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

Henan General Xu Dingguo led his personal troops out of the city to greet him.

Although Gao Jie did not directly fight with him, this attitude was quite intriguing.

Xu Dingguo could guess the reason. He was simply asking why he had not responded and cooperated with the Northern Expedition.

Xu Dingguo had already prepared a set of rhetoric in this regard, but 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 seemed to believe Xu Dingguo's explanation, and went into the city with him, talking and laughing.

At this point, Xu Dingguo secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

If Gao Jie doesn't believe him, he really can't think of any good idea. But as long as Gao Jie enters Suizhou City, everything can be done according to the plan.

From the moment the Qing envoy arrived in Suizhou, Xu Dingguo made up his mind to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. This was definitely not something that Gao Jie could change with the military campaign.

If Gao Jie used martial arts to force each other, Xu Dingguo would not mind killing this person and then lead his troops to surrender to the Qing army.

Gao Jie is now highly valued in the small court of the remnant Ming Dynasty. If Xu Dingguo could behead his head, it would be considered a great gift to the Qing court.

Of course, if Gao Jie didn't force him too much, Xu Dingguo wouldn't want to break up and fight to the death.

Everything depends on how Gao Jie does.

Xu Dingguo held a banquet at the residence of Yuan Keli, the former Minister of War, to entertain Gao Jie, Yue Qijie, Yuan Shu, Chen Qianfu and others.

As soon as the banquet began, Xu Dingguo sent singing girls to dance to entertain the atmosphere.

Gao Jie and others were drinking, and they did not mention the Northern Expedition at all.

Xu Dingguo was secretly happy. As long as Gao Jie got drunk, he would have been over today's level.

Tomorrow morning, I will find an excuse to send him out of the city. You walk on your Yangguan Road and I will cross my single-plank bridge.

Unexpectedly, when Xu Dingguo was out of his way, Gao Jie suddenly threw the singing girl from his arms towards Xu Dingguo.

Xu Dingguo could not dodge and was hit and rolled to the ground.

Gao Jie drew his sword and said sternly: "Xu Dingguo secretly communicated with the Eastern Captains, and his crimes are unforgivable!"

In an instant, Gao Jie's personal soldiers drew their swords and came around.

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

"General Gao, what are you doing!"

Xu Dingguo was so scared that his face was pale and his voice was trembling.

"Xu Bid, you secretly contacted the Eastern Captain. Today I will kill your first-level sacrificial flag!"

Gao Jie sneered, and did not talk nonsense to Xu Dingguo. He waved the knife out and then waved it heavily.

Before Xu Dingguo could even make a scream, his head flew up. Blood gushed out of his neck, splashing Gao Jie's face.

The headless corpse fell to the ground and made a muffled sound.

Gao Jie grabbed Xu Dingguo's head and shouted: "The thief Xu has been killed, and those who surrender are exempted from death."

All this happened too quickly. Xu Dingguo's knife and axe ambushed in the dark was restrained by Gao Jie's personal soldiers before he could do it.

Seeing that Xu Dingguo was dead, they lost the intention of fighting for their lives, and threw away the weapons in their hands and knelt on the ground.

Gao Jie winked at Yue Qijie, who immediately cleared his throat and said, "I am the governor of Henan and is now taking over all the affairs of Suizhou. There are currently grain stored in the city and the number of troops and horses, and report it to me quickly."

An officer who looked like a deputy general kowtowed and said, "I report to Master Futai that there are 30,000 stones of grain and 8,000 infantry soldiers in Suizhou City. The last general knows where Xu thief hides gold and silver, and is willing to go through fire and water for Master Futai to work hard for him."

Yue Qijie turned to Gao Jie again, and saw Gao Jie nodding before saying, "Okay, you can quickly send someone to open the city gate and hand over the food to General Rong Gao's subordinates. The errand is done well, and I can spare your life."

The deputy general was overjoyed when he heard this and knocked 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 yard to take care of them.

The deputy general was pressed by several Gao Jie's confidants and ordered the city gate to be opened.

After less than a stick of incense, the gates of Suizhou opened wide, and all the soldiers under Gao Jie entered the city to take over the city defenses.

After everything was settled, Gao Jie ordered the convening of Xu Dingguo's deputy generals, generals and guerrillas.

These confidants of Xu Dingguo only thought that they had to change their partner and were not too worried about their loyalty.

To the top, Gao Jie annexed the forces of Xu Dingguo and dismantled the army in Suizhou City and reorganized them. Could he still kill them?

Unexpectedly, after these people were taken to Yuan Keli's former house, Gao Jie said coldly: "As the general of Henan, Xu Dingguo not only did not want to repay the emperor's kindness, but also secretly communicated with the Donglu. His crimes were unforgivable and he has been executed. As generals under Xu Dingguo, Xu thief was not responsible for the slander when he wanted to surrender the enemy. In fact, he helped the evildoer and became accomplices of the tiger. The person who came, he killed them all!"

At Gao Jie's order, the personal soldiers immediately stepped forward to drag these confidant generals of Xu Dingguo to the ground, and then slashed them with swords.

A few screams came, and more than a dozen people were in a different place in an instant.

Gao Jie glanced coldly and continued to order: "All Xu Zhe's confidants tied up in the yard will be killed, and no one will be left!"

Gao Jie would not have any sympathy for these confidants of Xu Dingguo.

If he had not received the scout's message in advance, I'm afraid that Gao Jie and his personal soldiers would have fallen to the ground now?

Perhaps these personal soldiers of Xu Dingguo did not know the fact that the Lord surrendered, but they and Xu Dingguo all prospered and lost.

Since Gao Jie had already killed Xu Dingguo, he could not continue to keep these personal soldiers of Xu Dingguo. This is like burying hidden dangers around him.

As for those deputy generals, guerrillas, and stakeholders, they were all senior generals in Suizhou. Most of them knew Xu Dingguo's plan to surrender, and they were even more dead.

Gao Jie, the ordinary soldiers in Suizhou City, was about to disperse them and join them in the battalions under his command.

Eight thousand people say that there is no more, but there is no less, which is very helpful for improving his strength.

Now these soldiers are resting in the camp and have no idea what is going on.

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

For ordinary soldiers, they don't care about who they are loyal to.

As a soldier, as long as Gao Jie can support them, they will willingly work hard for Gao Jie.

There were bursts of screams from the yard, and Gao Jie's personal soldiers were very fierce and killed hundreds of people in the yard in less than a cup of tea.

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

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

It's August now, and the weather is very hot. If the body is not buried in time, it will cause a plague.

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Chapter completed!