(Thanks to the child's mother, root 087 monthly pass, thanks to the lion demon king for the reward.) Chapter 259

The mountain wind blew strongly overnight, and when I woke up in the morning, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and the gloomy and hot weather made people feel depressed.

After washing, Song Nan walked out of the camp tent, subconsciously looked up at the sky, and saw several harrier eagles hovering back and forth in the clouds, and Song Nan's mood suddenly fell to the bottom. Obviously, the Tartars recalled the Harrier Eagle at night because they couldn't reconnoiter at night, and they were released to follow it during the day, Song Nan was almost certain that the Tartars must have known about the unusual people in this team of cars, and maybe they knew that it was the emperor's car.

The convoy set off from the camp, the narrow and difficult plank road was in disrepair, winding in the lofty mountains, many landslides, vehicles could not pass through Guò, and had to pass while resting, which consumed a lot of time; At noon, the overcast sky finally began to fall with raindrops, which made the journey even more difficult.

Song Nan set up camp on the spot and waited for the rain to stop before leaving, but Liu Jinshi Wenyi and others immediately refused, Song Nan was worried that at this speed, he would not be able to cross the canyon north of Ulzhou during the day today, where is the most dangerous place.

In the evening, the convoy arrived at the west side of a flat valley, Song Nan frowned and stood on the hillside to look into the valley, which was the passage in the north of Ulzhou, between Wanquanwei and Tianchengwei, and it was also the place that Song Nan was most worried about.

Looking to the north, a walled fort stands alone on top of a mountain peak, the walled wall is collapsed and dilapidated, and a pillar of optimus in the middle seems to be a beacon tower. Song Nan remembered hearing Jiang Bin say that there was an abandoned fort called Xinping Fort on the inside of the northernmost Great Wall in Ulzhou, which was originally the northernmost fortress of the Ming army in Ulzhou, but the Great Wall defense here had already been broken through by the Tartars, and Xinping Fort had long been abandoned, and the canyon here became a passage for the Tatars to attack Ulzhou in the south.

More than 100 miles to the south is Yangyuan, the stronghold set up by the Tartars in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, when Song Nan was in Ulzhou, he and Jiang Bin fought with the Tartar rangers in the Yangyuan Valley, and because of this, this is the most dangerous area. To the south there is a small stronghold of Tartar soldiers in Yangyuan, and in the north the Great Wall is in broken defenses, so this should be the best place to attack if the Tartars attack.

The worried Song Nan turned his horse's head and returned to the team, found Shi Wenyi and told him about his worries, Shi Wenyi was also a little flustered, although he was unhappy with Song Nan, but after all, the emperor's safety was the most important, so Shi Wenyi hurriedly went to Liu Jin to discuss.

Liu Jin listened to the report and asked: "It's getting late, and we definitely can't rush at night, I'm afraid we can only go down to the valley to camp, and first order someone to reconnoiter around to see if there is anything unusual." ”

Shi Wenyi hurriedly went to do it, and sent more than a dozen Jinyi Wei Han generals to the north and south directions along the valley to reconnoitre, and the car stopped on the hillside and did not go down the valley, half an hour later, the reconnaissance Tiqi came back and reported that there was no difference in the north and south sides of the valley, and the Great Wall pass on the mountain range north of the valley had indeed collapsed, but there was no sign of a Tartar attack.

Liu Jin, Shi Wenyi and the others were relieved at this time, and ordered the car to drive down to the bottom of the valley to camp, it turned out that Song Nan's worries were indeed unnecessary, after tonight, tomorrow across the valley to the east for another day and a night to arrive at Wanquan Guard.

When it got dark, the campfire was lit, and there was a lot of laughter and laughter in Zhengde's big tent, Song Nan had no intention of drinking and having fun, and took Wanzhi Wang Yong and others to climb to the abandoned Xinping Fort in the dark.

Climb up the hillside of Xinping Fort, but see that the gate has collapsed, the wall has also collapsed in several places, the intact wall wall is as high as two zhang, it can be seen that the manpower and material resources consumed when building at that time are huge; Unfortunately, the terrain was not conducive to supplies, and the fortified fortress was eventually abandoned, and the Tartars did not occupy it as a transit.

For the walled forts on the Ulzhou front line in the south, although the Black Mountain Fort and Yangyuan and other places are deep into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, it seems that it is more difficult to replenish, but the Tartar soldiers can guarantee the supply through guò raiding, of course, the disadvantage of this method is that the Tartars cannot guarantee the number of soldiers and horses in the north of Ulzhou, and a few hundred people have become the limit.

"What's that?" Song Nan asked, pointing to a high earthen platform in the center of the walled fort.

"Lord Hui, it's like a beacon tower, it looks like it should be the highest place nearby."

Song Nan perked up and said, "Let's go, let's go up and have a look." "Having a beacon means being able to send a message to wait for rescue, and if something happens, you can light a beacon for help.

Before coming to the earthen platform, Song Nan looked up, and the dense raindrops falling from the black sky were shining brightly under the torch illumination, but the top of the earthen platform was not visible at all.

The people carried torches and crawled up the stone steps on the periphery of the huge cylindrical beacon tower, which was covered with grass and moss, and was slippery in the rain, and there was no guardrail outside, so it was really dangerous to walk up. The further up the wind and rain became, the torches were blown to the ground, and one of the guards almost stumbled and fell.

It took half an hour for everyone to climb to the top of the beacon tower with trepidation, and the strange thing is that the top of the beacon tower is not the flat ground as imagined, but a natural rocky ground with potholes, dozens of pine trees grow on it, and the grass and thorns are mixed around.

Song Nan then understood the structure of the beacon tower, the original construction of this new flat fort is very thoughtful, the selected peak is the highest peak nearby, through guò dig the soil and stone around the peak to build a walled wall to open up the flat land, after the completion of the wall, it is natural to dig out a beacon tower in the shape of a stone pillar as high as more than 20 zhang high, the ground at the top of the radius of more than ten zhang is flat in addition to a small piece in the middle, but the original appearance of the top of the mountain is maintained.

There are more than a dozen half-cut scorched black logs on the ground in the middle of Xu Fangyuan, and there are several rusty swords and white bones scattered on the ground around it, it is conceivable that when this fort was broken, the defenders must have also lit a beacon fire for help, and also fought with the attacking enemy, but unfortunately it was difficult to escape the doom in the end.

The torches were extinguished by the rain one by one, and it was dark all around, Song Nan held the trunk of the pine tree and looked around, and the campfire in the valley to the south could be seen from afar, and it seemed that the sound of silk and bamboo in the big tent could be heard.

Song Nan's gaze turned to the north, where it was dark and dead, although he couldn't see or hear any movement, Song Nan always felt that outside the broken pass of the Great Wall, there were thousands of greedy eyes watching this way.

The guards set up a small bonfire at the dry spot under the tree, lit torches and inspected the place carefully, stayed for a long time, dried and lit the torches, and prepared to go down to the beacon tower. After the bonfire was extinguished, suddenly, Song Nan suddenly felt a faint light on the mountain in the distance to the west, Song Nan thought that he was dazzled, and ordered someone to extinguish the fire torch again and stare carefully to the west.

That's right, it's fire, and although it looks like a bean from a distance, it's fire; On such a rainy night, a natural wildfire is impossible, it can only be a man-made fire.

"My lord, it's a beacon fire, it must be a beacon fire." Wang Yong shouted.

Song Nan's heart tightened, what does the beacon fire mean on such a night?

The nearest beacon tower is the beacon tower on the Great Wall, in fact, it has long lost its practical meaning, because whether it is Tianchengwei in the west or Wanquan Zuowei in the east is attacked, even if the beacon fire is conveyed to the other party, the other party cannot cross the mountains and mountains to rescue, and the only meaning is to inform the other party that they have been attacked. Moreover, the pass of the Great Wall between the two has been destroyed, and the walled fort on which he stood has been deserted, and the beacon fire can no longer be directly transmitted between the two guards, because the distance is too far away, and there is no transit station to see each other.

"My lord, there is also a beacon fire in the east." The voice of one of the guards changed, Song Nan turned to the east to look, only to see that on the top of the mountain far away in the east, the flames were rising into the sky, needless to say that it was also a beacon fire.

Song Nan frowned, and suddenly shouted, "It's not good." ”

Wan Zhi, Wang Yong and others hurriedly asked, "What?" ”

Song Nan said: "If my estimate is good, the Tartars attacked at the same time as the Wanquan Left Guard and Tiancheng Guard in the east and west. ”

"Wanquan Zuowei and Tianchengwei? Are Tartars crazy? Even if it is captured, how can the Tartars please it? The guards on the left can be quickly reinforced, are the Tartars stupid? ”

Song Nan sneered: "Tartars are not stupid, I can be 100% sure that their goal is not to break through the defense lines on both sides, they only need to break through one or two walled forts on both sides, cut off the rescue channels on the east and west sides to achieve their goal, their goal is us, or the emperor." ”

"Ahh Everyone was shocked, and after thinking about it carefully, it was indeed such a truth, when did the Tartars have such great courage, and the beacon fire was ignited, indicating that the battle was fierce and there was a risk of losing it, and the beacon fire would not be lit under normal circumstances.

"Do you think, knowing that there will be no reinforcements arriving in the transmission of the beacon fire, what is the purpose of lighting the beacon fire? Obviously, Wang Zongbing was passing the news to us, and when Wang Zongbing was leaving, he told me that he would fly a pigeon and pass a book to Zhu Zhen, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, to inform him of the news of the emperor's visit, and Wan Quanwei must have the same intention. ”

"So what do we do?" Wan Zhi said urgently.

Song Nan said: "The clamps on both sides of the Tartars are only for the attack here, the Tartar soldiers must have been heavily deployed in the north, I am afraid that they will arrive here soon, immediately notify the emperor and make a quick decision." ”

……

Zhengde was slightly drunk, squinting at the graceful dancing figure under the tent, as his gaze wandered, Liu Jin on the side had already understood Zhengde's intentions, and locked the candidate to accompany the emperor tonight, that is, the dancing girl wearing a pink light veil and dancing gracefully.

Seeing Zhengde yawning, Liu Jin clapped his palms and said, "Stop, you guys retreat, it's time for the emperor to rest." ”

Before he could say anything, he only heard the footsteps outside the tent, and a guard shouted loudly: "Untie the blade before you can enter the account." ”

Song Nan's shouting and scolding sounded: "Get aside, I want your life if you miss a big thing." ”

Zhengde's brows furrowed, Liu Jin walked quickly to the door of the big tent and asked, "Who is making a noise?" ”

The curtain was lifted open, and a gust of wind and rain mixed with a trace of cool air rushed in, Song Nan was covered in armor, drenched, and the rain flowed down the armor to the carpet, staining a large blanket.

"Song Nan, what are you doing? How can you enter the emperor's tent with a blade? Liu Jin shouted.

Song Nan ignored it, strode up to Zhengde and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, the Tartars are coming, please leave here quickly." ”