The lights in Suiyang City were bright, and the three hundred cavalry brought by Gao Jie were drinking and having fun under Xu Dingguo's arrangement.

On the evening of the sixth day of October, Xu Ding invited Gao Jie to a state banquet.

At the banquet, Gao Jie hugged two beautiful women and joked to Xu Dingguo with a smile: "I heard that you have been in the Liaodong Army?"

"Yes." Xu Dingguo replied, "Following Wang Shaoxun to stay on the island has suffered a lot."

"I heard that the Liaodong Army is very powerful and rich, why did you leave?"

"The Liaodong Army was not strong at the beginning, nor was it very rich from the beginning, and it was developed little by little by relying on Yang Chengying."

"I'm going to go west now, and I'm going to go north in the future, you and I still have to follow Yang Chengying."

"Of course...... Follow General Gao."

"Really?" Gao Jie moved one hand away from the woman's waist, stretched out to Xu Dingguo, and pressed his head.

Xu Dingguo didn't dare to take a breath.

Gao Jie said coldly, "Listen, you follow me in the future, I promise you to eat and drink spicy food." If you dare to write to the north again, I'll pluck off your head with my own hands."

After speaking, his hand patted Xu Dingguo's head.

Xu Dingguo said "don't dare" repeatedly, sweating like rain.

Gao Jie laughed, hugged the two women and went straight to Xu Dingguo's inner room.

Tonight, he wants to enjoy Xu Dingguo's two concubines here.

Xu Dingguo lowered his head and waited until Gao Jie entered the inner room before raising his head.

The eyes are cold.

He glanced at the maid beside him and whispered, "Serve General Gao outside, I'll come back tomorrow." With that, get up and leave.

But he didn't really leave, but only went outside the house.

The general in charge of entertaining Gao Jie's 300 subordinates came and whispered, "General, those people have been drunk."

"Okay." Xu Dingguo looked back at his inner room, "Wait until the third watch in the middle of the night, and we'll do it!"

People are most afraid of comparison, and the same is true for Xu Dingguo.

When I followed Wang Shaoxun in the past, I was a little constrained, and I didn't have to worry about eating and drinking.

There is no such thing as anyone looking at people with their nostrils, and those who dare to look at people in that way are mining in the mines.

Now that the Ming Army is in the Ming Army, people are free, but life is not possible. The insatiable civil officials bullied him, the high-ranking generals also bullied him, and his damn, rogue Gao Jie also rode on his head to shit and pee.

What's more, Gao Jie and Xu Dingguo still have a deep hatred.

Xu Dingguo is a native of Taikang, Gao Jie passed by Taikang and wantonly killed Taikang, and many people of Xu Dingguo unfortunately died.

Since the Liaodong Army did not have hostages, Xu Dingguo decided to use the enemy's head to show his heart to the Liaodong Army.

Dead.

Xu Dingguo took a few elites and broke into his inner room.

The two women held down Gao Jie in his sleep, and Xu Dingguo raised a knife to hack Gao Jie to death.

Then cut off his head and give it to the soldiers behind him: "Take it and go to see Jin Shenghuan, the general of the Liaodong Army who is patrolling Cao County, and beg him to send troops to rescue Suiyang."

With the bestiality of Gao Jie's subordinates, when they learned that Gao Jie was killed, they would definitely take the opportunity to retaliate.

Xu Dingguo felt that he couldn't beat them, so he could only move rescue soldiers.

That night, Gao Jie's 300 cavalry were also killed in their sleep.

Xu Dingguo took the heads of these people and rested them on the family altar to worship his relatives.

Sure enough, upon hearing the news of Gao Jie's death, Gao Jie's nephews Li Benshen, Guo Hu, Wang Zhigang and other generals immediately commanded the soldiers of the battalion to besiege Suiyang.

They originally wanted to slaughter the city to vent their anger after the city was broken, but in the afternoon of the same day, that is, on the afternoon of the seventh day of October, they were attacked by the Liaodong Army from Shandong.

The regiment commander Jin Shenghuan commanded the soldiers of the regiment to launch an attack on Li Benshen's flank and easily routed the soldiers of the battalion.

Gao Jie's subordinates saw that they could not defeat the Liaodong Army, so they had to lead the army to retreat.

Since then, the Western Expedition and the Northern Expedition have come to naught.

Xu Dingguo was also forced to leave the army, took a large number of concubines, and became a rich man.

After Gao Jie's subordinates retreated to Xuzhou, they held a funeral for Gao Jie.

After learning of Gao Jie's death, Shi Kefa immediately rushed to Xuzhou on the 12th to appease the rest of Gao Jie.

Gao Jie had six general soldiers under his command before his death, namely Li Benshen, who was entrenched in Guide Mansion.

Guide is very close to Suiyang, where Jin Shenghuan is stationed.

Li Benshen had no way to go for the time being, but he absolutely refused to go to Xuzhou, even if it was his uncle's funeral, he did not participate, and even ignored Shi Kefa's warrant.

Then there is Li Chengdong, the chief soldier of Xuzhou, who is on the front line in Xuzhou, and he has already felt the edge of the Liaodong Army and is worried.

Yang Chengzu, the general soldier of Zhongquan, followed Luo Rucai at the beginning, and after Luo Rucai's death, he defected to Sun Chuanting and was arranged by Sun Chuanting to be under Gao Jie.

Because there is only one word difference between him and Yang Chengying, he is often mistaken for Yang Chengying's elder brother.

Yang Chengzu didn't dare to be Yang Chengying's brother, and said to people in private, "Ying Zu, Ying Zu, should be in front, Zu is behind, he is my brother".

However, Yang Chengzu became Gao Jie's "elder brother".

Although Gao Jie can command him, he also wants his brother to shout for a long time.

Guo Hu, the chief soldier of the Left Association, Hu Maozhen, the chief soldier of the Right Association, and Li Xiangyun, the chief soldier of the Stamina Army, were afraid of being attacked by the Liaodong Army, so they went directly to Sizhou to stay.

The 100,000-strong army has since been divided into six, not subordinate to each other.

Shi Kefa went north, first found Hu Maozhen, the chief soldier of the Right Association, and persuaded him not to go south.

Hu Maozhen refused to listen: "The Liaodong Army is in the north, and we are not opponents. The army of 2,000 people crushed Li Benshen's army of 30,000."

"That's why you shouldn't go south."

Shi Kefa analyzed: "The Liaodong Army has no intention of going south for the time being, and Li Benshen's soldiers and horses are already frightened birds, and if you go south at this time, Li Benshen will mistakenly think that you are going to Guazhou, and then follow you, which will be more troublesome."

"I can't stop Li Benshen's attack alone."

"Then leave the other two general soldiers behind, and then temporarily stationed in Sizhou. I personally went north and persuaded the general troops of all stripes to divide the defense zone."

"You're alone? I see, I will accompany you to Xuzhou."

"Thank you."

Under the persuasion of Shi Kefa, Hu Maozhen finally gave up going south, and blocked Guo Hu and Li Xiangyun, who planned to continue south.

Under the protection of Hu Maozhen, Shi Kefa arrived in Xuzhou.

When Mrs. Xing saw that Shi Kefa actually had the ability to bring Hu Maozhen with her, she immediately asked Gao Yuanjue, who was still very young, to worship Shi Kefa as her father-in-law.

Shi Kefa was directly numb.

He was in a bad political situation at this time.

Ma Shiying asked his henchmen to fabricate a list of "Eighteen Arhats", "Fifty-three Counselors", and "Seventy-two Bodhisattvas", fabricating charges to frame a large number of officials who disagreed with Ma Shiying's politics, among which Shi Kefa was at the top of the list.

If this is accused of "colluding with military generals", it will not be far from death.

If Shi Kefa can really "collude with the generals", it would be fine.

The problem is that after Gao Jie died, even Gao Jie's nephew Li Benshen did not support Gao Yuanjue and Mrs. Xing.

To put it more bluntly, Gao Jie was just the head of the grass platform team before his death, and he was not even a complete warlord.

Take 10,000 steps back, even in the Tang Dynasty, there are not a few orphans and widows who have been killed.

Therefore, Shi Kefa only accepted Gao Yuanjue's kneeling and refused to be Gao Yuanjue's father-in-law.