So a few days later, under the witness of a censor from Yushitaiyuan and a direct bachelor of the South Hall of the Privy Council/signing the letter, the Xijing branch held a meeting under the city wall at the southwest corner of Chang'an. A brief and low-key oath. Jiang Tian led a battalion of troops and set off.
Then, while traveling through Qizhou Zhouzhi territory in the southwest of Gyeonggi Province, they encountered a battalion (700/800 people) of well-equipped soldiers from Gangu and Fengshan military prefectures who were ordered to come to join and cooperate. After passing Luogukou, they joined the Youjin Wuwei two regiments (240/300 people) stationed here.
Therefore, after entering Luogu Road, Jiang Tian's command had already gathered 3,000 men and horses, as well as hundreds of carriages and horses loaded with equipment and food. In this way, even if there are any traps or ambushes along the way, we can rely entirely on the power of the army to bulldoze and crush them.
Of course, this was also the first time Jiang Tian led an army on an expedition in this time and space, so he specifically requested the Privy Council to appoint a deputy with rich military experience. Of course he does not lack experience in leading an army. In fact, in another time and space, he would have conquered almost half of the Kingdom of Zealand.
However, since you can take advantage of others and enjoy your leisure time, why should you bother yourself with everything, or work tirelessly to catch everything in detail? Therefore, he regarded the trip south more as an armed parade-style relaxation, and carefully observed the scenery along the way.
As the saying goes, Li Bai has a special poem: The road to Shu is difficult, and it is difficult to reach the sky. This is probably a reflection of his thoughts when he left Shu and traveled to the capital. However, now it seems to Jiang Tian that the legendary road to Shu is difficult and difficult to reach the sky, which is obviously not true.
Because this Luogu Road was the main route used by Liang Gongji, the predecessor of the time traveler, to counterattack the pass; it was also the first to be widened and rebuilt with all possible efforts. Therefore, Jiang Tian was now traveling on a straight road that was two feet wide, enough for many carriages to run parallel to each other.
On the mountain walls with lush vegetation on the roadside, you can vaguely see the large traces of the mountains that were blasted with gunpowder and then peeled off by the hot and cold shrinkage method. These peeled off rocks, large and small, have become The current Luogu Road is part of the roadbed above the valley river bed.
Therefore, the roadbed of the Luogu Straight Road is built on the base of these rocks, with more gravel and pebbles used as fillers; then, several layers of Sanhe soil with different textures are laid and compacted; and finally, the original raw material called gypsum is used. Cement mixture, thickly spread and hardened surface.
Therefore, after more than a hundred years of repeated use, the overall road structure is still as solid as ever; only some edges have signs of minor repairs. In addition, the most conspicuous scenery along the road is the telegraph poles wrapped with cables at different distances.
As one of the pillars of rule during the century-old period of the resurgence of the Tang Dynasty, it was able to control the thirty-six provinces in the world and more than a dozen large and small governors and governors' offices; relying on this primitive wired telegraph network system known as the "Tian Luo Di Net". It can be realized that "you can hear the news in the morning from the South China Sea and arrive in the capital at night".
It is divided into two systems: military and political. One of them is a large network under the control of the General Affairs Department, which covers thousands of military states in the world, and even some famous cities and towns; there is also a small network controlled by the Privy Council, which reaches all four corners of the country; two sets of local communication networks coexist and are connected in parallel. .
In addition, together with the dotted telegraph network, there are direct/chi roads that travel through mountains and rivers to every city in the world, as well as the supporting semi-full-time canal camp/road guard system. Therefore, wherever a straight road passes, these long and winding cable poles are indispensable.
Among them, the straight road is a fast carriageway with a hardened road surface made of local mineral waste, slag, asphalt, gravel and other materials, and cemented with gypsum/original cement; while the Chi Road is more common in flat and open areas, with A horse-drawn carriage track made of hardwood and reinforced with iron.
Therefore, compared to the previous praise of the deserted wilderness where apes and birds flew away in Baoxie Valley, Luo Valley Road is actually extremely busy and lively. Not only are all kinds of travelers and business travelers coming and going, but there are also shops every three miles, a house every five miles, a post station every ten miles, and a hotel every twenty miles along the way. There are noisy people and endless noise.
Moreover, after most people saw the large army of officers and soldiers led by Jiang Tian, they did not show much surprise or panic; instead, they hid on the roadside and pointed and talked without hesitation. It seems that this kind of situation has already happened frequently.
Jiang Tian can even see layers of pavilions and pavilions built according to the mountain tops on the originally abandoned ancient plank roads on the mountain walls; or on the rivers flowing in the valleys, they can be seen across the rivers. The spacious covered bridge, as well as the small and wild markets gathered in and around the covered bridge.
Walking on the road, from time to time you can see poems and essays carved on the rocks, such as those of poets Bai Juyi, Cen Shen, Yuan Zhen, Han Cong, Cui Jin, etc., with many well-known or unknown poems and inscriptions. The latecomers followed the trend and left their inscriptions, which is known as the characteristic scenery of Shiya.
Starting from Luogu Post in Zhouzhi County, we passed non-stop all the way: Cherry Post with mountains full of wild cherries, Sanjiao Post where Gushui, Heishui, and Intersection meet, Luogu Pass and Lin Guan Post in a narrow corner of the mountains, Xushui Post, Dawang Post, and Liyuan Village , Huayangguan, Huihe Town...
When we finally arrived at Yangzhou Zhenfu County on Shannan West Road, it only took a day and a half. Then, they replenished water from Baicaoyi in Zhenfu County and turned southwest to Xingyuan Prefecture. It only took about half a day to arrive at Nanzheng Dacheng, where Xingyuan Prefecture is located.
As one of the two most important capitals and sixteen prefectures in the world, Nanzheng, located in the Hanzhong Plain/Basin, is undoubtedly a typical prosperous city; with its city gates wide open and business travelers flowing in, it seems that it has not been affected by , the influence and spread of the previous failure of the patrol censor to enter the mountain to crusade.
However, only after meeting several civil and military officials below Lu Fuguang, the Shaoyin of Xingyuan Prefecture, who came out to greet them in person, could they feel such a trace of tension and worry from their words; and in Jiang Tian Prior to arrival, several troops had been reconvened in the area.
After all, Xingyuan Prefecture is not only one of the sixteen direct-governed prefectures in the world, but also the governor's office of Shannan West Road. It is the right place for the envoys to administer government, transfer, inspect, and distribute, and it also includes the county government of Nanzheng County. Therefore, in the official circles, it is commonly known as a city with seven yamen, a place full of evil.
Therefore, in just a short period of time, according to the order of the Governor's Office of Shannan West Road, seven or eight counties, including the neighboring Baocheng and Xi County, were gathered to train volunteers and garrison soldiers from the regiment; strengthening the local Guard and patrol, and wait for the next instructions from the court.
Therefore, when Jiang Tian led his troops to the area, it was logical that he temporarily took over the command of these troops. However, Jiang Tian did not put much hope in them; instead, he only ordered the construction of fortifications and sentry towers around the local mountainous area, and established several cordons and defense lines.
In fact, while galloping on the straight road in Luogu Road, Jiang Tian also received news from Shannan West Road one after another. A large part of it is the inside story surrounding the failure of this crusade into the mountains; and then the main responsibility is basically attributed to the patrol censor who led the search for the mountains.
Because, after the patrol censor discovered the news that a large group of wild beasts had gathered, he actually adopted the strategy of dividing his troops into five areas, with four groups advancing in parallel and one group behind. In this way, as long as one of them encounters an enemy along the way, they can send a signal for help on the spot and gather other troops to attack.
The problem is that he has obviously forgotten that what he is facing is not ordinary rebels or thieves; but alien beasts and ghosts that can be ignored and ignored to a certain extent, influenced by the mountain jungle. Then they were defeated by the aliens one after another; in the end, they were able to take a roundabout way and break through the main formation.
It can be said that the Zuo Xiaowei soldiers, the most elite group of the local army, were left by his side to protect him. As a result, they followed him and hurriedly exited the mountainous area without even firing an arrow against the enemy. In the end, his only correct decision was to build a defensible city at the mountain pass.
However, in Xingyuan Prefecture and Yangzhou, Xingzhou, and Fengzhou, there have been sporadic reports of sightings and activities of strange beasts. For a time, several counties close to the mountainous areas were inevitably shaken by the noise of the wind, cranes, and vegetation. , and rumors spread.
In this weird and tense atmosphere. Jiang Tian also met the deputy assigned by the Privy Council, who traveled day and night from Lizhou to join him. A general who was said to be familiar with the local situation and experienced in the military. "Pang Xun, general of Daoningwu Town, Shanxi Province, is here to supervise the constitution."
