Delta, Pachman Sandbar.

Patchman's Sandbar is a small lowland island located in the northeastern hinterland of the Mississippi River Delta.

Unlike the salt marshes, which cover most of the sandbars, it is surrounded by small cobweb-like rivers and is slightly higher on all sides, forming a natural dam that stifles the inflow of seawater.

Therefore, it has a rare soil that does not dissolve salt crystals, even if it is barren and desertified, it can still carry a small cotton plantation and feed the attached black slave town, the small town of Pachman.

The island is also famous as a seabird habitat. Throughout the year, gentlemen who hunt birds come to enjoy their leisurely killing time with dogs and guns on their backs and three or five personal retinues at the pelican farms next to the town.

The same is true of Clen and Pierce, a well-to-do father and son, dressed in new, comfortable shirts and breeches, with a sinister white retinue.

If you insist on differentiating them from common seabird hunters...... They don't have hounds by their side, but they have 40 double-barreled shotguns, and their firepower is as powerful as a small army.

The owner of the farmhouse secretly beat the drum in his heart.

Ordinary wealthy businessmen will definitely not be able to support such a big pomp, not to mention that they have to train their entourage to prohibit it, and the rules are strict.

The guest, named Karen, may have been some high-ranking bureaucrat in the interior, or a high-ranking officer in the colonial army......

In short, it must be the kind of big guy who is on top!

If you can establish a proper connection with such a big person...... For example, the marriage contract?

Pierce felt a burning gaze sweep behind him, and he was so uncomfortable that he hit several spirits in a row.

Karen gave him a worried look: "Little Pierce, you won't get sick, will you?" ”

"How so!" Pierce blushed and waved his hand, "In order not to hold everyone back, I specially asked Mr. Soland for a cure!" Mr. Soland said that while his medicine would not cure any ailments, it would definitely ensure that I would be free of all diseases for the next week! ”

"And this miracle medicine!"

"It is the crystallization of the highest end of alchemy and modern medicine!"

"Could it be...... Azot? ”

"Not a panacea." Pierce shook his head regretfully and admiringly, "Mr. Soland confessed that although he had the recipe for refining the elixir, he did not have the ability to refine the true elixir until he found the fifth element. ”

Clen couldn't help but gasp: "If it's not the real Azot, is it some kind of replacement?" ”

"Has Mr. Scott ever heard of Star Antimony? Mr. Soland said that it was an impure Azot, which could not be purified and separated because it was bound by the laws of chaos, and that it was the great discovery of the last sage! ”

"Star Antimony? Basil. The strange crystallization described in Valentine's "Triumphal Car of Antimony"? ”

"Mr. Scott really knows about Star Antimony!" Pierce flapped his fist excitedly, "Mr. Soland said, the last sage improved the Valentine Warlock's recipe and succeeded in crafting Star Antimony, from which he detected the presence of Azot. This is the closest great breakthrough that mankind has come to the fifth element since the Renaissance and the fall of alchemy! ”

"Really...... Is it? ”

"Of course it's true! Modern medicine, the secret art of alchemy, uses cow dung, donkey whiskers, rabbit urine, mouse feces and an appropriate amount of salt and sulfur mixture, stewed and then burned with fierce fire to extract crystals, this is star antimony! Mr. Scott had never seen it beautiful, like taking a fragment from the starry sky and storing it in a black gem. As long as you eat it, within a week, all diseases will not invade! ”

"You ate?"

"Of course!"

"What does it smell like?"

"Good medicine is bitter!"

"Ah......h

"Mr. Scott, Mr. Soland is great, isn't he? I want to ask him about alchemy and medicine! ”

"Of course, young people are studious, but the question is whether it includes shooting, swordsmanship, cartography, commanding, meteorology, and financial management, and the captain also insists that you learn aristocratic etiquette and literature, plus will alchemy ......"

"I can still squeeze in two hours! Four hours of sleep a day, that's enough! ”

Looking at little Pierce's fanatical appearance, Clen sighed lovingly, stretched out his hand and rubbed his hair heavily: "If you really want to learn, go and ask Daniel after this time." Alchemy is not a broomstick's self-cherished science, he will agree......"

……

Nothing was said all night.

Early the next morning, Clen and Pierce led all forty gunmen out, well supplied and equipped, and plunged headlong into the vast forest that straddled two or three small islands.

No one thought to come and tell the owner of the farm, for their sole purpose was to familiarize the musketeers with their new guns as soon as possible, without attracting as much attention as possible.

In a clearing in the jungle, Clen stood in front of the crowd with his new gun in hand.

"Look at the rags on your hands! It is a double-barreled shotgun made by local gunsmiths, with a caliber of 0.109, a maximum rate of fire of 3 rounds per minute, an effective range of 50 meters, an optimal range of 8 meters, and a firing rate of 60%. Because it has two barrels and uses a larger charge and lead bullets, it is very powerful and dense, and it is loved by leather hunters. ”

"Don't doubt it! Compared to the maritime commute you are used to, this is an out-and-out scrap metal! But, it's your new weapon! ”

"You are all long-term sailors of the Chamber of Commerce, and you are the most loyal subordinates of the captain's heart. From the moment the captain transferred the entire musket team from the Golden Deer to the Jackdaw, it should have been clear that our identities would not be revealed! ”

"Therefore, the maritime commuter has been left on the Golden Deer, including your hunter Mr. Artis, to be familiar with the new gun, to be proficient in the new gun, this is your mission!"

"Next, in groups of four, shoot at least a hundred rounds a day! The captain's request is that each group ensures that the fire of standing shooting is uninterrupted, and the suppressive power of mobile shooting does not decrease! You only have three days, watch out for the poisonous snakes in the woods and the crocodiles at the water's edge! Now, disband! ”

"Yes, sir!"

The crepes quickly divided into ten groups, like scattered fireworks, and scattered into the quiet jungle in the blink of an eye.

After a while, a dense burst of gunfire could be heard in the woods.

Pierce was on a Kentucky rifle taller than him, and his face was depressed: "Two barrels, three rounds per minute...... Even if the rate of fire is not very reliable, the rate of fire of their team is much higher than that of maritime commuting......"

Karen looked at him with a smile: "You are a hunter, and this is still a land battle." A range of 50 meters is too short and too dangerous for you. ”

"I know......," Pierce said, clasping his hands over Kentucky, "but the barrel of this broken gun is too long, and even if it were wider on land than the lookout, one shot in three minutes, I wouldn't be able to support you like I did on a ship." ”

"No support needed." Karen smiled contemptuously, "In the captain's plan, you wouldn't have acted with us in the first place. Familiarizing yourself with the new gun is all about getting acquainted with it right now. ”

"Yes." Pierce stomped his foot and jerked his head up with his rifle in his hand, "Mr. Scott, do you think my brother's plan this time...... Too complicated to design? ”

"Is it complicated?" Clen thought for a moment, "The captain is not wrong in his thinking. The cost of participating in the war is too great, and the cost performance is too low. Waiting for Count Galvez to be assassinated and appearing at the right time is the best way to save people. ”

"In that case, we'll wait for the Assassin to appear. No matter how bad it is, it's okay to organize a fake assassination, so why bother to make it real? There are also too many variables. ”

"You're still too young." Clen smiled and patted Pierce on the shoulder, "Humans tend to have a fear of doing things the first time. If we just wait and see, it is likely that until the war outside the city is over, the people who want to assassinate Count Galvez will not really do it. Such a development is good for Count Galvez, but not for us. ”

"We need to make things a little bit more interesting and a little bit uncontrollable. As the captain said, the earl will take the greatest risk, and we will compete for the greatest wealth, after all, wealth is in danger. ”