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On the tenth day of September in the sixth year of Baoyou, Yangzhou City.

This famous city in Jiangbei, due to the excavation of the Grand Canal, has the Tang Dynasty, is the most important port city in the country, the gateway of foreign trade, is the largest metropolis in southeast China at that time, known as "the rich world", sometimes has "Yang Yi Yi Er" (Yizhou refers to Chengdu) said. There are thousands of food merchants living in Yangzhou alone, and there are countless merchants from Japan, Silla and other countries living here. As for the population settled in Yangzhou, it is hundreds of thousands.

But the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty has long been a thing of the past. There is only a huge city that is fifteen miles from north to south and seven or eight miles from east to west, all made of large bricks. It is not the old city of the Tang Dynasty, but in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, it was expanded on the basis of the old city by Lu Yihao, who was the governor of Yangzhou at the time, and the successive governors of Yangzhou also spared no effort to strengthen the city wall, and finally built it into one of the best fortified cities in the world.

The city is located in the northwest of the Grand Canal, and the southeast side is surrounded by a canal that is more than 100 steps wide. In the west, the Baobao River and the Yan Pond were originally the moat of Yangzhou City in the Tang Dynasty, and after hundreds of years of evolution, it has become a river with a width of more than 30 zhang. The northern boundary of Yangzhou City is a river called the Chai River, a small canal dug during the Tang Dynasty to connect the Grand Canal with the commercial district of Yangzhou at that time. Because the course of the Chai River is not wide, it is the most vulnerable location on all sides of Yangzhou City. Therefore, the former commercial center has now become the key point of heavy defense, and the military camps of the Yangzhou garrison are also concentrated in the north city.

About 1,000 meters northwest of Yangzhou Beicheng, there is a small plateau called Shugang. Chunyou ten years Jia like the road moved the town two Huai to build the city here, since the completion of the Baoyou years, so called Baoyou City, is the fortress that covers the gate of Yangzhou Beiguan. Therefore, in the case that the bridges on the Grand Canal and the Baobao River have been demolished, only a wooden bridge is still preserved on the Chai River, which can directly lead to the Beiguan City Gate of Yangzhou.

Because of the previous hard fighting and melee, the army outside Yangzhou has been chaotic, after the Mongolian army retreated, Jia Rudao had no intention of tidying up, but ordered the army to return from Yangzhou Beiguan, and then took his staff back to Yangzhou City by boat. Chen Dexing and his six or seven hundred Wurui soldiers carried the corpses of the wounded and the dead soldiers, led the captured war horses, and carried bloody heads on their backs, bypassing the Baobao Lake and entering the city from Yangzhou Beiguan.

Walking into this tall and majestic city gate tower, Chen Dexing's tense nerves immediately relaxed, which is a feeling of home! It should be from his present life, in this life, his home is in Yangzhou.

At this moment, the city of Yangzhou, compared with the outside of the city, is almost two worlds. Outside the city is a barren battlefield, before the arrival of the Mongol army, the Lianghuai pacification envoy issued a strict order to clear the wall, the north and west of Yangzhou villages, farmland were all burned, even the taller trees were cut down, leaving only a seemingly endless wasteland.

In the city of Yangzhou, there is still a bit of the bustling and noisy afterimage of the past, on both sides of the ten-mile long street, there are many shops and crowds. It may be because Jia Rudao issued martial law before the war outside the city, most of the shops on both sides of the long street have not opened, and the few restaurants with open doors and open doors are also looking like they have just opened, only to see the small restaurant diligently wiping the tables, chairs and benches. And the people who crowded outside the pù doors of the shops along the street didn't seem to be customers, because everyone was facing the street, stretching their necks and looking at something.

Oh, hoping that their loved ones would return safely from the battlefield. Most of these people were old people, women and children, dressed in simple cloth clothes, their faces were full of anxious expressions, and shouts were heard from time to time.

"Keiyuki! Keino ......"

Chen Dexing vaguely heard someone calling his name, it was a female voice, very sweet and greasy. He followed the sound and looked over, but only saw a group of women with children and daughters, who did not seem to be his family in this life.

Further on, the streets were lined with more and more people, and the voices calling for loved ones were drowned out by heart-rending cries. The Yangzhou Beiguan Battalion, where the Wurui Army was stationed, was not far ahead.

Before the Mongol army attacked, Jia Rudao ordered the farmers and fishermen outside the city to move into the city to resettle, and most of the families of the soldiers and soldiers also moved into the city, and built many shacks around the camp in Beiguan. In addition to the small amount of relief issued by the Yangzhou government, the source of livelihood is the food and salary of the soldiers. For the families of these ordinary soldiers, the death of their family members in battle is the cutting off of their source of livelihood and the fall of the sky......

"Big brother, how can you live as a mother when you die!"

"Official, how can you make the slave family live ......if you leave?"

"Official, you wait for the slave family, the slave family will go with you!"

"Daddy, Daddy......"

"The widow fainted, go and invite Langzhong, what are you doing in a daze, go and invite Langzhong......"

With the return of the remnants of the Wurui Army, the families gathered outside the barracks have cried, some have lost their sons, some have lost their husbands, and some have lost their fathers. It can be said that it is a poem that responds to the return of a few people who have fought since ancient times! And those who come back, even if they break their hands and feet, as long as they still have a breath of air, they can bring comfort to their families.

The six or seven hundred people brought back by Chen Dexing seem to be the remnants of the Wurui Army who have returned to the largest unit of the Beiguan camp one after another. Most of the hundreds of men who swore on the battlefield to go to Huangquan together were also shouting and promising their families. There was still the joy of victory on the face, and there were only tears of excitement when I saw my relatives again.

Chen Dexing did not intend to prevent these soldiers from reuniting with their families after the catastrophe, so he gave the order to disband, just leaving a team of soldiers who had no family in Yangzhou City to be handed over to the tall commander, who was responsible for guarding the more than 600 precious heads and 48 Mongolian war horses...... These are the means by which Chen Dexing and his people will be promoted and make a fortune in the future, and they cannot be lost in any way!

Several temporary officers and tall soldiers followed Chen Dexing into the camp, and the once lively and crowded camp was now empty and without much life. The civilian staff members such as the management office, Ji Yi and cadre office who stayed in the military camp are nowhere to be found, and they should go to the Fusi Yamen to inquire about the news - to find out who will take over the command of the Wurui Army, most of these civilian staff members have no official status, and the current dispatch is given by Lu Zhaolin, who was under the control of the former capital, and now that Lu Zhaolin has died in battle, their future is worrying......

Chen Dexing crossed his hands at the temporary subordinates and said with a smile: "It seems that there is no way to repay the merit today, so let's stop here, I and Brother Gao will lead people to guard the heads and horses, and others will go to rest first, and if there is a family in Yangzhou, go back for a while, don't let the family worry." ”

After a hard day's fighting, a strong man like Rao Chen Dexing also had back pain, his legs and feet were weak, and there were bursts of stinging pain from the wounds on his body, so he really needed to rest and recuperate. As for how to repay the merit and how to go through the door, let's talk about it tomorrow.

"Okay, then let's take our leave!" Everyone was too tired to do anything, and they all said goodbye to Chen Dexing.

Chen Dexing arched his hand again and said with a smile: "Tomorrow, I will go to talk to Senator Liao during the day, and I will set up wine in Qionghualou at night, and everyone should have a face." ”

Chen Dexing, who had been involved in large state-owned enterprises and served as the second mate of an ocean liner in his previous life, of course knew that interpersonal relationships needed to be maintained from time to time. If you want to keep these Song Dynasty fighters by your side, it is not enough to just rely on the battlefield and say a few beautiful words.