Chapter 321: Blood Slaughter of the Whole City

There were more than 33,000 defenders in Nanyang City, including about 15,000 Han troops, and 50,000 or 60,000 people living in the city, and the more than 100,000 permanent population when it was prosperous.

When the Song army completed the encirclement on all sides on the first day, the defender Hamuli in Nanyang City had no confidence, and the Song army had more than ten cities on the way, but they never put on this posture of not letting go of a person.

No matter which city it is, as long as the Yuan army has the intention to escape, there is always a way to live, why do you have to besiege the city on all sides when you get to my Nanyang, is it because I Hamuli deliberately can't get by?

However, Zhao Tianyou didn't have the patience to explain to him, the Song army, which had already accumulated too much hatred along the way, broke through the two city gates in the southeast in only one morning. Although there were no long knives and short guns, some young people also walked out of the house with sticks and kitchen knives, and pursued the Yuan army fleeing in the city with the Song army that had invaded the city.

At this time, most of the Han army put down their swords and guns to stop resisting, knelt on the side of the street with their hands raised, and waited for the Song army to attack the city to accept the prisoners, they ignored that they did a lot of bad things under the Yuan army, and it was not that no one remembered.

After more than 100,000 Song troops entered the city of Nanyang, turned the entire city upside down, and killed and captured all the Yuan troops, nine percent of the Song army withdrew from Nanyang, leaving some people to deal with prisoners of war to appease the people.

There is no need for Zhao Tianyou to say more this time, the tragic situation along the way is obvious to all, and the words that the general said before the siege of the city have spread throughout the whole army, and no one knows this order to kill everything.

Thousands of Yuan soldiers captured alive, and some of them were identified by the residents of the city, or some Song soldiers who were forced to rebel voluntarily took the initiative to say it, those scum who were very unhappy that their father and mother were Mengyuan people, and they also fulfilled their dream of living and dying with their masters.

More than 6,000 people were tied up outside the south gate, and the soldiers who were willing to participate in the execution, or ordinary people who could prove that they had a deep hatred of blood, worked together to bury 6,000 wooden stakes outside Nanyang City. Then they were executed together, and the heads of the enemies were cut off, and their heads were stuck in stakes to withstand the wind and the sun and the birds to peck at them.

This method was originally used by Zhao Tianyou, and he knew that it was only a deterrent to the enemy, in fact, it was the same as Meng Yuan's method of killing people and slaughtering cities everywhere, and even more brutal when he encountered resistance, so that the enemy did not have the courage to resist and was powerless to resist himself.

For the first time, the Northern Expedition of the Song Dynasty showed its cruel and ruthless side, and the news of the 6,000 prisoners of war of the Nanyang Tuyuan Army went with the wind, causing a great sensation in the eastern province of Henan Province. These territories were occupied by the Liao State little by little at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and when the Mongol and Song Dynasty joined forces to defeat the Liao State, they were not returned to the Song Dynasty according to the original agreement, but were occupied by the Mongol Yuan under the pretext of not returning.

After so many years of rule by different countries and nations, many people have been tossed by these two countries, dreaming of returning to the era when the Song Dynasty ruled to live and work in peace and contentment, and when they heard about the great power of the Song army's northern expedition, their reaction was much greater than those cities in the south.

From the south bank of the Yellow River to the north bank of the Yangtze River, a war-torn place, the underground activities of resisting the Yuan Dynasty and returning to the Song Dynasty were in full swing, and some Han officials who Kublai Khan had reused also began to waver. Originally, some heroes of the green forest who occupied the mountains were kings even raised the banner of Hong Kong Island, especially in the areas near the coastal area of Shandong Road, and they knew from the waterway that they had known the prestige of the South China Sea Fleet for a long time, and they even indiscriminately stirred up the name of the land unit of the South China Sea Fleet.

Starting from Nanyang all the way to the north, the footsteps of the Song army never stopped, and the cities that were constantly being recovered, from west to east until they reached the East Shandong Road, have recovered the land that has been lost for three hundred years little by little.

Because the main force of the Yuan army retreated to the north of the Yellow River, Zhao Tianyou did not order the army to forcibly cross the river to the north, but kept clearing the Shandong Road to the east, which was not comparable to the Han people in the southern cities. After all, it is ruled by different regimes such as Jin Liaoyuan, and it is among the ordinary people, and it is also a mixture of many ethnic groups, which have been interrelated and multiplied by each other for many years, and it is difficult to distinguish between them.

Most of the seized property and land are distributed to the common people in accordance with certain rules and proportions, agriculture is the most basic guarantee for the country's strength, and the priority is to develop the farming operations of peasant households in order to solve the problem of food faced by the jurisdiction and the population after the continuous increase.

It took more than half a year for the army, which had no way out, to fight from Shaanxi to Shandong, and completely wiped out the strength of the Yuan army on the south bank of the Yellow River. At this time, only the Shu Yuan army led by Zhenjin, and the 100,000 yuan soldiers from Yunnan and Guizhou were behind the Song army, and they wanted to return to the north, and it was bound to be difficult to reach the sky.

Kublai Khan had decided to make a desperate bet and exchange the freedom and tax rights of several khanates, and recruited 500,000 new Mengyuan cavalry, and had begun to march towards Zhongshu Province from different directions, cooperating with Kublai Khan's personal expedition to the south to attack the Song Dynasty.

In fact, at this time, it is no longer called the southward invasion of the Song Dynasty, and the territory occupied after the destruction of Jin and Liao has now been occupied by the Song Dynasty.

Cattle, sheep and horses were forcibly requisitioned from the Lingbei provinces to supply the cavalry requisitioned from other khanates, grain was forcibly requisitioned from the Liaoyang Prefectures, and young and strong laborers were forcibly plundered to join the forced labor camps. In Kublai Khan, who had fallen into a state of panic, the policy of appeasing and revitalizing for long-term peace and stability was once again abandoned, and the most primitive means were still taken, the means of killing if he did not obey and dying.

At this time, the water of the Yellow River mainly flows north through the Haihe River and enters the sea from the mouth of Dagu. In order to resist the invasion of the Jin soldiers to the south, in the winter of the second year of Jianyan, the Jin soldiers went south, and when Du Chong abandoned the city and fled south, he opened the embankment of the Yellow River and made the water of the Yellow River flow into the Huai from the wine, in an attempt to block the pursuing soldiers behind him.

Below the breach, the river flows eastward, passes through the south of Huaxian County, between Puyang and Dongming, and then flows into Surabaya in the east, Juancheng, Juye, Jiaxiang and Jinxiang areas, flows south through Surabaya, and flows into the Yellow Sea with the Huai River.

The excavation of the Yellow River did not stop the Jin soldiers from moving south, but they drowned hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in their path, displacing millions of people and turning the banks of the Huai River, which was the most prosperous at that time, into an ocean.

However, the current Song army is no longer yesterday's weak brigade, when the Yuan army stationed in the former capital Kaifeng was wiped out, it did not feel that there was much achievement, but continued to pursue the fleeing Yuan army, until the bank of the Yellow River is considered to stop.

Kublai Khan has gathered an army of 600,000, in the eighth year of the Yuan Dynasty, that is, on the eighth day of June in 1271, Kublai Khan placed a grand sacrifice to the heavens in Dadu, and then led the army to march south to attack the Song Dynasty.

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