Li Chengliang talked with Changshi, Sima, and Lushi to join the army for almost two quarters of an hour before arranging the recent affairs of Dunhuang City.

After sending the three away, Li Chengliang felt a little chest tightness and shortness of breath, after all, he was old, and he was recovering from a serious illness, Li Chengliang felt a little physically exhausted.

Li Chengliang shouted softly outside the house: "Li Ming!"

Li Ming, the commander of the City Lord's Mansion's personal guard battalion, came out of nowhere, and clenched his fists and said, "My lord, the last general, what are your orders?"

Li Chengliang said tiredly: "Li Ming, this official is a little tired, go in and rest for a while, you can go to the north of the city, and ask General Fan to come to the city lord's mansion after the memorial activities at the head of the city, I have something important to discuss with him." ”

Li Ming immediately clenched his fists and said, "Okay lord, the last general will go." With that, he turned and strode away.

Li Chengliang was very satisfied with Li Ming's resolute and resolute action, this young man was calm and capable, had extraordinary knowledge, carried out orders decisively, and never asked useless nonsense.

He was originally an excellent cavalry battalion captain, and later because of his outstanding performance, he was transferred by Li Chengliang to the City Lord's Mansion as the commander of his own personal guard battalion.

In the past ten years, Li Ming has never made any mistakes in any task, and many people say that he is the most reliable general officer in Dunhuang City.

Now Li Chengliang has a year to go, he wants to find a good place for Li Ming, he knows that Li Ming still wants to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, so the most ideal arrangement is to let him return to the border army, and he can't let Li Mingbai work hard for so many years.

On the city wall in the north of the city, prayer flags stand in a cluster, swords and guns are like a forest, tens of thousands of border army soldiers stand under the city wall, and the military attachés of more than 1,000 battalion officers in the city have arrived at the north city wall of the city except for those who have the task of garrisoning each city.

Today, a large-scale commemoration of the heroic martyrs of the Tang Army will be held here, and the soldiers of the border army and the city defenders who sacrificed their lives for the country in the defense of Dunhuang will be commemorated to comfort these souls in the sky.

General Fan Yunchao, as today's chief priest, is dressed in a military uniform and neatly draped, with silver helmets and silver armor, red top hats, and scarlet cloaks, coupled with his upright posture and resolute face, he looks extraordinarily heroic.

A group of generals and colonels also stood behind the generals in helmets and armor, and a little farther away were the centurions, chiefs, captains and ordinary soldiers of each battalion who had made great contributions in this battle, all of whom stood on the city wall with solemn expressions.

Mr. Ma Qian served as the salute of today's memorial activities, he checked the time with the military officer, confirmed that the time was correct, strode up to the altar, and announced loudly: "The auspicious time for the memorial is here, play music!"

Immediately the majestic drum music came, most of the musical instruments in the army are drums, trumpets, bells and cymbals, these instruments have loud sounds, high recognition, very conducive to the use of battlefield command, and the music played is also sonorous and powerful, and with the shouts of the non-commissioned officers and soldiers "roar, drink, rush, kill", it is more powerful, and it is the best means to stimulate morale.

Today's performance is the traditional "Return of Victory", the first chapter of the music depicts the scene of the soldiers fighting to the death, the rhythm is simple, the momentum is magnificent, and the blood of all the soldiers is full of blood, as if returning to the previous battlefield fighting.

Everyone should beat the tune of "Return of Victory", clenching their fists and hitting their breastplate hard, while letting out a rhythmic roar from their mouths, as if they want to release all the fighting intent in their chests.

After the first chapter is played, the chorus of bells and drums suddenly disappears, and "Return of Triumph" turns into the middle chapter.

The sound of a cave flute sounded, like the sound of cracking clouds and opening stones, breaking through the clouds, like a girl crying in grief, like an old man who was whimpering, and the soldiers seemed to see the scene of corpses all over the field after the war.

The desolate gonghou sounded, echoing with the sound of the dong flute, showing the scenes of the shrouded corpses of soldiers and horses and the displacement of the people in everyone's ears, as if all this was happening right in front of them.

The soldiers had stopped tapping on their breastplates, and many of them opened their noses wide, clenched their teeth, and breathed hard, trying to calm down the grief and indignation in their hearts, but the tears in their eyes flowed down uncontrollably.

After the passion of the war, there was infinite sorrow and sorrow, seeing the brothers' robes falling in a pool of blood, seeing the people struggling in pain on the ground, all the hardness in the hearts of the Tang army was immediately shattered, and there was a soft place in everyone's heart, and the music of Zhongzhang just touched there.

The middle chapter is shorter, just creating a cruel scene of war, and not further rendering, because this is a song "Victory Returns", which is a celebratory music, and the grief is only temporary, and in the end, it is still necessary to show that the soldiers who have survived the battle have returned to their hometowns and received the most honorable praise.

The crisp sheng sounded, the music began to gradually become brighter, and the soldiers who were still weeping just now seemed to see the scene of their class returning to the court, and in addition to the sadness, there was also the joy of successfully defending the family and the country, and they seemed to see the scene of the people welcoming them.

It is only at this moment that soldiers feel the meaning of their existence, they may have come to the army for various reasons, but in the end they all become heroes, they become admired warriors, and they are fully entitled to this glory.

However, the music of the final chapter is also mixed with a hint of sadness in the majestic joy, which seems to be infinite mourning and remembrance of the deceased heroes, which makes many soldiers bow their heads.

Today may be the first time in the life of the multi-million army to listen to music seriously, because the Tang Dynasty frontier has been peaceful for decades, many border armies have not fought, so they can't hear the song of "Return to Victory", today is also the first time in more than 30 years, Dunhuang City held a large-scale memorial event.

This simple song has touched the heartstrings of countless people, while expressing the cruelty of the war, it has strengthened the determination of the border soldiers to protect their homes and defend the country.

At the end of the song, tens of thousands of people stood up and down the city wall, there was no sound, only the sound of the north wind blowing prayer flags, and everyone seemed to be immersed in the music of "Return of Victory" and could not extricate themselves.

Mr. Ma Qian tried to calm down and said loudly: "I invite General Fan Yunchao, the deputy city lord of Dunhuang Mansion and the garrison general of the Tang Suzhou Road, to officiate!"

"Roar!~Roar!~Roar!" All the soldiers roared three times to show their reverence for the main general.

Fan Yunchao only felt that his eyes were red, took a deep breath, and walked towards the main altar with vigorous steps.

Fan Yunchao ascended the main altar, turned to face his soldiers and said loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, brothers of Dunhuang City, Fan Yunchao has a sentence in his heart that has been held in his heart, it has been almost fifty days, and today I finally have the opportunity to tell you!"

Fan Yunchao paused for a moment, looked around at the soldiers on the city wall, and then said: "That's thanks! Thank you for defending Dunhuang City desperately, it was you who defended the glory of the Tang Dynasty soldiers with your bones and blood, and protected the defenseless people behind you! I am here to thank you on behalf of all the people of Dunhuang!"

Fan Yunchao bowed deeply to the end, refusing to get up for a long time, all the soldiers only felt that the blood was on their heads, their scalps were numb, and the tears couldn't stop flowing down, and some particularly emotional soldiers couldn't cry for a long time, they tried to open their mouths wide, desperately suppressing the crying in their throats.

Huang Qian, who was in the audience, took the lead in shouting: "Defend the family and defend the country, and it is the duty of a soldier!"

All the soldiers in the city roared in unison: "Defend the family and defend the country, the duty of the soldiers!!"

The majestic and neat voice came out for dozens of miles, and even the people in the city could hear it clearly, and many people stopped and listened carefully to this majestic roar, and some of the people who had children in the army were even red-eyed.

After a slight pause, everyone immediately quickened their pace, as if they were in a hurry, and some of the people in the city who had already gone out looked at the basket in their hands and felt that there seemed to be something missing in it, so they turned around and ran home.

There is a sister-in-law who has ten eggs in the basket, which is half a month under the hen at home, she deliberately left two and did not take them, originally intended to steam egg custard for her young children, but at this time she hesitated.

In the end, she gritted her teeth and decided to go home to get it, one and a half less meals would have no effect on the child, but if the border soldiers had these two more eggs, they might be able to kill one more enemy, so she had to go home and get them.

It's so natural that something like this happens all over the city.

Fan Yunchao raised his head after a long time, his eyes were red, his face was full of tears, Fan Yunchao took a deep breath and said: "We are holding a memorial event here today to remember the 21,321 robes that are buried in the ground, and at the same time thank the 7,806 robes who were disabled in this battle, they fought desperately and fought for us the hope of life, we can't forget them, the people of Dunhuang City can't forget them, and the Tang Kingdom can't forget them!"

They have completed their mission, and we need to take over their weapons and continue to defend Dunhuang City.

No one knows what the future holds, although peace is now ushered in, but we must not be careless, we need to know that the hearts of non-our race will be different, and we need to always guard against the attack of foreign races.

Today's commemoration activities are not only about mourning, but also about summing up the gains and losses, inheriting and carrying forward the patriotic spirit of the martyrs, so as to spur us on constantly sharpening ourselves, strengthening training, and enhancing our armed forces.

The border army of Dunhuang City must be a Tang army that can be recruited at any time, can fight, and can win in battle! Do you have confidence?"

"Yes!" tens of thousands of people roared at the same time, eager to escape their determination to show the general.

Fan Yunchao nodded with satisfaction and continued: "Okay, it is worthy of being my Tang Dynasty heroes, the children of Dunhuang! Next, I will read out to you the imperial court's commendation order for Dunhuang soldiers. ”

Fan Yunchao read out the commendation order loudly on the altar, this time the court was extremely generous, the amount of pension, disability and condolence money were three times the usual, and at the same time, all the border troops were paid an additional month, and the city defense army was rewarded according to half of the border army's salary.

Such a rich reward made all the Dunhuang soldiers rejoice, cheered again and again, and temporarily forgot the pain of the passing of the robe.

After reading out the commendation order, Fan Yunchao led all the soldiers to offer incense to the deceased soldiers, lay wreaths and lanterns, and led everyone to kowtow three times for the deceased soldiers, and then collectively mourned.

The memorial ceremony ended in a solemn and solemn atmosphere, without too much red tape, showing the ability and decisiveness of the soldiers, but this kind of ceremony was loved by the soldiers in the army, because this way of memorial activities can better reflect the direct and warm feelings of the men in the army.

After the memorial ceremony, Fan Yunchao announced that Dunhuang Mansion would build a monument to the heroes and martyrs of the Tang Army on the side of the Xuanwei Monument outside the city to commemorate the Tang soldiers who died in the previous border wars, so that they could always enjoy the blood and food offered by the descendants of the Tang Kingdom under the Jiuquan to comfort their souls in the sky.

The last item of the memorial ceremony is to ignite the Jingguan where the corpses of the Mengyuan army are piled up in the north of the city to declare the prestige of the country!

Thick smoke rose into the sky, the Mengyuan army Jingguan, which had been soaked in a large amount of fire oil for two days and one night, quickly burned under the blessing of a large amount of firewood, the outer layer of the corpse was incinerated, and a large amount of corpse oil dripped on the corpse below, and so on, the Jingguan in the north of the city burned for a day and a night before extinguishing.

The soldiers of Dunhuang looked at the burning Jingguan of the Meng Yuan Army, gritted their teeth one by one, and wanted to drag them up and kill them again.

Fan Yunchao looked at the burning Jingguan with a complicated expression, yesterday the border army incinerated the bodies of the dead people in Dunhuang City in the same way, and there have been dozens of charred black incineration sites on the snowfields on both sides of the road a few miles north of the city, and those places will not be able to grow plants for many years in the future, because the fertility there is too strong, and no plants can survive.

Fan Yunchao prayed silently, hoping that after the beginning of spring, there would be no epidemic, Dunhuang City has done everything it can, but after all, more than 100,000 people have been killed and injured under the city, if it weren't for the severe cold of this year's winter, maybe the epidemic would have occurred a long time ago, and this time there is also the hidden danger of ice leeches, I don't know if it will recur.

Many of the men in the army are well-limbed and simple-minded, they don't know the troubles of the general, they gritted their teeth and looked at the Jingguan burning outside the city, and felt very relieved, many people shouted that if the barbarian coalition army came to attack Dunhuang again, they would have no return!

Fan Yunchao shook his head and said in his heart: "It's better not to have war, the mission of soldiers is to maintain peace, not to kill people, but how many people can understand this truth?"

Ma Qian was finally an understanding person, he saw that the general was a little excited, and hurriedly announced the end of the memorial activities, and everyone sent the general away first.

All the generals reacted at this time, and hurriedly greeted the general in unison, Fan Yun was super strong, waved to everyone, and walked under the city wall.