Fang Yuan has been in the military camp in Wuchang Port these days, and he has not attacked Wuchang City, but is waiting for good news from all sides.

Five days later, Shi Lang and Zhang Ying, who had won a great victory, all returned to Wuchang Port and joined Fang Yuan's army.

At this point, the purpose of this blitzkrieg was completely accomplished, the grain and grass were lost, and Li Zicheng of the fleet had absolutely no ability to crusade eastward.

Next, Fang Yuan was faced with two choices, one was to withdraw his troops back to Nanzhili and continue to confront Sun Chuanting; The first is to continue in Wuchang City, waiting for the opportunity, to see if there is a chance to seize Wuchang Mansion and pocket this important military town.

Of course, the generals, including Shi Lang and Zhang Ying, persuaded him to return to the division earlier, so as not to have too many dreams on Sun Chuanting's side. But Fang Yuan still decided to wait, at least Li Zicheng and Li Yan didn't make any moves. If Li Zicheng and Li Yan hadn't been estranged, after the failure of the plan to invite you into the urn, they would have joined forces to attack Wuchang Port a long time ago, instead of being so quiet all the time.

The calm of today is only the calm before the storm.

Fang Yuan waited until the third day, and finally waited for an old acquaintance again, the red lady who had just been put back. This time, the red lady also came alone, and shouted outside the barracks that she wanted to see Fang Yuan directly.

Fang Yuan immediately met her in the Zhongjun camp, and the red lady did not procrastinate, and said straight to the point, "Fang Yuan, I lied to you before, but fortunately, you saw through it and were not fooled." I really surrendered this time, there is only one condition, you must rescue my husband! ”

Fang Yuan liked the reckless aura on her body very much, everyone had something to say, and they didn't have to guess, and said with a smile, "Li Gongzi was detained by Li Zicheng?!" ”

As soon as the red lady thought that Li Yan was detained, and now her life and death were still uncertain, she burst into tears, "Yes, I have been detained for two days." He originally told me not to surrender to you, to evacuate Wuchang Mansion on my own, and to go back to Henan. I really have no choice but to surrender to you if I want to rescue my husband! ”

Fang Yuan saw that she was already extremely anxious, so he restrained the smile on his face, and said solemnly, "Li Gongzi is just confused for a while, after this time, he will understand what it means to be a good bird to perch on a tree." Sister-in-law, how many soldiers and horses does Li Zicheng have in Wuchang Mansion?! What fierce generals are worth the embankment? ”

The red lady was anxious to save her husband, and told Li Zicheng's generals, soldiers and horses about the situation.

Li Zicheng brought 70,000 soldiers and horses with him when he went out of Sichuan this time, including 50,000 infantry and 20,000 cavalry. 20,000 cavalry went to Henan to eat, and returned to Li Guo's subordinates. Only 50,000 infantry were stationed in Wuchang Province.

Among the generals of the army in Wuchang Mansion, Gao Yigong is Li Zicheng's brother-in-law, and the two generals Liu Tichun and Tian Jianxiu have been defeated and are not worried. The only fierce general to worry about is Yuan Zongdi.

Fang Yuan already knew in his heart, the only thing Li Zicheng made Fang Yuan jealous of was the 50,000 elite cavalry, since these 50,000 cavalry were not in Wuchang Mansion, then Li Zicheng was bound to lose this battle.

As for the other fierce generals, in front of the firearms of the Xuanjia Army, the role they can play is almost insignificant, and they are not careful.

Fang Yuan immediately ordered Shi Lang to move the artillery of the sailor division onto the north city wall of Wuchang Port, lined up fifty gates, and bombarded the two barracks of the army in the north of the city, breaking the fighting spirit of the army.

The Red Lady led 30,000 personal soldiers to attack Li Zicheng's military camp. It is to make the Red Lady's personal army go to infighting with the Chuang army and consume each other.

Zhang Ying's special operations army pressed behind the Red Women's Army, equipped with thirty artillery pieces, to support the Red Women's Army's offensive with artillery bombardment, and then waited for an opportunity to pursue and kill Li Zicheng's defeated army.

The Battle of Wuchang Mansion begins!

The red lady was eager to save her husband, and she didn't care about Fang Yuan's intentions, so she directly led 30,000 personal soldiers to Li Zicheng's military camp.

With the support of the fierce artillery of the Xuanjia Army, even the strong city wall could not be carried by it, let alone the wooden fence where the army was encamped? Like a tofu block, it was beaten to pieces by the artillery of the Xuanjia Army.

Less than a day after the two sides started the war, the Red Lady broke through the two barracks of the breaking army.

The Red Lady broke the formation in front, and Zhang Ying then led the army into the captured army camp, seized the armaments and rations left by the army, and took over the fruits of victory.

When the Red Lady attacked the third military camp, she encountered the sniper of the main force of the 5,000 Chuang Army led by Li Zicheng's wife and brother, Gao Yi.

This is already the last line of defense in front of the Chinese military camp, and if this camp is breached, it can attack Li Zicheng's headquarters head-on.

Both sides fought to the death, surrounding the camp, fighting back and forth.

Zhang Ying watched the battle for a long time behind the battle, and if he wanted to break through this camp with the combat strength of the Red Lady's own soldiers, he would inevitably suffer heavy casualties. Moreover, if Li Zicheng sends other reinforcements to copy their back road, the gains outweigh the losses.

Zhang Ying immediately threw the 5,000 special operations army, which had the most fierce combat power, into the battlefield and attacked Gao Yigong's camp from the flank.

With the combat strength of the special operations army, coupled with the cover of artillery, how could the two hundred intrusive sergeants on the flank be able to resist? The wooden gate of the camp was broken by the special operations army, and the special operations army took advantage of the victory to enter, and did not pay attention to the remnants of the scattered resistance, but went straight to the back of Gao Yigong's army, and attacked the main force of this army with the red lady.

Gao Yigong's army is more than enough to deal with the Red Lady's army, but coupled with the sneak attack of the special operations army behind it, it will be overstretched. Gao Yigong gritted his teeth and persisted for two hours, the casualties were too heavy, if he held his position again, the 5,000 troops would inevitably be wiped out!

Gao Yigong immediately ordered the whole army to retreat to Li Zicheng's central military camp.

Where will Zhang Ying give Gao Yigong a chance to escape, ordinary soldiers can withdraw, Zhang Ying is too lazy to pay attention, but the general Gao Yigong can't!

Zhang Ying led a thousand special operations troops to bite more than 20 people from Gao Yigong's department in pursuit, and the two sides chased out several camp tents one after the other.

Zhang Yingyu ordered him to surrender immediately, and if he dared to flee again, he would be killed on the spot.

Gao Yigong saw the muzzle of the Xuanjia Army's black pressure, and was so frightened that he was drenched in cold sweat, as long as he dared to take another step, he would definitely be beaten into a sieve, and in desperation, he could only choose to surrender, and let the Xuanjia sergeant tie up Wuhua and escort him back.

This Fang Gao Yigong was captured alive, and the red lady also annihilated the remnants of the enemy in the military camp and captured this military camp. The red lady was overjoyed when she saw that Zhang Ying had brought Gao Yigong back, so she stopped the offensive that lasted for two days and two nights, and ordered the sergeant to take a short rest, wanting to use Gao Yigong to exchange her husband Li Yan for coming back.

Zhang Ying captured the enemy's general, and without Fang Yuan's consent, he did not dare to dispose of Gao Yigong, an important hostage, at will.

He comforted the red lady with kind words, and then took the red lady back to ask Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan didn't hesitate too much, and asked people to go and send a message to Li Zicheng, willing to exchange the captured hostages for the detained Li Yan.

Gao Yigong is one of Li Zicheng's henchmen, even though Li Zicheng is unwilling to let the tiger return to the mountain, he can only choose to exchange hostages.

He retreated thirty miles from the remaining more than 30,000 troops, away from the attack range of the Xuanjia Army, and only then did he propose to Fang Yuan the conditions for the exchange of hostages, that is, the Xuanjia Army, as well as the personal soldiers of Li Yan and his wife, evacuated Huguang, and the two sides withdrew their troops and made a truce.

Wuchang Mansion was already in Fang Yuan's bag, how could it be easily spit out, Fang Yuan ordered the Red Lady and Zhang Ying to take advantage of the night to break the flank military fortress established by Li Zi.

The Red Lady and Zhang Ying went to attack the left flank of Li Zicheng's camp, broke the formation again, annihilated the 4,000 intruding troops, and even the fierce general Yuan Zongdi was shot twice, but fortunately he was not hit by the vital point and was carried back to the Chinese military camp for treatment.

At this point, Li Zicheng had lost all the capital to negotiate with Fang Yuan, and if he stayed in Wuchang Mansion any longer, the 20,000 or 30,000 troops under his command would inevitably be wiped out.

Li Zicheng could only choose to exchange hostages unconditionally, and exchanged Gao Yigong with Li Yan. After the exchange of hostages, Li Zicheng no longer dared to stay in Wuchang Mansion, and led his army to cross the Yangtze River and retreat north in the direction of Xiangyang Mansion.