The reason why Gao Changgong became the god of war in the hearts of the soldiers of the Qi army was not because of his handsome face, but because he took the lead on the battlefield, fought bravely, and had the surprise and clever strategy!

At the beginning, he set up a series of calculations and calculated Xiao Yao and Xiao Moke, which not only wiped out Xiao Yao's entire army, but also caused Xiao Moke's cavalry to lose most of it, so you can know that Gao Changgong is indeed a resourceful, brave and warlike general!

So this time in the face of the menacing 50,000 Chen army, he knew that he only had less than 20,000 troops in his hands, even if he still had the muskets and artillery captured from Xiao Yao, but it was still impossible to go head-to-head with the Chen army, and if he wanted to defeat the two Chen troops that were attacking Xuzhou from the east and west, he could only adopt the strategy of avoiding its edge and breaking them one by one!

In the face of the main force of the Chen army, which had more than 30,000 people, Gao Changgong took the initiative to give Renzhou to the Chen army, and then lured the enemy to go deeper, and when the Chen army came to Xuzhou after a long journey, and when it had not yet gained a firm foothold, he concentrated the superior forces, waited for work, and broke the Chen army in one fell swoop!

Now the main force of the Chen army has taken advantage of the momentum of winning the first battle and has left Renzhou to march quickly in the direction of Xuzhou! Chen Jun's attack seems to be a bit fast, so fast that they ignore a lot of objective factors!

For example, Chen Jun seems to have ignored the fact that the landform of Huaibei is very different from the landform of Huainan with many rivers and lakes, without rivers, Chen Jun's warships cannot play any role, and the sailors on board will also land one after another to become infantry! And no amount of infantry is no match for cavalry!

And the waterway is impassable, which means that it is difficult to transport grain and grass to the front line! After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather has begun to cool and cold, and the warmth of the soldiers will also become a big problem! If these supplies can't keep up, the strongest army will collapse!

As for the Eastern Route Army, they want to attack Xuzhou with the main force of the Chen Army, but as long as Wei Xiangyuan and they succeed in assassinating Xu Jingcheng, then this army will definitely be defeated without a fight!

On October 9, the East Route Army led by Xu Jingcheng had successfully arrived in Xiapi County, and according to the report of the spies, because Gao Changgong was ready to defend Xuzhou City with all his might, most of the Qi army stationed in Xiapi County had been transferred to Xuzhou City yesterday, and now there are less than 2,000 Qi troops left in the county to defend the city!

This made Xu Jingcheng very excited, as the so-called ten rules surround him! Now there are only more than 2,000 Qi troops in Xiapi County, but the East Route Army led by himself has almost 20,000 people, so it is not easy to take this Xiapi County!

So Xu Jingcheng immediately commanded the army to encircle Xiapi County, and when he was about to attack the city, the command of the East Route Army where Xu Jingcheng was located suddenly heard several explosions!

Yes, Yu Xiangyuan is on the move!

Under the cover of Yinhai Commercial Bank, Wei Xiangyuan led a group of killers disguised as civilian workers with the army, and kept lurking in the East Route Army, and then constantly contacted Gao Changgong in Xuzhou City, and made targeted deployments according to the marching dynamics of the East Route Army!

Xiapi County is an important county under the jurisdiction of Xuzhou, in case Pi is lost, it will directly threaten Xuzhou City, so normally, if you want to hold the entire Xuzhou, it is impossible for Gao Changgong to leave less than 2,000 defenders to protect Xiapi!

However, in order to defeat the Eastern Route Army in one fell swoop, Gao Changgong, who already knew the battle plan of the Chen army and controlled Xu Jingcheng's detailed marching route, deliberately set up this half-empty city plan to deal with Xu Jingcheng! Reading.com

took the initiative to transfer most of the defenders, so that Xu Jingcheng became a light enemy, and then divided his troops to start a siege, so that Wei Xiangyuan had the opportunity to assassinate Xu Jingcheng while his guards became weak!

So just when Xu Jingcheng confidently surrounded Xiapi County and was about to launch an attack, Wei Xiangyuan took the killers and launched a sneak attack on Xu Jingcheng's headquarters! First blasted the guards' defenses with earth bombs, then raised their flint muskets, and opened fire as they charged, breaking through the guards and attacking Xu Jingcheng's headquarters!

During this time, Wei Xiangyuan has been studying the reasons for the failure when he fought Xiao Yao at the beginning, absorbing experience, and then imitating Xiao Yao's tactics of using muskets to attack, and training his own group of subordinates! So now when they used these muskets and bombs, they also looked good, and they attacked the headquarters at once and rushed in front of Xu Jingcheng!

And Xu Jingcheng's guards were not Xiao Yao's guards, and now facing the group of killers with flint muskets and homemade bombs led by Wei Xiangyuan, they had long been frightened and panicked, and the entire command headquarters was in chaos!

"Who are you? How could there be these firearms of Shiro? Xu Jingcheng was shocked and said, he had seen Xiao Yao's firearms drills, so he clearly knew the power of firearms in the hands of these people!

"Haha, it turns out that Xiao Shilang's weapons are so easy to use! Before, we just thought that these weapons were amazingly powerful, but now that we use them ourselves, we realized that they were so refreshing, and all of a sudden, we rushed in! Wei Xiangyuan laughed and said, completely ignoring Xu Jingcheng under his gun.

Before, they were all attacked by Xiao Yao with muskets and artillery, and there were countless casualties! Later, after defeating Xiao Yao and seizing these firearms, they have not been used in actual combat, and when he assassinated Xiao Yao last time, he wanted to experience the power of these flint muskets, but he was beaten by Xiao Yao's more advanced Mauser gun and fled! So until now, Wei Xiangyuan and they have deeply experienced the efficient combat effect of these firearms!

"You are people of great merit! You snatched these firearms from Shiro! Without gunpowder, these muskets would not be able to exert their power, but how do you know how to make gunpowder? In the whole world, except for Shiro, no one should know the formula of gunpowder! How did you get this gunpowder? Xu Jingcheng finally reacted, but said very puzzled.

"General Xu, you don't need to know these things, because you are going to die, you are the first to die under these muskets made by your Chen people, but by no means the last! Ha ha! Yu Xiangyuan said with an excited laugh.

"Hmph, kill if you want to kill! As a soldier of the Chen State, I have long put life and death aside with my soldiers on the battlefield! It is my honor for Xu Jingcheng to die on the battlefield for the country! And today I die, tomorrow it will be your turn, now our army of Chen State is attacking Xuzhou, and the other generals of Chen State will avenge me!" Xu Jingcheng said as if he were dead.

"Haha, General Xu, let me tell you a secret, to be precise, you didn't die fighting for the country, because now your soldiers and our defenders have not officially fought each other, and our current identity is actually a killer, not a soldier of the Qi country! This order to kill you was not given by our prince, we were entrusted by others to assassinate you! And this person, you know too! Wei Xiangyuan said with a compassionate expression.

"Assassination? I also know? Is it, is it too ... Xu Jingcheng was even more surprised, he never imagined that these people would be sent by the prince, although when he was in Haiyan County, he knew that the prince's letter would bring him death, but he didn't expect that the prince would use this way of colluding with foreign enemies to get rid of him!

But before Xu Jingcheng's words were finished, Wei Xiangyuan's musket fired, and a blood hole appeared on Xu Jingcheng's forehead!

This fierce general, a member of the fierce army who was loyal to Chen Guo, fell down without blinking eyes, only thirty-eight years old!