Zhang Zhaohua went out and saw the road crisscrossing the road, but she didn't know where to go for a while, but she heard a faint cry, she looked around blankly, only to find that the corpses on the city tower were transported down, and all the men, women and children in a street and alley hugged out, and when they saw the faces of acquaintances, they cried everywhere.

"This is the iron pillar of the Qi family," someone said: "The aunt of the Qi family is left with such a lone seedling, don't let her know!"

But it was too late, the seventy-year-old Mrs. Qi had already staggered over, and the neighbors suddenly rushed over, this one said that it was cold outside and let the old lady go home and sit, and the other said that it was not safe outside before the war was over, and everyone wanted to send the old lady back, but the old lady had a premonition in her heart, she pushed away the crowd tremblingly, saw her young son, and came back to see her two days ago, telling her not to worry - now she was lying in the carriage and became a cold corpse.

"Ah, his father," the old lady was almost angry: "Our family, the last - "

Zhang Zhaohua squeezed into the crowd, looked at the sad and tragic eyes in front of him, and heard whispers: "The Qi family is a military household, the father dies and the son succeeds, the brother dies and the brother makes up, the eldest is dead, and the second child has to be a soldier, and if you can't escape, you have to die - it's really dead!"

Zhang Zhaohua thought of Su Eunniang again, if it is classified as a music and military membership, it will be a music and military registration on behalf of him, and he will not be able to come out unless he dies. The eldest of the Qi family had already died in battle during the Northern Expedition, and the second eldest had now taken over the quota and died in the battle to defend the city. The old lady's two sons died, and it seemed that she had no intention of living anymore.

"Auntie," Zhang Zhaohua couldn't help but grab her hand: "Your son died for King Yan, and King Yan's Mansion will always remember it! In the second half of your life, you will be supported by King Yan's Mansion! Those who guard Beiping City for King Yan here, regardless of men, women, old and young, the deceased will be exempted from military service with their families, and the living will be exempted from military service for ten years!"

"Don't dare, don't dare-" The old lady heard Zhang Zhaohua's identity be revealed, and said with tears in her eyes: "Iron Pillar, Iron Pillar He died for His Royal Highness King Yan, and he died without regrets!"

Zhang Zhaohua saw this young deceased, the bridge of his tall nose was even stained with dried blood, and he felt sad in his heart, "King Yan protects the people like a child, then the people defend their righteousness, and they die regardless of their lives, thinking about what crime is it to come to the southern army, but they are just driven by the imperial court, the soldiers of the north and the south, who have no parents? Who has no brothers?

Zhang Zhaohua went out of the house to buy rice and grain, according to the list of the deceased, sent it down one by one, and waited until the evening before returning to the upper floor of Lizhengmen City. She sat on the haystack for a moment, her mind blank, and then she was startled by the sound of a rattle in her stomach, and realized that she hadn't eaten all day.

When she stood up, she suddenly saw Gao Chi sitting opposite, staring at her for I don't know how long she had been sitting.

"I just ordered that the conscription be exempted," Zhang Zhaohua said: "It is difficult to defend the city, and most of the soldiers have followed their father to the battle, and the old and young can no longer work." These soldiers—"

Before she finished speaking, Gao Chi said, "Don't you ask Brother Chun how it is?"

Zhang Zhaohua said: "What can he do, I just slapped him a few times, and he was also naughty and ruthless, you all connived, and you used to have problems!"

Gao Chi said: "The skin on Brother Chun'er's legs has been broken by you, swollen an inch high, and it hurts so much that you can't eat, you are a mother, but you can't find anyone for a day!"

Zhang Zhaohua hurriedly defended: "I'm busy distributing rice and grain to every household, why don't I want to look at him!"

Gao Chi didn't speak, he stood up and left, Zhang Zhaohua hurriedly chased after him, threw himself on his back and got up alive: "Brother Chun'er is also my lifeline, why don't I love him! I'm afraid that everyone loves him, is used to him, and spoils him! He didn't swallow anything in his mouth, nor did he spit on the ground, but sprayed it in my mother's face! I am also my mother's child, if Brother Chun'er was someone else's, I would have beaten him to cry and call my mother!"

Gao Chi's expression loosened a little, and when Zhang Zhaohua saw that there was a door, he said: "I hit a few times this time, and I forgot that these hands are now also trained in weapons, and their strength is greater than before, so I will definitely remember that I won't beat him like this in the future." ”

Gao Chi said: "Don't think about the next time, just look at the prince and grandson, how can you be beaten like this! Father, queen and mother don't know this time, if you know, where can you easily pass? Brother Chun'er is not only your son, he is also my son, the grandson of my father and princess, you beat him, how is it different from beating us?"

Zhang Zhaohua said everything he could, and promised not to beat the child, so he asked Gao Chi to dissipate his anger.

The two climbed the city tower, looked down and saw that the southern army camp was brightly lit, stretching for ten miles, and the people and horses were noisy.

"Consumption," Gao Chi said, "100,000 people have to live and consume with Beiping City." ”

Zhang Zhaohua also felt palpitations when she saw so many people, she couldn't help but think of last night's battle, and couldn't help but shiver. She said: "It's a pity that the procrastination plan was discovered, otherwise I really want to drag it on." ”

"Although your method is a scoundrel," Gao Chi said: "But it works, it can buy time for Beiping, the two armies are facing each other, each has its own plan, do you have any other way now, can you delay it again." ”

Zhang Zhaohua was also racking her brains to think, but she couldn't concentrate, because all kinds of cries were lingering in her ears, and when she sent it to comfort, it also brought bad news to that family - she remembered that Aunt Qi dragged her into the house and pointed to the two tablets placed in the center of the room: "The iron pillar is gone, there is another one!"

Zhang Zhaohua was suddenly shocked: "I have a way!"

After night fighting, Li Jinglong found that the wind direction in Beiping was favorable to the Yan army, so he no longer chose to fight at night, but prepared to order the siege of the city the next morning when the northwest wind stopped.

However, he had just set off the cannon, but he saw a huge portrait suddenly hanging out on the head of the main gate of Li, in which a person in official clothes sat upright, with a red robe, a white gauze middle single, a blue collar, a leather belt and a ribbon, and white socks and black shoes. I also saw that the number of beams on his crown was eight, and the eight beams were the regulations of the Guogong, and the seven Liangguan was the Guohou - so this person was a Guogong.

Li Jinglong looked at this person's face again, but suddenly let out an "ah" and his eyes widened. Because he knew this face so well, it turned out to be a portrait of his dead father!

After a while, a big tablet was hung up at the head of the city, and it was written on the spiritual seat of Li Wenzhong, the first Duke of Cao Guogong, and Gao Chi sat down below and said: "Jiujiang, you and my brother have seen each other since the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu, and it has been three years now. I didn't expect to see you again today, but it was such a love place. ”

"Prince Yan Wang," Li Jinglong pointed to the portrait at the head of the city, and said: "You and I now, one is a rebel who led the remnants of the remnants to resist the city, and the other is an angel who came to quell the rebellion from the handsome army. But what is your purpose in placing the image of my father and the Lord on the city?"

"Brother Jiujiang," the corners of Gao Chi's mouth twitched, but his face was even more solemn: "I won't tell you, I had a dream last night, I dreamed of my uncle! In the dream, my uncle took my hand and said that you must not fight against each other!

Li Jinglong was angry and laughed, and said, "I see what you can say!"

"Uncle asked you," Gao Chi was not ambiguous: "When Hongwu was in March of the seventeenth year of Hongwu, he gave you an explanation, do you remember?"