In the middle of summer, Jiangning Mansion is still shrouded in a lifeless and depressing atmosphere;

Although the seven gates of Jianye have been reopened to accommodate the daily needs of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city, the soldiers inside and outside the gates, as well as their grim and heavy faces, are like invisible shackles and burdens, which have been suppressed from beginning to end to fill the air of this accompanying capital.

With the passage of time in Stone Town, a large number of foreign guest troops stranded in the city also brought a lot of troubles and heavy burdens to the people of the city; Including the soaring prices in the market and the tight supply of daily needs, and the faint spread of epidemic diseases in the take-out,

The vast majority of pedestrians on the streets are in a hurry and do not dare to stay too long, and there are many people in the cities and markets for various reasons, and their homes have been closed for a long time. They don't even dare to do business after dark, and close their doors early in the afternoon; In the evening, the sky had just turned yellow, and there were few people in the street market;

Despite this, there are often people who loot or even destroy the "strongmen", or the merchants and rich people who go out of the house, and they are steamed together with their belongings; From time to time, young women go missing, and in the end they can only find unspeakable bodies in remote abandoned ditches, or they appear in the streets and alleys in a crazy and inhuman form; When news like this comes out that everyone is in danger,

Although the Jiangning Mansion has made a lot of inventory and rectification of the atmosphere on the streets, and has used this to apportionment and additional donations, and invited the army to carry out a thorough search, it is only then that under the attention of the people in the city gate, at least 100 thieves and villains who are said to have done a lot of evil during this period of time have been captured one by one.

It's just that people with sharp eyes and many hearts will notice that most of these "big thieves" and "thieves" who have been beheaded by the label are too thin and silent, but more like the relatively large hungry people found from the starvation outside the city, and when they are beheaded, they don't even have extra shouts and struggles, and the blood that flows out is very thin.

As for the vicious public order incidents, there is still not much reduction, and those who should still be born will still be born, but they are more concealed and cruel and sophisticated, and they basically no longer have any living mouth.

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In Stone Town, Amuro Hall is located on the highest attic with the best view and the freshest air.

Between the solemn and gorgeous and palatial furnishings, a petite body wrapped in a brocade quilt niche has been having a constant nightmare;

Because she saw the overwhelming blood and so many dead people again, as well as the expressions that were frozen in the scenes around her, as if they were dead.

Then they became the various seductive faces of the Shogunate when they were in Guangfu, and the corresponding contributions they would make to the country as the children of the public family, and the grace of the shogunate's great support from childhood to adulthood; Use the stories of the ancients and sages to encourage and influence her over and over again, and face the hardships and difficulties she may encounter with a fearless spirit.

For this reason, she also worked very hard to learn many things that she understood or did not understand, and even plausible.

Including how to use their own capital as a woman, the advantages and characteristics of identity, age and appearance, and invest in their favorite favors and grasp their minds; There are even demonstrations of people who have come to say things, how to deal with themselves and how to survive in the back house; How to co-opt, buy and befriend each other's close people, etc., and gradually drive them to their own use with power and inducement.

After all, the other party may be the youngest feudal official and foreign vassal in the history of the dynasty who is famous for his outstanding military achievements; Whether it is for the dynasty or for her personally, it is of great significance and great importance.

She must not only observe the virtue of women and bear children for the other party, but also ensure that the attitude and position of the person who influences her are always consistent with the court and do not deviate from the right path of loyalty, goodness and righteousness, with the help of the people around her and the instructions of the court. Even when it is really impossible to do something, it will definitely play a key role.

Although she couldn't help kicking at this, the other party she saw later made her settle down; Although it was the first time they met, there was not much estrangement and life, and it quickly made people accept and integrate into the identity of this bride; The other party also maintained enough pity and warmth for her.

Everything seems to be so complete and perfect, and there is a rather good future and a good future; However, a series of events and accidents in the following days gradually began to crack and collapse her newly consolidated and formed cognition, like an embankment wall immersed in the beach.

This also made her begin to seriously entangle and question the value and meaning of her existence; Could it be that it is a bait packaged under endless glamour and glory for the sake of the country's suppression of the ministers?

Thinking of this, she became more and more sad and found it difficult for her to cry and hurt herself, wishing that she would die of such a little bit of weakness and illness, and she would no longer have to face this cruel and unbearable reality of the world.

Until a broad and firm mind completely embraced her from head to toe, and warmly wanted to crush and melt her and swallow her, so that she was suddenly a little startled and awakened in a daze and disorientation, and it seemed that it was time for sweat and timidity again;

With the ups and downs of her body that was involuntarily fiddled, in the end, only the high-pitched sublimator remained, and the only feeling and perception that went straight into the clouds made her can't help but whisper.

"Okay, just take everything I have."

"Even if you fall to pieces..."

However, the rumbling sound gradually became obvious, which made the girl, who had just woken up from her illness, murmur a little drowsily.

"Is it thundering?"

The man who was close to her behind him did not answer, but continued to carry her to the terrace with her arms in his arms.

From a distance, the river outside Stone City seemed to be boiling, and it had become a new battlefield, and the sailors who were responsible for blocking the river were suffering from a one-sided annihilation;

In the rain of fire and smoke flying in the sky like meteors, warships are constantly sunk and capsized, or they are torn apart and disintegrated in the mighty river.

More often than not, they broke the mast, broke the sail and lost control, and floated down the river with the roaring flames and the terrible howl of rushing to dive.

There were also some scarred warships, which were replaced with wind and thunder flags with sky blue background waves in the traces of smoke and fire.

These roars came from some other smaller ships on the river, and from time to time they burst out with cannon fire and clouds of smoke, and in an instant there was a besieged naval warship, broken into several pieces and capsized in the river.

The remnants of the sailors did not last long, like prey chased by fierce wolves, scrambling their sails and fleeing in all directions, regardless of formation and cover; There was even a ship that rushed down the cliff near Stone Town in a panic, and then crashed into the rocky reef shore with a bang, and slowly tilted and overturned, shaking off the people and things on it like debris.

In the blink of an eye, these scattered heads and debris were slapped by the river between the reefs, and there was no trace of them.

"Looks like it's time, it's time for us to go home."

The man holding her in his arms arrived in a deep voice.

"Although Jinling is good, it is not my hometown."

"Go home."

There are still some girls who are unconscious, but there are some lost and melancholy whispers.

"Where to go home, where to go home."

"Of course, we'll be at home for the rest of the day."

As if echoing and contrasting the words of the other party, between the towers and halls under the Amuro Palace, the neatly lined up guards' hats and armor were shining, and the chariots and horses full of combat equipment were mixed in, obviously ready for the follow-up attack.

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"The Huai army in Stone Town has broken through."

Cai Hou, who heard the news, was immediately overjoyed. Since the Huai army took the initiative to rush out of the stone city that was as difficult to gnaw as a turtle shell, it meant that there were more opportunities to rely on the power of the terrain to outflank and besiege them step by step.

After all, the opponent's "field battle and good defense first" is not in vain, even if it is driven into battle in turn these days and people from all walks of life have used the lessons and blood and tears piled up by the sea of corpses and blood; They have been beaten by all the means of the Huai army, which is guarding the dangerous points, and they have no temper, and they have all kinds of resentment and doubts that shake the hearts of the army.

Then this joy quickly turns into a certain kind of fear and worry; After all, the other party is the elite of the army that is the best at fighting and the most brilliant in the north, and since he dares to take risks and stand out in the city under the huge gap in military strength between the enemy and the enemy, I am afraid that he will have some support and preparation in advance.

"Immediately open the edict and dispatch Qiongzhou Qiongzhou athletes and Yazhou volunteers."

"The shogunate has nurtured them for many years, and it is time to use them."

This is the elite feudal warrior used by the shogunate to protect the core territory - Haizhou Oshima, and it is also one of the alternate sources of the imperial court guards, well-equipped and fierce and good at fighting, since childhood, they have instilled the dedication and glory of the shogunate to fight until the last moment, so the soldiers do not lack the fighting spirit of looking at death as home,

Even in the sequence of being assigned to accompany the guards this time, as the representative of the Great Mansion, he only had the opportunity to act with an edict that prepared rights and interests in advance, and a single mobilization and use.

Therefore, even in the fiercest battles before, this new force did not come in handy; Instead, under the priority guarantee, let them eat and drink enough and rest well, and they are in a full state and have been waiting for the machine; Now it seems that the time has finally come to put a hammer on it and put an end to it all.

"Oh no."

At this time, someone rushed in again and said.

"The naval divisions of Taoyedu and Nanpudu are about to fall because they are attacked by foreign enemies."

"What..."

This news suddenly made his expression fall suddenly.

"Immediately go from the city to support and take it back."

"No,"

Then he changed his tune.

"Immediately give priority to the guards on the walls."

What kind of joke is this, these two places are the suburbs of Jiangning Mansion Water 6 to rush, and it is also close to Stone City, once it is rushed out of the Huai Shuai Department, the inside and outside should break the barrier of the outer Guo city wall, it is really a big thing and there is no hope anymore.

However, before he could wait to ride out on horseback, Cai Hou, who hurriedly ran to the back yamen not far away, had just walked out a few dozen steps away, and heard a loud bang like thunder in the distance.

At this moment, countless local citizens who walked out of their homes saw a thick and huge cloud of smoke suddenly rising from the northwest corner of Jiangning City, as well as the sound of bricks and stones falling like raindrops in the distance.

This loud sound was like a puncture and tear, and the heat that had been shrouding the sky over Jiangning City was so thick that even the cicadas and the sounds of people and animals were regretfully silent for a few moments; It also broke the last bit of fantasy bubble that some people worked hard to maintain.

(End of chapter)