Chapter 39: Preparing for the Grave

There is a saying that "rich wealth buries the traitorous heart", knowing that the tomb is below, Luo Lao Crooked was already itching, and immediately took out the pen and paper he carried with him, wrote an order, pressed his own seal, and handed it to the red girl with the fastest foot and the best light skill among them, and asked her to quickly go down the mountain to transfer the troops.

In line with the principle that bringing one letter is a brought, and bringing three letters is also a brought, Chen Yulou also asked the red girl to gather her brothers by the way, and Wei Shufen also asked the red girl to bring a letter to Qinghe Village to report the safety of Rong Bao Xiaoxiao's family.

Luo Lao looked at Lei Shan with some surprise: "Young Master Lei, you also found the tomb when you looked at it, and I also released it for you, I don't know what your plans are next?" ”

Lei Shan immediately heard the meaning of his words, the person also found it, the tomb was found, there was nothing to do with Wei Shufen, Luo Lao Crooked wanted to send off guests.

However, as everyone knows, it is easy to invite the gods and it is difficult to send the gods, why didn't Lei Shan use them to determine the location of the ancient tomb, and now he has not seen what he wants, Lei Shan naturally will not leave.

"I'm not in a hurry to go back this time, it's the first time I've seen a real inverted fight, let me see your demeanor and it's never too late to go, what? Does Luo Shuai think that we are both children and women, and we are burdensome? Don't worry, we're just three of us, and we won't want any treasures from you. ”

Seeing that Lei Shan seemed to be angry, Luo Lao Crooked hurriedly waved his hand, and didn't even dare to say: "No, no, no, you are all real masters, naturally you won't take a fancy to the little thing in our Lao Luo's hand." ”

On the other side, the red girl took the order, she was born in the Jiyun Society, not only has good kung fu, but also is as light as a swallow, and has learned a good light skill, shuttling in the mountains is like a bird flying through the forest.

However, the bright red girl is not very useful, whether it is Luo Lao's sapper digging battalion or Chen Yulou's Jieling wrestlers, they all bring a lot of baggage and equipment and tools, so the march in the mountains is relatively slow.

Therefore, even if the Red Maiden set out now, she would not be able to bring the large army until the next day, and everyone had to camp on the top of the mountain and wait for the arrival of the large army.

This waited until the afternoon of the next day, Lei Shan and Wei Shufen sat bored on the top of the mountain teasing the crisp noodles, and saw a large group of people from a distance, almost more than a thousand people climbed up the gentle slope from behind.

Among them, there are about 3 types of people dressed up, a group of about 100 people, dressed in a variety of ways, but not messy, at first glance it is Chen Yulou's unloading ringing horse.

In the other two groups, one group wore grass-green uniforms, about the strength of a company, and were relatively well-equipped, each carrying two Mauser pistols on their waists, a German-made one, while the largest group of people, although they also wore uniforms, were not equipped with any weapons, but everyone carried tools and equipment on their backs in baskets.

Listening to Luo Lao's introduction, it was his engineer battalion that carried things, and the pistol company that was equipped was it.

Lei Shan pursed his lips with a little disdain after hearing this, in the team of miscellaneous warlords like Luo Lao Crooked, all kinds of establishments are extremely irregular, and they will not set up professional engineering units at all, Lei Shan knows that the army formed by Luo Lao Crooked will not repair fortifications at all, let alone clear mines, it is an inverted fighting unit specially used to dig graves.

As for the pistol company, Bacheng is the overseer, after all, those who rushed to rob the tomb are bold and unbelieving, and they want money and don't want their lives, if no one is watching, someone will definitely steal the unearthed treasures and weapons, or desert as deserters or something when they are in danger.

In addition, Lei Shan also saw that the team was followed by a few yellow-skinned people, and at first glance they didn't look like people who were fighting for a living, and when they asked, they found out that it was Luo Lao's crooked instructions, and the tomb robbery operation was confidential, so he saw the idle people of his team along the way, and they all captured without asking Yi Han.

Because of the help of Xieling, Luo Lao's strength has developed rapidly, and he has long become a thorn in the side of several other warlords in the vicinity, so he left his nest this time and went deep into the hinterland of Xiangxi to rob the tomb, and he didn't dare to speak out at all, mainly because he was worried that other warlords would take the opportunity to come to sneak attack, and after all, the reputation of tomb robbery was not good, and once it was spread, he would become the target of public criticism.

When the team reached the top of the mountain, Chen Yulou, Partridge Whistle and Luo Lao Crooked and others felt that it was too troublesome to dig the tomb gate, and it was more time-saving and labor-saving to cut directly from the cliff on the top of the mountain into the ancient cemetery palace.

At this time, it was about to get dark, so everyone asked the people under their hands to camp on the spot, recuperate, and go down the cliff to enter the ancient tomb early tomorrow morning.

The next morning, after a night of repairs, everyone has adjusted their state, especially the soldiers under Luo Lao's crooked hands, who have not been paid in recent months.

However, everything has to save face, Chen Yulou, who talks about pomp and circumstance everywhere, will not just go to the grave, and nothing else may be in place, but the face project must be done sufficiently.

He saw that everyone had arrived, so he picked a higher rock and stood on it, his eyes swept over the people below, and he started to mobilize before the action with a sense of ceremony.

I only heard him shout in a hearty voice: "Brothers! Now what we are under our feet is a big tomb of the Yuan Dynasty! The Yuan people are brutal, cruel to our Han people, and the gold and silver treasures that were snatched are now all buried under this mountain. ”

The group of thieves below immediately raised their arms and shouted.

"Order!"

Immediately, Chen Yulou waved his hand handsomely: "Ready, take the [Centipede Hanging Mountain Ladder]!" ”

The group of thieves shouted, "Shake it off!" Then they took out the [Centipede Hanging Mountain Ladder] and began to assemble it in full swing.

[Centipede Hanging Mountain Ladder] evolved from the tools used by the Red Mei Army in the Han Dynasty to attack the city, and has been repeatedly modified and improved by dozens of generations of tempering and refining to become the style it is today.

The so-called [centipede hanging ladder] is actually a section of the small arm thickness of the bamboo tube, the material is full of toughness bamboo, soaked in the oil pot dozens of times, even if it is bent into a full bow will not break, each end of the bamboo tube, there are buckles on both sides, and the barrel body has two round holes of bamboo body thickness, when using one by one, it is a long bamboo pole, and then the two sides are inserted horizontally into the horizontal stepping foot for people to step on.

When using, use an iron chain to tie one end of the [centipede hanging mountain ladder] to the top, the other end is connected to the claw of the hanging mountain, fixed on the ground in advance of the wedge, when it droops down, from a distance, it looks like a bamboo centipede.

Whenever you can't climb the cliff, you can quickly climb the cliff by using the centipede ladder, and this is not only used when climbing the cliff, but also in the ancient tomb where it is difficult to climb.

With the concerted efforts of more than 100 people, more than a dozen ladders like giant centipedes slowly hung down along the cliff wall in an instant, with great momentum and pomp.

Seeing this scene, Chen Yulou nodded with satisfaction, and said to Hua Ma on the side: "Go, get my royal inner armor!" ”

Hua Ma replied, took out a yellow, orange and orange horse coat from the box she carried, and looked closely, the inner armor was made of countless unknown metal ring buckles, each ring and the other four rings were buckled, shaped like a net lock.

Chen Yulou generously took the inner armor and put it on his body directly.

Luo Lao looked at Chen Yulou crookedly on the side, and said with a smile: "Mr. Chen, your little vest looks good." ”

Seeing that Luo Lao opened his mouth crookedly and lowered his own treasure by several grades, Chen Yulou frowned unhappily: "What a little vest, I am the royal inner armor, but to collect meteoric iron outside the sky, which is made by the imperial craftsmen of the palace with painstaking efforts, and it is invulnerable to wearing on the body, even if it is a foreigner's foreign gun, it can't be pierced." ”

Luo Lao Crooked suddenly showed a look of surprise: "Oh, that's really a good baby." “

In the crowd, Wei Shufen pulled Lei Shan's clothes: "Didn't that guy say that he was in the inner armor, why did he wear it directly outside his clothes?" ”

Lei Shan looked at Chen Yulou, and suddenly remembered a super cow who wore underwear outside his previous life, and he didn't laugh out loud, and replied: "Anyway, it's all for self-defense, wearing the inside is the same as wearing the outside, don't care about these details." ”

Wei Shufen nodded stunned, and saw Chen Yulou beckoning the two of them to come out.

"Race live monkey, where are you jumping in the ground?"

Two men immediately walked out of the group of thieves, one was short and three inches nailed dead bark, and the other was a thin monkey who seemed to have no hair.

"In!" "In!"

"Well, order the two of you to be the pioneers, take the lead in going down to check the situation, this mountain is full of clouds and mist, I don't know what to see, I'm afraid there will be poisonous insects and mirages, you two must be careful, if there is nothing unusual below, the arrow is the signal."

The two men leaned over to receive the order, then took a piece of poison-avoiding medicine cake in their mouths, took the pigeon cage for testing the poison, pinned the box cannon and waist knife to their waists, covered their mouths and noses with black gauze, and climbed down the centipede ladder.