Chapter 889: Red Fire
On the straight gallop road on the east bank of the Liao River, a black-clothed light armored cavalry was galloping rapidly, gradually entering the canyon between the mountains.
It is the vast morning of the morning, in the twilight, the canyon between the two mountains is like a huge monster is opening its mouth to swallow the clouds and spitting out the fog, this is the famous canyon in Liaodong. At the west exit of this canyon is the wide Liao River, and after crossing the river, it is a continuous swamp for 300 miles, and after the swamp is the famous western Liaoning corridor leading to the Central Plains.
On the east side of the canyon, however, it is straight opposite the new city. To the south, it is the center of Liaodong, now Dachen's capital is Tokyo Liaoyang City, to the north, it is Jinshan City, and then to the north is Fuyu, the intersection of Khitan, Murowei, Yan and Liaodong.
Although this canyon more than 20 miles long is not a natural fortress, it is also important because it connects the western Liaoning corridor from east to west and Liaoyang, Xincheng, Jinshan and Fuyu from north to south.
Especially a few years ago, the emperor of the Chen Dynasty, Chen Kefu, with a hastily formed new army, ambushed the 180,000 army of Goguryeo in this canyon, fought for several days, and finally achieved a great victory in his last control of Liaodong Guanjian, and the Jinshan Gorge was changed to the Dashengguan Canyon.
Three years ago, Chen's army transferred an army to be stationed here, and conscripted 100,000 people to build the city and build passes. Up to now, near the Liao River, the western outlet of the Jinshan Gorge, a huge Dashengguan City has been established.
Dashengguan is not only an extremely strong huge prismatic fortress city, but also takes Dashengguan on the east bank as a stronghold, and builds a majestic iron suspension bridge over the Liao River. It greatly facilitates the transportation of eastern and western Liaoning. And the eastern part of the bridge happened to be built directly in an acropolis of Dasheng Pass. Sticking to the Great Victory Pass, not only held the canyon, but also held the passage of eastern and western Liaoning.
At the eastern exit of the canyon, as well as in the canyon, Chen Jun also built eight smaller bastions in a row. For this important gateway to Liaoyang City, Chen Jun attaches great importance to it, and after several constructions, today's Dashengguan Canyon has been completely like the Tongguan of Chang'an City and the Tiger Prison of Luoyang City. Sturdily guarding the gateway of Liaoyang.
There is a natural danger of the Liao River in front of the east, and now there is a big victory and danger, plus the small Liao River and the Xiaoliang River in the east. As well as Xincheng, Jinshan, Anshi, Baiyan Zhucheng guard, today's capital Liaoyang City is surrounded by mountains and mountains, sitting on natural hazards, surrounding the mountains, and beside the Bohai Sea, which can be said to be the strongest rear of Dachen. At the beginning, the Xiangguo of the imperial court also took into account the chaos in the world and operated Liaoyang to accompany the capital, and he did not plan to leave a way out.
However, the situation in the Central Plains was very good before, which made the ministers of the court feel that they were a little too nervous at the beginning. It's just that now with the approach of the largest war in the Central Plains, the imperial court has inevitably made more arrangements for the war. Originally, Dasheng Guan, who had been very leisurely for several years, received several serious military orders from the Imperial Court Shangshu Province and the Staff Headquarters, as well as the Twenty-Four Wei Generals' Mansion, so that General Chen Jun, General Zhenguo, and General Chen Huo, Marquis of Zhendong, who had to guard here, also had to get serious.
Chen Huo also understood what the marshals meant, this time the big war was very important, in case the imperial court lost, whether the Central Plains could be kept at that time was still two words. But even if it is saved, the situation in the imperial court will not be good. At that time, Liaodong will be the most stable foundation of the imperial court. So, when the time comes. The importance of Liaodong has become more prominent, and the Great Victory Pass, which is the gateway to Liaodong, is of course even more important.
Although there is still Linyu Pass, the gateway between western Liaoning and the Central Plains, Chen Feng has recently stepped up the training of the defenders. As soon as the day dawned, a loud horn sounded in the barracks of the nine large and small castles of Dasheng Pass, and the whole army went out to exercise.
The first trumpet has just been blown. After a few passes, the drums sounded.
This is the drum of the roll call, and the three drums have not yet arrived. Penalties will be severe. If you are light, you will hit the board, and in this tense atmosphere now, it is even possible to be exemplified by the tree, and it is possible to be beheaded in exile and in addition to the name.
When the banner of the banner on the head of the city was waving in the wind, and the captain of the gate guarding the gate opened the gate on time with a team of soldiers, the team of knights in black light armor galloped to the front of the pass. The two huge iron gates, which were completely made of iron juice, were pulled by four oxen and drove the winch to slowly open the city gates. The cavalry that arrived did not stop for half a minute, and several people stepped off their horses and let out a very psychic roar, and jumped in from the crack in the city gate that had just opened the first line.
This action attracted several defenders at the head of the city to applaud loudly, although the city gate captain had already seen the Chen Army's standard armor on several cavalrymen, but at this time he still dutifully led the soldiers to stop in front of several people: "What person? ”
"Captain Yu Zheng of the Military Police Department of the Staff Headquarters, the urgent military situation is here!"
With that, the knight on the horse took out a bronze token from his bosom and pointed to a bright red armband on his arm. The style of this armband is exactly the standard style of the gendarmerie that is feared by the soldiers of the Chen army on the battlefield.
The gendarmes are not ordinary soldiers, they are subordinate to the headquarters of the staff and directly to the chief of staff of the marshal. However, in fact, the black-clad armbanded gendarmes of these gendarmerie departments could not even be commanded by Marshal Li Benlei, the chief of staff, and they nominally belonged to the staff headquarters, but in fact all the officers and men of the Chen army knew that these black-clothed gendarmes and the other three well-known organizations, the Special Service Department, the Investigation Department, and the Security Department, were all directly under the personal command of His Majesty the Emperor himself.
Although the gendarmes of the Gendarmerie Division are more often responsible for supervising battles on the battlefield and supervising discipline in peacetime. However, since they are directly subordinate to the emperor, their status has improved infinitely, and speaking of which, these black-clothed gendarmes are second only to those royal guards. Among the officers and men who joined the Military Police Division, there were not many good stubbles.
Hearing that the person in front of him was a gendarme, and that he was actually a lieutenant who was at least a squadron leader, the captain of the city gate immediately became much more polite. The tone was also a little flattering, and after carefully checking the tokens three times, as well as the identities of everyone, he immediately registered and let go.
In the morning light, several gendarmes were like a dark cloud, quickly passing through the Dashengguan City and galloping into the Dashengguan Canyon dozens of miles long. The knights are gone. The captain of the city gate kept looking in that direction. His eyes were full of envy for the small gendarmerie team.
In the canyon of more than 20 cities, the fifth company of the gendarmerie squad crossed the nine castles, and finally came to the Liaodong rope bridge.
On the other side of the wide Liao River is Liaoxi.
For hundreds of years, although Liaodong has nominally belonged to the Central Plains Dynasty, in reality, the real control of most dynasties has stopped at the west bank of the Liao River. Even before the Great Sui fought in Goguryeo, the Goguryeo people had already secretly developed to the west bank of the Liao River, and it was precisely because of this that the Great Sui was so intolerant of Goguryeo. It has to be destroyed and then fast.
Today, both banks of the Liao River have been controlled by Da Chen, and on the east bank of the Liao River is the newly built Dasheng Pass. On the west bank of the Liao River, there are three towns in western Liaoxi built by Yang Guangsan when he conquered Goguryeo.
The three towns of Tongding, Huaiyuan and Luhe were the advance bases of the Sui army to attack Liao.
The town of Luhe is on the left. Tongding Town is on the right, Huaiyuan Town is in the middle, although these three towns are called towns, but in fact they are very large, and the city is high and strong. Especially since Chen Kefu ran western Liaoning, due to a large number of immigrants, the three originally purely military fortresses have gradually moved into many civilians, and gradually developed into three huge towns, and now they have become the official residences of the three prefectures in western Liaoning.
However, many civilians have gradually moved in. However, the Three Towns still garrisoned many soldiers and horses, and once the war broke out here, then these three towns could be transformed into the strongest front-line fortresses in Liaodong at any time.
When the gendarmerie team arrived at Huaiyuan Town, it was already dawn, and in the morning breeze, many people, fishermen, woodcutters, hunters, merchants, etc. had already begun to leave the city one after another.
The cavalry squad continued to speed up, and the captain at the head took out a small red flag from the bag on his horse and stuck it on his back. As he approached the city gate, he shouted: "Gold medal messenger, emergency military situation, pedestrians give way!" ”
The defender at the gate had already seen the rushing squad, and after only one glance, he could see that the knight on the horse was carrying the Red Fire Banner, which represented the most urgent of all. The messenger who lights the Red Fire Order Banner cannot be delayed. Otherwise, the Messenger has the right to kill all who stand in his way without sin.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way, get out of the way." The officer at the gate shouted loudly, telling the people to make way for the messenger.
The gendarmerie squad entered the city with flying horses, and the town of Huaiyuan was obviously much tighter today than in the past. Along the way, it is almost three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry. From time to time, you can see gorgeous officers in bright silver and gold armor patrolling the streets.
The gendarmerie officer carried the red fire flag all the way to the barracks in the north of the city. As soon as he arrived at the gate of the barracks, he was immediately blocked, and the officers at the gate of the barracks turned a blind eye to the red fire flag on his body.
The gendarmerie officer said directly: "Luoyang has just sent an urgent report from the Chang'an Five-Star Red Fire Army sent by the Flying Eagle!" ”
The officer guarding the camp gate was dressed in bright golden gorgeous armor, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and said with some surprise: "Your Majesty has already instructed that all the letters from the Secret Service Department and Shangshu Province do not need to be reported, and they will face the king directly." Come with me! ”
The gendarmerie officer left a few of his men in the camp, and followed the golden-armored guards through several barracks, until finally to a larger, but rather ordinary, tent in the middle. In front of the tent, a young officer sat like a statue at the mouth of the tent, holding a horizontal knife in both hands.
If it weren't for the golden-armored imperial guard who personally brought him here, the military police officers would have been a little unconvinced, the dignified Emperor Chen, the king of a country, would actually settle in such an ordinary small tent when he inspected Huaiyuan. You must know that he was also born as a guard of the Great Sui back then, and he also served as Yang Guang's guard. When Yang Guang was in power, he patrolled all the year round, and that scene, which time was not moving hundreds of thousands of people, and wherever he went, he would pull the huge wheel palace wherever he went.
"Your Majesty, the Chang'an Secret Service Division is urgent!" The young general at the entrance of the tent glanced at the letter handed by the gendarmerie officer and said loudly to the middle of the tent.
With a "bang", it seemed that something had fallen down in the tent, only to hear a rush of footsteps, and the owner of the tent had already hurried out to meet him. In the bright morning light, he was wearing a peacock woven gold fur, with some fatigue in the corners of his eyes, and a short beard under his chin. The person who came was none other than the emperor of Da Chen, the object of allegiance of hundreds of thousands of soldiers of Da Chen, and the admirer of countless soldiers Chen Pojun.
"Is there finally news?" Chen Kefu had a look of anticipation in his eyes, and also a little nervousness, looking at the secret service intelligence in the hands of Yulin General Chen Lei and muttered. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )
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