Chapter 465: Slaughter of the City

"The Minister of State ......", seeing the Minister of State Xiao Gong, Li Qianshun, the lord of Western Xia, can be regarded as having found an organization.

The lord of Western Xia, who was in the land of Western Xia but had no way out, saw his prime minister, and his first feeling turned out to be: hungry. He suddenly remembered that he hadn't eaten several meals. But when he opened his mouth, he consciously found that it was very inappropriate to say this at this critical juncture...... Then, there is only crying.

The monarch and the ministers wept for a moment relative to their own identities, and the lord of the Western Xia Kingdom (Chongzong) remembered the Song army again, he looked around and asked silently: "Xiao Guoxiang, where is the Su Guard?" Where did the six classes go, and what about Meile? Where did the prodigal move to death? ”

"Meile" and "Lang Yu Yi" are among the top leaders of the Suwei army in the official positions of Western Xia, and in today's words, they are "the chief master of the Great Interior".

Xiao Guoxiang sighed, spread his hands, and replied, "Lord of the country, where to find them in this scene?" ”

The Western Xia Kingdom opened his mouth, as if he wanted to yell a few times on the spot, but he immediately covered his mouth and glanced in the direction of Xingqing Mansion worriedly, as if he was afraid that his call would attract the pursuit of the Song army.

When Prime Minister Xiao Gong saw that his lord had become like this, he sighed deeply helplessly, and persuaded weakly: "Your Majesty, let's set up Helan Mountain first-the Song army may not dare to chase into the mountain, we can rest in Helan Mountain for a while." ”

Minister Xiao Gong guessed well, and the Song army had no intention of pursuing at all. At this moment, Zhao Xing's boat was crashing into the city wall of Xingqing Mansion, and he jumped directly from the deck onto the broken wall, brandishing his standing knife and shouting: "Annihilation? To die, to perish! ”

This sentence is expressed in a modern meaning, that is: there is a mistake in killing, and it is not let go.

This sentence was originally said by Genghis Khan. He is a good example for us to learn from.

There were fires everywhere in the city, thick smoke was billowing out, and the Song soldiers were screaming and rushing past Zhao Xing into the city, and in the distance, many Song soldiers were attacking with smoke and fire...... Of course, they are also pyrotechnic makers themselves. Zhao Xing only stayed for a moment, and immediately chased after the soldiers and shouted: "Whoever occupies it, who owns it!" ”

The original words were shouted by the Spanish colonists.

Zhao Xing's order was equivalent to saying that he had rewarded all the treasures of the Western Xia capital to the victorious soldiers.

After shouting these words, Zhao Xing was on the boat, even the boatman and the cook couldn't sit still, they picked up a kitchen knife and rushed out, the slow man couldn't grab the kitchen knife, and even the bench didn't let go, carrying a small bench from the deck and screaming to the city.

Zhao Xing was about to jump off the city wall with his sword, and Lu Qiu hurriedly shouted behind him: "Stop, Taishi stop!" ”

Zhao Xing turned his head and glared at Lu Qiuguan dissatisfied, Lu Qiuguan arched his hand, and his expression was grim: "If the Taishi rewards this city to the soldiers, then anyone can enter the city, but the Taishi can!" ”

When Zhao Xing heard this reminder, a cold sweat broke out all over his body, and he turned his head to look, and there were only a few officials from the Military Intelligence Department and the Statistics Bureau on the ship, as well as the guards beside him.

Zhao Xing nodded slowly, he inserted the waist knife back into the sheath, and waved his hand to signal Lu Qiuguan: "Quickly take someone to the puppet king's palace and the official office of Xingqing Mansion, and immediately take over the palace and the official office of Western Xia for me." Tell the soldiers that we Han people are not beasts, so it is okay to kill the enemy, but not to destroy - whoever dares to burn books is my enemy. The classics and household registration materials, documents, historical books, etc., collected by Xingqing Mansion all belong to the official family and belong to the Great Song Dynasty...... And belong to me, dare to crack my property, think about my name 'Zhao Laohu'. ”

Lu Qiuguan asked again: "So, what should the Taishi do tonight?" ”

Zhao Xing looked left and right and replied, "Tonight, I will stay on the boat." ”

Lu Qiuguan thought for a moment, agreed, and led the people to jump onto the city wall. Zhao Xingmu sent the other party away, returned to the deck, and sat down slowly. At this time, most of the guards around him had already followed Lu Qiuguan, and only Yuan Yeping was guarding Zhao Xing with a few Japanese soldiers. And Wen Xixing's guy has already run away and doesn't know where to go.

There was a shout of killing in the city, one after another gunshots, plus explosions from time to time, cries, howls, and pleadings, this is simply a scene of hell on earth, fire, smoke, and occasionally jumped out of the fireworks from time to time Song Army wearing a fire red uniform, Zhao Xing closed his eyes and listened to these sounds, he didn't wait for Yuan Yeping's answer, and said softly: "It's been a hundred years, my people in Shaanxi have experienced such a scene every day, they cry, they plead, they are cornered, they have no way to ask for help - but they can only endure."

Now, everything is turned upside down, and it is the turn of the Natsu people to cry and plead...... Do you say that I am heartless, how can I enjoy listening to this voice. ”

Yuan Yeping bowed: "Warriors should enjoy life in fire and blood, such as cherry blossoms, blooming brilliantly and withering heroically!" The warriors of Western Xia robbed all their lives, they were born by swords, brilliant by swords, and deserved to die by swords. This is the result they have to live with. The wailing of death, which is also their last song of life, is loved by the adults because it is the privilege of the gods to the victors, and only the victors have the opportunity to hear the 'song of death'......

It's a pity that I can't enjoy the music in front of me, but I, a widow, can follow the side of the Changmen Hall and witness this historical moment of 'destroying the country', this life is also worth it, why compete with the Qin people for the opportunity to take revenge? ”

The first half of Yuan Yeping's words were to answer Zhao Xing's inquiry, and the second half of the sentence was an explanation - he is a Japanese person, although he thinks that he is "well-dressed Tang system, etiquette and Han articles", and even thinks that he is a "Han species", but after all, this is a battle of revenge, and it is enough for him to be able to personally participate in this "war of annihilation" launched by the Great Song Dynasty. In this war, what the Great Song Dynasty needed was the heroes of his own nation, so he did not steal the limelight with the Song people.

Zhao Xing pointed to Xingqing Mansion and asked curiously: "How many people are there in Xingqing Mansion?" ”

Yuan Yeping replied: "According to the investigation of the Statistics Bureau, the total population of Xingqing Mansion is about 11,000. ”

"Oh, that's about 100,000 people. It's a big city. ”

Yuan Yeping shook his head: "Not so much, we have checked that the Xia Kingdom has been at war for many years, and the number of people is thin, and the entire Suwei pro-army has only 3,000 people, divided into six squads, and the total population of Xingqing Mansion is more than 60,000 people - this population also counts the three female battalions (female barracks) in Western Xia." ”

That's right, there are a total of 60,000 people in Xingqing Mansion, of which more than 40,000 are women and children, and young and strong men are in their early 20,000s.

In the Song Dynasty, the whole world was not highly urbanized, and a city with a population of 200,000 was already an international metropolis. Because there were no buildings in this era, and an ordinary family needed at least several rooms to live, such as a kitchen, a bedroom, a pigsty, ....... A city with a population of 200,000 occupies more land for housing than a modern city of one million people. The fact that such a large population does not grow food is a great burden on an agrarian society.

Therefore, it is estimated that Xia Guoguo has a resident population of 60,000, plus more than 10,000 floating population, and the total population can reach 80,000.

After Zhao Xing finished calculating in his heart, he let go of his thoughts hanging in mid-air: "That's good, this means that it is impossible for us to encounter street fighting." ”

Yuan Yeping bowed down and replied: "Taiwei's guess is correct, Xingqing Mansion was suddenly attacked, their command system has been messed up, the generals can't find soldiers, the soldiers can't find generals, it's difficult to organize effective resistance - Yuan is here to congratulate Taishi for his contribution to destroying the country, the lord of the Western Xia Kingdom is over, and the Western Xia Kingdom is finished." ”

Zhao Xing looked at Helan Mountain in Xingqing Mansion next to it, and shook his head lightly: "It's not over yet, our war has just begun." ”

At dusk, the shouting and killing in the city gradually subsided, and the Song army began to search the area according to the division, Lu Qiuguan rushed to Zhao Xing's boat with the household registration of Xingqing Mansion, and reported excitedly: "Taishi, it has been investigated, we have killed five of the six direct commanders, but the corpse can not be found in 'Luo Burying', and now the soldiers are searching everywhere, but the clown who jumped off the beam, although he is not hindered, is not a small trouble." ”

Zhao Xing nodded, and Lu Qiuguan continued to report: "According to the rough statistics of each defense area: we killed a total of 13,000 men and captured more than 20,000 female soldiers, that is to say, about half of the Xia people escaped from the city, although this number is a little larger, but we only attacked the city from the side of the riverbank, and the rest of the troops did not advance quickly, so it is understandable that they escaped."

However, one hundred and thirty-seven people from the Western Xia royal family were captured, according to statistics, only twenty or thirty of them escaped, and among those who escaped, only two were direct members of the royal family, and the others were inconsequential trivialities.

Now, about eighty percent of the descendants of the Western Xia have been captured, and in addition, there are some party nobles in the city who have not escaped, and I have taken stock, and most of the people who escaped were men and sturdy women, most of whom were on the city wall at that time, and when they saw that the situation was not good, they did not even care about their families and fled reflexively - according to the soldiers' observations, most of them fled north, and fled into the Helan Mountains......"

Zhao Xing waved his hand: "Ping without roots, scabies is also suffering, it doesn't matter." ”

The Xingqing Mansion of Western Xia was located in a basin with the Helan Mountains to the north and the Hengshan Mountains to the south. Crossing Helan Mountain is the Tengger Desert, and it is impossible for the Xixia people who fled into Helan Mountain to return to Xingqing Mansion. And want to cross thousands of miles of Helan Mountain, and then escape through the Tengger Desert...... It is estimated that after they succeed, it will be next year.

After a pause, Zhao Xing touched his chin and said, "Our army has broken through Xingqing Mansion, but unfortunately the military horses on the South Road don't know our news...... Well, pull the Western Xia royal family to the river leading to the south road, let them get dressed, and bring all the official seal documents - kill them nearby, throw the corpses into the river, and let them float down the river......"

The rivers on the southern route of Western Xia were all small ditches, which could only be carried down by sheepskin rafts, but there were still many places where even sheepskin rafts could not pass. Therefore, the warships of the Song army, which had a deep draft, did not want to enter the southern front at all. Now that Zhao Xing has penetrated the capital of Western Xia, most of the troops of Western Xia are in the encirclement of him and the small species of Jinglu on the southern front, but the current news is different, in order to inform the troops on the southern front, Zhao Xing only thought of this "stupid way" - using the corpse of the Western Xia royal family.

Lu Qiuguan's answer showed that he was also a ruthless man, and he replied with a smile: "There are less than 15,000 men captured in Xingqing Mansion, and these people are not enough to kill, and they are thrown into the river, and they cannot form a large group of corpses, so that the soldiers of the southern front can see and wake up...... It's better to collect more than 50,000 people from around Xingqing Mansion and gather more than 50,000 people, which is spectacular. ”

Lu Qiuguan smiled and added more than 30,000 people to the death list, of course Zhao Xing didn't mind, he replied casually: "You can do this!" ”

At the same time, in the capital, the hundred officials still sat in the palace behind closed doors. On March 3, Jin Mingchi was opened to the outside world, and the emperor was supposed to preside over the opening ceremony with the hundred officials, plus the new science and technology jinshi, but the hundred officials locked themselves in the palace and remained closed until March 15.

Half a month, it has been half a month since Zhao Xing's attack, and the civil and military officials have locked themselves in the palace for more than ten days, this waiting day is really difficult, the ministers in the palace have been anxious like ants on a hot pot, Emperor Huizong also woke up from his own art world, and repeatedly sent people to ask the reason, but they were all vaguely dealt with by the hundred officials.

Zhang Shangying sat sleepy, he looked up at the cloudy sky, and said to himself worriedly: "March 15th, if we don't open the door and go out, the people of the capital can't help but speculate, when will this day be the end......"

Zhang Shangying finished sighing, and found that no one answered left and right, and the one who should be in a daze was still in a daze, and the person who should be reading pretended to hold the upside-down page and turned it thoughtfully, Zhang Shangying couldn't help but ask Huang Tingjian, who was practicing calligraphy on the side: "Lu Zhi, do you say that Zhao Liren can succeed?" ”

Huang Tingjian finished writing the last stroke with his heart, he lifted the pen, looked at his work with satisfaction, stared at the written notebook, and replied absentmindedly: "It should be no problem, fifteen days have passed, and there is no movement from the Liao people. ”

Zhang Shangying turned to the privy envoy Liu Kui and asked, "What is the situation at the front?" ”

Liu Kui shook his head and read a copy of the Analects, he didn't realize that he had taken the book down, but the "Analects" memorized from childhood to adulthood, although he looked at the inverted words, but because his mind was not on the book, his mouth unconsciously recited the sentences in the "Analects", in his eyes, he did not take the book, and the handwriting in the "Analects" was still presented in front of him one by one, vividly.

Liu Kui shook his head while reading, and when he heard Zhang Shangying's question, Liu Kui glanced at the screen in the main hall, on the screen, the original flower and bird map drawn by Emperor Daojun had been removed and replaced with a huge map of Shaanxi - this map was a version of the Nanyang Yamen, the map was very large, and even the nearby mountains were drawn.

Liu Kui glanced at the map and said with appreciation: "This map of Nanyang Yamen is really fine, I heard that Shen Kuo once helped Zhao Liren make a map, and Po Xian also made a map in the past. ”

Zhang Shangying asked impatiently: "I didn't ask where this map was made, I asked about the situation on the front line." ”

Liu Kui nodded thoughtfully at the map, and replied absentmindedly: "Five days ago, I asked the southern line Shaanxi Fourth Road to report every day, and yesterday's battle report was: Qin Feng's army set off from Huizhou, the left flank passed through Rouwolf Mountain, and the Chinese army was blocked in Killing Niuling, and it has been five days now; The Huanqing army is progressing well, they have come out of the Baima River, and are currently fighting fiercely in Chungang Gorge; Jingyuan Road crossed the Great Wall Ridge, surrounded the Great Wu Shenliudui, and began to fight head-on with the Jianing Military Division; The Yanyan Road attacked from the side of the Wuding River, and three days ago, Keyinzhou was advancing to the Xiangyou Military Division. ”

Zhang Shangying exclaimed: "At present, only the results of the battle of Yanyan Road are the most ideal, and they have conquered Yinzhou. ”

Liu Kui shook his head and sighed to himself: "It's useless to conquer Yinzhou, Yinzhou is in the north of Hengshan, if our army guards Yinzhou, there will be Xia people on all sides, and our transfer materials will have to cross the entire Hengshan, and the supply will not be smooth." Unless ......"

Huang Tingjian raised his eyelids and interjected: "Unless Zhao Liren conquers Xingqing Mansion and advances the battle line to the foot of Helan Mountain, in this way, across the vast desert and across a Helan Mountain, our army will attack and defend and transposition, and this game of chess will be considered alive." ”

Zhang Shangying snorted coldly: "Conquer Xingqing Mansion and advance the battle line to the foot of Helan Mountain, in this way, does the Xia Kingdom still exist - Huang Xiang has a big appetite." ”

Liu Kui looked up at the map and continued to whisper to himself in an obsessive tone: "I have carefully studied the map in the past few days, and the more I research, the more I found that this waterway attack strategy is really wonderful: Dongshengzhou of Liao State is cut by the Yellow River and is isolated in the south of the Yellow River, and the entire Western Xia is an enlarged Dongshengzhou, the Yellow River is a bend down, and all the places east of the river such as Xingqing Mansion and Dingzhou are encircled on the south bank, attacking along the river, as long as Zhao Liren arrives at Xingqing Mansion, there can still be a few warships floating, and he uses these warships to patrol along the river, The most fertile land east of the river in the entire Xia country has been enclosed in our net, wonderful, really wonderful! ”

Zhang Shangying listened to Liu Kui's introduction, he hurriedly rushed to the map, and compared it with the trend of the Yellow River, and then suddenly realized: "That's right, attack along the river, as long as the warship hits Xingqing Mansion, he Zhao Liren can stop all the troops in Hedong to the south of the Yellow River, even if the lord of Western Xia is not caught, he is already finished, millions of people in Hedong, the most fertile pastures under Helan Mountain are in the hands of the Great Song Dynasty, even if Qianshun escapes, what can he do?" ”

After a pause, Zhang Shangying asked Liu Kui for verification: "You and I have seen this, he Zhao Liren won't be unable to see this, right?" ”

Liu Kui nodded as if no one was around: "Of course, we didn't see the convenience of the Yellow River at the beginning, but Zhao Liren saw it, and he used this hand repeatedly, and now, it is impossible for him to see it clearly." ”

Zhang Shangying immediately greeted the eunuch: "Where are the four envoys sent by Shaanxi Jingluo, call them here and ask about the specific situation?" ”

Huang Luzhi gently put down the brush, he picked up his hand without worry, and replied lightly: "Whether Zhao Liren can see this has nothing to do with me, and I should be content if I can plan to exterminate Western Xia in this term." ”

Zhang Shangying stopped in astonishment, he turned around and looked at Huang Tingjian, and asked in disbelief: "Lu Zhi has the heart to go?" ”