The Era of Generals

Chapter 227 - Abnormal

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Seeing Yang Mingzhong's confidant rushing to look for him in such a hurry, Chen Ze immediately realized something was wrong.

At the same time, he clicked on the system map, opened the maps of more than a dozen Xuanjia elites one by one, but found nothing unusual.

The scouts sent by Yang Mingzhong were naturally not displayed in Chen Ze's system.

As Yang Mingzhong's subordinates returned to the city lord's mansion, Yang Mingzhong frowned on the coach chair that only Zhang Chengwang could sit in. Below him, there was a tall and thin young man with a dusty face and still not breathing well. Judging by his attire, he is a scout in the army.

"Brother Chen, you've come!"

Seeing Chen Ze coming in, before Chen Ze greeted him, Yang Mingzhong's eyes lit up first, and he jumped up from the generous coach chair, and rushed to Chen Ze, looking like he had found the backbone generally.

"what happened?"

Chen Ze got straight to the point. During this period of time, he also got used to the lord governor's dependence on him.

"Guan Ping, tell me!"

Yang Mingzhong turned his head to look at the tall and thin young man.

"yes!"

Guan Ping agreed, then turned to Chen Ze with cupped hands, and said, "My lord, this subordinate was sent by General Yang to the vicinity of Ketan City to investigate the enemy's situation."

"The past few days have been calm, but three days ago, the scout team under him discovered that there were a large number of troops assembled in a place more than 30 miles west of Ketan City!"

"Thirty miles to the west?"

Chen Ze was taken aback for a moment, and couldn't help but look at the huge map hanging on the side of the hall.

This map is the whole picture of Nantes Province. As early as when he set off from Bo'an City, Chen Ze had studied the topography of Nantes Province thoroughly.

What Guan Ping said is more than 30 miles west of Ketan City, if the marching line is moved to the west...

Fengqi Province!

This is another province adjacent to Nantes Province, which also belongs to the territory of the Zhu Yan Empire, and it can be named after Feng, which shows the breadth of this province.

At the same time, this is also the province closest to Ketan City among the three major cities in Nantes Province. Starting from Ketan City, it only takes about ten days to reach Luofeng City, the most edge of Fengqi Province.

Of course, the status of Luofeng City is similar to that of Xiyun City in Anluo Province. It is just a small fringe city, and there are not many troops.

If it was just Luofeng City, it would not be able to support Nantes Province.

At the beginning, Chen Ze had paid attention to Fengqi Province, but finally came to the conclusion that this large province closest to Nantes Province could not support Nantes Province in a short period of time.

The reason is that although the Fengqi Province is large, the enemy it faces is even stronger. It is the largest empire in the mainland in terms of overall strength, the Bailie Empire!

Fengqi Province has been shouldering the important task of defending against the Bailie Empire all year round. Although there are many troops under its command, they absolutely dare not move lightly.

Especially now, the battle between Nantes Province and Anluo Province has attracted almost all attention from all sides. I believe that by now, the results of the two sides have already been placed on the table of the coaches of the major provinces.

At this time, Fengqi Province dares to send troops to aid Nantes Province?

If you send too few soldiers, you won't be able to fight. If you send too many soldiers, your own defense will have problems. Since the Bailie Empire ranks first, it is the most ambitious one on this continent. They will never let go. take this opportunity.

At that time, it will not only be a matter of losing a Nantes province, but the whole body will be affected, and even the Fengqi province will be eaten away.

Losing two major provinces one after another would be such a huge loss that the Zhu Yan Empire would be too painful to breathe.

So even if the head coach of Fengqi Province wanted to come to help, Zhu Yan Empire would strictly order him to protect himself first, and would never allow this to happen.

That being the case, where did this army come from?

Guan Ping was a bit clever, and when he saw Chen Ze's expression, he immediately kept silent, until Chen Ze thought for a moment, and asked first, "How big is your so-called large number?"

Guan Ping's face straightened, and he quickly said: "From the perspective of scale, it is estimated to be between 1 million and 1.5 million. Please forgive me, my lord. The subordinates cannot get too close. The exact number is still unknown. To, but it will not exceed this range!"

"One million to one and a half million?"

Chen Ze was even more startled, this number was even more beyond his imagination.

You must know that even in Fengqi Province, which is not weak, this force has almost accounted for about one-third of the entire province's force.

Suddenly losing one-third of their troops, how can they defend against the massive attack of the Bailie Empire?

"Does the other party have a flag?"

Chen Ze asked again.

"not at all!"

Guan Ping replied: "This army assembled carefully. According to the observation of my subordinates, they even tied cotton to the horse's feet. The soldiers also tried their best to carefully wrap any reflective weapons with black cloth."

"The gathering place is another sunken canyon overgrown with bushes. If the subordinate team hadn't accidentally discovered faint fireworks rising in the canyon and ran to investigate, they probably wouldn't have noticed it until now."

Chen Ze frowned even deeper.

What does it mean?

The army of more than one million has exceeded the total strength of the Qingyang Empire led by him and Yang Mingzhong. What's more, their 600,000 army is divided into three cities, and each city is only 20 on average. It's just a million troops.

With an army of more than one million, attacking any of the cities should be a matter of hand, and there is no way to fight at all.

With such overwhelming strength, what else do they need to hide?

To put it bluntly, there is no need to fight any city this army is going to. Chen Ze and the others have to withdraw from that city, and they will not be able to fight against it until the 600,000 troops gather in a city.

If this is the case, Chen Ze and the others should have lost two cities right now, and only this city of Tel, which is closest to Bo'an City, can hold on for a while.

But it was just defending, and it was extremely difficult to regain the lost ground, even if Zheng Yuanyun's follow-up troops arrived.

Zheng Yuanyun's follow-up army still has one million troops. It is estimated that they will arrive in these two days, but it will be too late. After losing two cities, the gate of Nantes Province will be closed to them.

If they are forced to attack, even if the opponent divides their forces to defend, the two cities will leave 500,000 defenders each, and their vitality will be severely damaged if they want to fight them down. So how can they have the energy to capture the entire Nantes province?

The situation was like this, there was no need to deliberately hide this sudden army, as long as the troops were approaching the city, life would not be too easy for Chen Ze and the others.

However, not only did they not launch an attack, but they even hid in a canyon. What was their intention?