Ao Kun once again asked people to hurry back to report the news, telling Luo Jiuzhong that the artillery of the official army was extremely powerful, and it had hit the watchtower, and it was only a matter of time before the watchtower was destroyed or crushed.

At the same time, Ao Kun was also thinking about whether to launch another assault to stop the officers and soldiers from firing, or simply snatch the guns of the officers and soldiers.

But looking at the five great generals' cannons laid out in front of the official formation, as well as the white-pole gun array of the stone pillar earth soldiers on the hollow in the depression not far in front of the artillery array, Ao Kun's heart was terrified, and he quickly dispelled this dangerous idea.

The Shuixi Yi people under the rule of Shaxi Luo's Tusi are only six or seven thousand households, and the strong Yi soldiers have already been killed and wounded in successive wars for many years.

Now there are only three or four thousand elite Yi soldiers under Luo Jiuzhong's command.

This is the largest capital that Shaxi Roche relies on to protect itself in Shuixi.

However, just in the early morning to the present, in front of the white pole gun array of Shizhu Tusi, even the dead and wounded, and those who were used by himself to punish Liwei in front of the battle, in total, Ao Kun has already lost a small 2,000 people for the head of his main family.

Just before today, he Ao Kun was also a well-known man among the Yi people in Shuixi, if he was not brave enough, he would not be able to climb to his current position.

But now he feels extremely helpless, whether it is facing the shield wall gun array of the stone pillar earth soldiers, or facing the general cannon of the imperial court officials and soldiers, just relying on his personal bravery, it is simply hitting the stone with an egg.

Such a dignified array and dignified battle is not the mountain raid that their Shuixi Yi soldiers are best at, not an ambush, or a pursuit battle, they can use their own familiarity and adaptation to the terrain to drag down the officers and troops.

It is not a scuffle, a chaotic battle, you can simply rely on your personal bravery, face to face to kill your enemies or opponents.

Neither.

On the contrary, it was a positional battle between the highly organized officers and the Yi soldiers of Shuixi, who were like stragglers.

Such a positional battle is not at all something that the poorly equipped Shuixi Yi soldiers can win and fight.

Ao Kun was still debating whether to go back in person to persuade his head Luo Jiuzhong to surrender again, when he heard the five artillery pieces of the official army on the opposite side suddenly fire together, "bang", "bang",

There were five loud bangs in a row, which deafened Ao Kun's ears, and he was lying on the ground with his head in his hands, and he looked back to see the leader of the Yi soldiers under his command shouting something to him, but he couldn't hear anything.

Ao Kun, who knew that something big must have happened, quickly looked up, but happened to see the tall watchtower not far away, which was falling in the direction of the official army.

Ao Kun, who had just regained a little hearing, soon heard a loud "boom", which was the sound of the watchtower collapsing and falling on the surface.

Ao Kun looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief, and opened his mouth wide and couldn't speak.

And the Yi soldiers behind him were even more frightened, in their eyes, the most reliable Tusi watchtower, are not the opponents of the official army, so what awaits them, in addition to death?

However, the ants are still stealing their lives, not to mention the Shuixi Yi soldiers who have families and mouths and are not professional sergeants?

Ao Kun, the general of Shaxi Tusi, was dumbfounded, still thinking about whether to fight or surrender or escape, but the official army would not give him any more time.

As the tall watchtower in front of him collapsed, there was a huge cheer from the official army, and then Qin Gongming stood up and asked for battle, and Wu Zhiwang did not refuse him.

Qin Gongming, who had long been holding back his strength to avenge his father Qin Minping, quickly led the stone pillar soldiers under his command and rushed towards the camp where Ao Kun was.

Ao Kun knew that he couldn't hesitate any longer, since the court officials had a letter of persuasion to surrender before, then surrendering at this time, maybe his life could be saved.

Thinking of this, Ao Kun stood up, threw the rattan machete in his hand on the ground, picked up a high ground, and then knelt down with his head in his hands in the direction of the tide of stone pillar earth soldiers.

The Shaxi Yi soldiers behind Ao Kun, seeing that their main general had surrendered, also did the same, quickly threw away the weapons in their hands, followed behind Ao Kun, and knelt down with their heads in their hands.

The Shaxi Yi soldiers, who were a little farther away from Ao Kun, turned around and ran away when they saw this situation.

Qin Gongming, who was worried about not being captured, was not angry but happy when he saw the Yi soldiers who refused to surrender and turned to flee, leaving half of the stone pillar soldiers to guard Ao Kun and hundreds of other people, and he took the other half and pursued over the mountain pass.

The shelling of the officers and troops on the west bank of the Lengshui River, as well as the collapse of the watchtower guarding the river shortly thereafter, as well as the choice of Ao Kun and most of the Yi soldiers under his command after the collapse of the watchtower, were all seen by Luo Longzuo, who was standing on a watchtower in the Tusi Manor in Shaxi.

If his father continues to be so stubborn, I am afraid that the foundation of Shaxi Luo will be ruined, and what can he, the heir of Shaxi Tusi, inherit at that time?

Soon, Luo Longzuo hurried to the front yard where Luo Jiuzhong was, and at this time, Luo Jiuzhong already knew that the first guard watchtower on the west bank of the Lengshui River was crushed by the official artillery, and he had already made his own decision.

If the artillery of the official army can easily destroy one watchtower, then it can destroy all the other watchtowers that follow.

In this way, the Shaxi Tusi, who did not have an advantage in terms of troops, what capital did he have to confront the crusading army of the imperial court?

When Luo Longzuo arrived in the front yard of the manor, Luo Jiuzhong was about to let people go out with a white flag to contact the officers and soldiers about the surrender.

The artillery bombardment on the west bank of the Lengshui River lasted less than an hour, and the heavy blow of Qin Gongming's two thousand stone pillar soldiers was like hitting cotton, and the whole battle ended before the strength of the suffocation was released.

Around the time of Shen, Luo Longzuo, the eldest son of the Shaxi Luo clan and the heir of Tusi, personally waved the white flag and surrendered to Qin Gongming, who was pursuing the Yi soldiers.

Those Yi soldiers who fled from the banks of the Lengshui River, by this time, were either dead or surrendered.

In the evening, Wu Zhiwang, accompanied by Qin Liangyu, Qin Gongming, Wang Jianguo, Luo Longzuo, Ao Kun and others, entered the Shaxiba Tusi Manor a few miles away on the west bank of the Lengshui River.

Luo Jiuzhong, the leader of Shaxi Tusi, held in his hand the population road distribution map of the eight caves and two streams in the jurisdiction of Shaxi Luo's Tusi, and officially handed it over to Wu Zhiwang, expressing his intention to rejoin the imperial court.

Shuixi Forty-eight Caves, also called Forty-Eight Divisions, Shaxi Luo, as a branch of Shuixian Xi'an, divides the land of Shaxi Manba Caves on both sides of the Lengshui River until the first line of the Wujiang River.

Zexi is the meaning of the warehouse, and it is an important means for the Tusi of the Yi people in Shuixi to rule.

The serfs of the Yi nationality in Shuixi were all attached to the land of the Tusitou slave owners to survive.

Whether it is tea, cloth, or grain, they must hand over the water to the Zexi set up by the Tusi Touren in proportion.

After all, the mountains and forests in the Shuixi area are high, and it is extremely inconvenient for the Yi people themselves to transport large quantities of goods.

Besides, the area under the jurisdiction of each Tusi is very large, and it is impossible for all kinds of taxes or rents in kind paid by the Yi serfs to Tusi's house.

Therefore, the Zexi system slowly became an economic system for the Yi people in Shuixi.

Just as the Tusi requisitioned the Yi people to build watchtowers to garrison Yi soldiers on various dangerous roads and carry out military rule, they used the Zexi system to exercise economic rule over the Yimiao mountain people in Shuixi.

The 48 caves in Shuixi are divided into 12 streams, and on average, each stream covers the territory of the four caves of Yi Miao Tumu.

Now, Luo Jiuzhong has handed over the population and road distribution map of each cave and each stream under the jurisdiction of Shaxi Tusi, which is equivalent to handing over Luo's right to rule the territory of Shaxi Tusi.

Although it is only a map of the distribution of buffalo skin, it is very significant.

Of course, the jurisdiction of Shaxi Tusi is roughly equivalent to the size of Jinsha County and Renhuai County in Guizhou in later generations, although this is all the capital of Shaxi Luo, which is more important than the root of life, but for Wu Zhiwang, it is just a chicken rib.

After the surrender of Shaxi Luo, Wu Zhiwang, who was in his sixties, was "old" and officially moved into the magnificent Tusi Manor of Shaxi Luo.

Qin Liangyu, a female general who is also "old", at the insistence of Wu Zhiwang, also moved into the Tusi Manor with his own soldiers.

Also enjoying the same treatment were the soldiers of the Nanjing Beijing Battalion under Wang Jianguo's command, as well as the five general cannons they carried across the river, the ten tiger squat cannons, and a cart of gunpowder projectiles that looked incomparably precious in the Shuixi region.

Chen Zizhuang and Peng Chaozhu also crossed the river with the Baojing native soldiers and rebuilt the official army camp on the west bank of the Lengshui River, while Qin Gongming and Qin Kezhong took the stone pillar soldiers and were directly stationed outside the Tusi Manor in Shaxiba.

For Peng Chaozhu and Qin Gongming, they did not want the Shaxi Luo clan to surrender.

Peng Chaozhu led the army to slaughter more than 20 villages belonging to Shaxi Tusi on the east bank of the Lengshui River, and he had already formed a mortal enmity with many Yi soldiers under the command of Shaxi Luo.

What I want to do most now is to completely destroy Shaxi Luo's Toast.

In this way, not only can we save ourselves from possible disasters in the future, but we can also loot a large number of goods again.

After all, Shaxiba is the residence of Luo's Tusi, and it is much richer than those poor villages on the east bank of the Lengshui River.

And for Qin Gongming, his father died in Shuixi, although it was not the sin of the Shaxi Luo clan, but this time he entered Shuixi, he wanted to take revenge, if they surrendered one by one, how could they kill on a killing spree?

Because of this, Wu Zhiwang's attitude towards Ao Kun, the general of the Shaxi Luo clan, and Luo Jiuzhong and Luo Longzuo, the leaders of the Shaxi Tusi, were not very friendly.

Luo Jiuzhong also knew that after surrendering like this, it was probably unlikely that he would want to keep his status as a toast, unless he made great contributions and proved his value and role, he could block the mouths of people like Qin Gongming and Peng Chaozhu.

So, a bold plan was soon born under the deliberation of Luo Jiuzhong, Luo Longzuo and Ao Kun. [.]