In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 212 Is the country about to perish?
In the spring of the second year of Baoqing, Genghis Khan decided to attack Xixia again because Xixia did not send a proton.

The Mongolian army was divided into three groups, one led by Genghis Khan himself, and entered the Xia territory from the north to attack Heishui City from the north, and the other was led by the general A Dachi to cooperate with the Uighurs, and from the west road (formerly the territory of Xiliao) To enter Shazhou, there is still a way to enter Xixia from Wulahai.

In February, Genghis Khan broke through the Black Water, and the Eastern Route Army broke through Wulahai and other cities.

A Dahe on the West Road first sent Kudu Tiemuer and Xiliqian to appease him. General Xia Shou Ji Lasiyi made a false surrender and set up an ambush to attack. A Dachi was almost captured. The Mongolian army was frustrated and attacked the city with all its strength.Ji Lasiyi insisted on refusing to defend.

The Mongolian army dug crypts to attack the city at night, and Ji Lasiyi set fire to the crypts, and many Mongolian soldiers died.

After several bloody battles, the Mongolian army took more than a month of strong attacks, and it was not until April that they captured Shazhou.

A Dachi was furious and ordered the massacre of the city, and tens of thousands of Xixia soldiers and civilians in Shazhou were massacred.

In May, the Mongolian army invaded Suzhou, the Xia army held on and did not surrender, the city was destroyed, and was slaughtered by the Mongolian army.

Suzhou is about 900 miles away from Xiliang. When the Mongolian army attacked Shazhou, Xiliang and Xixia already knew that the Mongolian army came in two ways.

At the same time, Li Dewang, king of Xixia, sent envoys to Jin and Song for help.

But they were too far away from Wanyan Shouxu of the Kingdom of Jin, and it would take a long time for the envoys to pass by, and the Kingdom of Jin was also at the end of the period at this time, so there was no strength to help them.

In May, Guo Zhengsun, who was stationed in Fengxiang, received an emergency letter from Xixia, and immediately passed it on to Cui Yuzhi and Meng Gong.

Cui Yuzhi reported to the court on the one hand, and studied countermeasures with Meng Gong on the other.

"What do you think of uncut jade?" Cui Yuzhi first asked Meng Gong.

Meng Gong's expression is still relatively confident. He and Cui Yuzhi came to Sichuan for a year to reorganize the military equipment, train soldiers and horses, and build armor. The court and the emperor also gave the greatest support here.

Ships on the Jialing River kept coming and going all year round, and the warehouses on the front line were full of food and armor.

They even set up a craftsman bureau at Hutouguan, controlled the craftsmen with the military, built artillery, and provided it to the front gate.

The imperial court transported gunpowder by water, and they made their own shells locally.

At that time, the gunpowder of the Southern Song Dynasty was completely different from the gunpowder produced by Zhao and Rui in Jizhou. If the gunpowder of the Southern Song Dynasty was used, the effectiveness of Zhao and Rui's artillery would be greatly reduced.

In just one year, the spirit of Sichuan soldiers and horses has been completely different, and the soldiers are all in good shape.

Of course, as to whether it can be fought or not, and how effective it is, we have to see the truth on the battlefield.

Meng Gong is now confident in his ability to defend the city, but he dare not say anything about his field combat ability.

Because the current Sichuan Army is composed of the Zhongshun Army, the Original Sichuan Army, and the Zhao and Rui Bingma. After elimination and recruitment, there are also many recruits.

It has only been practiced for more than a year. It is best to defend the city and fight a few battles first, win the victory, improve morale, and gradually become stronger, and then go out to fight the Mongols.

"At the end of the day when I came to Sichuan, Your Majesty has ordered that if the peace negotiation with Xixia succeeds, and Xixia asks for help, you should reply like this——"

Cui Yuzhi was taken aback after hearing this: "Can you still do this?"

"This is what His Majesty said." Meng Gong said.

"..." Cui Yuzhi couldn't laugh or cry.

After discussing with each other that day, they sent a messenger to Zhongxing Mansion. The messenger was Meng Zhang, the seventh younger brother of Meng Gong (Meng Zhang was the sixth son of Meng Zongzheng, but he also had an adopted son, so he was ranked seventh). Meng Zhang whispered in his ear, and Meng Zhang hurried to Fengxiang with a whip.

Fengxiang has Meng Gong, a third elder brother Meng Jing, and ninth younger brother Meng Ying.

When he arrived in Fengxiang to rest for a while, he asked Guo Zhengsun to watch the time, and organized the soldiers and civilians to collect all the food outside Fengxiang City, and then called the ninth younger brother Meng Ying, each with two horses, without even an entourage, just some dry food and water, and Xixia The envoys entered the territory of Xixia together.

As soon as they arrived in the Xixia territory, the two soldiers divided into two groups, Meng Ying went to Xiliang, and he went to Zhongxing Mansion.

At the beginning of June, Meng Zhang came to Zhongxing Mansion with a letter.

In June, Zhongxing Mansion was gloomy.

In May, Emperor Shenzong, the Supreme Emperor of Xixia, died of illness, and Li Dewang's health became worse and worse, and he lived in panic every day.

In the original history, he also died of panic in the next month, that is, in July.

Li Dewang was in his prime of life, and he devoted himself to resisting the Mongols, which greatly shocked the reputation of the Great Xia. However, Mongols were advancing every step of the way, so he was really not reconciled.

In the past year, he prepared his troops for war and made deals with Song and Jin. The middle school has improved slightly, and it is getting better and better. Unexpectedly, the Mongols came again.

In the past few days, there have been urgent reports from all over the world. In May, Suzhou was besieged, and there was no news after that. It is estimated that it has been broken by now.

Behind Suzhou is Xuanhua (Ganzhou), while Ganzhou and Xiliang (Liangzhou) are the largest horse breeding lands in Xixia. After these two places are taken away by the Mongols, it will become more and more difficult for Xixia in the future.

"Report, Song Envoy is here." Suddenly there was a voice outside, and Li Dewang seemed to hear the sound of nature.

"Quick announcement." Li Dewang said in surprise.

The last time the Song envoy came and formed an alliance with Xixia, the country has seen some improvement.

Because they have too many war horses and they can’t sell them (the Jin people used to trade low-quality war horses, but now they don’t trust them, and the Jin country is also very poor now), now they can trade with the Song people, first exchange a lot of tea, sugar, silk Wait for things, and then trade with the people to raise a lot of military funds.

This time the Song envoy is here, what good news is there?

After a while, Meng Zhang stepped inside to meet the Xixia Emperor.

"When will the army of the Song Dynasty set off?" Li Dewang stepped forward and asked.

Meng Zhang said, should your majesty listen to the truth or lies?

Li Dewang looked moved, what about the truth and lies?
The lie is that my Great Song Dynasty has [-] elite soldiers, and they are gathering. They can support Zhongxing Mansion in half a month at most, and join forces with Daxia to attack Mongolia.

Li Dewang smiled wryly, it was a lie.

"So what about the truth?"

Meng Zhang straightened his face: "Your Majesty is also a man who knows how to fight."

"To be honest, in today's world, no one can compete with the rising Mongolia in the field."

"In this battle, Mongolia has sent out all the elite. It is said that [-]% of them are from the headquarters. Even if I send out all the troops in Sichuan, I am afraid that I am not an opponent."

Li Dewang's face was pale, of course he understood this truth, Xixia didn't dare to fight Mongolia now, and if he could defend the city, he would try his best to defend the city.

But the Mongolian siege is also fierce. All the way in, Heishui, Wulahai, Shazhou and Suzhou are all conquered.

According to this progress, it will take at most three months to call Zhongxing Mansion.

"Could it be that I just watched my cities in Daxia being attacked one by one, and the Mongols slaughtered every city--" Li Dewang had a grim face. What he hated most was that the Mongols slaughtered every city.

Xixia used to be quite barbaric, and later gradually regarded itself as civilized. But after meeting Mongolia, Li Dewang found that the Mongols were simply savages among savages.

"Your Majesty just needs to understand this truth." Meng Zhang said in a deep voice, "Do you know why the Mongols often massacred cities?"

"Why?" Li Dewang asked in surprise.

"In addition to the barbarism of the Mongols, it is also because they want to save military rations."

"The Mongols feed their wars with war. When tens of thousands of troops invaded the enemy's country, they could only obtain food locally. If they had to defend the city every time they captured a city, divide their troops, and support the people in the city, it would consume a lot of food. How much food and troops?"

"So in order to concentrate their forces, they basically slaughtered the cities they had laid down without defending them, and saved a lot of food. With the plundered food, they could march for hundreds of miles."

"Your Majesty should understand that once the Mongols break the Zhongxing Mansion, the other subjects of Xixia dare not say that they will definitely die, but the whole royal family will definitely be slaughtered." Meng Zhang desperately reminded him that the Mongols will slaughter the city. to die.

"Of course I understand." Li Dewang almost gritted his teeth.

But what's the use of you telling me this now?I, Xixia, and Song Ke are in an alliance. Last year, we also traded more than 2 war horses, which is more than in the agreement. Can you help us?

"My Song Dynasty has three strategies." Meng Zhang said at this time.

"Speak quickly."

One is to immediately send protons, gold, silver, jewelry, and beautiful women to seek peace, buy time, and fight for two to three years. In the past two years, the Song Dynasty and Xixia traded, and the national strength of both sides was improved. The Xixia court got money, and the Song Dynasty got money. war horse.

Another two or three years of delay would be better for Zhao and Rui. Of course, Meng Zhang would only say that after another two or three years of delay, Xixia will be able to regain its vitality and strengthen the army and the country.

Li Dewang shook his head resolutely, it was useless. When the Mongolian army broke through the black water, I sent someone to sue for peace, willing to send protons and jewels, but they didn't want it.

This is determined to destroy Xixia.

Then two, retreat to the Great Song Dynasty, move the whole country to my Great Song Dynasty, and bring all the war horses and people into Sichuan. As an ally, my Great Song Dynasty is willing to protect the people of Xixia.

"What?" Li Dewang looked in disbelief.

He really didn't expect Da Song to let him move the whole country to Sichuan.

The peak population of Xixia was just over 200 million, but this time the population is really small. Their population is mainly concentrated in Zhongxing Prefecture and several big states, and many places have been killed by the Mongols.

The Mongols attacked Xixia several times, killing tens of thousands or even 10,000+ people every time they came in.

The year before last, Mongolia entered Xixia and broke through Yinzhou, arresting tens of thousands of people and killing tens of thousands of Xia troops.

The last time Yinzhou was broken, the people were left behind. This year, Mongolia came here to kill people. First, it broke through Heishui, and killed tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Heishui. Kill all.

If it is really necessary to move, there are still some people around Zhongxing Mansion, which is estimated to add up to 60 to [-] people.

If you want to enter Sichuan on a large scale, you will be under the fence of others. Whether you can restore the country in the future is a question?
But Li Dewang had to admit that Zhao Yurui, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, was so courageous that he dared to let millions of their party members enter Sichuan.

"What about the third one?" Li Dewang asked again.

Meng Zhang said: "If your Majesty can neither make peace nor leave, the only option is to fight to the death."

"All the gold and silver will be sent to the soldiers, and all the young and strong will go to the top of the city to let the people know that if the city is alive and the people are there, the city will be slaughtered. Even if it dies in Mongolia, they will have to bite them hard. "

Li Dewang added shame and anger: "You Da Song is watching from the side?" What about the agreed allies?
"Your Majesty can choose a prince and come back to Sichuan with me. The blood of the Great Xia royal family will always be passed on."

With a plop, Li Dewang sat down on his seat, his face extremely pale.

Did the Song people guess that he was going to perish?
Li Dewang should have guessed it himself, otherwise he would not have died of sorrow in July in history.

The hall suddenly fell silent, only Li Dewang's heavy breathing could be heard.

After an unknown amount of time, Li Dewang waved his hand and said weakly, "Please wait at the Xia De Palace."

Meng Zhang looked at the distraught Li Dewang, heaved a long sigh, turned around and left the hall.

(End of this chapter)