In a street in Jiangling City, a group of people were moving silently and quickly, and some residents who were disturbed by the noise in the distance in the city heard the dense footsteps, poked their heads out to see that it was a group of murderous soldiers, so they were so frightened that they quickly closed the windows and closed the door, and did not dare to make a sound.

There seems to be a big movement in the palace, and there are also drums in the east of the city, God, what's the matter!

"Lang Jun, go this way!" A somewhat obscene-looking man in civilian clothes walked at the front of the queue, followed by Yu Wenwen and his soldiers with a solemn face, and Yang Ji, Tian Zhengyue, Lai Hu'er and others were vigilantly patrolling the surroundings to watch out for changes.

Zhang Yu followed the man's side, with a short knife in his hand behind the other party from time to time, this phase master who told Lord Lang a few days ago about 'marriage' was really too suspicious, and had to be guarded against, just when the army was in chaos, the other party actually took the initiative to come to the door and say that he wanted to 'lead the way', how to think about it is a little inappropriate.

"Hun family, I'm back, open the door!" The man came to a courtyard and knocked on the door lightly, shouting in a low voice, before there was any movement inside, Zhang Yu led a few people over the courtyard wall to the courtyard, he was about to reach the person in front of him, but found that the other party was a woman with a baby on her back, and a boy of five or six years old.

Seeing the murderous appearance of Zhang Yu and the others, the woman turned pale with fright, but she still hugged the boy tightly and covered her mouth lightly to prevent him from shouting.

The man didn't care about his wife and children being frightened, just waved his hand at the woman, and then walked into the side room: "Lang Jun, go this way!" ”

Yang Ji led the people to follow with a short knife, only to see the man move the empty water tank in the house and then remove the stone slab on the ground with great difficulty, and a hole in the ground that could allow two people to enter and exit at the same time appeared in front of everyone.

Yu Wenwen then followed. Looking at the swarthy entrance to the cave, he frowned and asked the man, "So what?" ”

"In Xia Zhengtong. It was originally a minor official of the Liang State who lost his ministry because of his evil Shangguan. By chance, I found a tunnel here," the man babbled, telling the ins and outs of the matter.

Zheng Tong had no official position and no land, and as a result, he couldn't make ends meet, so he had to rely on the 'three inches not rotten' to do 'Mai Shenxiang' on the street to get some money to support his family.

It looks like a tomb, if it was normally, Zheng Tong couldn't hide and move quickly, but as the so-called poverty changed, he actually had the courage to go down to the cave and think about 'borrowing' some expenses from the tomb owner.

But I never thought that this was actually an authentic, an ancient tunnel. The walls and top of the tunnel are made of blue bricks, although there are many damages, but they are still solid, and there are many places of water on the ground, but at most they are not above the knees, which does not affect walking.

"This tunnel leads to the palace?" Yuwen Wen cut directly to the point, and when he heard that the man who claimed to be Zheng Tong nodded vigorously, the faces of the people around him were wonderful, and Yang Ji looked incredulous. Tian Zhengyue and Lai Hu'er were happy, and Zhang Yu was still staring at the man.

"Where does it lead to the palace?"

"Xiulin Hall Linshui Zhai."

As soon as you hear the name Linshuizhai, you will know where it is by the pool or water, and a tunnel that can still be passed through now will be at the water's edge?

Zheng Tong saw the suspicious eyes of everyone, and quickly explained that the tunnel exit was in a stone cave on the hill next to Linshui Zhai, the hill was the high ground in the palace, and it could be seen that there was a Yangyun Tower on the top of the mountain.

"Can you recognize the scenery in the palace?" Yu Wenwen looked at Zheng Tong and asked, that **** asked Zheng Tong about marriage, and the other party was able to tell the face of Emperor Liang Xiao Yue, which shows that the other party's origin may not be consistent with Fang Cai's self-proclaimed 'petty official'.

"In the next place, I was able to meet Tianyan face to face for the sake of the turbid officials in the palace and be familiar with the scenery in the palace."

The officials of the Southern Dynasty were divided into clean and turbid, not the corrupt officials referred to by later generations, the clean officials referred to the official positions with clear positions, the reputation was good, the remuneration was high and relaxed, and the turbid officials referred to the military positions or official positions with complicated duties, and the promotion of officials from the turbidity to the Qing Dynasty was the goal of the officials' promotion.

"Well, how many parts of this tunnel are ventilated?" Yuwen Wen thought for a moment and decided to hurry up. "How long is it, and you can light a torch when you find your way?"

Zheng Tong replied that there were three ventilated places, two of which were adjacent to the deep well, and one of the cracks seemed to be palace walls. From this tunnel, about 1,000 steps to the exit, it was pitch black inside, and he couldn't see his five fingers, so he naturally walked with candles.

"Candles? Why don't you light a torch? ”

"The smell in the road is dirty, and I am afraid that I will not be able to breathe smoothly because of the smoke and fire."

"Where does the other side of the tunnel lead?"

"The other end is about 100 steps away and has collapsed and cannot walk, so the direction should be to the outside of the city."

Yu Wenwen groaned, if the other party didn't lie, then this tunnel should have been repaired in the past as a secret passage to escape outside the city, a tunnel that has been around for some years can be waterlogged and not serious enough to be impassable, which means that the airtightness is good, but it also leads to another problem: poor air circulation.

The water network around Jiangling is dense and the groundwater is abundant, this tunnel is waterproof, so the air permeability will be discounted, Zheng Tong walked alone and lit candles inside, so the oxygen consumption is low, so it's okay, but if a group of people light torches and walk inside, I'm afraid it will be finished.

Yu Wenwen didn't have time to give his subordinates 21% oxygen in the air, and people had to have oxygen to survive, and no one dared to believe it, so he directly drew up a plan: select elite soldiers to enter the tunnel in several batches and go to the palace in turn, each time the team can only light one torch, and they are not allowed to speak when they are marching, and if they find themselves dizzy, they immediately retreat.

"Mark those three places to breathe, and if you don't have time to retreat, rest in those three places."

Lai Hu'er was quite surprised to hear this, he had drilled into the tunnels dug by the clan when he was a child to avoid the military disaster, and knew that there would be dizziness when there were many people in this tunnel, and it was best not to light the torches, and the fewer the points, the better, of course, it was best to use candles.

The commander is really thoughtful

"There is no need to light a torch with a candle under it." Zheng Tong took out a pack of candles from the side and said, Yu Wenwen motioned for others to take the candles, then looked at him and asked, "Zheng Tong, what is the benefit of this matter to you?" ”

Zheng Tong really didn't find any high-sounding excuses: "Lang Jun, at the end of the road, I just want a bite to eat." Seeing that he behaved like this, Yuwen Wen had a plan in his heart: If you don't call me the unified army, that is, you don't want to join the army, so if you want to be a dog-headed military advisor?

"That being the case. You lead the way. The wife and children stayed here as a mortgage. The rest will be discussed later. ”

Without further ado, Yuwen Wen and several generals quickly agreed on a plan: select elite soldiers who can fight to enter the palace along the tunnel, and the others stay in the courtyard here just in case, but when they heard that Yuwen Wen was going to enter the tunnel, everyone waved their hands nervously.

"Brother Ben is in the palace and his life and death are unknown, so he should fight to rescue him, how can he sit and wait for the news!" ……

There was a musty smell in the dreary and depressing tunnel, Zhang Yu walked in front with a candle, followed by Zheng Tong, who was the 'Mai Divine Appearance', followed by Yuwenwen, Yang Ji and Laihu'er and more than ten people.

The scale of the tunnel built in this unknown era is not small, not only can accommodate two people walking side by side, but its height can make people straighten their waists, not the cat's waist that was originally envisioned. The floor, sides and top are paved with green bricks, which shine in the candlelight.

"I always feel that this scene is like robbing \ tomb ah" Yu Wenwen complained in his heart, the candlelight reflected on the person and pulled out a strange figure on the tunnel wall, this scene is somewhat similar to the scene in the robbery \ tomb novel he likes to watch: a group of robbers \ tomb thieves who don't know whether they are alive or dead enter the thousand-year-old tomb along the robbery hole, and a decrepit person accidentally touched the mechanism and caused heavy casualties to the team, and the last survivor was chewed and swallowed by the Zongzi King who suddenly rushed out

"Fear yourself, think too much" He walked cautiously, the green bricks on the ground were a little slippery and about moss, and when he looked back, about twenty steps behind him was the second team, and the erratic candlelight looked like it would go out at any moment.

"There's a gap ahead. Outside is a well. Zheng Tong said in a low voice, and the group had just passed through the crack in the wall more than half way when they heard the sound of water outside. It seems that the barrel of water has fallen to the surface.

"Big brother, there's a light at the bottom of that well!" A childish voice came from above.

"What nonsense are you talking about, where is there any light!" Another teenager's voice came.

"Really! I saw it just now, and the shadows were shaking! The immature child's voice was still timid, "Big brother, isn't there something"

"What's there! What's there! The boy's voice sounded again, but it sounded a little lacking, only to hear the squirming from above for a while, and then there was a pop, as if something had fallen into the well water.

"Look, look, there's nothing in the well! Hurry up and fetch water! ”

Yu Wenwen and his party had already walked to the front and left the crack behind, and soon after the second team came to the crack, only to hear a faint cry outside: "Big brother, there is light again!" ”

"Sin sin, sin frightened little one." Yu Wenwen couldn't help but smile when he heard this little episode outside, and the crowd was also a little relieved, and the originally silent and depressing atmosphere was relaxed.

"Lang Jun, when I chose to explore the road before, I chose to do it in the daytime, and one of the many considerations was that I was afraid that there would be a fire overflowing to make people feel it." Zheng Tong said in a low voice.

Yu Wenwen looked at the tunnel and asked himself, if it were a change, he would never come to this kind of place alone, Ah Piao, Zongzi or something, in this kind of place, just being bitten by some mosquitoes, snakes and ants may make people finish.

After walking a distance further, they came to the end of the tunnel, Zhang Yu, under the command of Zheng Nan, first listened to the movement outside and carefully pushed open the small door after making sure that there was nothing abnormal.

A cool breeze blew in the face, bringing a fresh smell to this stuffy and humid tunnel, Yang Ji led several people forward, and found that there was a winding stone cave outside, they carefully walked about two hundred steps to the entrance of the cave to observe, and turned back for a while to say: "Commander the army, there are buildings and pavilions outside, it is not false to be the palace." ”

Yu Wenwen came to the entrance of the cave to watch, only to see that not far from the cave is a pool of water, there is a pavilion by the pool, presumably it is what Zheng Nan said about the water Zhai, there seems to be a noise somewhere in the palace at dusk, listening to this looming voice Yu Wenwen is a little anxious: "I don't know what happened to my brother"

Soon after, after the second, third, and fourth teams came out, Yuwenwen gave an order: Emperor Liang was setting up wine in Zhulin Hall tonight, and the big people were all over there, Zheng Nan led the way to Zhulin Hall, and along the way, don't pester too many people to block and kill Buddhas, and ordinary palace maids, eunuchs and other things don't care.

"Lang Jun, go this way!" Zheng Tong walked ahead, "Zhulintang is here!" ”。 (To be continued.) )