"General Dangkou, General Fenwei!" Ren Zhong smiled and bowed his hand to the two young generals who walked quickly to the city.

Li Xinchen and Xiao Shilian didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly returned the salute. Although Ren Zhong is a miscellaneous general like them, Ren Zhong, a miscellaneous general, has been doing it for half his life, where can Li Xinchen and Xiao Shilian be compared?

Ren Zhong saluted them first, which showed that Ren Zhong respected the two of them very much, and also expressed his welcome to the two generals who came from afar, but if Li Xinchen and Xiao Shilian held a shelf on this, it would really be blind, let alone know what to do.

After not seeing each other for a long time, Ren Zhong not only looked old, but also seemed to be more energetic. Of course, this phenomenon is not limited to Ren Zhong, many of Nan Chen's veterans are now becoming high-spirited, as if they have returned to the years when they were young and crisscrossed the battlefield.

This is mainly because now Nan Chen has finally opened up the situation in Huainan and Jingzhou at the same time, and the dilemma over the years has been solved, and 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?

If the general has been defeating the battle or can't open the situation, then even if he survives to death, he will rarely have the opportunity to be a marquis, and now this opportunity is naturally sent to the eyes of all the old generals, and it is impossible for them not to be excited.

As for who brought this opportunity, everyone knows that this is why Ren Zhong didn't have a good reputation when he saw Li Xinchen and Xiao Shilian, two young people. After all, the two in front of him are the living God of Wealth.

Li Xinchen smiled and said: "The old general has not been seen for a long time, he is really old and strong!" ”

Ren Zhong also laughed: "Shizhongxian nephew is polite, today you are guests, and the old man is the master, but because the defense of this city is critical, it is really a sin to have to let the two of them come to this city upstairs to meet the old man!" ”

Xiao Shilian also responded: "City defense is important, and the responsibility of the old general is where the younger generations should admire." What's more, only by talking about this point can we show the spirit of our generation. ”

Ren Zhong looked at the two young men who had no nervous look on their faces at all, and sighed secretly in his heart. Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and these two young people should really be called high-spirited.

Compared to what the two of them were going to do, it was really not a dangerous task to contain Wei Chi Yuan in Zhangchuan County.

Walking quickly to the city tower, a map of Jingzhou had already been hung here, and Ren Zhong stretched out his hand and pointed: "Now that there should be a fight in Zhangshan County, with the old general Chunyu in charge, it should be easy to contain the enemy's forces in Wuning County." ”

After a pause, he then drew a circle on the north side of Zhangchuan County: "In addition, the old man has sent scouts to travel along the boundary of fifty and sixty miles on the north side of Zhangchuan County, and the two forwards of 3,000 soldiers and horses each have also arrived at thirty miles north of the city to set up camp first, so that the old thief on the side of Xiangyang is afraid that he will not be able to sit still." ”

Li Xinchen bowed slightly, Ren Zhong sent 6,000 soldiers and horses, although it was not much, but coupled with the offensive taken by Nan Chen in Zhangshan County, it was enough for Wei Chi Yuan to think about it in his heart, after all, Nan Chen had never sent an army of this scale in so many days of provocations and frictions between the two sides.

And more importantly, Li Xinchen didn't need Nan Chen's army to really fight to the death with Wei Chi Yu around Xiangyang City.

The reinforcements of the Northern Zhou Dynasty will arrive soon, and Wei Chi Hui will definitely not be too entangled with Nan Chen outside the city, as long as he can hold on to Xiangyang for a few days, and when the reinforcements arrive, Nan Chen will naturally retreat, so Li Xinchen only needs Ren Zhong and Chun Yu Liang to help drag Yu Chi Hui in the east and west, so that Yu Chi Hui has no time to take care of Li Xinchen's movements.

By the time Li Xinchen arrived in Xinzhou with 7,000 soldiers and horses, it was really a wide sea leaping and the sky was high for birds to fly.

At that time, not to mention whether Wei Chi Chen can stop Li Xinchen, and even between Li Xinchen and the Nanchen court, there is only a simple relationship between the monarch and the court, and when Li Xinchen really gains a firm foothold in Sichuan and Shu, whether he is a minister or not is just a matter of thought.

Of course, at least from this stage, Li Xinchen will definitely not do such a rebellious thing, such thoughts can be had, but they can only be pressed deep in the bottom of his heart. After all, he needs Nan Chen's support in any aspect of his current and even short-term future.

In other words, it needs the support of the strength of Nanchen Donggong.

Li Xinchen didn't even dare to imagine that if he was not facing Xiao Maha and Zhou Qu and other Donggong civil and military officials, but the suspicious Chen Xu, then his plan would not be approved by Chen Xu.

The golden scales were originally a thing in the pool, and they turned into dragons when they encountered a storm.

Chen Ji estimated that he would not be given a chance to get in touch with the wind and clouds at all.

Whether it was escaping his life from Luliang Mountain, returning from a bloody battle at the head of Zhangshan City, or struggling to survive from the valley of Huarong Dao, Li Xinchen could always feel that there was a lucky force protecting him.

Maybe it's because of that elusive fate, or maybe it's because of the gritted teeth.

No matter what the reason, Li Xinchen will continue to move forward as always, according to his own original vision, unswerving.

Stretching out his hand to draw a circle on the map, Li Xinchen said in a deep voice: "Wei Chi Hui and our diplomatic hands in Xiangyang City are not very big, so the old general might as well send more soldiers and horses to the north to make a detour to the north, and make a posture of blocking the upper reaches of the water and cutting off the barbarians from Hanzhong for reinforcements, I am afraid that at that time, Wei Chi Hui will really have no time to take care of anything else." ”

Ren Zhong was stunned for a moment, there are only a few roads into Xiangyang, there are two upstream and downstream of the water, and one is naturally from Nanyang to Fancheng in the south, Xiangfan is one, and when it comes to Fancheng, it is naturally integrated into the entire Xiangyang defense system.

Once Nanchen sent troops to cut off the upper reaches of the water, it meant that the Northern Zhou army wanted to support Xiangyang, and there was only one road left to come from Nanyang, but this road was still under the threat of the defenders of Nanchen and Huaixi, so it was impossible for the reinforcements who arrived first to rush to Xiangyang directly, but could only garrison the important towns along the road first, so as to prevent the Huaixi army of Nanchen from attacking and disturbing the grain route after the army.

If Nan Chen acted like this, the posture of attacking Xiangyang would be even more obvious, and it was clear that he wanted to attack with all his strength and strive to take Xiangyang in one go before the reinforcements of the Northern Zhou Dynasty arrived!

If the battle situation develops to this point, Wei Chi Yuan will really have to think about it.

But correspondingly, if Ren Zhong really sent troops like this, then it means that the troops he can have are basically sent, if Wei Chi Zhen really doesn't care about a big battle with Nan Chen's army outside the city, then can Ren Zhong be able to stop it, and how much will the soldiers and horses under his command be damaged?

These are questions that must be considered.

He is here to make meritorious deeds, not to lose soldiers and generals.