The Era of Generals

Chapter 273 Potential Threat

"Young master!"

Chen Ming kept his voice down as much as possible on the other side. It was obvious that the place where he was lurking was not safe, but he said urgently: "Suddenly a large number of Fengqi provincial troops came here in Dongping City!"

"A lot?"

Hearing this, Chen Ze frowned slightly, and asked, "How big is it?"

"They entered the city from the other side. The subordinates can't tell how many there are, but they can feel that the number of defenders on the top of the city has increased significantly."

Chen Ming paused, seemed to think for a moment, and then said again: "Just now, my subordinates saw that they switched defenses, and it was all the defenders in the entire city who switched defenses!"

There was only so much he could say, and after Chen Ze said a word, he suddenly understood what Chen Ming wanted to tell him.

It's normal to switch defenses. You can't let people stay on the top of the wall all the time, and they are not allowed to leave without eating or drinking, right?

Just now, he also ordered the soldiers to switch defenses to facilitate rest.

But Chen Ming said that they were all defenders of the entire city.

How many people do you need?

Chen Ze glanced at his surroundings. The Xifeng City where he was staying right now could probably stand about 30,000 people on a whole wall, and Dongping City, which is also a small border town, is about the same.

The entire city wall was replaced together, that is to say, the number of soldiers responsible for the defense of this city wall reached about 60,000.

You must know that Dongping City has no battles to fight right now, so there is no situation where the defense of any city gate is tight and additional manpower is needed.

In other words, this is just a normal defense change by the opponent, and the number of people in one city gate rotation reaches 60,000, so how much will the four city gates have in total?

Two hundred and forty thousand?

Dongping City?

Chen Ze believed Chen Ming's eyes very much. He said that the opponent switched defenses as a whole, that is, they switched defenses as a whole. The opponent would not know that there was a scout lurking outside the city, so he asked everyone to act for him, right?

So, from this, it is indeed possible to make a reasonable guess that the number of soldiers in Dongping City has increased!

According to the information obtained before, the four cities on the border had received the deployment of troops from Fengqi Province earlier, and the four cities had a total of about 600,000 to 700,000 troops.

This was what Yan Haomiao told him in person at the beginning, and judging from the capture of Xifeng City, at least on this point, Yan Haomiao did not lie to him.

Xifeng City has already been captured by him, and there are a total of 150,000 defenders in the city. Except for the soldiers who were beheaded by Chen Ze's side during the siege, there are still 70,000 to 80,000 soldiers left. In the prison in Xifeng City, there are special guards.

When expelling the civilians in the city, Chen Ze was not so stupid as to release these soldiers as well. These people are regular soldiers who have received training. If they are taken over by the opponent, they can be transformed into combat power immediately.

Therefore, after removing Xifeng City, the remaining troops in the four border cities should be around 500,000.

This is also in line with the number of enemy troops who have camped and settled outside the city.

The three border cities came out in full force this time, after all, they still had to keep enough defenders for their own cities, so their attacking force was 400,000.

From this, it can be deduced that the troops used to defend the three border cities are about 50,000 in each city.

However, a normal defense change revealed a strength of nearly 60,000 troops. So, is Yan Haomiao lying again, or is the opponent coming to reinforce?

Chen Ze thought it was the latter.

There is no need for Yan Haomiao to lie to him on this point, but in fact, he led an army of 1.7 million to stay on the border of Nantes Province, which is to use his own troops to pose a threat , forcing Fengqi Province to continue to deploy troops here.

The more the troops in Fengqi Province go to the Nantes Province, the correspondingly, the troops in their own main city will be tight, and Yan Haomiao's plan is still to be attacked by the Bailie Empire. , naturally it is the main city of the opponent's weak force!

Fengqi Province might not understand the key points, but they are riding a tiger, and they can't let the other party station troops in Nantes Province, and they don't strengthen their defenses, right?

Therefore, this part of the extra troops should be sent from the city closest to the four border cities, and this is also in line with the reason why the other side rushed decisively when they heard that Xifeng City had fallen.

Because the opponent's coach should be very clear that their reinforcements will arrive soon. From his departure to the arrival of the reinforcements, this is a relay process.

Then when Chen Ming came near Dongping City, it was not difficult to understand that the opponent's troops had increased significantly.

What is not clear now is, how much is this increase?

The figure of 240,000 is only a rough estimate based on a detail, and it cannot be counted. What's more, this is only Dongping City, and the situation of the other two cities is not clear.

It would be fine if it was just Dongping City, but if the three border cities were supported by a large number of reinforcements, the situation would be bad.

Although this was the result Yan Haomiao most wanted to see, it was not what Chen Ze wanted to see, especially when he was defending Xifeng City at this time.

Even if the opponent sent an additional one million troops, Yan Haomiao would probably not be satisfied, and would still think about how to get the opponent to send more troops over so that the pressure on the Mohe province would be lessened.

And myself, it seems that is the way.

Xifeng City is here, and it is still in my hands. Although the city is small, it also belongs to Fengqi Province.

Right now, Xifeng City can't be defeated for a long time, and once Yan Haomiao senses that the other side has reinforcements, he just needs to let his army make some moves to lean towards Xifeng City. Enough for the other party to be nervous.

It will give people the illusion that Yan Haomiao is going to use Xifeng City as a breakthrough point to start a large-scale attack on Fengqi Province.

Have to guard against.

Therefore, Xifeng City must be taken back!

Right now, the 300,000 people are intimidated by Chen Ze's ultra-long trebuchet, but who will come later?

Come another 300,000, and after the total strength reaches 600,000 to 700,000, what are you still doing?

All his arrangements, all arrangements, are based on 400,000 people. Once it exceeds too much... As the saying goes, if ants kill elephants, the opponent's strength is enough, and they directly attack with four gates. How can Chen Ze defend?

This is really... a bad year!

After thinking about it for a while, Chen Ze scratched his head helplessly, and for a moment he smiled wryly.

He sent Chen Ming to investigate the situation in the three border cities. Originally, he thought that if the other party dared to touch him, he wanted to see if there was a chance to retaliate.

I didn't expect that the wrong hit would act as an early warning for him.

"Uncle Li, it looks like we can't rest for the time being."

Sighing helplessly, Chen Ze turned to look at Li Quan'an.