Lu Gang and Zhou Mian's suggestions seem to have no substantive significance, but they provide everyone with a premise for opening up ideas, the Great Wall has been repaired, and the beacon tower has been warned, so as long as enough reinforcements are arranged in the appropriate places, the Great Wall can be defended?

This idea is obviously quite reliable, because since ancient times, the Central Plains Dynasty has been so defensive against the invasion of nomads outside the Saiwai, the Great Wall is more than ten thousand miles, and it is obviously unrealistic to send people to garrison it all the time, and no dynasty can afford so much border army consumption, so since ancient times, it has been to set up military towns, divide regions, transmit beacons, and provide rapid support.

In this way, the border troops needed are much less, because most of the nomads outside the Seychelles are not good at attacking cities, if there are tens of thousands of people stationed in a section of the Great Wall, they basically don't want to break through, and Datong Town has tens of thousands of elite border troops, as long as they can support in time, the Tartars don't even want to break through the Great Wall of Datong Town.

The question now is how the elite of the tens of thousands of border troops in Datong Town arrived in time for the Tatar attack.

This problem does not seem to be difficult to solve, after Lu Gang and Zhou Mian proposed it successively, Tang Shunzhi gave up his hand and said: "My lord, if this is not the case, we will gather all the ten thousand elites in Datong Town to the north of Datong Mansion City, in this way, they will not be more than three hundred miles away from any section of the Great Wall, plus they are equipped with fire dragon chariots, it will definitely be no problem to rush to the Tartar attack area to support within one day." And this day can be won by the garrison near the Great Wall, as long as we equip them with enough fast horses and thunderstorms, they should not have much of a problem resisting a day. “

When Yang Cong heard this, his eyes couldn't help but light up, yes, this problem can basically be solved by combining the old methods with the current gunpowder weapons!

In the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was an allusion to the "Beacon Fire Opera Princes", whether the King of Zhou Youyou used this to tease the princes and please Bao Xi for the time being, this allusion is enough to prove that the Beacon Fire Communication, rapid support has been available in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and this method has already passed the test of history.

Yang Cong immediately clapped his hands and said: "Okay, just use this method to resist the enemy." ”

Immediately afterward, he began to discuss in detail with everyone the specific deployment of the guards.

At this time, he found out that most of the guards and guards in Datong Town were set up according to the beacon warning system, but after more than 100 years, this system has been abandoned.

For example, the Great Wall in the north of Datong Town, there is not no guard station nearby, in fact, there is a guard station near every hundred miles or so, but the guard station is still a certain distance from the Great Wall, if all the thousands of households under the guard are relocated to the foot of the Great Wall, basically every ten or twenty miles there will be a thousand households stationed, so that no matter where the Tartars attack from, they will first face the resistance of a thousand guards.

Of course, before the thunder, thousands of guards will definitely not be able to withstand the attack of tens of thousands of Tartars, however, after the thunder, it is different, as long as the Tartars climb the city wall when they drop a few small thunderbolts or a giant thunderbolt, you don't need to do anything, the Tartars will definitely be blown up and roll down the ladder, as long as the thunderbolt is enough, it is no problem for thousands of guards to resist for an hour or two.

And after an hour or two, the nearby garrisons of thousands of households will definitely rush over to support, and there will be more and more troops stationed on the Great Wall, and as long as they can resist for a day, the elite of the 10,000 border troops will rush over, so that it is almost impossible for the Tartars to break through the Great Wall.

On the same day, Yang Cong discussed a detailed plan with everyone.

First of all, Lu Gang was responsible for organizing people to repair all the gaps in the Great Wall north of Datong Town.

Then, Zhou Mian was responsible for arranging manpower to garrison the beacon tower and establishing a beacon warning system.

Then, Tang Shunzhi and Zhao Shichun were responsible for setting up and establishing the Qianhu Station along the Great Wall, and all the guards near the Great Wall in Datong Town were arranged to be responsible for the first wave of defense along the Great Wall.

Finally, Tang Kekuan was responsible for training the elite of the border army in Datong Town, ready to support along the Great Wall.

After this set of plans was determined, Yang Cong was finally a little relieved, as long as all the elite and garrison guards of the border army were not slackening, it was basically impossible for the Tartars to attack Datong Town.

Of course, such a rigorous defense system does not mean that there is no problem at all after he determines the plan, and the execution strength of the people below is also a very key factor, after all, most of the guards have been herding sheep for hundreds of years, whether they can fight on the battlefield, and whether they will always be vigilant in peacetime, active defense is a big problem.

For this reason, Yang Cong deliberately went along the Great Wall to inspect every nearby guard station.

This time, he didn't just walk over and take a turn, he checked all the guards in great detail, whether the source of the guards was enough, whether the weapons were complete, he would carefully check these, and if the guards were not enough, he would draw the guards from other guards in the rear, and if the weapons and equipment were not complete, he would immediately order someone to make them.

At the same time, he also stipulated detailed drill procedures, and strictly ordered that each guard station must drill his subordinate guards according to the rules, and if anyone dared to slack off or disobey the yang and yin, he would even dismiss the commander of the guard post and investigate it.

After several months of busy work, the defense system of the Great Wall in the north of Datong Town was finally slowly established, and at this time, all the gaps in the Great Wall had been repaired, and the entire Great Wall along the Great Wall could be described as a new look.

Of course, this is only the appearance, and the specific effect remains to be tested.

On this day, Yang Cong suddenly took Tang Shunzhi, Zhao Shichun, Zhu Xizhong and other civil and military generals to appear at the Qianhu station in front of Yulin Weizuo.

At this time, all the guards along the Great Wall were basically moved to the foot of the Great Wall, and basically the guards were connected to the Great Wall, that is, a small castle built by using a section of the Great Wall as the north wall.

Yang Cong, accompanied by the thousand households in the left front, inspected the defense facilities, and then came to the bottom of a beacon tower, and suddenly ordered loudly: "Light the beacon fire." ”

, the thousand households of the thunder were stunned, what are you kidding, light the beacon fire, there is no Tartar attack at this time, the thousand households subconsciously looked at the Gobi Desert north of the Great Wall, and then looked at Yang Cong, and suddenly reacted, what kind of drill is this going on, Lord Governor.

He hurriedly shouted: "Hurry, light the beacon fire, ring the bell, and notify everyone to assemble on the city wall." ”

"Knock knock" a dull bell rang, the place where the thousands of households below were stationed suddenly became noisy, after a burst of shouting, a team of guards quickly ran up the city wall, and soon the Great Wall at both ends of the beacon tower was crowded, and at this time the beacon fire has gradually been transmitted to the east and west, spread to the distance.

Yang Cong stood there silently, counting the time.

About half an hour later, there were more than 1,000 guards panting and running over, and then, there were guards who kept running to this side, and in less than an hour, more than 5,000 guards from the five guards of Yulin Wei arrived.

Yang Cong nodded slightly, and then ordered the commander of Yulinwei to start the offensive and defensive drills, small thunderbolts and giant thunderbolts or something, take them out and try them, and throw some rolling stones and sassalwood or something down to take a look.

After working like this for a long time, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves in the direction of Datong Mansion in the east, and the elite of the border army led by Tang Kekuan arrived on time!

Looking at Tang Kekuan's hurried appearance, Yang Cong's face finally showed a smile, of course, he was not playing some kind of beacon fire drama princes, but practicing the defense system.

It seems that this defense system is almost complete, and he basically doesn't have to worry about the Tartar cavalry breaking into Datong Town.

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