"General, there is Xujiazhuang Fort ahead, and you can reach the town in half a day. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" The general flag covered the sunset line with his hand, and said with a big grin.

This chief flag officer, these two small flag officers, and the seven or eight horsemen who followed him, gave Xiao Yi a very good impression in the past two days, and he only found out after careful questioning.

This person's name is Wang Hui, and he is a general flag officer of Han Shimeng's standard battalion horse team, but since Han Shimeng died in Liaodong, there has been no new chief military officer, and the standard battalion has been disbanded for almost ten days.

Nodding, Xiao Yi looked at Wang Hui and said, "It's better to hurry up, and it's better to arrive early." ”

Wang Hui and Shi Lu nodded one after another, and followed Xiao Yixi with a shout.

Although the aid had already been on this route once in August, this time it was different.

The last time it was to help, thousands of people with grain, grass, baggage and other goods, although there were cavalry, but they were dragged down by the infantry army, and their movements were slow, and they arrived at the town in four or five days.

This time, more than a dozen people rode fast horses and galloped non-stop, but they arrived at the foot of Datong Town in less than two days.

It's the same, although he came to Zhencheng last time, Xiao Yi didn't even enter the city gate, and he was only focused on rushing to Liaodong to support, and he didn't have time to take a sip of water after arriving, so he was called by Han Shimeng to discuss the matter.

After the discussion, he began to pull out the camp and swore to help, and he didn't pay much attention to Datong Town and Cheng Xiao at all.

Fortunately, it arrived as scheduled, and the holy decree will not arrive in a day, although Xiao Yi does not know the content of the holy decree, he also guesses.

At this moment, stationed on a hillside in front of the town, Xiao also began to observe carefully.

Shi Gang and the others were the same, chatting while looking at the city, only to feel that there was no end to the continuous city walls, and several huge buildings stood on the city, showing the extreme glory of the past.

There is a moat (moat) on the outside side of the city, about five meters deep, about ten meters wide, about five meters deep, ripples and ripples, surrounds the whole city, and each gate is set up with a suspension bridge.

Along the way, Xiao Yi also heard a lot about Datong Town from these small flags, the accompanying Ma Jun and Wang Hui.

The eastern, southern, and northern castles are each set up behind the suspension bridges (Sekijo), and finally the real town town.

During the Jingtai period, Datong Town built a small city in the north, three kilometers, more than ten meters high, and opened a door in the east and west.

During the Tianshun period, the east and south cities were built, each with a circumference of two kilometers, and it was repaired and heightened many times over the years, and the bricks were added to the female wall.

The south small city opens four gates, East Yinghui, South Yonghe, West Yongfeng, North Wenchang, each builds a pavilion on the door, Xiao Yi is also located in the place of the small east gate, and builds the "Four Immortal Pavilions" on it.

"Three Star Pavilion" is built on the small west gate, "Wenchang Pavilion" is built on the small north gate, and the small city is not built outside the west gate, so it is known as the "Phoenix Single Exhibition City".

Xiao Yi and the others slowed down their horses and walked slowly, while looking north and south with everyone.

Datong town at a glance, slightly square, is the Ming general Xu Da in the Northern Wei Dynasty capital, Tang, Liao, Jin, Yuan on the basis of the old earthen city, from the south cut off about two kilometers, east and west and north and south long cut about two kilometers, the circumference of eight kilometers to build.

Of course, in modern terms, the total area of Datong is about four square kilometers.

All the way down to the city, you can see that the city wall of Datong town is all based on regular and systematic stone strips and stone squares, and is rammed with "Sanhe soil", covered with blue bricks, and the bricks are divided into large, medium and small three.

Xiao Yi deliberately went to the wall of the city wall of the urn city, took off the gloves of the military uniform, and then gently stroked the green bricks, each of the green bricks here, roughly estimated to be seven or eight times the red bricks of later generations.

Looking up, Shi Gang and the others were amazed.

"Compared to Ulju City, which is bigger and smaller?" Shi Gang laughed, and then asked.

Wang Hui glanced at Shi Gang and said with a smile: "Lord Shi doesn't know, this Datong Town..."

Shi Gang and the others looked at the city wall under the city like tourists, chatting constantly, and Xiao also looked towards the city, but it was different from Shi Gang and the others.

They looked at the scenery, while Xiao also carefully watched the patrols and guards of the officers and soldiers guarding the city, as well as the extent of damage to the city walls.

According to Xiao Yi's observation, the city wall of Datong Town should be at least 145 meters high, and there are brick stacks 5 or 6 meters long and about 1 meter high and thick on the battlement wall, and the distance between the battlements should be an arm's length, that is, about half a meter.

There are also 54 watchtowers and 96 nests on all sides of the city wall.

At a glance, the outer contour of the city wall is convex and concave in an orderly manner, and the city wall battlements of the protruding part count twelve on each side, plus the corner piers count fifty-two.

The pier spacing should also be more than 100 meters, and the pier is a trapezoidal structure, and the four corner piers are visually separated by five or six meters.

In Siu's view, the upper shelf pedals are connected to the city wall to play the role of side shooting, strategy and multi-angle lookout.

Xiao Yi looked at these battlements, watchtowers, etc., really couldn't see it, and suddenly felt the grandeur of the ancient city wall and the exquisite construction skills of the ancients, which is also one of the treasures of China.

These battlements are also much larger than the scale of Ulzhou City, and they should be used as a rock *** attack port), Xiao also thought that if the enemy attacked the city, the Yongan soldiers could shoot under sufficient protection, which must be very safe and reduce casualties.

After stopping, I saw Xiao Yi counting something.

The general flag laughed and said: "The general doesn't know, there are a total of 580 pairs of stacks in my Datong Town, which also represents the number of villages under the jurisdiction of my Datong Town. ”

Hearing this, Shi Gang and the others all looked like they had a sudden realization, and it turned out that there was this layer of meaning!

At this moment, an officer and soldier in the city pointed at the general under the city and said angrily.

"Where did the thieves come from, you have to look at the countryside to see, how can you come to this town?"

"It's just that, I don't know where it came from, it's a rural prisoner."

Although he was not surprised when he heard the muttering of these people, he also felt that he couldn't get over his face, so he bowed respectfully to Xiao Yi and stepped forward.

"It's me, Wang Hui! This is the guerrilla General Xiao of Ulzhou, and behind him are Lord Qianzongshi, Lord Shi, Lord Huang, Lord Wang, and Lord Liu of Ulzhou, who have come to welcome the Holy Decree! ”

When the general flag shouted, Shi Gang and the others heard what he called him, and they all looked at each other with different expressions, and they were all called 'adults'.

Before and after Wang Hui, the city general sighed, and said lazily: "It turned out to be the general banner of the standard camp, open the door quickly." ”

After a while, a few officers and soldiers ran down from the city wall and opened the city gate with sighs.

The door hole is about 30 meters deep, turn in and out, build "arrow tower" on the door, the local people call "plaque building".

Too lazy to waste time with these lazy officers and soldiers, these people should be eliminated in Xiao Yi's eyes, and there will be ghosts if they are undefeated when they are used as soldiers.

It's just that he hasn't officially accepted the order to take up his post yet, and he doesn't have this right.

The urn city of this Datong town is more than several times larger than the urn city of Ulzhou, listen to Wang Hui said, this east urn city actually has built Yue Wang Temple, Wang Prison Temple and many other temples and ancestral halls.

However, Xiao Yi didn't stop, and he didn't come to watch this trip, so he still had to finish his business as soon as possible.

After passing through the urn city, the group led the horse and slowly entered the town, and the first feeling given to Xiao Yi and a few people here was that it was big.

It's too big, just at the gate of the city, there is a lot of noise, and there are roads on three sides, and I don't know where it leads.

Xiao Yi is okay, at least he won't show any exaggerated expression, although he wants to look around, but he deliberately didn't move, but Wang Hui walked slowly.

But Shi Gang, Liu Tong, and Wang Dayong are different, looking around, they feel that their eyes are not enough.

Although Xiao Yi didn't look carefully, he could see the situation on both sides with a flick of the corner of his eye, and there were more shops and pedestrians than in Ulzhou.

This is only the outer area, you can expect what the most 'prosperous' area will look like, of course, maybe Xiao Yi and others don't often come to this kind of big city, so they will be surprised.