Xiashan Pass, located in the southeast of Dongxiang County, is not only an important checkpoint to guard Shunqing Mansion and Baoning Mansion, but also the southern gate of Dongxiang County.

As long as the Xiashan Pass is defended, any enemy who wants to enter Dongxiang County must pass through the vast primeval forest that stretches for thousands of miles. Similarly, if the imperial court officials and troops wanted to recover Dongxiang County, they had to recapture Xiashan Pass.

Now the Han army guarding Xiashan Pass is the third standard of the first battalion.

Yang Ming had already changed the officer titles of the Han Army, with the battalion-level leader being a staff general, the standard-level leader being a guerrilla, and the guerrilla of the first battalion and the third standard being Li Guangtian, the former leader of the third brigade of the third battalion.

Li Guangtian, who had learned a lesson in the second self-defense battle in Hanjia Village, was extremely cautious this time, not only personally leading the soldiers of the whole standard to strengthen the fortress and repair the high wall, but also specially planted many earthen mines on the road that the officers and troops had to pass.

The so-called earthen mines are actually a kind of explosives mentioned by Yang Ming when he talked about the history of the development of firearms in the Ming Dynasty in the Han Dynasty.

Li Guangtian didn't learn anything in other courses, but he remembered these strange weapons clearly, and he smashed out the earthen mines while learning, so he was praised by Yang Ming, and let him also hang the name of the engineer of the Han Family Army Ordnance Institute.

Li Guangtian named the mines he made as a first-line pull, because the mines he made did not have a good detonation system, and many mines needed people to pull the lead or rely on the thin wire buried in the middle of the road for the enemy to pull, so it was called a first-line pull.

"Is the first line of pull buried?" Li Guangtian, who was standing on a high stone, asked.

"Back to the general, it's all buried, just wait for the officers and soldiers to step on it", a soldier hurriedly replied.

"Well, from now on, immediately block the city gates, no one is allowed to enter, and those who violate it will be directly executed!" After Li Guangtian said fiercely, he saw countless officers and soldiers emerging from the bamboo forest in front of him in the distance, and hurriedly shouted: "Quick, tell the soldiers outside, let them all get ready, the officers and soldiers are coming, this time we must give them a good look!" ”

"Yes!" A soldier immediately picked up the trumpet and blew it, the officers and soldiers could not understand the sound of the trumpet sounding in front, but the soldiers of the Han army understood the meaning, and all the soldiers who were responsible for pulling the strings immediately hid behind the big stone and pulled the rope tightly in their hands.

Here, the more Li Zhanchun, the garrison of the Sichuan army, walked more and more, the more he felt that something was wrong with the sound of this trumpet, and he always felt that this trumpet sound seemed to be announcing some news. As a result, Li Zhanchun had to immediately order: "Pass the order, speed up, and be sure to reach Xiashan Pass before all these thieves enter Xiashan Pass!" ”

As soon as Li Zhanchun gave the order, all the officers and soldiers immediately took quick action.

"Don't be busy pulling the strings, wait until half of the officers and soldiers come in and then pull the ropes!" I don't know when Li Guangtian, who had already left the customs and ran to the front line, saw that Li Zhanchun and other officers and soldiers were about to quickly enter the minefield, so he hurriedly shouted, and then when he saw half of the officers and soldiers coming in, he immediately shouted: "Pull! ”

Suddenly, as soon as these officers and soldiers walked into the distance of less than two miles from Xiashan Pass, they heard a bang, and then countless officers and soldiers were blown up, and some were even directly blown off their legs, and some were directly killed on the spot. But there are still a few who were killed or seriously injured, after all, these ** power is not as good as high explosives such as **, etc., but this still gave these officers and soldiers a great shock, and some of them have even begun to retreat, because they don't understand that there is no one here and there is no explosion in a daze, is it because they have met demons and monsters or angered the gods here.

"Panic what! This is just the bombardment recorded in the book, and I don't believe that a few bombers can stop my army of 5,000! Li Zhanchun has been in martial arts, and he also knows a little about firearms, so he naturally knows what these thieves are using, so he scolded loudly, and then let all the soldiers go down to the river and swim through the small river next to him, but who knew that before he took a few steps, a soldier accidentally pulled the thin rope under the water, and then he heard a bang, the sound was like a thunderbolt, and it was like a thunderbolt, and several soldiers around were directly knocked out.

"Lord Garrison, there are really ghosts here, even in the water!" A self-proclaimed heroic family has been very superstitious since he was a child, and when he saw today's situation, he couldn't help shouting, but Li Zhanchun directly split him in half with a knife and scolded: "If there are any ghosts in broad daylight, if you dare to disturb the morale of the army, this official will not be spared!" ”

At this moment, the officers and soldiers didn't dare to speak, so they had to have the courage to continue to move forward, but fortunately for them, although they suffered hundreds of casualties, they finally came to Xiashan Pass.

There were as many as 5,000 imperial court officers and soldiers brought by Li Zhanchun, and although hundreds were wiped out by earthen mines, they were still far more numerous, and the number of people was less than 1,000. Second, Li Zhanchun's officers and soldiers were very well equipped with firearms, and they were basically equipped with bird guns, in addition to firearms such as three-eyed guns, abduction guns, carrying guns, and tiger squat guns. It can be said that Li Zhanchun's officers and troops have an absolute advantage in front of the third standard.

But Li Guangtian would not be stupid enough to let the soldiers stand directly on the city wall and wait for the firearms of these officers and soldiers to show their might, and he already knew about countless weapons, and he knew at a glance what the functions of the firearms in the hands of these officers and soldiers in front of him were, so he directly let all the soldiers and people shrink into the city, and the firearms of the officers and soldiers had to bombard the city walls and gates, except for dropping some bricks and soil, there was basically no loss.

"Mr. Wu Qian, take your people to blow up the city gate, Mr. Bai Qian, continue to shoot at the city wall, since these thieves can't hide from the turtle grandson, then the official won't let them come out!" Li Zhanchun saw that Li Guangtian and the others were hiding behind the city wall and did not come out, so he thought of directly blowing up the city gate with gunpowder while suppressing the thieves hiding behind the root of the city wall.

Soon, Li Zhanchun's officers and soldiers carried gunpowder under the city gates, and blasted the gates open with the sound of iron bullets hitting the city walls again and again.

"Rush in! Can't let the thieves react! ”

Li Zhanchun couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw that the city gate was blown open so quickly, he had already guessed that there would not be many thieves guarding Xiashan Pass, as long as his own people rushed into the city, even if these thieves were brave and good at fighting, it would be useless, so as soon as he saw the city gate being blown open, he couldn't wait to rush in with many officers and soldiers.

But when he rushed in with the officers and soldiers, he found that the inside of the city gate had been blocked by a temporary wall, and thousands of officers and soldiers were crowded in a narrow courtyard, except for the city gate to go out, there was no way to break in, unless the new wall in front of him was blown up.

Li Guangtian let the official army break into Hanjia Village last time because the gate of Luzhou Village was broken, so he simply blocked the city gate this time, and the people inside could only come out through the secret passage, and the outside could not enter at all. Of course, in order to paralyze these officers and soldiers, he still played a trick and deliberately kept the city gate, but added another wall to the city gate.

Li Zhanchun didn't expect this thief guarding the city to be so ruthless, and he directly blocked the city gate, so that he now had to order people to continue to blow up the wall. But Li Guangtian didn't give him another chance, and some stones, boiling water, boiling oil, and logs wrapped in thistles beckoned to these officers and soldiers.

These officers and soldiers who were crowded in the narrow aisles were scalded and stoned to death, but this was not enough, Li Guangtian also ordered people to throw down the earth-shattering thunder made by the Han family's ordnance, and as soon as they were dropped, they exploded a piece, so frightened that these officers and soldiers kept retreating outside. Li Zhanchun couldn't stand it anymore, and ruthlessly cut a few people before order was restored, and then the officers and soldiers came to their senses and knew that they would use the firearms in their hands to counterattack the Han soldiers on the team.

When the thumping sound of iron bullets hit up like a storm, Li Guangtian had already let the soldiers of the Han family army hide. However, Li Zhanchun also took advantage of this to let the officials and soldiers retreat smoothly.