On the first day of February in the twelfth year of Jianxing, the Xu family arrested the head of the Fan family in Juzhou for treason at the family alliance meeting, and then the Xu family announced on the same grounds that they would send troops to exterminate the Fan family who colluded with the Tartars.

This time, the Xu family did not invite all the families in the alliance to send troops together, but in the name of the alliance leader, they asked the Wang family, the Ding family, the Bao family, and the Zhang family to send their young children as observers to Juzhou together.

Xu Shiyang (through Xu Muhe) made this request in order to make a propaganda for the new army within the alliance and boost their self-confidence, and when the provincial Tartars came again, they couldn't help but be shrunken turtles.

But in the eyes of the four families, Xu Shiyang's request seems to be to want each family to send a few hostages.

In view of the imminent destruction of the Fan family, the families even had some requests for this, for fear that the Xu family would put the next target on themselves, so within a few days, the observers, or hostages, had already arrived.

Xu Shiyang, the commander of the new army, somewhat understood, that the people sent by the four families were basically the concubines or grandsons of the head of the family, and they were blood relatives of the head of the family, but they were not so irreplaceable.

It's really a standard proton candidate.

Xu Shiyang couldn't tell them that he really only wanted a few observers, and it was estimated that even if he did, everyone in the alliance wouldn't believe it.

So he didn't bother to talk anymore, but fortunately, except for Xu Shisong, who looked down on the identity of these protons, he was still very qualified as an observer in other aspects - they were all young people, had a certain cultural foundation, were relatively studious, and had a certain influence on the family.

The so-called proton, there are a total of 8 people, Wang, Ding, Bao, and Zhang each came to two, the oldest is 19 years old, and the youngest is only 16 years old.

Xu Shiyang didn't care about the three, seven and twenty-one, and organized all of them into an observer team and took them with him, so that he could also teach them a little knowledge about staff officers and use them as half a staff officer.

This is the case during the start-up period, all personnel and materials must be used as much as possible.

On the third day of February, the New Army set out as a whole, and in addition to the 3,000 troops in seven field battalions, the Xu family mobilized 100 carts for this operation, a full 300 large animals (each large animal was responsible for pulling one cart, and the other two were used as backups) and 2,000 auxiliaries responsible for transporting supplies (almost one-third of them were slaves and commoners).

An army of 5,000 people, including 500 cavalry troops, which had been unprecedented in the entire Qi Province in the past ten years, rushed towards Juzhou City to surround it.

In fact, the core sphere of influence of the Xu family is in the south of Juzhou City, but the Fulai Mountain, which is controlled by the Xu family, is located in the northwest of Juzhou County, and the east of Juzhou is close to the Luoshui River, so the transportation is more difficult.

In this way, the new army set out separately and formed a semi-encirclement of the county seat of Juzhou from the very beginning.

Before the war, Xu Shiyang got the information that the Fan family now controls the entire old Juzhou County, and they are also vigorously recruiting displaced people in the recent period, coupled with the results of the previous joint suppression of bandits, the Fan family should now have a population of about 6,000, of which Zhuangding and Banding are around 2,000 people.

At the meeting, Mr. Fan, who was "shuanggui", confessed that his family now has about 10 wooden cannons in reserve, but because the musket gun is not easy to practice, no one likes to use it, so only 7 or 8 of them were made, and now they are all thrown in the warehouse.

According to this information, the biggest threat facing the new army is these 10 wooden cannons. For this reason, the new army specially brought the only bronze field cannon at present, which was named the 11th type 3 jin field gun according to Xu Shiyang's own taste.

In addition, there are two iron cannons, which were named by Xu Shiyang as the 11th type 2-pound rapid-fire gun.

The aesthetic taste of the soldiers is clearly different from that of Xu Shiyang, and this way of naming them by numbers has been more secretly resisted, and the Shenji soldiers have given their weapons a more traditional, and more god-sounding name: the bronze cannon is called the "general cannon", and the iron cannon is named "Shenji cannon" with the name of the class.

On the fifth day of the second month, the new army arrived at the city of Juzhou, and the Jingyuan camp crossed the Luoshui River and camped on the east bank of the river. The Zhiyuan battalion remained by the side of the headquarters as the general reserve, and the other five infantry battalions lined up in turn to form an encirclement of Juzhou City.

At this time, Juzhou City, which had lost its head of family, was in chaos.

There is obviously a rift between the top leaders of the Fan family that is difficult to bridge, and some members of the Fan family demand to resist to the end, they believe that the actions of the Xu family army are not much different from the bandits, and the charges against their own heads are obviously slander.

But some people think that they don't have the strength to fight against the huge Xu family's army, not to mention that the army in front of them has just annihilated the Tartar Yimeng'an, and this fierce record makes people unable to raise the slightest determination to resist.

Of course, you can't just surrender like that.

After all, there have been wars and annexations between different families before, and the end of the loser is not much better than being breached by bandits or Tartars.

No one wanted to be slaughtered by others, so the decision made by the top leaders of the Fan family was that the whole family prepared for war, but at the same time sent an envoy to the Xu family's military camp and offered to contribute 50 young women, 100 pigs and sheep, and 200 stone of grain to the Xu family.

In addition, if the Xu family insists that the Fan family defect to the enemy, then the Fan family thinks that this is the work of the head of the family alone, and they are willing to hand over the head of the Fan family (which is already in the hands of the Xu family anyway) and let the Xu family dispose of it.

When Xu Shiyang heard this series of numbers, his first reaction was ......a little familiar, and he thought for a while before realizing that this was ten times the number that the old man of Hulanshan planned to contribute to the Tartar when he faced the Tartar for the first time.

At that time, Fifteen Tun was facing a Tartar Mouke, and now they are willing to give ten times, probably treating themselves as a Meng'an, right?

After thinking about this, Xu Shiyang was angry with the seven orifices:

"Dare you say you didn't have anything to do with the Tartars!"

There is still a unified standard for the ransom fee!

The old man who came to negotiate with the Fan family glanced at Xu Shiyang, and couldn't help muttering: "You also know this number, do you also have anything to do with the Tartar?" ”

It's a pity that he wasn't too careful, and this sentence was heard by Xu Shiyang.

So the negotiations broke down, and the Xu Fan family officially went to war.

In the early morning of the sixth day of the second lunar month, the regular cavalry of the Zhiyuan battalion took the lead in launching an attack on Juzhou.

Luan Tingyu's cavalry training is good, in fact, he has been secretly raising a few Tartar slaves, and asking them for cavalry tactics, usage and training methods, so the Zhiyuan battalion he trained does look similar to the Tartars.

Hundreds of Zhiyuan cavalry scattered into small groups of three or five, screaming and screaming at a distance of about 100 steps outside the city wall of Juzhou, and from time to time someone shot at the city wall with a fire gate gun, constantly creating psychological pressure on the defenders.

The cavalry gathered and scattered, and even a few of them were bold, and they also made a surprise posture, rode their horses directly to a distance of about 70 paces, and quickly retreated after throwing a light arrow at the city wall.

The defenders finally couldn't bear it anymore, and a cannon rang out at the head of Juzhou City, and a stone projectile flew over a distance of more than 70 steps, smashed on the ground and bounced up several times, until it rolled down to a distance of nearly 90 steps.