In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 279 Why were the Song people so cruel?
The Tubo people didn't even have time to close the city gate. They were still dragging the dead and wounded on the ground, and they could only feel darkness in front of them.

With a rumble, a Xixia man and his horse crashed into the gate.

Then several Xixia people jumped off their horses and pushed the door inside.

Whoosh whoosh, arrows flew wildly on the scene, and people on both sides fell to the ground.

The Tubo people have not fought many wars in the past few years. They are not well prepared for war and their armor is rudimentary. They are no match for the Xixia people.

After only holding on for less than a moment, the city gate was pushed open with a bang.

The Tibetans at the city gate fled in all directions. Shader led his men into the city, and then immediately divided his troops into three groups, two groups went up to the walls on both sides, and the other group guarded the door.

Although Zhao Agechang had ten thousand households, he herded cattle and sheep in all directions, and he did not expect that the Song army would attack, let alone that his sworn brother Meng Ying would kill him. There was no preparation for war in the city, and there was no time to gather troops and horses.

When they barely organized thousands of riders on the other side of the city, the horseshoes outside the city shook the world, and the four thousand fine riders from Xixia first appeared outside the city gate.

The mighty cavalry quickly started galloping around the city. Although Meng Gong had already told them that the craftsmen would not be killed and the doctors would not be killed, but at this moment the Xixia people had completely forgotten these words, and they could not tell who was the craftsman and who was the doctor.

They need to vent their hatred for the annihilation of their country, and they want to take revenge on the Tubo people for all the anger of their annihilation.

After a while, Shader came down from the city gate covered in blood. The guards around him didn't dare to look at his face.

He looked like a madman now, with a ferocious look on his face.

Seeing the Xixia people chasing the Tubo people on the street, his mind replayed the scene of Xixia cities being destroyed and the Mongolian army massacred them crazily.

"Kill." Shader got on his horse and gritted his teeth: "Kill the Song people hard before they come in."

His subordinates mounted their horses in response and followed closely behind.

"Kill." Shader picked up his knife and mounted his horse, and rushed out.

When I turned a corner, I saw several Tibetans running forward, crying.

He galloped away, his horse flashed with his sword, and with a splash, a human head flew up.

Another Tibetan fell to the ground.

He pulled his horse and stepped on the Tibetan people and passed by. Looking at a young Tibetan man running in front of him, he thought that if the Tibetan people surrendered to Mongolia, this man would become a Mongolian army in the future. He could not help but raise an extremely cruel smile at the corner of his mouth. When his horse caught up with the man, he bent down sharply and stabbed the man in the leg.

Ah, the man screamed, and half of his leg was cut off with a knife. He fell to the ground on the spot, holding the broken leg and screaming loudly.

Click, click, click, Shader sat on the horse and looked around him a few times. Seeing the man dying of pain on the spot, his expression became slightly happy.

Do you want to surrender to Mongolia?Then go die.

"Kill." Shader raised his long knife and shouted like a cry: "Revenge."

"Revenge!" The city was soon filled with the roars of Xixia people, and many people were crying and slashing wildly.

The poor Tubo people were beheaded inexplicably, and some people couldn't even think of when their own people had offended the Xixia people.

Blood and flames soon filled the entire city, and screams and fear shook the world.

About two-quarters of an hour later, the Song Army cavalry also entered the city.

Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, the Song Army has never done this kind of thing. For some reason, many sergeants felt very happy afterwards.

On the 29th, Diezhou City was destroyed.

The Xixia army rushed into the city and slaughtered them wildly, while the Song army used most of its cavalry to suppress the herd guards, while a small number of cavalry searched for craftsmen and doctors in the city.

The entire war lasted for three days and two nights. In order to rob the resources, the Song army sent out cavalry everywhere.

In the past few years, Meng Ying came here from time to time to trade, and he had already found out clearly where the herdsmen were guarding around Diezhou.

After the war, the Song army surrendered 3000 people and obtained 2 horses, more than 8000 cattle, more than 2 yaks, more than 20 camels, and more than [-] sheep.

There are more than 1 slave herdsmen in Zhao Changge, about 8 to 2 people, and finally about [-] households (nearly [-] people) are far away from Diezhou. They fled to the south of Tubo with some horses. They fled from the Ruoergai grassland, and they didn't dare to take the cattle, sheep, etc. because they were walking too slowly, so they were all left to the Song army.

Over there is the territory of the Axi tribe, which is also the famous Wanhu tribe in Tubo.

On the [-]th, Meng Gong selected craftsmen and doctors among them, and sent a thousand cavalry to deliver a group of cattle, horses and sheep back to Sichuan first, and cut down the rest.

The Song people were very good at beheading people. They first took these people to dig a pit outside the city. After digging, they chopped them directly at the edge of the pit.

At the beginning of the first month of the fourth year of Baoqing, Meng Gong left [-] infantry troops to guard Diecheng, and the rest of his troops set off one after another. He also brought [-] sheep and [-] camels with him.

The left-behind infantry camp and a small number of Xixia herdsmen were in Diezhou. While raising yaks, they also slaughtered some of the yaks. The meat was made into dried meat, which was stored first, and then mixed with cowhide, tendons, horns and other items, and would be brought back to Sichuan in the future.

At this time, his troops were less than [-], only about [-], missing [-] infantry and [-] cavalry.

At this time, the news that the Song people suddenly invaded Tubo and massacred almost the entire Diezhou was scattered in all directions of Tubo from the Ruoergai grassland.

When the news reached Sakya Monastery thousands of miles away, it was already mid-January of the fourth year of Baoqing.

The Song army chose to launch a large-scale attack in winter, which was very difficult for Tibet, which had many cattle, sheep and horses.

Herdsmen on the grasslands usually prepare winter forage in spring and autumn, because it is difficult to have fresh forage in winter.Therefore, grassland peoples are easily reluctant to migrate in winter.

You brought too much stuff with you when you moved, and you couldn't even take away a lot of fodder.

The Song people selected people to attack at this time. They could carry food easily and store it for a longer period of time. However, it was difficult for the Tubo tribes to move. If they did not move, even the forage they had hoarded would be taken away by the Song people.

But it was still a trivial matter for the Song people to attack Tubo, after all, they had done it before.

The key point is that the Song people, as a country of etiquette, suddenly carried out mass murders, which really made the Tubo tribes unable to believe it.

Many Zhao Agechang people who escaped said that they were more cruel than the Mongols.
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Sakya Monastery is located near the later Lhasa, more than 4000 miles away from Diezhou City.

Ruogaidema, the chief of the Axi tribe who was the first to receive the news, saw the herdsmen who had escaped from the Zhaoagechang tribe when it was dark on the [-]th.

He immediately selected fifty elite cavalry, one person and three horses, and rushed to various parts of Tubo.

The various tribes passed by in the middle were replaced with new strong horses.

Run at least [-] miles a day.

Within ten days, the news reached Sakya Monastery.

Gong Gyaltsen, the spiritual leader of Tibet and the director of Sakya Monastery, also couldn't believe that the Song people could do this.

He repeatedly confirmed whether it was the Han army from the Mongolian army that had entered?How could the people of Song Dynasty do this?
Why were the Song people so cruel?I really don’t believe it.

The messenger said that it was indeed Song Jun who had been making deals with Zhao Agechang. The deal had been going well for two or three years, but this time he suddenly turned against him.

He rushes into the city and kills everyone he sees, without even telling the reason.

After the Song people broke through the city, they captured tens of thousands of herdsmen. They divided them into groups of about a thousand people and forced the herdsmen to dig outside the city to resist. After digging, they killed them.Some herdsmen were hiding in the distance, lying on the ground, watching the Song people kill each other from morning to dusk.

After hearing these words, the huge Sakya Temple suddenly became quiet, and the atmosphere became a little strange.

After a few breaths, click click click, not far behind Gyaltsen, a big Buddha was beating the wooden fish rhythmically, with a look of compassion on his face.

There were several masters around, all looking at Gong Gyaltsen in horror.

The Song people invaded on a large scale and their methods were extremely cruel. Only Gongjianzan could unite the tribes to fight against the enemy.

Gong Gyaltsen was only in his early forties and in his prime.

After listening to what the messenger said, Gyaltsen frowned.

Ruogai Grassland is relatively close to Diezhou City. It is the birthplace of historical Hequ horses. The Baihe Ranch over there is even more famous. It raises the strongest yaks and the best Hequ horses on the grassland. It is the favorite place of herdsmen. place.

During the Warring States Period, the Qin State traded the Hequ horses from the Qiang people, and they were invincible in the world.

If nothing unexpected happens, the Song army may have defeated the Axi tribe on the way to deliver the letter, occupied Ruogai grassland and Baihe pasture, and a large number of horses, cattle and sheep fell into the hands of the Song army.

The tribe is suffering from disaster, and I must step forward.

Gong Gyaltsen immediately decided to negotiate with the Song people in person and ask them what they meant.Why attack us well?

He believed that the people of Song Dynasty were suddenly so cruel, and they must have intentions.

At the same time, the Gyaltsen Association sent people to notify various ministries, and would pass by various ministries along the way to mobilize the whole country and recruit troops.

Calculating the distance, he planned to invite all the tribes to fight the Song army near Zhaling Lake.

"You want to fight the Song army?" Gashir, the leader of the local Gar clan, looked incredulous.

Tubo fought several battles with the Northern Song Dynasty. The most famous one was the Battle of Sandu Valley, and of course they lost.

Now Tubo is not as good as it was back then. They are all scattered tribes. Without a unified dynasty, cohesion is quite weak. The key is that no one is qualified to command so many noble soldiers and horses.

"If we don't unite, we will either move westward to avoid the Song army, or we will be defeated one by one and then massacred." Gong Gyaltsen said solemnly: "The Song army came from a long way, and the number of troops must not be large. No matter what they want to do, as long as we unite and defeat them first, then it will be easy to say anything at the negotiation table."

Gong Jianzan, as a wise man, understands quite well that no matter what the purpose of the Song people is, only by defeating the Song people on the battlefield can they gain the initiative.

Gashir sighed, fearing that the tribes would not understand this truth.

But in fact, the various tribes in Tubo are very sensible. They know whoever has the strongest sword will listen to him, and they also know that unity is strength.

Before Gyaltsen arrived at Jaling Lake, all tribes in Tubo gathered one after another. Except for the farthest tribes such as the Hou family and Wei family, no troops were sent out. The other tribes who had troops sent out troops, those who had horses sent out horses, and those who had sheep sent out sheep. , it can be said that the whole country fights against the enemy.

In the history of Tubo, there were twelve large states and forty small states. Usually, a large state refers to nobles with more than [-] slave households, and a small state refers to less than [-] households.

By the Yuan Dynasty, there were 13 households in Tubo, basically all from these twelve major states.

There were more than 30 tribes from various states participating in the war, with a total of 6000 troops and 12 horses. Hundreds of thousands of sheep came with the army, as well as thousands of people herding sheep. The army is just over 20, and it is said to be [-].

During the Tubo War, one soldier was sent from about three households. Originally, more troops could be dispatched, but some large and small states were unwilling to send troops. In addition, their territory was vast but sparsely populated. These tribes came from all directions and only concentrated their troops. , it took nearly two months to complete the gathering.

After all the tribes came to Zhaling Lake, they all recommended Caibage, the leader of the Caiba faction, the largest tribe in Tubo at that time, as the commander of the whole army, and Gashir and Ruogaidema as the deputy commanders.

(End of this chapter)