Chapter 493

Gu Huaiyi felt the cold and heavy wall and sighed. Although he was not the general who guarded the southern border all the year round like Shen Zhang, he also had a little affection for the grand city of Guancheng because of guarding zhennanguan during this period. He knew very well that if there were no such city as a barrier, even if there were 400000 troops in Zhennan pass, it would not last long, and he did not want to destroy the city which had spent countless manpower and material resources for the victory of the war.

However, when things come to an end, there must be a choice. Compared with a Guancheng, the safety of Daqian's country and hundreds of millions of people are obviously more important. Thinking of this, Gu Huaiyi pointed to the silk in Shen Zhang's hand and said, "brother Shen, you and I are all soldiers, and this is the military order. Lu Shuai is the commander-in-chief of Southern Xinjiang. Unless there is an imperial decree, you and I can only obey orders."

"Alas ~" Shen Zhang sighed deeply. He didn't know this, but he had been guarding the southern border for nearly 20 years. Because of the three armies of Southern Xinjiang stationed in zhennanguan in turn, he spent at least six or seven years in zhennanguan. He didn't expect that this city was guarded by countless heroes with blood and life, In the end, it's in your own hands. Thinking of paoze, who died in the army in zhennanguan since he joined the army, Shen Zhang felt pain in his heart. Those familiar or unfamiliar faces, as if from the depths of memory reappeared in front of him.

Looking at Shen Zhang's dejected appearance, Gu Huaiyi sat down next to him against the battlements, hammered his aching thigh, and said, "brother Shen, don't worry, the relief and life stone carvings of the martyrs on the city wall have been rubbinged. Even if Zhennan pass is destroyed, its honor and history will not be destroyed. If the central government wants to rebuild Zhennan pass after this war, it can restore its original appearance again, Let thousands of loyal souls guard Daqian again. "

"It can only be so." After a long time, Shen Zhang nodded slowly, looking at the wounded and corpses who were carried down the city wall by stretchers, and asked, "brother Gu, do you have any statistics of the battle damage and casualties in the city?"

When Shen Zhang asked about this, Gu Huaiyi's face became very heavy. He slowly took out a piece of paper from his arms. The slow speed, as if the thin piece of paper weighed a thousand pounds, handed it to Shen Zhang. Gu Huaiyi said, "you'd better see for yourself."

Shen Zhang nodded. With a shake of his right hand, he opened the paper. The black and red handwriting that came into his eyes suddenly hurt Shen Zhang's vision. "The content on the paper is very simple. It's all about the slight and serious injuries of the thunder army and the left and right Zhuo guards, as well as the statistics of the number of people killed in the battle. At the end of the paper, there is a total number, When we see that the number of people killed in the last battle has exceeded 10000, we can't help our hearts beating wildly even with Shen Zhang's mind honed by years of fighting. "

In this kind of war with tens of millions of troops, it is not obvious that more than 10000 people were killed in the battle. They were evenly distributed among the battalions, with less than 100 people lost in each battalions, far from the point of breaking their bones and muscles. However, this figure is based on Zhennan pass, and most of the beasts in the animal tide can not climb up the city wall, If he lost the wall barrier and fought in the wild with the tide of animals, Shen Zhang could not even think about the price that the garrison in the south of the town would have to pay.