The soldiers of the Dashun Army on the tower of the city were directly blinded by this round of shelling by the artillery battalion of the Qin army.

They had never seen such heavy artillery fire, and everywhere they could see were severed limbs, wailing, and blood.

The little morale that the main general had just mustered quickly collapsed in this round of shelling.

Some ran around, some shouted, and some couldn't even stand the stimulus and jumped off the city walls.

They didn't know that this was just a test firing of the artillery battalion, which was used to correct the landing point of the shells.

Even more unfortunate, the commander of the Dashun army was hit in the back of the head by a piece of rubble from a cannonball during the first round of test firing, and died on the spot.

The main general was killed, and the entire Dashun army was leaderless, and the city wall fell into chaos.

Bai Shan saw all this from the clairvoyant mirror, and was also a little surprised by the effect of the first round of shelling.

I didn't expect this new artillery to be so powerful.

With this new type of artillery, it will be as easy as digging for something to take down the strong walls in the future.

What Bai Shan didn't know was that this was just the beginning of the war in the Firearms Age.

In the later stages, when both warring parties are familiar with this pattern, many ways to deal with it will naturally be derived.

One of the easiest ways to do this is to lie on the ground with your limbs flat and as close to the ground as possible, so that your entire body is less exposed.

Although this cannot completely avoid casualties caused by shelling, it can also effectively reduce the effect of shelling.

Of course, the most important thing is that the defenders of the Dashun army at the head of the city are too dense and have no vigilance to prevent enemy shelling, which is why they suffered such heavy casualties.

According to the impact point of the first round of test firing, the Qin artillery battalion quickly adjusted the firing angle.

Soon, the second round of shelling began, and the sky again resounded with a creepy scream, the sound of mortar shells piercing through the air.

After correction, the effect of the second round of shelling was obviously much improved compared with the first round. Fifteen light mortar shells all fell on the city walls, once again causing the defenders of the Dashun Army on the city walls to experience a hellish nightmare.

This time, however, only light mortars were used to kill and injure people, and heavy mortars with larger calibers, longer ranges, and greater lethality had not yet been used.

Fifteen light mortars, after six volleys, from the clairvoyant view of Baishan, you can see that there is hardly a single standing creature on the eastern wall of Taiyuan City.

Even the flag of the Dashun Army, which originally stood on top of the city tower and fluttered high, was blown off by the cannonballs, and it has long since fallen to nowhere it has fallen.

There was a dead silence at the entrance of the entire city, and only the strong smell of blood was blown by the wind and sent to the Qin army under the city.

No one cheered, everyone was stunned by the terrifying lethality of the new artillery.

The most shocking were the Mongol and Korean servants, who had already resented the heavy casualties caused by the siege of the city driven by Baishan.

But the bombardment and the dead silence on the city wall silenced them all, and the consternation in their hearts was incomparable. They didn't dare to complain at all now, but they were quite glad that they were now the servant army of the Qin army and not the enemy.

Otherwise, in the face of such a powerful enemy and fierce artillery fire, they would definitely collapse earlier than the Dashun army at the head of the city.

However, Bai Shan was a battlefield veteran after all, and quickly woke up from this shock, and resolutely ordered: "Infantry siege the city."

The Qin infantry who received the order rushed towards the city like tigers descending from the mountain, carrying ladders and other siege equipment.

With no surprises and little resistance, the eastern wall of Taiyuan was quickly occupied by the Qin army

A steady stream of Qin soldiers poured into the city of Taiyuan from the open east gate, and quickly attacked the gates in the other three directions.

The Qin army invaded the city, and there was almost no suspense in this battle.

The sun has not yet set. The entire Taiyuan City has completely fallen into the hands of the Qin army.

The last to capture the other three gates was the infantry battalion that followed Baishan on this expedition.

Three battalions attacked three gates each.

The soldiers of the Dashun Army, who were still mainly cold weapons, were almost powerless in the face of the Qin army's musketeers, all equipped with new bolt-type rifles.

It's not so much a battle as a massacre. Under this crushing attack. The three city gates were taken by the Qin army almost effortlessly.

After the Qin army took control of the city gates on all sides, most of the time was spent capturing the remnants of the Dashun army who had fled in all directions.

After the capture of almost all the remnants of the fleeing Dashun army, the time consumed was even much more than the time for the Qin army to attack the city in the afternoon.

After all, most of those soldiers of the Dashun Army were born with mud legs, and many of them did not have regular military uniforms, and they basically threw away their weapons, which was not much different from an ordinary person, so it brought a lot of difficulties to the selection of prisoners by the Qin army.

Gunshots rang out sporadically throughout the city.

When the sun went down, the whole city was basically quiet.

After Baishan entered the city, he did three major things:

The first thing is to order people to count the prisoners and select the generals and leading officers at all levels of the Dashun army.

The second thing is to appease the people. At the same time, the gentry who were famous in the city were invited to the yamen of the Taiyuan prefect who temporarily served as generals.

The third is to quickly seal the treasury and granaries and count the seizures of this battle.

While the selection of prisoners was proceeding smoothly, notices of peace were posted throughout the city.

Moreover, the squires who were invited also each took a small group of Qin soldiers to go around to promote the kindness of the court and appease the people.

With the help of these people, the order in the city quickly calmed down, and the panic of the people because of the war slowly calmed down.

By the second day, in addition to the Qin soldiers patrolling around, the entire city began to slowly restore normal order every day.

The shops along the street and the vendors doing business are also slowly popping up.

The Qin army's strict discipline did not disturb the people, and it would punish those green-skinned gangsters who wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to fish in troubled waters, so the order of the entire market had basically returned to normal by the third day.

While stabilizing the order of Taiyuan City, Baishan also sent people to issue surrender orders to more than a dozen cities under Taiyuan Prefecture.

The Dashun army was originally insufficient, and only in an important town like Taiyuan would there be a Dashun army stationed, and other small counties basically relied on local recruits to defend the city.

Moreover, the county orders and guards of many cities are basically the original court officials.

When these people saw that the Dashun army was coming, they turned into a change and immediately surrendered to the Dashun army. Now seeing that the Dashun army was defeated, and the imperial army was so strong, they turned to the imperial court, killed those overseers sent by the Dashun army, and opened the city and surrendered one after another.