The wind is a bit strong at night, especially in the relatively high places on the island, the sea breeze in winter always gives people a "biting" feeling.

　　 Pierce leaned on the low wall, biting open the tail of the paper shell bullet, vomiting the medicine in his mouth, and carefully filling the Kentucky launching pod.

　　 In the second step, he turned the empty end of the cartridge case over his head, bit the top end, poured the gunpowder inside into the barrel, and pulled out the cleaning rod to compact the gunpowder.

third step……

　　The general long gun has been loaded in two steps, only Kentucky needs the third step.

　　 He placed the cleaning rod against the wall, freed his hand to break the hard and brittle shell, and poured out round silver-white lead bullets.

　　 The lead bullet is like a pearl, and its outline is slightly larger than the barrel.

　　 Pierce squeezed steadily, applying force with his fingers, and rotating downward.

　　 One circle, one circle, another circle. The soft lead is cut through the surface by a sharp rifling and is rolled into the bore like a screw.

　　 My fingers quickly lost their strength.

　　 Pierce picked up the cleaning rod, pressed it tightly, and used the rotation of the cleaning rod to pass the over-spec bullets all the way to the end of the muzzle, pressing them together with the gunpowder until they could no longer move, and a Kentucky handle was considered to have completed the loading action.

　　 "The third..." With a sigh of relief, Pierce leaned the loaded guns side by side against the shooting stack of the low wall, and picked up the next one shortly, "Sanmei."

　　 "Huh?" Xiao Sanmei stopped her piercing hand and raised her head in confusion, "Junior, what's wrong?"

　　 "Gun...Lang?" Pierce bit the voice laboriously, "Isn't it a woman...Gun?"

　　 "Husband means husband." Xiao Sanmei lowered her head, blushing, "Jun Lang...Jun Lang is more complicated. He is both husband and master."

"Before I left, my wife told me that my wife is more expensive than my son, and my concubine is more expensive than my husband. Since I have abandoned the way of marrying the Ming media, I should keep my duty and respect the gentleman. Makes the house restless."

　　 Sanmei’s words are mixed with a lot of Chinese that is not easy to translate, and they suddenly become Chinese and English, which makes Pierce completely unable to understand.

　　 It's not okay not to understand at this time. He knows this, so he bit the bullet to understand.

　　 "Aha, Chinese is really complicated." He scratched his head, putting aside the miscellaneous 567 Chinese, "Sanmei, how many did you install?"

　　 "Four branches."

　　 "It's so fast..."

　　 Because of this inhumane large lead bullet, the loading speed of Kentucky has always been the biggest obstacle for it to become the mainstream of the rifle.

　　 Kentucky’s average reload speed is three minutes, and the most skilled shooter can compress it to a little more than one and a half minutes, while Pierce takes almost four minutes. Xiao Sanmei’s speed is faster than him, and he can close the three-point mark with quality and quantity.

The main force of 　　 reloading has always been Xiao Sanmei.

　　 Ten guns, the task given to her before the battle is six, in case of war, all the loading will be completed by her.

　　 "Assault..." Xiao Sanmei finished reloading another gun and picked up the last one at hand, "Jun Lang, will anyone really attack tonight?"

　　 "Sister Hina's scout watched the beach for four days, and it was not until tonight that a large number of assault boats were docked in the south."

　　 Pierce raised his gun and took aim in the direction of Williamsburg.

　　 "The patience of that group of mice is far beyond our imagination, but 4 days is also their limit."

　　 "Tomorrow is Christmas. After tomorrow, Secretary Hamilton can recover from his injury at any time. Brother said, they can't wait."

　　 "In other words... they will definitely come before dawn." Xiao Sanmei placed the last gun in the corner and sat down with her legs in her arms, "Honeymoon, where do we go?"

　　……

　　 Hudson Manor has a history of nearly 150 years.

　　Like most buildings in the early days of the colonial trade, when people built this place, they first considered how to resist aboriginal attacks, and secondly, how to make their lives comfortable.

　　The manor has walls.

　　 was the first arc-shaped city wall intercepted by a two-meter-high log, with 5-meter-high, octagonal-shaped Wanghai outposts erected every 100 steps. Later, the British changed most of the walls into wrought iron fences, which became beautiful. Except for the stone gates and guards that were reserved as shapes, most of them lost their defensive value.

　　 The manor has a moat.

　　 A 3-meter-wide ditch surrounded the wall. Earlier, it only connected to a large lake outside the manor. The British dug through the small lake in the manor when they were remodeling, and opened the water gate at the fence, and boating from the small lake can go straight to the big lake. It has always been a favorite leisure project of successive governors.

　　 There is also a castle in the manor.

　　The villa is built with solid bricks, the overall rectangular shape, with rows of floor-to-ceiling windows on the wide side, three floors, eight rooms on each floor. There are towers on the east and west sides, which are slightly higher than the roof, and the flat city defense road is connected in the middle. That is the position of Pierce and 30 musketeers.

　　 The whole villa was brightly lit, and Lorraine and Hamilton played chess in the second room from the right on the third floor.

　　The queen entered three from the right, Lorraine knocked off the head of the knight, shook his wrist, and put the chess down.

　　 "Alexander, are you nervous?"

　　 "I am acting as a hapless person who was assassinated." Hamilton withdrew his prime minister and threatened the queen, "and I was betrayed by his own shore defense forces. With such a bizarre experience, don't I have the qualifications to be nervous?"

　　 "But this is a secret society, isn't it?" Lorraine took the queen back, "You advocate the association of elites, and you have to pay for it."

　　 Hamilton is noncommittal.

　　 Secret Societies are the mainstream alliance model of European and American politics, and their priority is even higher than that of political parties.

Hamilton never felt that there was any problem with this kind of trust. After all, compared to the differences and suspicions within the political party, it is easier for a society with an authoritarian style to unify the mind, and wars between the society and the society are not common, like this time. Life and death wars are rarer.

　　He shrugged: "Kenway, how are you sure they will come to kill me?"

　　 "I'm not sure." Lorraine gave Hamilton a different answer, "Not only uncertain before, even now, I still can't guarantee that their target is you."

　　 "Don't want to say?" Hamilton asked.

　　 "I really don't know." Lorraine ordered the soldiers to advance, "I have never had any contact with secret societies before, I don't know them, and I don't know if they know me."

　　 "But people and animals are different, especially when a group of people cooperate, their behavior will definitely serve a certain purpose."

　　 "The purpose of the Canaan Ceremony is the revolving door project, and the Baishang Associated Press was regarded as a target by them. Then in order to get the dominance of the revolving door, what they can do is very limited."

　　 "Pig a corner from the Hundred Chambers of Commerce." Lorraine raised his first finger.

　　 "Kill me, so that the group of dragons will fall apart without a leader." Lorraine raised his second finger.

　　 "Kill you, delay the process of the revolving door plan, or arrange them to take over your responsibilities and seek opportunities for them from the referee's perspective."

　　 Lorraine squeezed his outstretched fingers into fists and shook him in front of Hamilton.

"Speaking of which, I have not thanked the open and upright government of the United States. You have protected the shareholders of the Philadelphia Ceremony very well. There are more than 40 chambers of commerce with uncertain investment. Even if you get your funding intentions, I still don't know which ones are talented. It’s your money bag."

　　 Hamilton looked embarrassed: "Uh...Kenway..."

"Don't get me wrong." Lorraine waved his hand. "The revolving door is very important to the United States. My allies and I understand that ~ lightnovelpub.net ~ willingly being a target is one of our ways to express our sincerity. What's more, there is only one way to express our sincerity. We have this qualification."

　　 Lorraine swept away the chess pieces on the chessboard, picked up one, and placed it on the black square.

　　 "Target. For the purpose of the Canaanite ceremony, I just need to put all their targets, me, you, and my allies in the same place, and they will definitely come."

　　 "I can also set a time for them. The Christmas dinner is cancelled and postponed later, so they must act before Christmas, because starting from December 26, you may heal at any time and you can return to the social circle at any time."

　　 "But you still let your allies swagger in New York." Hamilton pointed out the confusion in Operation Lorraine.

　　 "It's faint, or looming or appearing." Lorraine added, "Old Dukov and the others can't really put themselves into the Asura Field. This trap does not have the ability to protect more than a dozen decoys at the same time."

"In that case, they simply appeared on New York and the island at the same time, hearing their voices, and not seeing them. The Canaanite would guess their location. The more guessed, the more conspicuous our prey, the more we guessed, we bait The sweeter the taste."

　　 "Can they resist the temptation? Even if they can resist it, they are willing to tie their hands..."

　　嘭!

　　 The gun went off.

　　 Lorraine was taken aback for a moment, then laughed out loud.

　　 "The fish bit the hook, Alexander." He stood up, "You rest here for a while, I'll go to your bedroom, and see the Canaanite sword... just how sacred it is."