Sure enough, hearing Emperor Chen Xu's affirmative tone, this group of ministers didn't dare to speak, and the entire imperial study was a little scary quietly!

At this time, Shen Keqing, a scholar from the prince's camp, suddenly spoke: "Your Majesty Shengming, the position of Xuzhou Assassin Shi, as far as the current situation is concerned, it is indeed only the Weilie General Xiao Yao who is the most qualified to be held!" Because even General Lu Guangda is strongly recommending General Wei Lie to take up the post of Xuzhou Assassin, if we send other people to serve as Xuzhou Assassin, it will definitely make these soldiers who fought hard to defeat Xuzhou unconvinced, and this will definitely hit the morale of our army! Moreover, Gao Changgong is still eyeing Xuzhou in the north, trying to counterattack Xuzhou, so now our most important task is to defeat Gao Changgong and recover North Xuzhou, even together with Qingzhou, so as to completely stabilize the situation in Xuzhou, the land of four wars, so as to make Huainan and Jinling safer! ”

"Well, you're right!" Chen Xu finally heard that someone from the prince's camp was talking for Xiao Yao, and it was Shen Keqing, who was the closest to the prince, which made his mood a little better.

"Therefore, the minister supports Your Majesty to let Xiao Yao, the general of Weilie, serve as the governor of the military of Northern Xuzhou, and the two very important positions of Xuzhou Assassin History!" Shen Ke said lightly, and then his tone suddenly changed, and he continued with a very puzzled look: "But from General Lu's good news, the minister has something unclear!" ”

"What's wrong?" Chen Xu asked curiously.

The good news said that on the 28th day of the lunar month, Xiao Yao, the general of Weilie, fought a decisive battle with Gao Changgong's main force in Xiao County, west of Xuzhou City, and it only took one morning to defeat Gao Changgong's 20,000 troops, not only killing countless enemies, but also allowing Gao Changgong to finally lead more than 5,000 remnants of the army to flee to Xiapi County! Then General Weilie had already begun to lead his troops to pursue the remnants of Gao Changgong's army on the same day, but on the next day, the 29th day of the lunar month, he arrived in Xiapi County, and Gao Changgong, who fled in the desert, had already arrived in Xiapi County on the night of the 28th of the lunar month, and took the defenders of Shangpi County, abandoned the city overnight, and fled to North Xuzhou, more than 200 miles away! From this point of view, it was indeed this mighty general who fought bravely and beat Gao Changgong so much that he did not dare to fight again, so he could only abandon the city and flee! But the minister really couldn't understand why Gao Changgong rushed to Xiapi County that day, but General Weilie arrived in Xiapi County after a day and a night! As the so-called soldier is fast, if General Weilie really wants to kill this Gao Changgong and annihilate the Qi army in Huaibei in one fell swoop, once and for all, so that the entire Xuzhou is no longer threatened, then he should pursue at full speed, even if his forward movement is a little slow, it will not be so much time difference between the two! For a day and a night, I am afraid that when General Weilie arrived in Xiapi County, Gao Changgong had already fled to Northern Xuzhou! And according to General Weilie's ingenuity in strategizing for a decisive victory, how could he not have guessed that this Gao Changgong would abandon the city and flee? Then why not send an ambush in advance to set up an ambush on their way to northern Xuzhou? If the troops were not enough, then why didn't he let General Lu, who had already occupied Xuzhou City, go to stop Gao Changgong from escaping to Northern Xuzhou? ”

Sure enough, after listening to Shen Keqing's analysis, the entire imperial study became a lot of discussions again, and even Chen Xu stroked his beard and fell into thought: although listening to Shen Keqing's tone was questioning Xiao Yao, his questioning was indeed very reasonable! Because it is only two hundred miles away, Gao Changgong will arrive in half a day, but Xiao Yao will have to go one day and one night, there is no chase at all, it is simply a slow walk! Could it be that Xiao Yao deliberately let Gao Changgong go?

But this Gao Changgong and Xiao Yao have a deep hatred and hatred that they don't share, it stands to reason that Xiao Yao should be eager to capture Gao Changgong alive, and then execute him like a traitor Zhang Dabao, and break his body into thousands of pieces, he has no reason to let Gao Changgong go! Then why didn't Xiao Yao continue to chase and kill Gao Changgong?

"Maybe it's because the remnants of the army taken away by Gao Changgong are all cavalry, you must know that the cavalry of Qi is famous all over the world, they all ride fast horses to escape to Pi County, of course, they can run two hundred miles in half a day!" Someone on King Xing's side explained to Xiao Yao.

"Isn't there also a cavalry battalion in General Xiao's forward brigade? I heard that the General Trading House spent a lot of money and bought a lot of good war horses from the Turks, if General Xiao really tried his best to pursue the remnants of Gao Changgong's army, he should be able to catch up! Someone from the prince's camp also retorted.

"General Willie's forward brigade does have a cavalry battalion, but he also has a unit called an artillery battalion! When I set out on the expedition, I once saw General Xiao carry four cannons made of thousands of catties of bronze onto the warship, and these powerful cannons took several mules and horses to pull them! And there are so many other munitions that need to be pulled by mules and horses, so this artillery battalion must be slow, and you might be able to run faster than them! So of course, General Xiao couldn't catch up with Gao Changgong, and it took so much time to rush to Xiapi County! The people on King Xing's side continued to explain to Xiao Yao.

"Then General Xiao can send a cavalry battalion to chase after him!" Someone asked rhetorically.

"Humph! I'm afraid you haven't heard of how General Xiao fell for Gao Changgong's tricks in Linying County! Gao Changgong surrounded General Xiao's cavalry battalion at that time, and then lured General Xiao to divide his troops to rescue, but he fell into Gao Changgong's ambush, so that the artillery battalion left alone behind fell into the encirclement of tens of thousands of Qi troops! You see, this time it was also Gao Changgong who led 20,000 Qi troops against General Xiao, but General Xiao's forward brigade did not divide the troops, so it only took one morning to defeat Gao Changgong's 20,000 army! Do you think General Xiao will make the same mistake of dividing his troops! Those ministers who knew more clearly also helped Xiao Yao explain.

"That's it! Don't make any noise! will be outside, and the king's order will not be affected! Since I have appointed Xiao Yao as the main general to reinforce Huaibei, then I will naturally trust him! So all the decisions he made on the front line, I believe that Xiao Yao will have his own considerations! Those of you who sit in Jinling and eat and drink spicy food, don't guess at will! Chen Xu said loudly, and the imperial study was instantly quiet!

"Since most of you are in favor of letting Xiao Yao take the post of Xuzhou Assassin, then I will order to officially appoint Xiao Yao, the general of Weilie, as the Xuzhou Assassin Historian, and supervise the military of Northern Xuzhou! Lu Guangda's troops and the Eastern Route Army stationed in Supre County were all under the command of Xuzhou Thorn Shi! And also order Xiao Yao to immediately attack North Xuzhou and exterminate the remnants of Gao Changgong's entrenched army there, so as to stabilize the situation in Huaibei! Chen Xu said decisively, but his face was no longer as excited and joyful as just now.