The rising sun was rising, and on the lush Gobi Desert, rebel corpses were scattered everywhere near the Changsheng Pillar where the base was built, and the blood was so dazzling in the dimness.
Hay, wolf dung, cow dung...the black smoke mixed together twists and rushes into the sky like a black dragon!
The moment the thousands of Shu troops looked at the majestic landscape of the black dragon soaring into the sky, it seemed as if something was put into their hearts. The heroic souls of the Central Plains soldiers who had been sleeping on the land of the Western Regions for thousands of years seemed to suddenly come to life at that moment.
The wind swept the black dragon towards the sky, and people dozens of miles away could see it clearly!
"This is the beacon smoke! Is this what the Han people call a warning of war smoke? It can be seen thousands of miles away in the capital..."
"Fuck! We can't leave this piece of soil that our ancestors knocked down in our hands! Fight over it and head towards the grid smoke pier!"
No one could have imagined how wise our ancestors were, and how fast the beacon warning was. Before these surprise Shu troops could get out of sight of Changsheng Dun, suddenly a dark shadow appeared in the north-west direction. .
The little herdsman warrior who had just joined the army had very good eyesight. He raised his hand and shouted, "That's the Geziyandun Station over there! The wolf smoke over there is lit..."
Geziyandun is an important checkpoint on the post road from Xingxingxia to Hami. There is also a thousand-year-old beacon tower left by the Han people here!
From the day they were built, the most important purpose of these Han beacon towers was to send war signals to the east. They had no other role.
Of course, Agub's rebels would not take the initiative to send smoke signals to the Central Plains. These rebels just used these ancient strategic locations as their checkpoints.
Since the Han Dynasty, the topographic map of the Western Regions has been speculated by countless strategists. The locations where these beacon towers and passes were built are very important strategic nodes.
Either it is easy to defend but difficult to attack, or it can control one side, or it can coordinate the city!
The rebels have no real strategy, let alone geologists. They are just like thieves, replacing a new group of defenders according to the defense system run by the Han people thousands of years ago.
These rebels have no idea what the use of the stones or mounds made by dry hammering is, but just because they don’t understand it doesn’t mean that the Han people and other ethnic groups who live here don’t understand!
After the beacon smoke was lit in Changsheng Dun, the slaves in Gezi Yan Dun understood what was going on at that time. People exchanged glances and knew what was happening without speaking.
"It is impossible for the rebels to light the beacon fire. Only we ourselves can light the beacon fire to report to the Eastern Central Plains... Mom, it must be Marshal Zuo's army that is coming!"
"That's right, the beacon smoke has been lit in Changsheng Dun, which means that Xingxing Gorge has been conquered!"
"The opportunity has come, it's time for us to go home..."
dare? Do it or not? Take action or not?
The more than fifty rebels had no idea what the more than three hundred slaves under their command were communicating, but they sensed a hint of danger from the low-pitched Chinese.
Snap... The whip hit the slave's back. "Untouchable...don't speak Chinese! Get to work quickly and move the rocks..."
Bah...he spat out "I'm not a pariah!"
Two slaves suddenly rushed forward. Their left hand and right hand were firmly tied together by leather ropes. This was one of the methods used by the rebels to guard slaves. The purpose was to prevent lone slaves from escaping secretly.
But today this leather rope has become their noose!
The dark leather cord suddenly wrapped around the rebel's neck, and the two men's crossed leather cords turned into a gallows!
"Go to hell... Folks, take action! The army from the east has already come... Light the beacon fire... Carry firewood and cow dung!"
If only one person had to act at this time, it would immediately ignite everyone's anger. The three hundred slaves shouted, "Fight them! Light a beacon to tell the people back home that we are here..."
"Kill... kill them... light the beacon fire and tell the army our location!"
The rebel's neck was almost strangled, his eyes were protruding like dead fish, his tongue was sticking out three inches long, and his feet were trembling and trembling on the ground.
The remaining slaves also attacked the rebels like crazy. These rebels never imagined that the slaves would dare to rebel. They were not mentally prepared at all.
Why is Aguba nicknamed the Butcher of Central Asia? It means that this person is very cruel and easy to kill. Every time he conquers a place, he will massacre at least one-third of the population. Some towns with fierce resistance will even be massacred completely.
Such a bloody rule made all the people dare not resist at all, which created an illusion of peace and obedience on the surface.
But he never knew that the massacre only made people's sense of resistance deeper. Once foreign aid arrived, the volcano would erupt even more ferociously!
Three hundred slaves united to attack the guards. They used stones, wooden sticks and even leather ropes as weapons, and almost lost their lives to grab the weapons and the keys to the dungeon.
More and more slaves were released, and the old and young were unable to fight, so they used all their strength to carry firewood and dried cow dung for the winter.
One-third of the lattice smoke mound has been weathered, the foundation has been more than half buried by sand, and the stairs inside have rotted away.
People climbed on a collapsed stone block as a step to carry dry firewood and cow dung!
"Ignite the fire! Tell the army our position... It can be regarded as surviving, and it can be regarded as struggling to save a life!"
The black dragon suddenly shot up into the sky from the grid smoke pier, echoing the Changsheng pier dozens of kilometers away!
"We are here...come and save us...wuwuwu...people from the Central Plains are here..." Three hundred slaves knelt around the beacon smoke and howled bitterly!
The corpses of more than fifty rebels were hung on the smoke pier, swaying back and forth in the northwest wind!
Treason! Restoration! How could there not be sacrifices of human life and blood to pay homage!
The sound of horse hooves was like thunder. Before the main force of the Hami rebels could react, the slaves in Geziyandun finally saw the vanguard of the Shu army coming from the east. The cries in the wasteland and Gobi were loud!
It is difficult to say clearly how far culture has penetrated the soil and water of a country!
A rebellion began here in Geziyandun, and slaves even risked their lives to light beacon smoke. However, in more places, the beacon fires left by the ancient Han people were actually just ruins.
More than 40 kilometers west of Geziyandun, there is a wasteland more than 50 kilometers south of Hami City. This place is close to the edge of the desert. Only very few herders live here, and even the rebels have not sent anyone to garrison.
There are ruins of a walled city here. The rebels don't know where this place used to be, but the older Han people and herdsmen know that this place has been called Changliuwei since the Ming Dynasty!
The addition of the word "WEI" after the name indicates that this place was once a small annexation station. Historically, this place should have been an early warning city guarding the southern gate of Hami.
But now there are only desolate ruins, with some traces of ruins buried under the yellow sand!
A herdsman wearing an old sheepskin coat rode a thin horse on the ruins and looked toward the distant east. The old man burst into tears!
He suddenly took out a broken sheepskin map from his arms, and what was drawn on it was a seasonal river and the name of Changliu Wei!
There are even small characters drawn in the eleventh year of Qianlong's reign in the lower corner of the sheepskin map!
This old herdsman is actually a descendant of the veterans left behind when Qianlong conquered the Western Regions!
