Blackwater's Love (2)
From Ejin to Yinchuan to first go to Alxa Zuoqi, this road through the Badain Jaran Desert and traveled more than 600 kilometers, but the road is also good, approximately 8 hours. In the car, too dry, and his nose started to bleed, crack-like pain. Car window is a vast desert. So shut our eyes and began to sleep, wake up out of the window, or as a desert; then proceeded to sleep, then wake up, or the desert; continue to sleep and continue to wake up ... .... Outside the window the scenery never changes, like moving in the infinite plate at the end of , the above is the day, the following is set at the end, no matter how walking is always the center of the plate is always the same scenery is always the same look of a boundless desert and Gobi, where, and finally to understand what it was shrouded, what is called vast, what is loneliness, what is desolate ... ...
By zuoqi, transfer, through the Helan Mountains,, soon to Yinchuan.
"Helan" in Mongolian is "galloping horse" means. Helan Mountains, north to south and 200 km, with an average altitude above 2,000 meters, is divided into two parts, east and west China an important section of the geographical boundaries.
Then the west side of Helan Alxa Plateau, is the endless expanses of the Gobi Desert, however, the Yinchuan Plain in the east of the Helan Mountain escort Gale Tengger Desert sand shall not be penetrated, lush plains, Tianchou 1000 ares, known as " Frontier Jiangnan. " At the same time raising this piece of land on the person, and our mother river --- the Yellow River.
Here was once the capital of the Western Xia --- Ning House.
Who are devout Buddhist Xixia temple of worship built by mouth Twin Towers.
However, is such a has its own language and writing, can sign Thrace, established a vast empire of national territory, as meteoric as that sets rapidly, castration swift, in the long course of history, the Western Xia from history is too short, short-lived can not help but sigh, can not help but ponder.
Tangut nation's history is a heroic epic, full of rage, war, suffering, there is joy. However, led to his rapid demise of this should be the party's key person's character, reluctant to submit to, unwilling to be enslaved, rather tragic death, refused to drift along the health, precisely because of this, he would die in such a fast have been eliminated so completely. Such a horse nation, rising from his day, perhaps such a fate had been sealed.
AD 1266, Genghis Khan assembled army sixth cutting the summer, this time he was determined to win. Mongolian Army points east and west road, along the Helan Mountains, on both sides of attack, will form a pincer, surrounding states and the capital of Turin accompanied Xingning House. Mongolian army siege day and night, the officers and men struggling to resist the Western Xia and finally suffered grievous losses. According to statistics, the Western Xia Dynasty and the Mongol soldiers death toll was 10 to one. MENG Jun scored capital, residents were brutally slaughtered plunder. Genghis Khan died in the expedition is the summer when the leaves dying last words, death is not made secret funeral, summer main surrendered, he and the city killing all the people all the soldiers. The number of items were dropped so the party is due to the carnage!
Que Taiwan, tablets pavilions, the tomb of the city, Cui Cao, Can Yuan, rubble, Broken Sword ... ... in the roaring of the desert wind, the Tears of Blood of the setting sun, the long sand and dust, the silent Qisu his former glory. These ruins are so real, without the slightest cosmetic and craftsmanship, left to wash the years, wind and rain erosion, Tomb of the destruction of ... ... one aspect over two centuries of national Hexi Today, only the left that a residual Aragaki residual mass graves ... ...
When sitting in the plane and leave this piece of land, the hearts of some acid, maybe not for this decline of the nation, but from historical reality unwilling to return, having left ... ... If I can, I choose to flee. The end of the trip is the beginning of the next escape ... ...
