Chapter 497 ?????? Focus

Chapter 497 - Focus

calm.

Just as Chen Ze expected, after receiving his large-scale withdrawal and abandoning the six cities along the way, Ouyang Lixing did not move lightly.

On the contrary, it was Chen Ze who had an argument with the generals.

The topic of debate was whether they should retreat to Ketan City, or start a defensive posture in Xilong City, using Xilong City as their frontline position.

It is undeniable that Xilong City is actually a city with the level of a main city. Although it was burned down by Zheng Yuanyun, most of the buildings in the city are well preserved. The only weakness is the lack of supplies.

But this problem can actually be solved by transporting grain from Ketan City.

In other words, Xilong City, which has solved the problem of supplies, can be used for defense with its strong defense facilities.

In fact, even Luo Zongbing agreed with this spectator, and he also believed that there was no need to abandon Xilong City.

You know, Xilong City was originally the main city of Nantes Province, so in those days, it was naturally the first line of defense against Anluo Province, and in terms of the geographical location of West Longcheng, the moat It would indeed be a great trouble if the An Luo province attacked inward.

On the other hand, Ketan City.

No, even the three major cities in the province of Nantes actually have such a problem.

After Nantes Province obtained a large amount of territory that Anluo Province gave up, it built these three main cities as the first line of defense against Anluo Province's counterattack. It is also because of this that Xilong City gradually declined .

As for why the Zhu Yan Empire built so many three main cities here, it was actually because of this geographical location.

Anluo Province withdrew from a large area of ​​territory and chose Bo'an City, which was more conducive to defense, as its stronghold.

Have to say, this is a very smart choice.

Because in the positions of the three main cities before, Anluo Province exposed too many flaws, so Nantes Province found the right opportunity to attack in one fell swoop.

That's why in order to fill these loopholes, the Nantes Province later simply built three main cities in a big way to block all these loopholes.

However, the construction of Nantes Province is naturally based on Anluo Province as the imaginary enemy. In other words, the so-called loopholes are also from the perspective of Anluo Province, attacking from the outside to the inside.

As for from the inside out?

This possibility was hardly considered by the Nantes province at the time.

Just imagine that the enemy can counterattack the three main cities from within the province of Nantes. Doesn't this mean that the entire province of Nantes has already fallen, so what's the point of defending the three main cities?

The only possibility that the enemy can appear within the province of Nantes without breaking the three main cities is that there is a problem in the neighboring province.

For example, Fengqi Province was breached, and the enemy entered Nantes Province from Fengqi Province, then this... can only be said to be a crime other than war.

And when the line of sight turns to the present.

Chen Ze's decision was to stick to the three main cities, so wouldn't it run counter to the idea of ​​the Nantes province at the beginning? In this way, whether it is Ouyang Lixing or other generals of the Zhu Yan Empire, they want to counterattack the three main cities from the inside. In fact, it is much easier to go to the city than from the outside, that is, from the direction of Anluo Province.

Of course, Xilong City also has such a problem.

That moat is still open to the outside world. When Nantes Province was still dominated by Xilong City, this river made the Qingyang Empire suffer a lot. A large number of soldiers belonging to Anluo Province were buried here. For the soldiers in An Luo Province, this river was simply a river of death.

Well, if Chen Ze and the others wanted to defend from Xilong City, because the enemies they had to face also came from within Nantes Province, which obviously ran counter to the direction of the moat.

Luo Zongbing and the others naturally saw this clearly.

But it is precisely because of this that they think that they should establish a stronghold in Xilong City for their defense.

This is also the first time that Zongbing Luo put forward an opinion contrary to Chen Ze's after entering the province of Nantes. Of course, as a promise he made to Chen Ze before, Zongbing Luo did not force him to do so. But just expressing my own opinion.

A group of generals headed by Luo Zongbing believed that since the three main cities had exactly the same problems as Xilong City, they were both difficult to attack from the outside but could be exploited from the inside. So……

Why give up Xilong City and retreat to Ketan City?

In the eyes of Luo Zongbing and others, Xilong City can be used as a buffer, there is no need to give up at the beginning, and another point is that if Nantes Province takes Xilong City back, And in the future, if the province of Anluo wants to send troops to attack the province of Nantes, it will have to face the river of death.

Undoubtedly, this loss of troops will be huge, and maybe Anluo Province will have no chance to invade Nantes Province again.

Luo Zongbing thought that since defending Xilong City is as difficult as defending Ketan City, why not try to defend Xilong City, in case it survives?

As long as they can stand firmly in West Longcheng, the initiative will be in the Qingyang Empire's side from now on, and they will have the upper hand in both offense and defense.

Chen Ze held different opinions on this, and it was also the focus of debate between the two parties.

It is true that Luo Zongbing and others thought it would be better to defend West Longcheng from the perspective of the empire, but Chen Ze didn't think so.

First of all, Xilong City is the old main city of Nantes Province. Although it has now declined and was burned by Zheng Yuanyun, Xilong City does not have much weight in the minds of Nantes Province people. would be too light.

Secondly, from a strategic point of view, Zhu Yan Empire can also think of what Luo Zongbing and others thought of.

Abandoning the three main cities is already a helpless move, but want them to give up Xilong City?

Once Xilong was lost, Nantes Province was like a museum with its doors open. Anyone who came could walk into the museum calmly, and then plundered it, or just stayed there.

It can even be said that Xilong City is the bottom line of Nantes Province.

Xilong City is still there, no matter how bad the Nantes Province is, it will return the land that once belonged to the Anluo Province, and if the West Longcheng cannot be kept, then the entire Nantes Province will be breached sooner or later.

Even if this time because of Zheng Yuanyun, the vitality of Anluo Province is severely injured, and it temporarily loses the possibility of attacking Nantes Province again, but if the opponent keeps the door, then sooner or later, there will be a day when Nantes Province will face again Invasion of Anluo Province.

This is something no one in the province of Nantes wants to see.

Therefore, if they are sticking to Xilong City, this will undoubtedly make the other party lose their temper, and they will send troops recklessly in order to regain Xilong City!