Chapter 259 Rainy Night

(Thank you for the monthly ticket of the child's mother and root 087, and thank you for the reward of the lion demon king.) Chapter 59

One night, the mountain wind blew vigorously, and when I got up early, the sky was covered with dark clouds. The gloomy and hot weather made people feel depressed.

After washing, Song Nan walked out of the tent and subconsciously looked up at the sky. Seeing several Harri eagles hovering in the clouds again, Song Nan's mood suddenly fell to the bottom. Obviously, the Harrot recalled the eagle at night because it could not be scouted at night. As soon as it was daytime, it was released to follow. Song Nan was almost certain that the Darrots must have known the unusual figures in this team, and perhaps they had known that it was the emperor's car.

The convoy set off, and the narrow and difficult plank road has been in disrepair for a long time. It is winding in the mountains. There are many landslides, and vehicles can't pass through, so they have to rest while passing, which took a lot of time. At noon, the gloomy sky finally fell raindrops, making the journey more difficult.

Song Nan suggested that the convoy camp on the spot and wait for the rain to stop before leaving, but it was immediately rejected by Liu Jinshi Wenyi and others. Song Nan was worried that she would not be able to cross the canyon north of Weizhou 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 and looked into the valley. This was the passageway in the north of Weizhou, between Wan Quanwei and Tianchengwei, and it was also Song Nan's most worried about.

Looking north, a fortress stands alone on a mountain peak. The wall collapses and is dilapidated, and a pillar in the middle seems to be a beacon. Song Nan remembers hearing Jiang Bin say that there is an abandoned fortress called Xinping Fort on the innermost part of the Great Wall of Weizhou. This castle was originally the northernmost fortress of the Ming army in Weizhou, but the defense of the Great Wall here has long been broken through by the Tarats, and the Xinping Fort has long been abandoned, and the canyon here has become a passage for the Taran to attack south to Weizhou.

More than 100 miles south is Yangyuan, a stronghold set up by Tatari in Daming. When Song Nan was in Weizhou, he and Jiang Bin fought with Tarats in the Yangyuan Valley. Because of this, this is the most dangerous area. There is a stronghold of small Harrat soldiers in Yangyuan in the south, and the defense of the Great Wall in the north is damaged. If the Harroes attack, this should be the best place.

Worried Song Nan turned his horse head back to the team and found Shi Wenyi to talk about his worries. Shi Wenyi was also a little panicked. Although he was unhappy with Song Nan, after all, the emperor's safety was the most important, so Shi Wenyi hurriedly went to Liu Jin for discussion.

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 camp in the valley and order people to scout around to see if there is anything strange."

Shi Wenyi hurried to do it and sent more than a dozen generals of Jinyiwei Dahan to swim along the valley in the north and south to scout. The car stopped on the hillside and did not go down to the valley. Half an hour later, the scout Ti rode back and reported that there was no difference between the north and south sides of the valley, and the Great Wall passing on the mountains north of the valley had indeed collapsed. However, there was no sign of a Taran attack.

Liu Jin, Shi Wenyi and others were relieved and ordered to drive down to the camp at the bottom of the valley. It turned out that Song Nan's worry was indeed superfluous. After tonight, he will cross the valley and go east for another night to reach Wanquanwei.

When it got dark, the campfire lit up, and Zhengde's tent was full of laughter. Song Nan had no intention to drink and have fun, and took Wan Zhi Wang Yong and others to climb to the abandoned Xinping Fort in the dark.

I climbed the new flat castle on the hillside, but I saw that the gate had collapsed and the wall had also collapsed several places. The intact wall was as high as two feet, which shows the huge amount of manpower and material resources spent on the construction at that time. Unfortunately, the terrain was not conducive to supply. In the end, the strong fortress had to accept the fate of being abandoned, and the Tartan soldiers did not Occupy here as a transit.

For the fortress on the front line of Weizhou in the south, although the Black Mountain Fort and Yangyuan go deep into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, it seems that it is more difficult to supply, but the Taran soldiers can completely ensure their supplies through looting. Of course, the disadvantage of this method is that the Taran cannot guarantee the number of soldiers and horses in northern Weizhou, and hundreds of people have become the limit. , the occasional large-scale attack is also a momentary behavior, and you will take the initiative to withdraw from the army in less than a month.

"What is that?" Song Nan pointed to a high platform in the center of the fortress and asked.

"It's like a beacon. It seems to be the highest place nearby."

Song Nan said in high spirits, "Let's go up and have a look." Having a beacon means that you can send a message to wait for rescue. Once something happens, you can light a beacon for help.

Before coming to the earth platform, Song Nan looked up. Dense raindrops fell from the dark air, shining brightly under the torch, but the top of the platform could not be seen at all.

Everyone held torches and spiraled up the stone steps outside the huge cylinder-shaped beacon. The stone steps were covered with grass and moss, and it was unusually slippery on rainy days, and there was no guardrail on the outside. It was really dangerous to walk up. The wind and rain got bigger and bigger, and the torch was blown crooked. A personal guard almost fell down. If it hadn't been for the people around him who were quick-eyed, they might have fallen into mud.

It took half an hour for everyone to climb to the top of the beacon. Strangely, the top of the beacon is not the imagined flat ground, but a potholed natural rocky ground, with dozens of pine trees growing on it, surrounded by grass and thorns.

Only then did Song Nan understand the structure of the beacon. It turned out that the construction of the new Pingbao was very thoughtful. The selected peak was the highest mountain nearby. By digging the earth and stone around the peak to build a wall to open up the flat land. After the wall was completed, a stone pillar-shaped beacon tower with a height of more than 20 feet was naturally dug out. The ground with a radius of more than ten feet is flat except for a small piece in the middle, but it is surrounded by the original appearance of the top of the mountain.

There are still more than a dozen half burnt black logs on the ground in the middle of Xu Fangyuan, and there are several rusty swords and heavy white bones scattered on the ground. It can be imagined that when the castle was broken, the defenders must have also ignited a beacon fire for help, and also fought with the attacking enemy. Unfortunately, it was difficult to escape bad luck in the end. .

The torch was extinguished by the rain, and it was dark all around. Song Nan held the pine trunk and looked around. The camp bonfire in the southern valley was visible from afar, and it seemed that the sound of the curling bamboo in the tent could be heard.

Song Nan's eyes turned to the north, where there was a dark silence. Although she could not see any movement, Song Nan always felt that there were thousands of greedy eyes peeping this way outside the broken Great Wall.

The guards set up a small pile of bonfire in the dry place under the tree, lit torches and carefully checked the place, stayed for a long time, and lit the torch to prepare for the beacon. After the bonfire went out, Song Nan suddenly felt a faint light on the top of the mountains in the west. Song Nan thought he was dazzled and ordered people to extinguish the fire again and stare carefully to the west.

Yes, it is a firelight. Although it looks like a bean from a distance, it is a firelight; on such a rainy night, a natural wildfire is impossible, and it can only be an artificially lit firelight.

"Your Excellency, it's a beacon, it must be a beacon." Wang Yong shouted.

Song Nan's heart tightened. What does beacon mean in such a night?

The nearest beacon is the beacon on the Great Wall. In fact, it has long lost its practical significance, because whether the Tianchengwei in the west or the Wanquan Zuowei in the east is attacked, even if the beacon is transmitted to the other party, the other party cannot cross the mountains to rescue. The only meaning is to inform the other party that he has been attacked. Moreover, the Great Wall pass between the two has been damaged, and the fortress where they stand has been abandoned. It is no longer possible to directly transmit the beacon between the two guards, because the distance is too far to see the beacon fire without a transit station.

"Your Excellency, there is also a beacon in the east." The voice of a personal guard changed. Song Nan turned to the east and saw a fire rising to the sky on the top of the mountain far away in the east. Needless to say, it was also a beacon.

Song Nan frowned and suddenly shouted, "No."

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

Song Nan said, "If my estimate is good, the Tarizi attacked Wanquan Zuowei and Tianchengwei in the east and west at the same time."

"Wan Quan Zuowei and Tianchengwei? Are the Tahs crazy? Even if it is attacked, how can the Taran can please it? Zuo Jin's guard can quickly reinforce. Is the Takazi stupid?

Song Nan sneered and said, "The TARTARs are not stupid. I can be 100% sure that their goal is not to break through the defenses on both sides. They only need to break through one or two fortresses on both sides and cut off the rescue channels on the east and west to achieve their goal. Their goal is us, or the emperor."

"Ah!" Everyone was shocked. After thinking carefully, it is indeed such a truth. When did the Tatari have such courage? The beacon ignited, indicating that the war situation was fierce and there was a fear of losing. Generally, it would not ignite the beacon.

"What do you think is the purpose of lighting the beacon fire when you know that there will be no reinforcements coming from the transmission of the beacon? Obviously, Mr. Wang sent us the news. Before leaving, Mr. Wang told me that he would fly a pigeon to Zhu Zhen, the general of Xuanfu, to tell him the news of the emperor's trip. Wan Quanwei must have the same intention.

"What should we do?" Wanzhi said urgently.

Song Nan said, "The clamping on both sides of the hand is only for the attack here. The hand soldiers must have been heavily in the north. I'm afraid they will arrive at us soon. Inform the emperor immediately and make a quick decision."

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Zhengde was slightly drunk and squinted at the graceful dancer's posture under the account. As his eyes wandered, Liu Jin had already understood Zhengde's intention and locked the candidate to accompany the emperor tonight, the dancer dressed in pink light veil.

Seeing Zhengde's awn, Liu Jin clapped his palm and said, "Stop, you step back. It's time for the emperor to rest."

The words were still gone. He only listened to the miscellaneous footsteps outside the account, and a guard scolded loudly: "You can't get into the account by removing the blade."

Song Nan's scolding sounded: "Roll aside and miss a big thing. I want your life."

Zhengde frowned, and Liu Jin quickly walked to the door of the tent and shouted, "Who is making noise?"

The curtain opened, and a gust of wind and rain mixed with a trace of cool air rushed in. Song Nan's whole body was wet with armor, and the rain dripped along the armor to the carpet, staining a large area of velvet blanket.

"Soong Nan, what are you doing? How can you take the blade into the emperor's tent? Liu Jin shouted.

Song Nan ignored it and walked to Zhengde and arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty, the Tarats are about to attack. Please leave this place as soon as possible."