A.D. 203 August, Linzi. It has been two months since Ouyang Xuan returned here, and the chaotic war has not stopped because of Ouyang Xuan's arrival. Cao Cao ignored the threat of the two states of Qingdao on the northern front, and coerced Liu Xie to issue an edict of crusade against the ministers, and Cao Cao personally led an army of 500,000 troops to send troops to Chen and Liang, and Liu Bei was unable to cope for a while, so he had to send a request for help to Qingxu and Xu states. After soliciting Ouyang Xuan's opinion, Tang De assigned Zhao Yun to take 100,000 elite soldiers around Xuzhou to aid Yuzhou, and I don't know if Liu Bei was on his back or born to fail, when Zhao Yun's reinforcements were still on the way, a sudden flood made Liu Bei's deployment all come to naught, and 500,000 Cao army commanders drove straight in, took Liu Bei by surprise, and even lost his wife, only with Xu Shu and 3,000 people fled to Nanyang under the battle of Zhang Feili, and joined Guan Yu, with Yuzhou following Liu Bei's troops assembled in Nanyang, plus the 200,000 soldiers and horses under Guan Yu's command, a total of less than 300,000 people were gathered. In Xu Shu's serial plan, through Zhang Fei Luyang's deception to lure the enemy, Guan Yu flooded Xiahou Yuan in Ye County, and led Cao's army into Zhongyin Mountain northeast of Wuyang, where Xu Shu set a hellish trap for Cao's army, just when two Cao armies of 300,000 people entered the predetermined location, they instantly surrounded these Cao armies with a burst of fire. Because of the rapid consumption of oxygen, low pressure was formed in an instant, forming a strong wind, and the wind helped the fire, forming an oxygen vacuum belt, just a short quarter of an hour, Cao Jun lost nearly half, and the rest was still struggling in the flames. On the high mountain in the distance, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Xu Shu stood side by side looking at Cao Jun who was struggling in the fire, almost all of them gasped. Guan Yu twisted his beard and said, "The fire of the military advisor has also been used, but why hasn't it worked so well?" ”

"The ring-shaped closed fire ring can control the wind, and the wind will help the fire, so that it will be extremely vigorous, and the air plague will be formed in the fire ring, and people will not breathe and die." After speaking, Xu Shu took out a thread-bound book from his arms and handed it to Guan Yu. "I also got a little bit from this book, which was used to train new army generals in Qingliang Erzhou. I also got it from an old friend."

The fire burned for a whole hour before it was extinguished, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei each led a group of men and horses to kill the remnants of Cao Jun. Xiahou Lan, the general of Cao's army, was killed by Zhang Fei, Xiahou Chun fled with ten pro-soldiers, Guan Yu chased after him, and was rescued by Li Dian who was sent by Cao Cao to support. Of the 300,000 Cao troops, less than 20,000 escaped in the end.

Liu Bei purged the army and horses and launched a counterattack against Cao's army. Xu Shu divided the generals and horses into three routes, and Liu Guanzhang each led one road, and quickly solved the remaining Cao army by using the guerrilla method of dividing and encircling, and finally drove Cao Cao to the river, and had to flee for his life in a hurry. The first battle of Cao Liu ended in a draw, but Liu Bei strengthened Nanyang's position. At Xu Shu's suggestion, Liu Bei directly assigned Nanyang County to the Yuzhou defense circle on the grounds of defending Cao Cao, and Guan Yu's army directly threatened Xiangyang, the seat of Jingzhou.

When Zhao Yun arrived to lead the troops, the war had already ended, and under Liu Bei's repeated requests, Tang De decided to station Zhao Yun's troops in Chen State after careful consideration.

In May 2044, after more than half a year of rest, Cao Cao reconvened an army of 600,000, known as one million, and divided it into three routes, with Xu Huang as the vanguard of the left road, and Cao Ren commanded the army from Yangcheng to Yingchuan County; Zhang He was the vanguard of the Central Army, Cao Ren commanded the army, and Chen Bing was on the front line of Fugou Circle County, confronting Zhao Yunqingzhou's reinforcements; With Xiahou Yuan as the vanguard, Cao Cao led the whole army and went out of Xiayi. From the three roads to Yuzhou, in order to avenge the defeat of the last army, the left and right soldiers and horses slaughtered its city and plundered the finances. In the middle of the road, due to Zhao Yun's troops blocking the front, a confrontation situation was formed in Chen State. restrained Zhao Yun's soldiers and horses in Chen Guo, so that he could not make the slightest move. Cao Jun firmly entangled the Qingzhou army regardless of casualties.

Liu Bei could not confront Cao Cao in terms of strength or generals, and chose to fight and withdraw at the suggestion of Xu Shu, and under the cover of Zhang Fei, Liu Bei chose to withdraw from Kunyang with the people to Ye County, and then retreat from Ye County to Duyang. Cao Cao chose the two armies to jointly encircle and chase after him, and when he withdrew from Kunyang, Xu Shu laid out a plan to burn Kunyang according to the book. When Cao Hong's army had just entered the empty Kunyang, the entire city was immediately surrounded by fire, instantly engulfing more than 100,000 Cao troops. When Cao Cao led his troops to arrive, Cao Hong and Xu Huang had only brought out less than 30,000 people. With the convergence of Liu Bei and Guan Yu, the water breaking and setting up barriers made it difficult for Cao Bing to break through for a while. Cao Cao did not give Liu Bei any chance this time, and occupied all parts of Yuzhou as quickly as possible, surrounding Zhao Yun and the Qingzhou reinforcement corps. Zhao Yun did not choose to sit still, but used the bundle of grass and trees as a person, successfully got rid of Cao Ren with the strategy of suspicious soldiers, and raided Changping with surprise soldiers, stabbed Xu Huang in no less than two rounds, scattered his army, rested for a while, and disappeared again in the mountains, and reappeared in Ruyang County when he was already in Ruyang County, and killed the Cao army defenders of less than 1,000 people in Ruyang County at the fastest speed, and then turned to the northeast, raided Chen County to replenish grain and grass, and entered Runan County from Yangping, using the plain and cavalry maneuver to fight. Defeated Zhang He in Xinyang, rested for a while, turned to the northeast through Sishan, and defeated Cao Ren's 200,000 Cao army with 100,000 Qingzhou soldiers in the city father, Cao Ren was knocked off his horse by Zhao Yun in one round and was seriously injured. Zhao Yun's pace of raiding and leaping did not stop, and then turned to the southeast, and turned to Zhuxian on the east side after capturing Shansang, when Zhao Yun was so long-distance running, Cao Cao dispatched troops to intercept along the road, and the army led by himself followed, and when Cao Cao arrived in Zhuxian, Zhao Yun raided Xiangxian for 100 miles, where he killed several of Cao Cao's generals. Instead, Benxiao County entered Pengcheng Country to rest, and after thousands of miles of running, even Keshu Town, the iron-clad man couldn't stand such a high-intensity battle. In Xiao County, Cao Cao was besieged in the city by Cao Cao's three people, Cao Cao did not order the siege of the city, he now loves this Zhao Yun too much, under the siege and interception of 600,000 troops, he can still be so calm, and he wants to take it for himself. All kinds of persuasion letters, official vows, etc., were bombed in turn, but Zhao Yun was still unmoved, except for the city wall guards, the other soldiers slept except for eating.

Just when Zhao Yun was resting in Xiao County. Ouyang Xuan received the news that Zhao Yun was trapped, and Ouyang Xuan personally ordered Tai Shici, Zou Heng, Li Cheng, Huang Mu and other young generals to take 200,000 soldiers and horses to Xiao County in the starry night. After a long-distance journey of 600 miles in five days, Ouyang Xuan set up camp in the northeast of Xiao County, 30 miles away from Cao's camp. Early in the morning of the second day, Ouyang Xuan had Li Cheng leading the left army, Zou Heng leading the right army, Tai Shici as the middle army, and Li Mu leading the rear army, killing the Cao army outside the city with a ring of three sharp arrows. This battle Ouyang Xuan was purely to test the young general, and did not participate in the attack, but watched the young general's performance on the high ground not far away. Sure enough, Ouyang Xuan was not disappointed, Tai Shi Ci needless to say, it was that Zou Heng, who had the demeanor of Ouyang Xuan when he was charging into battle, a painted halberd danced like flowing water, and everywhere he passed, there were corpses all over the field, even if Cao Cao's first capable general Dian Wei was knocked off his horse by Zou Heng with a painting halberd rod after fighting with him, and was struggling to snatch it back into the army by his military academy. Xiahoudun fought with Li Cheng for more than ten rounds, but was cut in his left eye by Li Cheng's blade and fled.

Zhao Yun in the city learned that the Qingzhou reinforcements had arrived, and immediately reversed the whole army out of the city from the reinforcements, echoing inside and outside, instantly dividing the Cao army into four parts that were not connected to each other, and the reinforcements gradually expanded to both sides under the command of Tai Shici to encroach on the Cao army. And Zhao Yun's cavalry rushed back and forth in Cao's army, like a dragon entering the sea. Cao Cao, who was also watching the battlefield from afar, said to Guo Jia next to him with infinite emotion: "This general, if you can do one of them, you can determine the world." As a pioneer, he can still take into account the changes in the battlefield and command freely. Why is there no such person in our army?"

"Prime Minister, my subordinates have heard that these Qingzhou generals have all been taught by Tang Taishou, and they are familiar with the art of war, and they are also very skilled. Our army is not as good as it, this time Qingzhou reinforcements are coming, according to the calculation, our army can retreat."

"That's it, herald Mingjin". With Cao Jun Mingjin withdrawing his troops, Ouyang Xuan did not order to chase after him, and after reorganizing the soldiers and horses, he directly entered the Taishan Army through Pengcheng and returned to Beihai. The reason why Ouyang Xuan did this was because Liu Bei ignored Zhao Yun's lone army, so he withdrew his troops from Yuzhou. When Tang De asked about the cause and effect, he looked at the map and thought for a while: "Your Majesty, you fell for Cao Mengde's trickery." Now Cao Mengde is sending troops to seize Yuzhou, like a bag to get something. Liu Xuande is still hiding in Nanyang, and Yuzhou is empty, if Cao Mengde is in the remnants of the army to take it, it will not cost a soldier, such as my Qingzhou military horse in Yuzhou, Cao Mengde still has some concerns, there will be Chen Guo to contain Zilong, do not hesitate to lose the soldiers and horses, and fight with Zilong many times, is to exhaust his army, and withdraw from Yuzhou to rest. Your Majesty is now rushing to help, but it has fulfilled Cao Mengde."

Ouyang Xuan looked at the map and pondered for a long time before he thought a little and said, "What Wen Shang said is extremely true, it seems that I am not enough to deal with this treacherous strategy. Now only when Cao Mengde takes Xuzhou can he help him."

"Your Majesty, no. Since the fourth year of Chuping (193), Cao Song and his son were killed in Huaxian, Cao Mengde had begged for it, was defeated by a general, and Tao Gongzu was depressed because of this, and the first year of Xingping (194) Cao Mengde again led troops to attack Xuzhou, and was defeated by the generals under the command of General Peng, Tao Gongzu fell ill and died in September. His eldest son, Tao Shang, inherited his father's title, because of his lack of talent, Xuzhou is now controlled by the family clan, and there are many people who have Cao Xiang. If Cao Mengde takes advantage of Yu Yan to attack, it will not be a long time. According to the opinion of my subordinates, it is better to take Meng De before he moves, and I will take it first."

"Well, it's okay, it's just that this excuse is very difficult to find, so quickly gather the generals to discuss."

Just when Ouyang Xuan and his subordinates were thinking about how to take Xuzhou, a guard quietly entered the house, looked at the situation in the house, and whispered in Ouyang Xuan's ear: "Your Majesty, there is a Chinese officer outside the door who asks to see him, and it seems that he is seriously injured." Ouyang Xuan nodded and gestured out of the door with his eyes. He whispered a few more words to Tang De and walked out of the house.

"What's the situation?" Your Majesty, when the guard battalion was patrolling just now, I met a man covered in scars and wearing a Chinese military uniform outside the mansion. When treating his wounds, he was asked why he came here. He said that because he was persecuted in China, he had to live in the Han land. I heard that there is recruitment here, and the treatment is good, so I came here."

"Take him to my guest room, the surrounding area is strictly guarded, and without my permission, no one is allowed to enter except Wen Shang, General Peng, and General Linghu. Another general Zhong invited to the guest room". "No!".

Ouyang Xuan finished arranging, under the guard arch, went straight to the guest room, and after a while, a burly figure, wearing the camouflage uniform unique to Chinese soldiers, but it was dilapidated, judging from the camouflage system, it should be the first level of the school captain. Now in Huaxia, the lieutenant is a senior officer second only to the general, and he is treated with three grades. The soldiers in China now implement the military rank system, which was formulated by Ouyang Duo, which is divided into six levels of soldiers, eight levels of lieutenants, and four levels of generals, and the soldiers are privates, non-commissioned officers, young non-commissioned officers, non-commissioned officers of Lang, non-commissioned officers of Cao, non-commissioned officers and sergeant majors, and the lieutenants are second lieutenants, division lieutenants, attendant lieutenants, Lang lieutenants, Cao lieutenants, battalion lieutenants, all lieutenants, and school captains, and the generals are major generals, generals, generals, and generals. And this person is very likely to be a captain, which means that this person's status in the army is not low, at least he is also a senior general who commands a division.

The man's face was covered with scars, and there were obvious scars on his arms, and the wounds were deep and tightly bandaged, and his legs were also bandaged. It seems that he has experienced a fierce fight, and judging by the scars and scabs on his face, it should have been at least a month or so.

When that person saw Ouyang Xuan, he was stunned at first, then seemed to be a little excited, his body trembled involuntarily, and then he naturally stood up straight, knocked his legs, raised his right hand to the corner of his eyebrows, and raised his right hand to the corner of his eyebrows, a standard Huaxia military salute, and said in a loud voice: "Huaxia Zhongjun, Bingshen Army Gengyin Division Captain Wu Kun See His Majesty the Holy Emperor." After speaking, he knelt on one knee, supported his knee with his right hand, and clenched his left hand into a fist on the ground.

"Pingshen, according to the number, you should have been on duty at Shanhaiguan, why did you come here, and what grievances can be justified." After Ouyang Xuan finished speaking, he saw Zhong Zhao come in and motioned for him to sit down.

"Back to Your Majesty, things are a long story, please Rong Kun take your time." Wu Kun got up and said, Ouyang Xuan ordered the guard to move a stool, let him sit opposite him, and speak slowly.

Through Wu Kun's narration, Ouyang Xuan gradually understood the reason. It turned out that Wu Kun was stationed in Shanhaiguan during his tenure, and inspected the business travel to and from Han all year round, and gradually learned that there was an underworld force in Jizhou, which made a living by collecting road fees from merchants who came and went. Wu Kun also went to the Criminal Division to ask, and after the Criminal Division shirked many times, he simply didn't see Wu Kun again. Later, Wu Kun took the opportunity of visiting relatives and passing through Xia Gu to hand over all the evidence to the Criminal Department and the Ministry of Supervision. But on the way back from visiting relatives, he was assassinated many times, all of which were resolved by Wu Kun one by one, and when he arrived at the barracks, Wu Kun received an order to be ordered to retire, and the issuer was the governor of the northern military capital, just when Wu Kun wanted to plead, he was detained by the Military Punishment Department on the charge of collaborating with the enemy, and after the trial of the Military Justice Division, he was sentenced to death, and he did not even have a chance to appeal to Wu Kun, so he had to be executed. And those subordinates were beheaded by the Huaxia Military Judge Advocate General for treason.

Ouyang Xuan listened quietly and asked, "Can there be empirical evidence?" ”。

"Yes, Kun has always been with him, and he doesn't dare to lose." After speaking, he took out a piece of paper from his pocket, with a map and the location where to place the items, and handed it to the guards, Ouyang Xuan glanced at the map, the drawing was very fine, and it was also very standard. Ouyang Xuan handed the map to Zhong Zhao, "Qianshu, it's up to you to secretly verify this matter." Your military affairs will be temporarily handed over to Zilong, and Captain Wu will be temporarily arranged under your command to assist Zilong in governing the army." "No! The subordinate Yulin soldiers have been recuperating for a long time, and it is time for them to carry out activities."

If this matter is confirmed, it is what Ouyang Xuan is most afraid of, and the involvement of the army and officials is the most terrifying. has actually infiltrated the judicial system, which shows the strength of this force.

Half a year later, Zhong Zhao, who had disappeared from Qingzhou's military administration for five months, returned to Linzi with a tired face and several scars, and after a day of talking with Ouyang Xuan and Tang Demi, Ouyang Xuan returned to Xiagu with the guard battalion and all the Yulin troops in Qingzhou.

When the angry Ouyang Xuan held a big court meeting, all the officials felt the weirdness of the atmosphere, at the court Ouyang Xuan directly announced that Huaxia entered a state of emergency, Xia Gu implemented a curfew, and after announcing the order, Ouyang Xuan said loudly: "I always think that the people are good, and they rarely participate in government affairs for more than a hundred years, and hand over the government to the people, but now, there are people in the court who openly form bandits, openly rob, unjustly kill officers, and even worse, hide in the military and politics, and act as tigers." I have always hated corrupt officials, and now an excellent high-ranking Chinese officer has been persecuted by these evil forces and reduced to the Han land, begging for a living. I am here to say to these people, your days are over, the future will be your end, and I will let you know what hell is." As soon as Ouyang Xuan's words fell, several people immediately collapsed to the ground, Ouyang Xuan glanced at it, and then said: "I have visited the whole country for half a year to verify, and now there are tens of thousands of people with conclusive evidence. If I refuse to do so, the guilty will be punished, which is the system of the law, and will not be abolished because of the number of people, nor will it be shaken by the high power. If there is one, one will be killed, and more than 10,000 will be killed. There were also people who worried about the resurgence of rebellion, and it was from this rebellion that I have been nothing more than tearing down and starting over. If you want to be lucky, the law does not hold the public accountable, because the power of law enforcement is insufficient. I am not afraid, the country is established, I am not afraid to start over, I have more time. Now that China's strength has surpassed that of neighboring countries for more than 2,000 years, it has only returned to the original point. When I sent people to investigate and collect evidence, someone actually sent troops to assassinate my personal envoy, which was so arrogant that I was saddened that this China was the world of me and all the people, not the world of one person or one party. Spread this word to the whole world and tell every people in China."

With Ouyang Xuan's order, sixteen officials were directly arrested at the court meeting. After the court meeting, the whole city was searched, and Xia Gu alone arrested a thousand people, including officials of the Military and Political Yuan and courtiers. The Yulin Army operated almost simultaneously in various parts of China, arresting tens of thousands of criminals of all kinds, including as many as 10 high-ranking personnel of the Central Army. After all the arrests were completed, according to the list provided by Zhong Zhao, there were still several Xia Gu court officials and more than 300 military personnel from the border passes of the Central Army who had escaped the net. Later, it was found out that these people sensed that the limelight was wrong at the moment of the beginning of the operation, and they took the guys and hid in the mountains of Jizhou and became bandits. With Ouyang Xuan's special edict issued to the whole country, this case of collusion between military and political forces that shocked the whole country came to an end. Fifty-four thousand people were sentenced to death, and the first forty-six people were sentenced to Ling Chi, and the execution was carried out by the White Wolf Team, a group of extremely mysterious figures in Huaxia except for Ouyang Xuan. After careful consideration and repeated communication with Huang Tingzhong and Tang De, Ouyang Xuan placed the ICAC directly under the management of Ouyang Xuan, independent of the Huaxia administrative system, and investigated the corruption of Huaxia officials and officers at all levels of the army. Huang Tingzhong and Hu Zhai drafted the "Chinese Integrity Law", which was submitted to the Council and the Privy Council for review and approval. Ouyang Gui has not been involved in it, in fact, after she listened to Zhong Zhao's report, she was so angry that she smashed the case with one palm, and was about to order the nine clans to be punished according to the list, but Zhong Zhao and Huang Tingzhong persuaded them to send Zhong Zhao, who was still recuperating from his injuries, back to Linzi and called Ouyang Xuan to deal with it personally. This kind of thing involves such a large number of people, if Ouyang Xuan does not come out, he may cause a mutiny.

After dealing with the affairs of Xia Gu, Ouyang Xuan took the Yulin Army and the Wolf Phoenix Army into the mountainous area of Jizhou to encircle and suppress and escape, and became the mountain bandits.

Under the joint encirclement and suppression of 50,000 Yulin Army and 8,000 Wolf and Phoenix Army, these more than 300 people were all captured, and according to Ouyang Xuan's request, all the officials above the fourth rank and the officers above the battalion captain level in Jizhou were gathered together, and all the more than 300 people were subjected to Ling Chi in front of these people, and finally the meat cut off was fed to the dogs. Ouyang Xuan wrote the words "Dirty officials should be fed to dogs" on the trial book of these people. But what Ouyang Xuan didn't expect in this incident was to plant an invisible bomb for Huaxia, and at the same time, a system was formed, if the corrupt officials were convicted, in addition to punishing the three clans, Ling Chi would feed the dogs. This time, there were tens of thousands of relatives of the officials involved, and they were ordered by Ouyang Xuan to be exiled to a desert island to plant trees. In the Meritorious Pavilion, in front of the new grave, Ouyang Xuan ordered the heads of the people involved in the case of the Central Army to comfort the souls of the sky.

It was July 2044 when he returned to Linzi, Wu Kun's injuries were basically healed, and Ouyang Xuan appointed him as the Sima of other departments, under the command of Zhao Yun, and served as a partial general. Cao Cao still found an excuse to occupy Xuzhou as quickly as possible, isolating Qingzhou from the Liu Bei group and Sun Ce group in the south. Through this internal purge in Huaxia, Ouyang Xuan had the idea of giving up the fight for Han land. But a letter from the Yellow Gate that escaped from the Luoyang Palace brought Ouyang Xuan a blood edict, which gave Ouyang Xuan a new idea.