While he was talking, a soldier outside came to report, and Master Ma asked to see him. Kou Yan pursed his lips and smiled: "It's just in time, it's up!" As soon as everyone heard about it, they immediately turned their heads outward and stretched their necks to see what was going on. Outside, Ma Liang strode in, followed by two soldiers, escorting a man disguised as a civilian.

Everyone took a closer look at his face, and their expressions were wonderful. Kou Yan couldn't let everyone talk about it, so he spoke first: "Isn't this our Hu Cao Peng, Master Li?

"Subordinate, subordinate is, it's a private visit to Weifu, yes, it's a misunderstanding, it's a misunderstanding!" The benevolent brother fell to his knees and cried bitterly: "Lord Taishou Mingjian." ”

"Oh, are you a private visit?" Kou Yanpi looked at him with a smile. "Yes, yes, please be sure to trust your subordinates!" This Lord Li is "sincere", as if he was wronged.

"I believe you? What do I believe in you? Your wife and children secretly went out of the city seven days ago and took with them several large boxes of your usual looted belongings. When Ma Liang came to your house, your housewife was actually a maid, do you think I don't know?" Kou Yan didn't give him a chance to argue: "Come on, bring everyone up!"

At this moment, someone had nothing to say and began to beg for mercy and forgiveness. Kou Yan hated it very much: "As Hu Cao Peng, it is your duty to pacify the people and stabilize the security in the city, but I didn't expect that among the people who caused trouble in the army, you were the first to do it! How can I spare you!"

At this time, a group of men and women, adults and children outside were escorted in, crying and grabbing the ground, Kou Yan's face was cold: "Drag it out, all the adults will be killed, and the children will be official slaves!"

The guards received the order, rushed up, and led the people down. At this time, the officials present knew that the new Taishou was hiding a stone heart in his small body. After the eyebrows came and went, the collective was dumb and obedient. Soon, the guards held up the head surnamed Li, and Kou Yan squinted: "Go, hang it on the head of the city, and let the people be happy!"

The big guy who felt that Kou Yan was hard-hearted just now looks at this Taishou again, and it is as if he has seen a demon. A few timid ones sat down unsteadily, shaking like chaff.

But she then put on a friendly face and said a bunch of extraordinary times now, as the saying goes, troubled times use heavy codes, and I was forced to make such a decision, you don't have to have any psychological burden or anything when you go back.

However, after looking at the heads of his colleagues, who would dare to take Kou Yan's kind words as the truth? After answering a few words in a few respects, he saw Kou Yan waving his hand from above, and almost rushed to leave, and after a minute, there was no one left in the hall.

Kou Yan took Ma Liang back to the study, saw that he was still a little excited, and chuckled: "How is it? It feels good, right? After today's events, you should know our current situation in Changsha." ”

"The subordinate understood. Ma Liang bowed and said sincerely. Kou Yan nodded: "It's good that you understand, this matter will be put aside now, and after the teacher and General Huang retreat from Zhou Yu and Changsha County restores order, I want you to be Hu Cao Peng, you have to be mentally prepared." ”

In fact, what makes Kou Yan most uneasy has always been the civil service system. There is no one I can trust. Such a team made her feel that her position as the Taishou of Changsha was being set up in the clouds. There is no sense of security at all.

That's why she will investigate corruption as soon as she comes. Immediately afterwards, he took advantage of Zhou Yu's attack and gave his subordinates a dose of fierce medicine. If she was a qiē shun lì, she felt that she had to thank this war and thank Zhou Yu for giving her the opportunity to clean up the officialdom.

Sure enough, in the next few days, Kou Yan received some resignations one after another while receiving the battle report, most of which were the top leaders of the department. She shelved them all and refused to approve them.

The officials were worried, for fear that they would be caught by Kou Yan again and kill people and raid their homes. However, the martial law in the city has not been touched, they can't get out, their property and family members can't be transferred, like a gopher holding in a hole, trying to run but finding that the surrounding is not mud but steel plates.

Outside the city, Xu Shu was in Huang Zhong's camp. In the face of Pan Zhang's vanguard troops slaughtering like hungry tigers and sheep, he was not afraid at all, and arranged for Cen Qi's other troops to intercept and kill him in the middle of the road early. Although the army of Koto is vicious, it is also long in human flesh. And he just suffered a defeat in Jiangxia, and his morale is not high.

Cen Qi's foot soldiers are just the opposite, their self-confidence is bursting, and the hard and boring repeated training every day makes them more eager to go to the battlefield than the other party and face real living targets. Xu Shu was shocked when he saw the scene of Cen Qi training with his soldiers.

The soldiers were trained barefoot on the ground, and the soles of each of their feet were covered with a thick layer of calluses. Watch them exert their strength over and over again, roaring angrily, chopping stakes. Left and right in the middle. Every blow is asked to use all his strength.

If someone slackens, there is another field on the side, and the ground is covered with sharp gravel, and the soldiers are to stand on it to complete twice the training of the other soldiers.

Xu Shu was surprised by the content and method of their training, and asked who came up with it. Cen Qi told him that he was inspired by the eldest lady. The picture of her stepping barefoot in the snow that day, approaching them step by step, gave Cen Qi a huge shock.

"The eldest lady promised us the best food treatment and the strictest requirements for us. We laid the first share of the Major General's fortune for the charge. Now, the eldest lady has become a Changsha Taishou. We want to use this victory to tell her that we are the most trustworthy people for her, and we are the ones who will always follow her. Cen Qi's words were simple and unpretentious, but they made Xu Shu feel a lot.

I didn't expect that the disciple had such a force under him, which was really unexpected. Now he was almost certain that she was not kicked out by Uncle Huang, but that she got rid of Uncle Huang and was leaving on her own.

Hey, what did this girl encounter? How can such a stubborn and strong personality grow into the body of a deep young girl?

However, the reality did not allow Xu Shu to think too much, so he immediately made a decision and sent Cen Qi and his other troops to lay an ambush on the way to Pan Zhanglai, demanding that he strike hard at the enemy's arrogance and annihilate the enemy's living force as much as possible. As a result, Cen Qi completed the task well and returned with a big defeat to Pan Zhang. Coming out on top.

When Zhou Yu heard that Pan Zhang had been defeated, he was even more angry in his heart, and little Changsha actually bullied me! Tai Shici immediately asked for orders to fight. After getting the news here, Huang Zhong was not allowed to come out to ask for battle, but was stopped by Xu Shu and told him to be at ease. Instead, let Kou Feng bring a full 5,000 soldiers and line up to fight.