387 The Situation in Leizhou (1/2)

5th month 12th day, Ouyang Shuo returned to Shanhai City.

After Little Green and Little White became protector beasts, they were all the more unwilling to leave the Spirit Beast Hall. Ouyang Shuo went to take a look at both of them and Xue'er before returning to Shanhai City.

Ouyang Shuo looked forward to the future achievements of these three.

The moment he returned, Ouyang Shuo called for Du Ruhui, Zhao Kuo, and Cobra. Half a month had passed since he asked them to come up with a plan, so Ouyang Shuo felt that they should have made some new progress.

Cobra was the first to report, ”The Leizhou Region is of similar size to the Lianzhou Basin. There are twenty-seven territories, twenty-two grade 2 counties, and five grade 3 counties. There are no grade 1 counties.”

When Ouyang Shuo heard this information, he nodded his head.

If he took down Leizhou, not including Qiongzhou Island, his territory would double in area.

Six months had passed since the Battle of Changping.

Even if no new battle map showed, the ranks of the lords would rise from killing raiders and bandits. Most had basically reached rank 2 earl and above.

With this conjecture, the ranks of Di Chen and the others should not be far from rank 3 Marquis.

Ouyang Shuo remembered that the fourth battle map in his last life activated with the birth of the fifth prefecture. The current China region already had three prefectures. As long as two more from the Yanhuang Alliance ranked up to Marquis and upgraded, they were really close to the fourth battle.

The prefecture quests were nothing to the big powers.

Cobra paused before he continued, ”The territories in Leizhou have pretty much all hit their upper limit, which means that a grade 2 County has two regiments of around five thousand. The five grade 3 counties all have a city protection regiment. The entire Leizhou region has around 180 thousand troops. If we add the subsidiary territories, to be safe, we can say there are around two hundred thousand troops.”

Two hundred thousand men. If they all grouped up together, it was enough to destroy the Dragon Legion.

Luckily, the situation had not escalated to such a bad state.

Song Wen had already replied Ouyang Shuo. Eight territories in Leizhou had joined the Tianshuang Alliance, all grade 2 counties.

As for these territories, when they saw that his army had gained the advantage, Ouyang Shuo believed that they would know what to do.

Black Mamba reported that they had completed their infiltration of five territories.

With that, it was the same as nullifying a third of the enemy.

Even so, based solely on the Dragon Legion's 2nd division and the Guards division, it was hard to smoothly take down Leizhou, not to mention the casualties.

Ouyang Shuo was confident that under the buffs of the territory, thanks to their elite equipment and overpowered generals, Shanhai army could take on three times their number.

If one considered Baiqi, Shanhai City Army could go one against four. More would be a huge test.

Furthermore, considering that the Battle of Leizhou would mainly consist of sieging, it was even more difficult. Hence, conservatively speaking, he needed to throw in another one or two divisions to successfully take down Leizhou.

Out of the four divisions of the Dragon Legion, the 1st division needed to go past the hundred thousand mountains, and the 3rd needed to guard Mulan Stronghold. As such, only Mu Guiying's 4th division could move.

Moving them would involve a certain amount of risk.

The moment he used the 4th division, in addition to the Guards division taking part in the attack, the entire Shanhai City defence would lie in the hands of the city protection division. Without any reserve forces, this was a very dangerous prospect.

Ouyang Shuo thought about it and decided to keep the three thousand palace Guards in Shanhai City. Although he did not feel that the Yanhuang Alliance would choose to attack at this point, he still had to defend his territory.

Playing safe was always the best virtue.

At the same time, the Dragon Legion 1st division would push back the time that they would cross the hundred thousand mountains. They would temporarily camp in Tianfeng House, near the hundred thousand mountains.

When the situation in Leizhou stabilized, Shi Wanshui would lead them on a long and arduous journey to deal the killing blow to Chiyou City.

With that, the city had the city protection division and the palace Guards, while on the outside, they had the 1st and 3rd divisions defending. There should be no problems.

Even if Yanhuang Alliance tried to attack, they could not take down Shanhai City.

Moving the 4th division was only to equal the numbers.

Ouyang Shuo's goal was to quickly take over the entire Leizhou. Hence, the best method was to throw in another division.

Once he thought about this, Ouyang Shuo raised his head and looked at Du Ruhui, ”Send orders to the Tiger Legion, order the 1st division to prepare to enter the Leizhou battlefield. The 2nd division will prepare to defend Shanhai City at any moment.”

”Yes, my lord!” Du Ruhui nodded.

”Leizhou is near the ocean, so there might be sailors. During the Battle of Leizhou, the Beihai Bay Squadron’s 1st division will join in to monitor the ocean situation.”

Although they could not help with the sieging, they could act as a great special surprise force. Counting in the sailors, Shanhai City would send seventy thousand troops to this battle.