Ma Chong, who replaced Xiao Du as the scout chief, did not dare to neglect and quickly led Zheng Yuanyun to where he was investigating.

Zheng Yuanyun took his personal guards as a guard. In order to prevent Ouyang Lixing from discovering their movements, he even deliberately pulled back and then detoured to the traffic artery that Ma Chong mentioned.

This road is very wide. It starts from the inland border of Nantes, almost crosses the east and west, divides Nantes into two halves, and runs all the way to the city of Tell.

It can be said that if there are no obstacles, troops can be sent from the interior to support the three main cities of Ter, Xili and Ketan in a very short time through this road.

Zhang Chengwang actually used this road to collect as many troops as possible at the beginning. Unfortunately, his success failed, which also led to the current situation of empty troops in the cities of Nantes Province.

After making a big detour, Zheng Yuanyun, Ma Chong and other hundreds of elite soldiers arrived at this important road.

Looking around, it is true as Ma Chong said, there are no obstructions on both sides of the road, the road looks very empty, and it can be said that it is unobstructed.

This is actually very easy to understand.

In some areas where wars are frequent, the defenders will mostly choose to plant some dense forests according to the plan. Although these dense forests can be used by both the enemy and ourselves, as the defenders, they know the terrain in the dense forests better and can even make decisions in advance.

Some arrangements serve as warnings or ambushes.

But there is really no need here in Tianyuan City.

In this rear area, the ultimate goal is to transport enough troops at once, quickly enough, and conveniently enough, and plant a dense forest to block one's march?

That is impossible.

Furthermore, on one side of this road is Tianyuan City, which can be considered as having some defensive capabilities, but on the other side is a small stream. In addition to transporting troops by land, water can also provide certain support. In this case, it is even more unnecessary.

Block one's own vision.

So just as Ma Chong said, Zheng Yuanyun observed for a long time and came to the conclusion that there was no ambush on either side of this road.

Compared to Tianyuan City's heavily guarded troops, this more important troop transport route was actually defenseless?

In fact, there are not even necessary sentry checkpoints. They are just placed there. At a glance, you can even vaguely see the shadow of the next city, Hezhu City, at the far end.

Is this serious?

Zheng Yuanyun frowned. How could this be considered strange? This was clearly a trap, right?

But the function of this trap is...

Zheng Yuanyun raised his head, and he could clearly see the city wall of Tianyuan City. As Ma Chong said, one side of Tianyuan City was built against the mountain, so there were only three gates for entry, and these three gates

A full circle of city walls has been expanded around the city's perimeter, strengthening Tianyuan City's originally weak defense capabilities.

"Do you know how many troops there are in Tianyuan City at this moment?"

After pondering for a moment, Zheng Yuanyun asked.

"this……"

Ma Chong felt ashamed and said, "My lord, their outer city wall has played a very good role in hiding troops. It is not yet possible to estimate how many troops there are in Tianyuan City."

Hearing these words, Zheng Yuanyun was dissatisfied.

After coming for so long, and even before arriving, the principle of scouts going first has been implemented, so the scout team of Ma Chong and others even arrived long before Zheng Yuanyun's large army. However, in such a long time,

But he didn't even have a good idea of ​​how many troops the opponent had.

If it was Xiao Du, I would definitely be able to give him a number!

Zheng Yuanyun sighed inwardly, knowing that he was dissatisfied. It was good that Ma Chong could detect it to this extent. It would be really difficult for him to figure out Tianyuan City's troop deployment.

The so-called specialization in the art, Ma Chong is not a professional scout, so he will inevitably be deficient in some detection methods. This is what Zheng Yuanyun was mentally prepared for when he asked him to take over the position of chief scout. He can't say anything more at this moment.

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Furthermore, the outer walls of Tianyuan City were built very cunningly.

The city wall that Ouyang Lixing ordered people to build was a higher wall than the original city wall built directly outside Tianyuan City, and the two old and new city walls were already connected together, which formed a height gap.

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The defenders in Tianyuan City can hide on the top of the old city wall. Looking up from outside the city, these defenders cannot be seen at all. Unless there is a war, and when the battle is fierce, they will be used for support.

And come forward.

Therefore, it is impossible to make a rough judgment at the moment by visually observing the number of defenders on the city wall according to usual habits, and then taking into account a series of factors such as the opponent's reserve troops and rotation of soldiers.

In Tianyuan City, perhaps 100,000 soldiers can be seen from the new city wall. Based on past experience, it can be roughly inferred that the number of defenders is around 300,000.

And with this move of hiding soldiers, it is hard to say whether the one hundred thousand is really one hundred thousand, or whether there is another one hundred thousand hidden on the old city wall that they cannot see.

The difference between the two is twice the number of troops, and the effects they will have in battle are also completely different, which makes Zheng Yuanyun dare not take it lightly.

Another effect is that Tianyuan City only has three gates, and the three walls have this heightening design. Zheng Yuanyun cannot tell which side of the city wall has fewer defenders.

It can become a breakthrough point for siege.

Although the soldiers on the side of the city wall he was looking at at this time were emptier than the previous main city gate, who could guarantee that once he used this city gate as a breakthrough, there would not be a large number of soldiers on the old city wall.

Head out and snipe them?

Not knowing the enemy's troop deployment made it impossible for Zheng Yuanyun to make a targeted siege plan.

After all, the troops he has on hand are less than Ouyang Lixing. If he attacks the city, the troops he needs to invest must be far greater than the enemy. Without the judgment of troops, he will not be able to take advantage of the enemy's weak points to attack. This is

Making his siege operations difficult.

There is another point. The reason why Zheng Yuanyun wants to find out the total number of troops in Tianyuan City is also on this important troop transportation route.

The road was unobstructed. It seemed that he didn't have to attack Tianyuan City at all and could pass directly from one side. The other party could only stand helplessly as the leader of Tianyuan City sent them away.

But the question is, this troop transportation thoroughfare is clearly a trap. Can it be walked through?

If he ignored Tianyuan City and chose to march straight in, the other party could of course let them in. Then before Hezhu City, Ouyang Lixing led his men to double-team from behind and combined with the defenders in Hezhu City to give Zheng Yuanyun a heavy blow.
Chapter completed!