Li Zongze was quietly reprimanded by Fang Yuan a few days ago for avoiding the war against the Manchu Tartars, and this time he was holding back his strength to find this field.

The artillery battalion bombarded intermittently for three days and three nights, and the city gate of Huating County had already fallen, and there was no longer the shadow of a sergeant on the city wall, and it seemed that he was too frightened to stay on the city wall.

Fang Yuan was secretly funny, with this ability and courage, he dared to gather people to rebel, it was simply the biggest farce.

He did not let the Xuanjia soldiers enter the city, because once the Xuanjia soldiers entered the city, if they clashed with the recalcitrant officers and soldiers in the city, they would only increase the casualties.

Fang Yuan was waiting, waiting for the deadline of the last 30 days to come, waiting for the officials and sergeants in the city who wanted to live to take the county order on their own, and the wealthy merchants with a fortune of more than one million, as well as the Donglin party people who stirred up trouble in the city, went out of the city and surrendered.

Fang Yuan was concerned about the news of Jin Shanwei.

The two places were one, two days away, and Jing Jie sent someone to send Jin Shanwei's battle report. After the arrival of the Xuanjia Army, they even sent a thousand people out of the Acropolis to set up a formation to confront the Xuanjia Army.

As a result, in less than half a day, he was beaten by the artillery of the Xuanjia Army and the impact of the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry, and fled back to the Acropolis, closed the city gate, and did not dare to take another step.

Fortunately, Jing Jie got Fang Yuan's military order, and the surrender was the main thing, supplemented by attack and destruction, only the first evil was punished, and the Jinshanwei soldiers could not be killed or injured in a large area, so he did not continue to bombard Jinshanwei, but stationed in front of the acropolis and continued to surrender to Jinshanwei.

Five days later, as Fang Yuan expected, the city gate of Huating County really opened.

The chief bookkeeper of the county seat, Le Lin and Zhang County Lieutenant, and Liu Qianhu of Qianhu Office, received the government service and the sergeant of Qianhu Office, and tied up the Huating County Order, Hu Million, a wealthy businessman with millions of fortunes in the city, and more than 20 Donglin Party members who made great achievements, and took them directly to Fang Yuan's military camp.

These thousands of households, the chief bookkeeper, the county lieutenant, and hundreds of sergeants knelt in front of Fang Yuan's military tent, kowtowed again and again, and pleaded guilty to Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan met with everyone outside the military tent and asked about the cause of the rebellion.

Everyone directly put all the charges on the Huating County Order, Hu Million, and the Donglin Party members, and they cried one by one to complain about their innocence and grievances, which was more than ten times more wronged than Dou E.

Fang Yuan knew that these officials, officers and soldiers, as well as gentry and wealthy businessmen, were very afraid of Fang Yuan and the Xuanjia Army, and they simply reported the mentality of both ends of the first rat, and they did not dare to resist the Xuanjia Army that defeated the Manchu Iron Cavalry to the end.

Originally, I was hoping that Zheng Zhilong's letter would make Fang Yuan jealous, and he had a little scruples. Unexpectedly, Fang Yuan directly regarded Zheng Zhilong's letter as a fart, and led the army to Songjiang Mansion without stopping.

The counterinsurgency policy he drew was to only chase the first evil, regardless of the accomplices, and even gave these officials a glimmer of life, where do they care what county orders are not county orders, rich businessmen are not rich businessmen, Donglin Party is not Donglin Party, and directly united to arrest all the first criminals named by Fang Yuan, and surrendered out of the city to save their lives.

Fang Yuan inquired about the whereabouts of Chen Xiang, the prefect of Songjiang, and the master of Le told Fang Yuan that Chen Xiang had already fled to Shanghai County, because Shanghai County was near the sea and could get Zheng Zhilong's support from the sea at any time.

Fang Yuan was too lazy to deal with these walls, and his kind words appeased everyone, promising that they would not be to blame for the rebellion this time, and that they would go back to their posts and settle the people.

These officials and officers escaped death, and they kowtowed to Fang Yuan again.

Fang Yuan directly sent the Huating County Order, Hu Million, and dozens of Donglin Party members who instigated the disturbance directly into the prison, and Jinyiwei also entered the city to arrest the families of these people, and when Shanghai County was pacified, they were tried and corrected.

Of course, Qin Zhan knows Fang Yuan's thoughts well, and the most important thing he cares about is to copy houses, fields, and silver.

Jin Shanwei also came with good news, Jin Shanwei commanded Hou Chengzu, three days after the defeat, he raised the head of Jin Shanwei to command Zhao Fan, led Jin Shanwei 5 thousand households, and all of them went out of the army village and surrendered to Jingjie.

Jing Jie strictly followed the rules set by Fang Yuan, pardoned the capital crimes of Tongzhi Hou Chengzu, as well as the officers and soldiers of Jinshanwei, and all officials were reinstated and continued to guard Jinshanwei.

Jin Shanwei came with the good news of surrender, and Fang Yuan was in a good mood.

He inspected Huating County for three days, and the entire Huating County soon returned to its previous order of life.

On the streets of the county seat, there are people doing business, those who do business, those who do business, weaving and weaving, printing and dyeing, and the hawkers come and go, and the officials who patrol also take to the streets. In addition to the collapsed city wall in the entire Huating County, there is no trace of rebellion at all.

Fang Yuan looked at the county seat that had returned to normal order, and felt very relieved, this is the real people's desire. The people are at peace, a few officials, wealthy businessmen, and Donglin Party members are just a few dead loaches, what big waves can they stir up?

Of course, this time he was able to capture the culprit of Songjiang Mansion so quickly and bloodlessly, and Liu Ruyi really had the credit for it.

If it weren't for the Xuanjia Army's great victory over the Manchu Tartars in Shandong, which made Fang Yuan famous in Jiangnan, and wanted to quell this sudden rebellion, most of them would have been bloody.

Thinking of Liu Ruyi's flower appearance, Fang Yuan showed an irrepressible smile, now that Huating County and Jinshanwei have surrendered, and when the last Shanghai County is pacified, he still has to take the time to go to this beautiful sister to drink tea and chat.

It would be great if Liu Ru was brought to the house.

Three days later, Fang Yuan packed up neatly and was preparing to send troops to Shanghai County, but there was a military report that Zhenhaiwei had been captured by the Zheng family's fleet, and that 5,000 Zheng family troops had captured Zhenhaiwei and were marching towards Taicangwei.

The Zheng family actually did it? Not only captured Zhenhaiwei, but also landed and invaded the inland of Suzhou Prefecture?

When Fang Yuan saw this military report, he couldn't believe it for a while, and it took a while to come back to his senses, and he immediately recruited Chigutai and Li Zongze.

He ordered Chigutai to immediately assemble the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry and prepare to go north to meet the army landed by the Zheng family, while Li Zongze's artillery battalion and infantry battalion stayed in Huating County to temporarily stabilize the situation.

In the early morning of the next day, the 2,000 Xuanjia Iron Cavalry, who were ready to go, went directly along the official road to Taicang Prefecture, where Taicang was stationed.

Two days later, Fang Yuan's Xuanjia Iron Cavalry arrived at Taicang Prefecture, and the Zheng Jiajun obviously received information that the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry had come to help in advance, and retreated half a day in advance.

"Retreat? Is it that easy? ”

Fang Yuan didn't enter Taicang Prefecture at all, and directly led the army to pursue the official road, the Zheng family army dared to attack, and did not pull off a layer of their skin, when Suzhou Mansion was the Zheng family's own land?

Fang Yuan pursued fifty miles in the direction of Zhenhaiwei in the northeast, but saw that the Zheng army that was being pursued was stationed on a hill twenty zhang high, and wanted to hold it high, sniping at the Xuanjia iron cavalry who came to pursue, and looking at the number of banners, the Zheng army was at least 500 people.

A mere sixty-meter-high hill can hold the attack of the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry?

Chigutai was the first to disbelieve, raised his saber and said, "Governor, Zheng Jun is in a dead end, and I will lead people to attack the mountain." ”

Fang Yuan looked at the 500 Zheng army on the mountain suspiciously, according to the military report, the Zheng army that attacked Taicang Prefecture this time was at least 3,000 people. According to Fang Yuan's estimates, the Zheng army left 500 men in order to attract the attack of the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry and cover the retreat of the Zheng army's large army.

Attack the mountain with the precious Xuanjia Iron Cavalry? Fang Yuan hadn't been extravagant enough to be like this, but it was a pity that he came too hurriedly this time, and he didn't bring the slow-moving artillery battalion with him, otherwise he would have been able to level this kind of hill immediately.

He shook his head and said, "Chigutai, you take 1,000 people to besiege but not attack, and I will take 1,000 people to pursue the fleeing Zheng army along the official road." ”

Fang Yuan assigned the task, leaving Chigutai to attack the mountain, and led 1,000 Xuanjia iron horsemen to attack along the official road.

Fang Yuan ran on the official road for an hour, but he didn't see any trace of Zheng Jun, and his heart became more and more confused, so he hurriedly stopped an ox cart heading south on the official road, and asked if there was any trace of Zheng Jun ahead.

The old peasant on the ox cart shook his head like a barang drum and informed Fang Yuan that there was no sign of any army in front of him.

Fang Yuan glanced back at the old peasant, his eyes did not dodge at all, it seemed that he was not lying, so he was not good, he had fallen for Zheng Jun's tricks, Zheng Jun was definitely evacuated from the official road.

He immediately led his army back, and when he reached the hill guarded by Zheng's army, he heard the deafening sound of artillery in the distance.

"The artillery battalion is obviously not there? Where did the sound of artillery come from? Could it be...... Zheng Jun's? ”

Fang Yuan was secretly frightened when he heard this, and immediately went to the bottom of the mountain to join Chigutai.

He saw that the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry of Chigutai was far away from the hill, and the army was not in good shape, and there were even many casualties of sergeants and war horses.

Fang Yuan hurriedly found Chigutai, and saw that Chigutai's left arm was also injured, so he hurriedly bandaged it, and immediately asked the reason.

Chigutai said dejectedly, "The Zheng army actually has more than ten artillery pieces, taking advantage of our army's negligence and slackness, it is directly two rounds of artillery bombardment, causing our army to lose more than 100 people!" ”

Fang Yuan lost his voice and said, "What? More than 100 people were lost?! ”

This is definitely the biggest defeat that the Xuanjia Army has fought so far, even if it encounters the Manchu Tartars, it has never played such a casualty ratio of friend to foe.

Chigutai also knew that he would not escape the blame for this crime, and said half-on his knees, "It's because I didn't take good precautions, and I am willing to lead the army to punish him!" ”

Chigutai was wounded in battle, and Fang Yuan gradually calmed down from his anger, Zheng Jun actually prepared more than ten artillery pieces on the hill, which was obviously well prepared, and it was by no means a haste to find a hill to defend.

If it is said that the Chigutai sin did not expect that there was such a powerful artillery on the mountain, causing the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry to suffer serious losses, then Fang Yuan was not kept in the dark, and Fang Yuan was at the bottom of the mountain, what difference could it be from Chigutai?

"Chigutai, first write down your fifty military staffs, if you can't make the merit for the crime, you will be punished after the battle."

He lightly punished Chigutai, and said lightly, "It seems that from the beginning to the end, the Zheng army attacked Taicang Wei under the guise of attacking Taicangwei, and this is the preset battlefield, and we have fallen for the trick!" ”