Chapter 129 The Abandoned Castle

Zhao Qi understood Ye Li's mood at this time, and he was determined to join Song and was afraid that he would be undermined. He had no soldiers or generals in his hands, just like a dragon leaving the water, a tiger going down the mountain, and was slaughtered by others, and his future was unpredictable;

He continued to stay in Xixia, and he was defeated in succession, betrayed the master general, and was killed according to the rules, and the tribe was dismembered, and there was no way to survive. However, this must be his place where he started his own family, and his hometown was hard to leave, and Li Jifeng was captured and sent

He was fantasized again, thinking that there might be room for maneuver, so he bets on both sides.

"Oh, the boss's pride is impressed by me. My subordinates have accepted the order of the director and told the stations along the way to do their best to protect the boss's safety. The horse head of this caravan is his subordinate, loyal and reliable, but if you need it, the boss just needs it and ask him.

But!" Li Tianhao knew the rules and said nothing more than what he shouldn't have said. He took out a piece of paper from the boot and presented it with his hands.

"Okay, I understand!" Zhao Qi looked at the notes, put them in his mouth and chewed them.

"Boss takes care of you all the way, and I will wait for you to come back safely!" Li Tianhao said, "I met you for the first time. Boss, please give me some benefits!" He changed his face in a blink of an eye and stretched out his hand.

"Oh?!" Zhao Qi was stunned. This kid was very brave. "You are suffering here. When I come back, I can find you a comfortable place!"

"Hehe, thank you, boss, that's not what I mean. We've been talking for a long time. The boss always needs to get some blood. Otherwise, how can I explain to my brothers!" Li Tianhao said with 'bad intentions'.

"Haha, I forgot that you did a errand to pluck your hair, so you took a lot of this one, right?" Zhao Qi touched it in his arms, took out a few golden leaves and stuffed them to him and asked.

"Everyone says that the boss is generous. When I saw it today, it turns out that this is true. This money is enough for us to spend two months!" Li Tianhao weighed it and said, "He became the greedy team just now."

"We will have to take care of Team Li in the future. Let's leave today. We will invite Team to have a drink in the next day. I heard that there are two more restaurants in Yincheng.

"Then I'll thank the young master, but I heard that Prince Yan lives there now, and he hates these things the most. I'll bother the young master again when he leaves!" Li Tianhao followed Zhao Qile's face and jumped around with scars. The two of them met.

Carry out.

"I have checked the inspection, and I have checked it. Two big cars, fifty-two pack horses, forty-four-cup hunched, and sixty-five entourages!" Li Tianhao pulled a long voice and reported, of course, he had to conceal the benefits, so he naturally had to hide the reports.

Then one.

The inspection there responded, and Zhang Que handled the rest of the matter. The effort was not long, and the caravan left a leather pocket, and the caravan drove the mules and horses on the way. Since it was a smuggling, of course he did not dare to go openly.

On the main road, otherwise there will be a patrol team after passing the fortress and patroling horses, and it will be troublesome to be caught, so the caravan will circumnavigate in the winding valley, and unfamiliar people will be dizzy.

After a day of travel, the caravan did not stop and finally crossed the boundary moat in the afternoon, entered Xixia, and drilled into a valley. The valley was sandwiched between the mountains with overlapping rocks, and both sides were cut like knife-cut.

Cliffs and valleys are full of mugwort and thorns, and in some places there are clumps of splendens. Camels are not short of feed here, so the horse is harsh. The ground is covered with fine pebbles and gravel, only on flat and low-lying deserted beaches

Only then did I see the sparse bushes, and it was very difficult to drive there.

Walking out of the valley, there is a hill ahead, with a gentle, small curve, which looks like a green-haired steamed bun. The yellow land at the foot of the mountain is exposed, there are not many trees on the mountain, and lush cypress trees dot the middle. The undulating Qin Great Wall is left here.

There was only a gap that could accommodate a large cart, but the traces were not too old. It was dug up for only nearly twenty or thirty years.

"Second Master, there are many such passages on the Great Wall, which were dug up during the smuggling between the two parties. Here I called "Evil Huling". I only walked through many years ago. Most of the people who appeared here in the past were smuggled, except for those who smuggled.

They are outlaws, including Xia people, Han people, even Uighurs and Khitans. Some of them escaped labor service, violated the laws of the king, and avoided enemies. Therefore, there has always been a bad reputation for horse bandits here, and this gap is

They dug up and charged tolls from caravans. Of course, seeing that the oil and water are abundant, they will also do some business of killing and robbing people!" Seeing that the prince was curious, Zhang Que took the initiative to come forward to explain.

"Well, will there be no one in the two countries to clear them?" Zhao Qi asked again.

"This is remote and is a battlefield between the two sides. Who cares about these small things? Moreover, the horses and bandits compete for territory, and people change one after another. Maybe there will be soldiers from our Song State and the Xixia border people here.

In it, as long as you don’t make too much trouble, no one will cause trouble for them!" Zhang Que replied.

"Now that the two countries are fighting, the smuggling business is definitely not easy to do. It seems that no one has walked through here for a long time!" Zhao Qi looked at the road full of weeds, with ruts and hoof prints covering it, unlike

People often pass.

"Second Master, you are wrong. The more the war between the two countries is, the easier it is to do smuggling transactions. Our Song State lacks horses, Xixia lacks iron and grain, and it is also impossible to transport specialties such as fur, livestock, medicinal materials, etc. from Xixia.

, But our market still has strong demand; on the contrary, although Xixia has fewer silk, porcelain, tea, wine and other things in the Central Plains, some princes and nobles are still indispensable. Therefore, for their own purposes, the two sides cut off transactions on the surface.

, but privately encouraged caravans to exchange for the supplies they needed, and would relax the inspection of materials that were strictly restricted from leaving the country in the past. There was no need to be sneaky like usual, just bring what they wanted!" Zhang Que

Seeing that the prince was interested, of course he knew everything and said everything.

Zhao Qi understood that this smuggling path was abandoned because of the war, and even the bandits could not survive and had to choose to leave. If it weren't for his special identity, Zhang Que had chosen this long time to protect his safety.

The road that no one walked. He rode his horse to the top of the mountain and looked into the distance. This giant dragon made of mud lies across the top of the entire foothills of Hengshan, separating the world into two parts.

Most people only know that the Great Wall is used to block the enemy's invasion. In fact, in addition, the main function of the Great Wall is - early warning.

The people who initially designed the Great Wall did not think that the Great Wall could block the enemy outside the Great Wall, so the Great Wall was mostly matched with beacon towers and pavilions. When an enemy invades, the beacon can be ignited and the enemy will be foreshadowed first.

The movements make the internal military and civilians ready. In this way, even if the Great Wall can't stop the enemy and is penetrated by the enemy in the end, it can still gain enough time to make our army ready to fight back!

In addition, the early warning of the Great Wall and temporarily blocking the enemy for a while can not only allow the army to complete mobilization, but also give the people enough time to "rush to get into the fort". In this way, even if the worst situation occurs, the army will be defeated and the entire army will be defeated. After being destroyed, the enemy's ability to loot people and livestock supplies was quite limited, which minimized the losses.

Because of the Great Wall, after the Huns and Turks launched a large number of troops, they could only do nothing to do. Not only did they not enrich their own materials, but they also made small profits and lost the big losses. The more they fought, the weaker they became. In this way, the Han and Tang dynasties fought against the Huns and the The worse the balance of the living forces of the Turks. Once the time is ripe, the Han and Tang dynasties trained elite cavalry troops or there was civil strife with the Turks, such as natural disasters, the cavalry of the Han and Tang dynasties would be dispatched to raid the grasslands. The Huns without the Great Wall With the Turks, neither early warning nor stop the cavalry of the Han and Tang Dynasties. Therefore, as long as the cavalry of the Han and Tang Dynasties crossed the border, they could basically move forward without any obstacles!

The Huns and Turks did not have enough manpower, material resources, financial resources and technology to build the Great Wall, but Xixia and Liao already had enough civilization and national strength to build the Great Wall! In addition, there were also some old Great Walls in the areas they occupied, so that they could save some The strength does not have to be built from scratch. Therefore, it was basically impossible for the Song Dynasty to attack the grassland like the Han and Tang cavalry like the Han and Tang dynasties and directly attack the Shanyu Court or Khan's tent, so this time Zhao Qi insisted on negotiating with Yeli. Once successful, with this Great Wall as a barrier, Lin and the strategic situation of the Fu area towards Xixia will undergo a fundamental change.

Walking through the Great Wall, the sky gradually darkened. Although this place can be used as a pasture for cattle and sheep, it has never aroused the interest of herders due to bandits, and there is no one around. At that time, unlike now, hares. It was killed, and the ecological environment was still well preserved at this time. Jackals, tigers, leopards, deer, roe, roe, roe, roe, roe, roe, roe, ore, musk, were all in groups. It was also very dangerous for them to camp in the wild with dozens of people.

"Second Master, there is a abandoned fort in front of you, which can shelter from the wind and rain. Please feel wronged all night!" Zhang Que pointed to a mound of soil in front and said.

"Your arrangement is that I will follow the guests!" Zhao Qiong said with a smile.

"Second Master, please wait, I'll go and investigate first!" Zhao Xin and others were highly vigilant as soon as they passed the Xia Realm, fearing that the prince would make mistakes.

As the brigade approached the mound, Zhao Qi realized that it was an abandoned beacon that was built in unknown times. The four fields were silent as if they were dead, without dogs, and of course no one, only a pile of garbage like a hill, and I don’t know how much The accumulation of generations has formed such a scale. A narrow road paved with gravel is looming in the half-human-high weeds, indicating that no one has stepped on it for a long time.

This should be the outpost of the Great Wall. The tall mound is the beacon tower. After hundreds of years of wind and rain, there are still four or five feet high soil foundations, surrounded by a circle of rammed earth walls that are ten feet high. , forming a military fortress with beacon as the center. The fortress only opened a door to the south. The door is not big and can only pass through a large cart. If the low door hole is accidentally caught by riding a horse into the fort, it will touch the head and have turned into A pile of rotten wood castle gates were hidden, as if they would fall apart with just a touch.

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Chapter completed!