Chapter 255: Total Annihilation Continued
At this moment, in the northwest direction, more than fifty miles away, more than 7,000 Western Xia soldiers were hurrying on their way.
These more than 7,000 Western Xia soldiers are the same group of people who escaped from that gap before! They are unusually anxious, unusually frightened, they are desperately rushing. But even so, a day passed, and they had only walked more than 50 miles.
They were so tired that beside Richard, a soldier was running vigorously, and suddenly the soldier fell to the ground violently, blood spurting from his mouth, and blood from his eyes, ears, and nose. He just lay on the ground, no longer breathing!
"This ......" Richard was stunned, he hurriedly got off his horse, took the soldier's hand, and after a moment a sad expression appeared on his face, he knew that the soldier was dead. Because he was so tired, this soldier was "tired" to death!
Along the way, he'd seen something like this several times. Hundreds of people have already died of exhaustion. They either fell to the ground and couldn't move while running, or they were so tired that they lay on the ground and after a while they lost their heartbeat.
"General Li, this time we have suffered unusually heavy losses." Li Renli followed behind Brother Richard, and said with tears in his eyes at the moment.
"Yes! The losses are unusually serious! The 300,000 army behind is afraid that it has been completely annihilated by the Han people! Coupled with the losses in Hongzhou, Youzhou, and Yanzhou, nearly 400,000 soldiers in our Western Xia have died at the hands of the Han Chinese! Richard gritted his teeth.
"400,000 people! Our Western Xia has a total strength of less than 500,000 troops. Li Renli gritted his teeth and said.
"Yes, this time our Western Xia army is dead and wounded. We, Western Xia, have no army anymore. We can't stop the Han people anymore, this time I'm afraid that our Western Xia is really going to die. Richard said with a sad expression on his face.
"Dead country? How can it be? Didn't we say before that we wanted to attack Guanshan on three sides and obtain the land of Guanshan? How can this be ruined? Li Renli said in despair.
"I don't want to do that either! However, we are really facing the loss of our country. Richard said bitterly.
"Brother Cha, it's all your fault! As a commander, you actually killed the entire army of 300,000 main forces, and you deserve death! Li Renli shouted violently.
He looked at Brother Richard angrily, eager to tear Brother Richard apart on the spot.
"Two, now is not the time to argue." Wanyan Sect trunk road.
It's just that although Wanyan Zonggan spoke, Li Renli didn't pay attention to him at all at this moment! The country is about to perish, how can he have the heart to care about an outsider, he just looked at Brother Richard angrily, and hated Brother Richard unusually.
"You say, what should I do? The Han army of more than 100,000 invaded Hongzhou, Yanzhou, and Youzhou, can I not come to the rescue? At that time, those who fled back were talking about hundreds of thousands of troops, and they said that the Han people had conquered Hongzhou and Youzhou in almost an hour or two, and in such a situation, could I not go to the east with 300,000 troops? If it were you, what would you do? Aren't you going to rescue the east? Do you watch all the eastern cities fall? What's more, this is also an order from His Majesty! Richard said.
"This ......" Li Renli was stunned and stayed there.
"The Han people suddenly attacked Xingqing Mansion, what can I do? Can I not go to the rescue? Didn't you say before that if I didn't go to the rescue of Xingqing Mansion, you would take over my position as a general, but that's the case? And you also asked me to give up all the grain and grass baggage, move forward lightly, and rush to Xingqing Mansion in the shortest possible time, but is this so? Richard said.
"This ......" Li Renli was stunned again.
"If it were you, surrounded by the three-way army, and the army was extremely exhausted, would you be able to defeat the Song army?" Richard said.
Li Renli was speechless.
"The Han people's strategy is really powerful, beyond imagination. In the face of such a scheme, no one can resist it. From the time General Chago led an army of 300,000 to Yanzhou City, we had already lost. But we can't help but save Yanzhou City, and we can't sit back and watch all the cities in the east fall to the Song people. Neither of them should complain about each other. You should think about it, how to keep Western Xia? "Wanyan Sect trunk road.
Wanyan Zonggan was also extremely panicked at the moment.
He never thought that Song Jun's plan would be so powerful. Such a scheme is almost impossible to break. He didn't know who in the Song army had formulated such a plan, it was simply incredible. Moreover, the combat power of the Song army was far stronger than he expected. Halfway before, when they came into contact with Song Jun, he felt that Song Jun was almost not under the Jurchens. He still remembered that when the Jin soldiers had just gone south to the Central Plains, the Song army was weak and in a mess, but it was only five years since the city of Kaifeng was broken, and in the past five years, the Song army has undergone such a big change. In the face of such a Song army, he even suspected that the Jurchens were not opponents.
"No, it won't! Absolutely not! We Jurchens are invincible in the world! The Han people will eventually be conquered by us. Wanyan Zonggan secretly cheered himself up.
At this moment, he no longer dared to despise the Han people in his heart. In the past, he regarded the Han people as an inferior people, but now he no longer thinks so.
"We must rush back to Xingqing Mansion immediately and let Your Majesty prepare. No, Xingqing Mansion is no match for hundreds of thousands of Song troops at all, and I want Your Majesty to move the capital immediately and go to the Liangzhou area. When you get there, your majesty will be safe. Richard said.
"Yes, that's exactly how it should be! Also, although we only have more than 7,000 people left this time, these more than 7,000 people are real elites, and we want to bring them all back. Li Renli said.
Richard nodded.
"May God bless Western Xia." Brother Richard said secretly.
The snow was still falling, and after walking for another three or four miles, Richard suddenly felt that something was wrong.
It's so quiet that you can't hear a single sound. It stands to reason that although the Gobi is desolate, there are also some animals, especially some wild wolves, wild foxes, etc., and their voices can be heard more or less anywhere. But at this moment, there was no sound, only the sound of their Western Xia army hurrying.
"Brother Cha, I feel that something is wrong." Li Renli said violently.
Li Renli's words made Richard's heart skip a beat.
"Is there an ambush?" Wanyan Zonggan also felt that the surrounding environment was a little strange at this moment, and said at the moment.
At the moment when his voice just came out, shouts of killing came from all directions!
There are 20,000 cavalry blocking here, and I don't know how long I've been waiting for them!
It turned out that just last night, Liu Qi offered a strategy, and then Liu Qi personally led 20,000 cavalry to the northwest, in order to intercept the fleeing Western Xia army. He had been waiting here for hours, and they had been resting, always on alert. Now they have finally waited for the enemy.
In the Song army, almost all the cavalry were the elite of the elite! Because of the lack of war horses, the number of cavalry is very small, and those who can enter the cavalry ranks are the best warriors in the army!
On the one hand, the elite of the Song army was waiting for work, and on the other hand, there was no rest for eight days and eight nights, and there were constantly people "tired" to death along the way, and the result of the war can be imagined.
The 20,000 cavalry of the Song army divided more than 7,000 Western Xia soldiers into three sections and slaughtered them in sections.
It only took half an hour for these 7,000 Western Xia soldiers to be wiped out, and only a few dozen people could escape at most.
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After eliminating the remnants of the 7,000 Western Xia army, Liu Qi did not stop, and immediately led 20,000 cavalry in the direction of Xingqing Mansion.
In the early morning of the second day, the infantry of the 100,000 Jingyuan Army and the 30,000 Huanqing Army also headed in the direction of Xingqing Mansion.
100,000 Northern Shaanxi Forbidden Army and 10,000 Imperial Battalion soldiers stopped here, and they did not rest for several days and nights, and the soldiers' bodies were extremely tired. Even if their physical fitness surpassed that of the Western Xia soldiers, they also needed to rest at this time, at least they couldn't rush like this day and night. Before, the rush was to achieve military goals, to force the enemy to exhaust, but now at least it is not as urgent as before.
The soldiers had a rare good night's sleep.
In the afternoon, they began to clean up the battlefield.
They first searched for the bodies of their comrades-in-arms, and then buried the bodies of their comrades-in-arms on the Gobi Desert.
Then there was the disposal of the corpses of the 300,000 Western Xia soldiers.
They dug countless pits in the Gobi, threw the corpses of Western Xia soldiers into the pits, and then buried them with earth.
Occasionally, when they saw that there were Tangut soldiers who had not died, they also indifferently threw these Tangut soldiers into a big pit and buried them with soil. Those Western Xia soldiers who did not die completely would surely die in this way.
Yu Yunwen saw a Western Xia soldier whose face was covered with blood, and the Western Xia soldier's fingers were still moving slightly, but the soldiers of the Northern Shaanxi Forbidden Army still threw him into the pit, ready to bury him. The Western Xia soldiers struggled to open their eyes, their eyes full of begging, but the soldiers of the Northern Shaanxi Forbidden Army next to them didn't pay any attention to them.
Yu Yunwen almost wanted to stop the soldiers of the Northern Shaanxi Forbidden Army, he was about to walk up, and a voice suddenly came from the side: "Don't you think it's cruel?" ”
Yu Yunwen was stunned for a moment, turned around and found that Zhao Chen had arrived, and hurriedly saluted and said, "See Your Majesty!" ”
It was Zhao Chen who appeared behind him, Zhao Chen nodded, and said, "War is so cruel!" Either we kill the enemy, or the enemy kills us! This time we fought to the territory of Western Xia, and we won the war, so this time we killed the enemy! But have you ever thought about what would happen if a foreigner entered the territory of our Great Song Dynasty, and what kind of treatment would our people suffer from the Great Song Dynasty? How many soldiers and how many civilians are going to die? ”
Yu Yunwen sighed softly and said, "Weichen understands! If a foreigner enters the territory of our Great Song Dynasty, the people of our Great Song Dynasty will also suffer from poison. At that time, the Liao Kingdom was in the north, and every year we had to come to the grass valley, and every time we hit the grass valley, we Han people either died hundreds or thousands. For a hundred years, this kind of grass hunting has happened every year, sometimes once or twice a year, sometimes even dozens of times a year. The Jurchens invaded the Central Plains, and the people of the Central Plains also suffered heavy casualties. The original 100,000 family armies have been wiped out, and many cities have been slaughtered by the Jurchens. ”
Zhao Chen said: "Yes! That's not all! The Huns and Turks also killed countless Han Chinese! If...... I mean, if I don't ascend the throne as emperor and let Zhao Gou become the lord of my Great Song Dynasty, then the Han people will be wiped out, and more than half of the Han population will die under the iron hooves of foreigners. ”
Yu Yunwen was stunned for a moment and said, "This is impossible, right?" Our Great Song Dynasty has a population of 10,000,000, and it is impossible for foreigners to kill more than half of the population. ”
A sneer appeared on Zhao Chen's face! If history remains unchanged, when the Mongols invaded, they continued to slaughter cities, and more than 50 million Han people died. At that time, the population of the Han Chinese was less than 80 million. The establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, the Han people became the fourth class of people, the Mongols could oppress the Han people, any foreigners who entered the Central Plains, including Ha Zhulu, Kipchak, Tang Wu, Asu, Balba, Kangli, Kulilu, Thorn Beggar, Red Beggar, Wuwu, Huihui, Naiman, Aerhun and so on are above the Han people, can oppress the Han people. At that time, the Han people really became the most despicable nation in the world, any foreigner could step on the head of the Han people, kill a Han person only need to pay a fine equivalent to a donkey, ordinary Han people are not allowed to have their own names, all are named after the date of birth, Zhu Yuanzhang's name was called Zhu Chongba when he was born, the Han people's taxes are extremely heavy, more than half, as long as there is a flood and drought disaster, the Han people will starve to death countless times. Finally, Zhu Yuanzhang led the rebel army to defeat the Mongols and establish the Ming Dynasty, but in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the Jurchens rose again and established the Qing Dynasty. In the process of the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the death of the Han people was also more than 10 million, after the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the implementation of the "shaving order", claiming that "keep the head without hair, keep the hair without the head", the Han people around the country have resisted, the Qing army slaughtered the Han people in various places, especially the Han people in Jiading resisted the shaving order is particularly fierce, the Qing army carried out three massacres of Jiading from June to August, and the people of Jiading almost died. In modern times, the Dongying people, who were originally a humble and small country, could also invade the Chinese mainland, and more than 30 million Chinese people died, and there are still 300,000 unjust souls in Nanjing.
At this moment, Zhao Chen naturally couldn't tell all the history of the later generations, he just sneered, and it was inconvenient for Yu Yunwen next to him to ask more! However, Yu Yunwen's mood of "compassion for the heavens and people" in his heart has decreased a lot, and when he thinks that if these Western Xia troops break into the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, the people of the Great Song Dynasty will inevitably suffer heavy casualties, and he no longer has a psychological burden.
"I'm not an indiscriminate killer! But on the battlefield, there really is no room for mercy! If these 300,000 Western Xia soldiers don't die, how do we treat them? Send an army to watch them? But we still have to gather all the armies to attack Xingqing Mansion! When we attack Xingqing Mansion, will they take the opportunity to resist? Will they pull us back? That's a given! We only have 250,000 soldiers and horses entering Western Xia, and these 250,000 soldiers and horses can't all be lost here, we still have to attack the Jurchens and King Kang, and we can't consume too much strength when we destroy Western Xia! So the best thing to do is to eliminate them all while they are at their weakest and eliminate all hidden dangers! Yu Yunwen, do you think this is the truth? Zhao Chen said.
"Wechen understands!" Yu Yunwen nodded and said.
"Excellent! Let the army stay here for three days, and after three days, let's go to Xingqing Mansion! Zhao Chen said.