1

Strange to say, Tang Feng thought that he had experienced so many terrible things, and he should have nightmares again and again tonight, but when he woke up the next morning, he found that he had slept all night, without nightmares and without encountering any danger, this was probably the most soundly sleeping night since Tang Feng entered the desert.

The only thing that made Tang Feng a little unhappy was that at some point, it started fogging again, and the fog was not as big as the dense fog the day before yesterday, but it was enough to envelop the entire oasis and Micheng.

Mi Cheng seems to be unwilling to let people see its true face easily, yesterday, when Tang Feng came to the city, it was dusk, the light was dim, and the whole picture of Mi Cheng could not be seen, this morning, the white fog cast a mysterious veil on Mi Cheng, which made people sigh.

After the five of them got up, they discussed it and decided to walk around the walls of Micheng first, looking for the so-called "secret door". So, everyone packed up and started on the road, Tang Feng walked out of the city gate hole, there was a beam of sunlight piercing the white mist, shining on his body and the city wall, Tang Feng stopped, looked back, and couldn't help but suddenly open his mind, "Did you find it, this city gate is facing east." ”

"What does this mean?" Han Jiang was puzzled.

"The east is in the direction of the sun, when we came yesterday, we didn't find the city gate on the north wall, how many gates do you say there will be in Mi City?" Tang Feng asked everyone rhetorically.

Liang Yuan took the lead and said: "It stands to reason that such a large city should have city gates on at least the south, east, west, and northwest sides, but ...... However, there is no city gate found in the north, but there is a city gate in the east, and ancient Chinese architecture is symmetrical, and they all face south and back to north, so I guess there should be a city gate on each side of the south, east, and west. ”

"Three gates?" Han Jiang pondered for a moment and said: "Liang Yuan is right, generally speaking, the south gate of ancient Chinese cities is the most important, and Micheng will definitely have a south gate, and the ancient buildings pay attention to symmetry, so there should also be a city gate in the west, so there are three city gates." ”

Tang Feng listened, smiled without saying a word, and walked south along the tall city wall, Liang Yuan hurriedly followed Tang Feng and asked, "You asked us, but you said?" ”

"Let's go see it right away!"

Han Jiang also caught up, "Yes, how many gates did you say there were in Micheng?" ”

"Do you think the party members can have so much gold to build the city gates?" Tang Feng asked rhetorically.

"What do you mean...... Mi City is just east of this city gate? Han Jiang exclaimed.

Tang Feng did not answer Han Jiang directly, but mentioned Yelu Chucai's scroll again, "Have you forgotten that Yelu Chucai said that he built Qianhu Town in imitation of Micheng." ”

Han Jiang was stunned for a moment, not understanding what Tang Feng meant, "But the city gate of Qianhu Town is in the south?" ”

However, Liang Yuan understood what Tang Feng meant, "Tang Feng means that Mi City also has only one city gate like Qianhu Town?!" ”

Tang Feng finally nodded, and Han Jiang asked incomprehensibly, "But the city gate of Qianhu Town is open in the south, how can Mi Cheng open the city gate in the east?" Moreover, Yelu Chucai said that he imitated Micheng, but there is no need to imitate Micheng in everything, Qianhu Town is small, so one city gate is enough, and Micheng is so tall and majestic, how can it be a city gate? ”

"Yelu Chucai doesn't need to imitate Micheng in everything, but don't forget that I said in Qianhu Town that the city gate of Qianhu Town has a special role in military affairs......"

Liang Yuan interrupted Tang Feng and said: "So you think that the city gate setting of Micheng is also for the needs of military defense and has its special role, and Qianhu Town is imitating Micheng, therefore, the two city gate settings should be the same, and Micheng has only one city gate." ”

While a few people were talking, Tang Feng had already taken the lead in walking to the southeast corner of the outer wall of Micheng, Tang Feng stopped and looked back, as the temperature rose, the fog gradually dissipated, and the tower of Micheng stood in the morning light, * solemn, but Tang Feng saw some clues, "Have you noticed, we just walked here from the city gate, that is, the distance from the southeast corner of Micheng, is obviously longer than the distance we walked from the northeast corner to the city tower last night, what does this mean?" ”

Everyone carefully recalled, "It is indeed long, which means that the gate of Micheng is not in the middle of the eastern city wall." Liang Yuan said.

"It also shows that the design of Mi Cheng is indeed very similar to that of Qianhu Town, and the south gate of Qianhu Town is not in the middle of the south, but is biased to the right, and Mi Cheng is also like this, and the city gate is also obviously biased to the right." Han Jiang sensed some taste.

Tang Feng nodded, "Yes, that's right." As I said in Senhe Town, the South Gate Gate is not facing the main street directly south of it, because of the need for military defense, and I think Senhu Town borrowed from the design of Mi Castle. ”

2

Although the head of Tang Feng's analysis was Dao, Han Jiang still couldn't fully believe that such a large city only had the east gate. Everyone bypassed the southeast corner of Mi City, and began to advance west along the city walls and moats, Tang Feng looked at the dense forest to the south from time to time, the dense woods blocked his view, and the passage he wanted to enter Mi City from the south line may be hidden in this dense forest.

When they walked to the middle of the south city wall, Tang Feng's inference was fulfilled, no city gate was found on the south city wall, Han Jiang and Liang Yuan looked at each other in surprise, Tang Feng smiled, "Now you should believe what I said, right?" ”

"In this way, there will be no gates on the western wall!" Liang Yuan muttered.

At this time, Makarov, who had been following behind, said: "Don't just stare at the city gate, the key is the 'secret gate'?" ”

Tang Feng nodded, "What Lao Ma said is very right, now it seems that my inference has been confirmed, Mi City only has a city gate to the east." When the Dangxiang people blocked the city gate with molten iron at the last moment, it was impossible for Kublai Khan's army to attack Micheng through that gate, so they succeeded in sneaking through the secret gate. Today, hundreds of years later, we still can't enter Mi City through the city gate, and we lack the equipment to climb the city wall, so we can only find the secret door and enter Mi City through the secret gate. ”

"Just like Paspa and Liu Bingzhong did hundreds of years ago?"

"Yes, what else can we do? I think if Misha and the mysterious female expedition team members did enter Mi City, then they should also enter through the secret door. Tang Feng boldly inferred.

"But where will this secret door be? It can't be a hole in such a thick wall, right? Liang Yuan stared at the sturdy and tall rammed earth city wall in front of him in bewilderment.

"I can't think of it yet, but I think we'll find a clue to it on the walls!" Tang Feng said, and continued to walk west, when they reached the southwest corner of Micheng, the scorching sun had already dispelled the fog, Tang Feng inadvertently looked up, and suddenly found that after the fog dissipated, a mountain appeared faintly in front of him, "Look, what's going on?" Tang Feng was shocked.

Tang Feng raised his right hand slightly, pointing to the west side of the city wall, everyone looked in the direction of Tang Feng's finger, sure enough, in the west city wall, there is a mountain standing majestically, because of the city wall, everyone can not get a glimpse of the whole picture of this mountain, but the top of the mountain for some reason, under the sun, shining with golden light, Tang Feng rubbed his eyes vigorously, convinced that he was not dazzled, this is indeed a mountain, but there are no buildings on the top of the mountain, only some trees that Tang Feng does not know, lush.

"How can there be a mountain in Mi City?" Yelena was puzzled.

"Maybe this mountain has some special significance!" Makarov guessed.

Everyone moved their eyes to Tang Feng, Tang Feng was still staring at the mountain inside the city wall, Han Jiang patted him on the shoulder, Tang Feng came to his senses, and muttered, "I don't know why there is a mountain in the city?" But...... But I think the biggest possibility is a garden, just like Jingshan behind the Forbidden City, because Micheng was built by Yuan Hao himself, in the entire Western Xia, it has the nature of leaving the capital, so I think it is possible for the royal palace and gardens to appear in the city. ”

"The Royal Gardens? Relative to the size of Mi Cheng, this mountain is too big, right? Could it be that Mi City was built for Yuan Hao's fun? Han Jiang asked puzzled.

"We'll only know if we go in and see it!" Tang Feng thought, unconsciously quickened the pace under his feet, and at the same time kept his eyes off the city wall, carefully searching for the legendary secret door.

The west wall of Micheng was as Tang Feng had speculated, and there was no city gate, so the five of them turned to the northwest corner of Micheng, and Tang Feng reminded everyone, "Back then, Kublai Khan's army should have come from the north, so we should be extra careful to see what remains around the north wall." ”

Tang Feng's reminder was really useful, and after a few steps, Han Jiang found a dense number of arrows on the ground, Tang Feng picked up a few arrows and carefully observed them in his hands, "There are two kinds of arrows here, one is Mongolian, and the other is from the party, indicating that there was a fierce battle under the north city wall back then; Looking closely at these two types of arrows, it is clear that the Mongols' arrowheads were well-made and made of fine materials, while the arrowheads of the Dangxiang people were much simpler and poorly used, and I think this may be related to the fact that the Dangxiang people in Micheng were under siege for a long time and could not obtain high-quality metal materials. ”

Tang Feng said this, and the tragic picture of the fierce battle under the city appeared in front of everyone's eyes, and in the face of the timidly Xue army surging like a tide, the party members who had run out of ammunition and food could only rely on the strong city walls left by their ancestors to make the last dying resistance.

3

Under the city wall on the north side, Tang Feng found many arrows and damaged weapons, as well as some scattered porcelain pieces and jade fragments, but when they re-walked to the northeast corner of Mi City, they still did not find the legendary secret door.

Where will the secret door be? Tang Feng looked at the city wall of Micheng in disappointment, Micheng, who had been looking for so much, was in front of him at this time, but he couldn't get in, Tang Feng couldn't help but be upset when he thought of this, he sat down on the ground, the temperature was getting higher and higher, Tang Feng was sweating profusely, panting and looking at Han Jiang, Han Jiang was also looking at him, "Boy, what do you think now?" ”

"I worked so hard to find Micheng, but I couldn't get in, I feel like a wreck!"

"I didn't ask you this! I'm asking you to think about it again, where will that secret door be? ”

"Secret door?" Tang Feng moved his gaze back to the city wall in front of him and fell into deep thought, but Han Jiang was still saying, "I think that secret gate must not be too small, otherwise how can Kublai Khan's army enter Micheng!" ”

Han Jiang's words made Tang Feng's body shake slightly, he raised his head suddenly, and suddenly found that not far from the northeast corner of Mi City, a black patch appeared on the north side of the city wall, Tang Feng stood up suddenly, walked a few steps, and came to the black city wall. Tang Feng stared at the black city wall, and muttered to himself: "This is not the original color of the city wall, this is a layer of black ash, no, to be precise, this is the trace left after the explosion!" ”

There was a wide trench in the middle, and Tang Feng couldn't go under the city wall to prove his judgment, but Han Jiang gave the answer he wanted, "That's right, it's the traces left after the explosion." ”

Tang Feng turned around abruptly and stared at everyone, "The Mongols have learned to use * to attack the city, think about it again, why did the cowardly Xue army detonate * here?" ”

When Tang Feng's gaze fell on Liang Yuan, Liang Yuan hesitated and said, "You...... You mean this is where the secret door is? Don't you see a secret door on the city wall? ”

"Wrong! The secret door is not on the wall, but under the wall! Tang Feng said.

Everyone was shocked, and Tang Feng then explained: "We found out that there is a circle of trenches outside the walls of Micheng at the beginning, what is this trench for? Obviously, it had water back then, and we took it for granted that this was the depths of the desert, and there should not be a moat, and I thought that this circle of moats was a moat, and of course the climate here was changeable, and I guess that there was a river that flowed to the sea of death, but it was a seasonal river, that is, it came and went, and sometimes the moat would dry up, and it was a trench; Sometimes, however, there is a lot of water, and this trench is not only a moat, but also a drain from the city......"

When Tang Feng said this, Han Jiang already understood what Tang Feng meant, "So a water gate must have been built under the city wall for drainage." ”

"Not bad! This point has been found in the ruins of Yuanshangdu and Yuanzhongdu that have been excavated by archaeology, this kind of city built in the grassland and Gobi seems to be dry and rainless, and does not need drainage facilities, but once the water is large, there must also be a water gate for drainage, so the so-called 'secret door', I speculate that it is the 'water gate' of Micheng! Tang Feng further said.

"And where is the water gate?" Yelena asked.

"Right here, in this trench, the cowardly Xue army must have blown up the water gate here with * and attacked Micheng. It's just that over time, the years have changed, and the water gate below has not come to water for many years, and it has been buried by sand! ”

Tang Feng said, took out the simple sapper shovel he carried, and jumped off the wide trench.

4

As Tang Feng expected, after digging a few times, the top of a coupon gate was revealed, and the huge bluestone had been blown up all over the body, but the ticket gate was still standing under the city wall. Han Jiang also joined in the excavation, and five minutes later, several pig iron fences with a diameter of ten centimeters emerged from the sand, Tang Feng was surprised by the thickness of the diameter of these iron fences, and what surprised him even more was that such thick iron fences were all blown off without exception!

"It is conceivable that the party members were overconfident in the iron fence of this water gate back then, and they were careless, so that Ba Si Pa caught the flaw, otherwise the cowardly Xue army might not be able to succeed in the raid!" Tang Feng let out a long sigh.

"The amount of money used by the cowardly Xue army back then must have been very amazing, so much so that all these thick iron fences were blown up at one time, and even such a solid stone gate was blown up." Han Jiang inferred.

The two dug down for a while, the whole picture of the water gate gradually revealed, the entire water gate is located under the city wall, one end is connected to the ditch around the city wall, one end leads to the city, the water gate is as high as two meters five, the width has reached two meters, it can be used for three people to enter and exit side by side, the water gate is all made of solid bluestone, according to the traces left in the water gate, it can be seen that the water gate was originally isolated by eight thick iron fences, but all have been blown up.

In the process of excavation, Tang Feng was surprised to find that the sand under the water gate was mixed with a large number of jade, porcelain, gold and silver fragments, and even pearls, gems and other objects, Tang Feng couldn't help but sigh: "The cowardly Xue army must have been crazy to rob the wealth of Micheng, when that night, when the fire in the city broke out, they rushed to come out of the water gate, so many jade, porcelain, jewelry were broken and abandoned here." ”

"On the other hand, this also shows that even in the last moments of Mi Cheng, there are still many treasures in Mi Cheng, and they are even shocking!" Han Jiang said.

"It's a pity that these things can't save Mi Cheng, and they can't change the fate of the party members!"

Tang Feng sighed, he couldn't wait to walk into the water gate and see the situation at the other end of the water gate, without waiting for Han Jiang to remind him to be careful, Tang Feng had already walked to the end of the water gate, it was like a gourd-shaped pond, the water gate was located at the bottom of the gourd, there was a narrow exit at the mouth of the gourd, Tang Feng looked around the pond, he didn't find anything in the pond, he found a lot of gravel at the end of the water gate, it was obvious that these stones had been polished artificially, Tang Feng thought about it, and seemed to understand the use of these stones, " It seems that the party members also took precautions against the water gate, and they blocked the water gate with these stones, but they didn't expect that the Mongols would use so many * and blow up these stones directly! ”

"Another point, at the last moment of Micheng, there was no water in the trenches, including the water gate and this pond, if there was water, it would be difficult for the cowardly Xue army to use it*!" Han Jiang Road.

Tang Feng nodded, "Yes, not only did Micheng run out of water at the last moment, I estimate that the water in the trench may have dried up long ago, and an important reason for the final defeat of the Micheng party members I think is the deterioration of the environment, which has led to the decline of the sea level and the narrowing of the range, so there is no water in the trench, as well as in the rivers and ponds in the city." ”

"The water level of the dead is dropping? Narrowed down? Liang Yuan looked at Tang Feng puzzled, "The sea of rebirth we have seen is so vast, how can we say that the level of the sea has dropped and the scope has shrunk?" ”

"Because hundreds of years to the Shenghai is bigger than what we see today, and even the area around the Shenghai is not only this oasis, there are probably many oases, but in the middle of the Western Xia, the environment here deteriorated sharply, the level of the Shenghai Sea dropped, all the other oases disappeared, and the moats and water sources in the city dried up......"

When Liang Yuan heard this, he interrupted Tang Feng's words, "Then where do the people in the city use the water?" ”

Tang Feng pondered for a moment and said, "I think they should have dug a deep well in the city. Because the water source of the sea could not reach the castle directly, the moats around Mi Castle also lost their role as moats. ”

When Tang Feng spoke, he had already walked to the gourd-shaped pond gourd mouth, there was indeed a waterway extending forward, Tang Feng didn't know where this waterway channel was, he was anxious to get a glimpse of the whole picture of Micheng, so he climbed up here, but, to Tang Feng's disappointment, after he came up, he saw that it was just an alley, a very ordinary alley.

5

Tang Feng observed the alley in front of him, on both sides are curved gray walls, all the way from the root of the city wall next to the water gate to the city, it seems that there is no edge, the alley is only wide here at the water gate, the further you go, the narrower the alley, the more tortuous, Tang Feng can't see the end of the alley at all, this situation and this scene makes Tang Feng naturally think of the intricate houses and winding alleys behind the city gate of Qianhu Town.

"Sure enough, it's exactly the same as Qianhu Town......" Tang Feng muttered to himself.

"And it's going to be more complicated than Senhe Town!" Han Jiang added.

Tang Feng looked at Yelena and Makarov, they had not experienced Qianhu Town, Tang Feng reminded them to be mentally prepared, and at the same time follow him, the five of them must not be separated.

The group began to walk towards this alley, and as the alley extended, the alley really got narrower and narrower, and finally only one person was allowed to pass, but this was not the worst, the worst thing was that the alley soon came to an end, and a carved shadow wall blocked everyone in front of everyone. Tang Feng pushed the shadow wall hard, not moving at all, he checked the shadow wall and the surrounding walls in detail, it was very strong, and he didn't find a secret door or any mechanism.

Tang Feng shook his head helplessly, "Damn, it's even more complicated than in Qianhu Town." ”

"What now?" Liang Yuan asked.

"Back off!"

So, everyone stepped back again, Tang Feng vaguely remembered that there were a few doors around the alley just now, when he retreated to the first door, Tang Feng stopped, he didn't know if this was the right way, but he still pushed the door open, when his hand touched the cold door, Tang Feng realized that this was not a wooden door, but made of copper, Tang Feng chuckled in his heart, copper doors and windows are generally used in the highest level of buildings, but in front of this ...... Tang Feng looked at this door again, and he really couldn't see anything extraordinary about this building, but the door of a very ordinary residential building actually used copper?

When Tang Feng was thinking wildly, his feet had already entered this room, the black hole was not big, and there was a door at the other end of the room, Tang Feng was afraid that after opening the door, he would see exactly the same house, which was also a copper door, fortunately, when Tang Feng opened this door, what he saw was not exactly the same room, but another alley, Tang Feng let out a sigh of relief, but he immediately became nervous again, because he found that this alley was almost exactly the same as the alley in front, winding, Tang Feng stood in the alleyThere is no end in sight on either side.

"Where are we going?" Han Jiang also lost his direction, and now it all depends on Tang Feng.

Tang Feng didn't rush to make a choice, he stood in this tortuous alley, looked up at the sky above his head, he was recalling, reflecting, and then making a judgment step by step, "Yuan Hao really took great pains to build Mi City back then, he seemed to be an unpredictable prophet, and it seemed that he had predicted that the most dangerous place in Mi City was precisely the Water Gate, so in addition to trying to build the Water Gate as strong, the area inside the Water Gate was planned as a civilian residential area." ”

"Civilian quarters? Do you mean that this area was originally inhabited by ordinary people? Yelena didn't quite understand what Tang Feng meant.

Tang Feng nodded, "Yes, this is a civilian residential area, but I don't know if there were really civilians living here back then." In short, Yuan Hao built this intricate alley and dwelling inside the Water Gate to confuse intruders, especially those who sneak in through the Water Gate. ”

"Just like the civilian area behind the gate of Qianhu Town, Yelu Chucai is really a Qianhu Town built in imitation of Micheng." Han Jiang reminisced about his thrilling experience in Qianhu Town.

"That's good, but I think the scale of Mi City is several times larger than that of Thousand Towns, and it is also much more complicated than Thousand Towns, so we must be careful!"

Tang Feng chose to go south, because he believed that they came in through the water gate in the north, so if they wanted to get out of this civilian area, they should go south, but they didn't go a hundred meters in this alley, and they encountered another shadow wall, and again, there was no mechanism on this shadow wall. Tang Feng had to retreat again, he found a door on the side of the alley, also made of copper, and when he pushed this door open, inside was a room exactly the same as before, the room was empty, there was no furniture, and there was not even any trace of use.

Tang Feng pushed open the door at the other end of this room, this time it was not exactly the same alley, but a patio, a boxy patio, there was no door at the other end of the patio, but there was a moon door on the south side of the patio, pushing open a dilapidated wooden door, Tang Feng saw that there was a boxy patio behind the moon door, Tang Feng's feeling became worse and worse, he felt that he had fallen into a maze as complex as a mandala again, and he couldn't get out of it.

6

Tang Feng pushed open another door in the patio, behind the door was a narrow courtyard, on both sides of the courtyard were two-story buildings, Tang Feng quickly walked through this courtyard, and there was an identical alley outside, Tang Feng did not observe carefully, he walked completely by feeling, turned a corner, and it was still exactly the same alley, however, Tang Feng walked and walked, and felt that this alley was wider.

Tang Feng didn't expect this road to be so complicated, along the way, he turned several corners, and walked around it for almost half an hour before he got out of this alley, Tang Feng pushed open the door next to the alley from time to time, and checked the world behind the gate, it was all rooms, but he didn't see any traces of human habitation, Tang Feng couldn't help but wonder in his heart, "Could it be that these houses have been empty like this back then, and no one has ever moved in, just to confuse the uninvited guests who break in illegally?!" ”

Although this alley is tortuous, but it has not come to an end, when everyone expressed doubts about the route, Tang Feng had hope in his heart, this alley must be different from the previous two, at the end of it, there must be a different scene, sure enough, after turning the last corner, the end of the alley appeared, not a wall, or a wall, but a avenue, a wide avenue of 100 meters, no, or should be called a square.

The five people widened their eyes and walked out of the alley in surprise, looking around, the magnificent architectural remains are distributed around, especially under the hill in the west, surrounded by high platforms, and the palace is majestic, but most of these buildings have collapsed, and the glory is no longer there, and they can only imagine the glory and magnificence of this place from the tall pedestals and ruins that remain; However, in the middle of the high platform at the western end of the square, there is a huge and imposing palace-like building, although dilapidated, it still stands majestically there, which makes people think about it.

Behind the tall palace was the hill that everyone saw outside the city, and when the noon sun shone on the top of the hill, the dazzling golden light once again made Tang Feng unable to look directly at the top of the mountain, Tang Feng didn't know what was on the top of the mountain, but he vaguely felt that there would be a shocking discovery there.

The five of them were shocked by the sight in front of them, and none of them spoke, and when they came to the center of this huge square, they all stopped and looked around in amazement, as if they were in a different world!

Tang Feng looked back and saw that at the other end of this huge rectangular square was the east city wall, but under the east city wall, there were two groups of small buildings on the left and right, which seemed to be well preserved. And the glorious golden gate, as they had found outside the city, did not appear on the central axis facing the square, but was hidden in the civilian area that they had managed to walk out of just now.

"Sure enough, the magnificence is not as magnificent as the world, no one would have imagined that there could be such a magnificent ancient city in the depths of the Hanhai, but unfortunately most of the buildings were destroyed in the war, otherwise I can't imagine what a magnificent scene will be unfolding in front of our eyes." Han Jiang said excitedly.

"This ...... Oh, my God! I was speechless with excitement! Liang Yuan was even more excited and incoherent.

"This is much bigger than the black city discovered by Koznov back then, no wonder the scientific expedition team ......" Makarov was also shocked by the scene in front of him.

"It doesn't look like anyone has been here." Yelena was shocked, but remained vigilant.

"Of course, we are the first people in seven hundred years to find this place and enter Mi City, unless we ...... Unless Misha really entered Mi Cheng back then. Tang Feng said.

"No, I'm not talking about that." Yelena's words changed, "I mean it's so quiet here, since there was a party group here back then, and there were fierce battles, but why didn't the corpses be found, this square is so clean, including the houses we just walked through, except for a layer of dust, there is no trace of human habitation and use." ”

Yelena's words pulled everyone's thoughts back from the initial shock, and Liang Yuan also said: "Yes, in such a big Mi City, how can you not see the corpses that died back then, and those houses seem to have never been inhabited?" ”

Tang Feng turned slowly around the square, and sure enough, this huge square was so clean except for the floating soil on the surface, there were no corpses, no residual weapons, and there were no traces of fierce battles at all.

7

Tang Feng stared at the floating soil on the surface of the square, trying his best to calm himself down, he thought for a moment and said, "Mi Cheng must have many secrets waiting for us to uncover. We're now at the west end of the square, which I think should be the very center of the whole city. ”

Everyone looked around again, and sure enough, the distance between their current location and several city corners seemed to be about the same, Tang Feng then said: "From the general layout of Micheng, it is different from the general building facing south and north, it sits west and faces east, facing the direction of the sun, so all its buildings revolve around this rectangular square in the east-west direction. And with the position where we are standing now, the west side of Micheng looks like a tall building, which should be the palace area and the temple area of the year, while the east building is obviously not as tall as the west side, and the east side is divided into different functional areas according to the different people who live there. You see, the two buildings on our left and right are not as tall and magnificent as the palace area, but they are obviously much taller and more luxurious than the commoner area we drilled before, and in terms of location, these two areas are closer to the palace area, so I speculate that these two areas should be the residential areas of the nobility, or the seat of the administrative body, and the two low areas closest to the city gate are the civilian areas, and may also contain the commercial area and the handicraft area. ”

"It seems that Micheng has been well planned from the beginning, and it is completely the prototype of modern urban planning!" Han Jiang sighed.

"What about the two groups of buildings at the east end of the square near the city wall?" Liang Yuan asked, pointing to the two groups of well-preserved buildings under the eastern city wall.

"The scale of those two groups of buildings is not very large, but they are significantly higher than the civilian area in terms of building level, and they are separated from the two large low-rise building areas next to them by lanes, I think they may be two groups of official buildings with special purposes." Tang Feng paused for a moment and said, "Have you noticed?" The further west the city became, the more severely damaged, especially the palace area, and the further east it went, the better preserved the buildings, especially the civilian areas, which were hardly damaged. ”

"This shows that the fierce battles of that year were mainly found around the palace area!" Han Jiang Road.

"Could there be such a possibility, at the last moment of Micheng, the population of Micheng was greatly reduced, and there were no more people living in the civilian area, so when the cowardly Xue army attacked the city, there was no battle there!" Yelena suddenly made a bold assumption.

Tang Feng nodded, "I also suspect that this is the case." But it's too early to draw conclusions, after all, we've only looked at a small part of Mi Cheng, and I think Mi Cheng must contain many unknown secrets waiting for us to discover. ”

"But Mi City is so big, we are such a small number of people, what should we do?" Liang Yuan asked Tang Feng rhetorically.

Tang Feng's head kept sweating, he looked at the scorching sun above his head, and looked around the entire Mi City, "There's no good way, just like we are in Qianhu Town, check it little by little!" ”

"With just the five of us, how long will it take to dig up the entire Mi City in detail?" Han Jiang shook his head, his face was embarrassed.

Tang Feng patted Han Jiang on the shoulder, "Who said that the entire Mi City was going to be excavated?" We can't dig as meticulously as the archaeological team, all we can do is to get a rough idea of Mi Cheng first, maybe we will soon be able to get something out of it, and we should have six or seven hours left before the sun goes down. Fortunately...... Fortunately, there is the Ecstasy Array of Phags-Pasheth, which trapped the general's gang in the Skull Mandala for us, so we still have time. ”

"You're so confident, what if those men in black turn out of the mandala?" Han Jiang asked rhetorically.

"No way, unless they can understand the mystery of the mandala, if they have already turned out of the mandala, they should have arrived now, but you see they didn't appear!"

When Tang Feng finished saying this, he suddenly found that everyone was nervous, and Han Jiang even took out his gun, staring at the exit of the civilian area.

The air seemed to freeze, the huge Mi Cheng was terrifyingly quiet, Han Jiang stared at the alley for half a minute, and then slowly put down the gun, Tang Feng said: "You are too nervous!" It's nerve-wracking enough, and you're still creating tension. ”

"I always think that the generals will not give up, and they will definitely find this place!" Han Jiang Road.

"Even if they do find it, I guess they'll lose most of their people. When the time comes, we can rely on the favorable terrain to destroy them. Tang Feng seemed to be quite sure at this moment.

Makarov suddenly said: "Speaking of generals, I thought of the man in the cloak again, is that person a general?" He also wears a cloak among his own people? Who is he? ”

"Who else could he be but the general?" Yelena asked puzzled.

Makarov shook his head distractedly, "No, I don't know. I was just...... Just feel weird. ”

Makarov's words made them fall silent, and after a moment of silence, Liang Yuan broke the silence, "Then where do we start now?" ”

Tang Feng pointed to the taller building in the north and said, "I think we will first survey the buildings in the east of Micheng, starting with the area north of the square." ”

"What you call the aristocratic quarters?" Han Jiang looked at the two large areas to the north, one was the civilian area that they had just lost, and the other was this aristocratic area that looked more luxurious, would they also be lost here? Han Jiang didn't have time to think about it, Tang Feng had already taken the lead in walking towards the unknown building.

8

Walking into the middle of the tall gray wall, a wide and straight north-south road appeared in front of Tang Feng, which was still very clean except for the floating soil on the surface.

Tang Feng looked curiously at the buildings on both sides of the street, under the tall gatehouse is a heavy copper-clad door, Tang Feng gently pushed, the door opened the door, inside the door is a wall, bypassing the wall, showing in front of Tang Feng is a spacious courtyard, thick yellow sand covers the steps of the courtyard, Tang Feng stepped up the steps, has been walking inside, inside is a spacious living room, the tables and chairs in the living room are crooked, obviously this place has been looted, and then go back, Tang Feng suddenly has a feeling that the door is as deep as the sea, When he came to the last courtyard, he stood here for a long time, looking at the looted mansion, thinking back to its former prosperity, and couldn't help but sigh, "The owner of this place may be a Western Xia general, he has died in battle......

"Tang Feng, have you noticed, this place has been looted, but there is not a single corpse in sight, what about the people who originally lived here?" Han Jiang said suspiciously.

"Maybe in the last moments of Micheng, all the women, children, old and young died on the battlefield." After Tang Feng finished speaking, he hurriedly withdrew from this mansion, he knew that they did not have time to inspect these mansions one by one, there were still many places waiting for themselves to discover, Tang Feng quickly walked to the end of the street, which stretched under the northern city wall, Tang Feng did not enter those mansions again, but quickly withdrew from this aristocratic residential area.

Tang Feng came to the outside of the civilian residential area, he didn't dare to enter the civilian area rashly, the complicated streets and alleys in the civilian area gave him a headache, they went around the outside of the civilian area, and soon came to the two well-preserved buildings under the east city wall, the group of buildings on the north side was very well preserved, and even the plaque on the building was there, Tang Feng quickly recognized the Xixia Wen on the plaque, "This group of buildings is the Temple of Literature." It seems that Micheng is fully equipped with all kinds of organs, and it is built completely according to the scale of the capital, and even the Temple of Literature to worship Confucius is there. ”

"Are you still going in and looking?" Liang Yuan asked Tang Feng.

Tang Feng looked at the closed gate of the Temple of Literature and shook his head, "We have more important places to go." ”

Saying that, Tang Feng walked towards the city gate north of the Confucian Temple, it was the golden gate, the golden gate did not set up an urn city, the jack gate was on the inside of the city gate, Tang Feng came to the inner side of the golden city gate, and sure enough, as he expected yesterday, there was yellow-brown iron slag all over the ground, and the jack was also put down, so Tang Feng couldn't see the back of the golden gate.

"Why isn't there a staircase up to town?" Han Jiang touched for a long time, but he didn't see the stairs of the upper city, and only found two large mounds of earth behind the city gate.

Tang Feng pouted at the two large mounds of earth, "This is the staircase of the city tower, I estimate that it was demolished by the cowardly Xue army, and Ba Si Pa didn't have time to demolish the strong city wall of Mi City, so he blew up the only staircase that could climb the city wall with *." ”

"When Ba Si Pa evacuated Mi City, it seems that he was ready to destroy Mi City!" Han Jiang thought for a while, and then asked suspiciously: "It stands to reason that the vicinity of the city gate should be the place where the battle was fiercest that year, but there is not a single corpse here. ”

"It's weird! This...... It's a city of the dead! Tang Feng said and turned around, looking at the street behind the golden gate, this is a seemingly straight street, the street is not long, there is a gate at the end of the street, it looks bigger than the surrounding houses, everyone quickly walked to this gate, the plaque on the door is the word "Taixue", "This is in line with the planning of the city at that time, next to the Temple of Literature is Taixue, but this Taixue is facing the golden gate, it is too interesting." ”

"Doesn't history say that Yuan Hao attaches great importance to education and has established schools in all cities across the country, isn't this Taixue in line with historical records?" Liang Yuan said.

"Yes, this is in accordance with the record, but what does it mean to use Taixue to face the city gate? Could it be that Yuan Hao wants to use the power of culture to influence the invading enemy? Tang Feng shook his head helplessly.

Tang Feng didn't enter Taixue, he walked around the neighborhood, and some of the houses around Taixue finally showed signs of being inhabited, but they were all looted. There is a road on each side of the Taixue Gate, which leads to the winding interior of the civilian area.

9

Tang Feng had previous experience, did not dare to rashly enter the maze of complex civilian areas, everyone quickly left the civilian area, came to the south of the square in front of the building, opposite the Temple of Literature there is also a group of buildings of about the same size, the gate of this building seems to have been damaged, the plaque on it is gone, the gate is open, Tang Feng cautiously walked into this group of buildings, the layout inside is also like a temple, "What kind of building is this?" Liang Yuan asked curiously.

"Whatever, it's like a temple, maybe a city god temple or something!" Tang Feng speculated wildly, he was not in the mood to stay here for a long time at this time, he knew that the real secret of Mi Cheng was not in these places, he quickly withdrew from this group of buildings, and walked into a rectangular field surrounded by two circles of walls, there were no buildings here, and it didn't look like there were buildings at the beginning, "What is this place, it seems that there is nothing?" Han Jiang stared around in surprise.

"It's like a market." Tang Feng judged.

"The market? But there's no sign of a busy deal here? ”

"Nonsense, after all these years, you still expect this place to be bustling and lively?"

"It shouldn't be so clean!"

"Maybe it didn't play much role here, you think that Yuan Hao built Micheng mainly for military purposes, the transportation here is inconvenient, and commerce will definitely not be prosperous, so although the market was built, it didn't play a role!"

Tang Feng said and walked through the door at the other end of the market into another area, which did not look like a private house, it looked like some handicraft workshops, but most of the workshops were empty, only a few workshops looked like people had once worked. Tang Feng picked up a very thick iron bar on the ground of a workshop, "This should be an iron-making shop, maybe the iron fence in the water gate is made here." ”

"It seems that the handicraft industry in Micheng is not developed, just a few workshops!" Makarov also recognized these workshops.

"No, I think Mi Cheng had a very developed handicraft industry at the beginning, otherwise it would not have been possible to build such a glorious city. For example, the smelting industry, if the smelting industry in Micheng is not developed, how can it create such a strong and magnificent golden city gate? Tang Feng thought for a moment and understood all this, "What we see today can only show one point, by the time the last moment of Micheng came, Micheng's handicraft industry had withered, the originally undeveloped commerce had almost completely disappeared, and the materials and food in the city were estimated to have all been changed to rationing, and the civilian class in the city was greatly reduced, so it caused everything we see today." ”

Everyone was speechless and nodded silently, and the tragic picture of Mi Cheng's last moments invariably appeared in everyone's minds.

Tang Feng walked west from the handicraft area, passing through a few streets, and they were in a high-rise mansion compound again, Liang Yuan asked curiously: "This area is also a noble area?" ”

Tang Feng observed for a while and shook his head, "This piece of high-rise mansion compound is very similar to the aristocratic residential area, but if you take a closer look, the buildings here are different from the private residences of the nobles, these buildings are quite regulated, and they are different, obviously there is a clear division of labor, on the other hand, most of this building has been burned, and its damage is no less than that of the palace area in the west, so I think this building should be an official building at that time." ”

"Official?"

"Well, the government in charge of managing Micheng's affairs." As soon as Tang Feng's words fell, Yelena suddenly pointed to the gatehouse on a high platform in front of her and said, "There is a building there that has not been destroyed. ”

Tang Feng followed the prestige, the location of the gatehouse should be very close to the square outside, "I guess the level of this group of buildings should be very high, because according to the building regulations, the closer to the palace, the higher the level, and that gatehouse is the closest to the square and the palace outside, so I think it is likely to be the official residence that manages Mi City." ”

Everyone climbed the high platform and looked around, the gatehouse was also a ruin, only this gatehouse stood alone in the ruins, Tang Feng looked up, the level of this gatehouse is very high, but the plaque originally hung on it has disappeared, Tang Feng shook his head and retreated, who expected to be tripped by something on the ground, Han Jiang held Tang Feng, Tang Feng found that there was a decayed plaque lying on the ground, and the four words written on the plaque - Generalissimo's Mansion.

"Sure enough, as I expected, this group of buildings is the official mansion that manages Micheng, as can be seen from the name, the 'Generalissimo's Mansion' shows that the management body of Micheng is a military organization, not an ordinary official government, so after the cowardly Xue army invaded Micheng, this area was seriously damaged." Tang Feng reasoned.

Han Jiang nodded, "This also echoes your previous inference that Mi Cheng is mainly for military purposes. ”

Everyone walked out of this official office area and returned to the square, Tang Feng looked at the time, the sun had gone west, and looked at the once glorious palace behind, Tang Feng was anxious for a while, he wanted to go there to check it out quickly, but time no longer allowed him to do so. After everyone summed it up, Liang Yuan proposed to spend the night in the empty mansion in the aristocratic residential area, but Han Jiang was worried that something might happen in the deep mansion compound, so he advocated camping in the square tonight, and any danger could be detected as soon as possible, Yelena and Makarov agreed with Han Jiang's proposal, and Tang Feng and Liang Yuan had no choice but to agree to camp in this deserted square.