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This is the first New Year spent in Yangzhou, except for the slight difference in customs between the north and the south, in fact, there is no difference between the New Year, it is a lively one.

The joy of the family is the theme, Zhou Huchen and the generals have no problem, and the family members have brought, but Zhou Yuji's handwriting Most of the soldiers are northerners, and there are not many families who bring them, and this New Year is undoubtedly cruel to the soldiers who are not accompanied by their families.

War is a form of helplessness, and those who have lost contact with their families do not know if they will have a chance to be reunited with their families. Zhou Yuji and Zhou Huchen were reasonable, in addition to holding a sumptuous dinner for the soldiers, they also spent money to hire people to say goodbye to those soldiers who had not yet started a family, whether they succeeded or not, which undoubtedly played a great role in stabilizing the morale of the army.

Li Zicheng and Jiannu were still fighting, in response to the call of the imperial court and Shi Kefa, just after the Spring Festival, Zhou Huchen sent troops again.

The main reason for this dispatch was that at the end of the first year of Hongguang, thousands of cavalry of the Jiannu Duoduo Division arrived in Mengjin County, Henan Province and crossed the Yellow River. The Qing soldiers were menacing, and fifteen walled forts along the river were attached to the wind. The commander-in-chief, Li Jiyu, also led his troops to surrender, and drove east for the Du Duoduo department. Henan Governor Yue Qijie, political participation and Liang Dao military preparation Yuan Shu and other flying chapters are in a hurry.

Emperor Hongguang ordered Gao Jie's troops to return to Germany, under the supervision of Shi Kefa, Gao Jie was very obedient and brave this time, and he led his troops to enter Guide directly in the snow on the ninth day of the first month.

Guide is very close to Suizhou, and speaking of this Suizhou guard, he still has something to do with Zhou Yuji. Now stationed in Suizhou is Xu Dingguo, the chief military officer of Henan, who is Zhou Yuji's predecessor when he was in Shanxi. When Xu Dingguo was imprisoned, he should have been beheaded, but with the chaos of the current situation, Emperor Chongzhen was really short of soldiers and major generals at that time, and some people said that he had to release this old guy again and appoint him as the chief soldier of Henan.

Xu Dingguo experienced this prison disaster, and he became even more old, he no longer cared about money, but began to raise soldiers, and in a short period of time, he became a separatist shili in Henan. Before Jiannu crossed the Yellow River, Xu Dingguo did more resolutely this time, and he immediately gave his two sons Xu Er'an and Xu Erji as hostages to Duoduo, which was regarded as booking a surrender position.

This Xu Dingguo and Zhou Yuji only have a small involvement, but they are separated from Gao Jie. Because Xu Dingguo once wrote that Gao Jie was a thief, Gao Jie was indeed Li Zicheng's general, and his background was not good, which made Xu Dingguo, who he hated, grit his teeth, and often threatened: "When Lao Tzu sees the old horseman, he will cut it." ”

When Xu Dingguo learned that Gao Jie was leading his troops to come, he was scared. So he took the initiative to send someone to write to Gao Jie and said: "The city of Suizhou is solid and well-equipped, and I am willing to let the marshal garrison." ”

Xu Dingguo was so well-behaved, Gao Jie actually believed it, and he immediately sent someone to give Xu Dingguo some gold and silver cloth. But soon, he heard that Xu Dingguo had surrendered to Jiannu and sent his two sons across the river as hostages. Gao Jie began to doubt, so he invited Dingguo to come to Germany to meet him.

Of course, Xu Dingguo did not dare to return to Germany, and on the 11th day of the first month, Gao Jie invited Governor Yue Qijie, Yuan Shu, and Chen Qianfu, the governor of the first month, to show his sincerity. Now, Xu Dingguo had no choice, he could only greet him, and his posture was very low, kneeling ten miles away.

Gao Jie triumphantly inspected the old, weak, sick and disabled specially arranged by Xu Dingguo, Xu Dingguo behaved very deferentially, which made Gao Jie lose his vigilance. The next day, Xu Dingguo was going to set up a banquet in the mansion of the late Yuan Keli, the secretary of the military department, in Suizhou City, to invite Gao Jie, Yue Qijie and a group of soldiers and officials. Yue Qijie felt a little risky, he began to persuade Gao Jie not to take risks easily, and Chen Qianfu also felt that it was wrong, and also persuaded him at the same time.

Who knows, Gao Jie didn't listen, and if he didn't go, wouldn't it make people laugh at the shrinking turtle.

The turtle couldn't do it, so Gao Jie entered Suizhou City like this. Yuan Shu, the son of the late Yuan Keli, the secretary of the military department, was also in Suizhou City, and he was the right to participate in politics and judge the affairs of the military department of Henan Daliang Soldiers. Earlier, when Xu Dingguo was imprisoned, it was through Yuan Shu's relationship that he asked Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, to say that Xiang released Xu Dingguo. Yuan Keli once had the grace of knowing Xu Dingguo, which was also the imperial court wanted to use Yuan Shu's identity to supervise Xu Dingguo.

While everyone was talking, they crossed the moat suspension bridge and were about to enter the east gate of Suizhou. As soon as he arrived at the corner of the street, suddenly a thousand of Xu Dingguo's subordinates stopped in front of the horse and shouted, "Dashuai, Xu Dingguo wants to kill you!" ”

Xu Dingguo was naturally taken aback, cold sweat broke out, and he secretly pressed the hilt of the sword with his hand to force his composure.

Gao Jie didn't know what medicine he had taken wrong or if he was really bold, he didn't even check and said angrily: "A bold fanatic, you dare to separate my brotherhood." Is this worth it? Take! ”

gave the Qianhu a whip, and Gao Jie handed the Qianhu over to Xu Dingguo to send it.

Everyone continued to move forward, and soon came to the two towering Yuan Shangshu stone arches that stood across the street, and the owner of the stone workshop was Yuan Keli. Because Suizhou and Xu Dingguo's hometown Taikang County are neighboring townships, Yuan Keli has known Xu Dingguo's kindness, which is well known. Xu Dingguo also pretended to be pious in front of everyone and bowed to Dashifang again, and there were words in his mouth.

A group of people watched for a long time before reluctantly leaving the stone archway and entering the gate of Shangshu Mansion, this gate sits in the north and faces south, is a gate-style building, very imposing. Xu Dingguo ordered the servants to set up a banquet and began to feast Gao Jie's subordinates.

The lunch feast is over, and the evening continues. At this time, Yuan Shu also felt that something was wrong, and he and Yue Qijie persuaded Gao Jie at the same time to be careful. At this time, Gao Jie had promised to leave Suizhou with him on the Northern Expedition because Xu Dingguo had promised to leave Suizhou, so he sent all the elites of his department to Kaifeng first, leaving only the generals Li Benshen and Wang Zhigang to lead the people to move the camp to a place twenty miles away from Suizhou City. Gao Jie was not vigilant enough, and simply ignored the persuasion of Yue Qijie and others, so he rushed to the banquet with thirty personal soldiers, Yue Qijie, Chen Qianfu and Yuan Shu had no choice but to obey.

This matter is very simple, just when Gao Jie was drunk and lying on the lap of a beauty, Xu Dingguo's people rose up and killed Gao Jie.

Yue Qijie, Chen Qianfu and Yuan Shu took advantage of the chaos to escape, Xu Dingguo, of course, did not dare to stay in Suizhou, he took Gao Jie's head and led his troops to retreat to Kaocheng in the north overnight.

The next day, Gao Jie's subordinates finally got the news that these people were willing to give up, and they attacked and slaughtered the entire Suizhou, and this atrocity soon began to spread, and the area he covered soon reached a radius of 100 miles. After learning that Xu Dingguo was in Kaocheng, Gao Jie's troops would soon gather troops and rush to Kaocheng.

Xu Dingguo ran away and surrendered to Jiannu with Gao Jie's head, and at this time, Zhou Huchen also came to Luzhou.

Huang Degong was depressed, because he was going to pass through Fengyang, but he happened to meet the great eunuch Lu Jiude, Lu Jiude was Ma Shiying's ally, and he had a good relationship with Huang Degong. The eunuchs also have capable people, including this Gonggong Lu. Lu Jiude knew what Huang Degong was going to do, this Lu Gonggong was very shrewd, he immediately used his own face, stalked and added some food and money to block Huang Degong in front of Fengyang Mansion.

When Zhou Huchen saw Huang Degong, Huang Degong's army was in Yingzhou.

"Gao Jie, this thief is dead! It's really not worth dying, unwise puppeteer! As soon as he saw Zhou Huchen, Huang Degong was a little gloating, and he was almost hahadaxiao.

Zhou Huchen didn't need to be polite, and sat down directly after giving a salute: "Uncle, it's not a pity for Gao Jie to die, what should he do with his subordinates?" "That is what he said, but Zhou Huchen still sighed, the damned must die, it is really sad that a reckless man like Gao Jie can lead a town and still be the main army of the new dynasty.

"The cabinet has gone to pacify, it's all messed up, and it's probably going to be over!" Huang Degong didn't care, he still had a gloating expression, in his mind, Gao Jie and his subordinates were undoubtedly similar to thieves, not to mention that they still had a deep grudge against themselves, this schadenfreude behavior was a matter of course.

"Woe to the people! If you force it too hard, although the combat power is not good, it is also trouble! These rebels have lost their morale, so what should they do if they have to figure out a way? Uncle still has to be cautious! Zhou Huchen means that Huang Degong should not fall into the well, this time is not good, Jiannu crossed the Yellow River, and Huang Degong will force Gao Jie's soldiers to take refuge in Jiannu.

Huang Degong felt very bored: "Oh, I'm not going, Gonggong Lu has already arrived in Fengyang." ”

I have to say that Lu Jiude is still very far-sighted and takes the overall situation into account. This matter is considered to be in the past, Zhou Huchen's target is not Gao Jie's soldiers, he began to ask: "Uncle, where is Jiannu now?" ”

Huang Degong replied: "It seems that Jiannu has always been in the Kaifeng area. ”

"Five hundred miles, it only takes one day!"

Zhou Huchen actually knew the specific location of Jiannu, this is a quote, he looked at Huang Degong, his eyes were full of expectation.

Huang Degong was not stupid, he understood what Zhou Huchen said, and asked with a raised eyebrow: "How many cavalry did Xiaohu bring?" ”