"General Dang Kou, General Fenwei!" Ren Zhong smiled and cupped his hands at the two young generals who were walking quickly to the top of the city.
Li Xingchen and Xiao Shilian did not dare to neglect and hurriedly returned the courtesy. Although Ren Zhong was a miscellaneous general like them, Ren Zhong had been doing this for half his life. How could Li Xingchen and Xiao Shilian compare with each other?
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Ren Zhong saluted them first, which showed that Ren Zhong respected them both and also expressed his welcome to the two generals who came from afar. However, if Li Xingchen and Xiao Shilian just put on airs, it would be really disrespectful or ungrateful.
Already.
After not seeing each other for a long time, Ren Zhong seems not only not to have aged, but also seems to be more energetic. Of course, this phenomenon is not limited to Ren Zhong. Many veterans of Nanchen have become more energetic now, as if they have returned to their youthful days on the battlefield.
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This is mainly because Nanchen has finally opened up the situation in Huainan and Jingzhou at the same time. The difficulties for many years have been solved in one fell swoop. These veterans have finally seen the opportunity to make contributions that they have been waiting for for a long time. How can they not be excited?
When a general goes to war, all he does is to make a prince by birth. If he keeps losing battles or can't open up the situation, then even if he survives until death, he will rarely have the chance to become a prince. Now this opportunity is naturally given to all old generals.
In front of our eyes, it is impossible for them not to be excited.
As for who brought this opportunity, everyone knows it, which is why Ren Zhong didn't show off his seniority when he saw the two young men Li Xingchen and Xiao Shilian. After all, these two people in front of him are the living gods of wealth.
Li Xingchen smiled and said: "It has been a long time since we last saw the old general. He is really getting stronger with age!"
Ren Zhong also laughed: "You are so polite, nephew Shizhong. Today you are guests and I am the host. However, because the defense of this city is critical, I have to let you two come to meet me on the tower of the city. What a sin!"
Xiao Shilian also responded and said: "City defense is the most important thing. It is the responsibility of the old general. We and the younger generations should admire him. What's more, it is only by talking about military affairs with generals that we can show the character of our generation."
Ren Zhong looked at these two young people who had no nervous expressions on their faces, and sighed secretly in his heart. Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, so these two young people should probably be called high-spirited.
Compared with what the two of them are about to do, restraining Yuchi Jiong in Zhangchuan County is really not a dangerous task.
He quickly walked to the city tower, where a map of Jingzhou had been hung for a long time, and Ren Zhong stretched out his hand and pointed: "There should have been fighting in Zhangshan County now. Old General Chunyu is sitting here, trying to contain it.
The enemy's strength in Wuning County should be easy."
After a pause, he then drew a circle on the north side of Zhangchuan County: "In addition, I have sent scouts to roam along the fifty and sixty-mile boundaries on the north side of Zhangchuan County, with two forward teams of three thousand troops each.
We also arrived thirty miles north of the city and set up camp first, so I’m afraid the old thief Yuchi Jiong in Xiangyang will not be able to sit still."
Li Xingchen nodded slightly. Ren Zhong sent 6,000 troops. Although it was not a lot, coupled with the offensive taken by Nanchen in Zhangshan County, it was enough to make Yuchijiong think carefully. After all, Nanchen had been on both sides for so many days.
In the provocations and frictions that have come and gone, an army of this size has never been dispatched.
More importantly, Li Xingchen did not need Nanchen's army to really fight Yuchi Jiong to the death around Xiangyang City.
Reinforcements from the Northern Zhou Dynasty will arrive soon. Yuchi Jiong will definitely not have too much entanglement with Nan Chen outside the city. As long as he can hold on to Xiangyang for a few days, Nan Chen will naturally retreat when the reinforcements arrive. Therefore, Li Xinchen only needs Ren Zhong and Chun Yu to measure Yidong.
Just help Yixi hold Yuchijiong back so that Yuchijiong has no time to pay attention to Li Xingchen's movements.
By the time Li Xingchen arrived at Xinzhou with seven thousand soldiers and horses, the sea was as wide as a fish could leap, and the sky was as high as a bird could fly.
By then, not to mention whether Yuchi Jiong can stop Li Xinchen, there will only be a simple monarch-subordinate relationship between Li Xinchen and the Nanchen court. When Li Xinchen really establishes a firm foothold in Sichuan and Shu, there will be nothing more than a minister and a minister.
It's just a matter of thought.
Of course, at least at this stage, Li Xingchen will definitely not do such a treasonous thing. Such thoughts can be entertained, but they can only be deeply suppressed in his heart. After all, no matter what aspect he looks like now or even in the short-term future,
They all need Nan Chen’s support.
In other words, it requires the support of Nanchen Donggong's strength.
Li Xingchen couldn't even imagine whether his plan would be approved by Chen Xu if he was not facing the civil and military officials of the East Palace such as Xiao Mohe and Zhou Que, but Chen Xu who had a suspicious personality.
The golden scale was originally an object in the pond, but it turned into a dragon when encountering the storm.
Chen Xu probably wouldn't give him a chance to get in touch with Fengyun.
Whether he escaped with his life from the Luliang Mountains, returned from a bloody battle at the top of Zhangshan City, or struggled to survive at the foot of the Huarongdao Valley, Li Xingchen could always feel that the power of luck was protecting him.
Maybe it's because of the elusive fate, or maybe it's because of my gritted teeth and hard work.
No matter what the reason is, Li Xingchen will continue to move forward as always, unswervingly in accordance with his original vision.
He reached out and drew a circle on the map, and Li Xingchen said in a deep voice: "There is not much chance of Yuchi Jiong and us fighting outside Xiangyang City, so the old general might as well send more troops to the north to block the upper reaches of Mian River.
, to cut off the reinforcements from the barbarians from Hanzhong, I am afraid that by that time Yuchijiong will really have no time to take care of anything else."
Ren Zhong was startled. There are only a few roads into Xiangyang. There are two upstream and downstream of Mianshui River. The other one is naturally from Nanyang to the south to Fancheng. Xiangyang is integrated. When it reaches Fancheng, it is naturally integrated into the entire Xiangyang defense system.
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Once Nanchen sent troops to cut off the upper reaches of the Mian River, it meant that the Northern Zhou army wanted to support Xiangyang, and the only way left was from Nanyang. However, this road was still under the threat of Nanchen's Huaixi defenders.
Therefore, the reinforcements that arrived first could not rush directly to Xiangyang, but could only garrison important towns along the road to prevent the Huaixi army from attacking in the south and disturbing the grain road after the army passed.
If Nan Chen acted in this way, his posture to attack Xiangyang would be even more obvious, and he would obviously attack with all his strength, trying to capture Xiangyang in one go before the reinforcements from the Northern Zhou Dynasty arrived!
If the war situation develops to this point, Yuchi Jiong will really have to think about it for himself.
But correspondingly, if Ren Zhong really sends out troops in this way, it means that basically all the troops he has in his hands have been sent out. If Yu Chijiong really wants to fight Nanchen's army outside the city regardless of his intentions, then Ren
Can Zhong be able to stop it, and how much of the troops under his command will be lost?
Ren Zhong must consider these issues.
He is here to make achievements, not to lose troops and generals.