On the evening of the second day after the Battle of Xixi River, An Bangyan, who had been hesitating for a whole day, sent a messenger to Bijie.

Bijie is more than 100 miles west of Dafang, and the Ming court once set up Bijiewei here.

It's just that the war in Shuixi has been in turmoil for many years, Bijie has changed hands several times, the Han merchants and the common people were killed by the Yi soldiers, and the people of the Yi and Miao ethnic groups were killed by the officers and soldiers.

There are no business travelers, no more shops, only broken walls and bones everywhere.

really responded to that sentence, prosperity, the people suffer, death, the people suffer.

Since the Lu'an Rebellion, many years of war between the official army of Yunnan, Guichuan and the Lu'an Rebellion have made the people in Shuixi and its surrounding areas in the northwest of Guizhou miserable and devastated.

Now, the Yi and Miao people around Bijie have either fled without a trace, or they have been recruited into the city by An Bangyan's younger brother An Alun and the local marshal Ah Kun stationed in Bijie to hold the city together.

As an important post town in the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, Bijie evolved from the Shuixi clan around the mountain city of Huju Mountain.

After the post road of Longchang Jiuyi was opened, Bijieyi and Bijiewei were set up at the foot of the tiger mountain, and bazaars gradually appeared along both sides of the post road, and gradually formed a town, so that more than 200 years later, there was Bijie City.

However, Huju Mountain has always been the commanding height of Bijie City, and it is also the inner city of Bijie City.

Not long after Hou Liangzhu, the chief military officer of Sichuan, and Lin Zhaoding, the chief military officer of Yunnan, joined forces to capture it, they marched into Bijie in accordance with Zhu Xieyuan's military order, and went all the way over the mountains and mountains to the east.

At the end of May, the two commanders-in-chief led their troops to the outside of Bijie City, and soon captured the outer city of Bijie, which had fallen into disrepair and dilapidation.

An Alun and Tushuai Ah Kun retreated to the tiger mountain city to hold on, and Hou Liangzhu and Lin Zhaoding launched two fierce attacks on the tiger mountain city, both of which suffered heavy losses and ended in failure.

The tiger is built according to the mountain situation, the highest point is about 150 zhang from the ground, and the altitude is about 450 meters high in the later generations, which is not high.

But the difficulty is that although the Tiger Mountain is not high, it is extremely steep, very steep, except for a stone step that is wide or narrow or high or low around the mountain to the top, there is no other way up the mountain.

Moreover, the steep slopes or cliffs are full of huge bamboo forests.

There is a steep mountain trail behind Huju Mountain, but connected to this trail, the mountains in the north of Bijie City are even taller and steeper.

After Hou Liangzhu and Lin Zhaoding failed to attack twice in a row, there was no other way for the time being except to lead the army to besiege from the southeast, south, and west.

It just so happened that Zhu Xieyuan had issued an order that the two of them could encircle Bijie City but not fight, and not fight, so as to contain or mobilize An Bangyan's army to help, and create opportunities for the officers and troops in the direction of Zunyi and Guiyang to advance westward.

The two of them took this into account, and they did not attack the last stronghold of An Alun and Tushuai Ah Kun in Bijie City.

In addition to looting a large number of grains and horses, mules, cattle and sheep, they also left a group of Yi Miao young and strong mouths, driving them to cut down bamboo and wood to make catapults used in siege.

More than half a month later, Hou Liangzhu and Lin Zhaoding, who were under the mountain city of Bijie, received Zhu Xieyuan's latest order, from which they learned that the official army on the eastern front had made meritorious contributions in Hongtuchuan, and the official army Qin Liangyu in the direction of Zunyi was even more extravagant and Chongming.

While the two of them were extremely red-eyed, they also immediately launched an attack on Huju Mountain City in accordance with Zhu Xieyuan's order.

First, he used the catapults arranged around the mountains on three sides to throw stones at the tiger mountain city, and then drove the captured more than 1,000 Yi Miao Qingzhuang to attack the mountain city with rattan bamboo guns, and the officials and soldiers followed up.

However, the onslaught on June 16 still ended in failure, and there was no substantial success except for the exhaustion of more than 1,000 young people with vaccines.

It is not clear how many of An Alun's men were killed by the stone that was finally thrown up the mountain, but it soon became a weapon for the Yi soldiers in the mountain city to attack the besieging officers.

If it weren't for the dense bamboo forest on the hillside, it is not known how many officers and soldiers were killed by the rapidly rolling stones from above.

However, the onslaught of the officers and troops again and again at the expense of casualties also made the heart of the commander An Alun very nervous, although the local marshal Ah Kun, who had been stationed in Bijie for a long time, firmly believed that the tiger was as solid as a rock in the mountain city, and the officers and troops could not attack it at all, but An Alun could not believe it.

The mountain city is all built by huge stones and rammed earth, of course, it is very strong, but the mountain city is only a few miles in radius, and now the population living in it is 20,000 or 30,000 people, in addition to more than 15,000 young and strong Yi soldiers, there are more than 10,000 old and weak women and children who hide in the city.

Most of these people are the family members of the Yi Miao native soldiers stationed in Bijie, and after hiding in the mountain city, although they can help defend the city, they are also consuming a large amount of the limited food in the mountain city.

The Sichuan soldiers led by Hou Liangzhu and Lin Zhaoding have besieged the city for more than 20 days, although the onslaught has ended in failure several times, but the two have never retreated, but have built siege equipment, and they will not stop if they do not break the mountain city.

All this made Ann Aaron anxious and panicked, he didn't want to die here.

Now that the king of Daliang is dead, An Bangyan will soon become the king of Luodian.

In addition to An Alun, An Bangyan's other younger brothers were killed in battle, and An Bangyan himself has no son, if An Bangyan becomes the king of Luodian and has no son in the future, then his only brother An Bangyan now has a good chance to inherit An Bangyan's great cause.

If you die here, won't there be nothing?!

An Alun had repeatedly sent people along the steep trails on the back mountains, detoured to Datunchang, and returned to the mountain city of Muoge to ask for help and food.

However, An Bangyan has been busy dealing with Mu Oge's internal affairs, busy preparing for the Chan Rang ceremony, and busy dealing with the main forces of the official army from the direction of Zunyi and Shuixi City, and he simply does not have much energy to spend on Bijie.

In addition to the repeated stern orders that they must hold on to the mountain city, no reinforcements were sent, and no food was sent.

In this way, Ann Alun was in a state of restlessness every day, and every night when he dreamed of the legendary death of Hao Chongming, he would wake up in horror.

On the morning of June 18, when the area around the Xixi River was full of smoke and rain, a layer of milky white fog was also shrouded in a layer of milky white fog above the mountain city of Bijie Huzhu.

Hou Liangzhu and Lin Zhaoding, who had been stationed under the Bijie Tiger Mountain City for more than 20 days, once again took advantage of the fog to launch an attack on the Tiger Mountain City.

This time, the general who took the initiative to invite Ying to serve as the siege striker was the famous general of the Yunnan General Lin Zhaoding's command, the Tusi garrison of Amizhou.

The reputation of the 40-year-old Pu is also a Yi person, but although the Yi people in the Red River in southern Yunnan and the Yi people in Shuixi, Guizhou are of the same origin, they are not related to each other and have no feelings of the same race.

The garrison of Tusipu's reputation in Amizhou was obtained through the imperial army's several expeditions against Yu Chongming and An Bangyan, during which he killed how many Yi people in eastern Sichuan and western Qianxi were killed, naturally there is no need to go into detail.

On the 18th of June, the tiger was up and down the mountain city, and there was a thick fog, and the shadow was more than a dozen steps away.

Lin Zhaoding sent his subordinates to guard the reputation, and Hou Liangzhu also sent his fierce general Yang Mingkai.

Pu Mingming led a thousand Hani Yi native soldiers, holding double hooks and throwing guns on their backs, and set off first, while Yang Mingkai led more than 1,000 Sichuan officials and soldiers to follow up

More than 2,000 people fell silent and quickly disappeared into the fog.

There are thousands of stone steps spiraling up the mountain in Huju Mountain City, but Pu Ming did not choose the relatively easy stone steps and mountain road, but specially picked up the steep and difficult to climb the dark and damp Qinhuang dense forest.

The reason why the Hani and Yi native soldiers under the command of Pu Ming were able to make many meritorious contributions in the war between the imperial court and the extravagant Ming An Bangyan was because they were good at hooking.

The elite native soldiers under the command of Pu Ming are especially good at using double hooks, and the group of people are carrying spears on their backs, holding double hooks, like apes, climbing and walking through the dense forests that are difficult for ordinary people to travel.

Hou Liangzhu and Lin Zhaoding, two veterans who have fought on the battlefield for many years, stood in front of the official barracks at the foot of the tiger mountain and listened attentively.

After about half an hour, the two looked at each other and nodded, knowing that there might be a drama this time.

Because of the time, the general reputation should have approached the city wall, and they have not been discovered by the enemy troops defending the city so far.

The tension between the two of them had just been relieved, and suddenly they heard a shout of killing coming from the misty Tiger Mountain.

They couldn't quite understand the shouts of the Yi people, but they knew that the leading team must have fought with the Yi soldiers defending the city.

As a result, Hou Liangzhu and Lin Zhaoding immediately loudly ordered their respective subordinates to launch a general attack on the tiger mountain city along the winding stone steps and mountain road.

This battle lasted for several hours until it was dark.