The advance from the collapse of the city wall to the lower city horse road was a very difficult part of the way for the Ning army to move forward since the beginning of the war, but it was not the most difficult, the most difficult was when attacking from the city.

The Ning army relied on the repeating crossbow and the hard bow to press down condescendingly, while the black warriors blocked the horse road and tried to push the Ning people back.

Fighting is never merciful.

The next two days and two nights of fighting did not stop, from the killing of the head of the city to the killing into the city, the team went up one by one, and the corpses were transported back one by one, in the camp of the Ning army outside the city, such a large open space was densely covered with corpses covered with white cloth, and the wind blew, lifting a piece of white cloth, revealing a young face.

The people of Daning will get good news from the authorities one after another, which will make them ignore the casualties for a while.

Chang'an City.

According to the usual practice, every month the people of the Liuyun Society will bring things such as rice, flour, grain and oil to the families of the military martyrs in Chang'an City, which is not a very pleasant thing, every time they approach those old people, those lonely widows, the brothers of the Liuyun Society will be extremely depressed, this year Ye Liuyun is already the secretary of the Criminal Department, but he still came.

He is not in the Flowing Cloud Society, and the people of the Flowing Cloud Society still regard him as the proprietor.

Ye Liuyun got down from the carriage, looked around with the black eyes next to the carriage, waved his hand, and immediately scattered the three people around the courtyard, the wind in Chang'an City seemed to have suddenly become stronger, and many people from all over Daning entered Chang'an, although it seemed that no one was swept away by the wind, but everyone knew that the wind was blowing Liuyun.

So Ye Liuyun was very sad, he knew that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was going to go that step after all.

He also knew that if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wanted to make a move, he would be the first person to kill, followed by Han Zhaozhi.

As soon as Ye Liuyun dies, the Chang'an rivers and lakes controlled by the Liuyun Society will become chaotic, and the role of the Liuyun Society is far less than it seems, do you really think that the Liuyun Society is just a tool used by His Majesty to make some foreign money?

The Liuyun Society is secretly responsible for supervising hundreds of officials, and a lot of the information that the Tingwei Mansion has is provided by the Liuyun Society, in addition, the Liuyun Society is also responsible for monitoring public opinion, and it has an irreplaceable role for both the officials and the people, and the Liuyun Society is equivalent to the Tingwei Mansion in the dark.

The emperor was born in the army, and later settled in Yunxiao City and had many contacts with people in the rivers and lakes, of course he knew that the rivers and lakes were not the rivers and lakes that the civil and military officials looked down on, and every move of the rivers and lakes often involved the overall situation.

"The proprietor."

The black eyes lowered their voice and said beside Ye Liuyun: "Since a few days ago, there have been more and more suspicious people outside the welcome building, and it is better for the proprietor to bring more people when he goes out in the future." ”

Ye Liuyun snorted and said, "This is Uncle Chen's family?" I remember coming here last July. ”

"Yes, it's Uncle Chen's family."

The black eyes said: "Uncle Chen's wife left in July last year, the proprietor came in person, Uncle Chen's eldest son served in the army in Hanhai City in Northern Xinjiang, and died in battle the year before last, and the younger son went to Northern Xinjiang again, and also went to Hanhai City, this year's war, Uncle Chen sat at the door every day these days, when I met him the day before yesterday, I asked him why he didn't go back to the house in such a hot weather, Uncle Chen said...... and other letters. ”

Ye Liuyun felt a pain in his heart.

Every military household and family of the Daning soldiers, their relatives, are waiting for the letter.

According to the usual practice, on the occasion of the war, the frontier will report a list of casualties to the Chang'an Military Department every month, once a month, and it will not be broken, so for military households, every month after the start of the war, they are not steady, and when the neighbors ask, they will smile and say that the manly husband should naturally protect his family and defend the country and expand the territory, okay, don't worry, but in fact, who is not worried?

Mothers who are waiting for their children to return, and mothers who are waiting for their children to return, have been looking at the door of their homes from time to time every day since the beginning of the war, and what they are most afraid of is to see someone from the military department of the military department appear outside the door, holding an envelope in their hands.

Ye Liuyun let out a long breath, and he couldn't stand it in his heart.

"Uncle Chen sits outside every day, why don't you see him today?"

"I don't know, I told him yesterday that the owner is going to come to see him today, and it stands to reason that he shouldn't ......."

Blackeye motioned for the Flowing Cloud Society's brothers to protect the proprietor and wait outside the door, he stepped forward and knocked on the door, but no one answered.

The door was not inserted, the black eye reached out and gently pushed the door open, and then saw Uncle Chen lying on the ground at a glance, the black eye rushed over, he thought that Uncle Chen had an accident, but when he rushed to the front, he found that Uncle Chen was just lying on his back, his eyes were looking straight at the sky, there was a cloth bag next to Uncle Chen who fell to the ground, the bag was the vegetable he had just bought and a piece of raw meat, on the other side, a wine jar was broken on the ground, and the wine soaked half of Uncle Chen's clothes.

"Uncle Chen, what's wrong with you?"

Blackeye asked eagerly.

"I ......"

Uncle Chen looked sideways at the black eyes: "Child, help me, I don't have the strength...... I have no strength, I can't get up. ”

Heiyan hurriedly helped Uncle Chen to sit up, and then noticed that Uncle Chen had an envelope in his hand.

The heart of the black eye tightened violently.

"Just now, the adults from the Fujun Department of the Ministry of War have come."

Chen Bodi looked down at the envelope, it hadn't been opened yet, but he knew what was inside the envelope, and in the envelope was a letter written to him by Daning, the representative of the Ministry of War, on behalf of His Majesty, he had received it once, and in addition to a silver ticket, he had also received it once.

"I'm fine, I should be fine."

Uncle Chen looked at the black eyes a little helplessly: "Child, help me in, I know that Mr. Ye is coming today, he specially went out to buy vegetables, as well as meat, and a very fat river fish, the wine is good wine, and he specially told Lao Li Tou of the wine shop not to mix with water...... Look, wine, wine spilled? It's okay, kid, let's go buy another pot. ”

Uncle Chen spoke incoherently, and his eyes became more and more hollow.

Heiyan raised his head, hard, hard, endure, endure, don't let the tears flow down from his eyes, Uncle Chen hasn't cried yet, he can't cry.

"The child should walk without pain, I'm fine."

Uncle Chen stood up, looked back and saw Ye Liuyun, he tried to squeeze out a smile on his face: "Mr. Ye is here, come in and sit." ”

"Salute Uncle Chen!"

Ye Liuyun stood up straight, put his right hand on his chest, and behind him, the brothers of the Liuyun Society all raised their right fists, and they bowed deeply with Ye Liuyun, all dressed in white.

Uncle Chen stood there, his hand trembling and stretched out: "It's all ...... They are all good children, they are all in the hospital, and it is hot outside. ”

His body swayed, and black eyes held him up.

The old man's hand had lost a little strength, and the envelope seemed to be a very large and large snowflake, falling to the ground in the middle of summer.

Outside the door, a carriage of the Fujun Division of the Ministry of War passed by, and the official of the Fujun Division lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked out, he had just returned from delivering a letter to another household, and he saw the people of the Liuyun Society standing at the gate of the courtyard, saluting towards the courtyard, at this moment, he couldn't hold back any longer, put the curtain down, and a big man cried loudly in the carriage.

The coachman looked back at the carriage, he could not see the people in the carriage, but he could hear the crying in the carriage.

"My lord, are you alright?"

"It's okay, you don't have to worry about me."

There was a soft voice in the carriage, as if talking to himself.

"I don't want to do this errand anymore, I really don't want to do it...... Every time I see them reaching out to take the envelope I handed over, watching their hands tremble, looking at the pain in the eyes of the old people and women one by one, my heart hurts, it hurts...... Sometimes I can't help but think, if I die, I really can't stand it. ”

The coachman sighed outside: "My lord, this is also, this is inevitable, it is war. ”

Officials from the Fujun Division did not respond.

After a long time, the coachman asked, "My lord, will you go to the next house?" Otherwise, you can rest, and we will continue to deliver it tomorrow. ”

"It's ......"

The voice in the carriage was trembling.

"This is the list of the first batch of killed sent back from this year's Northern Expedition, it was sent from Xifengkou, Hanhai City has not yet been sent, and it will be ...... next month."

The voice of the official of the Fujun Division paused.

"Keep sending it, next month, there will be more."

The coachman fell silent.

He looked down at his hand holding the reins, trembling.

He only had one arm, and his right arm was missing at the shoulder.

"I'm lucky."

The coachman looked at his hand: "I once lost an arm in Northern Xinjiang, when the war ended, I asked my comrades to help me find it, and then I was helped back to the camp to stop the bleeding and bandage, I was really lucky, I lost an arm and did not lose my life, I have seen too many brothers who were injured and happy, saying that they would continue to work with the black warriors when the injury was healed, but their injuries did not heal......"

"I asked the medical officer in the camp, can this arm be brought back? The medical officer looked at me and said, "Brother, practice more in the future and use chopsticks in your left hand...... My brothers picked up several arms on the battlefield, none of them were mine, they said with red eyes Brother Liu, don't worry, let's go back and look for it now, I said don't look for it, brothers lost their lives there, my life was picked up, that arm will accompany them, if you go to the underworld, if you go to the underworld...... If the road is not good, give them crutches. ”

The coachman looked up at the sky.

Tears fell in the jaw.

The horse pulling the cart neighed, as if it felt something, and the cry was sad.

There is a long alley behind Uncle Chen's house, Liuyun will be black-eyed under the master of the three of them in front of the courtyard, she went around from the front and walked to the mouth of the alley behind the house, he knew that these days were not peaceful, there were too many unknown Jianghu guests entering Chang'an, he was very angry, but there was no way, Daning is beautiful everywhere, but beauty is not all.

Some people can do anything for money.

He walked to the mouth of the alley and froze.

In the alley behind Uncle Chen's house, a dead body fell to the ground.

There was a girl in a goose-yellow dress holding an armor-piercing sword, there were too many corpses in the alley to count, but her body was not stained with blood.

She only reacted after seeing her for a while, and clenched her fists: "Miss Chayan." ”

The tea master bowed slightly, turned to leave.