After the tracks were repaired, the convoy continued to move towards the predetermined goal. However, the armored convoy's journey did not end there. After a while, they encountered an uphill road. The slope that had been raining lightly was now muddy. Lu Qixi's three people were already a little tired. Deng Xinchao put the gear to the lowest level. The man was shaking the horse and finally got half up the slope, but he could no longer move. Good guy, no matter how the people and horses tried, the armored vehicles could not move forward halfway.

Qu Song saw that the slope in front was steeper and the road was muddy. He was so tired that he was breathing. I guess the shaking soldiers on the car were not much better. [..com]

Judging from this posture, it is obvious that you have to increase your traction to cross this slope. Fortunately, there is a spare horse pull. Qu Song made a quick decision and asked each car to have one more horse pull. In addition, the rear door of the armored vehicle was opened. The three people originally shaking the bars to six people shaking the bars. After the rear door of the armored vehicle was opened, the other three people squeezed up could expose half of their bodies outside. Although they could not use all their strength, they could use 80% of their strength without any problem.

One horse was added, and it turned into three horses. The six people behind the sway were all new forces. This made the power much stronger and immediately achieved immediate results. The armored vehicle started to start on the muddy half slope. At first it was crawling, but later it could be changed to second gear, and the speed increased. Qu Song finally had a smile on his face.

In this way, after this trouble, after changing to three horses, the rest of the journey became lighter. Originally, I don’t know how the Military Intelligence Bureau in Nanjing calculated such a heavy iron lump. The cooperation between two horses and manpower in the car is of course good on flat and dry roads, but once it encounters climbing hills and muddy roads, it is not the case. Nanjing’s bureaucracy is really a killer! Qu Song secretly decided that as soon as he arrived at the position, he immediately applied to Brigade Commander Guan to equip ten more horses to improve the mobility of the armored vehicles. At the same time, when the armored vehicles were redirecting, he should save the physical strength of the shaking soldiers to accumulate energy.

After delaying the road, Qu Song's armored convoy finally arrived at the designated location at night. It took less than twenty miles to get there, and it took more than two hours. When Guan Zantang heard that these treasures were still so difficult to serve, he frowned and finally agreed to Qu Song. Although he was nervous about picking up the horse, it would be no problem to transfer ten picks of horses.

Guan Zan Tang's mission was to cut off the reinforcements of the Qing army from the north to Lushun, while Wei Deng's mission was to prevent Ajige's Qing army from breaking north. Now it is hard to tell which side is more pressure. However, Guan Zan Tang must first remove the Qing army pass "Hashan Pass". Hashan Pass was built in the Liao and Jin Dynasties and was the Chenghuang Pass established at the narrowest land area of ​​the Liaodong Peninsula. It was once the only land pass leading to the north of Lushun. Later, many land passes were opened. The castle was also abandoned due to disrepair. Since the Ming army attacked Lushun, the Qing army has stationed troops in this castle and rebuilt the castle and stationed two thousand defenders. With the troops in Guan Zan Tang's hands, it is of course not difficult to capture this castle. The difficult thing is that it must be fought quickly. Otherwise, the Qing army coming from Shenyang will attack on both sides and the situation will be very passive.

It is certain that as Dorgon reacted, more and more Qing troops would rush over from the direction of Chenyang, and the pressure on the front he set up for defense would increase. Therefore, there would not be much time left to capture the castle, and at most two days, you would have to take down Hashan Pass.

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The next day, the weather began to clear up, but the road was still a little muddy. Qusong's armored vehicle company set off again early in the morning. This time he had experience. Three horses pulled an armored vehicle. If it weren't for uphill, there would be four people on the vehicle. If it was uphill, the three people would temporarily shake the bar together, so the convoy's speed was much faster than yesterday, and soon arrived in front of Hashan Pass.

Guan Zantang was not prepared to attack the castle with conventional tactics at all. Considering that it could not afford time or cost, Guan Zantang was ready to use tactics that he had never used before to attack the castle.

Before Hashan Pass, the Qing army was on high alert. It was obvious that the Ming army had landed. The guard general Nikan immediately responded. While sending a message from the Ming army, he reported the news of the Ming army's landing, while strengthening the city defense fortifications and preparing to stick to the castle.

Early in the morning, the Ming army opened to the front of the pass without restraint. When teams of Ming troops gathered in front of the pass, Nikan was not panicked at all. So far, except for the temporary castles like Kuandian Fortress that had been captured by the Ming army, the Ming army had not yet captured any regular castles. Although Hashan Pass is not as strong as Phoenix Castle, this castle has a history of hundreds of years and has been built for more than three months. This construction also combined the opinions of the Japanese and specially strengthened the fortifications to resist artillery fire, so the city defense is already quite solid.

Strangely, the Ming army just surrounded it and did not rush to attack. Then Nikan saw a strange scene in the telescope.

Three horses were dragging a gray monster slowly forward. There were more than one monster, one, two, three, four. Nikan found four monsters that looked exactly the same in the telescope.

Then, the three horses in front of the monster disappeared, so Nikan could see the monster's front without any obstruction, a little far apart, but a short tube stretched out from the monster was still vaguely visible. Nikan intuition that the monster was used to deal with him, but he didn't know what paths the monster could use to display.

What surprised Nikan was that although the four monsters were not pulled by the horse, they were slowly moving forward. Seeing the four monsters moving forward slowly and steadily, Nikan felt a little unreal for a moment. It was not until a sharp-eyed lookout soldier shouted: Four monsters came up that Nikan realized that he had read it right.

The four armored vehicles moved forward step by step by step by step by step by step, yes, they moved, and their speed was not much faster than that of the bull. But no matter how slow the speed was, they were getting closer and closer to the city wall. At a distance of 500 steps from the city wall, two of the armored vehicles stopped, while the other two continued to move forward.

Until the armored vehicle moved to Nikan, he could see the gun barrel and the two wheels in front, Nikan finally reacted. This monster was here to attack the city, and it was likely that there were new firearms made by the Ming army. In the past six months, Nikan had seen new firearms one after another, so he decided that the tube was the new firearm of the Ming army. This made Nikan really guessed correctly. He could not let this dangerous monster approach. Nikan did not hesitate at the moment and immediately ordered the thunder throwing weapon to aim at the two monsters to throw lightning.

The next moment, the 7-pound thunder flew towards the armored vehicle. Looking at the dozen thunders flying out of the city, Guo Longda next to Deng Xinchao immediately exclaimed:

"No, Pilith, the Qing army's Pilith is coming, hide quickly, hide quickly."

The boy closed his eyes and lowered his head, and he acted like a evasion. Lu Qixi made him laugh and teased:

"Look at your timid look and you are still a gunner. Why not let me be a good one? Our armored chariot is a few thunderbolt bullets from the Qing army. If we shoot, we can't even get rid of the armored chariot. It's the Japanese pirates' cannon, so what's the way!"

Lu Qixi is actually three points afraid, even Deng Xinchao was timid. The explosion of the thunderbolt was not fun. After all, no one had ever experienced being bombed in an armored vehicle. But if you go to the battlefield, you have to use words to make up your courage so that you will not be scared. After Lu Qixi said this, Guo Longda immediately raised his head and said with a stubborn mouth:

"Qixi, what are you talking about? I'm afraid of a ball! Wait a while and see how I use the bullet to bombard him with the Tartars."

More than a dozen thunderbolt bombs exploded around the armored vehicle. The people in the car even felt that two explosions exploded on the armored vehicle. However, after the explosion, except for the buzzing sound of his ears, the others were completely unscathed. This time, Lu Qixi's tone became even more awesome:

"I'm right, the Tartars' grenade is just to scratch us, nothing is wrong."

This statement is really good. The car burst into laughter, and the nervousness and fear suddenly disappeared.

Immediately, Guo Longda shouted:

"Captain Deng, there is a pit in front of him, be careful, you have to turn."

The armored vehicle turned in time, avoided the crater, and continued to drive forward.

Nikan saw that the monster had at least two thunderbolts, but nothing happened. Fortunately, he avoided the crater and moved forward slowly. Nikan had also heard that the steam engine could make the ship windlessly automatic, but today he was still chilling when he saw the monster moving by himself. This time, the distance was closer, and it had reached the range of 16 kilograms of thunderbolts, so Nikan ordered the throw of 16 kilograms of thunderbolts without hesitation.

The 16-pound thunderbolt bomb was thrown out, and the result was also frustrating. The two monsters continued to move forward like nothing happened. This situation became more and more terrifying - this was not just invulnerable to swords and guns!

The monster stopped within sixty steps and stopped moving forward. Then, the iron pipe above the monster changed from the original upward finger to the flat forward, pointing directly to the city wall. Then, a fire broke out at the entrance of the iron pipe, and with a bang, the cannon was fired towards the city wall.

The speed of the two monsters firing cannons was really incredible. Boom boom boom, after a while, each cannon fired more than a dozen shells, and then the two sections of the city wall collapsed.

In the armored vehicle, Deng Xinchao first saw the city wall being knocked out of a pit, then a hole was punched out, and then the city wall collapsed. The five people sat in the car, except for the smoke that was really stuffy, they just felt like they were playing with the Tartars. Deng Xinchao occasionally shot the city wall with machine guns, and saw the Tartars on the city wall one by one being shot and fell to the top of the city, or being beaten to pieces, and he felt so happy at this moment.
Chapter completed!