Xu Muhe was very proud of the super mobilization ability shown by Qi State. Five hundred thousand soldiers and 300,000 guns are still not the limit, and he believed that such power was enough to sweep the world.

Of course, he couldn't do this now. After all, he had just left the Great Zhou and was now heading straight to Lin'an. The crying before the world became a joke.

The emperor cannot be a joke, so the Jin army has to wait for several years for Jiangnan.

Well, 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 the 500,000 army for too long.

He needs to disband some of the troops and allow the population to harvest this year's autumn grain.

Therefore, after the Qi army arrived at the Huaihe Line, they stopped moving forward.

Then Xu Muhe announced to the world through the media group in Jiangnan that it was indeed a forced one to show that the King of Qi left the Great Zhou. Although the Qi army had the ability to sweep across Jiangnan immediately, Qi was still willing to use the Huai River as the boundary between the Great Zhou and the Huai River.

If Emperor Longdao is grateful for the hard work of the people, then he should not do such stupid things that make his relatives feel sad and happy.

As his last sincerity to the court, King Qi announced the release of all the captured Zhou army officers this time, including Weng Shuping, the governor of Huainan West Road.

According to folk rumors, the reason why Qi released these people was mainly because they were too weak and did not cause any damage to Qi. If there was another time, Qi hoped that these people would still command the Zhou army.

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Let's turn the time back.

After Xu Shiyang learned that the Zhou army began to attack in early August, he finally stopped delaying and launched the final attack on Datong City on the eighth day of August.

After nearly two months of strange siege, the vigilance and hostility of most Datong defenders against the Qi army had been minimized, so when the Qi army attacked, the Shihou Army guarding the city walls did not even close the city gate.

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

At this time, the Shihoujun thought that the Qi army was conducting a routine training performance, and some citizens on the city wall were waiting to appreciate it with dried fruits and teapots.

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

At this time, the Horoscope realized that this was the beginning of the Qi army's general attack, but it was meaningless to realize that this was because the attackers had begun to advance to the depth of the city, and the Horoscope 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 of their very friendly people on most ordinary soldiers. Moreover, everyone knows that Datong cannot be defended at all, and being able to persevere until now is the result of the mercy of the Qi people.

If everyone psychologically accepts the possibility of failure and does not worry that the winner will treat themselves harshly, the entire siege battle will become a process-based handover.

The Qi army attacked from all sides and temporarily sent the Datong defenders out of the city after disarming them. The Qi army prepared hot water, vegetable soup and millet porridge for them outside the city. These foods were enough to relieve the last bit of anxiety.

The focus of the Qi army's attack was Fan Yongdou's mansion. This huge garden had high-walled watchtowers outside and warehouse wells inside. It was a small fortress itself, and the last power of the eight great emperors was concentrated here.

Most of these people are the sons and nephews of the Shihou family, and the loyal factions such as the family giving birth to children. They are also the last group of people who are willing to resist in Datong City today.

The Qi army did not directly attack Fan Yongdou's mansion. They first occupied other important locations in the city, including several commanding heights, warehouses, shops, villas and other places belonging to the Shihou family. They cut off the defensive support points around the courtyard and isolated the last stronghold controlled by Shihou.

In a large cloth shop belonging to Fan Yongdou's family in the city, Qi Jun captured a senior housekeeper of the Fan family.

This person belonged to the Fan family's inner hut manager and should have been guarding the last mansion, but because he felt that the Fan family was about to be destroyed and he was unwilling to be buried with him, he hid here in advance. As soon as Qi Jun arrived, he surrendered voluntarily.

This man was very clear about the situation in the inner house. According to his confession, all the eight great emperors of Jin Province were huddled in the courtyard of the Fan family. Since the Qi army attacked Jin Province, they have been "strategizing" there to concentrate everyone's strength to resist, and now they are all surrounded.

Of course, it was not a mistake for them to concentrate in that yard, because at this time, other areas in Jin Province were already under the control of the Qi and Shaanxi Army. If they were not here, they would have been caught by the Qi army long ago.

The eight great emperors are here, so their most trusted forces are naturally here. Therefore, there are currently about 2,500 armed personnel in the Fan family mansion. These people are equipped with very good equipment. They are said to be double armored, strong bows and hard spears, and even some people have some Qi muskets.

This is nothing strange. After all, Qi does not prohibit the sale of arms to foreign countries. Even plate-armored bird guns are one of the best-selling industrial products in Qi. The East China Island Country Fusang, the Peninsula Country Goryeo, the Great Zhou court in Jiangnan, and the Li family, the pirates of Shuangyu Port, as long as they have enough payment capabilities, anyone can purchase this level of weapons from Qi.

Besides, it is not difficult to build a clamp gun or a flintlock gun. It is not difficult to find a way to build a blacksmith who has good skills to imitate it. It is nothing more than that the output cannot keep up with it and the standards are not uniform enough.

These two thousand five hundred armored soldiers are still a powerful force, but now it is too miserable.

At this time, the Qi army's field troops that had entered the city had reached 8,000 troops, and they carried more than 60 cannons of various calibers, including 10 kilograms of field cannons and 30 kilograms of siege cannons. These weapons that were enough to destroy most of the city walls in this era were considered to be useless to deal with the walls of the mansion.

In the early morning of the ninth day of August, the Qi army began to deploy the final attack on the Fan family mansion.

They controlled all the houses around the Fan family mansion and established artillery positions in several of the solid buildings.

The artillery was two hundred steps (300 meters) away from the exterior wall of the Fan Family Mansion. This distance was just outside the effective shooting distance of the mezzanine, but it was a very close distance for the artillery.

Qi Jun kept firing within this safe range, and in just ten rounds of shooting, the exterior wall of the Fan family mansion was completely collapsed.

During this period, several Shihou, who dared to fight, led his close friends to launch a desperate counterattack, trying to destroy the Qi army artillery that seemed to be close. However, their final efforts were completely interrupted by the Qi army's flintlock rifle volley and the light artillery's shotgun.

After losing the last advantage and paying about 300 casualties, Shihou made his last struggle - they sent people to negotiate with Xu Shiyang, hoping to win a chance for himself to surrender with conditions.

This is naturally not possible.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the Qi army launched a general attack. About twenty minutes later, the last resisting Housing soldier was shot dead behind a rockery.
Chapter completed!