Shi Kefa was numb.

After receiving a report from Sun Yingyuan's residence, Chen Zhuang was attacked by a group of soldiers and horses of unknown origin after he and his troops passed by.

Sun Yingyuan had already been on guard, repelled the soldiers and horses that attacked him, caught a few lone ones, and learned that they were Gao Jie's subordinates after interrogation.

In the Di Bao, Sun Yingyuan asked Shi Kefa to call the shots.

Shi Kefa had no choice but to send someone to inform Gao Jie that he would ensure the safety of his family in Guazhou, and at the same time go to Yizhen in person.

Sun Yingyuan met with him: "Master Inspector turned out to be not a scholar who read the books of sages, but a master who learned to make dough, and he had no other skills except for thin mud."

The anger is completely audible.

Shi Kefa was not angry, and persuaded, "I am here all for General Sun."

"For my sake, where do you begin?" Sun Yingyuan didn't believe it.

"No matter how evil Gao Jie does, he is now nominally preparing for the Northern Expedition and attacking the thieves. However, in order to avenge his personal revenge, the general prepared to attack and kill Gao Jie's family. There is not only victory without force, but also the meaning of sneak attack from behind."

"What are these words? He Gao Jie attacked me first, why can't I kill him!"

"Since the general mentioned a 'killing word, Gao Jie should be killed, not his family in Guazhou.'"

"So, the Overseer agreed with me killing Gao Jie?"

"I didn't approve of it, but could I ask General Sun if he could kill it?"

"I...... Of course, no problem."

"I heard that the thieves were hit by Yang Chengying and suffered repeated defeats. It is very likely that the thieves will abandon Shaanxi and other places and attack Jiangnan to the east. At this time, the general and Gao Jie turned against each other and attacked each other, and the relatives were bitter and the enemies were fast!"

This is Shi Kefa giving Sun Yingyuan, who has a weak heart, a step down.

Most of Sun Yingyuan's soldiers came from the Beijing camp, and some of them came from the rout of the army. Compared with Gao Jie's soldiers, the combat effectiveness is not at the same level at all.

Sun Yingyuan was silent for a long time, and finally agreed: "Okay, then I will put aside my personal enmity for the time being, and guard the honor for the country and the Ming Town."

"I'm tired."

Shi Kefa wrote a letter to Gao Jie afterwards, hoping that Gao Jie would take the initiative to compensate Sun Yingyuan for some losses.

Gao Jie picked 300 decent thin horses from his military camp and compensated Sun Yingyuan for the 300 war horses he lost in Houchenzhuang.

War horses are a scarce resource in Jiangnan, and Gao Jie refuses to give good horses. But the gold and silver treasures were enough, and they directly compensated for the gold thousand taels.

This matter is barely over.

However, Sun Yingyuan was still afraid of Gao Jie, and privately hooked up with Liu Liangzuo to form an offensive and defensive alliance.

Jiangbei was in a mess, and it was all protected by Shi Kefa with a small number of soldiers, running around.

What is the Hongguang Imperial Court doing?

Answer, infighting.

From the establishment of the Hongguang regime on August 15 to the imminent southern expedition of Yang Chengying on the ninth day of October, the internal fighting did not stop for a moment.

And created a new way of playing.

In order to gain as much support as possible, Shi Kefa suggested that the Hongguang court pardon the ministers who surrendered Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong during the Chongzhen period, and later surrendered to Yang Chengying.

Ma Shiying and the Nanjing bureaucrats verbally agreed.

This attracted some local officials to break away from Dashun and Yang Chengying and go south to join Hongguang.

Then, the trouble came.

Anyone who goes through Ma Shiying's path to seek office, regardless of whether you really "surrendered to thieves" before, will be punished as a thief and vigorously impeached.

In the same way, anyone who follows the path of the Nanjing bureaucrats will also be persecuted by Ma Shiying with the big hat of "thief".

The most representative example, Liu Qiao, who once gave Zhang Xianzhong beauties and treasures and was the governor of Jinyi Wei of the Daxi regime, was impeached by the Nanjing bureaucrats because of Ma Shiying's path, but was still retained by Ma Shiying.

Not only that, Ma Shiying also appointed henchmen to openly ask for bribes, and whoever did not pay bribes would be labeled as a thief and vigorously persecuted.

forced a large number of middle- and lower-level officials in the Hongguang court to dig into their pockets in order to escape.

Note that it is the lower middle layer

, and not the upper level.

The reason why Ma Shiying is so crazy is because he has a reason that is difficult to say.

All the financial expenditures of the Hongguang regime were barely maintained by the money obtained by Ma Shiying's misdeeds.

The first is Emperor Hongguang's own extravagant expenditures, and the second is to make up for the deficit in military spending.

If you don't have money, how can you appease You Shilu, Jiangbei Four Towns, Zhejiang Soldiers and other large and small military leaders.

Coupled with Emperor Hongguang's extravagant and extravagant enjoyment, such as catching people's girls everywhere to enrich the harem, Nanjing City was full of trouble.

Ma Shiying was overwhelmed.

In such a comparison, Yang Chengying, who restricts clan land and redistributes land in the north, suddenly looks beautiful.

The most important thing is that people have discovered that Yang Cheng should protect the interests of the middle and lower strata and deal with a very small number of big bureaucrats.

Then after careful consideration, the regime established by Yang Chengying was efficient and powerful, and the army won every battle, and the relief for the people was great.

As a result, the seemingly fierce rebellion in the north was gradually quelled after several large families were suppressed.

Coupled with the successive military victories on the front line, Yang Chengying had the foundation for the southern expedition.

Some things are contrasted.

On the sixth day of October, that is, Li Zicheng, Kong Youde, and Azig fought against Tongguan, and a great blow to the Southern Ming court occurred.

After settling his family, Gao Jie decided to lead his army to the west.

According to Shi Kefa's strategic intentions, he first took the places of Guide and Kaifeng controlled by the Dashun army, and then attacked Runing and Nanyang to the south.

In short, avoid the Liaodong Army and strike at the Dashun Army.

The head of the army entrenched in Suiyang, his name is Xu Dingguo.

Xu Dingguo originally followed Wang Shaoxun, he disliked Wang Shaoxun for not having great ambitions, and he couldn't bear the hardships of the Liaodong Army, so he broke away from the Liaodong Army and joined the Ming Army with hundreds of soldiers.

Then, he regretted it.

People are free, but there is no shortage of sins.

Fought with the Dashun army and was defeated repeatedly, and finally lost Shanxi. followed Gao Jie, all the way to Suiyang.

He has few soldiers, and he is not even qualified to join the four towns of Jiangbei, so he can only entrench in Suiyang and barely make a living.

The external situation turned around, and Xu Dingguo found that it was still the Liaodong Army that was strong through comparison.

It's really not good, be a rich man.

So he sent someone to write a secret letter to his old boss Wang Shaoxun, begging him to be an intermediary, pleading in front of Yang Chengying and asking him to return to the Liaodong Army.

Wang Shaoxun was very righteous and found Yang Chengying.

Yang Cheng should have agreed immediately, after all, Xu Dingguo had made great efforts to eliminate the Derge class.

However, Xu Dingguo broke away from the first place and could not continue to stay in the army, so he could only take the earl's money and return to the countryside.

Xu Dingguo felt that it was okay, it was much better than being half-starved and half-full now.

And he has two sons, who have read books and are educated, maybe he can get into a good position.

Unfortunately, Gao Jie knew about it.

When Gao Jiexi was on the expedition, he sent someone to tell Xu Dingguo and asked him to go out of the city to pick him up.

Xu Dingguo refused.

Gao Jie is also a master of art and bold, and he actually took 300 cavalry to Suiyang in person to force Xu Dingguo to open the city to greet him.

That night, Xu Dingguo hosted a banquet for Gao Jie at the house.