Golden autumn October, northwest border, Lizhou West Road, Jiangli County.

The sun is rising, on the official roads, on the trails, in the fields, in the fields, on the fields, countless people of the Great Song Dynasty, men, women and children, dragging their families with mouths, carrying carts on their shoulders, driving cattle and sheep, and heading in the direction of Chuzhou.

Along the way, there were constantly horse-drawn carriages from the government to respond, and there were even fierce Song army rangers patrolling around to check and fill in the gaps to ensure the smooth migration.

In the rolling crowd, Song Er's cart pushed grain and his young daughter forward, along with the villagers.

Four years ago, when the Mongol army invaded, he and his daughter escaped by visiting friends and drinking in the city. But most of his parents and neighbors in Langao were slaughtered, leaving only him, his daughter, and his younger brother who served in the army.

Now, the town of Langao has just recovered from the trauma of the war and is about to be displaced again.

These deserving Tatars!

"Second brother, will you come back later?"

Song Wu, who had a sad face on the side, asked. He is also one of the survivors of Langao Town. Lan Gao finally gathered thousands of people, and he was about to disperse again.

"I don't know. If you want to ask, you should ask those officers and soldiers. ”

Song Er shook his head. According to the people, the Tatar soldiers are fierce and vicious, coming and going like the wind, like the demons of hell. God knows if the officers and troops are their opponents.

"General, the Tatars are coming, why are you always on the defensive, and don't go out to fight them?"

Song Wu was bold and asked the Song army officer who was on the side of the road.

"Go out and fight? I want to go too, but the military order is like a mountain, and I can only obey it! ”

Even though it was August, even though it was morning, the armor was covered and the officer's forehead was covered with sweat.

"Can you beat the Tatars, then?"

Song Wu asked loudly again.

"It's not for you to worry about! Let's go, the Tatars will arrive at any time! ”

The officer rode away and did not answer Song Wu's question.

The above military order, all the people outside the city must move to the city, the sooner the better. He was not interested in dealing with Song Wu.

"What are you asking? Now this officer and army don't know how good it is! If it had been before, who would have taken care of us pariahs! ”

Song Er wiped the sweat from his head with his clothes and continued to move forward.

"In the year of Ding Hai, the officials and soldiers let them hide in the city, and many people secretly hid, but what was the result, the family was ruined, and their lives were lost in vain."

"Second brother, what you said is true. Or hide in the city, the government won't leave us alone! ”

Song Wu nodded again and again, and then said with a hippie smile:

"Second brother, it would be nice if your brother was here. It's not good to talk to your own family! ”

"My brother went to Hexi, otherwise, he would really be able to help the villagers. He is now the commander, and he is in charge of thousands of people, and he is majestic! ”

mentioned the younger brother who graduated from Jinling Martial Arts Hall, Song Er was immediately in good spirits, and his face was full of red light.

"Commander, isn't that the same as Brother Yang Daquan? Awesome, awesome! ”

Song Wu felt uncomfortable, but he still had a kind smile on his face.

"Second brother, you've killed all the chickens, and after you get it done, you will share a little with me."

Song Wu pointed to the two old hens that had been slaughtered on Song Er's car, with smiles on his faces.

"Yours are indispensable! Remember to come over and help when the time comes. ”

Song Er said with a bitter face. I don't know, when I get to the city, there is a place to cook.

"Second brother, thank you! But don't be sad, the government has said that you can't be hungry! ”

Song Wu laughed, but it was chic.

The current government is convincing and is not afraid of starvation. Those officers and soldiers are fierce and fierce, and they are by no means good-looking, and they will not let the Mongolian army do evil.

"Listen well, all the people, all move to the city, and the violators will be severely punished!"

The two roads of Lizhou, large and small villages and towns, are full of galloping Great Song cavalry, who are running around, and together with the officials of the government, let the people move.

"Master Jun, when will we come back?"

Many people have asked the same question.

"I can't starve you, I can't freeze you! Come back when it's time to come back! ”

What they heard was the same truth.

There are still people who are reluctant to leave. After three or four years of Chengping's life, he suddenly said that he was going to fight, and the walls were clear, isn't this a joke.

As a result, under a violent beating, his nose was blue and his face was swollen, and he left obediently.

On the city wall of Chuzhou, watching countless people enter the city, Lu Wende frowned and looked ugly.

The Tatar army had not yet arrived, and the territory was already panicked.

It seems that not fighting a big battle for three or four years is also a drain on morale.

"General, will the Tatar army really come?"

Guo Zhengsun, the pacification envoy of Lizhou West Road, asked suspiciously.

The walls are clear, making chickens and dogs jump, and the people are complaining. I don't know, will the Mongolian army come?

Zhao Hong came to Xingyuan Mansion, and only Cui He and Cao Youwen knew about these feudal officials, and they kept it secret from the outside world. He didn't know that this was Zhao Hong's will, and he didn't know that Zhao Hong planned it.

"Guo Xianggong, I'd rather believe it than believe it. Once the Tatar army attacked, the cavalry came and went like the wind, and the consequences were unimaginable. ”

Lu Wende was suspicious, but his face was calm.

The emperor himself is in charge, it should not be groundless. The emperor's prediction was still very accurate.

"General, I heard that Xingyuan Mansion is also strong, and all the people have moved into the city. In this way, there were 80,000 households and 300,000 soldiers and civilians on the two roads in Lizhou, but the city was crowded. The war is together, the people suffer, and the mountains and rivers are turbulent! ”

Guo Zhengsun's words carried a lot of helplessness.

In the heyday of the two roads in Lizhou, there were nearly 370,000 households, but after years of war between the Song and Jin dynasties, as well as the burning and looting of the Mongolian army in the year of Dinghai, there were only about 100,000 households left in the two roads of Lizhou, with a population of about 300,000. Lizhou is a border area on the two roads, and it has not been able to relocate the population, and it has become a veritable military town.

With a population of more than 300,000 on the two roads of Lizhou, plus an army of 70,000 or 80,000, only a dozen or so big cities can be installed, which shows the lack of population in Shukou.

"Guo Xianggong, the people enter the city, the good and the bad are mixed, and please issue a military order and implement a curfew to avoid riots in the city. From the day of entering the city, all the people were strictly forbidden to go out of the city, and those who dared to disobey the government and military orders were to be engaged in the law! ”

Lu Wende passed the military order, and Guo Zhengsun immediately received the order. In wartime, the military orders are the standard, and the government orders are only auxiliary.

Lu Wende looked in the direction of the east, and he didn't know what the situation was like on the side of Xingyuan Mansion.

Lu Wende was pondering, and the sergeant hurriedly went up to the city wall and stepped forward to salute with fists.

"General, the Tatar rangers have entered the Dasan Pass to spy and have reached the boundary of Fengzhou!"

Lu Wende was shocked and said loudly:

"Strictly order the state armies to speed up the clearing of the fortified walls! Revisit! ”

It seems that this long-awaited vicious battle may really come.

Outside the city of Xingyuanfu, on the side of the official road and next to the post station, watching the people of Hanzhong drag their families and carry their families, push carts to drive cattle, and enter Xingyuanfu City in an orderly manner.

The wheat sprouts in the fields are green, just exposed to the ground, if the Mongol army comes, ten thousand hooves ravage, next year's harvest, I am afraid it will be gone.

The people live on food. That's a harvest of more than 3 million acres! Without food, the people will probably starve, make trouble, and the morale of the army will be turbulent.

"Chen Xianggong, just the wind and grass are strong and clear, this is a bit too much, right?"

Zhao Yanna, the transport envoy, coughed softly and said.

"Cup-bow snake shadow?"

Chen Longzhi shook his head and gestured to Xingyuan Mansion City in the distance.

"Your Majesty's holy decree, who dares to make a mistake? The Tatar army comes and goes like the wind, hundreds of miles in the morning and evening, and it is not to be hasty. Besides, if the Tatar army does not come, the people will go back to their homes, and it is better to trouble than to lose their lives. ”

The emperor is in the city of Xingyuan Mansion, and the emperor personally sits in the town and asks in person, do you want to resist the decree?

"What Chen Xianggong said is extremely true."

Zhao Yanna nodded, and then pointed to the mountains and forests in the north and south.

"However, the villagers in the mountains are stubborn and slippery. The government fortified the walls and cleared the wilderness, let them enter the city, and many people hid. If this is caught by the Tatar army, it will be as the minister said, and his life will be lost in vain! ”

The Hanzhong Plain is separated by the Daba Mountains in the south and the Qinling Mountains in the north. The south of the Han River is fine, isolated by the Han River, the mountains and forests are steep, and you may be able to save your life.

In the Qinling Mountains north of the Han River, if the Mongol army goes south, it will bear the brunt, and those mountain people who are unwilling to enter the city can escape the pursuit of the Mongol army?

"There is no way to do it. Let them go! ”

Chen Longzhi's face was cloudy, and his heart was very helpless.

There are five or six cities in Hanzhong, all of which are big cities, and it is barely possible to accommodate 120,000 people. The strong wall clears the wilderness, and it can save the vast majority of the people, which can be regarded as a complete merit.

As for the mountain people who have escaped, you can't play hide and seek with them in the mountains.

"Chen Xianggong, I heard that Your Majesty appointed you as the pacification envoy of Shaanxi, but is there such a thing?"

Gao Guoxu, the magistrate of Chenggu County, asked with a smile on his face.

"Your Majesty is indeed the first to speak. However, Your Majesty is probably trying to inspire people, so you don't have to take it seriously. It remains to be seen whether the Tatar army will go south. ”

Although the emperor's blood was boiling when he was appointed, after coming down, Chen Longzhi also felt a little ridiculous. The Mongol army has not yet come, and is already thinking about Shaanxi, whether it is the emperor or himself, they are too optimistic.

"It's better not to come! Otherwise, next year will not be easy. ”

Gao Guoxu shook his head and said.

"Gao Xianggong, you don't have to worry about it. Now that the Great Song Dynasty uses overseas food for several roads, can it still make the people of Hanzhong hungry? Your Majesty is far-sighted, no matter how big or small, can't he see it? ”

Zhao Yanna smiled slightly, calm and composed.

The imperial court operated overseas, and there were many imports of grain, so how could Hanzhong lack food and clothing.

"That being said, it would be nice to be able to keep the enemy out of the country!"

Chen Longzhi's heart was a little calmer, and he said a word of advice to Gao Guoxu.

"Gao Xianggong, you and Zhao Xianggong continue to maintain order outside the city, and I will go to the eastern front of Yangzhou to have a look."

The emperor summoned border generals and ministers in Xingyuan Mansion City, and dispatched troops, which was menacing. He just wondered, would the Mongol army really go south to borrow the Song realm?

The emperor, is it really an uncertain prophet?