The diamond needle can only be used to cut through the initiation, and is useless for this kind of stone. The thing we use is called a cannon needle. Because it looks like a mortar shell, it is also called a cannonball needle.
(I forgot where I saw a video. The tomb robbers left this thing at the scene. I want to see what kind I can find.)
The cannonball needle is neither big nor small. The tail can be connected to the pole of the Luoyang shovel. After connecting, point the needle at the stone and smash the end hard, dozens of times, to break even the big stone.
I worked carefully for six or seven hours, working hard and sweating profusely.
We opened a small hole and drilled down through the rock layer.
This is a big risk. Once other stone layers move, the small hole we drilled will be instantly buried, and people will be stoned to death.
I tied a rope around my waist and shook my headlight upwards to signal that I could get off.
"Pooh."
After eating a mouthful of ashes, I descended into the tomb passage.
Others also came down one after another.
Afraid of the cave entrance collapsing, we used two cyclone shovels and a Luoyang shovel to build a shelf around the cave entrance after we came down.
The tomb has not collapsed yet, and the place where I stand now is in the tomb passage. It is very dark around me, and a long tomb passage leads to the darkness ahead.
After looking at it, he said, this is the A-shaped tomb of the Warring States Period, A, B, and C. The A-shaped tomb is the highest level of tomb specifications.
The tomb passage is more than two meters high. We took our headlamps and slowly explored forward.
Douyazai whispered: "Head, this tomb passage is too long."
He stopped his head, pointed to the darkness ahead and said: "At the end there should be a row of steps going outward. The more steps there are, the more noble the tomb owner is."
Sure enough, after walking forward for more than 70 meters along the tomb passage, there appeared a layer of steps extending downward, one layer at a time, all compacted with loess. It was visually estimated that there were at least thirty steps.
The head reminds us: "Be careful, watch your step, don't step on the wrong foot."
For a large tomb like this, according to past experience, the tomb passage and steps lead to the side chamber, the main tomb chamber, and the coffin chamber.
We got down from the middle of the corridor and thought we had bypassed the tomb gate. But after coming down the rammed earth steps, what appeared in our eyes was shocking!
I have never seen anything like this before. The steps get narrower as you go down, and are blocked by a mud wall about two meters wide and nearly three meters high.
And it is completely blocked. There are many half-meter-long bluestone strips on the ground. They should have been laid underground originally. For some unknown reason, most of these bluestone strips have become warped.
This kind of wall was called Broken Dragon Stone after the Tang Dynasty. During the Ming Dynasty, because of the opening of Wanli Tomb in Dingling, this kind of wall was called King Kong Wall, which means indestructible. We all call it King Kong Wall now.
There are also Han tombs that were excavated to build mausoleums. The most powerful one known so far is the Qianling Mausoleum. After exploration, it was found that there were seventeen dragon-breaking stones, each weighing more than ten tons.
We were shocked because we had never heard of such things in the tombs of the Warring States Period.
Brother Yu used a shovel to test the hardness. It was very hard. It was useless to hit the wall with the edged shovel.
"What should I do with my head?" Brother Yu asked in a deep voice.
"I didn't expect that such a thing would be used to seal the tomb..." He frowned, looked down at his feet, and said, "Dig down, see if you can go around the base of the wall, and then dig up at a certain point.
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"Dig a cross well?"
He looked in front of him, nodded and said, "Yes, this kind of wall is more than half a meter thick. To seal it, you can only try to dig a horizontal well."
I asked again: "Boss, how did the diamond wall of Dingling open in the first place?"
After thinking about it for a moment, he said: "That's a stone brick wall. Dozens of people knocked on it for two days and two nights to remove it brick by brick. We don't have that many people, so we have to use detonators or dig horizontal wells. There is no other way."
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"detonator....."
Look at the structure here, who dares to put a detonator? It will collapse.
"We can't waste any more time," he looked around and said, "Let's do it."
The bluestone strips on the ground were already protruding and very thick. It took several of us to work together to move one piece and remove the bluestone strips, exposing the ground.
These bluestone strips on the ground are to prevent someone from digging downwards. Maybe because of an earthquake or something, the bluestone strips are now tilted up, which can be considered as unintentionally helping us.
The base of the Diamond Wall is buried more than one meter below, and we are like pangolins.
I dug downward, then dug forward, and finally dug upward. Finally, I spent several hours digging a "U"-shaped hole.
Climbing along the U-shaped pirate cave, we bypassed the diamond wall and climbed up with an outcropping.
result.....
After the King Kong Wall, there is actually a second wall!
And it's not an earthen wall. It looks rusty, as if it was cast from molten iron or bronze.
My head and face changed, and I looked ugly.
Because, I remembered a sentence on the monument of Chen Meiqing Temple.
