Zhao Chongxun thought that he was going to run to the Seoul bunker in a vigorous and resolute manner, suddenly arrive on a business trip to find out the slackness of the garrison soldiers, and then light three fires or something. This kind of routine has been seen frequently, so there was not much expectation.
He looked on with a cold eye, watching how the new guardian envoy performed from the side.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Li Siye went out, he stopped, turned to Yan Xiaosi behind him and ordered: "Go and hammer the wooden stakes."
Yan Xiaosi got off his horse, and together with two soldiers took out the sharp wooden stakes carried on his back and drove them into the soil along the northeast corner of the city wall. Zhao Chongxuan took a curious look and saw "Center Point" written clearly on the wooden stakes.
What's the meaning?
Soon a carriage drove out from the city gate. The carriage was covered with a black curtain. The coachman pulled the carriage to the position of the wooden pile, jumped off the carriage and got into the carriage to tinker for a while, then jumped on the carriage again, crossed his arms and faced each other.
Li Siye said: "General, we are ready."
Li Siye nodded, raised his riding whip and pointed forward: "Let's go!"
Zhao Chongxun was very depressed and angry, but he couldn't help it. So many people had been waiting for a long time, but they were waiting for a coachman?
After every mile of the journey, the drums would sound on the curtained carriage, and they would slow down slightly to observe whether there were any special landforms nearby. After traveling eight miles, the drum carriage discovered the bed of the Season River, following Li Siye
The ugly soldier Feng Changqing, who was carrying the silk cloth, took off the silk cloth from his back, turned over and dismounted, spread it on the ground, and pressed the four corners with stones. He took out the pencil case and inkstone from his arms, and pulled out the smallest
Holding the fine hair in his hand, he raised his head and asked Li Siye: "General, how should I express the bed of the Seasonal River?"
Li Siye pondered for a moment, raised his head and said, "Draw a dotted line."
The mileage measured by the drum cart is for reference, not the actual number. When the carriage tries to go as straight as possible, it will inevitably encounter terrain obstacles and need to make turns. This requires calculating the mileage of the turns. After deduction, it is a straight line.
distance.
At this time, the drum cart made a crisp cymbal sound, and Feng Changqing jumped off the horse again, spread the map on the ground, and began to draw pictures in a square inch.
At this time, why didn't Zhao Chongxun understand what the carriage was? It turned out to be a drum carriage! This thing only came in handy when the court was building city walls and drawing maps of the country. Unexpectedly, Li Siye only drew the defense map of Shule Town in Anxi.
, to actually use such a sophisticated thing, this is simply...where did this drum cart come from? How could he have this thing? I didn't see him with this cart when he took his family into the city a few days ago?
Basically, the border towns draw maps using the simplest method of visual observation. It can be as simple as what mountains, ridges, rivers, or roads are drawn in the area. An error of two to three miles is not called an error. On the defense map
It also does not record the name of a certain natural village. It only identifies the approximate locations of the inn, Shouzuo and beacon towers, and there is no concept of scale. Most of them will appear on the map and look like the two places are very close to each other, but in fact they are very far away.
things.
Maps in the Tang Dynasty were already very popular. There were maps in every county, state, and every province. Most of them were rough and simple. Really detailed maps were only available in the imperial court, and they were only atlases of important areas, such as the Guanzhong Map, Chang'an Map, and Luoyang Map. Western Jin Dynasty
Pei Xiu's map of the Yugong region has long been lost. The carefully measured national map was only drawn by Jia Dan in the Zhenyuan period of Dezong. It not only uses two colors for the ancient and current names of prefectures and counties across the country.
Marked and drawn more than a hundred countries around China.
Li Siye wanted to draw a defense map of Shule. He was not surprised at all, but the use of a cart to draw the defense map was an eye-opener for him and gave him a preliminary understanding of the rigor of the envoy. This level of surprise was about
It was similar to the construction of a building in a prefecture-level city, but the Chinese Academy of Sciences was invited to come and measure it. This made him even more suspicious of Li Siye's identity. This was not just what a general should know.
Could it be that he is also one of the Li families in Longyou? Did he come from Guzang Fang or Pushe Fang?
After the mile-long vehicle reached ten miles, they nailed wooden stakes on the spot and began to turn south. This turn covered half of the ten square kilometers. According to this method of advancing and turning, they finally arrived in the afternoon.
Arrive in Seoul.
Hancheng is a pure military fortress, which belongs to the category of fortress. It is smaller than the defensive city and larger than the garrison beacon. It is about 300 paces long and wide, and has a garrison of troops.
Feng Changqing stood under the city wall and drew the actual measured location of Seoul on the map. Although it occupied a small area, he still used a fine pen to draw small details based on the measured size of the map square.
Square, and use a red pen to mark the Han Castle next to it.
Li Siye and Zhao Chongxun entered the fort. The city wall made of rammed earth was quite thick. It was more than five feet wide at the bottom and four feet wide at the top. The top parapet was also made of rammed earth. The soldiers' houses were directly on the fort wall.
Cave dwellings were dug out on top of the city wall. On the left side of the city wall were stables, on the right side were warehouses, and on the north side was the fortress, which made the central space appear very small and could barely be used as a school grounds for fifty people.
The team leader stationed here, also known as the fort commander, followed Li Siye and the others with their arms folded and entered the fort. The fort has two floors. The bottom floor is where the team leader lives and works. To get to the top, you need to climb a wooden ladder.
There is a beacon tower on the top of the fort, and there are four movable ballistas. From the top of the fort, you can reach the city wall through steps. The defense facilities on these four walls are very comprehensive, with spikes pulled by windlass and hemp ropes.
Wood can be used repeatedly.
The soldiers changed guard in four shifts, from guarding the fortress to guarding the four corners of the city wall around the clock. Li Siye was very satisfied. This should be a model template for the Tang army's border defense in Shule Town.
But when he came down from the city wall, he saw a fireman digging a stove hole in the wall, setting a bucket on the stove to burn firewood, and stirring the pot with a copper spoon at the same time. There were bubbles on the water.
Li Siye looked over and saw that it was something mushy. It should be porridge made from highland barley grains, millet grains, and a small amount of brown rice. Not to mention how it smelled, it was hard to swallow just by looking at it.
The team leader waved a bronze spoon and tapped it on the edge of the Diao Dou, "It's time to eat! It's time to eat!"
The soldiers who were resting in the cave ran out in twos and threes and began to line up by the stove. The general was watching, and the chief fireman in charge of the ladle looked very nervous. Even the meal was served with the standard two ladles, which was given to everyone.
All fair and even.
Among the soldiers, only two of them were queuing up with coarse porcelain bowls, while the others were holding the porridge in their arms. After filling two spoons, they squatted in the corner with the porridge and raised their heads to pour the porridge into their stomachs.
Seeing this scene made Li Siye feel a little sad and a little disgusted. He was using a helmet and a rice bowl together. Aren't you afraid of getting the oil in his stomach? No, there would be no oil. Where would the oil come from without a little bit of oil and water? But Doumun
There must be lice, not to mention microorganisms and bacteria, it is too unhygienic.
Li Siye just frowned slightly, but didn't say anything. He and Zhao Chongxuan walked to the stable again. There were two cows used for driving and a dozen skinny horses with dysentery. They looked sick and their hoofs were very worn.
Awesome, there are no shoes on it.
He pointed at the horses and turned around to ask the team leader: "Is this a stallion or a private horse?"
The captain was bowing and crossing his hands and said in a low voice: "It's a private horse. We garrison soldiers don't have stallions available."
"Since it's your own horse, why don't you take good care of it?"
"General Qi, it's not that they didn't take care of themselves properly, it's that they couldn't do it. These horses are infected. It would cost a lot of money to take them to Shule for veterinary treatment, and no one wants them when they are sold. Over the years, horses from the Western Regions have become
They are getting cheaper and cheaper, and military horses are even cheaper. We don’t have any extra money to treat their diseases, so we can only leave them like this. Fortunately, these two cows usually pull the carts when transporting grain and grass. Oh, these two cows belong to the public.
, we take care of it better than humans. If the cow dies, my team will be dismissed on the spot."
The team was following Li Siye to explain the difficulties. Li Siye listened to them one by one and remembered them in his heart.
They walked out of the Han Castle, and the team was leading a few soldiers, bowing and crossing their hands: "Congratulations, General!"