The invention discloses a direct steel making technique by reducing iron ore with gas, comprising: firstly, adding iron ore and prereducing mineral powder into an iron slag bath, dissolving the iron ore or the prereducing mineral powder into the slag, blowing reducing gas into the slag layer, reducing the slag containing FeO, and obtaining molten steel with carbon content less than 1.3%. CO generated in the reduction reaction is mainly used for secondary combustion to compensate heat energy needed by the reduction reaction, and the exhaust gas is used for prewarming and prereducing (the iron mineral is prereduced in very weak reducing atmosphere). The technique fully utilizes the features that the reducing gas will not carburize and siliconize the molten steel, and implements the production of molten steel from iron mineral only by one direct steel-smelting furnace. The technique of the invention has advantages of high yield, low energy consumption per ton steel, save of equipment andconstruction investment, sufficient simplification of physical distribution, and the technique avoids temperature loss of the molten iron in transport process, and easily implements continuous production and automation control.