Chapter 1199: Banner with blood
Guzhai Town has become a ruin, even if the houses here are all made of stone. But in a desperate battle between the two armies, the only ones that can be left are the four walls. In some places, even the stone walls are not in shape. Some were blown up and some looked nothing unusual, but with a light touch on their hands, they suddenly turned into stone powder all over the ground.
This place was not originally a strategic location, nor was it a place where military strategists must fight for. It was just that the Tang army was forced to this place by the army of the Southern Alliance.
When the war ended, the people who were driven out of the town by the Tang army returned to their homes one after another, looking at the home that had been transformed into a moment of ruins, they were in tears.
There is nothing left.
But the days still have to go on.
Many people began to clean up the piece of rag, trying to find something slightly valuable from the inside.
The sound of horse hooves came, and the people in the ruins ran towards the opposite direction of the horse hooves, like frightened birds.
More than 100 Tang army cavalry rushed to Guzhai Town from Xiangtan.
The first person was Ren Xiaonian, and the next one was Qin Kuan and others. Behind them, there were more chariots and horses, some of the civilians they recruited in Xiangtan. This trip not only paid tribute to the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty who died here, but also tried their best to restrain their bodies for the robes that died in battle.
Outside the town, Ren Xiaonian and others turned over and dismounted, step by step towards the large ruins in front of them.
He suddenly stopped and looked at a place beside him.
There was a pile of rubble.
Ren Xiaonian stopped at a place. He squatted down and looked at a black palm and a small piece of arm exposed outside. On that arm was wearing a arm armor, which was a standard equipment of Tang Jun.
He reached out and moved a small piece of broken bricks and tiles on it. A Tang soldier lay down face down inside. One arm was stretched out outside, but in the other hand, he was still holding a half-cut knife.
Qin Kuan and others all surrounded him, with sad expressions in their eyes.
It was not just this soldier. When the soldier who died in battle was exposed, they saw that under the body, all the soldiers who died in battle were stacked by the soldiers who died in battle in the Tang army.
This was after the war, soldiers of the Southern Alliance discarded the remains of Tang Jun who died in the town. This place should have been a depression, but now it has been filled with broken bricks, rotten tiles, mud and stones.
"Dig it all!" Ren Xiaonian turned around, looked at the young and strong people who caught up behind him, and said.
There was not much covering on the body. Soon, all the coverings were cleaned up, and the depression revealed his original face.
All are corpses!
Because of the cold weather, these remains were not corrupt.
Many young and strong men suddenly ran to the side and vomited out.
In their lifetime, they were afraid that they had never seen so many corpses stacked together. Almost none of them were complete. In many places, broken arms and limbs were thrown into a pile, and some even had only one head left.
Ren Xiaonian knelt down on the edge of the big pit, covered her face with both hands, and let tears overflow from her fingers.
"Please come out, brothers!" Qin Kuan, who was crying, shouted loudly.
More than a hundred Tang soldiers walked over silently and carefully carried out all the complete or incomplete bodies from the pit.
Some young and strong men laid pieces of white cloth on the ground, while others wanted to help these Tang soldiers carry out their bodies, but were kicked and beaten out by these Tang soldiers.
Every time I lifted one, I carefully wrapped it with white skin.
Qin Kuan walked out of the deep pit with a head in his arms. It was obvious that he recognized the head himself. He tried hard to find other parts of the head in this deep pit, but after searching for his son for a while, it was still futile. On this piece of white cloth, there was only one head alone. Standing beside him, Qin Kuan roared angrily like a wolf.
The Tang soldiers tried hard to piece together the incomplete corpses, but there were still quite a few of the incomplete limbs and could no longer find other parts of the body.
"Go and look for it, go to the town, dig three feet into the ground to find it for me!" Ren Xiaonian roared angrily at the young and strong people.
These young and strong men, who were already scared, shouted and rushed into the Guzhai Town with tools. They were afraid that they would move a little slower, so they angered the Tang army general who was obviously out of control and turned themselves into one of these corpses.
"Someone is here!" A Tang army suddenly pointed to the distance.
Ren Xiaonian and Qin Kuan looked up and looked in the direction the soldiers pointed. More than ten Tang cavalry guarding a carriage and galloped towards this place.
"It's General Li's personal soldier!" Qin Kuan called out.
Ren Xiaonian walked forward a few steps and suddenly stopped. General Li's personal soldiers escorted a carriage to this place, and he immediately realized who was coming.
In a moment, these cavalry and carriages arrived at Ren Xiaonian's place. The scene in front of him obviously shocked the cavalry who had just arrived.
For many years, they have never seen many brothers who died at once.
Qin Kuan took the lead and opened the carriage door.
"Sister-in-law!" Qin Kuan shouted.
Ge Cai slowly came out of the carriage, and Qin Kuan helped her get off the carriage.
"Where are the children, where are the children?" Qin Kuan suddenly screamed in panic.
Ren Xiaonian stood behind Qin Kuan and raised his head suddenly. Ge Cai, who was originally fat and strong, looked so thin and bony at this moment, and what shocked them even more was that Ge Cai, who should have had a big belly, had a normal belly at this moment. If Ge Cai did not show up in the past because she was too fat, then now, her flat belly would be too prickly.
"Scar, it's okay. The child was born. Although it was premature, it was alive. I tried my best to leave a seed for you Brother Liu!" Ge Cai said softly.
"That's good, that's good!" Qin Kuan let out a long sigh.
Ge Cai's eyes fell on Ren Xiaonian. Although he was not wearing military uniforms, he still saluted Ren Xiaonian meticulously: "General Ren!"
"Ge Cai, I, I'm sorry for you!" Ren Xiaonian was ashamed.
Ge Cai shook his head slightly: "Those who are in the army and fight all tie their heads to their belts. Over the years, so many brothers have died, even if we secretly camp, there are less than half of them left. How can we be sorry for it?"
Looking at Ge Cai's eyes staying at the body wrapped in white cloth, Qin Kuan slowly shook his head: "Sister-in-law, there is no Brother Liu here. I heard from the captives we caught that Brother Liu seemed to have detonated the explosives himself, but I'm afraid nothing was left."
Ge Cai's body shook, but finally stopped and did not fall down. She slowly walked into this white ocean, bent her knees and half-kneeled.
"Brothers, Ge Cai is here to see you."
The highest commander of this army was originally Ge Cai. Liu Yuan was previously Ge Cai's deputy general. The two were rare couples in the Tang army. Because Ge Cai left when he was pregnant, Liu Yuan became the leader. Ge Cai was extremely familiar with everyone who died in battle here.
There are three thousand people! Are you the only one left now?
In the deep cellar, a small candle became the only source of light. Chen Lin carefully untied the gauze on a soldier's arm, and the soldier's hand was cut off at the same wrist.
After looking at the wound, Chen Lin breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay, it's okay, and finally granulation has grown. You have been having high fever these days, but I'm scared to death."
"I can't die, General Chen said, everyone here must live, so that our team can be rebuilt!" The wounded soldier's voice was very small and he also sounded weak.
"It's okay. After surviving this disaster, you will be better every day. Chief Du Shuai, go and get some clear water!" Chen Lin said.
"Okay!" Du Sheng, who was close to the passage, agreed, hunched over and walked out along the passage.
At the end of the passage is an ancient well, and about a foot below the cave is a pool of clear water.
Lying on the ground, just as soon as Du Sheng's whole body was stiff, he suddenly became somewhere.
In his ears, the sound of extremely familiar military horns came.
That was the trumpet that was blown after every war to commemorate the dead heroes.
Your own person!
His own army is here.
It must be the Tang Dynasty that won, otherwise the Tang Dynasty's army would not have come to this place.
Du Sheng threw the water scoop, stood up, and roared loudly, but the entrance of the cave was too far away from him, and even shouted several times, but there was no response.
He didn't know that at this moment, Ren Xiaonian and others had not come in at the entrance of the town.
Du Sheng stumbled and ran inward along the passage. Along the way, he didn't know how many times his head had hit the top of the passage.
"Brothers, our army is here, I hear the sound of the bugle! I hear the sound of the bugle."
"Did you hear it wrong?" Chen Lin asked calmly. These days, a lot of such things have happened. From time to time, soldiers said that they had heard the sound of the military horns.
"Absolutely not!" Du Sheng roared repeatedly, and took out the tattered military flag from his arms, "Hurry up, hurry up, where is the spear, find a few more spears."
The entrance of the cave was too deep from them, with a bare stone wall and not even a rope hanging down, so they could not climb up at all.
Several spears were tied together, and the broken military flag was hung.
Du Sheng once again came to the wall of the ancient well and slowly poked the military flag out of the ancient well cave.
The wind suddenly rises.
Chapter completed!