When the Northern Expeditionary Army arrived at the city of Jinan, Jinan City was already under full martial law, and the city was densely packed with people, and it seemed that Shengbao planned to rely on the strong walls of Jinan City from the beginning to defend it, and he did not dare to go out of the city to fight with the Jingwu army, even if he still had 100,000 troops in his hands.

Since Li Yongji's elite army was only 50,000 people, this little soldier and horse could not encircle Jinan City at all, so Li Yongji did not play false, and planned to attack a little bit, relying on his own firepower superiority, only attacking the south gate of Jinan City.

In this way, Li Yongji first lined up his troops outside Jinan and laid barbed wire, and without digging trenches, he directly pushed out six AH-4 ultra-light 155mm howitzers.

The AH-4 ultra-light 155mm howitzer is the expensive goods that Zhang Xinda bought, in fact, there are more than six, but Li Yongji currently lacks qualified artillery talents, and in ancient cities like Jinan City, there is not much need, and six is more than enough.

155 mm caliber artillery, in the eyes of people in this era, in fact, do not feel terrible, you must know that the artillery of this era is one or two hundred millimeters caliber at every turn, the only thing that makes people strange is that the barrel is a little too long, after all, this era is limited by steel processing means, the caliber is smaller than usual, that is to say, the barrel side is relatively short.

In order to give full play to the power of artillery, or because his artillery level was not enough, Li Yongji placed the firing point of the artillery 1.5 kilometers outside the south gate of Jinan City, that is, three miles away.

At this distance, no weapon in the head of Jinan City can hit here, but the 155mm howitzer can play direct shooting!

For artillerymen, curved fire is actually very testing, and direct fire is the simplest, even if this kind of artillery has a relatively advanced fire control system, but in comparison. It is still the most accurate direct shot within four kilometers.

Six guns, all of which were reequipped with high-explosive shells specially designed to destroy buildings, fired a test shot first, but I don't know if it was particularly lucky, and the city gate was smashed with one shot!

Immediately afterwards, six guns began to fire in turn, blowing up the vicinity of the South City Gate. After twelve rounds of fighting, the entire south city gate has become a pile of ruins, not to mention that the city gate tower has completely collapsed, and even the nearby city wall has been blown up a lot. Of course, the defenders on the city walls also suffered heavy casualties, which left both the enemy and the enemy stunned.

In fact, it is very simple, don't look at the city wall of Jinan City in this period is very high, but after all, it is a brick and stone structure, there is no reinforced concrete to support inside, and there is no amazing thickness like a fortress outside, such a city wall, even the cannons of the West in the same era can not stop. Not to mention the large-caliber 155-mm high-explosive shells with modern explosives, specially designed against buildings.

Six guns, twelve rounds, that's 72 shells. In this way, Cheng Dù's bombing was just a section of the walls of an ancient Chinese city, and to be honest, it was already a bit of a surplus of power.

After the bombing. The infantry began to march in formation, and when they reached the moat, they began to shoot at the ruins. Carry out fire suppression to prevent further shooting from the city.

After completely suppressing the resistance of the city head, a relatively loose phalanx appeared in the back again, these people were all Type B troops, they carried a body of inflatable kayaks, walked to the moat without speed or slowness, and then put the kayaks into the moat in turn in the middle of the gap left by the fire suppression troops.

Immediately after that, the suppression force continued to suppress the fire, and the troops following in the rear began to board the kayaks one after another, and quickly rowed towards the opposite shore according to the regulations of one kayak carrying six people.

During this period, the head of the city, no, it should be said that although no one in the ruins of the south gate can come out to stop it, there are still people behind the ruins who can be replenished, such as coming over to shoot an arrow, a gun or something.

But these follow-up people will not be able to succeed at all, because the elite army completely occupies the advantage of firepower, once it is found that someone dares to show their heads within the effective threat range, the few people will shoot, and the more people will shoot, and the other party will not be able to fight back at all.

In particular, it should be said that the firing here refers to mortars, and mortars can't hit the city walls, but it's still no problem to hit people in the ruins.

In this way, under the suppression of their superior firepower, the first group of kayak troops crossed the moat, and then after they disembarked, they soon began to advance towards the original southern gate, that is, the ruins.

Armed with M56 steel helmets, multi-pocket camouflage uniforms, Type 56 assault rifles, leggings on their legs and leather boots on their feet, they quickly rushed forward to the site of the original city wall, which had been bombed into ruins.

Immediately afterwards, some of them looked for cover in the collapsed rubble, and some simply used their grappling hooks to climb the walls on both sides that had not yet been blown up and looked relatively strong.

As they advanced towards the ruins, the second group of kayak assault troops also began to slide into the moat and landed on the opposite side again, their equipment and dress like the first group, and after getting off the kayaks, they quickly devoted themselves to occupying the ruins and consolidating their existing positions.

In this way, after five successive assault troops, the troops occupying the ruins of the original South Gate already had a reorganized regiment, all of them equipped with assault rifles and machine-gun mortars, and it may be slightly insufficient to continue the attack, but it is completely fine to hold the existing positions.

By this time, the sixth group of kayaks was no longer the same as the previous five, but a group of sappers carrying ropes, stakes, shovels, hammers, and other tools.

After these sappers disembarked, they immediately carried the things they put on off the boat, drove wooden stakes and pulled ropes by the river, and then used the kayaks left by the previous troops to build a pontoon bridge together with the sappers on the opposite side.

Soon, more kayaks entered the moat, and they were used as pontoon piers by sappers, with ropes and planks on top.

Due to the large number of operators, many drills have been drilled in advance, and wooden piles have been laid on both sides of the moat in advance to pull up the ropes, so the operation of building a pontoon bridge is not difficult.

Of course, at this time, the Qing army in Jinan finally reacted, and soon rushed out a large number of counterattack troops from inside, wanting to drive back this group of elite troops who crossed the river. But alas, they couldn't succeed at all!

Because the first five batches of troops that landed were all Li Yongji's guard troops, they were the elite of the elite.

The weapons in the hands of these men were either Type 56 assault rifles or 56 machine guns, and they also carried a lot of rocket launchers, and each of them had a wireless telegraph and could call the mortars in the rear at any time to help in the battle, although the number was small, less than 4,000 people. However, the firepower and communications completely destroyed the Qing army on the opposite side.

As a result, when the assembled Qing troops rushed out from the rear and charged the troops guarding the ruins, the assault troops of this regiment relied on the bunkers to fire in turn, and the dense rain of bullets swept down the Qing troops that charged one by one like a storm, and the mortars on the other side of the moat also began to open fire to cover, so that none of the Qing troops could rush to within 100 meters in front of them.

In just ten minutes, the counterattacking Qing army retreated like a tide. Only thousands of corpses of the Qing army were left in front of the assault troops of the Jingwu Army!

However, after the first group of Qing troops ran back, a second wave of attacks came, this time cavalry. At the same time, it is Shengbao's personal soldiers and overseers, and the will to fight is much stronger than that of ordinary soldiers.

Due to the terrain, this group of cavalry was subject to a lot of restrictions when they charged, and at first glance it was very dense. But in fact, the total number is less than 300 people.

However, it is a pity that although their courage is good, they also did not rush to within 100 meters of the beach grabbing troops of the elite army. Instead, they were strangled by the intensive strafing of assault rifles and the rapid fire of mortars, and all three hundred cavalrymen were killed, and none of them could escape in this situation.

Two consecutive shocks, two consecutive one-sided defeats, no, it should be said that after being slaughtered twice in a row, the Qing army no longer dared to send troops to counterattack, and could only watch the Jingwu army repair the pontoon bridge little by little, but there was no way at all in the middle.

What the? Why don't you fire the arrows from a distance? It's simple, it can't be done! Because the range of the weapons of the Jingwu Army is far greater than that of the Qing Army, coupled with the fact that Li Yongji released the line-guided observation balloon in advance, the situation in Jinan City can be seen at a glance.

An hour later, three pontoon bridges were erected with rope planks and kayaks, and then the elite army began to form a column and quickly pass the pontoon bridge to further consolidate the location of the southern city gate.

After the majority of the army had passed, the troops began to advance into the city again, and the advancing troops mainly controlled the commanding heights such as the city gates and city walls in various places around zhì, and only after occupying the commanding heights and placing machine guns and mortars did they continue to advance towards the inner city.

The troops entering the city were divided into attack groups, each group had a squad of 16 people, including assault men equipped with assault rifles, cover men equipped with Sharps rifles, and support groups with rocket launchers.

Under the cover of their own commanding heights machine guns, these combat groups must advance at large intervals, that is, distance between groups to give themselves sufficient time to react. At the same time, each group has a walkie-talkie, which allows the different groups to communicate with each other unimpeded.

At the same time, Li Yongji will also enter the outskirts of the city and bring the detection balloon for more detailed all-round observation and command to deal with the unexpected, while the ultra-light 155mm howitzer will be left outside the city as a large-angle curved gun to provide super-heavy fire support.

Of course, super-heavy fire support is only just in case, and real fire support is provided by mortars.

In other words, it is not to seek speed, but to seek stability, to give full play to its firepower advantage, and try not to fight with the opponent in a white-handed battle.

Originally, everyone was still cautious, after all, Li Yongji had repeatedly emphasized the cruelty and importance of street fighting before, and they all thought so, but unfortunately after entering the city in groups, they found that the doors were closed, and the Qing troops everywhere on the street immediately knelt down and surrendered as soon as they saw their faces, and they had no intention of resisting at all.

Finally, when the attacking troops finally attacked the inner city and surrounded the city gates, they found that the city gates of the inner city suddenly opened by themselves, and then a group of unarmed Qing soldiers walked out with their hands raised, obviously unintentionally resisting, and were about to surrender.

When I found a petty official who looked like a general question, I learned that Shengbao had committed suicide inside, and as soon as Shengbao died, these Qing soldiers would no longer be in the way, and they all laid down their weapons and came out to surrender. And the reason why they were able to be so orderly was because Katsubo had considered this matter in advance, and had already communicated with the officers of various units, so there was no major chaos.

In any case, the city of Jinan fell smoothly, and except for the destruction of the south gate of the outer city, no other major losses were suffered.

Although there was no too fierce fighting, the significance of this Jinan battle was not small, because it was the first real siege operation of the Jingwu army, which also included the forced crossing operation, and the experience gained was precious.

You must know that although the Jingwu army was also invincible before, it was mainly a field battle, and the later siege battles were basically the other party's own surrender, and the only few sieges, such as Zhang Wei's attack on Hangzhou, and Wang Sanwu's quick attack on Xuzhou, can not be used as a reference.

When Zhang Wei attacked Hangzhou, he was actually very empty, because Li Shixian had already led the main force out of the city to attack Pinghu, and as for the guards in Hangzhou, there were only some old and weak people and a Changjie army composed of foreigners.

In the battle of attacking Hangzhou, the main force of the Jingwu army only provided artillery support, and the main force of the siege was Huaer's foreign gun team, and in the actual battle, when the Changjie army of the Jingwu army bombed itself with fierce artillery fire could not stand the surrender, others also surrendered, that is to say, Hangzhou City actually did not carry out a real siege operation, that is, a cannon fire was hit, and the other party could not see it himself, so he surrendered.

The battle of Xuzhou is another situation, although the monk Lingqin has been defeated, but because of poor communication, coupled with the Jingwu army to pursue with all their might, Xuzhou in the rear has not yet got the exact news, as a result, Wang Sanwu and Zhou Da rushed to the head of the Qing army pretending to be the Qing army, in one fell swoop to capture the city gate, and then take advantage of the chaos to capture Xuzhou, strictly speaking, to deceive.

However, this attack on Jinan was different, although he committed suicide in the end, but he had worked hard to defend before, and the Jingwu army was also serious about the strong offensive operations, especially the tactical use, after the actual test, it was especially rare, it can be said to be a classic siege battle.

These tactics include artillery siege, fire suppression, forced crossing of moats, seizing the vanguard, rushing to build pontoon bridges, waiting for follow-up troops to enter the city, and then further seizing the city walls and commanding heights, and then dividing into mixed battle groups to advance slowly...... This series of offensive operations is like a textbook, and it can be said that it has accumulated valuable siege experience.

You must know that in the future siege battles, you can't expect to be able to cheat or count on the opponent's defense to be empty every time, so try to strengthen your tactical experience, achieve the ultimate in tactics, make yourself hard, and ignore the situation of crushing a qiē, that is the real fearlessness! (To be continued......)