"So fast?"

Huang Liang was stunned for a moment, unable to react in time.

He knew that Chen Ze would not stay in Dongping City for a long time, but he never thought that this gentleman would be so resolute.

I arrived at Dongping City at midnight and had to leave the next day?

What he didn't know was that if he hadn't considered the quality of his men and knew that it would take a while for Huang Liang to integrate his troops, Chen Ze would have even chosen to set off early tomorrow morning.

"What, you have a problem?"

Seeing that Huang Liang was still moving, Chen Ze couldn't help but look at him.

"this……"

Huang Liang hesitated and asked, "May I ask Master Chen, how many troops do I need to gather?"

He had a total of more than 57,000 troops in the city, but Chen Ze only told him to gather the troops, but did not tell him the number of troops. This made Huang Liang feel a little difficult to handle.

"How many?"

Chen Ze shook his head, "It's not how much, it's everything."

"All of them?"

Huang Liang opened his mouth and said hesitantly: "Then...Dongping City..."

"Why do you still want to continue to be the city lord here?"

Chen Ze looked at him with a half-smile.

I understand what Huang Liang means very well.

He was afraid that after all the troops were taken away, there would be no one to defend Dongping City, and someone might take advantage of him and seize the fruits of his victory.

But Chen Ze's rhetorical question suddenly woke him up.

This Dongping City...that's not his either!

Even if he leaves some of his troops behind to defend Dongping City, so what?

In the end, Dongping City had nothing to do with him, but because he took down Dongping City as a bandit leader, it would have bad consequences for him later.

Why not take this opportunity to erase this matter?

With all the troops taken away, Dongping City will become a truly unguarded city.

At that time, maybe it would be a good thing for someone to take over and divert the empire's attention.

Just imagine, he tried his best to serve the empire, which is considered a meritorious service.

But the other person took advantage of the opportunity when Dongping City became an empty city and swooped in. No matter how you look at it, it is the latter who is wrong, right?

Chen Ze seemed to be thinking about him when he asked him to take away all the troops!

Thinking of this, Huang Liang suddenly felt that Chen Ze really wanted to help him get rid of his current identity.

This boosted his confidence!

"yes!"

"My subordinate understands!"

He immediately responded loudly, clasped his fists at Chen Ze, turned around and walked out.

"Wait a moment!"

As soon as his feet moved, Chen Ze said again: "Assign two people to me and take me to see the five thousand prisoners."

Hearing this, Huang Liang stumbled on his feet, quickly stabilized his body, and whispered: "How about Mr. Chen wait for the subordinates for a while, wait for me to arrange the assembly matters, and then take Mr. Chen there in person?"

Chen Ze also understood his little thoughts.

That was because he was afraid that Chen Ze would reach some consensus with the generals among the more than 5,000 people in his absence.

For Huang Liang right now, this is his best opportunity, and he naturally does not allow any accidents to occur.

Chen Ze smiled, the more nervous Huang Liang is, the better it is for him.

So he nodded and said: "Then you go and come back quickly, the departure time will not change."

"Got the order!"

Huang Liang breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly ran out of the meeting hall to start arranging integration matters.

Without Chen Ze having to express anything, Tang Tianxing followed him like a ghost.

As soon as the two left, Chen Ze was not idle.

Through the analysis and judgment in the military documents just now, Chen Ze has already made a rough judgment on the marching trend of the Bailie Empire.

However, there is no definite statement as to whether the opponent is really marching according to his analysis.

Dongpingcheng will lead the army to set off tomorrow. This must be done, but whether there will be guarantees along the way, at least now, Chen Ze cannot be sure.

So what he has to do now is to get a confirmation.

The first is Chen Ming.

To be on the safe side, Chen Ze did not let Chen Ming, who had shown his face before, enter Dongping City, but stayed outside the city.

At this time, I had an idea in my mind, and the free Chen Ming came in handy.

After getting in touch with Chen Ming through the system, Chen Ze followed his own assumptions and asked Chen Ming to go to the place where the army would pass by tomorrow to investigate.

Then came Gu Qingfeng and others.

At this moment, Chen Ze was 90% sure that Huang Liang would not cause harm secretly, and that Tang Tianxing had been following him. Then, the mission of Gu Qingfeng and others in Dongping City was completed.

So Chen Ze continued to order the five people through the system, asking them to withdraw from Dongping City and go to the location marked on the map to ambush them.

The five people were divided into five points, almost all the places they would pass in the next two days.

In addition to investigation, Chen Ming and Gu Qingfeng are also responsible for removing possible informants along the way to ensure that the army will not enter the sight of any party within a certain period of time.

The Bai Lie Empire cannot do this, and neither can the local forces in Fengqi Province.

With more than 50,000 people, plus the more than 5,000 prisoners, Chen Ze finally had an army now. Unfortunately, it was only more than 60,000, and it was far from being able to go on a rampage.

Furthermore, the vast majority of the more than 60,000 people are bandits who have received almost no formal training and can only rely on the strength of their numbers to pretend to be powerful.

You must know that although most of the bandit leaders such as Huang Liang were imperial generals who had committed crimes before, when they were desperate, they had no choice but to become bandits.

But what about those bandits down there?

Their reasons for going up the mountain are much simpler, most of them just want a bite to eat.

As for eating, in this world of constant war, is it possible that being a soldier means not having enough to eat?

It will even be better.

Although being a soldier is also a very risky profession, it is better than having to worry about whether your hilltop will be raided by the government every day.

To put it bluntly, many of these bandits were not even qualified to serve as soldiers and were dismissed.

When he was desperate, he also had a heart of resentment and went up the mountain in a rage.

One can imagine what the strength of this person who cannot even be a soldier will be like.

Moreover, these bandits are used to being unorganized and undisciplined on their respective hillsides, and are far less effective than trained soldiers.

Therefore, according to Chen Ze's prediction, although he has more than 60,000 troops in his hands, in a short period of time, without training these people, they will probably be reduced to only 30,000 troops.

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Chapter completed!