The Era of Generals

Chapter 353   Merits and Demerits?

After the troops of the Zhu Yan Empire entered the Nantes province, they could only rob the city but not attack it.

If it is to attack the city, there is a high probability that Ouyang Lixing's tired army will not be able to defeat Zheng Yuanyun. After all, although he has nearly three million troops, the main source of these troops comes from the four cities adjacent to the border. The other cities in the city can be said to be the gathering of motley troops.

On the other hand, Zheng Yuanyun's side, among other things, the 500,000 elite soldiers he took back from Yang Mingzhong is definitely an extremely powerful combat force, and it is not an exaggeration to say that one hits two.

What are the consequences of such a disadvantage in military strength?

This would make it impossible for Ouyang Lixing to match Zheng Yuanyunfang on the frontal battlefield.

Only by relying on the advantages of city defense, can he eliminate the shortcomings caused by the quality of troops, and be able to fight evenly.

What Chen Ze needs to do is to try his best to help Ouyang Lixing play such a well-matched match.

Whether Nantes Province will be captured by the Qingyang Empire is not within Chen Ze's consideration at all, and he even hopes that Zheng Yuanyun will not be able to take Nantes Province.

Only in that way, Zheng Yuanyun would have no spare energy to turn around and deal with him.

To help Ouyang do what he does is to help himself!

When Chen Ming was sent to contact Ouyang Lixing, Chen Ze had already considered this point, so what he had to do was not just to deliver a message, but also to provide more help to Ouyang Lixing.

Even though Ouyang Lixing did not tell Chen Ming about this, as long as he is willing to send troops, he is actually interested in the help that Chen Ze will provide him in the future.

In order for Ouyang Lixing to grab as many subordinate cities of Nantes Province as possible, he must know Zheng Yuanyun's marching plan clearly.

And this is the reason why Chen Ze sent Gu Qingfeng and others to infiltrate Zheng Yuanyun's camp, looking for his main account.

Gu Qingfeng and Zhang Hualin's luck was very good, or it could be said that Zheng Yuanyun was too ostentatious. His big tent was built more luxuriously than other generals' camps. In this large densely packed tent, he stood out from the crowd. It is impossible not to notice the existence of it.

With their profound lurking skills, even in this densely populated barracks, the two of them sneaked onto the top of the big tent effortlessly without disturbing anyone, watching everything below in silence .

It is worth mentioning that, not long ago, Chen Ze had conducted the military general assessment for Gu Qingfeng and the other five.

These five people are also full of drama.

When they first met Chen Ze, the five people headed by Gu Qingfeng didn't like this brat at all, and even rejected Chen Ze's invitation to recruit.

At that time, the loyalty of Gu Qingfeng and others was so low that it was appallingly low, and it didn't even reach double digits.

Chen Ze also almost gave up on these five people. If it wasn't for the good cooperation they showed during the battle with Xu Qing, Chen Ze at that time also wanted Meng Yang to send everyone back to the barracks.

But who would have thought that when these five people followed Chen Ze, especially after Chen Ze provided them with almost tailor-made special training, the loyalty of the five people would actually increase.

Later, Chen Ze gradually assigned many tasks to the five people. During the task, Gu Qingfeng and the others began to show the results of special training. This feeling of growing strength also made them more and more grateful to Chen Ze, which stimulated Loyalty growth.

So after returning to Nantes Province from Xifeng City, Chen Ze called the five of them together before the break. After all kinds of rhetoric, the loyalty of the five had reached more than 95%. People easily agreed to the assessment, and finally passed all of them.

So now Chen Ze can also get in touch with Gu Qingfeng and others through the instant call function of the system, and the information they can get from Zheng Yuanyun will be sent back to Chen Ze immediately.

the other side.

An hour has come, and the intensive preparation work of Dongping City is coming to an end.

When Ouyang Lixing came out of the study, he was also fully armed, walking like a dragon and walking like a tiger.

Don't look at him who has always been good at wit and tactics, but Ouyang Lixing is a solid general. He can reach the rank of general soldier, so there is no doubt about his high military strength.

"Come on!"

After leaving the study room, Ouyang Lixing yelled loudly, there had been messengers guarding near him, he walked quickly to Ouyang Lixing and answered yes.

"How are you getting ready?"

Ouyang asked sternly.

"Back to the general, all the troops have been assembled, just waiting for the general's instructions!"

The messenger handed the document reports such as the troop configuration and other documents sent back by the generals in front to Ouyang Lixing.

Ouyang Lixing naturally knew the situation of his own military strength very well. After taking the document and just glanced at it, he nodded slightly and praised: "Very good, this is the good man of my Zhuyan Empire!"

"Then..."

He was about to give an order, but the messenger hesitated for a while, and said: "General, that person from the Qingyang Empire wants to see the general!"

"he?"

Ouyang Lixing frowned when he heard the words, but the messenger didn't mention it, he almost forgot that there was Chen Ming.

In his mind, Chen Ming's role was to deliver a message for Chen Ze. As for the next thing, it was naturally the cooperation between him and Chen Ze.

And Ouyang Lixing also thought very clearly, even though he was very decisive in dispatching troops, it was actually just a test first.

If he didn't get the next message from Chen Ze after he dispatched troops, but just let himself go against Zheng Yuanyun, Ouyang Lixing would withdraw his troops without hesitation.

This matter is not only about the ownership of Zhu Yan Empire's Nantes Province, but also about Chen Ze's own life and death.

Ouyang Lixing's willingness to send troops was based on the consideration of the overall situation. He believed that if Chen Ze had the inner support, his chances of regaining Nantes province would be much higher.

And what if Chen Ze's internal response can't play its due role, but he just wants to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight with a word of mouth?

So I'm sorry, Ouyang Lixing is not used to being used as a gunman, the big deal is that the province of Nantes doesn't want it.

His base camp is Fengqi Province, as long as he defends Fengqi Province, he will have no merits, so why bother to be greedy for merit?

The big deal is to wait until the empire breathes a sigh of relief before sending reinforcements, and then he will share the credit with the new generals equally.

Ouyang Lixing paid far less attention to military exploits than Zheng Yuanyun. Zheng Yuanyun would rather miss the best opportunity to win the fruits of victory with his own hands, but Ouyang Lixing did not.

He has always been good at foresight, and the principle he pursues is to seek no merits and no faults!

But at this time, Chen Ming asked to see Ouyang Lixing, so it was the follow-up of Chen Ze's confession that failed?