After entering the province of Nantes, the troops of the Zhu Yan Empire could only seize the city but could not attack it.

If it were to attack the city, Ouyang Lixing's exhausted troops would most likely not be able to defeat Zheng Yuanyun. After all, although he had nearly three million troops, the main source of these troops came from the four neighboring border cities.

In other cities, it can be said that a mixed army has gathered.

On Zheng Yuanyun's side, if nothing else, the 500,000 elite soldiers he took back from Yang Mingzhong are definitely an extremely powerful fighting force. It's not an exaggeration to say that one beats two.

What are the consequences of such a military disadvantage?

This would make it impossible for Ouyang Lixing to confront Zheng Yuanyun on the frontal battlefield.

Only by relying on the advantages of city defense can he eliminate the shortcomings in the quality of his troops and achieve an evenly matched battle.

What Chen Ze needs to do is to try his best to help Ouyang Lixing achieve such an even match.

Whether the province of Nantes will be captured by the Qingyang Empire is not within the scope of Chen Ze's consideration at all. He even hopes that Zheng Yuanyun will not be able to capture the province of Nantes.

Only then would Zheng Yuanyun have no spare power to turn around and deal with him.

Helping Ouyang Lixing is helping himself!

Chen Ze had already considered this when he sent Chen Ming to contact Ouyang Lixing, so what he had to do was not just deliver a message, he also had to provide more help to Ouyang Lixing.

Even if Ouyang Lixing did not tell Chen Ming personally, as long as he was willing to send troops, he was actually betting on the help Chen Ze would provide him in the future.

In order for Ouyang Lixing to seize as many of the lower cities attached to the province of Nantes as possible, he had to know Zheng Yuanyun's march plan clearly.

And this is the reason why Chen Ze sent Gu Qingfeng and others to sneak into Zheng Yuanyun's camp and search for his main tent.

Gu Qingfeng and Zhang Hualin were very lucky. In other words, Zheng Yuanyun was too ostentatious. His tent was much more luxurious than other generals' tents. In this large and dense tent, he simply stood out from the crowd.

Its existence is impossible to avoid being noticed.

With their deep lurking skills, even in this crowded barracks, the two of them effortlessly sneaked onto the top of the tent without alerting anyone, silently watching everything below.

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It is worth mentioning that not long ago, Chen Ze had conducted a general assessment for Gu Qingfeng and five others.

These five people are also full of drama.

When they first met Chen Ze, the five people headed by Gu Qingfeng looked down upon this young boy at all, and even rejected Chen Ze's recruitment invitation.

At that time, the loyalty of Gu Qingfeng and others was so low that it did not even reach double digits.

Chen Ze also almost gave up on these five people. If they hadn't shown good cooperation during the battle with Xu Qing, Chen Ze would have wanted Meng Yang to send everyone back to the barracks.

But who would have thought that when these five people followed Chen Ze, especially after Chen Ze provided them with almost tailor-made special training, their loyalty would suddenly increase.

Later, Chen Ze gradually assigned many tasks to the five people. During the task process, Gu Qingfeng and the others began to show the results of the special training. This feeling of getting stronger and stronger also made them more and more grateful to Chen Ze, which in turn stimulated

Loyalty grows.

So just after returning to Nantes Province from Xifeng City, Chen Ze called the five people together before taking a break. After using various lies to deceive them, the loyalty of the five people had reached over 95%.

People easily agreed to the assessment and all passed in the end.

So now Chen Ze can also get in touch with Gu Qingfeng and others through the system's instant call function, and the information they can get from Zheng Yuanyun will be sent back to Chen Ze as soon as possible.

The other side.

An hour has passed, and the intensive preparation work in Dongping City is nearing completion.

When Ouyang Lixing came out of the study, he was also fully armed, walking majestically.

Although he has always been known for his wit and strategy, Ouyang Lixing is a solid military general. Being able to reach the rank of commander-in-chief, there is no doubt about his high level of military force.

"Someone is coming!"

After leaving the study, Ouyang Lixing shouted loudly. There were already messengers waiting nearby. After hearing the words, he immediately walked quickly to Ouyang Lixing and said yes.

"How are you preparing?"

Ouyang Lixing asked.

"Go back to the general. All the troops have been assembled. We are just waiting for the general's instructions!"

The messenger handed Ouyang Lixing the troop allocation and other documents and reports sent back by the generals ahead.

Ouyang Lixing naturally knew what his military strength was like. After taking the document and just glancing at it, he nodded slightly and praised: "Very good, this is the good son of my Zhu Yan Empire!"

"Then..."

He was about to give the order when he saw the messenger hesitated and said: "General, the man from the Qingyang Empire wants to see the general!"

"he?"

Ouyang Lixing frowned when he heard this. He almost forgot about Chen Ming even if the messenger didn't mention it.

In his opinion, Chen Ming's role was just to deliver a message for Chen Ze. As for what happened next, it was naturally the cooperation between him and Chen Ze.

And Ouyang Lixing also thought very clearly. Even though he was very decisive in sending troops, in fact it was just a test first.

If he did not get the next message from Chen Ze after sending troops, but just allowed him to fight Zheng Yuanyun on his own, Ouyang Lixing would withdraw his troops without hesitation.

This matter is not only a matter of ownership of the Nantes province of Zhu Yan's empire, but also a matter of Chen Ze's own life and death.

Ouyang Lixing's willingness to send troops was based on overall considerations. He believed that if Chen Ze was there, his chances of retaking the province of Nantes would be much greater.

And what if Chen Ze, the internal agent, cannot play his due role, and just wants to sit back and watch the fight between tigers and tigers based on a word of mouth?

So I'm sorry, Ouyang Lixing is not in the habit of being used as a spearman. The worst thing is that the province of Nantes doesn't want him anymore.

His base camp is Fengqi Province. As long as he defends Fengqi Province, he will have no merit and no fault, so why should he be greedy for merit and rush forward?

The worst thing he could do was wait until the empire took a breather before sending reinforcements, and then he would share the credit with the new generals.

Ouyang Lixing valued military merit far less than Zheng Yuanyun. Zheng Yuanyun would rather miss the best opportunity to pick the fruits of victory with his own hands, but Ouyang Lixing did not.

He has always been good at far-sightedness, and the principle he pursues is to seek only results without seeking faults!
Chapter completed!