Mountain and Sea Treasures

Chapter 514 Ancient Turkic Battlefield

Since modern times, Chinese martial arts have been declining day by day, and archery has been lost for a long time. The legendary magic shot that pierces Yang with a hundred steps no longer exists. Nowadays, people who can shoot a rabbit to death from tens of meters are considered masters, but this person The skull was pierced by an arrow.You must know that the human skull is the hardest, comparable to a rock, how much strength is required to do this?
And looking at the degree of corruption of this corpse, I can conclude that this person has been dead for at least a thousand years.

Zhaoling, the bones of thousands of years ago... I was faintly excited, stood up and looked around, trying to find Yazai, and at the same time, I wanted to find clues about this corpse.

But when I looked up, the blood in my body stopped.

The entire bottom of the valley is densely packed with bones!
There are countless bones squatting, standing, lying or kneeling all over the bottom of the valley, and there are more or less signs of injury on their bodies.The arrow wound on the forehead of the bone under me is relatively minor. As far as I can see, there are many bones that are incomplete, some have lost their heads, and some are missing arms and legs.

Around these bones, there are many rotten metal weapons.

I still don't understand, this valley is clearly an ancient battlefield.

Moreover, it is not difficult to see from their various ways of death that this is not a sacrificial burial at all, but a real experience of a tragic battle.

What kind of sacrificial method is this?

My mind suddenly turned into a mess. This can be regarded as the entrance of Zhaoling. Which emperor would have a tragic battlefield in front of his private house when he has nothing to do?

I looked at the hundreds of thousands of bones, thinking about their functions and origins, and couldn't help feeling a little absent-minded.

At this time, something patted my left shoulder suddenly, and I trembled suddenly.Turning his face to look, he was horrified to see a severed arm being torn on his shoulder.

"Fuck you." I cursed bad luck, smashed the broken arm with a punch, leaned forward, turned around and kicked behind me with all my might.But I saw Yazai looking at me with only half of the bones left, with a smirk on his face.

"It's you kid, really idle." It turned out that this guy was scaring me, I was relieved at first, and then laughed and cursed.

Yazai casually threw the bones aside, shrugged his shoulders and said that it took you so long to come down, I am not in a hurry.

This reason... I couldn't refute it, so I had to tell him to stop making trouble, and asked him why he came down to the bottom of the valley, and did he find anything after coming down for so long?
Yazai pushed the sunglasses, and replied flatly: "If you don't come down, how will you know how deep the bottom of the valley is?"

I even regret that I came down with him. What this guy pays attention to always surprises people. Fortunately, Yazai didn't joke anymore, and instead said seriously: "Come with me, brother will show you to open your eyes."

It seems that he really found something down here. I followed with some satisfaction. I don’t know how many bones were crushed by the two of us along the way. He stomped on the broken ashes again.

There is no way, if these bones are not destroyed in this broken place, it will be impossible to move an inch.

While walking, I looked around and found that although the bottom of the valley was full of bones, there were still some vegetation near the foot of the mountain, especially on the halfway up the mountain, and there were some small bushes.

This is strange, the stone hills that should be bare on both sides can be shaded by trees, but there is no grass at the bottom of the valley.

It stands to reason that with so many ashes as nourishment, the bottom of the valley should be an oasis.

There is such a record in "Xingguan Yaojue": "Every bone must have wood, and no wood can form a river." It means that wherever there are many dead people buried, there will be vegetation and even forests, and places with forests are never lacking. Shui Yuan, it is precisely because of this law that the two special professions of tomb guard and tomb robber can survive countless times of desperation.

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon. I secretly became more careful, and was about to tell the boy, but found an emerald green stone tablet in front of us.

To be precise, this is not a stone tablet, but a jade tablet carved from high-quality jadeite!
The jade tablet is very tall, similar to the Monument to the People's Heroes in Yanjing.

At this time, I can no longer use shock to describe my heart. Such a monument is absolutely priceless. Both its own value and historical research value can make it a well-deserved national treasure.

"Don't be dazed, go and look at the words on the back, I think you will be even more shocked." The boy said meanly, and I just came back to my senses.

He was right. Since there is no word on the front, there must be words on the back. Tang Taizong Li Shimin was a proud emperor. Perhaps this jade tablet will record his life's achievements.

Sure enough, the other side of the jade stele was densely engraved with bright red regular script, and the recorded content was similar to what I guessed, but it did not summarize the great achievements of the deceased like most inscriptions in his life, but described Zhenguan in detail. One military operation every three years.

During the transition period of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Turkic tribes on the northern grassland rose rapidly, and taking advantage of the war in the Central Plains, they continued to go south to burn, kill and loot, and the people suffered unspeakably.After Li Shimin ascended the throne, he decided to get rid of this great evil. In the third year of Zhenguan, he sent famous generals Li Jing, Su Dingfang and others to march.

This battle destroyed the Eastern Turks in one fell swoop, and established the status of Datang in the world.

Seeing this, I can't help feeling a little bit emotional. During the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, all nations came to court, and the Tang Dynasty was simply the center of the world.Now as a Chinese, it seems to be a gift for me to stand in front of the monument and remember that period of glory.

After narrating the war, the inscription did not stop abruptly. There is a short paragraph below, saying that the reason why the monument was erected here was because Tang Taizong destroyed the Turks here.

"How could this be?"

At the end, I was a little bit puzzled. Shaanxi, where the Zhaoling Mausoleum of Jiuyi Mountain is located, has been the hinterland of the Central Plains since ancient times. The rulers of the Sui and Tang dynasties were all from the Guanlong aristocratic group. If the inscriptions are true, then It means that Shaanxi has been captured by the Turks.

This is absolutely impossible, the Tang Dynasty is powerful, and the Turkic people occasionally make small troubles on the border. It is okay for them to dare to invade the land of the Sanqin, it is absolutely a dream.

Thinking of this, I lost interest in this jade stele, because the information it recorded was not true, so naturally it lost its historical value!
Yazai seemed to see what I was thinking, pointing to the countless bones that we had crushed along the way, and said, "Maybe it's true."

"What do you mean?" I looked at the bone and was silent for a while, and a bold idea popped up in my heart, but I couldn't believe it.

After the death of ancient emperors, they like to bring their favorite things into the tomb to be buried with them. Like Qin Shihuang, in order to allow himself to rule the world after his death, he brought 30 Qin cavalry into the imperial mausoleum, but Qin Shihuang The 30 burial troops are terracotta warriors and horses, not living people.

But there are countless bones in the valley before us, each of which was once a living person.

If the inscription records are true, the truth is undoubtedly that Li Shimin actually restored a battlefield outside Zhaoling in order to let future generations remember his achievements in destroying Turks forever.

This is too cruel...

(End of this chapter)