At this stage, the biggest threat to the walls of Fuzhou City is the red-coated artillery pieces placed on the walls to the south and east.

This kind of artillery is known for wearing a layer of red silk on the gun, but it is not a special name for a special artillery, but a general name for a series of large-caliber guns.

Among them, there are both 6 catties of guns, and 7 catties and 8 catties of guns, and the models are simply diverse and cumbersome.

When Houjin was in Tiancong for 5 years, he used the craftsmen captured from the Ming Dynasty and the relevant gunners brought by Kong Youde's Tianyou Army to experimentally manufacture several red-coated cannons together.

Later, although Huang Taiji was killed, the cannon casting work of the relevant craftsmen did not stop there, and after this year, Jin cast several red-coated cannons to increase the artillery power.

However, even if a large number of craftsmen were captured from the Ming Dynasty, as well as a group of artillery casting experts under Sun Yuanhua in Shandong, the industrial capacity of Houjin itself was indeed rotten.

Therefore, the artillery that has been cast several times in the furnace can be finally cast in terms of performance, which is completely better than many firearms cast with Fujian iron in Guangdong and Fujian.

Even, the red-coated cannon cast by Houjin is far from the products manufactured by the workshops directly under the Ministry of Industry and the Inner Court General Supervisor and other units.

You must know that in the first year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the second year of Tiancong of the Later Jin, the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty created a large-caliber artillery with an iron body and copper core, and this unique casting technology is ahead of the world.

There are also gun-making workshops in Guangdong and Fujian, thanks to the craftsmen who ran out of the Portuguese gunpowder factories in Macao, as well as the related technology dissemination, coupled with the excellent local smelting technology, they have surpassed the workshops in the north in some special processes of cannon casting.

However, the decay of the entire bureaucratic system of the Ming Dynasty could not be reversed by relying on a few artillery, and the progress of technology made the Ming army constantly play the role of a transport team in the war.

After several battles last year and the year before last, the Houjin army captured at least five red-coated guns of different calibers and sizes from the hands of the Ming army.

And the artillery deployed at the head of Fuzhou City is the capture of the battle between Jin and Ming last year.

These artillery, firing seven catties and nine catties of round shells respectively, with gunners, are also specially selected from the gunners who surrendered in Shenyang that year, from which it can be seen that Huang Taiji really put his mind to Fuzhou City.

Even if Huang Taiji is gone, the arrangement he left behind, because it happened to face the attack of the Huaxia Army, no one dared to cut it down easily.

Now, the Houjin army still has nearly 3,000 Jurchen Tartars in Fuzhou City, and there are more than 3,000 traitor infantry.

It can be seen from the report delivered by the intelligence department that there should be some clothed minions in Fuzhou City, and Houjin's organizational strength and combat habits can participate in the defense of the city.

Judging from this as a comparison, the 1st Mixed Brigade not only has no superiority in strength, but also suffers a bit in firepower. The current Huaxia Army is only superior to the Tartars in terms of the momentum of the army.

In yesterday's battle, the white flag led by Duoduo was completely broken, although the number of them who fled back to the state city was at least more than 1,000 people, but today they had no courage to go out of the city and fight in the field of the Huaxia army.

Yue Tuo's Red Flag was sent to take the lead yesterday because of the traitor troops, so the losses of the soldiers of their Eight Banners Headquarters were relatively small, and the establishment was relatively complete, and at present, Yue Tuo's headquarters can be said to be the most combat-effective part of the team in Fuzhou City.

The staff officers of the Brigade Headquarters Operations Section had already deduced it, and everyone agreed that if they divided their troops to attack three sides of Fuzhou City during the attack, it would be easy to be pinned down by the cavalry of the Houjin Army.

Therefore, the main force of the 1st Mixed Brigade was concentrated at the south gate of Fuzhou City, and only the battalion directly under the brigade headquarters was arranged at the east gate.

In this way, while dispersing the Houjin Tartar defenders in Fuzhou City, relying on the Fuzhou River to prevent the Houjin cavalry from coming out from the east gate and the north gate to harass the main force at the south gate.

On the south gate, two infantry battalions, one mounted infantry battalion, and the headquarters of the cavalry battalion were concentrated.

They are an infantry battalion formed by the old foundation of Lu Li, and while they are proficient in field training and formation, they have also experienced several actual combat drills in urban street battles, and their combat ability in complex terrain is far stronger than that of several other battalions.

Their main attack is still aimed at seizing the south gate of Fuzhou, which does not have an urn city, nor does it have a jack gate like the capital of the Ming Dynasty and important cities such as Nanzhili.

In addition, the walls of Fuzhou City are more than 3 meters lower than those of Jinzhou City, so the difficulty of this attack is not too high.

The main combat force of the 1st Mixed Brigade of the Huaxia Army stopped at a position about 1 kilometer outside the south gate, and the 2nd Infantry Battalion spread out a formation on the west side of that direction.

The cavalry battalion rode on war horses and stood guard in the southwest direction of the south gate, ready to fight in any direction together with the cavalry battalion.

The means of attacking the city were still the same as the last time they attacked Jinzhou City, with nearly 100 heavy shield wagons, driven by 1,000 coated prisoners, heading towards the south gate of Fuzhou City.

The shield carts were still divided into two rows, but this time they didn't carry sandbags, but learned from the last siege battle, and found a special thing recorded in the military records, called the trench car, and arranged it in the middle area of the two rows of shield cars.

Moreover, there is another point that is different from the last siege, that is, there is no simple ladder to climb the city when you are ready to conquer Golden State City.

In fact, this time, Zachdan did not intend to use the ant-attached city with huge casualties.

Last time in the battle to conquer Jinzhou City, the ant attachment tactic was used because the Houjin defense in Jinzhou City was weak, and the number of people was less than the number of siegers, so it was able to do so.

But this time is different, this time in Fuzhou City, the Houjin Tartars have enough manpower on the wall, and it is really difficult for the soldiers who forcibly break through the ladder to the city to gain a firm foothold on the wall.

So in this siege battle, Zakdan is going to use the tunneling tactics specially studied by the General Staff Training Division. Moreover, there is another advantage to using this tactic, that is, the people used to dig are all Tartars.

In the last battle, these Baoyi who were captured from the Houjin army, although there were also many hard-working people, but Zachdan now only treated them as prisoners of war, and did not kill them on the spot, and took their heads to sell them for money, even if it was benevolent and righteous.