Three hundred and sixtieth chapters know the pain of soldiers
Li Siye mounted his horse and left with his entourage. The city squadron raised its head and looked into the distance suspiciously. The newly appointed Shule military envoy and garrison envoy went to this remote place to inspect when they took office. What does it mean? Could it be?
There are no big moves, but no matter how big they are, they have nothing to do with us little soldiers.
After the envoys of Shule Town took office, all they did for political achievements was to consolidate the city defense and add beacons. Wouldn't it be their soldiers who would suffer by then? There are now more than a dozen checkpoints and beacons around Shule, and adding more would be considered redundant.
Li Siye continued walking eastward on his horse and found some problems, but he didn't know if it was a common phenomenon. He needed to inspect a few more places before talking about it.
"Next stop, go to Jialuguan Station."
In the next few days, Li Siye and Zhao Chongxun ran around here and there, constantly turning back and forth. They reached Suyok Pass in the north, Geluoling and Uzbeli Pass in the west, and Qingling in the south.
They stood at the foot of Qingling Mountain and looked up into the distance. The mountain was composed of two sister fronts, and the trade road stretched upward from the foot of the mountain.
The coachman drove the two horses around the foot of the mountain for half a circle, and the two horses were already panting from exhaustion. Feng Changqing squatted on the ground, holding an abacus in his hand, and performed careful calculations according to the method taught by Li Siye, and then converted it into square inches.
In the meantime, the entire mountain's area was drawn on the map.
After he finished drawing, he looked up and then at the map, feeling that something was missing.
Li Siye rode on his horse and looked down. Muztage Peak was slowly hanging down like a round pointed bun. He looked down at the top of the mountain and connected with the blue sky. He lowered his head and saw Feng Changqing's confusion. He raised his whip and pointed at the top of the mountain and asked: "
How high is this green ridge?”
Zhao Chongxun, who had a dusty face, laughed inwardly and asked some unreasonable questions. How to measure the height of the mountain? Is it possible to climb to the top of the mountain and hang a rope down? How long is the rope needed?
Unexpectedly, Feng Changqing raised his head and smiled and said: "General, this kind of question can't trouble me. I have studied Liu Huizi's "Island Calculation Classic" and used bamboo poles of the same length to conduct the second and third measurements, and then I can get the geometry of the mountain height."
Feng Changqing went ahead and immediately set up a bamboo pole at the foot of the mountain to perform calculations. He moved the abacus with his fingers and finally came to the conclusion: "Starting from our feet, Qingling Mountain is more than two hundred and seventy-five feet and six feet high."
Zhao Chongxun's eyes widened. Can he really figure it out? Does Li Siye even have such a talent under his command?
Li Siye suddenly asked again: "How to express this height on the map? How to express the gradient of the slope? What is really more than 200 feet is just a small mountain top, so how to draw it?"
Feng Changqing's hand holding the pen was suspended in the air. He thought hard for a long time, but he couldn't figure out how to draw it. The books of the sages did not mention how to mark the height and slope of the mountain peak.
He had no choice but to ask: "What does the general think we should do?"
Li Siye pretended to be thoughtful for a moment, nodded and said: "Then use the contour line drawing method."
"What is the contour drawing method?" Feng Changqing had never even heard of this cartographic method.
Li Siye nodded with comfort in his heart. Finally, you have something that you don't know how to do. Otherwise, how could I suppress you, a guy who prides himself on being extremely talented?
"Suppose we cut the mountain across the mountainside at 50 feet. Where should the tangent line be? If we cut off the mountain at 100 feet, will the long and narrow parts on both sides not be included? All mountains in the world are at the bottom.
The area is large, but the top of the mountain is small. The higher the place, the closer the contour line is to the center. The two lines are very close to each other on the steep slope. If the two lines overlap, it must be a cliff. You understand this."
Feng Changqing was very smart. Li Siye only told the story once and he already understood it. He picked up the pen and started drawing on the silk. He quickly painted the four ridges and the gentle west slope of Qingling, and the steep north and east slopes.
come out.
The people next to me were confused both listening and watching. They felt as confused as a primary school student listening to a college professor teaching calculus.
Feng Changqing folded the blueprint, pointed to the business road leading to Congling and asked Li Siye: "General, this Congling also belongs to the jurisdiction of our Shule Town. If not, why don't we continue to move forward and simply change the terrain of the Congling area?"
And draw it, as well as the location of Congling Guard, which should also be accurately measured on the map."
When Zhao Chongxuan heard this, his face suddenly turned blue. He wanted to go deeper into the green mountains? Since Li Siye took office, he had been following him for a month and a half through the mountains, rivers, forests and Gobi beaches near Shule Town. During these two times, the roads were sparse.
He didn't even enter Le City, and once again he really didn't enter the house three times. His face was sallow and dry due to the wind and frost. How was he different from the veterans in Beacon Castle?
Li Siye took a look at the map drawn by Feng Changqing, and found that two-thirds of the area had been drawn. The remaining vacant parts included Congling in the southwest, Tulum Moraine to the east, Suiyechuan to the north, and
Heading west to the Jumi State of Bajizhou. Due to the complex topography of the Western Region, it is definitely unrealistic to accurately draw the map in a short time.
But now it's very good. Li Siye doesn't need a map and has also explored the defenses of Shule Town. Now all the defense points of the Shule Army are on the map. The rest of the corners can be drawn if you want.
, even if you don’t draw, it doesn’t matter.
It seems that there is one beacon that I have not visited, and that is the Shadong Beacon, which is located forty miles northeast of the old city of Yarkand.
He held the horse's reins and said with a smile: "Unknowingly, everyone has been running around Shule Town for a month and a half. It's time to go back and take a rest."
Zhao Chongxun breathed a sigh of relief, which was just a human saying. Unexpectedly, Li Siye said again: "As far as I know, there is still a beacon in the northeast of Shache. Let's go there for a run, and then we will turn back.
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Deputy Zhao's eyes widened again, you really want to visit all the Shule Army strongholds!
This is barely acceptable, as long as they are not forced to enter Congling and cross mountains and ridges! There is no way, who was tricked by Li Siye from the beginning? This is simply trying to catch a duck!
seven days later,
The Tang Army's Shadong beacon, which was considered the most difficult and farthest in the desert, appeared in their sight. If it weren't for the fact that this beacon was adjacent to the lower reaches of the Yiduo River and there were several market towns and tribes from the original Shache Kingdom, the Tang Army would have given up on it long ago.
A worthless beacon.
Ten Tang troops were stationed in the Shadong beacon tower, which was only 20 feet in diameter. Although the sparrow was small, it had all the internal organs. It had thick city walls and a fort. There were also bed crossbows and wood on the city walls. The ten Tang troops lived in the fort.
, were surrounding a bucket with hot porridge, scraping the remains inside with a wooden spoon.
Facing the sudden intrusion of the uninvited guests, these people obviously did not react. They all held their pockets and stood stunned on the spot. The only person holding a porcelain bowl was the commander of Feng Sui. He also grabbed a wooden spoon and looked numbly at the scarlet-robed general in front of him.
They have been stationed in the desert for many years, and no senior official above the level of city envoy has ever come here, let alone fourth-grade generals like Shule envoy and garrison envoy, who belong to a forgotten corner.
Li Siye didn't take this disrespect seriously and stretched out his hand towards the wooden spoon in the chief's hand: "I'll try your cooking too."
Shi Chang thought he was just trying to liven up the atmosphere, so he quickly stood up and stretched out the wooden spoon.
Li Siye took the wooden spoon, put it into the bottom of the bucket and scraped it around. He scraped out a little bit of the thin paste, put it to his mouth and tasted it. There was salt in the porridge, but it was very tasteless. It was unprocessed and shelled highland barley.
It was already hard to swallow, but some wild vegetables were added to it, which tasted bitter and astringent.
He frowned and asked, "What's going on? The food delivered is not enough?"
The chief hurriedly knelt on the ground and crossed his hands and said: "General Qi, it's not that we don't have enough food, because we only have highland barley grains sent from Yarkand in the beacon fire. We can only use highland barley to cook some porridge and grind it."
I would get tired of eating highland barley cakes and tsampa after eating them for a long time, so I had to get some wild vegetables to change the taste."
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