C3550 Five-thousand-Li Flaming Beacon Smoke

The ancient beacon communication was not slow. It was completely dependent on the visual system. In other words, it was transmitted at the speed of light.

As soon as the smoke from the beacon rose, people could faintly see the black smoke from dozens of miles away. It would be even simpler if it was night time, and the flickering of the fire was even more obvious.

Light speed was the fastest speed, but the Fire Beacon system clearly couldn't achieve this efficiency. This was because it took more manpower to do so. After all, it took manpower to ignite the beacon after discovering it.

If he was prepared, it would be fine. But if he wasted some time moving the firewood, it would be hard to say!

However, in the 21st century, there were documentaries that performed such experiments. The speed at which a beacon and an off-road vehicle transmitted information was at least three times faster than an off-road vehicle.

Even at a speed of 100 mph, the speed at which information was transmitted from the beacon had reached 300 kilometers per hour.

This was the speed of the high-speed rail!

The beacon fire spread from Jiayuguan to Zhang Ye, and then to the southeast, to Shan Dan, Yongchang, Wu Wei … At the end of the Gu Lang River, the Great Wall began to split in two.

Some headed east to Ningxia, while some headed south to Lanzhou!

From the Jiayuguan to the Gu Lang River, only two and a half hours had passed, and then the beacons were split into two and continued south. The road south took another forty minutes to ignite the beacons in the northern part of Lanzhou City.

When the beacons were lit up, the sky in the east had just begun to brighten. The citizens of Xizang City who had woken up early in the morning were all staring dumbly at the fire lit on the hills to the north, asking questions one after another.

"What's wrong?" "Why is it burning now …"

"That's right, Mountain Flame?"

"That's not right. If it was fire, why would there be so much smoke?"

No one knew what happened when the citizens crowded onto the street. In the last two hundred years, no one had used a beacon to signal the presence of smoke in Great Qing Dynasty. They had long forgotten about the good stuff left behind by the Old Ancestor.

However, the yamen runners knew who was in charge of this affair. Upon seeing this, the Grand Master immediately jumped up. "F * ck!" A beacon warning? Isn't that the tower on the Great Wall? "

"Marshal Zuo must have sent a message!" "Quickly report to Lanzhou City …"

Xigu County's Yamen Express galloped towards Lanzhou City. It was not the main logistics department where the army gathered their supplies.

Lanzhou City was shaken. Everyone knew that an incredible event had occurred in the west. However, although the fire and the smoke were fast, they were also very annoying because they could not deliver complicated news.

People knew what had happened, but they just didn't know what had happened!

The entire city had to worry for three days before they could receive a carrier pigeon from the Jiayuguan. When the officers who were left behind saw the military situation, they immediately jumped three feet into the air in excitement.

"Victory!" Stellar Gorge is victorious! The western troops have already taken over the Stellar Gorge, they have hit the Hami! "

"Hahaha …" The entire city informed him that it was going red! Put a carrier pigeon in Xi'an City... Have Xi'an City quickly send a telegram to the whole world! "

The streets and alleys of Lanzhou were plastered with happy red newspapers. The news of the Stellar Gorge's great victory had caused the whole Gansu Province to be in an uproar as if it was the new year!

However, at this time, Xi'an and the capital were still in a daze. They had no idea what was happening in the distant Northwest.

The Great Wall was divided into two on Gu Lang River's side. The main body continued to follow the ancient path of the Great Wall to the east. He followed the Yellow River to the Ningxia Central Guard, and then headed all the way north to Ning Shuo.

Across the Yellow River into the Red Mountain Castle, straight to Dingyuan, Jingyuan, Shaanxi... Straight northeast into Yulin City!

To Shaanxi Province, the Great Wall was the entire northern boundary line. North of the Great Wall was the Inner Mongolia, and south of the Great Wall was the Shaanxi Province. This place was the same as Shanxi, it was also the front line for the Ming Dynasty to fight against Mongolia.

The burning of the beacon fire had completely burnt the civilians and the military along the way. The descendants of the Ming Dynasty's army were all at a loss as they watched the smoke billow. Many of the abandoned beacons were even spontaneously lit by the civilians.

Why do you ask? They couldn't say anything, but the oldest people in the village would teach them a lesson.

"Don't ask why... This is how our ancestor's ancestor left his rules. If the flames in the west were to start, you'll have to follow it! "

"How many beacons are there in such an old Great Wall? It's possible for a place to have nerves. How can it be possible for thousands upon thousands of beacons to have nerves? "

"Listen to this big guy. The villagers in the west must know something. Otherwise, they wouldn't waste firewood!"

Unbelievable! The label given by the Historian of later generations for the Great Wall to reignite its flames in 1871 was simply unbelievable! The Great Wall's defense system that was abolished by the Qing Dynasty for more than 200 years had almost been abandoned. How could it be resurrected so mysteriously?

Many beacon platforms had already been completely covered by decaying grass. Other than the people who farmed the sheep and horses, there were no guards or officials from the Qing Dynasty that were willing to come and take a look.

However, the Qing Government's disregard did not erase the distant memories of the citizens' hearts!

Many things are actually written in folklore, anecdotes, myths, operas, and notes of country savages... .

If no one organized them, they would act on their own, relying on their instincts and the cultural memories passed down in their bloodlines!

The villagers on the walls of the Great Wall might not be able to write their names for the rest of their lives. They would just be blind and not know how to read.

A beacon smoke is a family in cry for help, a beacon smoke you must pass the beacon smoke down!

This kind of culture that was branded in the bloodline was the inexhaustible genetic inheritance of the Chinese people. No matter if one was ruled by a foreign race or bullied by other powerful beings for hundreds of years, this culture meant that they would not die!

All of the local officials trained by the Qing Government s were at a loss as to how to deal with such a sudden situation. Furthermore, with their snail-like administrative efficiency, they were unable to keep up with the speed at which the beacons fire was passing through.

There might be a few commandos or commanders of the Manchu's garrison that felt that something was amiss. If they wanted to stop this kind of behavior, how could they stop the spread of light?

The Manchu Commander of the Divine Wood County, who was to the north of Yulin City, had just led her troops to the Great Wall of Eternal Xing Castle.

"Oh my god! This, this, this... What was going on? Who dares to light up the Great Wall? What was going on … "What's wrong!"

Shanxi Da Tong Prefecture, Shuo Ping Prefecture, Martial Ning Prefecture, Bao De Prefecture, Da Zhou Prefecture … These are the places where the Great Wall passes through Shanxi.

Shanxi was originally a narrow region, and before the officials of the local prefectures could get close, a beacon of war had already arrived in three hours!

The Great Wall is separated from Shanxi into two roads and entered the north road of Xuanhua Mansion, that is, Zhangjiakou and Chicheng turned south and headed for Miyun Huanghua Valley.

And on the south road, the Yi County s of Baoding Prefecture would follow the mountains and enter the Redbud Pass, Hundred Flowers Mountain, and then enter the capital, Western Changping, and directly enter the Gujingguan!

It was only a little more than ten minutes before both sides reached the same destination. The beacons of the Yellow Flower Valley and the Gujingguan were ignited. The Great Qing Province was shaken!

From the Gujingguan all the way to the capital, they took a detour of five thousand miles, two thousand five hundred kilometers, and they had actually only taken two days to travel all the way to the sky.

In forty-eight hours, five thousand miles of fire was passed through!

When the Gujingguan's beacons lit up, the entire Chang Ping City exploded! The people of the capital had never thought that they would see the Gujingguan in flames!

The army of eight flags sent their horses to Beijing like crazy, in the end, the entire sixty thousand new soldiers of the Xishan Camp knew of this news!

The eldest son, Zai Cheng, was holding onto two jade-like walnut plates that were crackling loudly. Did I see a ghost today? What the hell is this thing!? "