Reborn in the Three Kingdoms

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After Chen Chu came out of Cai Yan's room, he went straight to the study.As soon as he left Cai Yan's Xin Garden, he saw bald Dian Wei talking to several iron guards.

"It's evil." Chen Chu called out.

Only then did Dian Wei realize that Chen Chu had come out, and quickly came up with those iron guards to salute, "Meet the lord!"

Chen Chu nodded, and said to Dian Wei, "Follow me to the study!" "Yes!" Dian Wei promised. [

When he came to the study, Chen Chu ordered a Tiewei: "Go and call the herald for me." The Tiewei promised and left immediately.

Chen Chu sat down in front of the desk, casually flipping through the official documents on the desk.

After a while, the herald who was in charge of conveying the order followed the iron guard just now to the study.

"My lord!" the herald bowed down.

Chen Chu put down the official document in his hand, and asked, "Is there any official document for the caravan going west?" The herald immediately fled a manual from his arms, opened it to check.After a while, the herald replied: "There was no official document from the westbound caravan!" In fact, Chen Chu also knew that there was no official document from the westbound caravan, and the reason why he asked this was because he wanted to confirm.

Chen Chu frowned slightly, and ordered: "Immediately write to Mr. Wen He, asking him to pay close attention to the westbound caravan!"

"Yes!" the herald promised.

Chen Chudao: "There is nothing else, you can go down!"

The herald saluted Chen Chu, and then left the study.

Chen Chu left his seat, came to the map shelf, moved his fingers westward along a red line, and stopped at the westernmost Congling.Chen Chu frowned.At present, the most detailed map of the Northern Expedition Army only covers Congling in the west of Xinjiang Province today, which is now the Pamir Plateau. This can be regarded as a watershed on the Silk Road. Can control the area east of Cong Ridge.

"Congling!" Chen Chu murmured.

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Since the Beibei Army defeated Wusun and set up the Changshi Mansion of the Western Regions in Qiuci, its control over the Western Regions has become stronger and stronger.Four months ago, Zhao Yun, who was in charge of the military affairs of the Western Regions, and Sima Yi, the governor of the Western Regions, jointly wrote a letter to Chen Chu, suggesting that the fortress built by the Han army at Congling Pass should be rebuilt in order to strengthen the control over the entire Western Regions.Chen Chu quickly replied to the two of them, agreeing to their suggestion, and also asked to expand the size of the fortress to five times the original plan.When Sima Yi saw Chen Chu's recovery, he couldn't restrain his inner excitement, and said with emotion: "It seems that the lord not only wants to control the Western Regions!"

Currently, Congling Fortress is under construction in full swing. Nearly [-] migrant workers are working here around the clock, most of them are people from countries in the Western Regions.The countries in the Western Regions are very supportive of the move of the Northern Conquest Army, at least most of them are, and have given strong support. Basically, the labor and expenses of the Northern Conscript Army to build the fortress are basically not borne by themselves.

[-] soldiers of the Sixth Army have been stationed on the side of the fortress. Among the [-] troops, [-] are infantry, and the other [-] are light cavalry under the legion.The leading general is Shen Tao, the former iron wall guard deputy general who performed very well during the Northern Army's westward expedition that day, and now Shen Tao is Zhao Yun's deputy general.The Northern Expedition Army built watchtowers on the high points of the Congling Fortress to closely monitor the surrounding situation; at the same time, the two thousand light cavalry in the Ten Thousand Expedition Army were on readiness at any time to deal with emergencies; Every two days, the Congling Fortress will use flying pigeons to contact the headquarters of the Western Expeditionary Army in Kucha, so that Zhao Yun and Chang Shifu, the generals of the Western Expeditionary Army, can keep abreast of the situation of the Congling Fortress.The Congling Fortress was located on the western edge of the Western Regions, far away from the rear, and the surrounding conditions were extremely complicated.

The Northern Expedition Army of Congling Fortress set up a total of 33 watchtowers, the most western watchtower is located at the west foot of Congling.This sentry tower stands on a hill, backed by the majestic Congling Ridge, protruding out of a gentle terrain, with gentle slopes on all sides, and there are traces of a fire on the ground. At this moment, there is almost no one here. There is not a single weed, only a lot of trees less than a foot long.

pile.It was not like this in the past. The North Army cleared the vegetation here to prevent the enemy from using weeds and bushes as a cover to sneak attack on the sentry tower.The sentry tower stands at the highest point, about five feet high, and people can have a panoramic view of the scenery within a radius of more than ten miles from the sentry tower; there is a wooden fence around the sentry tower, and there are ditches dug by horses on the outside of the fence. , These are the simple defense facilities of this watchtower.There are fifty soldiers in the sentry tower **, the highest officer is a small captain, they are responsible for the lookout and security work here.

Before the evening of this day, the sentries guarding the westernmost sentry tower of the Congling Fortress looked towards the west plain as usual, while other soldiers rested in the tents under the watchtower.

Suddenly, the sentinel saw smoke and dust billowing more than ten miles to the west, which was obviously caused by the march of a large group of people.The sentinel couldn't help being startled, and hastily rang the gong.The other soldiers who were resting in the tent were immediately alarmed and rushed out with weapons in hand. [

"What's going on?" The captain asked, looking up.

The sentinel said urgently: "The smoke and dust billows from the west, a large group of people are approaching!"

The team leader was startled and hurried up the sentry tower.

"Captain, look!" The sentinel pointed to the west.The team leader looked in the direction he was pointing, and sure enough, he saw the smoke and dust billowing and approaching rapidly.

"There are at least a few thousand cavalry here!" the captain murmured.Immediately, he ordered the sentinel beside him: "Get ready to light the beacon fire! Get ready for the battle!" The sentinel immediately conveyed the order.

Dozens of soldiers under the watchtower immediately got busy.Several soldiers came to a large pile of firewood that was taller than a person. One of the soldiers lit a torch, and then looked at the watchtower to wait for further orders; Well ready for battle.Every soldier seemed very nervous. Although the soldiers of the Sixth Army were eager to fight, they hadn't really experienced the baptism of war after all.

The billowing smoke and dust is getting closer, and the real body under the smoke and dust is getting clearer and clearer.The squad leader stared there, and slowly raised his arms.Seeing this, the soldier in charge of lighting the beacon immediately moved the torch closer to the pyre.

At this moment, the soldiers suddenly heard the squad leader urgently say: "Turn off the beacon! It's one of our own!" His tone was full of excitement.

The soldier in charge of lighting the beacon immediately threw the torch in his hand into a bucket of clear water next to him.This was done to prevent the beacon from being accidentally ignited. If that was the case, the entire army of Congling Fortress would be troubled by it.

All the soldiers squeezed to the fence on the west side and looked westward. After a while, they saw a familiar flag with two flying Chinese characters 'Zhengbei' embroidered on it.

"Why did our people come from the west?" A soldier asked suspiciously.Immediately another soldier answered, "Did you forget that last year General Jiang Tai led three thousand iron wall guards to escort a huge caravan to the west?"

A quarter of an hour later, the team arrived at the foot of the hill, and then dozens of people came straight up the hill.Sure enough, these dozens of people were wearing the special armor of the Iron Wall Guards, and the one at the head looked extremely fierce. This was Jiang Tai, the deputy general of the Iron Wall Guards. It was Li Tai's younger brother, Li Jian. Li Jian at this moment was completely different from Xiang Xiang ten months ago.At this moment, they all seemed very excited.

When a group of people came outside the sentry tower, Jiang Taiyang said in a loud voice: "Who is the officer of the sentry tower? Come out and speak! I am Jiang Tai, the deputy general of the Iron Wall Guard under the lord's command!" His voice was a little hoarse.

The team leader who was in charge of guarding the watchtower immediately came to the door, clasped his fists and said, "The humble post is the patrol officer of this watchtower, and I pay my respects to the general!" The soldiers followed suit.

"Don't be too polite!"

The squad leader stood up, clasped his fists at Jiang Tai and said, "General, according to the military regulations, the general's token must be inspected for humble positions!"

Jiang Tai smiled, escaped from his arms, and handed in an iron plate representing his identity through the gap between the fences.The team leader took it over respectfully, and will order you if the inspection is wrong.

The card was handed back to Jiang Tai, and he confessed: "I have offended you so much, please forgive me, General!" Then he raised his voice and said, "Open the gate of the village quickly.

Several soldiers rushed up and opened the gate of the village wide.

The team leader led 50 of his subordinates to come to Jiang Tai, bowed down and said: "The humble officer leads 50 of his subordinates to meet the general!"

Jiang Tai helped the team leader up, looked up at the battle flag of the Northern Army fluttering on the sentry tower, and couldn't help sighing.

The team leader asked: "General, it's getting late now, why don't you just rest here for a night!"

Jiang Tai nodded, then turned his head and cast a questioning look at Li Jian next to him.Li Jian clasped his fists and said with a smile: "Everything is up to the general!"! ~!