At this time, the people in the middle of the canyon have been completely enclosed in the glacier, and it is difficult to fly. After a while, Liu Guodong fired another shot, but there was no movement on the ground.

After another ten minutes or so, Yu Song held his gun in his hand and began to search and advance into the canyon. Soon, he saw a small black dot, and he also held a gun, and slowly explored this side along the glacier roadway.

Yu Songyuan slowly walked towards the glacier, and when he approached the middle of the ice alley, suddenly the small landlord blocked the way, stared at Yu Songyuan's eyes, and let out a whining alarm. Seeing that Yu Songyuan ignored it, he began to lose his temper. Yu Songyuan understood that it was worried that there would be another avalanche, and in the end, it was the offspring of the plateau wolf, and they had a natural sensitivity and perception of everything that happened on the plateau.

Yu Songyuan touched its head, "Don't be nervous, we will take the initiative to avoid danger." ”

The little landlord stopped humming, but still reluctantly walked ahead. They went deep into the snow alley, where many hidden caves were revealed on both sides of the glacial canyon due to the large landslide. No, to be precise, it should be an ice cave. In one of the caves, the black body of a rusty AK-47 was exposed. Yu Songyuan walked towards the entrance of the cave, and he saw a scene that shocked him.

The cave is not deep, only about ten meters deep, and there is a faint heat inside. Several corpses were frozen, and the superficial skin had begun to shrink and blacken. They are in various combat postures, motionless. It was a group of ragged resisters who had been dead for at least two years. There were 11 of them, two wounded were lying in the innermost position, and the rest were in a combat position, guarding the entrance to the cave.

In the deepest part of the cave, there is a small hole, which is steaming, and it is a small hot spring. Could it be that there was once volcanic activity on the plateau? Yu Songyuan was puzzled by this geographical phenomenon.

He could imagine the tragic battle of that time.

A desperate resistance group of resistance fighters or "mujahideen" who have run out of ammunition and food are chased to the top of the snowy mountains by the fierce Spetsnaz special forces. They couldn't walk anymore, so they hid in a glacial canyon and found the cave. The special forces of the Spatesnaz special forces detachment did not find them, but the cold temperature unknowingly froze and froze them all and buried them in the snowy mountains.

The little landowner went out bored for a while, then came back and bit the corner of his trouser and dragged him out. He followed the little landlord, went up another hundred and ten meters, and saw a larger cave.

Liu Guodong had already searched here, and after checking the person he had hit, he just took off the thick leather down combat suit on the corpse, and took off the opponent's tactical backpack, and then guarded vigilantly with a gun.

At the entrance to this large cave, two people may have been enclosed in snow and ice for thousands of years, and have become black, dry mummies. The upper half of their bodies emerged from the snow wall, still maintaining the posture of being hit during the attack. One person's head hangs down to his chest, and one person's head is tilted back.

Both wore sheepskin felt hats, long braided hair, and were armed with scimitars. Both the felt hat and the corpse had been charred and turned black and glued together. They were shot by several arrows, and the marks were obvious. The knife in his hand had turned to powder, with only traces of rust, the shape of a distinct knife, and the tip of the knife pointed at the entrance to the cave. It was killed in battle during the attack on the cave, and was buried and frozen by a sudden avalanche.

Judging from their clothing, Yu Songyuan is not rich in historical knowledge, and vaguely feels that these should be Huns. It must have been buried here for at least a thousand hundreds of years, and the muscles have not completely rotted, but they have been tightened, carbonized, and all turned into black mummies.

After the avalanche, only a hole sixty or seventy centimeters in size was exposed. The small landlord drilled in, and after a while, a safety signal was issued. Yu Songyuan also got into it with great difficulty, and the scene in front of him shocked him.

The interior of the cave is very large, seventy or eighty square meters. Forty or fifty people, in various shapes, sitting or lying, all maintained a vivid posture and huddled together. Unlike those whose mouths were buried in the snow and ice, all of them were skeletons, and all had visible wounds on their bones.

At the entrance of the cave, more than 20 unwounded people, armed with knives, spears, swords, bows and arrows, crossbows and other weapons, were in a defensive posture. At the bottom of the cave, a general in bronze armor was assassinated, and several other subordinates killed the assassin and chopped him into meat sauce and turned it into a pile of broken bones.

The outsiders are attacking inside, and the insiders are defending outside. This picture, which is frozen in a historical moment, superficially reflects this content.

But because it takes place in a thousand-year-old glacier on top of a snow-capped mountain, it has a different meaning. The reality of the situation at the time may have been that while their fierce battle was raging, a great avalanche occurred. The people outside the door were quickly buried in the ice and snow, and the people inside the cave were also sealed in the ice and snow for more than a thousand years.

The reason why it is judged to be more than 1,000 to 2,000 years is that Yu Songyuan is based on the limited historical knowledge he obtained from Wang Feng.

The Xiongnu rose in the Warring States Period, about 300 BC, and repeatedly invaded the Central Plains. After Qin Shi Huang unified China, in 214 BC, he ordered Meng Tian to lead 300,000 Qin troops to attack the Xiongnu in the north, collect the Hetao, and send troops to the county, "but the Xiongnu were more than 700 li, and the Hu people did not dare to go south and herd horses" ("On the Passage of Qin").

In the two Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty waved his army north to attack Mobei, Banchao's army swept through the Western Regions, and the Xiongnu were partially attached to the Eastern Han Dynasty in 200 AD, and some of them continued to move west to the west of Central Asia, as a nation, annihilated from history.

Although the cave was damp and highly sealed, and the temperature was extremely cold, their weapons were still largely rusted. Swords are mostly made of iron, leaving only shapes, and turning into a pile of rust when they move. There were also a small number of copper knives, mostly equipped with wooden handles, which had long since rotted away. There are various styles of knives, such as straight back curved edge, straight back straight edge, straight back straight edge, and straight back straight edge, and the scabbard has a delicate ornament. The dagger is made of bronze, with a double-edged sword, a bell or ring head, and a delicate animal ornament at the end of the handle.

The long sword is about a meter long, double-edged, all iron, badly corroded, all turned into powder, and only the shape remains. Axes, spears and gees were clearly influenced by weapons in the Central Plains of Chinese mainland. The copper of these weapons is covered with blue-green patina, and the iron is basically rusty. With his own historical knowledge, Yu Songyuan can determine at a glance that all weapons have the dual characteristics of Xiongnu short weapons and Central Plains weapons of the Han Dynasty.

In the vast history, the Xiongnu exerted long-term pressure on the Central Plains regime in China. In the long-term conquest with the Central Plains Dynasty, the Xiongnu absorbed the strengths of the Central Plains weapons, and their armaments showed strong consistency, with distinctive characteristics of the steppe people, even compared with the Mongolian army that was also a steppe nation, its weapons also had extremely obvious differences.

During the Han and Tang dynasties, the Chinese army stationed in the Western Regions was mainly composed of soldiers from various vassal states in the Western Regions. Its weapon system was also deeply influenced by the Western Regions, especially its main combat objects were the Xiongnu and later the Turks, so it was also most influenced by the Xiongnu and Turkic weapons. In the garrison of the Western Regions at that time, many people used Xiongnu weapons that were suitable for immediate combat.

Next to the assassinated general, two dried cowhide bags with golden patterns attracted Yu Songyuan's attention. Although these were two hard leather bags soaked in palm oil, after all, they were too old, and he cautiously tried to pick up the bags, but the bags had become powder, and the layers were lifted, and under the flashlight, one bag contained various gold and silver utensils. A blue glow in the other bag startled him.

He reached out and pulled out one, which turned out to be a blue stone bracelet. "Natural lapis lazuli?" Yu Songyuan was shocked, he opened all the cowhide bags, and inside it turned out to be a bag of blue jewelry, which was enough for dozens of dollars. Brooches, earrings, bracelets, bracelets, shanzi, pendants, amulets, cylindrical seals, morning beads, scarabs, etc.

Judging from their armor and weapons, Yu Songyuan roughly judged that they should be the imperial army of the Han Dynasty in China. Further, it is more likely to be part of a super-large Chinese Eastern Han class army that was at war with the Xiongnu army. Because during the Western Han Dynasty, the main area and direction of the battle were Monan and Mobei. Only during the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ban Chao's army fought in the Western Regions for decades.

In 138 BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian as an envoy to the Western Regions, preparing to contact the Dayue clan who had been driven by the Xiongnu from Hexi to the Western Regions to jointly attack the Xiongnu. In 119 BC, Zhang Qian once again sent an envoy to the Western Regions and visited all the countries in the Western Regions. After that, the countries of the Western Regions joined the Han Dynasty one after another. In 60 B.C., the Western Han Dynasty established the Western Regions Protectorate to manage the affairs of the Western Regions. Since then, the present-day Xinjiang region has been under the jurisdiction of the central government and has become an inseparable part of China.

In 73 A.D., the Eastern Han Dynasty sent Ban Chao to the Western Regions, he only led more than 30 of his subordinates, using the strength of the countries in the Western Regions, that is, leading a large army to help the countries of the Western Regions defeat the control of the Xiongnu, and was appointed by the Eastern Han Dynasty as the protector of the Western Regions.

A.D. 89 (the first year of the Eastern Han Dynasty) began in June, Ban Chaoming generals Dou Xian and Geng Bing, led the army to meet with the Southern Xiongnu army in Zhuo Evil Mountain, and fought with the Northern Xiongnu in Jiluo Mountain, the Han army won a great victory, captured and killed more than 13,000 people, and more than 200,000 Northern Xiongnu returned to the Eastern Han Dynasty. Then, in 90 and 91 AD, the Northern Xiongnu were defeated in two battles, and the remnants had to move west to the Wusun Kingdom in the Ili River Valley.

In 95 A.D., the Eastern Han Dynasty court was sealed for thousands of miles, and the edict was issued to seal Ban Chao as the Marquis of Dingyuan. In 102 AD, the 71-year-old Ban Chao returned to Luoyang and died of illness in the same year.

After Ban Chao left the Western Regions, the Northern Xiongnu made a comeback and killed the Han general Suoban in 119 AD. The Eastern Han Dynasty court was furious and appointed Ban Yong, the youngest son of Ban Chao, as the chief of the Western Regions, and stationed troops in Liuzhong. In 124 and 126 AD, Ban Yong led his army to defeat the Northern Xiongnu twice, and the situation in the Western Regions was stabilized. In 137 and 151 respectively, the Later Han generals Pei Cen and Sima Da defeated the Northern Xiongnu again, and the Northern Xiongnu had to withdraw from the Western Regions and enter the west of Central Asia.

Ban Chao has been operating in the Western Regions for more than 31 years, strengthening the ties between the Western Regions and Chinese mainland.