In the west of Guiyang City, in front of the rebel camp, An Bangyan's son An Ji gave an order, and a huge bull's horn sounded.

Subsequently, driven by the rebels, thousands of people carried the soil in their arms, braved the arrows of the defenders of the city, and ran to the bottom of the city, paving the earth and stones in their arms into the horse pit.

Again and again, until I couldn't get up again.

Guiyang City, formerly known as Shunyuan City, was founded in the Yuan Dynasty, to the twenty-ninth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1292), Shunyuan, Eight Pan Xuanwei Division merged, set up Eight Shun Yuan Xuanwei Marshal Mansion in Shunyuan City.

During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, Shunyuan was changed to Guiyang, and Guizhou Xuanfu was set up, and the governance office 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 largest cities in Guizhou.

After capturing Guiyang, the rebels will no longer lack population, ordnance, grain and grass, and prestige in Guizhou, and if they contain several major roads into Guizhou, they will be able to claim the king in Guizhou.

As with the first rebellion, the rebels set their sights on this strategically important town shortly after the uprising.

In order to contain the many Tusi in Guizhou and consolidate the imperial court's control over this region, the Ming Dynasty widened, heightened and strengthened the city of Guiyang in the Yuan Dynasty.

Today's Guiyang City, the city is more than three zhang high, the pedestal is also more than three zhang wide, the circumference of the city wall is eighteen miles, there are four city gates in the southeast and northwest, all have urn city, and there is a convenient gate in the east and west.

Although there is no urn city at the gate, it is easier to attack than the four main gates, but at this time it has long been blocked by the defenders with bricks and stones, and the rebels can only choose this section of the city wall in the west of the city.

Although it was a dry season at this time, it was located in the southwest, and the amount of water in the moat outside the city was still unabated, and the horse trap temporarily dug by the defenders made the horses walk south.

The first step in the rebels' siege was to fill in these holes so that the besieging men and armoured could reach the city.

Throughout the ages, the Han people were good at defending the city, especially before the invention of artillery, even if it was as strong as the Mongolian iron cavalry, there was only one way to besiege the strong city of the Song people.

If the morale of the soldiers in the city is abundant, the soldiers and horses are full of food and grass, it is normal to defend for a year and a half, and if there is no more than ten times the number of troops, it is not uncommon to be killed by the defenders in the city.

In the first rebellion of Lu'an, the rebels besieged the city for ten years without success, and finally the morale of the army plummeted, and soon after the retreat, it was driven by the official army into the vast mountains of Guizhou.

As for the result this time, Yu Chongming and An Bangyan seem to have already made up their minds.

Among the Chinese army, Hao Chongming and An Bangyan watched the people fill in the soil for a while, and then returned to the big tent without interest.

At this time, the rebels had only filled in the outer earthen pits, which were still a hundred paces away from the city wall, and at this distance, ordinary bows and arrows had no lethality at all.

Moreover, the climate of Guizhou is humid, the elasticity of the bowstring has decreased, and the sporadic bows and arrows are just to scare and scare the people, and the attacking rebels are not even bothered to shoot arrows to fight back.

"Let the people hurry up, there is not much time left for us to attack the city, the city is captured one day later, and the army will be in danger for one day."

In the tent, An Bangyan instructed his generals.

So, after cutting down a few slow runners, the speed of filling the pit was noticeably faster.

"I don't know how Daworen's preparations are going."

After retreating left and right, An Bangyan looked at Luxe Chongming with some apprehension.

"Haoman watched them enter the city in batches, and in the past few days, there has been no movement in the city, so they should have settled down in the city."

Within two days, with the help of the wife of Wang Yan, the governor of Guizhou, 300 rebels entered the city.

These 300 people are the killer weapon for the rebels to capture Guiyang, but the premise is that the rebels first touch the city wall of Guiyang.

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

An Bangyan took off his helmet, picked up the tea cup in front of him, floated the lid of the cup and the tea foam was not there, and then drank it all.

"Daworen is known for his quick wit, and he is brave, and he has followed me for many years, so he should be able to adapt to the situation and help King Liang capture this city."

Extravagant Chongming also learned from An Bangyan's style, picked up the tea cup in front of him, floated the tea foam, but did not drink it, changed hands and put it down.

Luxury Chongming and An Bangyan are both registered Tusi of the Ming Dynasty, and they had many contacts with a group of officials in Guiyang in their early years, and their words and deeds have been sinicized.

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

The Ming army opened fire.

There were cannons in Guiyang City, which had been detected before An Bangyan and Hao Chongming attacked the city, but when they heard the rumbling cannons at this time, they were still shocked in their hearts.

They all put down the teacups and got up to check the accounts.

In Guiyang, on the tower of the West City Gate, the military and political dignitaries in the city gathered here to check the killing effect along the landing point of the cannonballs.

Half an hour ago, in the face of the potholes that were quickly filled, Guizhou Governor Wang Yan finally couldn't do it.

After wasting round after round of arrows on the defenders of the city wall, Wang Yan looked at the busy people like ants and the arrogant rebels behind him, and gave the order to open fire.

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

At the sound of an order, three iron balls of more than ten catties shot out by the three general cannons flew towards the people and the rebels.

None of the three shells landed very well, one was close and one missed, and the only one did not hit the target when it landed, and after bounce it fell into a hole.

The three shells did not even kill a single civilian, and the arrogance of the rebels became even more arrogant, and the sound of laughter reached the castle tower.

An Bangyan and Hao Chongming happened to see this scene after leaving the tent, glanced at each other, laughed loudly, turned around and returned to the tent.

However, the civil and military officials on the city tower did not have such a good mood, and Lu Qin, the general soldier of Guizhou, felt that his face was gloomy, but the scene should still be maintained.

"Don't worry, everyone, this is a test shot, and the shot is not normal, and the next round will be fine."

Wang Yan did not think much of Lu Qin's explanation, although it was a test artillery, but both rounds were more than 300 steps away from the target, and the level of artillery can be seen.

The rebels drove the people to fill the pit unscrupulously, but the defenders were powerless, at this time it was the time to boost the morale of the army, Wang Alkali ordered the meaning of the cannon, but the result increased the arrogance of the rebels, how Wang Alkali was not annoyed.

So for Lu Qin's explanation, Wang Su was silent, his face was like the weather at this time, although it was in the southwest, it was also wet and cold enough.

"What Master Lu said also makes sense, let's see how the next shot goes."

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little embarrassing, Shi Yongan, the Guizhou Inspector, stepped forward to play a round.

And Lu Qin also borrowed the edge of the slope to hurriedly order the artillery to come again.

After a while, three more cannons rang out.

This time it was a little better, and two of them hit the middle of the people who were busy filling the earth, but because of the existence of the pothole, the solid cannonball did not bounce and roll and smashed firmly into the dirt pit, and in the end only killed and injured one unlucky man.

After a moment, the rebels cheered again.

"Humph!"

Wang Yan felt that he really had no face, so he brushed his sleeves and went down to the city tower.