Chapter 279: Lingwu City

100,000 black-armored sergeants drove to Pingyang, and Pingyang's little thorn Shi could only come out to greet him, and praised the princess of the country for guarding Chang'an and other exploits.

If it weren't for the robbery of the village by bandits, Wu Yueya would not have removed Pingyang's Shangguan assassination history in vain.

After settling the people in those villages, Wu Yueya left a few thousand black-armored soldiers behind and continued to lead his army north, passing through some ruined village ruins on the way, and often saw half-decomposed corpses lying in the grass and no one cared about them.

When I came to Shuonan, I saw some traces of living people, but this is almost an empty city.

Continue on your way to the outskirts of your destination, Lingwu City.

Unknown wild birds are whining in the forest, lonely and terrifying, before coming to Lingwu City, Wu Yue Aya only feels dead silence, without the slightest anger, only the lone eagle in the sky is circling, howling towards the vast land.

On foot, he looked up at the corner of the weedy wall, where untreated corpses lay on the mossy wall, exuding a faint smell of decay that made people sick.

Lingwu City has become a dead city, and the city tower is nowhere to be seen. The half-broken flag of the Tang Army ran aground on the wall, listless.

Wu Yueya walked slowly into the city, the streets were terrifyingly silent, there were no living creatures, even wild cats and wild dogs could not see it, and then walked to the stairs, lifted her skirt and stepped over the corpse of a Tang Army soldier, Wu Yueya didn't dare to look directly, and it was terrifying enough to catch a glimpse of half of her rotten face, so she could only endure walking up to the city.

The walls were littered with the bodies of the soldiers who had died in battle, and their bodies were unburied, and they turned around and looked into the city, where the walls had collapsed, and the buildings were left with only a few black bodies standing in the wind, most of which had been brutally destroyed.

Taking out the binoculars, Wu Yueya saw that there were people in the north of the city who were carrying and disposing of the corpses, and there were still some people moving there, but there were not many, probably only a few thousand.

Walking out of the city gates and giving orders for volunteers to dispose of the corpses in the city, she led a group of black-armored sergeants to the north of the city and met the people who were disposing of the corpses.

Among them, the clothes varied, but most of them were poor people in tattered clothes, and there were also a few rich and noble families who were brightly dressed.

When Wu Yueya went to the camp they had set up outside the city, she found that their food and clothing were not enough, and the bamboo dustpan was full of cleaned white grass roots.

Seeing the woman in red coming here surrounded by two mighty soldiers, Lu Yuanwai, who was the leader, walked up and asked respectfully with fear, "Is this Her Royal Highness the Princess?" ”

Wu Yueya looked at the fat man, his face was not good at this time, and he could see that he was malnourished, "I am, may I ask who you are?" ”

"Oh, see Her Royal Highness the Princess, Xiaomin is a foreigner, named Lu Dingbao! Lucky to survive the catastrophe of Lingwu, he led everyone to wait for rescue here! Now it's here! Lu Yuanwai greeted cautiously and at the same time declared his identity.

"I see," Wu Yueya moved her gaze to Lu Yuanwai's back, and saw a man who was quite accustomed to rivers and lakes, and when the other party saw him looking, he hurriedly lowered his head and arched his hand, retracted his gaze and comforted, "There is Lao Lu outside, this revenge of Lingwu destroying the city will be avenged!" ”

"Her Royal Highness the Princess! None of the twenty members of my family escaped..."Lu Yuanwai wept bitterly and bowed gratefully.

Wu Yueya comforted a few words again, and ordered the Black Armor Army to distribute some food, clean up Lingwu City, and disinfect it with lime powder.

Walking in the camp, Wu Yueya saw Lingwu's shopkeeper and several restaurant guys, they are Lingwu's intelligence officers, "Thank you for your hard work, the city of more than 100,000 people has been looted like this, they Uighurs have gone too far, fortunately you have nothing to do, when the Lingwu matter is over, if you want to go back to your hometown, go back to your hometown, I know the situation of every intelligence officer in the restaurant, you are also a small person, more or less there will be some concerns!" ”

"Your Highness, we're not leaving!" Shopkeeper Zhang Yougui said firmly with tears in his eyes.

"Yes, Your Highness, we are not leaving!" The rest of the guys who followed the shopkeeper Zhang said together.

"I know you have a heart, but most of the time you are powerless, and you have done your job well, and it is also important to go back and report safety!" Wu Yueya didn't want to dampen their enthusiasm and confidence, but they had experienced disasters, made contributions, received the rewards and glory they deserved, and could even retire successfully.

"No, Your Highness, we will go back to see the family, but the country is not peaceful, what is home, this is what you said, and the wine glass he, he sacrificed to cover us, I hope the princess can correct his name, at least give him a name!" Shopkeeper Zhang was angry, and when he talked about the truth, his eyes were full of tears.

Wu Yueya looked at several sincere faces, at this time, in addition to her being able to correct her name, who else could correct the names of those soldiers who defended the city and died tragically, maintained the posture of a commander, and responded to their request, "As a national death, it should also be left in history!" For the soldiers who died in the Lingwu battle, they must be registered and remembered in memory! Cast into a good story, eternal fragrance! ”

Shopkeeper Zhang and several men knelt on the ground, thanked loudly, and became more and more convinced of the princess who protected the country.

In the past few days, he has been staying in Lingwu.

On the evening of the third day, Wu Yueya faced the red sunset and played with a few children in the plains, and there were a few strange frames painted in the place, which was a fun game called 'hopscotch'.

Taking turns bouncing on the ground in turn, although it seems childish, this is also the only moment when Wu Yueya relaxes, seeing young children, she will always like them, in her eyes, these children are treasures.

At night, when the evening breeze was slightly cool, Wu Yueya took the firewood she had left and lit a small bonfire, began to cook dry broth, added some grass roots to it, and after cooking, filled a bowl of fragrant grassroots sweet broth for each child at an ignorant age.

At this time, Chu'er smelled the fragrance and walked over, "Little lady, I want to ask for a bowl too!" ”

"Chu'er, I miss the days of peace so much, carefree, hungry to eat, eat and sleep, it's so good!" Wu Yueya scooped out the soup with a wooden spoon, prepared some more slices of meat for Chu Er, and handed the bowl to Chu Er.

"The little lady always says, you are not from this world, the little lady's world must be very warm and beautiful! Chu'er is not stupid, she knows that the little lady is different. Chu Er took the soup bowl with a smile, picked it up and smelled it, "It's so fragrant!" ”

"Yes, a very good world, I want to end the war as soon as possible!" Wu Yueya added some more to the children who had finished drinking the soup, but her bowl was always empty, until the soup in the pot was exhausted, and she didn't take a sip, but simply nibbled a few bites of white flour cakes and drank them with wine.

Not long after, an intelligence sergeant in the army came with the news that the Jiedu envoy of Liangzhou City had surrendered, and it would take at least half a month to rush to Liangzhou from here.