"Jiang Han, the captain of the Seventh Brigade of the Independent Regiment." It was only at this time that Dunzi remembered to introduce the officers around him to Shen Guodong.

No matter how calm he is on the surface, his heart has long been so chaotic that he can't take care of these people's feelings.

The former special service battalion has become an independent regiment, the number is regimental, but the equipment and staffing are divisional standards, and Dunzi has also been promoted from a major battalion commander to the current colonel regiment commander, in terms of military rank, it is already equivalent to the division level.

Jiang Han is the captain of the major, and Zhou Zhou is now the captain and deputy captain of the seventh brigade.

Several people didn't have a word of extra politeness, and after announcing their names, they began to study the map that Zhou Wanwan took out.

The Badain Jaran Desert, the Ulan Bu Desert and the Tengger Desert, where the archaeological team disappeared, make up the Alxa Desert, with a total area of 100,000 square kilometers, making it the second desert in China and the fourth in the world. The Badain Jaran Desert is under the jurisdiction of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and the archaeological team excavated closer to Zhangye, Gansu Province.

In fact, there is not only one ancient Silk Road, the south road, the north road, the middle road, the trade route in the desert has prospered in the east and the west for thousands of years, and the ancient cities have also prospered or abandoned with the jingle of camel bells and river diversion in the desert, like pearls scattered in the endless desert, waiting for future generations to brush away the dust of which dynasty and which generation, and it once appeared.

There is no need for several people to discuss, and the focus is on the northwest of the Badain Jaran Desert, which borders Outer Mongolia, there are tens of thousands of square kilometers without any information, and it is called a no-man's land with no human footprints.

Since the archaeological team lost contact with the present, the border armed police and the troops urgently transferred have formed a semi-encirclement situation. The only place where these illegal armed forces and hundreds of people could flee was in the desert hinterland.

This official and existing no-man's land may be the best hiding place for this group of bandits who have lived in the heart of the desert for generations.

Of course. It is more likely that they would not have brought so many people with them at all, and the archaeological team has already been killed.

However, Jiang Han and Zhou Zhou were silent about this speculation. The three people on the other side did not accept this possibility at all, no matter what others thought, they only thought that they could find the archaeological team and bring their relatives home safely.

No matter how calm they appeared to be, the nerves of the three men almost broke made the atmosphere in the plane extremely tense and oppressive, except for discussing the search and pursuit. None of them said a single superfluous word.

Shen Guodong couldn't take care of it so much, and after ten minutes of the plane taking off, he began to jolt violently, so he hugged Zhou Wanwan tightly in his arms and wrapped him in a blanket. Let her close her eyes and recuperate.

Zhou Wanwan raised her eyes from the blanket, Zhou Zhou patted her weird big backpack, signaling her to rest assured, and he watched.

Zhou Wanwan's heart was so disturbed that she had no room to think about Zhou Zhou's behavior. If Zhou Chen can't find it. Everything didn't mean anything to her, and a backpack wasn't worth mentioning.

With the information provided by Zhou Wanwan, everyone no longer knew anything about that no-man's land, and according to the direction of the dark river, the distribution of desert lakes and the topography, several people began to formulate the pursuit route and follow-up troop deployment.

The plane landed at the military airport in Zhangye, and was immediately greeted by responsible persons of the local armed police and public security organs.

"Send two people who are familiar with the situation to follow, and talk about it when you get to the place." Dunzi didn't make any polite greetings with them, and the team didn't make any stops. Immediately got on the helicopter that Grandpa Shen had deployed in advance, and flew towards the ruins of the ancient city in the desert.

The people who went to do the on-site investigation in the early stage have already arrived by truck. The troops that were deployed in the follow-up were also in place immediately, and a platoon of more than a dozen trucks at the airport was ready to load troops and logistical supplies at any time and set off.

In this era, there were only a few helicopters in the entire military region, and the four helicopters that were urgently deployed were almost all the strength that the Lanzhou Military Region could draw up in a short period of time, but they were only enough to transport this small group of people over, and they still had to rely on trucks and camels to pursue or reconnoitre. This is also the main reason why the hinterland of the desert has been able to hide these bandits for a long time without being exterminated.

When the group arrived at the ruins of the ancient city, it was already dusk, and the helicopter dropped off and they quickly returned home. In the huge ancient city, only a few PLA soldiers and two Dunhuang archaeological team members who came to investigate in the early stage were on standby, and the follow-up people were still on their way.

"The camp of the archaeological team has been burned down, no clues can be found, the generator and some excavation tools at the site are gone, the excavated Buddha statues, pottery, porcelain are still there, some have not had time to pack, the site is very chaotic, I can't find any written records of the excavation, I don't know what is missing."

The person in charge sent by the Gansu Archaeological Institute was called Song Sangai, and his brows became more and more wrinkled, "In the past two days, there has been a strong wind in this area, and the floating sand has covered all the traces, and there is no trace of their retreat." ”

That is, how many people came, what they took with them, whether they were driving or camels, where they came from, where they went, how long they walked, and all traces could not be found.

The PLA squad leader who was on standby did not really stand by on the spot, but the results of their investigation were not optimistic, "The phenomenon of quicksand in this vicinity is serious, and several large tombs found by the archaeological team near the ancient city have been buried by quicksand, and they cannot find specific locations." ”

Almost all the clues are broken.

The Badain Jaran Desert is famous for its singing sand and quicksand, and the quicksand can bury an ancient city overnight.

Legend has it that these thousand-year-old cities moved, are here today, and may be reappearing elsewhere decades from now. In fact, it is not the ancient city that will move, but the desert itself. These monuments scattered in the desert are buried by quicksand today, and I don't know when, they will reveal their true faces from the quicksand.

But they didn't have time to wait, and if they wasted one more minute, the lives of the archaeological team members would be in danger. But all those who knew the situation were missing, and no one knew where to find them in the desert.

When they landed, they scattered and returned all the dozen or so soldiers who quickly reconnoitred the ancient city, and the situation was basically the same as what Song Sangai said, and no clues could be found.

"Go to the tomb and take a look, starting with the largest burial goods and the most burial goods." A few people in Dunzi have already discussed it on the road, and if there are no obvious clues, they still have to start looking for the ancient city and ancient tombs.

Song Sangai and several people looked at each other, they also knew that it was best to go to the cemetery to see the situation if they couldn't find clues in the ancient city, but now they didn't know where the cemetery was, let alone the scale and number of burial goods.

Dunzi identified the direction and took the lead towards the southwest gate, and everyone quickly followed. With the map provided by Zhou Wanwan, this is not a problem for them.

Zhou Zhou was the last, and found two generators and a bunch of ancient tomb excavation equipment such as ropes, shovels, crowbars, etc., behind the ruins of the city wall where Zhou Wanwan had just sat down to rest, and a small excavator behind a tall tower next to it.

The people who came later thought it was the equipment left by the archaeological team, but Song Sangai and a few people were so shocked that they could hardly close their mouths, they had already carefully surveyed the ancient city, and they didn't find these things at all, and how could they not find such a behemoth as an excavator?

But now no one cares about this, and quickly leaves the city with equipment, compared to the more than 100 lives of the archaeological team, this is all trivial.

The largest cemetery around the ancient city is buried a prince of the Western Regions, the map shows that the entire tomb is in the shape of "A", and the specific location is also clearly marked, from the most intact south gate of the ancient city to the west for one kilometer, there are two boulders where there are two boulders is the tomb entrance.

Walking to the place, the two boulders had been buried by quicksand, revealing an inconspicuous part, no different from ordinary stones in the desert.

Without a pier to confirm, Xiao Wang had already pounced between the two stones and began to frantically pick up the sand with his paws.

"This is it! Dig fast! Since he knew that Zhou Chen had an accident, the voice of the pier took on an eager trill for the first time, and he jumped on the excavator but had to come down to let Zhou Zhou go up, his hands were already trembling and he couldn't operate the machine.

Everyone picked up their tools and began to dig, the two GIs quickly set up the wires, the sun went down, there was no moonlight at the end of the month, the whole desert was plunged into darkness, but the electric lights at the excavation site were as bright as day.

Zhou Wanwan took out the water bladder from the backpack and distributed it to everyone, the helicopter was afraid of being overweight, they didn't bring any supplies at all, and each soldier only had a few compressed biscuits on them, but looking at the dun and Shen Guodong who were digging sand with a shovel almost crazy, no one could think of eating it.

The soldiers took turns to drink a few sips of water, and suddenly there was a lot more strength in their bodies, and the efficiency of digging increased several times at once. Dunzi and Shen Guodong refused to stop for a moment, Zhou Wanwan did not force them to drink water, and they also picked up shovels and worked hard to dig sand.

What she dug was not sand, but a burden that almost suffocated them on their hearts, if Zhou Chen really had an accident, the lives of several of them would be ruined, who would care about a mouthful of water?

With the rapid excavation of excavators and more than a dozen people, the entrance of the tomb was quickly cleared, and what appeared in front of people was the first huge stone door of the tomb.

Unlike the tombs in the Central Plains, the tombs in the desert area are built with huge stone bars around and above and below the tombs in order to prevent them from collapsing and robbers, making it more difficult to enter than other places, and there is only one way to enter.

This tomb door is made of a whole large stone polished, with ancient and mysterious lines on it, but there is not a single gap to be found, and there is not even a joint between it and the tomb wall, and it is impossible to open it in a short time.

"It depends on the situation, the archaeological team has not entered the cemetery yet." Song Sankai was the first to come to the conclusion that since the archaeological team had not opened the tomb door yet, there was no need for them to spend this effort for the time being, and now it was most important to find talents.

But Xiao Wang threw himself at the tomb door and screamed frantically. Dunzi and Shen Guodong, who had already planned to leave, glanced at each other and quickly rushed to the tomb door. (To be continued.) )

PS: Normal updates are back from today......

ran away with the lid on the pot......