The Era of Generals

Chapter 408 - Hidden

Ma Chong, who replaced Xiao Du as the head of the scouts, did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly led Zheng Yuanyun to the place where he was investigating.

Zheng Yuanyun took his personal guards as guards. In order to prevent Ouyang Lixing from discovering their movements, he even pulled back deliberately, and then detoured to the main traffic road that Ma Chong said.

This road is very wide, starting from the inland border of the province of Nantes, almost crossing the east and west, dividing the province of Nantes into two halves, and running through to the city of Tell.

It can be said that if there is no obstacle, through this road, troops can be sent from the inland to support the three main cities of Tel, Xili and Ketan in a very short period of time.

At the beginning Zhang Chengwang actually used this road to search for as many troops as possible, but it was a pity that his success failed, and it also led to the current situation where the troops in the cities of Nantes Province were empty.

After making a big detour, hundreds of elite soldiers including Zheng Yuanyun and Ma Chong came to the side of this main road.

Looking around, as Ma Chong said, there are no obstructions on both sides of the road, and the road looks very empty, which can be said to be unobstructed.

This is actually very easy to understand.

In some war-prone areas, most of the defenders will choose to plant some dense forests according to the plan. These dense forests can be used by both the enemy and us, but as defenders, they are more aware of the terrain in the dense forest, and can even plan in advance. Some arrangements play the role of warning or ambush.

But here in Tianyuan City, it is really unnecessary.

In this rear area, the ultimate goal is to transport enough troops at one time, fast enough, and convenient enough to plant a dense forest to stop one's own march?

That is impossible.

In addition, Tianyuan City is on one side of this road, which can be regarded as some defensive force, but on the other side is a small stream. In addition to transporting troops by land, the waterway can also provide a certain amount of support. In this way, it is even more unnecessary Block your own vision.

Therefore, as Ma Chong said, Zheng Yuanyun observed for a while and came to the conclusion that there were no ambushes on both sides of this road.

Compared with Tianyuan City's heavy guards, this more important troop transport route is completely defenseless?

Even, there is not even the necessary sentry checkpoint, just placed there so big, at a glance, at the far end, you can even faintly see a trace of the next city, the shadow of the river chasing the city.

Is this serious?

Zheng Yuanyun frowned, how could it be called strange, this is clearly an obvious trap, right?

But the function of this trap is...

Zheng Yuanyun raised his head, and he could clearly see the city wall of Tianyuan City from him. As Ma Chong said, Tianyuan City was built against a mountain on one side, so there were only three gates to enter, and these three gates On the periphery of the city, a whole circle of city walls was expanded, which strengthened the originally weak defense of Tianyuan City by more than one notch.

"Do you know how many troops are in Tianyuan City at this moment?"

After pondering for a moment, Zheng Yuanyun asked.

"this……"

Ma Chong blushed, "My lord, their outer city wall has played a very good role in hiding soldiers. It is still impossible to estimate how many troops there are in Tianyuan City."

Hearing this, Zheng Yuanyun was dissatisfied.

It's been so long, and even before coming, the principle of scouting first has been implemented all the time, so the scout team of Ma Chong and others even arrived a long time before Zheng Yuanyun's large army, but in such a long time, But he didn't even have a good investigation of how many troops the opponent had.

If it was Xiao Du, I would definitely be able to give him a number!

Zheng Yuanyun sighed in his heart, knowing that his dissatisfaction was nothing but dissatisfaction. It is not bad for Ma Chongneng to have detected this level. It would be really difficult for him to find out the deployment of troops in Tianyuan City.

The so-called specialization in the art industry, Ma Chong is not a professional scout, and he will inevitably be lacking in some detection methods. This is because Zheng Yuanyun was mentally prepared when he asked him to replace the chief scout. At this moment, I can't say anything more .

Furthermore, the surrounding walls of Tianyuan City were really cunningly built.

The city wall built by Ouyang Lixing was directly built on the periphery of Tianyuan City, which was higher than the original city wall, and the two old and new city walls were already connected together, which formed a height gap .

The defenders in Tianyuan City can hide on the top of the old city wall. If you look up from your own side outside the city, you can't see this part of the defenders at all. And take the lead.

So at the moment, it is impossible to follow the usual habits and make a rough judgment by visually measuring the number of defenders on the top of the city, and then taking into account the opponent's reserve force, rotation of soldiers, and a series of factors.

In Tianyuan City, perhaps one hundred thousand soldiers can be seen from the new city wall. According to past experience, it can be roughly inferred that the number of defenders is around 300,000.

And with this act of hiding soldiers, it's hard to say whether the 100,000 is really 100,000, or there are another 100,000 hidden on the old city wall that they can't see.

The difference between the two is that they have twice the strength, and the effects they will have in battle are completely different, which makes Zheng Yuanyun dare not take it lightly no matter what.

Another effect is that there are only three gates in Tianyuan City, and the three walls have this heightening design, so Zheng Yuanyun can't see which city wall has fewer defenders and more guards. Can become a breakthrough in the siege.

Even though the soldiers on the side of the city wall he was looking at at this time were relatively empty compared to the main city gate before, who could guarantee that once he used this city gate as a breakthrough, there would not be a large number of soldiers on the old city wall? Take the lead to snipe them?

Not being able to figure out the enemy's deployment of troops made it impossible for Zheng Yuanyun to make a targeted siege plan.

After all, he has fewer troops than Ouyang Lixing. If he wants to attack the city, he must invest far more troops than the enemy. Without judging the strength of the troops, he can't attack the enemy's weak points with advantage. Make his siege operations very difficult.

And there is another point, the reason why Zheng Yuanyun wanted to find out the total number of troops in Tianyuan City was also because of this important route for transporting troops.

This road is unobstructed, it seems that he doesn't need to fight Tianyuan City at all, just pass by one side, and the other side can only stand helplessly at the leader of Tianyuan City to see them off.

But the question is, this is clearly a trap for transporting troops, can it go?

If he ignored Tianyuan City and chose to drive straight in, the other party could of course let them in, and before He Zhu City, Ouyang Lixing led his men to double-team from behind, and together with the defenders in He Zhu City, they dealt a heavy blow to Zheng Yuanyun.

Without knowing the strength of Tianyuan City, Zheng Yuanyun couldn't make an accurate judgment. Can this road still be taken?