On August 16, Gao Jie led his troops to Suizhou.

Xu Dingguo, the chief soldier of Henan, led his own soldiers out of the city to greet him.

Although Gao Jie did not directly meet him, looking at this posture is quite a bit of a teacher's question.

The reason is that Xu Dingguo can also guess. It was nothing more than a reproach to ask him why he had not responded for a long time to cooperate with the Northern Expedition.

In this regard, Xu Dingguo had already prepared a set of rhetoric, which was nothing more than that Suizhou was under great pressure from the Qing army of Zukefa in the north, and did not dare to rashly mobilize the defenders in the city.

Gao Jie also seemed to believe Xu Dingguo's explanation, and went into the city with him with some laughter.

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 way. But as long as Gao Jie enters Suizhou City, everything can go according to plan.

From the moment the Qing court envoys arrived in Suizhou, Xu Dingguo made up his mind to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. This is by no means something that Gao Jie and Chen Bing can change.

If Gao Jie forced him by force, Xu Dingguo would not mind killing this person and then leading his troops to surrender to the Qing army.

Gao Jie is now very much used in the small court of the Ming Dynasty, and if Xu Dingguo can behead him, it can be regarded as a great gift to the Qing court.

Of course, if Gao Jie didn't force him too hard, Xu Dingguo wouldn't want to tear his face and fight to the death.

Everything depends on how Gao Jie does it.

Xu Dingguo held a banquet in the mansion of Yuan Keli, the secretary of the late Ministry of War, to entertain Gao Jie, Yue Qijie, Yuan Shu, Chen Qianfu and others.

As soon as the banquet began, Xu Dingguo sent courtesans to dance to enliven the atmosphere.

The rise of Gao Jie and others did not mention the Northern Expedition at all.

Xu Dingguo secretly rejoiced in his heart. As long as Gao Jie is drunk, today's level will be passed.

Find an excuse to send him out of the city early tomorrow morning, you take your Yangguan Road, and I will cross my single-plank bridge.

Who knew that when Xu Dingguo was distracted, Gao Jie suddenly threw the courtesan in his arms towards Xu Dingguo.

Xu Dingguo couldn't dodge and was hit by Shengsheng and rolled to the ground.

Gao Jie pulled out his sword and said sharply: "Xu Dingguo secretly communicates with the East, and the crime is unforgivable!" ”

In an instant, Gao Jie's personal soldiers drew their swords out of their sheaths and surrounded them.

Before Xu Dingguo could stand up, he felt a chill on his neck, and Gao Jie's saber was already on his neck.

"General Gao, what are you doing!"

Xu Dingguo's face turned pale with fright, and his voice trembled a little.

"Xu thief, you are secretly in the east, and today I will cut off your head sacrifice flag!"

Gao Jie sneered, didn't talk nonsense with Xu Dingguo, swung the knife outward and then swung it down.

Xu Dingguo didn't even have time to let out a miserable scream, and his head flew up. Blood gushed out of his neck, splashing Gao Jie's face.

The headless corpse fell to the ground with a muffled thud.

Gao Jie grabbed Xu Dingguo's head and shouted: "Xu thief has been ambushed, and those who surrender will not die." ”

All this happened too fast, and Xu Dingguo's sword and axe hand in ambush in the shadows was restrained by Gao Jie's personal soldiers before he could make a move.

When they saw that Xu Dingguo was dead, they lost the heart to fight for their lives, and threw away their blades and fell to the ground.

Gao Jie glanced at Qijie, who immediately cleared his throat and said, "This official is the governor of Henan, and he is now taking over the affairs of Suizhou." The number of grain, soldiers and horses in the city shall be reported to the official as soon as possible. ”

An officer who looked like an adjutant general kowtowed like garlic and said: "Lord Qiqi Futai, there are 30,000 stone of grain and 8,000 infantry in Suizhou City. The last general also knew where the thief's gold and silver were hidden, and he was willing to go to the soup for Lord Futai and serve the 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 grain to Gao Zongrong's subordinates." The errand is done, Benfu can spare your life. ”

The deputy general was overjoyed when he heard this, and knocked his head more than a dozen times in a row.

Under Gao Jie's order, a group of personal soldiers tied up all the swords and axes arranged by Xu Dingguo around and drove them to the courtyard to take care of them.

The lieutenant general was pressed forward by several of Gao Jie's henchmen and ordered the city gate to be opened.

After less than a stick of incense, the gate of Suizhou was opened, and all the soldiers under Gao Jie's command entered the city to take over the city defense.

After everything was firmly established, Gao Jie ordered to gather all the deputy generals, staff generals, and guerrillas under Xu Dingguo.

These henchmen of Xu Dingguo only thought that they wanted to change their allegiance, and they didn't worry too much.

If the sky is over, Gao Jie annexed Xu Dingguo's forces, and broke up and reorganized the army in Suizhou City, can he still kill them all?

Who knew that after these people were taken to Yuan Keli's former residence, Gao Jie said coldly: "Xu Dingguo, as the chief soldier of Henan, not only did he not want to repay the emperor's kindness, but secretly communicated with the Dongyu, and the crime was unforgivable, and he has been ambushed. As a general under Xu Dingguo, Xu Thief did not carry out the responsibility of persuasion when he wanted to surrender, but he was actually aiding and abusing the thief and acting for the tiger. Come on, kill them all! ”

As soon as Gao Jie gave the order, the soldiers immediately stepped forward and dragged these Xu Dingguo's cronies and generals to the ground, and slashed them with a wave of their knives.

A miserable cry came, and more than a dozen people were in different places in an instant.

Gao Jie glanced at it coldly, and then continued to order: "All the Xu thief cronies tied up in the courtyard will be killed, and not a single one will be left!" ”

Gao Jie will not have the slightest sympathy for these Xu Dingguo's close confidants.

If he hadn't gotten the scout report in advance, I'm afraid it would be him Gao Jie and a group of personal soldiers who would have landed on the ground now, right?

Maybe these Xu Dingguo's personal soldiers didn't know about the Lord's surrender, but they and Xu Dingguo were both prosperous and loss-oriented.

Since Gao Jie has already killed Xu Dingguo, he can't continue to keep these Xu Dingguo's personal soldiers. This is tantamount to burying hidden dangers around yourself.

As for those deputy generals, guerrillas, and generals, they are all high-level generals in Suizhou, and most of them are aware of Xu Dingguo's plan to surrender to the country, and they are even more innocent.

As for the ordinary soldiers in Suizhou City, Gao Jie is ready to break them up and organize them into the battalions under his command.

Eight thousand people say that it is not much, but it is also a lot, which is very helpful to the improvement of his strength.

Now the soldiers are resting in the camp and have no idea what is happening.

Gao Jie only needed to hang Xu Dingguo's head on the gate to make these soldiers obediently obey the arrangement.

For ordinary soldiers, it doesn't matter at all who they are loyal to.

As soldiers eat food, as long as Gao Jie can afford to support them, they will willingly work for Gao Jie.

There were screams in the courtyard, and Gao Jie's personal soldiers were very ruthless, and they killed all the hundreds of people in the courtyard in less than a cup of tea.

Gao Jie ordered people to cut off the heads of all these Xu Dingguo's personal soldiers, and inserted them on bamboo poles to show the public like the heads of those senior generals.

As for the corpses, they were all thrown out of the city, and they were dug and buried.

It's August, and the weather is very hot, and if the body is not buried in time, it can be a terrible thing to cause a plague.

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