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On the tenth day of September of the sixth year of Baoyou, Yangzhou City.

Due to the excavation of the Grand Canal, this famous city in Jiangbei was the most important port city in the country during the Tang Dynasty. It was the gateway to foreign trade. It was the largest metropolis in southeast China at that time. It was known as "the world's wealth". It was sometimes known as "Yang Yi Yi Er" (Yizhou refers to Chengdu). There were thousands of Dashi merchants living in Yangzhou alone, and countless merchants from Japan, Silla and other countries where they lived here. As for the population settled in Yangzhou, there were hundreds of thousands.

However, the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty has long passed since now. Only a huge city was built with fifteen miles north and south, seven or eight miles east and west, all made of large bricks. It was not the old city of the Tang Dynasty, but was expanded by Lu Yihao, then the governor of Yangzhou, on the basis of the old city in the early Southern Song Dynasty. Later, the governor of Yangzhou did not spare any effort to strengthen the city walls, and finally built it into one of the best city in the world.

This city is located in the northwest of the Grand Canal, with a canal of more than a hundred steps wide on both sides of the southeast. The west is the river and Yanchi. It was originally the moat of Yangzhou City in the Tang Dynasty. After hundreds of years of evolution, it has become a river more than 30 meters wide. The northern boundary of Yangzhou City is a river called Chaihe, a small canal excavated during the Tang Dynasty, connecting the Grand Canal and the Yangzhou commercial district at that time. Because the river channel of Chaihe is not wide, it is the most vulnerable place to attack on all sides of Yangzhou City. Therefore, the former commercial center has now become the key point for heavy troops to deploy, and the barracks of Yangzhou garrisons are also concentrated in the North City.

About 1,000 meters northwest of Yangzhou North City, there is a small highland called Shugang. In the tenth year of Chunyou, Jia Sidao moved the town of Lianghuai and built the city here. It was completed during the Baoyou period, so it is called Baoyou City, which is a fortress that protects the gate of Beiguan, Yangzhou. Therefore, when the Grand Canal and the bridges on the guarantee river have been demolished, only a wooden bridge is retained on the Chai River, which can directly lead to the gate of Beiguan, Yangzhou.

Because of the previous hard battles and melee, the army system outside Yangzhou City was already in chaos. After the Mongolian army retreated, Jia Sidao had no intention of sorting it out. He just ordered the army to return from Yangzhou Beiguan, and then took his staff back to Yangzhou City by boat. Chen Dexing and his six or seven hundred Wurui soldiers, led the bodies of the wounded and the soldiers who died in the war, led the captured war horses, carried bloody heads, and bypassed the Baobao Lake and entered the city from Yangzhou Beiguan.

Walking into this tall and majestic city gate tower, Chen Dexing's tense nerves suddenly relaxed. This was a feeling of being home! It should be from his life. In this life, his home is in Yangzhou.

At this moment, in Yangzhou City, compared with outside the city, there are almost two worlds. Outside the city is a deserted battlefield. Before the arrival of the Mongolian army, the Lianghuai Pacification Envoy issued a strict order to strengthen the walls and clear the fields. The farmlands in the villages north and west of Yangzhou City were burned down, and even the taller trees were cut down, leaving only an endless wasteland.

However, in Yangzhou City, a few of the prosperous and noisy afterimages of the past remained. On both sides of the ten-mile long street, there were many shops and crowded. Perhaps it was because Jia Sidao issued martial law orders before the war outside the city. Most of the shops on both sides of the long street were not opened. A few restaurants with door panels and open doors also looked like they had just opened the door. Only Xiao Sier was diligently wiping tables, chairs and benches. The ones who were hugging the doors along the street seemed not customers, because everyone was facing the street and stretched their necks and looked at something.

Oh, I was hoping that their relatives would return safely from the battlefield. Most of these people were elderly people and women and children, wearing simple clothes, with anxious expressions on their faces, and there were shouts from time to time.

"Celebrate it! Celebrate it..."

Chen Dexing vaguely heard someone calling his font size, which was a female voice, very sweet and greasy. He looked over the sound, but only saw a group of women who were dragging their children with their daughters, who seemed not his family in this life.

Walking further forward, more and more people gathered on both sides of the street, and the voices calling for relatives were drowned out by heart-wrenching crying. The Beiguan Camp in Yangzhou where the Wu Rui army was stationed was not far ahead.

Wu Rui's army was a new army recruited in Yangzhou. Most of the soldiers were farmers and fishermen outside Yangzhou. Before the Mongolian army attacked, Jia Sidao ordered the farmers and fishermen outside the city to be moved into the city to resettle. Most of the families of Wu Rui's soldiers also moved into the city, and many shacks were built around Beiguan camp for temporary residence. In addition to the small amount of relief issued by the Yangzhou government, the soldiers' food and salary were the soldiers. For the families of these ordinary soldiers, the death of their families in battle was the severance of their source of life, and the sky fell...

"Brother, you're dead, how can you live with your mother!"

"Official, how can I live if you leave..."

"Officials, wait for me, I will go with you!"

"Dad, Dad..."

"The lady fainted. Go and invite the doctor quickly. She was still standing still. Go and invite the doctor..."

With the return of the remnants of Wu Rui's army, the families gathered outside the barracks had already cried, some had their sons died, some had their husbands, and some had their fathers. It is a reflection of the poem that several people returned from war since ancient times! And even if the people who came back had broken hands and feet, as long as they were still breathing, they could bring comfort to their families.

The six or seven hundred people brought back by Chen Dexing seemed to be the remnants of Wu Rui's army who returned to the largest group of Beiguan camp one after another. Most of the hundreds of men who swear to go to the underworld on the battlefield were also shouting to agree to their families. There was no joy of victory above their faces, and only tears of excitement when they saw their relatives again were left.

Chen Dexing did not intend to block the reunion of these soldiers who had survived the disaster and his family, so he issued an order to disband, leaving a team of soldiers who had no family members in Yangzhou City to Gao Da's command, responsible for guarding the more than 600 precious heads and forty-eight Mongolian war horses... These are the reliances for Chen Dexing and others to get promoted and make money in the future, and they must not lose anyway!

Several temporary officers and soldiers led by Gao Da entered the camp with Chen Dexing. The once lively and crowded camp is now empty and has no hope. The civilian staff staying in the military camp, Jiyi and Cadre Office, etc., are missing. They should have gone to the Fushiya Office to find out the news - to find out who will take over the command of the Wu Rui army. Most of these civilian staff members have no official positions. The current dispatches are given by the former commander Lu Zhaolin. Now that Lu Zhaolin has died in battle, their future is worrying...

Chen Dexing crossed his hands at a temporary subordinate and smiled: "It seems that there is no way to repay the merits today. Let's go here. Brother Gao and I will take people to guard the heads and horses. Others go to rest first. If you have a home in Yangzhou, go back. Don't worry at home."

After a hard fight, even though a strong man like Chen Dexing had a sore waist and back, his legs and feet were weak, and his wounds were stinging. I really need to rest and condition them. As for how to repay merit and how to go, I'd better talk about it tomorrow.

"Oh, then we will say goodbye first!" Everyone was too exhausted and bowed to Chen Dexing.

Chen Dexing bowed again and said with a smile: "I will go to talk to Senator Liao during the day tomorrow, and I will hold wine in Qionghua Building at night. Everyone should give me some face."
Chapter completed!