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Chapter 103: Three misses and no hits

In the west of Guiyang City, in front of the rebel camp, An Bangyan's son An Ji called the order, and the huge ox horn sounded.

Then, driven by the rebels, thousands of civilians hugged the earth and braved the arrows of the defenders on the city, running to the city, paving the earth and rocks in their arms to the horse pit.

Go after trip until you can't get up again.

Guiyang City was formerly known as Shunyuan City. It was first built in the Yuan Dynasty. In the 29th year of Zhiyuan (1292), the Shunyuan and the two Xuanwei Divisions of the Bafan were merged, and the Marshal's Office of the Governor of the Bafan Shunyuan Xuanwei Division was established in Shunyuan City.

During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, Shunyuan was changed to Guiyang, and the Guizhou Xuanwei Envoy was established, and the capital was set up in Guiyang.

After more than 300 years of development, Guiyang has become the political, economic, cultural and military center of Guizhou, and it is one of the top cities in Guizhou.

By capturing Guiyang, the population, arms, food, and reputation of the rebels in Guizhou will no longer be short of. If you stop the major roads entering Guizhou, you can become king in Guizhou.

Like the first She'an Rebellion, shortly after the rebels launched an eye on this important strategically important city.

In order to curb the many chieftains in Guizhou and consolidate the imperial court's control over this area, the Ming Dynasty expanded, increased and strengthened it on the basis of Guiyang City of the Yuan Dynasty.

Today, Guiyang City is more than three meters high and its base is more than three meters wide. The wall is circumference of eighteen miles. It has four city gates, southeast, west and north, all of which have urns, and there is also a door door in the east and west.

Although Binmen does not have a urn city and is easier to attack than the four main gates, it has been blocked by the defenders with bricks and stones at this time, and the rebels can only choose the city wall in the west.

Although it was a dry season, it was located in the southwest and the amount of water in the moat outside the city remained unabated. The temporarily dug out horse pit by the defenders made people walk south.

The first step for the rebels to attack the city was to fill these holes so that the siege men and soldiers could arrive at the city.

Throughout history, Han people were good at defending cities, especially before the invention of artillery, even if they were as powerful as Mongolian cavalry, there was only one way to besiege in front of the strong city of the Song people.

If the morale and morale of the army in the city, the army, the food and grass are strong, it is normal to stay for a year or two. Moreover, if there is no more than ten times the strength of the troops, it is not uncommon to be killed by the defenders in the city.

During the first She'an Rebellion, the rebels siege the city for ten months but failed. In the end, the morale of the army plummeted. Shortly after retreating, they were driven to the vast mountains of Guizhou by the official army.

As for the outcome this time, She Chongming and An Bangyan seem to have already been confident.

In the middle army, She Chongming and An Bangyan watched the people filling the land for a while, and then returned to the tent without any interest.

At this time, the rebels had just filled the pits on the periphery, which were still a hundred steps away from the city wall. At this distance, ordinary bows and arrows had no lethality at all.

Moreover, the climate in Guizhou is humid and the elasticity of the bow strings is reduced. The scattered bows and arrows are just scaring the civilians. The attacking rebels are even too lazy to shoot arrows and fight back.

"Let the civilians hurry up, and we don't have much time to attack the city. If the city is captured one day later, the army will be in danger."

In the tent, An Bangyan ordered to his generals.

So, after cutting off a few slow-running civilians, the speed of filling the holes became significantly faster.

"I don't know how Davao Ren is preparing."

After retreating from the left and right, An Bangyan looked at She Chongming with some concern.

"Sheman watched them enter the city in batches. There has been no movement in the city these days. It should have settled down in the city."

Sending spies into the city should be She Chongming's plan. Within two days, he took advantage of the kindness of the wife of Guizhou Governor Wang Jing, and sneaked into the city with the 300 rebels.

These three hundred people are the trump card used by the rebels to capture Guiyang, but the premise is that the rebels first touch the city walls of Guiyang.

"Well, whether you can go to Guiyang this time depends on Davaoren."

An Bangyan took off his helmet, picked up the teacup in front of him, floated it with the lid of the cup, and there was no tea foam, and then drank it all in one go.

"Davoren has always been wise and brave. He has been with me for many years and should be able to adapt to the situation and help King Liang capture this city."

She Chongming also learned An Bangyan's style and picked up the teacup in front of him, but he did not drink it, so he put it down again.

She Chongming and An Bangyan were both registered chieftains in the Ming Dynasty. In their early years, they had many contacts with the officials in Guiyang, and their words and deeds were all Chinese.

Putting down the teacup, She Chongming was about to endorse Davaoren when he heard a loud "bang bang" sound outside the tent.

The Ming army fired.

There were cannons in Guiyang City, which had been detected before Anbangyan and She Chongming siege, but at this time, I was still shocked when I heard the rumbling cannons.

They all put down the teacup, got up and went out to check.

In Guiyang, on the Xicheng Gate Tower, the military and political officials in the city gathered here, following the shell landing points to check the killing effect.

Half a quarter of an hour ago, facing the quickly filled pit, Guizhou Governor Wang Zhong finally couldn't handle it.

After causing the city wall defenders to waste rounds of arrows, Wang Xiao looked at the busy civilians like ants and the arrogant rebels afterwards, and ordered the firing.

There are three general cannons and more than ten tiger squat cannons in Guizhou City. At this time, most of them were transferred to the west wall.

With a command, three more than ten pounds of iron balls shot out from the three general artillery flew towards the civilians and the rebels.

The landing points of the three shells were not very good. One was closer and one was biased. The only one did not hit the target when it landed. After bounced up, it fell into a pit.

The three shells did not even kill a civilian, and the rebels became even more arrogant, and the laughter spread to the city tower.

After An Bangyan and She Chongming left the tent, they happened to see this scene. They looked at each other, laughed loudly, turned around and returned to the tent.

The civil and military officials on the city tower were not in such a good mood. Guizhou General Lu Qin felt even more embarrassed, but the scene that should be maintained.

"Don't worry, sir, this is a test shot, it's normal to not be accurate, and the next round will be done."

Wang Zhong disagreed with Luqin's explanation. Although it was a test shot, both shots were more than 300 steps away from the target, which shows the level of the artillery.

The rebels drove the civilians to fill the pit unscrupulously, but the defenders were powerless. At this time, it was time to boost the morale of the army. The meaning of Wang Zhong's order to fire the artillery was this, but the rebels' arrogance increased. How could Wang Zhong not be upset?

So Wang Xiao remained silent when explaining Lu Qin, and his face looked like the weather at this time. Although it was in the southwest, it was still very wet and cold.

"What Lord Lu said makes sense, let's see what happens next time."

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little awkward, Guizhou Inspector Shi Yongan stepped forward to smooth things over.

Lu Qin also took advantage of the slope and hurriedly ordered the artillery to come again.

After a moment, three more cannons were fired.

This time it was a little better. Two shots hit the middle of the villagers who were busy filling the soil, but because of the pit, the solid shells did not bounce and roll and hit the pit firmly. In the end, they only killed and injured an unlucky civilian.

After a moment, the rebels cheered again.

"snort!"

Wang Xiao felt that he was really embarrassed, so he walked down the city tower.
Chapter completed!
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