Chapter 286: Into the Underground Palace
As the wooden door in front of him slowly opened, a gust of wind hit, blowing the candles on the surrounding walls, beating violently a few times.
Ye Guan's eyes narrowed slightly, staring at the wooden door, but saw that after the wooden door opened, two figures appeared. The two figures, dressed in enclave uniforms and swords in their hands, were standing at the wooden doorway and looking down. Ye Guan lowered his body and hid it in the corner of the cave, holding his breath and concentrating, his mind racing.
The moment the door was opened, Ye saw the situation behind the wooden door, the passage behind was wider, and there was no need to bend down at all, such a cave must not be a few days' work, I am afraid that it will be built for a long time.
The two sergeants did not enter the secret room, but stood by the wooden door, looked left and right, as if it were a routine inspection, closed the wooden door, and left.
Hearing the sound of the wooden door closing, Ye Guan quickly flashed into the secret room from the corner, passed through the middle passage, quickly walked to the wooden door, attached his ear to the wooden door, and carefully listened to the sound behind the wooden door.
As Ye Guan expected, there was no sound behind the wooden door, and the two sergeants should have already walked away.
Frowning slightly, Ye Guan straightened up, looked at the materials in the secret room in front of him, and his thoughts flew around.
Several rows of wooden shelves are neatly arranged in the secret room, on which are placed all kinds of military materials, everything. Ye Guan roughly estimated that the materials in this secret room were enough to equip two hundred sergeants, and the stored grain and grass were enough for these two hundred sergeants to use for more than half a month.
Looking closely at the outline of the walls of this chamber, I reached out and gently stroked the walls, and a cold touch came from the rock wall. The upper part of this secret room is ordinary land, but the lower part is a large block of rock, which has been vigorously sharpened neatly, which can't help but amaze Ye Guan's heart.
Such a siege is not something that ordinary people can accomplish, and there are so many military materials hidden in this secret room, and depending on the situation, in this underground, there is not only this secret room.
"Who built such a project, could it be Shen Tuyan's ......" Ye Guan paced towards the vicinity of the wooden frame of the secret room, and took a closer look, the equipment on the wooden frame was all enclave standard equipment, and it was well-made. With Ye Guan's understanding of the enclave, relying only on one Shen Tuyan, he would never have such financial resources. The construction of such a siege city is definitely not something that a Shen Tuyan or Qiu Chang Five Cities can afford, if it is said that it is to build such a underground palace with the power of the enclave, Ye Guan will never believe it.
Liu Tianyi is the leader of the enclave and the lord of Wufeng City, if he wants to build such a dungeon, it is also in the area of Wufeng City, and he will definitely not build it in Zongqiu Mountain.
Carefully inspecting the equipment on the wooden frame, Ye Guan was in a somewhat solemn mood, but from looking at the equipment on the wooden frame and the construction process of this secret room, he had a very bad expectation in his heart.
It is possible that these things were prepared by the people behind Shen Tuyan.
In his analysis before, there must be a peerless master standing behind Shen Tuyan, but before he thought, there is only one peerless master behind the scenes, no matter how high his cultivation is, he can't confront the army head-on, even if he fights, it will eventually threaten the high-level of the Dongwang Mansion, with the previous agreement between him and Tian Shun, the lord of Tianqing City, Ye Guan is not afraid. But now it seems that it is not that simple.
"If there are several such underground palaces hidden under this Zongqiu Mountain, and each underground palace has ten such secret rooms, the military equipment left in them is enough to equip 100,000 elite soldiers. Ye Guan thought to himself, and the more he thought about it, the more surprised he became.
Qiu Changcheng Shen Tuyan's combat power Ye Guan naturally assessed before, before he and Yu Sheng fought in Changxiang City, and suffered heavy losses. Previously, Shen Tuyan had 20,000 enclave elites, and after the battle of Changxiang City, many of them had been damaged, and at most about half of the elites who could return to Qiuchang City. Even if you add the forcibly conscripted people, there are tens of thousands of troops at most.
Even if Shen Tuyan was forced by the situation or the pressure of the people behind him, he forcibly recruited troops in Qiuchang City, so that the light and strong people in the period could go to the battlefield together, and at most 100,000 soldiers could be scraped together, but the army that was forcibly put together in this way had no combat power, and Ye Guan was not worried.
But he had a little doubt before, just with a Shen Tuyan, even if he could forcibly recruit the people into the army, the equipment of these civilian soldiers was all enclave system, everyone was well-equipped, even if they had no combat effectiveness, they were all armed. Shen Tuyan or Qiu Changcheng definitely don't have the financial resources. Even if there were, the Qiuchang City area didn't have so many resources for him to manufacture.
Ye Guan has been running Wuxing City all the year round, and he has been in a hundred battles, so he knows everything about the military, so he naturally knows how much resources are needed to fully equip a sergeant. Even if the power of the eastern palace is concentrated in the twenty cities, it is overstretched if it wants to gather 100,000 troops in a short time, otherwise it will not only train 50,000 recruits now.
The training of recruits alone is secondary, and the standard equipment of this sergeant is a major problem.
Liu Yuan's Pingjin Five Cities were responsible for the equipment replacement of the entire Dongwangfu army, even if Rong Baocheng had strong financial resources to support the rich mineral veins near the Heping Jincheng, it was difficult to complete the task of replacing the equipment of the 200,000 permanent troops of the Dongwangfu every three years, let alone build 100,000 sets of equipment in a short time. You must know that the standard equipment of the enclave army is also all steel chain mail, upper body outer armor, lower body chain mail, plus helmets, sabers, bows and crossbows and long weapons, the completion of a set of armor requires several craftsmen to work day and night for three or four days before it can be rough, and then add polishing and other processes, and it will take at least ten days to really send it to the hands of the sergeant.
There are nearly 100,000 craftsmen in Pingjin City, and it cannot meet the large expansion of troops in Dongwangfu. And now the secret room that Ye Guan saw was neatly placed with two hundred sets of standard equipment, thinking of the appearance of the two sergeants standing at the wooden door and hurriedly checking before, there must be more than one such secret room underground, how much equipment should be stored.
"With so much equipment saved, what are you going to do?" Ye Guan couldn't help but think: "Even if you equip all the prime of life in Qiu Changcheng, you won't need so much equipment. Moreover, where did he get these resources?"
The more Ye Guan thought about it, the more frightened he became, this time he came out alone and found that there was actually an underground military depot hidden in Zongqiu Mountain, just seeing this was enough to make Ye Guan frightened.
Many thoughts hurriedly passed through his mind, Ye Guan frowned, glanced at the wooden shelves around him, an idea came to his mind, no longer hesitated, immediately picked up a set of standard equipment, and quickly put it on himself.
Since it has been discovered, it is necessary to find out the secret of this underground palace, if it is not clear, not only will it have a great impact on the future battle situation, but it is more likely that the enemy army will give a fatal blow to his own troops through this underground palace, which Ye Guan cannot bear no matter what.
Quickly put on the equipment, Ye Guan frowned slightly, touched his beard, looked left and right, and found a row of masks on a wooden shelf on the side, and immediately took a few steps forward, picked up a mask, and looked carefully.
This mask is carved with a hideous demon's face, green face and fangs, Ye Guan's heart moved, and he took the mask on himself, wrapping his entire face in it, so that others could not see Ye Guan's age in appearance.
This hideous mask generally has a origin, and the demon on this face has never been seen by Ye Guan, but he also knows that generally only the guards of princes and nobles are worthy of using demon masks, and those who can wear masks are a kind of glory in themselves.
And now stored in this secret room, the mask, I don't know if it's this purpose, but at this moment, Ye Guan can't care about it, he put the mask on, holds the long knife in his hand, lifts his strength, and walks towards the wooden door.
Gently push open the wooden door, the passage in front of you comes into view, the passage behind the wooden door is much wider than before, enough to accommodate three people walking side by side, and it is not low, walking in this passage, I don't feel deep underground, but I feel like I'm walking in the secret passage of the palace, this feeling is a little weird.
On the rock walls on both sides of the passage, there was a wall lamp every ten steps, flickering this gray candlelight, Ye Guan was calm, and walked slowly forward along the passage.
Not far ahead, there were two paths on the left and right, Ye Guan looked left and right, the left and right roads could not see the end at a glance, frowned slightly, turned around and made a hidden mark on the wall, randomly chose a direction, opened his legs, and walked straight forward.
About thirty steps later, a fork in the road appeared again, Ye Guan turned his head to look, but saw that at the end of the fork in the road, a wooden door appeared, which was exactly the same as the wooden door that Fang had just come out of.
"I don't know how many such secret rooms there are in this underground palace. After one glance, he stopped paying attention, lifted his steps, and continued to walk forward.
Suddenly, Ye Guan's footsteps stopped, and he vaguely heard the sound of military boots stepping on the ground in the road ahead.
After a while, the sound of military boots stomping on the ground was getting closer and closer, this was the footsteps of two sergeants, who were slowly walking in the direction of Ye Guan, and vaguely, the conversation between the two could be heard.
"Hey...... This drudgery, I have to patrol this warehouse three times a day, and I don't know what to patrol, this deep mountain and old forest, and underground, inaccessible, it is impossible to be discovered, unless it is a mouse. A voice came, with a hint of complaint in its tone.
"Since the last time the leader came back, it was like a great enemy, saying that the East Wangfu was coming. Another voice said, "But you don't complain a few words, we have to do this errand is good, otherwise let you go to the top of the mountain, you go?"
"If you want to go, I won't go. The first voice hurriedly said: "That's not the case, I don't have to suffer that sin if I work day and night every day." ”
"Then you just shut up, let's go around the warehouse, that is, walk around a few times a day, and wait for a few days when the leader is ready, these things will be used. ”
As he spoke, the voices of the two became closer and closer, Ye Guan frowned slightly, secretly called on the fighting qi in his body, held his breath and concentrated, waiting for the two sergeants to come closer.
"Wow. The sound of the armor rubbing clearly sounded in Ye Guan's ears, Ye Guan stretched out one hand, and a ball of light cyan light appeared in his hand, he suddenly flashed out from the corner, and waved it out with a palm, and this ball of light went straight towards a sergeant, whistling away.