Since a year ago, Fang Yuan ordered the chamber of commerce in the Zhezhi region to impose a severe economic blockade on the left army.

The main source of income for the Left Army, in addition to looting, was the sale of porcelain in Jingdezhen. Since Fang Yuan's economic blockade of the Left Army, the chambers of commerce under the name of the Cabinet Business Association, as well as the Franc Ji countries that did business with Fang Yuan, did not dare to buy porcelain from Jingdezhen.

In the past, it could have been possible to smuggle foreign countries through Guangdong's channels, but after Fang Yuan captured Guangdong and cut off Guangdong's smuggling channels to the outside world, this smuggling trade route was also completely cut off.

The only way to sell Jingdezhen porcelain is to the northern provinces, as well as Huguang and Sichuan in the west. However, there is obviously a considerable gap between the economic level and purchasing power of these provinces and those of Zhejiang, and these few sales channels are not enough to support the huge military expenditure required to support the left army.

As soon as the sales volume of porcelain in Jiangxi plummeted, the military expenditure of the Left Army was immediately declared urgent, and it was impossible to raise an army of 200,000 or 300,000 by plundering everywhere alone. What's more, after several years of devastation by the Left Army, Jiangxi's people's livelihood has withered and the people's strength has been exhausted, and there is no way to grab it.

The only surviving areas, that is, the mountainous areas of southern and western Xiangxi, most of them have also formed militia organizations, sticking to self-protection, and it is extremely difficult to plunder.

Zuo Liangyu has the imperial court in the north, Li Zicheng in the west, and Fang Yuan in the east, and he has been suppressed by the three major forces so much that he can't move, and he has long been struggling to support it. The morale of the army and the people was weakened, and the combat strength was greatly reduced, so he could only be a monk in Jiangxi for a day.

Gan Hui led 30,000 soldiers to attack Anqing and Luzhou in Jiangbei, and the military operation went very smoothly. Under the cover of the sailors, the river was successfully crossed. The general of the Left Army stationed in Anqing Mansion was Li Guoying, who had no desire to fight, and saw that the 30,000 Xuanjia Army crossed the river in a big way, and after a little resistance, he abandoned Anqing Mansion and withdrew to Jiangxi.

As soon as Li Guoying's troops retreated, the gentry and people of Anqing Mansion set off firecrackers in the city to celebrate. All states and counties opened their city gates one after another to welcome the Xuanjia army into the city to take over.

In less than ten days, the whole of Anqing Mansion surrendered, and the Xuanjia Army successfully took over Anqing Mansion.

After Gan Hui occupied Anqing Mansion, he reinstated the former state and county officials and gentry to restore the normal order of Anqing Mansion. He took advantage of the victory to pursue and waved his army north to Luzhou Mansion.

The town guarding the Luzhou Mansion was the 20,000 left army led by Lu Ding, a general under Zuo Liangyu.

The Xuanjia army was at the front, and the 20,000 sergeants under Lu Ding's department were also unwilling to fight, and more than half of them fled before the war began. In the entire Luzhou Mansion, only 10,000 remnants were left.

Lu Ding was still a bloody soldier, commanded the remnants of the 10,000 left army to hold Lujiang City, and sent a sergeant to Jiangxi quickly, asking Zuo Liangyu to send reinforcements north to rescue Luzhou Mansion, otherwise the land north of the river would no longer be owned by the left army.

Zuo Liangyu and Zuo Mengeng received the distress letter sent by Lu Ding, and immediately held a military meeting to discuss whether to rescue the Jiangbei battlefield.

Zuo Liangyu dragged his sick body to attend this military meeting, and in his opinion, Jiangbei was a place that must be saved. If Jiangbei is lost, the left army will be completely suppressed in the corner of Jiujiang, and its defeat is also in sight.

He asked several times whether the generals were willing to lead the army to cross the river and go to rescue Anqing and Luzhou in Jiangbei.

The generals of the left army were afraid of the strength of the Xuanjia Army, and they were worried that after crossing the river, they would be cut off by the Xuanjia Army's naval division, and they would inevitably repeat the mistake of Ma Jinzhong who died in Chizhou Mansion.

During the entire military meeting, Zuo Liangyu, who was dragging the sick body, coughed violently, and looked at one of the generals to stand up and lead the army to relieve the siege. But to his disappointment, no one stood up and was willing to cross the river to rescue.

Most of the generals are not Zuo Liangyu's descendant generals, but the rogues who were incorporated before, and they have considerable autonomy. They are grouped together with the left army, just thinking about sharing meat and drinking soup, and they don't want to gnaw hard bones, Anqing and Luzhou have fallen, and it is their bird business? !

The only one who spoke was his son Zuo Menggeng, but Zuo Menggeng's attitude was to abandon Jiangbei, defend the important town of Jiujiang, and block the Xuanjia Army outside Jiangxi. Then he negotiated peace with the Xuanjia Army to resolve the dispute between the two sides.

With the loss of territory and prefecture, how can a mere Jiujiang be able to stop the advance of the Xuanjia Army, which has an overwhelming advantage in the water division?!

Whether it is Zuo Mengeng or the generals, it is clearly cowardice!

Zuo Liangyu saw that his son Zuo Mengeng also sang the opposite tune, and the generals had an attitude that a dead pig was not afraid of boiling water, so he knew that the trend of Jiangbei had gone, and the foundation of the Zuo family was in danger. He was angry and anxious, involved in old illnesses and offenses, and could only be supported by the maid to retreat and recuperate.

As soon as Zuo Liangyu retreated like this, Zuo Mengeng, who had no fighting spirit, immediately announced in public that he would not send reinforcements to cross the river to rescue Anqing and Luzhou, and sent the general Jin Shenghuan to lead 50,000 elite left troops to defend Jiujiang, an important town along the river, and curb the Xuanjia army from breaking through into Jiangxi.

Defending Jiujiang is obviously safer than attacking Anqing and Luzhou, and the generals applauded in unison and successfully passed Zuo Mengeng's military plan.

Lu Ding waited for reinforcements in Lujiang City, and on the other hand, he resisted stubbornly with the Xuanjia army besieging the city, and it was like a mantis arm blocking the car.

The battle situation was not expected, Lu Ding's troops held Lujiang City for half a month, under the fierce artillery bombardment of the Xuanjia Army, Lujiang finally broke the city, and the 10,000 left troops defending the city were almost wiped out.

At this point, the situation in Jiangbei is irretrievable. Lu Ding held on to the Lujiang City, still could not wait for the rescue of the left army, known that the Jiangbei Erfu became the abandoned son of the left army, forced to helpless, gave up the street battle in Lujiang City, and raised the remaining 2,000 soldiers to surrender to Gan Hui.

According to the military regulations of the Xuanjia Army, anyone who resists will be killed. Lu Ding, who surrendered, should be beheaded according to military regulations because he had resisted the Xuanjia Army for half a month. However, Gan Hui cherished his lonely courage and did not want to behead him, so he ordered the sergeant to tie up Lu Ding and send him directly to Suzhou Mansion, where Fang Yuan personally sent him.

Fang Yuan personally pardoned Lu Ding's beheading crime, and appointed him as the chief soldier of the two prefectures of Anqing and Luzhou, and continued to guard the two mansions.

Lu Ding didn't expect that Fang Yuan not only beheaded him, but also continued to entrust him with important tasks, knowing how to make good use of people is better than Bole. The so-called good birds chose trees to perch, and Lu Ding died of two hearts and surrendered to Fang Yuan willingly.

It took Gan Hui less than a month to capture the two capitals of Anqing and Luzhou, which can be described as a noble and fast soldier. Ma Shiying's department in Fengyang Mansion was even discussing whether to abandon the previous suspicions, rescue Anqing and Luzhou, and work with the Left Army to resist Fang Yuan's expansion, and the news of the fall of Erfu reached Fengyang Mansion.

The left army was defeated like a mountain, and Ma Shiying did not dare to act rashly anymore, so he could only strengthen his troops and horses in Fengyang Mansion and reorganize his army for battle.

The Jiangbei War ended with a great victory for the Xuanjia Army and a defeat for the Left Army.

won the first game, and Fang Yuan, who took the lead, immediately took both soft and hard measures, on the one hand, he ordered Gan Hui to gather troops in Anqing Mansion, and Shi Lang's fleet also patrolled the river, forming a huge pressure on the Jiujiang town on the opposite bank; On the one hand, he ordered Zheng Zhibao, the right attendant of the military department and the chief soldier of Nanzhili, to be his own envoy, and brought a letter from Gan Hui's wife Zuo Nan to Nanchang Mansion to persuade Zuo Liang and Zuo Mengeng and his son to surrender.

Fang Yuan deliberately sent Zheng Zhibao, who had just been promoted to an important position in the Ministry of War, as an envoy, to tell Zuo Liangyu and Zuo Mengeng father and son that as long as they did not resist and surrendered obediently, they would inevitably be reused like Zheng Zhibao who surrendered.

And the family letter brought to Zuo Nan is also a kind of gentle policy, implying that Zuo Liangyu's father and son, Zuo Nan has a good home, and the two sides are actually a family, so why fight and kill.