So the Tang army's big bronze cannons were launched at once every once in a while. When the sparks of the twisted cannons rushed up, they jumped into the digging pit that had been dug in advance to prevent them from being shocked and bombed. However, under strict control, these cannons were all made of fine copper. There was no accident of explosions, but they were tirelessly firing and constantly fired violent shells at Suide City.

This siege model that abandons the ants colony and changes to uninterrupted fire bombardment fully reflects the tactical concept of the Tang army and is five hundred years ahead of the times.

By dusk, the shells drew their long tails of flames without any slacking off, and kept hitting the walls, forts and moats of Suide City.

By the early morning, half of the Dangxiang rebels, who were guarding the four thousand guards, had already fled. Most of them fled to the direction of Pushe Fort and Gusilang Fort, but were soon captured by the Baoda Army and Jingsai Army, who had cut off the road. The cavalry of Fan Xichao alone captured nearly 500 prisoners in one night.

At noon the next day, Suide City's fighting spirit and morale collapsed.

When the Dingwu Army and the Yining Army pushed the shield chariots to fill the trenches under the city, burned the wooden fences with fire pipes, and approached the city, they noticed that most of the city walls had been collapsed, and the deformed iron and stone bombs were rolling everywhere with blue smoke and sunken iron and stone bombs. Some of them were moved to the top of the city and threw them over their heads, smashing some shield chariots.

Then the infantry under Gao Yue's command was divided into several routes, and they rushed into the city like a rapid drill bit along the gap blasted by the cannon.

At this point, most of the deadly resisters in Suide City turned into bodies killed by shelling, and a small number committed suicide before the Tang army landed in the city. The other 1,300 men and women walked out of the hiding houses or sheds and surrendered to the Tang army.

This time, Gao Yue changed his past practice and revoked the procedure of public slave trafficking. "In the past, I wanted to demonstrate to the Party and Qiang people. The demonstrations must be massacred and killed. Now, we must sweep away their resistance forces as soon as possible. Therefore, this time we send troops, we must use both suppression and pacification."

That being said, it is actually just a secret change:

The army and the caravan reached a tacit understanding, directly registered the captured party members in the book, then gave them numbers, listened to their own descriptions, divided the "invested households" and "determined users", and then asked the squirers who came to pick them up to the Guanzhuang Supervisors in Xingyuan or Fengxiang. In addition to the military weapon department, most of these Guanzhuang Supervisors had been contracted by Gao Yue to powerful Kufang households (handicraft owners), merchants and situation households. They "leased" this batch of labor through contract documents. Of course, the price of Gao Yue is always favorable, which is much cheaper than hiring Tang people to work.

The profit of "slave dealer" has been replaced by Zhang Pi and continues to exist.

In addition to the unworthy Yongye fields, the Qiang households played the roles of workshop workers, weaving workers, military tools, and of course, tenant farmers in cotton fields, and palms in Mafang. Because the employers also paid rent and living expenses to these Qiang households, the cruel phenomenon was much less.

They also have the power to live under the city walls. Sometimes people can't tell whether they are effective or fixed, so they collectively call them "city-attached households".

In addition, Gao Yue also formulated a detailed "salary qualification for the city-affiliated households". If the employer does not give them an upgrade (that is, a salary increase), they have the right to appeal to the government. After the government recognizes it, the contract between them and the employer can be revoked and matched with other employers who need it and are willing to bear more support.

To put it bluntly, this is cultivating the "Qian Nu aristocratic class" to differentiate and suppress the Qian slaves. It may sound contradictory, but it is the case. This is also the so-called "worker aristocratic class" in later generations.

After hearing that Suide City was captured, Prince Nixiang's army had only arrived forty miles north of the city and was frightened to retreat to the more steeper Longquan City of Suizhou. Other troops guarded Funing (now Mizhi, Shaanxi), Dabin, Yanfu and other counties.

Gao Yue came to the sand table map and saw that the whole situation was Longquan in the middle, Dabin was in the west, Yanfu was in the east, and Funing was in the back.

Then Gao Yue divided his troops: Baoda Army, Jingsai Army and the Qiang soldiers from Luziguan were cleared from Dangxiang Fortress in Dabin, Zhaoyi Army, Fengcheng Army, and Fenghua Army and Ye Shiliangbi, the other Qiang soldiers from cleared from Dangxiang Fortress in Yanfu, and Gao Yue was in the middle road. After sweeping all the forts in Suide, he went directly to Longquan City.

At the same time, Gao Yue asked someone to detour Hedong and sent an order to Han Tan and Li Jingluo to gather an elite army to leave Yuhe Fort, cross Mingtangchuan, and attack Funing from behind.

One and a half months later, several troops won.

Suide City fell in the moment under the bombardment of Gaoyue's cannon, and the psychological blow to the six palaces and Dangxiang Lishi was extremely serious. Since Suide City, which had been painstakingly built for nearly a year, was captured by the Tang army with powerful weapons in less than two days, how can other fortresses protect the lives of their tribesmen?

Therefore, Gao Yue's troops directly under captured seven forts in the Old Shicheng, Pushe, Gushigu, Xiexiling, Jiyushan, Chengping, and Baodingling. Tens of thousands of stones of grain were seized, and 7,000 cattle, sheep, and war horses were 7,000. The Dangxiang guarded inside opened a fort and surrendered without any resistance. Then, after being registered, nearly 10,000 men and women began to form long lines and were escorted to the prefectures and counties of Fengxiang, Xingyuan, as "city households".

The troops on the West Road captured Dangxiangbao Village in Zhutian Mountain, Dalichuan, Xiaolichuan and other places;

Similarly, the troops from the east also captured Qinglong Mountain, Luoyang Mountain, Yamato River, Xiaoheng Mountain, Wuercheng, Mid Fort, Shengfoya and other forts, and Dangxiang surrendered one after another.

Only Yanfu Old City was built on a cliff, with Jedi on three sides, Hunhua, Li Ziliang and Wang Yangui felt it was difficult, so they sent people to ask Gao Yue for help, and Gao Yue supported eight bronze cannons.

Just one day after the cannon sounded, the two thousand party members of the Yanfu old city came out and surrendered.

Finally, the Nixiang Prince in Longquan City was in panic all day long. He knew that no matter how dangerous the city was, it could not stop the Tang army's unstoppable muskets. He thought about going from the southern valley of Wuding River to the east side of Baiyu Mountain, and as soon as possible to unify Wancheng when the Tang army's encirclement had not yet been formed.

Before the winter solstice, more than 30,000 Dangxiang people in Longquan City cried and discarded most of their land and livestock, and ran out of the city with a small amount of dry food. Under the leadership of the depressed and desperate Prince Nixiang, they passed through the frozen and snow-covered Wuding River Valley, gave up their hope of holding on, and began to flee to Tongwan City.

Ten days later, the Tang army's outpost cavalry saw the abandoned appearance of Longquan City and boldly entered, and then found that most of the party and lodging in the city had been removed, leaving only some inactive elderly people, frozen to death and starved to death in the snow.

When Gao Yue came to Longquan City, he saw that the city was really steep. It stood like an frozen throne in the snow fog. It was covered with stone cliffs on all sides, eighty feet high on the east, one hundred forty feet high on the west, one hundred twenty feet high on the south, and one hundred twenty feet high on the north, and two hundred steps around the city wall. He smiled and said, "The Qiang thieves are brave enough to fall. Such a city is defended by only a few tiger cannons, and it is difficult to capture 30,000 elite soldiers. Now Prince Nixiang leaves without fighting. This is God who gives me the Tang Dynasty!"
Chapter completed!