The Xicheng of Jinan, which was bombarded by artillery, was undoubtedly the key target of the Qing army's artillery bombardment.

The shelling of Ximen was led by Kong Youde's general, Wu Guoan, and nearly 300 copper and iron cannons were mobilized, including 25 red-clothed cannons.

The gunners of Kong Youde's troops were all old soldiers, and most of the officers were staying in the new army established by Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai. After surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, they participated in almost all the large-scale wars of the Ming and Qing wars. They were experienced in many battles, and they can be said to be the best artillery soldiers of this era.

In the Battle of Songshan, the Qing army was able to quickly break through the two cities of Tashan and Xingshan, and occupy Bijia Mountain, where the Ming army's food route was located. This Tianyou artillery played a key role in it.

During the Yibishi War, although the Manzhou soldiers and Wu Sangui's Guanning Army and the Chuang Army fought head-on, if the Sanshun King's artillery did not rush into the rear and suppress the Shun Army's infantry, the Qing army would still win in that battle, but it would not be so easy.

The shelling lasted for an hour and no less than a thousand solid bullets were smashed at the west gate of Jinan, causing some areas of the rebuilt and reinforced Ximen city wall to loosen and collapse.

The sound of the cannons with huge cannons weighing thousands of pounds was even more shocking. The sound of cannons under Jinan City could be heard twenty or thirty miles away.

The first town of the Huai Army guarding Jinan did not fire a fire backfire. On the one hand, their number of artillery was not as large as that of the Qing army, especially the Red and Black cannons with a long range, so they rashly fired a fire back and exposed the artillery position, which was very easy to be bombarded by the Red and Black cannons of the Qing army.

On the other hand, the Huai Army's insufficient number of medicines, which is also the fatal point that plagues and seriously affects the Huai Army's equipment.

So far, most of the gunpowder needed by the Huai Army was seized from the battlefield, and it was unable to make its own gunpowder due to the lack of raw materials.

In addition to the seizure, they bought a lot of money in the south. The purchase targets were not limited to the Nandu. There were also the Zheng family in Fujian, and even some merchants who served the Huai Army also bought them from the Ming Army in Huaixi. However, the purchase volume was limited, and it was impossible to guarantee that the Huai Army had enough medicine to use.

On the other hand, the improvement of Shengjing's "arsams" was the first in Asia. After entering Beijing, it fully accepted the Military Equipment Department of the Ming Dynasty's largest gunpowder production yamen, the Inner Court of the Military Equipment Department. The annual gunpowder production of this Military Equipment Department alone is as high as more than 500,000 kilograms.

In other words, the Qing army could use cannons to thump and not care about the consumption of gunpowder at all, but the Huai army had to calculate, and they would not dare to shoot the cannon until they had to.

During the Battle of Linghe more than ten years ago, the Qing army, which was the Later Jin army, lacked medicine like the Huai army today, which almost caused the Ming army to overturn the market.

After the war, Huang Taiji, who was deeply aware of the importance of gunpowder, ordered Tong Yangxing, who was in charge of Wuzhenchao Ha Pao Camp, to ask the Ming Dynasty merchants in Shanxi to help them buy gunpowder and hire gunpowder craftsmen to Shengjing, thus helping the Manchus achieve gunpowder self-sufficiency.

The commander of the Huai Army, the first town of the Huai Army, who was in charge of the West Gate, thought that the Qing army would send people to fill the river when the artillery was bombarded, but the Qing army did not fill the river while shelling, but instead started to organize people to fill the river after the shelling stopped.

During the shelling, Xia Dajun used the Qianli mirror given by Lu Si in his hand to see hundreds of braided soldiers wearing pointed helmets surrounded by Qing generals observing the shelling of Ximen in Jinan. At that time, he hated that his own cannon could not be so far away, otherwise, if hundreds of cannons were fired at the same time, he would definitely be able to kill the braided general.

The moat in Jinan surrounds Jinan City one round, the river is about five feet wide and the water is about seven feet deep.

Six years ago, when Dorgon commanded the Qing army to siege the city and broke the city, he drove tens of thousands of residents near Jinan to fill the river with mud. Later, he killed Han people directly by the river and pushed them into the river. He just piled up a "people road" that was more than 20 meters wide.

Apart from filling the river with mud, there is no way to fill the moat in Jinan!

After the shelling was over, Kong Youde's troops began to drive the Han people who accompanied the army to carry Nipinghe River.

The Huai Army on the city also began to repair the city walls.

With the sound of the horn, five thousand ready-made Han men divided into several teams and rushed out of the battalion, carrying a bag of soil weighing about forty or fifty kilograms.

These civilians from the Northern Zhili area knew that their river-filling behavior would lead to the fall of Jinan City, but they had no way to stop it, because if they didn't enter, they would die.

No choice.

In order to survive, five thousand Han men rushed up like a tide. In order to boost their courage, they screamed... They ran to the moat and threw the soil down and ran back, fearing that they would be shot by guns and arrows on the city if they ran a step slower.

"Speed ​​the gun!"

The frowning Xia Dajun finally ordered the shooting of these miserable compatriots.

Hundreds of muskets fired up immediately, and these muskets were also seized from the Shiting Pillar Division of the Qing Han Army Flag.

With the sound of "bang bang", the guns knocked down hundreds of civilians who were running forward or running back.

The fallen companions and the blood hole on their bodies screamed the unscathed Han men, but after a brief scream, they lifted their injured companions and threw them directly into the river.

This is the way to survive the Qing soldiers told them - if they want to end sooner, they have to level the river as soon as possible.

Those who fall down are also tools to fill the river.

Human life is like soil, and there is no difference.

If you fall down, don’t blame anything. If you want to blame, blame yourself for your bad luck.

The civilians who had hundreds of people died were still carrying mud in a crazy manner, and the Huai Army had to fire artillery.

Accompanied by the sound of cannons, solid iron bombs fell from mid-air, and then rushed up on the ground. The rapidly rotating solid bullets passed through the bodies of one civilian after another. The broken limbs and walls connected to the internal organs made the riverside extremely slippery, and many civilians fell in a pool of blood.

Filling the river continues.

The cannon on the city wall in the distance may be fatal, but it may not be possible to defeat yourself. The Qing soldiers behind him were sharp, and if they didn't go up, they would be swept immediately.

In the open space in front of the moat in Xicheng, Jinan, a tragedy of compatriots killing each other.

Cannons and guns kept flying among the civilians. Someone saw the fellow villager in front of him smashed his head off by cannons, and his headless body was still running forward...

The Qing army's cannons also fired, and they were waiting for the Huai army to fire.

The artillery was hit, and more than a dozen Huai Army artillery pieces were overturned by the Qing army's iron bullets, killing several people.

The shooting of the Huai Army continued. The first batch of 5,000 civilians may have been transferred when half of the deaths. Another group of Han Chinese men who were ready to go.

There are also five thousand people.

There are two batches behind them.

Kong Youde optimistically believed that at most two groups of people died, the moat could be filled.

In fact, it may be similar, because more than two thousand Han Chinese men who died just now have filled more than a quarter of the moat.

Just like the civilians carrying mud just now, another round of flesh and blood began. Pieces of Han cannon fodder fell down, and the blood dyed the moat red, and even the river water on the north gate turned red.

The screams caused by despair and panic at the beginning have gradually decreased, and are replaced by numb people who only know how to run forward.

Many civilians were directly hit by the crowd behind and were deliberately knocked into the river.

In order to survive, the instinct of human nature is infinitely magnified before the crisis of life and death.

The poor men who were pushed into the river by their companions desperately reached out to pull the corpse below to climb up, but their feet seemed to be grabbed by water ghosts and could not climb up.

Even if they climbed up, they could not escape the sacks falling like rain on the shore.

Another round passed, and the moat was half filled.

A blood-red road extends from the moat to the mud behind, and everyone's feet are red.
Chapter completed!