Let’s go back to Chen Ze.

His withdrawal this time was a complete withdrawal, leaving no troops behind.

Therefore, he had no idea what was going on in the province of Nantes after he left, since he had no confidants to act as eyeliners.

But in fact, it doesn't make any big difference to him whether he knows or not. After all, the military power has been handed over to Cheng Hong.

If Cheng Hong follows his suggestion, then Chen Ze believes that the other party will have a good life in Xilong City, at least for a long time, he will not be attacked by the Zhu Yan Empire.

Of course, that would be under the premise that the Zhu Yan Empire would not send any more reinforcements.

But judging from the current situation, with the Nantes province in such a state of half-death, the Zhu Yan Empire was able to calm down and not send reinforcements. Now that the situation has improved, it will even less invest its limited troops.

To the province of Nantes.

To put it bluntly, the status of the Nantes Province is not that important. Although the Zhu Yan Empire was temporarily in trouble due to the fall of the Nantes Province, the matter has not reached a desperate moment.

At worst, the worst plan is to give up the province of Nantes and keep the other provinces.

In fact, if Ouyang Lixing hadn't arrived at the border of Nantes and Fengqi provinces, which happened to be there, Chen Ze believed that according to the original intention of the Zhu Yan Empire, he would have sat down and negotiated peace with the Qingyang Empire.

Either cede territory and pay compensation, or completely abandon the province of Nantes.

The principle of abandoning pawns to save chariots is universal in any world.

It is not a bad idea for the Zhu Yan Empire to give up the province of Nantes, thereby stabilizing the security of surrounding provinces and optimally allocating its troops.

As a result, Ouyang Lixing happened to be nearby, and allowed the Zhu Yan Empire to see a beautiful victory in the face of adversity.

Not to mention, Ouyang Lixing did not lose too many troops in the duel with Yan Haomiao. It was considered a complete victory.

This great victory gave Zhu Yan Empire hope.

After all, if you can't give up a province, who would be willing to do so?

Since Ouyang Lixing has this ability, and his troops at that time were as many as three million, which was much larger than the Qingyang Empire army that invaded Nantes Province, then why couldn't Ouyang Lixing be allowed to defend Nantes Province?

Province?

Therefore, the Zhu Yan Empire sent an envoy and asked Ouyang Lixing to drive troops to rescue the Nantes province.

But at that time, Chen Ze remembered clearly that Ouyang Lixing was not willing.

Although he had a lot of troops at that time, Ouyang Lixing knew very well, and Chen Ze also knew very well that the troops he had on hand were collected from the cities along the Fengqi Province, and they were considered a mixed army.

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In addition, this miscellaneous army arrived at Dongping City and the surrounding border cities through a rapid march. Later, it hurriedly went to the battlefield without recuperation or joint training.

If Yan Haomiao hadn't been so well designed at that time, Ouyang Lixing's army would not have been able to defeat Bai Lie Empire's million-strong army.

One can imagine how such a force could support the province of Nantes.

If he doesn't get it right, Ouyang Lixing will be in a situation of no return.

It was precisely because of this deep understanding that Ouyang Lixing resented the empire's order at that time. His original idea was that although the Nantes Province could provide support, it would not be possible now. Instead, he would have to wait until he could coordinate and merge the troops first.

After training, and a period of recuperation, this can be considered a capable force.

But how could the situation at that time allow him to slowly train his soldiers?

Although Zheng Yuanyun came a month late, he had already entered the province of Nantes at that time. Zheng Yuanyun was there, as well as the elite soldiers and generals he had carefully selected a month late, including General Ouyang Li.

No chance at all.

At that time, if he had sent troops to fight Zheng Yuanyun in Ketan City, even if he had one million more troops than his opponent, Ouyang Lixing knew very well that he would be the one who failed and was annihilated!

At that time, when he was considering how to reject the imperial envoy's request, Chen Ze sent Chen Ming over.

After some analysis and suggestions, Chen Ze provided a compromise suggestion to Ouyang Lixing at that time.

That is, Ouyang Lixing could agree to the empire's request and send troops to support the Nantes Province, but at that time the Zhu Yan Empire did not require him to take back the entire Nantes Province, so Ouyang Lixing still had a choice.

His choice was to ignore military important places such as Ketan City and Xilong City. Instead, he rushed all the way along the edge to the three cities on the Nantes border that were far away from the war, that is, the three cities headed by Tianyuan City.

city.

Later events proved that Chen Ze's suggestion was very useful. During the march, Ouyang Lixing, on the one hand, did not violate the empire's wishes, and on the other hand, he avoided contact with Zheng Yuanyun in a short period of time. In the rush for time,

He arrived at Tianyuan City faster, and while strengthening the city walls, he was also working on training soldiers.

It was precisely because of that buffer that he finally breathed a sigh of relief and gained some strength at hand.

However, what Ouyang Lixing did not expect was that his strength would increase, which did not escape the eyes of the Zhu Yan Empire.

Seeing that Ouyang Lixing did a good job, even very beautifully, and defeated Zheng Yuanyun in Ihe City, so... what reason did the Zhu Yan Empire have to send troops to aid Nantes Province after it had already calmed down?

The most dangerous moment has passed!

Therefore, the province of Nantes and even the province of Fengqi can be left to Ouyang Lixing to play by himself. Wouldn't that be great?

Chen Ze believed that the Zhu Yan Empire would not increase its troops in a short period of time, and he suggested that Cheng Hong seize the six cities. On the surface, it seemed to disperse his own forces, but in fact it was not.

Among the six cities, only the one close to Iihe City has about 100,000 troops. The five cities behind this city and up to Xilong City are actually just empty cities.

This is thanks to Ouyang Lixing's help.

In order not to lose his troops, and to have more civilians to help him defend Iihe City, he kept retreating when Cheng Hong attacked, pulling out the troops and civilians.

As a result, Cheng Hong didn't need to send people to garrison these five cities at all, he only had to guard the one closest to him.

Moreover, these 100,000 troops were not just released to Ouyang Lixing.

Once there is any change in Ihe City, Cheng Hong will immediately order the withdrawal of troops, and will not give Ouyang Lixing a chance to eat up his troops.

So, where does the dispersion of military forces start?

On the contrary, Ouyang Lixing, because he was concerned about the safety of Dongping City, he could only choose to send part of his elite troops to Dongping City.

This dispersion immediately smoothed the gap between the two sides.
Chapter completed!