In the broken flint, the room against the north wall is the largest, and it is a large shop, where the flint sleeps at night, snoring and smelling, and the smell is also stinky, and you can touch each other's birds when you turn over.The south wall is divided into two rooms, one is the residence of Wu Bai and the assistant, and the other is the residence of the Suichang, although the eaves are low, there are no windows, and it is dim and dark, but Ren Hong also has a separate room, and there are two kangs, if there are officials to inspect, it is necessary to squeeze together with the Suichang.So last night, Chen Pengzu slept in a room with Ren Hong.Ren Hong was woken up by a flea bite, opened his clothes, and saw that his thighs were full of red envelopes, and he couldn't help but gasp, aren't these fleas hungry for many days after Liu Suichang's death?
Chen Pengzu was still sleeping soundly on another kang, so Ren Hong got up gently, leaving Chen Pengzu alone to feed the fleas.Today is the first day of the eighth month, and it is already mid-autumn, because the sky has just dawned, and the fog is rising in the river valley under the beacon, and if you don't wear a robe, you can feel a cold.But except for Yin Youqing and Zhao Hu'er, who were on duty last night, they were making up for sleep, and almost everyone in the broken fire got up, and when Ren Hong went out, he saw the assistant Song Wan chopping firewood, and Qian Luluo was cooking on the fire.And Lü Guangsu and Zhang Qianren were returning from the west of Fengsui.Zhang Qianren still takes the black dog with him wherever he goes, and after he ate a small piece of preserved meat from Ren Hong yesterday, he didn't bark when he saw him, but only got closer and sniffed."
Ren Suichang got up early."
Zhang Qianren greeted him, and he and Lu Guangsu were carrying buckets with flat poles, walking slowly towards Fengsui, occasionally splashing water, leaving a little mark on the dry winding path.Because of the high location, Po Sui could not dig a well, and the water needed every day had to go to Heihaizi, two miles to the west.This lake is the Haranoer Lake that has dried up in Dunhuang in later generations, but now it is still rippling, the Dang River and the Shule River continue to flow in, and there are many reeds and poplar forests on the bank, blocking the desert's invasion of Dunhuang.Therefore, the surrounding environment of Po Sui is still good, at least stronger than the lonely beacon in the depths of the Gobi, and can occasionally shoot wild animals, or fish in the lake.Lu Guangsu poured the water in the bucket into the big water tank in the yard, he was already tired and sweating, looking at the hard-won water, Ren Hong was embarrassed to wash his hair with this water, so he just wiped his face casually and rinsed his mouth.He immediately came to the beacon, which was also made of rammed loess, mixed with sagebrush and red willow, and the walls were coated with horse dung and plastered with a layer of white ash.This beacon is almost four zhang high, equivalent to the three floors of the later generations, and is also divided into three floors: the bottom layer is the stove, a total of four stoves, all connected with the center of the beacon, in this way, the whole beacon is equivalent to a big chimney, during the day to see the Huns approaching, you can burn firewood or wolf smoke alarm.Ascend the stairs to the second floor, where there are simple couches covered with sheepskins, where the night watchmen rest, and small holes in the walls for observing movement outside, or for setting up crossbows to aim.When Ren Hong climbed to the top, he found that his eyes suddenly opened up.He could see the Great Wall stretching to the left and right, like a long snake winding its way, crawling over the barren Gobi, blocking the flowing sand dunes, stopping at the salt-alkali flats of the white flowers, avoiding the rippling waters of Lake Haranoer, and leaping up the steep platform of another beacon two or three kilometers away.Protected by the Great Wall, it is a flat and empty field, you can see the Dunhuang oasis from afar, and the farmland in the central Duwei Tunshu District is connected with each other, the cooking smoke curls, and the chickens and dogs smell each other in the Lu.Blocked by the Great Wall are the desolate Gobi and grasslands, where a long river flows north of the Great Wall and finally joins Lake Haranor.It was the Shule River of later generations, which came from the Qilian Snow Mountain, creating a long and narrow river valley in the north of Dunhuang.The loess ravines on both sides of the river valley are vertical and horizontal, and the strange mounds and sand beams carved by the wind are interspersed, and near the riverbed, there are also poplar forests that are gradually turning yellow, and you can also see wild beasts that do not know whether they are deer or sheep running during the period Ren Hong is sure that as a border soldier, he is standing on the border of the Han Empire, and the desolate scenery brings a sense of loneliness."
The flint is here."
Someone came up along the beacon, but it was Wu Baihan who dared to do it, and it was his turn to guard the flint during the day today.Seeing Han Dangdang, Ren Hong remembered what he said last night: "I was a pawn in Chang'an when I was in witchcraft, and it happened that Prince Wei raised troops and the officials followed, so we became rebels in a daze, and later Emperor Xiaowu ordered that the officials were not out of their own hearts, but were held hostage and persecuted by Prince Wei, and they all migrated to Dunhuang County." ”There are at least two or three thousand people who have been exiled to Dunhuang like this, and Han Dangdang is not the first one Ren Hong has encountered.Ren Hong didn't say that he was Ren An's grandson, but said that his family was also implicated because of witch Gu, and with this relationship, Han Dangdang was a lot more ardent towards him."
Is it the first time for Ren Suichang to go to Fengsui?"
Han Dangdang skillfully introduced: "The four walls are the thief holes, which can shoot arrows and detect the enemy's situation. ”"On the left and right of the beacon is the fire tube, according to the position of the adjacent beacon on the left and right, the flint can come and see."
Ren Hong squatted down and put his eyes in front of the copper torch, and sure enough, he was fixed facing the "Ling Hu Sui" three kilometers to the west and the "Guanghan Sui" two kilometers to the east.Han Dangdang was an old soldier, and introduced: "The Han and Hungarian wars for decades, the Hu people are not stupid, they have long figured out the beacon signal of the Han army, so they often forge the beacon smoke, and when the Hun Ye Marquis Zhao Ponu, the general of the second division attacked the Xiongnu, he suffered a big loss, so that the whole army was wiped out.When the Xiongnu wanted to enter the fortress, they also often used this trick, coming to the border fortress to light torches or firewood and grass piles, in order to forge beacon fires or accumulate salaries, and make a good noise to attack the west. ”"So in the past ten years, the beacon has set up a torch to clarify the location of the adjacent beacon, so that the Xiongnu will not be able to deceive us because of the wrong location.""
I see."
Ren Hong was amazed after hearing this, it turned out that this small object actually contained the Han and Hungarian border game confrontations for decades, you have a good plan, I have a wall ladder, I really used up the wisdom of the two clans.As for the types of beacon tobacco products that Han Dangdang introduced to him next, it was simply the ancient Morse code!
Han Dangdang said that Feng Sui Li has a total of 5 kinds of beacon products: beacon, watch, cigarette, borage fire, and accumulated salary, which have different functions.Feng is a straw or wooden frame covered with cloth; The table is a cloth flag; The smoke is the column of smoke that rises from the chimney of the chimney; These three are used during the day.Borage fire is used at night to light reed torches.The accumulation of wages is outside the beacon, the stacks of firewood and straw piled up, used day and night, burning during the day and seeing its smoke, and at night it is a raging fire.While speaking, Han Dangdang looked up at the sun and said, "Ridongzhong, it's time to raise the watch." ”As he spoke, he asked Ren Hong to help, raised the red cloth flag leaning against the beacon wall, and shook it for a long time.And through the fire hole, Ren Hong saw that the adjacent beacons were also raising their watches."
When the east is in the middle of the day, in the middle of the west of the day, and when there is a sunset meal, raise the watch three times to confirm that the adjacent beacons are safe, and if the other side does not respond, you have to send someone to check."
Fengsui is by no means alone, but each other is the horn, watching each other, Ren Hong bowed his head, but asked: "What if it is wind, sand, rain, snow and fog?"
”Han Dare to be a stall hand: "Then there is no way, so in the past ten years, the Huns have invaded the border, often picking the time when the weather is bad." ”Then he told Ren Hong about the "borage fire" to be held at night, and the borage was of course not lettuce, but a torch tied into a bundle with reeds."
Borage is divided into endive, endive, and four-foot endive, Ren Jun has inspected the firewood house, and there are three hundred endives and nine hundred endives in it, all of which are tied by the reeds we cut down by the lake on weekdays."
Ren Hong bowed his head: "Chen Pengzu gave me a beacon fire appointment for the waiting officer, and I memorized it in my spare time along the way, you see if what I said is accurate." ”As he spoke, he recited: "Whoever hears the sound of captives and horses at night, or sees captives ten miles outside the fortress, hold up a beacon during the day and a fire at night, and do not burn the salary." ”"If you see a captive within ten miles of the outside of the fortress, and more than ten people, you will raise two beacons during the day and two fires at night, and burn one accumulated salary.""
If you see a captive entering the fortress, more than 500 people, you will raise two beacons during the day, and two fires at night, and burn two accumulated salaries.""
Capture the pavilion barrier, more than 500 people, less than 1,000 people, raise three beacons during the day, raise three orican fires at night, and burn a salary.""
Those who attack the pavilion barrier, more than 2,000 people, raise three beacons during the day, raise three fires at night, and burn three salaries."
Different combinations indicate different enemy situations, and more complicated is where the enemy comes from according to the various waiting officers, and how complex and complicated it is to use different types of borage fire and different colors of smoke.But this is a password that every Sui, assistant, Wu Bai, and every three Suii officials must be proficient in.If the wrong signal is sent, the punishment is extremely severe.What's even more terrifying is that if the beacon signal is wrong, the reinforcement will not be effective, and the reinforcement army will be in danger of being wiped out, which will eventually cause the Xiongnu to enter the fortress and kill and plunder the people."
All right, no mistakes!"
After Ren Hongyuan finished memorizing the original book, the more Han Dangdang listened, the more surprised he became: "Suichang is really good to remember, it took me a year to memorize these appointments." ”Ren Hong said with a smile: "It's one thing to remember, it's another thing to be able to use it accurately and quickly, for example, now, if Hu Lu suddenly appears" Before the words fell, a warning came from the second floor of Fengsui."
There are Hu horses outside the plug!"
PS: The relevant information comes from Juyan Han Jian's Beacon Offering