Speeding in the winding mountain road, Yan Jiu'er, the general of the life capture team, took the lead in rushing to the forefront of the team. Even the cold wind, frost, rain and snow that came to his face didn't seem to move him in the slightest.

He has now changed back, his real name before he was sold as a slave is Yan Qing, alias Xiao Yi, known as Xiao Yi'er. Looking back at the future.

The five people who rushed out of Jiangning and followed this lord to the outside of the ridge, except for Yin Xiaoyan, who died early, the others already had their own responsibilities and futures.

Qian Shuining, the former coolie leader of the Jiangning Wharf, was already the supervisor of the rear battalion responsible for the management of the baggage team and labor in front of the army, and directly disciplined thousands of people;

Cui Tuzi became the first firehead officer in the army, with hundreds of good cooks and helpers, and more than a dozen butcher shops and delicatessens in Guangfu; And Bo Fu, who stayed in the rear, directly hung the title of deputy of the Longzhou regiment, and took on the important task of integrating the forces below, and was also the leader of several private armed forces of his own family, in name;

Compared with other people who have been in the relatively safe rear, those who have good riding skills and martial arts, Yan Jiu'er or Yan Xiaoyi, who has always been doing more risky, is also a trick to capture prisoners and detect stabbing in front of the battle by licking blood with a knife.

This has never stopped, starting from the scout team among the thousands of people in Tiannanzhou, and the first general of the capture group of tens of thousands of troops.

After experiencing countless encounters in the wilderness, or in the vigorous battlefield outposts, the crisis and thrill of brushing shoulders with death, and being scarred or covered with injuries.

He is a man of few words and has his own perseverance, and he has also been captured as a scout in the army, and is recognized as the most senior first person.

"Team, there seems to be a situation ahead......

Then, with some grim faces, he looked at the column of smoke rising in the distance, and with it came the salty smell peculiar to the sea breeze.

That was the location of the harbor, and it was also what they had come to take back day and night

I couldn't help but sink in my heart, could it be that Hu Ma'er had taken the lead and came here stupidly.

Later, he found that the banners of the people and horses who were setting fire to the city were the banners of the naval corps of the country.

They were scattered in groups in the harbor area, hurriedly piling up firewood and pouring fire oil on the warehouses and open yards, looking hectic and orderly, more like an organized act than wanton.

"Quick, go put out the fire......"

Yan Jiu'er didn't care about this, and hurriedly took the lead and rushed down.

"Don't let them burn anymore. ，”

"Those who dare to block will be killed......

His voice resounded in the galloping wind.

Soon after, the fire that had just burned in the harbor was gradually extinguished, leaving only curling smoke, and those sailors who gathered and retreated to a corner of the harbor area with uncertain faces, and the Yan Jiu'er horse team that was killed halfway, and all kinds of confrontations.

In fact, the same thing has happened one after another in various ports from the coast of Qingzhou to Mizhou and Haizhou.

Because these Southern Korean naval divisions, although their strength was relatively intact, but they could not change the form of the land, before they received the news and determined that the defeat on the land was determined and irretrievable, and gave up their last efforts and planned to evacuate.

In accordance with a certain established strategy, each began to destroy the port facilities and materials distributed in five or six port areas and more than a dozen large berths, which could not be taken away and could be used by the Northern Dynasties.

Many of them have been caught up, some of them have been preserved or some remain, and a few of them are too far away to make time, and they can only watch the ashes and remnants of fire curl all over the ground.

Two days later, when I got the news from the seaside one after another, I was a little surprised when I was busy with all kinds of chores.

It is said that outside the piers everywhere, there are mountains of materials that cannot fit the original temporary warehouses, so they can only be piled up in the open air, and they are thickly covered by frost and snow, like artificial hills.

In addition to the lack of daily food, grass and ordnance, most of them are clothing, bedding, boots, blankets, oil, charcoal, wine, medicine, ointment and other commonly needed materials in winter.

There are even tens of thousands of tons of crude cane sugar, tens of thousands of barrels of pickled lard, and even tens of thousands of pairs of leather rubber shoes, tens of thousands of round hats, thousands of headscarves, etc., which make people look bright, and I don't know what the reason and idea are that will be sent all the way over.

And these miscellaneous materials, apparently for some kind of sudden need in winter, were rushed over by sea, but unfortunately caught up with the great change in the situation, and the land transportation was cut off for a long time, and since then there has been no chance to transport them to their destinations or come in handy. “

Although many of these storage sites have been taken away by the locals, and a considerable part of them have been burned by the sailors and marines before the retreat, there are still quite a lot of left, especially considerable.

This must be said to be our own luck and advantage in some kind of darkness. The most important thing is that someone can finally bring us a message back.

As a result, the young and middle-aged people who migrated from Xuzhou and the newly formed several labor brigades had new tasks, and some of them, escorted by a small number of soldiers and horses, went to the seaside port with the horses and carts to carry these materials back and distribute and manage them in a centralized manner.

Others began clearing snow and leveling roads near Yidu.

Women and the elderly, on the other hand, stayed in the city and did odd jobs such as cleaning up garbage, collecting waste, and other odd jobs.

Jiang Ning Xing, Stone Town, in a temporary prison near Wangjiangmen.

The head of the actual commander of the former military department, who also led the main formation and the eastern envoy Junzhang Yuji, was like a trapped beast, under the breathable two-foot pane, repeatedly coming and going.

Although it is a prison cell, as a temporary resting place for these powerful and powerful people, the temporary prison administration room still provides some kind of convenience and arrangement as much as possible.

After all, as a protégé, although they can't change the will and decision of the prison country, they have no shortage of means for these low-grade little people.

Therefore, just a little hello, the prison guards not only gave up this originally spacious enough office room, but also changed it to an exclusive front prison room. All kinds of expensive furniture are also readily available, even the drowning bucket night pot spittoon, there is even a carved bed with silk drape,

Twelve hours of uninterrupted charcoal fire and smoker supply make the spacious room warm and odorless, just like a comfortable homely home.

Although he was treated quite favorably and did not suffer much, this kind of life in a prison cell was by no means what Zhang Yuji wanted.

He should enjoy the attention of the victorious class master during the imperial view, and then enter the government hall or the Privy Council, and then become a member of the shogunate court who is qualified to express his position.

He is over fifty years old, although his teeth are still strong and his waist is still straight, but for Zhengzhì's life, there is not much left.

It was precisely because he didn't want to be said that he was a corpse, so he gave up the opportunity to join the Privy Council, and won the important position of the Southern Expeditionary Army in the southeast.

As one of the old-school gate valves in Guangfu founded by Guo Chao, the Zhang family has only been transferred from a senior Wenchen family to the martial arts, only two generations, so when it comes to Zhang Yuji, there are both the benefits and advantages of the civil and military classes, but in the career of further development after being in a high position, there is inevitably some embarrassment.

The connections and origins of the previous generation in the course of the civil service are gradually fading, and the status and influence of the new generation in the military have not yet been cultivated enough.

Therefore, he especially needed this position and opportunity in the Northern Expedition to consolidate his prestige and achievements in the army, and complete the transformation of at least three generations of generals for his children and grandchildren.

Then, he tried to reconcile the disputes and affairs at the front, inherited the needs of the front of the army and the will of the rear, and sat in the chief position majestically, coldly watching the intrigue and power struggle between several marshals and colleagues, all kinds of actions in the open and private.

Then watching them go out one by one, he is still Shuai Sili, the one who can influence the overall situation.

However, now he is a little envious of Cai Hou, who was recruited back in advance because he made a too obvious mistake, at least although he was idle at home for a while, he was quickly activated. You don't have to be held accountable for what happened later.

Even the Du Junyi, Du Yuanjun, who was later recruited, took much easier responsibility for the erosion of the war situation than him, at most it was the result of being unclear and forced to recuperate

But for those of them who are still in office, it is not so simple. Someone must come forward to bear the responsibility for the defeat on all fronts.

As the nominal headquarters of the overall situation, or even as the successor of the shogunate, it is impossible for the government to be openly disposed of because of this, and that is a matter that shakes the foundation of the country.

Therefore, this qiē can only have their own, and the envoys who are on the front line can take care of it, and Zhang Yuji's first responsibility as the chief marshal will naturally not be able to run away at all.

Is there a more important culprit for the dynasty than him?

Therefore, he can only try to save himself.

The constant communication of news sent out from the prison made the family members move around, while secretly communicating with several other envoys to defend themselves. On the other hand, it is to take out the wealth and treasures and connections accumulated by the family over the years, and explore that little bit of possibility.

It's just that as a general of the defeated army, even if he was once a prominent family, he can't change the attitude of avoiding suspicion that most people hide behind the euphemisms of helplessness and powerlessness.

This kind of helpless and desperate response, after more than half a month, finally got some kind of change, but it came from the original main battle faction and the northerners party, a certain elder who was excluded from the great cause of the Northern Expedition.

It is necessary to find a culprit of sufficient weight among external factors, such as a certain unruly Cunzài, as one of the reasons for the overall exculpation of the failure of the Northern Expedition.

It's just that the evidence cited by the other party is too ridiculous, and it also has to face cross-examination and back-checking by the prison state. If he is according to his usual identity, there is no need for himself, with a significant net worth and future, to endorse this kind of nonsense.

But now, he has realized that his days are numbered, and those relatives and children need this opportunity.

He looked at the free sky outside, gritted his teeth, and finally made up his mind to seize this only opportunity. He didn't have much time and years left, waiting for the anger of the prison country to gradually dissipate, or make the mansion think of him again, a once-capable old minister.

Anyway, it's just a suspicious attitude, and naturally someone will go back to complete the rest of the matter. What's more, those people may not be able to come back and defend themselves......

Canton, still shrouded in a certain warm and moist atmosphere,

From the trauma of many years ago, the lower-class people who have finally recovered from the trauma of many years ago are trying to seize the last bit of cool breath in this winter day and work around for their livelihood.

"I want to ...... I want to ......."

The girl was rolling on the bed with a huge pillow.

I tried to feel the remnants and feelings of the breath that had dissipated, recalling the bits and pieces of the once intimacy, and pursuing a certain sense of comfort and peace of mind in the midst of the struggle.

The burning sea of fire and the pouring of magnificent ruins, those blood-colored memories that I don't want to remember, the stars and the moon on horseback, and the years of tossing and turning, the fragments of various memories, little by little made her can't help but wake up, and hold her stinging head, hiding in the bed and crying quietly,

During that time, only that warm embrace, heartbeat and breath could keep her away from these terrible disturbances.

However, since that person left, with the loneliness and loss of being alone at night, it has eroded the young heart little by little.

Only by relying on the constant thinking day and night, the bits and pieces related to that person, and the various chaotic dreams that arise from it, can somewhat calm the girl's anxiety and loneliness.

"It's so annoying......"

She groaned again, wriggling like a worm in the arched bedding.