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The seventy-third question: Lintai is already famous (4)

The customs of China are also the important point that distinguishes China from the barbarians is that Zhongyuan has always respected the dead, and the dead will eventually return to their ancestors. This is the imprint left by ancient ancestors' worship on China. However, the surrounding tribes rarely attach as much importance to the deceased as Middle-earth, so that emperors of all dynasties have repeatedly given orders to bury the dead, and it is difficult for the people to bury the dead in a grand manner to express their longing and mourn.

Today, the entire city of Chengdu has been slaughtered by the Mongols, and the corpses have become bones in the city. As a member of Sichuan officials, Zheng Yunming must not allow such a thing to happen.

He collected 30,000 young and strong people from the refugees and went to Chengdu Prefecture to collect the bodies and properly bury them.

Although I have long known that the massacre of the Mongols is famous in history, and I also understand that Chengdu is by no means the most prominent or famous among the Mongols' achievements, these knowledge in later books and seeing the mountains of white bones piled up in front of me are two completely different feelings. Such white bone mountains are not one, two, three, ten, hundreds, thousands, and thousands. As a result of the subsequent counting, Chengdu Prefecture has suffered more than one million people in the city. Since the King of Shu gathered in Chengdu, Chengdu, which has been prosperous for thousands of years, has not been harmed by the Hu people for thousands of years. As the second core of Chinese civilization since the Tang Dynasty, it has never recovered.

"This is a journey of beasts, no, this is a journey of demons that is more excessive than a beast!" Zheng Yunming looked at the purgatory scene in front of him and said to Wang Deng beside him: "Jing Song, there is such an inhumane nation in the world, and there is such a barbaric and cruel army. It is really unimaginable and unimaginable!"

Wang Deng gritted his teeth and said, "After all, the officials are the sons of wealthy families, and they don't know that the world is dangerous. I heard that the Mongolians massacred 700,000 young men and women in Shandong once, just because they wanted to return to Mongolia to carry the trouble. The Hu people's temperament is no different from tigers and wolves, and the world has already understood. Today's hatred in Chengdu must be repaid in a generous way in the future!"

Zheng Yunming shook his head: "I am only worried about the two Huai Rivers. Jinghu Lake has been stable and Sichuan has been destroyed. We still have no news. Once the two Huai Rivers are destroyed, even if the Mongolians do not cross the river now and invade the Yangtze River in the next year, they will directly threaten Lin'an and Jiangnan's important areas."

Zheng Yunming got the news about Huainan soon. When he returned to Jiading Prefecture, he happened to meet an envoy sent by the Xiangyang Commander Office to inform the military information of the two Huaihe Rivers. Zhao Kui still treated Zheng Yunming as an old subordinate and did not use ordinary military information to distribute it. He sent the envoy sent by the Huaixi Commander Office to inform the military information directly to Sichuan to be responsible for explaining the military information to Zheng Yunming in detail.

This envoy was a young envoy in the Du Gao shogunate of Anfeng Army. Although he was fifteen years old, he was able to speak and talk freely. When Zheng Yunming first met him, he whispered to Wang Deng: "Du Gongsu has a reputation for being a clever one. I don't know how to think about it. He actually let such a baby be an envoy. Is there really no one in Huai Si?"

The young man immediately said loudly: "If the heroes don't ask where they come from, how can heroes be old? There was a commander in the Song Dynasty who was in his twenties, so why can't there be fifteen-year-old envoys?"

Zheng Yunming laughed and said, "It's such an interesting child. You should study the books of sages in the academy at the age of yours. It's not too late to work for the country after you get fame."

The young man retorted loudly: "This is not what Zheng Dutong has. Since the Dutong led his troops as a scholar and became famous in Jinghu, do you know how many academies in Jiangnan have praised the reputation of the Dutong? Men should make contributions as early as possible. Now Confucian scholars in their early twenties are ready to enter the Rongsi, and they can follow the Dutong to gain fame on the battlefield, and the students are just a little anxious."

Zheng Yunming's expression became serious and said, "The Hu people attacked weak and old soldiers in Jiangnan with millions of good combat troops. The battlefield is a place where people should always share their lives. If they fight frivolously, just for the black veil on the top, they would have to return home to support their parents as a serious person. This is a battlefield where hundreds of thousands of people bet on their lives, and it is not a place where scholars speak loudly!"

But the young man honestly received these admonitions and bowed his head and said, "Students must do their best and dare not neglect them at all."

"Forget it," Zheng Yunming signaled the person to bring the seat, asked him to sit down, pointed to the generals standing on both sides and said, "What is the situation in Huaixi? Tell them carefully about it."

The young man took the order and started to speak carefully.

The Mongols used troops to fight this southern expedition as well as the eldest son's expedition. They used more than 100,000 elite cavalry in Jinghu and dispatched more than 100,000 cavalrymen of various tribes in Sichuan. The 70,000 cavalrymen of the Du Marshal Chahan were used to attack the direction of the two Huaihuai.

Chahan was a famous backbone general of the Mongolian army. When he heard the news that he led his army to invade, the entire Huaixi was panicked. The Chahan army first captured Gushi County in Guangzhou. The generals Lv Wenxin and Du Lin, who were stationed in Huaixi, refused to implement the court's order to reinforce Guangzhou. Instead, they each supported their troops and entrenched in Lu'an and Huoqiu, and were separatist and waited.

The Mongolian army then advanced straight in, attacked Guangzhou, and then attacked Luzhou. The Huaixi Commander and Deputy Envoy of the Yangtze River Control, Shi Songzhi, Huaidong Committee You Jing and Jiangjiang Control, and Chen Ye, both sent troops to block the attack. Under fierce battles between the two sides, the Huaixi Army stopped the Mongolian army from continuing to go south, while the Mongolian army turned to Huaidong to attack and loot, and first besieged Chuzhou. The Song army commander Zhao Bangyong led 10,000 elite troops to rescue. The two armies fought for seven rounds in the wind and rain. The Mongolian army felt that Chuzhou was difficult to conquer, so they retreated voluntarily.

However, the Mongolian army continued to advance south and immediately broke through Liuhe County. The defenders surrendered. When the Mongolian army attacked Liuhe, the Song army sent elite troops from the commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander commander, he thought that he would be killed and Liao Lei died one after another. The remnants were led by deputy general Chen Wan, and the remnants were killed out of the siege, and the Mongolian army could

The number of deaths in the Mongolian army in this battle was several times that of the Song army. Many people surrendered to the Song army. The vanguard general Wu Gubuye was killed first, and then the commander of the Mongolian army was unknown. The Song army was called the relative of the King of Ye Kingdom and suffered serious gunshot wounds. The next day, they were seriously injured and died. The Mongolian army said in surprise that since they followed Lao Khan to attack the Jin Kingdom, they had not experienced such a fierce battle!

Although Chahan suffered a certain loss in Xuanhua, his fighting spirit remained unabated and continued to attack Zhenzhou. This time he met his opponent. Qiu Yue, the governor of Zhenzhou, was well versed in civil and military affairs, and had a deep understanding of military tactics. He made solid preparations before Chahan entered Zhenzhou. Every time the Mongolian army entered the city to attack, Qiu Yue commanded the defenders to attack head-on and repel him. The Mongolian army retreated a little, Qiu Yue led his army out of the city, chased outside the city to cover the enemy's enemy's enemy's general, and successfully shot and killed an enemy general.

When Qiu Yue saw the enemy cavalry rolling in, he told the generals that the Mongolian cavalry was powerful and could not be able to fight the enemy, so he could only win with strategies. So he set up three ambushes in the west of the city and set up artillery seats at the top of the city. The Mongolian army indeed came from the west of the city and was intercepted by the Song ambushers from all directions. The cannon chariots on the top of the city fired stones to fight against each other, killing a brave general who was charging forward. At night, Qiu Yue sent elite troops to rob the camp and burned the Mongolian tents. The Mongolian army was in chaos and finally retreated from the city of Zhenzhou.

Another Mongolian cavalry invaded Gaoyou. Gaoyou guards sent troops to guard Feng Tingjian to fight. Feng Tingjian led four fast ships and two hundred crossbowmen to Lingtang. They encountered the vanguard of the Mongolian cavalry. All the Song army went ashore. Feng Tingjian ordered an ambush behind a farmhouse, and then a 50 crossbowmen were arranged in the back of the water. After the Mongolian cavalry arrived, they immediately launched a charge against the crossbowmen. The Song army lined up to shoot the Mongolian army in turn, but when the Mongolian army approached, they were all trapped in the mud of the river pond. At this time, the Song army behind the farmhouse also came out and attacked the Mongolian army forward and back, shooting dozens of people in total. When the main force of the Mongolian army arrived, Feng Tingjian had commanded the small troops to slowly board the ship and retreat, and returned.

While fighting fiercely in Huaidong, Chahan ordered the rebel generals of the Song Dynasty stationed in western Henan to lead their troops to attack Anfeng. Du Gao of the Anfeng army told his subordinates that the Mongolian army's usual skill was to first capture a city as a base, and then use it as a basis to attack in depth. Now if the enemy wants to attack Anfeng, they have to attack Shunchang, the barrier north of Anfeng. Shunchang has few troops and road blocking is inconvenient to guard. It is better to retreat the military and civilians in advance to avoid becoming the enemy's target. So he sent Du Shu to lead a thousand ships, carrying money and grain to migrate the people. When the people boarded the ship and evacuated, the Mongolian army arrived just in time. Du Shu sent troops to intercept the Mongolian army, and while taking the people on the ship in an orderly manner, he finally transferred all the Shunchang people safely.
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