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"Report, Jianlu's Western invaders have occupied the Eagle Owl Fort and surrounded our Sanchakou Fort. I watched from the top of the city. There were about four to five thousand people, all with fast horses and fine armor, coming and going like the wind!" There were several cavalrymen suddenly. Enter Longmen City and report to Lu Xiangjinhui who is stationed in Longmen City.

"Oh?" Lu Xiangjin frowned when he heard this, and couldn't help but look at Liu Hui, the former military commander of the middle road of Shouxuan Mansion, and asked, "I wonder what the general thinks?"

"Sanchakou Fort is connected to Longmen to the west, Eagle Owl to the south, and Chicheng to the northeast. It is the road to travel to Sanqi, so it is named Sanchakou." Liu Hui responded when he heard the words.

"The city has 254 steps per mile, and the army has 133 soldiers. It is not an important town at first. It is the so-called 'handover ground' in the Art of War."

"In my opinion, there is no way to save him, lest he be taken advantage of by the captors. As long as we guard the city, it will be a great achievement."

Lu Xiangjin was quite unhappy when he heard this, but he was worried about losing the city and missing the important event of "King Shun", so he hesitated for a while.

Upon seeing this, Liu Hui quickly added another suggestion: "The Art of War says: Before you think about victory, think about defeat first."

"Regardless of Sanchakou Fort, the Acropolis is fifteen miles away and will be there in an instant. If we don't take precautions in advance, we might be taken advantage of by the enemy."

When Lu Xiangjin heard this, he immediately stopped hesitating and quickly asked: "In that case, I wonder if General Liu has any suggestions?"

"Every soldier is wearing armor, patrolling, and performing his duties. The general has already done it!" Liu Hui laughed when he heard this.

"The second is to recruit the strong men in the city to transport supplies so that the soldiers can concentrate on defense."

"Third, lay mines where they must pass and block their path."

"Landmines?" Lu Xiangjin was stunned when he heard this, and couldn't help but wonder, "What kind of thing is this? Is there any in the firearms warehouse in the city?"

"That's it!" Liu Hui was stunned when he heard this. He never expected that Lu Xiangjin, who had been in the army for several years, didn't know what a "landmine" was, so he quickly took one out of the basket next to him and showed it to Lu Xiangjin.

When Lu Xiangjin took a closer look, he saw that the object was round and round like a "cold melon", but it had many horns growing on it, making it look like a large water chestnut.

He couldn't help but reach out to get it, and it was heavy in his hand, weighing about seven or eight kilograms.

"Is this a landmine? I don't know how to use it?" Lu Xiangjin observed for a long time without knowing why.

"General, look!" When the topic of landmines came up, General Liu Hui couldn't help but his eyes lit up, and he quickly pointed out.

"This mine is made of cast iron and is the most powerful. If you are unwilling to use iron, pottery or stone can be used!"

"The size is like a 'cold melon', and the content of gunpowder varies from three to five kilograms. If it is poisonous, iron sand or wolf fire, arsenic, realgar, chili pepper, sand oil, etc. can be added."

"Iron sand can injure people, oil can set fire, wolf fire, arsenic, realgar, pepper and other substances can set off smoke. Depending on the situation, the number can be increased or decreased as appropriate."

"In the face of battle, they are either buried underground, hidden in the grass, or placed by the roadside."

"But when the captives arrive, they may be burning, mixed, or trampled. It's all different."

"The sound is like a thunderbolt. I hurt the enemy without engaging him, so it is the sharpest..."

It's a pity that Lu Xiangjin is not Zhang Shun. Although he was surprised to hear it, he couldn't make any effective suggestions.

If Zhang Shun were here, he would definitely think of the "mine war" in his previous life, and would even propose to Liu Hui such fantastic ideas as "hair thunder", "child mother thunder", "serial thunder" and "goddess scattering flowers".

In fact, since the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the development of firearms has flourished. Although strange things such as fire dragons and wooden men and fire horses have been produced, they have also produced rockets, landmines, water mines and other combat weapons with advanced concepts, among which landmines are one of them. Outstanding.

The earliest landmines were produced in the late Song Dynasty, and they were actually "earth-shaking thunders" and "incendiary bombs" that were set off by fuses.

However, with the development of the times, it eventually differentiated into two systems: grenades and landmines in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

The representative work of the former is the "Ten Thousand Enemies" used by Li Guo and others when defending Blackstone Ridge Fort.

The latter's masterpiece is the mine with the steel wheel on fire.

According to the "Fire Dragon Sutra": when you step on the engine, it will vibrate, the iron pieces will fly, and the flames will soar into the sky.

Over time, generals who were good at some special firearms appeared in the Ming army. Among them, Liu Hui, the general who guarded Xuanfu Middle Road, was one of the best.

In the original history of Zhang Shun's previous life, Hou Jin entered the customs in three groups in the ninth year of Chongzhen.

One of them is from Zhen'anbao and Lianghe entrances, and the other is from Baiyang entrance, and the other is from Yong'an Taiwan.

Only Baiyang and other places were saved because of the mines set up by Liu Hui, the other two places were attacked.

Of course Lu Xiangjin didn't know that Liu Hui had such abilities, but he himself didn't have the good abilities of his brother Lu Xiangsheng.

Although he read a lot of books and learned the art of war, he was still unable to master it, so compared to other generals of the rebel army, he was only average.

Knowing that he had no power to turn the tide, he followed what was good and allowed Liu Hui, the general, to arrange things.

Longmen City is an important military stronghold north of Xuanfu. Although the city has more than four square miles, it only has two east and south gates.

Then Liu Hui led his soldiers to set up mines at these two gates to wait for the "Eastern captives".

Sure enough, not long after, sporadic Houjin scouts appeared outside Longmen City.

Subsequently, more and more Hou Jin soldiers gathered, and after noon, a whole battalion appeared outside Longmen City.

After that, General Jin took the lead and sent two surrender troops from Sanchakou Fort to persuade him to surrender. Lu Xiangjin shot three arrows, killing one on the spot, and then retreated in despair.

Afterwards, General Houjin saw that "persuading surrender" failed, so he started to attack the city with simple siege equipment.

But when the Jin soldiers approached the city gate, they heard a loud "boom" and a thunder on the ground. Several soldiers were immediately blown over on the spot.

Some were lying directly on the ground with only air coming in and no air coming out, and they were dying; while others were lying on the ground rolling around, wailing non-stop.

"Hey? Where did this cannon come from?" Lu Xiangjin and the Houjin generals under the city couldn't help but wonder at the same time.

"The steel wheel catches fire!" General Liu Hui couldn't help but explain with a smile, "This is the most exquisite weapon. It fires when people and horses step on it. It's like a miracle!"

Although Lu Xiangjin didn't understand what he heard, he finally understood that the mine was detonated by a "steel wheel ignition" device.

General Hou Jin was born in a bitter cold land. Although he was brave and cunning, he had not received a complete cultural education and no one could explain it to him. He was suddenly shocked: "What the hell?"

"The ground is a mine!" the veteran, who had already known what he was doing, shouted.

"Landmines?" The general had also heard of this thing, but had never seen it. He couldn't help but wonder, "How can thunder explode on this flat land?"

Just when he was suspicious, who would have thought that there would be loud "boom, boom, boom" noises again, and another three or five soldiers were killed on the spot, and seven or eight soldiers fell to the ground and wailed.

The general became more and more frightened when he saw this, and thought to himself: "This is an evil gate. Could it be that it is protected by the God of Thunder? Why don't we just forget it and say that this city is heavily guarded and there is no loophole to take advantage of!"

Thinking of this, General Hou Jin couldn't help but give an order: "Today is just to show off the power of our army."

"Sure enough, the southern barbarians were frightened by the news. As soon as they heard that my army had arrived, they hid in the city, trembling and afraid to come out."

"In this case, we will just go back home, so as not to waste the lives of the soldiers in vain!"