On August 16, Gao Jie led his troops to attack Suizhou.
Xu Dingguo, the commander-in-chief of Henan Province, led his troops out of the city to greet them.
Although Gao Jie did not directly confront him in battle, this posture seemed to suggest that he would launch an attack.
Xu Dingguo can also guess the reason.
It was nothing more than asking him why he had not responded to the Northern Expedition for so long.
Xu Dingguo had already prepared a set of excuses for this.
It was simply that Suizhou was under great pressure from the Qing army of Zukefa's army in the north and did not dare to rashly mobilize the city's defenders.
Gao Jie seemed to believe Xu Dingguo's explanation, and went into the city with him while talking and laughing.
At this point Xu Dingguo secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
If Gao Jie didn't believe him, he really couldn't think of any good solution.
But as long as Gao Jie enters Suizhou City, everything will go according to plan.
From the moment the Qing envoys arrived in Suizhou, Xu Dingguo made up his mind to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.
This is definitely not something that Gao Jie and Chen Bing can change.
If Gao Jie forced him to use force, Xu Dingguo would not mind killing this man and then leading his troops to surrender to the Qing army.
Gao Jie is now highly regarded in the small court of the Ming Dynasty.
If Xu Dingguo can behead him, it will be considered a great gift to the Qing court.
Of course, if Gao Jie didn't push him too hard, Xu Dingguo wouldn't want to fight to the death.
Everything depends on what Gao Jie does.
Xu Dingguo held a banquet at the residence of Yuan Keli, the former Minister of War, in honor of Gao Jie, Yue Qijie, Yuan Shu, Chen Qianfu and others.
As soon as the banquet started, Xu Dingguo sent singing girls to dance and liven up the atmosphere.
Gao Jie and others drank so much that they did not mention the Northern Expedition at all.
Xu Dingguo was secretly happy.
As long as Gao Jie was drunk, he would have passed this level today.
Find a reason to send him out of the city early tomorrow morning.
You take your Yangguan Road, and I'll cross my single-plank bridge.
Unexpectedly, when Xu Dingguo was lost in thought, Gao Jie suddenly threw the singing girl in his arms towards Xu Dingguo.
Xu Dingguo couldn't dodge and was hit and rolled to the ground.
Gao Jie drew his sword out of its sheath and said sternly: "Xu Dingguo secretly communicated with the Eastern captives, and his crime is unforgivable."
In an instant, Gao Jie's soldiers drew their swords out of their sheaths and surrounded him.
Before Xu Dingguo could stand up, he felt a chill on his neck.
Gao Jie's saber was already on his neck.
"General Gao, what are you doing?"
Xu Dingguo turned pale with fright and his voice was trembling.
"Xu Thief, you secretly communicated with Donglu, and someone will cut off your head as a sacrificial flag today."
Gao Jie sneered, and without talking nonsense to Xu Dingguo, he swung the blade of the knife outward and then swung it down hard.
Xu Dingguo didn't even have time to let out a scream, and his head flew up.
Blood spurted out from his neck, splattering Gao Jie's face.
The headless corpse fell to the ground with a muffled sound.
Gao Jie grabbed Xu Dingguo's head and shouted: "The thief Xu has been killed.
Those who surrender will avoid death."
All this happened too fast.
Xu Dingguo's axe-hands who were hiding in the dark were restrained by Gao Jie's soldiers before they could take action.
Seeing that Xu Dingguo was dead, they lost all intention of fighting for their lives and threw away their weapons and knelt down.
Gao Jie glanced at Yue Qijie, who immediately cleared his throat and said: "I am the governor of Henan, and I am now taking over the affairs of Suizhou.
Please report to me as soon as possible how many grains, troops and horses are in the city. ” An officer who looked like a lieutenant general kowtowed and said: "For Master Futai, there are currently 30,000 shi of grain and 8,000 infantry in Suizhou City.
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The general also knows where the thief Xu's gold and silver is hidden, and he is willing to go through fire and water for Master Futai.
Follow the work of dogs and horses."
Yue Qijie turned to Gao Jie again, and when he saw Gao Jie nodded, he said: "Okay, you quickly send someone to open the city gate and hand over the food to Gao Zongrong's men.
The errand is done, I will spare you some time." life."
The deputy general was overjoyed when he heard this and kowtowed a dozen times.
Under Gao Jie's order, a group of soldiers tied up all the swordsmen and axemen Xu Dingguo had placed around them, and drove them into the courtyard for centralized surveillance.
The deputy general was pressured by several Gao Jie's confidants to order the city gate to be opened.
Less than a moment after burning the incense, the city gates of Suizhou were opened wide, and all the soldiers under Gao Jie entered the city and took over all the city defenses.
After everything was stabilized, Gao Jie ordered to summon all the deputy generals, staff generals and guerrillas under Xu Dingguo's command.
These Xu Dingguo's confidants only thought that they had to change their allegiance to another person and did not worry too much.
Gao Jie annexed Xu Dingguo's forces, broke up and reorganized the army in Suizhou City, could he still kill them all?
Unexpectedly, after these people were brought to Yuan Keli's former residence, Gao Jie said coldly: "As the commander-in-chief of Henan, Xu Dingguo not only did not want to repay the emperor's favor, but also secretly conspired with the Donglu.
His crime is unforgivable and he has been punished.
As generals under the command of Xu Dingguo, you failed to persuade Xu Dingguo's thieves when they wanted to surrender.
In fact, you were helping Zhou to commit evil and acting as an aide to the tiger.
Come on, kill them all."
Gao Jie gave the order, and the soldiers immediately stepped forward and dragged Xu Dingguo's trusted generals to the ground, and slashed them with their swords.
A scream was heard one after another, and more than a dozen people were instantly dismembered.
Gao Jie glanced at it coldly, and then continued to order: "Kill all the confidants of Thief Xu who are tied up in the courtyard, leaving no one behind."
Gao Jie would not have the slightest sympathy for these confidants of Xu Dingguo.
If he hadn't received the report from the scouts in advance, I'm afraid it would be him, Gao Jie, and a group of soldiers who would be killed now.
Perhaps these Xu Dingguo's soldiers did not know about their lord's surrender, but they and Xu Dingguo both prospered and suffered losses.
Since Gao Jie had killed Xu Dingguo, he could no longer keep these Xu Dingguo's soldiers.
This is tantamount to planting hidden dangers around yourself.
As for the lieutenants, guerrillas, and generals, they were all senior generals in Suizhou.
Most of them knew about Xu Dingguo's plan to surrender, and they deserved to die.
As for the ordinary soldiers in Suizhou City, Gao Jie planned to break them up and organize them into his various battalions.
Eight thousand people may not be too many, but they may be too few, which is very helpful for improving his strength.
Now these soldiers are resting in the camp and have no idea what happened.
Gao Jie only needed to hang Xu Dingguo's head on the camp gate to make these soldiers obey the arrangements.
For ordinary soldiers, it doesn't matter who they are loyal to.
As long as Gao Jie can afford to feed them, they will willingly work for Gao Jie.
There were bursts of screams in the courtyard.
Gao Jie's soldiers were very ruthless and killed all the hundreds of people in the courtyard in less than a cup of tea.
Gao Jie ordered his men to behead all of Xu Dingguo's soldiers and put them on bamboo poles like the heads of senior generals for public display.
As for the corpses, they were all thrown out of the city and buried in pits.
It's August now and the weather is very hot.
If the corpses are not buried in time and a plague occurs, it will be a terrible thing
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