Chapter 416 The battle begins
How much information did Chen Ze provide him along the way?
Not to mention anything else, just the location of the scouts provided to Ouyang Lixing caused Zheng Yuanyun to suffer heavy losses.
Ouyang Lixing was not just immersed in the march, he was also observing the movements in Nantes Province at any time. The most important thing was the movements of Zheng Yuanyun's army.
The people he sent out even captured a few of the other party's scouts.
It was also from there that he knew that Zheng Yuanyun was now in an awkward situation with no available scouts. Those he sent had not received orthodox scout training and were just ordinary soldiers.
When he was in Dongping City before, Chen Ming pointed out to Ouyang Lixing the location of the informants arranged by Zheng Yuanyun, and those scouts were the real trained scouts. If Chen Ming hadn't pointed it out, Ouyang Lixing believed that he would have sent these people away.
It's not that easy to find out.
It is not easy to develop an elite scout. This loss is on the scale of hundreds of people, and anyone would feel heartbroken.
Even if Zheng Yuanyun wanted to join forces with Chen Ze to set him up, he would not use elite scouts as bait. It can even be said that Zheng Yuanyun would rather lose an army of 100,000 than this number.
Hundreds of elite scouts died in vain.
At least, Ouyang Lixing felt that he couldn't do it.
A good scout can be said to be the eyes on the battlefield. If there are no scouts to provide the commander with all kinds of information and intelligence on the battlefield, 30% of the battle will have been lost before it even starts.
How can a blind man fight with a normal person with real swords and guns?
From this point of view, Ouyang Lixing believed that Chen Ze was sincerely cooperating with him.
What's more, Chen Ze had a really hard time under Zheng Yuanyun. Ouyang Lixing believed that even if he were in Chen Ze's position, he would choose to take advantage of this opportunity to get rid of Zheng Yuanyun instead of doing this.
Sometimes he would even do dog licking, and Zheng Yuanyun would find out about his conscience.
Rather than discovering your conscience, wouldn’t it be better to just take the initiative into your own hands?
After thinking about it, Ouyang Lixing agreed with Chen Ze's suggestion. Since he agreed, he no longer hesitated. As the saying goes, you don't have to trust the people you trust. If they can't cooperate sincerely at this time, then what awaits them is a double defeat!
It is impossible for Chen Ze not to understand this truth. Based on this person's consistent performance, he would not make such an unwise move.
So Zheng Yuanyun got it wrong.
If he knew, he would probably beat his chest.
All the troops in Tianyuan City belong to Ouyang Lixing!
As for the troop transportation artery, there is indeed no problem at all. If Zheng Yuanyun wanted to force the entire army to pass through there, Ouyang Lixing, who had put all his troops in Tianyuan City, would not really dare to pursue it.
As for the problem that Zheng Yuanyun was worried about being attacked from both sides to make dumplings, it actually did not exist.
Ouyang Lixing knew clearly that he put all his troops in Tianyuan City, which meant that Hezhu City behind him and even the last city behind him were actually empty cities. With Zheng Yuanyun's military strength, he would
It was very easy to capture Hezhu City, and then rely on this city as a backstop to stop Ouyang Lixing's pursuit.
With the quality of the soldiers Ouyang Lixing had at hand, although there were many of them, there was nothing he could do about it.
Zheng Yuanyun could completely secure Hezhu City, then allocate part of his troops to capture the last city, and finally capture all the cities in Nantes Province except Tianyuan City.
As a result, Ouyang Lixing was the most embarrassed.
He could only stay in Tianyuan City to fight against the trapped beasts. The strategy he set at the beginning, to guard the last back door for Nantes Province so that the empire would be free to send troops to support in the future, came to nothing.
And it was not only him who was embarrassed, but also Chen Ze.
Chen Zehui said that Zheng Yuanyun actually did not have reinforcements, so he most likely used various tricks to deceive the troops who entered the Nantes province, so that they were unable to support Zheng Yuanyun due to wrong intelligence.
But once Zheng Yuanyun crosses Tianyuan City and takes the two cities behind, how long can Chen Ze delay?
We can't keep the reinforcements from finding where Zheng Yuanyun is, right?
Where Chen Ze will take these reinforcements is a problem, and how to find excuses is another problem.
Fortunately, out of caution, Zheng Yuanyun did not choose to forcefully attack the troop transport route, but prepared to fight steadily, opening a breakthrough through Tianyuan City, and finally won victory.
With this set, Zheng Yuanyun finally stepped in after testing it left and right.
"Give me the order and shoot him twice first."
Ouyang Lixing stood up and looked a little more serious. He quickly glanced at Zheng Yuanyun's troops who were bearing the brunt of the charge towards Tianyuan City.
In a very normal siege method, the sword and shield men were in front, followed by dozens of siege towers and ramming vehicles. Everyone was rushing towards the city gate in a desperate manner.
Naturally, the defenders would not be unable to respond. They worked so hard just to take one more step forward and avoid being hit by the rockets from the defenders' artillery.
They worked so hard, how could Ouyang Lixing not be as good as they wanted?
Zheng Yuanyun chose to start in the normal siege mode, so he also chose to respond in the normal defensive mode.
As soon as the order was given, hundreds of trebuchets placed on the new city wall roared, and countless boulders sprayed with burning kerosene instantly rose into the sky. With the density of Zheng Yuanyun's troops outside the city, there was no need to deliberately aim.
Just firing out the artillery fire can harvest a lot of lives.
With this round of stone-throwing attacks, the siege of Tianyuan City officially began!
And this is the battle that Chen Ze is most concerned about and the most important so far in planning!
At this moment, Chen Ze, who did not go back to Ketan City but randomly found a place to hang out, no longer saved the few battle achievements and directly observed the direction of the battle from the top of Tianyuan City through Chen Ming's field of vision.
Seeing the stone thrown by Ouyang Lixing, Chen Ze sighed slightly.
No, it should be a pity.
Chen Ming is at the top of the city. If Chen Ze attaches Cheng Yu's general star to him and then asks Chen Ming to suggest modifying the trebuchet, Zheng Yuanyun's troops will suffer a more serious blow.
But that is Chen Ze's secret, and although he and Ouyang Lixing are now on the same side, the two parties belong to different empires after all. After this battle, they may become enemies in the future. If the secret is handed over to the enemy's hands
, Chen Ze was afraid that he would regret it.
But fortunately, even so, Ouyang Lixing, who was well prepared, also had a strong enough blow. In this way, people outside the city were seen flipping over, countless falling rocks fell from the sky, blood and flesh flew everywhere, and there were even two siege towers.
Chapter completed!