Who is this Xu Dingguo?
His resume is outstanding and he is truly battle-hardened. He has fought battles outside the Pass and suppressed bandits within the Pass. He was promoted to the rank of general more than ten years ago. In the 15th year of Chongzhen's reign, due to the failure of the Kaifeng campaign and the previous military raids to rescue Henan, he has been responsible for several The crime is punishable by death.
However, before the Autumn Queen asked for execution, Li Zicheng defeated Sun Chuanting's troops and entered Guanzhong. The imperial court had no generals available, and was not allowed to reinstate Xu Dingguo and other criminal generals to their posts to assist the Henan military commander. As a result, this guy was gone again. It was a defeat. Knowing that the imperial court could not take mercy on him, he immediately ran away.
Historically, when he was unable to escape, Emperor Chongzhen committed suicide in the first half month. In order to win over people's hearts, he asked generals from all over the country to come to serve the king. He promoted many people to positions and titles in one breath, among whom Xu Dingguo was among them. However, Tang Tong was alone at that time.
On March 18, Li Zicheng defeated Beijing. Xu Dingguo had no place to take more than a hundred people back to his hometown. He originally wanted to go to Nanjing, but because he had no soldiers or generals, he gathered people in the countryside to plan for it, and then led the crowd to plunder. Ye, to put it bluntly, it’s just a mistake.
And when the Ming Dynasty fell in the early days and the Tatars first entered the customs, the whole country was in chaos. Officials in prefectures and counties either fled south, were captured and killed by the bandits, or waited and surrendered. There were many empty government offices in Jiangbei and the people had no owners.
Xu Dingguo began to behave like a monster at this time. Although he plundered the countryside, he hardly disturbed the city. This made the squires in Suizhou (now Sui County, Henan Province) have a good impression of him, and some big squires wanted to join forces with him to self-defense. , just what he wanted, so it gradually grew from more than a hundred people to become the real leader of Suizhou, and even another big boss also responded to it.
This person is Li Jiyu, the leader of Nanwuzhai who formed a stronghold nearby to protect himself.
There is no clear record of this person in the historical data, and there are many mentions in it. Various historical data are even contradictory to each other, but there are a few points that are consistent. He first rebelled by killing officials, surrendered to the court, rebelled against the Qing Dynasty, and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.
The second is strong martial arts.
First, it was very powerful. When it surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, it had one prefecture, two states, twelve counties, more than a thousand small and large villages, and more than 100,000 troops.
Although Chang Yu's time travel has changed some historical trajectories, some of them are still walking on the original trajectories. For example, after Xu Dingguo's defeat, he returned to his hometown to cause trouble. The court was busy fighting in the past few months and had no time to pay attention to him, and he was afraid that The imperial court punished him and he did not dare to go back, so that this guy is now prosperous in Suizhou, Guide Mansion (the government governs today's Shangqiu, and controls one state and eight counties).
But he didn't expect that his name could be heard outside Xuzhou.
Everyone was surprised after listening to Chang Yu's popular science. Kuang Ren even shouted: "He is a criminal general but he is entrenched in the countryside and is a thief. He should be informed that the imperial court will send troops to suppress him."
Chang Yu smiled bitterly, there are so many thieves everywhere now, and the court is powerless, not to mention that the big thieves are so fierce that they have no time to pay attention to these small fish and shrimps.
"If this thief from Shahu Mountain really has something to do with Xu and Li, he must be dealt with carefully." Li Muxian stroked his beard and frowned, Chang Yu laughed and said, "Do you think it is possible?" Everyone was confused.
"We have traveled three to four hundred miles to Suizhou. How can Xu and Li stretch their hands so long? Furthermore, with Gao Jie's temperament, he would allow others to sleep soundly beside his bed? And it's only a few miles outside the city?"
"Uh... Your Majesty said that these thieves are just bluffing, but why are they doing this?"
Whenever a big warlord occupies a place where the common people are the meat and potatoes, the black and white factions will be eager to share the profits with him. Therefore, regardless of the backers or the people in the Xuzhou territory, they have to pay tribute to Gao Jie. However, when necessary, the relationship must be estranged. First of all, pay attention to it. In terms of reputation, after all, not everyone wants to be as shameless as Liu Zeqing, and secondly, they are afraid of being implicated.
And now these local snakes in Shahu Mountain have obviously seen the difference between the officers and soldiers of Heilang Camp. Even if Lao Jiu said that he had an old relationship with Gao Jie, they would not dare to believe it. What if he was here to get evidence, so The farther away the better...
You taste it, you taste it carefully.
Only then did everyone realize that it turned out that they were just afraid of causing trouble for Gao Jie, so they moved the trouble eastward. However, this excuse was too far-fetched. There was simply no three hundred taels of silver in this place.
"Then Sha Hushan and the Jiaolong Gang will negotiate with us tomorrow, how should we deal with it?" Lao Jiu asked, Chang Yu smiled slightly: "Since he knows that you and Gao Jie have an old relationship, he doesn't dare to act rashly for the time being, whether he believes it or not, at least he has to wait Gao Jie had to confirm before he dared to take action. Now this is just a bluff. Isn't there a saying in the world that losers don't lose the formation? This is the truth."
"What the hell, I was thinking of serving it all at once tomorrow, and I've been pretending to be a fool for a long time." Lao Jiu cursed, and everyone burst into laughter. Chang Yu pondered for a moment, and suddenly said: "I might as well start serving it. ".
Everyone was stunned, and Li Muxian said quickly: "Sir, since you know that he is Gao Jie's man, why do you still... We killed his people when we first arrived. I'm afraid it will be bad for losing his face."
Chang Yu said with a playful smile on his face: "We may know that we are Gao Jie's people, or we may not know that we are his people, and because we have just arrived in the field, we have to kill a few people to suppress the situation."
Everyone was confused by what he said, but Li Muchian understood it.
Gao Jie is famous for being arrogant and domineering. He is the kind of young man with a spirit that no one will accept. Otherwise, in history, he would have dared to set up an ambush to kill another thorn-headed Huang Degong. He is simply the king of heaven and I am the biggest. It fits the bill. He was born as a bandit.
Historical data says that the Ming general Bai Guangen was the most unruly and brutal at that time, but Gao Jie was even worse, and could be described as brutal.
But after meeting Chang Yu, this guy has restrained himself a lot, but Chang Yu doesn't have many ways to control him. At the moment, he mainly relies on killing chickens to scare monkeys, and kidnapping him with benefits.
This alone is not enough. This guy must feel terror deep in his heart and let him have the leverage to fall into his hands. Therefore, the thieves in Shahu Mountain must die. In this way, Gao Jie will know it all. It is impossible for the eunuch not to know that he was protecting the people in Shahushan, but he still killed him even though he knew it, just to tell him: I know you are colluding with thieves!
The reason why I killed you can be understood as destroying evidence for you, or you can understand it as doing it for yourself.
But no matter how you understand it, you have the leverage in my hands.
What's more, the people in Shahushan are just bandits, so they just kill them!
"What about the Jiaolong Gang?" When Lao Jiu heard that he was ready to go on a killing spree, he was as ready to take action as if he had been given blood.
"Those who are trying to make a living on the Jiaolong gang are considered to be black-blooded if they survive to death. The crime will not lead to death. And once I see the fate of Shahushan, I will feel confident."
Then everyone began to discuss how to kill the bandits in Shahu Mountain. It was actually not difficult.
There are only about a hundred thieves in Shahu Mountain, only one-third of the Black Wolf Camp. As long as they don't go up the mountain to attack the stronghold, whether it's a solo fight or a group fight, whether it's an infantry battle or a cavalry fight, the Black Wolf Camp can take them back and forth in seconds. .
What's more, tomorrow can be used as an excuse to negotiate.
But Chang Yu suddenly had a very insidious idea. Not only did he want to kill these bandits, but he also wanted Gao Jie's people to watch from the side.
"Have you ever been to the city?"
Lao Jiu shook his head: "We had two fights when we first arrived. We have not yet entered the city and have not seen the officers and soldiers in the city come out to intervene. However, the steward of Octopus has entered the city several times in the past few days."
"Three parties outside the city have been fighting fiercely for several days, but there is no movement in the city. There is something strange about this." Li Muchian stroked his beard and smiled, and Lao Jiu let out a sigh: "I'm just pretending to be confused."
"So I told them not to pretend to be confused. I sent someone to the city early tomorrow morning to identify myself, and told them to be a peacemaker and make peace with the people of Shahu Mountain. They will be happy to come with them." Chang Yu snorted coldly. , everyone nodded.
"But I don't know who is in charge of things in this city when Gao Jie is not here. This man can endure it for two days without showing his face, but he also has some tricks up his sleeve." Li Muchian asked casually, and Chang Yu raised his eyebrows: "Maybe the governor knows."
Gao Jie has two confidants. One is Li Chengdong, who was killed by Chang Yu a month ago.
The other is his deputy general Hu Maozhen, who was the one who tipped off Huang Degong in history. A few months ago, Gao Jie went north and he stayed in Xuzhou, so now he is the talker in the city.
In addition to Hu Maozhen, Gao Jie also has two right-hand assistants, Sun Shoufa and Li Guoqi.
To be exact, the two of them were Gao Jie's immediate superiors. Sun Shoufa first worked with Cao Wenzhao. After Cao Zhan died, he followed He Renlong. When Gao Jie surrendered from Li Zicheng, Hong Chengchou arranged for him to be assigned to He Renlong. Renlong asked him to follow his guerrilla general Sun Shoufa. Li Guoqi was He Renlong's deputy general at that time.
After He Renlong died in battle, on the recommendation of Sun Chuanting, another of He Renlong's subordinates, Wu Dading, took over and led his team. Sun Shoufa and Li Guoqi were not convinced and followed Gao Jie (it is also possible that Wu Dading later surrendered Li Zicheng and Li Zicheng fled.) Of course, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Sun Shoufa and Wu Dading joined forces to fight against the Qing Dynasty. That happened later.
Although Gao Jie had a cruel temper, he was not without brains. Although he reluctantly led his troops north to King Qin under the pressure of the court and the eunuch, he was extremely concerned about his one-third acre of land and did not dare to be careless at all, because in the There are three other big thieves in Xuzhou: Cheng Jikong, Wang Daoshan, and Zhang Fangzao.
These three people began to rebel in the eighth year of Chongzhen. Xuzhou, Dangshan, and Xiaoxian were hundreds of miles away with great momentum. They attacked and plundered villages fiercely. They captured the county seat of Xiaoxian several times. It was not until last year that Huaixudao Councilor He Tengjiao and Water Transport were Governor Lu Zhenfei, governor of Huaiyang, jointly deployed generals to defeat him, and the leader of the thieves, Cheng Jikong, escorted him to the capital.
The centipede insect was dead but not stiff. He Tengjiao was promoted to governor of Huguang and left after he had just defeated the three bandits. However, the remnants of the three bandits were resurrected and ready to move. This made Gao Jie dare not be careless, so he sent troops north to Xuzhou Kongkong and told Hu Maozhen The three of them must be careful not to catch fire in the backyard.
Historically, Cheng Jikong was escorted to the capital to display his head to the public, but his life should not have been cut off. As soon as he arrived in Beijing, Li Zicheng invaded. The man actually took advantage of the chaos and escaped, returned to his hometown and continued to occupy the mountain as king. Later, he was caught and killed by Gao Jie. As a result, he was granted the title of Crown Prince and Tutor by the Southern Ming court, and his underage son Gao Yuanjue was granted the title of hereditary royal robe.
An interesting thing is that Gao Jie did not kill Cheng Jikong by force, but by deception. He knew that Cheng Jikong was brave and good at fighting and had great power, so he should outwit him, so he told Cheng Jikong that you have no future if you take over and become the king. , hang out with my buddy, he is now one of the four towns in Jiangbei, he has soldiers, food and territory, and a bright future in the future. In order to make Cheng Jikong let go of his guard, he even worshiped his brother as a brother. Over time, Cheng Jikong let down his guard and went to Gaojie one day. Drinking in the camp and then being hacked to a pulp! (From Jiang Shihuan, a native of Tongshan in the Qing Dynasty, "The Book of Gao Jie Kills Cheng Ji Kong"
Of course, the trajectory of history has changed now. Li Zicheng did not capture Beijing, Cheng Jikong did not escape, and Gao Jie had no chance to fool him, but his old troops are really resurrected.
Therefore, Gao Jie left three of his right-hand assistants in Xuzhou.
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