"Master!"

Chen Ming kept his voice as low as possible on the other end. It was obvious that the place where he was hiding was not safe, but he said urgently: "Suddenly a large number of Fengqi Province troops came here in Dongping City!"

"A large amount?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Ze frowned slightly and asked, "How big is it?"

"They entered the city from the other side. I can't tell how many there are, but I can feel that there are obviously many more defenders on the top of the city."

Chen Ming paused, seemed to think for a moment, and then said: "Just now, my subordinates saw that they had changed their defenses. It was the entire city's defenders who had all changed their defenses!"

There was only so much he could say, and when Chen Ze said this, he suddenly understood what Chen Ming wanted to tell him.

It's normal to change defenses. You can't let people stay on the top of the city all the time, and they're not allowed to leave even if they eat, drink or have sex, right?

Just now, he also ordered the soldiers to change their defenses in order to rest and recuperate.

But Chen Ming said that they had changed the defenses of the entire city.

How many people does this take?

Chen Ze glanced around him. At the top of Xifeng City where he was currently, the entire city wall could hold about 30,000 people. I think Dongping City, which is also a small border town, could be about the same.

An entire city wall was replaced together, which means that the number of soldiers responsible for the defense of this city wall reached about 60,000.

You must know that Dongping City has no battle to fight at the moment, so there is no situation where the defense of any city gate is tight and extra manpower is needed.

In other words, this is just a normal change of defense by the opponent. The number of people rotating at one city gate reaches 60,000, so how many people will there be in the four gates in total?

Two hundred and forty thousand?

Dongping City?

Chen Ze believed in Chen Ming's eyes. He said that if the opponent changed defense as a whole, it would be a total defense change. The other party would not know that there was a scout lurking outside the city, so he would go to great lengths to put on a show for him, right?

So, from this we can indeed make a reasonable guess that the number of soldiers in Dongping City has increased!

According to the information obtained previously, the four cities on the border had received military deployment from Fengqi Province earlier. The four cities had a total of about six to seven hundred thousand troops.

This was what Yan Haomiao told him personally at the beginning, and judging from the capture of Xifeng City, at least on this point, Yan Haomiao did not lie to him.

And Xifeng City has been captured by him. There are a total of 150,000 defenders in the city. Except for the soldiers who were killed by Chen Ze during the siege, there are still 70,000 to 80,000 people left. At this time, they are imprisoned in

The prison in Xifeng City is guarded by dedicated personnel.

When he expelled the civilians in the city, Chen Ze was not stupid enough to release these soldiers as well. These people were regular soldiers who had received training. If they were taken over by the opponent, they could be transformed into combat power immediately.

Therefore, after excluding Xifeng City, the number of troops in the four border cities should be over 500,000.

This is also consistent with the number of enemy troops who have camped and settled outside the city.

The three border cities came out in full force this time, but they still had to retain enough defenders for their own cities, so the force they attacked was 400,000.

It can be inferred that the number of troops used to defend the three border cities is about 50,000 per city.

However, a normal change of defense exposed nearly 60,000 troops. So, was Yan Haomiao lying again, or was the other party sending reinforcements?

Chen Ze thinks it's the latter.

There was no need for Yan Haomiao to lie to him on this point. In fact, he led an army of 1.7 million to stay on the border of Nantes Province, which meant that he wanted to use the troops at hand to pose a threat.

, a plan to force Fengqi Province to continuously mobilize troops here.

The more the troops in Fengqi Province move towards Nantes Province, the correspondingly, the troops in their own main city will be tight. However, Yan Haomiao's plan is still for the Bai Lie Empire to attack the city personally.

, naturally it is the opponent’s main city with weak troops!

The Fengqi Province may not understand the key, but they are riding a tiger and cannot get off. They cannot let the other party station troops in the Nantes Province without strengthening their own defense, right?

Therefore, these extra troops should have been sent from the cities closest to the four border cities, and this is also consistent with the reason why the other party rushed decisively and quickly as soon as they heard that Xifeng City had fallen.

Because the opponent's coach should know very well that reinforcements from their side will arrive soon. From the time he leaves to the arrival of reinforcements, this is a relay process.

So when Chen Ming came to the vicinity of Dongping City and saw that the opponent's military strength had increased significantly, it was not difficult to understand.

What is unclear now is how much this increase has increased?

The figure of 240,000 is only a rough estimate based on one detail, and cannot be calculated. What's more, this is only Dongping City, and the situation of the other two cities is not clear.

It would be okay if there was only one Dongping city, but if the three border cities all received a large amount of reinforcements, the situation might not be good.

Although this is the result that Yan Haomiao most hopes to see, it is not what Chen Ze wants to see, especially when he is defending Xifeng City at this time.

Even if the other party adds one million troops, Yan Haomiao probably won't be satisfied. He will also think about how to get the other party to send more troops to reduce the pressure on Mohe Province.

And I, it seems, is that way.

Xifeng City is here, still in his hands. Although the city is small, it belongs to Fengqi Province. This is tantamount to driving a nail into the opponent's body. How can he not remove it?

At present, Xifeng City has been unable to be defeated, and once Yan Haomiao realizes that reinforcements are coming from the other side, he just needs to make his army make some moves and move closer to Xifeng City. With this small move, he can

Enough to make the other person nervous.

This will give people the illusion that Yan Haomiao is preparing to use Xifeng City as a breakthrough point to launch a massive attack on Fengqi Province.

Have to guard against it.

Therefore, Xifeng City must be taken back!

At present, the more than 300,000 people are frightened by Chen Ze's ultra-long-range trebuchet, but what about the people coming later?

Another 300,000 people, and the total military strength reaches 600,000 to 700,000, what the hell is going on?

All his layouts and arrangements are based on 400,000 people. Once it exceeds too much... As the saying goes, too many ants will kill the elephant. If the opponent has enough troops, he will directly launch a four-door attack. How can Chen Ze defend?

This is really... a bad time!

After thinking about it for a while, Chen Ze scratched his head helplessly, and for a moment he could only smile bitterly.

He sent Chen Ming to investigate the situation in the three border cities. He originally thought that if the other party dared to touch him, he would see if there was a chance to retaliate, a tooth for a tooth, blood for blood.

Unexpectedly, the hit was unexpected, but it served as an early warning for him.

"Uncle Li, it seems we can't rest for the time being."
Chapter completed!