The assault force, which was composed of a mixture of selected soldiers, sharp soldiers, and magic soldiers belonging to the field army, was the first to burrow into the thick smoke.

Even though the shelling had stopped, the smoke was still pouring down with a rain of rubble, and slightly larger stones were clanging against the soldiers' iron helmets.

The attacking troops met no resistance, and they quickly crossed the former city wall, stepped on the slope formed by the ruins, and directly crossed the Gaizhou city wall.

The ground was littered with the corpses of the Golden Soldiers, and the barrels of the cannons could occasionally be seen blown into petals—presumably the Golden Soldiers had been overloaded with propellant in their panic, which caused the bore to explode.

Walk further until you pass through the smoke and suddenly see what you see. When I got here, I could finally see the living golden soldiers.

Although it is only a few dozen remnants of the corpse that are expressionless and walk like walking corpses.

The Qi soldiers mercilessly killed these defenseless enemies one by one, and some were even in the mood to mend the corpses lying on the ground.

"Isn't that going to be a win?" Someone said loudly in a relaxed mood.

"Impossible!" The officer who led the team hurriedly dispelled the soldiers' underestimation of the enemy: "There are tens of thousands of Tartars in the city, and it is impossible for that cannon just now to kill them all!" Alert! Always ready to fight! ”

The assault force began to stretch into the city, and after the fastest assault force of thirty men had crossed two blocks, a group of Tartar armor soldiers suddenly poured out of a nearby alleyway.

These people are obviously elite, and they can even shoot with a strong bow and heavy arrows while running! Several Qi soldiers who were caught off guard were shot and fell to the ground in pain.

Seven or eight Draftmen immediately blocked them with their shields, formed a shield wall, and quickly slammed into the Tartars.

The distance was so close that the Tartars with bows and arrows did not have time to change their other weapons, and were knocked down by the selected front soldiers, and the Qi troops behind rushed up and stabbed the Tartars to death one by one with bayonets and spears.

The Qi army began to be blocked, and the attention of the Qi army was distracted by the alleys that extended in all directions in the city, and several Tartar archers kept flashing in the various alleys, and after shooting a few arrows casually, they quickly hid back.

The Qi army returned fire with bows and muskets, occasionally hitting a few that were a little slower, but most of them were able to avoid the fatal blow.

It seems that Fu Shi Lie Zhining has made some serious preparations.

He seems intent on taking advantage of the broken and complicated terrain of the city to stall for some time.

Street fighting was indeed a good way to neutralize the Qi army's firepower superiority, but the Jin army's own equipment was not suitable for street fighting, and the Qi army's reaction speed was far faster than the Jin army had imagined.

It is probably understood that the tactic of the Jin army is to open the widest avenue in the city, and after shooting arrows from the alleys and buildings on both sides, the vanguard soldiers will use their shields to cover the magic soldiers to shoot a few shots inside, and then throw a basket into it.

These bamboo baskets contained 4 catties of gunpowder wrapped in linen cloth and 2 catties of gravel, and everyone within a radius of more than 10 meters would definitely die after the explosion.

The Qi army threw a large number of improvised explosives to suppress the enemy squads on both sides, and the main force quickly advanced along the street, and at about three o'clock in the afternoon, the Qi army discovered the second line of defense of Sushi Lie Zhining in Gaizhou City.

Fu Shi Lie Zhining had been thinking about how he could delay more time for the Qi army that came in full force.

In fact, the Jin army was very inexperienced in defense - both in field defense and in defending cities. Therefore, the first defensive method that Su Shilie Zhining thought of was that Xu Shiyang had built a large depth fortification on the edge of the Yellow River.

At the beginning, the layers of fortifications extending in all directions once made the main force of the Jin army helpless and extremely uncomfortable.

He believes that his copycat version of the fortification can achieve a similar effect.

Therefore, during the garrison of Gaizhou, he renovated the roads in Gaizhou City, all the grass and wood structures were removed, and the masonry houses were opened in the corners of some doors that could pass through a soldier.

In this way, the defenders were able to move quickly through alleys and holes in the city – the equivalent of the traffic trenches dug by Xu Shiyang.

Then, with the old Gaizhou official office as the center, three earth and stone defense lines were built with the help of some solid buildings in the city, plus the official office itself and the city wall, this is the five defense lines!

If it weren't for the rapid destruction of the city walls, Lie Zhining even thought that he could hold out for at least three to five days.

Unfortunately, he underestimated the power of the artillery of the Qi army, and was hit by the rubble stirred up by the cannonballs on the city wall, and was not lightly wounded.

Had it not been for the desperate efforts of several guards to drag him off the wall, this carefully constructed line of defense might have collapsed due to the sudden death of the commander.

However, for the Qi army, it doesn't make much difference whether Su Shi Lie Zhining dies directly or not, anyway, the Tartars have built a defensive line, and it would be good to push them down.

All the way to the second line of defense, the attacking Qi troops did not even stop for long, and the front row chose the front to hold up the shield and quickly moved forward.

Looking forward from behind the low wall of the Tartars, you can only see layers of shields rushing towards you, and several Tartars wielding their swords forced Aha soldiers to drag out a three-bow bed crossbow, which was an arrow against the shield wall.

A crossbow the size of a spear roared, piercing through the shield and stringing the three Qi soldiers together, but the others quickly filled the gap, and the shield array was still airtight.

The other Ahabs opened fire on the shield array with muskets, shotguns, and large-caliber arquebuses, and several of the Draftmen fell in response to the roar of muskets.

Unfortunately, if the musket exceeds twenty paces and the shotgun exceeds fifty steps, it is basically impossible to penetrate the protection of the shield and iron armor, and only a few arquebuses can really cause enough damage.

And the Qi army chose to turn a blind eye to these casualties, which were not serious, and advanced rapidly.

The 15-mm muskets in the back row were placed between the gaps in the shields, and a single round of fire hit the Tartars.

Several mentally broken Aha threw away their weapons and fled backwards screaming, and the Tartar armor soldiers who were overseeing the battle roared and swung their knives, cutting off all the heads of the deserters.

On the opposite side, another volley of muskets was fired, and a babbling Tartar soldier was shot in the head, and the 15mm lead bullet easily pierced through the iron helmet and skull, and then drilled out from the other side, bringing out a stream of red and white stained blood.

Under the cover of muskets, the shield array of the Qi army successfully approached the edge of the breastwork, and the sharp soldiers shouted in unison, holding the spears in their hands and stabbing behind the breastwork.

Several of the Draftmen took the opportunity to climb over the low wall, and some drew their pistols from their waists and fired at the Tartars at a distance close to their faces.

When the gun rang out, the Tartars pounced, and the Selector threw away his pistol, drew his waist knife and one-handed axe, and pounced on it, standing in a ball with the unstable Tartar armor.

The breastwork without sufficient firepower was just an ordinary obstacle, and more Qi troops climbed over the breastwork and joined the battle in front of them, suppressing the Jin army with their superiority in strength.

After a few moments, the Tartar gave up his hold, turned around in embarrassment, and retreated into the alleys on either side.

The first line of defense in Gaizhou City was breached.