Chapter 402

Time flies, and more than a month has passed in the twinkling of an eye.

During this time, Chen Ze and his department have not left Ketan city.

But even so, he still kept the soldiers ready to March. Even if more and more people were puzzled about it, he didn't explain it.

As for Zheng Yuanyun.

After breaking through the throat of Xilong City, as he expected, the vast territory of Nantes province behind him was flat, and he was allowed to ride vertically and horizontally.

Originally, all the few troops gathered in Xilong City, but they were wiped out by him at one stroke. The five or six affiliated towns in the rear had been in vain, and the one with the least troops. When Zheng Yuanyun's army arrived, it found that there were only less than 1000 defenders shivering on the head of the city.

As a result, it is conceivable that Zheng Yuanyun took the city lightly without a single soldier.

This is different from what Ouyang told Ning Zhenggang before.

His original intention, or Chen Ze's original intention, was to delay Zheng Yuanyun for a while, so that he could rush to the scheduled location for deployment, and at the same time, he could wait for the arrival of the follow-up reinforcements of Zhu Yan empire.

At the beginning, Ning Zhenggang did a good job. Even Zheng Yuanyun was at a loss and almost triggered a military attack.

But later, Ning Zhenggang was attacked by Zheng Yuanyun from three other empty city gates because of lack of troops, and finally died.

When it comes to procrastination, he didn't delay much.

Admittedly, Ning Zhenggang can't be blamed for this. He has indeed achieved his extreme, but he still didn't keep Xilong city because of the great disparity in troops.

It can be described as a crime of non war.

However, Ning Zhenggang is eager to make contributions.

Xilong city was the main city of Nantes Province in the past, but now it has declined, so that as the mayor of Xilong City, his power is not as powerful as Zhang Chengwang, who has been killed in battle. How can he be convinced?

Later, when Zhang Chengwang died, the position of the supreme commander of Nantes province was empty. Of course, Ning Zhenggang was a strong competitor, but at this time, Qingyang empire was unwilling to let go and led the army into Nantes province.

This is both a crisis and an opportunity.

Ning Zhenggang knew very well that if he could stand up and turn the tide at this time and stop the enemy outside Xilong city in the future, he would be rewarded by the Empire, be promoted and become the supreme commander of Nantes Province in one fell swoop. All these were within reach.

Who else can argue with him?

It was based on this consideration that he ordered the surrounding cities to allocate all their troops to him as the only piece with some weight in his hand.

But in fact, if he didn't have such an idea and only seriously implemented the procrastination task assigned by Ouyang, this should not have been the case.

His 300000 troops did not play their due role.

Since they were all attacked by the other three gates, and since they still had no substantive contact on the front battlefield, the war ended.

So what's the difference between 300000 troops and 100000 troops on the frontal battlefield?

In the same time, the time he can delay is the same.

On the contrary, because he took away the troops of other cities, those cities had no resistance at all. As soon as Zheng Yuanyun's army arrived, it either surrendered or committed suicide.

As a result, the overall delay of Zheng Yuanyun in the cities of Nantes province was greatly reduced, so that he was driven in by them.

On the other side, the 500000 elite soldiers led by Ma Hui and Wu Peng did not catch up with Zheng Yuanyun because they listened to Zhang Hualin's words. Instead, they stayed in Xilong city for construction and were ready to restore the broken traffic.

But it's not so easy to do.

In order to cut off Zheng Yuanyun's future, Ning Zhenggang did it very thoroughly.

It not only cut off the moat bridge, but also burned it directly with a fire. As for the ships on both sides of Xilong City, there was no one left.

Later, when the two armies fought, Zheng Yuanyun ordered the soldiers to collect countless stones as shells for stone catapults, and then cut down many trees to block the river.

This was nothing, but when Ma Hui came to the other side of Xilong city and saw that the situation was as Zhang Hualin said, he began to carry out construction work, so the problem came.

A skillful woman cannot cook without rice fire.

Within a few miles, he couldn't find suitable materials to build.

Near Xilong City, almost all the stones and timber were consumed.

If he wants to get materials, there is a nearby way, that is, send someone to touch it in the river.

A large number of stones and wood are used to fill the river. There is really only one way to take them out.

Therefore, what Ma Hui, the 500000 elite soldiers, do every day is to touch stones and carry wood in the kuha underground river.

Even sometimes the wood that is hard to move up is simply useless because it is soaked in water for a long time. It seems that such useless work is common.

This is the so-called multiplier effect.

So more than a month later, Ma Hui and others managed to build the moat bridge. At least they can go straight to Xilong city.

However, compared with the original one, this bridge is simple and narrow, and can not allow more people to pass at the same time. Once it exceeds its load, it may even collapse.

It is obviously not enough to rely only on this bridge for military use. If a large number of troops want to pass through, it will have to take a lot of time.

So in desperation, Ma Hui couldn't just go. He had to send soldiers to search for new trees far away and cut down a large number of trees to build troop carriers.

The amount of this project is not small, even heavier than the construction of the moat bridge, so that he and the 500000 elite soldiers have been dragged in Xilong city.

The Ketan City side knows that Ma Hui led the soldiers away, but Zheng Yuanyun doesn't know!

Zheng Yuanyun also sent some soldiers back to inquire about the situation behind him, but Zhang Hualin stayed behind.

One, kill one, kill two, kill Zheng Yuanyun's eyeliner.

Although Zheng Yuanyun was also deeply puzzled about the fact that the rear had not sent back news, he was too deep at that time. It was impossible for him to retreat and give up the city he had laid, so he could only attack while sending back more people to inquire about the news.

However, he can send people, and Chen Ze can't help it?

Ketan city has no blockade. His people can go in and out if they want. Chen Ze also sent more people to intercept Zheng Yuanyun's exploration.

This situation continued until today, a month later.