Gao Jie
Gao Jie
Gao Jie? Yingwu, a native of Mizhi, Shaanxi Province. He lived in the same city as Li Zicheng and was a thief. He was originally Li Zicheng's department and was nicknamed "mountain harrier". After surrendering to the Ming government, he took part in the pursuit of the peasant army and was promoted to the rank of commander in chief.
After the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yousong, the king of fortune, ascended the throne in the south of the Yangtze River and was granted the title of xingpingbo. Together with Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing and Huang Degong, he was known as the four towns of Jiangbei.
In 1645 (the first year of Hongguang), Gao Jie was trapped and killed by Xu Dingguo in Suizhou. The Southern Ming Dynasty gave him the title of crown prince and crown prince.
Life of the characters
Treason and surrender
Gao Jie and Li Zicheng are fellow villagers. They started an incident at the same time because of excessive taxes and levies in the late Ming Dynasty. In August of the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634), Governor Chen Qiyu sent general he Renlong to rescue Longzhou. He was surrounded by bandits and was in a very difficult situation. Li Zicheng asked Gao Jie to write a letter to celebrate Renlong's rebellion, but he didn't get Gao Jie's reply. When the emissary came back, he met Gao Jie first, and then he went to see Li Zicheng. When the siege failed for two months, Li Zicheng suspected Gao Jie, so he sent another ministry to replace him and let Gao Jie come back to guard the camp. Li Zicheng's wife, Xing, is brave and intelligent. She is responsible for managing military supplies and distributing military supplies and weapons every day. Gao Jie goes to Xing's camp to meet Fu Yanhe. Seeing that Gao Jie is handsome, Xing has an affair with him. They are afraid that Li Zicheng will find out, so they plan to surrender to the Ming army. In August of the eighth year of Chongzhen (1635), Gao Jie brought Xing's family to come and attach him. He handed over the guerrilla commander he Chenglong to fight against the peasants. Since then, Gao Jie has often served under he Renlong.
Suppress the uprising
In 1640, Zhang Xianzhong was defeated in Manao mountain and fled to Xinggui border. Gao Jie followed he Renlong and his deputy general Li Guoqi to defeat Zhang Xianzhong's troops in Yanjing. In 1642, he Renlong was killed for his crime, and the court appointed Gao Jie as the actual guerrilla general. In October of the same year, sun chuanting, governor of Shaanxi Province, arrived in Nanyang. Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai went west to resist him. Sun chuanting asked Gao Jie and a man surnamed Lu to be pioneers. He met with the peasant army in Zhongtou and started a war. He defeated the peasant army and pursued them for 60 Li. Luo Rucai saw that Li Zicheng was defeated and came to rescue him. He went around to attack the Ming army. When Zuo Zhe, the general of the rear army, saw that the peasant army came from behind, he was so scared that he ran away first, and all the other armies fled with him. As a result, the Ming army was defeated greatly, and only Gao Jie's army suffered a small loss. In 1643, Gao Jie was promoted to the rank of deputy commander in chief and served as a vanguard with general Bai Guangen. Both of them were surrendering generals. Bai Guangen is fierce and unruly. He never obeys discipline. Gao Jie is more fierce than him. The court thought that Gao Jie was the object of Li Zicheng's hatred, so it let him suppress the peasant army under the guidance of sun chuanting. In September, Gao Jie followed sun chuanting to capture Baofeng and recover Jia County. At that time, the Ming army took advantage of the victory and was lack of food. Li Ji met the peasant army, so Li Zicheng led the elite cavalry to fight. Sun chuanting asked the generals for countermeasures. Gao Jie asked for a fight, but Bai Guangen thought it was no good. Sun chuanting thought that Bai Guangen was timid, but Bai Guangen was not happy, so he led his subordinates to flee the camp. When the Ming army sent troops to fight, he fell into the ambush of the peasant army. Gao Jie went up to the mountain and said, "I can't support it." He also led his men to retreat. The Ming army ran for their lives, and tens of thousands of people died. Bai Guangen went to Ruzhou to wait for them to be defeated without any help, so Gao Jie had to retreat to the North Bank of the Yellow River with sun chuanting. Later they crossed the Yellow River from Shanxi and turned to Tongguan. Bai Guangen is here first. In November of the same year, Li Zicheng attacked Tongguan, and Bai Guangen fought hard. Gao Jie hated Bai Guangen for not rescuing himself when he lost the first World War of Baofeng, so he refused to rescue him. Bai Guangen was defeated, Tongguan was defeated by the peasant army, and sun chuanting was killed. Li Zicheng beat Xi'an and lived there. Gao Jie went north to Yan'an, where Li Guo, the general of the peasant army, pursued him. Gao Jie went east to Yichuan, where the river just froze and passed. Then he entered Pujin city for garrison defense. When the bandits arrived and the ice melted, Gao Jie could not cross the river. After Bai Guangen was defeated, he fled to Guyuan and was overtaken by the thieves, so he surrendered.
Four towns in Jiangbei
In 1644, Gao Jie became the commander in chief. Zhu Youjian, the emperor of Chongzhen, ordered the governor Li Huaxi to lead Gao Jie's troops to rescue Shanxi. However, Puzhou and Pingyang had been lost for a long time. Gao Jie returned to Zezhou and plundered along the way, so the peasant army approached Taiyuan. In the same year, Li Zicheng conquered Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen Zhu hanged himself, and Wu Sangui, commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan, led Qing soldiers into the pass. Gao jienan fled and supported Zhu Yousong, the king of fortune, to ascend the throne. After Zhu Yousong succeeded to the throne, he set up four vassals: Xingping Bo Gaojie guarding Xuzhou and Sizhou, Dongping Bo Liu Zeqing guarding Huai'an and Yangzhou, Guangchang Bo Liu Liangzuo guarding Fengyang and Shouzhou, and Huang Degong Jin was Marquis guarding Chuzhou and Hezhou. Their families are resettled in the mainland.
Domineering
In the first year of Shunzhi (1644), Gao Jie led Yangzhou and stationed outside the city. Gao Jie insisted on entering the city. The people in Yangzhou were afraid that Gao Jie would not let them in. When Gao Jie was in a hurry to attack the city, he robbed the women in the countryside every day, and the local people hated him even more. Magistrate Ma Minglu and tuguan Tang Laihe tenaciously defended for more than a month. Gao Jie knew that he couldn't fight down, so he was a little frustrated. Shi Kefa of the cabinet decided to give Guazhou to Gao Jie before he stopped attacking the city. In September, the imperial court ordered Gao Jie to move to Xuzhou, and asked Zuo zhongyun Wei Yinwen to supervise his army's westward expedition to beg for thieves. Cheng Jikong, a bandit in Xuzhou, was caught and sent to the capital. He escaped when Li Zicheng made trouble. In December, Gao Jie caught him and killed him. So the imperial court appointed Gao Jie as the crown prince and Taifu, and Yin appointed one of his sons as a hereditary Royal servant.
fratricidal strife
At first, the governor Shi Kefa worried that Gao Jie was unreasonable and hard to subdue, so he let Huang Degong garrison Yizhen and secretly contain Gao Jie's forces. It happened that General Huang Fei of Denglai was about to take office. Huang Fei and Huang Degong share the same surname and are brothers. So he wrote to Huang Degong and asked him to send some soldiers to guard against accidents. Huang Dehui led 300 cavalry troops from Yangzhou to Gaoyou to meet him. Gao Jie's Deputy General Hu Maozhen made a report to him. Gao Jie has always resented his success, but he suspects that he wants to count on himself. So they ambushed elite soldiers on the way to stop them. Huang Degong went to Tuqiao and was preparing to cook. Gao Jie's ambush came unexpectedly. Huang Degong got on his horse and prepared to fight with an iron whip. The incoming arrows were as dense as rain. Huang Degong's horse fell to the ground. He got on someone else's horse and ran away. There was a brave cavalry rushing to Degong with a big cry. Huang Degong called out to come back to fight. He grabbed his big cry and pulled it into his arms. Then he fell to the ground with his men and horses. After killing dozens of people, he turned over and jumped into the waste wall. His roaring voice was like thunder and lightning. His pursuers did not dare to come forward, so he galloped back to the army. While fighting here, Gao Jie sent soldiers to attack Yizhen secretly. Huang Degong's soldiers were seriously injured. The three hundred cavalry who went to Gaoyou with him were all killed. So Huang Degong appealed to the court and expressed his willingness to fight Gao Jie to the death. Shikefa sent Wan Yuanji, the supervisor of the army, to reconcile for them, but Huang Degong disagreed. Just at this time, Huang Degong's mother passed away. Shi Kefa came to express his condolence and said to him, "in the battle of Tuqiao, no matter the wise or the stupid people knew that Gao Jie was wrong. Now the general is suppressing his anger because of the country, and let Gao Jie bear the blame. This is the time for the general to gain fame in the world Huang Degong's face became more and more warm. After all, he was annoyed that his own people had been killed too much. Shi Kefa orders Gao Jie to compensate for his horses, and takes out another thousand taels of silver for Huang Degong's mother's funeral expenses. Huang Degong had no choice but to listen to Shi Kefa's mediation.
The change of Suizhou
In December of the 17th year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty, Gao Jie arrived in guide and planned to recover the Central Plains. General Xu Dingguo was stationed in Suizhou at that time. According to information, he secretly sent his son across the Yellow River to the Qing Dynasty as a hostage. In the first month of the first year of Hongguang (1645, the second year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty), Gao Jie called Xu Dingguo to join him, but Xu Dingguo ignored him. Gao Jie invited governor Yue Qijie and Governor Chen Qianfu to Suizhou together. Xu Dingguo then went to the suburbs to welcome them. Yue Qijie advised Gao Jie not to go into the city. Gao Jie despised Xu Dingguo and didn't listen to Yue Qijie's words. Some of his subordinates tried to dissuade him and beat him directly, so he went into the city. On the 12th of the first month, Xu Dingguo set up a banquet for Gao Jie in Yuan Keli's residence, the former Minister of the Ministry of war of the Ming Dynasty. When Gao Jie was drunk, he limited Xu Dingguo's departure time and wanted to disband his soldiers to return to the countryside. He also mentioned that he had sent his son as a hostage of Qing Dynasty. Xu Dingguo was even more suspicious and didn't mean to leave Suizhou. Gao Jie resolutely urged him to send troops. Xu Dingguo was annoyed, so he buried an ambush at night and fired guns to shout. Gao Jie was drunk and fell down in the army tent after the battle. A group of soldiers took him to Xu Dingguo and killed him. Before that, Gao Jie thought that Xu Dingguo was about to leave Suizhou, so he sent all his troops to guard Kaifeng, leaving only dozens of his own soldiers. Xu Dingguo pretended to be very obedient to him, chose many prostitutes to serve Gao Jie, and used two prostitutes to accompany his soldiers to sleep. His own soldiers were all drunk. When they heard the gunfire, they wanted to get up. They were pulled away by two prostitutes. As a result, they all died. The next day, Gao Jie's troops came and took down Suizhou City, killing the old and weak in the city
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