Xu Muhe was very proud of Qi Guo's super mobilization ability, 500,000 soldiers and 300,000 guns were still not the limit, and he believed that such a force was enough to sweep the world.

Of course, he can't do this now, after all, he has just left Da Zhou, and now he is rushing straight to Lin'an, and the crying in front of the world before has become a joke.

The Son of Heaven can't be a joke, so the matter of Jin Jun Jiangnan will have to wait for a few years.

Well, in fact, this reason is not important, the most important thing is that the war in the north has not been completely resolved, and the economy of Qi cannot support the mobilization of 500,000 troops for too long.

He needs to disband part of his troops and let the population harvest this year's autumn grain.

Therefore, after the Qi army reached the front line of the Huai River, it did not continue to advance.

Subsequently, Xu Muhe announced to the world through the media group in Jiangnan: In order to show that the king of Qi was indeed forced to break away from the Great Zhou, although the Qi army had the ability to sweep Jiangnan immediately, the Qi State was still willing to take the Huai River as the boundary with the Great Zhou, and the two had nothing to do.

If Emperor Longdao is grateful for the hard work of the people, then in the future, he will not do this kind of stupid thing that makes his relatives and enemies happy.

As a last sign of sincerity to the imperial court, the King of Qi announced the release of all the captured Zhou officers, including Lord Weng Shuping Weng of the Southern West Road of Huai.

According to folk rumors, the main reason why Qi released these people was that they were too weak and did not bring any damage to Qi at all.

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Let's turn back the clock.

At the beginning of August, after Xu Shiyang learned that the Zhou army had begun to attack, he finally stopped delaying and launched a final attack on Datong City on the eighth day of August.

After nearly two months of strange siege, the vigilance and hostility of the vast majority of Datong's defenders towards the Qi army had been reduced to a minimum, so much so that when the Qi army attacked, the Shihou army guarding the city wall did not even close the city gate.

The Qi army left the camp on time and lined up.

At this time, the Shihou army thought that the Qi army was conducting routine training performances, and there were still some citizens on the city wall holding dried fruits and teapots waiting to admire.

As a result, the Qi army entered the city directly, and it took eight minutes to take over all the gates and walls of Datong City without blood.

At this time, the Shihou army realized that this was the beginning of the general offensive of the Qi army, but it did not make any sense to realize this, because the attackers had already begun to advance into the depth of the city, and the Shihou army deployed on the periphery had begun to be disarmed.

Fortunately, in the past two months, the performance of the Qi army has left the impression that most of the ordinary soldiers are very friendly, and everyone knows that Datong can't hold it at all, and it is the result of the mercy of the Qi people to hold on to it until now.

Everyone psychologically accepts the possibility of defeat, and is not worried that the winner will treat them harshly, then the whole siege battle becomes a handover that follows the flow.

The Qi army attacked from all sides, disarming the Datong defenders and temporarily sending them out of the city, where they prepared hot water, vegetable soup, and millet porridge, which were enough to dispel the last trace of uneasiness.

The focus of the Qi army's attack was Fan Yongdou's mansion, a huge garden with high-walled watchtowers on the outside and warehouses and wells inside, which was itself a small fortress, and where the last of the forces of the Eight Great Dynasties were concentrated.

Most of these people are die-hard loyalists such as the sons and nephews of the Shihou family, and they are also the last people in Datong City who are willing to resist.

The Qi army did not directly attack Fan Yongdou's mansion, they first occupied other important positions in the city, including several commanding heights, warehouses, shops, annexes and other places belonging to the Shihou family, cutting off the defensive support points around the compound and isolating this last stronghold under Shihou's control.

In a large cloth shop in the city that belonged to Fan Yongdou's family, Qi Jun caught a senior butler of the Fan family.

This person belonged to the Fan family's inner house steward, and he was supposed to stay in the last mansion, but because he felt that the Fan family was about to fall, he was unwilling to accompany the burial, so he hid here in advance, and he took the initiative to surrender as soon as the Qi army came.

This person was very clear about the situation in the inner house, and according to his confession, at this time, all the eight great lords of Jin Province were huddled in the compound of the Fan family - since the Qi army attacked Jin Province, they had been there to "strategize" in order to concentrate everyone's strength to resist, and now they were all surrounded inside.

Of course, for them, it was not a wrong decision to concentrate in that courtyard, because at this time, the rest of Jin Province was already under the control of the Qi Shaanxi army, and if it was not here, it would have been caught by the Qi army a long time ago.

The eight great worlds are all here, so their most trusted forces are naturally here, so there are currently about 2,500 armed people in the Fan family's mansion, and these people are very well equipped, it is said that they are all double armor, strong bows and hard lances, and some even have some Qi muskets.

This is not surprising, after all, Qi does not prohibit the sale of arms to foreign countries, and even plate armor shotguns are still one of the best-selling industrial products in Qi State, the island country of Fusang in the East China Sea, the peninsula country of Goryeo, the Great Zhou court in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Li family of the pirate of Shuangyu Port, as long as they have enough ability to pay, anyone can buy weapons of this level from Qi State.

Besides, arquebuses and flintlock pistols are not difficult to make, and it is not difficult to find some skilled blacksmiths to imitate them after trying to make one, it is just that the output cannot keep up, and the standards are not uniform enough.

These two thousand five hundred armor soldiers are a formidable force when placed elsewhere, but at present, they are too bleak.

At this time, the field troops of the Qi army, which had only entered the city, had reached 8,000 people, and they carried more than 60 cannons of various calibers, including 10 catties of field guns and 30 catties of siege artillery, which were enough to destroy most of the city walls of this era and used them to deal with the walls of the mansions, which was already overkill.

In the early morning of the ninth day of the eighth month, the Qi army began to deploy a final attack on the Fan family's mansion.

They took control of all the houses around the Fan family's mansion and set up artillery positions in several of the fortified buildings.

The artillery was 200 paces (300 meters) from the outer wall of the Fan family's mansion, which was just outside the effective range of the arquebus, but it was a very close distance for the artillerymen.

The Qi army kept firing at this safe range, and it only took ten rounds of fire to completely collapse the outer wall of the Fan family's mansion.

During this period, several daring Shihou led their cronies in a desperate counter-assault in an attempt to destroy the Qi artillery that seemed to be close at hand, but their last efforts were completely interrupted by Qi flintlock salvos and light artillery shotguns.

After losing the last of their ground and paying about 300 casualties, Shihou made one last struggle - they sent people out to negotiate with Xu Shiyang, hoping to get a chance for themselves to surrender conditionally.

Naturally, this is not possible.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the Qi army launched a general attack, and about twenty minutes later, the last of the Shihou soldiers to resist was killed behind a rockery.

The war of Qi against Jin Province finally came to an end.