The last battle of the Southern Song Dynasty's demise

1279, a great naval battle broke out between the remnants of the southern song dynasty and the yuan army in the waters of Xinhui yamen. This battle is the battle of Yashan, which is particularly tragic. The exiled regime in the Southern Song Dynasty should not fight to the death in Yashan, but should lead troops to Hainan Island and Taiwan Province Province.

There were three virtues in ancient times:

The first virtue-benevolence, safety, history and happiness.

The second virtue-righteousness, people can't stand tall without faith. Faith is meaningless and there is no turning back.

The third virtue-Mingde, the virtue of light, does not humiliate parents, the country, the nation and dignity.

In A.D. 1268, Mongolia reached its peak in Asia, and Kublai Khan, the monarch, directed the war at Xiangyang and Fanyang, two cities that were crucial to the Southern Song regime. In the Southern Song Dynasty, He Lu was sent to Xiangfan to resist the menacing Mongolian fighters. To the surprise of the Lu brothers, Kublai Khan's military mind is no less than Genghis Khan's. Under Kublai Khan's command, the Mongolian army did not forcibly attack the city, but took the initiative to build earth buildings around Xiangfan, the second city.

Every second, the earth buildings built by the Mongolian army become stronger and stronger, and the two cities of Xiangfan are tightly surrounded by the death trap woven by Kublai Khan one after another. Six years later, the Lushi brothers surrendered without a fight. Kublai Khan did not waste a single soldier and won the most important throat of the Southern Song regime.

After the fall of the second city of Xiangfan, the morale of the Mongolian army was greatly boosted, like a hungry tiger just waking up, murderous as the wind and strong as fierce, which dealt a devastating blow to the troops of the Southern Song Dynasty who clung to the natural barrier of the Yangtze River. 1276, Kublai Khan led the Mongolian army to Lin 'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, and Zhao Min, the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, abandoned the capital and fled. At this time, there were still nearly 65,438+10,000 troops in the Southern Song Dynasty. 1279, Zhao Min, the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty who fled to Guangdong, was chased by hundreds of thousands of Mongolian troops in name only. In the first month, the Mongolian army arrived in Yashan, Guangdong. Unless Zhao Min flies to Taiwan Province province by Dongfeng missile, Kublai Khan will divide his troops into three ways, attack from front to back and force Zhao Min to death. Lu Xiufu, the elderly prime minister, looked at the body of Manjiang, with tears in his eyes, the sea breeze whistling, the waves complaining and the endless tragedy of Manjiang's blood. Seeing that the Mongolian water army was about to catch up, Lu Xiufu was afraid that Zhao Min, the eight-year-old master, would be captured by the Mongolian army and humiliated by Emperor Gong, and Zhao Min would jump into the sea on his back and die.

First of all, the Southern Song Dynasty didn't attach importance to the strategic position of Taiwan Province Province because of its commercial development and relative wealth, coupled with the thought of partial security. 1 1 century, the Han people recovered the Penghu Islands in the Song Dynasty, and Song Xiaozong officially stationed troops in the Penghu Islands. At that time, Taiwan Province Province was underdeveloped and lacked cultivated land, which was not enough to provide the royal family and garrison in the Song Dynasty as a base area in terms of resources and environment. This is different from the situation of Zheng Chenggong in the late Ming Dynasty hundreds of years later. During the Ming Dynasty, Taiwan Province Province had a relatively mature immigrant society and reclamation foundation because of the activities of Minnan immigrants, pirates and Dutch colonial development.

The exiled court in the Southern Song Dynasty was besieged and intercepted by Mongolian troops, and finally fell into a desperate situation. So Lu Xiufu and Zhang Shijie intend to survive in despair and defeat the poor Mongolian army in the form of naval battle at the cliff mouth. Then Guangdong and Fujian were used as springboards for rejuvenation, but Kublai Khan, who defeated the second city of Xiangfan in six years, didn't want to drag on the battle. Kublai Khan threw himself into the most elite troops of the Second Army of Land and Sea, which shattered the dreams of Lu Xiufu and Zhang Shijie.

Although the Southern Song regime made some strategic mistakes in launching the Battle of Cliff Mountain, it was unrealistic to retreat to Taiwan Province Province, and it was humiliating to surrender without fighting. It's better to fight to the death and jump into the sea. This jump ended the doomed country of the Southern Song Dynasty with dignity. ?