The battle happened suddenly, but it ended quickly.Near the pile of bones and garbage, the footprints of the "claw" reappeared, and they were no longer intermittent, but had just been passed by.This allowed Ren Hong and the others to follow them all the way to the back of a huge Yadan mound that was two or three hundred meters long.Then I found that there was a spacious cave in the middle of the ground here, which was a rare cool place in the scorching heat of the Devil's City.Before Ren Hong and the others could tiptoe over to take a look, they were hit by a few arrows.There were three people in fur, as if to protect their home from being discovered, suddenly appeared and fired their bows at Ren Hong, but the arrows with clusters of bones shot at Han Dangdang's iron armor like tickling.Lao Han raised his shield to protect his face while approaching the person who shot the arrow, and the man found that it was useless to open the bow, so he suddenly let out a scream, and rushed towards Han Dangdang with a bone knife made of big bones, but was knocked to the ground by Lao Han's sword!
And on the mound that was more than ten zhang high, with Zhao Han'er and Xi Chongguo's bow and crossbow, two people who ambushed them fell in response, rolled a few times and fell heavily to the ground!
After the First Battle of the Broken Sui, Ren Hong finally stopped being afraid of prejudice and bravely used his spear.He approached cautiously, and the spear poked at the corpses of the two fallen people, motionless, and approached to test his snort, it was really dead, and its feet were indeed fake beast claw soles as Ren Hong guessed."
What about keeping your mouth alive?
Or something can be interrogated from their mouths. ”Ren Hong was a little helpless, and then found that it was not "him", but "her".The three corpses, all women, had no beard and no Adam's apple.Although they were all very thin, their faces were peeled by the sun, and their teeth were uneven due to their long-term poor life, they could still see that their faces were high noses and deep eyes, and even if they died, their blue eyes were still wide open, staring blankly at the sun.The hair is millet or reddish-brown, this appearance is completely different from the Han, Qiang, and Huns that Ren Hong has seen.Ren Hong was a little stunned, and his eyebrows wrinkled into embarrassment."
It's the Wusun people."
Xi Chongguo came over to take a look, and said firmly: "I walked with Fu Gong in the Western Regions, and the states east of the Green Mountains, but the Wusun people have the most different appearance, blue eyes, red beards, and monkeys. ”Han Dangdang was a little puzzled: "But I heard that the Wusun Kingdom is far away in the northwest of the Western Regions, which is the southeast of the Western Regions near the Hansai place, separated by thousands of miles, how did a group of them come here" Xi Chongguo did not feel strange: "The Wusun people were originally grazing in the Qilian of Dunhuang, and a hundred years ago, they were defeated by the Dayue clan and killed their king, and Wusun took refuge in the Xiongnu Maodun Shan Yu.Later, he helped the Xiongnu to counterattack the Da Yue Clan, and was sent to the west to pursue the Yue Clan's king, so he stayed in the area of Chigu City west of the Tianshan Mountains and did not return. ”"I heard Fu Gong say that the second envoy of Bowang Marquis Zhang Qian to the Western Regions was to unite Wusun with the Xiongnu as an enemy, and he even invited Wusun Kunmi to return to Dunhuang and Qilian with his subordinates to be a Han state."
However, Wusun moved westward for decades, and had already relied on accepting a large number of Yueshi people and Sai people to establish a huge country in the Ili River Valley, where water and grass are abundant, with a population of hundreds of thousands, and a control string known as 100,000, which is the largest country in the Western Regions.But since Wusun has turned against the Xiongnu, why not make friends with the Han Dynasty.After that, there was an envoy sent by Wusun to enter the Han Dynasty with Zhang Qian, marveling at the vast and powerful Han Dynasty, Wusun Kunmi took a thousand good horses as a dowry, and asked Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to marry the fine monarch successively, and relieve the worries of the two princesses and their relatives. ”Although it is very old, Xi Chongguo deduced that these female savages hiding in the desert ridge city may be the remnants scattered in the desert after Wusun defeated the Yue clan a hundred years ago.As they spoke, they lit torches and burrowed into the crypt beneath the mound, where there were artificially hewn staircases, and the skulls of men and animals hung on the rock walls, and even the sound of flowing water.Where there is water, you can survive, and now you can understand what those wild people do for a living, this place is easy to hide, but it is also a necessary place for envoys and merchants to travel from east to west.This group of Wusun remnants has survived here for generations by hunting, stealing horses, and even capturing scattered passers-by for food.Maybe it's because it's trapped in the Gobi and can't leave, maybe it's because it's afraid of being slaughtered by hostile tribes, or maybe it's because you have long forgotten about your ancestors and only know that here, out of instinct to survive.They looked at each wave of people passing by with hostile eyes, and eventually became desert cannibals, and there were many remaining human flesh, human bones, and even corpses in this crypt, and there was a faint stench that was shocking."
Extreme environments turn people into ghosts."
Thinking like this, Ren Hong couldn't help but worry about Lu Jiuyu, this group of Wugranddaughter savages is not taboo in meat and vegetarian, Lu Jiuyu is afraid that there will be more than auspicious."
There may only be one head left."
Zhao Han'er found some blood stains on the ground and sighed.Han Dangdang also wiped his tears: "I always think Lu Jiu is verbose all the way, now it would be good if he was still alive." ”But when they reached the bottom of the crypt, they were shocked to find that a naked man was tied to the ground, with a ball of felt hair stuffed in his mouth, covered in scars, his face was full of lovelessness, and his lower body was wilted.Hearing the movement, he tried to raise his head, his eyes widened, and he desperately wanted to call for help.This is exactly Lu Jiuyu, and after Ren Hong cut the rope on his hand and draped the coat on him, Lu Jiuyu cried with tears in his eyes: "Second and third sons" "I was raped!"
”"Lao Lu, after we left Dunhuang City, I don't know the taste of women, you are good, you can be favored by three wild bearded girls together, it really makes my grandson envious."
When Lu Jiuyu was rescued back to the camp and knew the reason for the incident, everyone made fun of him, especially Sun Shiwan, who almost died of laughter."
Envy?
Try it for you?
They probably haven't bathed since they were born, and the taste in their mouths is even more "Lu Jiuyu was so angry that he almost wanted to be disgusted, he was a particular person, and he had to stay away from people, and the destruction of last night was really enough."
Being borrowed by the black granddaughter savage has become an unforgettable experience for Lu Jiuyu in his life.However, the thrilling encounter in Yadan Devil City is only one of the "ninety-nine-eighty-one difficulties" encountered by the envoy group on the way west, but it will also make it clear why there have been mission caravans missing people and horses here for such a long time.Ren Hong didn't know why those cannibals were all women, but there were no men, so they killed boys when they gave birth?
Or did you grow up and drive away?
And why?
Anyway, it is normal for extreme customs to be born in extreme environments, and it is impossible to delve into them.Ren Hong didn't know if there were any similar Wusun relics in this devil city, and he didn't plan to find out them one by one, as far as this was concerned, they were just passers-by.After rescuing Lu Jiuyu and listening to the cause and effect, Fu Jiezi asked everyone to immediately pull out the camp, the mission had been delayed all morning, and they had to set off immediately."
Sanlang sand can't be turned over today, so we can only wait for tomorrow."
It wasn't until the next morning, standing under the sand, that Ren Hong understood why the fathers who were responsible for driving livestock and driving had a headache every time they mentioned this place.I saw three huge sand mountains up to 200 meters high, lying on the road ahead, the slope was steeper than the other, and camels, horses and people could barely climb up, what should the car do?
It is troublesome to get around, these three ridges of sand are a slender belt of quicksand, 100 kilometers long from north to south, bordering the majestic Kuruktag Mountains to the north and the endless Kumtag Desert to the south.But if you go straight over, you only need to cross three sand mountains."
All cars and passengers must be given up here."
Fu Jiezi went back and forth several times, and he had already had experience, so he asked everyone to carry the things on the car to the Shifeng camels, and they had consumed some food and water in the past few days, but the camels were still a little difficult to carry heavy loads.Then it is difficult to climb the mountain and go down the mountain to the sand mountain all day, step on it, the sand can not reach the calf, encounter the wind, the sand is like a snake, walking in the wind, the fine sand will circle along the foot to the knees, and the high-top leather shoes will not work.It is much easier to go down the mountain, especially for people who don't need to take care of livestock, find a wooden plank, sit on it and slide down, which is very similar to playing sand skiing in the desert in later generations.Fortunately, the sand is thick enough, like a soft cushion, and it doesn't hurt to roll down from more than ten meters.But it also made the old people of the mission laugh for a long time, commenting on the posture of the newcomers rolling in the sand, which was a rare pleasure in their journey.Fu Jiezi, who has always been adventurous, did not draw a line of life or death, only hugged Jingjie tightly and walked down cautiously, Lu Jiuyu whispered to Ren Hong that when Fu Gong came last time, he also planted a first class and went up to the highest sand ridge in the middle, Ren Hong looked here, and could see the majestic figure of Kuruktag in the gray and black mountains hundreds of miles away in the north, and the Kumutag Desert in the south was undulating, full of golden sand dunes.Although it was time-consuming and laborious, the three ridges of sand still turned over without danger.After the caravan walked down the third sand ridge in a zigzag pattern, a long and narrow valley appeared in front of the front between the great desert and the Gobi Plateau, and unlike the barren and dead silence on both sides, the valley was overgrown with freshly budding grass and shrubs.This is the Achik Valley, thousands of years ago, the Shule River was from this road to the west into Lop Nur, now blocked by three ridges of sand, the riverbed has dried up, but the groundwater still struggles to penetrate westward, leaving a green canyon at the entrance of this canyon, there are clear springs and poplar forests, and a tall beacon that has been abandoned for many years, standing alone This is the pavilion barrier set up by the Han Dynasty many years ago."
Julucang has arrived."
Xi Chongguo, who came down first, called Ren Hong: "After turning over the three ridges of sand, the mission and the caravan will rest here, we will go and see first, if there are other people inside, we must drive them away first." ”On the way to Fengsui, Xi Chongguo also mentioned: "Dozens of soldiers who died during the Western Expedition to Dawan are buried here, so every time Fu Gong passes by, he has to pay tribute." ”Ren Hong's head, Li Guangli conquered Dawan twice, tens of thousands of dead, facing each other, most of them were buried on the spot, and there were similar graves in Hanging Springs.But when they were about to arrive at Fengsui, Xi Chongguo's eyes were sharp, and after scolding, he accelerated to beat the horse.When Ren Hong also followed, he saw that the cemetery outside the beacon was in a mess, the bones of the Han army were turned out, and the tombstones were also crooked, and the mess was unbearable!
Xi Chongguo looked left and right, and let out an angry scolding: "Which little maid raised a miscellaneous profiteer dares to steal the grave of my Han soldiers!?"
”PS: Chapter 3 at 11:30.