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In the thick fog, it took a quarter of an hour for everyone to walk only a hundred meters along the water's edge, and everyone was in a high level of tension, and no one knew what to do below? If it's always been like this, then ...... While Tang Feng was thinking nonsense, Han Jiang suddenly shouted, "Who?!" ”

Immediately after, Han Jiang fired a shot forward, Tang Feng, Yelena and Makarov also aimed their guns in front, but only a black silhouette was faintly visible in the dense fog, it was not a person, nor was it an unknown creature, what was it?

Tang Feng strengthened his courage and took a few more steps forward, and the fog gradually lifted, and he saw a huge stone monument standing in the white sand by the sea.

Tang Feng let out a sigh of relief, put away the pistol, and was suddenly surrounded by an inexplicable excitement in his heart, he didn't know how this stone tablet would help them, maybe it wouldn't help at all, but he could finally get out of that suffocating situation temporarily, "It's a stele!" A false alarm! ”

Everyone came to the stele closer, Han Jiang glanced at the stele, still looking around vigilantly, refusing to put down the gun, Tang Feng reached out and touched the stele, the texture of the stele seems to be very fragile, no wonder in this desert Gobi, where does the hard rock come from? Tang Feng couldn't help but feel guilty, such a fragile stone, and such a big wind and sand in the desert, I'm afraid that the words engraved on it back then have long been blurred!

Tang Feng first observed the shape of the stele and judged: "This stele should be made of local materials, so the stone quality is not good, and there is no carving and decoration on it, it is difficult to see which period this is the stele." ”

"Then you can only judge by the words on the stone tablet." Liang Yuan said.

"Yes, only by text! However, the wind and sand here are so big, and the stone quality of the stele is not good, I doubt that I can still find the text on the stele. Tang Feng carefully groped on the front of the stele, but could not see any traces of words, Tang Feng was puzzled, couldn't help but take two steps back, when he pushed to the third step, he vaguely saw the traces of words on the stele, it was a few big words, and the front of the stele was engraved with a few big characters, but this word ...... It's not Chinese characters, it's not Tangut script, Tang Feng immediately thought of Ba Si Pa script, "It's Ba Si Pa script, a total of four big characters." Tang Feng said excitedly.

"What word? It can't be a fountain of rebirth! Liang Yuan speculated.

"Fountain of Death? No, it's not, I said four big words! ”

"What the hell is the word? Say it! Han Jiang urged.

"Don't worry!" Tang Feng said and ran to the stele again, brushing away the dust that had accumulated for hundreds of years on the stele with his hand, and the four Ba Si Pa Wen gradually appeared in front of him, Tang Feng took two steps back, and slowly read out the Ba Si Pa Wen on the stone stele, "Cowardly - Xue - Army - Tablet ......"

"What...... Cut...... Blood...... Army?! Han Jiang didn't understand at all.

"It's cowardly Xue Jun." Tang Feng corrected.

"What is the Cowardly Xue Army?" Liang Yuan asked.

Tang Feng explained: "The Xue army was a powerful Janissary army established by Genghis Khan, and after that, until the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, the Xue army was always the Praetorian Guard of the Mongol Great Khan and the Yuan Emperor. I wondered how there could be such a monument here. ”

"That means the Mongols' strongest army?" Han Jiang asked rhetorically.

"It can be considered that the cowardly Xue army is the elite of the Yuan Dynasty. But in general, the cowardly Xue army will not stay away from the Mongol Great Khan and come out to carry out the mission alone! ”

"This ...... What do you mean? Han Jiang didn't understand.

"Stupid! It means that the Mongol Great Khan led the cowardly Xue army to come here, so it is likely that they came to deal with the Hanhai Micheng party! Liang Yuan understood what Tang Feng meant.

"That's what I think, but it's hard to judge just by these words, I have the impression that apart from Genghis Khan, there doesn't seem to be any Mongolian Great Khan who led the cowardly Xue army here......" Tang Feng stared at the stone tablet in front of him that was already a little broken.

"Is that all there are on this monument?" Makarov also asked curiously.

"I think there should be, this stele should be erected by the cowardly Xue army, most of this kind of stele are memorial monuments, the cowardly Xue army is likely to have fought an important battle here, so the stele was erected to remember the merits, so it is impossible to just say a few words...... Tang Feng said, turned to the back of the cowardly Xue Jun stele, when he brushed off the thin dust behind the stele with his hand, many small characters appeared densely.

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Tang Feng saw the text behind the stele of the cowardly Xue Jun, and exclaimed excitedly, "The text is in the back, dense, and it is all Ba Si Pa script. ”

Everyone ran to the back of the stele together, and sure enough, Tang Feng just gently brushed off the dust behind the stele, and thousands of dense Ba Si Pa Wen were clearly displayed in front of everyone, "I know why the person who carved the stele in the first place wanted to engrave the inscription in the back." Tang Feng pointed to the clear inscription behind the stele and said.

"Because of the leeward behind, it can avoid the infestation of wind and sand, so although it has experienced hundreds of years of wind and sand, the inscription is still clearly visible." Liang Yuan immediately understood what Tang Feng meant.

"Yes, the craftsmen who carved these inscriptions were really clever people, and they couldn't find hard rock inscriptions here, and in order to make the inscriptions clear and spread for centuries, they chose to engrave them on the back of the inscriptions." Tang Feng explained.

"Okay, I don't care about craftsmen, I care about what the inscription says? You'd better flip it quickly! Han Jiang couldn't wait to know what was on the inscription.

Tang Feng bowed his head and was silent, he was carefully identifying the words behind the stele, although he didn't recognize some of the Ba Si Pa texts, but he recognized most of the words, connected together, Tang Feng roughly figured out the content of the inscription.

Tang Feng's face was red and white when he looked at the stele, his lips were closed for a while, half-open for a while, and his brows were tightly locked for a while, as if he was contemplating, and his face changed greatly for a while, as if he was frightened, everyone was puzzled, Liang Yuan kept urging: "What is written on it?" You're going to say it quickly, huh? ”

Tang Feng hurriedly read the entire inscription, and while shocked, he said slowly: "This is an unknown secret history, and it is an unprecedentedly tragic and thrilling battle, and the original text on the tablet is roughly translated like this......"

The cowardly Xue Jun is grateful for the monument

In the autumn of the eighth year of the Great Yuan Dynasty, the Great Khan heard that the defenders of Qianhu Town were slaughtered, and was furious, and wanted to drive the personal expedition, which was discouraged by the ministers, and in the spring of the following year, the Great Khan heard that the party of Micheng repeatedly invaded the neighboring prefectures and counties, and said that the ministers said: "I heard that the party of Micheng was brave and abnormal, and defeated Emperor Taizu in the valley in the early years, causing my grandfather to fall from his horse and get sick, and he died!" This great revenge has not been avenged, and I heard that the party of Micheng has repeatedly violated the county town of our state, slaughtered thousands of towns, and killed countless soldiers of our army, which is really deceitful! My dynasty is vast, and everywhere Sulu ingots go, people from afar are all welcome! However, the party of Micheng, stubbornly resisting, dying and struggling, I want to personally lead the cowardly Xue army to ask for it, the ministers do not persuade, I have made up my mind! "In March, the Great Khan personally led 30,000 Xue troops, and 100,000 troops from all walks of life marched in person.

In April, the army went to Heicheng and defeated the party of Micheng. At the beginning of May, the army entered Jiulipu and other places, the soldiers were afraid, did not dare to move forward, rumors spread in the army, the Great Khan heard the anger, urged the march, and attacked by the party outside the town of Qianhu, the party of Micheng was brave and abnormal, and was good at driving the fierce beasts such as Kui Jiao, our army was defeated, the Great Khan was almost harmed by the fierce beasts, and the soldiers of the Xue army were desperate to die, and the Great Khan made it off. The Great Khan was frightened and suffered from a minor illness, and it took 20 days to recover.

In this battle, thousands of soldiers were lost, and the Great Khan summoned his ministers to plan with the emperor, and the ministers said: "The Micheng party is brave and good at driving fierce beasts, so it is better to be sleepy." The Great Khan said: "The former has been trapped in Mi City for decades, so what? The minister said: "You can trap the heavy soldiers, find another shortcut, and attack them!" The Great Khan said, "Good! The emperor said: "There are still old soldiers in the army who accompanied Emperor Taizu in the army, which can be asked, or there is a shortcut to attack Micheng." If there are people who are attached, they need to ask more, and they will definitely get something. The Great Khan said, "Great good! ”

The army respected the decree of the Great Khan, cleared the wilderness, built a camp and besieged the city for several months, and the party repeatedly attacked, and was repelled by our army one by one. The emperor found several old sergeants in the army, and the emperor personally selected dozens of capable sergeants to follow the old sergeants, through the canyon, wading through quicksand, several times in distress, several times trapped, and finally dived to the seaside of the dead life. However, this sea changes unprovoked, dangerous and abnormal, often invisible in the Hanhai, and vast in the Gobi, although the water quality is clear, but the underwater white bones are abundant, the giant python passes through, and there is a big fog shrouded, I don't know its perimeter! The old sergeant Yu Emperor said: "Genghis Khan's army stops here!" And out, and several times trapped by the valley, the wind roared, flying sand and stones, did not distinguish the direction, the emperor sighed: "Desperate place, 100,000 troops can not enter." ”

In August, the army has been marching to Hanhai for more than a few months, lack of food and water, the heat is unbearable, the army's heart is floating, all the generals and ministers have the intention of retreating, and the Great Khan also has this intention, but the emperor said: "The army is on an expedition, the labor is paid, and now it has been trapped in Micheng for more than a few months, and its spirit has been frustrated, and the party must have been stuck, how can the army withdraw at this time?" Falling short? The minister also said: "What the emperor said is extremely true, this time the Great Khan is personally recruited, if I retreat, the Micheng party will be even more angry, and it will be difficult to control it!" When the Great Khan heard this, he said to the generals and ministers: "The grievances of decades will be today!" Don't talk about retiring from the army! "The military is at ease.

For several months, the plan of the emperor and the master has been to find a shortcut in the capture of the party items in Micheng, but the party items in Micheng are all stubborn and useless, and the captured people are all seeking to die quickly! Whew, how many party warriors are there? And its lord cannot be used, so there is a matter of destroying the country and destroying the species today. One day, the cowardly Xue sergeant was awarded the party item of the old woman, this person is willing to be the first lead, the minister and the emperor then led five thousand elite cowardly Xue army into the valley with the old woman, into the sea of death, the old woman confided in the secret: trapped in the Hanhai for decades, the party of Micheng has been reduced by half, the former of the battle of a thousand towns, Micheng party items poured out of the nest, is to break through to the death, but although the thousand towns were slaughtered, the party elite people were also lost more than half, and they were no longer able to fight with me, now my army is trapped, the grain and grass in the city have been exhausted, and the horses are eaten to survive! The people in the city only want to die quickly, and the old woman wants to live, so she goes out of the city and is captured by our army! The emperor said: "Trapped in the lonely city, it will not last long, and Mi City will be down soon!" ”

The old woman pointed to the seaside of the past life and said: "The sea of death can be big or small, and when the sea is small, you can find a way to enter Micheng." "I don't want the old woman to finish speaking, the sky has changed greatly, the wind is suddenly rising, above the Hanhai, lightning and thunder, heavy rain is like a note, and the old woman died for the lightning strike! The whole army was horrified, and the emperor was also terrified! In a moment, the sea of life soared, the radius of the country of Ze, the ministers and the emperor and the life of the whole army were in danger, the army was in turmoil, the sergeants scattered and fled, drowned, trampled on countless people, if the party attacked at this time, my life will be rested! The emperor shouted in the wind and rain: "Don't mess up the army! Death and life are life, gather in a high place, and I will chant to protect the armies! ”

The army retreated to a high place, the water rose, and the army was still trapped on an isolated island! The whole army was frightened, the emperor was unmoved, sitting on the high hill, closing his eyes and chanting, the sound of chanting, spreading for several miles, the water to the place of the front army, the whole army said that this time will die! Whoever wants to fall without rising on the surface of the water, the whole army will fall to the ground and kneel down to thank the Buddha for the manifestation of the Buddha and save the army from the time of overturning! The sound of chanting resounded through the sea and moved the heavens and the earth. After a while, the rain cleared and the fog cleared, so that I could see the true face of the sea of death, the water surface was vast, the blue waves were rippling, and there was no boundary!

The water retreated slightly, and the generals wanted to lead the army to retreat, and the emperor said: "I have the Buddha to ignite, and the broken city is today!" "The armies are suspicious, a little clear, as the old woman said, the water surface fell sharply, the way to the city was revealed, our army galloped, and saw that there was a big city in the oasis, the temple was majestic, golden and brilliant, not like the world! The oasis is also dangerous, our army has lost hundreds of soldiers, starting to Mi City, although the party has declined, but Tuojian City can not be defended, what can be done?

Another morning, the fog fell suddenly, and Mi City was hidden by the thick fog, and it was impossible to see! The armies are afraid that the party will attack by the fog, and they all say that the Buddha blesses the party, and Mi Cheng cannot be obtained! The emperor said: "This fog is the manifestation of the Buddha, and it is helping me to break the city!" So, more than ten soldiers of the emperor's Jian Jian and sturdy soldiers searched for a secret door and entered, and Micheng was broken!

The emperor strictly ordered the soldiers not to kill indiscriminately, not to loot, but when the city was broken, the party of Micheng fought for death with men, and the women all died by themselves. That night, the city was on fire, the emperor was afraid, and ordered the armies to withdraw, the armies fought for goods and goods, and the dead were numerous.

Subsequently, the emperor ordered the army to be stationed on the shore of the sea of death, search for Mongolia, and build a city with the bones of the party to save the soul! At this time, all the armies were frightened and said: "A dangerous place is not suitable for a long time." The emperor said: "Don't be afraid, I am also here, I will chant every day, surpass the soul of the dead, and you will be safe." Seeing that the army was still suspicious, the emperor said: "I saw that the bones around Mi City were exposed, and the generals were not allowed to enter the soil for decades, and our army suffered a lot of losses in this battle, and the party was almost destroyed. It is also inconsistent with Buddhism, I am afraid that the Buddha will blame him, and he will not die well! "The doubts of the armies are gone, and the mandala is completed in January! In January, the sea and the sky are blue, the wind and the sun are beautiful, there is no trace of danger, and the work is completed, the army returns to the division, the wind rises again in the valley, the ghost cries and the wolf howls, and all the soldiers say that the emperor is a god and a man, and he will be incarnated by a Bodhisattva.

I am the heart of the world, rich in all directions, all over the world, all of them are obedient, but a small Mi City? In this battle, the Han Dynasty was wise, the soldiers used their lives, the emperor was still in danger, and he repeatedly offered strange schemes, led the army to break the city, and made the first contribution! I'm not as good as that; The former, the emperor built the mandala, once whispered to me: "This city has a big mystery!" "I asked what the mystery was, the emperor smiled and said nothing, I was stupid and didn't know! In addition, I wanted to write a book to record the events of this conquest, so as to show future generations and record the history of the country, and the emperor said: "No, I am afraid that someone will change the city according to this!" If you remember, you can carve a stone to thank you and remember your merits, and stand on the side of the sea of death. "So there is this monument.

On August 21, the autumn of the ninth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Guanglu Doctor Taibao Zhongshu ordered Liu Bingzhong

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After Tang Feng finished translating the stele, thousands of words were sprinkled on the stele, and he gasped, "This is really an important inscription, recording a hidden history that we never knew, which is a very important discovery in itself." And this hidden history recorded has left a crucial clue for us to find Hanhai Mi City and crack its secrets. ”

"Can you be sure that what is written on this inscription is reliable?" Han Jiang questioned.

"I don't think there's going to be a problem. First, this inscription is engraved in such a secret place, not many people will see it, and there is no need for the person who carved the inscription to hide anything; Second, the person who wrote this article is Liu Bingzhong, so there should be no problem. ”

"Who is Liu Bingzhong?" Han Jiang asked again.

"Liu Bingzhong is Kublai Khan's prime minister, is the first important minister of Kublai Khan's early days, he gave advice to Kublai Khan, and planned to lay down various rules and regulations of the Yuan Dynasty, so when I read this inscription, I was very surprised when I saw Liu Bingzhong's inscription later, I didn't expect that in this desolate and sinister place, there would be a tablet that burned Liu Bingzhong's article! The beginning of the second reading is even more surprising, it is not only Liu Bingzhong's self-statement, but also Kublai Khan and the emperor! ”

"Yes, I've always wanted to ask you, who is this full of 'emperors'?" Liang Yuan asked curiously.

"The emperor is the founder of this kind of writing that we see."

"You mean Paspa?"

"Who else could it be? According to the inscription, at that time, Phags-pa had just been crowned as an emperor by Kublai Khan, so the emperor referred to here is, of course, Phag-pa. ”

"It's kind of incredible that so many big people have been here." Liang Yuan seemed to understand some of the contents of the stele.

Tang Feng nodded, "Yes, what is even more surprising is that these big names actually came here." I said before that when Genghis Khan was conquering Western Xia, he once came here, and was attacked by the party members of Micheng, fell from his horse and was injured, but I did not expect that decades later, the tenacious party members of Micheng attracted Genghis Khan's grandson Kublai Khan. The first paragraph of the inscription mentions the cause of the incident, Kublai Khan was very angry because the town of Qianhu was slaughtered, and wanted to drive the expedition in person, but was first discouraged by the ministers, and in the second year, the party members of Micheng attacked the nearby prefectures and counties, so Kublai Khan personally led 30,000 cowardly Xue troops, and joined 100,000 other armies to attack Micheng, and the emperor Ba Si Pa and Liu Bingzhong also followed the Hu around. This record confirms our previous judgment in Qianhu Town, and also confirms the ancient legend that Uncle Wei Ming mentioned to us, after the fall of Western Xia, the Dangxiang people of Micheng still relied on the favorable terrain here to fight the Mongol army for decades, until the time of Kublai Khan, and was finally destroyed by the Mongol army. But this record made me have two doubts, the first doubt is that I have never seen a record in the history books that Kublai Khan personally led a large army to conquer the party, when he was busy with the war to unify the world, how could there be more than half a year of the royal expedition here? ”

"I think it is precisely because Kublai Khan wants to start a war to unify the world, so he must first solve the party members in Micheng to prevent changes behind it!" Liang Yuan reasoned.

"It's very likely. The second doubt is that this is the first time we saw the word 'Micheng' after entering the desert Gobi, and it was also the first time we saw the name 'Micheng' in ancient documents in addition to the jade insert, do you still remember Yelu Chucai's scroll? ”

"Of course I do! It is recorded in the scroll that Yelu Chucai strayed into Micheng, and he seemed to be ...... at that time It doesn't seem to call that city 'Mi Cheng'?! Liang Yuan recalled.

"Yes, for some unknown reason, Yelu Chucai only called the city he saw 'Big City', and I don't think he knew the real name of the city at the time."

"And by the time of Kublai Khan, the Mongols already knew that the city in the Hanhai was called 'Micheng'!"

"Tang Feng, what does this 'Micheng' mean? I haven't been quite sure? Makarov asked suddenly.

So, Tang Feng explained: "This is a very ancient text, 'Mi' refers to the earliest origin of the Dangxiang nation in a distant, quiet place, I think the Dangxiang people named this ancient city in the desert 'Micheng', may have some special meaning, but this special meaning I can't say well now." ”

Tang Feng continued: "From the second paragraph of the inscription, what is recorded is the specific process of the Mongol army's conquest of Micheng, and it is commendable that Liu Bingzhong wrote the entire process of the war very specifically, so that we can know the situation today." The second paragraph begins, 'In April, the army went to Heicheng and defeated the party of Micheng. I was taken aback that in April, when Kublai Khan's army reached Hanhai, they defeated the Dangxiang in the first battle, and I was surprised that the location of their battle was Heicheng. ”

"Is that the city of Blackwater that Koznov discovered?" Yelena asked.

"Well, it's Heishui City, Heishui City has been used in the Yuan Dynasty and served as the capital to manage this area, but Heicheng should be hundreds of miles away from the Micheng we are looking for, and the party members of Micheng can still run long distances at this time, running so far away to fight with Kublai Khan's army?"

"It's just that the trapped beast is still fighting, because then the old woman confided the truth!" Han Jiang Road.

"Even so, the courage of the Micheng party is beyond my imagination. Then, in early May, Kublai Khan's army marched to Jiulipu and other places, and rumors spread among the army, so that the soldiers were afraid to move forward? I think it must be all kinds of terrible legends about Micheng and the people there, maybe the legends that the Mongol army heard back then are very similar to what we heard. ”

"This may be the psychological warfare of the party members!" Han Jiang Road.

"It's very likely. In short, in the end, Kublai Khan was furious, forced the army to march, and was attacked by the party people again outside the town of Qianhu, Kublai Khan's army was defeated, fortunately, the cowardly soldiers of the Xue army desperately rescued Kublai Khan, so that Kublai Khan escaped a catastrophe, otherwise history would really have to be rewritten. However, what shocked me the most about this account was not these, but the sentence 'The party of Micheng is extremely brave, and is good at driving Kui Jiao and other fierce beasts, our army is defeated, and the Great Khan is in danger of being harmed by fierce beasts,'......" Tang Feng said at this time, stopped, looked around at everyone, and his eyes were full of fear.

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In the thick mist, everyone looked at each other, and after a while, Liang Yuan broke the silence first, "This 'Kui...... What is Kui Dongdong? ’”

Tang Feng twisted his head to the side, looked at the calm water, and muttered, "I think this thing is the unknown skeleton we saw." ”

"A ferocious beast that can hollow out people and tear them apart!" Han Jiang paused for a moment, and then said: "It seems that the party members of Micheng domesticated this fierce beast and used it in the war, and the party members of Qianhu Town slaughtered the city, and in this battle, the party people used Kui Neck, and defeated the Mongolian army. ”

"It must be so, this fierce beast almost killed Kublai Khan! Although Kublai Khan was saved, he was obviously frightened by this fierce beast, so that he fell ill and was cured in 20 days, although Liu Bingzhong only said in the inscription that it was a 'minor illness', but I think Liu Bingzhong was for His Holiness, what kind of minor illness should take 20 days? Kublai Khan must have had a serious illness, so on the other hand, what kind of beast can frighten the well-informed and powerful Kublai Khan? This 'Kui See' is indeed a very powerful thing! Tang Feng said.

Makarov nodded, "From my inference about the skeleton, it is not difficult to see that this Kui Jiao must be a monster with a fierce appearance, infinite strength, and quick movements!" ”

"It's a good thing these guys are all dead, otherwise I would really have died without a place to bury!" Liang Yuan patted her chest happily.

"I hope so!" Tang Feng continued: "The third paragraph describes the specific process of Kublai Khan's plot with Liu Bingzhong and Ba Si Pa after this battle, Liu Bingzhong proposed to adopt a siege strategy, Kublai Khan was skeptical, saying that there have been soldiers and horses stationed near Micheng in the past few decades, but Micheng has not been defeated, is it useful to adopt such a strategy?" Liu Bingzhong said that this time he sent heavy troops to besiege him, and then sent people to find a shortcut to Micheng, and also adopted a sneak attack strategy, and Kublai Khan adopted his strategy. It must be said that Kublai Khan has a minister like Liu Bingzhong under his luck is his luck, the terrain of Micheng is complicated, although Kublai Khan's army is large, but it cannot be used, so when the thousand households outside the town failed again, the Mongol army changed its strategy in time and turned the attack into a trap, which is a positive ' Sleepy', the party members who did not trap Micheng in the past few decades, I think Micheng in addition to being rich in products and self-sufficiency, there must also be some channels to connect to the outside, and now Liu Bingzhong has increased his troops to block all the passages to the outside, which is undoubtedly a catastrophe for the party members in Micheng, and Liu Bingzhong not only took the trick of 'sleepy', but also actively ordered people to find shortcuts, preparing to sneak attack Micheng! ”

"This is the method of using the party to deal with the party people!" Liang Yuan sighed.

"After Liu Bingzhong's proposal, Phags-pa also reminded Kublai Khan that he could look for the old soldiers who had followed Genghis Khan to this place in the army, and of course, the more important and more powerful move was to disintegrate the enemy from within the enemy - if there are people who are attached, they need to ask more, and they will definitely be rewarded."

"This Liu Bingzhong and Ba Si Pa both seem to be powerful characters, and if they do this, the party members in Micheng will suffer!" Han Jiang sighed.

"Then you underestimate these party members in Micheng, the fourth paragraph records that the siege strategy began to be quite effective, in order to break through the siege, the party people repeatedly took the initiative to attack, but they were repelled by the Mongolian army that held on, which reminded me of some of the fortifications we found near the wolf depression at the beginning, when we felt strange why there were Mongol fortifications there, and now this inscription explains the problem, those fortifications should have been built by the Mongols when they were slaughtered in Qianhu Town and retreated to the line of the wolf depression, It may also be built by Kublai Khan after adopting Liu Bingzhong's plan. ”

Han Jiang listened to Tang Feng's inference and thought for a while, "Then there should be quite a few fortifications like that in the desert." ”

"In short, the party members are completely trapped in Micheng. At this time, the Mongol army began another strategy, looking for a shortcut to Micheng, and Pas-pa found a few old soldiers who had been here with Genghis Khan, 'through the canyon, wading through quicksand, several times in distress, several times trapped, and finally diving to the shore of the afterlife,' from their process, do you see anything? Tang Feng looked at everyone with an inquiring eye.

Liang Yuan thought for a moment and said, "The path they took seems to be ...... It seems to be similar to the path we are taking! ”

"Yes, I think the path taken by the old sergeant with Pasipa is the route we have taken in the past few days, and then 'However, this sea changes for no reason, dangerous and abnormal, often invisible in the Hanhai, and vast in the Gobi, although the water quality is clear, but the underwater white bones are full of bones, the giant python travels through, and there is a great fog, I don't know its perimeter!" Isn't that exactly what happened to us here? ”

"It seems like this has been the case here for thousands of years!" Han Jiang exclaimed.

"More importantly, this record confirms the legendary record of the sea of rebirth, which is unprovoked, dangerous and abnormal, often invisible in the Hanhai Sea and vast in the Gobi......" Tang Feng muttered to himself, looking at the fog-shrouded Haizi not far away, and fell into deep thought.

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After a long time, Tang Feng looked into the distance and said: "Genghis Khan's army stopped here back then, and decades later, Kublai Khan's army is trapped here!" At that time, Phags-pa was probably like us, trapped in a thick fog by the sea of this death, and was in a dilemma, so much so that he sighed - a desperate place, a hundred thousand troops cannot enter. Tang Feng sighed with emotion, returned to the stele, and pointed to the fifth inscription: "Obviously, Kublai Khan, Ba Si Pa and Liu Bingzhong all underestimated the determination and perseverance of the Micheng Dang Xiang, they besieged Micheng for several months, and the Dangxiang people did not give in, and it can be seen from the inscription that the Dangxiang people later had no strength to launch an active attack on the Mongol army, but they still relied on the complex terrain and strong city to defend, and Kublai Khan's army had no way. At that time, it was the height of summer, there was a shortage of food and water in the desert, the heat was unbearable, and the army's spirit was unstable, so the ministers and generals wanted to withdraw the army, and Kublai Khan also had this intention, at this time, only Basipa and Liu Bingzhong insisted that they could not retreat; Pas-pa is not only a generation of religious leaders, but also an outstanding politician and military strategist, he accurately judged that at this time, the party members in Micheng are also very difficult, it should be more difficult than them, this war will soon be clear, at this time is to see who can hold out to the end, if the army retreats at this time, it will be a failure! Liu Bingzhong's opinion was the same as that of Ba Sipa, and he said to Kublai Khan that this time the Great Khan's personal expedition was to be returned in vain, then the Micheng party members would be more imposing, and it would be difficult to subdue them in the future! Eventually, Phags-pa and Liu Bingzhong helped Kublai Khan re-establish his resolve. ”

"It seems that everything needs to be persistent, and I think we are not far from Micheng!" Makarov muttered.

"Yes, we should be very close to Mi City, which can also be seen from the inscription." Tang Feng said and pointed to the sixth inscription and said: "For several months, Ba Si Pa has been sending soldiers to look for the party members in Micheng, but all the captured party members are begging for a quick death and refuse to reveal the details of Micheng, which shows how tenacious the party members in Micheng are?" So much so that Liu Bingzhong sighed: Huh, how many party warriors are there? And its lord cannot be used, so there is a matter of destroying the country and destroying the species today.

Finally, one day, the cowardly Xue army captured an old woman who was willing to lead the way for the army. Liu Bingzhong and Ba Si Pa took five thousand elite cowardly Xue army into the valley again, on the shore of the sea, the old woman confided the truth of Micheng, it turned out that Micheng after so many years of siege and war, has been exhausted, most of the population has been lost, attacking Qianhu Town is actually Micheng's party people are ready to break through, but although they have laid down Qianhu Town, but also lost many young adults, the Mongolian army is besieged to death, the grain and grass in the city have been exhausted, Micheng's party people are unable to fight anymore, they can only kill horses to live, and the people in the city now only want to die quickly, And this old woman didn't want to die, so she secretly went out of the city, trying to make a living, but was captured by the cowardly Xue army, in order to survive, this old woman finally betrayed Micheng. ”

"The war is so cruel that even the old woman ......," Liang Yuan lamented.

Tang Feng waved his hand at Liang Yuan, "Okay, don't sigh yet, it's more worth sighing in the back!" When he heard this, he said, 'Staying in the lonely city will not last long, and the city will be ruined soon!' This sentence almost pronounced the last moment of Mi Cheng! ”

6

Tang Feng looked at the long inscription and his brows were tangled, "The seventh inscription is the most magical and the most important to us. The old woman of the party told Phags-pa the secret of the sea of rebirth-'The sea of rebirth can be big or small, and when the sea is young, you can find the way into Micheng.' I think this sentence is very important, and it is likely that we will find the last key to Hanhai Mi City. ”

"The last key? What do you mean? Liang Yuan was puzzled.

Han Jiang interjected: "What he means is that we should also listen to the words of this old woman of the party back then, and when Haizi is young, there will be a road to Hanhai Mi City!" But can you believe the words of hundreds of years ago? ”

"Our encounters and discoveries along the way have fulfilled ancient legends!" Tang Feng insisted.

"But what is said behind this inscription is too bizarre, what the old woman just finished speaking, lightning and thunder, wind and rain, the old woman was also killed by thunder, a moment later, the level of the sea soared, almost the Mongol army was annihilated; In the end, Phags-pa moved the Buddha by chanting the sutras, and just when they were about to be annihilated, the rain stopped, and the whole army was saved again, how is this like telling a story? Han Jiang was still skeptical.

"These two passages are indeed too bizarre, like telling a story, but if you think about it, they are also consistent with the ancient legend and what happened to us, which does not show that the water level of the sea is constantly changing, when the water level rises, the water surface is very wide, and when the water level falls, the water surface shrinks. Let's not say that these two accounts are too bizarre, which still gives us some clues, when the army is in danger, Phag-pa once again showed the leadership of the commander-in-chief, and he is not chaotic in the face of danger, I think the rain stopped and the water receded, not the credit of Phag-pa's chanting, but his chanting still calmed the panicked army, as for the rain and the water receded, I think it can only be related to the terrain and climate here; Another point is that when the rain stopped, the fog also dispersed, which is very important, and Pas-pa led his army to the sea of rebirth several times, but they were blocked by the dense fog, which is similar to what we encountered, and when the fog dissipated, they finally saw the sea of rebirth clearly, 'The water is vast, the blue waves are rippling, and there is no boundary!' This shows that the sea of rebirth is indeed very large under normal circumstances. ”

"Listen to you, we need a heavy rain to dispel this fog?" Han Jiang asked rhetorically.

Tang Feng shook his head, "I don't know, there can't be a few rains in this desert a year, I don't dare to expect rain from the sky!" When we looked down further, after the rain had stopped and the water had receded, all the generals wanted to retreat, and at this time, Phags-pa said confidently: 'I have been enlightened by the Buddha, and the city of Pomi is today!' 'Why did Phags-pa dare to say that?' I think in addition to boosting morale, it was important that he believed the old woman's words. Sure enough, after a while, as the old woman said, the water level of the Immortal Sea dropped sharply, and the road to Micheng was revealed! ”

"It's getting more and more bizarre! Is the road to Mi Cheng underwater? How could the water level of this sea of life skyrocket for a while? What about a sharp drop in a while? ”

Han Jiang's question made everyone fall into deep thought, and after a long time, Makarov said in a low voice: "Unless...... Unless there's a huge space underneath this desert, like a karst cave......"

"How is this possible, this is the desert!" Yelena looked at the water beside her in amazement.

"I also can't understand that it's normal for Haizi's water level to change, but if it really rises and falls sharply as the inscription says, it's very abnormal." Tang Feng paused, and said: "But all this is true, after the level of the sea dropped sharply, the road to Micheng appeared, and Ba Si Pa and Liu Bingzhong led the army to gallop and go deep into the oasis, and sure enough, they saw a golden and brilliant city, which was not as magnificent as the world!" ”

"This account and Yelu Chucai's scroll can corroborate each other, and Mi City was built in an oasis." Liang Yuan mentioned Yelu Chucai's scroll again.

"This account reminds me of Ma Changguo, the 'Oasis of Death' that he kept shouting before he died!" Han Jiang thought of what Stephen had told them.

Tang Feng nodded again and again, "Yes, I also thought of Ma Changguo, we have already speculated that Ma Changguo is likely to have come to the oasis, and this is indeed an oasis of death, because the inscription specifically mentions the oasis of death - 'The oasis is also dangerous, our army has lost hundreds of soldiers, starting to the city of Mi." This shows that the oasis is also dangerous, so much so that without being attacked by the Dang Xiang, the Xue army lost a few hundred men before coming to Micheng. This account once again proves my previous judgment, Mi Cheng is in the oasis of death, and the oasis is in front of us, on the other side of the sea of life! ”

"Oh! I didn't expect this, which means that as soon as we cross this water, we will enter the oasis of death, and we will be able to see Mi City! Han Jiang said with some excitement.

"Well, it's coming! It's just that...... We just don't know how many dangers await us in the oasis! Tang Feng muttered to himself.

7

Tang Feng paused for a moment, and then continued: "But the party members of Micheng are guarding the fortified city and do not engage the Mongol army, the Mongolian army should be mainly cavalry, and lack of siege equipment, so although they have worked hard to attack the city of Micheng, and the party members in the city have run out of ammunition and food, the Mongolian army still can't easily break the city!" It is not difficult to see from this record that the walls of Micheng must be very strong and difficult to break, which is also the last line of defense of the Micheng party members, even if the party members run out of ammunition and food, they will resist desperately. ”

"But the fog seems to have helped Kublai Khan's army!" Liang Yuan said.

"Yes! When Ba Si Pa and Liu Bingzhong led the cowardly Xue army to the city of Mi City, suddenly another fog fell, and the soldiers were afraid that the party members in the city would take advantage of the fog to sneak out of the city to attack them, thinking that the Buddha was going to protect the party members this time, Ba Si Pa seized the opportunity again, he took advantage of the fog, selected more than ten strong soldiers, and attacked Mi City from the secret gate of Mi City! You must have all noticed this so-called 'secret door', and I think that's very important for us as well. Tang Feng said and looked around at everyone.

Unexpectedly, Han Jiang smiled, "You're too worried!" The Mongolian army has destroyed Micheng, I'm afraid Micheng doesn't even have a gate now, this secret door is not a secret door, it has nothing to do with us! ”

Tang Feng thought for a while, "What you said makes sense, but I think this sentence is still very important, which shows that Micheng has a city gate and a secret gate." It's just that...... It's just that I really can't figure out what this secret door is. I've never seen a secret door on the wall! ”

"Could it be an authentic or something?" Yelena suddenly thought of something.

"Authentic? Generally, there is no special need, and no tunnels will be built under the city walls, because it is not safe, and it will affect the stability of the city walls. Tang Feng said.

"Don't worry about it so much, in short, the cowardly Xue army has succeeded in a sneak attack and attacked Micheng!" Liang Yuan said.

"Well, Mi Cheng has been breached! The following is an extremely tragic picture, Pas-pa ordered the soldiers not to kill indiscriminately, and not to loot, but the men of Micheng fought to the death, and the women all died by themselves......"

When Tang Feng said this, the last tragic picture of Micheng appeared in front of everyone's eyes, and Liang Yuan couldn't help but sigh: "Is this the 'person who restored the country' mentioned on the jade interlude?" It seems that King Hao is not wrong, the party members in Micheng are not only brave and good at fighting, but also fierce and observant. ”

"The most important thing in this account is not these, but the following sentences." Tang Feng continued to decipher the inscription and said: "'There are more than 100 Kui stalks, murderous things, and the emperor uses Buddhism to rationalize them. That night, the city was on fire, the emperor was afraid, and ordered the armies to withdraw, the armies fought for goods and goods, and the dead were numerous. This passage says two things, the first thing is very interesting, it is said that the cowardly Xue Jun found more than 100 Kui Frogs in the city, in the face of this extremely ferocious animal, Ba Si Pa actually used Buddha to rationalize it? This is the sentence that I can't understand the most when I read the whole inscription here, if Kui Jiao is really so cruel, how did Pasipa tame them? Could it be that he can get rid of these fierce beasts by chanting scriptures against these fierce beasts? ”

Everyone was also puzzled, "It seems that we can only figure out all this if we go to Micheng." Makarov muttered.

Tang Feng said: "The second thing is that that night, there was a sudden fire in Mi City, and even Pasipa was suspicious, and hurriedly ordered the troops to withdraw, but the soldiers fought for goods and goods, so that many casualties were caused. These few sentences seem to be a normal record, but they reveal a huge amount of information, and the first thing that makes me think is that Phags-pa has been strictly ordered to 'do not loot'! But the cowardly Xue army is still fighting for property, what does this mean? Is it the poor military discipline of the cowardly Xue Army? Is it that Paspa's order doesn't work? Judging from the previous records, it is not, there can only be one explanation, that is, the treasures in Micheng shocked them too much, they have never heard of or seen them, so in the face of the huge temptation, military discipline or orders are useless, and even Ba Si Pa and Liu Bingzhong cannot restrain the soldiers.

Secondly, it is this nameless fire, the reason why I say it is a fire, because if it is just an ordinary fire, it will not make Ba Sipa suspicious, so there must have been a fire in Mi Cheng that night. As for how the fire burned, it is even more interesting, whether the surviving party members set fire to the city, or the cowardly Xue army thieves shouted to be thieves, or inadvertently ignited a fire, I don't know, in short, this fire scared away the cowardly Xue army, and also completely destroyed Micheng. ”

"Micheng is located in the desert, sparsely populated, even if the cowardly Xue army loots, there is no need to deliberately set fire, the thief is called a thief, right? It is possible to inadvertently cause a fire, but it seems unreasonable to cause a fire that will engulf Mi City, so I think it is more likely that the surviving party members set fire to the city. Han Jiang analyzed.

"I think so too, there must be some party members who survived, they may have hid during the day and ran out to set fire at night." Tang Feng agreed with Han Jiang's inference.

"According to what you say, during the night, the surviving party members ran out and set a fire, and then the Mongol army withdrew, and fought for a long time, and in the end, Mi Cheng may not know who it is?" Liang Yuan suddenly made a strange point.

"This ......" Liang Yuan's words stunned Tang Feng suddenly, could it be that after the Mongols retreated, there were still party members in Micheng who continued its former glory there.

8

After a while, Tang Feng relieved himself again, "I think Micheng should still be considered to have been broken by the Mongol army, although they only stayed in the city for one day before withdrawing from the fire, but judging from the later records, the number of surviving party members should be very small, and after this battle, there are no records and clues about Micheng." ”

"The matter of the cowardly Xue army's attack on Micheng has basically been finished, why are there two inscriptions behind it?" Makarov asked, pointing to the stele.

"The last two paragraphs may not be important to Liu Bingzhong, but I have written a few more strokes later, but I think these two paragraphs are very important to us. The penultimate paragraph mainly talks about the aftermath after the breakthrough of Micheng, and the whole aftermath is actually one thing - Ba Si Pa ordered the cowardly Xue army to collect the bones of the scattered Mongols and Dangxiang people and build a mandala by the sea of the dead, so as to surpass the souls of the dead. This incident reminded me of that old legend again......" Tang Feng said this, and stopped.

Liang Yuan continued: "What you said, I also remembered the legend mentioned by Uncle Weiming, the legend is that there is a skeleton city in the sea of death, when I heard this legend, I was startled at first, and then I thought it was nonsense, but today, it is very likely to be true!" ”

"Yes, the inscription mentions that the mandala built by Pasipa was built with the bones of the soldiers of the two armies, and it also says that no one has collected the bones in the Wild Wolf Valley for decades, and the Mongolian army has suffered a lot of losses in this battle, and the party members have almost all been wiped out, there must be a lot of bones, you think, when these bones are piled together, no...... Isn't it just a Skull City? Tang Feng looked at everyone with wide eyes.

Hearing this, everyone was shocked, "It seems that the legends are true!" ”

Of course, this record is also quite legendary, saying that the sergeants were worried about the danger of the seaside of the afterlife, and did not want to stay for a long time, and after the Pasipa gave a guarantee to the soldiers, everyone lived on the seaside of the death, which is strange, for more than ten days, the wind and sun were beautiful here, and there were no signs of danger; A month later, the mandala was built, and when they withdrew, the wolf valley returned to its original dangerous appearance, so the soldiers said that Phags-pa was a god-man and the reincarnation of a bodhisattva! This is too legendary in the back of the record, which makes me even begin to wonder the previous record, does that mandala really exist? Tang Feng also began to doubt the authenticity of this account.

"I think this is to put gold on the face of Ba Sipa, bragging!" Han Jiang joked.

"Is that really the case?" Tang Feng pulled his thoughts back to the inscription, "The last paragraph says three things, but in fact there are two things, because the first few sentences are to sing praises of virtue; But then Liu Bingzhong changed his words and said one thing - 'The former, the emperor built the mandala, once whispered to me: "This city has a big mystery!" "I asked what the mystery was, the emperor smiled and said nothing, I was stupid and didn't know!" What does this 'great mystery' mean? ”

"Nonsense, Liu Bingzhong didn't figure it out back then, how can we know!" Han Jiang Road.

"Liu Bingzhong is an extremely smart person, and he participated in the whole incident, he didn't know the big mystery in the mandala built by Paspa? And Liu Bingzhong said that it was Ba Si Pa who whispered to him, it seems that only Ba Si Pa knows about this big mystery! Tang Feng sighed.

"Come on, maybe this is Paspa playing tricks, since he has become the reincarnation of a Bodhisattva, then just write more gods!" Han Jiang shook his head and said.

"And what about the second thing?" Liang Yuan asked.

"The second thing is very simple, it can solve my previous doubts, at the end of the inscription, Liu Bingzhong said why he wrote this inscription, he originally wanted to write a book to record the entire process of the war, which can be passed on to future generations, and can come in handy when compiling the history of the country in the future, he thought it was very good, but he did not think it through the eight Sipa; Pasipa said to Liu Bingzhong, 'You can't do this, if you do this, if someone, especially the party members after the fall of the country, sees these records in the book, and then runs to Micheng, occupies this city, and confronts the imperial court, then it will become a big trouble for the imperial court.' If you have to record this history, then you should carve a tablet by the sea of the dead! And so there is this stele that we saw. ”

"Pas-pa is thoughtful, no wonder there is no record of this history in the history books!" Liang Yuan finally understood the ins and outs of this stone stele.

"But I also want to thank Ba Sipa and Liu Bingzhong for not letting people write this history into the official history, so that we can't see such an original record, Liu Bingzhong has no scruples on this tablet, so we can record it in detail and truthfully, and you can add your own opinions, which is the inscription we saw."

When Tang Feng said this, he found that Makarov turned his face to the side, looking at the water under the thick fog in distraction, thoughtfully, Tang Feng hurriedly asked Makarov, "Old Ma, what have you thought of?" ”

Tang Feng shouted twice before Makarov came back to his senses, "I...... I'm still thinking about that 'big mystery'. ”

"The Great Mystery? Lao Ma, Liu Bingzhong didn't understand the mystery back then, can you come up with it as a foreigner? Han Jiang said with a smile.

"Not necessarily!" Makarov's stubborn temper came up, "Have you ever thought about it, Ba Si Pa asked Liu Bingzhong to erect a monument on the side of the sea of death, and Ba Si Pa led the army to build the skull mandala on the shore of the sea of death, have you thought about the relationship between the two?" ”

Makarov's words shocked everyone, Tang Feng's eyes lit up, and he exclaimed: "Why didn't I think of it, it's still the old horse!" The inscription of the monument and the construction of the mandala should have been carried out at the same time, and it should have been a month after the Mongol army broke through the city, so it is likely that the two buildings were not far away! ”

That is to say...... That skeleton is honestly nearby?! Liang Yuan's words, coupled with the dense fog around them, made everyone feel deep fear.