Chapter 135: Dangerous Longshan Road
The wheels ran over the flat stone surface, and a creaking sound rang through the belly of the huge cave. The wide carriage of the transport truck was filled with food and grass bags, and on the bag were three accompanying guards lying.
On both sides of the tunnel, there will be a fire gathering array every ten meters away. There is also a spirit gathering array outside. Only a few low-level fire-type spirit cores are enough to maintain the flame light of the fire gathering array and illuminate the deep and deep tunnel.
The big cart was walking in the hillside, but it was very stable, without any bumps. Moreover, the tunnel was quite wide, and the two big cars were not congested in parallel. Not far from the tunnel, there was a tunnel of the same width, but that tunnel was a tunnel that traveled oppositely.
Zhong Tai was not a member of the Imperial Army, but a small squad leader of a logistics battalion under the White Tiger Legion, who was in charge of a large cart. Half a month ago, the baggage battalion he belonged to was transferred to Ziyang County by a letter from the superior. Now a county in Xiangxi Province is said to have been a barbarian territory, which was very remote.
However, after passing Ziyang Dongguan, he realized that the wild and remote place he had remembered before was so prosperous, with commercial and traveling convoys coming and going. A wide gravel official road directly leads to Ziyang City from Dongguan, a large city of quite large scale. However, it can be seen that this city should have been built soon.
After staying in Ziyang City for a day, they put down their goods and continued to move forward empty cars. However, after coming out of Ziyang City, although the official road was still wide and flat, it was gone without the hustle and bustle of the commercial and travel convoys. It seemed that everything stopped in Ziyang City. I didn't see other convoys along the way, and passed a level. Not long after passing this level, there were endless camps in front of me. Teams of patrol soldiers walked by not far away, and what a big military camp.
Zhong Tai never knew that there was such a huge barracks in such a place. He had heard that the Imperial Guard had a training camp here before. But he didn't expect that the training camp was so huge.
After staying at this base for three days, they processed a series of procedures, and the imperial guards appeared and told them a lot of rules and confidentiality regulations, and finally assigned them some transportation tasks. After they had digested some, they set off again.
When their supplies camp carried a large amount of supplies, they were led into the deeper part of the base. A larger and more grand and spectacular Dragonshou City appeared in front of them. The entire Dragonshou City was based on a mountain, but the shape of the mountain was carved into a dragon head. And the huge opening was the entrance to the Dragonshou City.
After passing the city gate, an amazing huge mountain belly city appeared in front of them. The entire mountain belly seemed to be hollowed out, covering the tunnels that crisscrossed across the country. Walking along the way, nowhere was a mile away, there was an extremely wide dome cave in front of them.
The road they walked seemed to be embedded on half of their waists, looking down from here. On the narrow streets below, there were countless rock shops and huge stone pillars supporting the sky, making the buildings here look so grand and magnificent, especially a giant square on the north side, which occupied a large area of space, with a seven-story altar in the middle. Opposite the altar was a giant bull-headed elephant.
I don’t know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that when he looked at the bull-headed elephant, he felt a powerful pressure imposed on his body, making him feel a little breathless.
He was very curious, but before coming in, the instructor of the Imperial Guard asked them to talk less and not ask questions. He could only look around. He was dazzled, and although he had a lot of questions in his heart, he could only hold them in his heart.
After passing Longshou City, the convoy continued to move forward. After leaving Longshou Mountain, it was an open-air road. The sun shone on her body, which was very comfortable. The people in the convoy were talking in a low voice about everything they had seen before, and what they were even more curious about where they were going.
In the next few days, they talked much less because they were walking through mountain tunnels and open-air roads every day. After seeing too much surprise, they became boring, but they were still moving forward, and this road seemed to have no end.
A ray of light shone from the front again, but Zhong Tai had already become accustomed to it. In the past few days, they had no idea how many mountains they had passed through, which was a short one or two hours and a long half a day. At night, they had to rest in the campsite left in the hillside.
The darkness, light, and the alternation of back and forth made them a little immune.
When the big cart where Zhong Tai was located passed through the light, the dazzling sunlight shone on his body, making people lazy all over his body. However, Zhong Tai soon discovered that this time was unique. The roaring sound of water rang in his ears, and the road under his feet was not on the flat ground, but on a large stone bridge.
If it were just an ordinary bridge, Zhong Tai would not have lost his composure. However, sitting on the pile of food and weeds and looking left and right, it was a deep abyss canyon that was more than a hundred meters deep. In the canyon, the river water like a dragon roared and slapped, passing through the narrow and long canyon, and this bridge actually lies on this cliff canyon.
Oh my God, Zhong Tai felt a little weak in his legs, and the transport truck continued to creak. I don’t know how this hanging stone bridge was built, but it looked very strong. At least there were a hundred large trucks in their battalion, at least they had already been traveling on the bridge deck, but the bridge was still stable.
Huh, when the convoy entered the dark mountain again, Zhong Tai came back to his soul. He was really afraid that the bridge would not be strong. After all, the bridge had no stone piers. It was really scary to ride between the two mountains, but it also added several topics to the soldiers in the convoy.
Time passed by constantly moving forward. On the tenth day, according to their speed along the way, it had almost passed a thousand two to three hundred miles, and finally a more hanging place appeared.
This canyon is wider than the previous canyon. There are still water dragons below, and the sound of water sounds are resounding in my ears. But this is not a problem. The problem is that the bridge here is not the hard stone bridge I encountered before, but a giant iron chain bridge.
Although the bridge deck is still wide, it is a series of huge iron chains connecting the sides of the canyon. When the howling wind in the canyon blew, the entire bridge seemed to be shaking. What was even more worrying was the wooden boards on the iron chain. This thing could hinder their loads of trucks, and there were hundreds of them.
Although I felt even more at ease when I looked at the storm, as the convoy moved forward, Zhong Tai's carriage still got on the iron chain bridge.
"Look at this time, this is the first time you have come to this bridge. Don't be so nervous. The bridge has been built for a year and a half, and there are many fleets passing by. I haven't seen any car blown down the canyon by a gust of wind. Don't worry, as long as you are not shocked, there will be no problem!"
It was obviously not the first time that the guards guarding the bridge had met their new baggage team, riding their mounts with the convoy, comforting these nervous baggage teams in their words.
"We are the direct logistics camp of the White Tiger Legion. My name is Zhong Tai. What do you call this brother?"
"Haha, I'm from the Imperial Army Logistics Battalion, just call me Shao Er. A few days ago, I saw a group of your White Tiger Legion's baggage camps. It seems that this time your White Tiger Legion will be included in the battle sequence! You will often run on this line in the future!"
"Brother Shao, where is this road? We have been walking for ten days and are not yet in length. This road is too long, and...! If it is inconvenient to say, then just pretend I didn't ask!"
"Haha, is it that the turtle grandson in Longshou City who said it should be kept confidential? Don't ask randomly? In fact, there is nothing to keep in secret. The end of this road is in southern Shu, but not in the eight inner palaces of Shuchuan, but in the eight outer palaces. At your speed, it is estimated that it will take four or five days to reach the end!"
"Shuzhong?" Zhong Tai was surprised. He almost widened his eyes. This was explosive news. You must know that Da Chu had been trying to send troops to Shuzhong for three or four years. Last year, he even took Xiyan and Songling in one breath. He thought he would attack Shuzhong, but this time he waited for a small year, and there was no following. Unexpectedly, it was not that there was no following, but that he had found another way here.
"Haha, what a big fuss, but it's good to talk about it here. If you leave here, don't talk nonsense, otherwise you will get into big trouble!"
Zhong Tai shook his head repeatedly and said, "I dare not go out to say this!" Zhong Tai said, and immediately changed the topic and said, "Brother Shao, why is this bridge with iron chains? Unlike the previous few stone bridges, the one that walks much more steadily. This one is really terrifying!"
"This distance is too far, and the stone bridge cannot be built at all. Besides, it is not far from Shuchuan. Your baggage is moving slowly. If the beast cavalry, who is known for its speed, can run from beginning to end in one day and night, this is a natural chasm. If an enemy comes from the other end, as long as the mechanism is pulled here, the iron chain bridge will be broken. Who can pass by then!"
Zhong Tai was speechless, but it was true. Once the iron chain was broken, even the Heavenly Spirit Master was out of reach. Unless he was a master of the Holy Spirit, he could walk in the air or had a flying cavalry. But then again, this natural barrier was only used by the army, and it had little effect on the former.
Is it necessary? You should know that there are only countless caves and tunnels, each of which is like a small pass fortress, all of which are like a man who can't open the pass. Moreover, even if you are killed by someone, even if you have a slightly stronger spiritual skill, you can collapse a tunnel and block the enemy. Obviously, this distance is the main one.
While talking, a strong wind suddenly blew from the canyon. The canyon was long and narrow, so the wind was naturally not small. It was quite good on both sides of the bridge, but when it reached the middle, it shook violently. Zhong Tai was so scared that he hurriedly grabbed his body. Instead, Shao Er laughed and said, "Don't be afraid, the wind in this mountain comes quickly and goes quickly. Besides, it's useless to be afraid of you on the bridge!"
As Shao Er said, the mountain wind only blew for a moment and the shaking of the bridge deck was so violent, but this still made Zhong Tai and others feel scared. Thinking about going this path many times in the future, I felt a little scared.
"I'm at the ground. When I walk forward, there is a small cable bridge. Then it's almost a road. Let's leave here. Next time I have the chance, let's have a drink together!" Shao Er came to the other end of the bridge and said goodbye to Zhong Tai and his party. Then he gathered with his brothers in the camp and turned back.
However, Zhong Tai's face turned gray, and there was actually a cable bridge in front of him! This made people live.
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