Everywhere was the choking smell of burnt and the faint sound of Bibo breaking and breaking, and we stepped on the rubble and ashes all over the ground, and we had to be on guard at all times, otherwise we might step on a section of corpses that looked like charcoal, but were actually burned beyond recognition, with only a little flesh and bones inside.

Just a day ago, the officers and soldiers who had rushed into Miyagi to wreak havoc and vent everywhere had just experienced a sudden change and great contrast from heaven to hell.

The various palaces were full of firewood and gunpowder, and in the tragic attack and casualties in the two outer kingdoms and the inner city, the officers and soldiers who had accumulated enough resentment and pressure were no longer simple military orders that could be lightly restrained in the face of the magnificent palaces and palaces.

The officers and men who rushed in were soon attracted by the gold treasures and goods scattered all over the ground, and they scattered and looted one after another, completely ignoring the orders and constraints of the officials, and naturally there was no general formation and formation to speak of.

In other words, most of those generals and officials did not have much mind to restrain and control their subordinates, but took their own soldiers and were busy competing with others for the goods and women they saw

Even if someone doesn't find much, their own team has already dispersed, and they even find that they can't find a superior who can report and ask for instructions.

During the waiting period, the fire lit by the dead soldiers was suddenly chaotic, and the soldiers did not know the generals, the generals did not know the soldiers, they did not control each other, they fought separately, and even trampled on each other in order to fight for the fire to escape, and fought and suffered many casualties.

Only a few people could barely survive by jumping into the nearest pond or ditch.

There were three dissatisfied armies and if the troops were caught in it, there was a great uproar, and a few people did not enter the palace, and those who were on standby on the periphery also lost their command in place and did not know what to do, so they could only stick to the spot and stand by.

It wasn't until the front line commanded, reorganized the people of the outer city, and forcibly requisitioned the surviving citizens to come to fight the fire at any cost, only to find that the Miyagi and nearby wells had been filled, and the facilities that could be used to fight the fire were almost destroyed.

can only use the limited number of buckets and water tanks, and even pots and pans to try their best to open up a gap for survival, so that those anxious officers and soldiers can desperately rush out of a way to survive.

The rest is unthinkable, and now it is a hot summer, and the fire has burned for a whole day and a night, and even the flowers and trees in the garden have turned into gray-black charcoal.

The magnificent and magnificent palace buildings have also been reduced to unrecognizable ruins, like a huge symbol of countless souls and resentments, shrouded in the sky over the palace and the inner city, and the smoke and dust that have drifted away for a long time are so thick that even the sun has lost its color.

With the ashes sprinkled by the morning breeze, it made most of the city feel like a "black snow".

Even the camp at the Qianmen Gate of Zhengqing, where the Chinese army is located, is inevitable, whether it is people or livestock, prices or weapons, they are stained with a thin layer of gray dust.

Because of the burning of the wounded, although they were really burned to death and choked to death, plus the casualties of trampling on each other and fighting in the road, only a small half of them.

However, the more than 20,000 burns caused by this were no longer of any use in a short period of time, which was enough to completely break the muscles and bones of several major military towns involved, and their vitality was so badly damaged that they could not even cope with the manpower sent by the Chinese army.

The officers and troops in Tiannan City lost nearly half of their strength at once, and this impact and deficit was not insignificant, and even the Chinese army outside the city could not be safe and continued to stay in place.

Not to mention that the commander Liu Yanqing led a group of civil and military personnel to the inner city to deal with the aftermath, and dozens of military generals, including a deputy commander, two military envoys and a town general, down to the battalion commander and captain, were tied up in front of the middle gate and executed on the spot.

The method of marching on the spot killed several people in a row, and more than a dozen people were whipped with a cane, and the lightest punishment for the rest was to take their posts on the spot and wait for the guilty army in vain.

So our small army, tired and wounded, had only one night's rest, and then had to leave a small number of men to take care of the wounded again, and with only six remaining teams, we were called out to assist the officers and soldiers in searching for survivors, and at the same time to supervise the temporary transfer of the people, and the local requisitioned city residents, to clean up the ruins.

Strictly speaking, this is our main task, to strictly supervise these laborers, to prevent any omissions, entrainment, or any mess mixed into them.

Of course, the main reason why the official army took such great pains to clean up the ruins was naturally that they hoped to find the corpses of Tonghai Gong and the important elements of the rebel party around him, as well as their related evidence, so as to draw an unsatisfactory end to this twists and turns of the war against rebellion.

"Sad Qin and Han Dynasty meridians, the palace has been made of soil"

In front of a pile of ruins with billowing black smoke somewhere, looking at the pile of ruins that only had a tall shape left, I suddenly couldn't help but come up with these two sentences of Zhang Yanghao's "Hillside Sheep and Tong Caring for the Ancients" in the Yuan Dynasty.

"It is said that the predecessor of Tiannanxing Palace was a summer forest garden built in imitation of the shape of Xijing North Garden, and the history is even earlier than that of Xiaochang'an and Shoushan Palace......"

Xin Jiaxuan, who was standing beside me and struggling to support a cane, also sighed softly from time to time and introduced to me:

"The supervision is the handwriting and planning of the well-known construction master, known as the "contemporary public loss" of the former court palace director Yu Chi Yiseng...... The last swan song known as the pinnacle of life"

"Therefore, Tiannan Forest Garden is known as the most suitable place to recuperate at the end of the world, and people in the garden are like out of the world, and the most famous ones are Yingshuitai and Jiuqu Qiongxiao Palace."

"Jiuqu Qiongxiao Hall is known as a ghostly workmanship, the whole hall of the nine palace corridors, the floor view is fivefold, all of them are made of fragrant wood giant sandalwood, not with a nail but as solid as a rock, all year round do not smell flies and insects, do not see dust, the end is magical, the style is extraordinary, a ......"

And more famous is the center of the Zhongyuan Hall, the four walls of the hand-painted "Shangyuan Shengping Nightless Sky" picture

"That's the seventh descendant of Kaiyuan Painting Saint Wu Daozi, the great grandmaster Wu Linji spent three years and painstakingly sang the swan song."

"Legend has it that at that time, the moment when the Wu family put the finishing touch on the pen, the wind and thunder were great, the rainstorm was like ink, and the painting became a clear cloud, and the rainbow bridge was hung high."

"That Yingshui platform is even more amazingly conceived, the design is exquisite, the whole pavilion is a hundred zhang square, the cover is like an umbrella, hanging three zhang from the bottom to the top, overlooking the mighty river,"

"But no matter how violent the storm surge is, it will not move all year round. No matter how stormy you are, not a drop of water can enter the porch for half a minute,"

"As the saying goes: the wind does not enter, the rain does not enter, only the Liang family can enter"

Looking at his nostalgic and long-thinking expression, I have a strange sense of déjà vu for Mao.

I shook my head and threw it away. Continue to stare at the ants scattered among the undulating ruins, carrying tools or carrying all kinds of garbage and sundries, carrying the crowd of people.

The area assigned to our supervision naturally cannot be such a vital place as the Yin'an Palace in the Linzhao Dynasty, or the Houye Palace where the long-term residence is located, or even the Qinying Building where daily affairs are handled, but some corner areas such as the Garden Pavilion Forest.

The army also has its own regulations for the management of these migrant workers, so we don't have to worry too much about it, so compared with those officers and soldiers who dig three feet into the ground and are in a hurry to see people and death, our responsibilities and pressures are not too great.

During this time, I spent half a day trying to find some clots of precious metals such as gold and silver that had been burned together after the fire, and it became a pleasure for me to speculate and judge the previous scale and shape based on the remnants of the ruins.

The crowd pulling through the ruins would occasionally let out exclamations, and then someone reported that some new corpses or deformed palace artifacts had been found.

It was noon, when the sergeant in charge of the work finally blew the whistle for the stoppage, and the cart brought baskets of mixed bread and buckets of soup, and the men could only sit on the ruins standing or sitting on the ground, clutching and gobbling it with their hands.

At this time, I also walked to the shade of a high platform wall again, handed over the scene to Xin Jiaxuan to continue to stare, and drank a few sips of a refreshing drink mixed with salt and wine, but at this time I saw that the white soldiers who were in charge of blocking and guarding the periphery were Zhang Lizheng, and some mysteriously came over.

"Waiting, searching the people on the periphery, seems to have found something"

I took a few guards with me and followed him through the ruins and walls to a small courtyard that had been blackened and collapsed. The same few pacesetters stayed outside the wall to stand on guard.

Compared with the palace buildings I had seen before, it seemed a little shabby and shabby, a man who was covered in tatters and covered with holes in the fire, and whose hair was full of gray faces, was tied with his hands behind his back, and sat honestly on the ground.

According to Zhang Lizheng, in the process of searching for a water source, they found a dry well buried in the ruins, with some movement, but faint calls and moans.

Then they tore through the rubble and put down a rope, and they pulled it hard, and then the other begged that he had a wound on his leg and could not climb up on his own, so he re-eveled down two sturdy soldiers, and then took him out, and put him here for my disposal.

"Xiao Yan, the envoy of the Little Slave Palace, has seen the general......"

The survivor, when he saw us, fell to the ground, thumped his head, and said incoherently flattering words.

"May the adults become famous, the lintel of time, the blessing of eternity, and the fame of the eternal......"

It's just that his voice is sharp and soft, which makes people suddenly realize that he is a little eunuch.

"Enough ......"

Zhang Lizheng interrupted him with a shout

"Don't you have something big to say to someone who can call the shots?"

At this, he slapped the hilt of his knife and snorted twice

"If there is a lie or concealment, you will be taught what is the dilemma of life and death"

"Don't dare to deceive adults......"

Hearing this, the other party hurriedly got up and climbed two steps forward

"It's just that the relationship is very big, and the little slave also has a reluctant request......"

"You want to be my slave? ……”

I was surprised.

In fact, in the South China Sea Domains, there are many people who use eunuchs, and it is even a fashion, mainly because the native and sea-born people are relatively limited, and it is inevitable to use some well-trained slave traders and descendants of native households to undertake some cheap business chores in the house.

In order to avoid the descendants of these lowly feudal slaves, the filth affects the bloodline of the master's family, and it is the best way to castrate them, and even travel to a corresponding castration industry. This kind of hand doesn't even need to be an official, as long as a professional like Zheng Zhou issues a deed.

"You can consider one or two ......"

I quickly figured out what was at stake.

"But it depends on how good you ...... to be sincere"

A moment later, two soldiers with tools and lanterns were lowered back into the well, and then there was a sound of banging on the inner wall,

"I found a secret ......"

Then came some kind of crumbling sound and exclamation

Strictly speaking, it was found that a vent built up by bricks, after being opened, it revealed a rather spacious, brick-built passage on all four walls, and there was not much dust in it, and there was not much dust in it, and several forks were found when people went in to explore a rough section, the air flow was good, and dozens of people went in together, and there was not much feeling of stagnation, and I didn't know how deep and wide it was.

"Blockade here, report to the Chinese army quickly, we have a big deal......

I made a decision and said to Zhang Lizheng again

"This credit will be reported in your name......"

"Thank you for your support, and your subordinates will be grateful for the five inner ......"

He was overjoyed and thanked me profusely.

"I can take you for the time being, but I need to see your watch xiàn......"

Then he turned his head to the eunuch named Xiao Yan and said,

"Thank you for taking it in, the villain will do his best......"

After all, in addition to his contribution to this news, there is a person who is familiar with the situation in the palace at the moment, and there is no doubt that we can ⊥ our work more effectively with half the effort.

As for secretly taking in one more person, it's not a problem, there may have been some obstacles before, but now there are many people cleaning up the ruins of Miyagi, and it's really nothing to mix one in. What's more, someone happened to ask for instructions and wanted to promote a group of hard-working people from Minfu as the assistance of the leaders and supervisors of each group, and just inserted him into it without revealing his whereabouts.

Arrange someone to give him simple treatment, change into a clean old clothes, he doesn't look so ugly, and even a little delicate.

"Wait, you said your name is Xiao Yan? ……”

I called him, this antibiotic name made me feel like I was in a different world.

Memories such as a certain arrogant long-legged sister in Youzhou, a shy emperor with a childish face and big breasts, and a taciturn princess with a black belly suddenly flashed in the sea of me.

"It's not a good name, it has to be changed...... It's called Oscar, the word Terman is good, and I usually call you Xiao Ao

"Ultraman, thank you for changing your name,"

He reflexively thanked him again, and almost rolled off the stretcher he was carrying.

"Without him, it's just a long-standing grudge......"

I said heavily