Chapter 889 Red Fire
On the straight road on the east bank of the Liao River, a black-clothed light armored cavalry was running rapidly, gradually entering the canyon between mountains.
It was the morning light in the darkness. In the light of the light, the canyon between the two mountains was like a huge monster, opening its mouth to swallow clouds and mist. This is the famous canyon in Liaodong. At the west exit of this canyon is the wide Liao River. If you cross the river, you will be a continuous swamp of three hundred miles. If you pass the swamp, you will be a famous Liaoxi Corridor to the Central Plains.
But to the east of this canyon, it is straight away from the new city. To the south is the center of Liaodong. Now, the capital of Dachen, Tokyo, Liaoyang City, is to the north, Jinshan City, and further north is to the intersection of Khitan, Shiwei, Mohe, and Liaodong.
Although this canyon, which is more than 20 miles long, is not considered a natural fortress, it becomes more important because it connects the western Liaoning Corridor from east to west and connects Liaoyang, Xincheng, Jinshan, and Fuyu from north to south.
Especially a few years ago, Chen Dynasty Emperor Chen Kefu, with a hasty new army, ambushed the 180,000 Goguryeo's army in this canyon. After a few days of battle, he finally won a crucial victory in controlling Liaodong, Jinshan Canyon was changed to Dashengguan Canyon.
Three years ago, Chen's army dispatched an army to station here and recruited 100,000 civilians to build a city and build a pass. To this day, a huge Dasheng Pass city has been established near the Liaohe River exit to the west of Jinshan Canyon.
Dasheng Pass is not only an extremely strong and huge prismatic fortress city, but also built a majestic iron chain suspension bridge on the Liaohe River with Dasheng Pass on the east bank as a stronghold, which greatly facilitates the transportation between Liaodong and western Liaoning. Moreover, the eastern part of the bridge is directly built in a cabin of Dasheng Pass. Sticking to Dasheng Pass not only guards the canyon, but also guards the passage between Liaodong and western Liaoning at the same time.
At the eastern exit of the canyon and in the canyon, Chen Jun also built eight smaller castles in a row. Chen Jun attached great importance to this important gateway to the capital Liaoyang City. After several constructions, the Dashengguan Canyon is now completely like Tongguan in Chang'an City and Tiger Prison in Luoyang City. It firmly protects the gateway of Liaoyang.
There is a natural danger of the Liaohe River in front of the east, and now there is a great victory pass. In addition, the Xiaoliao River, Xiaoliang River in the east, as well as the new city, Jinshan, Anshi, and Baiyan cities, the current accompanying capital Liaoyang City is surrounded by mountains, with natural dangers, surrounding the mountains, and beside the Bohai Sea, it can be said to be the most solid rear of the Dachen. At that time, the prime minister of the court also considered the melee of the world and managed the Liaoyang accompanying capital, and it was not a plan to leave a way out.
However, the situation in the Central Plains was very good, which made the ministers of the court feel that they were a little too nervous at the beginning. However, now as the biggest war in the Central Plains approaches, the court has made more arrangements for the war. The Dasheng Pass, which had been leisurely for several years, received several serious military orders from the imperial court's Secretariat, the staff headquarters, and the twenty-four guard generals, which made the Chen army general Zhenguo and the Zhendong Hou, who were guarding here, had to get serious.
Chen Huo also understood what the marshals meant. This war was of great importance. If the court failed, it would be different whether the Central Plains could maintain it. But even if it was kept, the situation of the court would not be good. By then, Liaodong would be the most stable foundation of the court. Therefore, at this time, the importance of Liaodong became more prominent, and the Great Victory Pass, as the gateway to Liaodong, was of course even more important.
Although Linyu Pass, the gateway between western Liaoning and Central Plains, Chen Feng has recently stepped up the training of the defenders. Just as dawn, a loud trumpet sounded from the barracks of nine large and small castles in Dasheng Pass, and the whole army went out to exercise.
The horn just blew the first time, and the drum rang out a few times.
This is the sound of the drums named at the time of Mao. Those who have not yet arrived will be punished very severely. At the least, they can be beaten to the board. When it is in this tense atmosphere, they may even be a typical example of the tree. It is possible to be exiled to exile and beheaded.
When the Chen-shaped flag on the city was waving in the wind, and the gate guarding the gate led a team of soldiers to open the gate on time, the team of black light armored knights rushed to the front of the pass. Two huge iron gates made of iron juice were pulled by the four cows, which led the winch to slowly open the city gate. The cavalry that arrived did not stop at all. Several people stepped down the horses and let out a light roar, and jumped into the crack of the city gate that had just opened the line.
This action caused several defenders on the top of the city to cheer. Although the city gate captain had already seen the Chen army's standard armor on several cavalrymen, he still dutifully led the soldiers to stop the few people: "Who?"
"Yu Zheng, the chief military officer of the Gendarmerie Department of the Aides Head Office, is in urgent need of military information!"
After saying that, the knight immediately took out a copper token from his arms and pointed to a bright red armband on his arm. The style of this armband was the standard style of the military police that made the Chen army soldiers fear on the battlefield.
The gendarmerie is not ordinary soldiers. They belong to the staff headquarters and directly to the Marshal's Chief of Staff. However, in fact, the black-clothed gendarmerie of these military police departments cannot even command the staff chief Li Benlei. They nominally belong to the staff headquarters. But in fact, all the soldiers of the Chen army know that these black-clothed gendarmerie and three other famous organizations, the Special Service Department, the Investigation Department, and the Security Department are all directly under the command of His Majesty the Emperor himself.
Although the gendarmeries in the Gendarmerie Department often assume the responsibility of supervising the battlefield and conducting discipline inspections in peacetime. However, since they are directly subordinates of the emperor, their status has been greatly improved. Speaking of which, these black-clothed gendarmeries are second only to those guards in the imperial guards. Among the officers and soldiers of the Gendarmerie Department, there are not many good people.
When he heard that the person in front of him was a military policeman, and he was actually a captain who was at least a squadron leader, the captain of the city gate immediately became much more polite. He also spoke with a little pleasing tone. After carefully checking the token three times and the identities of everyone, he immediately registered and released it.
In the morning light, several military policemen quickly passed through Dasheng Pass City like dark clouds and rushed into the Dasheng Pass Canyon that was dozens of miles long. The knights were no longer visible. The city gate captain was still looking in that direction. His eyes were full of envy for the small military police team.
In the canyons of more than twenty cities, the fifth company of the military police squad passed through nine castles and finally arrived on the Liaodong cable bridge.
The wide opposite bank of the Liao River is western Liaoning.
For hundreds of years, although Liaodong has nominally belonged to the Central Plains dynasty, in fact, the real control of most dynasties stopped on the west bank of the Liao River. Even before the Great Sui War in Goguryeo, the Goguryeo people had already secretly developed to the west bank of the Liao River. It was precisely because of this that the Great Sui Dynasty was so intolerant of Goguryeo and insisted on destroying it quickly.
Today, both sides of the Liao River have been controlled by the Dachen River, and the newly built Dasheng Pass is on the east bank of the Liao River. On the west bank of the Liao River, there are the three towns in western Liao that were built when Yang Guang conquered Goguryeo three times.
Tongding, Huaiyuan and Luhe towns were the advance bases for the Sui army to attack Liao.
Luhe Town is on the left, Tongding Town is on the right, and Huaiyuan Town is on the middle. Although these three towns are called towns, they are actually very large and have high walls. Especially since Chen Kefu started his western Liaoning, due to a large number of immigrants, the three originally pure military fortresses gradually moved in with many civilians, gradually developed into three huge towns, and now they have become the government garrisons of the three prefectures in western Liaoning.
However, although many civilians gradually moved in, the three towns still had many troops stationed. Once the war broke out here, these three towns could be transformed into the most solid frontline fortress in Liaodong at any time.
When the military police team arrived at Huaiyuan Town, it was already bright. In the morning breeze, many people, fishermen, woodcutters, hunters, merchants, etc. had already begun to leave the city one after another.
The cavalry team's speed did not decrease. The head lieutenant took out a small red flag from the horse's bag and inserted it on his back. When approaching the city gate, he shouted: "Golden messenger, emergency military information, pedestrians should give in!"
The defenders at the city gate had seen the squad running towards him. After only a glance, he could see that the horse knight's back represented the most urgent Red Fire Flag. The messenger who lights the Red Fire Flag cannot be delayed at all. Otherwise, the messenger has the right to kill all those who block it and is not guilty.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way, get out of the way." The city gate officer shouted loudly, asking everyone to give up a passage for the messenger.
The military police team entered the city with a Pegasus. Today, Huaiyuan Town is obviously much tighter than before. Along the way, there are almost three steps, one post, five steps, and one whistle. From time to time, you can see gorgeous officers wearing bright silver armor and golden armor patrolling the horses on the street.
The military police officer carried the Red Fire Flag and arrived at the military camp in the north of the city smoothly. As soon as he arrived at the gate of the military camp, he was immediately blocked. The officer at the gate turned a blind eye to the Red Fire Flag on him.
The military police officer said directly: "The Chang'an Five-Star Red Fire Army, which was just sent by the Flying Eagle in Luoyang, was urgently reported!"
The officer guarding the gate of the camp was wearing bright golden armor. He raised his eyebrows when he heard this and said in surprise: "Your Majesty has given him a long time ago. No need to inform the letters from the Special Service Department and the Secretariat. Please follow me!"
The military police officer left several subordinates in the camp, followed the Golden Armored Guards through several barracks, and finally came to a slightly larger but very ordinary tent in the middle. A young officer in front of the tent was sitting at the entrance of the tent like a statue, with a horizontal knife on his hands on the ground.
If the Golden Armored Guard had not brought him here personally, the military police officer would have been a little unbelievable. When the Emperor of Chen and the king of a country were inspecting Huaiyuan, he would have settled in such an ordinary small tent. You know, he was also from the Great Sui imperial guard and had also been Yang Guang's guard. When Yang Guang was in power, he inspected outside all year round. In that scene, hundreds of thousands of people were always moving, and he would pull wherever he went.
"Your Majesty, Chang'an Special Service Department urgently reported it!" The young general at the tent glanced at the letter handed over by the military police officer and said loudly to the middle of the tent.
With a "bang", something seemed to have been knocked down in the tent. A burst of rapid footsteps heard, and the owner of the tent was already coming out quickly. In the bright morning light, he was wearing a peacock woven gold fur, with some fatigue at the corners of his eyes, and a short beard that was long and long under his jaw. His whole body was full of strength, heroism and calmness. The person who came was none other than Da Chen, the emperor of Da Chen, the object of loyalty to hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and the admirer of countless soldiers.
"Is there finally news?" Chen Kefu murmured at the secret service intelligence in General Yulin Chen Lei's hand.
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