Xixia dead book

Chapter 173 The KGB and the CIA (10)
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After Tang Feng set up the tent, Han Jiang insisted that Tang Feng and Liang Yuan sleep in the tent, and he slept in the car. Tang Feng was a little embarrassed, but he had no choice but to listen to Han Jiang. Tang Feng and Liang Yuan lay in the tent. The sound of the wind came and went, and Liang Yuan felt a headache. She lay down for an hour without falling asleep, so Tang Feng had to hug Liang Yuan. Strange to say, Liang Yuan fell into a dream very quickly.

In the early hours of the morning, a strong wind blew up on the desolate Gobi Desert. This was a real sandstorm. The strong wind mixed with gravel and gravel violently tore the tents of Tang Feng and Liang Yuan. Tang Feng opened his eyes suddenly, and he pricked up his ears, listening After a while, no, this is not a nightmare, the nightmare will not be so clear, Tang Feng sat up suddenly, and woke up Liang Yuan, "Sandstorm!" Tang Feng exclaimed in surprise.

The fragile tents of Tang Feng and Liang Yuan were swaying uncontrollably due to the dust storm. While Tang Feng was still hesitating, Han Jiang’s voice came from outside the tent, "Tang Feng, get up quickly, the sandstorm is coming, this tent may not be able to hold up anymore .”

Tang Feng shuddered all over, opened the tent, pulled Liang Yuan out of the tent, Liang Yuan kept screaming... Han Jiang pulled Tang Feng and Liang Yuan under the car and looked at the tent, and was instantly caught by the wind. Involved in the sandstorm, disappeared.

Tang Feng was frightened for a while. Apart from the whistling of the strong wind, there were bursts of terrifying noises in his ears. He squinted his eyes and looked towards Jingguan not far away. The skeletons and bones in the view couldn't withstand the attack of the sandstorm. The skeletons seemed to have life again, screaming in pain with ferocious faces, and the fierce wind tore the ferocious faces. It was torn open with sand and gravel, flesh and blood flew everywhere, deformed in pain, and finally disappeared in front of Tang Feng.

Some skeletons around Jingguan were blown away in the night by the dust storm. Suddenly, a skull was swept up by the strong wind and slammed towards Liang Yuan. Tang Feng hugged Liang Yuan tightly, and the skull hit the car heavily. , unexpectedly smashed the sturdy donkey out of a dent, and then, the skeleton was swept into the dark night sky by a gust of wind, and disappeared without a trace.

Liang Yuan kept screaming and crying, Tang Feng could only hug Liang Yuan tightly, but the sandstorm didn't seem to stop at all. When Tang Feng Chengfeng was a little smaller, he opened his eyes and looked at his watch. It was almost dawn, and he turned to Han Jiang and asked loudly, "This... the wind seems to... can't stop, I... what should we do?"

"Damn, this...damn the wind, I...I think if this continues, we...our donkeys can't handle it, there is...there is only one way..." Han Jiang said intermittently.

"what……"

"Enter Qianhu Town!" Han Jiang said firmly.

"Now?" Tang Feng's voice trembled a little because he was blown by the wind, or because he heard that he was about to enter Qianhu Town.

"Nonsense, it's now."

After Han Jiang finished speaking, Tang Feng felt a more violent gust of wind hit them. Immediately afterwards, he heard the sound of glass shattering, and the colorful donkey protecting them began to shake violently. Donkeys can't keep them.They may be swept into the sky by the sandstorm with the donkey.

At this moment, Tang Feng began to understand why Han Jiang said that the donkey would never go back again. It was time to make up his mind. Tang Feng shouted at Han Jiang, "Okay, I will listen to you."

With that said, Tang Feng opened the rear door and got in with Liang Yuan. Han Jiang jumped into the cab. The wind became more and more violent. Even with the weight of three people, the donkey was still trembling in the strong wind. Tang Feng found that the left side of the car was The window of the car was cracked, and he couldn't help panicking, and shouted at Han Jiang: "Hurry up, drive!"

Han Jiang started the car for a long time, but he couldn't start it anyway. Han Jiang muttered something, "Baby, donkey, dear, you are moving!"

Normally, Tang Feng would have laughed when he heard that Han Jiang was so nasty, but now, he couldn't laugh, and he heard Han Jiang still fiddled with him, "My baby, give me some Face, move for me!"

The donkey still didn't move, Tang Feng became anxious, "Is the sand and gravel blocking the exhaust pipe?"

Han Jiang ignored Tang Feng, and continued to be disgusted with the donkey, "My dear, baby, cute donkey, move! Damn, my life is in your hands, you can't do nothing! Damn, start it for me—”

Han Jiang's last word dragged on for a long time. It's strange to say that when Han Jiang scolded the donkey, the donkey really started to move, "This cheap donkey won't move unless I scold it!"

Han Jiang slammed the steering wheel, facing the wind and countless gravel, and rushed straight to the dark Qianhu Town.

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The strong wind brought countless sand and gravel to the windshield of the donkey. Fortunately, the donkey was still strong, and it led the three of them to break through the siege. Han Jiang drove the donkey around the Jingguan, and rushed To Qianhu Town.

Han Jiang saw a low rammed earth wall in front of him, and the car could rush over it, but he didn't know what was behind the low wall. If it was behind... Han Jiang didn't dare to think about it. The low wall is very close. If you want to rush over, you must speed up now. Tang Feng and Liang Yuan also saw the low wall in front of them. Before Tang Feng and Liang Yuan could react, they heard Han Jiang say, "Sit tight!"

Han Jiang had already made up his mind, so he accelerated sharply and rushed towards the low wall. Tang Feng and Liang Yuan closed their eyes, not daring to look forward. The wall, God, Jesus, Buddha, the Virgin Mary, behind the low wall is a flat ground, the donkey landed heavily on this flat ground, everything is quiet, the wind is howling outside, but here it is so quiet, thousands of households The dark and lightless buildings of the town block the wind and dust storms.

Han Jiang let out a long breath and lay down on the steering wheel. Tang Feng and Liang Yuan hugged each other tightly. It took a long time before they realized that they had returned to the world.

Han Jiang drove the car slowly into Qianhu Town, a relatively wide street stretched all the way into the town. Along the way, the three people who had just escaped danger entered another tense atmosphere. They didn't know that in these Are there new dangers lurking in the dark buildings?

Following the road in front of him, the donkey came to a square. Han Jiang stopped the car and was about to get out of the car, but was grabbed by Tang Feng, "It's dangerous now, why don't we go down and check after dawn."

"Dawn?" Han Jiang rolled his eyes and looked at the sky. "It will take at least an hour until dawn. You want us to just stay here?"

"We can walk along these streets first." As he said, Tang Feng pointed to the other three streets around the square that they hadn't walked through yet.

"Okay, it's up to you. Which one should we go first?" Han Jiang looked around the three dark streets.

Tang Feng also stared at the three dark streets for a long time before saying: "The whole town is divided into different areas by an east-west street and a north-south street. The street we just entered the town is slightly to the southeast. It should be East Avenue; the street we are facing right now is West Avenue, and if I guess right, this West Avenue is inclined to the northwest; the street on our right is North Avenue, and the street on our left should be South Avenue. We might as well go through South Street first, then West Street, and finally North Street in a clockwise order.”

Han Jiang nodded, started the donkey, and drove slowly towards South Street. South Street is very short. Soon, they came to the end of the road. There was a low wall in front of them. Han Jiang jumped out of the car. This time Not only did Tang Feng not stop Han Jiang, he jumped out of the car himself, and the two came to the wall, "This is a rammed earth wall built by hand," Tang Feng judged.

"This town also has a city wall?" Han Jiang suspiciously kicked the rammed earth wall in front of him. After hundreds of years of wind and rain, the rammed earth wall is still extremely hard.

"Don't forget that this is also a military fortress." Tang Feng reminded Han Jiang.

"Then the low wall we jumped over on East Avenue is also a city wall?"

"It should be that the city walls back then should be much taller than the city walls we see today, but it's just been a few hundred years..."

"But since there is a city wall, what about the city gate?" Han Jiang asked suddenly, interrupting Tang Feng's words.

Tang Feng also became suspicious, yes!There should be a city gate, but there is no city gate in the section of the city wall in front of you.Tang Feng began to search on the city wall, "According to the ancient Chinese tradition, even if there is only one gate in this city, it should appear on the south side."

Tang Feng pushed away the flashlight and searched on the rammed earth wall. Suddenly, a ferocious face appeared in front of Tang Feng. Tang Feng was so startled that he took a few steps back before standing firm. Han Jiang supported Tang Feng, and the two The two flashlights shone at the ferocious face together, and as the flashlight moved slowly, both Tang Feng and Han Jiang's mouths opened wide at the same time, "Ah—it's a mummy!" Tang Feng cried out involuntarily.

"There are still mummies here!" Han Jiang, who had been a long-time enemy, also felt his scalp tingling.

At this time, there was a glimmer of light in the sky. A well-preserved mummy was leaning against the root of the rammed earth wall, with a slightly raised head and a grinning face, staring straight at Tang Feng and Han Jiang.

[Section [-] Mummy Formation]

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After being stunned for a while, Tang Feng and Han Jiang bravely walked up to the mummy. After all, Han Jiang was more courageous than Tang Feng. He almost pressed against the hideous face of the mummy and checked, "The head was injured by a sharp object. One hit kill."

"Can you see what kind of sharp weapon killed it?"

Han Jiang shook his head, "I can't see it now, unless you can find the weapon."

"Okay, let me talk about this mummy. From the hairstyle of this mummy and the undecomposed clothes, it can be concluded that this mummy was a Mongolian soldier before his death."

"Mongolian sergeant?"

"Well, it's the ruins of Mongolia again. We found all the ruins of Mongolia along the way, but we didn't see the ruins of Xixia."

"So I said maybe we went wrong."

"No! The appearance of this mummy just shows that we did not go wrong."

"Oh!"

"You have already said that this Mongolian soldier was injured by a sharp object, so who killed him?"

"You mean a party member!"

"To be precise, it should be a party member of Hanhai Micheng."

"I hope your inference is correct, but we need more evidence."

"Evidence? There will be." Tang Feng said, looking back. At this moment, the sky was brighter than before. Tang Feng found that there were some low and dilapidated houses on both sides of the South Street. Tall buildings, "It seems like most towns in China, the south of Qianhu Town should be houses of common people."

"There are civilians in the military fortress?" Han Jiang shook his head.

"Don't forget that the army is stationed in the desert, isolated and helpless. They have to rely on merchants, handicraftsmen, and family members accompanying the army for supplies and livelihood. These people should live in Nancheng."

Han Jiang nodded, "Well, even if you are right, what about the city gate?"

"Don't worry, look here." Tang Feng walked into the narrow passage on the east side of the rammed earth wall, and he found that the southeast and southwest two residential areas are intricate, with unoccupied houses on one side and the still strong rammed earth city wall on the other. , Tang Feng walked about forty steps to the east, and the narrow road came to an abrupt end. Right here, a road appeared on the north side of the rammed earth wall. The road was not too wide, but it was much wider than the narrow narrow road.And on the rammed earth wall facing this road, a city gate appeared.

"Sure enough, there is a city gate, but why not build the city gate at the end of South Street instead of building it here?" Han Jiang was puzzled.

"This is called a secret gate. When the city was built, the city gate was deliberately opened here. In this way, once the enemy enters the city through the gate, what they will see is not the wide South Street, but the intricate residential buildings. Those who are not familiar with the situation in the city The enemy is likely to be dizzy, but the defenders can still rely on the complex streets and alleys near the city gate to deal with the enemy, and even drive the enemy out of the city." Tang Feng explained.

"Then you said that the Mongolian sergeant just now was the one defending the city, or the one attacking?" Han Jiang asked.

Tang Feng pondered for a while, then shook his head, "It's hard to say, originally the Mongolian army should be the offensive side, and the party members should be the defensive side, but what we saw along the way is not like this!"

As the two talked, they had already reached the city gate. Maybe it was accumulated over time, or maybe it was deliberately done by the city guards. A thick pile of soil was piled up under the city gate. Tang Feng and Han Jiang had no choice but to turn over the dirt. The wall, but outside the city gate, what was displayed in front of their eyes was not the vast Gobi Desert, but another city, and what surprised them even more was the mummy piled up inside the city.

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The originally low rammed earth wall seems to have grown a section of the city wall, forming an irregular semicircular shape and the original rammed earth wall to form a closed small city.

"What's going on here?" Han Jiang was stunned and dizzy.

"I didn't expect that such a small city could be built so complicatedly. This is an urn city."

"The Urn City?"

"Have you seen Beijing Qianmen?"

"I understand. During the battle, the defending side can put the enemy into the urn, and then close the outer city gate, forming a situation of catching turtles in the urn. It seems that this is really a well-defended military fortress."

Han Jiang seemed to understand, he looked up at the city gate above his head, Tang Feng patted Han Jiang on the shoulder, "Don't look, there is a thousand-jin gate on it, let's take a look at these mummies."

Although Tang Feng has made the greatest psychological preparations, when he was actually in the mummy, he still couldn't help but vomit again and again. Han Jiang was wearing gloves, turned over a mummy in a Mongolian military uniform, and another The rotten and ferocious face was followed by another one. Han Jiang cleaned up a dozen corpses in a row. What shocked him was that these corpses were all Mongolian soldiers. "Could it be that only these Mongolian soldiers turned into corpses? Their enemies Are they all rotten?" Han Jiang shouted out of breath as he stood beside the piles of mummified corpses.

"Decomposition should also leave bones, not to mention the drought and no rain here. Since the corpses of Mongolian soldiers can be preserved, their enemies should also be preserved!" Tang Feng replied.

"Then their mummy? Could it be..." Han Jiang stopped suddenly.

"What did you think of? Say it!"

"Could it be that the bones that built the Jingguan outside the city belonged to the party members?" Han Jiang speculated.

Tang Feng shook his head and said in confusion: "If the Jingguan outside the city was built by the Mongols, then why didn't they clean up the corpses of their comrades in the city? This is unreasonable."

"Then why do you say?" Han Jiang was even more confused.

"There is only one explanation for this situation, that is, after the Mongolian warriors in front of us died in battle, the Mongolian army never returned here."

"But in the war between Mongolia and Xixia, the Mongolian army was the final victor? Could it be that the Mongolian soldiers here were not killed by the party members, but were killed by the Ming army after the fall of the Yuan Dynasty?" Han Jiang thought more and more Not reliable.

"Ming Army? That's impossible. For one thing, what we saw in the horse sinking pit near Langwa and on the stele of the ban outside Qianhu Town were all the reign names of Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, unlike those in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty. Second, it is impossible for the Ming army to come from the northwest, so it cannot be the Ming army. The most likely enemy of these Mongolian soldiers is the party members in Hanhai Micheng, but there are too many mysteries here. untie."

"It seems that there was a massacre here at the last moment, everyone died, and Qianhu Town became an abandoned city, no! It should be a dead city!"

"Dead city?" When Han Jiang mentioned this word, Tang Feng's heart trembled suddenly. He calmed down for a while, and then said: "I think the bones in the capital outside the city should belong to the party members. They all They were killed years, even decades, before the massacre of Qianhu Town."

"Oh why?"

"One is that the climate here is dry and rainless, and corpses will not easily decompose, and the building of Jingguan can only be done after the corpses rot into bones; second, Mongolia destroyed Xixia in the early [-]th century, and Kublai Khan established the Yuan Dynasty in the [-]th century. After the middle of the century, so I infer that the bones of the Dangxiang people in Jingguan outside the city were built a few years, or even decades, before the massacre of the city in Qianhu Town."

"That is to say, after the demise of Xixia, the party members of Hanhai Micheng fought against the Mongols for decades?!" Although Han Jiang agreed with Tang Feng's deduction, he was still a little surprised.

"Yes, from Genghis Khan to his grandson - Kublai Khan." Tang Feng looked at the mummy in front of him and smiled helplessly.

"An insoluble hatred. According to your inference, the Mongols built the bones of the Dangxiang people into a capital to show off their martial arts. The Dangxiang people later retaliated and bloodbathed Qianhu Town on the night of the full moon. Since then, Qianhu Town has been No one dares to come near."

"Who told you it was the night of the full moon?"

"I always say that in the movies!" Han Jiang smiled wryly.

Tang Feng took a few steps forward with difficulty, and before he knew it, he had come to the center of the urn city. Looking around, Tang Feng was right in the middle of hundreds of mummified corpses. He suddenly felt that he was in a huge formation of mummies, and the surrounding mummies instantly recovered their life, stood up, and surrounded him with ferocious faces...

(End of this chapter)