The Era of Generals

Chapter 712   Fold in half

"So fast?"

Huang Liang froze for a moment, unable to react for a while.

He knew that Chen Ze would not stay in Dongping City for a long time, but he never thought that this lord would be so resolute.

Came to Dongping City in the middle of the night, and had to leave the next day?

What he didn't know was that if he hadn't considered the quality of his subordinates and knew that it would take some time for Huang Liang to integrate his forces, Chen Ze would even choose to set off early tomorrow morning.

"What, you have a problem?"

Seeing Huang Liang not moving, Chen Ze couldn't help looking at him.

"this……"

Huang Liang hesitated for a while and asked, "May I ask Mr. Chen, how many troops do I need to gather?"

He has a total of more than 57,000 troops in this city, but Chen Ze only told him to gather troops, but did not give the number, which made Huang Liang feel a little awkward.

"How many?"

Chen Ze shook his head, "It's not how much, it's all."

"All of them?"

Huang Liang opened his mouth and said hesitantly, "Then... Dongping City..."

"Why do you still want to continue to be the city lord here?"

Chen Ze looked at him with a half-smile.

He did understand what Huang Liang meant.

He was afraid that after taking all the troops away, there would be no one to defend Dongping City, and someone might take advantage of it and seize the fruits of his victory.

But Chen Ze's rhetorical question woke him up immediately.

This Dongping City... that's not his either!

Even if he left some troops behind, so what if he defended Dongping City?

In the end, Dongping City had nothing to do with him. Instead, because he took down Dongping City as a bandit leader, it would have bad consequences for him in the future.

How about taking this opportunity to erase this matter?

Take all the troops away, and Dongping City will become a truly ungarrisoned city.

At that time, perhaps it would be a good thing for someone to take over the order, which can divert the attention of the empire.

Just think, he is doing his best to serve the empire, which is considered a meritorious service.

And the other one took advantage of Dongping City's turning into an empty city to sneak in. No matter how you look at it, it's the latter who is wrong, right?

Chen Ze asked him to take away all the troops, it seemed that he was also thinking about him!

Thinking of this, Huang Liang suddenly felt that Chen Ze really wanted to help him get rid of his current identity.

This boosted his confidence!

"yes!"

"Subordinates understand!"

Immediately, he responded loudly, clenched his fists at Chen Ze, turned around and was about to go out.

"Wait a minute!"

As soon as he moved his feet, he heard Chen Ze say again: "Arrange two people for me and take me to see the five thousand captives."

Hearing this, Huang Liang staggered, quickly stabilized his body, and said in a low voice: "How about Master Chen wait for his subordinates for a while, wait for me to arrange the assembly, and then take Master Chen personally?"

Chen Ze also understood his little thoughts.

It was because he was afraid that in his absence, Chen Ze would reach a consensus with the generals among the more than 5,000 people.

For Huang Liang right now, this is his best chance, and he naturally does not allow any accidents.

Chen Ze smiled, the more nervous Huang Liang was, the better it was for him.

So he nodded and said: "Then you go and come back quickly, the time of departure will not change."

"Decree!"

Only then did Huang Liang let out a sigh of relief, and hurriedly trotted out of the meeting hall to start arranging integration matters.

Without Chen Ze expressing anything, Tang Tianxing followed like a ghost.

Once the two left, Chen Ze was not idle here either.

Through the analysis and judgment of the military documents just now, Chen Ze has already made a rough judgment on the marching trend of the Bai Lie Empire.

But whether the other party is really marching according to his own analysis, there is still no definite statement.

Tomorrow, Dongping City will lead the army to set off. This must be done, but Chen Ze is not sure whether there will be guarantees along the way, at least for now.

So what he has to do now is to get a confirmation.

The first is Chen Ming.

To be on the safe side, Chen Ze did not let Chen Ming, who had shown his face before, enter Dongping City, but wandered outside the city.

At this time, he had an idea in his mind, and Chen Ming, who was wandering outside, just came in handy.

After getting in touch with Chen Ming through the system, Chen Ze asked Chen Ming to go to the place where the army would pass by tomorrow to investigate in advance according to his own idea.

Then came Gu Qingfeng and others.

At this moment, Chen Ze was 90% sure that Huang Liang would not do anything secretly, and Tang Tianxing was following him, so the mission of Gu Qingfeng and others in Dongping City was considered complete.

So Chen Ze continued to order the five people through the system to withdraw from Dongping City and go to the location he marked on the map to ambush.

Five people, assigned to five points, almost all the places they will pass in the next two days.

In addition to the investigation, Chen Ming and Gu Qingfeng were also responsible for pulling out the eyeliner that might be along the way, so as to ensure that the army would not enter the sight of any party within a certain period of time.

The Bailie Empire can't do it, and the local forces in Fengqi Province can't do it either.

With more than 50,000 people, plus the more than 5,000 captives, Chen Ze finally has an army at this moment, but unfortunately it is only more than 60,000, which is far from reaching the level where he can go on a rampage.

Furthermore, among the more than 60,000 people, the vast majority are bandits who have hardly received any orthodox training, and only rely on their numbers to pretend to be powerful.

You must know that most of the bandit leaders such as Huang Liang are imperial generals who have committed crimes before. When they are desperate, they can only choose to become bandits.

But what about the bandits below?

Their reasons for going up the mountain are much simpler, and most of them are for a bite of food.

As for eating, in this war-torn world, is it difficult to be a soldier without getting a full meal?

Even better.

Although being a soldier is also a very risky profession, it is better than bandits who have to worry about whether their hills will be raided by the government every day.

To put it bluntly, many of these bandits were not even qualified to serve as soldiers and were dismissed.

In desperation, he was also full of resentment, and in a fit of rage, he went up the mountain.

One can imagine, what kind of strength will this person who can't even be a soldier have?

Moreover, these bandits are also used to being loose on their respective hills. They have always been unorganized and undisciplined, and they are far less useful than trained soldiers.

Therefore, according to Chen Ze's prediction, although he has more than 60,000 troops in his hands, in a short period of time, before training these people, it is estimated that they will be discounted and can only be used as 30,000. .

Be cautious, this is Chen Ze's first strategy for his side right now, and there is no room for mistakes.