The Whole River Is Red and the City Is Gone

In the last years of Dayong's reign, snow disasters invaded Beidi and invaded the south. Suiyang is alone in the north, the city is small and the soldiers are weak, and the court is abandoned like a pair of worn-out shoes. Guarding general Lu Zheng used 20,000 exhausted soldiers to fight 100,000 cavalry, refusing to surrender or retreat. He used his flesh and blood to give Jiangnan a breathing space for forty days. There was an enemy general Batu outside the city who was holding a sword but refused to kill him. He surrounded the city but did not massacre him. He looked at the city wall and sighed. In the city, women in white lined up to die, but no one left their names. After the city was destroyed, no corpses remained, but the weeds grew thicker under the walls than elsewhere. Soldiers are unkind and treat the common people as rotten dogs; rotten dogs are silent and trade dead bones for spring.