Last year's snow water soaked the soil, and green grass emerged from the soil.
Su Ce and his party pulled the carriage. The soft grass made the carriage difficult to move. Despite the wind and rain, Su Ce arrived at the garrison on time.
The fort was built on a round mound, with a square wall of fifteen feet on a side located at the highest point of the mound.
It is better to say that it is a round hill than a large circular platform.
The adobe garrison stands abruptly in the middle of a green grassland, with the towering Daqian military flag fluttering in the spring breeze.
The comrades of the previous garrison had already packed their luggage and handed over documents. Su Ce also had a preliminary understanding of this garrison.
Yuanqiu garrison is named after it is located on a round hill that is ten feet high and one hundred feet in diameter.
This kind of terrain is already considered dangerous on the grassland, and the ingenious design allows the domes and forts to form a complete two-layer defense.
The outer layer is a dome, a small slope, and a watchtower. The bottom edge of the dome was dug out to make adobe material for the fort. There is a small cliff with a vertical height of three meters, and above it is a low wall made of soil and grass. On the first floor, it was obvious that this was not built overnight. It should have been erected spontaneously by the garrison soldiers.
The low wall is dotted with three five-meter-high watchtowers, one each due east, due north, and due west. The five meters of the watchtower itself plus the three meters of the earth cliff are eight meters high from the grassland. This is already a junior high school. The walls of the great city are high.
The only way to go up to the dome is a small slope on the south side. Two two-foot-high watchtowers fall on the small slope, and wooden rows serve as doors to connect the two watchtowers, which together with the low wall form the outer layer of defense.
The inner layer of defense was the fort itself. A trench was dug around the fort, and short sharpened logs were inserted into the trench, leaving only a one-foot-wide gap at the north fort gate.
A simple retractable wooden bridge is arranged in the north of the fort, which means that if you want to enter the fort after going up the round hill, you have to go around a circle.
Outside the trench and between the low wall is cultivated land, which extends along the slope to the low wall.
Compared with the two-foot watchtower on the southern slope, the fort seems less worthy of its name. It is only five meters high.
Entering the fort, one-foot-tall bungalows are arranged along the fort wall. The roof is connected to the fort wall, and the roof can be climbed during battle. This structure is very labor-saving.
Behind the one-meter-thick garrison wall is a large roof two feet wide, allowing the defenders a wide space to move during battle.
The ten-foot-long row of houses on the south side does not receive sunlight and is inhabited by no one. It is a row of stables with a wide space.
What satisfied Su Ce most was that there were two wells in the fort. The wellheads surrounded by blue bricks reminded Su Ce of the wells in his hometown.
The four corners of the fort are square arrow towers, which are also stairs to the roof.
The whole fort looks like the word "Hui", and I don't know which general built it back then.
The other houses in the garrison are very spacious and are in the shape of suites. All the houses are two feet wide and four feet long on the north side. They are divided into two rooms with walls. The inner room is for people and the outer room is for working and storing things. Xiao Guicao Then, the east wing in the north is Su Ce's room, and the west wing is the room of the two cooks.
There are six rooms more than three meters long in the east and west rows, four of which are occupied by people. The two in the middle are used for food and grass in the east and weapons and sundries in the west.
In the center is a flat land ten feet long and wide, which has been trampled very smoothly. Regular drainage channels will flow through the fort wall to the trench outside, blocking the enemy and watering the ground.
After allocating rooms, Su Ce did not rush to clean up his place, but carefully inspected the inside and outside of the fort.
Su Ce, who went back to tidy up his house, couldn't help but sigh, there is really no comparison between the beacon fort and the garrison. If this garrison is repaired, the outer low walls are repaired, and some houses are built, the general garrison cannot compare.
Big ambitions can be seen in small places. The Guan Town where we stayed briefly last time and the current garrison all have traces of artificial construction on the periphery.
An idea suddenly popped up in his mind, which really shocked Su Ce. Daqian had never thought of using Wuding River as a defensive barrier, but wanted to turn it into a town like the mainland.
There is no fixed river for thousands of miles. The Anbei Protectorate built one mansion and ten cities, with 108 towns and 324 beacons in 36 towns on the north bank. There were 120,000 troops stationed on the south bank.
This was not a simple border guard, definitely not. Su Ce seemed to have touched the emperor whose reputation for benevolence and righteousness spread throughout the world.
The contemporary emperors are unparalleled in their benevolence, frugality, kindness, and tolerance... These are all known to Su Ce, known to the people of Daqian, and known to all civil and military officials of Daqian.
Since there is benevolence and righteousness, why bother with war!
Su Ce wiped the sweat from his forehead. He didn't know whether he was sweating from cleaning up the house or was shocked by the emperor's majestic ambition.
No, no one is a fool. None of the civil and military officials who came from the government army are idiots. They all probably saw the emperor's ambition. Oh, benevolence and righteousness are just a disguise, or the emperors of Daqian are only benevolent and righteous to their own people.
No matter what, Su Ce had no objection. Such an empire was the ideal empire in Su Ce's mind.
According to the old practice, troops were sent to the north in May. Now it is mid-April. The Northern Army of Daqian'an will definitely not forget the more than 30,000 casualties on the north bank of the Wuding River last year.
Blood-stained hatred can only be washed away with blood.
However, these have little to do with Su Ce. He is not in his position and does not pursue his political affairs. The main business now is to guard this fortress.
Anbeicheng had a meal of mutton, and Su Ce also remembered the names of his subordinates.
One group, leader, Wang Yong of Guannai Road.
The second group, leader, Zhang Li, Hedong Road.
Broad shoulders conceal bravery.
The twenty garrison soldiers are also good soldiers who have experienced the hard life of the beacon fort.
Just a few steps away, Su Ce went to find Wang Yong and said straight to the point: "Dianmao!"
Wang Yong and Zhang Li nodded in response: "No!"
"Beep beep beep..." The copper piece vibrated violently in the copper pipe with the air flow, making a harsh whistle.
It's a mule or a horse coming out for a walk!
Su Ce counted silently in his mind. As soon as he counted to ninety, twenty garrison soldiers stood neatly in a small square formation of five people in a row.
The two rows of garrison soldiers in the front wear iron armor, and the two rows of garrison soldiers in the back wear leather armor.
Everyone held the horizontal sword in their left hand and held the spear in their free right hand. The spear stood upright on the ground.
Su Ce circled around the phalanx. Everyone had their bows and crossbows ready, and the flat quiver was placed on his right waist.
After Su Ce had gone around, he couldn't find any faults, so he went to the palace to select a front man. It was not just a matter of registering names. After two years, he would become a qualified soldier.
Those who have not received the order to select the frontier are collectively called the reserve soldiers. Taking Su Ce as an example, the Zhechong Mansion in Hangzhou is the Shangfu. There are 1,200 soldiers, divided into three phases, with 400 people in each phase, one year. There are only four hundred forward selection orders available.
Now Su Ce is rotating in Anbei Protectorate, and he will still return to Hangzhou Zhechong Prefecture in three years. Because Su Ce is affiliated to Hangzhou Zhechong Prefecture, this is his origin, and it is also a label imprinted on Su Ce.
Su Ce's batch had more than 3,000 people, and every training would eliminate many people. In the end, only 300 were left to choose forwards and become government soldiers. In two years, they had to learn military discipline, basic military formations, swords, guns, and crossbows. Use is the foundation of foundations.
There are two trainings in one year, spring and autumn. Those who can persist for two years have already integrated military discipline into their bones.
"The two groups are divided into four groups, one platoon is one group, and so on. They choose their own group leaders, and each group has three sentries. Each sentry lasts for an hour. If the group leader is not on duty, they patrol alternately, twice a day in the morning and evening. The bamboo sentry
, go up to the sentry and distribute, the whistle blows, everyone except the sentry wears armor, gather at the garrison campus. The fourth team, the first sentry! The third team is ready! The other two sentries, put the supplies in the warehouse! "
"promise!"
The normal order was given, and the five people in the first row walked out of the fort gate, one person in the watchtower, and the rest of the people went to do their own things. Su Ce did not need to give orders for these small things.
They are all people who have experienced life in Fengsui Castle. Everyone knows what they should do and when they should do it.