Before the siege of the city, Tan Tai asked people to write a long letter, urgently reporting the battle situation outside Yizhou and the loss of Jinan to Beijing City, Tan Tai felt that if he could not capture Jinan City, he really could not go back to Beijing to explain to Dolgon.

Just when the Qing soldiers were slowly surrounding Jinan City, Wang Qiang also stood on the tower of the South Gate and held a telescope to watch the swarming Qing soldiers.

Seeing that the Qing soldiers had arranged an artillery position outside the south gate, Wang Qiang beckoned Xie Kui to come over.

"See? The Qing soldiers had a lot of red-coated cannons, but they couldn't let them destroy the city walls. ”

"Division commander, don't we also have artillery? Kill them first? Xie Kui knew that the regiment had more than twenty mortars, and this distance was still within the range of the mortars.

"We have less than 1,000 shells, we have to save some ammunition, we don't know when Minister Huang and they will arrive, all ammunition must be used sparingly."

"Then let's just let them bombard Jinan?" Xie Kui was a little puzzled, what did the division commander mean?

"Aren't there dozens of artillery pieces on our walls? Organize all the people to be transported in this direction, let's use these artillery to fight them first, and then use mortars. ”

Xie Kui understood what Wang Qiang meant, and hurriedly went down to arrange for someone to arrange it.

There were no more people on the city wall, only the defending national defense army remained, and nearly 100,000 Qing soldiers arrived outside the city of Jinan, and the people in the city began to panic.

After more than an hour, Xie Kui gathered 2,000 people, and with the help of the 500 men who came with him, all the artillery from other directions on the city wall was moved to the south gate wall.

Wang Qiang looked at the artillery guns that had been moved, most of them were different types of general cannons. Wang Qiang did not understand the performance of these artillery pieces at all. He didn't know if he could hit the position of the Qing army's red-coated artillery from the city wall.

Not a single regiment of this kind of artillery has been used. Wang Qiang had no choice but to let people bring the prisoners of Jinan City, and the prisoners said that the range of these artillery pieces was only about one and a half miles, and any more charge would be in danger of exploding, Wang Qiang was a little depressed.

The red-coated cannons of the Qing soldiers were obviously more than two miles away from the city wall, and now it seemed that it was impossible to rely on these cannons to fight against the Qing soldiers, so Wang Qiang called Xie Kui over again.

"Order the mortar company to get ready, you must kill these artillery pieces of the Qing army as soon as possible, this thing is too threatening."

The year before last, when he was defending the city in the city of the womb. Wang Qiang has the most intuitive feeling of the red-coated cannon directly bombarding the city wall, he knows that he can't let the artillery of the Qing soldiers play at will, even if the Jinan city wall is strong, it won't last for a few days.

The mortars were soon lined up on the city wall, and the artillery company commander began to give a thumbs up and gesture towards the red-coated artillery positions of the Qing soldiers.

Knowing that the shells were precious, the artillery company commander was also extremely cautious, repeatedly compared for a long time, and personally operated a mortar and aimed it carefully.

When everything was ready, the artillery company commander looked up at Wang Qiang.

"See what I'm doing? Ready for you to start playing, there is only one requirement. Finish off these redcoat cannons with a minimum of shells. ”

"Yes!" The artillery company commander agreed, and took a mortar shell from the soldier next to him. Put in the barrel of the cannon.

The artillery company commander was about to let go, when Wang Qiang suddenly shouted: "Wait a minute! ”

It turned out that Wang Qiang saw a lot of Qing soldiers running towards the red-clothed artillery position with baskets through the binoculars, and knew that this was the Qing soldiers transporting gunpowder and bullets, and he wanted to wait for the Qing soldiers to transport all the gunpowder before fighting.

It's not like a grenade explodes from the barrel, so the red-coated cannon will definitely be destroyed, although the mortar shell uses a new type of zha medicine, but the explosion from the outside Wang Qiang estimates that it can't destroy the red-coated cannon, so Wang Qiang wants to detonate the gunpowder of the Qing soldiers, without gunpowder, the red-coated cannon is a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron.

"Look again, are the Qing soldiers carrying all gunpowder? Hit it there, it's best! ”

Wang Qiang shouted to the artillery company commander and handed him the binoculars in his hand so that he could see more clearly.

The artillery company commander re-gestured, and this time crouched down to make some minor adjustments to the mortar.

This time he didn't look up at Wang Qiang again, the artillery company commander directly put the shell into the barrel, and with a bang, the shell flew towards the position of the Qing army's red-clothed cannon.

"Far away, far away!" Wang Qiang shouted loudly, and the shells fell behind the red-coated artillery position, and it was estimated that there were still more than thirty meters.

The artillery company commander stood up and carefully gestured for a long time, and then took another shell and put it into the barrel.

Just when the first shell sounded behind the red-clothed artillery position, Tan Tai's heart had sunk to the bottom, and the explosion he heard was the same as the cannon sound of the Seventh Division outside Yizhou City, and he knew that the explosion of the black huo medicine shell was not like this.

Without waiting for Tan Tai to react, the second shell flew towards the position of the red-coated cannon again, this time it hit next to a red-coated cannon, and as the explosion sounded, several Qing artillery soldiers who were operating the red-coated cannon fell.

"One salvo from the whole company!" The company commander saw that all the guns had been adjusted to shoot Zhu Yuan, and gave the order to fire a salvo in a loud voice.

A continuous explosion came from the city wall, and then more than two dozen shells flew towards the position of the Qing army's red-coated artillery.

Wang Qiang's calculation was not wrong, the explosion of the shell detonated the gunpowder of the Qing army, and a shocking explosion sounded in front of the position of the red-clothed cannon, and several baskets of gunpowder were detonated, causing an astonishing explosion.

Tan Tai closed his eyes in pain, he knew that after the violent explosion, his red-coated cannon was basically useless, but he didn't see a little fire spewing out of the barrel sticking out of the city wall of Jinan.

Wu Sangui also saw this scene, the red-clothed cannon is owned by his troops, and his pain is no less than Tan Tai, without these big guys, what will he do to attack the city and plunder the land in the future?

Wu Sangui is also a little strange, these Wehrmacht troops are interspersed for thousands of miles, and it is impossible to carry artillery, how do they use to send shells to the heads of their own artillery?

Before Tan Tai and Wu Sangui had enough pain, the second salvo of shells arrived, this time Wang Qiang ordered the artillery company to fight, and he felt the need to plow the artillery positions of the Qing army again to prevent them from resurrecting.

Hearing the cheers on the city wall, a few people began to cautiously climb the city wall and look out of the city. Later, more and more people became bolder. The people of Jinan, who had climbed the city wall, looked in surprise at the Qing artillery positions that were already in disarray more than two miles away.

"Organize a siege now!" Tan Tai gritted his teeth and yelled at Wu Sangui. Unable to recapture Jinan City, Tan Tai felt that he had only one way to die, and Tan Tai, who was distracted, began to be desperate.

His red-clothed cannon was destroyed, and Wu Sangui was also red-eyed, and he didn't care about any other thoughts, so he ordered the infantry to carry the siege equipment and start running towards the city wall.

The Qing soldiers still avoided the cannons on the city, and many people thought that the cannonballs were fired by these cannons.

"Hurry up and get the people to take down the walls! Troops are ready for battle! Seeing that the Qing soldiers had already attacked, Wang Qiang gave an order in a loud voice.

No need for Wang Qiang's order. The people had already begun to run down from the city walls, and the bows and arrows and firearms of the Qing soldiers did not have eyes.

The time was too tight, Tan Tai did not order someone to make a siege vehicle, Wu Sangui's infantry army only used the ladder to attack the city, and more than a dozen people carried the long ladder and ran towards the city wall as if they were dead.

Seeing the Qing soldiers launch an attack from the front more than two miles wide, Wang Qiang's heart tightened, the defenders of Xuyi City did not see the Qing soldiers attacking the city, Wang Qiang saw this kind of large-scale ant siege for the first time.

Wu Sangui was also staring at the city wall, but he didn't see the Wehrmacht soldiers leaning out from the city wall, only the head sticking out and the barrel of the rifle sticking out from behind the city stomping.

"There were not many defenders on the walls. Let's take it down in one go, and don't let them have a chance to breathe. Tan Tai was also carefully observing the city walls. Seeing that there were not many people on the city wall, he said a little assumedly.

Shi Tingzhu, who was standing behind the two of them, was a little disappreciative in his heart, he had already told Tan Tai about the battle outside Jinan City, seeing that he didn't pay attention to it, he didn't want to say it a second time, anyway, it was Wu Sangui's infantry that was lost.

Tan Tai saw that the soldiers besieging the city raised their heads and the ladder was about to reach the foot of the city wall, and he was secretly happy in his heart, the number of the Wehrmacht was really small, how could they take care of such a wide city wall?

Without waiting for Tan Tai to be happy, a continuous burst of gunfire rang out on the city wall, and as the gunshots rang out, the Qing soldiers carrying the ladder began to fall down in pieces, and the ladder they were carrying was also thrown aside.

Wu Sangui also looked at the city in surprise, and did not see the Wehrmacht soldiers leaning out or sticking out their heads to shoot, only the Wehrmacht soldiers could see half of their heads exposed on the side of the city, and the gunshots were still ringing out, and Wu Sangui's soldiers were also falling.

The gunfire on the city wall was not as dense as the Wehrmacht he had encountered before, but what made Wu Sangui a little strange was that his own soldiers fell more and faster than before.

The front of the siege was constantly expanding, extending almost from the south gate to the north gate, and Tan Tai had already ordered Shi Tingzhu's cavalry to dismount and participate in the siege battle.

No one remembers that dozens of artillery pieces were concentrated on a section of the city wall at the south gate, and a large number of Qing soldiers also ran towards this section of the wall.

"Shoot! Fire! All with shotguns! Wang Qiang saw that the Qing soldiers were fighting so desperately regardless of casualties, and he was also in a hurry, so he ordered the prisoners on the city wall to hurry up and prepare to shoot.

"Division commander, Qing Bing is playing with his life! Shall we use the grenadiers? Xie Kui kept running on the city wall, and he would bring people to help wherever he was in danger, and he was running to Wang Qiang's side at this moment.

"You just decide, my guard and I are the reserve of the whole regiment, if we can't stand it, let us go!"

Wang Qiang was relaxed at this time, he had actually seen that the Qing soldiers seemed to be attacking fiercely, but in fact their preparations were not sufficient, they were too far away from the attack on Xuyi City, and they didn't even have a siege vehicle.

Although there are many Qing soldiers rushing towards the city wall, but there are not many people carrying ladders, see that there are hundreds of Qing soldiers rushing towards the city wall with knives in front of you, but these hundreds of people do not have a ladder, can you split the city wall with a knife?

"Be careful to save money." Seeing that Xie Kui turned around and was about to run away again, Wang Qiang shouted at him.

The artillery on the city wall finally fired, dozens of artillery pieces fired at the same time, and the momentum was not small, the Qing soldiers under the city wall were knocked down in pieces, and the offensive of the Qing soldiers in the direction of the south gate finally slowed down.

The Qing soldiers found that the Wehrmacht firepower between the south gate and the west gate seemed to be weaker than in other places, and more Qing soldiers began to run in this direction, but what they didn't know was that Xie Kui was organizing grenadiers to prepare for firing on this section of the city wall (to be continued). )