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The crowd walked through the streets, where there were few pedestrians, and the streets were littered with ruined vehicles and crossbow launchers, and the buildings on both sides were shattered by the fighting. During the siege phase, the Beigong servants continued to use artillery tactics, and thousands of shells made of oil incendiary bombs and black gunpowder fell on the city of the ancient city, and most of the buildings were reduced to ruins under the fire.

The war turned the once bustling neighborhood into a white space, and the buildings in the inner city and beyond, showing the strong resistance of the people of the city in the face of defeat. The houses destroyed under the fire, the ruins and broken walls, and the walls are full of holes, telling how tragic and cruel this battle was.

At this time, the main road in the middle of the city, where the houses on both sides burned to the skeleton of stone walls, as well as the square and street in front of the palace, had been cleared by the people who had fled here, and the people who remained were helpless in the face of the destroyed homes. Most of the civilians who are cleaning up the ruins of the city are women and the elderly, because young and strong men, whether demons or humans, have joined the anti-cleanup battle against every Beigong servant army, and there are many more men who have died because of the war, and the ruins left behind can only be dealt with by demons and human women.

A group of soldiers patrol a building, and as fighters against the rebels, they are constantly required to manage the security of the city.

It was once a center of religion, culture and art deep in the desert for thousands of years.

Walking through the ancient city, the streets of the ancient city are as intricate as a labyrinth, and you can vaguely see that the Western-style houses still have the appearance before the war. The ruins of the ponds, bridges, orchards, and woods of the past are still vivid, and it seems that in the deep alleys here there was once a beautiful girl as beautiful as a lilac holding an oil-paper umbrella.

Walking along the uneven sand-brick paved streets of the city, it seems that you will feel like you are wandering in the old days.

In the exquisite ancient city, there used to be all kinds of shops and stalls along the street, selling all kinds of handicrafts such as ironware, cotton cloth, ceramics, leather, carpets, etc., which made people dazzled. Jingjue was once a well-deserved handicraft city, and the most famous industries were cotton cloth making and ironwork processing. At that time, Jingjue had the most traditional cotton manufacturing workshop, and it was the only place where cloth was made by hand. Before the war, clothes such as clothes, cloth bags, shoes and hats made by any workshop were very beautiful and of top quality. The cotton here is so high-quality, but the process of making it is absolutely unexpected. People who have been to Jingjie often describe the cotton dyeing workshop here as "full of fragrance" and "dark fragrance". In fact, this is not an exaggeration, as long as you smell the smell of flowers, you know that there is a cotton dyeing workshop nearby.

Therefore, the exquisite ancient city was also called the "fragrant city" by the world at that time.

Once upon a time, in a typical cotton dyeing workshop, the aborigines of the time generally worked in the open air, and hundreds of large colorful dye vats were placed in the dye mill, which were of different shapes, like a large honeycomb, and the workers were busy like bees. As an ordinary buyer, if you enter the dye factory, you will generally feel relaxed and happy, as if you are in a huge aromatic air bath. Because the air in the dyeing room is really fragrant and lingering.

According to the ancient cotton dyeing method, the woven cotton cloth must be soaked together with snow lotus, rose, poppy, sandalwood, mandala, Tianchi Yao grass and salt, boiled, and soaked again with Kunlun Mountain snow melt water to soften, and then extract the essential oil of various flowers as a dye, and finally, go to the palace to ask for the exquisite holy spring erupting in the center of the square, sprinkled on the cloth like nectar. In this way, the dyed color will last for a long time. Such a unique "recipe" may sound cumbersome, but the ingredients used are all original. After such multiple soaking, the cotton will become delicate, soft and elastic, and the toughness is very strong, and several pieces are stacked on top of each other to withstand the penetrating power of the bow and arrow, so it is often made into soft armor for soldiers. But as the flames of war burned, fewer and fewer people knew about these ancient skills.

Everyone walked slowly towards the royal palace on the central axis of the inner city, which was built on a huge mound shaped like a snow lotus, like a pearl on the stamen, which was very wonderful.

In front of the palace there is a large parade square.

On the edge of the square stand three huge arches and thick and ornate gateposts, which have exquisite dragon pattern carving traces, majestic and magnificent.

Standing in the square, looking at the once magnificent palace in front of them, still high above, everyone sighed in their hearts.

Walk through the parade square, and then rise step by step to the top of the jade steps, there is a dilapidated but huge and magnificent archway outside the palace, on the book Lantang gold characters "Kunlun Jingjue" four characters, there are still some high palace walls remaining; The spring pond is surrounded by a polygonal pattern made of granite slabs, and a clear spring gushes out from the bottom of the pond in the center, forming a crystal transparent mushroom shape, throwing countless jasper-like petals around, like a blooming lotus flower, and like a silent splash of broken jade falling into a clear pool.

The Essence King Spring is the largest non-freezing spring in the Essence Oasis, the spring water is infiltrated into the ground after the ice and snow melt in the Kunlun Mountains, which is not only clear and clear, crystal clear, sweet and mellow, clean and hygienic, plus the high altitude here, there is no pollution, it is known as "the essence of nectar". Before it erupted from the ground, it had an undercurrent in the ground for more than 20 years, dissolving strontium, calcium, potassium, bicarbonate and other elements beneficial to human health from the surrounding environment, which can promote human health to the greatest extent, and was regarded as a holy spring by the former exquisite city residents.

At the end of the Imperial Square is the ninety-nine jade steps upward, and at the end is the building complex of the "Exquisite Palace" that enters several courtyards and faces south in the north.

The palace gate building built in turn before and after two floors and nine rooms, in the middle hangs a plaque of gold characters in the blue hall, and the five characters of "Zhengda Guangming Palace" are written on it; in front of the palace gate building, the top end of the east and west sides is erected as a bucket square, and the height is about three zhang and three feet of the enclosure pole each; the second courtyard, the north is built with the front and rear splashing water, the front and rear eaves, the front and back open the door of the "Yangxin Palace", the east and west sides build three bungalows of civil engineering structure; the third courtyard is "Hanshou Palace" in the north, the east and west sides each build "Changle Palace", "Weiyang Palace" each one; and the upper one, the lower three rooms of the Weiyang front hall, the back pavilion, There is one Qilin Hall and one Vermilion Bird Palace; there is "Yongle Palace" in the north of the fourth courtyard, and there are three rooms in Anchang Palace, Jingfu Palace, and Yong'an Palace of single-belly waist type on both sides; and the fifth courtyard is two-storey "Chongzheng Palace" in the north.

In addition to the civil engineering structure of the bungalow, each hall is a brick and wood structure, carved beams and painted buildings, high walls and glazed, the corridor waist is mangyback, the eaves are pecked high, it is very majestic, it is worthy of being the royal palace holy place that has both oriental color and western style.

It was only after the war that the complexes of this royal palace had been destroyed to pieces, and only a faint glimpse of the magnificence, magnificence and glory they once had.

The sun sets in the west, and the clouds on the horizon are bright and desolate, casting a thin afterglow on the broken and brilliant glazed tiles of the palace, reflecting the cold and colorful glow, adding to the tragedy and tragedy of this scene.

Fan Xiang looked at this magnificent but broken building complex, and thought of "Shushan Wu, Ah Fang out." ...... The song platform is warm, the spring is melting, and the dance hall is cold, and the wind and rain are sad. Within a day, between the houses, and the climate is uneven. ...... The heart of a lonely husband is becoming more and more arrogant. The Chu people burned it, pitiful scorched earth...... The Qin of the clan is also Qin, not the world. "I ......couldn't help but say softly, "The Qin people don't have time to mourn themselves, and future generations mourn them; I sighed deeply.

Chun Yu Tiying also sighed: "The deceased is like this, there is no mourning!"

"In the past, time poured down the city, easy to throw people away, only the rest of the Zen is the most shallow, only hate the red cherry, green plantain. A woman stood behind Fan Xiang, sighed softly, raised her hand, and wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes. Fan Xiang heard the sigh, turned around, looked at the woman, and saw that the woman was about seventeen or eighteen years old, her clothes were tattered, her body was thin, her hair was unkempt, she was haggard, her face was stained, but she couldn't hide a beautiful and beautiful air between her eyebrows, so she smiled at the woman, and the woman also looked at Fan Xiang, smiled lightly, but no longer spoke.

Everyone was wandering in the past and present of this palace, when they suddenly heard a noise of footsteps coming from the steps behind them. turned around to look, but it was Mei Lingfeng and others who came happily. The earth mole threw up his head and howled, his eyes were blood-red, and he squatted on his front feet and was about to pounce. Fan Xiang stroked Dalizi's neck and said softly, "Don't be nervous, they're all friends." When Dali heard this, he gently rubbed Fanxiang's arm with his head, and returned to a lazy demeanor.

Fan Xiang, Ayiguli, Mei Duoer and other people hurriedly stepped forward, hugged their fists and saluted the group of people who came over, and said, "Brother Mei, Brother Pig, Brother Chunyu, Aunt Mei, you are back, the journey is going well." ”

"Haha, the journey was very smooth, but it was hard for these brothers to cross the desert. Lao Meizi looked at the more than 2,000 young women behind Fan Xiang, laughed, stepped forward, grabbed Fan Xiang's right hand, and said to a thin man with a spear in his hand, "Brother Guo, this is the Fan Xiang brother you want to see, come, get to know it, haha, I didn't expect it, it's so young, right?" ”

The snake demon hurriedly threw the spear in his hand to his entourage, hugged his fist at Fan Xiang, smiled, and said loudly, "I have to see the Doutian hero today, and I am fortunate to have three lives, haha." ”

"Brother Guo, you're welcome. ...... Ha ha. Fanxiang hurriedly returned the salute and smiled Lang Lang.

Everyone escaped death, and they also fought a big victory, and they returned with a full load, and they were all full of joy.

The participants will unload and count the seized grain, grass, equipment, cattle, sheep and livestock and other materials, total: (1) Ordnance materials include 100 transport vehicles, 60 giant sickle chariots, 248 war horses, 1,280 war knives and iron guns (meaning the war dead), gunpowder and various artillery shells, (2) There are more than 50,000 kilograms of brown rice, 80,000 kilograms of glutinous rice, 30,000 kilograms of corn, more than 6,000 cattle and sheep and other livestock, and the rest of the sundries are not counted, plus 685 prisoners who volunteered to participate in the rebel army (including 200 non-combat soldiers responsible for the transportation of baggage, and 485 other combat soldiers, including demon and human soldiers).

When the rebels returned to the army, Mei Lingfeng had discussed with everyone and decided to hold an open-air bonfire party in the parade square at night, one to celebrate the victory, one to receive the wind for Fanxiang, and the third to reward the soldiers and new recruits.

As the sun sets, the twilight above the desert grows thicker, and a hook of the crescent moon rises from the eastern sky.

In the exquisite city, the sound of drums in the parade square is loud.

Mei Duoer came over and took Fanxiang's hand and said, "Yue'er is out, Brother Fanxiang, let's go first." Xiang Lao Meizi and Aunt Mei smiled slightly, pulled Fan Xiang and ran to the parade square below.

The seven of them took the group of women to the parade square outside the palace, only to see a large bonfire burning in the center of the square, and all kinds of young soldiers of people and demons were coming from all directions, sitting around the fire from afar. Around the fire, several people were barbecuing cattle and sheep, and some were playing the piano and music, a joyful scene.

Standing on the parade square, Mei Duoer glanced at Chun Yu Tiying and Ayiguli, and then, with a mysterious grin at Fan Xiang, said, "Brother Fan Xiang, you stay here, you are not allowed to go anywhere, we will come when we go." Pulling Chun Yu Tiying, the two of them ran out of the square with a smoke.