Gao Changgong is one of the three heroes of Qi State, and he is also the god of war in the hearts of the soldiers of the Qi army, so now that Chen Guo continues to launch a campaign against Qi State, Gao Wei can only think of his cousin!

Because Duan Shao had already died of illness in a few years, and not long ago, Hu Luguang was suddenly executed by Gao Wei for the crime of treason, although everyone knew that Hu Luguang died under the slander of Zu Yan and Lu Lingxuan, these traitorous ministers and villains, but because Gao Wei still has supreme prestige in Qi State, everyone dared to be angry and dare not speak out about Hu Luguang's extermination!

So now Gao Changgong, the survivor of the three heroes of Qi State, has not been treated by Gao Wei, but now that Qi is in danger, there is no one available in the Qi army, so Gao Wei can only reluctantly make it difficult, and last year when Chen Guo was in the first Northern Expedition, once again appointed Gao Changgong as the commander of the Qi army, and led 10,000 troops south to block the Chen army's attack on Huaibei!

On Chen's side, although Wu Mingche, the governor of the Northern Expedition, has been playing to Emperor Chen Xu, strongly demanding that Xiao Yaoguan be reinstated, thinking that as long as Xiao Yao and his powerful firearms are there, coupled with Xiao Yao's unexpected combat strategies, the Northern Expedition army can easily capture Huaibei!

And Chen Xu also agreed to Wu Mingche's request, and then opened the back door for Xiao Yao and let him return to the army, but Xiao Yao was not fooled, and he looked like he had no money to talk about, not only did he not accept Chen Xu's back door, but also contradicted Chen Xu several times, making Chen Xu, as the emperor, very faceless, so Chen Xu was furious, so he decided to put Xiao Yao aside, and strongly ordered Wu Mingche to immediately launch the second phase of the Northern Expedition and send troops to attack Huaibei!

The emperor's order cannot be violated! So the disappointed Wu Mingche could only follow the Northern Expedition plan that had been formulated before Xiao Yao appeared, and sent the general Lu Guangda to lead an army of 30,000 to cross the Huai River and march to Xuzhou, an important town in Huaibei!

In this battle plan, Chen's army used the traditional entrapment tactic: with the 30,000 Middle Route Army led by Lu Guangda as the main force, and the East Road led by Xu Jingcheng as the partial division, and then attacked Xuzhou from east to west, preparing to break through Xuzhou and occupy Huaibei in one fell swoop with the advantage of more people!

Although there is nothing new in this plan, in the combat of the cold weapon era, there are many people, and these methods are also a relatively safe tactic, so whether it is Chen Xu, who is complacent and ambitious because of the victory in Huainan, or Wu Mingche, who is disappointed because of the absence of Xiao Yao, is still very confident in this battle plan!

They all agreed that their army was now in high morale, and Huaibei was dominated by Han Chinese, and the Chen army had many advantages at the moment! However, the Qi army is now in turmoil because of Hu Luguang's unjust death, and it was a big battle with the Zhou army before, military supplies are very scarce, and their reinforcements are coming from Yecheng, and the soldiers are very tired! Therefore, this attack on Huaibei, Chen Guo's army will definitely be able to win easily!

But this battle plan, which had been formulated a long time ago, despised a very important fact, that is, after Gao Changgong defeated Xiao Yao, he obtained a large number of thermal weapons such as artillery and muskets from Xiao Yao!

Although they think that now in the whole world, only Xiao Yao can prepare black powder, and the general trading house also prohibits the export of fireworks and firecrackers to Qi to prevent the Qi army from researching black powder from these things, so even if Gao Changgong has these firearms in his hands, it is like scrap copper and rotten iron, and without black powder, it will not play any role!

But Chen Xu Wu Che didn't know that the crown prince Chen Shubao had already colluded with Gao Changgong!

Chen Shubao first leaked the Chen family's battle plan and detailed military deployment to Gao Changgong, in exchange for their assassination of Xu Jingcheng, the commander of the Eastern Route Army! Moreover, he also used the Yinhai Commercial Bank to buy a large number of fireworks and firecrackers produced by the General Commercial Bank in the territory of Chen State, and then transported them to Gao Changgong, so that Gao Changgong now has a large amount of these inferior gunpowder mixed with many impurities!

So although this time because Gao Wei was still more defensive of Gao Changgong, he only let him lead a force of 10,000 people to the south to reinforce Xuzhou, even if the troops stationed in Huaibei were added, the total strength was less than 20,000 people, on the card, this point of strength was simply unable to confront the Chen army with a total strength of 50,000 troops in the Middle East! 52 Literature

But with firearms in his hands, he also knows the power of firearms, and there is Zhang Dabao, a traitor to Chen Guo who knows the situation of Chen Jun, Gao Changgong is still very confident to stop Chen Jun's attack on Huaibei this time!

The most important thing is that he has received a secret report from Wei Xiangyuan, although Xiao Yao has created a more powerful weapon, but in this military operation of the Chen army to attack Xuzhou, Xiao Yao will definitely not appear, so there is no need to worry about Xiao Yao using something new and strange to turn the tide of the battle!

And now Wei Xiangyuan has also taken a group of killers who use flint muskets, under the cover of Yinhai Commercial Bank, to infiltrate the garrison of the Eastern Route Army, Supre County, and then wait for the opportunity to assassinate Xu Jingcheng, the commander of the Eastern Route Army.

On September 12, Emperor Chen Xu issued an edict to grant amnesty to the whole country and build momentum for the Northern Expedition to Huaibei!

On September 13, under the pretext that Qi had no moral integrity and shame, Chen Xu sent killers to lurk in Jinling City and assassinate the people of Chen State, which was an unkind and unjust country, and Chen Guo wanted to attack Qi State for Tianxingdao! Then the order to continue the Northern Expedition was officially issued, and the army of Chen Guo immediately attacked Huaibei!

On September 30, the army led by Lu Guangda had crossed the Huai River, and without encountering much resistance, it easily captured Renzhou County, an important town in Huaibei, completed the predetermined battle plan, and formed a flanking attack on Xuzhou with Xu Jingcheng's Eastern Route Army!

The victory in the first battle of attacking Huaibei made Chen Xu very happy, and immediately ordered to reward the three armies, and then let Lu Guangda advance at full speed, pursue the victory, and break through Xuzhou in one fell swoop! Because this victory made him even more convinced that even without Xiao Yao, his 50,000-strong army could take Xuzhou and occupy Huaibei!

Lu Guangda, who easily won Renzhou, was also encouraged, after all, on the Huainan battlefield last year, the most limelight was Xiao Yao, a teenager who was born in the rivers and lakes, had only joined the army for less than a year, and the milk smell had not dried up, which made Lu Guangda's group of veterans very dissatisfied, and felt that this was an insult to their veterans who had experienced a hundred battles!

So now that he won the first victory, and he had the emperor's order, he immediately led the army and went straight to Xuzhou, regardless of whether the logistics could keep up!

On the side of the Eastern Route Army, when they learned that Lu Guangda had taken Renzhou and was marching to Xuzhou, Xu Jingcheng also immediately led the army, left Supre County, and attacked Pi County, which was to the east of Xuzhou!

Gao Changgong, who was sitting in Xuzhou, smiled coldly when he saw the urgent report presented by the two places, and there was no trace of nervousness and worry on his face because of the fall of Renzhou and the danger of being caught by Chen Jun!

Because all this is expected by Gao Changgong!

"There is no Xiao Yao! Even if you Chen Jun have an army of 100,000, I won't take it seriously at all! When I was in Huainan last year, because His Majesty changed the commander on the spot, I didn't have a chance to perform at all, and you defeated the two wastes of Wei Pohu and Pi Jinghe, so you really thought that your Chen army was invincible in the world? Hum! This time, I want you to see how powerful my Lanling King is doing! Gao Changgong exuded a murderous aura and said fiercely!