The Era of Generals

Chapter 357 - Traces of Marching

Be ready!

After receiving Zheng Yuanyun's instructions, all the barracks stationed outside Ketan City became busy.

From the outside, it was still a quiet camp with the Qingyang Emperor's flag fluttering, but the soldiers in the camp all had stern faces, and their swords were drawn.

This continued until... the next day.

All the soldiers who had been nervously waiting for the coming of the war had their eyes flushed.

Although Zheng Yuanyun's generals had arranged to be on duty in turn, everyone knew that the upcoming battle would be a million-level battle. In such a tense atmosphere, who else could really sleep?

Even Zheng Yuanyun's own big tent was always brightly lit, and he, the supreme commander himself, could hardly sleep.

But the result...

When Xiao Du's estimated time for the arrival of the enemy troops had passed, and the troops in Fengqi Province were still silent, Zheng Yuanyun realized something was wrong.

The time has come, and no one said anything, and none of their own scouts came back to report the latest situation.

At first, he thought that the scouts were closely watching the movement of Ouyang Lixing's army, and it was understandable that they didn't come back to report before the situation changed.

Although Xiao Du originally asked people to come back every once in a while to update the enemy's movements, but he himself has a lot of things to deal with, and besides, there is a straight line from Dongping City to Ketan City, so it is not easy. ignored.

But at this time, no one came when the time was up, and no one came back to report this abnormal behavior, which made Xiao Du slightly surprised.

It didn't show up at the expected time, which is enough to update the information, why still no one came?

Not only Xiao Du, but Zheng Yuanyun were also alerted.

Because of the vigilance in his heart, he ordered Xiao Du to lead the person out in person, making sure to find out the other party's movements.

As a result, Xiao Du's trip took another half a day, and the result he brought back surprised Zheng Yuanyun.

I thought that Ouyang Lixing would set off from Dongping City with an army, and of course his destination would be his place.

Right now, apart from a small part of Qingyang Empire's troops invading into Nantes Province, most of them were sent to Ketan City by Zheng Yuanyun, except for a small part of them stationed in the two cities of Tel and Xili.

Since the other side wants to expel their foreign enemies, where will they go if they don't come to Ketan City?

As a result, Xiao Du sent people to the border to check, and the guard post he had left here had been uprooted long ago, and no one was left alive.

In addition, there were scouts lurking nearby. After Xiao Du searched, all the bodies were found.

This shocked Xiao Du.

Of course he was aware of the scouts under him. The remaining ones were all elites trained by him, and they were all masters in lurking. If one or two were found, it would be possible for them all to be eradicated?

How can it be?

However, no matter how much Xiao Du didn't believe it, the facts were right in front of him, and more important than this was the movement of the army of the Zhu Yan Empire!

Along the way he saw traces of the marching army.

With a total of two million people, this trace cannot be erased, but the problem lies in the movement of that trace.

Ouyang Lixing's army did come out of the pass, but the marching route was not heading towards Ketan City, but turned a corner as soon as it came out, and went all the way along the border...

Heading inland to the province of Nantes!

Judging from this position, the other party would never go to Ketan City at all, on the contrary, he would keep away, until Zheng Yuanyun might not be able to see the other party's trace at all!

Xiao Du believed in his own judgment. Such a large number of marching marks could not be produced by just sending a small group of soldiers. The opponent was really marching there.

And it didn't hide it at all, even the scouts killed along the way were not dealt with, as if they were afraid that they would not know the marching route.

What are you doing?

Xiao Du, who is very good at investigation work but has a poor view of the overall situation, can't figure it out, but at least he knows one thing, that is, the situation may not be going as Mr. Zheng envisioned, so he hurried back to Report the situation in Zheng Yuanyun's big tent in Ketan City.

As for this abnormality, Zheng Yuanyun was also confused for a while.

Don't come and beat him?

Then this is to...

On the other side, Chen Ming, who was marching with the army, smiled at Ouyang.

After a day and a night of marching, Ouyang Lixing's defense against Chen Ming has been relaxed a lot, and more importantly, Chen Ming has provided him with a very detailed information.

This information is about the scout staff arranged by Xiao Du.

Of course, what Ouyang Lixing thought was that Chen Ze gave him the information before Chen Ming set off, but in fact, it was when the army came all the way. The scout's location was passed on to Chen Ming.

This is more accurate than getting the distribution of scouts from Xiao Du's hands. After all, scouts are human, they can move, and they won't stay in place at all.

Ouyang Lixing had also thought about this doubt. At the beginning, he also disapproved of Chen Ming's information, thinking that it was outdated information.

However, when his subordinates followed the directions provided by Chen Ming and tried to catch every one of them, and none of them failed, Ouyang was convinced.

Of course, the object of his admiration is not Chen Ze's detailed information, but the people in Qingyang Empire who are too honest.

This is simply to hide wherever you want, without your own consciousness at all, and once you hide well, you don't even move.

It seems that Zheng Yuanyun's training methods are also very general.

Where can the commander-in-chief who can train such useless scouts be so clever?

Zheng Yuanyun would never know that his evaluation in the opponent's commander's heart had dropped countless grades so unclearly, but all of this had nothing to do with him at all.

In this way, Ouyang Lixing lifted the obstacles on the road while marching. After a day and a night of rushing, he led the army far away from Ketan City.

Only then did he finally breathe a sigh of relief.

On the one hand, Chen Ze's strategy could not let Zheng Yuanyun know the movements of Zhu Yan's army early on, but on the other hand, he couldn't keep him from knowing.

I knew it earlier, once Zheng Yuanyun had an insight into his real intention, he would definitely try to send troops to stop it.

And at this time, it was not the time to face Zheng Yuanyun head-on, so it was auspicious to avoid the battle.

At the same time, Ouyang Lixing had to give Zheng Yuanyun enough reminders. After his army left, he had to let Zheng Yuanyun know their movements, so that Zheng Yuanyun could catch up and finally fall into the plan.

That's why he didn't let people erase the traces of the army's march, and at the same time left the scout's body in place to give Zheng Yuanyun enough reminders.

When the army finally moved away from Ketan City, it was too late for Zheng Yuanyun to chase after him, and this was what really made him fall into the trap.