In three days, the other two Zheng armies also sent battle reports, and the Zheng army of Hangzhou Wei had just entered the territory of Huzhou Mansion, and was pursued by two thousand Xuanjia iron cavalry, and the Zheng army was defeated, and only 1,800 of the three thousand people fled back to Hangzhou Wei.

Zhou Quanbin, the avant-garde of Hangzhou, was also one of the tiger generals under Zheng Sen, and Zheng Jun encountered a thousand Xuanjia iron cavalry on the march. After a day and a night of fighting by the river, the Zheng army of the Hangzhou avant-garde was defeated, and Zhou Quanbin left hundreds of corpses and retreated to the Hangzhou avant-garde.

Fang Yuan's strategy for this attack was mainly to lure the enemy, because the number of Xuanjia Iron Cavalry was too small, and the lone army was afraid that it would be surrounded by Zheng Sen's army, and he was even more concerned about the safety of Qiantangwei in the rear, so Fang Yuan took the initiative to retreat.

Zheng Sen saw that the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry was retreating, so he took advantage of the victory to advance the Zheng army to ten miles outside the Qiantang Wei Acropolis and set up camp, preparing to attack the Qiantang Wei.

After Fang Yuan waited for several other Xuanjia iron cavalry to return from a great victory, he began to take the initiative to attack Zheng Sen's camp under the Qiantang guard. The onslaught of the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry, coupled with the firepower of the artillery battalion, Zheng Sen's main force Zheng Jun finally failed to support after holding out for a day and a night, and could only arrange for the fierce general Gan Hui to lead a thousand Zheng troops to break off, and the rest of the Zheng army retreated to the right guard of Hangzhou in batches overnight.

Fang Yuan ordered Zhao Quanzhong to lead a thousand iron cavalry to pursue the retreating Zheng Sen, and personally led five hundred iron cavalry and five hundred artillery battalions to attack.

The Zheng army that was left behind was in turmoil and demoralized, and as soon as the battle began, under the artillery bombardment, it was broken through the walled gate and scattered in all directions.

When Fang Yuan rushed to the front line of the battlefield, the only one who was still blocking Zheng Jun on the left and right was the fierce general Gan Hui. He attacked with a knife in one hand, resisted the shooting with a shield in the other, and took more than 50 personal soldiers of the Gan family to defend the main military camp alone, and there were 300 Xuanjia sergeants who entered, but he couldn't get close, and was slashed and killed by Gan Hui 20 people, and temporarily withdrew from the main military camp.

The Xuanjia army fired a volley of muskets, and Gan Hui, as well as a group of personal soldiers, had already prepared shields and connected them in a line with shields to minimize the casualties of the gun salvo.

The two sides have been in a stalemate for two hours, but they are still unable to capture Gan Hui alive. Fang Yuan had sent people to surrender many times, but Gan Hui was not able to enter the oil and salt, and he was determined to be martyred for the Zheng family.

Fang Yuan saw that Gan Hui was Xiao Qiang who couldn't be killed, and that a single person had caused a lot of casualties to the Xuanjia Army, so he was angry, and since Gan Hui was going to be martyred, he could only fulfill him, so he ordered the artillery battalion to prepare for shelling.

Gan Hui and Zheng Sen agreed to hold on for two hours, and when the time came, they broke through from the back village without waiting for Fang Yuan's artillery battalion to start shelling. The Xuanjia Iron Cavalry began to pursue, but Gan Hui and a few of his own soldiers fled into the woods and disappeared.

Fang Yuan entered the Zheng family's military village, and saw the corpses of the thirty or forty Xuanjia soldiers who were slashed and killed by Gan Hui, and sighed, "Gu Zhidian Wei is nothing more than that!" ”

He ordered the dead sergeants to be buried and compensated, and then recovered the important strategic materials explosion-proof equipment and Xuanjia Shengong.

The first round of confrontation with Zheng Sen ended with a big victory for the Xuanjia Army and a failure for the Zheng Army to take the initiative to attack. The Xuanjia Iron Cavalry lost 1,200 men, while the Zheng army lost 5,000 men.

Zheng Sen really comprehended the terrifying field combat power of the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry, and under the attack of the Zheng family's most elite Tiger Ben guards and superior forces, he could still only achieve a battle loss ratio of 4:1. In addition, the other Zheng troops encountered the Xuanjia army, and they had almost no strength to fight. If the two sides really open up a battle to destroy the country, the Zheng family's old capital will be brought and fought cleanly, and the final winner will still be the Xuanjia Army.

After the first battle and a clear understanding of the combat power of the Xuanjia Army, Zheng Sen, who had been playing with a wide range of ways before, immediately decided to change the strategy of taking the initiative to attack, and instead engaged in a strategic confrontation with Fang Yuan in Hangzhou Mansion, waiting for the results of the battle in other directions.

Fang Yuan's troops brought to Hangzhou this time were 6,000 Xuanjia iron cavalry, and now 1,200 cavalry have been lost. The three guards of the Zheng family are fighting each other, and if they break through any point, the rear may be attacked. What's more, there were still tens of thousands of Zheng troops waiting for reinforcements in Yanzhou Mansion and Shaoxing Mansion, and the risk of attacking Zheng Sen was too great, so he decided to temporarily rest his troops and recuperate.

Fang Yuan and Zheng Sen did not have the subjective will to attack, and the battlefield in Hangzhou once again returned to the situation of strategic confrontation.

The Zheng family was a guest army that went north to fight, and Fujian's military rations and strategic materials were also very poor, which was not enough to support the military operations of the 100,000-strong army going north. However, because the officials, gentry, and wealthy merchants of the entire six prefectures in southern Zhejiang, Hangzhou and Shaoxing in northern Zhejiang, were all afraid to accept Fang Yuan's management, especially the introduction of the petition system. The state capital provided Zheng Jun with enough military rations to support one year, hoping that Zheng Jun would keep Fang Yuan out of Zhejiang's forces.

Therefore, although Zheng Jun was on an expedition, he could get sufficient military rations and even labor supplies on the spot, and he was not afraid of fighting this war of attrition with Fang Yuan in Zhejiang.

Fang Yuan's side and Zheng Sen were in a strategic confrontation, and Shi Lang's side also negotiated according to the consultation, and after Xu Ru arrived at the Zhoushan Islands, he immediately released the 3,000-foot battalion sergeants and 5,000 people's husbands, and arranged transport ships to throw these soldiers and minfu back to Jinshanwei, who were picked up by Jinshanwei's infantry battalion sergeants and sent them all back to the Taihu base.

The Zheng family's huge naval division consisting of 350 warships arrived on the coast of Nanzhili half a month later.

Shi Lang's fleet neither surrendered to the Zheng family to accept the adaptation, nor did it snipe the Zheng family's fleet to the north, but only stuck to the naval base in the Zhoushan Islands and played the trick of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight.

Since Shi Lang didn't fight, it was obviously Shi Fu's persuasion that played a role, and Zheng Zhifeng didn't provoke Shi Lang's fleet for the time being, so as not to force Shi Lang back to Fang Yuan's side.

Zheng Zhifeng ordered Lin Xishan, a general who had a good relationship with Shi Lang, to lead a hundred warships to be stationed in Guanhaiwei, monitoring the Zhoushan Naval Base across the water, and persuaded Shi Lang to hand over the fleet and accept the Zheng family's adaptation.

Without the containment of Shi Lang's sailors, the naval battle advantage of the Zheng family fleet was brought into full play.

Zheng Zhifeng sent a hundred fleets to attack Jinshanwei and a hundred ships to attack Zhenhaiwei.

Under the onslaught of the Zheng family's naval division, Zhenhaiwei and Jinshanwei immediately fell into the flames of war, and the military port of the acropolis was lost without resistance. Fortunately, Fang Yuan had dispatched 5,000 infantry battalions to garrison them in advance, and arranged for hundreds of artillery pieces to participate in the defense of the guard. Although the counterattack was weak, due to the difference in the combat strength of the individual soldiers of the two sides, the Zheng army did not dare to directly attack the acropolis of the second guard.

The two sides were stationed in the acropolis and the other in the military port, and from time to time they were bombarded with artillery, and they also temporarily fell into a confrontation.

Zheng Zhifeng saw that he could not break through the defenses of Zhenhai and Jinshan Erwei, and according to the situation transmitted back by the reconnaissance ship, there was no Xuanjia Army stationed in Hainingwei in Jiaxing Prefecture.

Zheng Zhifeng immediately keenly discovered this attack point, and immediately arranged for fifty warships to capture Hainingwei, Jiaxing Prefecture, which was weakly defended.

After the fall of Hainingwei, the 5,000 Zheng troops transported by troop carriers continued to land from Hainingwei, and after gaining a firm foothold, they began to harass Jiaxing Mansion in all directions, and even marched eastward, pointing directly at Suzhou and Songjiang in the rear of Fang Yuan.

Jing Jie, who was sitting at the base of Taihu Lake, received the warning that Hainingwei had been captured and that 5,000 Zheng troops had landed and intruded, and immediately mobilized the first mobile force prepared, and 2,000 Xuanjia iron cavalry began to attack the Zheng army that landed from Hainingwei.

The two sides fought fiercely for a day in Haiyan County, fifty miles north of Hainingwei, and the 4,000 Zheng army was defeated by 2,000 Xuanjia iron cavalry, and reluctantly retreated to Hainingwei, and could not leave the city. went out to plunder, and the 1,000 Zheng troops who did not have time to retreat were intercepted and killed by the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry.

The Xuanjia Iron Cavalry sent by Jing Jie arrived under the Haining Acropolis, because they did not bring siege artillery with them, and the losses of the forced siege were too great, so they were not in a hurry to attack Haining Wei, but the troops were stationed under the Haining Guard, and they suppressed the landing Zheng army in the guard, and did not dare to go out half a step.

When there was a fire everywhere in Zhejiang, Ma Shiying, the governor of the three prefectures, once again played the true character of kraft candy and stalking, and took advantage of the opportunity of the Zheng family's invasion to send troops to Yangzhou Mansion again.

This time, Ma Shiying adopted a strategy of dividing the troops into two ways.

All the way, 10,000 Fengyang troops invaded Yangzhou Mansion from Fengyang Mansion, and like last time, they were sniped by the Xuanjia Army originally arranged by Fang Yuan in Yangzhou Mansion under the Gao Guard and could not advance any further.

All the way was the 5,000 Luzhou Army and the 5,000 Anqing Army, which went down the Yangtze River waterway to attack Zhenjiang Mansion, but they were jointly sniped by the 2,000 Xuanjia Army stationed at the Jingkou Wharf in Zhenjiang, as well as Liang Min's 1,000 Haisha Gang, and attacked for many days, but they were still unable to break through the Jingkou Wharf.

Since then, Fang Yuan's Xuanjia Army has withstood the fierce offensive from the north and south, and even the sea, and the 40,000 Xuanjia Army, except for Jing Jie's mobile troops left at the Taihu base, almost poured out of the nest to defend against the enemy outside the country, and the war did not affect the core area of the five prefectures under Fang Yuan's jurisdiction.

The battle lasted for more than ten days, but it was still a stalemate, and the two sides attacked and defended each other, and no one could make a breakthrough on the battlefield.

Half a month later, Fang Yuan, who was in Qiantangwei, suddenly received an urgent military report from Jing Jie, asking Fang Yuan to return to the Taihu base immediately.

The military situation was urgent, and Fang Yuan handed over the defense of Qiantang Wei to Zhao Quanzhong, the commander of the cavalry battalion, and strictly ordered him not to go into battle and hold his position.

Fang Yuan only took dozens of horses and galloped back to the Taihu Lake base.

Jing Jie saw Fang Yuan and said with a solemn expression, "Zhenhaiwei and Jinshanwei have fallen!" ”

Fang Yuan heard this bad news and asked in shock, "Third brother, Zhenhaiwei and Jinshanwei have stationed 10,000 infantry battalion sergeants, as well as hundreds of artillery pieces, how can Zheng Jun's combat strength capture the second guard?" ”

Jing Jie said slowly, "According to the rumors in the military newspaper, it was not the Zheng army that captured the second guard, but tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers!" ”

Fang Yuan was taken aback, his brain exploded, and he took a deep breath before retracting his mind, the reason why Zheng Jun attacked on a large scale was that the killer weapon was to borrow troops from the Japanese State to invade on a large scale!