Chapter 764: The Secret Passage in the Mountains
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In less than three minutes, there was a faint sound of dense footsteps in the distance, but it quickly disappeared into the distance.
"The guards have passed, you come with me, we only have one minute to pass through here." The witch said immediately.
Swish!
The four black shadows rushed into the arch at full speed, and a wide passage was greeted by a palace group on both sides of the passage, one after another, and the core of the entire manor appeared in front of Li Ming's eyes......
Each palace had tall steps and grand gates, all of which were closed at this time, and there was no sound to be heard, and the palace was dim, and no one seemed to live in the palace, and even the lights were difficult to see.
"It doesn't seem to be inhabited here." Lonely as smoke as he accelerated forward, he asked curiously looking around.
"Yes, such a large manor, how can it be as if no one exists, so why send so many guards?" General Qingfeng said suspiciously.
"Perhaps, they live in the palace during the day and go out at night when there are activities...... Li Ming replied thoughtfully.
They sprinted through the wide passage and soon reached a fork in the road ahead.
At this time, the footsteps sounded intensively again, and several guards appeared at the same time from several forks in the road ahead!
"Follow me, hide in the palace." The witch immediately jumped forward, and her delicate figure quickly flew into the air, quickly rushing into the high walls of a palace.
Airplanes!
A slight voice sounded, and the witch had already opened the palace gate from the inside, and the three of them hurriedly rushed up the steps and hid inside the gate.
As soon as the gate was closed, three groups of soldiers staggered outside, some in the direction of the garden, some in the other two directions, continuing to explore on guard.
But Li Ming did not immediately walk out of the palace, and the four of them stood behind the gate, all attracted by the empty and quiet palace.
"There's really no one, but what is it?" Lonely as smoke looked curiously at the main hall, there were countless weapon racks neatly placed in the distance, on which a set of armor equipment and cold light flashed weapons, the number was very large!
"These are all weapons used by NPC soldiers, and they look like they've been used." Li Ming walked to the front of the weapon rack and looked carefully for a while, finding that these weapon armors were not brand new, and they were obviously different from the brand new armor he had seen in the underground arsenal.
"These are all special weapons and armor for the army, which have been used for a long time, and a lot of wear and tear can be seen." General Qingfeng said.
He was an expert in this area, and even when he said so, Li Ming suddenly felt that the situation here was extraordinary......
"Brother Ming, since the general also said that these weapons and armor are used, why are they neatly placed here now?" Lonely as smoke asked.
"Come and see, there's a lot of wrapping ...... here," the witch's voice came from the front, she had already passed through the large racks of weapons, and seemed to have found something in the distance of the main hall......
As the three of them walked over quickly, after passing through the dense weapon racks, a flat open space appeared in front of them, and they saw countless neat and neat large burdens placed on the ground.
"This is a simple outfit for soldiers on the march, and there are troops stationed here!" General Qingfeng's face suddenly changed, and he reminded nervously.
"There's an army stationed here?" Li Ming was shocked in his heart, it seemed that they had actually broken into a temporary military camp where soldiers were stationed!
"Strange thing, since there are soldiers stationed, then why are their packages and weapons and armor here, and where have the people gone?" Lonely as smoke said curiously.
"It seems that all the palaces we have passed along the way, it seems to be like this, if my expectations are correct, these palaces are all the same scenes, all of them are temporary places where soldiers are stationed, and the second prince has secretly dispatched a legion to hide in the manor, ready to plot misdeeds at any time!" Li Ming groaned and analyzed.
"Your Excellency's guess is exactly what the last general is worried about, and now I only see the equipment and no one, which can only explain one reason, what kind of mission are these soldiers being sent out to perform during the day...... General Qingfeng guessed.
"Perform the task...... Need a lot of soldiers? Lonely as smoke was stunned, but Li Ming's eyes lit up when he heard it......
He had been speculating all the time about how the second prince would send troops to the palace city at that time, after all, the guard corps of the Imperial City Mountain belonged to General Qingfeng, and the second prince had no right to mobilize troops outside the palace.
Even the 50,000 royal guards in the palace city can only be mobilized by the token given to the second prince by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and once the action really starts, these 50,000 forbidden troops are not something that the second prince can fool.
In other words, if the second prince wants to rebel, he must find a way to break up the 50,000 forbidden army, and then use his own people to deal with the crown prince and the human emperor in the palace......
Now it is certain that there are so many soldiers stationed in the manor, so many palaces combined, and the hidden army here has at least tens of thousands!
If you want to quietly transfer tens of thousands of people into the palace, the only way you have to pass is through Huangcheng Mountain, which is not the territory of the second prince......
"General, may I ask, are you familiar with the terrain of Huangcheng Mountain?" Li Ming asked.
"Your Excellency, this is a joke, the last general led the troops to guard the Huangcheng Mountain, how could he not be familiar with it." General Qingfeng was stunned and said.
"I don't mean to offend, but I just want to know, if a secret passage is carved from outside the Imperial City Mountain, where is it most appropriate, and is there any connection with the location of this manor?" Li Ming asked with a smile.
"What...... Digging a passage to the Imperial City Mountain? General Qingfeng was stunned for a moment, and his face changed in an instant!
"You should have thought of something, right?" Li Ming asked with a smile.
"Damn...... This second prince really dares to do anything! General Qingfeng hurriedly squatted down, took out a scroll from his arms, and quickly spread it on the ground......
Li Ming and the two beauties curiously gathered around, and immediately saw that this scroll was painted with a mountain topography, and if you looked closely, it was indeed a detailed topographic map of Huangcheng Mountain......
The wings of the huge mountain range and the cliffs behind it are so steep that not even an ape can climb it, let alone a human.
At this time, General Qingfeng's fingers had already moved to the left side of Huangcheng Mountain, the edge of a mountain cliff, where there was a hidden curve, which seemed to be a mountain path, leading to a strange field halfway up the mountain, as if there was a cave there, and there was a relatively large wide mountain platform outside.
"This is the Tomb of the Emperor of the Mandate of Heaven, the royal family of all dynasties are buried in the cave of the Imperial Tomb, and few people usually go anywhere, and it is the only place where you can get close to the Imperial Palace City." General Qingfeng said with a frown.
His fingers slid down the mountainside Imperial Tomb, and before he knew it, he had drawn a straight line to the foot of the mountain, and then left the tower of the Imperial City Mountain, all the way to the inner city......
Unconsciously, after a straight line, General Qingfeng's fingers actually came to the top of a mountain range in the inner city, and on the other side of this mountain range, there happened to be a wide manor!
"Found it, they want to dig a passage from the foot of the mountain at the end of the manor, avoid the secret passage of the last general's defense line, and go straight to the imperial mausoleum area on the mountain pass!" General Qingfeng said in shock.
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