Fang Yuan's fleet of sailors arrived at the Guazhou dock five days later. From Guazhou Wharf to the north along the Grand Canal, in less than two days, you can go straight to Dahewei outside Shanyang City.

Gao Jie is also a veteran of the battlefield, and he has long arranged spies in the area of Jingkou and Guazhou to closely monitor the movements of the Grand Canal. When Fang Yuan's fleet arrived at the Guazhou dock, the spies immediately transmitted this military information to Gao Jie's military camp under Shanyang City.

Fang Yuan's reinforcements came back so quickly, which was far beyond Gao Jie's estimate. Before, Gao Jie also thought that after capturing Shanyang County, he would go to Yangzhou Mansion to get a handful.

At the moment, I can only give up the fat in my mouth, Shanyang County. If it was delayed for another day, Fang Yuan's sailor fleet would go north, and as long as it went straight to the Huai River through the Grand Canal, it would cut off Gao Jie's retreat to the north.

Gao Jie immediately made a decision and ordered the Ming army, which was fighting in the streets of Shanyang City, to immediately retreat with the whole army, assemble in Dahewei, and return to the north bank of the Huai River again by the civilian boat that crossed the river. This time, when Gao Jie's troops attacked Shanyang City, they also looted many rich merchants and wealthy families in the city, robbed 2 million taels of silver, countless jewels, and more than 200 beauties in the mansions of rich merchants and wealthy households, loaded with 20 full ships, and also transported back to the north shore.

Zhu Hongjia of Shanyang City saw Gao Jie's troops retreat suddenly, and he didn't know what had happened, and the defenders who were at a disadvantage had no strength to go out of the city to pursue, so he could only watch Gao Jie's 20,000 Ming troops cross the Huai River safely and calmly retreat north with the looted silver and women.

A day later, Fang Yuan's sailors arrived at Dahewei, and Zhu Hongjia, the son of King Lu who guarded Shanyang County, as well as the defenders and people in the city, finally breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the savior had finally come.

Before Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, went to Jiangnan, he had repeatedly warned Zhu Hongjia that he could not be the enemy of Fang Yuan in this battle, and the only reliance of Huai'an Mansion was Fang Yuan. Zhu Hongjia invited the Xuanjia Army to garrison in Dahewei, and personally welcomed Fang Yuan into Shanyang County, and even received Fang Yuan and his party as a gift of hospitality to the prince.

Fang Yuan didn't care about these red tapes, he received a military report from Suqian yesterday that Gan Hui was personally stationed in Suqian City, and formed a strategic confrontation with Niu Chenghu, who was besieging the city, and Suqian City was saved.

The immediate priority is to pursue Gao Jie and his party. Fang Yuan hurriedly asked Gao Jie how much silver and beauties he had looted on this trip, and how long it had been since he retreated north.

Zhu Hongjia told the truth that Gao Jie's troops had retreated across the river for a day, and they were carrying dozens of civilian boats of silver and women.

There are at least two or three million taels of silver for dozens of civilian ships, and if such a large amount of silver falls into the hands of Sun Chuanting, who is good at management and military training, it will be trained into one or 20,000 new-style Ming troops.

Fang Yuan calculated the time a little, Gao Jie's troops with silver, women must march slowly, although they left a day early, but if the Xuanjia army pursues in the starry night, they can still catch up with Gao Jie and recover some losses.

He immediately ordered Zhang Ying to cross the river with the mixed army of the Special Operations Army and the Xuanjia Army to pursue Gao Jie, supplemented by the annihilation of the enemy, and to snatch back the silver and women.

Half a day later, Zhang Ying, who received Fang Yuan's military order, took a short rest, and immediately led the army out of Dahewei, and under the cover of the Xuanjia Army's water division, went to pursue Gao Jie.

Fang Zheng stayed in Shanyang City, waiting for the good news from Zhang Ying with Zhu Hongjia.

Zhang Ying pursued for two days and two nights, and finally caught up with Gao Jie's headquarters in Muyang, two hundred miles away from the river, and launched a surprise attack at night.

Gao Jie was taken aback when he saw that the Xuanjia Army was so fast, and the ghost chased after him. Fortunately, he was also a veteran of the battlefield, and after the initial panic, he ordered the whole army to split into two teams.

The first team was a slightly weaker 5,000 ordinary Ming army, and Gao Jie ordered this team to be used as cannon fodder to resist the offensive of the Xuanjia army.

The first team was a new-style Ming army with 10,000 strong combat power, and they accelerated their retreat north with silver and women, throwing off the pursuing Xuanjia army. This new-style Ming army is Sun Chuanting's baby bump, and if the loss is too great, Gao Jie can't explain to Sun Chuanting at all.

These 5,000 ordinary Ming troops are not strong in battle, and they were left as cannon fodder, where will there be fighting spirit. The special operations army is the world's largest elite field force, and as soon as the two sides make the slightest contact, the Ming army immediately collapses and scatters and flees.

Zhang Ying did not pursue the scattered Ming army, the military task he received on this trip was to recover the silver and women, so he ordered the army to rest in place for half a day, and then pursued north again.

Gao Jie relied on the delay of the Ming army of 5,000 cannon fodder, and finally rushed to Mushui before Zhang Ying's pursuit arrived. He thought about it, Zhang Ying pursued like crazy, to get rid of the pursuers, those stolen silver and women, would greatly delay the speed of retreat.

After careful consideration, Gao Jie decided to use the usual trick used to deal with the pursuit of officers and soldiers when he was a rogue. He ordered the whole army to bring back only half of the silver, and selected a dozen or so outstanding women among the three hundred women, and abandoned the rest on the south bank of Mushui. And left a letter on these women, asking Zhang Ying to recover half of the silver and women, so don't chase again, and both sides go back to their respective homes. If you come to chase and kill again, you can only break the net.

Zhang Ying saw the letter left by Gao Jie, and he was secretly funny. He looked at the endless flow of Mushui, and according to the map, after crossing the Mushui, in front of him was Haizhou, where Sun Chuanting's army was stationed. If you rush across the river to pursue, even if you can catch up with Gao Jie, if Sun Chuanting goes south to rescue, this special combat army that crosses the river does not know if it can return to Mushui safely.

He ordered the sergeant to count the silver, women, Gao Jie left 1.2 million taels of silver, and 289 women, which was a big gain.

Zhang Ying thought about it, but decided to accept it as soon as he saw it, and took the recovered silver and women, turned his head to the south, and returned to Shanyang County.

This Fang Zhang Ying pursued Gao Jie, and when he was captured, Niu Chenghu, who was ordered to attack Suqian City, also received the military information from Fang Yuan's army to help.

Niu Chenghu is in a dilemma, let's storm Suqian City! The Xuanjia Army suddenly had dozens of more cannons, as well as countless new troops, and the victory or defeat was indeed unpredictable.

If you just retreat like that, go back! I can't take a single Suqian City, how can I deal with Sun Chuanting? His old face is gone!

At this time, the emergency military situation that received Fang Yuan's large-scale return just happened to relieve Niu Chenghu. Since Fang Yuan had already led the army back to help, the only choice was to retreat back to Haizhou, which could be regarded as an explanation to Sun Chuanting.

Fang Yuan rested in Shanyang City for two days, and when he led the army north to return to Suqian City again, Niu Chenghu's army had withdrawn without a trace.

Gan Hui welcomed Fang Yuan into Suqian City. This time, Gan Hui has made a great contribution, and he is worthy of being the first fierce general of the Xuanjia Army's infantry battle!

Fang Yuan was overjoyed, and immediately rewarded Gan Hui with a special reward, and sealed the vacant position of Prince Gan Hui, the reward of 5,000 acres of fiefdom, and also gave Gan Hui's wife Zuo Nan a title of Lady.

After rewarding Gan Hui, Fang Yuan went to Li Zongze's military camp and visited Li Zongze, who was holding his position and retreating with injuries.

The wounds of this era are not the wounds themselves. Rather, it is the inflammation of the wound, which leads to other complications. Fang Yuan immediately bought Yunnan Baiyao from Taobao, sterilized medical alcohol, and anti-inflammatory drugs for internal use.

He ordered the military doctor to disinfect Li Zongze's wound separately, then apply Yunnan Baiyao, and then feed him anti-inflammatory drugs.

At present, after an episode of the Western Expedition, Sun Chuanting has never been able to take advantage of Fang Yuan's Western Expedition to conquer the city and occupy the battlefield advantage.

Fang Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The Xuanjia Army has resumed the confrontation with Sun Chuanting again, how can it break the situation next?!