According to the military report that Fang Yuan received in Wuchang Mansion, Sun Chuanting had sent two large armies to the south, one was the 20,000 Ming army under Niu Chenghu to attack Suqian; All the way is Gao Jie's department, 20,000 Ming troops, attacking Shanyang County, the seat of Huai'an Prefecture.

He left Wuchang Mansion and took a warship along the Yangtze River to return to Zhili in the south. With the artillery configuration of the new Ming army, coupled with superior troops, whether it is Suqian City or Shanyang County, it will not be able to resist for a few days.

When Fang Yuan's reinforcements arrived at Jiujiang Port, a military report came from the front again, Suqian City was crumbling under Niu Chenghu's fierce attack, Li Zongze commanded for three days and three nights in the defense of the city, was hit by the artillery of the Ming army, was seriously wounded, and was carried back to the city to recuperate.

The military situation in Suqian City was urgent, and Gan Hui, who was besieging Fengyang City, left 20,000 people to continue to guard Fengyang City, and the remaining 20,000 people were ordered to rush to Suining, which is across the water from Suqian. The sailors supported by the Xuanjia Army are also in place, stationed in the Suqian port, and can continuously transport the Xuanjia soldiers on the west bank to Suqian City and participate in the defense of Suqian City.

The main general, Gan Hui, went to the precarious Suqian City in person to replace Li Zongze, who was injured and could not play. Li Zongze, the veteran faction of the Xuanjia Army, had always looked down on the Zheng generals such as Gan Hui and Shi Lang unpleasantly, and even more disagreed with the rocket-like promotion of these generals, which caused them to be unable to be promoted for a long time.

Now Gan Hui, who had nothing to do with himself, appeared in Suqian City with reinforcements, Li Zongze was stunned at first, and then moved to tears, supported his injured body, and wanted to bow down to Gan Hui.

Gan Hui hurriedly helped him up, and said kind words to comfort him. Both of them are in the military, and they don't have such mother-in-law gossip, Gan Hui directly led 10,000 Xuanjia troops into Suqian City. At the same time as Gan Hui, there were fifty artillery pieces stationed in Suqian City.

When Fang Yuan left Suqian City, he left Li Zongze with thirty artillery pieces, and after several days of mutual bombardment with Niu Chenghu's department, they had already been damaged. The fifty artillery pieces brought by Gan Hui can be regarded as a shot of strength into the Suqian defenders, and it also brings hope to defend the Suqian garrison.

When the fifty artillery pieces of Gan Hui's department were moved onto the city wall of Suqian, and a hundred cannons were fired in unison, the artillery position of Niu Chenghu's department had already occupied the upper hand in firepower, and it was beaten back to the prototype in an instant. Under the first round of shelling, five or six artillery pieces were lost.

Niu Chenghu saw that a new force suddenly came to the city, and the artillery fire was so fierce, and he didn't know if Fang Yuan's reinforcements had arrived, so he hurriedly ordered the artillery position to retreat beyond the range of the artillery in the city, and then ordered the sergeant to go to the lower reaches of the Grand Canal to find out if there was a fleet that had returned to help.

Gan Hui knew that attack was the best defense, and when Niu Chenghu's position retreated slightly, he took advantage of the night to send 7,000 soldiers out of the city and raided Niu Chenghu's camp in a desperate way.

Niu Chenghu's troops were caught off guard and were caught off guard, but fortunately it was the new-style Ming army trained by Sun Chuanting, which was far superior to other Ming armies in terms of military spirit and combat power, otherwise, this night sneak attack alone would have been enough to cause the collapse of the whole front.

After losing more than 300 Ming troops, Niu Chenghu finally stabilized his position and began to launch a fierce counterattack against Gan Hui's troops who came to sneak attack.

Gan Hui saw that the combat strength of the new-style Ming army was really not to be underestimated, and the purpose of the sneak attack had been achieved, and if he did not withdraw, it would not be a sneak attack war, but a positional war, and the gains outweighed the losses.

Gan Hui immediately threw down the corpses of two hundred Xuanjia sergeants, and he personally retreated to Suqian City under the cover of the rest of the army.

The two sides met for the first time, and the Xuanjia army took the advantage of a sneak attack, annihilating 300 new Ming troops, and losing more than 200 people, which can be said to be an invincible battle.

But Niu Chenghu was apprehensive about Gan Hui's attack on the camp, and even wondered if Fang Yuan had secretly returned to Suqian City, so that the Xuanjia Army dared to organize such a fierce counterattack. He was worried that if there was another counteroffensive, he might not suffer such a small number of casualties, so he once again ordered the whole army to retreat twenty miles, and wait for the return of the inquirement.

Gan Hui's bloody battle can be regarded as slightly relieving the pressure on Suqian City. After this battle, he also learned the combat power of the new Ming army. With his night attack, he only had a draw with this new-style Ming army, and if it was a head-to-head confrontation, his combat power would indeed be quite inferior.

Niu Chenghu retreated the camp for twenty miles, and he didn't dare to cross the buffer zone of twenty miles to sneak attack again, otherwise once the sneak attack failed, he would be pursued by the Ming army, and I was afraid that none of them would be able to return to Suqian City.

Gan Hui also withdrew his troops and began to send military doctors to support him, treat the wounded, and restore the combat strength of the city.

This Fang Gan Hui and Niu Chenghu fought undefeated, and that Fang Gao Jie also led the army to the bank of the Huai River. Gao Jie sent a sergeant to order Zhu Hongjia, the son of King Lu who was in charge of the military affairs of Shanyang County, to surrender, and arranged boats for them to cross the river and march south to Yangzhou Prefecture together.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Hongjia in the city was already dissatisfied with Gao Jie's raids in Huai'an Mansion, and sternly refused to open the door and surrender. Gao Jie was surprised and delighted when he saw this, and was surprised that Zhu Hongjia dared to resist; Happily, when the rich merchants along the coast of Huai'an Province were plundered, most of the wealthy merchants who fled fled and hid in Shanyang County with their family property to seek refuge from the Lu army.

King Lu is the king of the Ming Dynasty, and Gao Jie is inconvenient to pursue, let alone attack Shanyang County without authorization, so he can only see fat sheep in Shanyang City, but he can't eat them.

Gao Jie was worried that there was no reason to attack Shanyang County, but Zhu Hongjia's disobedience to the military order gave him this truth, and according to Sun Chuanting's order, he could announce that Zhu Yihai and Zhu Hongjia had rebelled and attacked Shanyang County.

Thinking of the fat sheep in Shanyang City, Gao Jie did not hesitate, and immediately plundered five hundred civilian boats on the bank of the Huai River, and began to lead the army to cross the river in a big way.

The Lu army in Shanyang City was weak, and it was even more responsible for defending the city, so Zhu Hongjia, the son of King Lu, could only send 3,000 soldiers to garrison the Huai River defense line. The Huai River defense line is 100 miles long, how could a mere 3,000 sergeants stop Gao Jie from forcibly crossing the river. After three days of confrontation between the two sides, Gao Jie's vanguard headquarters had broken through the Lu army's Huai River defense line.

The Huaihe defense line was lost, Zhu Hongjia did not dare to leave troops outside the city, and returned 20,000 Lu troops, plus 5,000 Lu troops in Dahewei, a total of 25,000 troops, to Shanyang City.

Gao Jie took Dahewei as the central military camp, ordered 5,000 soldiers, set up artillery outside the two city gates, and officially began to attack the city.

Although the artillery power of the Ming army was not as strong as that of the Xuanjia army, it was also very strong, and after less than two days of bombardment, the east and north gates of Shanyang City were already in danger.

At the critical moment of the life and death of King Lu and Shanyang City, Zhu Hongjia distributed half of the silver of King Lu Mansion to the generals as a reward for the army. He even sent all the female dependents of King Lu's Mansion to give porridge to the army. Zhu Hongjia personally led his troops to climb the city wall and commanded the Lu army in the city to resist the offensive of the Ming army.

The two sides fought for three days around the crumbling city gates, with tens of thousands of dead and wounded, and the corpses of the soldiers on both sides were already piled up and down the city walls, and the battle was extremely fierce.

Gao Jie finally conquered the gate of Shanyang City with great effort, and a large number of Ming troops poured into the city.

Zhu Hongjia still fought to the death, commanded the remaining 10,000 Lu soldiers to retreat into the city, and began to rely on the people's houses to fight street battles with the Ming army. Zhu Hongjia even took the female dependents of the whole mansion and a thousand personal soldiers to guard the Lu Palace, vowing not to surrender.

The two sides have already killed each other, and only death is the final outcome.