Without the slightest irritation, Qingji took off his special iron-tired hard bow from the side of the saddle, and then Qingji stood on the horseback, stepped on the stirrups, stretched out the bow and arrows, and aimed at the leader of the Yue clan at the head of the city.

"Kachatsa ......"

The sound of pulling the bowstring makes people feel a burst of tooth ache.

"Is this man crazy?"

"At such a distance, he can shoot to the top of the city?"

"Hmph, I can't do it!"

Taking advantage of the relaxation of the Yue's people, Qingji drew his bow like a full moon, and his face was calm, and he said loudly word by word: "Remember the words of the widow!" ”

"The city wall of my Great Wu has no place to stand!"

As soon as the words fell, Qingji shot a powerful arrow.

"Hugh!"

"Poof—"

The leader of the Yue Clan, who was still laughing loudly, stopped laughing abruptly, and then with a stunned look, he lowered his head and saw that his throat was missed by an arrow, almost penetrating.

A lot of blood, spurted out!

Seeing their leader being shot, the people of the Yue clan at the head of the city couldn't help but make a mess.

"Shoot the arrows!"

"Up!"

The Wu army has a systematic method of warfare.

In the huge phalanx, the soldiers formed a huge arrow array, and threw arrows like locusts crossing the city towards the Yueshi people at the head of the city.

The brave warriors, holding the explosives bag in their arms, immediately detonated it after placing it at the city gate.

"Boom!"

With a loud bang, the gates collapsed.

This huge explosion scared the Yue people in the city to the core, and they didn't dare to fight with the Wu army at all.

"Youkai! These Wu people are all monsters! ”

"Run!"

The Yueshi people, who were frightened, scattered one after another.

The iron cavalry of the Wu army followed the bombed city gate, consistently entered, rushed left and right, and wantonly slaughtered the fleeing Yueshi people.

Having said that, if it weren't for the fact that this high-slave city had just risen from the ground, the city gate would still have been built temporarily, and it would have been impossible for this earth-shaking thunder to blow up the city gate for a while......

After a one-sided slaughter, the Wu army beheaded more than 5,000 people and captured nearly 6,000 people.

These Yue Clan captives, if nothing else, will be arranged to work in remote places to engage in infrastructure construction.

……

Eliminating this group of Yueshi people who dared to invade Shangjun can only be regarded as a small episode for Qingji.

After all, the combat effectiveness of the Saiwaihu people is really not very good.

Before the Warring States Period, the Hu people and Rong Di may have posed a great threat to the Central Plains countries.

However, in history, since the Warring States Period, the neighboring Qin State, Zhao State, and Yan State, which one did not press the Hulu outside the plug to the ground and rub it?

With the current strength of the Wu State and the strong combat effectiveness of the Wu army, it is not difficult to comprehensively crush the Yue clan and Donghu and other foreign races.

After the end of the trip to Shangjun, Qingji's patrol team arrived in Longxi County.

The first thing Qingji inspected was the beacon tower.

The main function of the beacon is to facilitate reconnaissance, and at the same time, when there is an enemy invasion, it can burn combustibles such as straw, so that it can use fireworks to inform the enemy situation, so that the next post can increase vigilance.

The most important thing is to convey military information, which needs to cooperate closely with the enemy's platforms, wall platforms and other Great Wall buildings.

The enemy platform can be used as a pier platform to transmit beacon information, and there is no enemy platform and there is no place suitable for lighting the beacon, and there must be a beacon tower according to the transmission route.

Beacon fire, also called "beacon fire".

When the enemy invades during the day, he will light smoke (flint) and at night when he attacks will light a fire (beacon) to alert all parties and superiors with visible smoke and light.

The distance between the beacons is generally about ten miles, and it is usually built on high posts and hills that are easy to look at each other.

For example, the beacon tower where Qingji is located at this time is built independently, and there are also three or five horns configured for the beacon group, and the shape of the beacon tower varies from time to time and place, and it is roughly square and round.

On the platform there are watchmen houses and equipment for lighting smoke and fires, and under the platform are houses where soldiers live and guard, sheep and horse pens, warehouses and other buildings.

As the prince of Longxi County, he accompanied Qingji and introduced: "Father, if the soldiers guarding the platform find that the enemy is coming, they will immediately light a beacon fire on the platform, and the neighboring platform will follow after seeing it, so that the enemy situation can be quickly transmitted." ”

"The last Qiangrong invasion relied on the enemy information transmitted by this beacon tower, otherwise, it would be difficult for our army to make a corresponding counterattack."

"Good."

Qingji looked at the facilities in the beacon tower again and asked, "How many beacon guards are there?" ”

"There are five, six, or more than ten soldiers guarding the beacon, and among them there is one chief of the flint."

"On weekdays, one of the guards must be dedicated to watching, one must cook, and the rest must be responsible for building, collecting firewood and grass (including firewood and grass used to light beacon fires)."

After a pause, Gongzi Zhang said to Qingji: "Father, son-in-law thinks that the beacon towers along the Great Wall should be closely integrated with the Great Wall and become an important part of the Great Wall's defense system. ”

"In order to quickly mobilize the entire line of border defenders to meet the enemy."

For Gongzizhang's idea, Qingji deeply agreed.

……

After the end of the trip to Longxi County, Qingji's patrol team came to Shu County to inspect Dujiangyan.

After years of excavation, Dujiangyan has been completed, irrigating 10,000 acres of fertile land for Shuzhong, and completely solving the flood, and can also make many boats and boats sail, which can be described as very convenient.

After leaving Shu County, Qingji entered Ba County along the Three Gorges, visited the local officials, soldiers and civilians, and then continued to the south to inspect the nine southern counties.

The nine southern counties of Wu State, namely Minzhong County, Lujiang County, Cangwu County, Nanhai County, Xiang County, Guilin County, Qianzhong County, Dian County, and Jiaozhi County.

The three southwestern counties and the six Lingnan counties are collectively known as the "nine southern counties".

Qingji's trip took more than a year, and it was not until the first month of 485 BC that he returned to Xianyang.

At this time, the Kwantung countries were ready to move and were ready to launch a joint expedition against Wu.

In the third lunar month, after the completion of spring ploughing, Qi, Lu, Song, Wei, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei, Zhongshan, a total of nine countries, held an alliance in Huayang to discuss the matter of defeating Wu.

The princes elected Zhao Ying as the leader of the alliance, and together with more than 600,000 troops of the Nine Kingdoms, they set off from Huayang and rushed to Hangu Pass.

Along the way, the coalition forces attacked the city and quickly captured many cities in the land west of the river, but from beginning to end, they were not able to cross the danger by half a step.

As for Hangu Pass, Qingji took Sun Wu as the general and Tian Sui Tho as the deputy general, and sent 150,000 soldiers and horses to defend it.

Qingji's intention is very simple, that is, relying on the favorable terrain and relying on the solidity of Cuihan, he will consume with the coalition army.

Is Wu Guo still afraid that he can't afford it?

"Kill!"

Inside and outside Hangu Pass, so much so that on the banks of the great river, blood flowed like rivers and corpses piled up, but the shouting and killing still did not stop.