Because this massacre that started in Gaizhou is inseparable from Wang Huchen, the general of the town navy who directly gave the order, and Chen Pingxi, the commander of the third brigade of the town navy, and these two were later promoted to enter the political hall because of their military merits, plus there are hints and indirect instructions from Ye Yingwu, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, so this massacre has not been described too much by historians. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When it comes to this magnificent era, many historians and writers often take a passing approach to this matter or simply forget it, and they have a lot of experience in the Spring and Autumn Period.

It wasn't until hundreds of years later, when several horrific mass graves were excavated, that the existence of this massacre was completely confirmed, but archaeologists at that time were not more interested in denigrating the bloody repression and brutality of the Ming Dynasty, but in the Jurchens, an extinct people.

What's more, they also know very well that whether it is Ye Yingwu, the founding monarch of the Ming Dynasty at that time, or Wang Huchen and Chen Pingxi, who directly gave the order, even if they know that they may be criticized behind them, they will not hesitate to give this order.

Because they have seen the oppression and humiliation of the Han people, because they know the hatred of the Jurchens towards the Han family. They know very well the truth of raising tigers.

Only dead Jurchens are good Jurchens.

It is said that after Ye Yingwu received the news of the Liaodong Massacre, he was silent for a long time, and only said four words: "Karma." ”

It is not known in which lifetime the cause is the cause and in which lifetime the effect is the effect.

After all, more than 200,000 Jurchens in Liaodong have turned into dust, and even if a few of them escaped, they all changed their identities incognito, and no one will know that there was once such a nation in Liaodong that once dominated the world.

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Thousands of miles away from Liaodong, Mongolia and Lin.

Plugging the pearl and Lin Cheng, at this time it has lost its original prosperity, the caravans have long disappeared, the nose of the merchant is the most sensitive, this is inevitable and a big war outside Lin Cheng, of course they will not stupidly run to and Lin Cheng, not to mention that with the defeat of Mongolia in Shanxi and Youyan, the economy of the entire Mongolia has been on the verge of collapse, and the large and small tribes in Lin City and the surrounding grasslands have long been panicked and unable to live all day, who is still in the mood to do business?

However, Helin did not fall into ruin, from all directions of the grassland rushed over the large and small tribes gathered in Helin, the small scale of the city can no longer accommodate so many people, resulting in many tribes simply stationed outside the city, one by one endless endless camps and snow-white yurts to protect the entire Helin in the center, and the cattle and sheep that migrated with the tribe are grazing on the grassland in the distance.

At least until the army of Bara arrived, the grass on this steppe still belonged to Kublai Khan's department.

"It's been two days since the tribe came," Liu Bingzhong, who was standing on the wall of Helin's not high city, and his face was full of wind and frost in a plain robe, said in a low voice, with a strong look of worry in his words, "In this way, there are barely twenty or thirty thousand people gathered around Helin, and there are many children and old people among them・・・・・・ this is already all our army." ”

As a courtier reused by Kublai Khan during his lifetime, and a Han Chinese, I am afraid that no one can understand and comprehend how much pressure Liu Bingzhong is under these days. This famous man, known as the "Yelu Chucai" of Kublai Khan's era, not only had to face the imminent oppression of the Bara army after Kublai Khan's death, but also the embarrassment brought about by his own identity.

After all, in the final analysis, Liu Bingzhong is a Han person, there was Kublai Khan at the beginning, and the implementation of the Sinicization policy to win over the hearts of the Han people in the north, Liu Bingzhong's existence is reasonable, but now Kublai Khan is dead, and he died in the hands of the Han people, so for Liu Bingzhong, the Mongolian government and the opposition have quite a lot of discussion and doubts, although Liu Bingzhong is like Shi Tianze, there is no doubt about the contribution and loyalty to Mongolia, but as the so-called "non-my race, its heart must be different", now Mongolia has come to the end of the road, of course, it is difficult to believe a foreigner.

What's more, even Shi Tianze, who was loyal to Mongolia, surrendered with Boyan in the Battle of Youyan. Although Kublai Khan personally ordered that there should be no need to pursue it, after all, in the eyes of the Mongols, Shi Tianze and Boyan are not good men, even if they are not sinners. And even with Liu Bingzhong, there are naturally many people who question it, after all, no one is sure that Liu Bingzhong will raise his hand and surrender like Shi Tianze when he reaches a critical time.

Shi Tianze surrendered, and the Mongolian Kublai Khan Department lost Youyan, but once Liu Bingzhong surrendered, what was lost was Helin City, and the last backbone of Kublai Khan's Ministry was completely broken.

However, Liu Bingzhong did not say a word about this, and used his practical actions to prepare for the defense of Helin. Compared to those Mongol generals who grew up in the steppe, he has a lot of experience in fortifying cities, which is probably why the Mongols still have to use him.

Of course, the trust of the first emperor Kublai Khan, the full support of the great master Ba Sipa and the left prime minister of Zhongshu An Tong, and the principle that important ministers of the court should not be easily dismissed in the event of chaos, etc., finally made Liu Bingzhong qualified to stand on the wall of this and Lin at this moment as the Mongolian Taibao, Lingzhongshu Province, and Guanglu Doctor.

Walking on the city wall with Liu Bingzhong was the Zhongshu Zuo Prime Minister An Tong, this famous young genius in Mongolia had the same solemn face as Liu Bingzhong, stretching out his hand to support the battlements, his eyes swept around the camp under the city: "Liu Xianggong, you said that there is still no trace of this eight people, what kind of calculation is it?" Since he knows that we don't have many troops, if we continue to delay like this, isn't he afraid that things will change? ”

Liu Bingzhong sighed, the entire Mongolian high-level people died and were captured, and now there are only a few of them who can stand up and support this fragmented sky. Except for him, Liu Bingzhong, who was originally a scholar, but he had a lot of experience in the war when he was young, and the rest of the ministers were also stunned.

Zhongshu Zuo Prime Minister An, who is always in charge of government affairs, became famous in his childhood, but after all, he is a little young, and sometimes the brain of a genius can't defeat rich experience, and now An Tong lacks experience the most. According to Kublai Khan's assumption, Boyan from the left prime minister of the Chinese book took the right prime minister An Tong, one is experienced and one is extremely talented, this match is impeccable, who would have thought that Boyan would sink into the sand in Youyan, and only one of the two pillars of the Mongolian court was left, or a small one, how to support it?

As a Mongolian great teacher, although the status is transcendent, but he has the same background problem as Liu Bingzhong, after all, he was the living Buddha of the Tubo people, even if the Sakya Ban family, which is now in power in Tubo, has clearly announced that he will sever relations with Ba Sipa, and marry with the Ming Dynasty and even change the land and return to the stream, but Ba Sipa's background is still a defect that he can't erase, which also makes Ba Sipa has been behind the scenes, unless there is an emergency, otherwise he generally does not come forward to participate in the government. What's more, what Phags-pa is best at dealing with religious and cultural affairs, and it is indeed difficult for a strong man to let a great monk come to command the war, and Phag-pa obviously has this self-knowledge, so he fully supports Liu Bingzhong.

As for the Huihui person Ahma, who is in charge of finance, even Liu Bingzhong, who has always been broad-minded, is quite helpless to him, this person is Kublai Khan in order to prevent the financial power from completely falling into the hands of the Han people, but he is not worried about his own Mongols who only know how to ride horses and shoot arrows, so he temporarily dragged it over to the top of the cylinder, and it turns out that this Ahma, who was blown up in the sky, is a waste, under his auspices, Mongolia's finances can really be said to be a mess, and it is even worse for Mongolia, which has been defeated year after year. Ahmad obviously knew that he didn't have much ability, but he didn't panic, after all, the Mongols couldn't allow a Han Chinese to take charge of the economic lifeline, so he was the only one who could rely on him.

Before the battle of Xiangyang, although Ahma made the economy not improve, but after all, Mongolia had the absolute upper hand on the battlefield at that time, if it were not for the fact that Xiangyang and Fancheng were indeed the best fortified cities in the world, and the cavalry that Mongolia was best at was the most restrained, I am afraid that Ashu would have led the army to sweep over. However, Ye Yingwu was born, and many people thought that the irretrievable southeast sky tilt turned into the northwest sky tilt in just a few years, and in this process, the Mongolian army collapsed again and again, and the Mongolian court ceded land again and again to pay compensation, and the loss in the middle was originally a heavy blow to Mongolia's economy.

In addition, a country that rose on the steppe occupied land that had been ravaged by the Jurchens and ravaged by war for more than a hundred years, and its economic base and total volume certainly could not be compared with the rich Southern Song Dynasty -- in history, until Zhu Yuanzhang destroyed the Yuan Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty was the richest city in the world in Hangzhou, so Mongolia's economy came to the point of collapse again and again, and sometimes even the military salary could not be scraped together, if it were not for the partial division of the sea capital, the pressure on Mongolia on the western front was reduced a lot. In addition, it was dumped to many refugees in Daming, so I'm afraid it would have been out of breath a long time ago.

Even now, in economic terms, Mongolia is dying.

The only thing that makes Liu Bingzhong feel more reliable is probably the right prime minister Atahai who is in charge of the army, and the army of Helin to control Ali Hague. Atahai is the grandson of Tahai, a famous general of the previous generation of Mongolia and the founder of the country, and Ali Hague is the commander of Kublai Khan's own soldiers and the cowardly Xue army, all of whom are generals who fought on the battlefield, even if they have won and lost in battles with the Ming army and Ba Ra, but at least they are generals who have been on the battlefield and are determined to serve the country, at least in Liu Bingzhong's opinion, they are much more reliable than Ahma.

"Liu Xianggong?" Seeing that Liu Bingzhong didn't speak for a long time, An Tong shouted in surprise.

"Oooh!" Liu Bingzhong was startled, then came back to his senses, and said with a wry smile, "Prime Minister, Ba Ra is waiting." ”

"Wait?" Hearing Liu Bingzhong's answer, An Tong was stunned for a moment, although he didn't have much experience in politics, but after all, he was smart, and he understood after a little thought, and his face was even more solemn, looking at the lively scene in the city, he didn't know how to speak for a while.

Eight Ra was waiting, waiting for these tribes gathered in Helin to lack water and grass and had to move!

The tribes on the Mongolian steppe are living in pursuit of water and grass, and there were few tribes living in the grasslands around the forest before, so the water and grass are maintained well, but now these tens of thousands of horses eat horses and chew and graze cattle and sheep every day, even if the grasslands around the forest are very lush, they can't withstand such consumption, once the time is long, and the city of Helin can't get enough grain and grass, then these tribes have to go away.

An Tong gritted his teeth and slammed his fist on the city wall. He knew very well how much grain and grass there was in Lin City. The previous wars and the years of tug-of-war and confrontation on the east-west front have exhausted the last trace of Mongolia's blood, plus there is Ahma, a guy who doesn't know how to pretend to understand the economy, standing here and squandering indiscriminately, it is already good to find a few bags of grain in the granary, and how to take out the food that meets the needs of so many people, you must know that these tens of thousands of people eat every day, but it is also a number that An Tong can't even think of now.

Now for Kublai Khan's Ministry can't afford to wait, but for Bara, he can afford to wait, an opponent who is panicked because of lack of food is obviously easier to deal with, especially now that the Ming Dynasty has just finished the war between Youyan and Shanxi, it is the time to recuperate, and there is a chance that he will not interfere in the chaos on the grassland, and he is even happy to do so, so Ba Ra can afford to wait even more.

"Prime Minister don't panic," Liu Bingzhong said in a deep voice, "The soldiers are coming to block, the water is coming to cover the earth, how can it be so easy for these eight people to want to be a wall-watcher?" ”

"What do you mean by that?" An Tong was a little surprised, "Now we have mobilized tribes from all over the country to come to Helin, but we have left a large area of grassland in Bara, as long as Ba Ra is encamped, how can he not wait?" ”

Although An Tong knows that the current situation is critical, after all, he still has to face the reality, especially from the perspective of Ba Ra, it is most useful. Liu Bingzhong glanced at An Tong with praise: "Ba Ra can wait, but I'm afraid the southern barbarians in Hexi can't wait." ”

An Tong was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood. The Ming army broke through Haidu and occupied the Western Regions, but if they wanted to continue to attack westward from the Western Regions, they needed to climb over several snow-capped mountains, and the roads were rugged and difficult to travel.

Once the Eight Men have waited for a long time, I am afraid that the Ming army will be dispatched, and presumably the Eight Lawyers will not have the courage to continue to attack Helin under the outflanking of the Ming Army, after all, the Eight Laws were driven out of Hexi by the Ming Army in the first place.

"So・・・・・・" An Tong raised his eyebrows, and a rare look of joy appeared on his ice-like face, "Even if Ba Ra can't wait too long, it is estimated that he should attack in the next few days?" ”

But immediately realizing something, An Tong couldn't help but smile bitterly, and muttered: "I was afraid that Ba Ra would come over, but now I wish Ba Ra would come over, it's really ironic." ”

"Prime Minister, the world is unpredictable, and there are many twists and turns, which is also reasonable." Liu Bingzhong couldn't help laughing, but he didn't have a sense of self-deprecation in his laughter, he didn't expect that he was a Han man standing here at this time and desperately working for the Mongols, whether it was for Kublai Khan's kindness, or for his previous efforts, which made Liu Bingzhong feel a little ridiculous.

The god of fate seemed to play a joke on him, brought him to the top, and threw him into the dust so hard that until now Liu Bingzhong didn't even know whether he should be a Mongol, a Han or something, let alone what he was fighting for.

Sighing softly, Liu Bingzhong looked sideways at An Tong: "Prime Minister, now the whole of Mongolia, the people in and outside the city, as well as you and me, have all come to a dead end, death or life, but in a moment." So you might as well take it lightly, and if you come, you will be safe. Whether it's Ba Ra or the Southern Barbarians, as long as they come, then let's block them together, and block them under this and Lin City! The first khan has the grace of knowing and supporting a certain person, and even if he is exhausted, he must keep this and forest. ”

After being silent for a long time, An Tong bowed his hand to Liu Bingzhong and saluted according to the etiquette of the Han people: "Mr. is righteous, I admire it." ”

Liu Bingzhong just returned the favor and didn't say much.

Saying these words, he seemed to understand the choice in his heart, anyway, for him at this moment, is there any other choice?

It can only be done from one to the end.

Liu Bingzhong and An Tong straightened up at the same time, two people of different ages, different experiences, and different ethnic groups, looked at each other and smiled.

However, the tranquility on the city tower was soon interrupted by footsteps, and Ali Hague, who was in charge of the city defense, walked quickly to the city wall: "The two prime ministers are here, that saves a lot of effort, and the urgent report from the grassland in the south, I think the two prime ministers are best to take a look." ”