Under the incessant fire of more than 20 general cannons of different calibers and sizes at the head of the Houjin army, the two infantry companies of the 1st Infantry Battalion of the 1st Mixed Brigade entered a place about 150 meters away from the city wall under the cover of the shield car array.

And when the Huaxia Army entered the special distance of 150 meters, even the general's artillery stopped firing because the angle was not enough.

Of course, the Houjin army was not an expert in playing with artillery, they didn't expect much from these artillery pieces in the first place, this was just one of the measures they used to weaken the attacking troops.

At this time, at the head of Fuzhou City, those Houjin officers and the soldiers of the Eight Banners who were responsible for supervising the battle also began to shout loudly, ordering the Houjin soldiers on the city to open fire with individual weapons.

The clothed soldiers of Wuzhen Chaoha picked up the bird guns, which was a round of indiscriminate shooting, and in the continuous roar of the four rounds, the Chinese infantry soldiers hiding behind the second row of shield cars immediately began to return fire.

In the "Ping Pong" shooting, the archers of the Houjin Tartars on the head of the city also joined the ranks of the shooting in turn.

Suddenly, outside the south gate of Fuzhou City, lead bullets, arrows, and steel balls continued to fly in the air, and the gunpowder smoke that appeared in the sky gradually spread.

In the choking smoke of gunpowder, the enemy and the enemy were firing at each other, and some people were constantly being shot and falling to the ground.

It's better to be shot by a feather arrow, but once you are shot by a lead bullet, it is a big hole, and internal organs, blood and other things will quickly flow all over the ground under the wounded, and there is no way to save it.

However, even in such danger, the line of shield carts in front of the Huaxia Army, pushed by the coated prisoners, was still under the supervision of the gendarmes and advanced to the edge of the moat.

Fuzhou also has a moat, and like other Daming acropolis and county seats, there is a moat with a width of at least 6 meters.

Moreover, due to the real threat of the Huaxia Army stationed in Jinzhou City after being conquered, the Later Jin Tartars also organized people to re-excavate here in the gap of fighting for power and profit.

Therefore, the overall situation of the moat in Fuzhou City is much better now than when it attacked Jinzhou City last year.

The difficulties did not stop there, the Houjin army not only brought water from the Fuzhou River, but also filled the trench at least half the height. And even the passage bridge that was erected on the trench before has been destroyed by the Houjin Tartars.

It is absolutely impossible to go directly to the empty moat in front of you now, and if you adopt the kind of trench filling tactics that you did last time when you conquered Jinzhou City, it will be too wasteful of time, because it will take at least half a day's work.

Therefore, it was on the basis of these pre-detected situations that the staff officers of the brigade headquarters formulated a new battle plan, preparing to use trench vehicles to break through the moat defense line of Fuzhou City.

The trench wagons hidden behind the first row of shield carts were quickly pushed up by the coated captives, and of course, this improvised siege machine made from the captives was only an extremely simple imitation.

It was not as beautiful and sturdy as it was recorded in the Records of the Armed Forces, but was a simple tool with two wheels and a long thick wooden plank piled up with sandbags on it.

This kind of trench vehicle can be directly erected on the moat, trench and other defensive facilities, so that the follow-up large-scale siege equipment and siege personnel can pass through in turn.

The sandbags piled on top of the trench are used to protect against feather arrows and lead bullets fired from the opposite side, and they are also used to fill the trench at critical moments.

This series of measures is actually to facilitate the soldiers who enter the trench to set up their vehicles, so that they can have a safe foothold.

The coated captives in charge of the carts, under the supervision of the gendarmes, desperately threw the sandbags on the top of the wagons into the moat.

The place where the moat was located was only less than 30 meters from the city wall, and the battle between the warriors of the enemy and us using long-range weapons was far more fierce than the previous battle of the second row of shield carts.

On the way to the shooting, the soldiers of the Huaxia Army were constantly shot and fell. There were also constantly coated prisoners who were filling the moat and were shot by the Houjin army at the head of the city, screaming and falling to the ground and crying loudly for help.

The firearms used by the traitor troops in the Houjin army to shoot directly at the city wall were extremely powerful, but they were not very good.

Under the continuous fire of the enemy, at least half of the lead bullets were hit in the air, and the remaining half of the lead bullets, most of them, smashed the shield carts of the Huaxia army below into sawdust.

Houjin's Wuzhen Chaoha Clothed Soldiers, in addition to the first round of salvo shots were quite good, the second round of shooting began to look extremely scattered.

Moreover, with the increase in the number of shots, the interval between the shots of Wuzhen Chaoha is also getting longer and longer.

The other archers, who were better than the untrained traitors, fired at each other for a while, and the bodies of the two rows of shield carts below were all filled with feathered arrows.

However, the rifle cover and counterattack in the hands of the Huaxia Army were also very violent, and the riflemen of the Huaxia Army, in the battle group as a unit, fired a salvo in turn, and quickly overwhelmed the bird guns on the opposite city in terms of rate of fire.

When the soldiers of the Houjin Army shot with bows and arrows, there was another fatal flaw, that is, every time they shot, there was a relatively long process of drawing the bow and aiming.

These two movements, as well as the special posture of using waist force when drawing the bow, make them often need to stand behind the battlement before they can start to draw the bow.

With such a gap, the archers can easily be knocked to the ground by the riflemen below you.

The main rifles used by the Huaxia army were all flintlock-style, so that they could quickly hide behind the shield cart after firing quickly.

The Houjin army's firearms were missing, and the bows and arrows did not pose much threat to the shield carts, so the Houjin army gradually fell into the disadvantage in such a mutually covering fire.

The infantry guns of several battalions of the First Brigade of the Huaxia Army that remained in the rear row also began to shoot at both sides of the city during this period.

On the other side, the two battalion guns of the 1st Infantry Battalion did not fire after being reloaded, but stopped on the edge of the moat facing the gate.

The two infantry guns were carefully sandwiched between the gaps left by several strong shield carts, and the artillerymen also carefully hid behind the shield carts, and the black hole of the guns was aimed directly at the gate south of Fuzhou.