Li Yingyuan personally directed the siege.

This time, the Qing army no longer consumed the equipment of the Huai Army defending the city with the "sea of ​​people" tactics, but approached the city wall under the cover of artillery bombardment, and used its powerful muskets to shoot the Huai Army that dared to emerge on both sides of the city. At the same time, a team of Qing soldiers wearing double armor began to carry the bodies on the gap to clear the way for the large army to advance.

The Qing army's guns were very well-organized, with hundreds of people in teams, three teams and one group, taking turns to fire. The dense guns pressed against the city, and the Huai Army could not emerge at all.

Many Huai Army soldiers were shot, especially those at the collapsed portal. Because they were too exposed, many of them were shot when they were just poked out and fell into the stone in their hands.

Seeing this, Biao Tong Qi Daizi gathered all the more than 200 gunmen assigned to him to command at the gap to shoot against the Qing army, one side on the top and the other side on the bottom. The Huai army on the gap on the other side also organized a few archers and shot arrows down desperately.

However, the Qing army had too many muskets, so even if the Huai army was condescending, it could not suppress the Qing army. The Qing army under the city wall began to raise the shields again. The Qing army in double armor tried hard to drag the bodies out under the shields. The corpses that had originally accumulated to a height of half of the city wall fell down little by little, and finally the barriers to the gap were cleared again.

Li Yingyuan, who was in charge of commanding the siege, immediately ordered the siege. Hundreds of Qing soldiers in double armor held big swords in their hands and were used to entering under the cover of the gunman. What caught his eye was an earth wall that was about the same height as the city wall.

Under the earth wall are dense "bamboo forests".

"top!"

Biao Tong's 10,000 swords fell forward, and five hundred bamboo poles fell down at the same time, pushing hard towards the Qing army that was rushing in.

The Qing army suicide squad, holding a big knife, did not expect that the opponent was using a bamboo pole. The people in front of him were caught off guard and were slashed by the bamboo pole. Some swayed the knife to chop the bamboo pole, some held the bamboo pole tightly and had difficulty breathing, and they couldn't help but retreat.

Fortunately, these Qing troops were wearing double armor. Even if the bamboo pole that was facing them was cut off and turned into bamboo spears, they could not stab their armor.

But the Huai Army had too many bamboo poles, which made the Qing army unable to stand at all. Hundreds of people were chaotic inside and outside the gap and could not attack further.

The Huai Army gunners on the earthen walls took the opportunity to fire guns and arrows, and the chaos of the Qing army had to end the attack in a hurry.

During this attack, Kong Youde's troops lost 300 to 400 people, and the Huai Army was killed more than 200 times, mostly by Qing army guns on the city wall and by falling cannons.

The relevant battle situation was soon reported to Haoge. After learning that the Huai bandits had another earth wall behind the Jinan city wall, Kong Youde immediately came up with a corresponding solution, which was to push the cannon into the outside of the gap to collapse the Huai bandits' earth wall.

During the competition, he asked why not use red-clothed cannons to collapse the earthen wall. Kong Youde said that there was a Jinan city wall blocking it, and the red-clothed cannon cannons cannot be hit. He also said that the earthen wall is not a brick wall, and there is no need to use red-clothed cannons, just a few dozen light cannons are enough.

After some preparation, the Qing army began to attack the city again in the afternoon.

This time, Kong Youde's troops were still in charge, and the Manchurian soldiers watched the battle.

Kong Youde still asked Li Yingyuan to command. Under Li Yingyuan's command, a thousand gunners and a thousand big swordsmen attacked at the same time.

Another thousand gunners continued their tactics in the morning and used the method of firing dense guns to suppress the Huai Army on the city wall. This method was very successful after actual combat inspection and could ensure that the Huai thieves on the brick wall could not interfere with the Qing army's operations that were attacked by the gap.

Sure enough, under the attack of the Qing army's muskets, the Huai army's bamboo pole team had to retreat. At the same time, more than 40 copper cannons weighing hundreds of pounds were pulled across the moat by the Qing army and transported them outside the wall gap.

The Huai army on the city realized what the Qing army was going to do, but they were powerless.

The Qing army soon began to shell the earthen wall behind the city.

If Kong Youde said that the earth walls were not as good as brick walls, collapsed one after another under the continuous shelling of the Qing army.

When a period of earthen wall collapsed, unfortunately buried a group of retreating bamboo pole soldiers alive, killing dozens of people.

"kill!"

The collapse of the earth wall greatly boosted the morale of the Qing army and rushed forward in the dust and smoke. But soon, screams came.

"Ah, my feet!"

Many Qing soldiers screamed and jumped around with their feet lifted, as if there were poisonous snakes biting people on the ground.

It turned out that the Huai Army, which could not stop the Qing army, scattered countless caltrops on the ground when it retreated. These weapons used to deal with the cavalry made the attacking Qing army nowhere to settle down.

Their soles are not as thick as horse hooves.

There are no caltrops in some areas, but there are densely packed with sharpened bamboo stakes and nails on the ground, just like a mountain of swords, making people shocked to see it.

In some places, there were rules to dig holes. If the Qing army stepped on it, it would be instantly pricked.

Some Qing troops were tripped by ropes on the ground and then tied through various mechanisms.

This is the "three-dimensional defense" declared by the Huai Army Governor Lu Si. The element of this "three-dimensional defense" is to mobilize the imagination of the Huai Army soldiers. The officers encouraged soldiers to come up with ways to defeat the enemy. No matter what method is effective after the test, they will be deployed immediately.

A Qing army leader was hung on the earth wall by a "organization" set up by a single-family Huai Army.

Some of the grounds look very flat, and after stepping on them, they are at most small ponds, but in that pond, there are animal traps, even mouse traps.

This is not only the battle of defense of the Huai Army in Jinan, but also the battle of the whole people against foreign enemies.

There was a hundred feet of empty space between the city walls and earthen walls in Jinan. It was difficult to see clearly because of dust and smoke. More and more Qing soldiers' feet were pierced, and some were even nailed there. The Qing soldiers who were trapped in the trap were sweating profusely, and hugged their legs and feet that were clamped by iron teeth.

On the uncollapsed earth wall, the Huai Army sprinkled a large amount of quicklime down, cut the bags of them and threw them down, and then poured water down.

The lime falling all over the sky made the Qing army's sight and breathing more difficult. The quicklime not only produced high temperatures after encountering water, but also produced a irritating smell, which made the Qing army below unable to even cough and was in it like a steamer above a hot pot.

"Retreat, withdraw, retreat quickly!"

The Qing army could not hold back. They looked for a way to retreat in the thick lime smoke, soil dust and gun smoke, but they couldn't open their eyes and couldn't breathe. Many people were either stuck by the caltrops on the ground or rolled on the ground by the high-temperature lime, causing their bodies to be covered with blood holes.

The deputy general of Kong Youde's army who led his army to attack the city, the Guangning people choked on the eyes of lime. Before he could rub his eyes, a bucket of water fell down from the earthen wall.

Before Quanjie could close his eyes, water was poured on it. The lime in his eyes immediately became hot in his eyes, and it completely ruined Quanjie's eyes.

Some Qing soldiers were frightened by the screams of the people around them and dared not move. The difficulty in breathing the air was destined to run away, otherwise they would definitely die.

Some Qing army began to grit their teeth and pushed their companions to the ground, becoming their living steps.

The Qing army camp on the other side of the Hunhecheng outside the city, Haoge and other Manchu generals could not see anything.
Chapter completed!