Early the next morning, the ranks of the officers and soldiers set off again at the urging of Chen Qianhu. The loose atmosphere of the previous two days is gone, and the trip to fortune has become a journey of death. Many of the soldiers had a look of fear on their faces, and their hearts were full of nervousness, so many people had died that they didn't even know who the enemy was. The enemy, whom he had never met, did not know when he would suddenly attack again. Moreover, there were rumors circulating in the camp, saying that Shi Qing and the five people of their Xiaoqi were detained from the camp at night by the thieves, and then their necks were cut, and every soldier who heard this legend felt a chill on the back of his neck.

In order to prevent the enemy from attacking the team with artillery again, Chen Qianhu sent his elite soldiers out as nights, striving to expand the scope of control and not give the enemy a chance to advance. As soon as the team advanced a short distance, he saw a horse galloping to the front of the team, Chen Qianhu thought that he would not take it back at night to report the news, but when he approached, he found that the person who came was not wearing the clothes of the official army. The man stopped his horse in front of the ranks of the officers and soldiers, raised his right hand, and shook something in his hand. The soldier with good eyes could see that he was carrying two human heads, which were thrown in front of the ranks of officers and soldiers, and the men turned their horses and slowly walked into the distance. Chen Qianhu endured and did not let his cavalry attack to chase, and the behavior of the unknown person in front of him was very strange, and he could not fall for the enemy's trick of luring the enemy. A soldier ran over and picked up the head and sent it to Chen Qianhu's horse, Chen Qianhu almost vomited blood when he saw it, it turned out that it was the head he had just sent out and did not collect it at night.

The team could not move any further, it was not clear what was going on ahead, how far it was from the enemy, how many enemies there were. It would be bad if the enemy set up an ambush in front.

Suppressing the anger in his heart, Chen Qianhu had to send someone out to reconnoitre. In order to be on the safe side, he ordered his own soldiers to go in a team of five people, and sent two teams of men and horses to carefully scout the outpost and tell the soldiers to turn back and report if they found that the situation was wrong. It is impossible for the cavalry of the thieves to be more advantageous than the officers and soldiers, and in a one-on-one battle, the officers and soldiers do not even have a chance to run back. It is important to find out the enemy's situation first. The team stopped on the spot and waited for the message to come back. In the camp, even the soldiers who had always been restless also restrained their temperament, quietly waiting for the return of the night, everyone stopped laughing, silently put the baggage carts around the camp and continued to reinforce. The officers and men in the battalion all got up and looked at it, only to see a horse galloping in front of them, and a dozen horses chasing after them, and the horses' hooves kicked up billowing smoke and dust. The person in front approached the camp, and it could be seen that the officers and soldiers were not collecting at night, and it seemed that he was fleeing for his life, and the people behind him must be the enemy. The archers in the camp immediately took their positions and stretched their bows and stood guard. Ye Bushu fled into the camp, and the pursuing enemy stopped beyond the range of the bow and arrow. They drove their horses around in front of the camp and showed off their might before leaving.

Chen Qianhu hurriedly called Ye Bushu, who had fled back, to the horse to inquire about the situation. Ye Bushu answered a thousand questions while panting.

It turned out that a team of five of them had just walked out a short distance before they encountered the thieves' horses, but the thieves did not follow the habit of horses, several people and a small team of people went back and forth to transmit information, but a group of more than a dozen people found out that the officials and soldiers did not collect the night and rushed over to fight, and the officers and soldiers were outnumbered, and four of them were quickly cut off from their horses. Only when he desperately slashed a thief rushed out, and the thieves chased after him, but fortunately the thieves who fled back to the camp stopped, and they could report the situation to the Thousand Households Brigade. Chen Qianhu was very helpless in his heart, how could he use it like this if he didn't collect it at night. But the situation was figured out, and he immediately had a way to deal with it. He immediately gathered all his more than 100 cavalry of his cronies, divided them into five teams of about twenty people, and explored the road in front, and did not distance too far between the teams, and immediately sent signals to take care of each other when he found the thieves. Chen Qianhu himself also personally led a team behind each team as a response. The new arrangement worked, and after a short advance in front, a group of thieves' cavalry was spotted by the front team, which immediately signaled and chased after them. When the thieves saw that the officers and soldiers turned around and fled, the officers and soldiers were unwilling to let go of this opportunity to take revenge and chased after them. Chen Qianhu hurriedly brought people up to support. Seeing that the officers and soldiers were about to catch up with the thieves in a narrow part of the road, suddenly an explosion sounded where the officers and soldiers passed, and the officers and cavalry were shrouded in smoke and dust, followed by the neighing of horses and the shouts of people in pain. Chen Qianhu urged the horse to speed up and rushed to the accident site, if the enemy was shelling again at this time, this was a good opportunity to destroy the enemy's artillery. But when they arrived there, they didn't find where the artillery was coming from, only smoke and dust rose from the places where the officers and soldiers passed. Chen Baihu understood that this must be a mine planted by thieves here. Chen Qianhu ordered people to treat the injured officers and soldiers, and he himself dismounted and carefully searched the ground, but he did not find the large pit left by the explosion of the mine, nor did he find the pit dug by the mine. Only a dozen or so curved iron boxes were found on the side of the road, and some bent iron pieces that should have lids flew aside. At this time, the soldiers came to report that the more than 20 horsemen who were chasing the thieves just now were injured, but fortunately there were no fatal injuries, but the part of the face and body exposed to the outside of the armor hit a large amount of iron sand, and it took a long time to be able to fight if they were injured, and some were hit in the eye and left disabled, and the 20 horses were much more miserable, and the stomachs were full of small blood holes, constantly bleeding out, and it seemed that few horses could survive. Chen Qianhu understood, the thieves did not have time to lay mines, only threw the iron box containing gunpowder and iron sand on the side of the road, because the iron box was not firm, only the lid of the box was blown up and no one was killed, but the flying iron sand made the more than 20 horsemen injured and lost their combat effectiveness, but he still did not understand how the thieves let the mines explode just when the officers and soldiers ran by. Chen Qianhu didn't dare to chase after him again, if the thieves came again, the officers and troops would really be defeated, and he could only lead the team back to the camp to join the infantry.

Li Yi led the cavalry to follow Chen Qianhu's men and horses from afar, if it weren't for Zhang Chu's advice to minimize unnecessary casualties, Li Yi would have led the team to catch up with him just now, and he was confident that he would defeat the cavalry of the official army at this moment. However, Zhang Chu's style of play is not bad, only one of his team members was slightly injured, while the enemy had more than 20 cavalry lost their combat effectiveness, Li Yi couldn't help but look down at a few iron boxes hanging on the horse.

After ambushing Wu Baihu's men and horses with elm cannons last time, Zhang Chu thought of an evil weapon: landmines. Landmines have been used in the Ming Dynasty, but because the power of gunpowder at that time was small, so the mines were made very large, and it was very inconvenient to bury them, especially the ignition was more complicated, and it was necessary to use heavy objects to drive the gears to ignite, or put a charcoal brazier on the ground in advance, and the charcoal brazier was knocked over and then ignited the gunpowder. Moreover, the firing rate is extremely low, which affects the effect of use. There was no way, Zhang Chu could only launch the high-quality "This Facing the Enemy" in the mines.

Zhang Chu asked the craftsmen to make some arc-shaped cast-iron boxes, which were filled with gunpowder and then pressed on a curved iron plate, on which a layer of iron sand was glued with paste, and sealed with cardboard. In the end, Zhang Chu couldn't help but write the words "this is facing the enemy" on the hard paper.

The making of iron sand is very simple, find a pool, hang a large radish above the pool, and then pour the boiled molten iron on the radish, and the molten iron splashes into the pool. Iron sand can be made as much as you want, and this is the easiest way for some people who hunt with muskets in later generations to obtain iron sand.

The ignition problem is actually very simple, Zhang Chu asked someone to find a firing device for an arquebus, install it on top of the iron box, replace the trigger with a pin with a hole in the back, lift the arquebus head and pin it with a pin, and then tie a thin rope behind the pin. When buried, you only need to fix the iron box on the side of the road, do a camouflage, pull out the string and tie it to the other side of the road, light the fire rope and you can run, the enemy chases the mixed rope, the pin is pulled out, the fire rope head hits in the medicine pool, and the gunpowder is ignited to send the enemy to the west sky. Due to the small power of gunpowder, it is impossible to have the same lethality as directional mines in later generations, but it is still possible to do it without killing but only wounding.

Li Yi and the others followed all the way to the outside of the official camp, and the cavalry of the official army immediately retreated into the camp, and the officers and soldiers in the camp relied on the camp to be on guard. Seeing that there was no chance, Li Yi and the others rode away. Only then did the officers and soldiers breathe a sigh of relief. Chen Qianhu immediately ordered someone to come to treat the injured soldiers, Chen Qianhu also personally checked the injuries of the soldiers, after all, he invested a lot of money in these soldiers, and he had a headache at a glance, and the fine iron sand hit the wounded soldiers whose bodies were not covered by armor and were difficult to remove, fortunately it is winter now, and the chance of infection and suppuration is smaller, otherwise these soldiers may not even be able to save their lives.

How could there be such an opponent, more than 20 of them were killed or wounded before they had direct contact with their most elite pro-soldiers, and they didn't even figure out who was on the other side. I want to fight the security army of Yanchang County, but there are still more than 100 miles away from Yanchang County, and even if the security army knows that the official army is going to attack, it will take several days to rush over, so why was it attacked by this group of people here?

After seeing the injuries of his own soldiers, Chen Qianhu came to the vicinity of the camp gate to check the situation of the soldiers reinforcing the camp, at this time he found that he was trapped here, the situation in front is unknown, if he advances head-on, I don't know what will happen, but it is not so simple to go back, not only can he not explain to Shangguan, it is still a question whether he can go back, how many opponents there are, what types of troops are not clear, and the other party is scheming, who knows what new tricks will come out, If your team is attacked while retreating, it will be difficult to protect yourself. Chen Qianhu could only let the team stay still, hurry up to strengthen the camp to prevent the attack of the thieves, and return to the tent of the Chinese army to think hard about how to break the enemy.