Chinese New Year's Eve.

Shen Leng's team continued to march south, it was a strange-looking procession, strange that people who saw the team for the first time would be incomprehensible.

The leader was led by a great general, but there were only more than 300 cavalry under his command, escorting six or seven hundred prisoners, nearly 10,000 war horses, and thousands of cattle and sheep, so the speed of the team became slow.

Chen Ran sat in the carriage and looked at the mighty team behind him, and couldn't help but sing a song at the top of his voice, singing pastoral songs.

He said that he was now like a herd, cows, sheep, horses, and he was very wealthy.

On the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Shen Leng ordered the team to find a place to camp earlier, and only after noon stopped at the bottom of a mountain, chopping wood to boil water, Shen Leng said that today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, no matter what, you have to eat well.

"Big man."

Shen Leng shouted to Wang Kuohai: "Take a team of five ten-people out with me, and the others take care of the camp to boil water and cook." ”

Wang Kuohai called out to the Venerable Master, got on the horse and went to Shen Leng's side: "General, why are we going?" ”

Shen Leng said, "Today, the Chinese New Year's Eve has to find some wine to drink, and some sugar to eat." ”

After he returned from the northern frontier, he let the team of the Sky Ticket go first, so it became difficult for him to get things like wine and sugar at this time.

Shen Leng opened the map: "The mountain is not big, before the scouts explored, on the other side of the mountain is a small tribe's camp, let's go ask for some wine." ”

Wang Kuohai snorted and looked at the fifty-life soldiers behind him: "Only bring these people?" ”

"That's enough."

Shen Leng raised his head and looked at the mountain, the roof of a building was faintly visible on the top of the mountain, he froze for a moment, and when he came, he also passed by here, and he didn't see any buildings on it.

I took it off and looked closely, only to find that it was probably because of the previous snow slope movement, and some ruins and ruins covering the snow were exposed, like a very old arrow tower.

"The Black Warriors are too loose."

He looked at the arrow tower: "When Heiwu first established the country, it was also stronger than now, at that time they had just won the invincible Mongolian Empire, but they only won the battle, and they could not destroy the Mongolian Empire, after they drove the iron cavalry of the Mongolian Empire out of here, in order to prevent retaliation, they built a large number of fortresses and outposts throughout the country. ”

He pointed to the ruins on the top of the mountain: "But later, the Mongol Empire collapsed and failed to fight back, and these city defenses were all abandoned. ”

Although the ice field here looks like a flat river, because of this, it is impossible to determine where there is danger, and some of the ice lakes are covered with ice that is not as solid as it seems, and people can fall into it if they go and walk immediately.

This road is the safest route that has been surveyed, so the fortresses built on the mountain are like a pair of iron pincers strangled here, but the black warriors have no longer paid attention to these fortresses after thousands of years of strength.

"Let's go find the wine first."

Shen Leng shouted, beckoned to lead the team to set off, and the team of more than fifty people left the camp and galloped forward along the foot of the mountain, and between the horse's hooves rising and falling, snow slag flew.

After running for about two moments, you can see the smoke rising in the distance, and in the cold season, the herdsmen will cook earlier than in spring and summer, and after eating there will be nothing to do, and the great movement to expand the population will be carried out in the warm yurt.

"Something is wrong."

Shen Leng asked the war horse to stop, raised his clairvoyance and looked over there: "It's not cooking smoke."

”

He turned around and ordered: "Big man, after the three ten-man teams are broken, the two ten-man teams will follow me." ”

After finishing speaking, he urged the horse forward, and the two personal soldiers of the ten-person team followed closely, and the big man waited for Shen Leng to go out for a distance before urging the horse, and took more than 30 people far behind.

In less than a moment or so, Shen Leng entered the camp with two ten-person teams, which were previously blocked by the sparse forest, so he couldn't see clearly, and when he arrived, he found that the camp had been destroyed.

"Horse bandits again?"

A pro-soldier sighed: "These black border soldiers have become horse bandits, and they are even more ruthless in killing their own people." ”

Shen Leng jumped down from his war horse, and after walking around, he shook his head: "There is not a single corpse, and there is not much bloodstain, and there are traces of cooking over there, as if there is a big dinner." ”

"This way."

A scout ran over: "There are many footprints, go up the mountain." ”

Shen Leng followed the scout's instructions and found that there were dense footprints on the ground on the other side of the camp, large and small, obviously many people had stayed here, looking at the footprints, they all went to the mountain.

"Send someone to tell Wang Kuohai to catch up."

Shen Leng ordered: "Let's go over and have a look." ”

The soldiers quickly got on their horses and followed Shen Leng to chase after the mountain, judging from the footprints, the time when those people left was not very long, no more than half a day, the scouts had a wealth of experience, they could easily judge it.

After arriving at the bottom of the mountain, Wang Kuohai also came up with a team of three tens, and they dismounted in the forest below the mountain and carefully touched the edge of the forest.

"There's someone over there."

A scout lowered his voice and said something to Shen Leng, stretched out his hand and pointed upward, and on a large raised rock halfway up the mountain, a man stood there as if on guard.

"Bring him back and ask."

After Shen Leng finished giving the order, three or four of his own soldiers approached the mountain, they were wearing white cloaks, which were difficult to make out from a distance.

After a while, Shen Leng, who was holding clairvoyance, saw his men put down the sentry standing on the big rock, and after a while, three or four personal soldiers dragged the man back, and the speed was very fast.

Shen Leng walked in front of the person who was captured and looked at it, this person is not a ghost moon person, he looks more like a steppe person, when the Mongolian Empire rose and killed all directions, although they were later defeated, their tribes are scattered all over the place, and now many small nomadic tribes in Heiwu are actually descendants of the Mongolian Empire.

Shen Leng asked a few words, but he couldn't understand a word of what the person said, not the words of the black warrior or the words of the grassland people, and he was grunting.

None of Shen Leng's subordinates could understand, and they couldn't even understand what was said.

Shen Leng pointed to the mountain, pointed to the person, and motioned for him to lead the way in front, this person understood, shook his head vigorously, Wang Kuohai went up and grabbed the person's clothes and raised it with one arm, the man was so frightened that his face turned white, Wang Kuohai threw the person to the ground, and then sat on it with a butt, and it didn't last long The person couldn't stand it, and nodded vigorously.

He took Shen Leng and them up, and walked up about a mile after the place where he stood guard before, and what appeared in front of him was the mouth of a cave, and there was still snow falling down the hillside, which had been piled up for I don't know how many years, and the bottom had turned into ice, and I don't know why it slipped to reveal this cave.

"They don't look like they've been ransacked by horse bandits."

Shen Leng looked back at the camp: "There is no bloodstain, there is no trace of fighting, it is more like they burned the camp into the mountain by themselves." ”

He pointed to the cave, and the herdsman who led the way shook his head

was even more powerful, saying that he would not leave, Wang Kuohai was also anxious, and pushed the person behind the back to push the person into the cave, and then slammed it......

Wang Kuohai paused for a moment, and approached cautiously, the ground at the mouth of the cave was actually a flap, and the person fell, and below was a dense and polished very sharp stone, and the person had been penetrated and died there.

"What the fuck is this place?"

Shen Leng looked at the corpse: "He wanted to lure us here to kill, but he didn't expect you to push him." ”

"To get in?"

Wang Kuohai asked.

Shen Leng looked at the sky and saw that it was still early, and nodded: "Find something and throw it in to try." ”

Wang Kuohai smiled: "That's not easy. ”

He turned around and picked up a large stone and threw it into the cave, and there was a noise on the ground, and some traps were triggered, not only the flaps on the ground, but also the stone walls on both sides of the crossbow arrows, but most of those crossbow arrows were broken.

"I'm up ahead."

Shen Leng stretched out his hand and took Wang Kuohai's giant shield, he had Xuantie battle armor on his body, and those crossbow arrows couldn't pierce it.

He walked against the wall, cautiously, fortunately, the mechanisms here seemed to be too old, some of them were out of order and some of them were rotten, and after walking in for a while, he saw a lot of words on the stone wall, and then Shen Leng was stunned.

"It's not the text of the Black Warriors."

He looked at Wang Kuohai: "It's the text of the Mongolian Empire." ”

Wang Kuohai looked admiring: "General, do you know all the words that have disappeared for thousands of years?" ”

"If you disappear, you definitely don't know it, and you don't know it until you disappear."

Shen Leng said: "I studied with Mr. Shen when I was a child, and I learned a lot of words, and I can recognize various local dialects, but ...... That is, if you recognize the text of the Mongolian Empire, you can't see what is written. ”

Wang Kuohai leaned over to the wall and looked: "Is it written that welcome?" ”

Shen Leng looked back at the authorities in that place: "You're right. ”

He exhaled, "Be careful, follow me in a straight line." ”

After finishing speaking, continue to explore the way, the cave is not very long, about half a mile away, to the front of the sudden enlightenment, no one would have thought that there is such a big hole in this mountain.

There were no footprints on the dust, and it was clear that the people of those tribes had not come in at all.

"We're afraid we've been deceived."

Wang Kuohai said: "Those people from the tribe didn't come here at all, he brought us to a dead end. ”

Shen Leng nodded, and after leaving the cave, he saw a sculpture in the huge cave hall, the carved shape seemed to be wearing armor, and the eyes seemed to be staring at this side, the sculpture was at least one zhang high, and the carving was slightly rough.

"It's not going to be a grave."

Wang Kuohai shook his head: "General, let's go, what can be in this place, it's not worth it." ”

With a snap, something fell and smashed on Wang Kuohai's head, and his iron helmet made a crisp sound, Wang Kuohai looked down at what was an egg-sized stone ball, picked it up and looked at it, felt that something was wrong, and rubbed it his armor.......

"It's ...... Orbs? ”

Wang Kuohai handed the beads to Shen Leng, who took them and looked at them: "Such a big pearl." ”

He looked up at the top of his head, and there were at least a hundred such stone balls above his head.

Wang Kuohai's eyes lit up: "Go in, go in, you have to go in and see what you say." ”