Xixia dead book

Chapter 176 The KGB and the CIA (13)
"That's right, it must be like this, so there is still so much grain left in the granary, and it is impossible for the party members of Hanhai Micheng to besiege Qianhu Town for a long time, because if time drags on, the Mongolian reinforcements will arrive, and the people of Hanhaimi City will The party members could only raid Qianhu Town by surprise, attacking its unpreparedness, and wiped out the well-equipped Mongolian army with sufficient food and grass." Tang Feng said affirmatively.

After inspecting the granary, the three of them walked into the government office on the west side of North Street, which was very similar to the granary building, except that all kinds of weapons were stored in the warehouse here. When the wind brushed off the floating soil on their bodies, they still shone with a dazzling cold light.

"This seems to be the arsenal of Qianhu Town." Tang Feng deduced.

"Well, look, there are so many bundles of arrows here." Han Jiang said, pointing to a room full of arrow clusters.

"This further proves our previous inference. When Qianhu Town was finally massacred, the Mongolian army had no time to react. Without organizing effective resistance, they were all killed, so so many weapons hadn't had time to be used."

"This knife is not bad." Han Jiang picked out one of the Mongolian waist knives spread all over the floor, and threw it to Tang Feng, "Use this for self-defense!"

"Can this work? It's been hundreds of years." Tang Feng was a little skeptical.

"Don't worry, it's enough for you."

When the three of them returned to North Street, Tang Feng suddenly said, "Have you noticed that there are no mummies found on the street, nor the granaries and arsenals we inspected just now? In the house."

"This means that those places were the places where fierce battles took place!" Liang Yuan said.

"It seems that we won't run into those damn corpses here for the time being." Han Jiang let out a sigh of relief.

"Don't be too happy, the fortress carefully built by the Mongolian army, is there only the hundreds of mummies we saw inside?" Tang Feng asked Han Jiang.

"You mean we'll find a lot of mummies?"

"According to my inference, there should be at least a few thousand soldiers stationed in Qianhu Town, otherwise there wouldn't be such a strong fortress, and there wouldn't be so much food and weapons stored!"

"Oh my god! Don't scare me. According to your calculation, there are still thousands of mummies waiting for us in this city?"

"I don't know! But be careful."

While Tang Feng was speaking, he had already walked up to the gate of the tall official building. Half of the door fell to the ground, and the other door was still tightly closed. Tang Feng stretched out his hand and pushed gently, "Squeak—— "With a sound, half the door opened.

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When Tang Feng stepped into this huge government office building, a strange feeling quickly surrounded him. Inside the building was a yard, and behind the yard was a very large building. Tang Feng took a rough look, " The top of the mountain with a single eaves is five rooms wide, and at least three rooms deep...it is completely in the style of a palace building, and it is unexpected that there is such a high-standard palace building in the desert.”

"Maybe the commander of the Mongolian army stationed here was a relative of the emperor!" Liang Yuan guessed wildly.

Tang Feng pushed open the gate of this palace building and walked in. The inside was empty, and the sound of Tang Feng's footsteps echoed.Tang Feng found that there was a wall at the back of this huge room. When he walked closer, Tang Feng realized that it was a false wall. Bypassing the false wall, Tang Feng thought that the back was a door according to the traditional Chinese architectural style, and pushed the door open. , should be a new courtyard, but everything was beyond his expectation, there was only a single small door behind the false wall, which was incomparable with the grand palace gate in Tang Feng's image, and Tang Feng was even more surprised Yes, when the small door was pushed open, there was still a room behind it, not a new courtyard at all.

Three people walked into the room. Tang Feng estimated that the room should be seventy to eighty square meters square. There was nothing in the room. There were only dusty walls on the east and west sides. There is only a small door in the north. Is this an I-shaped hall?Tang Feng thought wildly and walked to the small door to the north. When he pushed it, the small door opened, and Tang Feng walked into another room. This room was almost exactly the same as the previous room, and it was also a square, seven to eighty square meters. Negating Tang Fengjian's inference that this is an I-shaped hall.

Tang Feng became more and more puzzled. Behind the main hall, why are there two identical rooms in a row, and the rooms are empty. Similarly, this room has no door to the east and west. There is a small door on the north side. Tang Feng opened the small door again and walked in. A new room, this room is much smaller than the previous two, it seems to be only [-] to [-] square meters, and the shape has also undergone some changes. The whole room is rectangular, and the bigger difference appears on the wall. There is no door on the west side, except for the door Tang Feng came in from the south, and another door appeared on the east wall.

Tang Feng was a little hesitant, but he still pushed open the small door on the east side. What appeared in front of him was a rectangular room exactly the same as the front one, and there was another door on the east side. The door is another room that is exactly the same, several rooms in a row are all the same room!Han Jiang felt that something was wrong, and when he wanted to grab Tang Feng, it was too late. None of the three could remember how many rooms like this they had passed through.

"I feel bad, go back quickly, or we will be trapped in this maze again." Han Jiang urged.

Tang Feng had no choice but to follow Han Jiang back, but something that terrified them happened. They were completely lost. Han Jiang bumped into the maze-like room for more than half an hour, but he couldn't find the one who came. Everything around the room seemed exactly the same, and they fell into an endless maze.

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Tang Feng didn't know how many identical rooms they had walked through. In one of the rooms, the three of them finally stopped. Tang Feng quickly recalled how they entered the maze. All the rooms were slightly different except for the size. Outside, the styles are almost exactly the same, but the rooms are empty, "What are these rooms for?" Tang Feng finally couldn't help shouting out.

"To confuse people?!" Liang Yuan shouted.

"In addition to confusing people, it must also have a practical function, otherwise the ancients would not have had enough to build so many identical rooms! Just like the intricate alleyways in Nancheng, in addition to confusing the enemy, they are also for people to live in." Tang Feng said.

"Then this place is also used for living!" Han Jiang said suddenly.

"Oh! Who lives here?" Tang Feng looked at Han Jiang curiously.

"You are stupid, the people living in Nancheng are ordinary people, so where do the soldiers in this military fortress live?"

"You mean this is actually a huge barracks!" Tang Feng understood what Han Jiang meant.

"Didn't you infer that there are thousands of soldiers in the city? If that's the case, the number of troops in the city far exceeds that of civilians. They should have a larger space to live in." Han Jiang's mind was still clear.

Tang Feng nodded, "Yes, so the North City is much larger than the South City. In addition to the government offices, granaries, arsenals, and huge barracks."

"And we can see that they built the barracks directly behind the official office, one next to the other, so close, I think it should not be like this when designing this fortress." Han Jiang said.

"I noticed that too."

"This shows that many barracks were added later to form what they are today." Han Jiang deduced.

"It seems that decades after the demise of Xixia, the threat from Hanhai Micheng to Mongolia has continued unabated, so that the Mongolian army stationed here has continued to increase." Tang Feng was shocked by Han Jiang's conclusion. "But...but this is not in line with common sense. After the fall of Xixia, even if the party members in Hanhaimi City were not eliminated and continued to fight against the Mongols, they were blocked by the Mongols, and their strength should be getting weaker and weaker. If The fact that the Mongols continue to increase their troops in Qianhu Town means that the party members in Hanhai Micheng are getting stronger and stronger."

"That's why there was the subsequent battle against Qianhu Town!" Han Jiang said slowly.

"Okay, you two stop studying, let's see how to get out!" Liang Yuan said.

yes!The first task now is to find a way out. Thinking of this, Tang Feng cheered up again, "Since it was the barracks back then, there must be a way out, even more than one."

Han Jiang nodded, and the three of them continued to look for a way out one by one, but they became more and more confused. Another hour and a half passed, and they still couldn't find a way out.

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The three of Tang Feng had been bumping headlessly in the maze-like barracks for more than an hour. Liang Yuan couldn't move anymore and collapsed on the ground. Tang Feng was also exhausted and sat on the ground, panting heavily. Angrily, Han Jiang looked around the room, and suddenly, Han Jiang called out, "I'm sure we've been to this room before."

"How do you know that?" Tang Feng asked Han Jiang back.

Han Jiang pointed to a mark on the wall, which seemed to be scratched by some sharp weapon, "This is the mark I made with a dagger!"

"It's over, we're completely lost and can't get out..." Liang Yuan began to cry as she spoke.

"Now I finally understand why Misha said in the letter that this is a terrible town, and he only left Qianhu Town on the third day!" Tang Feng began to recall Misha's record in the letter.

"I also understand that Misha must be trapped here just like us, and he was trapped for a day and two nights." Han Jiang emphasized his tone.

"But...but Misha went out in the end..." Tang Feng supported himself and stood up, "So I believe we can go out too!"

"Are we still bumping into each other like we were just now?"

As soon as Han Jiang finished speaking, a dull voice suddenly came from not far away, "Who?!" Tang Feng shouted.

Han Jiang and Liang Yuan also heard it, and the two surrounded them. The three of them looked at each other, staring straight at the direction from which the sound came. "It sounded like a door closing heavily." Tang Feng guessed, at this moment, in this deserted maze, every hair on his body stood up, and every pore opened.

Holding a dagger in his hand, Han Jiang pointed to the door they had just come in. The three of them opened the door with extreme caution, and then returned to the room they had passed by before. Han Jiang keenly recalled the With that sound, he pointed to a small door on the east side of the room, pushed the small door open, and there was another room that was exactly the same, and then, another room!
When the three of them came to the door of the fourth room, Han Jiang gestured to Tang Feng. Tang Feng understood that there must be something wrong behind this door!Tang Feng kicked open the wooden door, Han Jiang clenched the dagger tightly, and rushed into the room. There was no one in the room, and it was almost exactly the same as all the rooms they had passed before, except that this square room was bigger and brighter!
Tang Feng and Han Jiang immediately realized something. This room was brighter than all the houses they passed by. They both raised their heads and looked towards the north side of the room. It turned out that there was a hole in the north roof of this room, and the sunlight was Came straight in from here.

Tang Feng's gaze slowly moved from the entrance of the cave to the north wall. A row of clear grooves on the north wall appeared in front of Tang Feng and Han Jiang. Both of them saw new hope.

Han Jiang stepped on the groove and climbed to the entrance of the cave. After observing it, he said, "It seems that the entrance of this cave existed when the city was first built."

When the three of them climbed up to the roof and stood on the roof and gazed into the distance, they all understood the significance of this hole, because they not only saw clearly the situation of the barracks behind the government office, but also the situation of the entire Qianhu Town from the roof!And in the platform at the foot of the mountain not far behind them, there is a lama pagoda standing majestically. Although the pagoda is very dilapidated, the gold-plated pagoda still exudes an attractive brilliance under the noon sun.

【Section [-] Yelu Chucai's paper】

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Tang Feng set up a pergola and looked into the distance. The Gobi Desert was unusually calm. It was impossible to connect the strong wind in the early morning with the quiet Gobi Desert now. The Jingguan to the east of Qianhu Town still stood outside the city. On the Gobi Desert, the gate of the Wengcheng in the south is faintly visible, the tall and strong city wall in the west shields the outside world, and in the north, it is the dilapidated Lama Pagoda that caught Tang Feng's attention.

Tang Feng let out a long breath, and said: "It seems that we are luckier than Misha, not trapped in the maze for a day and two nights."

"Don't be too happy, maybe there are more terrifying things in this dead city." Han Jiang warned Tang Feng.

"Where should we go now?" Liang Yuan asked.

Han Jiang looked at Tang Feng and said with a smile, "You can tell by looking at Tang Feng's eyes."

"To that Lama Pagoda?" Liang Yuan also shifted her gaze to the dilapidated Lama Pagoda.

"This is what I think. We have been walking in the city for so long, but we didn't find any written records. We didn't even find any documents in this official office. The written things can explain the problem best... "

"So you want to go to the Lama Pagoda to find written records." Han Jiang interrupted Tang Feng.

"Yes, I speculate that when the city broke down, the officials in the city must have burned all the archives and documents, so we didn't find anything written. The Lama Pagoda should have been a temple in the past, and I think there may be some leftovers. What written records, and there should be a way there, to help us get out of here." Tang Feng said.

"Pull it down, don't tell me the way now. I think every road here is a trap. It's better to walk on the roof and see clearly." Han Jiang shouted.

"How do we get there?" Liang Yuan asked, pointing to the Lama Pagoda not far away.

"Didn't Han Jiang just say that it's the most convenient way to go over the roof, and you won't go the wrong way!" Tang Feng smiled bitterly.

Fortunately, most of the houses in Qianhu Town are flat-roofed. Tang Feng walked on them like he was walking on flat ground, but he still had to be extremely careful, for fear that the roof under his feet might be a trap.

The three of them approached the Lama Tower in the north of the city cautiously. When they got closer, Tang Feng discovered that the north side of the Lama Tower was close to the north wall. Standing on the edge of the roof on the south side of the flat ground, look below, there are still three or four meters high. At this height, Han Jiang must have no problem jumping off, and he himself is not a big problem, but there is still Liang Yuan, what a burden!

Thinking of this, Tang Feng looked back at Liang Yuan. Liang Yuan had a troubled expression on her face. Han Jiang patted Tang Feng and pointed to the roof near the north city wall. Han Jiang walked all the way to the roof next to the north city wall. Sure enough, it was much lower than the ground, but it was about two meters away. Han Jiang was the first to jump down, and Tang Feng followed, but Liang Yuan still hesitated. After hesitating for a long time, Tang Feng didn't dare to jump, so Tang Feng had no choice but to open his arms and catch Liang Yuan, who was slowly put on the ground by Tang Feng.

"You are really troublesome! You don't dare to jump at this height!" Tang Feng inevitably scolded Liang Yuan.

Liang Yuan didn't show weakness either, "As soon as I landed on the ground, I regretted letting you hug me. The bottom is full of cork chips. I can definitely jump off."

"Cork chips?" Tang Feng looked at the bottom of his feet, and there was a black and soft substance under his feet. Then he looked in the direction of the Lama Tower, and there were black charcoal around the Lama Tower. Tang Feng understood a little bit, "If If I’m not mistaken, this open space used to be the temple in the city. On the day of massacring the city, a fire broke out here and burned down all the wooden temples, leaving only this pagoda.”

Han Jiang nodded, "Yes, I've been wondering why the buildings in the city are so well preserved. It stands to reason that most of the buildings here should have been destroyed by the flames of war when the city was massacred."

"I think most of the party members in Hanhai Micheng sent people to sneak into Qianhu Town first, and then cooperated with the inside and outside to make a sneak attack. Therefore, when the city was destroyed, there was no serious damage here, but... just everyone died. " Tang Feng speculated.

"The temple was burned, so you can't find any written materials here." Liang Yuan said angrily.

Tang Feng smiled at Liang Yuan, "That's not necessarily true."

With that said, Tang Feng strode down to the Lama Pagoda. This is not a tall Lama Pagoda, but the top of the pagoda still uses a noble gilt pagoda. A corner of the Lama Pagoda has collapsed, exposing many bricks and stones. Liang Yuan Not understanding what Tang Feng said just now, he asked, "What kind of writing can there be on this tower?"

"The ancients often engraved some words on the pagoda, such as why this pagoda was built? The process of building the pagoda and so on!" Tang Feng was greatly disappointed. A text was found on the tower.

(End of this chapter)