Chapter 390: Chilling
The party is constantly fighting, deceitful and attacking each other, so now the court politics of Qi is getting darker and darker, so Gao Changgong quickly sent the horse to Yecheng, about Xiao Yao has led his troops across the Yangtze River, reached Huainan, and is ready to reinforce Huaibei's urgent report, but he was detained in the hands of this group of traitors who only care about their own use and do not care about national affairs at all!
As a result, Gao Changgong's urgent request for reinforcements to Xuzhou was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no response at all, so that Gao Changgong, who had been waiting for several days, had completely lost hope of sending reinforcements to Yecheng.
"Lord Wang, it seems that Yecheng will not send reinforcements to Xuzhou, so this Xiao Shilang will lead his troops to attack, it seems that we can only use the 20,000 troops in our hands to fight against it! Taking advantage of the fact that Xiao Yao has just arrived in Huainan now, when the time comes, it will take some time to cross the Huai River, and it will take some time to reinforce Renzhou, and we must take countermeasures in advance! Wei Xiangyuan suggested.
"Those people around His Majesty in Yecheng don't care about the places around Henan Jianghuai, in their eyes, these places in Qi are taken away, there is no need to feel pity at all, before Huainan was taken away by Chen Guo, they actually said that it was originally someone's place, and now they will take it back, so I didn't think about how many soldiers we sacrificed before to lay down these places for Qi State! Now that Chen Guo is eyeing Huaibei, they still don't pay attention to it, is it because they have to wait for Chen Guo to take Huaibei, and then cross the Yellow River, and go to the city of Yecheng, they know the danger of the situation! Gao Changgong said indignantly.
"Who made our majesty an emperor who only covets pleasure and does not pay attention to state affairs at all! It's okay to indulge in alcohol and ignore the government, but this majesty listens to slander and kills Zhongliang, and will only do some things that destroy the Great Wall! General Hu's family made great achievements for our Daqi, and blocked the Zhou State from Luoyang City, so that the Zhou State could not take a step east, so that His Majesty could have fun in Yecheng safe and sound! But in the end, General Hu did not die on the battlefield for the Qi State, but died at the hands of His Majesty, and was charged with plotting to rebel! Hum! If General Hu really wanted to rebel, this Majesty would not be Your Majesty a long time ago! Wei Xiangyuan also complained and said with a sad and angry face.
"I know you're angry, so I don't blame you for saying such things! But you can just say these things in front of me, don't talk about them all over the place! After all, he is still our majesty, and in the battle between the DPRK and China, we, as military generals, cannot interfere too much, we just need to do our own thing and keep the enemy out of the country! Gao Changgong said a little disheartened.
"But we are sacrificing and bleeding on the front line to defend the country, but the gang in Yecheng are still eating, drinking, and dying, drunk and dreaming of death, is this fair to us soldiers? Before we defeated the Chen army, beheaded 30,000, and won a great victory in Xuzhou, the prince made great achievements for the Great Qi, but His Majesty just sent a holy decree, without any reward, at least verbally rewarded the prince, how chilling this is! And now Xiao Yao has led the army across the Yangtze River, menacing, and Xiao Yao is insidious and cunning, acting unpredictable, and the weapons he invented are even more unguardable, so this time he only led his forward brigade of only 5,000 men and horses, and dared to reinforce Renzhou, and even boasted of Haikou to break through our Xuzhou and recover Huaibei! In this, Xiao Yao must have invented some weapon that we don't know about, so he is so confident! Wei Xiangyuan said worriedly.
After all, he had fought directly with Xiao Yao, more than a hundred people were armed with muskets and artillery, but they were still defeated by Xiao Yao's guards of only twenty people, you can know what Xiao Yao is terrible!
"Xiao Yao must have a way to win when he returns to the battlefield, otherwise he wouldn't have come to Huaibei so confidently! The most hateful thing is that at this critical moment, Chen Shubao was actually closed by his father, so we have no way of knowing how Xiao Yao is preparing to attack Xuzhou, what preparations have been made for this, and what new weapons have been manufactured! It seems that this time it must be a hard battle, and we can't defeat Chen Jun like last time! Gao Changgong also said a little worriedly.
"This Chen Shubao is really a waste, as the crown prince of Chen Guo, he was actually locked up and confined, what did he do to make his father so angry! Now, relying only on the information that Yinhai Commercial Bank and their patchwork have put together, we have no way of knowing what tricks Xiao Yao is going to make against us! Do we want to be like when we were in Xuyi County, and we will be defeated by some new weapon invented by Xiao Yao? Wei Xiangyuan said a little discouraged.
Although they had defeated Xiao Yao in the past, and they had beaten Xiao Yao's forward brigade to only half of the remnants, but now they still had a huge shadow on Xiao Yao, and they couldn't raise their confidence at all! Because Gao Changgong and they all knew that they were able to defeat Xiao Yao before, it all depended on the cooperation of Chen Shubao and Zhang Dabao in Xiao Yao's formation, but now that there is no internal response, they don't know Xiao Yao's situation at all, which makes them even less confident against Xiao Yao!
However, as the commander of the army, Gao Changgong couldn't show his timidity in front of his subordinates, so he comforted Wei Xiangyuan and comforted himself at the same time: "However, according to the information of Yinhai Commercial Bank, this Xiao Yao only took a month to prepare, and in such a short time, it is impossible for him to make any unfathomable weapons!" Even artillery, he can't do much! As for those bullets made of a large amount of copper, even if they are more powerful than the musket, a small bullet is certainly not as powerful as artillery! We now have dozens of artillery pieces in our hands, even if the quality of gunpowder is not as good as Xiao Yao's, but it can still defeat the forward brigade he rebuilt again! ”
"Yes, that Zhang Dabao also said that Xiao Yao once said to his subordinates that artillery is the most powerful weapon! Xiao Yao himself thinks so, that means he can't invent any new weapons, I think his plan is to let their five thousand soldiers use that kind of copper bullet to attack us! Although these bullets are indeed more powerful than those fired by the muskets, we still have artillery in our hands, and then we will bombard them violently and destroy them all! With the encouragement of Gao Changgong, Wei Xiangyuan also rekindled his fighting spirit and restored his confidence!
"Although I have already guessed that Yecheng will not send reinforcements to us, I just didn't expect that Your Majesty would not even say a word, so that we, the soldiers guarding Xuzhou, would be like abandoned by the country, and everyone was not fighting for their country! This inevitably makes everyone feel a little chilly, which is not conducive to the improvement of our morale! Gao Changgong shook his head and sighed.
"But fortunately, we have made preparations in advance and made a large number of gunpowder and ceramic bombs, and now the weapons we and Xiao Yao are using are these muskets and artillery, we don't need to be afraid of him! And he only has 5,000 men, but our artillery unit is strong and strong, and we also have the world-famous Baibao Xianbei, when the time comes, we will not only attack them head-on with artillery, but also attack on the flanks of cavalry, so that even if Xiao Yao's forward brigade and the remnants of Renzhou are defeated, we don't need to be afraid of him! Gao Changgong said excitedly!