Chapter 0056 Sorrowful Yanming Masonry
A rough estimate of the number of people to shoot six rockets in a row means that there were at least six Assassins, or double the number of twelve, and two people working together to shoot rockets.
The people in the honor guard of the craftsmen, all of them were alert and had excellent military qualities, and when they passed through such a canyon, they were even more vigilant and raised their big shields. If you only shoot with arrows, it is difficult to hurt people, that is, pushing and throwing stones, and the area at the bottom of the valley is quite large, and the honor guard can dodge enough.
However, if it is burned with fire, it will be difficult to crack. The rocket will catch fire very quickly when it hits the shield, and it will definitely kill people. Fortunately, it rained, and the rocket did not play a corresponding role, and it is estimated that there will be no casualties in Yun Xiaoshui's honor guard.
Halfway up the hill, I saw a dozen or so assassins in a panic through the sparse woods. Although they are dressed ordinary, mountain people, their age, body shape, and physical condition seem to be very uniform, and there is no big difference, which is sure that they are not mountain bandits.
Because they did not prepare stones, etc., the only way to attack, which was to shoot rockets, failed at this time, and they panicked, panicked.
"Then you all leave it to the young master, and I will stay!" Yun Xiaoshui shouted, took the lead in shooting an arrow, and then more than a dozen sharp arrows broke through the air, "Ahh
"Leave two alive!" With Yun Xiaoshui's shout, the fifteen people only shot their bodies and not the vital points in the second round of archery. However, when Yun Xiaoshui dismounted and rushed up, they all fell to the ground and died.
Ten men, all young and strong young men, like soldiers, among whom did not die with arrows, committed suicide with daggers. Sure enough, the weapons they used were all military weapons.
"With whom would I have such a deep feud? Who would be so pretentious as to put me to death? Yun Xiaoshui wanted to stay for a while.
I can't find any clues if I want to stay in it, and I don't even know who the enemy is, which is very depressing! Can Zhao Gao's sense of touch stretch so far? Will Li Si and Mao Laodao send people to attack thousands of miles?
There were no casualties among the fake Yun Xiaoshui and the honor guard, and two horses were shot dead, and the horse meat was cut up on the spot, and roasted and eaten out of the valley. Still walking in the same way as before, Yun Xiaoshui walked in the middle with the four guards and continued to rush towards the Fallen Horse Pass.
Fall Ma Pass is located in the territory of Beitang County north to the east of the Yellow River, is now the ancient city of Tang County, Baoding, Hebei Province, has always been a military important place, because of "the mountain road is steep, the horse falls for it" and gets the name, and Juyong Pass, Bauhinia Pass together called "the inner three passes", there is "the horse must be poured before the fall of the horse pass, the number of it is strange in the three passes".
It is a choke point in North China and Northwest China. Yun Xiaoshui also knew that this was not only the place where the Yang family of the Northern Song Dynasty guarded Yang Jiye and Yang Liulang's father and son, but also the mining place of the Dashiyu gold mine.
So, after arriving at the Reverse Horse Pass, Yun Xiaoshui went to Dashiyu on a special trip, and really let him discover the shadow of the gold mine, he is not so stupid, he can't say it at this time! Silently, silently.
The problem here is easy to solve, but it is also the problem of transporting large blocks of masonry, the road is dangerous and difficult, and bulky things cannot be dragged and moved. In addition to still using the method of splashing water on the road and dragging it, Yun Xiaoshui has made a new move.
When Yun Xiaoshui knocked on the bricks and stones to verify the legend of "Sorrowful Swallow Singing Bricks", he accidentally found a few sheep herding babies riding big goats in the mountains and valleys, and the long-haired goats were the same as the legendary yaks, walking steadily on the rocks, and their endurance after bearing the weight was far better than that of strong men.
"Transported with goats! Especially the climb high, guaranteed to exceed people's imagination! Yun Xiaoshui proposed a new unexpected transportation plan, and Sun Junhou here was so shocked that he didn't say a word for a long time with his mouth open.
Splashing water and freezing on the road, transporting bricks and stones by slippery and dragging is beyond their cognition, and the idea of transporting bricks in baskets with goats is even more unimaginable.
Sun Junhou himself said that he was transferred to supervise the servants and soldiers to build the city wall, it has been almost two years, it can be said that the shepherd baby rides a goat to graze, just like the shepherd boy in the water town in the south of the Yangtze River sits on the back of an old buffalo and plays the bamboo flute, which is commonplace, but who would have thought of using goats instead of manpower to climb the mountain and transport?
"A prodigy is a god, and if you don't accept it, you can't do it!"
Nasun Junhou led his soldiers to recruit many sturdy goats and carry the bricks and stones that had been dragged by the ice road to the city wall.
After finishing his business work, Yun Xiaoshui went to continue to study the legend of the "Sorrowful Swallow Stone" here. He carried a small iron cone and knocked here and there.
All the bricks and stones built on the city wall make a sound of "chirp-chirp-", which is very vague, but the sound is not low, and there is indeed a sad sound, although it cannot make people cry, but it can make the nose of those who hear it sour.
However, when you hit the masonry that is not built on the wall, but is placed on the ground, it will make a normal "bangbang" sound.
"It's weird!" Yun Xiaoshui thought about it again to verify the bricks and stones placed on the city wall, and the stones that were not hewn into strips, and the sound of knocking out was still the normal "bangbang" sound.
That is to say, only after a single brick or stone is plastered with lime plaster to build a city wall, does it make a "chirp-chirp-" sound. Yun Xiaoshui decided to suggest that the wall builders expand the lookout by a brick at the top of the city wall in this area, which can be regarded as a space for the swallows to make nests.
Maybe this will comfort the swallows who come here and make the mournful sound of masonry a little less! Whether it has any effect or not, Yun Xiaoshui did not wait for the result and set off again, and traveled a long way to Jiayuguan.
After embarking on the slow journey to the west, Yun Xiaoshui recalled the specific content of the legend of the "Sorrowful Yan Mingshi" in the Fallen Horse Pass.
There is a pair of little gray swallows are made at the top of the small auxiliary door hole in the inverted horse gate, this pair of little swallows go out at sunrise and return at sunset, double stay and fly, sweet and affectionate. Suddenly, one day, the female swallow flew back alone in advance, and silently lay in the nest waiting for the male swallow.
However, it was not until the sun went down that it was dark and the door was closed, and the male swallow did not fly back to the nest. The next day, the corpse of the male swallow was seen on the ground outside the city gate.
It turned out that when the male swallow flew back, because the door was closed, it was dark, windy, and rainy, and he wanted to fly high into the city wall to return home, but he hit his head in the corner of the female wall on the city wall. The brains burst out, the black beads burst out, and the death couldn't be more miserable.
So, the female swallow screamed for three days and three nights, hovering over the top of the wall where the male swallow was killed, and the last one rushed down and also crashed into the female wall battlement where the male swallow hit.
This can be regarded as "husband and wife in the same hole"!
Legend has it that since then, the bricks and stones on the wall have made a sound of "chirping-chirping-", sad and desolate, aren't they mourning for the swallow couple?
"Old Madam Yuyao said that this legend is not a good sign, for national events, what is the bad omen of this event?" Yun Xiaoshui thought to himself, but he didn't have any clear clues.
Nothing happened along the way to the west, but when we arrived at Jiayuguan, we got into a difficult situation.
In fact, at this time, Jiayuguan is not a pass, but can only be called the valley of Jiayu Mountain, a relatively flat and empty tidal flat, next to a big river flowing, in fact, this land was originally extremely fertile, which can also give birth to this piece of several more prosperous villages and towns.
However, not long ago, there was a strange thing here, as long as there were three days of sunny days in a row, a black mist would form on the surrounding mountain peaks, all of which would change from light to thick, from light smoke like white clouds, to black mist, and the shape would be gathered into the shape of a huge turtle.