The Era of Generals

Chapter 515   You advance and I retreat

Back to Chen Ze.

His withdrawal this time was a complete withdrawal, leaving no troops behind.

So after he left, he didn't know what was going on in the province of Nantes, because he didn't have his confidant as an eyeliner.

But in fact, knowing or not knowing, it doesn't make much difference to him, after all, the military power has been handed over to Cheng Hong.

If Cheng Hong followed his suggestion, then Chen Ze believed that the other party's life in Xilong City would be easy, at least for a long period of time, he would not be attacked by the Zhuyan Empire.

Of course, that was under the premise that the Zhu Yan Empire would not send reinforcements.

But judging from the current situation, the Nantes province has become so half-dead that the Zhu Yan Empire can hold back and not send reinforcements, so now that the situation has improved, they will not send their limited troops to to the province of Nantes.

To put it bluntly, the status of Nantes Province is not that important. Although the fall of Nantes Province caused the Zhuyan Empire to fall into a difficult situation for a while, the situation has not yet reached the point of despair.

Big deal, the worst plan is to give up the province of Nantes and keep the other provinces.

In fact, if Ouyang Lixing hadn't rushed to the border between Nantes Province and Fengqi Province, which happened to be there, Chen Ze believed that according to the original intention of the Zhuyan Empire, they should have sat down and negotiated peace with the Qingyang Empire long ago. Either cede land and pay compensation, or completely abandon Nantes Province.

The principle of abandoning pawns to save cars is common in any world.

It is not impossible for the Zhuyan Empire to give up the province of Nantes, thereby stabilizing the security of the surrounding provinces and optimizing the distribution of troops.

As a result, Ouyang Lixing happened to be nearby, and also allowed the Zhu Yan Empire to see a beautiful victory in the face of adversity.

That's not to mention, Ouyang Lixing didn't lose too much troops in the duel with Yan Haomiao, it was a complete victory.

This big victory gave Zhu Yan Empire hope.

After all, if one can not abandon a province, who is willing to abandon it?

Since Ouyang Lixing had this ability, his army strength at that time was as much as 3 million, which was much more than the army of the Qingyang Empire that invaded Nantes Province, so why couldn't Ouyang Lixing be allowed to keep Nantes Province? Province?

Therefore, the Zhu Yan Empire sent envoys to ask Ouyang to drive troops to save Nantes Province.

But at that time, Chen Ze remembered clearly that Ouyang Lixing was not willing.

At that time, although he had a lot of troops, Ouyang Lixing knew it well, and Chen Ze also knew that the troops in his hand were collected from the cities along the way of Fengqi Province, and they were regarded as a motley army .

In addition, this miscellaneous army rushed to Dongping City and the surrounding border cities after a rapid march, and then rushed to the battlefield without recuperation or joint training.

If Yan Haomiao hadn't been well designed at that time, Ouyang Lixing's army would not have been able to beat the million-strong army of the Bailie Empire.

It is conceivable how such a force can support the province of Nantes?

If one is not done well, Ouyang Lixing will be in a situation where there will be no return.

It was precisely because he deeply understood this point that Ouyang Lixing disliked the order of the empire at that time. He originally thought that the province of Nantes could support him, but it was definitely not now. After training, like this, and after a period of recuperation, this can be regarded as a powerful force.

But how could the situation at that time allow him to slowly train his soldiers?

Although Zheng Yuanyun came a month late, but at that time he had already entered the territory of Nantes province. With Zheng Yuanyun and his carefully selected elite soldiers one month later, Ouyang Li was going to No chance at all.

At that time, if he had sent troops to fight to the death with Zheng Yuanyun in Ketan City, even if he had one million more troops than the opponent, Ouyang Lixing knew very well that the one who failed and wiped out the entire army must be him!

And when he was thinking about how to reject the imperial envoy's request, Chen Ze sent Chen Ming over.

After some analysis and suggestions, Chen Ze offered Ouyang Lixing a compromise suggestion at that time.

That is, Ouyang Lixing could agree to the request of the empire and send troops to support the Nantes province, but at that time the Zhu Yan Empire did not ask him to take back the entire Nantes province, so Ouyang Lixing still had a choice.

His choice was that instead of taking care of important military sites such as Ketan City and Xilong City, he rushed all the way along the edge and went to the three border cities of Nantes, which were far from the war, that is, the three cities headed by Tianyuan City. city.

Later events proved that Chen Ze's suggestion was very useful. During the march, Ouyang Lixing, on the one hand, did not violate the intention of the empire, on the other hand, he avoided contact with Zheng Yuanyun in a short period of time. He arrived at Tianyuan City faster, while strengthening the city walls, he was also focusing on training soldiers.

It was precisely because of that buffer that he finally breathed a sigh of relief and gained some strength in his hands.

However, what Ouyang Lixing did not expect was that his strength had increased, which did not escape the eyes of the Zhu Yan Empire.

Seeing that Ouyang Lixing did a good job, even very beautifully, and solved Zheng Yuanyun in Juhe City, so... what reason does the Zhuyan Empire have to send troops to aid Nantes Province after they have recovered?

The most dangerous moment has passed!

So the province of Nantes, and even the province of Fengqi, should be handed over to Ouyang Lixing to play by himself, wouldn't that be good?

Chen Ze believed that the Zhu Yan Empire would not increase its troops in a short time, and his suggestion to Cheng Hong to seize those six cities seemed to disperse his forces, but it was not.

Among the six cities, only the one next to Juhe City has about 100,000 troops in it. After this city, the five cities to Xilong City are actually just empty cities.

This is thanks to Ouyang Lixing's help.

In order not to lose his troops, and in order to have more civilians to assist him in defending Juhe City, he kept retreating when Cheng Hong attacked, evading both the army and the civilians.

As a result, Cheng Hong didn't need to send people to garrison these five cities at all, and only guarded the one next to it.

And it doesn't mean that the 100,000 troops were released to Ouyang Lixing.

Once there is a change in Juhe City, Cheng Hong will order the withdrawal of the troops immediately, and will not give Ouyang Lixing a chance to eat away at his troops.

So, where does the dispersion of troops come from?

On the contrary, Ouyang Li Xing, because he was concerned about the safety of Dongping City, he could only choose to send some elite troops to Dongping City.

This dispersion immediately smoothed the gap between the two parties.

In this way, no one can do anything to anyone.