The three of Ding Crab entered the tent to salute, and Zhao Ta waved his hand away, saying, "Is there anything to find in the stone city?" ”

The three of them said in unison: "Lord Wang, there is indeed a discovery!" ”

Zhao Ta nodded: "Take your time." ”

The three of them glanced at each other, only to hear the crab say: "The subordinates followed the instructions of the prince, and after entering the stone city, they began to search carefully, and after a few days, they found traces in a fortress." ”

Er Crab continued: "Although the ground of the fortress is seamless, where can it escape the eyes of the subordinates, not only can they see that there is something strange underground, but even the mechanism can be clearly felt. ”

Shi Qian continued: "The subordinates opened the mechanism and saw that there was a secret passage underneath, which was very neatly repaired, and it took a lot of work. ”

Zhao Ta's expression showed a touch of relaxation, and sure enough!

This stone city is the late Tang Dynasty Hangzhou Thorn History, the Zhendong Army Festival made Qian Biao built, but who is this Qian Biao?

It is the founding monarch of Wu Yue Kingdom, who was called the "Sea Dragon King" by the people of Liangzhejiang and Zhejiang!

Zhao Ta's Mo evil sword has been hidden in the palace of the Qian family of Wu Yue Kingdom, when Wu Yue descended to the Song Dynasty, the then Wu Yue King Qian Yu took this Mo evil sword into Tokyo and dedicated it to Emperor Taizong.

The ten-mile stone city of Gaoting Mountain is repaired by Qian Biao, this stone city is actually very strange, whether Qian Biao served as the assassin of Hangzhou, or later called the king, the strategic significance of this stone city is actually not great.

When people come to fight Hangzhou, they must survey the terrain and see that there is a stone city here, how can they not clear the defenders inside? This is the most basic common sense of the person who leads the troops, and no one will let Shicheng exist and make the lowest mistakes.

If there are thieves everywhere, it is easy to be occupied by bandits, which is not good for Hangzhou.

And from the topography point of view, it can not achieve the role of monitoring and watching the enemy's situation, but the geography is relatively gentle, and it is easy to build a stone city and stone village.

That's a bit weird.

Qian Biao is a hero in troubled times, military masters, what is he doing with such a thing? Nothing to do?

Hangzhou is the capital of Qian's Wuyue, and this stone city is not far from Hangzhou, what is the deep meaning of this?

Zhao Ta immediately thought of the later Hongwu Emperor, Hongwu Emperor was suspicious by nature, it is said that there was a secret passage dug in the palace, hidden monk's clothes, and the secret passage went straight to the outside of the city, in case of emergency.

Therefore, he doubted that there was also a secret passage under this stone city, which would lead to the Qian Wang Palace in Hangzhou City, so he sent three people to investigate.

The Ding brothers had done the trick of touching the blonde mound before, and they were familiar with the underground things, but Shi Qian was a habitual thief, although he said that he had never robbed the tomb that day, but where could this kind of thing be taken seriously, and where did the stealing come from, Shi Qian's body shape was completely suitable for this kind of business, so he was also sent over.

Zhao Ta muttered at this time: "Have you ever gone down to the passage to investigate?" ”

Ding Da Crab said: "Lord Wang, Brother Shi and I fell down and walked a little, but ......"

Zhao said: "But what? ”

Ding Da Crab said with a puzzled face: "But this underground passage is not long, we don't go far and we will come to the end!" ”

"Huh?" Zhao Ta was slightly stunned when he heard this: "Let's listen to it in detail!" ”

Ding Da Crab said: "At that time, I asked Erlang to guard outside, so I went down with the Shi Qian brothers to investigate, only to see that the bluestone wall in this passage, the wooden beam is horizontal, and the end looks like a wealthy man, although I don't know how many years it has been built, but there is no collapse and blockage, so we groped our way forward, who knew that there was a mechanism in this passage." ”

Zhao Tan frowned: "What kind of mechanism is there?" ”

Ding Da Crab said: "Lord Wang, there are trap flying guns, Luo bayonet nets, but they have been broken by the two of us, and there are several forks in the road, and a false door exit is installed at the end, which cannot be opened. ”

Zhao Ta said: "It's so sinister, can it be broken one by one? ”

Ding Da Crab said: "It's all broken, and then the two of us walked the right way, and it didn't take too much time to reach the exit, but I saw that it was in a temple, and the exit was behind the Buddha statue in the temple Daxiong Treasure Hall." ”

Zhao Ta touched his chin when he heard this, this is a little different from what he thought, the underground passage in this stone city is not connected to Hangzhou City, but a temple, what is this saying?

He said, "But what kind of temple is it, and in which direction?" ”

Ding Da Crab said: "We secretly went out to see, this temple is big enough, there are many monks in it, although there is still some incense during the war, to the mountain gate to see, but it is called Xianning Temple, and then inquire that it is said that it was built by King Wu Yue back then, and it is closer to Hangzhou than the stone city." ”

Zhao Ta squinted, Xianning Temple? He had heard of this temple, and the site of this temple still existed in later generations, and it was indeed built over the course of five generations.

He thought for nothing, and suddenly laughed after a while, what a Wuyue King Qian Biao, isn't it a cunning rabbit three holes?

The distance between Shicheng and Hangzhou, although it is not far, but it is only on the ground, how difficult is it to dig a passage underground? If you want to dig all the way into the Qian Wang Palace in Hangzhou, not to mention the huge project, you have to hide people's eyes and ears, and it is difficult to grasp the direction if you don't do it.

Then, this section of the stone city only leads to Xianning Temple, and in Xianning Temple or near the left, there must be a tunnel leading to Hangzhou City, but it may not go straight to the Qian Palace, it is very likely that it is still somewhere else, and then there is a passage to reach the palace.

In this way, there are three passages underground, each section can go out to the ground at any time, and can escape into the ground again, and finally enter the Gaoting Mountain, and Gaoting Mountain is the remaining vein of Tianmu Mountain, which is connected with the Yellow Crane and other mountains in the north of Hangzhou, once it enters the mountain, it is like a fish entering the sea, and it is difficult to find again.

Zhao Ta thought of this and couldn't help but secretly exclaim, this kind of means is much stronger than digging only a straight tunnel, not to mention whether the tunnel so far away can be dug up, even if it can be successful, but once it is leaked, the chasing soldiers will drive straight in, and they will not give up if they don't catch people, but these three tunnels are flexible and changeable, increasing the number of people who have fled!

Zhao Ta thought of this and said, "You three of you go back to rest, and tomorrow you will go to the Xianning Temple with this king to visit!" ”

The three of them went down according to their words, and in the blink of an eye, it was early the next morning, Zhao Ta ordered 3,000 soldiers and horses, and went straight to the temple, but this temple was a few miles closer to Hangzhou than the stone city, and was surrounded by green trees.

Before arriving at the temple, Zhao Ta looked up and saw three golden characters above the mountain gate, which were written for Xianning Temple, and I don't know which of the characters was written, very magnificent and rich, and at a glance I knew that the incense of this temple must be prosperous.

Now the south of the Yangtze River is in turmoil, Hangzhou has fallen, and now there is a war again, there are still people in the suburbs in this temple who come to burn incense and pray for blessings, which shows how prosperous it is on weekdays.

Zhao Ta first ordered soldiers and horses to surround the temple, and then asked people to invite all the people who were incense away, and then entered the courtyard.

This Xianning Temple has five entrances and five exits, as well as several monks' rooms, and it is also a first-class temple in this suburban world.

He led people into the temple, inside the abbot monks are out of the temple to greet, the leader is a white beard but tall old monk, after greetings, learned that its law name Xuan'en, since childhood in Lingyin Temple monks, later over Xianning Temple as a deacon, hard for many years, finally become the abbot.

Zhao Ta only said that there was a military affairs to deal with, and he would occupy the temple for a few days, and this Xuan En had nothing to do, and he did not drag mud and water, so he took the monks to clean up, and left to go to the Jixiang Temple on the other side of the mountain after half an hour to live temporarily.

Zhao Ta waited for the monks to go away, so he asked Ding Da Crab and the three to search the secret passage in the temple.

This temple is not small, and it was not until the afternoon that Ding Da Crab found something wrong in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, and hurriedly asked Zhao Ta to see it.

This scripture pavilion is a two-storey small building, but it is built to be splendid, which shows that Xianning Temple is rich and rich.

On the first floor, the ground is paved with neat bluestone slabs, the surrounding walls are painted with new oil, and there are various verse posts, and there is even a picture of the Dongpo monks.

Ding Da Crab said: "Lord Wang, the underground here is hollow!" ”

Zhao Ta raised his eyebrows, there is actually a basement? Because this kind of place is a place to collect scriptures, it basically does not dig any basement, and the scriptures and papers are afraid of moisture and moisture, but once there is a basement below, there will inevitably be moisture rushing up, which is not conducive to the preservation of scriptures.

He was noncommittal, Ding Da Crab led the way, and saw a huge prayer frame in the innermost corner of the first floor.

The back of the prayer frame was originally a stone slab wall, but at this moment, the stone slab was pried open, revealing a black hole, and cool air was "swishing" from below.

Ding Da Crab said: "Lord Wang, my subordinates just blindfolded their mouths and noses and went down to take a look, it was a secret room, and before I had time to explore in detail, I invited the prince to come and watch." ”

Zhao Ta nodded: "Call the second crab and Shi Qian together, there are many people and the speed is fast!" ”

At this time, Ding Erxi and Shi Qian also came from outside, and the three of them were originally separated to find a passage in the temple, but the two of them found nothing, and when they heard that they found the basement here, they ran over.

All three of them carried tools, and they were different, one kind of big crab and two crabs, and another kind of time migration.

There are whirlwind shovels, short-handled hoes, centipedes hanging ladders, etc.

The time migration is carried by flying tiger claws, thin rod drills, lily keys and silver door chains.

All three covered their mouths and noses with damp linen, and then two of them carried torches, one holding a six-yin candlestick with six white candles lit on it, and went into the basement.

After about half an hour, a voice came from below: "Lord Wang, I have found the passage!" ”

Zhao Ta said on it: "Can there be a mechanism eliminator?" ”

"The entrance is broken, and the inside has not yet entered." ”

Zhao Ta thought for a while: "Let's come up first, everything is considered in the long run." ”

He pondered that if the passage of this Xianning Temple went directly to the city of Hangzhou, there would be only a lot more traps in it than in this section of the stone city, and he was afraid that the three adventures would make a mistake.

After the three came up, they explained the following situation in detail, it turned out that it was not as simple as the basement, it was like a dungeon divided into eight doors of life and death, and the three of them were well versed in this, and it didn't take long to crack the real passage.

Returning to the camp in the evening, Zhao Ta led people to come again the next morning, but this time he directly asked the three of them to bring a hundred strong soldiers down, and calculated the pace time.

It wasn't until the evening that these people came back from underground, but they lost a few strong soldiers, and more than a dozen people were injured, and the three Ding Da Crabs were also disgraced, but their tone was very excited: "Lord Wang, it's in the head, it should be in Hangzhou City, but there are too many traps on the road, and it is impossible to prevent it, and a few brothers died."

Zhao Ta said: "How to determine if it is in Hangzhou?" ”

Ding Da Crab said: "The general direction is not wrong, and the pace of the hour is not too much, I heard the movement above at that end, there is a noise in the distance, and the sound of horses' hooves, but it doesn't seem to be in the Qian Palace, and the Qian Palace should not be so noisy." ”

Zhao Tan frowned when he heard this, since he could hear many sounds below, it proved that the place where the exit was located was not a quiet place, but this was not very good.

If he sent someone to sneak into Hangzhou City from this passage, he would definitely hide some of the soldiers after going up, if he couldn't hide and show his head, it would be unfortunate to be discovered, and the thief army in the city could destroy this passage no matter how much water and soil filled it, and then his plan to sneak attack Hangzhou would fail, and he still had to face the situation that the city was high and strong, and his own family had nothing to do.

Zhao Ta didn't give up and asked: "Where do you listen to the end of the passage?" ”

Ding Da Crab frowned and shook his head, the second crab was also silent in thought, Shi Qian grabbed the rat whiskers and said: "My subordinates think that it will never be an open place, it is very likely that it is in the courtyard downstairs on the side of the street, and the sound of horses' hooves should come from the road." ”

"In the courtyard downstairs down the street?" Zhao Ta narrowed his eyes, it stands to reason that it is impossible for Qian Biao, the king of Wuyue, to choose a place at random as the exit of this tunnel, and it must be carefully considered, it should be a rather hidden place, so that he can do this thing of digging a secret road.

Merely...... Now more than 200 years have passed since he dug this tunnel, time has passed, things are not people, and it is difficult to say that the original hidden place has become a prosperous place, but in any case, it will be explored again.

Zhao Ta asked everyone to go back to the camp to rest for another night, and then no longer sent ordinary soldiers, but let Ding Da Crab lead the team, leading the three brothers of the Bai family, and the four of them walked through the passage again.

The Ding family brothers and Shi Qian's martial arts are not good, and the three brothers of the Bai family are up to the second-rate level, and they can run away and come back at a critical time, so Zhao Ta is more relieved to send them there.

The four of them still set off early in the morning, Ding Da Crab led the way in front, and Bai Ao said in the back: "Ding Da Lang, can you relieve the itch this time?" ”

Ding Da Crab glanced back at him, he has not touched gold for many years, and his hands are indeed a little itchy, although exploring the tunnels is not as good as really digging graves, but there are ambushes everywhere inside, and the distance is far away, but it is indeed addictive.

He smiled: "It's only half of the solution, it would be nice if we did it again." ”

The three brothers of the Bai family are all talented, especially the eldest Bai Ao was born handsome and chic, but his sex is as his name suggests, and he is a little arrogant, and he can't help laughing at this moment: "I think it is better to ask the prince to get a building in Beijing, let you Ding Dalang preside over it, and arrange all kinds of mechanism eliminators inside, and disassemble and ponder it at home when there is nothing to do, so that it will be really enjoyable!" ”

Ding Da Crab's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said in a loud voice: "So very good, so very good, when Fang La is pacified, I will tell the prince after I return to Beijing." ”

Bai Ao laughed: "When the time comes, I will go to break your building, what does Da Lang think of this matter?" ”

Ding Da Crab shook his head and said, "I'm afraid that Brother Bai, you will not return!" ”

Bai Ao said: "Da Lang boasts, you will know when you try it!" ”

A few people talked as they walked, and before they knew it, they had reached the end of the passage......

(End of chapter)