Suide County, only 30 miles away from Qingjian City, left mountain and right water, has now been built into a huge fortress by the 4,000 and 6 government party men and women battalions, the four corners of the city wall are all hung with wind and rain lanterns, the party is smelting thin iron sheet for the quadrangular shape, it is wrapped with an iron chain, and the hemp rope is used to wrap a piece of wood under it, the dry firewood is piled up on the wooden board, mixed with asphalt, ignited and burned, the wind and rain are not extinguished, it is hung on the waist of the city, the city looks at the city and the city is bright and picturesque, and the city is black and pitch up to the city.

Around the city wall, the party also built an enemy platform, which was dug with dense shooting holes, which could not only shoot arrows, but also stretch out spears to stab approaching enemies.

In order to prevent the Tang army from blocking the water source, the party also resorted to ingenuity: in addition to digging the nullah at the place where the Tuyan water was dug and introduced from the water gate on the west side of the castle, the culvert was also secretly dug under the cliff and injected into the "dark spring" in the city to be prepared. In addition, the roofs of the houses in the city are made of wooden planks and bamboos to make "water slips", and the pipes are coated with yellow mud, and the rain from the sky can be poured into the stone wells along the water, which can not only be used for people and livestock to drink, but also can be used to irrigate the fields carved out by the forts on all sides of Suide City.

This kind of fort, in the valley around Suide City, there are seven places, all of which are stationed with soldiers and horses, and there are also beacon fires for mutual alarm.

It is no wonder that Li Ziliang and Wang Yangui came to attack several times before, but they all returned with a feather.

When Gao Yue ascended the Qiuni Valley in the south of Tuyan Sichuan (this was originally the old place of Suide County, but in the second year of Tang Wude, he moved the place to the north of Tuyan River, that is, the city where the party is now entrenched), and looked at the battlefield situation from afar, Li Ziliang and Wang Yangui, who were apprehensive, came to ask for instructions:

"Suide City is very strong, the Qiang people also reserve a lot of grain in this city, and there are seven Qiang villages in the old stone city, the servant fort, the Guxigu fort, the Xixi Ridge, the Jiyu Mountain, the Chengping fort, and the Baoding Ridge, each with more than 1,000 party items guarding, supporting and echoing each other. Qi Hou might as well first attack and clear the seven Qiangzhai forts on the periphery, divide the troops to guard the pass and the main road, block the reinforcements of the prince of Nixiang from the north, and then surround Suide City, once Suide City is captured, the arrogance of the party and miscellaneous captives will be greatly weakened, and the next battle will be easy to fight. ”

But Gao Yue didn't think so, and said: "Since this is the case, it is naturally better to lay down Suide City first." ”

Li Ziliang and Wang Yangui were silent.

Gao Yue said: "During the siege of the city, the Yicongqiang soldiers were the vanguard, and then the fifth battalion of my artifact was in the front with chariots, firecrackers and cannons, the Dingwu army and the Yining army were in the rear, and the cavalry was on guard on both wings. The armies of Baoda, Jingsai, Fengcheng, Fenghua, and Zhaoyi blocked the passage of Suide City and other Qiang villages, and it was decided with one blow. ”

Hearing this, Li Ziliang and Wang Yangui both thought that Gao Yue was either arrogant or crazy.

You must know that the two of them failed to fight Suide several times before, and the emperor appointed Li Zezhi, the heir of the king, to lead the elite Shenwei Shence forbidden army, and was also defeated by the prince of Nixiang in Shegu Mountain.

This Gao Yue, although he has defeated the Dongshan Party, the Pingxia Party, and the Xifan, but in this era, it is too rampant to say that Suide City, which is "pacified with one drum" and embraces the danger of mountains and streams, right?

But in the coming day, Gao Yue didn't lie, he had already deployed all kinds of generals to attack the city!

And the reinforcements of the Muxiang Prince are still marching towards Suide City in the South River Valley of the Wuding River!

In the plains under the city of Suide, thousands of Qiang soldiers beat drums and shouted, holding bows and arrows, lined up there, braving the arrows shot like a torrential rain at the head of the city, and the same clan party members who were guarding Suide were fighting, and then Gao Yue's huge "car battalion" appeared in the field of vision of the rebellious party.

It's not so much a car camp as a mobile fortress.

The front line is a light chariot, the wheel hub is flying, stretching forward to stab the spear, pushed by the soldiers who carry the gun and rocket gun with their hands behind their backs, and the two sides are side vans, which are also pushed by the crossbowmen, and the outer edge is a team of cavalry of the Dingwu Army Yining Army, the middle line is a double-column car, and the inner is the camel, mule and horse pull the "tiger gun car", "big copper gun car", "Qiu Niang group crow rocket slide", etc., there is a kind of heavy car called "proud car", the rear of the car camp is open, and the column is densely packed with foot soldiers of the Dingwu Yining Army, The flags are all over the field, and the drums shake the sky.

The rebel men and women in the city of Suide were frightened, and they did not dare to rush down the hill to carry out a surprise attack, because the enemy's infantry and cavalry were covered by vehicles.

Soon, the various vehicles of the battalion stopped, and were connected like a moving city wall, and the side vans on the flanks were unfolded to cover the large brass cannon emplacements that stretched out, and the workshops were stacked with hemp ropes and iron chains, and the long and short weapons and long-range firearms were combined, and the cavalry guarded the side roads, lying at the foot of the mountain of Suide City, like a huge turtle shell.

Soon, the Tang Army's Qiang soldiers who left some of the corpses of the arrows were left behind, and after the camp was settled, they quickly retreated;

At the same time, some of the infantry of the Dingwu Army and the Yining Army also rushed into the camp from the rear to strengthen the guard, and most of the rest stood behind it, serving as the main force for the siege.

On the proud car of the core, Gao Gu boarded the carriage and immediately waved the order flag backwards.

Amid the drums, the gunners and gunners began to quickly unload the thunder medicine, projectiles, and various ignition and loading utensils among the bags loaded by mules, horses, and camels......

Soon, the emplacements of the large bronze cannons were dug up, and one was set up every long distance, and twenty or thirty guns circled the south and east sides of Suide City, and there was silence for a while.

On weekdays, the training of the rook gunners and gunners in the Gao Yue army is the most strict, among which the training of the car-gunners is divided into three steps, first practice the weapon method (understand the process of using the firearm), then practice the medicine method (understand how to load the divine thunder medicine), and finally practice the shooting method, and use live ammunition to shoot the target, in addition to training the car battalion, the same is true for the gunners, the most astute can be the personnel who set the gun, if they know the basic algorithm, it is easy to be promoted, so when it comes to war, their operation is very proficient.

Filling, loading, it's all in one go.

Soon, nearly 30 large bronze cannons successively sent out a group of fireworks, shaking the surrounding mountains of Suide City, the earliest Gao Gu and Zhang Baobai ordered to shoot a four-pound iron bullet, the rate of fire is relatively fast, and the city wall of Suide City will be full of holes in a short time; Soon after, another stone projectile was fired that was enough to destroy the city wall, and the rate of fire was slow, and then it flew past, and the rammed earth wall was basically unable to resist.

Soon, the previous dismal operation of Suide City was persuaded and surrendered by the power of the cannons: the walls of the city were blown down one section after another, the bones of the city heads were gone, and the frightened sheep, horses, women and children in the city were scurrying around, not knowing how to escape from this hell on earth in the sky-high smoke.

But Gao Yue was not in a hurry, and said that he would continue to bombard me until the walls of Suide City were gone.