When the Houjin cavalry was less than twenty zhang away from the Haihan camp, a galloping war horse stepped on a piece of floating soil on the ground, and when the horse's hooves just left the ground, a loud bang erupted under the horse's belly, and the war horse and the cavalry on its back were overturned by the explosion and fell to the ground, and the horse's hooves were blown off at the same time as the explosion sounded.

Before the cavalry could react, explosions rang out one after another in the ground beneath them, and the neighing of the horses and the screams of the cavalry came and went, and in an instant the charging team was in disarray, and it was difficult to complete the last part of the charge.

Landmines are not an invention of the Haihan, in fact, 500 years ago, when the Song and Jin countries were at war, the Song army used the "gunpowder cannon" buried in the ground to strike at the Jin army. And by the Ming Dynasty, there were already real mines with mechanical firing devices. In the Ming Dynasty's military book "Wubei Zhi", the shape, characteristics and structural drawings of more than 10 kinds of mines were recorded, and a variety of ignition devices such as stepping hair, tripping hair, pulling hair, and ignition fire could be used.

In 1413, Jiao Yu's "Fire Dragon Sutra" recorded: "The bombing is made of pig iron, fasting, putting medicine into a pestle, entering a small bamboo tube, piercing the fire line inside, and using a long line to penetrate the fire trough outside. In 1580, when Qi Jiguang was stationed in Jizhou, he also made a mine based on the principle of "steel wheel firing", and it was actually used on the battlefield.

However, the reliability and lethality of these relatively primitive mine weapons are relatively limited, and naturally they are not comparable to the mines created by the Haihan Ordnance Industry using the advanced technology of later generations. The Haihan mines, which used disc springs, black powder, percussive caps and other components and mature structures, were far more powerful than the original versions explored by their predecessors, and also increased the amount of gunpowder specifically for cavalry, so that they could kill and injure even the horses in the event of an explosion.

Although this new weapon has been finalized and mass-produced in the arsenal in Sanya, it has not been installed in large quantities in the front-line troops because the problems of production capacity and cost have not been well solved for the time being, and it is still in the stage of small-scale trials. As the first battlefield of the Haihan Army this year, Liaodong has naturally become an actual combat testing ground for this weapon.

When the naval fleet sailed north from Zhejiang, it brought about 200 Type 1 mines and 10 specially trained mine engineers to the front-line troops. Taking into account the enemy's combat habits, Qian Tiandun ordered the sappers to unpack and take out two-thirds of the mines and bury them on the periphery of the camp. This is not that Qian Tiandun is extravagant, but he considers that the combat situation between the two sides will only be useful in the early stage, and in the later stage, the Haihan army will definitely suppress the opponent on the line of the isthmus fortress, and will not give them the opportunity to use cavalry to counterattack, so there is no need to wait for any more time at this time.

The sappers used these more than 100 mines to spread a minefield about 100 meters wide and five meters deep in the field. The Houjin cavalry did not expect the opponent to set up such an ambush at all, dozens of mines exploded almost in a few seconds, and the scene of people turning over on their backs even made some of the Houjin cavalry think that they were being bombarded.

Before they could recover from the chaos, a dense rain of bullets had already been fired from behind the improvised fortifications on the opposite side, and in the panic, several horses stepped on the mines that had been planted, and they exploded irregularly from east to west, making the scene more and more chaotic.

The cavalry directly killed and wounded by the mine array may be less than 100 cavalry, but the chaos caused is difficult to control, and it is impossible to charge in formation, and the rifles on the opposite side are constantly harvesting the cavalry and war horses that can still move. The distance of this engagement was only a few tens of meters, and the cavalry could not avoid it, but it was difficult for them to rush forward with bullets, and if they did not want to be a live target, and they did not want to be blown up by the mines in the soil, they could only quickly turn around and leave the battlefield.

Probably because yesterday's defeat left too many shadows on the Houjin army, although the defense line of the target looked more fragile today, it was difficult to have the courage to hold on to the battle after being bombarded indiscriminately by mines. No one knew when and how the Haihan army on the opposite side would kill them, and this fear made many cavalrymen turn their horses and start to leave the battlefield without waiting for the signal to retreat from the rear.

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When the Houjin cavalry was less than twenty zhang away from the Haihan camp, a galloping war horse stepped on a piece of floating soil on the ground, and when the horse's hooves just left the ground, a loud bang erupted under the horse's belly, and the war horse and the cavalry on its back were overturned by the explosion and fell to the ground, and the horse's hooves were blown off at the same time as the explosion sounded.

Before the cavalry could react, explosions rang out one after another in the ground beneath them, and the neighing of the horses and the screams of the cavalry came and went, and in an instant the charging team was in disarray, and it was difficult to complete the last part of the charge.

Landmines are not an invention of the Haihan, in fact, 500 years ago, when the Song and Jin countries were at war, the Song army used the "gunpowder cannon" buried in the ground to strike at the Jin army. And by the Ming Dynasty, there were already real mines with mechanical firing devices. In the Ming Dynasty's military book "Wubei Zhi", the shape, characteristics and structural drawings of more than 10 kinds of mines were recorded, and a variety of ignition devices such as stepping hair, tripping hair, pulling hair, and ignition fire could be used.

In 1413, Jiao Yu's "Fire Dragon Sutra" recorded: "The bombing is made of pig iron, fasting, putting medicine into a pestle, entering a small bamboo tube, piercing the fire line inside, and using a long line to penetrate the fire trough outside. In 1580, when Qi Jiguang was stationed in Jizhou, he also made a mine based on the principle of "steel wheel firing", and it was actually used on the battlefield.

However, the reliability and lethality of these relatively primitive mine weapons are relatively limited, and naturally they are not comparable to the mines created by the Haihan Ordnance Industry using the advanced technology of later generations. The Haihan mines, which used disc springs, black powder, percussive caps and other components and mature structures, were far more powerful than the original versions explored by their predecessors, and also increased the amount of gunpowder specifically for cavalry, so that they could kill and injure even the horses in the event of an explosion.

Although this new weapon has been finalized and mass-produced in the arsenal in Sanya, it has not been installed in large quantities in the front-line troops because the problems of production capacity and cost have not been well solved for the time being, and it is still in the stage of small-scale trials. As the first battlefield of the Haihan Army this year, Liaodong has naturally become an actual combat testing ground for this weapon.

When the naval fleet sailed north from Zhejiang, it brought about 200 Type 1 mines and 10 specially trained mine engineers to the front-line troops. Taking into account the enemy's combat habits, Qian Tiandun ordered the sappers to unpack and take out two-thirds of the mines and bury them on the periphery of the camp. This is not that Qian Tiandun is extravagant, but he considers that the combat situation between the two sides will only be useful in the early stage, and in the later stage, the Haihan army will definitely suppress the opponent on the line of the isthmus fortress, and will not give them the opportunity to use cavalry to counterattack, so there is no need to wait for any more time at this time.

The sappers used these more than 100 mines to spread a minefield about 100 meters wide and five meters deep in the field. The Houjin cavalry did not expect the opponent to set up such an ambush at all, dozens of mines exploded almost in a few seconds, and the scene of people turning over on their backs even made some of the Houjin cavalry think that they were being bombarded.

Before they could recover from the chaos, a dense rain of bullets had already been fired from behind the improvised fortifications on the opposite side, and in the panic, several horses stepped on the mines that had been planted, and they exploded irregularly from east to west, making the scene more and more chaotic.

The cavalry directly killed and wounded by the mine array may be less than 100 cavalry, but the chaos caused is difficult to control, and it is impossible to charge in formation, and the rifles on the opposite side are constantly harvesting the cavalry and war horses that can still move. The distance of this engagement was only a few tens of meters, and the cavalry could not avoid it, but it was difficult for them to rush forward with bullets, and if they did not want to be a live target, and they did not want to be blown up by the mines in the soil, they could only quickly turn around and leave the battlefield.

Probably because yesterday's defeat left too many shadows on the Houjin army, although the defense line of the target looked more fragile today, it was difficult to have the courage to hold on to the battle after being bombarded indiscriminately by mines. No one knew when and how the Haihan army on the opposite side would kill them, and this fear made many cavalrymen turn their horses and start to leave the battlefield without waiting for the signal to retreat from the rear. When the Houjin cavalry was less than twenty zhang away from the Haihan camp, a galloping war horse stepped on a piece of floating soil on the ground, and when the horse's hooves just left the ground, a loud bang erupted under the horse's belly, and the war horse and the cavalry on its back were overturned by the explosion and fell to the ground, and the horse's hooves were blown off at the same time as the explosion sounded.

Before the cavalry could react, explosions rang out one after another in the ground beneath them, and the neighing of the horses and the screams of the cavalry came and went, and in an instant the charging team was in disarray, and it was difficult to complete the last part of the charge.

Landmines are not an invention of the Haihan, in fact, 500 years ago, when the Song and Jin countries were at war, the Song army used the "gunpowder cannon" buried in the ground to strike at the Jin army. And by the Ming Dynasty, there were already real mines with mechanical firing devices. In the Ming Dynasty's military book "Wubei Zhi", the shape, characteristics and structural drawings of more than 10 kinds of mines were recorded, and a variety of ignition devices such as stepping hair, tripping hair, pulling hair, and ignition fire could be used.

In 1413, Jiao Yu's "Fire Dragon Sutra" recorded: "The bombing is made of pig iron, fasting, putting medicine into a pestle, entering a small bamboo tube, piercing the fire line inside, and using a long line to penetrate the fire trough outside. In 1580, when Qi Jiguang was stationed in Jizhou, he also made a mine based on the principle of "steel wheel firing", and it was actually used on the battlefield.

However, the reliability and lethality of these relatively primitive mine weapons are relatively limited, and naturally they are not comparable to the mines created by the Haihan Ordnance Industry using the advanced technology of later generations. The Haihan mines, which used disc springs, black powder, percussive caps and other components and mature structures, were far more powerful than the original versions explored by their predecessors, and also increased the amount of gunpowder specifically for cavalry, so that they could kill and injure even the horses in the event of an explosion.

Although this new weapon has been finalized and mass-produced in the arsenal in Sanya, it has not been installed in large quantities in the front-line troops because the problems of production capacity and cost have not been well solved for the time being, and it is still in the stage of small-scale trials. As the first battlefield of the Haihan Army this year, Liaodong has naturally become an actual combat testing ground for this weapon.

When the naval fleet sailed north from Zhejiang, it brought about 200 Type 1 mines and 10 specially trained mine engineers to the front-line troops. Taking into account the enemy's combat habits, Qian Tiandun ordered the sappers to unpack and take out two-thirds of the mines and bury them on the periphery of the camp. This is not that Qian Tiandun is extravagant, but he considers that the combat situation between the two sides will only be useful in the early stage, and in the later stage, the Haihan army will definitely suppress the opponent on the line of the isthmus fortress, and will not give them the opportunity to use cavalry to counterattack, so there is no need to wait for any more time at this time.

The sappers used these more than 100 mines to spread a minefield about 100 meters wide and five meters deep in the field. The Houjin cavalry did not expect the opponent to set up such an ambush at all, dozens of mines exploded almost in a few seconds, and the scene of people turning over on their backs even made some of the Houjin cavalry think that they were being bombarded.

Before they could recover from the chaos, a dense rain of bullets had already been fired from behind the improvised fortifications on the opposite side, and in the panic, several horses stepped on the mines that had been planted, and they exploded irregularly from east to west, making the scene more and more chaotic.

The cavalry directly killed and wounded by the mine array may be less than 100 cavalry, but the chaos caused is difficult to control, and it is impossible to charge in formation, and the rifles on the opposite side are constantly harvesting the cavalry and war horses that can still move. The distance of this engagement was only a few tens of meters, and the cavalry could not avoid it, but it was difficult for them to rush forward with bullets, and if they did not want to be a live target, and they did not want to be blown up by the mines in the soil, they could only quickly turn around and leave the battlefield.

Probably because yesterday's defeat left too many shadows on the Houjin army, although the defense line of the target looked more fragile today, it was difficult to have the courage to hold on to the battle after being bombarded indiscriminately by mines.