After waiting for a long time, it gradually became quiet outside.

I was on a lighter, and the space was so small that there were only two of us left, and the incense we kneaded into the soil, and then his right hand and my left hand.

I looked at my watch—it was a 10,000-year-old gold watch, which had been swallowed by the Jinyi Guard, and I had only asked for it back through the relationship of the Holy Maiden—and it was exactly twelve o'clock in the afternoon, and the Praetorian Army had bombed it for two hours.

If it weren't for this kind of thing, probably everyone would be having lunch, but unfortunately they could only go to eat in front of Lord Yama.

Zhao Yuyang and I kicked our legs desperately, and finally got out.

We were completely earthy, and his head and hands were broken, and he was literally a bloody clay man.

Looking around, damn, not only are millions of troops gone, but even the city walls of Kaifeng have been blown to the ground.

There was only a pile of ruins in front of him, and there was a fire in the ruins, and the fire was full of smoke, covering the day and night, and the sparks in the smoke were like stars in the night.

I said to Zhao Yuyang, "This ...... The Praetorian Army Won? ”

Him: "The end of the crossbow." Liu Xingchao took out the Praetorian Army at the bottom of the box, what else could he take? He's got nothing! And what about the imperial court? If the court wanted to, the court could hold a hundred more parades of the same kind. The question is, what do we do? Stay here or run for your life? ”

Me: "Silly? It doesn't need to be asked. The court must have pushed this matter on us, and maybe they would kill us directly in anger! When will you stay if you don't run away at this time? ”

Although Li Yuyao was very good to me, I couldn't guarantee that the imperial army below would secretly kill me, so it was better to run away.

At this time the curtains of the armored car next to us were opened, and someone looked outside.

Liu Xingchao and I hurriedly lowered our heads and ran away.

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The parade ground was littered with shattered, charred corpses, and we searched for a long time to find two full Royal Army uniforms.

Fortunately, I have been to the Central Plains, I am familiar with this road, I used to drive from Chang'an to Kaifeng, and now I am walking from Kaifeng to Chang'an.

Zhao Yuyang: "Why are you so familiar?" ”

Me: "The Central Plains is my hometown!" I used to sell smuggled salt, and I'm familiar with these roads. ”

I fled with him all the way to Chang'an.

On the way, I heard the news that the imperial army was killed in the battle of Kaifeng, and the rest of the people fled.

It's a pity that the dead are all small soldiers - that is, cannon fodder, and when the leaders see the plane coming, they get into the bomb shelter in a puff of smoke, and the dead are worthless. There is nothing else in the Ming Dynasty, people have it!

We wanted to change into other clothes, but we found that there were many deserters like us on the road. In these years, there were so many deserters that no one paid attention to us. When we were hungry, we ate unharvested grain, when we were thirsty, we ate fruits and vegetables, and when we saw soldiers and bandits, we hid, and we actually walked to Tongguan safely.

When we arrived at Tongguan, we thought that the forbidden army would come out to welcome us, but we found that Tongguan had become a row of ruins, and the ruins were full of crops.

From Tongguan to Gyeonggi, the Guanzhong Plain is full of barrenness (of course, the barren land I am talking about is actually a crop, because now the crops are stronger than the weeds).

All the intersections were occupied, but none of them belonged to the court or the inner court. At the beginning, they killed so many private gangs, cults, and bandits, but now it is still their world.

We talked to them well, and finally arrived at the intersection of Chang'an.

Those bandits are not always doing murder and stealing goods, who doesn't want to live in peace? It's all forced. As soon as they saw our poor background (of course, I made it up), they sympathetically let us go to see our parents.

In short, two weeks after the bombing of Kaifeng, or six and a half months after Mount Tai was sealed, we returned to Chang'an.

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From a distance, I saw the secret post of the forbidden army at the intersection of Chang'an.

Whether we swaggered in or sneaked in, and got only two guns, I don't want to be killed by my own people as soon as I arrived in Chang'an.

Even if I'm not the protagonist, it's shameful for the supporting characters to die like this.

I found a stick with a white cloth tied to it, and the cloth read "Inner Court Zhao Yuyang, Dongfang Ju".

I waved it hard.

The secret post of the forbidden army did not shoot, and sent us to Liu Xingchao.

Half a year ago, I excitedly went to my dad; Now, I am embarrassed to return to Chang'an.

After an extremely strict search, we saw the long-lost inner court in the basement of the forbidden army headquarters in the military district of Chang'an City.

Most of them are newcomers because the old people are dead. The old man in my mouth refers to people like me, and the new people refer to the new people of twenty-one and two.

The two of us were shocked when we saw Liu Xingchao - he seemed to be twenty years older!

Before, he was in his forties, and he looked like a young man when he dressed up, but now he is a complete old man in front of us.

His hair is sparsely gray, his skin is pale and loose, and age spots are clearly visible.

Liu Xingchao saw our surprised look and said coldly, "What are you doing here?" ”

Zhao Yuyang said: "Half a month ago, Kaifeng bombed, and Dongfang Ju and I hid under the car and survived. The guards were killed, and we fled together. ”

Liu Xingchao said: "So what? ”

He slumped in his chair and stopped talking.

I thought that with his character, he would ask us if we had defected. But all he did now was stare quietly at the ground.

I looked at Liu Xingchao, who was in his forties and sixties, and felt a palpitation.

There are so many things in this world that can be restarted, you can walk out of the house or walk back; You can lend money to someone else, and someone else can pay it back to you; We can even say that you can betray a person and then renew your allegiance to him.

These are just repetitions of space, and time is not repeated, it is always a river forward.

If a man is old today, he will not be young tomorrow.

Liu Xingchao suddenly changed from his forties to his sixties, which means that he will never be young again, and his future life will be the life of old age, and his twenty years of prime life are gone.

No matter how brilliant he was, is, and will be, he has only a few years left in his life.

I always thought he was the protagonist of this world, but I didn't expect him to be a supporting character.

Time is fair to all people in this world, whether you are a pariah or an emperor, a mortal or an immortal, when the time comes, it's all over.

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looked around, and saw another surprising person - Lu Ziluo.

I immediately concluded that this guy had defected!

Zhao Yuyang and I were able to escape at the cost of Kaifeng City and a million troops, and how did he come back?

However, I have just returned to Chang'an, and it is inconvenient to investigate this matter, and it is inconvenient to explain.

Li Feiyu sighed and said, "The forbidden army has almost run away, and you actually came back to die." ”

Zhao Yuyang: "What's the situation now?" ”

Li Feiyu: "The Royal Arsenal was bombed, there was nothing left, and the Royal Copper Factory and Iron Factory were also bombed. We found soybean bacteria in it, so the fuel was fine, but don't think about the explosives. It's okay to run for your life now, and there is no ammunition for fighting. The Ministry of Power Generation also exploded, and no less than a million people froze to death in Chang'an this winter. Without the Ministry of Power Generation, all production was stopped, and the communication of our armies was cut off. ”

I looked outside. The main building of the palace and her twelve auxiliary buildings look unchanged, but it is estimated that they are all blown up inside.

Li Feiyu suddenly slapped the table hard, and everyone was startled, but Liu Xingchao still looked blank and looked at the ground blankly.

Li Feiyu continued: "We can't even get out of Chang'an City. Those bastards in the Outer Dynasty find innocent civilians every day to consume our bullets, and then they put the charge of murder on us! ”

Li Feiyu in my memory is not such a person, he does things regardless of the consequences, and only thinks about the good side of everything, but now he actually says such a thing.

Zhao Yuyang suddenly said: "The Royal Power Generation Department also blew up? I was also the assistant minister of the Royal Electricity Department last year, and I learned a lot of things, and I was able to fix it. ”

Li Feiyu sighed, shook his head and said, "It's useless." They had long since loaded every floor of the Royal Power Department with explosives and waited for this day. As soon as the manager and I returned to Chang'an, the traitors blew up every generator in the power generation department, leaving not even a single power line left. ”

Zhao Yuyang said with a firm expression: "It doesn't matter, even if there is no wire left, I can still repair it." ”

I asked him wonderingly, "There isn't even a single power line left, is this called 'rebuilding' and not 'rebuilding'?" ”

He looked at me and said, "You can say the same." ”

Me: "Bragging, huh?" The Royal Ministry of Electricity built tens of thousands of years ago, and you can build it too? ”

He seemed to look at me with his nostrils: "You don't care, I can build it anyway." ”

Liu Xingchao also looked at him with hesitant eyes at this time.

Zhao Yuyang continued: "You think I eat dry rice? You give me enough craftsmen and allow me to tear down anything to find the materials I need, and I can rebuild a power generation for you in a month. Of course, it won't be as good as it was, but it's okay to supply millions of people. ”

Liu Xingchao stood up and walked towards him.

He looked at him for a moment and said, "I hope you won't let me down." ”

Zhao Yuyang: "Never!" ”

Liu Xingchao: "Among your people, I believe in you the most!" ”

Damn it! Will I let Zhao Yuyang press on my head?

I also said to Liu Xingchao: "My lord, it doesn't matter if the arsenal is blown up, I can rebuild it." ”

This time it was Zhao Yuyang who looked at me with strange eyes.

Liu Xingchao: "The Royal Arsenal was even more smashed. ”

Me: "I can make it out of thin air." ”

Liu Xingchao's pale eyes showed a hint of brilliance, and he said to Li Feiyu: "Don't attack the palace first, all resources are dispatched by them." ”

Li Feiyu glanced at me and Zhao Yuyang a few times, and said to Liu Xingchao: "Do you believe this?" Who knows what they've been doing for the past six months? How did it pop up out of nowhere? Could it be a spy of the foreign dynasty? ”

Liu Xingchao nodded solemnly and said, "I believe them." ”

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A month later, in the middle of the night, in the Chang'an Military District, everyone was waiting for the results.

This is one of the most tiring months I've had. For a whole month, I didn't close my eyes much.

Everyone looked at Zhao Yuyang, Liu Xingchao and Li Feiyu also looked at him.

Zhao Yuyang pressed a button, and the entire Chang'an instantly lit up - it seemed like two worlds for a moment.

They hadn't seen light in the night for half a year, and the bright light made them very excited.

In the darkness in the distance, the great palace was revealed, the bottom third dimmed, and the top two-thirds were brightly lit, making it look like a castle in the sky.

He looked at me triumphantly, defiant.

My nose snorted softly and scornfully, gesturing to the man next to me.

He immediately climbed onto the roof and sent a set of signals into the distance with a signal light.

Everyone looked at me strangely.

Suddenly, a flash of light appeared in the Prime Minister's Mansion of the Imperial District ten kilometers away, and the ground shook slightly, and a huge roar came after more than ten seconds.

Everyone looked into the distance, and a white mushroom cloud appeared under the moonlit night, and it was still expanding, hundreds of meters high.