More than twenty minutes passed.

Zhu Daolin and the guards who had finished drawing the survey sketch got together and marked the elevation, and finally Zhu Daolin pointed to the coast on the side and whispered to Guo Zhongjun and the three young men to join the army:

"Within three days, it was necessary to find out the water conditions in a 10-kilometer radius, especially if there were reefs...... Try to find local fishermen, if you can't find Lord Zhu or Lord Chen for help, if not, simply find a small boat and personally measure the sea area where you are located. ”

"The specific requirement is to extend 1 kilometer beyond the coast, and our naval guns need to be at a distance of 500 meters to be most effective, and if we want to carry out precision strikes, the distance needs to be reduced to 300 meters...... The range of the artillery of the enemy battery was about 450 meters, and it had to be measured clearly in order for the naval division to work out a battle plan. ”

"Understood!"

Guo Zhongjun and others replied in unison.

Zhu Daolin pointed to a few small hills 800 meters away in the southwest: "Let's go there later, that place is about 850 meters away from the city wall, and it is within the best range of our 50 and 80 guns......

"Within four days, Tianshu Pavilion will send a powerful siege cannon, the cannonball can use a homemade 10 kg medicine bag, it is very convenient to launch, a cannon is blasted, and the huge shock wave makes no one alive within a radius of fifty meters, but there is a shortcoming, the maximum range is only 450 meters."

"Therefore, I plan to use those small hills as field artillery firing positions, use the range of more than twice the enemy's artillery to bombard the city, dispatch the gun battalion, cover the siege artillery within 350 meters of the city wall, as long as I can successfully fire more than a dozen cannons, Dengzhou City can be successfully captured."

Guo Zhongjun and the others were shocked when they heard this.

Zhu Daolin signaled them not to get to the bottom of it: "You will know when the siege artillery arrives, and I will teach you how to use it when the time comes...... Remember. Rifles and flintlock pistols should be loaded and ready to meet the enemy at any time. ”

Wang Laicheng turned around at this time, grabbed Zhu Daolin, and asked curiously, "Does Brother Zhu need to buy a horse?" ”

Zhu Daolin nodded: "The more the better, within four days my baggage battalion will be able to transport the silver...... Brother Wang has a way? ”

Wang Laicheng smiled: "I can even out 50 high-grade war horses and 200 pull horses in my camp, and the Guanning cavalry can also buy about 100 war horses......

"In fact, the most war horses are the guards under the command of Governor Zhu. Within a few days of taking over as governor of Shandong, Lord Zhu took out more than 200,000 taels of silver to buy war horses and pack horses, plus the enthusiastic donations of squires from all over Shandong, and at most owned 3,800 war horses and more than 5,500 horses and mules. ”

"In the past few months, Lord Zhu has successively transferred about thirty percent of the various armies, but the best war horses and horses are still in the hands of the commanders and thousands of soldiers under the command of Lord Zhu......"

"Those people dare to sell anything, as long as they have cash, 25 taels can buy a fine war horse, and 18 taels can buy a 5-year-old horse. Mules and horses are cheaper, and you can buy 1 horse for 12 taels. ”

"If Brother Zhu is not good at coming forward, I am willing to do it for my younger brother, and send the horse to Brother Zhu's camp first and then settle the bill, anyway, I can't beat Dengzhou in ten days and a half months, and there is time."

"Thanks, brother, you've done me a great favor!" Zhu Daolin was very happy.

Wang Laicheng waved his hand: "Let's hit it off at first sight." You're welcome, haha! ”

"Oh yes. Many people asked the younger brother to ask Brother Zhu, is there any transfer of treasure knives? It's the kind of Tang knife that the little brother cut yesterday, and nearly half of the brothers under your command have Tang knives hanging from their waists, and many people's eyes are red when they see it, it's extravagant! ”

"It would be easier if you could exchange the Tang knife for a horse."

Zhu Daolin shook his head: "Too much is not good." I can barely make up one within ten. ”

"Ten is ten, at least a few old acquaintances can be satisfied, the best knife costs 600 taels of silver, the Tang knife is far sharper and tougher than the knife, and the single is also thicker. 1,000 taels of silver is fair, okay? Wang Laicheng asked.

Zhu Daolin thought for a while: "Okay, I'll let the guards squeeze out ten when I go back later, you take it back first, and a few embroidered spring knives and Tang knives made by the overseas Tianshu Pavilion will come with the baggage, and then I'll give you a Tang knife and a steel helmet." ”

Wang Laicheng couldn't help licking his thick lips again: "Can you give me one more Tang knife?" ”

"My cousin's martial arts are good, he followed me when he was young, and now he is the head of my family, he will be twenty years old on the first day of the next month, I want to give him a treasure knife!"

"He has always coveted the treasure knife that the emperor gave me, and it is estimated that he is still in the camp with the craftsman at this time, thinking of connecting the treasure knife that was broken in two."

Zhu Daolin laughed: "No problem, send him another steel helmet, count me on his adult crown gift, haha!" How big is his head? ”

Wang Laicheng was overjoyed, and immediately said that he was about the same as you, and after speaking, he pulled Zhu Daolin and was about to go back.

Zhu Daolin asked him to stay and pointed to the small hill in the southeast: "I still have to go to those hills with my brothers to see the terrain, otherwise I don't know how to arrange the troops in the fight." ”

Wang Laicheng didn't say a word, pulled Zhu Daolin and jumped off the big stone slab, and walked directly towards the hill in the southeast:

"Little brother to accompany you, just now I heard that you led more than a thousand brothers to swagger and ride horses outside the south gate, less than 200 steps away from the city wall, which made the rebels in the city very angry."

"I saw a lot of rebels pointing at this side in the binoculars just now, it's funny, wait a little closer and look at those grandsons' angry looks, haha!"

Three hours later, Zhu Daolin and his guards returned to the Hekou camp with a lot of survey data.

Guo Zhongjun quickly squeezed out ten Tang knives from the guards and sent them to Wang Laicheng, and together with Zhu Daolin, he sent the righteous Wang Laicheng out of the barracks.

When Zhu Daolin returned to the camp, he immediately summoned the officers above the captain level and ordered everyone to study and draw a topographic map of the battlefield together with the six members of the army according to the survey data.

After dinner, Zhu Daolin once again gathered the officers who did not need to be on duty and began to explain the large topographical map of the battlefield that had just been drawn.

Zhu Daolin talked about the endurance and maximum distance of the sprint of the soldiers, the possible reaction of the enemy at the head of the city, the range and fire intensity of the flintlock pistol, the bow and arrow and crossbow machine of the defending enemy, the range and firing interval of the enemy's artillery, and the grasp of the timing of the charge and the battle damage that may be caused in the process of charging.

Late at night, Zhu Daolin finished explaining many matters, drove Guo Zhongjun and the two battalion commanders back to rest, walked out of the barracks alone, and walked east along the edge of the rumbling sea.

After walking through the flat coast of a kilometer long and wide behind the camp, Zhu Daolin walked to the collapsed and abandoned West Peak Platform in the east with confidence, and soon disappeared into the vast night. (To be continued.) )