Fei Yangguo showed half of his head and looked carefully at the large and small iron pipes in the front of the Wuyi Army's position in the distance. He knew that it was a cannon. He naturally knew the specific details of the defeat last year, and even more so that if it weren't for these cannons with terrifying power, the Jurchen army would not have been defeated so miserably.

What puzzled him was that he heard from his fellow comrades in the army that the range of these cannons was only a little more than one mile, so how could these cannons be so far? Of course, he didn't know that it was Wu Yi's army who deliberately stepped closer before attacking, and now he was sieging the city, so he naturally had no fear.

Before he could figure it out, a series of fire balls suddenly emerged from the Wuyi Army artillery positions in the distance.

"Sir, be careful!"

"Bang!"

Fei Yangguo was heavily pressed to the ground by his own personal soldiers, and his forehead hit the ground hard, almost fainting.

At this time, the rumbling sound of cannons had already been heard, and the whistling cannonballs hit hard, the earth trembled, and in an instant, smoke and dust covered everyone's eyes.

"Rumbling..."

"Rumbling..."

In the dense rain of bullets, amid the slump of countless houses being knocked down, and in the screams of countless people, the entire Yehe City began to tremble. The countless Jurchen defenders were smashed into blood mud by the dense rain of bullets before they even responded.

The first siege of Wuyi's army in the true sense finally kicked off with the sound of cannons.

"Son Gun! Hurry up!"

Liu Zhen shouted vigorously, not knowing whether it was stimulated by the rumbling cannons or the hot smoke from the muzzle, his whole face turned red.

What came out of the muzzle was bursts of black smoke, which was inevitable caused by black gunpowder weapons. Hundreds of cannons fired together, and the black smoke from the muzzle condensed together, almost forming a dark cloud on the Wuyi army, which obstructed the vision, making the gunners' vision blurry. But this did not affect. Yehe City was there and would not run away.

Just bang according to the calibrated coordinates.

This is the Wuyi Army's gunpowder that was very fine and very fine and soft, like the firearms used by the imperial court a few years ago. Even after a row of guns were shot out, the gunmen could not see anything at all. The black smoke reached this level.

The hot shell of the sub-gun retreated from the cannon chamber. The loader who had already been on standby immediately stuffed a new sub-gun into the cannon chamber with a clang. The sub-gun was filled, and the arm of the gun team leader next to him fell heavily. The gunner responsible for igniting the lead. With a clang, another sub-gun retreated and fell to the ground. A gunner who had already prepared was already pouring water on the hot cannon barrel. With a sound of rushing, a gust of white mist evaporated.

Each artillery position is like an assembly line. The soldiers of the Thousand Houses of Artillery Sweat and have forgotten the time. Everyone seems to have become robots. Repeat and repeat, doing mechanical movements, and their bodies are as stiff as they are mechanical. They load, fire, cool, load, fire, and cool again.

Even Liu Zhen, a senior officer like Qianhu, who was the deputy Qianhu Office of the Artillery, personally took action and acted as a loader.

All artillery soldiers were shocked by his behavior. In this era, the role of examples that can lead by example is endless, and all artillery soldiers are moving like crazy. A large amount of live ammunition training has worked. They are very fast, but very standard, and there are no mistakes.

Behind them, the logistics department's baggage soldiers shuttled back and forth, between the artillery positions and hundreds of trucks of the logistics department protected by the infantry phalanx in the center. Several baggage soldiers carried a wooden box and placed it on the ground with a clang. When they opened the box, they slowly got the guns of the mediocre Bolang machine cannon.

Wang Dachun led a group of people over and stood on an empty ammunition box and shouted: "Brothers, but for this kind of attack, sir, I can't help but razed Yehe City to the ground today! Take it easy, don't explode!"

Before he finished speaking, the pried ammunition boxes were instantly beaten. The ammunition boxes that had just piled up like mountains were empty in the blink of an eye.

Wang Dachun's eyes were straightened, and he twitched, gasping for a heartache: "These grandsons are all money!"

The Jurchen slave soldiers of the Tenth Guard who were standing behind them were dazzled and confused. The power of the God of War was fully interpreted. Facing the Wu Yi army's powerful firepower and such fierce attack, the sound of cannons rumbling like thunder made them tremble all over their bodies. The Wu Yi army's powerful and invincible thought suddenly arose in their hearts. The originally restless, hated, angry, and brewing all disappeared with the rumbling shellings!

Powerful force is the most direct force that makes people tremble and surrender!

That is the characteristic of war in the era of hot weapons. At least the Wuyi Army has entered the era of hot weapons in the field of guns and cannons, which is very different from the cold weapons era of swords, guns, swords and halberds in the past. The large amount of consumption has a great requirement for logistics supply, of course, accompanied by it, and is also of great power.

Countless streams of thick smoke and dust rose from Yehe City not far away, flying rubble and dust covered the entire east gate of Yehe City.

A shell fell accurately on the city wall and hit the chest of a Jurchen soldier. On the spot, he smashed his chest into pieces. Two pieces of limbs flew out obliquely. The shells were still in full swing and hit the ground hard. A large pit was smashed out of the rammed earth wall. The scorching shells shot up, and the two Jurchen soldiers were killed.

Almost at the same time, another shell hit the female wall, but only about half a foot thick, and it made a moan and collapsed with a bang. Several Jurchen soldiers hiding behind were buried in the broken pieces, and then the shells fell on it, and suddenly a stream of dark red blood emerged from the loess.

There was also a shell, which was hit a little farther away. It landed on the gatehouse of a mansion in the city, penetrated the roof and fell heavily into the house. Several gatehouses in the room who were luxurious and usually domineering were hiding, listening to the rumbling cannons outside, trembling as the shells landed among them, and one of them killed on the spot. Blood, brain plasma, white bones splashed the remaining gatehouses all over the faces. Several people screamed. They fled around, and one of them was wet in the crotch of a doorman, which was already scared.

Of course, the most shells fell on the city wall. The rammed earth wall has not been repaired for too many years, and it is a bit broken, not to mention that it was hit by the shell so hard! After being hit by the shell, a large semicircular pit appeared on the city wall immediately, and then fine cracks spread to all sides with this as the center.

Perhaps it is powerless to deal with buildings with reinforced concrete structures, but it is enough to deal with such rammed earth city walls that do not even have a layer of bricks outside.

Under the artillery fire, the city walls were already shaking.

Fei Yangguo had been protected by his personal soldiers and came to the bottom of the city wall. Relatively speaking, this place was the safest place. The shells could not be hit, and it seemed that the city wall could not collapse for a while.

Fei Yangguo leaned tightly against the wall, his face as if dead.

The previous tentative shelling made him underestimate the power of Wuyi's military artillery. He never expected that these iron pipes were so powerful that under their bombardment, the entire Yehe City was moaning in pain.

Only a few years have passed? The Ming Dynasty, who was bullied and plundered by them, actually rose up such a powerful army?

Fei Yangguo's thoughts were so loud that it seemed that Ye Hecheng could not be protected, so he had to think of a way out earlier.

The smoke of gunpowder, the fire and the sound of collapse made Fei Yangguo tremble. What's more, the other Jurchens were not elite troops left behind in Yehe City. The Jurchen soldiers in the city were already in chaos, and Fei Yangguo could no longer control his troops. He could only watch the shells whizzing past his head over and over again, crushing them repeatedly like plowing the ground. Countless soldiers even tore their bodies by the shells and smashed them to pieces before they even saw the enemy. They took their limbs away and died of blood slowly in the wail.

This is not a war at all!

This is the **naked massacre.

"Boom!" Another heavy shelling sounded, and the entire city wall trembled for a moment. Fei Yangguo could obviously feel something was wrong with the city wall.

"Go away!" Fei Yangguo let out a scream that was not like a human voice, and ran quickly towards the distance. His personal soldiers stopped for a while and quickly fled.

That section of the city wall was already hit by countless shells, cracks spread throughout the wall. After this shell, it began to shake and a little unstable.

Liu Zhen keenly discovered the place and shouted: "Boom there, see, adjust the angle and move to the right, yes, bang!"

"Boom!" Several mediocre Bolang machine cannons aimed at this side and rushed over. The city wall finally could no longer support it, and it collapsed with a bang, and smoke and dust rolled over.

When the smoke and dust disappeared, a gap of about ten meters long appeared on the wall of Yehe City!

"Boom out!" The artillery cheered and the crowd was excited.

"Boom away!" Lian Zining clenched his hand tightly, and a hint of excitement appeared on his face.

The war in Yehe City was much smoother than he thought. The news he received was that at least thirty years ago, Henan Wei was a strong city. Unexpectedly, it was now in such a state of decline.

"Blow off?!" Fei Yangguo looked at the gap with a dull look, and his heart sank. He knew that now, it was completely finished!

At almost the same time, about 300 meters south of the gap, a gap of more than 20 meters long was blown open. As for the city gate, it had already opened after dozens of cannons being bombed by the key!

"The message was that Liu Zhen should raise the angle and bombard the city to cover the infantry. The message was that Xia Zikai should send 20 thousand-household offices to take down Yehe City in one fell swoop!"

"Yes, sir!"

The commander rushed away and soon passed Lian Zining's orders to Liu Zhen and Xia Zikai's ears.

The shelling is over.

"Huh! Finally stopped, ***, how many shells can these Wuyi troops fight?" Yang Kai let go of his hand that had been covering his ears and breathed a long sigh of relief.

As the sound of cannons stopped, the crying of the girls and children from the back house finally became smaller.

This is the main hall of a large mansion in the center of Yehe City. The house is very large in scale and the buildings in it are quite luxurious. Nearby, there are the luxury houses of the Jurchens and the powerful people next to it, but their mansions are slightly inferior to those of Yang Kai's mansion.

And Yang Kai is undoubtedly a name that only a Han Chinese can have.

As a Han man, it is quite telling that he can own such a big house in Yehe City, the capital of the Haixi Jurchens.

Not to mention, from the hall, you can see hundreds of guards wearing Ming-style cotton armor and holding exquisite weapons standing in the yard outside.

Yang Kai’s identity is simple, he is just a businessman.

But businessmen are different from businessmen. If merchants can be divided into several levels, then Yang Kai has undoubtedly reached the level of a giant businessman. He belongs to the top level among businessmen.

The Yang family in Jinyang started his business by transporting grain at the border for salt to attract salt and accumulated billions of property. From the founding of the Ming Dynasty to the present, it has been standing for more than a hundred years. It has always been a great merchant in the entire Shanxi Provincial Administration and even a large merchant in the north. In the local area, the Yang family has a mixed status. It has done a large business and I don’t know how much land there is. In the court, there are quite a few energy officials who are close to the Yang family. They have received funding from the Yang family when they were young, and some even came from the Yang family directly.

Even if we look at the entire Ming Dynasty, this master is an absolute wealthy family. Even though his power and status cannot be compared with the senior officials in the capital, it is far better than wealth. At this time, the business of the Ming Dynasty was highly prosperous and wealth was often synonymous with status.

Yang Kai is the side branch of Yang family.

If we talk about blood ties, he can still call the current Yang family head to call his uncle, but before he was twenty years old, the Yang family head would never look at this nephew who was three generations away from him.

If you choose to stay in Jinyang, Yang Kai may rely on his father to use his relationship to enter the huge business kingdom of Yang's family after he becomes an adult. He will struggle all the way. If he is lucky, he may be able to be the shopkeeper of a certain store at the age of 40. He has a good income, can marry a wife of neither high nor low origin and raise a few children. If he does a better job, he may even be able to take a concubine back.

But this is not what Yang Kai wants.

In the 29th year of Zhengde, 19-year-old Yang Kai bid farewell to his father and left Jinyang City with the thirty-seven taels of silver he got from the family with his three brothers.

Not even as young as the crown, ambitious.

His target was the Tatars, who were blocked by the Ming Dynasty at that time, and all border trade was blocked.

Yang Kai is undoubtedly a very capable guy. Of course, he is also very lucky. If it weren't for this, he wouldn't have lived until now. There are as many Shanxi merchants traveling outside the pass every year, and there are always a few who come back and make money.

Twenty-three years have passed, and Yang Kai has become a famous tycoon in northern Shanxi.

The property he accumulated had been calculated using 100,000 taels of silver as a unit of measurement. He had more than 20 caravans and at least one thousand well-equipped armed guards. He had his business in the Tatars, Fuyu Guards, and even the Three-Secret Jurchens.

His success even attracted the respect of the family. Just last year, his uncle, who had already been in the third rank, was anxious about the elders' council and finally decided that Yang Kai's branch would be separated from the Yang family in Jinyang and set up a new branch. This also officially means that Yang Kai grew into an important force in the Shanxi business community.

Of course, it is impossible to do a regular and serious business if you can accumulate such a huge wealth in such a short time.

In fact, if Yang Kai’s business is done according to the Ming Dynasty, it would be considered light to cut into pieces by thousands of cuts.

He only has four types of businesses: salt, iron, tea, and armor.

None of these four things was allowed to be trafficked by the Ming Dynasty to these old enemies, and privately selling weapons and armor was a serious crime to kill the nine clans.

Of course, the rules are set for people to violate them. Yang Kai is not the only one who does such a banned business. They don’t even have the patience of the big strait ball. Because they have enough relationships and strength to deal with any possible crises.

In fact, with the glorious Ming Dynasty, which is almost corrupt, unless someone deliberately slanders them, otherwise, as long as there is a channel, there is really no risk.

Seventy percent of Yang Kai's business is in the Jurchens.

Compared with the descendants of Genghis Khan, the newly-rise Jurchens of the Three Clans are stronger and have stronger attacks on external expansion, so the demand for various strategic materials is naturally greater. Of course, the most important point is that due to the continuous robbery of the Han people in the early stage of their wealth, they also had enough money. Even if they had no money, they could exchange other things for ginseng, animal skin, deer antler, sand gold, Dongzhu, etc. Compared with these rare things, the Mongols could only provide war horses and slaves, so naturally they would not be attractive.

The decades of business with the Jurchens allowed Yang Kai to establish an excellent relationship with the Jurchen powerful people. He was even invited to attend the banquet of the Jurchen Khan Wanyan Chen, which was a lifetime honor for him. In Yehe City, he also had a good relationship with the powerful people such as Gangyi and the Yehenara tribes and had a transcendent status.

His mansion in Yehe City is a clear proof. In fact, it is not just Yehe City, but also in the Khan Turuting Mountain of the Jurchens in Jianzhou, and in Wudehe City, the capital of the Jurchens in Beishan, each of which has a residence of this size.
To be continued...