The cold wind howled and whimpered as it passed through the valley.

Bursts of snow came with the wind, and in a short time a thick silver quilt was placed on the ground.

The corpses lying everywhere, the broken swords, and the embers still emitting black smoke all tell the story of the tragedy of the previous battle.

Li Mao climbed up the tower along the ladder that had been covered with snow.

As far as the eye could see, there were dishevelled corpses everywhere.

In the whole picture, the only person standing is Gao Shun.

Dead?

Alas!

After all, it's still a step too late!

Li Mao sighed in her heart, slowly paced up, and gently wiped the snowflakes on his face.

Suddenly, an extremely resolute face was revealed.

"Go in peace! Tongguan was not lost, you guarded it until I rushed over. ”

Wrong!

There is still temperature on the face, and it is not dead yet!

Li Mao hurriedly shouted behind him: "Come and find the imperial doctor, General Gao is not dead yet!" ”

The guards behind him hurriedly stepped forward to help Gao Shun and walked to a sheltered place.

Only then did Li Mao instruct Yang Guozhong behind him, "You go and arrange for someone to clean up the battlefield, and transport the bodies of all Tongguan soldiers back to Chang'an for storage." ”

"After I have defeated Li Longji, I will hold a state funeral."

Immediately after, Li Mao turned around and walked towards the other wall of Tongguan.

There you can clearly see every move of Fenglingdu on the other side of the Yellow River.

Yang Guozhong looked at the corpses all over the ground, and his head was big, and he couldn't help but feel sick in his heart.

Normal people face such a scene.

He expected that his five thousand peasants might be the same.

Transporting nearly 10,000 corpses from here to Chang'an, nearly 500 miles away, Yang Guozhong couldn't think of any way to break his head.

"Your Majesty, why don't you burn the corpses of the soldiers to ashes, and the ministers can transport them back to Chang'an as soon as possible!"

Yang Guozhong hurriedly greeted him.

Li Mao was stunned when she heard this, turned her head and scolded angrily: "Are you fucking troublesome? ”

"Do we Chinese people have a tradition of cremation?"

"Are you going to be burned to ashes when you die?"

"Li Longji's dog knows how to build a big tomb for himself, why don't the soldiers who worked hard for Lao Tzu have all their beards and tails after death?"

"You fucking led 5,000 men and horses to watch all day, and Lao Tzu hasn't cleaned you up yet, you still dare to be troublesome?"

At this moment, Li Mao vented all the anger in his chest.

Today, if Yang Guozhong is a little more bold and sends two people into Tongguan City to observe after the enemy retreats, there will not be a single living person in the entire city.

The enemy troops walked in such a hurry that they retreated without even cleaning the battlefield.

It shows that the enemy's losses are also extremely heavy, and it is likely that he will not even have the strength to fight.

Yang Guozhong was cowering, wasting the opportunity to annihilate the enemy army and avenge Gao Shun.

How does this make Li Mao not angry?

The reason why he was able to hold back at the beginning was because the edict issued by Li Mao before was to let Yang Guozhong garrison outside Tongguan City.

And Yang Guozhong did it completely, and Li Mao couldn't find an excuse to say him.

It was the first time for Yang Guozhong to see the emperor so angry, and he was full of swearing.

He was scolded angrily, and his heart was extremely panicked, afraid that his head would be cut off by the emperor, whose hands were already bruised, and hurriedly explained.

"Your Majesty, it's not that the minister is troublesome, but I'm worried that the corpse will stink and rot in two days."

"It's nearly five hundred miles to Chang'an, and it's impossible for the minister to just find a cart and pull away the corpses of the soldiers, right?"

"The minister is going to make a good coffin for each soldier, and then bring it back to Chang'an in a beautiful way."

"But in this case, it will be delayed for a long time, and when the snow melts next month, the corpses of the soldiers will definitely stink!"

Judging from Yang Guozhong's sincere tone, he seems to really think so.

But Li Mao already knew who he was and how he could easily believe it.

Seeing that Yang Guozhong did a good job in Tuntian, Huayin County, Li Mao didn't have the intention of disposing of him.

"Just do what I tell you to do!"

"They are all my warriors! When I was alive, I didn't give them enough glory. When I die, I will never let them go coldly. ”

"And now the wind is coming into the city, as soon as your fire burns, how should my soldiers defend the city?"

"After I defeat Li Longji, I will definitely mobilize the people of the entire Chang'an to see off the warriors."

After Li Mao finished speaking, he turned around and left.

At this time, he didn't want to see Yang Guozhong's waste at all.

Yang Guozhong saw that the emperor was angry, and he didn't dare to say more, and hurriedly beckoned the officials who were in the distance to come over.

"Ambassador Yang, what are your orders?"

The official hurried over, smiling flatteringly as he carefully dodged the corpses on the ground.

Yang Guozhong said in a voice: "You send someone back to Huayin and let people prepare 10,000 coffins!" Then he brought all the people and found out the corpses of our soldiers. ”

The officials looked down and saw that the bodies of the soldiers on both sides had frozen together.

It's almost impossible to separate without a lot of effort.

"Ambassador, what about the corpses of enemy soldiers?"

It was also the first time that the official had done the work of cleaning up the battlefield, and he didn't know the specific steps at all.

Yang Guozhong replied angrily, "Do you still want to transport it home as an ancestor offering?" Of course, dig a pit and bury it. ”

"Dig a pit? Please forgive the villain for being stupid, how can you dig up the strange rocks on this mountain? ”

The servant looked around suspiciously, and there were hard stones everywhere, and sparks could fly when he slashed down.

Yang Guozhong was also dumbfounded.

Since ancient times, after the army has been fighting, in order to prevent the plague, it is written in the book to dig pits and bury the corpses.

But now that there are hard stones in sight, how can we dig a huge pit that can bury nearly 10,000 people?

Yang Guozhong paced slowly on the city wall.

My mind began to think of other ways to deal with it.

"Ambassador, the villain thinks it can be burned with fire!"

The yamen came up with a solution with a pat on the head.

Yang Guozhong lifted his leg and kicked it over, "You idiot, so many corpses, after the fire burns, do you want to smoke the army of the imperial court?" ”

The official covered his buttocks and said aggrievedly, "The villain is stupid, I really can't think of any other way!" ”

"Rubbish!"

Yang Guozhong scolded in Li Mao's previous tone.

After the official was scolded, he didn't dare to speak out again, so he could only turn around and do what Yang Guozhong had just explained.

There was a sudden silence all around.

Only the sound of the wind that kept whistling and the sound of the rushing Yellow River remained.

As soon as he heard the sound of water, Yang Guozhong suddenly had an idea in his heart.

Isn't the large sandy beach on the banks of the Yellow River a good place to bury the corpse?

Thinking of this, he walked to the highest point of the city wall, and sure enough, two miles upstream, he saw a shallow beach of more than 100 acres.

"Haha! This ambassador is really smart! ”

Yang Guozhong laughed insolently, venting all the frustration caused by being scolded just now.

Actually, he just had a thought in his head.

That is to throw the body directly into the Yellow River.

But the movement caused by this is too big, and Li Mao can't be hidden at all.

Yang Guozhong didn't have to think about it, he knew that Li Mao would not agree to this approach.