So Liu Xia said to one of the guards beside him: "You go and call back the brothers who came out of the Zhaojiabao gate and the back door."

After settling the internal affairs of the army, Liu Xia walked to Bian Yujing's side, instructed Bian Yujing, and asked her to go to the backyard of the Zhao family to find a room to rest, and then left to inspect elsewhere.

After Liu Xia left, Liu Dazhuang walked to the place of the Tiger Camp, looking at the soldiers of the Tiger Camp who were dejected at this time, he had a feeling of hatred for iron and steel, as the commander of the Tiger Camp, he did not manage the affairs of the Tiger Camp well, which led to the nine brothers being sentenced to military justice.

Although several soldiers were punished, as the commander of the Tiger Battalion, Liu Dazhuang felt that the honor of the Tiger Battalion had been tarnished, and Liu Dazhuang, who had always been known for his calm and composed, couldn't calm down at this time, Liu Xia didn't deal with him just now, because Liu Xia knew his character, knew what kind of person Liu Dazhuang was, and would not do that kind of thing to hide things, nor would he condone his subordinates to hide things.

The reason why the soldiers of the Tiger Camp have so many private things is mainly because Liu Dazhuang trusts his own soldiers too much, and does not monitor them, and all actions are scattered and fight separately.

The more Liu Dazhuang thought about this, the more uncomfortable he became, and shouted at Zhang Liang: "Lao Zhang, you gather all the brothers of the Tiger Camp, I have something to say." Then he left the inner courtyard alone and walked towards the outer courtyard.

Zhang Liang answered, and then ordered the captains to go out with Liu Dazhuang.

After a while, the entire Tiger Camp was quickly assembled, Liu Dazhuang looked at the three hundred soldiers, and couldn't help but be angry, and then shouted hoarsely at the team of three hundred people: "You, you have simply lost the face of the Tiger Camp, you have no military discipline, no sense of discipline, I, Liu Dazhuang, look down on you!" ”

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The story of Zhaojiabao being attacked has not yet been spread by anyone, or the people who know that Zhaojiabao was attacked are all locked up by Liu Xia in Zhaojiabao at this time, and no one has escaped.

After all, all the entrances and exits of the entire Zhaojiabao were guarded by Liu Xia, even if they wanted to get out, they couldn't get out, as for climbing the wall and the like, even if they could climb out, they would definitely fall into the trench outside the Zhuangzi, you must know that there are a lot of sharp wooden stakes in the trench outside the Zhuangzi, if they fall in, they will basically die and will not live long.

As for the tenant farmers outside Zhuangzi, they were far away from Zhuangzi, and even if they heard the screams coming from inside Zhuangzi, they didn't have the courage to come out to check, let alone go to the Yamen official mansion to report it.

In this era, in this kind of troubled times, no civilians want to go to the government, and in the eyes of the commoners, they are basically not extorted from going there, and it is impossible to meet the officials.

Liu Xia walked around the Zhao family's mansion, and then came to a living room in the inner courtyard of the Zhao family, and ordered the guards to call the battalion commanders and deputy battalion commanders over. Among them, Liu Xia sat on the top, except for Liu Dazhuang and Zhang Liang of the Huben Battalion, the chief and deputy commanders of the other battalions were here, and sat below in turn.

Liu Xia picked up a cup of hot tea next to him, and then took a sip slowly, and didn't say anything.

Those battalion commanders didn't know what Liu Xia wanted to say, and they didn't speak, but you look at me, I look at you, and I don't know what they are exchanging.

"Zhang Yuan, what time is it?" Liu Xia put down the teacup, closed his eyes and carefully tasted the fine Maojian tea collected by Zhao Yan, although Liu Xia didn't know how to taste tea, but he also knew the quality of this tea, so he glanced at everyone again, and said: "You all taste this tea, the best Maojian."

When the others saw Liu Xia speak, they poured the hot tea next to them into their mouths, most of them were rough people, and they had no culture at all.

Zhang Yuan put down the teacup in his hand, and then replied to Liu Xia: "General Hui, it's almost ugly now."

"Ugly?"

Liu Xia was not interested in these ugly Yin Mao and the like in his previous life, and he couldn't even remember clearly, let alone what time they represented, but since he crossed over, and after the memory merged with Liu Xia in this era, he was very clear about all kinds of date notation in this world.

"When it is ugly, that is, between zero one o'clock in the morning and three o'clock in the morning in the previous life, at this time, it will only be bright at six or seven o'clock, and when you wait for five o'clock, you can have another meal, and then you can leave here." Liu Xia thought of this, and suddenly remembered Wang En, who was in charge of logistics tasks, so he said to Wang En: "Wang En, have you found out how many things we have seized in Zhaojiabao?" ”

Wang Endao: "General, just now my subordinates roughly counted those things, including 3,000 stone of grain, 30,000 taels of silver, and other subordinates of various calligraphy and paintings, vases, jewelry, etc., did not look at it, and I don't know how much. However, with so many subordinates, I think it is almost enough for our soldiers to eat for two months. ”

"In addition to food, there are more than two hundred pairs of armor captured by you, General, and some good weapons, and we also found a tiger squat cannon in the Zhao family's warehouse."

"What!"

"Tiger Squat Cannon!" Liu Xia stood up happily, not that Liu Xia didn't have knowledge and was happy to hear a small artillery piece like this, but in this era of semi-cold weapons and semi-***, artillery is of great use, so Liu Xia is so happy in his heart.

"General, it's a tiger squat cannon, my subordinates have asked the soldiers below, how many people can really use tiger squat cannons" Wang En didn't expect Liu Xia to be so happy to hear the tiger squat cannon, so he continued: "The ** used in these tiger squat cannons is also very sufficient."

"That's great, I'll go see the tiger squat cannon in a while, by the way, you will wait until five o'clock in a while and you will order the logistics team, and then give the soldiers another meal, and then feed all the horses, let's get out of here."

"Five o'clock?"

"General, my subordinates don't know, when are these five points?" Wang En looked at Liu Xia with a puzzled face.

"Eh, hehe, I said it wrong just now, it's the time of the hour" Liu Xia then reacted that this is not the 21st century, but the Ming Dynasty, and the people here don't know when five o'clock is.

"Yes, General," Wang En thought again, didn't there still be those two hundred armors? The general hasn't said how to deal with it, if it doesn't be a pity, but if it does, but the general didn't say how to deal with it, it will be a place to occupy him, so he asked Liu Xia: "General, how to use those two hundred pairs of armor?" ”

In fact, Liu Xia didn't care much about the armor, because Liu Xia knew that firearms would develop slowly, and armor would have no resistance in the face of firearms, and Liu Xia would not build too much iron armor in the future, which was not of much use. As for the body armor, Liu Xia doesn't dare to think about it now.

But in this period, these iron armors are still somewhat useful, so Liu Xia thought for a while and said: "First send these iron armors to each general, now we have a total of four battalions, that is, eight battalion commanders, plus a personal guard captain, nine people, and twenty-four chief and deputy captains, seventy-two chief and deputy squadron leaders, more than one hundred squad leaders, just more than two hundred armor, as for the remaining ones, let's give the scout team members."

"Yes, General, my subordinates will send these iron armor down in a while" Wang En said happily, in their opinion, the iron armor is still very useful, and it is also a status symbol.

Liu Xia nodded, and then said: "Go back and rest, wait until the time is over, and leave here, as for the rest of the things that can't be taken, they will be distributed to these servants and maids, Wang En, you take me to see the tiger squat cannon."

Except for Wang En and Wang Shishi, the others bowed to Liu Xia and left the living room.

"Let's go, take me to see the tiger squatting cannon," Liu Xia said to Wang En with great interest.

Wang En took Liu Xia and said with a smile as he walked: "Although the general's tiger squat cannon is not as good as those red-clothed cannons, it is not small, and his subordinates often come into contact with these cannons when they are in Liaodong."

Liu Xia said: "Well, when I was in Liaodong, I was still young, my father didn't let me participate in the war, and he didn't let me see the artillery, and now I still have some regrets when I think about it."

"General, it's just ahead, just around the corner" Wang En took Liu Xia and Wang Shishi, and at this time he had already walked out of the living room and walked towards the tiger squatting cannon.

Wang En saw that Liu Xia was very interested in the tiger squat cannon, and explained: "The head and tail of this cannon are 2 feet long, and seven iron hoops are added around the body, and the head of the cannon is erected by two iron claws, and there are iron stumbling, with a total weight of 36 catties. It looks like the tiger is powerful and majestic. Before firing, the cannon body must be fixed on the ground with a large iron nail, and each launch can be filled with 100 small lead or small stones weighing 5 yuan, and a large lead bullet or large stone bullet weighing 30 taels is used to press the top, and when the large and small bullets are fired, the roar is like thunder, and the lethality and radiation range are very large, especially suitable for field warfare. ”

No need for Wang En to explain, Liu Xia is very familiar with the tiger squat cannon, the reason is, of course, that Liu Xia often mixed in the post bar about the Ming Dynasty in his previous life, you must know that artillery has a great position in the army of the Ming Dynasty, and it is naturally the object of discussion.

However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the firearms of the Ming Dynasty were already somewhat backward compared to the West, and some large artillery pieces were imported from foreigners, and the various muskets used in the hands of the Ming Dynasty army were often blown up. So that not many soldiers dared to use it, and it was also a reason for defeat in battle.

The musket of the Ming Dynasty army exploded, not because the craftsmen's skills were not good, but because the craftsmen at that time were oppressed and couldn't even eat well, of course, no one made it carefully, so there were defective products everywhere, and it was those soldiers on the frontier who were directly harmed.