Su Shi Lie Zhining is the patriarch of the Su Shi Lie tribe, and the Su Shi Lie tribe is a Jurchen tribe that followed Jin Taizu to raise troops, and also produced the queen of Taizu (Wanyan Zongwang's mother), which is considered a descendant clan and has always occupied a special position in the Jin Kingdom.

If you really have to calculate it carefully, the relationship between Su Shilie and the royal family is closer than that of some Wanyan side branches.

What's more, Su Shi Lie Zhining himself is still Wanyan Zongbi's son-in-law, so it is not surprising that he wants to be loyal to Dajin.

The only problem is that desperate determination cannot make up for the serious lack of troops, firepower, and confidence in victory.

On the sixth day of the first month of October, the Qi army spent two hours calmly deploying artillery positions under the city of Gaizhou.

The siege was used by the General Staff as a real combat test, and the army's heavy artillery brought mortars with some excess firepower to deal with the Jurchens' thin fortifications.

The more calm the Qi army looked, the more uneasy the Jin soldiers defending the city became, especially the sharp-eyed guys who could see the particularly huge cannons in the artillery positions under the city, and many people's hearts were cold.

Only a few of the fierce soldiers of the Fierce Stone Tribe, who were still wielding their swords, forced the Aha soldiers to carry the rolling stone and wood mines onto the city wall, and some people set up cauldrons on the city wall, which burned hot oil or feces, emitting a disgusting stench.

The Qi army did not hide its main direction of attack - that is, the south gate of Gaizhou City, so Su Shi Lie Zhining also had the courage to concentrate all the city defense equipment in this direction.

In addition to the traditional weapons, there are more than 20 copper and iron cannons, more than 300 guns, and 200 wooden cannons.

Fu Shi Lie Zhining found that the hands of his Aha soldiers holding guns were trembling slightly.

No one expected these slaves who lacked the will to fight and the confidence to win to perform any miracles, but Fu Shi Lie Zhining did not want them to waste too much of the firearms that they had come up with great difficulty.

Therefore, he ordered: "The cannon is fired at a distance of 100 paces from the enemy, and the gun is fired at 50 paces, and those who are fired beyond this distance will be beheaded on the spot!" ”

The closer the distance, the more accurate the fight, and the Jurchens naturally understood this truth.

In fact, the Jurchen Blazeites had done some shooting experiments and had actual combat tests in the wars of the Muslims, so they had a general understanding of the accuracy of firearms.

In the case of Fu Shi Lie Zhining, he thought that the accuracy of shooting the enemy infantry's attacking phalanx at a distance of 50 steps from the gun and 100 steps from the cannon was still acceptable, and once it was hit, it was useless to wear several layers of armor.

The Qi army doesn't like to use shield cars very much, if they fight well, these firearms will release a few rounds, and theoretically it is not impossible to kill a thousand Qi soldiers.

In this way, it was possible for the Jin army to hold this strategically important city with the help of fortifications until reinforcements arrived.

Rumble!

Fu Shi Lie Zhining was still dreaming, and suddenly there was a dull cannon sound from under the city, and this Jurchen Bo Ji Lie raised his head to look outside the city, just in time to see a black iron ball rising from the distance, struggling to climb into the air.

"How do you fly so high?" Fu Shi Lie Zhining muttered to himself suspiciously.

Then he watched as the iron bullet flew to the highest point, crossed a parabola that seemed inconspicuous from his angle, and began to fall.

This cannonball, which weighed 30 catties, directly crossed the city wall of Gaizhou and smashed heavily into the city behind Fu Shi Lie Zhining.

Suddenly there was a burst of smoke and dust, and where it was hit, a small two-story building made of bricks and stones collapsed in an uproar.

The shell didn't bounce back a few times like the others, and seemed to be applying most of its energy to the first target to be hit.

Fu Shi Lie Zhining opened his mouth, turned his head to look at the place behind him that was hit by the mortar shell, and was silent for a long time.

The power of the shells was still secondary, and he only suddenly remembered that his enemies seemed to be advancing much faster than his side.

Boom Boom!

The eight 30-pound mortars of the heavy artillery battalion opened fire at the same time, throwing more heavy shells directly into the city of Gaizhou.

The high trajectory of the mortar cannon can pass over low peaks or walls and directly attack targets behind obstacles, making it a powerful siege and defense weapon.

In addition to the 8 mortar guns, the army and navy heavy artillery battalion also brought 8 16-pound and 16 10-pound cannons with a total of 24 but relatively straight cannons, as well as 64 8-pound and 4-pound field guns from 4 army field brigades.

At the same time as the mortar artillery was fired, 88 guns of other calibers also began to fire at the city of Gaizhou.

This is the first time in the world that so many regular artillery guns have been hit to shoot at the same target, the Qi artillery position thundered, looking down from the Gaizhou city wall, the thick smoke has flooded the Qi artillery, only when the cannon fires, can you see the long, orange-red muzzle flame.

The iron ball, weighing 4 to 16 catties, dragged a long white tail and slammed into the city wall of Gaizhou, which was like a giant that had been hit hard, trembling with the hit.

The walls of Gaizhou were also covered in smoke and dust from the shells, and the smoke and dust continued to rain down debris, mixed with charred and blackened bodies, and the desperate howls of the Jin soldiers.

Even the more determined True Jurchens were on the verge of a nervous breakdown under the blow that could not be resisted by manpower, and they had forgotten the order that Lie Zhining had just given, and some Aha howled and threw their weapons out of the city.

Some of the Tartar soldiers who supervised the battle even snatched Ahha's weapons and shot them themselves—even if they couldn't hit anything, they were fighting back, which was more comfortable than simply being beaten under the great pressure and danger.

Although it was only a little bit, although the Qi army on the opposite side probably didn't notice that they actually fought back.

The performance of the bronze cast cannon was much better than that of the iron cannon, and each cannon of the Qi army calmly fired at a rate of fire of one shot in five minutes, and bombarded for a whole hour!

More than 2,000 shells fell on the wall of Gaizhou, and the outer wall defense line of the Jin army has been completely destroyed.

In fact, about half an hour later, the city wall of Gaizhou had collapsed in a large area. By the time the shooting stopped, the walls and the defenders on them had been completely reduced to dust.

At this time, the location of the original south gate city wall was still shrouded in black smoke that reached into the sky, and the mortar also caused many fires and buildings to collapse in the city, as if the city of Gaizhou was trembling under the blows of the Qi army.

"Artillery is the god of war."

Xu Shiyang smiled and muttered to himself.

After a few moments, he shouted to the herald:

"Attack! I'm going to take Gaizhou today! ”

"Wan Sheng!"

The 20,000 soldiers of the Qi army cheered in unison, and now, even the most Muna soldiers, were confident of victory.

Some even began to wonder if the enemy would survive the terrifying firepower of the hour before.