The Era of Generals

Chapter 370 - Abandonment and Abandonment

One, two!

Twenty-one, fifty-seven!

The interception continues!

Every once in a while, Chen Ze would receive a report from Gu Qingfeng or the other three. Every time a report was made, a scout from the other party was killed in battle.

At this moment, the number of scouts who died at the hands of Gu Qingfeng and others had already reached fifty-seven.

Because of Wang Ping's military skills, Chen Ze didn't send other people to participate in the interception, and only let the four of them hunt down one by one without rushing.

Fifty-seven people found the request for help documents from their bodies, but only two of them. In addition, Gu Qingfeng also learned from one of them that the documents and tokens issued by Xiao Du were distributed by people with this item on their bodies. There are ten people in total.

That is to say, there are eight other people who can also find reinforcements for Zheng Yuanyun.

These are impossible to let go!

But no matter what, the situation is developing in a stable direction. Another point is that Chen Ze has already intercepted and killed fifty-seven opponents here, but Zheng Yuanyun didn't know about it.

Not only him, but even those scouts have no connection with each other.

This is thanks to Xiao Du's scattered and latent tactics.

It has to be said that his tactic brought Chen Ze a lot of trouble at the beginning, but once the matter was resolved, the disadvantages of Xiao Du's arrangement became apparent.

No one knew he was dead.

Also, no one knew that the more than 300 scouts were carrying out a seemingly safe mission, but this mission was actually dangerous from the very beginning.

It is needless to say what kind of crisis a plan that has been discovered will bring, but these scouts who have no contact with each other do not know that the plan has been leaked.

So even though they were as careful as possible when they were on their way, they still lacked the most important sense of crisis, so that when they were intercepted by Gu Qingfeng and others, they didn't react as they should.

This even included Xiao Du who was the first to be intercepted.

There is no problem anymore.

Chen Ze focused on the location of Gu Qingfeng and the others, as well as the locations of the more than three hundred scouts. He knew that it was only a matter of time to intercept these scouts.

Although fifty-seven people found two people, there is no need to be nervous.

What he was more concerned about at this time was the current battle situation of the army led by Zheng Yuanyun.

Starting from Ketan City, about a three-day journey, there is a subsidiary city closest to the three main cities, named Xilong City.

This city is the first stop of Zheng Yuanyun's plan to capture Nantes Province. Once he breaks through this city, he can divide his army into three parts, use Xilong City as his base, and simultaneously spread and attack the other three cities behind it.

Xilong City has a special geographical location. It starts from Ketan City and continues to travel to the interior of Nantes Province. If it strangles Xilong City, it is equivalent to jamming the neck of the entire Nantes Province.

Originally, the geographical location of West Longcheng was actually more suitable as the gateway of Nantes Province. In fact, the Nantes Province many years ago really started from West Longcheng.

But in a certain battle later, Anluo Province suffered a defeat, and had to shrink its territory back, until it retreated to the natural pass of Bo'an City to stop the disadvantage.

Afterwards, the Qingyang Empire learned from the painful experience and decided that it was far more cost-effective to use Bo'an City as a stronghold than to occupy a little more land before, and then began to focus on the development of Bo'an City.

To this day, Bo'an City's defenses are strong. Even if Zhang Chengwang personally led an army of nearly 3 million soldiers to the city, he was still not fully sure that he could capture the city. Instead, he needed to use the strategy of secretly crossing the old warehouse, and start from the weak point of Anluo Province. Ambush strategy.

At that time, the decisiveness of the Qingyang Empire led to the addition of three main cities in Nantes Province.

This is in exchange for victory.

The Qingyang Empire can abandon it decisively, not only because it thinks it is not easy to defend, but also because it has just suffered a defeat and its military strength is tight, so it is a strategic abandonment.

And the Zhuyan Empire won this battle with great difficulty, and there is absolutely no reason to give up the benefits they have obtained, but just as the Qingyang Empire thinks, that piece of land is indeed not very conducive to defense, unless it is...

Unless, on the basis of the original Qingyang Empire's city, three main cities for offense and defense are built in one piece, so that they can firmly occupy the fruits of victory.

This is the origin of the three cities of Tel, Xili, and Ketan.

As for Xilong City, which originally existed as the main city, although it has a superior geographical location, it has been wrapped under the defense system of the three main cities after all, so its sense of existence is getting weaker and weaker, and it has long since lost its former glory.

Back then when Zhang Chengwang was defeated and the three main cities were captured, Xilong City was supposed to be the front line against the Qingyang Empire's invasion, but unfortunately there were no soldiers at hand, thank God if the opponent didn't come to attack them, how dare they attack them instead.

Even Zheng Yuanyun waited so long to come to Xilong City. During such a long time, Xilong City could only barely gather the few defenders from the neighboring cities, and organized an army that was not bad. A defense force that can see past.

But when Zheng Yuanyun's soldiers approached the city, they were only 300,000.

With 300,000 versus 2 million, Xilong City must be equipped with hot weapons and heavy firepower that Chen Ze only had in his previous life in order to win this offensive and defensive battle.

Unfortunately, this is not Chen Ze's previous life. Even Chen Ze himself cannot get those things through the system, because the result of this battle is already doomed.

But that's not the point.

The point is, how long can Xilong City be defended?

It was expected that Zheng Yuanyun would lead his troops to attack the city and seize time with Ouyang Lixing, so Chen Ze suggested to Ouyang Lixing through Chen Ming that Xilong City and other cities along the way must do their best to block the opponent's attack , as long as you can delay.

Only by buying enough time for Ouyang Lixing to deploy on the border of Nantes Province, can the result of this battle go in a clearer direction.

In the final analysis, what Ouyang Lixing has to do right now is to let these cities that would have been captured play their final role, and become a stumbling block on Zheng Yuanyun's road to success.

The longer it is delayed, the greater the chance, so these subsidiary cities have become the key to the top priority at the moment.

Although these cities would be sacrificed, and it was not impossible for Zheng Yuanyun to massacre the cities in anger, how could he care about so much at this time?

How to choose between a city and a province?

Cruelty is very cruel, but in order to win the final victory, when Chen Ze made this suggestion, Ouyang Lixing also knew the key to it.

After three days of marching, the troops led by Zheng Yuanyun had already arrived outside Xilong City!