While at the city tower, Pu Zezhi mentioned to Zhu Xusun why Li Xia appeared in Chengdu, so that he did not need to investigate.
But Zhu Xusun still said: "You disobeyed the instructions and went to the enemy's territory privately. After the war, give me an official letter of apology."
Before he sent troops with Pu Zezhi, he had recruited soldiers and horses from Tongchuan Prefecture to supplement the defense of Luzhou Divine Arm City. The people of Qingfu County should be in Luzhou.
Moreover, he was directly in charge of Tongchuanfu Road, so he really couldn't turn a blind eye and needed at least an explanation.
"Yes." Li Xia responded.
Although Zhu Xusun had a straight face, he actually had no prejudice against Li Xia.
In the past two years, Wu Liang Hetai was beheaded one after another in Shu. Atahu, two marshals of the Mongolian army, and Li Xia were all involved, and Zhu Susun also took a lot of credit.
After the business was settled, the two began to talk about the next errand.
"I don't know how many people there are in western Sichuan. The household registration in Chengdu Prefecture was lost during the war." Zhu Sun said, "But I have a rough estimate."
Li Xia was even more unclear about this matter and said, "Zhu Fu, please tell me."
Zhu Xusun said: "Three years before Duanping, there were 2.59 million registered households in Sichuan, about 13 million people. Among them, Chengdu Fulu in western Sichuan accounted for nearly half of Sichuan's population, more than 110 households.
There are six to seven million people coming."
Li Xia looked around and saw that the city was in ruins and deserted. How could it look like a prosperous city?
Zhu Xusun also turned his head to look and slowly stopped.
He suddenly said: "I am from Chengdu."
Li Xia also stopped, wondering why he suddenly said this.
Zhu Xusun was not just chatting. After saying this, his tone became serious.
"On October 24, the third year of Duanping, Kuo Duan led the Mongolian army to conquer Chengdu. He wrote the word 'fire to kill' and ordered the massacre of the city. They gathered fifty people in the city into one group, stabbed them with knives, and piled up corpses.
A mountain... At that time, I was under the mountain of corpses."
Li Xia was a little surprised and said: "Zhu Fufu, you..."
Zhu Xusun waved his hand, pointed in one direction in the city, and said: "There is an old man holding me over there. At night, the Mongolian army began to search for the undead in the mountain of corpses, and there was another killing spree.
The old man's blood was dripping and kept pouring into my mouth. Because of his protection, I was lucky enough to survive and escaped into the woods outside the city in the middle of the night. After that, the prefect He informed Chengdu Prefecture to record 1.4 million skeletons in the city, not including those outside the city.
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At this point, Li Xia heard the trembling and crying in Zhu Susun's voice.
This was a senior official in his forties, and the only thing that could make him lose his composure was such a horrific massacre.
Because he was in front of his subordinates, Zhu Susun still forced himself to remain calm, his eyes were red, and he tried his best not to cry.
He turned his back, looked at Chengdu City, and calmed down.
After a long time, he said: "Three years after Duanping, the Mongolian army invaded Chengdu Fulu several times. Twenty years...wars, massacres, and plunders, seven million people in western Sichuan...not even one in ten can be saved.
But there are only a few hundred thousand people left, right? Maybe."
Li Xia said: "I think so."
"Ten do not save one" is just four simple words, but millions of living people were killed into bones.
Zhu Xusun said: "When Commander Yu was here, more than 200,000 people from western Sichuan moved to Yunding, Sangui, Ziyun, Jiuding and other mountain cities. In recent years, Wang Dechen has robbed hundreds of thousands of people into Hanzhong and Shaanxi.
People, I'm afraid only half of them are left.
Calculating this, we can gather at most more than 100,000 people in a short period of time."
Li Xia said: "That will require more than three hundred large ships."
Zhu Xusun said: "I will send people to look for ships."
"I'm also worried that the people in western Sichuan are unwilling to leave their homeland with me."
"You don't have to worry about this." Zhu Xusun waved his hand and said: "Sichuan has been hit by war for twenty years, and the people have no place to live. When they hear the horses neighing, they run and hide, and they are miserable. Commander Pu can send troops to lead them.
Migration is also something they have been looking forward to for a long time."
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It has to be said that Pu Zezhi, Zhu Xusun's official position was there, the Sichuan pacification system envoy and the Tongchuan Road pacification envoy were doing things, unlike Li Xia, a small magistrate of the county, who acted in a big way.
But this is certainly not an easy task, and they don't even know how much time they have to spend so much time.
I just hope that Liu Zheng can block Niu Lin and at least delay Chengdu a little longer...
Suizhou, Jiantandu.
Jiantan Ferry is located in the east of Suining City in later generations, at the Fujiang Ferry in Renlichang.
Suizhou is also called "Suining" today. It was named after the Eastern Jin Dynasty general Huan Wen pacified the Shu queen, which means "quelling the war and achieving peace."
This place is connected to Chengdu to the west, Chongqing to the east, and is located on the banks of the Fujiang River.
Niulin led more than 10,000 Mongolian troops to attack Chongqing. They had already arrived at Kuimen, but they heard that Pu Zezhi was attacking Chengdu, so he had to turn around and come back, hoping to join forces with Atahu and attack Pu Zezhi from a flank.
He had to cross the Fujiang River again, and to cross the Fujiang River, he could only take the Jiantan Crossing.
Liu Zheng stayed here.
On the other hand, when Yu Jie took office as Shu, he moved the administrative seat of Suizhou to the mountain city "Pengxi Village" northeast of the Fujiang River. Therefore, the city of Suizhou had long been in decline and there were no common people in the city.
But in this case, Suizhou City would not be able to support Liu Zheng.
Therefore, Pu Zezhi ordered Duan Yuanjian, the commander of the capital, to lead 5,000 troops to guard Lingquan Mountain, becoming the horns of each other with Liu Zheng.
Lingquan Mountain is located on the east bank of the Fujiang River. There are several peaks standing on the wall. There are springs dripping from the rocks and flowing continuously, so it is named. There is a temple on the mountain named "Zishengyuan", which was renamed "Lingquan Temple" in later generations.
All in all, in this battle, Niulin had to face Liu Zheng's 10,000 troops head-on, and Duan Yuanjian's condescending attack from the side on Lingquan Mountain.
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Part of Liu Zheng's 10,000 troops were his old soldiers from Jinghu, and the other part were transferred to him by Pu Zezhi from various places. Among them was Suizhou Wu Xin's army.
Wu Xin's army was about to attack Nie Zhongyou, but saw more and more Mongolian troops coming on horseback.
"The Mongolian army is coming!" someone shouted.
Nie Zhongyou held the knife and raised his eyes to look at Liu Zheng's flag order, and saw that it was ordering Wu Xin's army to meet the Mongolian army first.
Nie Zhongyou saw that the general had led his troops forward, so he shouted: "Kill the captives!"
"Kill the prisoners!"
Nie Zhongyou was quite confident in this battle.
He had long heard of Liu Zheng's name. After the fall of the Jin Dynasty, Liu Zheng returned to the Song Dynasty and made many extraordinary achievements under the command of the famous general Meng Gong.
When Nie Zhongyou returned from the north, he often heard people compare Li Xia with Liu Zheng, and most of the comments were "although inferior to Liu Wuzhong".
This is also true. Li Xia just brought back a dozen people with information. Naturally, he was not as good as Liu Zheng who captured a city with twelve people.
Nie Zhongyu thought that in this battle, Liu Zheng should show his talents and lead himself to defeat the Mongolian army...
A battle raged from early morning to afternoon.
Nie Zhongyou was covered in blood, and the hand holding the knife was shaking violently.
He looked back and secretly thought that it was time for Liu Zheng to bring his troops forward.
But the flag never moved...
Liu Zheng frowned and looked at the battlefield, hesitant.
The results of Wu Xin's army were worse than he expected. If he added more troops at this time, he would probably lose a lot.
However, there is no room for hesitation on the battlefield.
During this short period of hesitation, the Song army's front line was already in chaos.
Like a string, stretched to the tightest point, before the arrow can be released, the bowstring suddenly broke with a "boom"...
"ah!"
Amid the screams, Nie Zhongyou turned around and saw that his flank was suddenly defeated.
"Don't run away! Kill the prisoners!"
He was still unwilling to give in and drank loudly.
However, the collapse was so complete that no one could save it.
Liu Zheng's command flag has been changed to withdraw troops, and he first led the troops and horses he brought from Jinghu to withdraw to the ferry to cross the river.
The soldiers around Nie Zhongyou also turned around and fled.
The Meng cavalry charged quickly, constantly killing these Song soldiers with their scimitars.
Without the command of the world-famous general Nie Zhongyou expected, the defeat was extremely unexpected.
"Kill the prisoners!"
"Brother, run away!" Lin Zi hugged Nie Zhongyou and shouted: "We are defeated, already defeated! Let's go!"
"Damn it! Damn it!" Nie Zhongyou felt furious and filled with hatred.
However, the army was so defeated that he had no choice but to flee with the defeated army.
While running away, Nie Zhongyou suddenly became excited.
"Lin Zi, we can't escape with Liu Zheng anymore. Hurry, gather the remaining troops and go to Chengdu immediately to find Pu Shuai..."