problem occurs?

Seeing Yang Mingzhong's confidants running around looking for him, Chen Ze immediately realized something was wrong.

At the same time, he clicked on the system map and opened the maps of more than a dozen black armor elites one by one, but found nothing unusual.

Naturally, the scouts sent out by Yang Mingzhong were not displayed in Chen Ze's system.

As Yang Mingzhong's men returned to the city lord's palace, Yang Mingzhong frowned on the coach's chair where only Zhang Chengwang could sit. Under him, there was a tall and thin young man with a dusty face and who was still not breathing well.

Judging from his attire, he looks like a military scout.

"Brother Chen, you are finally here!"

As soon as he saw Chen Ze come in, before Chen Ze could say hello to him, Yang Mingzhong's eyes lit up, and he jumped up from the generous coach's chair with a cry, and rushed directly to Chen Ze. He seemed to have found his backbone.

generally.

"what happened?"

Chen Ze went straight to the point. During this period, he had also become accustomed to the Lord Governor's reliance on him.

"Guan Ping, tell me!"

Yang Mingzhong turned his head and looked at the tall, thin young man.

"yes!"

Guan Ping agreed, turned to Chen Ze and said, "Sir, my subordinate was sent by General Yang to explore the enemy's situation near Ketan City."

"The past few days have been calm, but three days ago, my scout team discovered that a large number of troops were gathering more than thirty miles west of Ketan City!"

"More than thirty miles to the west?"

Chen Ze was stunned when he heard this, and couldn't help but cast his eyes on the huge map hanging on the side of the hall.

This map is a complete picture of the province of Nantes. As early as when he set off from Bo'an City, Chen Ze had fully studied the topography of the province of Nantes. Not to mention that he was familiar with it, but he still understood the general situation.

Guan Ping said that it is more than thirty miles west of Ketan City. If the march line is moved further west...

Fengqi Province!

This is another province adjacent to the province of Nantes. It is also under the territory of the Zhu Yan Empire, and the fact that it is named after Feng shows how vast this province is.

At the same time, this is also the province closest to the city of Quetan among the three major cities in the Nantes province. Starting from the city of Quetan, it only takes about ten days to reach the city of Luofeng on the edge of the Fengqi province.

Of course, the status of Luofeng City is similar to that of Xiyun City in Anluo Province. They are both small and marginal cities and do not have much military strength.

If it were just Luofeng City, it would not be able to support the province of Nantes.

Chen Ze had paid attention to Fengqi Province at the beginning, but finally came to the conclusion that this large province closest to Nantes Province would not be able to support Nantes Province in a short period of time.

The reason is that although Fengqi Province is large, the enemies it faces are also more powerful. It is currently the largest empire in the mainland in terms of comprehensive strength, the Bai Lie Empire!

Fengqi Province has been shouldering the important task of resisting the Bai Lie Empire all year round. Although it has many troops under its command, it never dares to move lightly.

Especially now, the battle between the provinces of Nantes and Anlo has attracted attention from almost all sides. I believe that by now, the results of the two sides have already been placed on the desks of the coaches of the major provinces.

At this time, Fengqi Province dares to send troops to aid Nantes Province?

If you send too few troops, you will not be able to defeat them. If you send too many troops, you will have problems with your own defense. Since the Bai Lie Empire ranks first and is the most ambitious in this continent to dominate the world, they will never give up.

Take this opportunity.

By that time, it will not only be a matter of losing the province of Nantes, but also the entire province of Fengqi will be cannibalized.

Losing two major provinces in succession would be a huge loss that would make Zhu Yan Empire unable to breathe.

Therefore, even if the coach of Fengqi Province wants to come to his aid, the Zhu Yan Empire will strictly order him to protect himself first and will never allow this to happen.

If so, where did this army come from?

Guan Ping was a somewhat clever person. When he saw Chen Ze's expression, he immediately fell silent until Chen Ze thought about it for a moment and asked: "How big is the large amount you call it?"

The officer's expression became serious and he quickly said: "Looking at the scale, it is estimated to be between one million and one and a half million. Please forgive me, my subordinates cannot get too close. The exact number cannot be ascertained yet."

to, but it will never go beyond this range!”

"One million to one and a half million?"

Chen Ze was even more startled, the amount was beyond his imagination.

You must know that even for Fengqi Province, which is not weak in strength, this force accounts for almost one-third of the entire province's military strength.

Suddenly losing one-third of their troops, how could they defend themselves against the Bailie Empire's massive attack?

"Does the other side have a flag?"

Chen Ze asked again.

"not at all!"

Guan Ping responded: "This unit is assembled carefully. According to the observation of my subordinates, they even tied cotton to the horses' feet. The soldiers also tried their best to carefully wrap any reflective weapons with black cloth."

"The gathering place is another sunken canyon with thick bushes. If my team hadn't accidentally discovered the faint fireworks rising in the canyon and ran to investigate, they probably wouldn't have noticed it until now."

Chen Ze's frown deepened.

What does it mean?

With an army of more than one million, this already exceeded the total strength of the Qingyang Empire led by him and Yang Mingzhong. What's more, their army of 600,000 was divided into three cities. In fact, on average, each city only had 20 soldiers.

It's just a force of more than 10,000 people.

With an army of over a million, attacking any city in the city should be easy and impossible.

With such crushing strength, what else do they need to hide?

To put it bluntly, there is no need to fight whichever city this army goes to. Chen Ze and the others have to withdraw from that city. It is not until the 600,000-strong army gathers in one city that they can fight with it.

If this is the case, Chen Ze and the others should have lost two cities by now, and only the city of Ter, which is closest to Bo'an City, can still hold on.

But it is just a defense. It is extremely difficult to regain the lost ground, even if Zheng Yuanyun's follow-up troops arrive.

Zheng Yuanyun's follow-up troops were followed by an army of one million, which was expected to arrive in the next two days, but it was too late. After losing two cities, the gate of Nantes Province was closed to them.

If we force the attack, even if the other side divides its troops to defend, leaving half a million defenders in each of the two cities, their vitality will be severely damaged if they want to defeat them. How can there be any spare power to capture the entire province of Nantes?

The situation is like this. This sudden army does not need to be so deliberately hidden. As long as it comes to the city, Chen Ze and the others will not have an easy life.
Chapter completed!