It rained all day and all night. After the rain stopped, Gu Mo cremated the third brother's body.
The fire started burning. At this moment, watching the young general turn into ashes in the fire, everyone felt a little heavy in their hearts.
They already knew how Gu Yan and those Xuanjia soldiers died.
They did not die openly on the battlefield, but died under the conspiracy of their own people.
Conscience filled everyone present with righteous indignation,
"Go kill those traitors and avenge the Xuanjia Army!"
"Revenge for the Xuanjia Army! Revenge for General Gu!"
Gu Mo took a deep breath and said, "General Gu San's last words were that the hatred of the country comes first and the hatred of the family comes last. Now the iron hooves of the real army are still raging on the land of Yuguo. No one is allowed to mention the matter of revenge for the Xuanjia Army!"
When the enemy army is defeated and the world is stable, she will take revenge. She will definitely seek justice for the countless heroes of the Xuanjia Army who died in battle!
Gu Mo put the third brother's ashes into a jar and put them together with two other small jars.
Those two jars contained the ashes of the eldest brother and the second brother, which were found on the body of the third brother.
When the world is peaceful, she will take her father and brothers home.
Gu Mo adjusted his mood and continued on his way.
The team soon arrived in front of the gate of Shiji City. What Gu Mo didn't expect was that no one cleaned the battlefield and no one collected the bodies of the Xuanjia soldiers who died in the battle. Their bodies were still lying in front of the city gate.
The defenders of Shiji City were afraid that if the city gate was opened, the real army would immediately invade, so they kept huddled inside, not caring that the heroes lying outside were defending their home and country.
"Mad! Those officials are nothing! How can they be so afraid of death!"
The few surviving Xuanjia soldiers, regardless of their injuries, struggled forward to collect the bodies of their comrades.
Gu Mo stopped them, "I'll do it!"
She asked the Iron Eagle Army to come over to help move the corpses and burned the bodies of the Xuanjia Army together.
The reason why we chose to burn the body rather than bury it nearby is because the current situation is special and the body is easily exposed. If the disaster continues, someone will inevitably dig up the body and eat it.
This not only leaves the Xuanjia Army dead, but also risks an outbreak of plague.
So we can only burn them and leave their ashes.
Before burning them, Gu Mo ordered them to take off their armor.
If possible, Gu Mo would like them all to leave wearing this armor that represents victory and glory.
But people are dead, and now the living people need these armors more.
Everyone helped silently, those who moved the corpses carried the corpses, and those who gathered dry firewood. Soon the fire started, thick smoke billowed, and the smell of the burnt corpses spread far away.
A Xuanjia Army survivor named Zhu Da handed Gu Mo a booklet
"Brother Gu, this is the list of Xuanjia Army."
Knowing that Gu Mo's current identity is very sensitive, Xuan Jiajun all tacitly agreed not to call out Gu Mo's identity, but followed everyone in calling her Brother Gu.
Gu Mo opened the list. It contained the name, place of birth and other information of each member of the Xuanjia Army. It was written that those with a red line on it were deceased.
And for some, we haven’t had time to draw a red line yet.
Except for Zhu Da and seven others, all the nine thousand Xuanjia troops died in the battle.
And Gu Cong also died, no one applied for pensions for their family members, and the court did not care at all how helpless and desperate their families would be after the death of these soldiers.
But Gu Mo couldn't ignore it.
So she put the list down solemnly and looked at Zhu Da and others, "I will let the entire court, the people of the world, and future history books remember everyone on this list."
Zhu Da and others nodded with their eyes red.
At this time, a young man who was responsible for looking out nearby ran over in a hurry.
"Brother Gu, the real army, the real army is coming this way! There are so many people!"
Gu Mo immediately took everyone to hide nearby, and only took a few people to the nearby commanding heights to investigate the enemy's situation.
It is indeed a real army. It is estimated that there should be one or two thousand soldiers and horses, heading towards Shiji City. It seems that they want to attack Huairen Mansion and Shiji City at the same time with a two-pronged approach.
At this time, the supervisors of Shiji City learned that the real army was coming, and they were so anxious that they jumped on the spot.
"It's all those Xuanjia troops. If they hadn't led the real army here, how could Shiji City be trapped? It's really harmful to others and ourselves!"
He is a scholar, how can he fight? Isn't this going to kill him?
He really wanted to just leave at this moment, but he didn't dare.
Because many officials had deserted before the battle and gave the city to the real army, and they were all punished.
Especially when Gu Cong was here, once an official who abandoned the city and fled was found, he would beheaded on the spot.
Although Gu Cong was gone now, the imperial court was still there. When the emperor was angry, he still couldn't bear to go around. He could only bite the bullet and stay here, but he kept scolding the emperor in his heart. It was obviously a military general who had done it. He had to do it.
A civil servant was transferred here to suffer the consequences!
"Supervisor, the real army has begun to attack the city!"
"You are not allowed to open the city gate! You are not allowed to take action either, we will defend the city!"
The walls of Shiji City are still quite strong and should last for a while. The real army will definitely leave if they see no advantage.
As for why they didn't take action? It wasn't because they were afraid of angering the real army, who would attack the city even more frantically.
It was a good idea, but after the real army announced that they could not break Shiji City, they directly pushed the Yuguo people captured along the way to the front of the formation and asked them to carry earth on their backs and build fortifications under the city wall.
In this way, if Shiji City does not stop it, the earth will pile up higher and higher. Once it is level with the city, the real army will attack the city.
But if we can stop it, we must first kill all the people of Yuguo...
However, the real army did not wait for Shiji City to make a choice. When the people of Yuguo carried the soil to the bottom of the city, they directly killed these people, buried them with the soil, and soon built a very high human ladder.
Shiji City had to take action now. They shot arrows and threw stones on the city wall to prevent the real army from climbing up the city wall...
But the real army didn't seem to be afraid of death at all, and they continued to climb up the city wall one after another.
Li Yanxiu clenched his fists when he saw this scene, "Aren't we going to take action?"
The Iron Eagle Army all wanted to take action, but Gu Mo did not give the order, so they could only endure it.
"First move the old, weak, women and children."
Once they take action, the real army will soon discover the existence of these old, weak, women and children, and they will soon become human ladders under the city wall.
"good."
Li Yanxiu moved the old, weak, women and children, while Gu Mo and the Tie Yingjun were still watching Shi Jichengde's every move.
Although the Iron Eagle Army was training while traveling during this period, the Iron Eagle Army also had rich experience in fighting bandits, but it had not been on the battlefield yet.
They must go to the battlefield before they can grow up quickly and become an unstoppable army.
Now is a good opportunity for actual combat, but if you wait any longer and let them rush out rashly, you are completely pushing them to kill them.
