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Its capture, pursuing a prolonged siege during which the Mongol forces used cannon and explosives, was a turning issue during the Mongol conquest on the central Yangtze basin and, at some point, of all southern China. Xiangyang, although it ongoing to be a significant garrison town and administrative centre, was not a very good river port; and Fanc