As the commander of the Eastern Route Army of the Mongol Southern Expedition died of illness under the city of Jiangling, the Mongol war cavalry, which brought great pressure to the Great Song Dynasty, faded like a tide, like a tide that quickly descended below sea level at low tide, sweeping away everything that could be taken away, leaving a mess in vain.

This is a war that has been temporarily suspended for its own reasons, and it is the winner who retreats, when the sun rises one day, the officials and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty who retreated and lost the city and lost their land found that the Mongols who were overwhelmingly galloping in front of them were gone.

Whitewashing the peace, saying that the black is white, the trapped defense is said to be the initiative, and the defeat is said to be an unprecedented victory, which is the excellent ability that the literati and courtiers of the Central Plains Dynasty have always adhered to, so in the battle reports that flew to the Privy Council and Li Zong's desk like snowflakes, the retreat of the Mongols was depicted as a great victory of the Song Dynasty official army, and under the counterattack of the heroic and tenacious official army who were not afraid of death, the barbarian robbers were driven away, justice was served, and the country was stable again.

The news of the praise and good news overwhelmed the minds of Rijong and a group of prime ministers, who thought that since the Mongols were nothing more than that, and did not seem to be an invincible opponent, it was time to take back Sanjing.

"Sanjing" is the three major capitals of the Song Dynasty, namely Tokyo Kaifeng Mansion, Nanjing Yingtian Mansion, Xijing Henan Mansion, these three cities are all in Henan, without exception, previously occupied by the Jin people, now occupied by the Mongols.

Li Zong thought, how glorious it would be if the place where the ancestors founded the country could be brought back in their own hands.

The prime ministers also think the same, if they are officials for a lifetime, won't they leave a name for history? It is time to do a great event that will be famous for eternity, and it will be time to take back the "three capitals"!

A small number of people are sober, how many years of war the Song Dynasty has fought, the Yangtze River basin from Jiangling to Lianghuai, almost all are in ruins, a large number of refugees fled south, many villages and towns are empty, to go north to restore the country, to the people who have been overdrawn, another destruction.

However, under the surging tide of blood, such a voice was automatically ignored, Quan Zicai, Zhao Kui, and Zhao Fan waved their troops to go on the expedition, and successively recovered Sanjing, and the whole country celebrated, and the scenery was infinite for a while.

Happiness is always short-lived, but suffering is one after another, the Mongols reacted quickly, Marshal Du did not spend much effort to drive the Song people from where they came from, where they went back, and also all the way to the Huai River, deep into the Huai River, until the Southern Song Dynasty important town Anfeng Army, that is, under the Huaicheng City, the army pressed the border, and the danger was like an egg.

In this battle, the Southern Song Dynasty played several famous generals, under the command of the veteran Du Gao, Lu Wende, Yu Jue, Nie Bin and others showed their edge, firmly held the Anfeng army, and let Kou Wen not spend more than 10,000 corpses in the city, and returned defeated.

This is the two Huai battlefield of the Southern Song Dynasty to Mongolia a very brilliant victory, after the battle of Anfeng, the subsequent battle of Luzhou also ended with the victory of the Southern Song Dynasty, the two battles won, so that the Mongols also looked at the Southern Song Dynasty with admiration, deeply realized that the Huai River defense line on the east road was indestructible, gave up the idea of entering the south of the Yangtze River from the direction of the Huai River, and Du Gao was also promoted to the Huaixi system envoy, the town alone.

If one path doesn't work, you have to take another path.

The Great Khan Wo Kotai put the eyes of revenge and punishment on Sichuan, which was kicked open, and the already fragmented Bashu was once again regarded as the main direction of attack, and the calm of Sichuan for a short time rose again with the dissipation of the battlefield of Lianghuai.

At the end of the fifth year of Jiaxi, the scorching autumn tiger had just left the Sichuan Basin, which had been shrouded for several months, and the Mongolian army in Lizhou, which had been resting for a long time, moved.

Marshal Tahai and Tuxue led 50,000 Mongolian soldiers, and 100,000 retinues swung south, claiming to be 800,000, and went out of the Sword Pavilion along the post road and went straight to Hanzhou, the gateway of the Southern Song Dynasty.

In the hands of Chen Longzhi, there were only 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers, distributed on the vast ground of the Chengdu Plain, guarding several fortified prefecture counties.

Hanzhou bore the brunt of the attack, and as soon as the king of Zhizhou woke up, the banner of the Mongols had already arrived at the gate of the city.

This is not like a scholar but like a fierce pawn Zhizhou picked up the big knife and went up to the city wall, there were 5,000 soldiers in the city, most of the new recruits, in the face of a strong enemy siege, panic prevailed, but Wang Kui personally went to the city, wielding a knife and slashing people immediately boosted morale.

The gates of the city were sealed with stones, and the houses were torn down to make stones and logs, and all the men of the city went up to the city to guard it, and the women carried the instruments behind them, and the whole city was armed. Wang Kui showed great talent in a hurry, turning a lonely city into a solid stone in an instant.

The Mongol pioneer Wang Shixian fought for three days, and the soldiers who climbed the city wall along the ladder several times had already gained a foothold, and when they were about to take the city, they were all killed by Wang Kui, who looked like a mad tiger, with his own people.

Blood flowed down the bricks of the wall into the moat filled with corpses, the gray city walls were dyed blood-red, the defenders of the city and the besiegers were red-eyed, Hanzhou was like a nail that was swayed by the torrent, although the wind and rain were shaking, but it just did not fall.

After Tahai arrived with his troops, he immediately made a decision, leaving some men and horses to besiege the city, and the rest bypassed to attack Chengdu.

Chen Longzhi then followed Wang Kui and saw the Mongolian army spread on the ground outside the city.

In the past two years, Chengdu's city defense has been improved a lot under the repair of almost day and night, the various city walls that were broken after the previous break were basically re-consolidated, the horse-faced arrow tower has everything, the moat is wide and extremely deep, and a majestic city is still somewhat damaged, but it still restores the appearance of six points before the war.

Chen Longzhi made perfect use of the three days that Wang Kui desperately robbed him, and he gathered all the people from the surrounding small cities and forts into Chengdu City, gathering more than 10,000 troops. Erect antlers by the moat, dig pits, demolish houses near the city wall, prepare to defend the city, use the last bit of time to complete the city defense, mobilize all the people in the city, assign their respective tasks, and arrange them nervously.

Of course, it is necessary to ask for help everywhere, and this matter was done before the arrival of the Mongols, looking at the emergency messengers who ran away in all directions, Chen Longzhi's mood became heavier and heavier.

"Shimenfan didn't come." There were thick bags hanging under his bloodshot eyes, and it could be seen that Chen Longzhi's sleep quality was very bad during this time.

He smiled self-deprecatingly and clenched the hilt of the sword at his waist: "Yes, how can such a smart person as Changsun Hong not see my little trick?" The Mongols are so far away from Dali, where will he be in a hurry, he will not pay attention to me at all. ”

Behind him, a large crowd of people were piling up stones, and bundles of arrows were brought up and put behind the battlements, and the oil pot was set up a little farther away, in which the gold juice could be boiled, and a layer of human skin could be poured off when it was boiled, and it was useless to wear thick armor.

The smell of war was very strong, and he looked around, and saw his ten-year-old son in the distance, holding a piece of wood, running up the road behind his mother, and putting the wood into the pile of rolling wood.

The Chen family is in the city, and everyone goes to the city to guard according to his orders, and women and children are inevitable, only in this way can the morale be boosted and the determination of the soldiers and civilians in the city to resist to the end.

(End of chapter)