"Probably not!"

Chen Ming seemed to have checked carefully again before giving Chen Ze a positive answer.

"How to say?"

Chen Ze asked directly.

Originally, he could also directly see everything Chen Ming saw through the video function, and then distinguish the authenticity by himself.

But his military exploits were running out, and the military exploits consumed by making a video call were unmatched by voice calls alone.

Secondly, he still believed in Chen Ming's judgment.

When he went to complete his first mission, Chen Ming's scouting work played a key role.

So Chen Ze didn't think he needed to take a look in person.

"Sir, these traces don't look like they were left by the army."

Chen Ming responded: "The traces left by the regular army during the march will not be as scattered as what I saw, with no orderly formation at all."

“It looks more like the traces of horse bandits’ rampage!”

Chen Ming had seen horse bandits before. He had seen many similar traces in the Poisonous Mist Forest, so he sounded extremely confident when he spoke now.

"Horse Bandit."

Chen Ze nodded, in other words, the bandits also mean the same thing."

"In your opinion, how many are there?"

he asked again.

Chen Ming pondered for a moment and said solemnly: "There should be about 30,000 people."

"More than thirty thousand people?"

Chen Ze thought about it carefully and found that the number seemed to be similar.

To be able to plunder three cities at extremely fast speeds, the number of these rogue bandits must reach a certain scale.

Even though the three cities were like empty cities at that time, there were at least a large number of civilians in the cities. Without a certain amount of force as a deterrent, it was not certain who would hit whom.

So there are 30,000 troops, which is a more appropriate number.

Chen Ze thought for a while and ordered: "In this case, you first follow these traces and take a look. It would be great if you can find the person. If not, you should also see where the traces end."

After all, I can't leave now. Chen Ming doesn't have any missions for the time being, so it's not impossible to follow him and have a look.

The main reason why Chen Ze cares so much about these bandits is that the direction Chen Ming is responsible for is facing Chen Ze's destination.

That is the direction in which the hostages were being held.

The traces that Chen Ming found were heading in that direction, which forced Chen Ze to pay attention.

Moreover, at this time, Chen Ze was already mostly certain that the traces found by Chen Ming should have been left by those rogue bandits.

The reason is quite simple.

With the current situation, there are fewer and fewer safe areas within Fengqi Province, so many bandit forces have been forced to stay away.

Just like Huang Liang, and like those rogue bandits who suddenly appear near the border.

Their area of ​​activity must not overlap with the Bailie Empire's march route, otherwise they will either be annihilated or captured and become cannon fodder for the Bailie Empire to attack the city.

Who wants to be cannon fodder?

So you must run.

And this run is not aimless, it must be to avoid the Bailie Empire's army.

As a result, their activity space will be compressed again and again.

After all, bandits are bandits, and it is difficult for them to change their nature during the escape process, so they decided to rob three border cities.

It can also be seen from this that the leader of this bandit is probably someone who has experience as a general, and his judgment of the situation is quite accurate.

Therefore, they did not seize the three cities and then head towards the province of Nantes.

Because he knew very well that a large part of the reason for the bad situation in Fengqi Province lay with Nantes Province.

The province of Nantes, which is currently in dire straits, is a hundred times more dangerous than the province of Fengxi.

Going to the province of Nantes is tantamount to courting death.

But it is not possible to continue to stay in the three border cities.

After all, they took advantage of Huangliang's attack on Dongping City to seize the three cities, which was regarded as the fruit of Huangliang's victory.

Staying in the three border cities is not equivalent to waiting for Fenghuangliang to come to retaliate?

When a fierce battle is fought, the outnumbered bandits may not necessarily be Huang Liang's opponents.

Among the bandit forces, the standard for judging the strength is very simple, that is, who has more people and who has less people.

There are many people in Huangliang, so he is an ox. Since he has already snatched the food from the tiger's mouth, how long will it take if he doesn't run away now?

Then the escape route is actually very obvious.

He could not go to the main city of Fengqi Province, nor could he escape into Nantes Province, so the location where Chen Ming was located became his first choice.

That's where the Bai Lie Empire held the Chinese hostages.

The location chosen by the Bailie Empire was not a very important strategic location in Fengqi Province, and as the battle progressed, a large number of troops were already pressing towards the main city, so that the number of troops guarding the hostages was getting worse.

Come less and less.

In this case, the Bailie Empire will not make a big splash in that place, but will mainly keep a low profile and only need to keep the hostages to complete the mission.

Therefore, this calmness was misinterpreted by the rogue leader, thinking that it was beyond the reach of the Bailie Empire, and that he could go there now, and maybe he could capture two more cities along the way.

And this also explains the people sent out by Huang Liang

By analyzing the current situation, Chen Ze almost understood the psychological activities of the bandit leader to the extreme.

What still needs to be determined now is what Chen Ming will find after following the traces.

These bandits have been gone for at least half a month, which is indeed a long time. However, considering that there are still four to five cities in the straight line distance from Dongping City to where the hostages are detained, Chen Ze thinks that it may still be possible.

Can make it in time.

Originally, he wanted to integrate all the troops from the four border cities, but unexpectedly, things developed beyond Chen Ze's expectations, but...

If the judgment is true and those guys went in that direction impartially...

Perhaps, there is still something that can be used.

Chen Ze thought silently, and at this time Meng Yang and others also came to the martial arts training ground, and then according to Chen Ze's order, they took on the role of instructors.

On the one hand, Chen Ze asked Meng Yang and others to try their best to equip the bandit army with a certain combat capability, and on the other hand, he also tried to restore some combat capability to the prisoners as much as possible.

In order to train the troops originally belonging to Huang Liang as much as possible, Chen Ze even possessed generals directly for Meng Yang and Guo, allowing them to use their strongest strength to conduct intensive training on these unorganized bandits.

You can imagine how people would cry and howl on the playground.

In comparison, Dongping City's original 5,000 troops were much happier.

Their low combat effectiveness is due to their recent malnutrition. This is Huang Liang's fault.

Now all you need to do is provide them with adequate nutrition.
Chapter completed!