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Chapter 238 The change in Suizhou

In Yingzhou City, the soldiers of the Ming New Army hunted and killed wild wolves and rabbits, cleared weeds, repaired houses, and repaired the city walls, turning this abandoned and broken city into a huge military camp.

Just as Zhao Peng was busy commanding the soldiers, the Jinyiwei suddenly came to the Malay newspaper: "Brother, Suizhou is in a hurry. Jiannu Haoge's army is only more than thirty miles away from Suizhou. According to the inside information, Xu Dingguo secretly sent his son to Haoge's army as a charity. This thief may be ready to join the slave!"

After receiving this information, Zhao Peng, who was not very good at history, suddenly remembered the Suizhou Incident. It was because his history was not good that he never remembered how Gao Jie died in real history. He only realized that he had heard the emergency military information sent by the Jinyiwei.

Zhao Peng suddenly woke up and was shocked: "It's bad, Xingping Bo is in danger!"

"Master, what should we do?" Gong Xiaoda asked, "If our army urgently set out to fight Suizhou now, it would be too late."

Zhao Peng recalled that in his previous life, he took a train from Fuyang to pass by Shangqiu. The Beijing-Kowloon Railway's 160-kilometer-hour direct express is about an hour from Fuyang to Shangqiu, which means that Fuyang to Shangqiu is about 180 kilometers, and there are still dozens of kilometers from Shangqiu to Sui County. In other words, the Yingzhou to Suizhou where he is currently located is about 200 kilometers, equivalent to 400 Huali.

If the infantry marched urgently, the marching of eighty miles a day can only last for two days, and the 160 miles journey will be completed in two days, and there will be two hundred and forty miles. The remaining distance will not be possible to march marching of eighty miles a day. It would be good to be able to walk fifty miles a day. Four more days, two hundred miles a day will have to walk for the last forty miles a day. In this way, it will be the fastest to reach seven days.

Zhao Peng thought about it and ordered: "Call Wang Quan and the others!"

"No!" Gong Xiaoda retreated.

After a while, Wang Quan walked into the central army's tent.

"Master Wang Qi, please quickly bring the 20-man Falcon team in our headquarters. I will allocate you another hundred cavalry, one man and three horses, and travel day and night to Suizhou as fast as possible. If Xingping Bo has been killed, be sure to intercept Xu Dingguo! If Xingping Bo is still there, I will advise him not to easily enter the Xu Dingguo camp to avoid being killed!" Zhao Peng ordered.

One man and three horses who were imitating the Mongols marched quickly. They could travel 180 miles a day and reach Suizhou in three days. I hope they could catch up. It would be best if they could save Gao Jie. Even if they could not, they could intercept Xu Dingguo and help Shi Kefa to set up defenses in Suizhou.

According to the original historical time and space, the Qing army broke through Tongguan, defeated Dashun, which occupied Xi'an, and then went south to Suizhou. Now history has changed. The Qing army has failed to attack Dashun for a long time. According to normal circumstances, it is impossible to face the danger of being attacked by the enemy from both sides to attack Daming. Haoge will appear near Suizhou, and it is very likely that Xu Dingguo had already secretly colluded with the enemy.

As Zhao Peng judged, Xu Dingguo had already secretly colluded with the enemy and sent his son to Haoge's army, and was ready to lead the entire army to surrender to the Qing army.

The Qing court happened to lose troops and generals at Hangu Pass and lacked manpower. With Xu Dingguo coming to surrender, Duoduo was naturally overjoyed. With this Green Camp Army, it added a little strength to the Qing army.

Xu Dingguo had long been determined to surrender to the enemy and rebel, so he secretly sent both sons to Haoge's army. Just when he was about to lead his troops north to surrender to our Qing Dynasty, he suddenly heard the news that Shi Kefa and Gao Jie came to Suizhou.

"Gaojie's army has an army of 200,000, while our army has only 50,000. Moreover, Gaojie's army has also been trained in Nanjing. How can our army resist?" Xu Dingguo, who had long been surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, heard this news, like an ant on a hot pan fidgeted.

General Pan Yifeng offered advice: "Lord, let's prepare both ways. First, we ask Prince Yu to send troops. At the same time, we can trick Gao Jie into the city. We set up a Hongmen Banquet. After the tent, hundreds of swords and axe players were ambushed, throwing cups as their horns. A group of swords and axes rushed forward and killed Gao Jie. As long as Gao Jie dies, Gao Jie's army will be in chaos and will not withstand the attacks between our army and the Qing army."

Xu Dingguo was overjoyed: "Okay, then act according to this plan!"

At this time, Shi Kefa and Gao Jie's army had passed Guide Prefecture and arrived at Ningling, which was only forty miles away from Suizhou.

Gao Jie's army set up camps. Now Gao Jie's army has been trained by Zhao Peng. Both the combat soldiers and auxiliary soldiers have improved their level by more than one level. It can be barely considered a first-class army. Fighting the Eight Banners soldiers may be difficult, but it is no problem to deal with the ordinary Green Camp Qing army.

The auxiliary soldiers dug trenches in an orderly manner, drove wooden stakes into the soil with wooden hammers, and erected wooden fences. The camp was arranged in an orderly manner, which was quite like the New Army of the Ming Dynasty.

Gao Jie was very satisfied with his subordinates. Now his Gao family army is not much inferior to the new army's weapons and equipment, except that his weapons and equipment are not as good as the new army. However, Gao Jie didn't know that in fact, his Gao family army is not only behind the new army in terms of weapons, but also far inferior to the new army in terms of combat effectiveness and fighting will. It is impossible to see from the appearance. If you really come to the battlefield and compare it, you can see a big gap between the two sides.

They were at peace all night. The next morning, Gao Jie ordered the camp to be set up and the camp was drawn and the army continued to set off towards Suizhou.

The Gao family army is known as 200,000, but in fact it is only 80,000, of which 45,000 are auxiliary soldiers, and the real combat soldiers are only about 35,000. But one thing about Gao Jie's army is that Zhao Peng cannot compare with is that there are many cavalry. The Gao family army has 15,000 cavalry, while Zhao Peng has only 2,000 cavalry, and these cavalry are part-time jobs in the Jinyiwei.

After walking for a whole day, at Shenshi in the afternoon, the Gao family army walked thirty miles away, only ten miles away from Suizhou.

Just as Gao Jie was about to order the troops to set up camps, a team of cavalry came outside: "General Xu held a banquet in Suizhou City, and invited Xingpingbo and others to go to Yuan's mansion in the city to attend the banquet."

Yuan’s mansion is the original Yuan Keli’s mansion. This is a famous garden in Henan, with precious calligraphy and paintings collected by Yuan Keli.

Gao Jie was about to agree, and Gao Jie's military advisor Yue Qijie advised: "Be careful of fraud! Xu Dingguo is a man who is cruel and cruel, and has harmed the nearby people many times. Moreover, I also heard that this thief was secretly interacting with Jiannu, but I was afraid that the old man would set up a Hongmen banquet for Xingpingbo!"

Unexpectedly, Gao Jie refused to listen to his advice: "I am the Xingping Bo of the Ming Dynasty. Xu Dingguo dared to attack me after taking Xiongxin. What's more, my 100,000 elite troops are only ten miles away from Suizhou. If anything happens, our army will arrive in just one morning!"

Gao Jie was very good at martial arts and couldn't listen to the advice at all. Yue Qijie had no choice but to take Chen Qianfu, a Henan patrol, and went to Suizhou with Gao Jie.

However, Shi Kefa did not go to the banquet. After all, in his heart, his literary talent and martial arts are inferior. He disdained to go to the banquet with his martial artists, so he rudes off on the excuse of being unable to drink and drinking on the road, so he escaped.

Gao Jie brought five hundred elite soldiers and rode together to Suizhou ten miles away. He set out in the evening of You hour. It took only half an hour for the 500 cavalry to arrive in Suizhou at the moment of You hour.

The city gate was wide open, and Henan Governor Zhang Jinyan brought Xu Dingguo, Shan Changgeng, Pan Yifeng, Liu Fangxing and other generals to greet him at the door.

Seeing Gao Jie and others coming, Xu Dingguo stepped forward and asked, "The last general welcomes Xingping Bo, why didn't Mr. Shi come?"

Dorgon wrote a letter to Shi Kefa, asking Shi Kefa to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and enjoy endless wealth, but was rejected by Shi Kefa. Originally, Shi Kefa had thought of joining the enemy and suppressing the enemy, but Your Majesty wanted to join the enemy to fight against the enemy. As a loyal minister, he naturally obeyed Your Majesty, so he sternly rejected the "good intention" of the Qing army and insulted Dorgon and the others as thieves slaves, which made Dorgon and Duoduo brothers hated him to the core.

In order to show his allegiance to the Qing court, Xu Dingguo also thought that he could capture Shi Kefa alive, or cut Shi Kefa's head to the Qing Dynasty in exchange for his bright future. Hearing that Shi Kefa did not come, Xu Dingguo couldn't help but feel for 40,000 in his heart.
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