"You caught up?"

Chen Ze was also surprised that Chen Ming caught up with the bandits so quickly.

Just now, he had been focusing on the troops in Dongping City, and indeed he had not paid attention to Chen Ming for a while.

But this also shows that he is very relieved about Chen Ming, knowing that if something happens, Chen Ming will contact him and will not make decisions without authorization.

Just like now.

Chen Ming really had the intention to give it a try, but he didn't act recklessly. When he found that the matter was beyond his ability, he decisively contacted Chen Ze.

If not, Chen Ming might have made a big mistake!

"impossible!"

Chen Ze pulled up the map of Chen Ming's location and took a look at it, and said decisively: "What you encounter is not our target!"

"this……"

Chen Ming opened his mouth, intending to refute, but he changed his words and asked: "Why are you so sure, Master?"

"Because of where you are."

Chen Ze responded while scanning the location of Chen Ming.

"Although you have been running for almost a day and a night, in fact, you are still not too far from Dongning City."

Chen Ming could only nod.

He galloped all the way without rest, and his speed was naturally not slow, but he only had such a short time, and no matter how good his equestrian skills were, there was still a limit to his physical strength when he got off the horse.

According to Chen Ming's own judgment, he probably ran away for over a hundred miles.

This is already a remarkable achievement.

It only took half a day and one night. After exhausting two fast horses, Chen Ming was able to run here. The speed was not bad.

But equally, what Chen Ze said is not wrong.

Chen Ze is not denying Chen Ming's contribution, but judging from his location, he is only a hundred miles away from Dongning City. To say how far away it is, it is actually not that far.

According to the size of Dongning City, this hundred-mile area is actually still within its jurisdiction. Near where Chen Ming is, if you search carefully, you can still find small villages and the like attached to Dongning City.

"You run very fast."

Chen Ze continued: "But those bandits are not fools either."

This is certain. Chen Ze has never denied the intelligence of that bandit team, except for being a little greedy.

Otherwise, the opponent would not have tried to catch the cicada with a mantis attack. The oriole took advantage of Huang Liang's attack on Dongping City and secretly seized the other three undefended cities, taking advantage of them.

To be able to have such a strategy, the leader of that bandit must have been a general, or perhaps a wise counselor.

To be able to make this judgment, in addition to what happened to the three border cities, Chen Ze also took into account the tragic situation in Dongning City.

From beginning to end, Chen Ze's evaluation of this bandit was just greed.

Can Dongning City be attacked?

Of course it is possible.

The bandit leader saw clearly that the current situation in Dongning City was worse than that of Dongping City. Why not bite this piece of fat that reaches your mouth?

Therefore, it was precisely because of this that he chose to attack Dongning City even though he knew that his side was almost overloaded.

Because he knew very well that Dongning City was now an empty city and there would be no problem in fighting it.

But Dongning City is not small after all!

This also led to the fact that this rogue band with only more than 30,000 people could no longer do what they had done in the three border cities before and massacred the entire city!

Although Dongning City also suffered the massacre, many Pingcheng people still took advantage of the chaos and ran out. This is why Chen Minghui discovered civilians when he came near Dongning City.

Chen Ze didn't believe that the bandit leader could not think of this.

Since they can imagine it, they must know that the atrocities they committed in Dongning City will be spread to far away places in a very short period of time.

This is very far away, not only referring to other cities in Fengqi Province, but also to the wider area.

Let’s talk about the city first.

It is true that Dongning City is empty, but what about the original strength of Dongning City?

Those troops were naturally deployed to the front line closer to the main city.

And considering the location of Dongning City, they can get support.

Once the news spreads that Dongning City is being attacked, cities with more troops ahead of Dongning City will definitely send troops to save it!

Moreover, Dongning City was very large. After the rogues captured Dongning City, they looted the city for three days before evacuating.

Three days is already a limit.

If he stayed for a moment longer, he might be hit by the Fengqi Empire army coming to support him.

So at that time, they must leave.

This is a threat from the official forces in Fengqi Province.

And the other point is the bandit forces like Huangliang and this rogue army.

Nowadays, there are definitely more forces circulating in Fengqi Province than just these two, there must be others.

And once the news of Dongning City being beaten reaches the ears of other bandit forces...

It can be seen just by looking at how Huang Liang's men became furious after learning the news.

How could a band of about 30,000 bandits eat up such a big fat piece of meat?

What's more, this city has already been captured.

So if we go there now, we will just eat meat without working!

One can imagine how crazy the surrounding bandit forces will be after receiving this news. Why don't they rush to Dongning City?

With these two major concerns together, why don't you run away quickly?

Therefore, no matter how heavy the load on their bodies is, they will definitely not stay within the confines of Dongning City for a long time.

However, Chen Ming arrived later and found traces of rogue bandits within the confines of Dongning City. This was unreasonable.

According to Chen Ze's judgment on the behavior pattern of the bandit leader, this is very inconsistent with common sense.

That's why he said that the force Chen Ming encountered should not be that force.

And it is very likely that they heard the news and came from another bandit force.

"But……"

Chen Ming was still convinced of Chen Ze's judgment, but there was still a doubt lingering in his heart.

"They were driving a lot of carriages. The wheel marks were consistent with those coming out of Dongning City, and the weight was also extremely heavy!"

Chen Ming said.

This was what he had just observed, and it was precisely because of this that he made his judgment.

Chen Ze was not too surprised. He just smiled and said, "You can go and see what's in that carriage."

"In addition, according to what you said about the clothing of the bandits, don't forget that they are also wandering throughout Fengqi Province. In this case, it is possible to grab something on the way."

"Furthermore, you said that they have no defense at all. This can also reflect from the side that they are not afraid of anyone coming to take advantage of them at this moment!"

Chen Ming's heart moved.

Chen Ze's words awakened him.
Chapter completed!