Ever since the advent of machine guns, nomads have become good at singing and dancing and being hospitable!

The reason why the nomadic people in the north have been able to continuously invade the Central Plains for thousands of years, and even the later Mongols were able to expedition from Asia to Europe and establish a Mongol empire across the Eurasian continent, is that their armies have great mobility!

The northern steppes produce a large number of excellent war horses, so the northern army can build a strong cavalry, and cavalry has always been the strongest in the army before the emergence of mechanized armies! In addition, the places north of the Huai River are plain areas, the terrain is flat and broad, which is very conducive to the rapid attack of the cavalry, the impact of horses, and there are not many rivers, so that the southern warships can not fully exert their own strength!

Therefore, if Chen Guo wants to capture Xuzhou and recover Huaibei without obvious superiority in troops, he can only rely on thermal weapons that are more powerful than cavalry!

But because Xiao Yao spent a lot of energy, spent a lot of silver, and spent a lot of time to build the musket artillery, but they were all taken away by Gao Changgong in the Battle of Linying County, so now Xiao Yao can lead his troops to Huaibei in a short period of time in order to complete the task of Emperor Chen Xu, so he can only avoid the heavy and light, first let Zhou Chao in the Jiangzhou Iron Workshop, rush out a batch of Minnie Sui fire rifles, and first let the 5,000 soldiers of his rebuilt forward brigade go into battle with a Mini rifle in their hands to kill the enemy!

As for artillery, due to time constraints, and the fact that the iron workshops in Jiangzhou and Jinling had their own heavy tasks, and the manpower was limited, Xiao Yao decided not to make too many of them, and only cast four Napoleon guns with a caliber of 100 mm in bronze!

In fact, compared with the sub-cannons made of high-strength steel by Xiao Yao before, these Napoleonic cannons made of only bronze are technically regressive!

Because the Napoleonic cannon made of bronze, in order to ensure that when the cannonball is fired, the barrel of the cannon can withstand the strong pressure generated by the explosion of gunpowder, the barrel must be made very thick, which causes these cannons to be very bulky, and the weight of a cannon weighs more than 800 catties, and it takes two horses to pull it! You must know that the large sub-mother cannon made by Xiao Yao before weighed less than 400 catties, and a mule could pull it, while the small sub-mother cannon was only more than 200 catties, and one person could push and run!

But these Napoleonic cannons also have their own characteristics, the first of which is that the materials used to make them are simple! Bronze is the earliest alloy in the history of metal smelting and casting, as long as tin or lead is added to the copper, you can get bronze with high strength, low melting point, not only wear-resistant and chemically stable! So Xiao Yao can cast four Napoleon cannons in a short time!

The second is that it is very airtight! Because the Napoleon cannon belongs to the front-loading gun, the back is sealed, and there is only a small hole for inserting the fuse, so when the gun is fired, the strong air pressure can provide more kinetic energy for the shell, making the gun faster, more powerful, and longer!

As for the third reason, of course, it is because Xiao Yao now has the support of Emperor Chen Xu, and has mobilized the resources of the entire Chen State to support Xiao Yao, plus Xiao Yao needs a large amount of metal copper to make bullets, so Chen Xu has ordered all the metal and copper from all over the Chen State to be transported to Jinling City and handed over to Xiao Yao for free use, which makes Xiao Yao not need to save money for Chen Xu, and he directly uses bronze to cast four Napoleonic cannons!

The three giants of General Motors, Xiao Yao was responsible for manufacturing bronze cannons and hand-cranked Gatling machine guns in the Jinling Iron Workshop, and tens of thousands of temporary employees were asked to make metal-shelled bullets for Xiao Yao one by one; Zhou Chao was in the Jiangzhou Iron Workshop, working at full speed to build Mini rifles for the 5,000 soldiers of the rebuilt Forward Brigade; And Zu Yuan was in charge of logistics, sending various craftsmen and continuously transporting various materials to the iron workshops in these two places to ensure the smooth progress of Xiao Yao's plan!

Therefore, with the joint efforts of everyone and the support of a large number of resources, in just one month, Xiao Yao has already produced two hand-cranked Gatling machine guns, four Napoleon cannons, as well as 200,000 rounds of ammunition and more than 400 shells loaded with yellow explosives in the Jinling Iron Workshop!

And there is also good news from the Jiangzhou Iron Workshop, Zhou Chao has rushed to produce more than 2,000 brand-new Mini rifles, which can make more than 1,000 soldiers of the musket battalion in the forward brigade get their familiar muskets again, plus the 2,000 cavalry of Huang Wenyuan's cavalry battalion, although there are still no various artillery in the hands of the soldiers of the artillery battalion that they are familiar with, but the combat effectiveness has recovered two-thirds of the forward brigade can now make a comeback and return to the battlefield!

Chen Guo Taijian four years, the first day of December, there is still a month left before the New Year, although it is still in the period of Chen's Northern Expedition War, but because of the Chen army suffered a crushing defeat in Xuzhou, the armies of Chen Qi and Qi are now only facing each other in a few cities in the Huaibei region, so the two sides have never carried out large-scale military conflicts, the people of Chen have not been too nervous because of the war, they should eat, they should sleep, and the festival should still be passed, so everyone is busy preparing for the New Year!

On the second day of the first month of December, several Chen Guo's warships went down the river, and then docked at the dock of Jinling City, and the ships were full of Chen Guo's soldiers who were all majestic, and the expressions on their faces were colder and more severe than the cold wind!

They are Xiao Yao's subordinates, the forward brigade who came from Jiangcheng!

After more than a year of rest, and because of the father-son relationship between Huang Wenyuan and Huang Faqu, they received strong support from the Western Route Army, so that Huang Wenyuan had already restored the establishment of 5,000 people for Xiao Yao, who was beaten by Gao Changgong in the Battle of Linying County, and was beaten by Gao Changgong to less than half of the forward brigade!

Moreover, in this year, they all strictly followed Xiao Yao's orders, ignored anything that happened in the outside world, and only carried out all kinds of strict training in the barracks every day, according to Xiao Yao's previous training methods, so as to ensure that when Xiao Yao gave an order, they could pick up weapons and immediately plunge into battle!

The once great defeat made the soldiers of the Forward Brigade now hold their breath, waiting for the opportunity to return to the battlefield and find Gao Changgong to avenge those dead brothers! And Xiao Yao didn't let them wait too long, just three days ago, Huang Wenyuan, who was still in Jiangcheng, suddenly received Xiao Yao's order, asking them to board the ship immediately and prepare to return to the battlefield!

This order made Huang Wenyuan and the others very excited, and the fire of revenge in their hearts was even stronger!

So Huang Wenyuan immediately ordered troops to board the ship, and even his father, Huang Faqu, the commander of the Western Route Army, didn't have time to say goodbye, so he led the 5,000 soldiers of the forward brigade to the east of the river, rushed to Jiangzhou first, and after taking the batch of muskets that Zhou Chao made for them, he immediately rushed to Jinling City!