C3549 Restart the Great Wall Defense System (1/2)

”Last year we fought Sang Gan Yuan, and this year we fought Onion River. ”Soldiers, take out the waves on the sea, and put in the snow-capped grass on Ma Tianshan …” Zuo Zongtang's eyes filled with tears. He blurted out Li Bai's novel, Battle City South!

Liu Jintang was also a scholar, and upon hearing this poem, his emotions surged, and he continued to recite.

”The Huns cultivated by slaughtering. In ancient times, they only saw white bones and yellow sand fields.” Marshal Zuo continued reciting!

”The Qin family has built a city as a shelter, but the Han family still has a beacon.”

”The flames of war never cease, and there is no time for war. If we die in battle, the sky will be filled with grief from our defeat. ”

”Wu Yuan pecks people's intestines and flies onto a withered branch.”

”Soldiers daub grass and grass, General Kong will do it.”

At the end of the chant, both of them burst into tears. ”The only one who knows is a deadly weapon, the Saints have no choice but to use it.”

”Go!” Upstairs! Let me have a look at the rekindling of the thousand-year beacons! Bring my camera... Get it, send it to Great Marshal Zeng, show it to Xiao Letian … ”

”They are not the only heroes of the world! The one with no reputation outside the Western Regions is the real hero! ”

On a cold night, Zuo Zongtang climbed up the Jiayuguan's City Tower. The tens of thousands of people in the Western Battle Army all rushed up to the top of the city walls.

In the pitch black night, people could see bits and pieces of fire that were like stars, but the black smoke was twisting and struggling to fly up into the sky. Even if it was night time, you could still make out his trail.

They all thought about the Han Tang, and how whenever this beacon of war burned down, it was an early warning from the nomadic peoples's cavalry. But today, everyone knew that this beacon fire must have been ignited by the vanguard General Xu, that he must have sent his troops out of the Stellar Gorge, that he must have succeeded!

Zuo Zongtang held onto the battlements, he seemed to be able to feel the warmth that the smiths of the Ming Dynasty used to make bricks, and he could even feel the scratches the soldiers had made on the walls for hundreds of years.

”Just how many people did I stand here today in the past?” They have become yellow sand bones, one day I... Including the fact that we will become bones of yellow sand! ”

”But this pass will always be here, and the land opened by the ancestors will never be lost!”

”Who can survive? ”As long as I die, it will be worth it!”

”Brothers!” I want to ask you a question... If I were to ignite the flames of war on the Jiayuguan now … Guess if it will get to the capital in the end! ”

No one could answer this question, because the Great Wall was completely useless to the Qing Dynasty. It could even be said that the Qing Dynasty had a kind of memory of hatred towards the Great Wall!

This wall was the barrier that blocked the Northern nomadic peoples back in the day. There were countless corpses of invaders buried under this wall.

Therefore, since the Qing Dynasty, the Great Wall had never been repaired. However, not being repaired did not mean that these people would abolish the Great Wall's defense system!

The emperors of the early Qing dynasty were knowledgeable. They knew that the Great Wall defense system developed by the Chinese strategists for thousands of years was very well-established and scientific.

Although the nomadic peoples of the north had already formed an alliance with the Manchu and there would be no more wars, the passes and important roads of the Great Wall were also important military towns that controlled the territory.

Furthermore, defending these Great Wall Pass would at least allow them to collect taxes from the caravan, even if the merchants wanted to evade, they would not be able to do so. Furthermore, not only were there the princes of the alliance, there were also many scattered herdsman and Horse Bandits.

Today, Zuo Zongtang had gotten interested. He actually wanted to ignite a beacon of light in Jiayuguan, and send a message all the way there!