Big Stone Station.

After listening to the two dusty men, Yi Cheng slapped the table angrily.

"Dog slave, you actually dare to rob my Daqin caravan and destroy the Silk Road, you are really looking for death. Zhao San! ”

A young man with a post character on his robe came in, "Yi Cheng! ”

"Zhao San, you hurry up and take a trip to the Badge Fort, tell the Fengzi there, and say that there are Turkic thieves looting the caravan here, let them quickly send a beacon smoke signal, and urgently call a patrol to rescue."

"Yes." Zhao Sancha took the order, quickly left, and took out a fast horse from the stable and left.

"The two of us have worked hard all the way, drink some water first, rest here for a while, and wait for news. Rest assured, each beacon fort has a special set of beacon smoke signals, and in case of trouble, you can quickly use the beacon smoke messages to summon nearby patrol cavalry. ”

Yi Cheng is very confident in Daqin's patrol cavalry, not to mention two or three hundred Turkic thieves, even more, and he is not afraid. On this road, no group of thieves dared to provoke the Qin patrol cavalry so boldly and head-on.

Swap Fort.

When the patrol cavalry was not resting in the fort, there was only one Feng, one deputy, and seven Fengzi in the fort.

They are all under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, and they are also under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Anxi.

During the day, the smoke is called the beacon, and the fire is called the beacon at night, and the beacon castle is also called the beacon fort.

At the same time, the Imperial Court Ordnance Supervisor improved the Beacon Torch, adding a material, the smoke and fire will have a color, so different numbers of Beacon Torches and different colors can be combined into more than a dozen messages.

In this way, the military situation can be accurately transmitted, and the nearby military castle can accurately judge the military situation and make corresponding arrangements.

If nothing happens, the beacon castle will also put a colorless beacon torch on the first night of each day to report safety, so it is called a peace fire.

The cold post is as far away as a point, and the border beacons look at each other, which can be said to be the best evidence that Daqin really entered the Western Regions and began to master this place, and it has also become a spectacular scene on the Silk Road.

The Beacon Fort is roughly the same as many of the Beacon Forts on the Silk Road, the base is square, and the body of the fort is a prismatic shape that shrinks upward, all of which are rammed earth buildings, and the rammed earth is sandwiched with red willow branches and mostly framed with logs.

Pull out the beacon fort is also called the pull out the beacon pier, look like a mound from a distance, the length and width are four zhang each, the height is more than three zhang, the pier body wears up and down and erects the wooden pile of four layers of diameter sea bowl mouth thick.

There is a post station in 20 miles, and a beacon fort in 50 miles.

There are some important passes, and there is even a beacon every five miles. In Yiwu County, there is an important place, but it is only fifty miles, but there are thirteen fortresses connected to it.

In fact, the Fengbao is not newly built, he is as early as the Han Xuan Emperor period, the establishment of the Western Regions Protector Army, the establishment of a Fengsui Fort line of a Fengsuibao line, although after hundreds of years, the original fort has long been almost deserted, but the Great Qin's Fort is indeed built on this basis, but it is just more tall.

The main body of the beacon pier of Babal Fort is more than four zhang wide and three zhang high, the watchtower, the beacon tower is built on it, and there is a circle of two zhang earth wall below to enclose a place, there are stables, wells, dormitories, warehouses, etc., there is a trench outside the earth wall, and there is a suspension bridge on the earth wall.

Such a high-standard beacon fort is precisely because it is usually the station of a patrol cavalry.

After Xu Fengrate received a letter of help from a nearby postman, he didn't dare to slack off. Zhao San was known to them, and there were frequent contacts at that post station.

Guarding this desolate Silk Road, sometimes they would walk around each other when they were not on duty, drink together, and chat about the Central Plains, and he would regularly go to the post station to send letters and pick up newspapers.

"The caravan has just left today, and I didn't expect it to be attacked, so I'm going to deliver the message."

Xu Feng was in charge of the beacon of this fort, and his subordinates included him a total of nine people, so he was actually a fire chief, and he had not yet entered the stream, but because of the hard work of garrisoning the border, he could enjoy the treatment of an officer from the ninth grade.

Lao Xu was an anxious man, climbed the watchtower, and immediately gave an order to the Fengzi on duty.

"Immediately light the smoke and summon Team Xiao to lead the team back!"

The two men on duty asked, "What's wrong?" Team Xiao had just gone out on patrol early in the morning, and this time they went out, and it normally took three days to come back. ”

"The caravan that spent the night under our fort last night was attacked thirty miles to the southwest, and the Turkic horse team urgently needed them to rescue."

"Grass, where did such a bold Turkic cub come from, so arrogant, dare to come to the Silk Road to make trouble?"

"I don't know if it's the Turks from Qiuzi Country, or the Turks from other places, in short, the matter is urgent, hurry up and give orders."

The beacon on duty immediately began to light the beacon smoke according to the agreed signal, and the beacon smoke with specific materials added was blue.

Two torches and blue smoke, which means that the Beacon Fort urgently summons patrol cavalry, and the nearby Beacon Fort does not need to be passed by the Beacon Fort.

The next thing is to wait.

Within a few dozen miles, the patrol team would be able to see these two flames of blue beacon smoke.

After going down the watchtower, Xu Fengshu called other resting beacons.

"Hundreds of Turkic cubs from nowhere, robbing caravans more than thirty miles southwest, everyone has entered a state of first-level combat readiness, beware of Turkic cub attacks!"

"Those wolf cubs dare to attack the caravan, but they don't dare to attack our Beacon Fort with a hundred dares?"

"That is, although Bachang Fort is on the border of Qiuci Country, my Great Qin Emperor has an agreement with the countries that the post stations and Feng Forts on the Silk Road are the same as the embassies in the countries, and they are all the territory of the Qin State, and those who dare to attack the embassies, post stations, and Feng Fort are regarded as declaring war on Great Qin!"

Which country in the Western Regions openly declared war on Great Qin?

Xu Fengshu snorted, "You little rabbits, don't be careless, Second Master Guan was careless and lost Jingzhou back then." Naturally, the countries of the Western Regions did not dare to declare war on my Great Qin, but what if it was a horse thief? What about a man who pretends to be a horse thief? Cheer me up, go to the armor to get equipment, give me full armament, send two more people upstairs, and keep an eye on me, but there is a disturbance, and I will report immediately. ”

"Don't you need to notify the other Beacons?"

"Just two or three hundred horse thieves, notify a fart, such a little thing, we can solve it by calling the patrol, and report the slightest thing, are you busy coming over?"

The beacons scolded and scolded the Turkic cubs for disturbing everyone's rest time.

"Cheer up, tonight, let's eat mutton in the water basin and have a good reward."

"This is good, let's cook a dumpling with sheep's tail oil, and eat Hu cakes every day, it's all greasy."

"Okay, I'll eat the bowl of mutton and the bowl of dumplings tonight, and now I'll work."

To the northeast of the Badger Fort, on the side of the Wasteland Silk Road, Team Xiao was leading a group of his subordinates to gnaw on Hu Cakes.

"Team Xiao, look, two torches of blue smoke are sent out by the Replacement Fort." One shouted.

Team Xiao was turning his head to take a look, and sure enough, the two flames of blue smoke could be seen from afar.

The desert is lonely, and the sun sets over the long river.

The distance of twenty or thirty miles, in fact, seems to be not far away at a glance, but if you really want to run, you can still look at the mountains and run dead horses.

Team Xiao stuffed the last small piece of Hu Biscuit in his hand into his mouth, chewed it a few times and swallowed it into his stomach.

He patted his ass and stood up, "Pull out the fort, two torches of blue smoke, brothers, come to live, cheer up, get on the horse, and go back to the fort!" ”

"Damn, I haven't opened it for more than half a month, and this is really about to open." Guy Zhang laughed, and also picked up the helmet and buckled it to his head.

Fifty Qin horses were quickly packed up, and everyone was excited when they saw the two torches of blue smoke calling each other.

"It's finally time to live!"