Ouyang Lixing did not want to be Chen Ze's enemy, nor did he want the other party to gain power easily, so he spared Zheng Yuanyun's life and did not pursue him, intending to let Zheng Yuanyun play his last role and become a check on Chen Ze's weapon.

Things have come to this point. To be honest, Ouyang Lixing is capable of capturing Zheng Yuanyun in one fell swoop, but capturing Zheng Yuanyun at this moment is tantamount to doing Chen Ze a big favor.

Is Chen Ze just a small co-leader?

On the surface, yes, but in fact, Ouyang Lixing knew it would never be that simple.

The story begins when Chen Ze was still in Xifeng City.

Ouyang Lixing didn't take it too seriously at first when the Qingyang Empire suddenly occupied this small city in his Fengqi Province.

At that time, he was still on the way to Dongping City. Although he received intelligence that Xifeng City was occupied by an army from the Qingyang Empire, after analyzing the situation, Ouyang Lixing also made a judgment that the other party suddenly ran to take it.

Going to Xifeng City is an extremely unwise, or in other words, forced and helpless choice.

What's more, the enemy troops in Xifeng City only number one hundred thousand, and if he wants to recapture them, it will only take a matter of minutes.

So at that time, Ouyang Lixing directly ordered the three cities on the Fengqi border, asking his subordinates to send a force to take back Xifeng City.

But what happened next made Ouyang Lixing unexpected.

Not only did the army he sent fail to recapture Xifeng City, but they were also tricked by Chen Ze, causing heavy losses.

That's not all. Later, he also received news that a large number of reinforcements had arrived from the other side, which made Ouyang Lixing even more stunned.

Is it necessary to send troops to reinforce the location of Xifeng City?

From this, Ouyang Lixing began to pay close attention to the intelligence of the coach who occupied Xifeng City at that time, and later came into contact with the envoys sent by the other party.

Since then, Ouyang Lixing no longer regarded Chen Ze as just a low-ranking military leader. Especially when he later received intelligence and knew that there was a Commander Luo behind the other party, he did not dare to do so.

main idea.

The commander-in-chief is the same military rank as the general, and Ouyang Lixing is also a high-ranking general on the same level as him.

Behind Chen Ze was a commander-in-chief, which was unimaginable to Ouyang Lixing.

But if this commander-in-chief did not exist, how could Xifeng City receive a large number of reinforcements at that time?

Therefore, when Ouyang Lixing thought about it, Chen Ze's background was probably not low. He was probably a disciple sent by a wealthy family in the Qingyang Empire for training, and he was followed and protected by the general soldier.

But later, through a series of events, especially the fact that Chen Ze was still being coerced by Zheng Yuanyun, Ouyang Lixing denied this.

However, it is a denial, but it is an indisputable fact that Chen Ze has a commander-in-chief beside him.

So once Zheng Yuanyun is defeated, killed in battle or loses power in the Qingyang Empire Army, Chen Ze will most likely rise to power quickly with the support of the commander-in-chief.

You must know that the other party is still from the Qingyang Empire no matter what, especially after solving the big trouble of Zheng Yuanyun, wouldn't Chen Ze have any thoughts?

Although the situation is currently tilted towards the Zhu Yan Empire, it is true that more than half of the province of Nantes is occupied by the enemy.

If Chen Ze wants to take over this large territory, and even take this as an opportunity to follow Zheng Yuanyun's old path and launch an attack on Nantes Province and Ouyang Lixing, this is not a difficult thing to do.

Although Zheng Yuanyun had lost most of his troops, Ouyang Lixing had not forgotten that Chen Ming had told him at the beginning that Zheng Yuanyun's reinforcements would be delayed by Chen Ze in every possible way and would not come out to cause trouble at the critical moment.

The word used by the other party was delay, not absence.

Therefore, the reinforcements were there, but they were intercepted by Chen Ze either through stratagem or through the General Luo soldier.

Once Zheng Yuanyun has finished his game and the intercepted reinforcements re-enter the territory of Nantes Province, by then, Chen Ze, an outstanding general and commander, may not attack Nantes again.

Province poses a sufficient threat.

And there's one more thing.

Because of the cooperation during this period, although Ouyang Lixing was very careful, he still revealed some necessary information to the envoy sent by Chen Ze.

If that person knows, it is equivalent to Chen Ze knowing. In other words, apart from Ouyang Lixing, Chen Ze knows the current troop deployment in Nantes Province and the subsequent reinforcement plan arrangements.

With the opponent possessing such important information, Ouyang Lixing believed that even if he were in Chen Ze's position, he could easily formulate an effective offensive strategy.

So this person has to be on guard.

Ouyang Lixing, who was always accustomed to looking far ahead, had already looked over Zheng Yuanyun's head and landed directly on Chen Ze, who had been hiding in the rear so far.

At this time, Ketan City.

"Brother Chen, what on earth do you think is going on?"

In the meeting hall of the city lord's palace, Ma Hui looked at Chen Ze with a sad face. Next to him, there was a messenger who came to report the military situation.

"General Ma, please be patient."

In comparison, Chen Ze's expression was much calmer.

what happened?

Of course he knew what was going on. Wasn't all this because he was behind the scenes?

But naturally it's not easy to say that in front of Ma Hui.

So he looked at the messenger and pretended to ask about the situation in detail, then he also frowned, shook his head and sighed: "This shouldn't be the case!"

"yes!"

When Ma Hui heard this, he slapped his thigh hard and said anxiously: "Why would Mr. Zheng send someone to ask for 500,000 elite soldiers from me? Aren't those elite soldiers already..."

As he spoke, he turned to look at the messenger soldier and yelled, "Hey, are you really sure you didn't see General Huang along the way?"

The messenger looked a little panicked. He shook his head and said, "General Ma, my subordinates have been walking all the way. I'm sure they didn't meet anyone or any troops!"

"How can this be!"

"It shouldn't be!"

Ma Hui was completely in disarray. He had handed over the military power. Now Huang Shi had gone somewhere. Once the responsibility was investigated afterwards, he would definitely not be able to escape.

At first, he thought that after handing over the military power to Huang Shi, who was very feasible, he could finally escape from all the intrigues. However, he never thought that this comfortable life had not passed long, and now bigger troubles were waiting for him.

"General Ma, don't worry. Do you think it's possible that General Huang misheard Master Zheng's instructions and took the wrong path?"

Chen Ze comforted him: "Perhaps when this brother came to report the news, General Huang and Mr. Zheng have already met?"

"this……"
Chapter completed!