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Chapter 336

Li Xia and Zhu Yusun went down the tower.

When he was in the city tower, Pu Zezhi mentioned to Zhu Yusun why Li Xia appeared in Chengdu, so that he didn't have to pursue it.

But Zhu Yusun still said: "You didn't listen to the assignment and went to the enemy's territory privately. After the war, give me the last official letter of pleading guilty."

Before he sent troops with Pu Zezhi, he had recruited troops from Tongchuan Prefecture to defend Luzhou God's Arm City, and the people of Qingfu County should also be in Luzhou.

Besides, he was directly in charge of Tongchuanfu Road, so he really couldn't turn a blind eye, at least he needed an explanation.

"Yes." Li Xia replied.

Although Zhu Yusun had a straight face, he actually had no prejudice against Li Xia.

In the past two years, the Shu region successively beheaded Wulianghetai and Adahu, the two Mongolian marshals. Li Xia participated in both, and Zhu Yusun also got a lot of credit.

After the official business, the two began to talk about the next errand.

"I don't know how many people there are in western Sichuan. The household registration of Chengdu Mansion has been lost during the war." Zhu Xisun said, "But there is a rough estimate."

Li Xia was even more unclear about this aspect, and said, "Please tell me, Zhu Anfu."

Zhu Yusun said: "Three years before Duanping, there were 250 million registered households in Sichuan, about 110 million people. Among them, Chengdu Fulu in western Sichuan accounted for nearly half of Sichuan's population, with more than 700 million households, or [-] million people. people."

Li Xia looked around and saw that the city was in ruins and there were few people. How could it look like a prosperous city?

Zhu Yusun also turned his head to look, and stopped slowly.

He suddenly said, "I'm from Chengdu."

Li Xia also stopped, not understanding why he said this suddenly.

Zhu Yusun was not just chatting, after saying this, his tone became heavy.

"Duanping three years, October 24th. Kuoduan led the Mongolian army to attack Chengdu, wrote the word 'fire to kill', and ordered the massacre of the city. They gathered 50 people in the city, stabbed them with knives, and piled up the corpses... At that time, I was under the mountain of corpses."

Li Xia was a little surprised, and said, "Zhu Anfu, you..."

Zhu Yusun waved his hand, pointed in one direction of the city, and said, "Over there, there was an old man who kept hugging me. At night, the Mongolian army began to search for the undead in the corpse mountain, and there was another round of random killings.

The old man was dripping with blood, which kept pouring into my mouth. Because of his protection, I was lucky enough to survive and fled into the woods outside the city in the middle of the night.Afterwards, Prefect He prefected Chengdu, and recorded 140 million bones in the city, excluding those outside the city. "

At this point, Li Xia had already heard the trembling and crying in Zhu Yusun's voice.

This is a high-ranking official in his [-]s, and the only thing that can make him lose his composure is such a horrible massacre.

Because it was in front of his subordinates, Zhu Yusun still forced himself to be calm, with red eyes, trying not to cry.

He turned his back and looked at the city of Chengdu, calming down his emotions.

After a long time, he finally said: "Three years after Duanping, the Mongolian army invaded Chengdu Fulu several times. Twenty years...wars, massacres, and looting, 700 million people in western Sichuan... Ten out of ten, it's not too much. Only a few hundred thousand people left? Maybe there are."

Li Xia said: "I think so."

"Ten not one" is just four simple words, but millions of living people were killed to the bones.

Zhu Yusun said: "When Yu Shuai was there, more than 10 people moved to the west of Sichuan to Yunding, Sangui, Ziyun, Jiuding and other mountain cities. In recent years, Wang Dechen has coerced people into Hanzhong and Shaanxi. Counting [-] People, I'm afraid there are only half of them left.

Calculated in this way, I can gather more than a hundred thousand people at most in a short period of time. "

Li Xia said: "That would require more than three hundred large ships."

Zhu Husun ​​said: "I will send people to find and adjust the ships."

"I'm also worried that the people in western Sichuan will not want to leave their homeland with me."

"You don't have to worry about this." Zhu Yusun waved his hand and said: "Shu has suffered from military disasters for 20 years, and the people have no complete homes. When they hear a horse neighing, they run and hide. Pu Shuai can send troops to lead them to relocate , is also what they have been looking forward to for a long time.”

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It has to be said that Pu Zezhi and Zhu Yusun's official positions are there, and the Sichuan appeasement envoy and Tongchuan Road appeasement envoy do things, unlike Li Xia, a small county magistrate, who is doing small things, and making a move is a big deal.

But of course it's not easy, and they don't even know how much time they have to work so hard.

I only hope that Liu Zheng can stop Niu Lin, at least to delay Chengdu for a while...

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Suizhou, Arrow Beach Crossing.

Jiantan Ferry is located in the east of Suining City in later generations, at the Fujiang River Ferry in Renlichang.

Suizhou is also called "Suining" today, and it got its name because Huan Wen, the great general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, after he pacified Shu, implying "to quell the war and chaos, and then to find peace".

This place is connected to Chengdu in the west and Chongqing in the east, and is located on the banks of the Fujiang River.

Niu Lin led more than ten thousand Mongolian troops to attack Chongqing and had reached Kuimen, but when he heard that Pu Zezhi was attacking Chengdu, he had to turn around and wanted to join forces with Adahu and attack Pu Zezhi.

He had to cross the Fujiang River again, and to cross the Fujiang River, he had to cross the Jiantan River.

Liu Zheng will stay here.

On the other hand, when Yu Jie was in Shu, he moved the government of Suizhou to the mountain city "Pengxi Village" in the northeast of Fujiang River.Therefore, Suizhou City has long since fallen, and there are no people in the city.

But in this way, Suizhou City could not support Liu Zheng.

Therefore, Pu Zezhi ordered Duan Yuanjian, the commander of the capital, to lead 5000 troops to guard Lingquan Mountain, and he and Liu Zheng became horns of each other.

Lingquan Mountain is on the east bank of the Fujiang River. There are several peaks standing on the wall, and there are springs dripping from the rocks, which are inexhaustible, so it gets its name.There is a temple on the mountain named "Zishengyuan", which was later renamed "Lingquan Temple".

All in all, in this battle, Niu Lin had to face Liu Zheng's [-] troops head-on, and Duan Yuanjian's condescending blow from the side of Lingquan Mountain.

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Some of Liu Zheng's [-] troops were old soldiers he brought from Jinghu, and the other part was transferred to him by Pu Zezhi from various places, including the Suizhou Wuxin Army.

Wu Xinjun was about to look over Nie Zhongyou, only to see more and more Mongolian troops coming on horseback.

"The Mongolian army is coming!" Someone shouted.

Nie Zhongyou held the saber, looked up at Liu Zheng's flag order, and saw that it was an order for the Wuxin army to meet the Mongolian army first.

Nie Zhongyou saw the general leading the troops forward, so he shouted: "Kill the captives!"

"Kill the prisoner!"

In this battle, Nie Zhongyou was quite confident.

He had heard of Liu Zheng's name a long time ago. After the death of the Jin Dynasty, Liu Zheng belonged to the Song Dynasty and made great achievements under the command of the famous general Meng Gong.

When Nie Zhongyou came back from the north, he often heard people compare Li Xia with Liu Zheng, and most of the comments were "although inferior to Liu Wuzhong".

The fact is also the same, Li Xia just brought more than ten people back to get some information, so naturally he is not as good as Liu Zheng who won a city with 12 people.

In Nie Zhongyou's mind, in this battle, Liu Zheng should show his talents and lead himself to defeat the Mongolian army...

A big battle, from early morning to afternoon.

Nie Zhongyou was drenched in blood, and saw that the hand holding the knife was shaking violently.

Looking back, he secretly thought that Liu Zheng should bring up his troops.

But the command flag has never moved...

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Liu Zheng frowned and looked at the battlefield, hesitating.

The results of Wu Xinjun's battle were worse than what he had expected. At this time, filling up the troops would probably result in a lot of losses.

However, there is no room for hesitation on the battlefield.

In this short period of hesitation, the Song army's front line was already in chaos.

Like a string stretched to the tightest point, before the arrow can be released, the bowstring suddenly snapped with a bang...

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"what!"

Amidst the screams, Nie Zhongyou turned his head to look, only to see the flanks suddenly rout.

"Don't run away! Kill the prisoner!"

He was still not reconciled and drank a lot.

However, with the trend of defeat, no one can restore it.

Liu Zheng's command flag has been changed to withdraw the troops, and he will lead the soldiers and horses he brought from Jinghu to the ferry to cross the river.

The soldiers around Nie Zhongyou also turned around and fled.

Meng Qi charged quickly, reaping the lives of these Song soldiers with machetes.

Without the command of the world-renowned general that Nie Zhongyou was expecting, this defeat would have been extremely abrupt.

"Kill the prisoner!"

"Brother, run away!" Lin Zi hugged Nie Zhongyou and shouted, "We've lost, we've already lost! Let's go!"

"Damn it! Damn it!" Nie Zhongyou felt furious and filled with hatred.

However, the army was defeated like a mountain, and he could only flee with the defeated army.

Running away, Nie Zhongyou suddenly became agitated.

"Linzi, we can't escape with Liu Zheng anymore. Hurry up, gather the remaining troops and go to Chengdu to find Pu Shuai..."

(End of this chapter)