At the same time that Yang Liulang led a battalion of men and horses to contain the Manchurian soldiers on the east side of the Shimen Waterway, Sun Dingliao, the chief of staff, personally led two teams of soldiers from the third battalion to cross the mountains and mountains on the west side of the Shimen Waterway, aiming at Shapozi on the west side of the Shimen Waterway.

The coalition forces occupy the right time, place, and people, how could Sun Dingliao easily let go of this Manchurian army?

In Dalinghe City, he was besieged by Manchurian soldiers for several months, and finally the soldiers and civilians in the city fed on human flesh, and Sun Dingliao had long been holding back this bad breath!

When Abahai attacked Dalinghe City, four Hongyi cannons falsely claimed to be forty, and the defenders of Dalinghe saw that there was no hope of defending the city, so they opened the city and surrendered. Now the Manchurian Han army was carrying four more Hongyi cannons, and Sun Dingliao vowed to leave them all.

The terrain of Shapozi Sun Dingliao has long been personally explored, there is a natural platform, the side of the platform is the cliff of Qilen Qikan protruding into the Shimen waterway, from the valley can only be climbed by the steep slopes on the front and back sides of the platform.

Shapozi is a good blocking point, and at the same time a Jedi. It is surrounded by water on one side and mountains on three sides, and there is no way back.

As soon as it was dawn today, Sun Dingliao sent a small team of local people who were good at walking mountain roads.

The local team set out from Xishimen Mountain, first built a temporary single-plank bridge to cross the river in a hidden place at the foot of the mountain, and then left ropes to climb at steep places along the way, and barely opened a temporary passage between the mountains to Shapozi.

This passage can only be walked by the three battalions, which have undergone light reform.

The three battalions of non-commissioned men carried all the equipment and supplies on their backs, and they used their hands and feet to follow this temporary passage to the wild mountain behind Shapozi at noon.

After a short rest, Sun Dingliao gave an order, and the grenadier man sneaked up to the Shapozi platform, propped up the grenadier and fired dozens of smoke bombs into the audience in one breath.

The two teams of three battalions of soldiers took the opportunity to rush to the front and rear sides of the platform, blocking the only way to ascend the platform from the Shimen Waterway.

The archers quickly assembled the cicada cannon on the terrace, and before the smoke screen had cleared, the straw bale mine had already fallen into the Shimen waterway.

The Manchurian soldiers in the Shimen waterway had been frightened by the sporadic flying thunder of the first battalion in the morning, and now they were suddenly blown away by the dense flying thunder of the third battalion, and they were scurrying like headless flies in the smoke screen.

The task of the third battalion was to jam Shapozi and cut the Manchurian soldiers in the Shimen waterway into two sections. The chief of staff wanted to leave behind all the Manchurian soldiers stranded south of Shapozi, including the four 3,000-pound Hongyi cannons.

The signal soldiers waved the relay flag, and the local people hidden in the back mountain carried more supplies on their backs and sent them to the Shapozi platform along the temporary passageway.

The local people who arrived at Shapozi in advance carried the freshly cut timber, quickly built a wooden frame on the terrace, and then propped up a long trunk the thickness of a bowl.

Six thick ropes are fixed on the thicker side of the trunk near the roots, the center of gravity of the trunk is supported on a wooden frame, and a long hemp rope hangs from the slender tip of the trunk, and the tail end of the long hemp rope is a net made of hemp rope, like a whip.

A local man filled a 20-pound stone into the net pocket, ignoring the muddy ground, and lay flat under the wooden frame with the net pocket.

Six men raised their arms in the air, and one of them grabbed a thick rope.

Someone shouted in a thick Shanxi accent: "One——, two——, release!" ”

The six men pulled the rope down in unison, the treetops were lifted high, and the men holding the nets under the wooden frame let go of their hands in time.

The treetops reached the highest point, and the nets were jerked up. The stones in the net pocket flew out by incaria, flew out 500 feet, and smashed on the hillside opposite the Shimen Waterway.

The thick Shanxi accent commented: "Well, it's a little far away, but this time it's all a little bit more relaxed." ”

The weapon used by the Minfu is called the "cannon", which is a kind of catapult invented during the Warring States period in China.

After a few test shots, Minfu found his senses.

The conductor's Shanxi accent commanded: "Okay, this time it's a real guy." ”

A barrel tear gas canister wrapped around a straw rope is loaded into a net pocket.

"Ignition, one——, two——, go!"

The tear gas canister fell into the middle of the valley beneath the platform, rolling a few times, and a puff of yellow smoke came out.

The horses under the platform immediately could no longer hold on, and they all snorted to avoid the pungent smell of tear gas. No matter how the Manchurian soldiers whipped and pulled, the horses that lost their temper just didn't listen to the call.

The order in the Shanxi accent came again: "Give them another thunder." ”

A wooden barrel was placed in a net pocket.

The barrel was full of explosives, and in order to reduce its weight, not even stones and iron sand were added, and the outside of the barrel was firmly wrapped with a layer of gypsum gauze and straw rope to prevent impact.

"Ignition, one——, two——, go!"

The advantage of the cannon is that it reloads quickly, as long as the treetops are pulled down.

The barrel falls leisurely into the middle of the valley.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom......

Ringing thunder lives up to its name, nothing else is just one word: ringing!

The sound of a loud explosion echoed through the valley, and the man who operated the cannon only saw the commander's mouth open and close, and no one could hear what he was saying.

The horses under the Shapozi platform were immediately shocked!

The horses fled madly to and fro the valley, recklessly striking and trampling all obstacles, and the rumbling of horses' hooves became a continuation of the thunder.

The wild horses became Sun Dingliao's most loyal allies. The Manchurian cart overturned to the ground, the Manchurian soldiers were knocked to pieces, and the Manchurian soldiers under the sand slope immediately collapsed.

For the first time, the coalition forces discovered the sensitive horse's nose, and feared tear gas, which originated from the surprise attack on the 2nd Camp at Qingshanzui, and set the red flag. For the first time, the coalition forces discovered that the sensitive horse's ears could not withstand the sound of a large number of explosives exploding, which originated from the night attack on the Manchurian camp with mines at the stone gate.

When Wen Muzuo built the first cannon, Sun Dingliao immediately discovered that this ancient weapon, with its simple structure and no range and accuracy, could be used to fire heavy gas bombs and mines, using the smell of gas bombs and the loud sound of explosives to attack timid horses at the same time.

It's not creative, but it works.

Sun Dingliao was named after the thunder that could produce a loud noise, and was specially used to deal with horses. He bullied Manchukuo that there was no explosives, and he couldn't even train his horses to adapt to the sound of thunder, and he planned to use this method for a long time!

The people who rushed to the Shapozi platform from the back mountain put down the supplies and took advantage of this time to help the third battalion to build fortifications urgently. The steep slope before and after the sand slope where the platform can be reached is piled up with sacks of earth, and the low wall is sprinkled with thistles, and the stones are piled up inside the low wall.

Sun Dingliao judged that the third battalion had already laid a foundation in Shapozi, and it should not be a problem to hold on for a few hours.

So the chief of staff used the walkie-talkie to contact Shimen Barrier City and informed the general soldier Yang Ritian that he could start the operation.