The statistics on the number of horses in Black Rock City quickly came to fruition.

"Four hundred and ninety-eight?"

Hearing this number, Ge Tianbing and several family heads once again showed a sad look on their faces.

Mu Yang remembered today's battle loss number and some of the copywriting he had read when he made the deployment for defending the city last night, and was silent for a long time before he said slowly: "There are 3,000 households in Black Rock City, about 9,000 people, and 3,243 people were killed in today's battle, and there are more than 5,000 left. Even if less than 500 horses are all put on the carriage, if you maintain your speed and do not catch up with the demon army, you can pull up to 2,500 people...... In other words, more than half of the people can't take it away, and on average, there is less than one person in a household. ”

The hall fell silent again.

Long.

Uncle Qi's deep and firm voice rang out.

"This is enough, two hundred years ago, three thousand people from the Black Rock Tribe were chased and killed by the demon army, and in the end less than four hundred people escaped, I think, it's time to make a choice, Heavenly Soldiers, several family masters, aren't you still satisfied?"

Ge Tianbing raised his head, a determined look slowly appeared in his painful eyes, and he said with difficulty: "It's enough, then, let's start, a few family masters, what do you say?"

......

......

The night was dark, and the city of Black Rock was dead silent after the war.

In the council hall of the city lord's mansion, the seventh uncle and several family heads left one after another.

Mu Yang and Ye Yu looked at Ge Tianbing blankly, their faces full of shock, and even Sisi's eyes showed a look of surprise.

"What's wrong?"

Ge Tianbing smiled, his smile was very unnatural, and for a moment, this iron-clad frontier man seemed to be more than ten years old.

"Is this really possible?" asked Mu Yang, his voice trembling a little from being too surprised.

"Why not?" asked Ge Tianbing rhetorically.

"That's to make them kill themselves!" Mu Yang's voice raised, just now, he saw Ge Tianbing and several patriarchs press a handprint on a piece of paper full of words, and he saw the content on it very clearly, in addition to a brief description of the current crisis facing Black Rock City, the last thing written was to let only one person from each household escape, and the rest of the people who had no combat effectiveness...... Suicide!

Seeing Mu Yang's shocked expression, a look of pride appeared on Ge Tianbing's painful face.

"The Blood Skull Legion is bloodthirsty and ferocious, in front of them, the old, weak, sick and disabled in the city have no chance to fight back, in a desperate situation where death is inevitable, we will not leave any enemy prisoners, this is the ancestral training of the Black Rock Clan, if there is no such courage, as early as two hundred years ago, the Black Rock Tribe was wiped out, it is the spirit of the clansmen who regard death as home, that shocked the demon army that was chasing and killed, and gave the living the courage to fight. ”

"Wait. Mu Yang's eyes widened, and he asked in disbelief: "You mean, when the Black Rock Army fled, there were more than a thousand corpses in the hundreds of miles of desert...... All suicidal?"

"What do you think?"

"The book doesn't say that the warriors of your clan brutally ...... some of your clansmen in order to get rid of the pursuit of the demon army."

"That's slander. Ge Tianbing snorted coldly and said, "Now, I'll let you see what the real Black Rock Man is!"

As soon as Ge Tianbing's words were finished, a thick and heavy bell suddenly sounded outside, and when he heard the sound, his face turned pale, nodded at Muyang and the three of them, and walked out.

......

Following behind Ge Tianbing, Mu Yang and the three climbed up to the drum tower in the center of the city, where they saw Qi Hu with a strip of white cloth tied to his head.

"City Lord!"

Seeing Ge Tianbing, Qi Hu suddenly put down the bell pestle in his hand, knelt down at his feet and cried bitterly.

Ge Tianbing bent down and hugged Qi Hu to stand up slowly, stretched out his rough hand to wipe away the tears on his face, and choked up: "Don't cry, keep knocking, let Muyang, Miss Sisi, and the county lord see the backbone of our Black Rock Clan, look at the military soul of our Black Rock Army, and let the ancestors of the tribe listen to it, we don't embarrass them!"

The long, thick bell rang again.

Mu Yang stood on the bell tower, overlooking the Black Rock City at his feet, with the sound of bells beside him, he saw that in the courtyards on both sides of the street, there were people walking out, these people were silent, each holding a three-foot-long white silk in their hands, they walked out of the courtyard, came to the door, tied the white silk in their hands to the door frame, and then quietly returned.

From Ge Tianbing's narration, Mu Yang knew that every courtyard where the white silk was hung out meant that he obeyed the order to escape, and it meant that the owner of the courtyard had made a choice, in the face of life and death, they were so calm, so calm, this silent obedience made Mu Yang feel a burst of fear in his heart, and he was shocked to see the white silk one by one, in Black Rock City for more than half a year, he had always thought that he had a deep enough understanding of the border people, and it was not until now that he understood that he was so strange to this group of ordinary people who lived around him all day long, and saw the white silk floating all over the cityThinking of the more than 3,000 families who will see their dearest relatives die in their arms, thinking of their despair and pain, Muyang could no longer control the sadness in his heart, and let out a terrible roar, tears flowed down like beads with broken threads.

Tonight, Black Rock City fell into unprecedented grief, in the invisible corner of Muyang, ordinary city citizens are making the most painful choices in their lives, some secrets that would have been buried forever have also been revealed to the world, if someone can walk up to them, they will definitely hear many words they never dreamed of-

......

There is a butcher shop at the mouth of a narrow alley in the east of Black Rock City.

The owner of the butcher's shop is surnamed Zhang, a middle-aged man in his forties, honest in appearance, gentle temperament, known as Zhang Butcher.

On weekdays, as long as the butcher shop collects stalls, the butcher will bring a plate of sauce pig's trotters, make a pot of old wine, sit next to the oily meat table in front of the door, and look at the door of Cai Orion's house diagonally opposite in a daze while drinking.

At this time, his wife, a fat woman with a waist thicker than a bucket, a hideous scar more than ten centimeters long on the left side of her face, and a limp walking, would scold and scold in the house.

The Zhang family and the Cai family are close neighbors, but the relationship is not harmonious.

The reason is that the Cai family's mother-in-law gave birth to three sons in less than five years, and the Zhang family has been married to Zhang Butcher for more than 20 years, but she has not even given birth to a child.

Zhang has a short temper and often yells and scolds the loyal and honest Zhang butcher, which makes the surrounding neighbors very upset about him.

Some well-wishers secretly persuaded Butcher Zhang to divorce the Zhang family, marry a meek and virtuous beautiful woman to live together, give birth to a few babies, and inherit the old Zhang family, but he politely refused.

In the mouths of neighbors, there is also an interesting story about Butcher Zhang's fear.

It was a snowy night last winter, and Widow Li on West Street suddenly got into Butcher Zhang's bed while Zhang was not at home, and wanted to give birth to a baby for him, but Butcher Zhang came out of the house with his bare buttocks in fright, and stood in the yard in the snow for most of the night, until Widow Li ran out of the butcher shop with tears in his eyes, and he did not dare to return to the house.

The next day, the news reached Zhang's ears, she closed the door and scolded Butcher Zhang for three days and three nights, almost roaring angry scolding could be heard from several streets away, and since then, Butcher Zhang has added two latches to every door in the house, for fear that another woman will secretly climb into his bed.