Everyone heard that there was a cannon, and they heard that the cannon was facing him, and their faces were somewhat nervous. I wonder if it had been discovered by the other party.

"What cannon? Is it a tiger squat?" Wei Donglai's face darkened and he asked anxiously.

"Yes, two tigers squat, one door facing us, and the other door facing the town."

After hearing this, Wei Donglai pondered and said nothing.

"Wei Donglai, are you afraid?" Zhou Shixian looked at Wei Donglai, "Is the tiger squat cannon very powerful?"

"Me?" Wei Donglai seemed to be awakened from his contemplation, and raised his chest and said, "I'm afraid he is a bird!"

There is still most of the place here, so you don’t have to worry about being heard when you speak.

"That's it." Zhou Shixian said calmly, "You tell him not to be anxious, just make it clear first."

Looking at Liu Jinhai's expression, he didn't seem to have observed a cannon aiming at the place and ignite it at any time. It seemed that he was just falling down the tree and was in a hurry to speak before he was breathing evenly, which gave everyone the illusion.

"Yes, Liu Jinhai, please say slowly," Wei Donglai also reacted and asked in a slowed down, "Where is the cannon stand? Is it a big tiger squat or a little tiger squat? How many people are there in the cannon position?"

Sure enough, when Liu Jinhai calmed down and said that the situation was similar to what Zhou Shixian thought.

He squatted on the ground, took a piece of dead branches as a pen, wrote and painted on the ground, and explained the layout and condition of the entire town very clearly.

There is a river to the north of the town and a rift to the south, which is not a place to pass.

It is said that it is a town, but in fact there is only a street running through the east and west, and the exit to the west leads to the official road outside.

On the east side of the town, which is opposite to them, there is also an exit. After it comes out, it is divided into three forks, one leading to Xingning Palace, one leading to a small hill next to Xingning Palace, and the other leading to the woods.

There are two tiger squat cannons mentioned earlier, one big and one small, both set outside the archway of Xingning Palace. The small cannon is facing the intersection of the Shulin, and the large cannon is aimed at the intersection of the intersection from the town to Xingning Palace.

There was one person in each gun position, and they looked like they were dozing off and were not on guard.

The real guard post is located on the small hill next to Xingning Palace, with two soldiers. If someone passes through the intersection on the woods, the sentry can issue a warning number.

"What is the purpose of that hill to wrap up?" Wei Donglai frowned and asked when he heard the sentry.

"It's useless. It turns out that I'm afraid it's not a threshing ground, so there are two roars on the side."

As for the town, according to Liu Jinhai's report, there was a sentry at the intersection at both ends. Perhaps because it was just dawn, there was no one on the street, and it seemed dead.

In this way, there were a total of four sentries on guard before and after, and two gunners were also on duty in the gun position, which caused their surprise.

According to the original estimate, this group of defeated soldiers who have become bandits had just walked twenty or thirty miles, killing people and robbing money, and taking women with them. They should be tired and tired. After the wine and meat carnival, they all slept into dead pigs, making it easy to capture. Unexpectedly, they had some rules, which was a bit tricky.

Wei Donglai, Xu Yong, Hai Rigu and Qi Sizhu several officers squatted on the ground, followed the map drawn by Liu Jinhai, and discussed for a while, intending to select agile people from the Jinyiwei and Yebusui first, and touched them quietly along the north and south sides, trying to make the sentry and gunners, and then the brigade entered again.

After listening to their plan, Zhou Shixian pondered for a moment and asked a few questions.

"What if the other party cannot resist us and threaten us with the people in the town as their qualities?"

Several officers looked at each other, and they all felt that the prince consort's words were incredible and didn't know how to answer.

Use the people to coerce us? Then kill them together.

Nowadays, when the army is fighting, the lives of ordinary people are as cheap as pigs and dogs. It is really not a matter of concern. Even Zhou Shixian and his men are inevitably infected by such consciousness.

But no one had the courage to say this in front of the prince-consort, for fear of touching his reverse scale.

"The prince-consort," Xu Yong reminded carefully, "There are not necessarily any ordinary people in this town now."

Zhou Shixian felt cold in his heart and realized that Xu Yong's words might be right.

According to Liu Jinhai's observation, although the town is small, there are nearly a hundred houses, and at least dozens of large families live in, with a population of two or three hundred, and it will not seem "lifeless"!

Where did the people go? Except for those who fled, the fate of the others is self-evident.

This group of officers and soldiers directly turned the town into a military camp.

He breathed a sigh of relief, held back the anger in his heart, nodded, and asked the next question.

"There is one of the two cannons outside Xingning Palace facing the intersection here, which is easy to say," he asked everyone, "why should you turn the other door towards the entrance of the town? Or the larger one."

I didn’t ask about this matter, but when I asked it, it really seemed very strange. The town was obviously my own, so what would I do if I was facing the cannon?

"I understand!" Wei Donglai first reacted, "Son-in-law, there are two groups of them in this group of defeated soldiers!"

"oh?"

"The people stationed in the town are mostly from the original Five Military Camp, and there are also many people. The people stationed in Xingning Palace are mostly from the original Shenji Camp, with firearms, but there are few people, so they are afraid of being eaten by the evildoer, so they specially set up guns to guard against them!"

After Wei Donglai said this, everyone suddenly realized that these two groups of people were entangled in the crime, but they were intrigue and wary of each other. It really made people wonder what to say.

Zhou Shixian also felt in his heart. Just like this, it looked like the intrigue between the various units of the official army in the late Ming Dynasty. In short, if you die, I will not die. No wonder I am invincible in front of the Dashun Army.

However, no matter how emotional it is, the benefits in front of you are obvious.

"That's great. Once the fight starts, they don't have to count on each other's reinforcements." Zhou Shixian said, "I'll ask again, can those two tiger squat cannons be fired with just one gunner?"

"If Qi Shizi is, it can be done by one person, and it's fast and accurate." Wei Donglai pointed at Qi Sizhu and said, "We can't do it. Although the tiger squat cannon is not big, a gun team will have three people."

According to Wei Donglai, the large tiger squat cannon was 60 kilograms and the small one was 36 kilograms, supported by two front forks, and looked like a tiger lying on the ground, so it was called the tiger squat cannon, which was the standard configuration of the Shenji Camp. However, three people must clear the chamber, charge the medicine, fill the cannon, and calibrate the series of actions.

"Why is there only one person on the gun position on the opposite side?" Zhou Shixian asked, "Is there a person like Qi Sizhu on the opposite side?"

"That's not possible. Qi Sizhu is known as the King of Cannons, and there is only one in the entire Shenji Camp." Wei Donglai said solemnly, "The opponent is probably pre-installed with medicine and cannons, and the muzzle is also tidied, and it can be set off after ignition. However, after this time, the gunpowder will get damp, and the cannon may not be able to fire. Even if it is fired, the power will be smaller, and there will be no second shot to shoot out."

"I understand," Zhou Shixian stood up, "Let's go ahead."

"How to fight, please give me a message to the prince." Xu Yong said eagerly, "Did you go and be the sentry and those two gunners first?"

"No," the prince-consort shook his head, "Let's just rush in like this."
Chapter completed!