Chapter 66: The Beacon City
In the early morning of the next day, Bao Yuanqian arrived at the command yamen without stopping.
saw that Jiang Wei, who was dressed in black and gray and tired, was also here, reporting to Deng and Li with a serious face.
Bao Yuanqian listened for a long time, and then suddenly realized that the labyrinth in the east of the city was roughly touched by Jiang Wei, and almost half of Suzhou City ran through it for several miles below.
What's even worse is that there are even a few roads that lead down the underground river, leading straight to the Raklai River outside the city!!
This is an extremely serious safety hazard, originally this diversion hole is just water flowing through, but with these abandoned holes, artificial holes, people outside the city want to sneak in, it is too convenient.
Deng Pingyu noticed the strangeness of this matter, "What should I do?" β
Jiang Wei said: "Commander, now, sooner rather than later, immediately send the soldiers and people to take soil outside the city to backfill these holes!" β
Li Chengen said: "The people... Also want to launch? β
Jiang Wei nodded resolutely, "Such a big project must have nearly 10,000 people, and the Suzhou guard sergeants are far from enough, this is an Achilles heel of the Suzhou Acropolis defense, once the incident happens, the consequences will be out of control!" β
Deng Pingyu pondered for a moment, "Immediately transfer my military order, but all military households, except for seventy old men and five-year-old children, will enter the city to backfill the cave for me!" β
He thought very clearly, a while ago, the spies of Rose were able to evade the pursuit under the city, and naturally they had already been figured out, and if they brought troops to attack, something would inevitably happen.
Jiang Wei came out as ordered, and Bao Yuanqian stepped forward to recount what happened last night.
Li Chengen looked at Deng Pingyu and said: "Now that the rain has stopped a little, there will be a practice banquet in the yamen in the afternoon, and after the banquet, the people who are in charge of the capital will return to Ganzhou." Hello to the care, then immediately bring the person, there is no mistake. β
"Yes!"
On the way back to his home, Bao Yuanqian looked at the dark sky overhead, obviously this rain would not be so good, the thick dark clouds were like a hydrogen balloon full of someone, and it could pour down again at any time.
He felt a little depressed in his heart, and he had a terrible sense of crisis, as if something big was about to happen, but he didn't know where the sense of crisis came from.
When Big Brother Gao and his party came back, not only did they not bring some joy, but they were extremely depressed.
He walked home to the door, and saw Zhang Mule absent-mindedly looking at him, so he asked, but he was startled.
The mule only said that he didn't sleep well last night, and Bao Yuanqian entered the house, but it was very hot, and his heart was restless, so he couldn't sit still and simply went to the forest to practice knives.
Jiang Wei's style of doing things has always been vigorous and resolute, and he immediately went to the barracks as soon as he received Deng Pingyu's order.
Almost all the people in the barracks, 2,500 people, were transferred into the city, and thousands of people in and outside the city were requisitioned, and peasant women went to the river to get soil, and the project was huge.
"Mother, are we going too?" A little boy is dragged by a peasant woman and goes out of the city to collect soil.
The peasant woman nodded, "Your father didn't know where he was in the morning, and he didn't let us go back to his house outside the city, but stuffed us into the city." β
This woman is Gao Da's sister-in-law, Gao Shouzheng's wife.
Gao Shouzheng's unexpected return made her overjoyed and fainted several times in excitement.
But soon she noticed that something was wrong with her husband, so she first brought the family into the city with Uncle Gao, and did not live outside the city, and warned herself not to go out of the city at will.
I didn't take anything in a hurry, but now I can go home and get some things into the city by taking the opportunity to go out of the city to get some soil.
Now the city is full of mud after the heavy rain, people push carts, pulling the soil action is extremely difficult, from the north of the city to the east of the city all the way winding processions, all pulling the soil into the courtyard of the east of the city to go down to the ground, for landfilling.
Although the big families complained, they did not dare to go against Deng Pingyu's military orders.
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Command the yamen
Now it's quite festive and lively.
Everyone is overjoyed, the people of the line of the division, the joy is that the pouring rain has stopped, and they can finally turn back to Ganzhou.
And Wei commanded the yamen, and he was naturally happy that this gang of plague gods was finally gone, and he could also carry out his own secrets in a big way.
In short, the two groups of people have their own ghosts, each has their own fun, showing the same smiling face, complimenting each other and taking a seat, watching the singing and dancing performed by the servants in the yamen, waiting for the delicious food that is about to be served.
Everyone was smiling and laughing.
Suddenly a cannon rang out! Soaring into the sky, everyone trembled all over their bodies! Blow up the people in the yamen in a cold sweat!
Deng Pingyu Huo Ran got up, strode to the yamen, and looked at the west with the sound of cannons, his heart was awe-inspiring.
The people of the Ming Army, Jiuzhen Border Pass, are too keen for this cannon sound!
Everyone was shocked, only to hear a few more cannons!
Immediately, the surrounding cannons rang out endlessly, and soon a wisp of blue-black wolf smoke ignited in the West City Tower!
No.... Not a wisp, but five strings of wolf smoke rising from the battlements of the Xicheng Tower!
Deng Pingyu immediately beckoned the military attachΓ©s present at the Yamen, and all of them rushed to the Xicheng Tower to take a look!
Ascending the city tower, everyone is thrilled to see it, the west city tower is facing the direction of Shaziba and Wenshu Mountain, as far as the eye can see, the outpost on the Wenshu Mountain, and the beacon fort on the other side of the Zarai River are all high in the five beams of wolf smoke!
The deafening sound of police cannons and the terrible sound of drums knocked on everyone's hearts, pounding!
I saw that the city tower looked at the direction of the sand dam, and countless black spots appeared densely, sweeping like a mountain and a tsunami!!
"Five beacons and five cannons! More than 10,000 enemies!! Soldiers, prepare for war!! Deng Pingyu drew the sword at his waist and raised his sword for a long time.
He didn't understand why this iron cavalry would not pass through Jiayu Pass, but appeared directly under the Suzhou Acropolis out of thin air! But now in a hurry, I have to rush to meet the battle!
As the saying goes, there are 10,000 soldiers, boundless, 100,000 soldiers, and the sky is torn apart!!
Under the suppression of dark clouds, I saw that from Wenshu Mountain in the north to Qilian Mountain in the south, tens of thousands of iron horsemen appeared, overwhelming, and went straight to Suzhou City!
This swept iron horse, like a black cloud crushing the city, seems to have the power to destroy the withering and decay, moving mountains and reclaiming the sea!
Tens of thousands of horses trampled on the ground with heavy hooves, and the smoke and dust were raised, and the muffled sound of "dong dong" resounded from a few miles away, and the ground collapsed and the mountains were destroyed, and the surface of the rammed earth city wall of Suzhou City continued to fall earth slag.
The soldiers defending the city are a little frightened, and tens of thousands of captives.... I hadn't seen such a battle for many years, and the hands holding the spears were covered with dense sweat.
Seeing this, several officials of the Xingdu Division sat on the muddy city, trembling and unable to believe everything in front of them.
Deng Pingyu was prepared in this regard, and the Suzhou Guard had a total of 5,600 soldiers, except for one or two necessary thousand households, the rest of the soldiers and horses had been dispatched during this time, and almost all of them had been collected in the city, plus the sergeants of the military camp outside the city had entered the city.
In today's Suzhou City, there are 4,500 soldiers.
I just don't know, how many people are coming?
Is it the Ross tribe or some other tribe!?
That Ugqi had already sent an envoy here, could it be that he deliberately confused himself and saluted first and then soldiers? It's also not out of the question....
Beacon fire, from Wenshu Mountain to Suzhou City, all the way to the wolf smoke, Suzhou City four gates also set off wolf smoke at the same time, cannon warning!
Deng Pingyu commanded the officers and soldiers of the four gates to close the city gate immediately, and all the hundred households, thousands of households, pacification, and servants immediately went here to wait for the dispatch, and the generals were assigned to the soldiers, and the soldiers must immediately find the organization and obey the orders of the generals.
He fought for many years, methodically, assigned all his firearms to the four gates, and waited for the place to come!
He suddenly looked back to the east of the city, looking far away.
It's just that.... Why didn't the Beacon Fort five miles east of the city relay this wolf smoke warning!?
This beacon fire in the Hexi Corridor is like a long throat, once it is connected, the military situation can be transmitted thousands of miles from Hexi to the mainland, and it can reach the Xingdu Division.
But if one of the links is broken, it is like being choked by the neck, the outside air can't come in, and the air inside can't get out, and it becomes a dead knot!
"What to do? The beacon fire can't be passed through! Li Chengen frowned nervously.
"Immediately send someone, open the east gate and send a message quickly!" Deng Pingyu no longer hesitated, if the beacon fire was not connected now, it would be as isolated as a lonely city!