In Chengdu City, when the dawn was ushered in again, it was also the time when the Dongchuan Army began to attack the inner city again.

Because the previous negotiation of the Son of Heaven in person to the city only made Yang Shili suspend his efforts for two days and one night; As a messenger between the inner city and the outer Guo, he comforted and rewarded the Dongchuan soldiers and horses who came to Xingshi to ask for their crimes, and discussed the buffer of the aftermath.

However, under many strong requests and running back-and-forth, the titles of the edict were shot from Guogong, Tejin, Kaifu Yitong Sansi, and Shangshu Zuofu, and they have been added layer by layer Dao Taiwei, Taishi, Dongchuan County King, and Zhongshu Ling; Sanchuan is the festival of the envoy.

However, in the disturbed Dongchuan army, the head of Tian Lingzi, who was the primary target of this Xingshi questioning, was never seen, and even the head of Chen Jingxuan, the main accomplice of his brother Xichuan Jiedu; After all, it still exhausted the last bit of patience of Yang Shili.

So he was tied to the stone cannon that had already been erected, and Dugu Zhenji, the envoy of the edict who was projected back and smashed into a piece on the wall, became the first victim of the Dongchuan army's anger.

The Dongchuan soldiers, who had been plundered in the city for days, were also satisfied, and carried the materials dismantled from the people's houses in the city, and made various baffles, ladders and other objects to attack the walls of the inner city.

At this time, the young Tang Dynasty Emperor was finally muttering to himself that "Father Tian misunderstood me". Let's recover and cheer up, and stand under the Xuanhuang canopy at the head of the wall. Quan Zuo encouraged the remaining marching escort army and united his children, Chengdu commandos and their dependents, and fought hard to stop the monstrous flames of the Dongchuan rebels.

As a result, the Dongchuan army, which had suffered a series of casualties and could not go to the city for several days, once again adopted another tactic. Many old and young women and children from one hundred and twenty squares in Waiguo City were pressed in groups in front of the four gates of Dongheng and the other four gates in Zicheng. Under the whipping and beating of the clubs, he began to cry out loudly for his family and relatives in the defenders of the city.

All of a sudden, the morale of the children of the local unity collapsed, and there were even groups of people who wanted to abscond across the city overnight; As a result, the commandos whose families were in the inner city and the escort sergeants from outside were intercepted, and dozens of heads were cut off before they were calmed down.

However, two days later, the Dongchuan Army, which once again broke through the lower limit, had a new tactic. More of the city's people were driven under the threat of knives and guns, while carrying bags of earth and wall roots, and wielding tools to chisel and dig the foundations of the walls.

And as soon as these precursors were killed and wounded, the Dongchuan army hid behind them to find an opportunity to attack and kill the wall. And so the battle became fierce and heated again; Whether it was General Zuo Shenwu, Zhou Bao, the envoy of the left and right guards, or General Zuo Jinwu, and Liu Jurong, the envoy of the gates in front of the palace, had to personally lead his children to fight on the gatehouse.

And when on the fifth day of the offensive and defensive battle, after the west gate tower of Zicheng collapsed in the flames, the Xingzai of the Tang Dynasty also sent a new envoy again; And began to discuss more and more humbly, whether it would be up and down, and move to Zitong.

So, Yang Shili began to take off the black light armor full of wind and dust complacently, and put on the dark purple tuanzhi collared robe exclusive to the ministers and prime ministers in the best position, with the golden turtle belt that represents the indescribable preciousness.

In front of the tall bronze mirror, he imagined that he would pick up the tooth soldiers in full uniform, and under the honor guard armed to the teeth, he walked towards the scene of slowly opening the city gate to greet the ministers.

At this time, the messenger who rode at a gallop brought him bad news like a thunderbolt on a sunny day; However, it was the Xichuan crusade that made Gao Renhou go north through Puzhou, and invaded the territory of Zizhou to surround the Zitong City of Dongchuan Jiedu.

Yang Shili, who was a little out of ground for a while, had to spend another whole day to unify the disputes between going and staying under his command, and scattered all the assets in the army to reward some soldiers who were fluctuating.

Only then did an agreement be reached, no longer engage in any flowery ceremonies to enter the city, and quickly take down the place where Chengdu Zicheng was fundamental, and then urged the Son of Heaven to issue an edict to declare Gao Renhou as a rebel, and then divide troops to rescue and recapture the old town of Zizhou.

However, it is as if God has made people, or since he raised the army, the number of qi and luck have been exhausted; Yang Shili, who stayed outside the city, fled back in a panic again.

On the bank of the famous Daze and famous Moke Pond in the west of Chengdu, the Qiang soldiers with fur hats and beasts who came all over the mountains were found.

- I'm the dividing line -

Then, when he got out of the car again, Hong Yao'er's little face still had a blush color, and her watery eyes were about to ripple out. However, the original cloak and skirt have also become the common winter men's cotton clothes and pants and scalp fur covers.

Although he looks like a fair-skinned young man, he wears a fur-edged coat that is wide enough to cover his hands and feet, but there is something like a ragdoll costume that is fluffy and cute; Looking at this kind of cute boy-style neutral beauty, Zhou Huaian was actually a little ready to move again.

The next internal ring guard work was taken over by the special security personnel of the Social Investigation Department, and the personal guards, who were too different from ordinary people, were gathered in several nearby places to stand by and standby. As for the car that traveled, it was escorted by another group of personal guards and returned to the city as it was.

And at this moment, the red medicine child rarely shows a rare childlike appearance, walking briskly shuttling between the streets of the city, curious and interesting to look at and open all kinds of things sold along the street, most of which are extremely cheap or extremely simple goods.

It also made Zhou Huaian introspective, whether he inadvertently made her depressed too much, and felt that there was some subtle reduction and weight loss in the description. Looking back, since she was adopted by Mrs. Cao when she was young, most of her life was spent in the midst of fighting in the rebel army, full of upheavals.

Therefore, it is true that she has seen many tragic things in time, and she is full of pity and love for the toiling masses. But under Mrs. Cao's best protection and teaching, it is equivalent to spending her innocent years in the circulation life of a caged bird.

In addition to worry-free food and clothing, it is not surprising that they basically have no chance of living in a normal family, so it is not surprising that they are also full of curiosity and freshness about the appearance and style of the street market that has settled down. Thinking of this, Zhou Huai'an's eyes became a little gentler again.

With the aroma of the clothes diffusing from the stall to the stall, she soon had two strings of local snacks in her hands, ring paste, similar to a pan-fried doughnut-style thing, but with a sweet sauce and salty flavor with white onions and chopped celery.

In addition, there are crispy small fish that can be burnt and smooth without any flavor, small pieces of pork skin, pu luo and taro chips baked together, smooth and not greasy sheep's tail jelly, and steamed fruits made of sticky yellow rice, jujube paste and peach kernels; crab roe and fish wrapped in daffodils cooked in Jiangmiri; There's even sweet cheese porridge and yellow syrup with a distinctly Northland style.

However, what is most appetizing for Zhou Huai'an is to use green onions, cartilage, skin jelly, oil residue and mixed noodles to dry and paste them into rotten meat flatbreads in a charcoal-fired earthen oven. You can buy two for only fifteen dollars; Although the hygienic conditions of the smoke and fire in the open air are a little worrying about the standard in the future,

But it also indirectly proves another fact. It is under the rule of the Taiping Army today, especially in Jingzhou, that the relatively low cost of living, and the relatively sufficient source of food and carbon salary; After all, it is still a dead winter, and the need for heating occupies a large part of the people's livelihood.

And most of the time, Zhou Huai'an doesn't have to talk much, as long as she holds her little hand with a smile and follows behind her, letting her buy and eat all the way, and occasionally make some attempts, evaluations and tastings.

Zhou Huai even had the spare time to collect three folded cheat sheets with different textures and contents; That is, it is a very rudimentary double-sided publication. The cheapest hemp edge paper is used to break as soon as you poke it, and many small characters like tofu blocks are printed, because the poor printing needs to be close to see clearly.

This thing originated from one of the methods of the Taiping Army's propaganda team, but since it began to become popular among the people in the market, it has sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Therefore, none of these three cheat sheets are official copies of official publications; It's something that is privately made up in a folk workshop.

The content of the publication is also very casual, from rumors in the market, to short trivial gossip among parents, and even specious almanacs, admonitions, and even second-hand news transferred from regular texts, and some far-fetched catches.

Implicitly, some later generations ignore the facts, and the gossip tabloids that directly manage sales have taken shape; And on one of the shoddy cheat sheets, Zhou Huai'an even felt the traces of the Social Investigation Department's meddling and interfering in the guidance of public opinion.

But behind this paper coarse and vaguely printed cheat sheet (newspaper), it represents the cheap paper source that can be provided by the paper industry, which has a large-scale production capacity after the popularization of hydraulic machinery in various places; As well as the same low-cost (coke) inks and simple plate-making technology that has spread among the people.

Therefore, in such a four-fold cheat sheet worth only five dollars, there are more than a dozen achievements of the Taiping Army that were ahead of this era. It can be regarded as a by-product and branch of the technology tree derived after the completion of the most primitive "five small" industrial foundations.

Zhou Huai'an thought about it like this, and made a gesture to the security personnel who were disguised as wandering vendors, porters, passers-by, or diners and drunkards, who were alternately following and relaying in sections to monitor the situation in the crowd on the left.