Chapter 967: Post Station Shows Power on the Baggage Road

A team of fast horses ran out of Chang'an City and ran out at the speed of a sprint.

After one-third of a quarter of an hour, the team arrived at the post station, and the leader on the horse shouted: "Six horses, urgent news."

The people at the post station pulled out six horses at the fastest speed. Six people changed horses and accelerated at the start. They reached the fastest speed of the horses in more than ten breaths.

Another one-third of a quarter, the second post station arrived, and the same shouting.

The post station in Jingzhao Prefecture had many good horses. In half an hour, six people who were delivering urgent news ran more than 110 miles.

This was because the time was delayed by changing horses, otherwise it would be faster.

The people delivering urgent news did not feel tired at all, but were very excited. It was too fun.

After an hour, the urgent news rushed out of the territory of Jingzhao Prefecture and ran northwest.

The post stations in Anxi Protectorate were not all built yet, and the team of messengers ran for eleven days.

This was after running more than half of the way, they encountered a post station every ten miles.

Otherwise, it would take half a month to run. If all the post stations were changed to one every ten miles, six days to reach the destination would be considered slow.

The team is now running the way they came, to Liangzhou, this section of the road is more than 1,700 miles.

At this time, there are still two hours before dark, and the team wants to arrive in Qinzhou before it is completely dark.

Then, at night, they will slow down and drive from Qinzhou with kerosene lamps, and arrive in Jincheng, Lanzhou in the second half of the night.

At night, they will cross the Yellow River at the water post station, and they will still slow down after landing, and it will be almost dawn.

After running for more than three hours, around noon, the letter will be delivered to Liangzhou.

It's so fast. The longer the day, the faster the speed. People are really tired after running for a day and a night, but they can persist.

The six people kept whipping the horses, not afraid of tiring the horses to death. The horses probably didn't run enough before they arrived at the next place.

The person who sent the letter from Anxi Protectorate was sleeping soundly. He didn't eat, but drank a bowl of soup.

They changed horses but not people. They ran for eleven days and twenty people, and they were afraid that someone would intercept them on the road.

As they fell asleep, the apprentices of the Imperial Medical Bureau massaged them to relieve muscle fatigue.

In the past, there was no such treatment, and people did not think that the messenger needed others to massage him, and they just needed to sleep.

Now it has changed, and we have to be nice to the soldiers. After all, the apprentices need to practice, and there are masters to guide them.

Normally, the messenger still feels uncomfortable sleeping and needs to relax for several days.

Now their brows are relaxed, but they don’t snore. During the massage, the snoring people stop when they are touched.

They have straws in their noses, and oxygen bags are used to supplement oxygen.

The massage apprentices change the towels every once in a while, wet towels.

The towels that are replaced are thrown into the basin, and in a few breaths, the basin of water turns black.

The master is teaching how to press points, lines, and surfaces, and the messenger is dirty, which is just right.

If there is a place that is not pressed, the towel is uncovered, and that place is darker than the next one.

The person who is sleeping soundly does not know that he has enjoyed an oxygen massage and even "washed" by the way.

"If my prediction is correct, Guo Zhiyun will be able to launch an offensive in five days." Bi Gou had a map in front of him, the map given by Li Yi.

Su Yan looked at it together: "It looks not far, two days, unless the local army is not prepared."

"This is a mountain, three mountains, Guzang Nanshan, Jinshan, and Daxueshan, you need to take a detour." Bi Gou pointed to the name of the mountain range on the map and said.

He asked someone to fetch something like a thick dictionary and look for it.

"Look, there is an introduction to the mountain, its relative height, and the valley situation." Bi Gou asked Su Yan to look at it.

Su Yan took a look and nodded: "It will take five days, and we can advance after going around it."

Song Jing pointed to the map: "There are troops stationed to the west of Daxueshan. The supplies this year are good. Some troops will go around, and the troops to the west of Daxueshan will attack directly. The news will be passed on in two days."

"The location is well chosen." After Su Yan finished speaking, he saw the two people looking at him in surprise, and laughed twice.

He felt that what he said was rather stupid. Would the Jiedushi not know the local situation?

Make sure to choose a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. For example, in the previous Songzhou Defense War, there was a river behind Songzhou. If you take Songzhou, you have to cross the river.

If you don't take it, just cross the river. Songzhou will send troops to chase you and attack you halfway across the river.

Therefore, if Tubo can't take Songzhou, it will never cross the river, otherwise it will be attacked from the front and back by the Tang army.

If there is no river, the cavalry will rush over, and Songzhou will not be able to catch up, so it will bypass the city.

When Tubo attacks Liangzhou, it will first attack the garrison in the Great Snow Mountain. If you want to attack the garrison in the Great Snow Mountain, you have to cross a river called Haomen River.

Haomen River is the main stream of Huangshui River, and Huangshui River flows into the Yellow River.

The location is chosen like this. Come and fight. When you cross it, you still have to attack halfway across. Even if you pay a heavy price, you will defeat the Tang army.

Will you cross the snow mountain later? If you don't cross it, take a detour. If you do, won't the Jiedushi of Longyou, who is very close below, attack you from behind?

In fact, there was an army stationed west of the Haomen River, and the whole place could not be attacked at all.

That's why Wang Wei wrote the Liangzhou Ci, "The desert is full of smoke, and the long river is setting and the sun is round."

In the beacon tower of the Tang Dynasty, the smoke represents peace, and a column of smoke rising indicates that there is no war.

The two days mentioned by Song Jing are that the attack order from Liangzhou was passed to the army west of the Snow Mountain by fast horses, and the troops were sent from there.

Su Yan figured it out, and was suddenly stunned. After a moment, he spoke: "According to this, Li Yi's contribution is great."

He thought of the steamship, which is easy to go upstream. Even from Chang'an, through the Yellow River, things can be delivered to the front.

He finally understood the power of the steamship, and what it means that the Hukou Waterfall can be navigated.

The speed of the steamship is slow, but you can build more and send things to the front continuously.

If there are any local specialties ahead, load them on the boat and bring them back along the river.

Not only does it provide supplies for the front line, but it also solves the lives of local people, and their income is guaranteed to increase a lot.

Local goods could not be shipped out, so they were all thrown away, including fruits, animal skins, and wild medicinal materials.

What is needed is an officially organized team that can make profits from the Yellow River trade and be of great help to the front line.

"Xiao Yi is working for his own family, what kind of credit does it count? When he can build a bigger kite and fly things directly, I will be convinced."

Bi Gou started to express himself again, I am the most powerful.

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"Third brother, look, there is less than thirty miles of road between these two rivers. If UU Reading www.uukaｎshu.net can dig it out and connect it, there will be no need to walk through Hukou Waterfall."

Li Yi showed Li Longji a map in Zhuangzi. The Long River connected to the Wei River, and there was a river above it.

That river is connected to the Yellow River and has a canal mouth.

It's much closer than walking to Hukou Falls, it's an artificial canal.

Li Longji pointed to the location on the map: "There are mountains."

"Mountains save effort, and valleys naturally form streams. By connecting the upper and lower parts, there is no need to dig the valleys. The river is not very wide, so it is absolutely no problem to use a steamer."

Li Yi is not afraid of mountains. Wherever there are mountains, there are valleys. How many wells are there in Xinjiang? The horizontal mountain blasted through it.

"Is it dangerous?" Li Longji was worried about the dead.

"The prisoners on death row must either die or work. When the excavation is completed, the death penalty will become a prison sentence. No matter what, they will make the money." Li Yi has a candidate.

Ask those who need to be shot, do they want to live dangerously forever, or do they want to be shot?