There was an exclamation outside, and in an instant, the sound of the military horn stopped abruptly, and the sound of dense footsteps came. Du Sheng looked up at the wellhead excitedly.

A somewhat ugly face appeared at the mouth of the well, and a strong hand grasped the slightly trembling flagpole.

"I'm Qin Scar, who is next?"

"General Qin, I'm Du Sheng."

Du Sheng shouted out with a crying voice: "I am Du Sheng, the commander of the third brigade of the second battalion under General Liu. ”

Qin Kuan turned his head and shouted loudly: "Come on, find a rope." ”

"General Qin, there are eleven people below, except for Physician Chen, they are all wounded soldiers."

"Make a soft pocket, hurry up, hurry up!"

Each soldier was pulled out of the wellhead, and the Tang troops surrounding the wellhead erupted in bursts of cheers. The matter of the survivors of the Third Brigade temporarily diluted the previous boundless sorrow.

The eleven wounded soldiers stood together in support of each other, and Du Sheng still held the battle flag tightly. They saw the light of day and were reborn after the catastrophe, but there was no joy on their faces.

"General Ge!" Du Sheng looked at Ge Cai and suddenly burst into tears.

Everyone came to the place where Liu Yuan fought last, and looking at the place where the rubble was buried, Qin Kuan was the first to rush over, vigorously picked up a blackened stone, and walked out.

Young and strong, the Tang army all rushed over together, cleaning up this piece of ruins.

They wanted to find Liu Yuan's body, even if it was just a small piece.

Ge Cai was helped to sit on a rock, his eyes staring straight at the busy crowd in front of him.

"General Ge, this is given to me by General Liu, saying that it is a gift for his son!" Du Sheng's trembling hand took out the delicate wooden knife from his arms.

Gently stroking the delicate pattern on the wooden knife, Ge Cai's lips twitched, and he said softly: "His skills have always been very good. Du Sheng, did he say anything in the end? ”

Du Sheng cried: "General Liu finally detonated the explosives buried here in advance above us, and in the end, I only heard General Liu shout, fat woman, I will go first." ”

Ge Cai smiled on his face, but on his smiling face, tears fell like beads with broken threads.

"I know, I know, he has always wanted to call me like that, but unfortunately he couldn't beat me in the past, and he was afraid that I would beat him, so he didn't dare to shout!"

When Tang Jun beside him heard Ge Cai's words, his eyes were red.

The ruins had been largely cleared, but nothing had been found. Qin Kuan still didn't want to give up, he was digging and digging inside, and finally, in a pile of floating soil, a shriveled and crooked helmet appeared in front of him.

Carefully reaching out and holding the helmet in his hand, carefully brushing the dust off it.

This is Liu Yuan's helmet.

"Liu Yuan, Qin Scar is here! Your fat lady is here too, and we're here to take you home! Qin Kuan stood up with tears in his eyes, held the helmet, walked in front of Ge Cai, and handed the helmet to Ge Cai.

"No, nothing!" Qin Kuan lowered his head and said: "In the end, he must have detonated the explosives, there must be some fierce fire oil bombs or something in it, a fire, even the stones were burned to the crisp, Liu Yuanhe, there is nothing left, just this helmet." ”

Ge Cai took the helmet, hugged it tightly in his arms, didn't say anything, turned and walked out of town.

Watching the carriage carrying Ge Cai leave, Ren Xiaonian clenched his fists and lowered his head in shame. Today, except for the first time he said hello to Ge Cai, he didn't have the courage to say another word to Ge Cai throughout the whole process.

Although it is said that the general died in a hundred battles and went to the battlefield, no one could guarantee a safe return, but the unnecessary defeat caused by the general's decision-making mistakes could have been avoided.

Liu Yuan died in battle because of Ren Xiaonian's decision-making mistakes. And even though Liu Yuan was killed in the end when the whole army was wiped out, he still won a glimmer of life for Ren Xiaonian. It prevented the entire Right Qianniu Wei Left Army from being wiped out by the Southern Alliance, and it was precisely because of this that they were able to contain tens of thousands of Southern Alliance troops in Tiaoziling, which played a key role in the effectiveness of Shi Zhuang's Black Tiger Heart-digging strategy.

And this time the diversion battle has become the only highlight of the entire right Qianniuwei left army in this battle.

For the people of Chang'an, this war in Jiangxi, Hunan, was a distant thing for them. If in the past, when there was a large-scale war in a certain place, the imperial court would always think of adding some taxes, some conscription, and even some inexplicable donations to them. But now, all of that hasn't happened. Their lives are business as usual.

The way they learned about the war was to get some information about the war from the Datang Weekly.

But limited to the lag of news at this time, the news they got was basically half a month or even the previous situation. As the mouthpiece of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Weekly naturally selectively publishes such news when it publishes such news.

Like the heavy losses of the Right Qianniu Wei Left Army this time, naturally it is not to be mentioned. In the newspapers, it is described how the soldiers of the Right Qianniu Guard and the Left Army fought bloodily, how they pinned down a large number of enemies with their meager troops, and provided an excellent opportunity for the army to win the final victory.

A heroic general like Liu Yuan who died in battle is naturally to be greatly exaggerated, and the last few battles commanded by Liu Yuan are even more described, and Liu Yuan's final heroic death has made a most heroic footnote to this propaganda.

The newspaper did not say that Liu Yuan's army was wiped out, and only 11 people remained, nor did it say that there were more than 10,000 people in the left army, and only 2,000 people remained.

So in the whole north, the people were still extremely excited, and in the south, the Tang army was still the invincible army they were familiar with. And in a place like Chang'an, although the people's sense of belonging to the new court is not so strong, it is always a good thing that the new dynasty won the war. This means that they will still live in a relatively safe environment.

What's more, this emperor seems to be quite good at the moment.

So the whole Chang'an has been immersed in the atmosphere of the New Year.

Compared with previous years, this year's Chang'an is more prosperous and glorious. Countless goods poured into Chang'an, Wang Mingyi's newly developed commercial facades, one after another, the entire business district of Chang'an, no longer limited to the past two cities, it can be said that now everywhere there are people, you can basically see one after another shops full of goods.

There are local specialties, all kinds of novelties produced in the north, and of course, there are all kinds of strange things from overseas that the Chang'an people have never seen and foreigners who have a very different appearance from the Tang people. Dark-skinned, blonde and blue-eyed, along with the Tang Dynasty's long-distance fleets all over the ocean, they also appeared in this political and cultural center one by one.

The people of Chang'an are slowly regaining their former pride.

Queen Liu Ruyan also made a big move recently, causing a sensation in Chang'an.

As the queen who oversees the welfare of the entire Tang Dynasty, she naturally needs countless money to support this action of winning the hearts of the people, whether it is to take care of widows and loneliness, or to set up pharmacies and clinics across the country, and to help the poor and the poor, it needs a lot of money to support.

Relying on financial appropriations alone is obviously a drop in the bucket, and fundraising cannot make up for this gap, so Liu Ruyan has to think of open sources to earn more money.

Liu Ruyan carved out a corner of Xingqing Palace, where the royal family lived, and transformed part of the royal garden into a zoo. It is filled with rare animals from all over the world.

What the queen mother wants, there are naturally countless people vying to offer. Every fleet that sailed away, after Liu Ruyan revealed this meaning, immediately rushed to find those birds and beasts that were not available in the Tang Dynasty for the queen from overseas. Even the fierce beasts of the former roaring mountains and forests in the Tang Dynasty were captured by the local government and offered to the queen to help her open this zoo.

The ticket price of 100 wen per visit is really not cheap, but there are still countless people who flock to it every day. Whether it is a native tiger, a blind bear, a peacock, an iron-eating beast, a long-nosed elephant from afar, a giraffe with a long neck, or a fierce crocodile wearing Kai armor that is several meters long, it makes the Tang people crazy.

In these things, Liu Ruyan found a pleasant feeling that was completely different from that on the battlefield, and the regret of not being able to lead the army to fight no longer existed now, and she happily devoted herself to this activity. Now that the New Year is approaching, she is even busier.

The financial reform in charge of the imperial concubine Xia He has also entered a critical moment, the first step in the implementation of the army is very smooth, and the trust in the soldiers has made the common people and businessmen in the core areas of Li Ze's rule such as Wuyi begin to accept these things that they call military tickets.

Paper money is already slowly gaining popularity.

After getting off to a good start, Xia He devoted himself even harder to the process of promoting banknotes.

The two ladies were so busy that they often couldn't see anyone for a few days, but Li Ze was still busy with the war in the south at the moment.

Unlike the jubilation of the common people, Li Ze was in a state of anxiety, anger or sadness from time to time. Because Liu Ruyan and Xia He are often not in the relationship of Xingqing Palace, he rarely goes back, and often lives in the public hall on the side of the Taiji Palace.

This war was not what he wanted. And the final result must be quite far from his ideal result.

Now, it can only be said that it is the second best thing.