"Master Chen!"

When Guo Zi was introducing the situation to Chen Ze, a general in full armor walked up to Chen Ze with sonorous steps from the army entering the city and saluted him.

When Chen Ze saw this, he took a slight step to the side. Instead of accepting his courtesy, he smiled and said, "Why is this, Lord Governor? I should first tell you that I didn't go far enough to greet you."

This general is a governor. Although he is a military commander in terms of military rank, he is still much higher than Chen Ze's co-leaders.

A person with a higher military rank salutes a person with a lower military rank, which makes people look too weird.

The governor also smiled and said: "Mr. Chen, you are too polite. Although I am the general leading the army this time, Mr. Hua made an explanation before leaving. When these soldiers are brought to Mr. Chen, they will obey your orders in everything, including

I, the governor, am included.”

As he spoke, he took out a token from his pocket and handed it to Chen Ze, saying: "This is the military plane token that Mr. Hua gave you. With this token in hand, these 100,000 troops will only obey you, Mr. Chen."

This general will never make any nonsense."

This time Chen Ze was not polite, his face straightened, and he also thanked the governor when he took the token.

"By the way, don't you know the general's surname?"

After carefully putting the token away, Chen Ze asked again.

"I don't dare to take it seriously. My surname is Huang. I used to serve in front of Hua Lao's account. This time Hua Lao finally stopped hiding from the world. Sir Chen is definitely responsible for this. Speaking of which, I have to thank Mr. Chen!"

Chen Ze nodded in understanding. Sure enough, this man was a close confidant of Hua Lao back then. In other words, just like Mr. Jing, the military commander of Xiyun City, he was a general who had followed Hua Lao and even received favors from Hua Lao.

Chen Ze had guessed before that even if Mr. Hua retired, his power would not die out. At that time, Mr. Jing did have the intention to recruit Chen Ze into the group, but Chen Ze never expressed his stance.

Now that Mr. Hua has come out again, it is normal for those diehards who once followed him to gather in Xiyun City.

This should be the case for Huang Shi, so Hua Lao felt relieved and temporarily handed over the military power to him, and took him to Nantes Province to transfer it to Chen Ze, without worrying at all that something might happen.

It can be seen that this Huang Shi is also a person deeply trusted by Hua Lao.

So he did not hesitate and ordered people to welcome Huang Shi back to the city lord's palace to settle down, while he himself stayed at the city gate.

Inside the city gate of Ketan City is a huge square. One hundred thousand troops entered through the city gate and formed an array on the spot. There was no crowding at all for a hundred thousand people.

Chen Ze stood on the makeshift military ordering platform, glanced around the audience, and couldn't help but nod slightly.

Through the magnifying glass, he could see that the quality of these soldiers was not low. Most of them were between ordinary soldiers and elite soldiers. Although they were not as good as the 100,000 elite soldiers that Hua Lao transferred to him before, this time they were

The deployment was done in a hurry, so the quality of the soldiers is pretty good.

The purpose of giving a few simple instructions was to let the soldiers get to know him. Considering that these soldiers had just experienced a long journey, he did not make many arrangements and asked Xu Qing to lead the team to settle down temporarily in the barracks.

However, before leaving, he still made an explanation and asked the soldiers to be fully clothed and ready to march again at any time!

At this point, Chen Ze breathed a sigh of relief.

Everything now is still under his control. Although it was unexpected that Ning Zhenggang easily lost Xilong City, fortunately, Ouyang Lixing was very capable.

He didn't need Chen Ming to remind him. He kept in touch with Xilong City during the march. There were a large number of scouts going back and forth along the way, passing back first-hand information at any time.

Ouyang Lixing knew very well how Xilongcheng was defended and how it was lost.

In fact, just when Ning Zhenggang asked the surrounding cities to gather their troops to Xilong City, Ouyang Lixing knew something was wrong.

He also climbed up from the bottom step by step, and he understood Ning Zhenggang's thoughts very well. Therefore, he knew that it would be useless even if he sent people to persuade Ning Zhenggang.

After all, although the two of them have different military ranks, they belong to two different provinces and have no affiliation with each other. He can give advice to Ning Zhenggang, but he cannot make direct decisions like he does to his subordinates.

Order.

This resulted in that even though Ouyang Lixing noticed something was wrong with Xilong City, he was helpless and could not influence Ning Zhenggang's actions.

Then all he could do was to rush to the designated location faster to neutralize the impact of Ning Zhenggang's impulsive actions.

Therefore, when Zheng Yuanyun ordered the massacre of the city, Ouyang Lixing ignored it and ordered all the soldiers to march at full speed.

Originally, he planned to give his tired soldiers a chance to breathe while on the road. At least when they arrived at the predetermined location, the recovered soldiers could immediately go into battle.

But that was not possible now. He could only ignore the status of the soldiers. The first priority right now was to get to the border as soon as possible.

So when Zheng Yuanyun was attacking the city and plundering the territory, Ouyang Lixing was scrambling for time. The road that should have taken him a month to complete finally reached the designated border city half a month later.

Simon, Hezhu, and Tianyuan are the three border cities inland of Nantes Province. Due to their location in the interior, they usually do not encounter wars, so it is understandable that the city defenses are lax.

Got it.

Fortunately, the war at the front was defeated, and the news that the Nantes province was invaded by the enemy had already spread throughout the province. Therefore, the city lords of these three cities had been stepping up the construction of city defenses a long time ago.

Fortunately, the three cities were far away from Xilong City, and Ning Zhenggang had not mobilized the defenders. The combined total strength of the three cities was also 200,000.

However, in terms of the quality of soldiers, there is no need to expect too much.

Then Ouyang Lixing rushed over. He was the commander-in-chief, and he arrived with more than two million reinforcements. The lords of these three small cities did not hesitate at all, and readily handed over their military power.

Under the unified command of Ouyang Lixing.

The matter was urgent, and Ouyang Lixing was not polite. He directly took over the military power and city defense, and immediately began to deploy the defense.

At the same time, he gathered a total of 200,000 soldiers from the three cities together. While there was still some time, Ouyang Lixing started training on the eve of the war.

As the saying goes, if you sharpen your weapon before battle, it will be useless. Even if you can't expect these soldiers to make a qualitative leap in this half month, they can still increase their combat power by at least 10 to 20 percent.
Chapter completed!