Upon hearing the sound, Zhao Muyun and other Dun soldiers immediately picked up their weapons and came to the beacon tower.
This kind of rapid response to emergency warnings is a compulsory course in beacon tower training.
When he ran to the beacon tower and looked into the distance, he saw that about a hundred Northern Di Tartar cavalry had appeared in the Zishui River Valley five miles away.
These cavalrymen came roaring, their horses' hooves breaking the tranquility of the frontier and splashing the shallow water of the Zishui River.
"Brother Zhao, there are so many Tartars!"
It was Wang Tiezhu who was on guard who beat the sheepskin drum and sounded the alarm.
When he saw Zhao Muyun appear, he quickly came over, as if subconsciously treating Zhao Muyun as his backer.
Seeing so many Northern Di cavalry appearing all of a sudden, the other five Dun soldiers showed visible panic on their faces.
They all looked at Tang Yanhai who was rushing over with a sullen face.
Zhang Biao was so obsessed with going to the military town to report his achievements to Zhong Dahu that he took Sergeant Han Zhong with him, without leaving anyone in charge in case of an emergency!
I guess he thought that he would only be away for a short time and would be back soon, so there would definitely be no trouble.
As the scout of the beacon tower and the most senior soldier, Tang Yanhai became their backbone in the absence of both the sergeant and the squad leader.
"Damn it, why would such a Tartar come?"
Tang Yanhai frowned.
"Brother Tang, Zhang Tou and Sergeant Han are not here, what should we do?" everyone asked.
"What else can we do? Set off a signal smoke signal!"
Tang Yanhai said calmly, "When the military garrison sees the smoke rising, they'll come to support us! All we have to do is take up arms and hold the beacon tower!"
"Yes, yes, let's light the signal fire now!" Several soldiers said hurriedly.
"Don't make a fuss! Xiaowu, quick hands and feet, go light the fire!"
"Lao Li and Lao Zhang, you two, quickly go and hold the gate shut! The rest of you, grab your bows and arrows and hide behind the parapets. Don't show your heads!"
"The Tartars are damn good at shooting arrows on horseback, don't get shot by them!"
Tang Yanhai immediately raised his voice and shouted loudly.
With his arrangement, everyone was no longer panicked and immediately took action.
Although Tang Yanhai relied on his seniority and yelled at Zhao Muyun with a look of disdain before, Tang Yanhai's attitude changed quietly after Zhao Muyun returned from patrolling and killing the enemy.
He also had the experience of being exploited for his military merits by Zhang Biao, and after giving Zhao Muyun a kind reminder, Zhao Muyun was no longer so disgusted with Tang Yanhai.
Seeing Tang Yanhai calmly arranging his deployment in the face of a powerful enemy, Zhao Muyun nodded silently:
"Tang Yanhai is quite capable to be a scout!"
As the wolf smoke rose, the Anyuandun beacon tower, five miles southeast of the Yanqingdun beacon tower, also lit the wolf smoke.
Then came the more distant Guiyidun, Huangshabao, Douziling... one after another!
The wolf smoke continued to rise, and the people on the beacon tower of Yanqingdun did not dare to relax. They grasped their bows and arrows, hid behind the battlements, and nervously observed the movements of the Tartars!
The formation of more than one hundred Tatar cavalrymen changed from being scattered to quickly gathering into a group, and they were moving towards the beacon tower like a dark cloud.
Four miles...three miles...two miles...
Everyone on the beacon tower was breathing rapidly, their palms were sweating, and some of them were even chattering their teeth.
Sudden!
Just when Zhao Muyun could see the silver armor shining on the Tartar leading the cavalry, they all stopped!
What's going on?
Just when everyone was confused, smoke and dust rose behind the beacon tower!
"Reinforcements are coming! Our reinforcements are coming!" Someone with sharp eyes immediately noticed the clue.
"It's really eye-opening. It happened so quickly!"
Tang Yanhai looked surprised.
It would take at least two hours for the military town to send troops to support after seeing the smoke rising from the beacon tower.
But less than an incense stick’s time after the signal smoke was set off, they actually arrived!
"No matter what, reinforcements are coming, so we don't have to defend the beacon tower to the death!"
Tang Yanhai breathed a sigh of relief, but he still warned loudly, "Everyone, don't let your guard down. Don't show your head!"
"good!"
The crowd responded loudly.
There was no longer the high tension in his voice.
......
"Damn it! How come those cunning Dayin people reacted so quickly? The troops from Jingbian Military Town are coming right here!"
Two miles away, the silver-armored Tartar had a gloomy face and was cursing.
"Captain, should we continue to attack Dayin's beacon tower?" A bronze-armored Tartar beside him asked cautiously.
The captain, clad in silver armor, angrily spun around on the spot, twisting the reins of his warhorse. He said bitterly, "How can we attack now? They're in a dominant position, and they have reinforcements. We're the ones who will suffer!"
Three of his soldiers died tragically at the buffer zone boundary marker. Needless to say, the perpetrators were the Dayin soldiers in the beacon tower in front of him.
In anger, he led a hundred cavalrymen to attack, intending to pull out the beacon tower and kill people to vent his anger before the reinforcements from Jingbian Military Town arrived.
But now Dayin’s reinforcements are less than five miles away from the beacon tower, and it is almost impossible to quickly capture the beacon tower.
"Then...then we can only return empty-handed this time!" said the bronze-armored Tartar with regret.
"What else can we do? We'll find another opportunity next time!" The silver-armored captain turned his horse around and prepared to lead the team away.
Suddenly, the bronze-armored Tartar exclaimed, "Captain Commander, something is wrong!"
"What's wrong?"
"Their reinforcements didn't move towards the beacon tower, but headed towards Black Camel Mountain!"
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