Lucheng is located at the eastern edge of Pinglu oasis. It is said that thousands of years ago, it was also a vast Gobi desert, full of rough gravel, which is not directly connected with Pinglu oasis.
At that time, in the deep mountains of wushao mountain, there was a well-trained divine deer. One day, when he saw that the sinners released by the mainstream of the ancient Qiang country were suffering from survival, he kicked away the steep cliff of the South Gate like a sword and a halberd, and let a stream flow out of the deep mountains from the deep mountains and old forests in the south of Lucheng.
This is the formation of the legendary Luhe River; The Luhe River finally did not flow into the Pinglu sea in the West. It meandered North for more than a hundred miles from the steep north slope of Wushaoling mountain. It was cut off because of the massive infiltration and loss of the river.
Although the Luhe River does not flow into the Pinglu sea, it is so close that the newly bred oasis on both sides of the Luhe River will soon be connected with the Pinglu oasis in the West.
In memory of this divine deer, later generations built a city on the Bank of Luhe River, named Lucheng.
Lucheng, as the first city to enter Pinglu oasis from Xixia corridor, although it was completely destroyed in the war 20 years ago, it has been rapidly reborn because of the increasing prosperity of business in the past 20 years.
Chen Hai leads his horse out of a sand ridge. Looking from a distance, Lucheng, built by mining black sandstone, looks like a black giant beast lying in front of the gentle slope on the West Bank of Luhe River.
The steep slope of the north mountain of Wushaoling mountain, which is more than a thousand feet high, is like a huge cyan black barrier, stretching more than 100 miles south of Lucheng. Chen Hai''s eyesight is amazing at this time, and he can even clearly see the Deer River surging out of the cliff of the North mountain of Wushaoling mountain
Wushao mountain stretches 167000 miles from east to west. It is connected to tieliu mountain in the East and Dajin mountain in the West. The mountain is high and the road is dangerous. There is miasma everywhere. The north slope of Wushaoling mountain is particularly steep. There are tens of thousands of meters high peaks, high cliffs and dangerous rocks, which are difficult for birds to cross.
Even if the Luhe River goes out of the ShiXiakou of Wuqiaoling, it is two or three thousand meters high. Looking from a distance, the surging river is like several silver chains two or three thousand meters long, pouring out between the stone cliffs on the north slope.
Chen Hai didn''t rush into Lucheng. After crossing the sand ridge, he rode along the Luhe River to the north slope of Wuqiao ridge.
Business travelers often go to the front of Lukai gorge to see the spectacular scene of the waterfall pouring thousands of feet. Chen Hai is just an ordinary young man riding a thin horse in front of the guards of Lucheng.
After Zhang Xiong killed ye chentian''s father and son, and the king made himself Lord of the country, although Zhang did not send troops to seal the road east of Lucheng, the situation was so tense that Shangzhou in Pinglu would not rush to Hexi at the risk of losing both people and money; Business travelers in Hexi will not joke about their heads. At this time, they cross the Xixia corridor and enter Pinglu oasis.
However, Lucheng, which claimed neutrality in the chaos, still gathered a large number of business travelers, waiting for the situation to calm down as soon as possible, so that they can set foot on the journey again before winter, so as to send the goods accumulated this year to Hexi and sell them to various warehouses.
So it''s not surprising that one or two young lone riders occasionally haunt around Lucheng.
Chen Hai took his horse to the foot of Lukai gorge. At this time, he saw the Luhe River pouring down from the Qianzhang high gorge, forming a huge open pool of thousands of Mu at the foot of the mountain. He could feel the spectacular of the suspended river.
Unfortunately, the giant pond is surrounded by shallow stone ridges with sparse trees. The pond water overflows from the gorge in the north to form the main river channel of the Luhe River. However, it is a pity that there are bottomless sand layers on both sides of the Luhe River. The river channel with abundant water only extends for more than a hundred miles and disappears in the depths of the desert.
Of course, it is precisely because the terrain of Luhe River and Pinglu lake is slightly higher, and a large number of river and lake water seeps into the ground. Montenegro, which is slightly lower, passes through the underground river and has a large number of springs.
Unfortunately, it is not a simple thing to accurately survey the underground river water veins. Otherwise, it is possible to artificially cultivate an oasis corridor between Heishan and Pinglu Oasis by drilling deep wells, rather than leaving Heishan alone outside Pinglu oasis.
The hanging waterfall landscape of luheyuan is too magnificent. Before Chen Hai, several people went out of the city to watch the scenery. Some even tried to climb the cliff to see the wonders at the mouth of Shixia.
From Lukai gorge, it is roughly divided into three stone cliffs, each of which is seven or eight hundred meters high. The waterfall splashes, and the stone cliff is wet and slippery. Although you can try to climb such a high stone cliff with the foundation of the middle and late period of tongxuan territory, the terrain is complex at this time, and there are bursts of strong wind whirlwinds from time to time. At this time, you have to have the cultivation of penetrating the spirit realm to resist such a strong whirlwind and attach to the stone wall steadily.
If you are unfortunately driven by the whirlwind, the martial cultivation in the spirit setting is likely to fall to pieces.
Therefore, most people are satisfied when they go to the bottom of the cliff and see the waterfall and stone pond; Only a few xuanxiu and Wuxiu whose accomplishments are above the spirit realm can rise in front of the waterfall and fly to the mouth of the gorge to see the wonders within the deer opening gorge.
At this time, three young people were climbing on the mossy stone wall next to the waterfall, carefully avoiding the water column rolled by the whirlwind, and climbing to the gorge with their hands and feet. They looked like they had passed the middle and later stages of xuanjing.
"These boys are new calves. They are not afraid of tigers. They don''t know how to stop until they break their arms and legs." several travelers at the bottom of the cliff couldn''t help shaking their heads when they saw this scene.
Chen Hai smiled and thought that if it were him, even if he only had the cultivation of tongxuan realm, he would not help climbing up to see the magnificent scenery.
Chen Hai took the black and thin old horse that was hard to pick out from Montenegro and led it to a Populus euphratica tree by the lake. He moved his seemingly clumsy luggage behind him. He also climbed to the 3000 meter high Lukai gorge step by step through the stone nest stepped out by his predecessors.
This scene also caused many scenic visitors under the waterfall to shake their heads. It seems that Chen Hai is a hairy boy who can''t measure his strength. He won''t easily challenge the natural danger of the gorge unless he has to suffer.
Chen Hai didn''t want to expose his accomplishments. Even if he didn''t use the slightest true yuan mana, it was easy to climb the two or three thousand meter cliff. After following the three young people, he climbed up Lukai gorge step by step; But in other people''s eyes, there were several more dangerous times, but he was lucky enough to avoid it.
Just like Chen Hai as like as two peas, the other side of the deer gap is a four thousand or five thousand mu square lake.
The weather in Pinglu oasis is colder than that in the mainland of Yanzhou. After autumn, the grass and trees wither and yellow. The terrain of Lukai gorge is more than 3000 meters higher than the flat ground. The weather is even colder. The distant mountains are covered with years of ice and snow. The snow line has begun to move slowly towards the top of the mountain. In almost another month, Lukai gorge will also be covered with ice and snow.
Then there will be another scene here.
Chen Hai climbed Lukai gorge alone. He didn''t come here to enjoy the scenery.
The formation conditions of placer lake mud are very special. Firstly, there are a large number of shallow metal veins in the upstream.
After years of weathering, the shallow strata of the ore vein are crushed into gravel, transported by streams and rivers, intercepted and enriched by special terrain, so as to form lake mud rich in a large number of metal placers.
In Jinyan Zhuzhou, shallow metal veins are rare; This kind of special channel topography located downstream of shallow metal veins, which is favorable for intercepting and enriching placers, is also rare; What is more rare is that such a special river channel needs to be stable for thousands or even tens of thousands of years, and it is even more difficult to change infrequently.
The sky hanging lake in the upper reaches of Luhe River is very similar to juquanling in many ways; No matter whether the stone gorge is kicked open by a giant deer demon after cultivation, as the legend says, it can be inferred from many existing legends that the history of the hanging lake has been stable for more than 6000 years.
In the past 6000 years, the suspended lake was not filled with a large amount of upstream alluvium, which only shows that this side of the suspended lake was an extremely deep rift valley 6000 or 7000 years ago.
However, whether the tiandang lake is like juquanling, there are many weathered shallow metal veins on both sides of the upstream river. Chen Hai has not been able to organize people to investigate one by one, but he can easily verify as long as he sneaks into the bottom of the lake.
The shallow silt at the bottom of the lake can''t see anything. The density of quenched gold placer is very high. Even if there is abundant accumulation at the bottom of the hanging lake, it''s possible to find it only by digging two or three hundred meters down from the bottom of the lake.
Chen Hai came alone to verify this.
Ye is eager to restore the country and does not want time to continue to delay.
Ye Qinglin is worried that once Zhang Xiong, Kong Peng and other traitors fully grasp all the cities in Pinglu oasis, it will be even more difficult for them to restore the country even with the support of Dong in Hexi; He hoped that the Jingjue capital guard could send troops as soon as possible, even if it occupied one or two cities on the edge of Pinglu oasis and formed a stalemate with the rebels, it could also avoid all clans of Western Qiang from investing in dog thieves such as Zhang Xiong and Kong Peng.
Ye Qinglin has his own reason for considering this. Chen Hai promised that Jingjue army can send troops to occupy a city on the edge of Pinglu oasis to contain the rebels, but it needs to be a condition. He asked that the city he occupied should be under the jurisdiction of Jingjue capital guard in the future.
Montenegro is too barren to support tens of thousands of troops without the strong support of Hexi. Chen Hai hopes to occupy more than one city on the edge of Pinglu oasis; There are more than 40 cities in Pinglu oasis. In order to restore the country as soon as possible and avoid long dreams, ye Qinglin agreed.
However, whether the first city occupied by Jingjue army is Lucheng or not, Chen Hai needs to come and have a look at the tiandang Lake in person to confirm.
They can separate a city on the edge of Pinglu oasis. It is already the limit that ye Qinglin and ye can agree. This city can''t choose a fork.
Chen Hai untied the bag without several valuable clothes together with the old gray robe he was wearing outside, stuffed it into a cliff doubt, and put on a short jacket close to his body, ready to dive into the bottom of the lake to find out.
"Brother, although everyone has the impulse to swim in the hanging lake on this day, the hanging lake is connected with the stream in the depths of Wushaoling mountain. Who doesn''t know if there are strong water animals dormant, please think twice!" seeing Chen Haidao jumping into the lake and climbing the deer opening gorge before him, One of them, a man with a long beard on his face, shouted loudly and kindly reminded Chen Hai not to sneak into the lake.
Chen Hai smiled in his heart and pretended to be a fool for a long time. He pretended that the wind and water were ringing and couldn''t really hear what the man opposite was saying.
On this day, even in the dead of night, tourists will come to enjoy the scenery. At this time, the three young people are unpacking their bags, taking out wine and meat and putting them on the ground. Who knows how long they will play by the lake. Chen Hai doesn''t have so much free time to avoid everyone''s eyes and ears, and then sneak into the bottom of the lake.