Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1167 Two Torches of Blue Smoke
Dashiyi.

After listening to the two dusty people, Yicheng slapped the table angrily.

"Dog slave, you dare to rob our Daqin caravan and destroy the Silk Road, you are courting death. Zhao San!"

A young man with the word "Yi" on his robe came in, "Yi Cheng!"

"Zhao San, hurry up to Bachang Fort and tell the Fengzi there that there are Turkic thieves looting the caravan here, and let them quickly send out the beacon signal and call the patrol team to rescue."

"Yes." Zhao Sancha took the order and left quickly, pulling a fast horse from the stable and leaving the post.

"The two of us have worked hard all the way here, drink some water first, take a rest here, and wait for the news. Don't worry, each beacon has a special beacon signal. In case of trouble, you can quickly call the nearby patrol with the beacon message cavalry."

Yicheng is very confident in Daqin's patrolling cavalry, not to mention two or three hundred Turkic bandits, even if there are more, he is not afraid.On this road, no gang of thieves dared to challenge the patrolling cavalry of the Qin army so boldly.

Change the fort.

When the patrol cavalry is not resting in the fort, there are only one leader, one deputy, and seven soldiers in the fort.

They are all under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, and they are also under the jurisdiction of the commander of Anxi Road.

Burning smoke during the day is called Sui, and holding fire at night is called Feng, and Fengbao is also called Fengsubao.

There are one to five torches for the beacon, and at the same time, the Imperial Military Supervision improved the beacon. After adding a material, the burning smoke and fire will be colored, so different numbers of beacons and different colors can be combined into Dozens of messages.

In this way, the military situation can be accurately conveyed, and the castle where the army is stationed nearby can accurately judge the military situation and make corresponding arrangements.

If there is nothing wrong, Fengbao will set off a colorless beacon on the first night of every day to report safety, so it is called the safety fire.

The cold station is as far away as a point, and the beacons look at each other. It can be said that it is the best evidence that Daqin really entered the Western Regions and began to master this place. It has also become a spectacular scene on the Silk Road.

The Bahuan Fort is roughly the same as many other Forts on the Silk Road. The base is square, and the body of the fort is in the shape of a prism shrinking upwards. They are all rammed earth buildings, with red willow branches sandwiched in the rammed earth and mostly used as a log frame.

Bahuanfeng Castle, also known as Bahuanfeng Pier, looks like a mound from a distance, with a length and width of four feet and a height of more than three feet.

There is a post station in twenty miles, and a beacon castle in fifty miles.

In some important passes, there is even a beacon tower every five miles.In Yiwu County, there is an important place, but it is only fifty miles away, but it is connected by thirteen beacons.

In fact, the replacement of Bafeng Fort was not newly built. It was a beacon fort along the line of Fengsui Fort that was established as early as Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty when he set up the military guards of the Western Regions. Although the original fort was almost abandoned after hundreds of years, the Daqin's Bachang Fort was indeed built on this basis, but it was even taller.

The main body of the beacon pier of Bababao is more than four feet wide and three feet high, with watchtowers and beacon towers built on top, and a circle of two feet of earthen walls below to block an area, which contains stables, wells, dormitories, warehouses, etc. There is also a trench outside the earth wall, and there is a suspension bridge on the earth wall.

Such a high-standard bunker is precisely because it is usually the station of a team of patrolling cavalry.

After Xu Feng received the request for help from the nearby postman, he did not dare to neglect.Zhao San was acquainted with them, and they often had contacts at that post station.

Staying on this desolate Silk Road, sometimes when they are not on duty, they will walk around and visit each other, drink together, and talk about the Central Plains. He will regularly go to the post station to send letters home and pick up newspapers.

"The caravan just left today, and it was unexpectedly attacked, so I'll send a message."

Xu Feng is in charge of the Fengsui of this fort, and there are nine people under his command, so his Feng rate is actually a fire chief, and he has not yet entered the Liuzhou, but because of the hard work of stationing the frontier, he can enjoy the treatment of an officer under the ninth rank .

Lao Xu was impatient, so he climbed up the watchtower and immediately gave orders to Fengzi on duty.

"Immediately burn the smoke, summoning the Xiao team is leading the team back!"

The two soldiers on duty asked, "What's the matter? Team Xiao just went out for patrol this morning. This time, it normally takes three days to come back."

"The caravan that spent the night under our fort last night was attacked [-] miles to the southwest. The Turkic horse team urgently needs their rescue."

"Fuck, where is such a bold Turkic bastard, so arrogant, dare to come and make trouble on the Silk Road?"

"I don't know if it's the Turkic people from the Kucha country or the Turkic people who fled from other places. In short, the matter is urgent, so hurry up and issue an order."

The beacon on duty immediately started to light the beacon smoke according to the agreed signal, and the beacon smoke added with specific materials was blue.

Two torches and blue smoke mean that the beacon fortress urgently calls for patrol cavalry, and nearby beacon fortresses do not need to be passed on.

The next step is to wait.

Within tens of miles, the patrol team will be able to see these two blue beacons.

After going down to the watchtower, Xu Feng called other Fengzi who were resting.

"Hundreds of Turkic bastards came from nowhere and robbed the caravan more than [-] miles to the southwest. Everyone has entered a state of first-level combat readiness, and beware of attacks by Turkic bastards!"

"Those wolf cubs dared to attack the caravan, but they wouldn't dare to attack our bunker with a hundred courage?"

"That is, although Bahuanbao is located on the border of Kucha, my Son of Heaven, the Great Qin, has an agreement with other countries. The post stations and beacon castles on the Silk Road are the same as the embassies stationed in other countries. They are all the territory of the Qin State. If you dare to attack the embassy, Those in post stations and beacon castles are all regarded as declaring war on Great Qin!"

Which country in the Western Regions openly declared war on Great Qin?

Xu Feng led a snort, "You little rascals, don't underestimate the enemy. Erye Guan lost Jingzhou because of his carelessness back then. Naturally, the countries in the Western Regions did not dare to declare war on us, Great Qin, but what about horse thieves? What if they pretended to be horse thieves? What about the people? Get me up, go to the Jiazhan warehouse to get the equipment, fully arm me, and send two more people upstairs to watch carefully, but if there is any trouble, report it immediately."

"Don't you need to notify other bunkers?"

"It's only two or three hundred horse thieves, what a fart to inform, we can call the patrol team to solve such a small matter, and report the slightest thing, are you busy here?"

The Fengzi were cursing, scolding the Turkic bastard for disturbing everyone's rest time.

"Come on, everyone, tonight, let's eat water basin mutton and reward it."

"This is good, let's cook Hoto with mutton tail oil. I'm tired of eating Hubing every day."

"Okay, tonight I'll have a large bowl of Huto with mutton in a water basin, and go to work now."

To the northeast of Changchang Fort, beside the Wasteland Silk Road, Team Xiao is leading a group of his men to gnaw on the pancakes.

"Captain Xiao, look, there are two torches of blue smoke coming from Bachangbao." One person shouted.

Xiao Dui was turning his head to take a look, sure enough, he could see the two torches of blue smoke straight into the sky from a distance.

The desert is solitary and straight, and the long river falls into the sun.

The distance of twenty or thirty miles actually seems to be not far away at first glance, but if you really want to run, you can still look at the mountains and run dead horses.

Captain Xiao stuffed the last small piece of Hubing into his mouth, chewed it a few times and swallowed it.

He patted his buttocks and stood up, "Change the castle, two torches of blue smoke, brothers, come to work, cheer up, get on the horse, and change the castle!"

"Damn, I haven't opened for more than half a month. This is really about to open." Zhang Zhang laughed, and picked up the helmet and put it on his head.

Fifty Qin Qi quickly packed up, and everyone was very excited to see the two torches of blue smoke calling.

"Finally come alive!"

(End of this chapter)