Xixia dead book

Chapter 242 The Finale of Death (32)
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Tang Feng threw away the soil in his hands and explained to everyone: "Why do I say this is a man-made mountain? First of all, the location of this mountain is very strange and very abrupt. This is the first time I saw this mountain outside the city wall. Second, the shape of the mountain is very strange, or very regular, the bottom is a relatively standard square, and then shrinks inward layer by layer until the top of the mountain, a very standard cone, this shape reminds me of ...think of the pyramids, which are also conical."

"Pyramid?!" Everyone was even more astonished.

"Yes, don't forget the Xixia King's Tomb at the foot of Helan Mountain. Although the mausoleum tower of the Xixia King's Tomb is not standard, it is called the 'Oriental Pyramid', which shows that the party members are keen to build this kind of conical building."

"You mean this mountain is also a mausoleum?" Han Jiang asked in surprise.

"No, I'm not sure yet, and this shape is still somewhat different from the Xixia King's Tomb, but this possibility cannot be ruled out. I can only say that we found one that is even bigger than the Xixia King's Tomb, and much bigger. The Eastern Pyramid!" Tang Feng said firmly.

"Oriental pyramids?! But the Egyptian and Mayan pyramids are all built of huge stones?" Liang Yuan asked Tang Feng.

"This is about the following two points. The first two points are to look at the mountain from a large perspective. From a small perspective, it can also be seen that this is a man-made mountain. The appearance of the Lama Tower and the deliberate arrangement , it means that there was a plan when the mountain was built. I just asked you to look for Lama pagodas, and found nine Lama pagodas on this side, which means that there should be 36 Lama pagodas around this mountain, and I also I am sure that there are more than 36 Lama pagodas on the mountain. It is very likely that there are also Lama pagodas on the mountainside and near the top of the mountain, and there are probably 36 each, that is, a total of [-] Lama pagodas. The architectural style is also the original creation of the Dangxiang people. Today there is a [-] tower built in the Western Xia Dynasty in Qingtongxia, Ningxia. Although the layout of the two towers is not exactly the same, the number of [-] is likely to be There's some sort of meaning to it."

"But the appearance of the Lama Pagoda doesn't mean that this mountain is completely artificial, right? After all, the amount of work to build such a mountain out of thin air is incalculable!" Yelena still couldn't understand.

"Yes, the Lama Pagoda cannot be completely identified as a man-made mountain, but the appearance of different colors of soil is [-]% certain that it is an artificial mountain built by the party members. In traditional Chinese culture, five-color soil has always represented According to the tradition of the country, the blue soil represents the east, the red soil represents the south, the white soil represents the west, the black soil represents the north, and the yellow soil represents the center. Special meaning. There will not be five colors of soil in one place at the same time, but it is precisely on this mountain that five-color soil appears, and we have seen that the red soil is located just south of the mountain, and the cyan soil is located in the east of the mountain. I think that The soil of several colors must also be distributed according to this position, which explains everything. This hill was probably built at the beginning of the construction of Mi City. It has a special meaning for Yuanhao and Xixia. The soil represents the country; on the other hand, the party members who believe in Buddhism build pagodas on the mountain to pray for the eternal stability of the dynasty and the eternal prosperity of the country.”

After listening to Tang Feng's explanation, Liang Yuan nodded half-understood, then shook her head, "The five-colored soil is Confucianism, and Buddhism came from India. Why did they appear on this hill at the same time?"

"This just shows that the once backward and weak Dangxiang nation is inclusive and learns from others' strengths. It not only absorbs the essence of Confucianism from the Song Dynasty, but also absorbs Buddhist ideas from the Western Regions and Tubo. This is how the Dangxiang people became stronger later on." Tang Feng sighed.

"You have said such a big thing, I only care about one question. Since this mountain is a man-made mountain, what is the purpose of the party members who worked so hard to build such an artificial mountain? I remember you said at the beginning that it belonged to Micheng The royal garden, now it seems that this inference cannot be established!" Han Jiang still did not forget Tang Feng's guess yesterday.

"Yesterday's inference was just my guess, and now it seems that it is certainly not true. Yuan Hao would never spend time and effort building such a hill just for his own enjoyment; moreover, the five-color soil on it is artificially rammed soil, which is compact in texture, so it causes The vegetation grows slowly and is malnourished. It is impossible to plant tall trees, and it is not suitable for building royal gardens at all!" Tang Feng thought for a while, and then said: "As for why the party members built such an oriental pyramid back then? I can't say it now. , but I think it must have its special role."

"Then keep going up the mountain, maybe you can find something." Makarov suggested.

Tang Feng nodded, so everyone detoured to the south of the mountain. In the middle of the south of the mountain, a staircase hidden in the weeds and bushes was revealed.

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All the discoveries on the hill confirmed Tang Feng’s judgment. Following the stairs in the middle of the hill, he soon found another Lama Pagoda near the middle of the hill. There were also more than one pagodas, just like the arrangement on the floor below. order, surrounded by hills.However, Tang Feng found something different on this row of Lama pagodas. He wiped the body of the pagodas with his hands, and there were some silver-white things on his hands. "What is this?" Liang Yuan asked aside. road.

"Like silver!"

"Silver? Didn't we find any silver on the Lama Pagoda below?" Han Jiang asked in surprise.

Tang Feng didn't answer Han Jiang, and continued to speed up his pace, climbing to the top of the mountain. The stairs became steeper and steeper. Tang Feng looked back and felt dizzy. Fortunately, Han Jiang grabbed him.In the end, when approaching the top of the mountain, everyone was already using their hands and feet. At this moment, a dazzling golden light suddenly appeared in front of Tang Feng. Another row of lama pagodas appeared in the grass, which Tang Feng had expected, but Tang Feng did not expect the golden light glowing from the lama pagodas.

Surrounding the top of the mountain, a row of Lama pagodas appeared again. Tang Feng straightened up, walked to the edge of the steep platform on the top of the mountain, pushed away the weeds and bushes, and the golden lama pagodas appeared in front of him. He trembled. He stretched out his hand and wiped it lightly on the Lama Pagoda, and his hands were covered with gold powder.

"It's gold!" Yelena exclaimed.

"It's not just on this tower, look in the soil here." Han Jiang cut off the weeds on the ground with a dagger, and the soil on the surface was full of gold.

"This... this is incredible!" Liang Yuan was shocked.

"Yes, it's incredible. No wonder I was stung by the golden light from the top of the mountain several times at the foot of the mountain. It turned out that the entire top of the mountain was covered with gold leaf, and the 36 lama pagodas around the top of the mountain were also covered with gold mud. The Lama Pagoda on the second floor is painted with silver mud, and the bottom floor is made of five-color clay. Although a lot of gold leaves have fallen off after nearly a thousand years, we can still imagine how luxurious and magnificent this oriental pyramid was at the time!"

When Tang Feng said this, he couldn't help turning around and looking at the whole city of Mi and the surrounding oases, as well as the sea of ​​death and the desert in the distance. What is the purpose of the Eastern Pyramid? I think there are many purposes, at least one purpose can be clearly defined, this is a very good watchtower, and the surrounding scenery can be fully seen.”

"But it will never be the main purpose. If it is for looking out, there is no need to make it so luxurious and magnificent." Han Jiang said.

"Of course I know that this is not the main purpose. Look there, to the south..." Tang Feng suddenly pointed to the south of Mi City, "As we deduced before, the entire Mi City is surrounded by the water surface of the Sea of ​​Rebirth, which is like a natural We entered Micheng from the north line, and there should be a road on the south line, and you can see that there is also a long embankment on the surface of the Xiangsheng Sea in the south, but... it’s just that the long embankment is broken in the middle.”

Everyone looked to the south, and there was indeed a long embankment on the vast water, leading directly to the oasis, but a section of the embankment was cut off, "This is obviously man-made, and it can only be ordered by Basiba and Liu Bingzhong." It was broken." Han Jiang said.

Tang Feng nodded, "So there is no skeleton mandala on the south embankment. The Qi Xue army dug up the south embankment, but kept the north embankment, and built a skeleton mandala on the embankment."

Everyone's eyes turned to the long embankment in the north again, where there was a cloud of fog covering the skull mandala, Tang Feng said with some concern: "It seems that there is another heavy fog over there!"

"Don't worry, we can go out!" Han Jiang comforted Tang Feng.

"No, I'm not in the mood to think about going out yet. I'm thinking about the general!"

"General? They may still be trapped in the skeleton mandala! Didn't you say that they can't get out of the mandala if they can't solve the mystery of the mandala?"

"But the general has hidden dragons and crouching tigers, who knows?" Tang Feng's words cast a shadow over everyone's hearts. Everyone stood silently on the top of the mountain for a while, and then began to walk down the mountain.

【No.17 Temple of Immortality】

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Tang Feng led everyone down from the stairs on the east side. All five of them used their hands and feet and walked carefully to the first platform of the pyramid. It took them more than half an hour to get down to the first floor with these hundreds of steps. The platform, Tang Feng looked east, and the high platform in the palace area was in front, but although the high platform in the palace area was the same height as the first platform of the pyramid, there was no plank road or bridge connecting the two.

Tang Feng felt strange, but he soon found some traces of broken beams and wood on the edge of the platform, "There should have been a wooden bridge connecting the pyramid and the palace area, but unfortunately it has long since decayed."

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

"We still haven't visited two places in the whole city of Mi. One is the Hall of Immortality where the gate cannot be opened, and the other is the palace area and the area north of the pyramid. Let's go there and check it out now."

As Tang Feng said, he had already walked ahead and led everyone to detour to the north of the pyramid. As soon as he detoured to the north of the pyramid, everyone felt a sense of murder.The area without sunlight looks a little gloomy. Tang Feng stood on the pyramid and looked down. There are rows of low houses below, some of which have collapsed, and some are still well preserved, together with palaces and temples, Pyramids are far from the splendid buildings, even inferior to those in the civilian area. According to Tang Feng's speculation, the buildings in the west of Mi City should be high-level buildings of the royal level. architecture.

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what kind of area this was. Han Jiang pointed to the central part of the area, "From above, it seems that there are no houses there, and it is a big square."

"Could it be another market?" Liang Yuan asked.

"Impossible, the market can't appear here, and it should be a royal-level building." Tang Feng still insisted on his point of view.

"But how does this look like a royal building?" Han Jiang shook his head, looking at the low bungalows below in puzzlement.

"There seemed to be a big building in the center of that square, but unfortunately it has collapsed..."

At this time, Makarov suddenly interrupted Tang Feng's words, "Have you ever thought about that there are all kinds of buildings in Mi City, but one very important building is missing."

"Oh! What building?" Tang Feng stared at Makarov curiously.

"Military camp! Tang Feng, you once said that the military use of Mi City is far greater than other uses, and so far, we have not found a military camp?"

"So you think the area below is the original military camp?" Yelena asked back.

"Yes, what else can it be? What other building is in such an important position?"

After hearing Makarov's analysis, Tang Feng slapped his forehead, "The old horse is right! There must be a military camp below, so it is on the north side of the palace area. The location is very important. It can protect the palace at close range. Those low people The house is the barracks, and the square in the center is the school ground for training soldiers and horses. There used to be a large building in the middle of the school ground, which is likely to be the command organization for commanding the army."

Tang Feng judged that there should be a ladder leading down here like the south side of the pyramid. Sure enough, when they reached the place where the pyramid was close to the base of the city wall, a ladder appeared in front of them, but the scene in front of them made him shudder. The long stairs are full of white corpses, piled up like a mountain!
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Facing the mountain of white bones piled up on the stairs, Tang Feng gasped and felt a chill on his back. He looked at Han Jiang and then at Makarov. Han Jiang was also shocked by the scene, but Makarov has rich experience. He picked up a branch, walked up to the stairs, and used the branch to poke the bones piled up on the stairs a few times. After a long time, Makarov who was poking the bones suddenly shouted, "Tang Feng, Come and see, there is something next to these bones."

Tang Feng tremblingly walked to the first row of bones, Makarov handed him something, and said: "These bones have been hundreds of years old from the bones, almost all of them are men, and they all fell on the ground. On this ladder, layer upon layer, a large number of arrowheads and other things were found beside these bones, you should take a look at this first."

Tang Feng took the thing with dirt on it, weighed it, and looked at it again, "This is a bronze medal. Judging from the style and degree of decay, it should be from the Xixia period. There seems to be words on it..." Tang Feng rubbed off the bronze medal with all his strength. The bronze was rusted, and he vaguely saw a few Xixia characters on the bronze plate, and he read out the few Xixia characters word by word, "Tick-point-Northern-Army-Bing-Horse- Du-si."

"It seems that this is a waist medal!" Han Jiang immediately understood the function of this bronze medal.

"Well, this should be the badge of a Xixia officer." Tang Feng was talking, and Makarov handed him a rusty steel knife. Tang Feng took the knife and looked carefully. When he saw the steel knife When he saw the blade, his eyes suddenly lit up, "This is a steel knife from the Xixia period. Look, the edge of this steel knife has been worn down like this, which is enough to show how fierce the fierce battle was back then!"

Liang Yuan poked her head and wanted to see these bones, "This...are these bones all from Xixia?" Liang Yuan asked nervously.

"Judging from the scene, the arrowheads next to the bones should be of Mongolian style, while the steel knives and other weapons next to the bones are of Xixia style. Based on the analysis of the overlapping of these bones, the bones on the stairs should be from the Party. It was attacked by the Qi Xue army, and the Qi Xue army probably shot all these party members to death with bows and arrows." Tang Feng further deduced.

"How do we go down now?" Yelena asked a practical question.

"It's the only way to step on these bones." Han Jiang said.

So, everyone carefully walked among the piles of bones, and it took 10 minutes to get to the bottom of the stairs, but there were still many bones here. Tang Feng found the spearheads beside a few bones, "these spearheads The style is Mongolian, which means that when the Qi Xue army killed these party members, they used spears in addition to bows and arrows!"

"Judging from the current state of the skeleton, all the bones are lying on their backs, which shows that they were still facing the enemy's bows and spears at the last moment." Han Jiang judged.

"Yes, what a brave nation this is. Everyone fought to the last moment. No one turned their backs on the enemy. Even when the enemy was outnumbered and the ammunition and food were exhausted, they still faced the enemy until they fell. Down!" Tang Feng couldn't help sighing.

"Tang Feng, you have always wondered why no bones have been found around Mi City, including inside Mi City? Don't these bones solve your previous doubts?" Makarov asked Tang Feng.

"Yes, this is the first time we found bones in Mi City..." Tang Feng stopped suddenly after speaking halfway, with a confused look on his face. He looked at the neat rows of adobe bungalows in front of him, and then He turned around abruptly, staring at the pile of bones in front of him in a daze.

"Tang Feng, what's wrong with you?" Everyone asked Tang Feng with concern.

Tang Feng waved his hand, thought for a while, and then said: "No, there is a problem here, don't you think it's strange? Why didn't we find the bones of the party members inside and outside Mi City, including various areas in the city, but here So many bones were found?"

(End of this chapter)