In early November, with Su Ding as the capital's left army, the first round of tentative attacks on Jinan City began.
More than a hundred new artillery pieces were pushed to the gate of Jinan City. With Su Ding's order, a hundred cannons fired in unison!
At this time, the gunners of the Huai'an Army were basically proficient in operating explosive shells. At a suitable distance, at least five of the ten shells could accurately land on the wall of Jinan City, exploding or exploding the moment they landed.
It exploded before landing.
Although the Jinan city wall is tall, these shells will not have any immediate and substantial effect, but dozens of shells exploded neatly on the city wall, which was extremely shocking!
Some of the Qi troops who had only heard about it but had not come into contact with explosive shells were directly exploded by the shells falling on their heads. Countless pieces of iron were splashed, and a scream was immediately heard from the city wall!
After the first round of shelling, not long after, the second round of artillery exploded again, and the shells still landed accurately on the city wall.
At this time, General Tuyuantu was watching the battle on the city wall.
He looked at the artillery lined up in a row not far from the city, and his expression was very ugly.
When it came to the third round of artillery, a cannon exploded not far from him. The guards around him were so frightened that they quickly protected him and got off the tower.
Below the tower, Zhou Yuanlang was waiting for Tu Yuan, who asked Tu Yuan to retreat from the tower in a somewhat embarrassed manner. Zhou Yuanlang sighed and said, "Have you seen how powerful this southern artillery is?"
Tu Yuan took Zhou Yuanlang and sat down under a nearby stall. At this time, General Tu looked serious and whispered: "Ordinary artillery is extremely heavy and difficult to push onto the battlefield. Moreover, ordinary artillery has solid bullets.
If you hit from a low place, even if you hit a high place, you will only hurt one or two people."
"Nan Chen's new cannon is really evil!"
Tu Yuan looked ugly: "I just looked through the binoculars. Each cannon has wheels on the bottom. It can be easily pushed to the battlefield, and the shells can explode!"
Zhou Yuanlang said helplessly: "The general should have seen these in the battle report."
"It's one thing to see it in the battle report, but it's another thing to see it with your own eyes..."
Tu Yuan took a deep breath: "No wonder they were able to fight all the way to Jinan City. With this kind of artillery, if they have enough shells, they don't even need to send people to attack the city. We have to use human lives to bombard the city with shells every day."
There must be someone on the city wall, otherwise the opponent can be pushed to the base of the city wall without injury.
But under the cover of this kind of artillery fire, it was difficult for the defenders to raise their heads.
Zhou Yuanlang was silent for a while and then said: "When they attacked Yanzhou, they used this method of attack. They used this kind of artillery to bombard them indiscriminately. When the Yanzhou defenders couldn't bear it anymore, they took advantage of the situation and captured Yanzhou."
Tu Yuan couldn't help but said: "Are we just going to let them show off their power here?"
"People from the Purity Department have sneaked into Shen Qi's firearms workshop."
Zhou Yuanlang said silently: "But it's hard to say when the drawings will be produced and how long it will take for the imperial court to imitate them."
"As for now..."
He looked up at Tu Yuan and said: "General, according to the intelligence, there is only one part of the Huai'an Army's Left Army outside the city. Their Right Army has not arrived yet, and the Pioneer Army is still some distance away from Jinan."
"At this time, my suggestion is..."
Zhou Yuanlang's voice was low: "Go and fight with them!"
Tu Yuan frowned and said: "But Mr. last time said that their left army now has more than 40,000 people..."
"It's not necessarily about defeating them."
Zhou Yuanlang looked outside the city and whispered: "Even if we only win for a while, as long as we can get back one or two artillery pieces outside the city."
"No matter how bad things happen here in Shandong, it will be easy for you and me to explain later!"
Tu Yuan's eyes lit up.
Then he clenched his fist hard.
"Sir, these words will awaken the dreamer!"
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After eight rounds of artillery fire, the Huai'an army outside the city was ready to charge.
This is the basic paradigm of the Huai'an army's siege. After the artillery cover, with two rounds left, the infantry will start preparing to charge and attack the base of the city wall.
Zhong Ming led the Xuanjia Guards and was almost about to issue orders when the south gate of Jinan City suddenly creaked and was slowly pushed open.
In the city, the wolf-like infantry of the Northern Qi Dynasty had already formed their formation.
General Tu Yuan was wearing iron armor and personally commanding the formation. He looked at the Huai'an army, which was only a stone's throw away from the city wall, with cold eyes and a big wave of his hand.
"Brothers, the southern thieves are rampant. Now we have finally led them to Jinan City. Take advantage of the moment and rush over with me to kill the enemy and defend the country!"
The person commanding on the front line at this time was none other than Zhong Ming. When he saw the city wall being opened for the first time, he quickly ordered the soldiers of the Huai'an Army around him to form a formation to meet the enemy. He himself was wearing iron armor, and then looked back at a messenger
The soldiers shouted in a low voice: "Go and report to General Su!"
After saying this, he suddenly turned his head, looked at Qi Ren in front of him, and shouted in a low voice: "Hu Gou came out to die, and he made a great contribution today!"
"Xuan Jiawei takes the lead!"
"The rest of the infantry will follow!"
"The crossbowmen came forward. After two rounds of shooting, the Xuanjia Guards began to charge!"
He thought for a moment, then looked at the artillery camp and said, "The artillery camp should move back!"
As Zhong Ming quickly issued the order, the left army, which had experienced hundreds of battles, immediately began to take action. The crossbowmen immediately stepped forward and fired two rounds of three-stage shooting.
Because Qi people were charging forward and there were not many shields, the effect of these two rounds of shooting was very good. At least two to three hundred Qi people fell in these two rounds of shooting.
Immediately, Zhong Ming roared angrily and took the lead, holding a long knife and charging towards the Qi people.
He rushed forward. When he was still more than twenty steps away from Qi Ren, he began to wave the long knife in his hand and swung the long knife in a circle. By the time he slashed in front of him, he had already rushed in front of Qi Ren!
With one knife, he chopped down three Qi people!
"Good skill!"
At this time, Xue Wei, who was accompanying Shen Yi to watch the battle from a height, couldn't help shouting. Then he put down the telescope in his hand, turned to look at Shen Yi in front of him, and sighed repeatedly: "It's so fierce!"
Shen Yi also put down the telescope in his hand and looked back at him.
"How does it compare to you?"
Old Xue Wei blushed and said in a low voice: "The last general is just reckless. When he was in Linhai Guard, he didn't understand anything. Later, he joined the Anti-Japanese Army with Mr. Shen. After he became an official, he became serious. I studied with Master Qianbang for two years."
Having said this, he whispered: "Even if the last general is not injured, he is definitely no match for General Zhong."
Mr. Shen smiled dumbly: "He told me that he admires you very much and regards you as a role model."
Xue Wei shook his head slightly and whispered: "The only advantage I have over him is that I followed you earlier, Mr. Shen."
Shen Yi turned to look at Su Ding on his left, who was watching the battlefield, and asked, "Have you ever wondered why the Qi people left the city undefended and went out to fight?"
Early in the morning, three people were watching the game here.
After all, this is the first battle of the attack on Jinan. Although the three of them do not expect Jinan City to be defeated in one battle, they are still somewhat concerned about this first battle.
Su Ding put down the telescope, shook his head and said: "Unless they want to take advantage of the fact that our Huai'an Army is not ready to defeat the left army of our Huai'an Army."
"However, even the left army has a large number of people. Even if it cannot defeat them, it will be easy to support them until reinforcements arrive."
"The general can't understand why they waste their troops like this."
In Shen Yi's heart, he actually couldn't figure it out.
He once again raised his telescope and looked at the battlefield.
Su Ding and Xue Wei both started to watch the battlefield.
Suddenly, Xue Wei put down his telescope and whispered: "Mr. Shen, the Qi people seem to be attacking in the direction of the artillery camp."
Because the battlefield is very large, even with a telescope, it is impossible to see the entire battlefield. After being reminded by Xue Wei, Shen Yi and Su Ding unanimously looked in the direction of the artillery camp.
I saw two to three thousand Qi people, going crazy, chasing in the direction of the retreat of the Huai'an Army's artillery camp.
Because the miniaturized artillery was still heavy, the artillery battalion was not retreating quickly, and was being pursued by these Qi people visibly.
"not good!"
Su Ding exclaimed and lost his voice: "Their target is the artillery of our artillery camp!"
He looked at Shen Yi and said in a low voice: "Mr. Shen, I will go down and take command personally. I will definitely defend the artillery camp!"
Shen Yi slowly put down the telescope. He thought about it seriously, then shook his head and said: "Let people carry all the cannonballs on their backs, and don't leave any for Qi people. As for the artillery..."