When Liu Qiao led his army to the city of Guiyang, he found that the gate of Guiyang was closed.

"Haha, it seems that An family doesn't welcome us into the city." Liu Qiao said with a sneer.

A adviser said, "Although the An family's strength has declined after the She'an Rebellion, it is still the first chieftain in Guizhou. The chief of the An family's 48 lawsuits, each of which has thousands of sharp soldiers."

The local officials in the southwest have military ranks including Xuanwei Office, Xuanfu Office, Zhaokui Office, Fufu Office and Chief Litigation. In the past, there were several Xuanwei Offices in Guizhou, but now there is only one of Shuixi Xuanwei Office. In the whole of Guizhou, there are now 76 Chief Litigation lawsuits, and forty-eight under the jurisdiction of Shuixi'an family.

Those with more than 400 households will be sued, while those with less than 400 households will be sued.

There are at least 400 households in a chief's lawsuit, so it is possible if there are thousands of sharp soldiers in each department. There are 48 chief's lawsuits in Shuixi, and they don't say that there are really 40,000 to 50,000, but there are probably 10,000 local soldiers.

"Even if the An family has 50,000 local soldiers, he thought he had the courage and confidence to refuse the city?"

Moreover, Liu Qiao did not believe that the Shuixi'an clan had 50,000 local soldiers. It is true that the An clan was the largest chieftain in Guizhou. However, after experiencing the She'an rebellion and fighting for more than ten years, the An clan clan was deeply involved. Although the court was unable to uproot the An clan like the Yang clan in Bozhou, their strength was also severely damaged.

The chieftains are still in a traditional tribal system, and the local soldiers are only equivalent to militias. Although the local soldiers in the southwest are fierce, they are just temporary militias. How can they compare to the professional standing army of the Han army? Not to mention that the Han army has the advantage of firearms, the Han army also has sufficient equipment and abundant food and supplies, especially Liu Qiao, who is now under the city of Guiyang.

Moreover, Liu Qiao knew very well that the chieftains in Guizhou were not monolithic.

If it weren't for the internal struggle between Sinan Xuanwei envoy Tian Zongding and Sizhou Xuanfu Division Tian Chen, Emperor Yongle sent troops to fight against the Ertian dispute on the grounds of resolving the Ertian dispute. After the matter was settled, he would divide the jurisdiction of the Ertian chieftain into eight prefectures and four prefectures. He also established the Guizhou Provincial Administration and the Guizhou Provincial Government Office, which was the official establishment of Guizhou Province.

Later, the Yang Yinglong Rebellion in Bozhou. After the imperial court pacified it, the Bozhou chieftain was set up as Zunyi and Pingyue and other places, and further changed its territory and returned to the current state. It can be said that compared with the early Ming Dynasty, the power of Guizhou chieftains is now far worse than before.

"Twin Guangxi Cen Huang, I want to sprout Tian Yang"

The staff officer said next to him that in the early years, there was a ranking of chieftains in the southwest. The four chieftains in the southwest, Guangdong and Guangxi were the world of the Cen and Huang surnames, while Sizhou in Guidong and Bozhou in Guibei were the territory of the Tian family and Yang family respectively.

The four major chieftains in the world occupy two of Guizhou.

But now, both the Tian family and the Yang family have long become the last of yesterday. The Tian family fought in Yongle during the period of Yongle, and was quelled by Yongle and changed their land to return to the current. The Yang family in Bozhou also rebelled during the Wanli period and changed their land to return to the current.

Although Yang Yinglong also called himself a half-Chorus Emperor and An and others regarded themselves as local emperors, Liu Qiao's view was that the decline of these chieftains could not be changed.

The Sichuan She family, which is also an Yi people, married the Shui Xi'an family for generations. The She family was determined to revive the Yi country, and eventually it was just a matter of destroying the She family. Even the Shui Xi'an family was implicated and greatly reduced its strength.

Back then, the Tian family, Yang family, She family, Song family and other big chieftains were all pacified. Now, the An family, who is seriously injured, still have any ideas? If you really have an idea, then you should be as tough as Shadingzhou in Yunnan.

After the founding of the Han Dynasty, the An family neither submitted a letter to submit. Now that the Han army has come, you will not stop it, but now you refuse to open the door to greet it. Liu and Liu Qiao look down on the An family more and more.

If you want to rebel, you should prepare early. If you dare not rebel, open the city to welcome you honestly.

Now the Han army is in the city of Guiyang. But you don’t welcome him and you still close the city gate. What does this mean?

"It seems that what Your Majesty expected is right. These chiefs are really frogs in the well, not knowing that the sky is high and the earth is thick."

"Sir, what should I do now?"

Liu Qiao looked calm, "It's An's own choice, we can't blame us. Just so I'm still missing a chicken. I'll send orders to put up the cannons, and shout to the city. The An family will open the city gate within a moment, otherwise we will use the cannons to open the city gate."

"It's really a bang?"

"If you don't really hit the ball, you'll be fake? Anyway, we're here to settle these Southwest Barbarians this time. Since they don't toast, we'll be punished for wine. Take Guiyang and kill the Shuixi'an chicken first, so the other little chieftains will naturally be honest. If they are not obedient, I don't mind going all the way."

After the fall of Tian, ​​Yang and She families, the largest toast in the southwest is Shuixi'an family.

Especially in Guizhou, the An family's strength is almost half that of Guizhou.

After ordering, the artillery soldiers immediately began to push the cannon carts forward. At this time, the entire 60,000 army arrived at the city of Guiyang. There were only about half of the people and the heavy artillery troops were all behind, but even so, with 30,000 people in hand, Liu Qiao was already confident.

Besides, the only ones that had not arrived were heavy artillery troops, and the field artillery battalion still followed. In addition, the cavalry artillery, mountain dutch and other light artillery were also quite large. Liu Qiao really had no pressure to deal with a group of local soldiers in Guiyang City.

Although the city gate was closed, there were many soldiers on the top of the city, and they had long been closely watching the Han army under the city.

When they saw the Han army directly pushing the cannons without saying a word, they were really scared. The Shuixi'an clan is no longer as early as before. With the large chieftains being wiped out, especially after the She'an Rebellion a few years ago, the An family's power was much worse than before.

"Go and report to Zhu Mu, saying that the Han people pushed the cannon up and seemed to be going to do it."

An Yi local soldier hurriedly trotted into the city.

After a while, the boy ran back panting again.

"What do you say about Zhu Mu?"

The boy replied, "Zhu Mu scolded me, saying that he shouldn't disturb him with this little thing, and said that the Han army was just acting and did not dare to fire the fire. Even if it really fires, it wouldn't matter. It wouldn't be fine if it fires one or two shots."

"That's it?" said the guard at the top of the city in surprise.

"Zhumu said that the Han army would be hung first, and when tomorrow we would send them a hundred stones, grains and grass to them, and we would be sent to them."

"But the Han army doesn't look like they are pretending. You see so many cannons." The guard was anxious.

"Anyway, Zhu Mu said that he must not let the Han army enter the city, otherwise the Han army will definitely rob."

"Where are the Han officials in the city, don't they speak?"

The boy laughed, "Don't forget. The Han officials in the city are all Ming dynasties, but the Han people outside are Han soldiers. They are even more unwilling to let the Han army enter the city than our Zhumu."

Under the city, a staff officer rode his horse to the city and shouted to the city, giving an ultimatum.

But no one in the city still paid attention to it.

"Report, it's time for a quarter of an hour."

"How are the cannons ready?"

"The artillery is ready and the shells are loaded and can be fired at any time."

Liu Qiao nodded, and her face gradually calmed down. The time for the ultimatum was already here, but no one paid attention to it in the city. In Liu Qiao's opinion, An was not only slapped him in the face, but also slapped the Han Dynasty in the face.

"I declare that the Shuixi'an clan has rebelled."

"Use cannons to open the city gate, kill into the city, and capture the security position alive!"

The generals returned to their own troops and began to mobilize their troops. Soon, the troops were quickly prepared for the attack.

As the horn sounded, the thunder of war drums sounded.

"fire!"

Dozens of cannons that had been pushed to the city gate roared one after another, and large iron balls burst out.

In the city, An Fang was lying in the pavilion, listening to the song and watching the beauty dancing, while savoring the iced sour plum soup. Suddenly, bursts of muffled thunder sounded.

"Thunder!"

"But it doesn't look like it's going to rain."

"This is the case with the thunderstorm in summer. It changes as if it is a child's face." said a local official.

At this time, an old man frowned.

"No, this sound is not thunder, it sounds like shooting cannons, but if it is the sound of cannons, how many cannons do it, how big cannons do it?" This old man once participated in the Pang Yang Yinglong Rebellion, and later participated in the She'an Rebellion. He was finally pardoned and was a person with more experience in fighting formations in the Shuixi'an clan.

An Yi's hand holding the sour plum soup bowl stopped suddenly.

His face changed.

He thought of his hands just now reporting that the Han army outside the city issued an ultimatum that he would not open the city gate for a quarter of an hour and would be bombarded.

"I won't really fire the fire."

Because of his young age in his early years, the court did not pursue his crimes after the She'an Rebellion, but continued to let him command the Yi people in Shuixi.

As the largest chieftain in Guizhou today, he has a place in his power, controls his people, inherits his duties, and governs his troops in the world.

"Not good, no good, the Han army has entered."

An Yi local soldier stumbled and ran in.

"Zhu Mu, no, the Han army used cannons to open the city gate and rushed in!"

"What?" The soup bowl in An Yi's hand fell to the ground suddenly, and with a choking sound, it fell into countless pieces.

The old man also stood up in shock and looked shocked, "The Han people have already entered, how is this possible?"

Guiyang is a big city. During the She'an Rebellion, the rioters surrounded the troops for more than half a year before they took it down, but it was because the city was out of food. But now, how long has it been since the sound of cannons been heard?

"It really came in. The Han army's cannons were extremely fierce and accurate. We blasted our city gate with just one round of cannons. Countless Han soldiers rushed in, and we hadn't reacted yet."

When the local soldier spoke, his heart was beating and his legs were trembling. He was also a local soldier who had fought, but he had never seen such a fierce and sharp artillery. He was standing on the wall some distance from the city gate.

Only a sound of war drums, then a sound of trumpets, then I saw the cannons that were hundreds of steps away from the city wall, spewing out balls of flames, then bursts of smoke, and then I heard a sound of sky-collapse.

Then I felt the city wall under my feet shaking violently, and then I heard the sound of collapse from the city gate tower. Looking back, I could only see a cloud of smoke covering me.

Before the smoke of gunpowder had dissipated, he heard waves of shouts of killing coming from the front of the city, and the Han army suddenly rushed over.

The smoke gradually dissipated, and the location of the city gate was already in chaos. The most terrifying thing was that the city gate tower disappeared and the city gate was gone, and a large gap appeared there.

The Han army's round of artillery collapsed the city gate tower and the city gate. Then the Han army charged and seized the gap. Before they could react, they rushed into the city.

It was so fast that he couldn't react now.

There were a lot of local soldiers in Guiyang City, but they never expected the Han army to fire artillery, let alone they would attack the city, and they could not have imagined that the Guiyang city wall could not resist it for half an hour.

In fact, they didn't even hold it up for a quarter of an hour. One round of cannons and another round of charge, and the Han army entered the city.

In the pavilion, An Tai was still confused, and the rest of the people were stunned and at a loss. (To be continued.)
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