The long procession gradually approached Yumen Pass, and the road between Dunhuang County and Yumen Pass was no longer walking without any caravans, because today was the day of the return of the army.

Yumen Pass and outside Yumen Pass are quiet at the moment, but outside the city and on both sides of the road are crowded with people, not only all the Han people who live in Yumen Pass have come here, but also the Li family of Longxi, the five surnames Qiwang and the merchants who are gradually doing business here have also come.

Originally, there were only more than 7,000 residents in Yumen Pass, but now there are more than 10,000 people from Yumen Pass alone. The people who went beyond were almost all businessmen from Datang and other places around.

And today, here are not only the people and merchants of Yumen Pass, but also nearly 20,000 villagers and more than 20,000 people from Xue Yantuo who fled from Datang from Yumen Pass and Yangguan.

In addition, the residents living in the Yangguan and Huoci River valleys, as well as the residents of Yiwu City and Loulan City, as long as they do not have a job, almost all come here.

Everyone was wearing their latest clothes, and everyone was waiting anxiously, although they knew the news early that the army would come back today, but they didn't see it for a moment, as if they couldn't let go.

Because these armies are the armies of their great men.

"Is everything confirmed to be ready?" Lu Mu asked in a low voice.

"Yes, everyone Lu." A young man behind Lu Mu replied with a respectful face.

"There can't be a mistake today, all the urns will be put into the Martyr's Pavilion today." Lu Mu's face was serious.

"Rest assured, we have prepared enough backups and there will be no mistakes."

"Good." Lu Mu nodded with a serious face.

Liu Sanhu and his mother-in-law stood silently on the side of the road with their two sons, except for his wife who did not come because of poor health, almost everyone in the village came, and Liu Sanhu's neighbor Daniel Zhang's family naturally also came.

It was the chief who called them, and they naturally came, because the chief gave them life and allowed them to live a good life like today! Not only did each family get enough land, but now each family even gave them chickens, ducks, sheep and other livestock!

Although these will have to be returned in a few years, you must know that the few hens assigned to their family have already been put in the nest! There is a hen that has hatched a litter of more than twenty chicks! At this rate, it won't be long before they can not only return the country's chickens, but also have twenty or thirty chickens themselves.

There is no shortage of eggs or anything every day! On top of that, because there is an abundance of pasture around the river, and the locusts on the grassland have migrated somewhat, which means that the chickens and ducks don't need to be fed by them, and they can find enough food in the wild, and with the chopped alfalfa grass, these chickens and ducks are very fat.

Not just the chickens and ducks, but also the flocks that are distributed to them! There was a ewe that had already laid two lambs, and the two lambs were very healthy! In addition, there are two ewes who are pregnant, and according to this development, next year, their family may be able to slaughter a sheep during the Chinese New Year!

This kind of life, not to mention the experience, they couldn't think of it before!

From the moment they came to Datang to escape, Liu Sanhu and his family never went hungry again! Now Liu Sanhu is working with the construction team, and their main task is to build houses for the Turks who belong to Xue Yantuo who belong to the Tang Dynasty to spend the winter.

And his mother-in-law is now already working in a textile factory, and his mother-in-law earns no less money than him every day, both of them are the same, which means that the two of them do not need to eat and drink at home, and the two of them can buy 4 kilograms of grain for the family every day!

Liu Sanhu and his mother-in-law Liu are accustomed to the saying of kilograms, and they learn things that are closely related to them! This means that the two of them can bring 120 kilograms of food to their family every month!

And it's all fine grains! Now Liu Sanhu has not yet entered the winter, but the food saved by their family is enough to eat all winter, not to mention, they can still eat enough!

This was something they didn't dare to think of before!

This is still Liu Sanhu can only do some hard work, such as some skilled, they earn more salaries every day, and even some families have begun to eat white noodles with the bran removed! Liu Sanhu was not envious, he knew that their family could have today, all thanks to the leader.

And now he not only has a job, but the leader has also given them the opportunity to learn, he and his mother-in-law have already known hundreds of words, and Liu Sanhu himself has begun to learn technology.

According to the words of the foreman of his construction team, the foreman of their class, if he keeps his current technology, he can become a small worker next month, and he can get 2 yuan more salary a day than now!

There are still some Turks standing beside Liu Sanhu, but their hair and clothes are the same as their Han people, but they still look like Turks, these are all people from their Yumen village.

There are a total of 100 families in their Yumen village, and only 50 refugee families live in, and the remaining 50 families are Turkic people who are subordinate to the Xue Yantuo tribe of the chief.

If it was before, Liu Sanhu hated these Turks very much, because Liujia Village, where he used to live, was also plundered by these Turks, although they did not die, but they were robbed of a lot of food.

But now, he understood a sentence, just like the teacher who taught them to read, these Turkic herdsmen are actually the same as them, they are all poor people, they are also exploited by the Turkic nobles and cannot survive, they can only plunder, otherwise, their children, wives and children can only starve to death.

Think about it from heart to heart, if it were him, Liu Sanhu would probably also rob people from these other countries. In the words of the teacher, it is not the Turks who are really hated, but the Turkic nobles.

And when these ordinary Turks moved in, with the continuous getting along, Liu Sanhu soon found that what the teacher said was right, these Turks in the same village as them were as cautious as them, and they were as afraid of offending people as they were.

When they get acquainted with each other, they are also very enthusiastic, and if they need help, they will be enthusiastic to help.

At first, the language between them was not very familiar, and when everyone communicated, in addition to gesticulating, they were grinning endlessly, and in this way, the relationship between them became more and more harmonious.

Now they can almost speak Chinese, communication is no longer a problem, Liu Sanhu has also regarded them as neighbors, and after getting acquainted with them, after understanding their past lives, Liu Sanhu knows that their previous lives are even more miserable than those of them Han people.

At least although Liu Sanhu didn't dare to offend some squires, those squires didn't dare to do anything to them. But these Turkic nobles dared to kill them directly if they disagreed with them, and no one punished them.

They all seem to have large flocks of sheep, but they eat coarse grains, and they don't have enough to eat for most of the year.

Therefore, these Turks also cherish their present life, and they are even more devout to their leaders than they are.

"It's coming, it's coming." I don't know who shouted first, and soon the crowd was in a commotion, Liu Sanhu and they immediately turned their eyes to the east, and sure enough, soon in their line of sight, a long cavalry team rushed over.

When I saw those teams, suddenly on their right side, the heavy and uniform sound of "bang" and "bang" came from inside the Yumen Gate.

Hearing this voice, Liu Sanhu and the others immediately understood that it was the city guards who had been dispatched.

When they turned around, sure enough, the heavily armed city guards ran out of the city gate in two columns, on either side of the road, separating the crowd from the road.

A neat procession ran in front of Liu Sanhu and them, but no one was afraid, because these armies belonged to their Han army.

When these city guards lined up on both sides, the troops in the distance gradually began to approach, and the two columns of cavalry carrying the banner of the Han Dynasty at the forefront were followed by the cavalry carrying the banners of the White Tiger Army and the Vermilion Bird Army.

Behind him was Huo Gang, and the carriages led by the cavalry themselves, and on these carriages were coffins.

There were 22 carriages pulling 22 coffins, and in each coffin at the front were 20 clay pots, the ashes of 20 fallen soldiers.

The names of each soldier have been written on the clay pots, and these names have been sent back to Yumen Pass in advance, and then their tombstones and urns have been carved.

When the wagon convoy reached the front of the two columns of Tiger Ben, all the cavalry immediately turned over and dismounted.

Then each cavalryman quickly left from both sides with ten horses, and the rest of the cavalry immediately lined up in a new formation.

Huo Gang also dismounted, he stood in the forefront, and shouted loudly: "Lizheng!" ”

"Huh!" With a uniform sound, all the soldiers instantly stood upright, including the Tiger Ben Army standing on both sides of the road.

"Now, let's welcome all the martyrs who have fallen in battle, and welcome all the heroic souls home!"

"Carry the coffin!" With Huo Gang's loud roar, the four soldiers standing on both sides of the carriage directly lifted the coffins on the carriage at the same time.

The soldiers driving the carriage in front immediately pulled the carriage away, and the sound of "boom" and "boom" on the shoulders of the neatly aligned coffin.

"Let's go!" This time, it was Huo Zheng who took the place of Huo Gang and shouted out the password.

The sound of "bang" and "bang" orderly footsteps sounded instantly, and two columns of soldiers carrying flags began to advance in unison with the team carrying the coffin.

In front of him was a banner waving in the wind, and in the back was a coffin, no one spoke, and all the soldiers were staring ahead with serious faces.

They walked at the same pace, and every time they walked in front of a pair of tiger soldiers, the spears in the hands of the tiger soldiers changed from crossed to upright! Huo Gang followed behind the coffin procession, and then walked to the south of the Yumen Pass with a serious face.

Outside the road, all the Han people who watched silently took the initiative to follow the team on both sides.

On the south square outside the Yumen Pass City, which will be established in the future, at this moment, a huge square has been completely completed, and the square at this moment is already full of people, all the merchants from the Tang Dynasty and other Western Regions countries are all around the square, and most of the people of the Han Dynasty themselves are also here.

At this moment in the central part of the square, a monument more than 30 meters high stands with this, its style is somewhat similar to the monument to the people's heroes of later generations, standing in the south of the Yumen Gate, and the central axis of the Yumen Gate into the future south gate is in a straight line.

It was boxy and austere, its interior made of reinforced concrete, which was their best way of building at the moment, but on its surface, it was made of black stone hewn from the black basalt ore found in their Han territory.

Its surface has been carefully polished by craftsmen to a smoothness similar to that of later marbles, and it is completely black, solemn and solemn, and is now shrouded in a huge red silk cloth on its monument.

Outsiders couldn't see what it was like inside, but at this moment, all the people watching were extremely shocked, because they thought that it might be Huo Gang's own statue or a monument engraved with Huo Gang's great achievements, but what they never expected was that this was actually a monument related to the military.

From Huo Gang's actions, they could naturally guess that all the soldiers around him were full of fanaticism, because they had never thought that in the hearts of the leader, the status of these soldiers would be so important.

The orderly procession gradually entered the whole square, and the square was surrounded by people, but there was no one in the center of the square, when the twenty-two coffins were neatly placed at the front of the monument, and at the same time these coffins were surrounded by all the soldiers.

With this scene, the originally noisy environment naturally quieted down, and the scene where tens of thousands of people were located did not make any sound, only the whistling northwest wind blew the surrounding flags in the harsh wind.

"Open the coffin!" With Huo Zhengxin's command, the eight soldiers standing around the coffin bent down at the same time and opened the coffin lid.

Then the sound of "bang" and "bang" sounded in unison, and a total of four hundred and twenty-eight people dressed in armor held a fifty centimeter long, thirty centimeters wide, and twenty-five centimeters high in both hands

The urns ran to the opposite side of these coffins and lined up.

The people around couldn't help but widen their eyes, especially those merchants from other countries, when had they ever seen such a solemn scene, they all had a premonition in their hearts, perhaps, this would be the most unforgettable scene they had ever seen in their lives!