The Era of Generals

Chapter 458 - Bad News

Ouyang Lixing chose this passive approach, of course, partly because he didn't want to lose his troops for no reason, and more importantly, he knew that he was not the protagonist at the moment, and there was no need to work hard.

For this matter, he only needs to send troops, but he doesn't need to contribute.

In the current situation, the person who most wanted Zheng Yuanyun's life was no longer him, but Chen Ze.

In fact, it was Chen Ze who had been planning behind the scenes that brought Zheng Yuanyun to this situation.

So now, it is not up to Ouyang Lixing to decide whether to attack or not, but to cooperate with Chen Ze, so that he can work out the most efficient battle plan with the lowest casualties .

Before that, of course, he didn't need to commit the mistakes Zheng Yuanyun made before, and lost a lot of troops for nothing.

Instead of what Zheng Yuanyun thought, Ouyang Lixing was just doing some unnecessary consumption.

The volume of Juhe City is so large, how can it be used up?

You must know that his two million troops stationed outside the city for a day, the consumption is also not small, and Ouyang Lixing may not be able to do better than Zheng Yuanyun in a competition.

Of course, if it was in the past, before the Nantes Province was invaded by the enemy, he would certainly not be afraid of consumption. But at this time, most of the cities in the Nantes Province are still behind Juhe City. Ouyang Lixing can rely on There are only a few small cities that are located inland and have relatively few supplies.

Maybe, with all the cities on hand added up, its material reserves are not as large as that of Juhe City, which has always been a transit point in the province of Nantes.

Ouyang Lixing, who knows Nantes province better than consumption, naturally does not have this idea.

In fact, even though Ouyang Lixing stationed two million troops under the city of Juhe, as soon as he found out that something was wrong, he would be the one who led the troops to withdraw the fastest.

So, while they were making plans, Chen Ze, as the only one who wanted to seriously kill Zheng Yuanyun, finally asked Chen Ming to send the news back.

"General, that guy is back!"

In Ouyang Li's account, a messenger reported back, and Chen Ming, who had disappeared for a while, suddenly returned.

Ouyang Lixing remained indifferent to this. Whether Chen Ming returned or not did not have much impact on him. Even when Chen Ming told him to leave, he did not send anyone to follow him, as if he had let it go.

After the messenger sent the report, Chen Ming entered the account immediately. He looked at Ouyang Lixing, cupped his fists and said, "General Ouyang, I have the latest news from my son!"

Ouyang Lixing only nodded slightly, and said calmly, "Where is Chen Ze?"

He knew that Chen Ze was constantly seizing the city in the rear to block Zheng Yuanyun's retreat, so he asked this question.

Chen Mingdao: "Everything is under control, Mr. Chen's troops are doing their best, and they have already come from Xilong City, and they have captured three cities along the way!"

"Three seats?"

Ouyang pondered for a moment, simulated the route of Chen Ze's troops in his mind, nodded and said, "It's not bad in terms of speed, but what's the use?"

In fact, ever since he knew that Chen Ze would take the city that Zheng Yuanyun had taken from the rear, he didn't take it seriously.

No matter how you say it, Zheng Yuanyun is also the current supreme commander of the Qingyang Empire in Nantes Province, and this has not changed until now.

So what's the use of Chen Ze running to seize the city?

It was nothing more than replacing Zheng Yuanyun's trusted generals with his own confidantes.

Does this mean that Zheng Yuanyun's retreat is cut off?

You know, soldiers and generals are separate.

Generals have the right to rule in wartime, but they have no right to own soldiers.

Don't look at the generals who like to hang their own flags during the war, what is the Zhang family army and the Li family army, but everyone knows, no matter what army you are, after the war, all the troops have to be returned to the empire, after all, it is still the Qingyang army.

The soldiers are under the command of the general, but they are not devoted to the general, so the most important thing is the rank of the general.

In particular, Zheng Yuanyun is still the current supreme commander. Just imagine, when Zheng Yuanyun was defeated in Juhecheng and retreated after breaking through, would Chen Ze really be able to block his retreat?

Use the troops of Anluo province to block the retreat of the supreme commander of Anluo province?

I'm afraid there is a hole in the brain, right?

At that time, Zheng Yuanyun only needs to raise his arms, and Chen Ze's army will have to trigger a mutiny on the spot. It is still unknown whether he can retreat unscathed.

This was just Ouyang Lixing's analysis based on his own common sense. He didn't even know that the half a million elite soldiers in Chen Ze's hands were private soldiers trained by Zheng Yuanyun, and they were extremely loyal to Zheng Yuanyun.

If he knew this, he probably would not have chosen to send troops to chase them out.

Therefore, Ouyang Lixing was not interested in Chen Ze's plan to seize the rear city. Of course, it was always right, so he just waited and watched.

With Chen Ming's reply right now, Ouyang Lixing didn't feel any disturbance in Chen Ze's acquisition of the three cities in the rear, and just waited for Chen Ming's next words.

But Chen Ming was not in a hurry, after waiting for a while, after Ouyang Lixing digested the news he brought back, he said again: "General Ouyang, my son wants me to bring you a message, but..."

Chen Ming hesitated for a while, and said with an ugly face: "It's bad news."

"What?"

Ouyang Lixing frowned. In this situation, there is bad news?

Can't help but look a little dignified, and said in a deep voice: "What bad news?"

Chen Ming sighed, and said: "General Ouyang doesn't know something, this Zheng Yuanyun is also a cunning person, my son only learned from Zheng Yuanyun's cronies after he captured the city that he was attacking Xiaxi After Longcheng, Zheng Yuanyun had a premonition that General Ouyang would be difficult to deal with, and he was not sure that he could win in one fell swoop, so at that time, he chose to ask for reinforcements from the rear!"

Ouyang Lixing was startled when he heard the words, he looked at Chen Ming, and said: "Didn't you know about this a long time ago, and what your son has been promising this general is that Zheng Yuanyun will not be able to wait for a single reinforcement , Could it be that he can't hold back now?"

"No!"

Chen Ming shook his head fiercely and said, "The reinforcements in Anluo Province have always been under the control of my son. This is not a problem, but the problem is..."

"Zheng Yuanyun not only asked for reinforcements from Anluo Province, but even ceded a lot of benefits so that the two neighboring provinces of Anluo Province also sent a large number of reinforcements. Who is this? Never thought of it!"

He said urgently.

"Ceded interests?"

These words also made Ouyang Lixing stunned for a moment.

He was used to collecting reports from his opponents beforehand, but he actually knew Zheng Yuanyun's character quite well. Because of this, he also found it inconceivable that Zheng Yuanyun was willing to cede benefits in exchange for reinforcements.