Fang Yuan stayed in Fuzhou City for a month, and it was not until the military report from Chigutai came that he completely defeated Zheng Sen's third and fourth Zheng armies, and Zheng Sen had led his army to flee to sea, and then he was truly relieved.

The complete defeat of Zheng Sen meant that the Xuanjia Army was finally able to withdraw its troops from Fujian and return to Nanzhili for rescue.

Fang Yuan immediately appointed Feng Ting, the deputy commander of the infantry battalion, as the general army of Fujian, in charge of Fujian's military affairs, and the Fujian guard surrendered 30,000 sergeants, and Fang Yuan sent another 10,000 sergeants of the Xuanjia Army infantry battalion to stay in Fujian together.

As for Shi Lang's fleet, Shi Lang himself led an artillery carrier formation to temporarily garrison Zhenhaiwei, monitoring the movements in the direction of Kinmen and Taiwan on the one hand, and training and preparing for war on the other hand, so as to prepare for the recovery of Taiwan. At the same time, a huge ship, fifty Fu ships, and thirty medium-sized clippers were dispatched to the north to return to Nanzhili.

Najib's two or three mountain special battalions, as well as the Xuanjia sergeants who went out to fight, Fang Yuan fulfilled his promise before the war and distributed 100,000 acres of fertile land as a reward.

The remaining 500,000 mu, of which 200,000 mu is used as military land rewarded by the Xuanjia Army, and 200,000 mu is used as official land for Fujian's emergency reserve. These military fields and official fields, Fang Yuan ordered Feng Ting to send 3,000 Xuanjia sergeants to guard them.

The mountain special battalion has been tested in actual combat, it is indeed a hard-working force, Fang Yuan used it very easily in this expedition to Fujian, thinking that it might come in handy in the future, so he discussed with Najib and requisitioned 20,000 of them to return to Nanzhili, and the treatment was better than that of the Xuanjia sergeant.

The treatment of the sergeant of the Xuanjia Army is very generous, and there is also the distribution of military field rewards, where will the She people and Fang people led by Najib not be allowed? readily agreed to Fang Yuan's proposal.

Fang Yuan included the mountain special battalion in the establishment of the Xuanjia Army's infantry battalion, and Naji was also promoted to the deputy commander of the infantry battalion, under the command of Gan Hui, the commander of the infantry battalion.

With everything in order, Fang Yuancai led 65,000 Xuanjia sergeants, together with 20,000 sergeants of the mountain special battalion, to return to Nanzhili.

Fang Yuan was concerned about the safety of Princess Kunxing, and implemented a three-stage evacuation plan: first, Fang Yuan and Chigutai led 6,000 Xuanjia iron horsemen to rush back in the starry night; Second, Gan Hui led the sergeants of the infantry battalion, followed by the mountain special battalion, and the military food supplies along the way were replenished by the local state capital; Third, Hou Chengzu led the logistics battalion to bring the people, and the military rations were withdrawn, and the military rations paid by the state capitals were repaid along the way.

While Fang Yuan was making every effort to return to the aid of Nanzhili, the battlefields of all sides of Nanzhili were also fighting fiercely.

In the direction of Nanjing City, Quarry Rock was attacked by 100,000 left troops led by Jin Shenghuan and 400 warships, and held out for a month, and finally fell, 5,000 Xuanjia sergeants, and 5,000 strong organizations, more than 7,000 were killed in battle, and the remaining 3,000 sergeants withdrew to Nanjing City and continued to garrison.

Nanjing City was in an emergency, and Jing Jie immediately dispatched 5,000 Xuanjia soldiers from Jingkou Wharf to immediately return to Nanjing City to defend it. He also dispatched Shi Fu's main battleships, and ninety battleships went up the Yangtze River to attack the naval division of the left army, striving to cut off the supply of the left army and relieve the pressure on the city of Nanjing.

Shi Fu's sailors fought three battles with the left army's Yangtze River sailors, and finally defeated the 130 Yangtze River sailors of the left army, and the left army's sailors retreated to Jiujiang to garrison.

As soon as Jin Shenghuan's 50,000 left army captured Quarshiji, it was cut off from the support of the waterway, and could only send troops in all directions to loot and replenish military rations in the counties of Nanjing. After the 5,000 Xuanjia soldiers entered the city of Nanjing, Jin Shenghuan's main force snapped up the military rations, advanced to the city of Nanjing, and began to attack the city.

Zhu Cizhi, who was in charge of Nanjing City, was empty-eyed on weekdays, but he was so frightened that he hid in the palace and did not dare to go out, and he did not even attend military and political meetings, let alone go to the city wall in advance to boost morale.

Gao Hongtu, Jiang Yueguang, and others adopted the attitude of watching the fire from across the strait, and held meetings in the halls of the Governor's Mansion and the Sixth Department of the Fifth Army every day, which could be regarded as coping with errands.

The guards of Nanjing City were all on the 6,000 Xuanjia Army, as well as the eunuchs and folk heroes organized by Wang Chengen, Liu Jing, Zhao Mingyi and others.

Jin Shenghuan surrounded the ten gates of Nanjing City and stormed it for a month or two, but he still failed to take Nanjing City. However, the counties of Nanjing have been encroached upon by the left army one by one, and the people have suffered heavy losses.

In the direction of Chizhou Mansion, after Zuo Mengeng's 100,000 left troops entered Chizhou Mansion, they sent 30,000 people to besiege Xi'an County, the seat of Chizhou Mansion, and the remaining 70,000 troops began to send troops in all directions to sack Chizhou Mansion.

Zhao Quanzhong's 10,000 Xuanjia iron cavalry did not defend the Huizhou Mansion, but sent troops to attack the Chizhou Mansion, and did not confront the main force of the Left Army, but relied on mobility to constantly encroach on the Left Army that went out to plunder.

In two months, Zhao Quanzhong fought thirteen battles with the left army, and won all of them, beheading 13,000. The ferocity of the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry, Zuo Mengeng was helpless, so he could only join forces in one place, and the army of 50,000 or 60,000 directly advanced to the Huizhou Mansion, wanting to have a head-on decisive battle with Zhao Quanzhong.

Zhao Quanzhong did not go to the decisive battle with Zuo Mengeng, but after making a detour to the left army, he directly attacked the 30,000 left army under Xi'an County, and was defeated with one blow, and the 30,000 left army retreated directly to Zuo Menggeng's main force.

Zuo Mengeng's machine power is not as good as the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry, and the supply of military rations can't keep up, so he can only helplessly stick to the spot and ask Zuo Liangyu for help.

Zuo Liangyu again sent 50,000 left troops to support the battle situation in Chizhou Prefecture, Zhao Quanzhong immediately withdrew to Huizhou Mansion, and 50,000 left troops also surrounded Xi'an County again. The left army's military rations could not be supplied, and Zuo Mengeng did not dare to set foot in the territory of Huizhou Mansion, so he could only choose to continue to loot in Chizhou Mansion, raise military rations, and then storm Huizhou Mansion.

The battle is again deadlocked, but two or three months have passed.

At the Jingkou Wharf, Zhang Guowei, the secretary of the military department, and Fei Cheng's imperial navy division under the command of Tianjin Wei went south along the Grand Canal, and advanced with Gao Jie's Ming army by waterway, and attacked Guazhoudu. In Guazhoudu, he encountered the stubborn resistance of Yangzhou sailors and Haisha Gang warships.

The two sides fought in Guazhoudu for a month, Guazhoudu fell, and Zhu Cihuan led the remnants of the army to flee back to Yangzhou City by water.

Gao Jie's 50,000 Ming army besieged Yangzhou City tightly and stormed it non-stop. The sailors of the imperial court continued to move south, attacking the two wharves of Longjiang and Jingkou.

Jing Jie could only send an order to Shi Fu's sailor and immediately return to the division to put out the fire. In desperation, Shi Fu gave up the pursuit of the left army's sailors, and he didn't have time to rest and replenish, and returned to Longjiang Wharf again.

Shi Fu's sailors were at the Longjiang wharf and encountered the combined forces of the imperial court sailors and the Fengyang sailors.

The two sides fought for three days and three nights, due to the lack of Shifu's naval divisions, and fought for another month, the sergeants were already extremely exhausted, and tried their best to defeat the imperial court's naval divisions, so they could only watch the loss of Guazhoudu, and the imperial court's troop carriers continued to go south through the Grand Canal and landed at the Jingkou wharf.

In less than ten days, the imperial troop transport ships had transported 30,000 Zhou Yuji's Jin troops, landed at the Jingkou Wharf in Zhenjiang Prefecture, and attacked more than once. Jingkou Wharf is the last barrier in the south of the Yangtze River, once the Jingkou Wharf is lost, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Suzhou, Songjiang Prefecture are not in danger to defend.

The battle between the two sides has entered the white-hot with bayonets, and all the Xuanjia sergeants that Jing Jie can invest have been put into the battlefield. Whether it is the Taihu Lake base or Suzhou City, there are no troops to adjust, so they can only lead the only 5,000 Xuanjia soldiers and the 30,000 Jin troops of Zhou Yuji's general Yang Shu to launch a brutal offensive and defensive battle at the Jingkou Wharf.

The Jin army is an elite soldier trained by Zhou Yuji, and its combat power is really not bad, coupled with the advantage of numbers, Jing Jie's five thousand Xuanjia soldiers were beaten to the point where they only had the ability to parry, and they had no power to fight back.

The battle situation in front is struggling to support, and in the rear, Xiao Yuan and Qin Zhan also know that they have made a big disaster for the battle of the harem this time.

Xiao Yuan thought that this time was just a copy of the five-way crusade against Nan Zhili, so in order to defeat the princess, he did not hesitate to sow discord everywhere, lest the world be chaotic.

But the war really broke out, and the ferocity of the imperial court and Zuo Liangyu's offensive actually made the Xuanjia Army's defense lines crumbling, which Xiao Yuan never expected.

Only then did she realize that it was extremely absurd to compete for jealousy with military and political affairs, so she could only send all 3,000 Jinyi guards to maintain law and order in the Jiangnan Prefectures, where people's hearts fluctuated. As long as they dared to take the opportunity to incite civil unrest in the prefectures during the war, whether it was a literati of the Donglin Party or a fine work sent by the imperial court, they would be executed on the spot without trial.

After Jin Yiwei killed more than 300 Donglin Party literati in Zhufu, he finally stabilized the situation in the rear.

Wang Bingjian, a cabinet member of Suzhou City, and Xi Benzhen also continued to organize the strong laborers, military funds, grain and grass in the rear to be transported to the Jingkou Wharf to support Jingjie's anti-Japanese war.

Mao Bijiang and Liu Ru gave full play to the role of royal literati, and even Gu Yanwu, who has always been at odds with Fang Yuan, constantly transmitted inspiring and positive information to the people through Jiangnan Weekly and Guangming News to appease the people.

With the unity of the city and the combination of several measures, the people's hearts that were ready to move, as well as the Donglin Party who took the opportunity to make trouble, gradually stopped.

The imperial court and Zuo Liangyu were originally a two-way march with nine out of ten, and they were in a stalemate in Nanzhili for two or three months, but they had not been able to make a breakthrough.

The main reason is that of Zhou Yuji's 80,000 main Ming troops, 50,000 were dragged to death under the Gaoyou Acropolis. If this 50,000-strong Ming army breaks through Gaoyouwei, whether it is Yangzhou City, or even the defense line of Zhenjiang Jingkou Wharf, it will immediately collapse, and the Ming army of the imperial court can immediately sweep the Jiangnan Prefectures.

The winning and losing node of this big battle has once again come to the extremely tragic Gaoyou Guard offensive and defensive battle!