There was a deviation in the time when Duoduo went south. It was already the second day of the second month of the 18th year of Chongzhen. Duoduo had just arrived in Shandong. In the original time and space, Duoduo had already arrived in Henan, but now Duoduo's army was about to set off from Shandong. "Gao Jie received an order to go to Suizhou and prepare to meet Xu Dingguo." The Jinyiwei sent the news.

A few days ago, a detailed report was reported, saying that Xu Dingguo had already had letters with Duoduo a few months ago and sent his son to the Qing Dynasty as a hostage.

"What should come is coming," Li Guodong turned his head and made a quick decision to send an order. "Immediately click on the five thousand cavalry in the headquarters, two thousand light cavalry, three thousand cavalry, three thousand cavalry, one man and three horses, set off immediately and rush to Suizhou for a long distance!"

Li Guodong personally led his troops and led his generals Cao Bianjiao and Wang Fuchen, five thousand cavalrymen, three horses, and the battle horses were all the best Bellshulun and Don hippos, riding horses with Mongolian horses. He set off from Yangzhou that afternoon and boarded the ship to Huai'an.

All five thousand cavalrymen boarded the ship, and Shi Lang ordered the ship to be opened.

"General Shi, after arriving in Huai'an, you will help me change the boat. I will get off the boat in Xuzhou and rush to Suizhou in Guide Prefecture." Li Guodong said to Shi Lang.

Shi Lang asked, "Why did the Grand Marshal rush to Guide?"

"Henan General Xu Dingguo wants to treason and surrender to the enemy! I must stop him!"

"Treasoning the country and surrendering to the enemy?" Shi Lang was shocked, "Why don't this thief directly lead his army to surrender to the enemy, but he must first take his son as his charity and rely on our Ming Dynasty territory?"

Li Guodong said angrily: "He wants greater credit! He will lead his army to surrender to the enemy directly. He won't get much benefit from Jiannu. If he stays on my land of Ming Dynasty, he can sacrifice the city and surrender to the enemy again! Alas, Gao Jie, Gao Jie, you are the credit you sent to Xu Dingguo!"

"Damn it!" Shi Lang cursed.

More than 300 miles from Yangzhou to Huai'an, the Huai Army Navy Clippers arrived in Huai'an in just one day and one night. This was all thanks to the two sailors of the Clippers' rowing in turn. In addition, the hard sail has the advantages of Western soft sailing sailings, which can sail against the wind.

Western soft sailing boats can only sail against the wind, while ordinary soft sailing boats cannot be against the wind, and the operation is very complicated. However, the sails of Western soft sailing boats are large in area and high in speed, which is suitable for sailing in various sea conditions, while Chinese hard sails are only suitable for sailing along the coast and inland rivers. Therefore, soft sails and hard sails have their own advantages and disadvantages.

It was northwest wind, but for Shi Lang, who grew up on the sea, sailing against the wind was not a problem at all. The fleet of Clippers used sails together and walked like the wind on the river surface. When they encountered a completely against the wind, they lowered their sails and relied on manpower to row. After turning, they raised their sails. As long as the wind was angled in the same direction as the ship sailed, the fleet could sail against the wind.

After the Navy Clippers arrived in Huai'an, Li Guodong led the cavalry off the Clippers, transferred to a small boat, and rushed to Xuzhou.

The boat relies entirely on sailors, with no wind power available and slow speed. However, every sailor rowed hard and changed shifts when he was tired. The small fleet took two days and two nights to complete the 360-mile voyage from Huai'an to Xuzhou.

"General Shi, you are here to wait for us. We will return to Yangzhou immediately after we finish our business." Li Guodong explained to Shi Lang.

"Please rest assured, Shi will definitely wait until the Marshal returns." Shi Lang replied with a bow.

Li Guodong also told me: "If we have not returned yet, Jiannu will come. Don't wait for us. Go back quickly. We will go back by land."

"Thank you, Mr. Shi knows it."

After leaving Xuzhou, Li Guodong's five thousand elite cavalrymen ran all the way on the plain south of the Yellow River, heading towards Guide Mansion.

It was 350 miles away, and according to Li Guodong's requirements, he had to arrive within two days. It was already the sixth day of the second lunar month, and Li Guodong asked to arrive in Suizhou before the evening of the seventh day of the second lunar month to see if he could stop Gao Jie.

Five thousand cavalrymen rushed to Suizhou without stopping. On the morning of the seventh day of the second month, Li Guodong met Yue Qijie, the governor of Henan, and the soldiers of Suizhou were preparing for the road Yuan Shu and the inspector of Henan, Chen Qianfu.

Li Guodong asked someone to invite three civil servants, Yue Qijie, Chen Qianfu and Yuan Shu came to Li Guodong and saluted: "The emperor has met the prince."

"Didn't the three accompany General Yingwu (Gao Jie) to Suizhou? Why did the three come back first?" Li Guodong asked.

"Dude, the senior official suspected that Xu Dingguo had long been rebellious and advised General Yingwu not to enter the city, but the general insisted on entering Suizhou City. The senior official tried hard to persuade him, but the general just refused to listen." Yue Qijie bowed.

Yuan Shu also bowed and said, "Mr. Duke, the lower officials are trying hard to persuade each other, but unfortunately General Yingwu just doesn't listen to the advice."

Li Guodong sighed: "Huanzhong, you are so confused! If you don't leave Suizhou, Xu Dingguo is afraid that Ling Zun was his boss, and he may not dare to take action. You will leave, something bad will happen!"

Because Yuan Shu was Yuan Keli's son, Xu Dingguo was originally Yuan Keli's old subordinate. If Yuan Shu was present, Xu Dingguo might still be a little afraid.

Yuan Shu hurriedly said, "Duke, the official is confused! The official is here to go to Suizhou with the Duke, and you will dissuade Xu Dingguo."

"It's too late!" Li Guodong shook his head, "General Gao may have been killed! You can go back to Nanjing quickly and report to His Majesty, and say that Xu Dingguo has rebelled!"

"No!" Yue Qijie, Yuan Shu and Chen Qianfu bid farewell after saluting.

Li Guodong turned around and shouted, "We will go to the test city, not Suizhou anymore! The old thief of Xu Dingguo must have gone to the test city."

Five thousand cavalrymen rushed to whip their horses. At the sprint of the afternoon, they stopped Xu Dingguo who was about to escape to Kaocheng halfway.

The gate of Kaocheng was open, and Xu Dingguo's army was very close to the gate. Li Guodong picked up the telescope and found that one of the central army wearing a six-petal spire-topped red tassel helmet and wearing mountain armor was Xu Dingguo. A personal soldier next to him was holding a head in his hand, which was Gao Jie's head.

"Master General! Cavalry is coming in front!" A servant from Xu Dingguo shouted.

"Run into the city quickly!" Xu Dingguo screamed in shock.

It was too late, and Li Guodong's two thousand light cavalry rushed towards him like a whirlwind. At this time, Xu Dingguo was still more than a mile away from the city gate.

"Hurry up, come in line to meet the enemy!" Xu Dingguo shouted.

The spearmen of the Xu family army immediately formed a formation to welcome the Huai Army Light Cavalry that was about to rush up. Who knew that the light cavalry did not rush forward, but drew a beautiful arc in front of the spearmen of the Xu family army, and galloped past five steps ahead of the Xu family army's spearmen. As the light cavalry passed, feather arrows flew out of the cavalry and fell into the Xu family formation.

Most of the spearmen in Xu Dingguo were cannon fodder soldiers. Apart from a mandarin duck war jacket, they had no armor protection, and only goose yellow red tassel felt hats were on their heads. Only servants were wearing chain mail and six-petal steep iron helmets. The spearmen were shot on their bodies by arrows, and the arrows were as sharp as they fell down.

The light cavalry passed by the Xu family army formation and quickly rushed towards the infantry behind the Xu family army who tried to escape into the city.

"Shoot the arrow!" Xu Dingguo shouted.

The insurgent archers in the Xu family formation set up their bows and arrows and shot a row of feather arrows, but the light cavalry was too fast. Most of the arrows shot by the Xu family archers fell behind the butts of the light cavalry, and only a few arrows were stabbed on the light cavalry, but these light cavalry were wearing six-petaled steep-top wide-eaves iron helmets and were wearing breastplates, so the Xu family's arrows could not be shot through.

The light cavalry caught up with the Xu family infantry who were trying to escape back to the city, put away their cavalry bows, and drew out their saber to kill.

Blood splashed everywhere and screamed repeatedly. The Xu family's infantry either had their heads cut off or were knocked away by the tall hippo, and then stepped into meat paste.

Xu Dingguo was about to order a change of formation and gave way to the archers to chase after him and shoot light cavalry, but he saw another cavalry rushing towards him.
Chapter completed!