Chapter 745: Paying homage to loyal souls outside Chang'an City!
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Emperor Wu led the way at the forefront. Behind Emperor Wu was King Xiang who was released from confinement, and beside King Xiang was Princess Taiping.
Behind the Prime Minister and Princess Taiping are the Li family clan and the Wu clan, and behind them are the officials of the court.
Although the phalanx of the Imperial Medical Office where Li Sanniang is located is not at the very end, it is still in the middle and back section near the end.
It was also when Li Sanniang was walking forward with Emperor Wu and others that she realized why Dr. Sun was missing?
After thinking about it, Li Sanniang felt that Dr. Sun might not be at the Imperial Medical Office at the time, and that the reward ceremony would be arranged here after the memorial ceremony.
After thinking about this, Li Sanniang stretched out her legs tightly to follow the team, and also took time to think about when Li Dalang and Nineteenth could go home.
The road from the entrance of the Zhonglie Mausoleum to the Zhonglie Monument is not short, let alone with so many people moving forward little by little, it will be even slower.
After walking for about two-quarters of an hour, Li Sanniang could hear the doctors around her chatting with each other.
In fact, the voices they spoke were already very low, but Li Sanniang's ears were really sensitive. From such a close distance, she could hear them even if she didn't want to hear them.
"Sages are real. Where do you really want to walk in step by step?"
"Shut up and follow me quickly."
Half an hour later, The sun has already risen to its peak, and everyone has reached the place where the Martyr Monument is located.
There was Jin Wuwei running back and forth to direct everyone where to stand. It took another quarter of an hour for the square formation to move.
Li Sanniang lowered her head, took out a towel from her sleeve pocket and wiped the sweat on her forehead and nose. She took the opportunity to quickly stuff a piece of candy into her mouth, closed her mouth and chewed it to replenish her energy.
As soon as Li Sanniang swallowed the last bit of candy in her mouth, long horn sounds sounded from all directions.
Hearing this horn sound with a desolate and tragic atmosphere, no one needed to speak, and the small voices of the people around him stopped one by one.
After the horn sounded, bursts of war drums came from the front.
The sound of the war drums "dong dong dong, dong dong dong" makes people can't help but feel that they are on the battlefield in person at this moment, and there is a fight waiting in front of them.
Li Sanniang looked forward through the dense crowd in front of her, and then she saw Emperor Wu walking step by step towards the high platform in front of the Loyalty Monument. She saw Emperor Wu standing on the high platform, nodding to the general beside him.
The sound of the war drums kept beating faster and faster. An armored general under Emperor Wu came to the front of the stage. After standing still, he shouted loudly: "Welcome to the Tang Dynasty" The loyal soul returns home!”
Even among the dense drums, the general’s shouting can be heard clearly. Anyone can hear the heartache and choking in the general’s shouting. sound.
Then, Li Sanniang’s ears were sensitive to the sound of uniform footsteps. She followed the source of the footsteps and looked at the path that everyone walked when they came, on the way to the loyalty monument. At this time At this moment, Shi Jiajun soldiers holding clothes and hats were walking in front.
After about a hundred soldiers holding clothes and hats, there was a team of four soldiers carrying a black coffin. Li Sanniang looked at this dense team of coffin carriers with no end to be seen, and felt blocked in her heart. Panic.
Naturally, the civilians gathered along the official road outside the Zhonglie Tomb also saw the black coffin carried by the team coming from the other official road, the camp on the outskirts of Beijing. There was nothing they didn't understand.
"This is my man from the Tang Dynasty! This is my good man from the Tang Dynasty!" "He's back, he's back home, he's back home."
Xing Yu stood in the crowd with his wife and children. This scene was too heavy for his soul who came from a peaceful world.
It was during these peaceful and peaceful days in Chang'an that Xing Yu had a real sense of this at this moment.
"There is war outside the prosperous city of Chang'an!"
The emotional woman and husband couldn't help looking at the black coffins, and they passed by He started to cry as the war drums beat.
In front of the Zhonglie Monument, Emperor Wu stood on a high platform. With a solemn face, she looked through the crown at the clothes and crowns held by the soldiers in the audience, and the four people behind them who carried them. The black coffin at the entrance, no one knew what she was thinking at this time.
When the two armies are fighting, many times the bodies of their own soldiers can be recovered after a truce through military uniforms, but more often only the stumps can be found.
The main reason is also because of the black gunpowder developed by Du Qinghui in this war. Gunpowder has no eyesight and it is impossible to separate camps.
Therefore, the first ones holding their clothes and hats were all soldiers who could not find their complete bodies and planned to bury them with their clothes and hats.
The sound of the war drums stopped, Emperor Wu stood still, and her calm voice rang out: "In the winter of the second year of Yongchang, the Western Turks invaded the border, burned, killed and looted, killing more than ten thousand people.
I He was shocked and angry, so he sent troops to defend the territory of the Tang Dynasty and protect the people of the Tang Dynasty.
The soldiers died on the battlefield to serve their country. Today, the loyal soul of the Tang Dynasty returns to the Zhonglie Mausoleum.
I praise the loyal soul of the Tang Dynasty. !
With such a loyal soul, the Tang Dynasty will surely prosper!
On the fourth day of the seventh lunar month in the fourth year of Yongchang, the whole country pays homage to us and we come back! "
As soon as Emperor Wu finished his last words, he heard a "squeak" sound, and Li Sanniang saw two obvious red smokes burning in the sky on both sides of the loyal monument in front.
However, In the space of two breaths, four "bang bang bang" explosions came from four directions one after another.
Except for those who knew in advance, people like Li Sanniang who didn't know anything thought it was God. A huge thunderstorm or something bad happened. After seeing Emperor Wu and the others calm down, Li Sanniang suddenly realized that this was the sound of gunpowder explosion to send off the soldiers, right?
Sure enough, there were soldiers going back and forth in front of each square to explain that this was arranged in advance to see off Zhonghun.
At this moment, Li Sanniang really felt that Emperor Wu's situation was big enough, and she was even willing to take out such hot weapons, just to see off the dead soldiers.
Before Li Sanniang could figure out the reason, the general who shouted before stood up again, "Sacrifice wine for the loyal soul!"
Emperor Wu was holding an ordinary pottery bowl , which contained nothing but the cheapest wine. She poured the pottery bowl towards the Martyr Monument first, and then picked up another bowl and drank.
The same was true for the generals standing aside. After Emperor Wu finished drinking, he heard the general shout: "Send the loyal soul to the mausoleum!"
In this way, the soldiers holding the clothes and carrying the black coffin started to move, and walked around the loyal monument one by one to the mausoleum behind the loyal monument.
The pit has been dug long ago, and the people who have been waiting for it will bury the loyal souls brought back from the border town thousands of miles away, and let their souls return to the Tang Dynasty!
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It’s mid-October, and I feel like time flies by so fast.
The Chinese New Year will be here in three and a half months, and it always feels like this year is going by so fast.
(End of this chapter)