Meng Heng, the envoy of the Jinghu system and the Xuanfu envoy of Sichuan, led troops into Sichuan for the second time.

The news of the Sichuan system that Chen Long died in the battle of Chengdu shook the Southern Song Dynasty no less than the victory in Luzhou, with a slight difference that the latter brought joy and the former fear.

Chen Longzhi was the first major to die on the battlefield of Song and Mongolia, which meant that the war between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Mongols entered a new stage.

The situation that had just improved in Sichuan immediately collapsed, and the area around central Sichuan, which had no natural danger barrier, passed through like a hurricane, and the Mongol troops were everywhere empty, and the prefectures and county capitals in various prefectures and counties either surrendered or were slaughtered after being broken, and the people once again saw a large-scale wave of refugees.

Along the way from Chengdu Mansion to Gongzhou Mansion, there is an endless stream of panicked refugees, calling for children and daughters, dragging families with mouths, white-haired old people begging for food on the side of the road, there are frightened and hard journeys of the old and weak died on the side of the road, no one collects the corpses, there are young children crying around their parents who are dying and no one pays attention to them, the world is full of states, bitterness and suffering, and so on.

The whole eastern Sichuan was nervous, and Peng Daya had no other way to build the city like crazy. He not only built a city in Gongzhou Mansion, but also chose a place to build a city on the mountain along the road from Gongzhou Mansion to Kuizhou, using the mountain as a fortress and stretching into a line, with the help of the steep terrain of the mountains in eastern Sichuan to build a roughly large-scale mountain fort defense.

Meng Heng's focus was on the area of Kuimen Kaizhou, and he quite recognized Peng Daya's measures, under the premise that Sichuan was not capable of confronting the Mongol army, sticking to his intentions would be a way to do so in the future.

As long as you can stick to the entrance from Sichuan to Jinghu, there will be chaos in Shuzhong, Meng Heng is facing a lot of pressure in Xiangfan than here, after all, as soon as Xiangyang is broken, the Mongols will cross the Yangtze River, and the Southern Song Dynasty will not be far from destroying the country.

"Master Peng, Gongzhou Mansion is an important town in the east of Sichuan, an important place for river defense, once it is lost, Kuizhou is worried, so this place cannot be lost. The garrisons of the city near the left should be gathered up, properly placed, distributed in the nearby forts, and the people should be moved to form a net-like defensive layout, so that they can support each other in an emergency. ”

In the council hall of the envoy in the city of Gongzhou Mansion, Meng Hui was facing a large brocade cloth map hanging on the wall, pointing and discussing with Peng Daya, and several huge black arrows were drawn on the map, all of which pointed to the small red dot representing Gongzhou Mansion from different directions.

Standing with the slightly chubby Peng Daya, Meng Hui looked lean and thin, with a long beard flowing on his chin, making him both strong and elegant as a military general. Even if he does not wear armor, a casual round-neck samurai suit still shows the inherent calmness of a generation of famous generals, the two thick black eyebrows on the face of the national character are often tightly wrinkled together, the eyes are shining, and he is righteous and not angry.

"What Lord Meng said is, but the soldiers who can fight in Sichuan have all followed the fall of Chen Longzhi in Chengdu, and here I am all new soldiers and old and weak, although there are nearly 20,000 people, but they are not of great use, and the gap in weapons and armor is also very large, relying on these forces alone, it is very difficult to hold Gongzhou." Peng Daya can't take care of it anymore, and at the moment of life and death, she must pull down her face.

Meng Hui looked at him, turned around and sat down on a chair, straightened his robe, and said indifferently: "Master Peng doesn't have to worry, the Sichuan soldiers on Kuizhou Road can be deployed to you, as for the deployment over there, I have sent my clan brother Meng Ying to lead the army to be stationed in Guizhou and Xiazhou, and Meng Zhang to lead the army to be stationed in Fengzhou to protect your back road, you just need to concentrate on dealing with it in person." ”

"This ......" Peng Daya felt that Meng Heng didn't understand what he meant, he said it a little tactfully, and the central idea was to express that he was not capable of keeping the Tongchuan Mansion Road, and hoped to borrow some of Meng Hui's Huguang soldiers to use.

So his face was slightly red, and he simply made a clear request: "Xiaguan means to ask Lord Meng to send a strong general over to assist...... Oh, no, it's Xia Guan who assists him and defends the front line of Gongzhou......"

Halfway through his words, he saw Meng Heng staring at him, becoming extremely cold, his eyes were full of contempt, and he "chuckled" in his heart, and he couldn't go on.

The atmosphere was embarrassing, Peng Daya was like a duck pinched by someone's throat, and she was snorting for a long time, but she didn't know what to say.

So after a half-pause, Meng Heng said very seriously: "Master Peng, when this official was in Zhihuangzhou a few years ago, he was dispatched by the imperial court and ordered to go south to save Jiangling, do you know how many soldiers this official had at that time?" ”

"Huh? This one...... The lower officials don't know. Peng Daya wiped the sweat from her forehead.

"Five thousand, five thousand soldiers." Meng Hui stretched out five fingers and held them in the air, giving Peng Daya the feeling as if she was going to slap him, and she couldn't help but shudder secretly.

But fortunately, the slap did not come down, and Meng Heng continued: "And the Mongols on the other side of the Yangtze River, they have 100,000 people. Although there are still some scattered Song Dynasty officials and troops along the Jiangling coast, they are scattered and cannot be gathered. However, the situation faced by this official is a hundred times more critical than that of Sichuan. Many people say that Jiangling is irretrievable, there is a dead end, and they should retreat to protect Huxiang. ”

"But this official survived, not only saved Gangneung, but also sat here and talked to you." Meng Heng put his hand down and pressed his knee: "So, everything can be done, it depends on whether you dare or not, whether you are willing or not, you said that there are no soldiers in your hands, there are more soldiers than this official at the beginning, right?" You said that the sky is in danger and there is no barrier, is Gongzhou Mansion a barrier? ”

"As for you wanting Huguang soldiers to help you, that's impossible. The Huguang soldiers want to garrison Xiangfan, and they don't have the spare strength to go into Sichuan to help you, so they can tie up Kuimen and hold your back road, even if the greatest support is provided. You're on your own. ”

"The imperial court transferred you to this position, not to ask you to ask for someone when you encounter trouble, the town commander should have the consciousness of coexisting and dying with the town, and think about how to protect the territory and the people. Although Chen Longzhi is a little radical, he can die under the city of Hanzhou, and he would rather be killed by the Mongols than deceive the gate of Hanzhou, which is your example! ”

Words are like pearls, and every word drills into the heart. Peng Daya's face turned red and white when she heard this, she bowed down and bowed, and said ashamedly: "Xiaguan understands, please rest assured, even if this body turns into powder, Gongzhou City will not be lost!" ”

"That's great!" Meng Hui got up and said, untied the sword at his waist, and together with a pair of newly engraved envoy tiger talismans, handed it to Peng Daya with both hands and said: "This sword is given to you, Chen Longzhi is martyred, you are the one who presides over the overall situation in Sichuan, and the burden of a thousand jun is tied to one, I hope to see you in the future, this sword will bring the blood of the northern captives, and you will return it to this official with your own hands." ”

Peng Daya burst into tears, I don't know how much emotion, a little self-pity, he took the sword and the tiger talisman, and hung his head to accept the order.

At the head of Gongzhou City, the mountain rain is about to come, and the wind is full of buildings.

Hundreds of miles away from Gongzhou, on the tortuous mountain road leading from Jianzhou to Hezhou, a team of more than 1,000 people is hurrying, they do not take the avenue, walk through the sheep intestine path, although they are faltering, but they dare not stop, encourage each other, and march in a hurry.

This is a Song army, almost everyone is wounded, the armor is crooked, and the people are tired, and they don't even have a banner, I don't know where the rout came from, at the moment when the Mongolian iron cavalry has swept to the edge of the Chengdu Plain near Ningfu in Suizhou, this team can still maintain the formation and march in the whole army, which is really rare.

Walking in the forefront, there was a burly man, dressed nondescriptly, wearing a Zhizhou Wenchen official uniform with rolled sleeves and hems, pedaling a pair of bast shoes, but wearing an iron helmet, a loose beard with a little unknown blood, carrying a big knife, striding meteors.

This is the prefect of Hanzhou in the Song Dynasty, Wang Kui.

(End of chapter)