The Era of Generals

Chapter 434   Mutual Containment

Ketan City.

The time is five days later.

Ma Hui, who returned to Ketan City and stationed again, did not foolishly set up camp outside the city. It has to be said that his relationship with Chen Ze has improved a lot now, and after this period of time, he thinks that Chen Ze probably didn't dare to violate Master Zheng's strict orders.

Moreover, Chen Zehao said that he had helped him once, and Ma Hui believed that there was no need for so much tension between him and Chen Ze.

Therefore, after swapping military power with Huang Shi, he returned to Ketan City with an army of 200,000, and directly entered the city without continuing to block Ketan City.

And Chen Ze returned to Ketan City one step earlier, everything seemed to be nothing happened.

Until Ma Hui received an order sent back from the front line Kuai Ma.

According to Kuai Ma Lai, Lord Zheng ordered him not to continue to blockade Ketan City, but to lead his half a million elite soldiers to the front line to support.

This order made Ma Hui confused.

Five hundred thousand elite soldiers?

Where does he have 500,000 elite soldiers at this moment?

At the time Master Zheng asked him to build bridges and roads in Xilong City, at that time he naturally still had half a million elite soldiers, but didn't he switch with General Huang Shihuang afterwards?

Afterwards, he returned to Ketan City, and according to the calculation of the distance, General Huang Shi should have joined Mr. Zheng by now.

So what does Master Zheng's order mean?

Could it be that General Huang Shi hasn't met Lord Zheng yet?

But this is not right either!

Even if they didn't meet, General Huang Shi's 500,000 army is mighty, and they should meet their own eyeliner on the road. Does Master Zheng know nothing about their movements?

He even ran to him to ask for soldiers. How could he have half a million elite soldiers to mobilize?

At this moment, there are only 200,000 troops in Ketan City, and nearly 100,000 of them are under Chen Ze's military power.

Zheng Yuanyun didn't know, but Ma Hui did. So far, only 100,000 new reinforcements have been recruited from Anluo Province.

Ma Hui, who was full of doubts, could only take the messenger soldier to find Chen Ze.

How could he know that all of this was secretly planned by Chen Ze, so he ran to find Chen Ze...

The messenger soldier will come to Ketan City, which is not beyond Chen Ze's expectations, and he can even tell the other party's movements along the way, but there is no need to stop the other party's message transmission now. .

From Zhang Hualin's perspective, Chen Ze could see very clearly that in just these five days, Zheng Yuanyun was like a bereaved dog. Sending a message with a ringing arrow, they directly abandoned the three cities closest to Tianyuan City, and gathered all the soldiers stationed in the city together.

Even so, he only took back 100,000 troops, plus his own, now only 400,000, which is far from enough.

But in fact, there was no pursuer behind Zheng Yuanyun.

On the Tianyuan City side, Ouyang Lixing had no intention of chasing Zheng Yuanyun, but commanded the troops to nibble away little by little Huang Chengjian, who was left behind in Tianyuan City and was regarded as an abandoned son.

Huang Chengjian did not choose to leave at the very beginning, which doomed his final tragedy.

What Huang Chengjian didn't figure out until his death was that in order to keep the troops in his hands as much as possible, he had been trying to delay the opponent's killing of his own soldiers, and he also sent someone to ask Mr. Zheng for help.

But in the end, the news he got was that Mr. Zheng had already retreated with the rest of his troops!

Then, when Huang Chengjian digested the bolt from the blue and wanted to leave quickly, he found that he had no way out.

Tianyuan City was not completely closed, this was guessed by Zheng Yuanyun, the only gate left was the one on the right side, close to the main road for transporting troops.

At that time, as soon as Zheng Yuanyun withdrew, Ouyang Lixing issued an order to let people lead troops to go around the city gate on the right side, of course not to pursue Zheng Yuanyun.

Just as Zheng Yuanyun knew that he had a hole card in his hand, Ouyang Lixing also knew that once he chased him, the opponent would fight to the death and use heavy cavalry to countercharge himself on the plain. I feel overwhelmed.

He simply didn't move him, but steadily took down Huang Chengjian's troops who were already in a mess and just waiting for them to harvest.

In this way, the troops that Zheng Yuanyun can gather afterwards will be further reduced. Although he still occupies a large area of ​​Nantes Province, he just occupies it. If he wants to defend it, he can't defend it at all.

Ouyang Lixing was not in a hurry at all, he didn't even look at Zheng Yuanyun, he just did what he could do well in front of him to the extreme.

After all, this is the province of Nantes, and he just came to support it from the province of Fengqi. Naturally, it is unnecessary to spend too much of his troops for the province of Nantes.

In addition, although Ouyang Lixing didn't say it out loud, he was also guarding against another person at the same time.

That person is... Chen Ze!

No matter how happy they have been working together so far, Ouyang Lixing will never forget Chen Ze's identity.

After all, this person is still a general of the Qingyang Empire. Right now, it is just because everyone has a common enemy that they choose to cooperate.

So what about when Zheng Yuanyun completely loses power, or even loses his army?

After getting rid of this great enemy, is it possible that Chen Ze still wants to confide in Ouyang Lixing?

In this way, he is no longer a member of the Qingyang Empire, but turned his back on the battlefield and became the internal support of their Zhuyan Empire!

Until now, Chen Ze hadn't revealed his intention to quit Zhuyan Empire, and even if he had expressed it, would Ouyang Lixing dare to believe it at this time?

Of course not!

Not only did he dare not, Ouyang Lixing had to be more careful with Chen Ze.

After this cooperation, Ouyang Lixing discovered that this small association leader who has been hiding behind the scenes is not simple at all. Although he also played a big role in it, he has to admit that if Chen Ze hadn't been dominant, Zheng Yuan Yun would never end up in his current fate.

This person is terrifying, it's better not to be an enemy of him easily.

This was Ouyang Lixing's evaluation of Chen Ze in his heart. He secretly made a decision. If Chen Ze hadn't acted, it would be fine. He would never provoke trouble easily, especially when the Nantes province is still in turmoil.

Ouyang Lixing didn't want his hard-earned advantage to be wiped out by an irrational move, so putting Zheng Yuanyun back is actually a good choice.

Zheng Yuanyun was still there, so was his common enemy with Chen Ze. In other words, Chen Ze still didn't dare to act rashly.