After the city wall exploded, Zhao Peng no longer used his own troops, but gave the opportunity to take revenge to Li Chengdong, and the Gao family army entered the city by themselves to avenge Gao Jie.

"Tiger, remember, don't massacre the people. Although the old thief of Xu Dingguo is hateful, the people in the city are innocent." Zhao Peng advised.

Li Chengdong gritted his teeth and said, "But the people in Suizhou City are really hateful. They helped the old thieves resist our army, causing a large number of brothers to be killed and killed in our army! Is it reasonable to help the old thief who sells the country and seeks honor?"

"The people are just deceived, not because they voluntarily fight against the royal army. It should be said that it was the old thief Xu Dingguo who deceived them. Since our army has broken the city, then hand over the people in the city to Benbo. After assisting the old thief to defend the city on the top of the city, Benbo will interrogate it. If he is willing to work hard for the old thief, it will not be too late to kill again." Zhao Peng said.

Li Chengdong finally listened to Zhao Peng's opinion and agreed not to massacre the city. After all, Zhao Peng had kindness to them before, and this time it was Zhao Peng who helped them break the city and avenged Gao Jie.

After the Gao family army invaded Suizhou City, they soon found Xu Dingguo's body. The thief committed suicide because of fear of crime. After the Gao family army captured the city, he waited for the Qing army to rescue, but he could not wait for reinforcements. After the city was broken, Xu Dingguo knew that he would die, so he committed suicide because of fear of crime.

Among the Xu family army, generals Shan Changgeng and Pan Yifeng were killed in the chaos. After Liu Fangxing was captured, they were killed by angry soldiers. More than 9,000 Xu family army were wiped out.

The angry Gao family officers and soldiers cut off Xu Dingguo's head, chopped the headless corpse into meat paste, smashed all the bones, and burned them into ashes in a handful of fire. Only when the bones were crushed and ashes were truly extinguished, the great hatred in his heart was relieved.

Gao Jie's head and body were sewn together and put into a coffin. Then Xu Dingguo's head was placed in front of the coffin to commemorate Gao Jie.

Although the Gao family army that attacked Suizhou was already restrained at Zhao Peng's request, the city was still robbed by the Gao family army, and many wealthy families and businesses were looted. The unlucky Yuan Shu, his Yuan mansion, was also looted. The Gao family army also burned the library because the rebels who killed Gao Jie came out hiding in the library. The Gao family army took their anger and took off the library. After attacking the city, they burned the library with fire. A large number of ancient books, antiques, calligraphy and paintings inside were burned.

It is indeed heartbreaking that so many precious calligraphy and paintings have been destroyed.

Five days later, Mrs. Xing brought her son Gao Yuanzhao and Gao Jie's nephew Li Benshen to attend Gao Jie's funeral.

Gao Jie's entire army was simple and silly. Mrs. Xing and her son Gao Yuanzhao took Gao Jie's generals Li Chengdong, Li Benshen, Gao Jinku, Guo Hu, Wang Zhigang and other generals standing in front of Gao Jie's coffin and thanked the civil and military officials who came to pay their respects.

Forty-nine days later, Gao Jie's coffin was transported back to Guide Mansion and buried.

After finishing the funeral, Mrs. Xing brought her son Gao Yuanzhao to Shi Kefa's tent.

"Master Shi Ge, my husband was killed and his son was young. Although he inherited Lord Xingpingbo, the children were not taken care of in the court. If Yuan Zhao was bullied, there would be no one to gang people. I hope Master Jia can accept the dog son as his adopted son." Mrs. Xing said.

Who knew that the pedantic Shi Kefa thought to himself: Gao Jie was born into a thief. If he accepted this person's son as his adopted son, wouldn't he be criticized in the Jiangnan Shilin in the future? Thinking of this, Shi Kefa said: "My surname is Shi, but the son is Gao. If he accepted his adopted son, will the son change his surname or not? As far as I see, it is better for the son to worship Gao Qiqian as his adopted father. Both of them are surnamed Gao and are also a family."

Although both of them were surnamed Gao, Gao Qiqian was an eunuch. Mrs. Xing felt that what Shi Kefa said was that asking his son to recognize Gao Qiqian as his adoptive father was a humiliation to their Gao family, and the two sides parted unhappily.

Just as Mrs. Xing was disappointed and walked out of the central army tent, she saw Zhao Peng walking towards her with a smile.

"The civilian woman has met the Zhongyong Uncle." Mrs. Xing saluted Zhao Peng.

Zhao Peng smiled and said, "Mrs. Xing Pingbo was brothers and sisters with Ben Bo during his lifetime. Now Xing Pingbo is suffering misfortune. Ben Boli is taking care of Xing Pingbo's orphans in modern times. If the wife does not dislike it, then let Yuanzhao recognize Ben Bo as his adoptive father."

"Zhen Yong's uncle is only how old is Yuanzhao older? If Yuanzhao recognizes his uncle as his adoptive father, it would be inappropriate?" Mrs. Xing said hesitantly.

You should know that Zhao Peng was only nineteen years old, while Gao Yuanzhao was twelve years old, and it was seven years apart, so it was inappropriate to recognize his adopted father. But Mrs. Xing didn't know that Wei Zhongxian recognized his adopted son, even older than him. Moreover, Mrs. Xing had a knot in her heart: at that time, Gao Jie was one of the four great heroes who supported Zhu Yousong, but Zhao Peng overthrew King Fu and helped the new emperor, and this knot was difficult to untie.

Zhao Peng smiled and said, "In fact, it doesn't matter whether he recognizes his father or not. Xingping Bo sacrificed his life for the country and was harmed by the thieves. He should enter the temple of the Ming Dynasty. As long as I am here, he will be covered with the orphans of the heroes for a day. Although Xingping Bo supported King Fu before, it was also the King Fu that the prince was not sure of his life and death. As the saying goes, the country cannot be without a king for a day. Xingping Bo has no fault in supporting King Fu. As long as he is loyal to the emperor and serves the country, it is a good thing."

Mrs. Xing was overjoyed and quickly pulled Gao Yuanzhao over: "Zhaoer, kowtow to her adoptive father!"

Gao Yuanzhao walked forward, knelt on both knees, and bowed respectfully to Zhao Peng: "Dear to your foster father!"

"Okay! OK!" Zhao Peng helped Gao Yuanzhao up and touched his head with a smile, "Good boy, I am actually not a few years older than you. Although you worship me as your adoptive father, we are actually good brothers. But with the name of adoptive father, I will take care of you in the future."

"Thank you for your adoptive father!" Gao Yuanzhao was overjoyed.

Mrs. Xing also smiled on her face: "Big Yong is not only a great Ming noble who has achieved the merit of saving the emperor, but also a prince consort. The old woman was relieved to have the Lord Zhongyong take care of Yuan'er. From then on, all the soldiers under her husband's command will obey the orders of Boyong!"

Then Mrs. Xing and her son Gao Yuanzhao took Zhao Peng to the tent of the Gao family's central army.

"Dear brothers!" Mrs. Xing looked around, "The child was young and there was no one in the court to take care of him. Now the child has recognized Uncle Zhongyong as his adoptive father. From then on, all brothers will obey Uncle Zhongyong's orders!"

Generals such as Li Chengdong, Li Benshen, Gao Jinku, Guo Hu, Wang Zhigang and others knelt on one knee and saluted: "The last generals are willing to obey the orders of the Zhongyong Bo! I am willing to die for the Zhongyong Bo!"

Zhao Peng was overjoyed. Although the soldiers he trained were elite, what he lacked the most was the general. Now that he had accepted Gao Yuanzhao as his adopted son, there were more than ten generals in his hands. These generals were all influential figures in history.

Although Zhao Peng is a historical novices, some of them still have a vague impression of them.

In fact, Zhao Peng was also a bit politically savvy when using this method of taking up an adopted son. He heard Shi Kefa rejecting Mrs. Xing’s proposal outside Shi Kefa’s account, and felt that Shi Kefa was extremely pedantic, just to be sacred and disregard the overall situation. It can be said that Shi Kefa was a loyal minister, but a pedantic loyal minister. The rapid demise of the Hongguang Dynasty of the Southern Ming Dynasty in time and space was inseparable from Shi Kefa’s operation. He could be said to be a complete teammate.

This time, Zhao Peng not only obtained more than ten powerful generals, but also captured Gao Jie's 30,000 elite combat soldiers. Although these soldiers were not as good as his new Nanjing army, they were also veterans of a hundred battles. As long as they were allowed to station on the Yellow River defense line, it would be impossible for the Qing army to go south.

In the original historical time and space, because Shi Kefa refused to accept Gao Jie's son as his adopted son, Mrs. Xing later decided to surrender to the Qing Dynasty with her soldiers. When the Qing army attacked Yangzhou, these officers and soldiers transformed into the Green Camp Qing army, causing great trouble to the Yangzhou defenders.

And in this time and space, because Zhao Peng took Gao Jie's son as his adopted son, such a thing will naturally not happen again.
Chapter completed!