The Era of Generals

Listening to Du Jun's report coldly, Zhang Chengwang's face was uncertain.

It wasn't until Du Jun finished reporting what happened in Xiyun City with seven points of truth and three points of falsehood that he said with a little regret: "So, that guy Fang Yan was lucky. He didn't die after being defeated and captured. Saved by Ruan Wenshan?"

Du Jun replied: "Yes! The city lord of Xiyun City was not in the city at that time, and his subordinates did not dare to make decisions easily, so they temporarily detained us and interrogated them after their city lord came back."

This is the rhetoric that Chen Ze and Du Jun discussed before. The first half is almost the same. It is nothing more than how Fang Yan integrated the serious criminals in the poisonous mist forest, but how he underestimated the enemy under the belief that he would win, and was defeated by Xiyun City. The generals who stayed behind were defeated and eventually became prisoners.

The previous incident was a real experience, and it was also witnessed by Secret Inspector Zhu Yan who was observing the battle situation in the dark at that time.

As for the question of whether Fang Yan was dead or not, the spies could at most just wait and see from a distance, so naturally they couldn't confirm Fang Yan's life or death in person.

So no matter what Du Jun said, it was something that could not be verified.

What's more, Zheng Yuanlong, the lord of Xiyun City, and Zheng Yuanyun, the lord of Bo'an City, are brothers. Zheng Yuanlong rushed to Bo'an in the starry night, so that the defense of Xiyun City was empty. This was originally in Zhang Chengwang's plan.

It is reasonable that the execution was not executed temporarily because the city lord was away, but it also indirectly flattered Zhang Chengwang. It was because of his plan that Fang Yan escaped.

When Chen Ze taught Du Jun and Guo Zi how to speak, he considered almost every aspect of the problem, and he didn't even let go of the little loopholes in the other party's psychology.

Sure enough, Zhang Chengwang's eyes showed regret, didn't he also show his complacency at the same time?

"Go ahead."

Zhang Chengwang discussed Du Jun's rhetoric, but found no loopholes in it, so he raised his chin slightly, motioning for the two to continue.

Du Jun didn't speak again, but turned his attention to Guo Zi beside him.

Guo Zi immediately said in his weird Xuanjia accent: "My lord, the next thing is clearer, so let me explain it for the generals."

What he was talking about was Du Jun's personal experience. It was about how Ruan Wenshan led 30,000 ambush troops to sneak in from the east of Anluo Province, how they reunited, how they ambush the troops of Zhangning City, and captured a large number of Zhangning troops. After Lin Jun was subdued, he began to roam around Anluo Province to block the opponent's supply line.

Zhang Chengwang listened noncommittally, what Guo Zi said was no different from what he planned.

"Then how many supply lines did you block in total?"

While Guo Zi was panting, Zhang Chengwang asked plainly.

Without hesitation, Guo Zi opened his mouth and said, "Three articles!"

"Only three?"

Zhang Chengwang frowned, and said coldly: "At the beginning, the task assigned to Ruan Wenshan by the commander was to cut off at least five, but you only attacked three?"

Guo Zi hurriedly said: "That's because General Ruan discovered a loophole when he attacked the supply line of Xichuan City adjacent to Xiyun City!"

"Go on!"

"yes!"

Then Guo Zi said again: "According to the command of the commander-in-chief, General Ruan led the ambush troops to attack everywhere. When they attacked the supply line of Xichuan City, they accidentally discovered that the troops of Xiyun City were heading towards Bo'an!"

"West Cloud City?"

Zhang Chengwang was slightly taken aback, "Zheng Yuanlong led the army back to defense?"

Guo Zi shook his head and said, "Not at all!"

"After Xiyun City defended against the attack of General Yan below, it sent troops to sweep the poisonous mist forest. Maybe it felt that the crisis was lifted and wanted to claim credit, or there was another order from Bo'an City. In order not to startle the snake, General Ruan did not choose Instead of attacking the army of about 10,000 people, we sent scouts to Xiyun City to investigate."

"In the end, I was surprised to find that there were less than 3,000 defenders in Xiyun City at that time!"

Guo Zi sighed: "General Ruan certainly didn't want to miss such a serious flaw, so he assembled his troops and took Xiyun City in one fell swoop without the other party's reaction!"

Zhang Chengwang didn't say anything more, the so-called military orders abroad were not accepted, and Ruan Wenshan's impromptu performance could not be said to be wrong.

Guo Zi said again: "After taking Xiyun City, General Ruan did not delay, sent 10,000 troops to guard Xiyun City, and used 20,000 soldiers and horses to pretend to be Xiyun City's support troops, and deceived Xichuan City into opening. Door!"

"At that time, Xichuan City was eaten by us for two waves of supply troops. It was a time of shortage of manpower, and we did not expect that General Ruan would take the opportunity to sneak attack. We almost took control of Xichuan City without a single soldier!"

Speaking of this, Zhu Yan's generals, who had been quietly listening to Zhang Chengwang's conversation with the two, couldn't help whispering to each other, and most of their brows were filled with joy.

If what Guo Zi said is true, Ruan Wenshan's contribution is not insignificant.

Xiyun and Xichuan are important cities in the west of Anluo Province. Due to the favorable location, it is extremely difficult to break through from the outside, so Zhang Chengwang thought of using the power of the Poisonous Mist Forest, but it was a pity that he failed.

But he didn't want to be broken by Ruan Wenshan from the inside. In this way, Bo'an City's role as an Anluo barrier would be greatly weakened. Zhu Yan's army could be divided into two groups, one side continued to put pressure on Bo'an City, and the other side was controlled by Xi Yun. Entering the city, rushing to the back of Bo'an City with superior forces, encircling Bo'an City with two flanks, this is really turning Bo'an City into an isolated city.

If so, breaking the city is just around the corner!

Among the beaming generals, only Zhang Chengwang remained calm.

"After capturing Xichuan City, what did Ruan Wenshan do?"

Zhang Chengwang frowned and asked.

"Set it on fire!"

Guo Zi simply said: "Not only Xichuan City, but also Xiyun City!"

"Burned?"

Zhang Chengwang nodded, "Well done, Ruan Wenshan's scheming is not weak."

Burned, of course it had to be burned.

Ruan Wenshan's troops in Anluo Province are only 30,000, and there is nothing to replenish. It can be said that every death means one less.

And he took down Xiyun City and Xichuan City successively. With the 30,000 troops, he couldn't defend these two cities at all, so he couldn't help but burn them happily.

Moreover, if it is burned, it will pose the greatest threat to Bo'an City!

There is nothing more shocking than setting fire to the city. The news that the two cities were burned will inevitably spread to Bo'an City at an extremely fast speed.

So what will Bo'an City do?

Send someone to help or...

Finally realized that there was a problem with the supply line from home?

Once these two cities were burned, Bo'an didn't even know how many enemy troops were lurking in Anluo Province, so how could they come to help?

The current Bo'an City itself is a giant baby who needs support from others, how dare Zhang Chengwang disperse his men to help the two cities under the eyes of Zhang Chengwang's two million troops?

But if it doesn't help...

Let the opponent go to attack the city?

Isn't this slow suicide?