Chapter Twenty-Four: Burning the Mountain

Wu Bolun borrowed a few hounds this time is very good, in the ruins of Qingyang Town, there are several people hidden in the cellar, these are in a hurry, into the cellar to hide the common people, after being pulled out by the hounds one by one, first brought to Wu Bolun, after being interrogated, found that it was not the person they were looking for, they were driven to the previous burial of the body, killed on the spot and then buried there. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The tunnel where the two princesses are hiding is very cleverly designed, and the entrance to the tunnel is not in the house, but in the backyard of the house. Above the exit of the tunnel is a large water tank filled with water, which can effectively deter hounds who seek by smell. If you want to pass through the tunnel entrance, you must touch the mechanism, and after moving the water tank in parallel, the newly exposed bluestone slab is the tunnel entrance.

According to the original design, if the second princess and they noticed the situation outside, they honestly stayed in the tunnel for more than ten days, Wu Bolun and they would always have to leave, after all, the entire slaughter of Qingyang Town still needs to be dealt with, and it will take time to prepare if it is arranged to be done by bandits.

But Luo Twelve he didn't expect that Wu Bolun would stay in Qingyang Town for six days, after three days passed, Luo Twelve did not come back, and on the fifth day, Gu Eleven and Luo Wu decided to go out of the tunnel to find out the news in person, for the sake of safety, they chose to touch the mechanism late at night.

When they jumped outside, they found that there were ruined walls all around, and the whole town had turned into ruins, Gu Shiyi and they relied on their good kung fu to look around the town, and found that several passages around the town were blocked, although their kung fu was good, but it still alarmed the hounds who lived by their sense of smell?

Due to the barking of the hounds, Gu Shiyi and the others were worried that their tracks would be exposed, so they could only go back to the tunnel first. Wu Bailun was a suspicious and cruel man, and as soon as he heard the dog barking, he asked the dog to go to the town to search for it again.

The person in charge of searching with the hounds was reluctant, because in the middle of the night, this town had just been killed, and in the moonlight, the shadows were heavy, which made people feel panicked in their hearts, and the barking of dogs was particularly poignant in the night.

But the military order is like a mountain, so I had to call a few more teams of people to hold torches together, and follow the dogs to search again in the ruins of the town, this time it may be that the smell of Gu Shiyi and their fresh leaves has not dissipated, and the hounds have circled around the town for a few laps, and when the dog trainers are about to lose patience and plan to go home, they finally stop at the edge of a large water tank, and these hounds circle around the water tank.

The leader of the team who participated in the search with the dog trainer asked, "What does this mean?" The dog trainer also followed around the big water tank, scratched his head and said, "The sunspots said that they followed the smell of the living and disappeared when they got here." ”

The team leader glanced at the big black dogs who were either standing and shaking their heads and tails, or lying on the edge of the water tank, and said, "This is God, this big water tank is only filled with water, not to mention a hundred catties, where is this person hiding?"

The team leader knocked on the bluestone brick floors around the water tank again, and they were all solid sounds, indicating that there were no tunnels underground. In the end, I remembered the order given by Master Wu himself, and I didn't dare to arbitrarily do it.

So he left men and hounds on the edge of the big water tank, and brought two of his men down to report this strange thing.

Wu Bolun had already planned to withdraw his troops the next day, but he was always unwilling to find anything when he thought of finding nothing, and after listening to the team leader's report this time, he immediately suspected that the hiding place of the second princess and her party might be found through the big water tank. Wu Bailun personally led his guards to the edge of the big water tank.

Wu Bolun also has people who know the mechanism, and after he beat around the big water tank, he didn't find any mechanism. The people who do the organs are more cautious, but Wu Bolun is different, he looks at it and feels impatient, so he orders his subordinates to directly break the water tank.

Inside the tunnel, there have been two people at the entrance of the tunnel to pay attention to the situation outside, after the water tank was broken, the water seeped into the tunnel, these two people knew that there must be something wrong with the water tank that opened the mechanism above, and quickly asked one to go to tell Gu Eleven about them, and the other continued to stay there and listen carefully to the movement outside.

Originally, it was possible to touch the mechanism from the outside and open the tunnel, and this mechanism was hidden on the inner wall of the large water tank, but as soon as the water tank was broken, the mechanism was destroyed. And the people in the tunnel, as soon as they saw that water had infiltrated into the tunnel, they immediately made a decision and locked the mechanism that opened the tunnel entrance from the inside, so that the mechanism outside could be prevented from touching the tunnel entrance.

After the water tank was broken, the two people who knew the mechanism felt very sorry, but after the water had flowed away, Wu Bailun asked them to take a closer look at the entrance to the cellar again, and they found two problems.

First of all, the fragments of the water tank show that there is indeed a mechanism here, but after the water tank is broken, this mechanism is naturally destroyed. Secondly, after the bottom of the tank was removed, the bluestone bricks there were knocked up, and when the sound came, it seemed to be hollow inside. There's a good chance there's also a tunnel hidden under the tank.

But who would be so powerful there? How can the tunnel entrance be set under a large water tank, and how can this big tank be moved? If it is not moved, how can it be accessed?

At this moment, the two people from the research institution became curious, and without Wu Bolun's orders, they studied the entrance mechanism very seriously.

Inside the tunnel, Gu Shiyi heard that the water tank at the entrance may have been broken, and he knew that this tunnel entrance would not be hidden for long, but this tunnel has not yet been dug through, although in the past few days, in order to prevent accidents, they have slowly dug up the exit, but after all, it has not been dug through.

Gu Shiyi was anxious, and immediately made a decision, and immediately asked people to move the soil dug out of the tunnel to the exit of the tunnel, thinking about blocking it first, if it was best to deceive those people, if it couldn't be deceived, it could only fight to the death, and I was afraid that people would attack it with fire or water. So, Luo Wu took the manpower and accelerated the speed of digging the exit upward.

When Luo Twelve first dug this tunnel, he thought of leading to the mountains north of the town, but because the distance was too far, the project was too large, and their manpower was limited, they only completed a small part.

The place where Luo Wu led the people to dig up led to the ground, which was actually in the field north of the town, and near this field there was a garrison that blocked the town.

At the entrance of the tunnel, when Wu Bolun learned that the bluestone slab under the big water tank might be the entrance to a tunnel or cellar, he intuitively felt that this was the place he had been looking for, so he ordered his subordinates to pry the bluestone slab open as soon as possible.

In fact, the entrance of this tunnel is still very exquisitely designed, a layer of bluestone bricks is mud under it, and then digging down is a layer of bluestone bricks, and below is the real entrance of the tunnel. If ordinary people dig bluestone bricks and find that there is dirt under the masonry instead of the entrance, they will give up, but they happen to meet Wu Bailun, who does not understand the mechanism, Wu Bailun ordered to continue digging, and the result is less than a quarter of an hour, digging to the second layer of bluestone bricks, and now the truth is revealed to those who know the art of the mechanism, this is really an extraordinary place.

But under the second layer of bluestone bricks, there was mud again, and the people from the research institution couldn't help but mutter, could this be an ancient tomb entrance?

Wu Bailun was even more excited when he heard this, he couldn't find the second princess, but it was not bad to find an ancient tomb that might contain treasures. He slapped his thigh and ordered to dig further.

In fact, under the second layer of bluestone bricks is the newly filled soil, digging and digging, and the two people who know the art of the mechanism can see that the soil has traces of being newly turned, and they dare not hide it, so they told Wu Bailun about the situation.

Wu Bailun actually didn't think much about it, he was already thinking about the ancient tomb, and when he heard the soil being turned over, his first thought was, could it be that someone had already entered the tomb first?

Wu Bolun came to dig the soil in person, and the newly filled soil was actually not thick, and soon the entrance to the tunnel hidden underground was revealed.

Wu Bolun's subordinates asked for instructions, this tunnel is dark inside, I don't know what the situation is inside, do you want to have a water attack or a fire attack first?

Wu Bolun thought in his heart, if this is really an ancient tomb, it would not be good to attack it with water, so it would be better to attack it with fire, and smoke it with smoke and fire first to prevent anything bad from inside.

So Wu Bolun agreed to attack with fire, in fact, the two people who knew the art of the mechanism had already seen that this tunnel was newly dug recently, and it could not be an ancient tomb. But Wu Bolun was already thinking that this was an ancient tomb, and he was unwilling to bring this matter to the table to discuss, so as not to leak the rumors, if he really dug up any treasures, he had to share the spoils with other nobles near Qingyang Town.

The two men thought that Wu Bailun was bent on finding people, not the ancient tomb, so they didn't say anything more, but concentrated on studying how the entrance to the tunnel was designed.

Luo Wu was in a hurry, so he was bent on digging the tunnel exit up, although he could dig an exit at this time, but only one person was allowed to go out, and the person who was guarding the entrance of the tunnel had withdrawn when Wu Bailun began to dig the first layer of bluestone bricks, and was climbing out from the tunnel exit one after another.

Wu Bolun said to do it, burned firewood at the entrance of the tunnel, and fanned the fireworks desperately into the tunnel, the air in the tunnel was already thin, and soon the smoke reached the end of the tunnel, and the rest of the people could only hold their breath and crawl out of the tunnel one by one. Shallowly, the smoke smoked out along the small exit, and Luo Wu was worried that the smoke would expose its location, so together with Gu Shiyi and other people who had already left the tunnel, he first took the second princess to the direction of the mountain.

Luo Wu's whereabouts were soon discovered by the officers and soldiers who blocked Qingyang Town, and after Wu Bailun learned the news, he left a small half of his hands to guard the tunnel entrance, waiting for the fire to be extinguished, and then entered the tunnel to find out. He led most of the men and chased them to the edge of the mountain.

Since it was not yet dark, the officers and men did not dare to go deep into the mountains, but only waited for Wu Bailun to arrive before making plans. Wu Bolun thought that the sun had been shining in the past ten days, and the mountain forest must be very dry, so he didn't stop doing it, and let people set fire to the mountain. He said viciously, "If you set a mountain fire, even if you don't force them out, you will burn them to death." ”