Zhu Jie stared at Jinzhou City on his position, bombarding Jinzhou City with shells, but it was not so easy to collapse Jinzhou City, he knew Jinzhou City very well, and Song Jiaxing made the city defense information of the cities in eastern Liaodong clear and constantly sent it to Zhu Jie.

The solidity of Jinzhou City naturally can't hide from Zhu Jie.

"Alright, stop shelling for now!"

Zhu Jie whispered to Xu Yifan on the side.

Xu Yifan was stunned for a moment, and immediately ordered: "Order, stop the shelling, Mu Feng, prepare to lead the army to attack the city!" ”

"Yes, big brother!"

Qin Mufeng was just about to make a move, but was stopped by Zhu Jie.

"It is useless to give up the direct siege for the time being, and if the city is not completely broken, it will be directly attacked, and suddenly increase casualties."

Xu Yifan was stunned and said: "Your Majesty, this, you are ......"

Zhu Jie said with a smile: "You don't want to think about it, most of the artillery in our army are solid shells, hitting the city wall, although it is not small, but the thinnest part of the city wall is close to two zhang, this Jinzhou City, but Yuan Chonghuan and Sun Chengzong built it back then, where can it be bombed aimlessly with artillery?" ”

Qin Mufeng was stunned and said, "Your Majesty, where are we aimless?" Brother Yifan has been concentrating almost all the artillery to attack this section, look at it, how much this section of the city wall has fallen off? ”

Zhu Jie waved his hand and replied, "What if it falls off badly?" This wall is so thick, by the time you pierce the wall, the cannonballs piled up below can already become a wall again, and it is too inefficient to shell it like this. ”

Xu Yifan's face turned red and asked, "Your Majesty, what are your clever plans?" ”

Zhu Jie smiled: "It's very simple, concentrate all our flowering cannons, aim at the middle and lower parts of the city wall, bomb with all your might, use the explosion to directly blast the middle and lower parts of the city wall, and then use solid bullets to attack it, this speed will naturally be much higher." ”

Obviously, the most important thing in the city wall is the wall foundation, which is the foundation of the city wall, as long as the wall foundation is destroyed, the upper part of the city wall will become a rootless wood. However, these twenty or thirty pounds of solid bullets, when smashed on the city wall, still have some effect, but when smashed on the lower part of the city wall, it is not used at all, the wall base below is several zhang thick, how can the shells on the top, except for adding a crater, there is almost no damage, and the wall foundation cannot be damaged at all.

The only way to destroy the wall base is to use the explosion of the flowering bomb.

First destroy the wall base with flowering shells, and then concentrate all the artillery fire on the bombardment, and the effect of one shell is enough to top the effect of the original three or five solid shells.

Xu Yifan's eyes lit up immediately, and he laughed and said, "Haha, the emperor, the minister understands!" Someone, the order, all the flowering shells, aimed at the wall base of Jinzhou City, launched an artillery bombardment with all my strength, and blew up all the sections of the city wall below! ”

The cannon rang out again, this time the sound of the cannon was noticeably less intense than the one before, and Dolgon, who was about to go back, stopped his steps, and came back to the city, looking outward.

A cannonball flew towards the city, however, Dolgon was a little confused, obviously, judging from his experience, according to the arc of the cannonball in the sky, it would never be able to hit the city, and only more than 30 artillery pieces were used, and the artillery behind was not moving, which one was singing by the Ming army?

In the confusion, one shell after another has already fallen, smashing into the lower half of the city wall!

"Boom Boom Boom Boom ......"

A violent explosion sounded, and it turned out that the solid bullet smashed on the city wall, but the city wall shook, but this time it was different, Dolgon and the others felt that the fields were shaking!

The violent explosion of the cannonballs blew up the wall bricks into the sky, and the shock wave generated by the explosion made even the Qing troops on the city feel suffocated for a while, and this air wave was too powerful.

A wave of shells passed, under the city wall, a section of twenty or thirty zhang wide city wall was directly blown out of a huge crater, especially the flowering bombs that exploded directly at the base of the wall, and even directly blew out a big pit between the base and the ground, and some flowering bombs even drilled into the wall along the cracks, and exploded directly, which made the damage to the city wall more and more serious!

Although it was only a wave of cannonballs, the fear caused to Dorgon was greater than the bombardment of the previous ten waves of cannonballs!

No matter how strong the city wall is, it will never be able to withstand the explosion of cannonballs, especially the explosion inside the wall is infinitely powerful!

"This, this!"

Dorgon was speechless in shock!

When Dolgon was still stunned, the Ming army opened fire on the position, fired again, and the shells crossed the sky again, heading straight for Jinzhou City!

The intensity and frequency of the Ming army's artillery bombardment have dropped significantly, a wave of thirty shells, it takes almost three minutes to shoot a shell, but even this frequency, but the Qing army has all panicked, so that the shells continue to bombard the lower part of the city wall, one by one big potholes were blown out, it won't be long before the city wall above exceeds the limit, it will automatically collapse ah, this damage is inevitably too big!

For most of the day's attack, the Ming army launched dozens of waves of artillery bombardment in one go, firing more than 1,000 shells, and the artillery position was already dilapidated against the base of the city wall, and a large area of the city wall was crumbling in the cold wind, and it would collapse at any time!

"Your Majesty, look, look, the wall bricks under the city wall have been blown off, and the craters on the rammed earth layer inside are nearly a foot deep!"

Qin Mufeng held his glasses in his hand, and while watching, he changed and shouted.

Zhu Jie sneered: "It's almost, continue the shelling, come here, go to the baggage camp to get two hundred catties of explosives, all of them are packed in large urns, and while the city is being attacked, all of them will be stuffed into those craters at the base of the wall, and we will blow up the city wall for him directly!" ”

Some people hurriedly ran down to get explosives, and the gunpowder of the baggage battalion was far away from the forward position, a full distance of four or five miles from the front line, for fear of being bombarded by the artillery in Jinzhou City, and the defense was tight.

In a short time, more than a dozen soldiers used a cart to push three urns of gunpowder, according to the regulations of the Firearms Bureau, each Weng gunpowder was 150 catties, which was 4 or 500 catties.

"Your Majesty, the explosives have been transported."

One of them bowed down.

"Order, Qin Mufeng led the elite infantry to attack the city, the musket battalion covered, and advanced towards the city, remember to protect these three big urns, this time, I will send all the Qing troops on the city to the western sky!"

(End of chapter)