Jiagu Hu Ra really didn't want to give Dajin a funeral, speaking of which, when his tribe was conquered by Wanyan, a large number of people were also killed, although it was forty or fifty years ago, but when the big ship of Dajin was stormy, it was not difficult to recall this hatred, and it was not difficult to convince himself to find another way to live.

"It's okay to break through, but what about the wife and children in the city?" Jiagu Hera hesitated and said, "I didn't clean up the ...... at home. ”

"The husband is the wife, the father is the son, they should sacrifice for you." Zhou Ning said coldly: "What's more, how can I still have time to bring you my wife and children?" ”

Before the words fell, more artillery sounds came from outside the city - the Qi army was still testing fires, but Zhou Ning knew very well that with the quality of the Qi army's artillery, in the face of such a big target as the city wall, they would definitely be able to get a hit in just a few test shots.

Then there was a non-stop salvo, and once the walls collapsed, the Qi army could directly cross the frozen moat and enter the city for street fighting.

Zhou Ning even had some suspicions, I was afraid that this Liaoyang City would not be able to hold it for a day.

"Besides, Wanyan will let you take your family out of the city? He's not stupid, he can tell at a glance that you're going to run away with your family! ”

Wanyan Xiaodie is the son of Wanyan Zongbi, and as the Wanyan of the clan, he will definitely not defect.

"That's to throw all the mother-in-law and cubs away?"

Rumble!

There was a bang, and there was an exclamation from the city wall behind the two, Zhou Ning glanced back, it should be that the city wall was hit somewhere, and the entire south gate city wall trembled violently like a giant pricked by a needle.

"It's not necessarily too late to throw it away......." Zhou Ning said to himself: "Take care of yourself first!" ”

……

After the test-fired artillery scored several hits in a row, there was a brief silence in the artillery positions of the Qi army.

The company commander and artillery commander of the artillery company were all communicating the firing coordinates and parameters to each artillery group as soon as possible, and the combination of numbers that no one knew why made Zuo Helin, who was watching the battle from the sidelines, feel a headache.

As an officer sent by the General Staff to the front line to check the amount of artillery supplies, Zuo Helin felt like a waste in the artillery position.

This outstanding young man of the Shanshan family developed a certain awe for the artillerymen who showed great professional qualities, and he now felt that he was a waste in the artillery, and that he was of no use at all except to count the stock of shells and admire the fireworks display of the artillery.

'I should have applied to take part in the siege, and maybe I'd be a first-in-class leader.' ’

As soon as this thought crossed his mind, an artillery company commander came over and patted Zuo Helin on the back: "It's time to open fire!" Cover your ears! ”

As soon as the words fell, a drum sounded from the rear of the artillery position, and the artillery position of the Qi army suddenly emitted a thunderous artillery salvo, and all the field artillery belonging to the four divisions, the army heavy artillery battalion, the siege artillery battalion (mortar artillery), the navy heavy artillery battalion and some flying cavalry artillery companies, a total of more than 150 cannons spoke at the same time, and hundreds of iron balls of 3 to 30 catties pounced on the southern city wall of Liaoyang with a terrible whistling sound, smashing most of the city wall into dust, and splashing bricks and stones.

Zuo Helin covered his ears with his hands, and looked at the city trembling in the flames of death a mile away, his eyes were so good that he could even distinguish the half of the twisted human body flying in the air.

However, he only watched for a quarter of an hour, and as the artillery continued to fire, the white smoke from the projectile quickly enveloped the entire artillery position, and even if he was in it, Zuo Helin could only see a long, orange-red flame when the artillery fired.

Zuo Helin felt that everything around him was hazy and unreal, he seemed to be standing on the top of the white clouds, and there was lightning and thunder everywhere, he couldn't feel the snowflakes floating in the sky at all, in fact, the goose feather snow on the artillery position didn't have time to land, and it would be melted by the temperature generated when the cannon was fired.

Gunpowder smoke and water vapor drifted in the air, Zuo Helin could not see anything, even if his comrades were close at hand, he knew that his comrades were sowing death and despair to the enemy, and it was safe like shooting a fat hare in autumn when he was in his hometown.

It was really a god-like feeling, and the tree was gone in an instant.

Zuo Helin even wondered if there was still a city wall on the south side of Liaoyang after the bombardment to allow him to compete for the credit of being the first.

……

The Second Route Army, with a total of 138 artillery pieces of various types, with an average rate of fire of one shot every five minutes, bombarded targets such as the south gate of Liaoyang City and the city wall for two and a half hours!

The development of Qi artillery's cannon casting technology has made it possible for existing artillery to continuously fire a whole campaign base of shells (30 rounds per gun) at a suitable rate of fire.

The artillery bombarded from 7 o'clock in the morning to 4 o'clock in the afternoon (12 o'clock in the afternoon), and when the artillery stopped firing, to everyone's surprise, the city tower of the south gate of Liaoyang and the city wall of almost 30 paces long had completely collapsed under the ravages of more than 4,000 shells.

More than 100,000 soldiers of the Qijin and Jin armies watched the huge gap that gradually revealed after the smoke and dust cleared, and the scattered stones and dust had formed a slope that the attackers could directly cross.

Everyone was silent, a force that was completely invincible to manpower, and the sheer scale of the bombardment shocked not only the desperate defenders, but also the members of the Mission specially recruited by the attackers.

After the war, a Goryeo envoy who came with the Qi army to appreciate the fatal blow to the Tartar kings wrote the following passage in a letter to Goryeo:

"The cannon of the heavenly soldiers, like a landslide and the earth cracks, the mountains are shaking, unspeakable, resounding from the heavens and the earth, and the mountains are moving. Ohno is obscure. The smoke rose to the sky, and it was dozens of miles away. The rockets were empty, and the wind was fierce. Straight into the city, the trees were burned. ”

This is not a force that can be countered by man, and it is only at this moment that many people on both sides understand that in the future, the situation of war will be completely different.

……

After the shelling, the Qi infantry began to storm Liaoyang.

In order to adapt to the difficulties that may be encountered in siege warfare and street warfare, the General Staff of the Qi Army specially temporarily set up dozens of assault squadrons, each squadron is composed of 50 trapped or blue soldiers with pure cold weapons, 50 selectors equipped with both cold and hot weapons, and 20 combat engineers carrying a large number of small earth-shaking mines and excavation tools.

The assault squadrons were followed by light infantry dominated by flintlock musketeers, and all units attacked in companies, each of which was directly supported by a cavalry gun.

Gongsun Sheng planned to make full use of his absolute military superiority to completely control the city within today's time, and to present the capital of the Jurchen Tartars to his commander as a New Year's gift.

……

Just when the Qi artillery was still firing at the south gate, the east gate of Liaoyang City suddenly opened, and 6,000 soldiers of the Aha Heavy Brigade (4,000 Aha and 2,000 Jurchen armor soldiers who supervised the war) pushed more than 50 new artillery carts and more than 200 ordinary shield wagons poured out of the city gate.

Gongsun Sheng had concentrated all his artillery at the south gate, so the Jin army was able to line up safely under the city.

After all 250 shield chariots of all kinds left the city, Zhou Ning gave the order to attack.

History plays a little joke here, the time of the Qi army's attack on the south gate is almost exactly the same time as the time of Zhou Ning's counteroffensive at the east gate.