Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 684 Saving the Han People
The Chima Mine, located in the south of Liaoyang Prefecture, is the largest iron mine in Liao State. The household Han people compiled them as artisan households, specializing in mining ore in the Chima Mine and smelting it into pig iron.

In a wilderness to the south of the Chima Mine, there is a camp that stretches for more than ten miles. This is the Artisan House Camp. Hundreds of thousands of miners and their families live here. There are ten Artisan House Camps, surrounded by camps. The fence is guarded by an observation tower and [-] soldiers. Once the craftsmen are caught fleeing, they will be executed on the spot.

The living conditions in the Jianghu camps are very poor. There are garbage everywhere, feces and urine, and the stench is overwhelming. In fact, it is a concentration camp. Hundreds of thousands of people live in ten large camps, surrounded by large farmlands, where the families of the craftsmen are farming. , maintaining an extremely difficult life.

This morning, a huge fleet suddenly appeared on the wide Liaohe River. Holding a huge yellow dragon flag, this is the fleet of the Song Dynasty.

The women and old people who were farming ran to the bank one after another, and more and more people ran to the river. For a while, the river was full of craftsmen and households.

I don't know who shouted, "It's the fleet of the Song Dynasty!"

"It's the fleet of the Song Dynasty!"

The people on the shore suddenly cheered.

Yelulai, the chief general of the Liao army guarding the prisoner-of-war camp, turned pale with fright. There were only 3000 people stationed in Liaoyang Mansion. Once the Song army attacked Liaoyang Mansion, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Regardless of guarding the craftsman's camp, he hurriedly ordered the army to gather and evacuated the craftsman's camp. Ten thousand troops rushed to Liaoyang City, fifty miles away.

Tokyo Road originally had 11 troops, except for 5000 who died at the bottom of the sea and [-] troops guarding artisans. The remaining [-] troops were stationed in various major cities. [-] troops were mainly used to defend against the northward invasion of the Koreans, and the remaining [-] troops were stationed in Liaoyang Mansion, Huanglong Mansion, Zhenhai Mansion, Laiyuan City, Shenzhou, Fuzhou and other places.

In Liaoyang City's Tokyo Leftover Mansion, Xiao Weixin, the privy envoy of the South Court, was writing an urgent letter to Emperor Yelu Hongji at the desk. Twenty tribes were destroyed, and the garrison of Huanglong Mansion had only 3000 people, so it was difficult to rescue them.

On the one hand, Xiao Weixin urgently sent people to notify other Khitan Shengfan tribes to evacuate, on the other hand, he asked the emperor to send troops to reinforce Dongdong Road.

Xiao Wei was very worried in his confidence. After the entire army of [-] was wiped out, he successively wrote letters to the Xi clan and the Bohai clan asking for more troops, but they were all rejected mercilessly. A small army is simply unable to guard the major cities on Tokyo Road. Once Song soldiers go north, how can such a small army defend Liaoyang Mansion?

At this moment, someone outside hurriedly reported: "Speak to the Privy Envoy, something is wrong!"

"What happened?" Xiao Weixin stopped and asked.

"The fleet of the Song Army appeared on the Liaohe River. It is huge in scale. There are at least a few hundred ships, and they are heading towards Liaoyang City!"

"what!"

Xiao Weixin was taken aback. There were only [-] defenders in Liaoyang City, how could it be possible to defend it? He hurriedly ordered: "General Yelulai immediately led the army to retreat to Liaoyang City."

Although no one was guarding the miners, there would be chaos, but at this moment, Xiao Weixin couldn't take care of it any longer, he had to guard the Liaoyang Mansion first, and everything else could be given up.

The messenger promised and walked away quickly.

Xiao Wei was so confident that he handed the letter to his followers and sent it. He immediately climbed to the top of the west city and looked into the distance.

The Liaohe River does not flow directly through Liaoyang City, but a tributary flows past Liaoyang City. The weather is fine, and the Liaohe River can be seen faintly from dozens of miles away, but hundreds of Song Army warships have not been seen, so it is estimated that they have not arrived here yet. .

At this moment, a soldier came to report, "Report to the Privy Envoy that General Yelulai has led the army to Liaoyang City and will arrive soon."

Xiao Weixin breathed a sigh of relief, Yelulai's army arrived, and Liaoyang Mansion could almost be defended.

However, the Song army had no plan to attack Liaoyang Mansion. Hundreds of ships were moored on the shore, and hundreds of thousands of Han people were willing to follow the Song army to leave Liao.

The sea of ​​people on the shore was so dark that you couldn't see the edge at a glance. Hundreds of thousands of people lined up to board the ship with their families. Large ships full of people turned around and headed for the Liaodong Peninsula.

The Liao Kingdom had only 2000 troops stationed on the Liaoyang Peninsula. It was still Zhenhai Prefecture in the northeast, and there were almost no troops stationed in the south. The Song Army captured the southernmost tip of the peninsula and used it as a transit.

It is impossible to transport hundreds of thousands of people at one time, and to maximize the volume, it must be divided into at least two times.

Soon the spies of the Liao Army discovered Song Jun's attempt and rushed back to Liaoyang Mansion to report.

At this time, the Liaoyang city was full of Liao troops, and a large amount of defense materials were transported to the city. Xiao Weixin got the news from the spies that the Song army did not go north to attack the city, but transported a large number of Han people from the mine.

Yelulai said in a low voice: "It's better to lead a surprise army to attack Song's warships."

Xiao Weixin shook his head, "Since the Song army is going north, how can they be unprepared, your army can't sneak attack them, don't act rashly!"

"But all the Han slaves were transported away, and no one is mining anymore!"

Xiao Weixin sighed slightly, "Tokyo is riddled with holes and is extremely weak. The Song army is raging in the north, and the Song army is also coming to the south. At this time, we must be sober. What is important and what is the second most important. What can be put aside for a while, Liaoyang City in Tokyo is the most important, other cities are of secondary importance, and the Han people can be put aside for a while. For the Song army, the Han people may be the most important, but it is definitely not for us. General Yelu must understand this. "

"I understand the humble job, the most important thing is to defend Liaoyang City."

Xiao Weixin nodded, "As long as we defend Liaoyang City, we will be able to explain to the emperor."

It took the Song army three days to transport all 200 households of Han people away on hundreds of large ships. In addition, they also looted 70 million catties of pig iron and [-] catties of crude copper ingots from the warehouse.

Five days later, the first batch of 15 Han people from the Liao Kingdom arrived in Dengzhou by boat. The Song court had already made preparations. Hundreds of thousands of Han people from the Liao Kingdom were temporarily resettled in Dengzhou and Laizhou. Dozens of temporary camps were built, and 30 shi of grain and 20 pieces of cloth were brought in. Xiangguo Han Jiang was solely responsible for resettling the Han people of the Liao Kingdom.

In a pavilion on the sea, Han Jiang looked at the big ship in the distance. Seeing several officials beside him discussing in a low voice, he asked, "What are you talking about?"

An official bowed and said, "We are talking, is it too expensive for the imperial court to spend so much money to accept these hundreds of thousands of Han people?"

Han Jiang shook his head, "It's not their fault that these Han people became Liao people. Although they are Liao people, they were brutally oppressed by Liao people, so they call themselves Han'er and miss their homeland. If we don't save them, who will?" Care about their lives?"

Governor Yang Kai of Dengzhou and Governor Deng Wenyang of Laizhou asked cautiously: "Excuse me Mr. Han, we just set up a temporary camp, so where will they be settled in the end?"

Han Jiang thought for a while and said: "Most of them should go back to Youzhou, and the other part is going to mobilize to the Southern Continent. This is just the court's preliminary idea, but don't worry, we won't stay in Laizhou or Dengzhou. What we have to do is to ensure that Stability during the transitional period will require hard work for the two officials."

"Humble job must try its best to resettle the victims!"

At this time, the first batch of boats began to dock slowly, and the long planks of the boats were put on the revetment, and Han people began to help the elderly to carry them ashore.

"Let's go! Let's go and see."

Han Jiang walked to the people with all the officials.

Many old people fell to their knees on the shore and wept bitterly. They finally returned to their homeland, the land where their parents and ancestors were buried.

Han Jiang stepped forward to comfort these poor old people, and asked soldiers to help them go to register.

The registration place is on the wharf. Hundreds of state and county scholars are responsible for the registration. They are registered on a per-household basis, including previous residence, place of origin, name of head of household, age, occupation, and family composition.

Every registered household was given a wooden sign with the battalion number and account number on it, and then the two hundred households in the first boat gathered, and several officials took them to the camp.

An official shouted loudly to the crowd: "Everyone, please take a look at the sign in your hand. It doesn't matter if you can't read or write. It shows five big tents. That's the Fifth Battalion. Everyone, please follow me!"

Hundreds of householders carried their children and took the elderly to a big camp several miles away. Many people walked while eating. When they disembarked, each person gave out two steamed buns to satisfy everyone's hunger temporarily.

Each big camp is composed of thousands of big tents, and the fifth big camp is the same. When everyone walked into the empty big camp, they couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. The big tents are very wide, smaller than the craftsmen's camp they lived in before. I don't know how many times the tents are better. Thousands of large tents are arranged neatly and orderly, and the ground is very clean and tidy.

"Everyone goes to the big accounts of each family according to the account number on the sign. If you don't know the number, please come here, and we will help you check."

Everyone was impatiently looking for their own tents. Dozens of households were unable to count, so they surrounded a few officials, asking questions all over the place, with anxious faces on their faces. The officials recognized the number on the sign, and then Call the soldiers and let each soldier lead a family to their respective tents.

(End of this chapter)