There are 10,000 well-trained Xuanjia soldiers stationed in Tamsui City, if even Tamsui City is lost, the main general Feng Ting will be wounded and return, which shows the fierceness of the battle, and the army of Zheng Jun is by no means a few.

Fang Yuan stood up in surprise and asked, "How's the battle going?" ”

Feng Ting hurriedly reported the defeat, "The sergeants of Tamsui City were killed in the battle, and they were pursued on the way to retreat, losing three thousand sergeants, and about four thousand sergeants fled back. ”

Of the 10,000 sergeants, 6,000 were lost, and only 5,000 remained. Feng Ting's battle can be said to be a fiasco, and he should be beheaded.

The army that landed in Jilong City this time was only 30,000 people, and before it set foot in Taibei territory, it lost 6,000, one-fifth of the troops, Fang Yuan was so angry that he held back his anger and said, "How many people are attacking the Zheng army?" ”

Feng Ting buried his head and said, "At least twenty or thirty thousand people!" ”

Fang Yuan was slightly stunned, according to previous information, Zheng Sen only had 20,000 or 30,000 sergeants on the main island of Taiwan, and he could break through the Tamsui City guarded by elite Xuanjia sergeants, and the combat power of these two or 30,000 people must not be weak, not newly recruited recruits.

Fang Yuan was shocked suddenly, and suddenly suddenly, with Zheng Sen's adventurous nature, this time Zheng Jun came out of the nest and came with his own stud. In other words, Zheng Jun's target is not only Tamsui City, but Chicken Coop City.

Zheng Jun will inevitably chase and kill after the Xuanjia sergeants who fled to Jilong City.

Fang Yuan was about to order Hu Qi to give an order to fight with all the troops, when a twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old young officer covered in blood rushed to Fang Yuan again, half-knelt down and said, "Governor Fang, most of the Zheng army has been killed to twenty miles, and in less than an hour, it will be able to attack Jicoop City." ”

The military report sent back this time was the same as Fang Yuan expected, Zheng Jun really wanted to finish his work in one battle, destroy all the combat strength of the Xuanjia Army in World War I, and even drive Fang Yuan into the sea. At least the Zheng army's first battle plan was successful, successfully occupying Tamsui City, annihilating 6,000 soldiers, and severely damaging Fang Yuan's Xuanjia army.

Hu Qi said in a panic, "Governor Fang, immediately lead the army back to the city to garrison!" ”

The patriarchs of the various clans present at the meeting had obviously sensed that something was wrong, and they all got up and shouted some local words that Fang Yuan couldn't understand.

Seeing that there was an opportunity, the patriarchs of the Ami and Paiwan clans immediately ordered the young men under their command to begin to incite in the crowd, and the Zheng army in Tainan was killed, and Fang Yuan held this aboriginal conference to take the opportunity to kill all the aborigines, leaving no one behind.

Their purpose is to disrupt this aboriginal assembly, and even instigate the antagonism between various tribes and Fang Yuan, who cannot get the support of the aborigines, can only flee in disgrace, and cannot engage in any nonsense on the island where all ethnic groups are equal and treat everyone equally.

With the continuous incitement of the two clans, the young Zhuang who followed the patriarchs of each clan was also panicked and began to rush into the chairman's room, looking for the patriarch of his own clan.

The scene was chaotic, trampled by people coming and going.

Fang Yuan was about to order the Xuanjia Army to withdraw into Chicken Coop City, but he saw that the aborigines of all ethnic groups were scurrying around like headless flies, and there were countless tramples on each other. If he led the army to withdraw to Jicoo City like this, the Xuanjia army would indeed be safe, but the aborigines of these various ethnic groups would inevitably suffer heavy casualties, and this aboriginal conference would be a complete failure.

It is easy to fight for land, but it is difficult to fight for people's hearts. These aborigines will participate this time because they want to explore Fang Yuan's policy toward Taiwan. If the various ethnic groups are allowed to return with heavy casualties, coupled with the incitement of other gossip, it is estimated that these aborigines will mistakenly believe that Fang Yuan set a trap to lure them to take the bait and gather in one fell swoop. If there is a dislike with these aborigines, and then you have to make up for it, it will be half the effort, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to gather them together, so you can only go to the deep mountains and old forests and conquer them one by one.

Under Fang Yuan's trade-off, the Xuanjia army entered the city and held on, but it was actually greedy for the peace in front of him, and the future troubles would inevitably be endless, and it would take at least ten times as many sergeants in the future to recover the losses.

He immediately ordered Hu Qi, Feng Ting, and Naxi, "General Feng, you immediately lead the defeated troops who retreated from Tamsui City to Jilong City to rest; Commander Hu, you lead the Jinyi Guard, all the translators, find the Atayal patriarch Yaji, and organize the aborigines to retreat into the chicken coop city first; Commander Najib, you lead the Xuanjia and mountain battalion sergeants to meet the enemy and cover the retreat. ”

When he ordered the aborigines to enter the Chicken Coop City first, everyone was shocked, and Hu Qi hurriedly asked, "Governor Fang, this, this, put our sergeants in danger and cover those wild people, why?" ”

Fang Yuan saw that the order of the scene was becoming more and more chaotic, and he had no time to explain, and shouted, "This is a military order, execute it immediately!" ”

With Fang Yuan's prestige, although the three of them were not angry in their hearts, they did not dare to disobey again, and immediately went to carry out Fang Yuan's order.

The young officer who had reported the military situation before suddenly said, "Governor Fang, the vanguard of Zheng Jun's pursuit will arrive immediately, and this retreat method may be too late." When I retreated before, I saw a small stream five miles away from the city that could be used as a temporary barrier. I am willing to lead a thousand people to resist the pursuit of the Zheng army, and to fight for a precious opportunity for our army to line up and evacuate these aborigines. ”

When this person was panicking, there were still people who were willing to come out and take the initiative to ask for help, Fang Yuan had to look at him, looked at the young officer, and asked, "Are you?" ”

The young officer's loud voice reported to his home, "Zhangzhou, Fujian, Zhang Ying, led a thousand people to enlist in the Xuanjia Army and went to Taiwan with him. I am willing to follow Governor Fang to fight on the battlefield and make contributions. ”

Fang Yuan vaguely remembered that this Zhang Ying was the general of the Zheng family who died in the battle with Gan Hui and Wan Li in Nanjing. Goodbye to the clan soldiers under his command, they are the only formed troops that have escaped from Tamsui City, which shows that Zhang Ying's command ability is obviously stronger than Feng Ting.

Fang Yuan didn't hesitate too much, and immediately ordered, "Commander Zhang, you immediately lead the army to snipe Zheng Jun, you only need to snipe for an hour, and you can retreat." ”

"Yes!"

Zhang Ying didn't say a word, and immediately led the army to take the order.

The sniping of the clan soldiers led by Zhang Ying did buy a precious hour of time for the retreat outside the chicken coop city. After waiting for an hour, when Zhang Ying withdrew with 300 remnants of the army, the chaotic situation had been effectively controlled, seventy percent of the aborigines had withdrawn into the chicken coop city, and thirty percent were entering the city one after another.

Najib, who was in charge of the formation, had gathered three groups of 500 men in the rebellion. Feng Ting's soldiers were defeated and returned because they were ashamed, where did they still have the face to hide in the city, and they also went out of the city in person to gather the Xuanjia soldiers and line up to meet the enemy.

When Zheng Jun's Wan Li and Pan Di respectively led 10,000 soldiers to kill in two ways, there were already 2 or 3,000 Xuanjia soldiers in formation.

Wan Li and Pan Di saw that the Xuanjia army had already formed part of the formation, and if the Xuanjia army stabilized its position, this desperate sneak attack would fall into a tug-of-war between the two armies, which would be a complete failure.

Wan Li and Pan Di led the army to desperately attack the defense line of the Xuanjia Army, and after each broke through the three 500-strong army formations, the Xuanjia Army in the back formed an army of tens of thousands of people, and they could finally counterattack.

The battle situation between the two sides has changed from a sneak attack battle to a positional war, and the sound of shouting and killing is constantly coming, and the battle situation is very fierce.

Fang Yuan personally stood on the city wall to command this battle, this hand-to-hand combat had lasted for two hours, and both sides fought from noon to dusk, both of them suffered heavy casualties. The Zheng army was still desperately attacking, especially the guard tiger ben wearing iron armor, who was fighting to the death, and the defense line of the Xuanjia sergeant was almost lost, and he was struggling to support.

According to Fang Yuan's estimate, if such a fierce battle continued, the Xuanjia sergeant led by Feng Ting would definitely collapse under the frantic rush of the guards and tigers.

Fang Yuan's eyes stared at the battle situation, since Zheng Jun had invested all the reserves, it was time to play the last trump card and give the Zheng Jun who was fighting the trapped beast at the end of the strong crossbow a fatal blow!