The Bohai Sea region has a temperate monsoon climate, with northerly winds (northwest and northeast) in winter and southerly winds (southeast and southwest) in summer.

At the turn of spring and summer, there are more westerly winds, or southwesterly winds.

But no matter how much westerly or southwesterly winds there are, there are also easterly and southeasterly winds. Although it is not extremely powerful, it is enough for the army to float into the sea and cover the sky.

The land of Lushun belonged to Yushi County in the Han Dynasty, was called "Ma Shijin" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, "Duli Town" in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and "Lion's Mouth" in the Khitan Dynasty. The subsequent Suzhou Pass, as well as Suzhou, where the later Shijin County was located, can be said to be an important place for Khitan maritime trade.

Of course, for the Khitan, the benefits of this sea trade can really be almost ignored, and although Suzhou Pass has the meaning of customs, it also has the meaning of defense.

That place was too close to Dengzhou. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Central Plains army fought several times in the Liaodong region and conquered the peninsula, all by sea and land, so that everyone realized the unreliability of the Bohai Sea.

Suzhou Pass is also known as Hashan Pass in Khitan, which means fence in Khitan language. The implication of this is obvious.

In the true history, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Ma Yun to lead the troops from Shandong to cross the sea from Shandong to guard Liaodong, because the sea journey was smooth sailing, thus the lion's mouth was renamed Lushunkou, in the early Ming Dynasty, it was one of the receiving points of Dengzhou maritime military quartermasters, and later Zhu Ming built a guard in Jinzhou and set up a thousand households in Lushun.

After the Jurchens seized the place, they faced even greater pressure at sea. Lu Qi frequently communicated with him from the sea, and earlier, tens of thousands of troops floated to the sea to break Goryeo to the east. A Guda deeply feels uneasy in Suzhou!

He made people build a city at the mouth of the lion, called the southern city, and the surrounding area was one mile and three hundred steps, and the moat was one foot and two feet deep, and two feet and five feet wide. 500 soldiers and horses were stationed there.

This small city with a circumference of only more than one mile is located next to the Lushun Military Port in later generations, only 200 steps from the shore, and Xiguan Mountain is located outside the west side, which is the Baiyu Mountain in later generations. In the late Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang accompanied Guangxu's father, Prince Alcohol, to inspect Lushunkou and said that there is gold, and there should be white jade. Since then, Xiguan Mountain has been renamed "White Jade Mountain".

This place and Dengzhou a south and a north control of the Bohai Sea, Lushun is surrounded by mountains, the tiger's tail extended by the Iron Mountain forms a natural anti-wave ti, only a waterway at the mouth of Lushun leads to the port, the unique geographical conditions make the place become a famous military port in later generations. I don't mention this.

Let's just say that at this time, artillery is still a unique weapon in the hands of the Qi army in the Central Plains, and whether it is the Khitans or the Jurchens, there are no big ships with deep drafts, and the lion's mouth, which is easy to attack and difficult to defend, is obviously not the center of gravity of their defense. In the past, the Khitans and the current Jurchens focused on the defense of this place in the plain area to the north, that is, the later Jinxian County and the Jinzhou District of Dalian.

Therefore, on the large and small hills of the lion's mouth, the forest is lush and full of tender green.

There are flat lands around the southern city, which are fertile soil for farming, but the Jurchens only use them to herd their horses. At this moment, the watchtower in the south city suddenly rang a rapid alarm bell. The sound of gold was heard far away, causing people inside and outside the city to stop their movements and stick their heads out to look south.

After a day and a night of sailing, after dawn the entire fleet was assembled and counted at sea, so that the rear rushed towards the lion's mouth.

Li Jun is still very excited.

This was the first real battle he had encountered in years. Emperor Lu equipped him with an experienced person like Hu Yanqing as his deputy, and he didn't want to smash the scene on stage.

Hundreds of warships of all sizes floated into the sea, and the Jurchens in the southern city would naturally be aware of it.

Li Jun stood on the high stern of the ship, looked at it with a clairvoyant mirror, and saw that many heads had already appeared on the head of the small city. There was also chaos on the shore, some people hurried to the city, while others were carrying cold weapons such as spears and bows and arrows and peering into the sea.

At the same time, there was also a horse army of 100 people in that small city!

"Hahaha, the fish swimming at the bottom of the kettle, I don't know whether I am alive or dead." These Jurchen barbarians don't know the power of firearms, and when the artillery fires, they know what to do.

Emperor Lao Tzu has already named the lion's mouth 'Lushun'. This journey, he must be smooth sailing, smooth and smooth.

Hu Yanqing was on his own boat, and he was also watching the performance of the Jurchens on the shore. Seriously, if you don't have firearms in hand, if you want to deal with those Jurchen soldiers on the shore, you really have to pay some casualties. Because the opponent is on the shore? It has a natural defensive advantage.

But now they have firearms in their hands, cannons, tiger squat cannons, and thunderstorms, and under such means, the resistance of the Jurchen soldiers on the opposite side is also very inconspicuous.

Because the ship's artillery could fire directly at the Jurchens' small town.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The roar of artillery rang out, and hot iron balls shot towards the opposite side.

There were hundreds of warships at sea, and only one out of ten gunboats were shipped. However, the ten gunboats, including Li Jun's ship, a sea shark ship, had a total of seventy or eighty guns, and only thirty or forty guns on one side, but the power of firing together was also very spectacular.

I saw that the small city opposite was swaying with smoke and dust in more than one place, and the heads of the rammed earth city were shaking, and the defenders were panicked.

Anyone who had not experienced artillery fire would have to panic at this scene. Mou Ke Wanyan Hudun, who was stationed here, looked at the collapsed battlements at the head of the city in astonishment, and then looked at the iron ball that rolled down to his side, such a big thing, so powerful?

He once accompanied the army to capture Jinzhou, and he had seen the power of stone cannons, and he had also seen the size of cannons. In comparison, the iron ball is obviously much smaller. But now it is not inferior to the power of artillery.

Iron bullets fell on this small city, and the female walls of the battlements collapsed one after another, and cracks appeared in the city walls, and even the inside of the city walls fell dust. And as the firing continued, the accuracy of the shelling increased.

If in the past only five out of ten shells could hit the city wall, and only one or two out of five could hit the city wall or the head of the city, now ten shells can hit the small city completely, and at least five of them can hit the city wall or the head of the city.

Wanyan Hudun hugged his head and ran away. Helplessly, the city is too small, after a few rounds of shelling, the houses in the city collapsed, and the collapsed houses still ignited fires, and they could not be controlled.

And when he fled, the Jurchen soldiers in the city were even more hugging their heads. These people couldn't stay in the city for a long time, and those comrades who were beaten to pulp, obviously wearing heavy armor, seemed to be ineffective at all. It's the pain of a person who can hit the broken soil that jumps and grins his teeth.

There are dead and wounded, stumps and broken arms, wailing and wailing, which makes people even more emboldened.

What's more, the iron ball is getting denser and denser. They are not afraid of real swords and guns, but if they can't reach the enemy, they will be beaten and unable to lift the battle, which is really frustrating.

And the cavalry and other soldiers on the shore outside the city were even more out of sight at this moment.

If the Jurchen war horses can always stay undisturbed when they hear the sound of cannons, then the progress of the Jurchens is really a bug.

As for those Jurchen soldiers with swords, guns and bows, after seeing the appearance of the small city, they were even more frightened, and they dared to stay far away? If this is a cannon fire, they will be miserable.

And Wanyan Salumu, who is sitting in Suzhou City, has already received the letter at this moment, but what can he do if he receives the news?

It must be known that Suzhou Pass is in Suzhou, not in the Lion's Mouth. If the Han warship can get close to the lion's mouth, it can also approach Suzhou Pass and force it to the city of Suzhou.

Nowadays, there is a shortage of Jurchen troops, and there are only six or seven thousand Jin soldiers in the huge southeast of Liao, and there are many new soldiers among them. Now it is distributed in Suzhou, Fuzhou, Shunzhou, Ningzhou, Zhenhai and other places.

Even though Suzhou is the top priority, he has less than 3,000 soldiers and horses in the hands of Yan Salumu.

If he sent troops to save the lion's mouth, and the Han people attacked Suzhou, it would be all over. "I want to finish Yan Hudun and withdraw quickly!" He took Suzhou as his first priority.

Then, as expected, in the afternoon of the same day, a Han Chinese fleet appeared on the sea outside Suzhou.

As a Jurchen with a relatively broad vision, Salumu has really never seen a cannon.

Standing at the head of Suzhou City, he saw several large Han ships floating on the sea, and suddenly thundered, and puffs of white smoke rose from the side of the ship.

Then he saw some small black dots falling on the pier, and then, and then he saw the pier, and it was a house collapsed.

But it was because an iron bullet happened to hit the pier archway.

Salumu struck a spirit, and her face changed greatly.

Under the clear and sunny sky, the solid stone archway was stunned and turned into a pile of waste stones. So is the city of Suzhou under his feet stronger than the stone archway?

Later, more and more hot iron bullets fell into the houses around the pier, and the fire burned inexorably.

A quarter of an hour ago, Suzhou Pass, which had remained unchanged for a hundred years, became the same miserable appearance as it is now in the blink of an eye......

Salumu and Hudun suddenly felt that the originally strong "wall" in their hearts suddenly turned into a beach castle that could be destroyed by the sound of the waves, and turned into a pile of ruins with a bang. "Manpower is invincible!" This was the only thought left in Sarum's mind.

The noise above the city subsided, and everyone was stunned by what they saw.

Hesitant, frightened, discouraged...... Waiting for the emotions to rise in the hearts of this group of people, "Can this city still be defended?" ”

The Jurchens were originally unconvinced by the Qi army in their hearts, and Ah Gu beat the defeat of the last year, which made the Jurchens bloody and sad. However, for the Jurchen soldiers and horses in southeast Liao, they have not seen the battle formation of the Qi army, they have not really experienced the battle outside Yanjing City, and they have always had contempt for Han'er in their hearts, how can they calmly accept the fact that they are not as good as others? But at this time, no amount of unconvincing has become gone.

When many people ask themselves in their hearts, "Can this city still be kept?" At that time, the city of Suzhou will inevitably not be able to hold it.