Through the description of the old cowboy Zhang Heng can basically determine that Cook's marksmanship is above lv2, and he should not have reached lv3, but the difference will not be too much, and his riding skills are very good, he can shoot on a horse, of course, the accuracy is not as good as when he is stationary.

Considering Cook's age, if it is a fair duel, Zhang Heng has a certain certainty that he will be able to defeat the other party one-on-one, but if you count the more than 30 members of the Cook Gang, the situation is indeed as the old cowboy said, and it is not optimistic.

But the good thing is that they still have time.

Cook probably didn't expect that the ten people he left behind in Bliss would be killed, causing their whereabouts to be leaked ahead of time.

According to Zhang Heng's preliminary estimate, Cook's gang should have one day to reach Lincoln County, and there is another key problem in front of everyone before considering how to deal with so many robbers, that is, how to intercept Cook and Matthew before they reach Lincoln County.

"The earliest I have about the Cook Gang was two months ago," said the old cowboy with a frown, "they have always been like this, coming and going like the wind, some people call them the Scarlet Scourge, no one knows where they appear or where they are going, the only thing everyone knows is that wherever they pass must be rivers of blood, like a disaster." ”

"I have a rough idea of where they will be." Zhang Heng said, the bailiff Morton has been tracking down the gang of robbers disguised as fur merchants, as long as Cook and Matthew are not stupid, they will definitely find Morton first, so they should have come to the charred town by this time.

Then they would believe Morton's words, thinking that he had taken the forty kilograms of gold and what Cook had put in the bank.

In fact, Zhang Heng has not been able to determine whether the thing really exists, or if it is just an excuse for Cook to trick Matthew.

Considering that apart from Cook, the only group of people who could answer this question had already been killed by Zhang Heng, and it might be difficult for him to get an answer to this question.

Zhang Heng told the old cowboy the direction where Cook and the others might come, and the latter spread out a map and pointed to a forest road twenty miles east of Lincoln County, "If your news is not problematic, Cook should first assemble with the ten people who stayed in Bliss, and then launch an attack on the county seat, considering that there will be a certain interval between the arrival time of the two of them, the person who arrives first should find a place to repair first, this is the best location." ”

Wendy on the side also interjected at this time, "My father and I went there in the summer, and I remember that there was a hunter's hut there, and the hunter's hut had no owner and could rest for those who hunted in the woods. ”

"If Cook hadn't seen anyone who had stayed in Bliss when he arrived, he would have rested in the hut as well." Old Cowboy Road.

"Can we lay an ambush there in advance?" Zhang Heng asked.

"It's hard," the old cowboy shook his head, "I haven't been to see that place yet, but Cook himself is very cautious, and I've heard the bailiffs who are chasing him say that no matter where he goes, he will send people to search the surroundings first, and he will also set up a perimeter guard, which is why the Cook Gang is so difficult to eliminate, even if we want to surround him, we can't find a place to hide nearby, but we have to come from a distance." ”

Zhang Heng also frowned when he heard this, night fighting was his biggest reliance, but if Cook's people chose to use the hunter's hut as a stronghold, cowering inside, and stalemate until dawn, it was obviously unrealistic to rely on a group of miners and farmers to resist a group of bandits from the Cook Gang.

"Let's go there first." Zhang Heng thought for a while.

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Their time is actually very tight, the Cook Gang should be able to reach Lincoln County in one day at the earliest, and Zhang Heng It will take them half a day to get to the woods, and they also have to beware of meeting with the Cook Gang in the woods in advance, so the time left for them to prepare is only half a day, so before dawn, the group set off again and came to the hut that Wendy said.

The hut was in the middle of the woods, and there was a path that had been trodden by, and there was a stream running beside it, because it had just rained, and the air in the woods was damp, and there were droplets of water on the bark.

This is not good news for Zhang Heng and the others, because it means that it will not work if they want to force Cook and the others out of the house with fire attacks, and the surrounding trees have also been cut down, and it is also difficult to approach from the outside quietly.

In order to prevent the horseshoe prints from being noticed, the old cowboy asked everyone else to wait outside the woods, and only he, Zhang Heng, and Wendy walked in.

The old cowboy walked around the hunter's hut, and then asked Zhang Heng, "Do you have any ideas?" ”

"There are no more than thirty people living in this room, there should be some people outside, as long as there is a war at that time, the people inside will definitely be aware of it, and it will be difficult to complete the raid, but if you are lucky, you may be able to kill as many people outside as possible to create favorable conditions for the battle behind," Zhang Heng paused, "But the real trouble is to wait for the other party to hide in the house after the battle, there is no cover here, we will be very passive, we have to find a way to let them come out of it." ”

"Even if we can get them out of it, are you so sure that you can defeat them?" The old cowboy raised his eyebrows.

"It's unlikely, and I can't kill them all if they're determined to go, but I'm a little sure if I'm just going to kill Cook." Zhang Hengdao.

"Enough, Cook has always been the soul and brain of the Cook Gang, as long as Cook is killed, then the Cook Gang will naturally cease to exist." "I may have a way to get them out of it, but I'll have to borrow your guys." ”

"They'll all be at your disposal, Sergeant."

After briefly discussing the next plan of action, everyone withdrew from the forest first, so many people would definitely attract the attention of the local people if they went to Lincoln County, so they left only one person who looked at the wind, and the rest of the people walked twenty miles to the west and rested behind a grassy slope, while Zhang Heng still had one thing to do before the war.

He walked to this way, rarely quiet all the time, hoping that someone would forget his existence.

"Let's go, I'll send you home first." Zhang Hengdao.

"Please, I've been practicing my gun for a long time, and I'm ready to fight, and you're not short of manpower right now." Wendy pleaded.

"You haven't experienced real fighting at all, it's not as simple as you think, and we are about to face the most powerful and murderous gang in the entire West, I don't think there's any room for negotiation." Zhang Heng is colorful.