Built between two mountain ranges, flanked by the Great Wall built along the mountains, the Shenchikou Fort is extremely dangerous, firmly guarding the only access to the small plain from the north.

On the north side of today's Shenchikou Fort, there are also two reinforced concrete turrets, like two pincers of crabs, one left and one right to protect the gate of the military fort.

The Derge class department had a total of 12,000 troops, including 8,500 soldiers under the blue banner and inlaid with the blue flag, and 3,500 Mongolian cavalry.

In fact, Derge didn't want to fight Shenchikou, he knew that this military fort was not easy to fight, it was very difficult to fight, the firearms surnamed Qin were extremely sharp, and there were many defenders in the military fort, and he might not be able to fight it if he piled up thousands of soldiers and horses.

The most important thing is that the strength of the Blue Banner and the Blue Banner has been weakened a lot in the past two years, and he doesn't want to follow in the footsteps of his fifth brother Mang Gurtai of the same father and mother.

Everyone knows that Huang Taiji wants more power, and he has always wanted to weaken the strength of his and Mang Gurtai brothers.

It's a pity that Mang Gurtai is a fool, so stupid that he took a knife in public and glared at Huang Taiji, giving the other party a handle to punish him, he had obviously stopped him, and he drew a knife to Huang Taiji in public, and finally ended up being deprived of his title, and died of depression not long ago.

Dai Shan's red flag and Yue Zhen's red flag have been abolished, that is, they were scrapped by the surname Qin, and this military fort in front of me that is easy to defend and difficult to attack will probably also make the blue flag and the blue flag lose their troops and lose their strength.

However, Khan couldn't do anything, and he had to fight again.

After getting ready, he picked 6,000 troops and went straight to Shenchikou Fort under his own command, intending to attack Shenchikou Fort with the traditional way of suppressing with bows and arrows and climbing the city.

When they reached a distance of three miles, they were shelled, but fortunately there were only two guns, and the casualties were not very large.

At a distance of two miles, four more guns fired, and then at a distance of one mile, six more guns were fired.

At this point, there were more than 200 soldiers killed and wounded by artillery fire, and they didn't know how many they would die when they attacked the city by ladder.

The Derg class knows that the most taboo thing to do is to be wavering when marching and fighting.

But he really didn't want to fight this kind of tough battle regardless of casualties, even if he could fight Shenchikou, there would definitely not be much food inside, and after the heavy losses, he didn't have enough troops to plunder inside, at most, he would eliminate part of Qin Chuan's troops, and then help Huang Taiji and Azig and others to open their mouths, and let them go in and loot.

Otherwise, withdraw one after another, drag it out and don't fight, and see how the battle situation of Huang Taiji is on the side of Ningwu Pass.

Anyway, he had already launched an attack, and when Huang Taiji asked, he said that the other party's artillery fire was too fierce and he was forced to retreat.

After hesitating for a long time, Derg gritted his teeth and decided to retreat.

But just as he was about to give the order to retreat, a deafening roar suddenly sounded next to him, and he only felt an extremely powerful wave of qi slamming into him, and a few stones or bullets hit him all over his body.

The Derg was in terrible pain, and he felt like he was flying and falling to the ground.

He tried to get up, but his body was in severe pain, his head was buzzing, there was a loud "boom" in his ears, and there was a terrible scream.

"Lord Belle, Lord Belle......"

A grizzled guard pounced, crouching beside Derg and shouting.

Derge subconsciously opened his mouth to speak, but before he could make a sound, his eyes suddenly went black and he lost consciousness.

……

Seeing that it was not early, Huang Taijiguo then withdrew and retreated straight to camp five miles away.

Qin Chuan stood at the head of the city, looking at the large open space outside the city and pondering for a long time.

Li Dingliang came up from the stairs, stood at the top of the stairs and said: "The big boss, everyone has ordered, a total of fifty, all of them went out voluntarily, and they are all familiar with the method of dismantling the bombardment." ”

Qin Chuan turned around, hesitated for a moment, then nodded, and then walked down.

A large number of Emperor Guan's troops gathered next to the city wall, surrounding fifty soldiers in thick armor in the middle.

Qin Chuan silently walked up to one of them, first looked at the iron sheet on his face, then lifted the cloth iron armor on his outside, and after touching the other iron armor inside, he continued to probe inside until he confirmed that there was still a cotton armor inside.

"Do you have enough armor all on?"

"One person, two pieces of iron armor, one cotton armor, and an iron sheet covering his face, all of them are worn."

"Hmm."

Qin Chuan nodded, and walked to the side to inspect the shield cart placed there.

The outside of these shield carts was covered with a thick iron sheet, and the hem was also covered with thick wooden planks to cover the void below, and each shield cart had a hole in the middle to protrude a stick.

The fifty Guan Emperor soldiers who were covered in three layers of armor were going out to clear mines.

When planting mines, each mine is simply marked, but because the other party does not want to detect the location of the mine, the mark is not obvious, only a stone and a little lime, which can only be found by walking closer and looking closely.

Therefore, it is necessary to equip them with a shield cart, slowly push forward, use a stick to pull the dirt, find the pedal of the mine, and clip the stick under the pedal before getting out of the shield cart, cutting the rope with the stone under the pedal, and then taking out the flint in the receiver.

The latter process is very dangerous, and if you are not careful, you will probably die without a whole body.

In fact, Qin Chuan was very hesitant.

He knew that it was not worth exchanging the lives of the people for the lives of the Emperor Guan, and it was very, very unworthy.

If he didn't do something, he couldn't bear to watch those people being blown up alive by the mines he had planted.

So, let's give it a try first and see if you can get rid of it.

If the failure rate is too high, he will immediately withdraw the person.

The lives of Emperor Guan's army are much more valuable than the lives of the people.

After carefully inspecting each shield car, Qin Chuan looked at the fifty Guan Emperor soldiers who volunteered to clear mines, and said with a straight face: "Brothers, this life is very dangerous, if you are not careful, you will probably be killed by a life or death, if there are brothers who don't want to go, it's still too late, don't worry, this matter is not ashamed." ”

"General, I'm not afraid."

"I'm not afraid, don't you just set off a bomber."

"General, don't worry, we just need to be more careful."

The fifty Guan Emperor soldiers patted their chests one after another.

Qin Chuan nodded: "Okay, it's all good, then let's go, you must be careful, be cautious, and get back a bomber and reward two taels of silver." ”

"Hey, thank you, General!"

"Go ahead."

As he spoke, Qin Chuan motioned to Emperor Guan in the doorway to open the door.

Fifty Guan Emperor soldiers quickly pushed twenty-five shield carts out of the city gate, and then lined up and slowly advanced outward.

Twenty paces away, they stopped in unison, and after observing for a while, they moved on to their respective targets.

When they were only one step away from the target, the shield carts stopped again, and the Guan Emperor army behind them held wooden sticks and gently pulled the dirt next to the lime-sprinkled ones through the holes in the shield carts.

The pedal of the mine is not buried deeply, only a thin layer of floating mud is sprinkled on it, there is a protruding wooden tip on one side of the pedal, which jams the rope of the pendant, and the other side is suspended in the air, when the enemy steps on the suspended side, the wooden tip is detached, the falling stone falls, and the small steel wheel in the machine box is pulled to quickly rub the flint, thus generating a spark ignition primer, and finally detonating the cannon.

The demining Guan Emperor army had to hide behind the shield cart first, insert a wooden stick into the side of the pedal that was suspended, and jam the pedal before walking over and cutting the rope tied to the falling stone, so as to minimize the danger.

After a while, a few Guan Emperor soldiers took the lead in opening the gap next to the pedal, and inserted wooden sticks into the gap to jam the pedal, and then took a few small wooden sticks and slowly approached with heavy steps.

When he got closer, he crouched down and carefully dug the dirt from the side of the pedal with a dagger, and stuck the pedal with a small wooden stick as he dug it back, so as not to collapse.

After digging a fist-sized hole, he put the scissors in, cut the rope hanging from the stone, removed the pedals, and carefully removed the flint and steel wheels from the receiver.

And then it's done.

After taking out the flint and steel wheels, the Guan Emperor soldiers turned around and raised the mines in their hands towards the city to sign.

"That's good, but don't be careless, be careful."

At the head of the city, Qin Chuan gave them a thumbs up.

"General, don't worry."

A Guan Dijun confidently answered, and then pushed the cart on.

At this moment, a loud "boom" suddenly sounded not far from the side, raising a large puff of dust and smoke.

There are mines that have blown up.

Qin Chuan's face changed, and he saw that a shield car was overturned to the ground, but there was no figure of Emperor Guan next to the shield car, not even a corpse.

"The big bosses, they are in the shield cart."

Li Dingliang next to him suddenly pointed to the shield car and shouted.

Qin Chuan stared at it, only to see that the shield cart moved, and there was a coughing sound from inside.

The Guan Emperor Army, who was not far away, hurriedly threw down the work at hand, ran over, and moved the shield cart.

Two people were exposed, struggling to get up.

"General, they're fine, they're not injured, the bombers were accidentally blown up when they were digging up the soil."

After a few Guan Emperor soldiers carefully inspected their surroundings, they shouted towards Qin Chuan at the head of the city.

Qin Chuan breathed a sigh of relief.

Luckily, there was a shield cart covered in iron.

After the two Guan Emperor soldiers returned to the city gate to rest, the others continued to concentrate on clearing mines.

Not long after, another thunder exploded, this time it was also blown up when digging soil, probably because the pedal was too sensitive, and the wooden stick was blown up.

This time, an Emperor Guan was wounded, and an iron ball penetrated through the hole, piercing the two layers of iron armor on the shoulder, and finally stopped in the interlayer of the cotton armor.

It didn't get into the flesh, but the collarbone should be broken.

So far, the casualties are still within the tolerable range, and it took two quarters of an hour to discharge a total of 42 mines.

Of the 300 mines at the beginning, 100 were buried in the east of the city, 200 were buried in the open land in the north of the city, and about 70 or 80 were trampled by Jiannu, leaving about 12 or so.

Now there are forty-two more in the row, and there should be about eighty.

If it goes well, you should be able to get it all done before dark.

Qin Chuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

But at this moment, there was another loud bang below, and another thunder exploded.

Qin Chuan witnessed a Guan Emperor soldier being blown up alive, flying several steps away, and then falling heavily to the ground, not moving.

This time, that thunder exploded right in front of the eyes of that Guan Emperor army.

The Guan Emperor Jun next to him hurriedly rushed over, and after checking for a while, he shook his head at Qin Chuan at the head of the city, and said helplessly: "The neck and forehead have been blown apart." ”

"!"

Qin Chuan scolded in annoyance.

"Come back, come back, don't row up, bring that brother back."