. Hence, this teleportation formation will be listed as a cross country formation."

At this point, the territory had one more city with a teleportation formation.

Friendship City, which was built in Somalia, was located between Jidian City and Lion City, so it was at a crucial point on the voyage route.

However, Friendship City was recently facing some problems.

A day ago in a memorial sent by City Magistrate Gu Xiuwen, it was mentioned that the friendly attitude of the Somali people were changing for the worse.

The entire situation was changing.

Due to the passage of time, the contributions of the voyage squadron to Somalia were gradually being forgotten. Both sides had conflicts of interest due to voyage trading.

This was especially the case between Friendship City's Courage Port and Somalia's Berbera Port. In terms of fighting for ships to come and gain resources, there was a direct conflict of interest.

As most of the merchant ships on the voyage trading route came from China, they were mostly willing to stop at Courage Port. Even western merchant ships chose to stop at Courage Port due to the presence of the Mediterranean Squadron.

Over 500 ships would stop there every day, and they were working toward a thousand. With Gu Xiuwen taking charge, the second round of construction works on the port was coming to an end.

After the construction was finished, the port could have three thousand odd ships docking at once.

In comparison, Berbera Port was left in the cold.

Merchant ships stopping by the port brought with them huge profits. Apart from border taxes, the spending of tens of thousands of merchants could totally sustain the economy of an entire city.

Facing such a massive cake, it was understandable that the Somali players would feel tempted. When the Somalia royal family gave the land to Ouyang Shuo, they were thinking that he was going to build some sort of holiday resort.

Who knew that Ouyang Shuo would actually build a mega city on the land that they gave him? Currently, the construction of Friendship City had already reached its end.

Thanks to the massive financial support of Shanhai City, the construction of Friendship City was much bigger than any other city in Somalia. Hence, it made the nearby Berbera Port seem out of sorts.

Gu Xiuwen mentioned in the memorial that Somalia was reducing the resource provisions to Friendship City. The prices of grain and vegetable were continuously being raised.

Friendship City itself did not produce such resources as the city was mainly service based. If Somalia removed these provisions, the people in Friendship City would have to starve.

When Ouyang Shuo received the news, he had already instructed the Honglu Temple and the Industry Division to send out envoys to Somalia to engage in diplomacy and try to calm down the situation.

At the same time, he also told the intel office of the Black Snake Guards to try to break the unity of the Somalia players to gain some allies for Friendship City.

To provide agricultural products for Friendship City was a great deal for the Somalia Lords.

There must be someone behind the combined acts of the Somali Lords. The mission of the Black Snake Guards was to find out the identity of this person and strike them down if possible.

Du Ruhui had raised the idea of attacking Somalia to Ouyang Shuo.

Ouyang Shuo thought about the matter but rejected the suggestion in the end. Although he was not soft hearted, he knew that the time was not right. The voyage route had been opened for a few months, so Ouyang Shuo did not wish to start the flames of war during this period and affect trade.

Shanhai City also could not let other countries think that they were warmongers, at least not now. If they truly wanted to take down Somalia, they would need to wait for the right time.

Under such circumstances, opening the teleportation formation there became an effective method, giving the port support from Shanhai City.

There was also another reason why Ouyang Shuo had hurried to open the teleportation formation.

That was because the navy unit housed in the city had reported that the Somali pirates had shown signs of revival.

Farrah, now the head of the pirates, had slowly entered the field of sight of the navy unit.

Farrah hated Ouyang Shuo to the bone.

When Ouyang Shuo received the report, he was extremely wary and immediately ordered Fleet Admiral of the Mediterranean Squadron Alvaro to send a division over to patrol the Gulf of Aden.

Protecting the safety of the Gulf of Aden was in Shanhai City's best interests.On the topic of the Mediterranean Squadron, their base in Jidian City was also worrying.

Friendship City had Somalia as a supply base but Jidian City that was located in Spain was hated by the Spaniards, so there was no way they could trade with them.

All the resources in Friendship City relied on the French.

Based on the reports from Alvaro, the Spanish had walked away from the crisis, and a new Spanish Invincible Squadron had been built, and they were ready to enter the Mediterranean once more.

The entire route from Jidian City to France was by the shoreline of the Spain.

If they had ill intentions, they could totally cut off all the resources of Jidian City and make the Mediterranean Squadron hungry.

Luckily, when Shanhai City had upgraded to Grade 3 Prefecture a while ago, he had opened up a teleportation formation there. Furthermore, since the city had the help of Atlantis, the Spanish would not dare to try anything.

As for the future, it was an unknown.

How would it be easy to protect a trade route? In history, which country that protected such a voyage trade route was not an overlord in the world?

And Shanhai City was still a distance away from reaching such a position. Since they had opened up the trade route so easily, they naturally needed to pay a heavier price and take unorthodox precautions.

Luckily, this was the game and anything was possible.

Alvaro suggested that they find a more stable supply base before the Spanish grew strong enough.

Alvaro did not consider the territories north of the Mediterranean; his suggestion was to attack one of the African states.

His suggested target was Morocco, which was currently facing Spain.

Morocco was located to the northwest of Africa, connected to Algeria in the east and the Sahara Desert was to the south. West of it was the Atlantic and north of it was the Gibraltar Straits.

The mid and north portions of the country consisted of the Atlas Mountains, east and south was high plains and the ex-Saharan plains. Only the northwest region was relatively narrow and low plains.

In history, Morocco was occupied by France, Spain, and other countries.

Ouyang Shuo supported Alvaro's suggestion. Gibraltar Straits was like the lifeline of Shanhai City's ocean life and it being broken would be catastrophic.

A day ago, Ouyang Shuo had instructed the Military Affairs Bureau to meet up with the Nanyang Navy Headquarters to discuss this problem.

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Chapter 784 – Prosperity Beast Qiyi

Their attack on Morocco was still at the planning stage. The actual implementation would have to wait till the Battle of Yunnan ended or even later.

Morocco had over three million players.

The only thing advantageous to Shanhai City was that although Morocco was located in the Africa continent, only the south and east parts were connected to it. Moreover, very few people passed these two high plains.

As such, Ouyang Shuo had decided to approve Alvaro's suggestion.After setting up the Friendship City teleportation formation, Ouyang Shuo took out another item – the Territory Prosperity Beast.

No matter how one looked at it, it just looked like a summoning ball.

"System Notification: Player Qiyue Wuyi has a Territory Prosperity Beast; do you wish to summon it?"

"Yes!"

Ouyang Shuo wanted to see what type of beast it was. Based on Gaia's settings, the prosperity beast obtained by different countries would have their own local element to it.

"Would it be a Qilin?"

Talking about beasts, the Qilin was the boss of all of them.

With a 'Shua!' the summoning ball shone with a white light and transformed into a little beast the size of a dog. It lied on the ground; the creature had a squarish body.

It was actually squarish in shape!

The beast only had two colors - black and white. Its two black eyebags were the most eye-catching part about it. Another special part about it was that its head had a rather long piece of fur, similar to that of a Wi-Fi signal.

"Little panda?"

Ouyang Shuo was a little dazzled and approached it to observe the creature more closely.

This little fellow was still in its infancy stage. Moreover, it was still sleeping. It only struggled to open its eyes when it heard the sound of footsteps.

When it saw Ouyang Shuo, that little fellow grew extremely energetic; it jumped up and hugged onto Ouyang Shuo's thigh. Looking at the situation, it seemed like it was not planning to get down.Was this a panda or a rabbit; how did it jump so high?

Ouyang Shuo lightly raised his leg but that little fellow did not let go; it simply continued to hold on for dear life. No matter where Ouyang Shuo walked to, the little fellow would follow.

"Is this really a prosperity beast? It does not even have any morals."

Just as Ouyang Shuo was getting confused, a System Notification sounded out in his ear.

"System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for obtaining the territory prosperity beast - Country Treasure Panda; please name it."

Ouyang Shuo lowered his head and looked at it and helplessly said, "Let's call it Qiyi!"

"System Notification: Naming success! Friendly Reminder: Prosperity beast is still at its infancy stage, so please feed it well. For the specific details, please take a look at the panda rearing technical manual."

The moment the words finished, the summoning ball shone with a white light once more and turned into a book.

"That's it?"

Ouyang Shuo was a little speechless. He used 1.5 million gold to buy this little fellow?

"No matter how I look at it, I've been conned by Gaia."

At that moment, a System Notification sounded out through China.

"System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for obtaining the territory prosperity beast- Country Treasure Panda. As the first territory to obtain a prosperity beast, Shanhai City is awarded the title of Home of Spirit Beast."The moment the notification sounded out, many players were in an uproar.

The wilderness in the game did not have any pandas. However, such a matter was understandable as Gaia definitely could not design it into some weird beast or the creature would be hunted down by the fans of pandas.

Qiyi was a unique presence in the entire China region.

In less than 10 minutes, the rolling fan club was established, and there were already players who were ready to teleport over to look at the panda.Ouyang Shuo took a look at the stats of Home of Spirit Beast.

Home of Spirit Beast: Raises territory spirit beast evolution rate by 25%, raises territory attraction to spirit beasts by 35%, raises the territory spirit beast taming rate by 30%.

Overall, the buffs were pretty decent.

In comparison, the stats of little fellow Qiyi were giving Ouyang Shuo a headache.

Name: Qiyi (Prosperity Beast)

Race: Panda

Nickname: Roll Roll, Fatty

Stage: Infancy

Skill: Climb trees, roll, pee the bed, rabbit jump...

Talent: Prosperity (Randomly gives the territory prosperity).

Evaluation: The most famous animal in the animal kingdom; it is the most loved creature by all humans.

Looking at the stats, Ouyang Shuo collapsed internally.

Skills as bad as pee the bed and rabbit jump. Are they really skills? The talent prosperity looked good, but it was just a random chance.

Looking at the little fellow hugging onto his leg, Ouyang Shuo felt rather helpless. He bent down and carried it up with a smile, "No matter what, I need to build a house for you first."

'Awuu!'

Qiyi was rather smart and understood human words.

Pandas were extremely pampered creatures, and it was also in its infancy. If it were not in the game, and he did not have any professionals helping him out, Ouyang Shuo would lack the confidence of taking good care of it.

Taking the manual, Ouyang Shuo carried the little fellow and walked toward the back garden. Ouyang Shuo remembered that at the southwest corner of the garden there was a bamboo forest, which was suitable for Qiyi.

Before he went there, Ouyang Shuo headed to the reading room first.

Ouyang Shuo was away from Shanhai City rather often and for extended periods of time, so he could not personally take care of Qiyi. Moreover, its house needed to be specifically designed and the matter needed to be arranged.

No matter what, it was a prosperity beast. Maybe one day it would bring unexpected prosperity to the territory. In the worst case scenario, Ouyang Shuo could just keep it as a pet.

With the fiery discussions online, Ouyang Shuo was even tempted to use ticket fees to slowly earn back the 1.5 million.

In the quiet reading room, a young lady was engrossed in her work. The afternoon sun shone through the curtains and landed onto her black hair.

This lady was Tsing Yi.

Since accepting Ouyang Shuo's appointment, Tsing Yi treated the reading room as her office to help Ouyang Shuo manage the memorials. When Ouyang Shuo arrived, Tsing Yi would follow him.

"Monarch?" Hearing the footsteps, Tsing Yi raised her head. Looking at Qiyi in his arms, she smiled, "Such a cute little fellow. Is it the territory prosperity beast?"

"That's right."

In such a short while, Qiyi had already fallen asleep in his arms.

Ouyang Shuo passed the Panda rearing technical manual to Tsing Yi and smiled, "Go look for the Construction Division and tell them to follow the manual and build a house for Qiyi in the back garden. We should also develop a few breeders to take care of it. It is now the baby of our territory."

"I got it."

Tsing Yi wanted to pat Qiyi. However, seeing that it had fallen asleep, she did not want to disturb it.

When Ouyang Shuo saw that, he smiled, "Next time; there will be many more chances."After leaving the reading room, Ouyang Shuo bumped into Bing'er while passing through the back palace.

"Brother, what are you carrying?"

When Bing'er saw Qiyi, even before Ouyang Shuo could reply, she was already walking quickly over. "Is that a panda? So cute!"

"It's called Qiyi; it's the territory Prosperity beast." Ouyang Shuo smiled and introduced the panda.

Qiyi was originally sleeping but when it smelt Bing'er, it opened its eyes and struggled. It wanted to hug Bing'er.

"Haha!"

Bing'er badly wanted that as well so she hugged the little panda.

This was not surprising. Bing'er was still the master of all spirit beasts, so even the panda could not resist her charm.

It seemed like Bing'er would be the most suitable breeder.

Ouyang Shuo interrupted her, "Let's go and bring it to the bamboo forest."

Bing'er nodded; she took the lead and headed toward the back garden. As she walked, she introduced Qiyi to Xue'er. At the moment, Xue'er was flying in the air. She also mentioned the names of other spirit beasts which were all her 'good friends'.

To Bing'er, she now had one more playmate.

After settling in Qiyi, it was already 5 PM.

The next morning, Ouyang Shuo would once again proceed toward Consonance City to watch the battle. Today, using the aid of the new system update, Baiqi led his left troops to quicken their pace of taking down Mengding.

With the current rate, in less than five days, the entire Mengding could fall. Moreover, the enemy could strike during these five days.

Especially after going through the shock in the auction, Di Chen and the others would be warier.

Now, it was up to which side was more skilled.

At such a crucial moment, how would Ouyang Shuo dare to step away?

Gaia 4th year, 1st month, 4th day, Consonance City.

Just as Baiqi said, their speed these few days was extremely swift, and they took down three enemy cities. All that was left in front of them were two more main ones.

One was called Wenshan City while the other one was called Yuanyang City.

These two cities were the last castles the Yunnan City-State had that were shielding Tengyue Prefecture.

As the troops in Mengding all defended valiantly, before they reached Wenshan City, the left troops were all exceedingly tired. Not to mention the casualties, even the troop morale was already low.

It was not to say that Baiqi's commanding was not good, but it was just that the soldiers were not used to the weather.

Mengding Prefecture was a typical mountainous region. The paths were one thing, but the worst parts were the mountain bugs, the wild beasts, miasma, swamps, and the like.

Apart from that, water posed a huge problem.

If one was not careful, spring water that looked clear would cause the person who drunk it to have a stomachache, causing a string of illnesses that would threaten their lives.

Many people fell sick along the way and even died of weird illnesses.

Furthermore, the enemy kept trying to sow chaos, so they were unable to sleep peacefully. The grain transport forces were attacked and the grain for the frontlines was sometimes broken.

The most dangerous moment was when they went a day without grain.

The successive blows and the huge casualties due to sieges meant that they were not in good condition. Even with Baiqi taking charge, their morale was getting lower and lower.

Luckily, they were about to succeed.

Looking at Wenshan City ahead of them, some soldiers were so happy that they teared up.

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Chapter 785 – Giving You a Push

As Baiqi's army pushed forward toward Wenshan City, the atmosphere in Yunnan Province reached its most nervous state.

The various media outlets invited military experts to predict the direction of the battle, attracting a global audience and raising sales.

Some experts insisted on their view points; these experts felt that the defeat of Shanhai City at Dongchuan meant that they would definitely face a fatal blow from Yunnan City-State.

However, there were experts that did not agree with this point of view.

After all, no matter what, Mengding Prefecture was already taken down by Shanhai City, meaning that they had not been thrown into chaos because of that small defeat. Rather, they had calmed themselves down and taken control of the situation.

Who would win and who would lose? It all remained unknown.

The various experts each had their own thoughts as they debated fervently with one another.

The reporters from the various outlets and publications used all their power to dig up the troop numbers, types, battle situations, and casualty situations to perform a specific numbers comparison.

Hence, it made the masses extremely excited.

Without a doubt, not only was the Battle of Yunnan important to Shanhai City, it was also a historical matter to the entire wilderness. It could be considered the first war in the entire wilderness that all the media outlets followed and reported on.

This would probably become a common matter in the future.

Tengyue Prefecture, Tengchong City.

A month ago, Tengchong City had been in total lockdown. In order to house the entire 170 thousand Yanhuang Alliance Army and the 110 thousand Alliance Army in the city and allow them to make use the teleportation tactic, they had emptied the entire city.

The originally bustling inner city instantly became a giant army barracks. However, since a solemn killing intent spread out in the city, this city seemed exceedingly cold and solid.

Due to the need to keep secrets, apart from the grain forces that transported fresh vegetables and meat, no one would dare to approach the inner city. If they carelessly got close, they would all be killed.

Even the grain transport members were fixed, and each one had a portrait drawn up and recorded in a book. Every time they entered, they needed to be checked one by one. If they noticed that a person was changed or the numbers did not tally up, the entire group would face the consequences.

The grain transport squad would enter the city and follow a fixed path, and even the stopping time was calculated. If they missed the time, all of them would instantly die, no mercy would be granted.

Hence, they blocked out all eyes from within the city walls.City Lord's Manor, meeting hall.

This day, in the huge meeting hall, the Lords and generals had all gathered together once more.

Di Chen and Chun Shenjun made a trip to the global auction and obtained nothing. After returning to their respective territories, they did not even stop and just rushed back here.

In just three to four days, the war had entered its most crucial moment.

They were discussing when to send out the 300 thousand plus troops to start an all-out fight with the enemy; this fight would decide the fate of the entire Yunnan City-State.

The one who was speaking was the Yanhuang Alliance commander, Wuqi. He stood up, looked at all the Lords present, and bowed, "Lords, due to the stubborn defenses and disturbances along the way in Mengding Prefecture, not only has the enemy suffered heavy casualties, their morale has fallen. Currently, they are at their weakest state."

Based on the reports from the frontline, to take down Mengding Prefecture, the three War Fighting Legions of the left troops had lost 50 thousand men.

Of course, the Yunnan City-State had also paid a heavy price.

The left troops were the most elite forces of Shanhai City. Moreover, with Baiqi as the commanding general in addition to the fierce generals under him, their killing strength was truly astonishing.

Additionally, their equipment and siege weapons were incredibly advanced. Even in a siege battle, they still taught the stubbornly defending Yunnan City-State a huge lesson.

After this battle, the entire Mengding Prefecture was rendered useless and 40% of the able-bodied young men were lost. The local armies were either captured or destroyed.

The even scarier part was that the 50 thousand Alliance Army housed in Mengding had fallen as well.

To lower the fighting spirit of the enemy, Asura Baiqi did not hold back, killing without even blinking.

During that time, there was a city that defended too stubbornly, taking away eight thousand of their men. After Baiqi broke through, he viciously killed them all; he did not even accept a single prisoner.

They executed every single person who joined the battle.

Tens of thousands of heads hung outside the city gate and formed a miniature mountain.

As a consequence of his actions, their next attacks were smoother. Along with the system update buff they had already reached the border of Mengding Prefecture in a short four days.

The Lords who knew about the matter, including Di Chen and the others, were left speechless.

As for the more than ten Lords from Mengding Prefecture, their hearts had already died. Even if the City-State won, they did not dare to return to the territories to continue their rule.

Those people who had lost their children and husbands would want to skin them alive.Within the meeting hall, Wuqi's voice once again sounded out.

"Due to the fame of Baiqi, Wenshan City and Yuanyang City have lost their will to fight. If we do not interfere, these two cities will also fall in a day or two. If they fall, the enemy army can walk into Tengyue Prefecture and pincer us from two sides. At that time, we will lose the initiative of the battle. Hence, I suggest we send troops to Wenshan City and surround the enemy left troops."

Hearing Wuqi's words, the eyes of the Lords of the two cities lit up.

The Wenshan City Lord was called Summon Wind, and his eyes shone with hope as he wished everyone present would agree with the plan so that his territory could survive.

As long as he still had his territory, everything would remain possible.

The quick thinking Summon Wind also thought deeply about the matter. If the City-State crushed Baiqi's army and won the war, after the battle, the huge Mengding Prefecture would have no owner. As a Lord in the prefecture, he could take all of it.

Just thinking about this, the desire in his eyes grew greater and greater.

The other Lord was the Lord of Yuanyang City; he was called Little Six. The glow in his eyes was one that left much to think about.

No one bothered about the expressions of these two Lords.

What Di Chen, Qin Feng, and the others were pondering about was Wuqi's choice of words.

Wuqi had said 'surround' and not sneak attack. Obviously, the so-called teleportation sneak attack tactic had lost its purpose in his eyes.

The essence of a sneak attack was the element of surprise.

Since Mengding Prefecture only had two territories left, there was not much potential for surprise left there.

When Wuqi had mobilized all the civilians and residents in the prefecture, he had given up on using the traditional teleportation tactics. He wanted to use the entire prefecture to wear down Baiqi and gain the advantage this way.

In Sun Zi's Art of War, 'Anyone who fights a war either wins by being better or by being craftier.'

War was not limited to the utilization of schemes. All schemes were performed to affect the main battlefield. After weakening the opponent, their troops would have a higher chance of achieving victory.

The Battle of Yongren City was a masterstroke, weakening the enemy right troops. Although the plan in Mengding Prefecture was not as brilliant, it was still made with the same goal in mind.

After these two battles, the 300 thousand army would only need to face 160 thousand exhausted, low morale troops. In Wuqi's eyes, it would simply be a slaughter.

As for the middle troops of Shanhai City, with the geography of Yunnan slowing them down and the stubborn defenses of the local forces, Wuqi was confident about clearing out the left troops before the enemy reinforcements arrived.

Hence, Wuqi suggested that they send out troops before they entered Tengyue Prefecture.

Tengyue Prefecture was the last hope of the City-State. If the enemy entered this area, the members of the City-State would definitely panic. If the people were not calm, how could they block the middle troops of Shanhai City?

If that happened, the entire battle would be filled with uncertainty, which was something God Generals like him tried to prevent. One could say that his entire plan was systematic.

Even so, it was still difficult for Di Chen and the other Lords to make a quick decision.

First, they did not want to give up on their successful teleportation sneak attack strategy.

Rationally speaking, they accepted Wuqi's explanation. However, the huge victory they achieved at Yongren City made it hard for them to let this method go.

After that battle, they were so happy that they even held a massive feast to celebrate that major win.

Yanhuang Alliance had fought with Shanhai City for many years, and they had never tasted such a clean victory.

Secondly, this battle was simply too important.

This was the most crucial battle in the entire Battle of Yunnan. Whoever won this battle would win it all. As it was a group decision, a little hesitation was to be expected.

"General Wuqi, let us think about it. We will give you an answer tomorrow." Anyways, based on the frontline intel, Baiqi's army was still resting up, and they were not prepared to immediately attack the city.

When Wuqi heard this reply, he sighed to himself and said, "Please make an early decision."

"Do not worry; we will give you an answer tomorrow." Di Chen said.

At this point, the military meeting had come to an end.

In a short hour after the meeting ended, Ouyang Shuo received a specific intel report.

"They really have no guts." Ouyang Shuo laughed as he spoke to Du Ruhui, "Since they do not dare to fight, let's fan the flames and push them to fight."

"Understood!"

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Chapter 786 – Home on Fire

Gaia 4th year, 1st month, 5th day.

Just as Di Chen and the others were hesitating, under Ouyang Shuo's instructions, Shanhai City gave Yanhuang Alliance a massive surprise.

Jingdu Region, Fengtian Prefecture, Stone City.

After the New Year, the cold air in the north was rather chilly. The skies were gloomy and exceedingly cloudy, and it was like the entire sky was about to crash down.

In the wilderness, the wind was like a blade slashing at one's face.

The wilderness in the early morning was utterly silent, and the already withered up trees and plants were covered by a layer of snow. Even birds would not come out to find food now.

Stone City was located at the west of Fengtian Prefecture and right out of it was Zhangwu Prefecture.

7 AM, on the silent border, the rumbling sounds of horse hooves could suddenly be heard. The horses stepped onto the frozen up grass, creating many cracking sounds.

"Handan City territory, who dares enter?"

The soldiers in charge of patrolling the border shouted, but the only reply they received was a rain of arrows.

The entire squad of soldiers ended up like porcupines; their fresh blood poured out and flowed onto the ground. The fresh crimson on the white ground was truly eye-catching.

On this day, 120 thousand Stone City war fighting troops along with 150 thousand mercenaries struck the territory of Handan City.

Wufu, who had always been defending on the back foot, had chosen to take the initiative at this moment. Wufu took this chance when Di Chen was in the Battle of Yunnan to bite off a massive chunk of his flesh.

Jingdu Region was one of the biggest provinces in China and had a total of six prefectures. Apart from the Zhili Prefecture where Jingdu Imperial City was located, Handan City occupied four prefectures while Stone City occupied the other.

The difference between the two was like night and day.

As the land was vast, the overall land area of Handan City exceeded that of Chuannan Province or Lingnan Province. In the China region, Handan City was only smaller than Shanhai City.

Wufu was attacking Zhangwu Prefecture, which was the northwest part of Handan City's territory.

Zhangwu Prefecture was between Fengtian Prefecture and the Zhili Prefecture. It was only connected by a 500 mile narrow strip with Cangzhou Prefecture, where Handan City was located in.

If Stone City took this prefecture down, not only would their strength rise, it would be comparable to Handan City. Furthermore, Stone City could use the Zhili Prefecture as a barrier to separate the two territories.

To Stone City, this was a truly worth it trade.

Di Chen was not a fool, so he had obviously prepared contingencies. In the Zhangwu border, he had housed two War Fighting Legions to defend against them.

However, who would have guessed that Wufu would actually spend so much; he spent two million and also used tens of thousands of armor as a reward to hire 150 thousand mercenaries.

They had spent all of the early payment from Shanhai City for coal.

270 thousand against 140 thousand.

The originally stable Zhangwu Prefecture instantly shook, and they had to ask for reinforcements from the headquarters. The key was that Di Chen and Lianpo was not in Handan City at the moment, so how could reinforcements arrive so quickly?

Handan City was destined to be thrown into chaos.That was not all.

At basically the same time, in Taiyuan Province, the 200 thousand troops from Fallen Phoenix City went up north to attack Fengxiang City.

Fengxiang City only had a prefecture of land. If it was not for the Mongol cavalry, Feng Qiuhuang would not have mobilized 200 thousand troops, 150 thousand men would be sufficient.

The moment she took down the prefecture, Feng Qiuhuang would unify Taiyuan Province.

At that point, she would pose a massive threat to both Di Chen in the east and Sha Pojun and Wandering Magic in the west.

The more terrifying part was since Fallen Phoenix City had sent out troops, Handan City's headquarters did not dare to dispatch troops. If they went to assist Zhangwu Prefecture, if the Fallen Phoenix army turned and attacked Jingdu Region's Dingzhou or Henshui Prefecture, they would face a calamity.

Wufu and Feng Qiuhuang working together had caused the northern situation to become chaotic once more.

If both of them won, it would be massive news for them.

Apart from the strategic advantages, more importantly, the entire northern city would end up staggered in the order of Asura City, Fallen Leaf City, Fallen Phoenix City, Handan City, and Stone City.

With that, if Di Chen worked with Sha Pojun and Wandering Magic to attack Feng Qiuhuang, she could work with Wufu to attack Di Chen.

The situation of Fallen Phoenix City facing enemies from all four sides had been broken.

At the same time, Stone City had gained an ally to defend against Handan City.

The situation in the north for the Shanhai Alliance had undergone a huge change.

The actions of Wufu and Feng Qiuhuang helped get Shanhai City out of a pickle while also achieving their strategic goals.

Anyone who understood it would get that this was a masterstroke.

The various media outlets that were staring seriously at the Yunnan Battlefield were all astonished.

Without a doubt, this was payback from Shanhai Alliance for Yanhuang Alliance interfering in Yunnan.

Before this Shanhai City, was facing against them alone. With Wufu and Feng Qiuhuang acting, if one said that Ouyang Shuo did not orchestrate this matter, no one would believe it.

This coordinate strike meant that the Yanhuang Alliance had truly given Shanhai City a huge problem in Yunnan and forced Ouyang Shuo to ask his allies for help.

On the other side, it also showed the small changes within Shanhai Alliance.

After taking down two provinces and going for his third, Ouyang Shuo started to plan to make the entire China his chessboard and fight against the Yanhuang Alliance.

This news made all the players excited.

The two giants of China were going to butt heads. Who would die and who would win was still unknown.

Thinking about it, the military experts who were biased against Shanhai City could not help but be awed. They could tell that the actions of Stone City and Fallen Phoenix City had been planned long before the Battle of Yunnan.

If not, both sides could not have coordinated so smoothly and had such a good grasp of the timing.

Shanhai City did not even use this trump card when they lost at Yongren City, waiting till the most crucial moment before going all out.

All the experts could not help but feel a chill run down their spine from Ouyang Shuo's ability. Be it because of fear or respect, they all concluded, "Bold, foresight, magnanimity, and ability; the Shanhai City Lord already has the looks of a true ruler."In truth, the media had still underestimated Shanhai Alliance.

Since the Shanhai Alliance was going to strike out, how would it end at just that?

Just as the flames of war rose up in the north, the south fought too. It was not Gong Chengshi or Xunlong Dianxue but the Shanhai City Navy.

On the same day, at the same time.

The Jiaozhou Squadron and Yashan Squadron coordinated with the Tiger Legion Corps 3rd legion's two Infantry Divisions housed in Chaozhou Prefecture and attacked Yizhou Island.

Their main target was the Penghu Squadron that King City had housed on the island.

Because of the presence of this squadron, Shanhai City's coal trade with Stone City and West Chu was affected. Although they had sign agreements, they could not ship large amounts of coal.

Ouyang Shuo had wanted to get rid of them earlier on. However, because of Admiral Zheng He's suggestion, he had held it in till now.

During the Battle of Red Cliff, Xiong Ba had wanted to use to Penghu Squadron to show to the world that the King City Navy could compete against Shanhai City.

Who knew that even before facing off, they had already lost?

Not mentioning the dead soldiers and generals, even a large number of warships were abandoned in the Battle Map.

To them, it was a huge loss. To recover from this loss, Xiong Ba had spent a plentiful amount of resources to recover the Penghu Squadron at the end of the Gaia 3rd year.

Even so, that loss was a massive blow to the Penghu Squadron.

They totally did not have any actual fighting experience. At most, they were just fighting pirates.

Due to the lack of navy generals and experienced sailors, they had a poor training system.

They were not even on the same level as the Nanyang Navy.

Helplessly, Xiong Ba had to use his family relations to hire some federal navy officials in real life to replace the native generals to take charge of the squadrons.

However, ancient squadrons and tactics were totally different from modern-day ones. The backward seafaring techniques had become an enormous bane to the officials.

Between the two, they needed more time to mesh.

But the problem was that Ouyang Shuo was not going to give him that time.

The meeting of the three squadrons in the Yizhou Straits ended with the Penghu Squadron suffering hefty casualties.

The Fleet General of the Jiaozhou Squadron Shu Lang and the Fleet General of the Yashan Squadron Yu Dayou were all elite presences amongst China navy generals.

Yashan Squadron had participated in several battles against Annan, so its soldiers and sailors had all gained plenty of experience.

Under the leadership of these two generals, the two squadrons were both well trained.

All things considered, they were leagues ahead of the Penghu Squadron.

These two were working together. Moreover, they had the help of the P1 Type Cannon, and they were launching a sneak attack, so how could the rookie Penghu Squadron defend against them?

Yizhou Island that Xiong Ba had spent so much to obtain was facing immense danger.

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Chapter 787 – Wuqi's Plan

The three armies of the Shanhai Alliance were like three sharp blade, stabbing right into the Yanhuang Alliance. It made the complicated Battle of Yunnan evolve into an affair entangled the north and the south in chaotic warfare.

Who knew what intentions Shanhai City was hiding behind their backs?

After the war started, everyone focused on how the Yanhuang Alliance would react. They originally thought that it was just a regional war, but would it become an all-out war involving the two City-States?

Apart from the regions where war started, the atmosphere in Jingchu, Jiangchuan, and other related places became exceedingly nervous. Gong Chengshi openly declared that he was ready to go in at any moment.

All of a sudden, the China region was thrown into a state of uproar.

Tengyue Prefecture, Tengchong City.

Shanhai Alliance's actions locked up the solemn Tengchong City in an extremely uneasy atmosphere. The Lords of Yunnan City-State were worried that the Yanhuang Alliance Army would leave immediately.

"Did we obtain abandonment in return for our huge sacrifices?" Some of the City-State Lords looked terrible at this moment; they felt despair, lost.

Even Qin Feng, who was usually calm and settled, could not help but show a panicky expression. With the character of the Yanhuang Alliance, it was not impossible for them to just pull out right away.

That afternoon, all the Lords of the City-State looked toward the west of the Lord's Manor. They were all nervous and were waiting for the outcome.

In the Lord's Manor were the seven Lords of Yanhuang Alliance as well as Wuqi, Dan Tian, and Lianpo; they had all come together for an emergency meeting.

Naturally, the topic of their discussion was the actions of the Shanhai Alliance.

When he received the news, Xiong Ba wanted to immediately leave Tengchong City but Wuqi stopped him from doing so.

Yizhou Island was a place that Xiong Ba had spent so much to obtain, and it was his proudest work. It was also an important strategic position to launch them into the ocean.

Wuqi was the only one who could stop Xiong Ba at this moment.

Even so, Xiong Ba's expression was exceedingly solemn. He knew that with the strength of the Penghu Squadron, they would not be able to face off against two squadrons from Shanhai City.

When he took down Yizhou Island, Xiong Ba knew that Shanhai City would help Xunlong Dianxue take it back. However, he was still out at sea at that time, and the enemy troops he expected did not arrive.

When Xunlong Dianxue had the burst of conflict with Shanhai City, the matter had changed Xiong Ba's view on the situation all the more.

The all in gamble during the Battle of Red Cliff was him taking a massive risk. If the King City Navy could fight against the Shanhai City Navy, he might have gained the support of the alliance.

With that, he could use the strength of the alliance to defend Yizhou Island.

Who would have guessed that he would have such an ending? Not only did he not reach his goal, he also became the laughing stock of the alliance, and he was unable to lift his head for a long time.

Luckily, he was a formidable character. Face was a secondary problem, and the key was how to keep Yizhou Island. With this, Xiong Ba tried to sow discord with Xunlong City while raising the strength of the Penghu Squadron.

At the same time, during these two months, he had personally taken charge of the island to lead the construction and to win the hearts of the people. He strengthened the island defenses and started voyage trading.

Xiong Ba truly put his heart and soul into this matter.

In another three to four months, Xiong Ba was confident about defending the island and making it a golden goose. He had not expected for Shanhai City to give him such a fatal blow at this a moment.

If he knew that this would happen, he would not have listened to Di Chen and joined this battle. If he had not joined this battle, Shanhai City would not have attacked and taken revenge.

Regret built up in his heart.

Just as he was deep in thought, Wuqi spoke out in the hall, "Lords, their intentions are really apparent; they wish to use this crucial moment to force us to leave Tengchong City. If we leave, Yunnan City-State will lose all ability to fight back and will fall into the hands of the enemy. If that happens, all our efforts will become wasted."

"But we cannot just abandon our territories and not care, right?"

The moment Stone City took down Zhangwu Prefecture, not only would Di Chen lose face, but it would also be a huge backward step for the territory. It would be enough to shake Handan City's position in the alliance.

Obviously, Di Chen was anxious.

If Handan City did not have Juedai Fenghua there and also his family members helping, Di Chen would have wanted to rush back like Xiong Ba.

Right before the meeting started, Di Chen had received an emergency mail from Juedai Fenghua.

As the matter was too sudden, the two War Fighting Legions housed in Zhangwu Prefecture had underestimated the Stone City troops and had consequently suffered a loss of six thousand men.

The nearest house to Fengtian Prefecture was already taken down by Stone City.

The situation was an emergency.

If it were not for Di Chen's training, he would have failed to maintain such a calm demeanor.

Wuqi shook his head, "It is not ignoring the matter but how we go about addressing it. Will we follow the enemy's tempo or find a chance in this danger to claim victory?"

"How so?"

Di Chen and the others were suddenly rather interested. Hearing Wuqi's words, it seemed like he had an idea.

Wuqi continued, "The attack of the Shanhai Alliance armies only seems strong because it was sudden and caught us all off guard. No matter which army is it, for them to gain the results they want, it cannot be achieved in a short time. Hence, we have time to turn the situation around."

"As such, we need to rush back now. There is still time if we go back now. I believe we can manage to control the situation. If it's a little later, the situation will be hard to predict." Di Chen felt disappointed. He originally thought that Wuqi would speak of some grand plan. Who knew he would reach such a conclusion.

Wuqi's expression did not change as he calmly said, "Our territories have already formed a joint system on how to deal with foreign invasions. Even if all of you go back, you will not make much of a difference."Although he did not want to admit it, Di Chen could not disagree with this statement.

The Battle of Lords in the wilderness relied on teamwork, which was a crucial factor in territorial rule. The Lords were only the master of the ship, but they were not people that were needed at every moment.

If the army could not function when the Lord was not in the territory, it would be a huge problem.

"General, please continue." Di Chen said sincerely.

Wuqi nodded, "Shanhai Alliance is attacking our homes to force us away; this means that they are not prepared to have a huge war with us. If we join up with the Alliance Army and immediately teleport to Wenshan City, we will be able to catch them off guard."

"Based on our reports, this morning, Baiqi's army was still resting outside the city, and they have not shown any signs of attacking yet. One can see that he is just prepared to be the fisherman keeping his net. Hence, if we surprise them and crush the Shanhai City Army, the morale of their allies will drop. At that time, we would still have enough time to rush back to clean up the battlefield."

When Di Chen and the others heard his words, their eyes shone brightly.

Based on Wuqi's words, they wanted to fight back from the dead.

Due to the actions of Shanhai Alliance, their original sneak attack plan that was rendered impossible immediately became a possible solution.

"Ok, let's follow your plan."

Di Chen, who originally supported retreating, was the first to step up and agree with Wuqi's plan. No one out of all of them desired to beat Shanhai City more than him.

This was a rare opportunity that Di Chen did not want to miss out on. Although it was risky, it was still worth it. As long as they successfully snipe Shanhai City in Yunnan, the Shanhai Alliance would not be their match without their core pillar.

"What Stone City takes away now, I'll take back in folds." Di Chen mumbled to himself.

Handan City did not attack Stone City because of Shanhai City. The moment Shanhai City loses on the Yunnan Battlefield, they would need to slowly heal up and would not be able to care about Stone City.

Di Chen could already see the day when Handan City claimed the entire Jingdu.

"Agreed!"

"Agreed!"

"Agreed!"

All the Lords of the Yanhuang Alliance agreed to the plan.

Chun Shenjun, Feng Qingyang, and Zhan Lang had no worries of being attacked. Naturally, they did not want to retreat. Sha Pojun and Wandering Magic were temporarily okay, so they had no reason to oppose this plan either.

Especially Sha Pojun, this fellow that hated Ouyang Shuo to the bone.

Sha Pojun would always be at the forefront if one wanted to take down Shanhai City.

What surprised them was that out of the seven, it was Xiong Ba who was a little hesitant and did not make his stance clear.

The atmosphere in the hall was a little weird.

After a long period of silence, it was still Di Chen who spoke, "Xiong Ba, what exactly are you thinking?" As he spoke, he stared at Xiong Ba.

Everyone present was intelligent, so they obviously could guess what he was thinking about.

Di Chen's Zhangwu Prefecture had two War Fighting Legions holding on. Moreover, reinforcements would probably arrive soon, so the Stone City troops would not be able to cause much damage.

One must not forget that more than half of the Stone City Army was composed of mercenaries.

They were really clear about the personalities of the mercenaries. When the war was going well, they would charge at the front to kill the enemy and claim the spoils of war.

However, if the situation turns sour, the first to run would be these mercenaries.

But Yizhou Island was different; it was facing the strongest navy in the world. Furthermore, Yizhou Island was alone in the ocean. Even if King City wanted to send reinforcements, they lacked the ability to do so.

The current Yizhou Island was in danger of being occupied at any moment.

Hence, Xiong Ba would obviously hesitate.

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Chapter 788 – Fish Takes the Bait

The fact that Yizhou Island could fall at any moment was not bad news to Di Chen.

In the end, Di Chen and Xiong Ba were still enemies and rivals, and this animosity could not be wiped off. Di Chen's question to Xiong Ba was like he was forcing the latter's hand.

If Xiong Ba insisted on returning to King City, his prestige in Yanhuang Alliance would crash, and this was something that Di Chen would be glad to see.

Moreover, even without King City's 30 thousand troops, Wuqi's plan could succeed.

To Di Chen, he would win no matter what. Hence, why not just push Xiong Ba to the edge of the cliff?

Just at this moment, Wuqi said only a single word, "Lord."

It was just a simple word but the meaning it contained was exceedingly deep.

Before the meeting, the two of them had a deep discussion. As a result, Xiong Ba had already known about Wuqi's plan. Hence, Xiong Ba had not made a sound since the start of the meeting.

Wuqi honestly told Xiong Ba that since the Shanhai City Navy had acted, he would not be able to keep Yizhou Island regardless of if he returned or not.

This was the result of an absolute difference strength, and no one could turn such a situation around.

Hence, the only thing King City could do now was to totally give up on sending help to Yizhou Island and try to gain as many benefits as possible from the Yunnan Battlefield.

Wuqi was the Yanhuang Alliance Army Commander, and he had provided so many great strategies. If things went well, King City would have a huge say in the future Yunnan City-State.

However, Xiong Ba's heart still felt extremely uneasy for some reason, and he could not find the reason for it. In terms of understanding Ouyang Shuo, Xiong Ba was even above Di Chen.

He felt that there was a larger scheme hiding behind the actions of the Shanhai Alliance.

However, his conjecture lacked concrete proof, so there was no way he could convince the other people in the alliance.

After hearing Wuqi's words, Xiong Ba gritted his teeth; he threw aside the thoughts in his head, raised his head, and said, "I agree."

"Great!"

Everyone within the hall cheered.

Only Xiong Ba's expression seemed a little crestfallen. When Zhan Lang saw that he patted his shoulder and asked with concern, "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine!" Xiong Ba smiled and suppressed all the emotions in his heart.

'Let's just place all our efforts into the upcoming battle.' Xiong Ba thought to himself. He had paid such a huge price, so he did not want to end up losing on both sides.As time was of the essence, and the Yanhuang Alliance had already come to a consensus, they immediately informed the Yunnan City-State.

When Qin Feng and the others received the news, they immediately heaved a collective sigh of relief. After learning about Wuqi's plan, they felt even more confident. Tengchong City started to work, and the army started to pack up and prepare to teleport.

Such a huge 300 thousand strong army could not leave as and when they wanted.

After busying themselves all the way till the dead of night, the 170 thousand Yanhuang Alliance Army and 110 thousand Alliance Army quietly teleported to Wenshan City.

Based on the news from the frontlines, Shanhai City's left army had split into two. Baiqi led the Dragon Legion Corps 1st and 4th legion to camp outside Wenshan City; they had a total of 100 thousand troops there.

As for Feng Yi's 3rd Leopard Legion, he was camped 50 miles out of Yuanyang City; these people were in charge of monitoring Yuanyang City and cutting off all ways for it to assist Wenshan City.

Since it was a battle where they were surrounded, Wuqi immediately targeted Baiqi's Dragon Legion Corps. As long as these troops were wiped out, Feng Yi's legion would not pose a problem.

The moment he wiped out these three legions, Shanhai City's west conquering mission would come to a quick end.

Di Chen and the others wanted to catch Baiqi alive and wipe out the Dragon Legion Corps.

All of a sudden, their morale skyrocketed.

The Battle of Yunnan had welcomed its most crucial moment.

Consonance City, Governor Manor.

Under the cover of the night, Consonance City had returned to a peaceful and quiet state. Because of Ouyang Shuo, the security along the manor was extremely strict, and there were squads of iron-armored soldiers patrolling the streets.

On the west side of the manor, there was still a room that was brightly lit.

Not only Ouyang Shuo, Bai Hua, Du Ruhui, Chen Gong, and Huo Qubing were all there. Everyone present was reading the intel sent by the Shanhai Guards.

In a day, the three armies had all achieved some decent harvests.

In Taiyuan Province, Fallen Phoenix's 200 thousand troops entered. By nightfall, they were under Fengxiang City. If things went well, they could start sieging the next morning.

At 4 PM, 20 miles away from the city, 30 thousand elite cavalry from Fengxiang City had a fight with the 50 thousand vanguard forces of Fallen Phoenix City. In this exchange, both sides had suffered casualties.

In the end, the 30 thousand Mongol cavalry lost 10 thousand men and retreated back to the city. On the other hand, the Fallen Phoenix City vanguard lost 20 thousand men.

This meeting also became the most intense battle of the day.

At this point, Fallen Phoenix City had wounded the strongest force in Fengxiang City.

During the siege tomorrow, the only uncertain factor was not the military but a person's heart. Ouyang Shuo was unsure if Feng Qiuhuang could show no mercy when facing the base of her family.

Although she looked strong, she still had a thread of relationship with her family. If not, Fengxiang City would not have been able to last till now and would have been wiped out already.

This military operation was also recommended by Ouyang Shuo.

Ouyang Shuo made this suggestion for two reasons. First, he did not want to allow the Feng Family to plot against her, so he wanted to wipe out this threat. Secondly, he did not want the Mongols to take root in Fengxiang City.

If such a matter happened, it truly would not be good news for Fallen Phoenix City.

It was only after Ouyang Shuo shared this important intel did Feng Qiuhuang decide to remove this family threat. As for how to deal with her family after she occupied the city, Ouyang Shuo naturally would not interfere.

Ouyang Shuo believed that even if the Feng Family entered Fallen Phoenix City again, Feng Qiuhuang would not be controlled by them.

The current Feng Qiuhuang was not that rash girl who disowned her family. Looking around, she was a truly high positioned wilderness Lord that sat above a whole province.

After Consonance City merged with Shanhai City, Feng Qiuhuang undoubtedly became the top female Lord in the wilderness. How could such a Lord be compared to the family puppet from before?Compared to Fallen Phoenix City, Stone City's attack was not as smooth. In a day, they had only taken down two houses in Zhangwu Prefecture. As the huge war machine of Handan City started to work, both sides entered a stalemate situation.

This was definitely not good news to Stone City.

The key to breaking this situation was not in Zhangwu but outside of it. It would be decided by Shanhai City's military action and Baiqi's black chess piece plan.The two squadrons attacking Yizhou Island were proceeding extremely smoothly. The encounter during the day saw the Jiaozhou Squadron crush the Penghu Squadron.

After their defeat, the Penghu Squadron encountered a sneak attack from the Yashan Squadron as they tried to retreat. With that, the Penghu Squadron did not even dare to return to Yizhou Island. Instead, they decided to return to King City.

The next morning, they would start their siege on Yizhou Island.

Along with the escape of the Penghu Squadron, King City had already lost their control over the seas. This was like thunder on a sunny day to Yizhou Island. Being taken down by Shanhai City was just a matter of time.At this very moment, a guard came to report, bringing with him new intel.

His entrance immediately attracted the attention of everyone present, and they all stared at the intel report in his hands. Out of the corner of their eyes, they gazed at the Monarch nervously.

All of them were core members of the Shanhai City System, so they knew that the Monarch had not gathered them for the previous three intel reports but for other reports.

Those who knew what was going on were exceedingly nervous.

After all, tonight was the key to whether the black chess piece plan could succeed or not. The emergency intel report definitely had something to do with the plan.

The atmosphere in the reading room immediately became rather tense.

The intel report was sent from the Black Snake Guards. Ouyang Shuo actually took a few minutes to read the around a hundred words. When Du Ruhui and the others saw that, they all looked on with bated breath and their heartbeats quickened.

Black Snake had not let them down this time!

Ouyang Shuo placed the intel down and looked around with a smile, "The fish has finally taken the bait!"

"Great!"

Du Ruhui and the rest were energized. Huo Qubing's eyes emitted a sharp bright light. He had been waiting for this day for a rather long time.

"Guys, it's time to act!" Ouyang Shuo was extremely calm, "The various divisions coordinate with Baiqi and complete this killing."

"Yes Monarch!"

All of them agreed, and the reading room's atmosphere heated up once again.

After a short while, the reading room was emptied and only Ouyang Shuo was left inside. The black chess piece plan was simply too important, making Ouyang Shuo feel immensely uneasy and nervous.

Before they started the plan, even Baiqi was not confident about the Alliance Army taking the bait. The overall plan that the Military Affairs Bureau set up prepared for both scenarios.

It was naturally the best if the Alliance Army took the bait.

If they did not, Shanhai City could still take down Yunnan City-State. Yizhou Island and Fengxiang City would also fall. In the end, probably only Stone City would fail.

Just these factors alone placed Shanhai City at an undefeatable position.

Now that the Alliance Army had taken the bait, Shanhai City was not aiming for just that little. If they did not make the Yanhuang Alliance bleed, how could they make it up to the dead Guards Legion soldiers?

For this battle, Ouyang Shuo even used the precious Group Revival Scroll as well as the Silver Prayer House opportunity.

This price would be paid in full by the Yanhuang Alliance.That night, the Guards Legion Corps 1st and 2nd legions, as well as the Shanhai City City Protection Legion, disappeared from their various camps.

The night became darker and darker.

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Chapter 789 – Teacher and Student Battle

Gaia 4th year, 1st month, 6th day, Wenshan City.

Before the Battle of Yunnan exploded, Wenshan City was just an unassuming Grade 3 County in Mengding Prefecture. The Lord of the city, Summon Wind, could not upgrade to the prefecture grade as his title had not reached the requirements.

A seismic battle had made this city become the focus of the entire world.

Wenshan City was less than 40 square miles in size, and it sat in a small basin within the mountains. Different from Lianzhou Basin, this basin could be entered from all four directions.

There was a mountain path running from west to east and north to south, intersecting one another. In the middle was Wenshan City.

Most of the cities in Mengding Prefecture were like this. Instead of calling it a basin, it was more appropriate to call it a mountain path or a place where the ravines intersected.

At the two sides of the ravine were tall mountains.

Each city was like a strategic castle.

In the morning, a grand mist covered the mountains. As the mountain breeze blew, the mist floated up and down, changing like thousands of horses sweeping across the clouds; it was a truly beautiful sight.

The usually cold and quiet city had already awakened.

City Lord's Manor, command center.

Wuqi, who was appointed as the commander of the entire army, was in martial gear. Currently, he was sitting at the front of the entire hall. Di Chen and the other Lords sat on the left of the hall, both nervous and excited.

On the right were all the generals, with Dan Tian, Lianpo, and Zhang Xutuo as the heads.

The auspicious moment had arrived, and Wuqi stood up.

"Zhang Xutuo!"

"Present!"

As the commander of the Alliance Army, Zhang Xutuo stepped out.

"Lead the 100 thousand Alliance Army and act as the vanguard!"

"Yes!"

Zhang Xutuo cupped his fists; he did not have an excited expression. On the contrary, he looked extremely seriousness.

The faces of all the City-State Lords turned rather ugly. As expected from wolves, they would let the Alliance Army charge at the front every time.

Even in such an important battle.

However, at this stage, they had no way to struggle and could only accept their fates.

"Zhang He!"

"Present!"

Zhang He was the Alliance Army deputy commander and did not show his face during the Yongren City battle. As one of the fierce generals under Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms Era, Zhang He could not be underestimated.

The City-State Alliance Army had two Zhangs that shocked the world. They were Zhang Xutuo and Zhang He.

"Lead the remaining 10 thousand Alliance Army troops to sneak past the mountains to attack the enemy backlines and break their grain line."

"Yes general!"

Zhang He accepted the order.

The order was one that all the generals supported; none of them had any objections to this command.

Although the Yunnan City-State Alliance Army could not to be said to be elites in the world, they had one point that should be praised. Since the troops were mostly mountain people, they were all proficient at mountain battle.

At this time, only the Alliance Army could cross the mountains and attack the Shanhai City Army.

"Tian Dan!"

After dealing with the 110 thousand Alliance Army, Wuqi started to deal with the Yanhuang Alliance troops.

"Present!"

Tian Dan stepped out; he a tranquil expression.

"Lead 100 thousand troops to act as the back troops to assist Zhang Xutuo."

"Yes general!" Tian Dan accepted the orders.

The expression of the Lords present changed once more.

'What assist? They are just there to monitor us.' The faces of the Lords of the City-State became uglier and uglier.

Even at Wenshan City, the path outside the city was not wider than 200 meters. With Wuqi's plan, if the 100 thousand Alliance Army was not cleared out, the Yanhuang Alliance Army probably would not need to fight.

Wuqi's expression did not change, and he continued, "Lianpo!"

"Present!"

"Lead the remaining 70 thousand Yanhuang Alliance Army to defend the east mountain path of Wenshan City to prepare for Feng Yi's legion coming up north."

Yuanyang City was hundreds of miles south of Wenshan City.

Hence, the Feng Yi legion that camped 50 miles outside of Yuanyang City was actually just in the middle of both. Wuqi did not wish for them to appear at the crucial moment, so he needed to arrange troops to protect their sides.

"Yes general!"

With the 70 thousand Alliance Army troops in his hand, Lianpo believed that Feng Yi's legion could not cause many waves.

At this point, the duties of all 280 thousand troops had been arranged. Wuqi did not arrange a single troop in Wenshan City. Apart from the original City Protection Division, only the Personal Guards of the Lords were left. Overall, their numbers did not cross 20 thousand.

To face off against Baiqi, Wuqi could not afford to be careless.

Wuqi stood up. With a 'Shua!' all the other generals followed him. Even Di Chen and the other Lords could not help but stand with solemn expressions.

"The military orders have been given; treat it seriously and immediately set out. I wish all of you good luck; come back with victory!"

"Yes commander!"

In the command center, the voices of the generals boomed like thunder.

Just like that, under the leadership of the various generals, the 300 thousand army that teleported over during the day did not even eat breakfast. They just stepped out of the gate and headed toward the Dragon Legion.

The huge heaven covering army broke the silence of the early morning and brought solemnness to the wilderness.

On the mountain path 10 miles to the east of Wenshan City, a huge camp was set up; this was the Dragon Legion camp.

Looking at its arrangement, it was exactly the same as the one that Fan Lihua had made outside of White Stone City. The entire camp fortress was like a castle, and it would be extremely difficult to take it down.

Baiqi stood on one of the towers and looked out.

"The enemy has exited the city!"

As the Asura of a generation, Baiqi was exceedingly sensitive to killing aura, so he could smell and sense it despite the distance. Even without seeing a single soldier or man, he could reach this conclusion.

For this battle, Shanhai City had already set up a massive net and each force was in place. However, they were facing 300 thousand elite troops after all; the enemy was a pack of wolves that could destroy the heavens.

If they were not careful, they would be bitten and torn apart.

Hence, Baiqi had to be extremely careful.

There was one old and one young man standing beside him. When they heard his words, their expression turned exceedingly solemn.

The old man was strategist Jia Xu. Ever since the start of the Battle of Yunnan, he was sent over as Baiqi's advisor. A large half of the credit for making the black chess piece plan belonged to him.

The young man was the 4th Legion General, Luo Shixin; he looked at Baiqi with awe and respect. After following by his side for a long time, any soldier would be amazed by Baiqi's skill.

Especially a young general like Luo Shixin.

Of course, after years of training, Luo Shixin had grown from a young general into a stable and confident general.

Oddly enough, Luo Shixin had a weird expression today like he was thinking something. His eyes seemed rather complicated as he looked out.

When Jia Xu saw that, he instantly guessed what Luo Shixin was thinking and laughed, "Shixin, the commander Zhang Xutuo has a past with you. Will you be able to strike?"

When Luo Shixin heard these words, he froze.

Even Baiqi stopped looking into the distance and turned to look at Luo Shixin.

Not only did they have a past, but they could even be called student and teacher. In history, Luo Shixin's military path started from Zhang Xutuo. The battles he had been through historically were all under Zhang Xutuo's leadership and teachings. To call Zhang Xutuo his teacher was not an understatement.

The ancient people treated teacher-student relationships with more importance than the heavens. There was even a statement that a person who was your teacher for one day would be like your father for your entire life. For Luo Shixin to face off against his teacher, it was truly putting him in a tough spot and was extremely cruel.

After a long while, Luo Shixin opened up, "We fight for our own Lords, so what can we do?"

Jia Xu smiled, "Shixin, you do not have to be dejected. I heard that he's a stubborn person, so you need to personally convince him to surrender and join us after the enemy loses. Only then can the master and student fight together on the battlefield."

"As for the situation at hand, it's just as you said. You are fighting for your own Lords, so you cannot mix in any other thoughts. As soldiers, we are loyal to our Lord. Not only will your teacher not blame you, but he might even feel happy instead."

When Luo Shixin heard that, his expression loosened as he bowed to Jia Xu. Thinking back to the way his teacher acted, Luo Shixin felt that Jia Xu was right.

The thought of being able to fight alongside his teacher in the future made Luo Shixin feel really emotional.

"Then I should perform well in this battle." Luo Shixin raised his head and looked into the distance while thinking to himself, 'Teacher, Shixin will try his best.'

Luo Shixin wanted to prove to Zhang Xutuo that he had grown into a great general.

When Jia Xu saw that, he smiled.

In the past, psychological and ideological work was also the duty of the advisor.

At this very moment, the mountain paths rumbled.

After a short while, black armored soldiers appeared outside the camp fortress; their flags were swinging and their weapons were held up high. First, it was the archers and the crossbowmen; they were followed by the sword-shield soldiers and the spearmen. The cavalry was on the wings.

Amongst the army were also siege ladders and trebuchet soldiers. Huge moving arrow turrets were also pushed by hundreds of soldiers, slowly moving forward.

The military formation was closely packed and well-organized. Apart from the sounds of footsteps and horse hooves, one could not hear any other sound. The large sound reverberating in the valley made one's blood boil.

When the formation moved closer, Zhang Xutuo became visible in the middle. He was riding on a really handsome horse; he was dressed in steel armor with guards by his side.

Baiqi's eyes lit up at this sight.

Without a doubt, the enemy army in front of them was composed of true elites. For the Dragon Legion to block the first wave, they would definitely have to pay a price.

"Stop!"

When they were 800 meters away, the order to stop was given.

With a 'Shua!' line after line of soldiers stopped in their paths and started to reorganize their formations, making their final preparations for the battle.

In any large battle, one's formation could not be messy. If not, they would give the enemy a chance to strike.

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Chapter 790 – Drawing Attention

'Peng, peng peng, peng peng peng!'

At 8 AM, along with the beat of the drums, the enemy vanguard forces led their assault on the Dragon Legion camp fortress.

The flames of war were well and truly lit. Next, a bloody battle would surely follow.

Comparing their strengths, the result of this battle would not be decided in a short amount of time. If the Alliance Army wanted to break into the camp fortress, the only way would be to use their soldiers to fill up the moats and use their blood and bodies to flatten the defenses.

In any battle, especially in a battle between two huge forces, 60% was decided before the war even began. Commanding decided 30% while the remaining 10% depended on luck.

Hence, there was not much strategy to be said at this stage. Even if the one commanding this battle was the famous general Zhang Xutuo, all he could do was to move and rearrange his troops to support the frontline.

If he was good, he could raise the morale of his soldiers.

This applied to Baiqi too.

In such a decisive siege battle, the ones who played a bigger role were the majors and the colonels. Their ferocity and on the field leadership could decide the direction of the battle to a certain degree. At the very least, their ability could contribute to the ratio of casualties on both sides.

The battlefield in front of them was like a meat grinder.

No mercy, no hesitation, no time to think.

The archers could only follow simple military orders and shoot out arrow after arrow. While shooting, they would try to kill as many enemies as they could to get a promotion.

Normally, after a huge war, the arms of a surviving archer would be left basically useless. Apart from the talented few, it would take a long time for them to recover.

The only matter on the minds of the sword-shield soldiers and the spearmen were charging to the front and killing the enemy. They either killed or were killed; there was no third option.

Complicated human life resulted in a simple choice.If one turned their eyes past the battlefield and looked past the soldiers lying in wait, they would arrive at the vast and empty land where Wuqi's command center was located.

Further behind them were the 100 thousand Yanhuang Alliance Army troops.

To not affect Wuqi's leadership and to make the matter look better, Di Chen and the other Lords stayed in Wenshan City. If the frontline achieved any progress, the news would be sent over by horse messengers.

On the east city wall, Di Chen and the others sat in a row.

Di Chen raised his head and looked toward the sky. It was already 11 AM, meaning that the army had been attacking for three hours. After three hours, close to 20 thousand soldiers were sacrificed but they still had not achieved anything.

The Lords started to waver, and they could not help but start to discuss with one another.

The first one to speak was Zhan Lang; he was the one with most military knowledge out of all of them. He frowned, "Something is not right. This fortress is not to attack Wenshan City. Rather, it seems like they predicted we were going to attack them. Don't you think this scene is really familiar?"

Zhan Lang was not the only one that thought so.

"Are you referring to when Shanhai City attacked Lingnan City-State?" Xiong Ba said.

"That's right. It's exactly the same."

After hearing those words, the others felt a chill run down their spines.

"That should not be it. Fan Lihua defended as they had reinforcements nearby. If these reinforcements rushed, they could make it in one to two days."

"Now, it is different. The closest Shanhai City middle troops need four to five days to arrive. Not to mention the fact that there are also troops blocking them. They will be lucky to even make it in a week."

"That's right; everything will be settled in a week."

The Lords all agreed. Instinctively, they were unwilling to believe Zhan Lang's analysis.

"Then how do we explain Baiqi's camp fortress?"

Chun Shenjun smiled, "Maybe Baiqi is too careful and no matter whether or not he attacks he builds a strong fortress? He's a God General so he's special."

"Let's hope so."

Zhan Lang shook his head and did not try to say anything more. After all, without any evidence, he could not be too sure.

Although the Lords did not believe in Zhan Lang's analysis, his words still raised some doubts in their hearts.

"Now it's time to see if we can end this siege early." Di Chen's exclamation represented pretty much what all the Lords present thought.

This battle would decide everything.

If one was not a part of it, one would not be able to understand the nerves and pressure that they felt.

As long as the battle did not end, every second and minute would remain a torture to them. Every frontline report from the messenger would trigger their sensitive emotions.

Making use of Di Chen's words, Qin Feng, who had not made a sound, used the time to say, "Since that's the case, why not ask General Wuqi to throw in the back troops to quicken the pace?"The atmosphere instantly became rather awkward.

Yanhuang Alliance making use of Yunnan City-State was now dug up and placed into the light. Seeing how careful Qin Feng was when asking, Di Chen nearly agreed.

However, since this was a military matter, he could not show mercy and be soft-hearted.

Di Chen represented the Yanhuang Alliance and said, "The frontline has limited space. Even if we send more troops, it will not help. Let's just wait."

His smile was just incredibly fake.

Just as Qin Feng wanted to fight for more, a messenger soldier ran up from downstairs.

"Emergency, emergency!"

When the Lord heard these words, their hearts stopped.

When he saw that the messenger was alone, Qin Feng demanded, "Quick, what happened?"

"Lord, Tengyue Prefecture has been attacked..."

The messenger did not dare to be slow and reported everything.

When Di Chen and the others heard the news, their expressions turned extremely serious. Only after a while did he sigh, "Who would have guessed that Shanhai City actually contacted the mountain barbarian tribe?"

"Tengyue Prefecture is in deep trouble." As Qin Feng spoke, his expression became even more nervous. However, this was not a surprise as it was his old house. If it was broken, all matters would come to an end.

Di Chen remained extremely calm and said, "Do not worry, this is not totally bad. At the very least, the middle troops cannot come to save the Dragon Legion, which means that our previous worries were unwarranted. On this battlefield, we have too many advantages."

"Well said. We just need to quickly deal with the Dragon Legion. Then we can use the teleportation formation advantage to teleport back before Tengyue Prefecture falls." Zhan Lang analyzed.

Chun Shenjun also tried to persuade Qin Feng, "Shanhai City only took such action to attack us at our weakness to try and make us retreat from here. We must not panic and fall into their trap."

"You're right."

Hearing their words, the Lords of Yunnan City-State calmed down.

Even so, Qin Feng would not give up on such a chance, "Although that is true, it's still the last hope of our City-State. If we let Shanhai City step all over it, even if we win, we will be badly hurt. Can such a City-State prevent a second invasion?" As he spoke, Qin Feng's face was filled with sincerity and sadness.

"I do not think that is what all of you want to see? As such, I sincerely plead for the Yanhuang Alliance Army to push ahead to end this battle quickly."

As he spoke, Qin Feng gazed at all the Yanhuang Alliance members.

If they still wanted to reserve their strength and not bother about the City-State at such a time, Qin Feng would have to consider whether the cooperation was worth it or not.

Hearing his words, Di Chen and the others were also exceedingly solemn as they had seen through what Qin Feng was implying.

They all exchanged glances with one another. In the end, Di Chen nodded, "Since the situation has changed. Naturally, we need to change our tactics. I'll inform general Wuqi about the situation and ask him to quicken the siege."

When they really needed to make sacrifices, Di Chen was definitely willing to.

Just as Qin Feng said, to rip off benefits from Yunnan City-State was only secondary to the Yanhuang Alliance. After all, their main goal was to use them to stop the rise of Shanhai City.

Since they were a chess piece, they could not be too weak.

If not, even if they won this time, when Shanhai City returned, it could still take down Yunnan City-State.

Yanhuang Alliance was not a soldier-making machine that could form a 200 thousand men army at any time.

This battle already had a massively destructive impact on Yunnan City-State and was close to the limit of what they could take. The moment Tengyue Prefecture ended up in the flames of war, the situation would become unsalvageable.

"Many thanks!"

Qin Feng cupped his fists. He sighed to himself, 'When one is weaker than another, one can only follow.'

In less than an hour, Di Chen's decision had been passed over to Wuqi.

When Wuqi heard this news, he actually felt relaxed instead. His analysis was similar to Di Chen and the others, and he started to suspect the Dragon Legion camp fortress.

At that moment, the large stone in his heart finally landed on the ground.

Wuqi raised his head and looked at the fortress before him and muttered, "Diverting our attention to attack other parts? Baiqi ah, Baiqi, you're really too arrogant. Do you think that with just one camp fortress you can block our 300 thousand strong army force?"

"Send down my orders, let the back troops push up and stop at nothing to take down the enemy camp fortress." Wuqi did not hesitate any longer and directly ordered the troops to strike.

"Yes commander!"

As the message was passed to the frontlines, the siege on the camp grew more intense. The flames of war burned even brighter.

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Chapter 791 – Time to Reel in the Net

Let us bring the time back to an hour ago.

At basically the same time as when the battle outside of Wenshan City started, Shi Wanshui's middle troops moved too.

Looking at the entire Yunnan Battlefield, the middle troops were the most low-profile. They had been camping at the east of Tengyue Prefecture since the start. They pushed in slowly with defense and monitoring as their goal; sieging was their second priority.

As the battle at Wenshan City exploded, it was time for the middle troops to show their strength.

That day, the two War Fighting Legions of the middle troops changed their careful style and started to charge around within Tengyue Prefecture, and their sword was directly aimed at Tengchong City in the middle.

The various cities in Tengyue Prefecture had prepared for this, and they had already received the order from the command center to defend in the city and try to drag the battle on. Their goal was just to coordinate with the battle in Wenshan City.

The problem laid in the fact that the middle troops were not the only ones attacking Tengyue Prefecture.Tengyue Prefecture, Southwest Mountains.

Similarly the morning of the 1st month, 6th day, the mountains and canyons were misty and cold.

Similar to the 100 thousand mountains near Lianzhou Basin, there were many mountain barbarian tribes living in the Southwest Mountains; they were scattered around the peaks and canyons.

The mountain barbarians relied on hunting to live and occasionally went to the foot of the mountains. At such times, they would head to the villages and towns to trade medicine and animals for daily necessities.

Apart from that, they had truly little interaction with the people at the foot of the mountains.

It was not that the players near the mountains did not want to recruit these tribes. After all, during the 1st year of Gaia, news of Shanhai City's mountain barbarian Infantry Divisions had already spread across the world and gained the envy of many.

However, the appearance of Chiyou crushed all their dreams.

During the period of Chiyou's descent on the wilderness, the mountain barbarians either decided to take the slow journey to Chiyou City or willing waited and prepared for the journey.

Hence, the Lords' recruitment attempts naturally all failed. Occasionally, there would be Lords who managed to tempt one to two small tribes, but such a number was hardly enough to build a huge army.

Afterward, Ouyang Shuo led his army to crush Chiyou's army and also cut off his head. In the end, he ascended to the position of Barbarian King, and the situation changed once more.

Ouyang Shuo, who treated the mountain barbarians highly, definitely would not forget about the other mountain barbarian tribes in other mountains. After he calmed down the mountain barbarians in Chiyou City, the first thing he did was to send out representatives to the other mountains.

First, he wanted to tell them that the new mountain Barbarian King had been born; he wanted to ask for their loyalty. Secondly, he wanted to keep in contact with them and ask them to prepare for further Shanhai City invasions.

Before the Battle of Yunnan started, Ouyang Shuo had headed to Chiyou City for the purpose of finding the elder Mu Yao. He had asked the elder to visit the Yunnan Mountains to locate and contact the mountain barbarian tribes.

Reality proved that the effects were extremely great.

With the advertisement of the mountain barbarian contact officer and the huge change in Wuzhou, the various mountain barbarian tribes started to recognize this new Barbarian King.

When Baiqi led the left troops to attack Mengding Prefecture, they had started to secretly transport grain and weapons into the mountains to give it to the tribes for free.

Along with the resources was also a regiment of army teaching personnel.

There was grain, equipment, and officers. Along with the name of Barbarian King, every tribe was obviously tempted.

Just like that, while Baiqi attacked Mengding Prefecture, without the Yunnan City-State knowing anything, the mountain barbarian tribes started to gather together.

A day ago, many well-equipped mountain barbarian warriors had gathered in each of the mountain strongholds. They were like a little stream, slowly gathering and forming a massive river.

These warriors were not only equipped with the sharpest weapons and the toughest armor, but they had even undergone basic military training and were not the backward hunters from before.

There was a difference of night and day between the two.

At 10 AM, a total of 50 thousand mountain barbarian warriors had gathered up and attacked Mengyue Prefecture along with the middle troops.

With such an east-west pincer attack, Tengyue Prefecture was quickly thrown into a sea of flames.

Only then did Qin Feng and the others feel fear and panic, which ended up with Wuqi needing to add troops. However, there was one problem. Qin Feng and the others probably did not know till now what kind of mountain barbarian force was attacking Tengyue Prefecture.

In their eyes, it was just a group of assorted hunting troops.

But in any war, missing out the small details could cause you to lose the entire thing. The entire Battle of Yunnan was closely connected and linked with one another.

The moment Yunnan City-State decided not to assist and save Tengyue Prefecture, the City-State and the Yanhuang Alliance had lost their last fighting chance.

Wenshan City, Dragon Legion Corps camp fortress.

Another half an hour had passed since Wuqi increased the number of troops and the intensity of the attack. Reality proved that as long as they were vicious enough and were willing to make sacrifices, the siege would work.

Under the charge of Wuqi, the siege became extremely smooth, and they took down the middle circle of the camp fortress in just half an hour. Only the solitary inner fortress was left.

Victory was in their sights.

On the Wenshan City wall, Di Chen and the others who had received the news were all really excited.

"If we knew that the result would be so good, I would have ordered them to act a lot earlier." Di Chen causally told the other Lords.

Chun Shenjun smiled, "The Dragon Legion Corps is not all that impressive!"

"That's right, the wilderness made Baiqi out to be such an amazing general, but he is still being forced back by us." The one who agreed with Chun Shenjun was a Lord from Yunnan City-State; this fellow could be considered Chun Shenjun's ' right-hand man.'

Hearing someone agree with his words, Chun Shenjun grew more excited and started to mock Shanhai City.

With that, there were more people who agreed with him, mostly the Lords of the City-State. Amongst which, there were many who had lost their territories. These people were the saddest of the bunch as they had lost everything and were now at the mercy of others.

Chun Shenjun, this giant of the Yanhuang Alliance, was undoubtedly one of the people they could latch onto. When they saw that there was a chance to suck up to him, all of them were obviously willing to do so.

The more they spoke, the more preposterous their words sounded.

According to their words, the Dragon Legion led by Baiqi was totally useless. Even Shanhai City was turned into a paper tiger that was going to be taken down at any moment.

The more they spoke, the dumber it all sounded.

When Zhan Lang saw the situation, he frowned. As a military person, Zhan Lang could not stand such antics.

'We have not won the war yet, so what are all of you doing?'

Chun Shenjun might have made it sound extremely easy but the Alliance Army and the Yanhuang Alliance Army had paid 50 thousand men to break through the two defense lines.

Only Chun Shenjun would say that the Dragon Legion Corps was nothing special.

However, their morale was currently high, so Zhan Lang held himself back from saying anything discouraging. When Chun Shenjun saw that, he gave Zhan Lang an eye to say that he understood what was going on.

Naturally, Chun Shenjun was not such a superficial person, and he would not really believe the words these Lords were saying. Even his own words were just to liven up the atmosphere.

His real goal was to use this chance to test the loyalty of the Lords in the Yunnan City-State to make it easier for them to split it up in the future.

"You really are impatient." Xiong Ba shook his head.

Maybe Chun Shenjun felt he had a psychological advantage because Shanhai City did not strike Pill Sun City.

Although they were allies, who knows what Chun Shenjun thought about Shanhai Alliance's act on their homes. He definitely was not worried, and he was maybe even gloating.

The moment he thought back to Yizhou Island that was under attacked, Xiong Ba's mood turned sour once more.

Even so, as the war was progressing smoothly, the atmosphere was still extremely lively.

Amongst them, the only sad ones were the two to three Lords that were being attacked by the Shanhai City Army. Countless emergency letters were sent over, making them feel really depressed.

However, at the current moment, no one cared about their life or death.

They were chess pieces, and who would hesitate when one was supposed to abandon a chess piece? When a chess master played chess, would he bother to consider how the chess piece felt?

To win the entire game, abandoning pieces, trading, and similar actions were all expected.

Just as Di Chen and the others were looking forward to what was to come, Shanhai City started to reel in its net.

Noon, the sun hung high in the air.

On the west mountain path of Wenshan City, the sounds of horse hooves could suddenly be heard. Huo Qubing led the 1st and 2nd legions of the Guards Legion Corps, filled with the desire for revenge, and charged at Wenshan City.

In the north, Er'Lai led the City Protection Legion and drew close to Wenshan City.

On the south, the Feng Yi legion suddenly exited the camp fortress and started to move toward Wenshan City.

The three groups of troops advanced from three directions, working with the Dragon Legion Corps that was east of the city to surround Wenshan City.

Facing enemies on all four sides.

The City Protection Legion and the two War Fighting Legions could appear at this moment because of Yuanyang City. The Lord of Yuanyang City, Little Six, was the chess piece they had buried in Yunnan City-State; this was the black chess piece that Baiqi had mentioned.

The moment the black chess piece was used, the world would be shocked.

Just late last night, right after the Alliance Army and the Yanhuang Alliance Army teleported to Wenshan City, the Guards Legion Corps, and the City Protection Legion had teleported to Yuanyang City and disappeared into the darkness.

The three legions used a morning to go through small paths to surround Wenshan City.

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Chapter 792 – Pardon me? Amusing!

The first one to notice that something was odd was Lianpo.

Lianpo led 70 thousand Yanhuang Alliance troops to monitor Feng Yi's legion. The moment Feng Yi's legion started to move toward Wenshan City, they were noticed by the scouts that Lianpo had arranged on the frontlines.

However, Lianpo thought at first that Feng Yi's legion was moving to reinforce the Dragon Legion Corps, so he did not treat the movement that seriously. Apart from reporting the intel to the command center, he only ordered the troops to enter battle status.

It was not that Lianpo was arrogant. However, based on their reports, Feng Yi only had a single legion filled with prisoners that Shanhai City had recently captured.

The standards of Feng Yi's troops were not bad, but the troops were not well meshed with one another. Hence, Lianpo naturally felt confident about using 70 thousand Yanhuang Alliance troops to stop them. Not to mention that they were on such a narrow mountain path.

Not only Lianpo, even Wuqi and Di Chen were not really surprised by this intel.

However, the following situation stunned them completely.

On the west, the Tiger Leopard Cavalry led by Ma Chao was the fastest. It was like a lightning bolt streaking through the wilderness and charging at Wenshan City menacingly.

When Di Chen and the others received the news, the Tiger Leopard Cavalry was already less than 20 miles away from Wenshan City. With their movement speed, that was just a brief distance.

Such a change immediately startled them, and it even caused them to panic a little.

"What happened, how did the Guards Legion Corps suddenly appear near Wenshan City?" Di Chen and the others were not fools and immediately suspected Little Six.

For the Guards Legion Corps to reach here naturally meant that they had teleported over and the nearest city was Yuanyang City. Di Chen and the others did not even need to think and could basically confirm that it was Little Six who had betrayed the Yunnan City-State.

The greatest possibility was that this person had been working with Shanhai City from the start.

"Traitor!"

Qin Feng lost control of his emotions; he unsheathed his blade and raised it toward Little Six's neck.

Little Six was extremely calm and said, "I'm a traitor? I just cooperated with Shanhai City. If I'm a traitor, what are you who sold the City-State to the Yanhuang Alliance?"

Since matters had developed to such a state, all the Lords could see that the Yanhuang Alliance were exceedingly greedy and ambitious. The Lords in the City-State had started to feel regret, some of them wished they had surrendered to Shanhai City.

Hence, the Lords started to feel unhappy and displeased with Qin Feng since he was the person who started this whole affair.

Hearing Little Six's words, many felt that it resonated with them.

On the other hand, Qin Feng felt that he was stabbed at a fatal point, and he scolded, "Since you admitted it yourself, then go to hell!"

As he spoke these words, the longsword was about to cut down.

When Little Six saw that, his eyes were filled with mocking, and he remained unmoved.

"Do not kill him!"

"Stop!"

At the crucial moment, Di Chen and Zhan Lang stopped Qin Feng from performing a reckless act.

"Oh?"

Qin Feng did not understand.

Di Chen facepalmed, "Idiot. This person worked with Shanhai City, so we should interrogate him. Killing him would just be returning the tiger to the mountains."

Since he was furious, Di Chen scolded Qin Feng without holding anything back.

A single 'idiot' left Qin Feng feeling even more ashamed and embarrassed. If there was a hole in the floor, he would rather just dive into it.

In the blink of an eye, he was not welcomed by either side.

Qin Feng did not understand what was going on.

Di Chen knew that he had spoken the wrong words but he had no intentions of taking them back. He turned toward Little Six, "Tell us Shanhai City's plan, and I will represent the Yanhuang Alliance to pardon you and will even reward you."

Little Six laughed mockingly, "How magnanimous! When did the matters of Yunnan City-State end up being controlled by the Yanhuang Alliance? Pardon me? How amusing!"

The moment he spoke those words, the expressions of all the City-State Lords changed.

"Stop asking for trouble." Di Chen's face turned extremely gloomy.

Little Six had a casual smile on his face, which showed that he had no intentions of replying to Di Chen's question.

When Sha Pojun at the side saw that, he was furious and jumped out, "You dog, how dare you be so stubborn when you are on the brink of death? Do you believe we cannot lock you up all the way?"

Little Six shook his head; he gave the seated Lords a look of pity, especially the members of the Yanhuang Alliance, "You're the ones on the brink of death. You all are so arrogant and think you're so smart but you fell into Shanhai City's trap from the start."

"What did you say?" Sha Pojun was exasperated.

"I'm talking about all of you, just wait and die. I will not accompany you anymore." As Little Six said those words, he bit the poison pill hidden in his mouth and killed himself.

Of course, he did not mind dying because Shanhai City had already prepared a substitute doll for him. Since he had completed the mission, he could basically enjoy riches for the rest of his life.

Before he died, the other Lords left in the City-State felt exceedingly tragic and despondent.

Why did we fight so hard? Didn't we just lose in the end? The biggest mistake of the Yunnan City-State was working together with the Yanhuang Alliance.

Along with Little Six turning into a white light and disappearing, the atmosphere became one of deathly silence.

Amidst such an awkward atmosphere, more and more intel was being sent over one by one. Every piece of intel they received made the atmosphere turn colder and colder.

Near the end, the entire place had reached a freezing point.

Di Chen and the others were like ice statues; their faces were ashen white and filled

with despair.

Zhan Lang and Xiong Ba gave out long sighs. In their hearts, there was an indescribable sense of failure.

"We still lost to Shanhai City in the end!"

Zhan Lang truly could not accept this ending. During this battle, the Yanhuang Alliance Army basically did not commit any errors and even had many plus points.

They had seen victory in their sights, but they did not expect that there would be a sudden 180-degree twist.

Was it truly like what Little Six had said and that their every step was calculated by Shanhai City? Zhan Lang instinctively did not want to believe it.

If that was truly the case, it meant a total destruction of their confidence.

Who knows from when but Shanhai City had transformed into a large shadow that loomed over the heads of Yanhuang Alliance; it had become something they were unable to be shaken off.Just at this moment, Xiong Ba suddenly spoke up after his extended period of silence, "Guys calm down. Looking at the situation, the enemy will reach Wenshan City soon. Let's think about what we should do; do we fight or retreat?"

"Retreat? How?"

Di Chen felt a little bitter. They were not retreating one to two thousand people but 200 thousand troops. It would take one to two hours just to rush back to Wenshan City.

Moreover, there was still a massive battle on the frontlines, and Wuqi had dispatched both the front and back troops to the fray, so how could they easily remove themselves?

No one had the ability to do so, not even Wuqi.

Xiong Ba shook his head, "Of course, I do not hope to retreat all the troops. What I meant is that we should call back the main generals before they surround us. After that, we should immediately teleport away. If not, the moment Wenshan City is surrounded, they could all be captured."

"None of you want to see that happen, right?"

Xiong Ba's words sent a shiver down their spines.

That was right. Soldiers could be recruited and trained if lost. If Wuqi, Lianpo, Tian Dan, and hundreds of other generals were captured, it would be a total calamity.

Wasn't Zhao Kuo a huge lesson?

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