In order to solve the problem of Hao Ren Wanhu's offensive warfare against the enemy's sea capital in the far north, the Song army was besieging Chang'an under many Chang'an cities in the south.

Looking at the majestic city wall, Zhao Qian was inevitably a little nervous in his heart. It has been the center of political power in China for hundreds of years, and the capital of the Tang Dynasty is here. The 'First Empire of the Qin and Han Dynasties', identified by Zhao Qian's father, Zhao Jiaren, also existed here for hundreds of years. As the heir of Chinese civilization, Zhao Qian knew that the purpose of his visit was to conquer this great city.

The Song army had eight battalions in one division and had about 9,000 troops, which was slightly insufficient for the city. The 9,000 Song troops besieging Chang'an City were divided into several directions. When Zhao Qian and the others went to the battalion commander for a meeting, the battalion commander nodded, "Platoon Commander Zhao, you lead the troops to this position in the west, where there is a Mongolian residence." Kill them. ”

"What if they run away?" Zhao Qian asked.

"Then burn their dwellings. These Mongols must not be given a chance to surprise us. The battalion commander replied categorically.

Zhao Qian immediately accepted the order, he ordered his subordinates, and led the team straight to the direction on the map. Zhao Qian was born in the populous city of Fujian, where he grew up in either Quanzhou or Fuzhou, or Guangzhou and Hangzhou. Before arriving in Henan, he never thought that the roads outside the big city seemed to be a sheep's intestine road, and even outside the mountainous big city of Fujian was not like this.

The road was covered with snow on both sides, and Zhao Qian was even more careful, and he ordered: "Everyone be careful, don't step out of the road easily." ”

"Yes." The soldiers of the troops responded.

If it is a wide road, the snow will be trampled, and you only need to worry about the slippery road. For such a trail, God knows what lies beneath the seemingly flat snow on both sides of the road. Zhao Qian's side by side had three horses accidentally stepped into a deep pit and injured their legs. Fighting in the field in such winter, Zhao Qian had to order the execution of the irretrievable war horse. When such an order was given, Zhao Qian felt very uncomfortable in his heart. In order to make both the people and horses participating in the battle return to their hometown alive as much as possible, Zhao Qian had to be more careful.

As in Hebei, the Mongol government placed small Mongolian families near Han Chinese settlements, and a look at the appearance of the residence from a distance can tell that it was the residence of the Mongols. Like the landlords, small Mongolian families lived some distance from ordinary people. However, in terms of layout or scale, the situation of the house is very different from that of the Han people.

The Great Song cavalry surrounded the place, but the Mongols were already empty. The soldiers were about to burn down the house, but Zhao Qian stopped the soldiers. He looked at the village not far away, and said to the soldiers, "I'll go to the village and ask the people where the Mongols have gone." ”

"Platoon commander, why is it so troublesome?" The squad leader rubbed his hands and asked. Although it did not have the daily low temperature of minus 19 degrees Celsius on the side of the Ögedai Khanate, it was still an unacceptable environment for these troops from the south.

"Hurry up and burn the house, and we'll go back." The second shift leader thought the same. It's freezing on this day, so it's better to finish the work early, and everyone will go back to participate in the siege of Chang'an. After capturing Chang'an, at least you can go to the city to rest.

"It's freezing, where will these Mongols go?" Zhao Qian said.

"This ......, they went back to Mongolia?" The first class leader began to smuggle. Everyone didn't believe this, including the squad leader himself. However, this is not the south, and the Great Song Dynasty in the south has a large population of 80 million. After arriving in Henan, everyone felt that they had reached no man's land. What everyone didn't expect was that Shaanxi was even more barren than Henan.

Looking at Zhao Qian's unhappy expression, the squad leader said: "Platoon leader, this place is so barren, not to mention a family of Mongols, it is hundreds of Mongols, as long as they want to hide, how can we find them in this barren mountain and wilderness?" ”

"People can hide in the barren mountains and wilderness, but what they eat and drink. When we entered Shaanxi, it was a surprise attack, and no one in the local area knew about it. The Mongols are even less likely to know. They won't be so prepared when they run away. So I can't run far. Zhao Qian explained.

Such a theoretical thing did not make everyone understand, and the squad leaders only understood that Platoon Commander Zhao was not going to go back immediately, so they replied: "Platoon Commander, I will do whatever you say." ”

"Hmm. Let's go to the village and ask first. ”

"Platoon commander, the people in the village are in the same group as the Mongols, right?"

"Nope. The task of the Mongols here was to spy on the Han Chinese and report to the local Mongol government. How could the local people be in league with these people? But let's be careful, these people don't believe us right now. Let's go, go to the village. ”

They went to the village first, and when they reached the entrance of the village, they saw that the road in the village was empty, and no one could be seen. found the most luxurious one in the village, and Zhao Qian asked people to knock on the door.

The door was closed tightly from the inside, and it was obvious that it was not nobody. The soldier shouted several times, but no one answered. Zhao Qian was annoyed in his heart, and shouted loudly with the sinicization of the north: "Fellow, open the door!" If we don't open the door, we'll slam the door and rush in!" ”

This voice really worked. A frightened voice sounded inside, "Who's out there?" ”

"We are the army of the Great Song Dynasty." Zhao Qian shouted.

The people inside obviously had no intention of opening the door, let alone the joy of welcoming the king. I heard the people inside respond: "There is an accident at home, and you can't entertain your military masters." Thank you for your understanding. ”

Listening to the people inside, they were quite elegant, and Zhao Qian shouted: "Don't enter." Why did we come to kill the Mongols outside the village, but the Mongols ran away without a trace, leaving only an empty courtyard. I would like to ask where the Mongols went. Let's go after it. ”

Now the people in the courtyard stopped squeaking again. Zhao Qian waited for a while, and his impatient subordinates were already shouting at the top of their throats: "Listen to the people inside, tell me the whereabouts of the Mongols, let's talk about it, if you don't say it, it means that you and the Mongols are the same party." ”

This sounded very unseemly, Zhao Qian wanted to stop it in a low voice, but faintly heard the cry of a flock of sheep in the yard. At this time, the people in the courtyard immediately replied: "Ladies and gentlemen, we are not the same party of the Mongols. It's just that the soldiers are in danger, and they really don't dare to open the door. The Mongols, however, fled eastward, and had been walking for several days. ”

Hearing the news, the cavalry looked at Zhao Qian one after another. The Great Song Dynasty has three disciplines and eight points of attention, and it is okay to shout and threaten a few times, and it really allows everyone to kill into the people's houses, and the people who know that the army will never forgive this really dare not. At this time, what the people in the house said was also quite convincing, and everyone hoped that Zhao Qian would order a retreat.

Zhao Qian beckoned the four squad leaders to come over. He whispered, "I think the Mongols might be here." ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard it, did Zhao Qian have clairvoyance? Through the courtyard wall and the closed gate, you can see who is in the courtyard?

"I'm not sure, maybe there are no Mongols in there." Zhao Qian replied.

Just when everyone was so discouraged that they didn't want to say anything, they heard Zhao Qian continue: "So let you come over, I want everyone to blow up the courtyard gate with explosives." Everyone must be careful, do not be accidentally injured by explosives, and when rushing in for a while, do not be injured by the Mongols who may be ambushed, and do not accidentally injure the people inside. ”

Although the Song army's three disciplines and eight points of attention required that the troops should not infringe on the people, the first of the three disciplines was to obey orders and listen to commands, and Zhao Qian made it clear when he called everyone over, he suspected that there were Mongols in the courtyard. So everyone pretended to leave first, and actually let the troops load the gate on this side with explosives.

Troops outside the blast heard a loud bang, then rolled over and charged back. When I arrived at the gate of the compound again, I saw that the two thick wooden doors of the compound had been blown down. After the squad leader rushed in in the smoke and dust, he saw that there were many sheep in the yard. Disturbed by the explosion, the sheep were bleating.

When I looked up, I saw some men and women dressed in Mongolian clothes also staring blankly at the bombed gate. They were dumbfounded by such drastic changes.

Suddenly seeing the Mongols, the squad leader was not dumbfounded, he shouted excitedly: "There are Mongols in the yard, kill!" ”

After saying that, the squad leader raised his rifle and opened fire. A squad of fighters who followed him also followed the squad leader to shoot at the Mongols. Not long after, Zhao Qian, who knew the news, commanded the troops to surround the courtyard. The Mongols resisted stubbornly, closing the door and shooting the Song army outside through the cracks in the windows with bows and arrows.

At this distance, the Song army's muskets could not give full play to their advantages, and the two sides were in a stalemate.

"Throw a grenade into it." Zhao Qian ordered his anxious subordinates.

Hearing this order, the fighters immediately understood. The men broke the windows with something, then threw the lit grenades through the holes, and each room only needed a loud bang to kill or injure the people inside.

blew up several houses in a row, but saw a middle-aged man wearing Han clothes running towards Zhao Qian with his bare hands, and was immediately pushed to the ground by the soldiers. Even so, the middle-aged man still shouted loudly: "Master Jun! Commander! There were not only Mongolians but also our family in the house. But please raise your noble hand and don't hurt the lives of my family. ”

Hearing this, the squad leader said angrily: "Your family is a life, and we are not a life?" ”

"Don't talk like that." Zhao Qian stopped the squad leader, and he said to the middle-aged man kindly: "This big brother, we also want to help you, so you tell us how many Mongolians there are, and which room they are probably in." If we don't know this, we can only blow up room by room. ”

Seeing that the situation had reached such a point, the middle-aged man immediately poured beans into a bamboo tube and said, "Master Jun, the surrounding Mongolians came to us a few days ago. They tried to escape, but they had no food. If you drive the animals to walk, you can only walk the big road. They don't dare yet. That's what came to me. There were more than 30 of them in total, and they lived in the backyard......"

After another half hour, the battle was over. It would be good to have information, and everyone quickly hit and eliminated the ten Mongols in the big house, plus those who had been killed and wounded before, the remaining number of Mongols was only seven or eight people, and they were scattered in several rooms. With this number of people, Song Jun can win by breaking directly into the door.

There were no more losses to the owner's family. Zhao Qian took the captives out, and then brought the owners of the compound who hugged and cried for the rest of their lives, "I still have something for you to do." ”

"But you don't know what's going on?" The master said respectfully and fearfully. The Mongols have tyrannized Shaanxi for 50 years, and the people of Shaanxi are afraid of the Mongols in their bones. At this time, seeing the Song army killing the Mongols was like killing chickens, and there was no mercy for the captured Mongols. The slightest disobedience from the Mongols who were tied up was immediately smashed by the Song army with the butts of their guns. After a few times, the Mongols bowed down and were as docile as sheep. So the owner immediately became more docile.

"Do you know where the other Mongols have gone?" Zhao Qian asked.

"Master Jun, where do I dare to ask such a thing." The host replied immediately.

"Don't be afraid, I'm not trying to do anything with you. I just see that the Mongols are actually gathering now, and I think that other Mongols should do the same. It is better to look for the Mongols everywhere in the barren mountains and wilderness, than to know where the Mongols are and annihilate them in one fell swoop. ”

"Master Jun, I'm ...... I don't really know. The host quickly explained.

"Haven't you heard anything? I don't believe it. Don't be afraid, if you are afraid of the Mongols, tell us the truth. If you tell the truth, we will be able to kill more Mongols. The Mongols were killed, where can they still look to you for revenge. If it is said that the dead can take revenge in the mode of ghosts, then the Mongols killed so many people in Shaanxi, and the souls of the people should have torn the Mongols to pieces a long time ago. But until now, the Mongols are still alive and kicking! So, you don't have to be afraid. ”

watched Zhao Qian reason with the master's family with a pleasant face, but the owner of the house still resolutely refused to say anything. The squad leader who was full of joy because of his military exploits couldn't help but be angry, and when he came up, he grabbed the collar of the master's family and shouted: "You man, don't be embarrassed." We don't want to make things difficult for you, but that doesn't mean we'll let you bully. You have so many Mongolians hidden in your house, how can you be considered a fellow traveler in Mongolia? If not, why don't the Mongols come to yours instead of going to other people's homes? If you say it quickly, it can be regarded as making up for it. If you don't say it, the fate of these Mongols will be your fate! ”

was shouted angrily by the squad leader, and the master's face immediately changed, and he lowered his voice and said: "Master Jun, when you go to kill the Mongols, can you not say that I eavesdropped." ”

Seeing the power of the intimidation of the squad leader, Zhao Qian decided to play the role of a 'good person' well, Zhao Qian smiled and said: "Don't worry, we will never tell you." ”

"The Mongols have a point of contact over there, I don't know Mongolian, and I do have letters."