"Second brother, do you want to bring all the cavalry?" , Zheng Jingcai's second song was cultivated as a cavalry song, and he took the initiative to ask at this time.

Liu Ximing scolded suddenly: "Do you have a bag in the skull, I'm afraid that others don't know how much money we have." I've told you, then the fuck is Jinyiwei, if they are targeted, tomorrow they will be able to find out what color belly pockets the girls in our village are wearing. ”

"Hahaha", Yu Yongkai and Li Jingsi covered their stomachs all of a sudden, and Zheng Jingcai saw Liu Ximing's tone, knowing that the second brother was not really angry, and laughed a little embarrassed.

"But it's not enough to just bring muskets," Liu Ximing thought for a while and said, "Just now Liu Yushi said that these people are meeting in the manor, and they can only attack when they think about it, and they can't do it without artillery." ”

Li Biao, Wei Jingguo and several other strong men couldn't help but rub their hands, and asked Liu Ximing excitedly: "Second brother, do you really want to bring artillery?" ”

"Prepare it first, don't let Jinyiwei see it, and use it when you need it", seeing Liu Ximing nodded, these people cheered at once.

Wei Jingguo and a few people laughed and said: "If it's a man, he should like cannons, who the hell is playing with a musket, it's too enjoyable." ”

The atmosphere at the city gate suddenly became more cheerful, and Liu Ximing directly smiled and ordered: "Go to some people to guard the tun, bring four fire crow cannons over, and bring two flying thunder cannons to prepare." ”

It is said that it is artillery, but Liu Ximing thinks that what Liujiacun is making now is more like a larger firecracker.

When the Dharma Research Institute developed the artillery before, Tang Hong and others planned to use the traditional method of casting the cannon with mud, which was easy to form water vapor inside, which led to the appearance of honeycomb holes in the cannon and affected the quality of the cannon body.

Later, Liu Ximing listened to the report of the Ordnance Bureau, saying that it would take several months to try to build a cannon, and then he realized that it was wrong.

This iron fan casting has long been a rotten thing played by the Chinese, Tang Hong and others did not expect it because of the inertia of thinking, and now there is Liu Xi's life to mention it, and a group of people spent more than a month using clay molds to turn the iron fan out.

When casting the cannon, you only need to brush the inside of the iron fan with fine straw ash and other prepared paint, load the mud core in the center of the mold, wait for the poured molten steel to cool slightly, and immediately take it out to remove the burrs and remove the mud core, so that a cannon is made.

But after some testing, I don't know what went wrong, only the performance of the two-inch caliber gun is quite stable, and it is easy to explode if it is cast any larger.

Liu Ximing had no choice but to put the two-inch guns in the army first, and at the same time let the Ordnance Bureau hurry up to conquer the larger-caliber artillery.

As for this two-inch artillery, Liu Ximing named it the Raven Cannon, which is converted into a modern size of about 66 mm, between 3-pounder guns and 4-pounder guns in different periods, each gun weighs 100 catties, which is equivalent to about 40 kg in modern size, and the gun body is three feet six inches long, which is equivalent to about 1.2 meters.

At the gate of Liujia Village, it was pitch black

In the night, more than a dozen torches crackled, and after Liu Ximing gave the order, he began to pace back and forth at the city gate, thinking about the battle later.

At this time, Liu Ximing's foresight was shown, after the construction of Weigong Avenue was completed, the time from the dock to the village was greatly shortened, and there were ten commuter carriages in the duty room, and after about a quarter of an hour, the third song and the people who were in front of the guard were all gathered.

"Degao", Liu Ximing summoned You Degao first and instructed him: "Tonight, only your recruit Qu is defending in the village, remember to be vigilant, all the people are divided into three shifts, alternately on duty at night, if there is any emergency, remember to go to my uncle and Mr. Dasu to discuss." ”

"Oh, second brother, don't worry, I will definitely keep my home." You Degao promised with a look of chicken blood on his face.

Mr. Su in Liu Ximing's mouth is Su Jin, as for his younger brother Su Yan, of course, he is Mr. Xiao Su, with the work of the school room in the past month, Su Jin's original thing is also known to everyone, plus he does things in an orderly manner, and he looks polite, everyone calls the two of them Xiao Su for convenience.

"Well, take a good look", Liu Ximing nodded, and immediately beckoned to get ready to get on the boat, as for the four fire crow cannons, of course, they were directly put into the space by him, and they would be taken out when needed.

Jinyi Wei Qianhu Hong Feijie and He Tianlei, who were originally in Liu Jianhou's cabin, both came out of the cabin and were standing at the bow of the ship looking down at this time.

Seeing the fire at the gate of Liujia Village, a team of people came over in a neat line, He Tianlei suddenly sighed.

"Now even such children dare to gather in crowds to hold weapons, it's really eventful."

Hong Feijie looked at He Tianlei with some dissatisfaction, suppressed his voice and said: "Lao He, don't mess with Lao Tzu, this person is valued by Liu Jianhou, and I can't protect you if something happens." ”

"I know", He Tianlei waved his hand a little disapprehantly, his family has inherited this position of a thousand households since he became an ancestor, and he is a family friend of the Hong family, so the two of them don't care much about these etiquette.

Seeing him like this, Hong Feijie couldn't help but mention him again: "Now the East Factory has been abolished, and now the group of people in the palace who have no eggs dare not come out, and our Jinyi Wei can only lie on their stomachs, no matter how majestic you were in the past, now you can pretend to be a grandson." Besides, Liu Jianhou is a member of the Donglin Party, if he really wants to be bitten, we will have to shed our skin if we don't die. ”

"I know what you have to say, it's nothing more than to do a good job of the things assigned by the emperor, and don't get involved in other things. But look at it, even these country gentry don't take the court seriously, if it really turns the sky upside down, whether our brothers' net worth and lives can be saved is still two words. ”

"Hey, let's do our best."

Hong Feijie sighed and didn't know how to answer, just at this time Liu Ximing walked up to the boat, and saw the two of them standing at the bow of the boat, Liu Ximing hurriedly bowed to the two, Hong Feijie hesitated for a moment, and nodded in return.

Liu Ximing was a little strange why the deputy Qianhu surnamed He put on a bitter and hateful face, but Jinyiwei's reputation was outside,

He didn't dare to come forward and talk.

Seeing that Liu Xuan was helping Zhang Luo under the ship, and Yu Yongkai and others were commanding, the Long Xiang regiment was boarding the ship in an orderly manner, and Liu Xi ordered him to go to Liu Jianhou's cabin to find out the news.

"Liu Gong", as soon as Liu Ximing entered the hatch, he saw Liu Jianhou frowning, holding a document in his hand and looking through it.

Seeing him come in, Liu Jianhou beckoned to him.

Liu Ximing hurriedly took a few steps and approached.

"What, the centaurs are ready?" , Liu Jianhou stretched his brows a little, and asked him with a smile.

"Hehe, adults have a life, where do you dare to slack off in your later life, even if you whip them, you have to whip them up." Liu Ximing replied pretending to be a pure young man.

Liu Jianhou chuckled, picked out a document from the table and threw it to him, "Look at your usual appearance, you know how assertive you are, but now you are here to ask about tonight?" It's all on this, so take a look. ”

"Well, but I wonder what's the point?" Liu Ximing was a little hesitant, since it involves the Yuan Sect, who knows what else will be in it, Uncle Liu, are you really a big man doing this.

Liu Jianhou's face was a little helpless: "There is nothing important, the Jinyiwei gang is becoming more and more unusable, and I haven't found any key points after checking and checking, if it weren't for today's line report, this official would have planned to transfer to Beppu." ”

That's because you have pulled out all the minions of other people, Liu Ximing complained in his heart, since the historical line has not changed much, I think that now Jinyiwei is also in a shrinking period, it is good that they can still send people to investigate.

While thinking about this, Liu Ximing kept reading the documents handed over by Liu Jianhou at a glance.

What is written on this document are some informants about the Yuan Sect, most of which are running accounts, which are nothing more than where this hall master pretended to be a god and deceived money, and the incense master robbed the big households in the township and so on.

There are only a few that really caught Liu Ximing's attention:

"In May of the sixth year, a stranger met with the master of Pengzhou Hall, and he didn't know what he was discussing, and listening to his accent, it seemed that he was a person from Huguang."

"In August of the sixth year, a big ship passed through Pengzhou at night, and the hall sent people to carry goods on the ship overnight.

"In February of the seventh year, an unknown person came to visit at night, and there were two men and two women in the group, and the content of the conversation is unknown."

……

Although the content of these pieces of information is unknown, it still makes Liu Xi's heart tremble, look at this posture, I don't know how many forces are involved behind the Shui Yuan Sect, and the Shui Yuan Sect itself is not only swaggering and amassing property, but also hoarding weapons, and its purpose is self-evident.

"Ming Gong", Liu Ximing hesitated a little and said: "If we act like this tonight, will we startle the snake?" According to the current situation, the thieves have long been plotting rebellion, what if because of our sudden attack, they are forced to launch temporarily? ”

Liu Jianhou took out a jade jue and kept rubbing it, as if he was thinking about what Liu Ximing said.