Chapter 126: Two Wolves (Part II)

Wu Song couldn't help but chuckle when he saw everyone stammering and a group of old hats.

Zhang Xiaowu said: "Mr. Wu, you know a lot, you tell me about the history of these two wolf passes." ”

Wu Song held the book into a scroll in his right hand, patted it on his left hand, and said with a figure-eight step: "If you want to talk about the history of these two wolf passes, you have to say the history of the Central Plains, you must know that the Central Plains is a farming and warfare nation, and outside the two wolf passes are nomadic peoples, the Central Plains people have stood tall after 5,000 years, although the dynasty has changed, but the culture is immortal......

"Ahem, ahem...... Talk about the point. Zhang Xiaowu reminded.

Zhao Suo also shouted: "I said powerful, can you not tell us about it, what are you talking about?" ”

Wu Song said: "This story, you have to tell a cause and effect." Seeing that everyone was staring at him, he had no choice but to raise his hand in surrender and say, "Okay, I'll talk about something close, something close." He cleared his throat and coughed a few times before telling the story of the two wolves.

According to ancient legends, a shocking earthquake 10,000 years ago caused the Yehe Mountain Range to break from the middle, and since then it has been divided into the East Yehe Mountain Range and the West Yehe Mountain Range, and in the middle of the mountain range fracture, there is a valley like a sugar gourd, which the people call the Valley of the Two Wolves. The valley of the two wolves is dozens of miles wide at the exit on the south side, and only two miles wide at the exit on the north side, and all the monarchs since the king of the Central Plains have realized the importance of the valley of the two wolves. No matter how the Central Plains Dynasty changed, it always built a pass fortress on the north side of the Two Wolf Valley to prevent the invasion of northern nomads.

Six hundred years ago, the Roland Empire broke the Two Wolves Pass into the Central Plains with a strange method, and twenty years later, the Roland Empire was overturned, and the Two Wolves Pass fell into the hands of the slave army (Tatars). The princes of the Central Plains competed for hegemony, this was the weakest and most chaotic period in the Central Plains, known as the era of the Sixteen Kingdoms, when a merchant spent 500 taels of gold to buy foreign exchange from the Tartars.

The Chinese Empire unified the Central Plains, and the two wolves were built into two wolf fortresses, which became an important pass to defend the north. The national fortune of the Chinese Empire is relatively short, and there are only eight decades of four generations of emperors, because the royal blood is thin, Zen is located in the Li royal family of the Tiantang Empire. Although many historians believe that the descendants of the Ji family of the Chinese imperial family should be severed by the Li family of the Tiantang Dynasty, there is no historical evidence, and this case has become a historical unsolved case.

One hundred and thirty years after the founding of the Tiantang Empire, the imperial feudal kingdom gradually became stronger, which eventually led to the Rebellion of the Eight Kings. When the Li brothers killed each other, the princes from all over the country were unwilling to be lonely and chased the Central Plains, and after 20 years of hegemony, the Han Xuanyuan clan finally ruled the world. At that time, the Murong clan, who was sitting on two wolf fortresses, saw the general trend and declared their allegiance to the king of Han, and the Xuanyuan clan finally ruled the world and established the Holy Han Empire.

Two hundred years ago, when Emperor Jing of the Holy Han Dynasty, due to the decadence of the fortress of the Two Wolf Valley, the northern raids continued, and Emperor Jing rebuilt the fortress and renamed it the Two Wolf Pass.

Two wolf pass is a gourd-shaped city two wolf city, it is built by the mountain, the east and west sides are steep and 100 feet high difficult to climb the east Yehe mountain and the west Yehe mountain, the south end of the city is only a two-zhang city wall, there is no resistance, the north side of the city wall is built according to the mountain, and divided into the inner wall and the outer wall, the outer wall is six zhang, the inner wall is ten zhang high, the two walls are only eighty steps apart, if the outer wall is broken, the defenders can easily recapture the outer wall by relying on the inner wall.

After two hundred years of construction by dozens of emperors of the Holy Han Empire, the two wolf passes are now impregnable, and its only entrance and exit to the north is an iron gate weighing thousands of catties, controlled by a winch, which was built by the master of the organ two hundred years ago. In order to prevent the Tatars from digging tunnels to enter the Two Wolves Pass, the public even dug twenty zhang deep to build the foundation here before the construction of the Two Wolves Pass, and the two wolf passes were full of hard boulders. The city wall of the Two Wolf Pass is also made of "H" shaped stones, and the glutinous rice juice in the middle of the gap is tamped with clay, and then it is built by roasting layer by layer. In order to build this pass, the imperial court spent tens of millions of taels of silver in two hundred years, and the two wolf passes are known as the unbreakable pass and the first pass in the world.

Although he knew that there was no barrier that could never be broken, when facing such a majestic and huge pass, Zhang Xiaowu still expressed infinite emotion like everyone else.

After handing over the disc, Zhang Xiaowu and others passed through the corridor of the Great Wall Gate of nearly ten zhang long, and then saw a stone wall blocking the inside of the urn city, they bypassed the stone wall and were about to watch the urn city, but suddenly saw a person behind them as if they were being pulled "dong" and hit the stone wall at the gate of the urn city, hitting their heads and bleeding and screaming. Everyone was puzzled, and saw a captain and dozens of sergeants, all holding wooden sticks, stepped forward, first restrained the person, and then dragged the person down from the stone wall and took him away.

Zhang Xiaowu was puzzled, and Wu Song said: "This stone wall is called the Han Wall, which is carved from a huge magnet stone. Just now, this person should have worn iron armor inside, and he deserved to suffer this. ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "No wonder when we entered the city, the wolf guard did not check whether our armor carried a blade, it turned out that there were such divine objects here. ”

Wu Song said: "This wall of respect to the Han Dynasty is said to be the public loss of the benefit of exhausting the strength of a lifetime, in the four seas to find it, Emperor Jing originally planned to be placed in the dragon capital, and later before the death of the repentance, said that the country is broken how to home, then moved the wall of the Han Dynasty to the two wolf pass. ”

"I have a plan to break this wall." Zhang Xiaowu said suddenly, seeing everyone's expressions of surprise, Zhang Xiaowu touched the magnet wall and said: "It's just that this wall of honoring the Han can absorb iron, but it can't absorb copper. ”

Wu Song was stunned, thoughtful, and said with a wry smile: "The copper blade is easy to break, where can it be worth the iron blade." ”

Zhang Xiaowu pointed to the urn city and said: "You see that in the urn city, the soldiers are only holding long sticks, if three thousand dogs are holding copper knives to kill, can the wolf guards resist." ”

Maybe they were talking a little louder, the captain with a wooden stick raised his head when he heard the sound, and walked over with a fierce momentum, everyone suddenly became nervous, this is not Saibei, let alone a wooden city, the reputation of the dead soldier camp is useless here.

Zhang Xiaowu was not afraid, raised his head and looked at the captain lightly, the captain measured Zhang Xiaowu up and down, and asked with interest: "You are a young general who is insightful, how can you not have confidence in breaking through the two wolf passes?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu bowed his hand and said: "My lord, Xia Guan is simulating how to break the level, I think Wolf Wei must have simulated the strategy of breaking the level many times to deal with it, and Xia Guan is really ugly." ”

The lieutenant smiled, looked him in the eye and said, "I remember you." ”

The siege of the two wolf passes is not big, but because the walls on both sides are tall, there is no sunlight in the urn city all day long, giving people a cold and cold feeling, even if it is the middle of summer now, it is still cold in the urn city. Zhang Xiaowu noticed that some places were more muddy and wet, and it should be that the drainage was not smooth, but fortunately, this place was located in the north of the Saibei, and there was not much rain in the season, so it would not cause flooding in the urn city.

There are three city gates on the inner wall of the Two Wolf Pass, but they are not cast with pig iron like the outer gate, but they are just ordinary heavy wooden doors, which are closed on the left and right, and a team of wolf guards guards are guarding here. After the inner city is the wolf guard barracks, many wolf guard soldiers have guarded the two wolf passes for generations, so only soldiers live in the wolf guard barracks, and the generals still live in their own homes in the two wolf cities. The reason for the construction of these two wolf cities is to serve the wolf guard, and because the two wolf passes are the only pass in and out of Saibei and the Central Plains, almost all the world's warehouses and trading companies have set up branches here, and the Han people who go to the customs to seek a life and the foreign races who enter the Central Plains have to be prepared here. The natural geographical advantage has created the prosperity of the two wolf cities, and everyone passed the wolf guard barracks, and finally saw the bustling people and merchants coming and going.

Several merchants with pack horses shouted, "Go to the Wolf Pass, go to the Wolf Pass!" This is the unique call sign of the caravan out of the fortress, and in order to find the companion out of the fortress, the bitter cold of the side plug, coupled with the endless sand bandits and wolves, a caravan is often very dangerous, so there is this way of widely advertising each other's companions. After a while, another caravan also echoed back, and the two caravans got together to discuss how to get out of the jam.

The sound of the horn out of the plug, the sound of the vendors, and the chatter and laughter of the people on the street constitute a vivid daily picture of the people in the Two Wolves City, so that Zhang Xiaowu and others, who have been in the grassland for a long time, only feel a strong breath of life, and everyone is smiling on their faces.

The group walked for a while and saw many brothels, casinos, pawnshops, inns, shops, and especially many theater troupes gathered here to perform. Several troupes built a stage, and the famous actors took turns to perform on stage, and the people in the audience applauded, and some people cried and laughed excitedly, making the road impassable.

Wang Yijin inquired, only to learn that it was the commander of the White Tiger Army, General Zhenxi, and Dushan Boye Xiangdong who liked to listen to dramas, so he also let the sergeants listen to dramas in their spare time, so that many troupes came here to beg for a living. In recent days, General Ye has set up a phoenix banquet in the city and invited the world's top ten famous composers to perform. It can be said that everyone who has entered the Fengming Banquet is the top ten famous composers in the world, so there are more and more troupes here, and they are becoming more and more famous, so that the city is becoming more and more prosperous, and many sons and brothers from Longdu and players from all over the country have also come to join in the fun.

Zhang Xiaowu listened to Wang Yijin's introduction, laughed, and said that this is another Alxa hero, this Uncle Ye is really good at playing, and he must be a romantic figure when he is young.

At this time, it was already noon, everyone was a little hungry, Zhang Xiaowu and others found an inn to ask for food, more than 30 people dressed very plainly, but the food ordered was not simple. The dead soldier camp had some money in his hands, and it was the first time for everyone to enter the city with Zhang Xiaowu, so he ordered delicacies to his heart's content, such as fried fish, sweet and sour fish, braised pork, butter chicken, sesame cakes, roasted suckling sheep, milk tofu, drunken dried meat, fragrant (dog) broth, fried croquettes, etc., and the rice also became rice.

Everyone surrounded the four tables in the city, staring directly at the shopkeeper and constantly serving food, swallowing saliva one by one, and not even caring about everything that happened around them.