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Chapter 77 Wu Lu's Tomb

Wu Zhongyuan agreed with Wang Xinran's suggestion, but he could not see what problems he might encounter later, because he did not know what these warriors did after appearing in various eras, nor did he know where they were buried after their death, nor did he know what twists and turns they might encounter in the process of finding these warriors.

After waiting for a while, Wu Zhongyuan didn't see him talking. Wang Xinran said, "Forget it, you don't have to worry about it, I'll deal with it."

"Don't have too many people." Wu Zhongyuan said.

"Yes." Wang Xinran responded.

During the flight, Wang Xinran was busy communicating and receiving various clues from the headquarters, including the funeral system of the Yuan Dynasty, the number of troops led by Wu Lu at that time, the cause of Wu Lu's death, and the location where Wu Lu might be buried, etc.

Most funerals in the Yuan Dynasty were small. This is because the Yuan Dynasty was Mongolian in power. They did not have the concept of the Han people as if they were alive. In their opinion, people died like lamps, so large tombs were rarely built for the deceased. There were few burial objects in the tombs, and there were few tombs and monuments. To put it bluntly, most of the dead had no graves, and they rarely erected tombstones in front of the tombs. The direct consequence of such funeral characteristics is that their graves are difficult to find.

The source of clues is very broad, and the clues themselves are not specific. Many clues are obtained indirectly. Taking Wu Lu's death as an example, most historians who searched for clues believe that he was killed by cannons. The reason for this conclusion is that Tubo had previously surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty. In order to help Tubo deal with other tribes that had not surrendered, the Yuan Dynasty once supported their five cast iron cannons.

In other historical events, Tubo once recorded using cannons to defend the city. After the Tubo rebelled, he occupied Jiezhou, and Wu Lu was the one who led his troops to attack the city.

This is not counting. It also has to be combined with Wu Lu's personal situation. General Guangwei, Qian Yunzhi, once wrote a letter to ask for merit for Wu Lu. The content of this memorial was found by historians. It contains Qian Yunzhi's evaluation of Wu Lu. According to Qian Yunzhi, Wu Lu must lead the way every battle, charge forward, and the person who blocked was invincible. He could brave the rain of arrows in the sky without being hurt by arrows.

Historians judged that Wu Lu was moving very fast, and except for artillery with a large attack range, it was difficult for ordinary weapons to injure him.

The conclusions drawn in this way are not rigorous, but Wu Lu is not a very famous person more than 700 years ago. There are not many records about him in history. It is impossible to be rigorous. Even if there are clues that are not rigorous, it is not easy to get it.

In addition, the funeral regulations enjoyed by officials of different levels of the Yuan Dynasty were different. Wu Lu died in battle, and military officers of this level were basically buried wherever they died. Based on the location where the war occurred, historians inferred the approximate area where Wu Lu might be buried, and even the size of the tomb chamber and the depth of the burial were inferred.

Two hours later, the plane landed, and the two changed into cars and rushed to the suspected location.

Jiezhou was the current Wudu. It was suspected to be located in a hill five miles southeast of Wudu City. The reason for making such a judgment was the result of the joint efforts of historians and archaeologists. First, they inferred the marching route of Wu Lu leading troops to suppress the rebellion, and then inferred that Wu Lu attacked the east gate of Jiezhou City.

On the hill three miles southeast, a large number of corpses were unearthed, and these corpses were unearthed neatly. The armor unearthed with the corpses showed that they were Yuan soldiers and were buried here by their comrades after they died in battle. If they were buried by the enemy, they would not be stacked so neatly.

During the Yuan Dynasty, only one large-scale war occurred here, so historians believe that since this place is the place where the bodies of Yuan army soldiers are buried, Wu Lu is very likely to be buried here too.

This hill is now a wasteland. When the two arrived, many people were already busy there. These people were not soldiers or police, but a group of exploration technicians. At this time, they were plugging poles and pulling wires everywhere in the area with a diameter of 500 meters. The poles were metal poles and the wires were metal lines. After a brief conversation with the person in charge who came up, they realized that this was a large metal detection equipment that could sense various metal elements within ten meters underground.

What they were looking for was a large piece of iron. The big axe that Wu Lu used during his lifetime was steel metal. Experts inferred that the big axe he used should be buried with, and this is what he is looking for now.

When different metals are sensed, the sounds emitted by the metal detector are also different. This area seems to have a large number of steel metals. Even if the instruments used are very advanced, it is difficult to analyze which place is the suspected location in a short time.

While the technicians were busy, several exploration personnel came with instruments. The instruments carried by these people were specially designed to find groundwater sources.

Wu Zhongyuan didn't know why these people came. After asking Wang Xinran, he suddenly realized that Wu Lu was addicted to drinking as much as he did, and he would drink a lot of alcohol in every battle. In addition, although Wu Lu died in the Battle of Jiezhou, the battle ended with the victory of the Yuan army. Wu Lu did not deduct the salary of his subordinates like other generals. In addition, he led the way when fighting, so his subordinates should all respect him very much. After conquering Jiezhou, there were reasons and conditions to use a lot of wine to bury Wu Lu.

Later, the group of technicians came not to find water, but to find wine.

Three meters underground, where there are steel and metals and liquids exist, it may be the location of Wu Lu's tomb.

Soon, the technicians locked in a suspected location, located in a bush on the hillside.

Pushing apart the shrubs, Wu Zhongyuan and Wang Xinran looked at each other. There was a round hole on the ground with a diameter of about five centimeters. The soil outside the round hole was still wet, and the round hole went straight to the ground.

"Why are they so fast?" Wu Zhongyuan was surprised. His experts and scholars could have described the clues of finding and inferring them as terrifying, but the other party was still ahead.

"Maybe it's not much faster than us," Wang Xinran said, "they are using Luoyang shovel to determine the location of the tomb chamber and have not had time to dig."

"This is not a Luoyang shovel," Wu Zhongyuan shook his head. "There are covers outside the Luoyang shovel, and indentation marks will be left on the ground during exploration. There are no circular indentations around the hole."

Instead of making meaningless guesses, it is better to verify that with official support, there is whatever you want, and soon the extension penetration head was delivered, and it penetrated down the hole, extending about three meters down, blocked by gray bricks.

The picture on the display made the two of them overjoyed. The round hole did not penetrate into the tomb. No matter what was in the tomb, it was completely preserved.

The problem facing the two of them is whether to dig up the tomb chamber. After considering it, Wang Xinran chose a compromise method, use equipment to drill through the brick wall and first see what is inside.

In the evening, the drilling equipment drilled the gray bricks through. The gray bricks were thinner than the two expected, with only two layers, with white gray in the middle. After drilling through the gray bricks, the situation in the tomb chamber was revealed through the display screen.

The tomb is well preserved, but it is very shabby, only ten feet square, very small and short. There is no coffin in the tomb. The corpse is wrapped in leather and other things. There are many wine jars around the corpse. There is a big axe with a rotten axe handle on each side of the corpse. This is the best proof of the identity of the tomb owner.

It is not a problem to dig this tomb, but Wang Xinran did not do that, because our country's attitude towards ancient tombs is to rescue excavation. Although we are in a hurry to take power, we must also minimize the damage to the ancient tombs.

The extension camera has a remote control function and remote control operation, slowly peeling off the seriously decaying leather outside the corpse, and the corpse inside is revealed.

First of all, it is certain that this corpse was Wu Lu, but the cause of his death was not killed by a cannon, but shot to death by an arrow. There is obviously an arrow hole left by the arrow in the middle of the eyebrows of the corpse.

There have been several corpses similar to gene mutations in the 18th Branch. The main purpose of the two of them was to find the spirit stone belonging to Wu Lu, but they carefully looked around the corpse and everywhere in the tomb chamber, and did not find any spirit stones.

In the end, the two decided to dig open the grave because the wine jars were sealed and they could not be sure what was inside.

After digging the graves, the two opened the wine jars one by one and found that most of the wine jars were empty, and the empty ones were only a little turbid black water. They searched all corners of the tomb chamber without the shadow of the spirit stones.

It is very accidental to find Wu Lu's grave. To put it bluntly, it all depends on luck. However, it seems that the two of them are still not lucky enough. After finally finding the grave, there are no spirit stones in the grave.

On the left side of the corpse, there are some beads the size of nails scattered. The beads are not white, but blue. Archaeology researchers are not unfamiliar with things made of this material. This is not Hetian jade, but lapis lazuli, a kind of jade produced in Afghanistan.

There were twelve lapis lazuli beads scattered around. Wang Xinran picked them up and looked them one by one. When he saw the third one, he handed the bead to Wu Zhongyuan, "There are words on it."
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