The Era of Generals

Chapter 366 Departure

Not to mention how Chen Ze was struggling with the lack of combat achievements, he was also very busy outside Ketan City at the moment.

Sending Xiao Du back to rescue the soldiers was of course to better capture Nantes Province. Now that there is a reserve force, Zheng Yuanyun also has confidence in his heart.

He still knows Xiao Du's ability, and the momentary negligence before is considered a mistake, but there is no need to deny him just because of this.

Zheng Yuanyun's tolerance towards Xiao Du is precisely because of the opponent's ability. He believes that after experiencing the last mistake, Xiao Du will be more careful, and this time, he will not make another mistake.

Furthermore, who would have imagined that Zheng Yuanyun would run back to rescue soldiers at such a time?

The three main cities of Nantes Province are all under his control. Here, even if there are spies from the Zhu Yan Empire who know this information, who can he report it to?

Are there any subsidiary towns around the three main cities?

Those small towns can't take care of themselves right now, so how can they have the spare power to assist the spies to deal with those scouts?

In other words, who doesn't know that the Qingyang Empire will inevitably send more troops here?

Now that we know it, what's the problem if we don't deal with these scouts?

What's more, it is not so easy to deal with it. These scouts are not sneaking into the interior of Nantes Province, but running towards Anluo Province.

To deal with these people, one has to sneak into the interior of the three major cities first. How difficult is this?

The one who has this ability now is probably Ouyang who has a heavy soldier in his hand. Unfortunately, this person has rushed to the completely opposite direction with a large number of troops. It can be said that he is beyond his reach.

And the other person who didn't want him to have reinforcements coming was Chen Ze.

But now that Chen Ze is trapped in Ketan City, he can't help himself. Even if he wants to do this, how will he know when and what kind of people Zheng Yuanyun will send, and where to move the rescuers?

Xiao Du informs Chen Ze?

This is even more impossible. Xiao Du has always been his confidant, and up to now, he has never met Chen Ze even once. If you talk about betrayal, who would be so stupid as to betray the strong side and choose to take refuge in this situation? The underdog?

So the matter of moving the rescuers seemed very urgent, but as far as the matter itself was concerned, Zheng Yuanyun didn't feel that there was any danger, and the degree of difficulty was zero.

Therefore, he was very relieved and didn't think that this matter would become any difficulty. What he was doing now was to start deploying to attack Nantes Province.

Ouyang Lixing has already made a clear strategy, which is to occupy a few cities for the purpose of holding on, and then use these cities as a base to receive Zhu Yan who can come to Nantes Province for support in the future. army.

Time is running out, Zheng Yuanyun can only send troops as fast as possible, and try to take down as many cities as possible before colliding with Ouyang Lixing. The best result is to leave only the three cities beyond the reach of Zheng Yuanyun for Ouyang Lixing The city, and then stick to it, waiting for the follow-up troops to arrive, and then fight Ouyang in a decisive battle.

This was the best solution that Zheng Yuanyun could think of after losing the opportunity, and he was even willing to sacrifice part of his profits to the two neighboring provinces in exchange for reinforcements from the other side.

There's nothing wrong with that in itself, really not at all.

Even if Chen Ze was in the position of Zheng Yuanyun, he would have made the same choice, otherwise the plan to seize Nantes Province would be in vain.

It's a pity that Zheng Yuanyun would never have thought that even though he had a strategy, Chen Ze, who was sure, didn't know the truth, how could he know that his every move here was under the surveillance of Chen Ze.

So this foolproof strategy has been riddled with holes from the very beginning.

Zheng Yuanyun's arrangement was very fast here, and he wanted to seize more of the city before the reinforcements arrived, so that after the reinforcements arrived, he would have a lot more chips in his hand, and divided The benefits of going out will naturally be less.

So not long after Xiao Du led the scouts out of the barracks, Zheng Yuanyun was also ready here.

The army pulls out the camp!

For the sake of safety, Zheng Yuanyun did not arrange to take away all the soldiers. After all, there is still Chen Ze in Ketan City. No matter what, he will not let Chen Ze leave!

The two additional troops in his hands brought two million troops, plus the half a million he took back from Yang Mingzhong, the total number of troops was around two and a half million.

He expected to take away only 2 million of them this time, leaving 500,000 troops to still block the four city gates.

Although the reduction in troops would make it possible for Chen Ze to break out of the city, but can Chen Ze really leave the city?

Zheng Yuanyun has an order, Chen Ze and the nearly 100,000 troops in his hands, the task now is to stick to Ketan City, with this order, even if there is no 500,000 troops outside, Chen Ze can't really say go just go.

In any case, Zheng Yuanyun is the supreme commander here, and there is nothing wrong with the task he assigned to Chen Ze. How could Chen Ze not carry it out?

Well, you, Chen Ze, left Ketan City in disregard of orders, which is exactly what Zheng Yuanyun wanted.

In this way, he had even more reason to punish Chen Ze, and even ordered the 500,000 troops left behind to chase and kill Chen Ze on the spot, without giving him the possibility to leave Nantes province at all.

Chen Ze dared to leave, which made it more legitimate, and Zheng Yuanyun wished to solve his trouble first when he launched a general attack.

The 500,000 troops were not there to guard Chen Ze, but more to intercept and kill Chen Ze!

When everything was ready, Zheng Yuanyun waved his hand and led an army of two million to set up camp and head for a small affiliated city closest to Ketan City.

With an army of two million, not to mention attacking a small town with less than 100,000 defenders, it would be no problem even if it was directly bulldozed and crushed. When they set off, Zheng Yuanyun looked very satisfied.

On the other side, at the bridgehead of Ketan City, Meng Yang, who fought against Zheng Yuanyun's thousands of soldiers by himself, yawned.

He pointed to the direction where the army left, and said boredly: "Your master has already left, why are you still sticking around here?"

"Aren't you going to wag your tail?"

"Meng Yang, don't go too far!"

After such a long confrontation, the general on the opposite side has already received all the information about Meng Yang. Although he knows that this person is difficult to deal with, he is not so weak that he dare not speak up when he is ridiculed.

Hearing this, the spear pointed sharply, and said: "You bastard, how long do you have to play around here? I advise you, either go back early, or come over and fight us, and don't act like a rogue. You are weak. own name!"

Meng Yang rubbed Xingsong's sleepy eyes, and said with a chuckle, "You're rolling over and over again, why don't you roll over and try?"

Glancing slightly out of the corner of his eyes, he saw a faint shadow crawling across the river just under the moat.