In a very old and very old era, there was a white deer on the White Deer Plain, even though it was fleeting, but it was regarded as auspicious by the Son of Heaven.

Bailu was originally in the heart of Guanzhong. In the 300 years of the Tang Dynasty, from Tang Taizong to Tang Xizong: Xian, Zhao, Qian, Ding, Qiao, Tai, Jian, Yuan, Chong, Feng, Jing, Guang, Zhuang, Zhang, Duan, Zhen, Jian, Jing 18 imperial tombs, east and west stretch for 300 miles, that is, the so-called "Guanzhong Eighteen Tang Emperor Mausoleum". If you add the joint burial of Wu Zetian and Gaozong Li Zhi, a total of nineteen emperors are asleep. However, since Zhu Wen coerced Tang Zhaozong to move the capital to Luoyang, Chang'an was no longer the imperial capital. Except for Li Zicheng, who changed Xi'an to Xijing and established the Great Shun Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu fled to Xi'an in the year of Gengzi, and no emperor came to Guanzhong.

On July 1, 1917, Zhang Xun announced the restoration in Beijing. On the same day, a Beiyang rout crossed the Wei River, burned and looted all the way, and did not dare to approach the Xi'an city wall, so they had to climb the Bailuyuan. The wounded soldiers could not be lifted, so they were thrown to the side of the road and shot one by one, so as not to suppurate the wounds and grow maggots, and end the pain early. In summer, the grass and trees are flourishing, the wheat waves are rolling layer by layer, and farmers ride cattle in the fields from time to time. The ragged soldiers sought out peasant women and pushed them into the wheat fields to commit adultery.

The leading brigade commander rode a white horse and hurried to a large grave. He was born in Baoding Military Academy, and most of his subordinates are not from Shaanxi. In 1914, the Bai Lang Righteous Army broke into Guanzhong. Yuan Shikai's general Lu Jianzhang entered Shaanxi, looted the people's fat and ointment, stole and excavated the ancient tombs of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and the "Sa Lu Zi" and "Fist Maojiao" in the Six Horses of Zhaoling were sold to the United States and lived in the University of Pennsylvania Museum.

Bailuyuan lies in the Qinchuan River for 800 miles, leans on the Zhongnan Mountain in the south, connects Chang'an City in the west, overlooks the Baqiao Willow in the north, looks at the Mausoleum of the Qin Emperor in the east, protrudes in the Weihe Plain, the ravines are vertical and horizontal, surrounded by Chan and Ba Erhe on three sides, like a loess roof on the flat ground. In the Tang Dynasty, Ma Dai's "White Deer Plain Evening Look" has a cloud: "Chanqu geese flew down, and the people of Qin Yuan were buried." The mound and the city, the grass and trees are dusty".

The soldiers used bayonets to threaten the peasants to learn that this was the tomb of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty, and there were many miracles of apparitions, burning incense and worshipping for the neighbors of the four towns.

Standing on the top of the high tomb, the brigade commander overlooked the White Deer Plain, felt that he had the momentum of chasing the Central Plains, and gave a speech to the soldiers-

"Brothers of Beiyang! At this time when the country was in danger, Duan Qirui, Zhang Xun, Feng Guozhang and other warlords fought endlessly, and the soldiers ended in disaster. In order to turn the tide and help the building to fall, our army must dig up this tomb, take it from the ancients, use it for the people, save the country and save the people, and do great good! Whoever takes the treasure has a share, and you can get half of it, and the rest will be used as military funds for our comeback! ”

As soon as this remark came out, the morale was greatly boosted, and the big guys were eager to try. But where to start with such a large tomb? Everyone was at a loss, and someone said, "Huh! Didn't Xiao Mu be a Tufuzi? ”

A soldier was brought to the brigade commander. His name is Xiaomu, he is only twenty years old, and he has clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, not like he has robbed tombs. Xiaomu calls himself a native of Luoyang, and has followed his father's tomb robbery since he was a child, commonly known as "Tufuzi". He first probed the situation of the tomb and found that there were many robbery holes on the surface. The brigade commander was a little discouraged, but Xiao Mu said that although there were many caves, they may not have been stolen, but it showed that the tomb had good feng shui and was located in the dragon vein and dragon den, which attracted the tomb robbers of the past generations to come and dig holes. He circled around the mound twice, and according to the topography, he decided to excavate from the northeast, which is the so-called "outer ghost gate" in feng shui.

According to Tufuzi's old method, such a large tomb usually has to be dug for three or four days. But the brigade commander could not wait and decided to use explosives.

In a few moments, an earth-shattering loud bang exploded a hole several feet square in the circled position. When the smoke cleared, it was still a pile of loess. The brigade commander ordered the bombing to continue, three times in a row, until the black hole was finally revealed. In ancient times, it was necessary to recruit at least thousands of people to collect thousands of people for such a deep hole, which took two or three months. Xiao Mu covered his mouth and nose and went down to probe, and found a few broken bricks: "The tomb has been found!" ”

The brigade commander ordered all the soldiers to draw lots and select thirty people to form a death squad. He assigned a henchman battalion commander to lead the team, made a wish for the officer, and issued the Beiyang Medal. Each was loaded with bullets, carrying lanterns, shovels and axes, and gas masks.

The tomb road is flying with uncertain dust, and the bricks and stones of the Tang Dynasty on both sides are becoming clearer and clearer. You can also see Wadang overhead, and there are bright murals from time to time, depicting the feast, hunting, war, and sacrifice of Wu Zetian's era...... The Tang Dynasty figures in the murals are all lifelike, as if they are about to float out of the wall. The beauties among them are as beautiful as peach blossoms, and several soldiers are ape-like. But everyone held their breath, for fear that if they said one more word, they would attract the ghosts of a thousand years ago.

Tufuzi Xiaomu walked in the forefront, and the horse lantern in his hand shone the farthest. Suddenly, the light shone on the two skeletons in the corner of the tombway. Everyone was panicked, but Xiao Mu boldly went to take a look, and there were a few copper coins left next to the bones, and when they picked it up, they turned out to be "Yongle Tongbao". How could there be money from the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty in the tomb of the Tang Dynasty? It must be a tomb robber in the Ming Dynasty, and it may not be in the Yongle period, because the circulation of Yongle Tongbao is extremely wide, and it is possible to the end of the Ming Dynasty.

The soldiers trembled and marched forward, and their momentum was not as good as before. They saw several skeletons, undoubtedly ancient tomb robbers, who could not tell the age and could not tell the cause of their deaths—whether they were trapped in the tombway, or whether they were killed by infighting, or whether there was a murderous mechanism in the tomb?

Xiao Mu broke out in a cold sweat on his forehead, usually the tomb road is not so long, and the tomb road winds around like a labyrinth, unless it is an imperial tomb. What surprised him even more was that the tomb obviously went all the way to the ground, and it seemed to have a bottomless feeling. Sure enough, there was standing water in the graveyard. This is a common occurrence in ancient mausoleums, often due to problems with the quality of construction, resulting in flooding of groundwater. There is also a special case where the water is specifically used to kill tomb robbers. If it is in an arid region where there is no water, this "water" is an even more terrible quicksand.

After hesitating, of course, the possibility of groundwater flooding was greater, and Xiao Mu stubbornly walked forward. His feet were already soaked in the water, and the soldiers behind him looked frightened, but the battalion commander pulled out his pistol and shouted: "Whoever dares not go will be shot immediately!" ”

Everyone stepped into the cold stagnant water, it still looked a little muddy, I don't know what was dirty in it, maybe more bones were hidden in the water and couldn't be seen? The safest way to do this is to find someone to pump the water right away. But it's not easy to find a pumping machine in the middle of the countryside. What's more, the brigade commander ordered that the treasure must be dug up today, otherwise it will be delayed until tomorrow, and maybe the enemy will come over.

After walking for a short time, the stagnant water has reached everyone's waist, and the soaked parts are itchy, like the feeling of being drilled into the flesh by leeches, and no one dares to take another step.

Be quiet.

In the midst of complete eternity, the battalion commander turned around and always felt that something was wrong with everyone. He counted the characters again, only to find that one was missing.

Where did it go? Didn't you quietly smear the soles of your feet with oil, did you? If you escape back the way you came, you will definitely be killed by the brigade commander. He ordered everyone to go further, and after a few steps, someone screamed that another soldier was missing. Only then did everyone panic, put bayonets on Hanyang's rifles, and stabbed them deep underwater.