Chapter 114: Cave Paintings

readx;? The two of them didn't dare to make a sound, they looked at the dark stone cave behind them in horror, and listened carefully to the sound that came!

After a while, the cries of noisy bats grew quieter until the cave was quiet. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

The two listened to their own and each other's breathing, felt their own heartbeats, looked at each other, and neither spoke.

It was Hu Lin who opened his mouth first and said, "What disturbed them, it's not noon outside, it shouldn't be the time for bats to feed!"

Wang Yunfei's thoughts should be the same as Hu Lin's, but he still thought about it and said, "It should be rats, wild cats, or snakes that feed on bats! ”

Hu Lin is right to think about it, if there are bats here, there must be natural enemies invading to forage, this is the law of nature. Not only did he smile, but he thought to himself, "I hunt in the mountains for fun, and almost all kinds of animals can know their habits, but this bat that comes out at night and night, I really don't know it, and this time I entered the cave and was really scared by this flying mouse! In the dark place ahead, I don't know what kind of risks there will be!"

Hu Lin was thinking wildly, when he heard Wang Yunfei say on the side: "Brother Hu, come and see, there seem to be pictures on the wall of this cave!"

As soon as Hu Lin tilted his head, he saw Wang Yunfei holding a flashlight in his hand, illuminating the stone wall in front of him, watching in amazement!

Approaching the light of the flashlight, I took a closer look at the stone wall, and there were indeed traces of pictures. The lines are simple, but the picture is clear!

I don't know what the stone wall was painted with, and it looks like it was painted with charcoal, but it is absolutely impossible for charcoal to be painted so finely.

From the place where the frescoes were found, various livestock were painted on the rock faces, as well as some human figures.

Children frolicked in short clothes, while women wore long breast-length skirts, small shirts with long sleeves and short sleeves, and crockpots on their heads, with joyful expressions. Several thatched huts and fenced courtyards are also painted concisely and brightly, although they are only simple lines, they are vividly drawn!

Hu Lin and Wang Yunfei glanced at each other, and Wang Yunfei said: "This painting should be old, and it is not a character of today, it should be a character of seven or eight hundred years ago!"

Hu Lin was puzzled and asked, "How do you see that?"

Wang Yunfei smiled mysteriously, although he did not directly answer Hu Lin's question, but still pointed to the mural and said: "The houses and characters here are very similar to the clothes of the Korean people, especially the clay pots on the heads of the women, which is obviously the living habits of the Korean people!"

Speaking of this, Wang Yunfei pointed to a cow pulling a cart and said: "Brother Hu, you see, this ox-drawn cart has no wheels, but a wooden stick is directly on the neck of the cow, which is completely different from the habit of the Han and Manchu people to cherish livestock. The Manchu and Han people use livestock, and the animals are almost fully equipped, so to speak, as long as the animals exert their strength, and they can hardly suffer any physical abuse! The Koreans are different, they just get a piece of wood, hang it on the edge of the car, put it on the neck of the cow, and stick it on the shoulder, completely ignoring the feelings of the cow!"

Hu Lin hadn't studied these before, but after seeing a painting of several men's clothes in one place, he was sure that the mural was indeed painted by Koreans!

I saw a man wearing a big brimmed high hat, wearing a traditional Korean shirt and trousers, tied up in the trousers, holding a book and explaining to a group of children. And a group of children listened very seriously!

The two of them didn't say anything more, shining a flashlight on the rock wall, and looked into the cave little by little.

The mural depicts more and more figures, almost reflecting a group of residents living and working in peace and contentment, with men farming and women weaving, and they are very prosperous. Although it is not as magnificent as the Qingming Riverside Map, the small lines also depict the prosperity of the time!

Looking back, there are many cavalrymen riding horses, raising swords, bending bows and arrows, and wearing armor, judging from the clothing, there is no doubt that they are Mongolian cavalry.

I saw this group of Mongolian cavalry, riding war horses, rushing into the village, cutting down anyone they saw, and killing everyone they saw!

Hu Lin and Wang Yunfei were almost attracted by the mural, and they each looked at the mural to interpret the story that happened inside!

Hu Lin saw that Wang Yunfei was more obsessed, so he said to Wang Yunfei: "Da Fei, it seems that you have a lot of opinions about the murals, just tell me about it!"

When Wang Yunfei saw Hu Lin asking, he said: "It seems to be a story here, although I don't know what the story is, but I can already judge that it is a war based on the clothes of the characters!"

So, Wang Yunfei looked at the pictures on the rock wall and interpreted them.

On the rock wall, the residents who lived and worked in peace and contentment were raided by the Mongol cavalry, suffering heavy casualties and rivers of blood!

While the Mongol cavalry was burning and looting, a team rushed to kill!

It was a North Korean army that was killed, in fact, it can't be called a North Korean army, it should be called a Goryeo army. Because during the Mongol period, the Korean Peninsula was still the Kingdom of Goryeo!

This Goryeo army was brave and good at fighting, and smashed into the formation of the Mongol cavalry with weapons in hand, so that the Mongol army could not give full play to the advantage of bows and crossbows, and had to fight with them hand-to-hand!

But perhaps the Mongol cavalry was tired from the journey, and they couldn't give full play to their advantage in cavalry and archery, so they were killed by the Goryeo army and overturned on their horses, and they couldn't form an army!

The Mongol cavalry finally fled in defeat, and the victory of the Goryeo army at the cost of blood protected the inhabitants!

A general on a tall horse commanded his army to build a fortress and fence outside the village where the soldiers and civilians lived, forming a defensive line that held out day and night.

Although the tents of the Mongol army were outside the defensive line, they did not attack the area guarded by the Goryeo army again!

Goryeo Jackpot commanded the army and residents to strengthen the defense line day and night, turning the fence into an impregnable wall!

And at this time, winter came, the snow was falling, and the Mongol army had to raise its flag and withdraw because of the lack of supplies and the inability to plunder over the city walls!

When the Goryeo generals saw the withdrawal of the Mongol army, they lit bonfires with the residents, drank and danced, and celebrated the victory!

And just when the general was drunk and sleeping, a man dressed as a civil official, armed with a steel knife, cut off the general's head and put it in a square box.

The civil official held a square box, sent someone with the box and a letter, and quickly whipped out of the city wall and chased the Mongol army!

When the village was in full bloom, a convoy of chariots and horses entered the city wall. A group of Goryeo officials dressed in civilian attire greeted them under the city walls.

In a large covered wagon in the convoy, a Mongolian official disembarked, holding a sheepskin letterhead, read to the Goryeo officials.

The Goryeo officials knelt and bent over, begging for mercy!

After the reading, a child was taken away by a Mongolian caravan and went in the direction of sunset!

Just after the Mongolian chariot and horse convoy was gone, a young man among the residents, holding a sword left by the general, killed a civilian official with a sword, rode a fast horse, and disappeared into the vast mountains!

Later, this young man led some men and horses to carry out some treasures in a cave with camels, and crossed thousands of mountains and rivers to a lonely mountain place.

He ordered the men and horses to dig holes and drive all the camels into the caves, and then ordered everyone to commit suicide in a cave and rode away himself!

A teenager crawled out of the pile of dead bodies that had committed suicide, and sat at the entrance of the cave until his hair turned white.

Wang Yunfei explained this, not making a sound, Hu Lin also looked at the mural all the way to Wang Yunfei's side, it turned out that the mural ended here, and the remaining rock wall, although smooth, was empty, as if waiting for the painter's brush, continue to depict the ending of this story!

Wang Yunfei said: "Brother Hu, this mural seems to depict the story of the Mongol invasion of Goryeo in the late Goryeo period. The general who fought against the Mongol army must be General Choi Myung-ho, and their Choi family is very influential in the Goryeo Dynasty!"

Hu Lin heard Wang Yunfei talk about General Cui Minghao, and he knew a little about his story!

This General Choi Myung-ho is a Goryeo nobleman, because his ancestors played an irreplaceable role in Wang Jian's founding of the country, so he was named a general for generations!

In the later period, the Goryeo royal power changed hands several times, and the Cui family also survived in the cracks of power!

In this year, the Mongols attacked Goryeo, and the people of Goryeo repeatedly looted, and the people were struggling to survive. Cui Minghao led the army to fight hard and repeatedly defeated the Mongolian army!

Because there were two major factions within Goryeo, in addition to the Choi family, which advocated fighting against the Mongols, there was also a civilian faction that opposed the war.

Later, after the assassination of Choi Myung-ho, the leader of the Cui clan, the civilian faction reached an armistice and peace agreement with Mongolia, not only Goryeo was a vassal and paid tribute every year, but also as long as the monarch wanted to inherit the throne, he had to be sent to Mongolia to grow up in a young age, and then marry a Mongolian princess before returning to China to inherit the throne!

These folk tales are more or less the same as the stories of this mural, but behind this mural are the treasures of the descendants of the Cui family. That is to say, there is a treasure hidden by the descendants of the Cui family in a lonely mountain, and the person who painted these pictures must be the Cui family who survived at the end, and the one who grew old with the treasure at the end! As for the descendants of the Cui family who rode away, no one knows.

Hu Lin pondered the connection between the murals and the people who painted them, why scales were found outside this cave, and whether this cave could have something to do with the treasure cave in the painting?

Suddenly, I heard Wang Yunfei scream.

Hu Lin was startled by this sudden exclamation as he pondered the question!

Looking up at Wang Yunfei's voice-

I saw that in front of Wang Yunfei's flashlight, a person was sitting under a stone wall, motionless!

Seeing that there were other people in this stone cave, and it seemed to be a dead person, Hu Lin couldn't help but be shocked, and used his eyes to take a closer look, it turned out that this was really a dead person, and the dead could not die anymore!

Perhaps the temperature in the cave is constant all year round, and the ground is full of lime dust from volcanic rocks, which keeps insects and ants out. There are a large number of bats guarding the entrance of the cave, so that the environmental space here can be preserved, forming a relatively clean and constant temperature state, which makes this corpse a naturally weathered dry corpse!

In this deep and dark cave, such a dried corpse suddenly appeared, not to mention that Wang Yunfei was so frightened that he screamed, even Hu Lin, who had experienced many supernatural events, couldn't help but be frightened-