It turned out that the aggressive momentum that Chen Xu showed just now was actually a test for Xiao Yao, Chen Xu wanted to use his emperor's royal spirit to scare and scare Xiao Yao, to see if Xiao Yao could resist the majesty and domineering from the emperor, and to see if he was really like what was said in the report, colluding with Gao Changgong and becoming his internal response in Chen State, and becoming a traitor who collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country!

However, Chen Xu is also too naïve, this kind of little trick can't scare Xiao Yao at all, because Xiao Yao has never done these things of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, and Xiao Yao is not like Chen Shubao, Chen Shuling, like those ministers, has a heartfelt fear of this kind of imperial authority! In Xiao Yao's eyes, he believes in absolute strength, even if the emperor, if he doesn't have the strength, Xiao Yao will treat you as a soft egg!

So the play that Chen Xu played just now, even though his acting skills were still very good, the angry and murderous eyes he showed just now really made Xiao Yao feel that Chen Xu was indeed murderous, but even so, Xiao Yao still kept his composure, and looked at Chen Xu with the eyes of watching the play, and secretly mocked in his heart: Act, you continue to act!

Now that Chen Xu has shown that he has no suspicion of Xiao Yao, who is the most suspicious, Xiao Yao still has to pretend to kneel down and salute Chen Xu and say: "Thank you Your Majesty for your trust in Shiro, Shiro will definitely defeat Gao Changgong and take Xuzhou to repay Your Majesty's holy grace!" ”

"Defeat Gao Changgong and take Xuzhou? Haha, Xiao Shilang, you are still a civilian, I haven't even said that I will reinstate you as an official, why are you so anxious to boast to me about going to Haikou, how can you be so sure that I will let you return to the army, and then let you send troops to Xuzhou to fight against Gao Changgong? Chen Xu said with a laugh.

"Just now, Your Majesty didn't say that I was summoned to the palace this time, or because I was a traitor who colluded with Gao Changgong to betray Chen Guo, and let me enter the palace and be arrested; Or do you want to make a wish to me as an official and reward me with glory and wealth? Now that Your Majesty has convinced me that I am not a traitor who collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, isn't that all that remains is to reinstate Shiro and let Shiro return to the army? Otherwise, I wouldn't have let those fathers-in-law go to the general casino every day to wait for me, but they didn't dare to directly show the holy decree and arrest me in the palace! Xiao Yao said confidently.

In fact, Xiao Yao still laughed at Chen Xu incomparably in his heart: It's not because you yourself were slapped in the face, the 50,000 army couldn't do the high feats of only more than 20,000 people, so that the Qi army, which was originally hit by Hu Luguang's death and demoralized, was demoralized and high-spirited because of this big victory! So what you need most now is to regroup, then defeat Gao Changgong, restore morale, and save the lost face! But looking at the entire Chen army, apart from me, Xiao Yao, which general can have the confidence to lead the army to defeat Gao Changgong!

"Haha, that's a good point, I just like Shiro for how confident you are!" Chen Xu nodded and said with a smile, then shook his head, touched his face and said with a bitter smile: "You were right just now, the fiasco in Xuzhou was indeed a heavy slap in the face, the 50,000 army was completely defeated by the high and long merits of the major generals and widows, and more than 30,000 Dachen soldiers died in Xuzhou!" What a shame! At the beginning, I was still full of confidence, thinking that we would be able to easily take Xuzhou and recover Huaibei! Now he was beaten and lost his armor and hid in Renzhou City, and he was always worried that Gao Changgong would move his troops south at any time to recapture Renzhou, so Lu Guangda had sent me several letters asking for help, asking me to immediately send troops to reinforce Renzhou! ”

"According to the current situation, Inju is still safe for the time being! Defeating us in Xuzhou before was also because he already knew our offensive plan and could carry out targeted deployment, but Gao Changgong's troops were insufficient, which is a fact! If the Qi army wants to go south to recapture Renzhou, then it can only let the troops stationed in Xuzhou attack the whole army, if this is done, it is too risky, because attacking the city and defending the city are two different things, if he fails to capture Renzhou quickly, but our reinforcements have also rushed to Huaibei, then Gao Changgong will fall into the danger of being attacked by the enemy, as long as he is defeated, it means that the entire Xuzhou, the entire Huaibei is ours! Therefore, the scheming and cautious Gao Changgong will not take the initiative to attack Renju! Xiao Yao shook his head and analyzed.

"It seems that although you were robbed of your military position by me, and you are still having fun all day long, you are still very concerned about the war in Huaibei! That's right, your opinion is the same as Wu Mingche, Gao Changgong didn't dare to leave Xuzhou City easily, so Wu Mingche has not sent troops to reinforce Xuzhou yet, after all, he still has to lead a large army to garrison Shouyang City to deter the Qi army from Yingchuan County! So I've always wanted to talk to you to see if you have the confidence to return to the army, and then lead your troops north to Huaibei to reinforce Renzhou, but looking at your confident appearance just now, it seems that you are also ready to return to the army, put on the battle again, and serve our Dachen! Chen Xu looked at Xiao Yao with satisfaction and said.

"Of course, Shiro is ready to return to the army and serve His Majesty! It's just that... Xiao Yao suddenly looked at Chen Xu, blinked his eyes, and said with a childish smile: "Hehe, it's just that Your Majesty is ready?" ”

Chen Xu is also a scheming old fox, so he can naturally hear what Xiao Yao is saying, and he also knows that Xiao Yao dragged on for a full month to enter the palace to see him, which is to put pressure on him, telling him that in addition to him Xiao Yao in Chen Guo today, you Chen Xu can't find a second person who has the ability to lead troops to reinforce Xuzhou! Sissy

And Chen Xu has indeed talked to many generals in this month, but none of them dared to pack a ticket, without using the main forces of the Chen army stationed in Shouyang City by Wu Mingche, just leading a temporary army cobbled together near Jinling, and rushed to reinforce Renzhou, they could defeat Gao Changgong and take Xuzhou!

Therefore, Chen Xu could only return to Xiao Yao in the end, since Xiao Yao was confident that he would defeat Gao Changgong, Chen Xu was naturally ready to accept all kinds of conditions that Xiao Yao put forward to him!

"Say, what conditions do you have!" Chen Xu asked straight to the point, completely without the aura of the emperor who scared Xiao Yao just now!

"Others don't dare to fight against Gao Changgong, it's just because he has those firearms of mine in his hands! And this Xuzhou fiasco, in fact, also proves that in a war, a large number of people does not necessarily lead to victory! As long as the weapon in your hand is powerful enough, you can win more with less! So if we want to deal with these firearms in Gao Changgong's hands, we must also have artillery in our hands! ”

"So your request is for me to support you in making artillery?" Chen Xu asked calmly, as if he had long expected Xiao Yao to make such a request.

"Yes, but time is pressing, and now we can't forge a lot of artillery right away, so we can only forge a more powerful artillery!" Xiao Yao said proudly.

"More powerful artillery? Is it more powerful than those guns in Gao Changgong's hands? Chen Xu asked excitedly.

"Yes! These new guns, which I have improved, are several times more powerful than their first-generation guns! So even though they have a lot of artillery, I can still defeat them! Xiao Yao smiled confidently.

"Good! That's great! This is the first good news I've heard this month! Shiro, I order you to forge these more powerful cannons at once! Chen Xu said with a laugh.

"No problem! It's just that the price of this gun is a little high! Xiao Yao smiled like a profiteer.

Sure enough, Chen Xu's smile froze instantly!