The gunners of the Jinzhou Army were taught by the officers of the Francophone who Sun Yuanhua had invited from Macao with a lot of money, and their proficiency in the use of artillery was no less than that of the artillery of any other country of the same era, so the effect of the first round of artillery bombardment was quite ideal. Dayong was also really surprised by the accurate ranging, and he was glad that these heavily trained gunners were now under his command, instead of becoming the second Tartar artillery who aided the abuse with Kong Youde. It must be known that in the original history, the consequence of Kong Youde's investment in the Ming Dynasty was that the fortified city that could be relied on in the past could no longer stop the iron cavalry of the Eight Banners.

The 80 Western light cannons carried by the two artillery units were solid and scattered, and the small bronze cannons supervised by the Ministry of Industry were all solid and a few were shotgun.

The artillery of the Ming army has three standard configurations: scatter bullets, solid bullets and shotguns.

Solid bullets are made of iron or lead, a small amount of stone is ground into a sphere, this kind of bullet is mainly used for siege holes through the city wall fortifications, the range is long but not very powerful for anti-personnel personnel, unless it is directly hit, and once it is directly hit by the solid bullet, it will either die or be disabled.

Shotgun is a high-power type of field artillery, composed of several liters of lead and iron pellets, which can form a barrage when shooting, and the lethality is great, but the shotgun has a fatal weakness, the range is too close, generally not more than one mile.

Scattered bullets are flowering bullets, made of iron shells, the firing distance is long, and the explosion power is also large, although there is no Yuan Chonghuan reported to the imperial court after the battle of Ningjin that "one cannon can erode several miles", but the killing range is also tens of square meters, if the number of enemy soldiers in the area is quite dense, it is common for more than 100 people to be killed and injured by a single cannon.

The Hongyi cannon purchased by the Ming Dynasty from the hands of the Franc machine man is this kind of giant cannon that can open the flower bomb, and the Ming Ministry of Industry and the Jinyi Weinan Town Fu Division also cast the flowering cannon, most of which can hit ten catties and eight catties, and there are also those who can only play five or six catties of medicine, and the least can only play three catties of medicine.

The amount of charge determines the power of the flowering cannonball, and the 80 Western light cannons used by the Jinzhou army to attack the city are the flowering cannons that can only be loaded with three or five catties of medicine. This cannon can be easily transported by horse, and placed under the cannon body with a wooden box containing soil during the cannon, so that the cannon can be fired smoothly, and can be used for siege and field battles, but the power is much smaller than that of the Hongyi cannon containing ten catties and eight catties of medicine.

In addition, 30 of the 60 small bronze cannons made by the Ministry of Engineering were solid bullets. Xu is affected by the "siege of the city and the land", since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, most of the artillery used by the Ming army is this kind of small copper cannon that can play solid iron balls to help siege the city, and the other 30 are tiger squat guns that can shoot shotguns used in the field.

The head and tail of the tiger squat cannon are 2 feet long, 7 iron hoops are added around the body, the gun head is erected by two iron claws, and there are iron stumbling, the total weight is 36 catties, it looks like the tiger and the tiger are powerful, and it is majestic. Before firing, the cannon body must be fixed on the ground with a large iron nail, and each launch can be filled with 100 small lead or small stones weighing 5 yuan, and a large lead bullet or large stone bullet weighing 30 taels is used to press the top, and when fired, the large and small bullets fly out of the ground together, and the roar is like thunder, and the lethality and radiation range are very large, especially suitable for field combat. Back then, Qi Jiguang liked to use tiger squat artillery to bombard the dense combat formation of the Japanese invaders. At that time, the Qi family's army was equipped with 3 tiger squat guns for every 500 people.

According to the configuration of the Qi family's army, the 30 tiger squatting guns outside Shenyang are equivalent to 5,000 Qi family's troops. What is the concept of 5000 Qi Jiajun? At that time, Qi Jiguang guarded Jizhen Town, so that the Mongols did not dare to look south, but they relied on the 3,000 Qi family troops under his command.

Dayong was a man of later generations, well aware of the impact of artillery on warfare, and inspired by Sun Yuanhua's construction of a new army firearms battalion, he naturally wanted to make every effort to build a powerful artillery force. The cannon must also be separated from other arms, and only when all of them are concentrated together can the power of artillery be exerted. Fortunately, the artillery left by Sun Yuanhua to Dayong was enough for him to use the "artillery" war concept of later generations in advance in the Ming Dynasty.

Before the shelling, Shen Yi first made the three guns take turns to open the cannons, and after measuring the distance, the two artillery units of the 140 guns of the thousand households opened full fire, announcing to Shenyang City with an earth-shattering roar that the battle really began

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

The flowering shells fired by 80 Western (Franc machine) light cannons first exploded on the head of the Great South Gate, and the broken brick dust produced by the explosion immediately filled the entire city. The shattered iron shell and the broken bricks took a hundred and ten lives in an instant, and the walls of the city were blown to a bump and bum, and there were as many openings as there were pockmarks on people's faces.

Without waiting for the Jin army on the south gate to come back to their senses, they heard the deafening roar of the Ming army's artillery array on the opposite side, and white smoke rose again over the Ming army's artillery array, and the whistling cannonballs made the Jin army of the original Ming Liaodong Army in the city subconsciously shrink their bodies and hide behind the city wall. They knew that this time the Ming army hit the city with a solid iron bullet that would kill if it touched it.

If in the field, the solid bullet is more dependent on the impact of the bounce to kill and injure the enemy soldiers, but in the siege war, the destruction of the enemy's city wall by the solid bullet can be more than ten times more powerful than in the field.

Although several bullets fell on the houses behind the city wall, most of the iron bullets still smashed on the city wall, and the city bricks that had been shattered by the impact of the flowering shells suddenly collapsed in large pieces, and countless city bricks and stones fell under the city in the dust package.

The 30 Tiger Squat Cannon did not fire, because it could not reach the city wall with its range of less than a mile, so they just squatted there silently, and the black hole and the gunners waiting behind them told the Jin army at the head of the city - we are not vegetarians.

The tragic situation after the shelling of the city and the wailing and panic of those defenders made the Ming army more confident in taking the city, and Mang Gurtai was also excited, but he couldn't help but think that if he didn't return to Ming, but as the party defending the city, he could hold out for a few moments in the face of such intensive artillery bombardment by the Ming army.

"Put!"

The Jinzhou army crossed the sea to carry an unimaginable amount of medicine, almost emptying three-quarters of Dengzhou's stock, there are so many medicines available for use, Dayong naturally will not feel distressed, seeing that the first round of shelling effect is obvious, he immediately ordered to continue the shelling. He wanted not to see a living person on the Desheng Gate, he wanted to completely break the courage of the Jin army to defend the city, and he even wanted to climb the head of Shenyang without losing a single soldier.

Without the attack of the cavalry of the Jin army, one side fought to the fullest and the other side fought helplessly, and everyone was willing. Under the cover of their own cavalry and infantry troops, the Ming artillery fell into a carnival, wantonly pouring the anger of the cannon into the city, only hitting the entire south gate like a fog, and could not see anything clearly.

The Jin army guard of the Great South Gate is the ancestor of the great shou of the henchman Han Daxun, this person is also the culprit who killed He Kegang, since he knew that the Ming army would never end well after breaking the city, he was hiding in the gatehouse at the moment, deaf to the wailing around him, only gritted his teeth and prayed that the Ming army's cannon would be finished as soon as possible, and then the real sword and the Ming army fought to the death.

Seeing the artillery hauled from the south bank of the Hunhe River after the Ming army lined up, Han Daxun immediately ordered the Ahabs who were in the city to help the battle to go to the city, and let his Liaodong army go down to the city, leaving only some people to supervise the Ahabs. This order allowed him to retain the strength to defend the city - the 400 Han troops given to him by Zu Zerun, as for the casualties of the Aha cannon fodder, Han Daxun did not care at all.

The artillery bombardment of the Ming army continued for half a pillar of incense and suddenly stopped, Han Daxun's heart tightened, realizing that the Ming army was about to attack the city, and immediately ordered the artillery to stop the Ming army's foot soldiers from landing the city.

The south gate is equipped with eight Franco machine guns from the Ming army, only two of these eight cannons can hit six catties, with a range of more than two miles, and the remaining six are tiger squat cannons that can only hit one mile, so Han Daxun can only watch the Ming army fight artillery, and cannot also use the cannon to counterattack the other party.

Finally, the artillery of the Ming army also had a time to light, although the city walls on the left and right of the Great South Gate were blown apart, and there were even several places that collapsed a few feet, but on the whole it was still far from the complete collapse of the city wall. If the Ming army really bombarded the city wall with a few rounds of shelling, could this Shenyang City still be the capital of the Great Jin Kingdom!

Under the city wall, the Ming army really moved. I don't know where the Ming army found the wood, but they actually built a batch of ladders and a few crashing cars, and they are slowly advancing towards the city wall at this moment.

Preparing to ascend the city were 500 banner soldiers under Mang Gurtai, and covering them was a thousand firearms soldiers from the left battalion of the infantry army. Those ladders and crashes were not made by order of Dayong, but were brought by artillery Qianhu from Liaoyang. Dayong didn't like this kind of cold-weapon siege, he thought it was a cannon power. It's just that this cannon also hit several times, and although the Jin army in the city suffered heavy casualties, it still had to attack the city in the end. When the black powder of the cannon was not enough to collapse the city wall with a few cannons, it was an inevitable choice to take people's lives to enter the city.

Dayong did not use his own soldiers as cannon fodder for the siege of the city, he handed over this important task to Mang Gurtai, and he told Mang Gurtai that if his men could take the lead in the city, after the city was broken, they would not only be able to share half of the spoils in the city, but also report to the court that he was the first person to make the first contribution.

This condition Mang Gurtai is naturally overjoyed, just now he saw clearly, there are no defenders on the city, as long as the Ming army launches a round of attacks, this Shenyang city is broken. Unexpectedly, Shi Dayong would hand over the city-breaking achievement and half of the spoils to him for the sake of some casualties among the soldiers, which made him not happy. But he was not too impulsive, and under the pretext that he had to be wary of the Jin army, he might rush out of its city gate to attack the army, so he could only organize 500 banner soldiers to enter the city, and the rest of the siege troops had to be sent out by the Ming army. This request made Dayong secretly scold Mang Gurtai for being shameless, but he still agreed and ordered Geng Zhongming to lead a thousand infantry troops to cover the banner soldiers to enter the city.

When the flag soldiers were carrying ladders and pushing crashing cars to attack the city, Han Daxun immediately ordered the cannon to fire after calculating the distance.

With the sharp whistling sound of the cannonballs, two heavy cannons landed on the marching flag soldiers, constantly flying sideways and bouncing, taking several lives in an instant.

The artillery bombardment on the head of the city startled both the flag soldiers and the Ming army, but fortunately, the Jin army's artillery stopped after only two rounds, and it seems that Mang Gurtai is right, and the Jin army simply does not have enough medicine.