The Era of Generals

Chapter 446   Internal and External Troubles

Juhe city.

Zheng Yuanyun, who had retreated non-stop, did not intend to stay for a moment longer. As soon as he arrived at the city, he ordered his soldiers to start replenishing food and supplies, and gathered the 50,000 troops who stayed here in one place, preparing to integrate the whole army. After a while, continue to retreat.

Although Juhe City is well-defended and has sufficient supplies, in Zheng Yuanyun's vision, this city is not the place he imagined for a comeback.

The most ideal city, Zheng Yuanyun also thought about it when he retreated all the way, it should be Xilong City!

Although he retreated from the front line and entered Xilong City, once the pursuers arrived from behind, he would naturally attack from the inland gate of Xilong City, so the moat that Xilong City was most proud of would be useless. usefulness.

But even leaving aside the moat that made Zheng Yuanyun suffer a lot, Xilong City is still bigger than Juhe City and more suitable for defense.

You must know that in the past, Xilong City was the gateway of Nantes Province, and it existed like a main city, and its city defense construction was not comparable to that of ordinary cities.

It's just a pity that, in order to restore morale and vent his anger, Zheng Yuanyun ordered the massacre of the city, and set fire to Xilong City when he left.

Fortunately, Xilong City was big and strong enough. After being burned by the fire for five full days, although most of the facilities in the city had been destroyed, at least the framework was still there. If it was only used to defend the city, it could barely be used.

However, it always takes a lot of manpower to repair it, which makes Zheng Yuanyun feel a little regretful.

However, at that time, how could he have thought that he would return to Xilong City again, and would have to rely on the strong defense of Xilong City to defend against the pursuers of Nantes Province?

Of course, right now is not the time to regret it, first to preserve one's own strength in order to achieve later results, this can be regarded as the choice Zheng Yuanyun made out of desperation.

And he also clearly felt that the morale of his soldiers had dropped sharply during the flight during these days.

Especially during the retreat, Zheng Yuanyun still sent a lot of eyeliners to watch the situation in Tianyuan City. On the one hand, he wanted to guard against Ouyang Lixing's pursuit, on the other hand, he also wanted to see The situation on Huang Chengjian's side.

Although Huang Chengjian was given up by him, after all, he still has 500,000 elite soldiers under his command. If he is not wiped out by Ouyang, at least he can take back some of them.

Unfortunately, the result was that Huang Chengjian didn't know that Zheng Yuanyun had already run away. He sent messengers back to the main city gate to report the crisis here to Zheng Yuanyun, and he also wanted to let Zheng Yuanyun use that Heavy cavalry came to support him.

The result was such a delay, not only did the soldiers caught in the opponent's ambush not run away, but Huang Chengjian, as the commander, also failed to retreat in the end, and died directly outside the left gate of Tianyuan City.

After all, this matter was not concealed, and when it was reported to Zheng Yuanyun by the soldiers who came back to report later, it also spread in the army.

When Zheng Yuanyun ordered the retreat, many generals expressed their dissatisfaction with this. Now that they heard the news of Huang Chengjian's death, their dissatisfaction with Zheng Yuanyun reached its peak. Only in the morning and evening.

This also made Zheng Yuanyun quite a headache. His majesty as the supreme commander of Anluo Province reached its peak after entering Nantes Province, but then plummeted, and now he has become the most questioned in the eyes of everyone. that one.

But what can he do?

Had he not ordered the retreat back then, Huang Chengjian would not have been the only one who died in Tianyuan City, but Zheng Yuanyun and all his soldiers might have died in Tianyuan City.

It's a pity that Zheng Yuanyun saved the lives of these soldiers while protecting himself, but who would remember him now?

What they saw in their eyes was that their own commander, greedy for life and afraid of death, left his subordinates in Tianyuan City and fled in panic alone.

Is such a coach worth their lives for?

Maybe at what time, they will become the next Huang Chengjian, and they will become the abandoned sons who were abandoned by Zheng Yuanyun?

In Zheng Yuanyun's army, in the process of fleeing all the way, although he hadn't said such rumors in front of Zheng Yuanyun, he had heard them.

Zheng Yuanyun could only pretend not to hear, and at the same time felt more urgent, urgently needed a big victory to stabilize the crumbling morale of the army.

But at the same time, Zheng Yuanyun also deeply understood that just relying on the current strength in his hands, even if he returned with the strength of the five cities, he would not have the confidence to fight Ouyang Lixing head-on.

Even for a big city like Juhe City, he didn't have the confidence to defend it. Instead, he had to retreat further. On the one hand, he regained his troops, and on the other hand, he retreated to Xilong City, which had a stronger defense. .

More importantly, after Xilong City was Ketan City, not far from his base camp in Nantes Province, it was more convenient whether it was to dispatch troops or retreat again.

I can only bear it for a while.

While Zheng Yuanyun was waiting for his subordinates to execute his orders, he could only make a secret decision, and at this time, the coercion and power he always liked no longer worked, and he even had to carefully maintain the current soldiers and generals. If the relationship between them is a little careless, it is very likely to trigger an uncontrollable mutiny.

So at this moment, when the integration work of Juhe City had not been completed, Zheng Yuanyun suddenly received a loud arrow from the rear.

Through the special message mark in the ringing arrow, Zheng Yuanyun knew that it was a message from Ma Hui.

Finally there is good news.

Zheng Yuanyun decided in his heart that Ma Hui was in the rear of Ketan City, and all along, Zheng Yuanyun knew that the other party had 500,000 elite soldiers entrusted by him personally.

As long as the half a million elite soldiers are still there, Zheng Yuanyun will be able to solve this urgent need immediately.

It's not that with Ma Hui's troops coming, he can immediately fight back against Ouyang, and even take down the entire Nantes province, but that he has the strongest control over the half a million elite soldiers. This army is also the most loyal to him.

With these 500,000 elite soldiers, Zheng Yuanyun will no longer be afraid of a mutiny in the army. Even if there is a mutiny, he can regain control of the means of power and deal with it directly with a high-pressure policy.

After losing most of his troops, Zheng Yuanyun urgently needed a unit that was absolutely obedient to him to return to his command.

And the 500,000 elite soldiers in Ma Hui's hands were exactly what Zheng Yuanyun desperately wanted.

Moreover, after carefully interpreting Ma Hui's message about the sound of the arrow, Zheng Yuanyun's heart suddenly became hot.

According to Xiangjian, in addition to Ma Hui who is leading his elite troops here, the reinforcements that Zheng Yuanyun asked Xiao Du to move back to the two neighboring provinces also arrived at this time!