In the following days, everyone was nervously preparing for various matters of the Northern Expedition, and Wu Mingche kept calling a meeting of senior generals of the army to further improve the battle plan according to various information from the spies!

Cheng Wenji selected hundreds of diving masters, and took them to dive into the water every day in the cold spring of March to train how to quickly remove the wooden stakes in the water!

Xiao Yao, who took a few thousand taels of silver from Wu Mingche and was in charge of taking the lead, his preparation was the most cumbersome, and the first step was to process the oil used in the fire attack!

These stinky, slimy, and smoky black oils were imported from Zhou by Zu Yuan for a lot of money, and Xiao Yao was also very excited when he saw it, but then he found that these oils were not used anywhere under the current conditions! The smoke from the fire is black and choking! Building a modern engine that runs on gasoline? Save it, with the limitations of the current ironmaking technology and other conditions, this idea is simply not possible! So these dozen barrels of oil have been stored in the warehouses of the ironworks!

Now it's time to use fire on the fleet of the Qi Army, and these floating oils are the first choice of ignitions! But directly igniting these oils full of impurities will not burn well, so Xiao Yao has to process it and refine it by soil method!

The method is also very simple, only a heating kettle and a cooler are needed. Put the crude oil into the heating kettle to heat, control the temperature not too high, and then let the oil and gas through the pipeline with cold water cooling, the liquid that appears after condensation is a mixture of gasoline, diesel, kerosene, wax oil, and the remaining liquid is heavy oil and asphalt.

Collect these oil mixtures that are more likely to catch fire, put them into a special large iron tank the size of an explosive packet, and put a small powder bag in it as a detonator, then you can use a projectile cannon to throw them onto the opponent's warship, and then suddenly explode, and the ignited oil mixture will dodge around like fireworks, sticking to the wooden boat, even if it doesn't cause a fire, but seeing many times is a fire that can't even be extinguished by water, it scares them to death!

The second step is to let Zu Yuan mobilize a large number of raw materials to produce a large amount of gunpowder, and then wrap it with oiled paper and linen cloth into a large pumpkin-like explosive package, and the power generated by the explosion of these explosive bags weighing dozens of catties is enough to blow up a main warship!

In the end, I asked Wu Mingche to get another fast boat, transform it into a warship specially equipped with a projectile artillery team, and then let Li Nong take the projectile artillery team on board to simulate training, how to accurately hit the target in the flowing river water and the rocking boat!

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On Chen Guo's side, everyone was nervously preparing for the war, and Jiangbei also took action, and information was constantly handed to Deputy Marshal Wei Pohu.

Because Gao Changgong was overhead, the actual commander of the Qi army was the deputy marshal Wei Pohu, but he was a stubborn person, and Gao Changgong was the god of war in the hearts of the soldiers, plus Chen Guo's continuous rumors in the past six months, so that Gao Changgong's prestige was even more resounding throughout the Qi country, which made Wei Pohu feel very jealous, and he was determined to become famous in a fight, replace Gao Changgong, and become a new generation of war gods in the hearts of soldiers!

So after seeing this piece of information, Wei Pohu couldn't help but get excited: he is also a soldier, as the saying goes, a battle can be a success, only by fighting can he reflect his own value and enhance his honor and status! It's been half a year since he came to Xuzhou, but the two sides have been confronting each other, and it is rumored in the army that Chen Jun didn't dare to go on the Northern Expedition because of Gao Changgong's sitting, which made him feel very aggrieved because of Gao Changgong!

At the high-level meeting of the Qi army, the coach Gao Changgong was in the main position, and listened to the deputy marshal Wei Pohu gushing with a displeased face.

"Haha, Chen Jun is finally here! I heard that the Northern Expedition was canceled because I was afraid of Captain Gao's prestige, and now I suddenly restarted the Northern Expedition, is it because I am here? Yu Pohu glanced at Gao Changgong meaningfully and continued: "Of course I won't believe these nonsense! Now Chen Jun has come just in time! I can't wait to fight them right away, so that I can strengthen the power of the army! Wei Pohu shouted excitedly.

"We all know the bravery of General Wei, but this time the Chen army is prepared, the Yangtze River is dangerous, I think we should immediately send troops to reinforce Qinjun and Hefei! Among them, Qin County is the most important, we can use the Shuizhai warships there to defeat the Chen army on the Yangtze River while they cross the river! Gao Changgong Zhengse said, as the royal family of Qi State, of course he wants to keep the enemy out of the country, and he doesn't want to lose a city or a place!

"The difference between Tai Lieutenant's words, Chen Guo's water army is strong, if we want to defeat them on the river, this is undoubtedly hitting a stone with an egg! So I think it should be when they come ashore, and then we will use elite cavalry to wait for work and annihilate them! Wei Pohu rejected Gao Changgong's suggestion.

"Waiting for work? What does General Wei mean that we will not reinforce Qin County? Watching the soldiers of Qin County being besieged by the Chen army, and seeing death, can't you save them? Gao Changgong said angrily.

"Don't be angry, Tai Lieutenant, this general means that the goal of their Chen army is not only Qin County, even if they capture Qin County, they will continue to go north, and they must get off the boat and walk, then we can take the opportunity to exterminate them!" Wei Pohu said.

"If we surrender Qin County to Chen's army, they will definitely be greatly boosted, and they will gain a foothold in Jiangbei, and it will be even more difficult for us to drive them back to Jiangnan in the future! I still suggest sending troops to reinforce Qin County! If General Wei is unwilling, then please transfer me a thousand cavalry, led by me personally, to reinforce Qin County!" Moreover, the high city of Qin County and the deep pool, presumably able to withstand the siege of the Chen army and drag them down, when the time comes, I will lead the cavalry to attack the Chen army on the periphery, and cooperate with the defenders of Qin County, I will definitely be able to defeat them! Gao Changgong said sadly and indignantly, because as the commander-in-chief, he actually wanted to ask the deputy marshal to transfer troops, what a shame!

A thousand cavalry? Should the inside be combined with the outside? Do you want to come again with 500 iron cavalry to relieve the siege of Kim? Last time, you have already made a name for yourself and become the god of war in the army, if you are asked to break the siege with less victory again this time, then where will your status in the army be? Will I still have a place to stand in the army in the future?

"No need! The eldest grandson Hongluo has already stationed troops in Xuyi, and if Qin County is besieged, he will definitely send troops to reinforce him! Wei Pohu did not hesitate to reject Gao Changgong's suggestion, of course, he would not give him a chance to make meritorious service again!

"This time, Chen sent 100,000 troops, and Qin County was the main target, and I believe that they besieged at least 50,000 troops! And General Changsun now only has 5,000 elite soldiers in Xuyi, with this amount of troops, why should he reinforce Qin County at that time? Gao Changgong argued.

"Even if they have an army of 100,000, they are all infantry, and one of our cavalry can kill ten of them! However, since the Taiwei is so insistent, then we still send troops to reinforce Xuyi first, and then wait for the opportunity to move, while the Chen army is besieging Qin County, we will attack them from behind, and join forces with the defenders of Qin County, and defeat the Chen army in one fell swoop! Wei Pohu thought about it for a while, and also felt that Gao Changgong's idea of combining inside and outside sounded good.

"How many soldiers and horses did the general transfer me to reinforce Xuyi?" Gao Changgong thought that Yu Pohu had agreed to his request, and asked excitedly.

"The captain is the commander of the army, how can he attack easily! This time, I will personally lead an army of 30,000 to the south to reinforce Xuyi! Taiwei led 10,000 soldiers to stay in Xuzhou! Wei Pohu looked at Gao Changgong and said with a smile, back then, you were able to defeat the tens of thousands of troops of the Zhou State with 500 cavalry and relieve the siege of Jin Yong, and now I will lead 30,000 elite soldiers to reinforce Xuyi, and I will definitely be able to defeat the Chen army that surrounded Qin County at that time! At that time, it will be me who will become famous!

"General Wei personally reinforces Xuyi? Good! Since General Wei is so the first soldier, the commander is also relieved to sit in Xuzhou, and the general is assured to go to kill the enemy, the commander will definitely do a good job in logistics, and he will wait for the good news of General Wei when the time comes! Gao Changgong, who was dedicated to the country, didn't expect the plot to reverse so quickly, and said happily when he heard that Wei Pohu promised to send reinforcements.