Dakang, a major defense center in the northern area, Datong City.

Beacon has already ignited this morning.

You can see the gradually burning torches and wolf smoke at the Great Wall defense line that stretches for hundreds of miles in one breath.

As the garrison general of Datong City, after receiving more than ten letters from flying pigeons, Lu Zhengxiang immediately ordered all enemy platforms, Lucheng, fortress, fortress, and acropolis to immediately enter the most emergency state.

Once the enemy attacks, he will fight for one soldier and one soldier.

Datong City immediately entered an emergency alert state, and each city gate was evacuated urgently. Except for the two large city gates that can enter and exit, the rest were closed, and a huge jack was lowered to prevent anyone from opening from the inside and connecting the inside and outside.

At the same time, he sent five thousand cavalry to start various searches and investigations around Datong City, striving not to have any beggars ambushed around him. If a sudden attack would be tragic.

After all this preparation, Lu Zhengxiang and Xie Xuhua, the prefect of Datong Prefecture, signed the name on the report document together.

Ten carrier pigeons flew quickly towards the Taiyuan Prefecture Border Army General's Mansion, Makino City, where the Governor's Mansion is located, and the Beijing War Department.

Looking at the carrier pigeons disappearing from the sky above the city wall, Lu Zhengxiang said to Xie Xuhua: "Wu Dong, the city defense here will be temporarily handed over to you. I want to go to the side wall to see the specific situation."

Xie Xuhua frowned and said, "What are you doing now? The beacon tower has been fully opened, proving that the enemy is at least 50,000. If you make any mistakes, who can take charge of resisting the overall situation?"

Lu Zhengxiang said: "Don't worry, we have already gone to the letter with Lord Xiong. He can enter Taiyuan City in up to three days. As long as he starts to set off, Zhu Junlihui will lead the Imperial Guards and Shi Zhengyi will lead the border troops to come at the same time. At that time, they will be able to command the entire Datong defense.

No matter how bad I am, after all, I have been here for so long, and I can fight for everyone in three or five days.”

Shi Zhengyi is Shi Wanliang, a general of the border army on the northern defense line, and is a third-rank official. He is stationed in Taiyuan on weekdays and has an army of 100,000, Yulin, Datong, Zhangjiakou and other areas, and he is responsible for the defense.

Zhu Jun named Zhu Xingjun. He was a bigger name. He was the general of the Cavalry Guard. He was a second-rank senior official and led 25,000 imperial guards to station in Zhending on weekdays.

According to their position, Shi Zhengyi should arrive first, and Zhu Jun arrives after the meeting.

Xie Xuhua looked at him and sighed: "But you are always in danger. Qiyan has not been moving for many years. Now that the army is suddenly approaching, the situation is not good!"

"It is precisely because of this that I have to inquire about the specific situation, otherwise I will not know anything. We are like blind people, how to defend the border." Lu Zhengxiang said firmly, "I will take three thousand people out, and there are still 17,000 people in the city.

As long as you ensure that the city gate is closed when the signal arrives, you should not open the door at any time except Zhu Junli, Shi Zhengyi arrives, or Governor Xiong arrives. This is a great achievement."

"All right!"

Xie Xuhua did not have the qualifications to interfere in military affairs, so he could only nod: "Deyuan, be careful in everything! Only by maintaining a useful body can you have a future!"

Lu Zhengxiang laughed: "Don't worry, my new concubine has only been married for a few months, and she hasn't gotten her belly bigger yet. She has spread her branches and leaves for my Lu family. How can I bear to die?"

After saying that, he waved his hand and took his group of his men down the city tower.

Looking at his back as he was leaving, Xie Xuhua took a deep breath and gave orders to his subordinates.

"Order the villages, towns, towns, and mayors to issue mobilization orders, and once they are attacked by the enemy, they will immediately evacuate urgently."

"Appoint Yungang, Yunzhou and other places to prepare for accepting the fugitives, and all of them must be stored in the city, and there must be no refusal."

"I ordered the police yamen to investigate the city, and all suspicious people were arrested and arrested, especially Qiyan's caravan, who would invite them to prison. Those who dared to resist and attack would be killed without mercy."

"Order the Armory to start investigating military supplies immediately, report all data to my case within half a day, and compare it with the inventory data. Once more than 10% of the errors are made, all relevant personnel will be killed immediately and all the families will be imprisoned and exiled."

"Please come and see me, and I want to discuss defense strategies with them."

"I would like to ask all the presidents of the Chamber of Commerce, the gentry in the city, and the officials who have retired and returned home to come to the prefect's office to attend the banquet at noon."

“…”

The officials ran away quickly.

Xie Xuhua looked at the remaining officials around him and turned around and bowed to his subordinates and said, "Everyone! Maybe this time will usher in the most dangerous moment. I have the determination to kill myself. I hope you can also hold on to the last moment for my Emperor Dakang and the people of the world."

The comrade Chen Lian next to him gave in and bowed and said, "Brother Wu Dong, if there really is one day, I am willing to go to the national crisis with you!"

"The hometown of Huyi is here. My wife, children, brothers and sisters all live here. My parents and ancestors are buried here. How can I abandon them and escape alone?" An official next to him also bowed and laughed: "If there is something wrong, Huyi must at least lead to a man of the rank of beggars and die together. This is enough."

"So too!"

"The officials are definitely not cowards!"

“…”

A group of officials expressed their firm beliefs, regardless of whether they were afraid or not.

Most of their hometowns are either Datong Prefecture or towns around Shanxi.

Once Datong Mansion fails, the entire Shanxi Taiban will become a hunting ground for the Qiyan tribe, and all the relatives and friends in the family will basically be unable to escape.

They cannot afford such losses, so they try their best to resist the mantras of begging for the sake of harming their families and friends.

When people reach their age, they have to bear too much and they can't give up at all.

When Xie Xuhua saw everyone expressing this, he smiled faintly: "In this way, please do your own job! We will go to the prefect's office to entertain the gentry and fellow villagers later! If you want to defend Datong City, the support of these fellow villagers is inseparable!"

"yes!"

Everyone responded to the destiny.

They did not have much concern about these gentry and fellow villagers.

Almost all of these people's families and business deals are in the city, including their families.

The old merchants in the gentry village were more closely tied to this town than they did, and this group of people could not be careless.

The guards and private guards in the hands of these people can be concentrated as soon as possible as the garrison for the city defense.

Everyone is a person who knows the truth, so it is impossible for anyone to act as an insider for begging for the beggar.

Even if they are willing, their subordinates cannot be traitors wholeheartedly, and someone will inevitably report them.

In addition, Xie Xuhua also wanted to mobilize the supplies from these people.

Although the entire Datong City has a lot of materials, food and weapons, who knows how long this battle will take?

If you are besieged for three or five months, there may not be much food problem, but the weapons, equipment, medical products, etc. will definitely be in short supply. At these times, local snakes are needed to provide supplies.

In addition, it also stabilizes people's hearts.

Only with their continuous cooperation with the government can the people feel at ease and not go crazy before they can make a comeback.

...

The setting of Dakang border continued the foundation of the previous dynasty and then improved it.

Specifically in the Datong defense line, Datong City, Acropolis, So Fort, garrison, road city, enemy tower, beacon tower, and border wall, combined into the Great Wall defense line.

Among them, the side wall is the Great Wall as everyone knows.

The Great Wall's side wall has no specific use because it does not have a city defense system to support it.

At most, it will make it difficult for invading enemies to pass and exit easily.

Sometimes, after entering the grassland people like to destroy the walls here, so as not to form obstacles when withdrawing.

Then Dakang continued to follow and continued to repair the side wall, so that there could be a place to block it.

This is a simple project of demolishing and repairing walls.

Next, the grassland people only encounter difficulties when they enter the side wall.

First of all, the beacon tower is built on various commanding heights. Their function is to discover enemies and issue alarms as soon as possible.

Usually there are fifty sergeants in a beacon tower equipped with various weapons and food that can be used to resist for a long time.

Of course, when you are fine, people in the grassland are not willing to climb so high to demolish the beacon tower. It is too unprofitable. The key is that you have no specific use to build the beacon tower and waste time.

When the beacon tower walks inside, there is an enemy tower with dozens of meters between them, the fortress and the fortress.

The enemy platform, the garrison fort and the Fortress are similar. As the name suggests, they are bunkers of different sizes. The large ones can accommodate hundreds of people, while the small ones can accommodate thirty or fifty people.

Where there are hillsides, there must be enemy platforms, garrisons and sau Forts. Where there is a dangerous terrain, if there is no hillside, a hillside must be built, and then garrisons and sau Forts are built on it.

In this way, once the enemy passes by, the condescending enemy platform, garrison and fortress can attack them with bows and crossbows.

Once they want to remove the enemy platform one by one, they will inevitably fall into cruel and violent killing battles, and casualties are usually greater than those of the guards.

And it is often easy to lose sight of one thing.

Because the farthest of these enemy platforms is about 100 meters in the fortress and the fortress, and often only 30 to 50 meters is one, so they can still support each other.

Then there must be an acropolis in the center of almost one hundred enemy platforms, the fortress and the Fortress.

The Acropolis is also in the most critical place. If you want to attack Taiyuan City, you must unplug the Acropolis again.

There are 3,000 to 5,000 people in each acropolis. The various defensive materials in the acropolis are more abundant. If the morale is high, 10,000 or 20,000 people will be killed or injured.

If this continues to be consumed, how many people in the Qiyan tribe will fill these holes?

Finally, it is the biggest boss on the road - Datong City!

There are 200,000 to 300,000 residents and 20,000 troops in Datong City. If you add a strong man, you can at least 50,000.

The city defense facilities in Datong are also very complete, with the city wall being more than five meters high, and there is also a layer of arrow tower and fortress behind the city wall, which can be connected to the city wall.

Even if the enemy kills the city wall, they can shoot arrows behind to kill the enemy.

If there were no traitors and the lack of siege equipment outside, the Qiyan people who wanted to conquer Datong City would lose 30,000 or 50,000 casualties, would be even less than 10,000 yuan.

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After such a battle, even if there are no reinforcements on the entire Great Wall defense line in Datong City, the Qiyan people must pay at least 100,000 casualties to break through this line of defense.

Which tribe of Qiyan has more than 100,000 elite soldiers?

Even if seven or eight tribes come together, are they not selfish?

Who would have been willing to throw their strong tribes here?

So so far, the Datong defense line has not been completely broken once.

I don’t know how many people have praised Emperor Taizu’s defensive methods!

Of course, the people of Qiyan, Uighurs, Western Qiang and Shiwei do not agree.
Chapter completed!