(Sacrificing Yashan)
Lu XiufuThe last little emperor of the Southern Song DynastyZhao BingStanding on the cliff, at the bottom of the cliff, is the rough sea.
He turned his head to look behind him, the mountains and rivers were thousands of miles away, the sun was setting, and the sunset was infinitely beautiful.
On this hot land, there used to be civil servants who were full of financial resources. For the development of the dynasty, they took the pen as the front, and worked hard and .
There are also brave and fearless generals, on the battlefield, walking with swords, fighting bandits and killing the enemy, defending the home and the country.
has a more wise master, a benevolent king, leading the people of the Song Dynasty to go hand in hand.
The flower of prosperous culture once bloomed here, the people lived in peace, and the people lived happily. The best era was born here.
but it's all over now.
The empire is destroyed and its glory is gone.
The Mongolian iron cavalry descended southward, across the four fields. The Southern Song Dynasty was weak and unable to withstand it. First, it surrendered to the city, then fled to the sea, and finally was forced to this cliff and mountain, and there was no way to retreat.
Lu Xiufu was infinitely sad, but he no longer hesitated, and jumped into the sea with the little queen on his back.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians were thrown into the sea one after another, and there was no Southern Song Dynasty in the world.
——Inscription
(Emperor Zhao Bing at the end of the Song Dynasty)
There is a sea area along the coast of Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province today.
Along the coast, there are high cliffs. If you climb on the cliffs, the sea and sky will be the same color, and the blue waves will be unobstructed.
During the Southern Song Dynasty, more than 700 years ago, there was a vigorous battle here. This battle not only completely destroyed the Song Dynasty that lasted for 300 years, but also completely changed the pattern of Chinese history. In this war, we have to talk about one person first.
This person is the last emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Bing.
At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, there were three emperors. Although they were called emperors, they were actually more like and .
When the Song Dynasty was prosperous, being an emperor was a beautiful and luxurious job, but when the dynasty declined, being an emperor became a high-risk occupation.
Emperor Gong Zhao 㬎 was captured by the Mongolian in Lin'an, and the whole country surrendered.
The remnant minister of the Southern Song Dynasty fled to the south of the Yangtze River, and Liduanzong Zhao was became the emperor. Zhao did not work for long, and accidentally fell into the water. When he was rescued, he was shocked and scared.
Zhao is also dead.
Although the Southern Song Dynasty at this time had been driven to the sea by the Mongolian army, there were still many civil servants and generals who followed, and many loyal and daring soldiers were willing to advance and retreat together. Pushed to a dead end, but there seems to be a silver lining.
Since there is a chance of life, the court cannot live without an emperor for a day.
As the only remaining bloodline of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Bing naturally became the new emperor.
that year, he was only seven years old.
Of course, people can't hope that a seven-year-old child will be able to govern martial arts as soon as he ascends the throne, turn the tide, turn the tide, and help the building fall. This is unrealistic.
Employed Zhao Bing as the emperor, but only regarded him as the mascot of the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty, making it seem that the Southern Song Dynasty was still like that.
If you want to save this dying dynasty, you have to rely on yourself.
Zhao Bing had just ascended the throne with his front feet, and the Mongolian army on his hind feet was chasing after him. There was no way, when the prime minister Lu Xiufu and Tai Fu Zhang Shijie had to continue to flee with the little emperor, and in a panic, they ran to Yashan near Jiangmen City.
Here, civil and military officials settled down for a while, established a new small court in the Southern Song Dynasty, and planned to continue to fight against , Mongolian and Yuan .
But the settled ministers soon heard the bad news that Wen Tianxiang, a general of the Southern Song Dynasty who fought against the Mongolian army in the Jiangxi area, was captured.
This is undoubtedly bad news for everyone. Brother Wen is so fierce that the Mongolians have cleaned up. Is there any hope for us remnants of defeated soldiers?
Soon, the Mongols gathered their troops, pulled up the cliff in a mighty manner, and formed a posture of encircling the cliff on three sides.
is said to be surrounded by three sides, but it is actually surrounded by death.
Because the cliff is a mountain top, there are roads on three sides and the sea on one side.
The Mongolian army surrounded the three sides of the road, which is equivalent to coming directly to the urn to catch the turtle.
Prime Minister Lu Xiufu is a civil servant. He is very good at running the country and making peace, but it is not his ability to lead troops and fight, so the task of fighting the enemy army is handed over to the master Zhang Shijie.
Lu Xiufu (left) Zhang Wenjie (right)
But what we need to know is that the position of Taifu is also a civilian job, equivalent to a special royal teacher, who specializes in teaching the prince to read and understand, and has nothing to do with leading soldiers to fight.
But there is no way, the Southern Song government turned over and transferred it over, and there are only two people left, who can't you go?
Faced with enormous pressure, Zhang Shijie began to think about ways to defeat the enemy day and night. Some advisors suggested that he should set up camp on the cliffs to find a breakthrough for the weak Mongolian army.
This opinion is very pertinent, because the government of the Southern Song Dynasty at this time can be said to be called every day should not be, called the ground is not working, other than breaking out from the ground, it seems that there is no other choice, can't jump into the sea?
But Zhang Shijie quickly rejected this opinion. He believed that if the military camp was built on land, some soldiers who were afraid of fighting would escape secretly, so he not only did not set up camp on land, but also put the original palaces and houses on land. All buildings were burnt down.
The fire was soaring into the sky, and the cliffs and mountains at night were illuminated like daytime.
Being unable to stay on land, Zhang Shijie decided to move the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty to the sea.
Thousands of Song Jun's ships were firmly connected by iron cables and fixed on the sea, forming a man-made "land on the sea".
Seeing this scene, is it a bit familiar?
Yes, that's right. The sight of the iron chain connecting the boats this time also appeared on the of the battle of Chibi during the Three Kingdoms period. The history of
has proved a truth countless times. Whoever connects the battleship is killing it.
A warship is a warship. The purpose of making warships is to take advantage of the small size, fast movement and flexible combat characteristics of warships, and connecting these warships together is definitely not a smart way. Because this is equivalent to turning the parallel circuit into an series circuit .
(tie in a boat)
Maybe you don't know what series and parallel are, then I can tell you in a simpler way.
A warship fighting alone will die. As for the connected warships, as long as one accident occurs, the whole nest will be finished.
When Zhou Lang broke Cao Cao, the method he used was to use the boat loaded with thatch and inflammables, and rushed straight to Cao Cao's giant iron cable ship.
The ready-made strategies and play styles are placed there, and you don't need to use them for nothing.
So the Mongols did the same, and they lined up a few boats and rushed towards the Southern Song fleet.
But the Mongolians did not expect that time has changed, the sea is changing, the society is progressing, and the times are developing. Of course, the big ships of the Southern Song Dynasty will not wait for you to collide and burn. The soldiers pre-painted thick silt on the hull, so that although the Mongolian boat could hit the convoy, the fire could not spread because of the silt.
The fire plan failed, and the Mongols made another plan. The Mongolian warships were all launched and surrounded by a circle, just trapping the Southern Song Dynasty fleet in the circle.
Blockade and isolation, I will trap you at sea, without water and food, I will see what you will do.
This time the Southern Song Dynasty has nothing to do. The so-called soldiers come to block, and water comes to cover the soil. You have policies and I have countermeasures, but you starve me, cut me off water, and don't give me food. Who can stand it?
Seeing that the fighting spirit of the Song army was getting lower and lower, the Mongolian army decided to launch a general attack. When
hits the Southern Song Dynasty at this time, it is really the same as kitchen knife cutting cabbage , which is easy.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Southern Song Dynasty fled all the way to the south, going through the wind and rain, fearful, and now they can't even eat hot soup or hot rice. How could such a team have the fighting power to resist the attack of the Mongolian army?
If this is just an objective problem of the Southern Song army, then the real reason for the failure of the Southern Song army is that the soldiers lost one of the most important things. The name of this thing
is hope.
Thousands of miles of fertile soil, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, lost to the enemy's hands, hopeless to flee south, trapped in cliffs and mountains, want to make a desperate fight.
Perhaps these Southern Song soldiers knew their fate from the moment they embarked on this road of escape.
The Southern Song Dynasty can no longer be saved, and only its fate awaits its demise.
It is not so much to say that the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty in the south is to restore the glory of the empire, it is better to say that this is just the self-comfort of these patriotic loyal ministers and soldiers.
They still have unrealistic fantasies, believing that as long as the breath survives, there is still hope for the Southern Song Dynasty.
But even this little hope, the Mongolian army will not give them any more.
In 1279 AD, on March 19, the vigorous Cliff Mountain Sea Battle ended with the Mongolian army's victory across the board.
(The Battle of the Cliffs and Mountains)
Prime Minister Lu Xiufu threw himself into the sea with Emperor Zhao Bing on his back, and 100,000 soldiers and civilians jumped into the sea one after another, which led to the scene at the beginning of the article.
The Southern Song Dynasty has finally perished, and the series of Emperors of the Two Song Dynasties has come to an end, but as the author, I am still a little reluctant to part with it.
To sum up, I don't have a good impression of the emperors of the two Song Dynasties. From the founding of Zhao Kuangyin to Zhao Bing throwing into the sea, in 320 years, a total of 19 emperors were born. With one exception there was no particularly capable emperor.
Taizu has great powers, but he does not think about future generations.
Renzong is a good man, but he is only the master of success.
Huizong is having fun, Duzong is stupid, Ningzong is cowardly... Count and count, you will find that there is not a single person who has martial arts.
I am not a critic of history, nor am I a Song Hei, but these emperors of the two Song Dynasties are really uninspiring.
I don't think this can be blamed on these emperors, because history is a general trend. The emperor seems to be the most respected and the master of the world, but the emperor also has many things that cannot be changed or decided.
People often say that the Song Dynasty is a weak Song, and the emperor of the Song Dynasty is also a weak emperor, but in fact, under the pattern of turmoil and disputes, under the impact of Liao , Jin, Xixia , and Mongolia one after another , who can be perfect?
What an emperor should do is a good emperor, and what an emperor should do and do is an excellent emperor, but in fact, everyone's life is different, the emperor is also a human being, and he is only a common man.
What kind of dynasty is a good dynasty? What kind of emperor is considered to be successful?
is just like what the writer said in the bright moon that year:
has only one success - live your life according to your own way.
