Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

In the Guangzheng Hall, Li Yu looked up in a daze.

This was the first time he heard his name mentioned in the future, and it was in this way.

Originally, he thought he would feel a sense of satisfaction from revenge, but:

He saw the ragged garrison commander on the light curtain crying and surrendering on the top of Xiangyang City, and saw 100,000 soldiers in the battle array with panic faces and followed the comrades who turned against them in front of them.

Li Yu felt empty in his heart.

The fall of the Southern Song Dynasty was also due to the loss of the natural barrier of the Yangtze River, which was similar to the Tang Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River.

But the state of its fall was completely different from that of the Tang Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River.

As Cao Bin sailed north, Li Yu had seen those small boats racing south to do business, but now that Mongolia was destroying the country, it was probably difficult to see such a scene.

The description of the destruction of the country and the extinction of the race was only used when he was choosing words and sentences in the past, but now it was truly displayed in front of him for the first time by the means of gods and ghosts.

"History is always similar." Zhao Kuangyin sighed.

This sentence has been said too many times by the younger generation, but the feeling is completely different when the fall of the Song Dynasty is put in front of us.

Well, especially when you think about it, this is the second time that the Song Dynasty has fallen.

The Northern Song Dynasty fell because of the Jin people's direct invasion, the capital was lost, and the two emperors were captured, which led to the bloody shame of Jingkang.

The Southern Song Dynasty fell because of the Mongolian step-by-step strategy, the iron gate was broken and the country was encroached step by step, and the immortals were powerless to save the world.

The country fell twice in different ways. Thinking about it, Zhao Kuangyin didn't know what expression to make for a while.

Zhao Guangyi picked up the rosary again, lowered his eyebrows and began to recall the Buddhist scriptures.

The atmosphere in Guangzheng Hall was a little dull. In the silence, Zhao Pu suddenly asked a question:

"What about Wen Tianxiang who wrote the Song of Righteousness?"

[Dingjiazhou is located in Tongling, Anhui today. A glance at the map shows that it is 200 kilometers away from Lin'an Prefecture, where "When will the singing and dancing in West Lake stop?" The fall of the Southern Song Dynasty was basically just around the corner.

The people who could finally save the Southern Song Dynasty a little bit of face in military affairs were precisely the converts that the Southern Song Dynasty had always despised.

Zhuozhou, the hometown of Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, the end point of the Gaoliang River drag racing competition, was only briefly recovered during the reign of Zhao Guangyi and the reign of Song Huizong in the history of the two Song dynasties, but both times were quite short.

In the late Southern Song Dynasty, there was a Zhuozhou man named Zhang Shijie who belonged to the lowest level of the Mongols because of his bloodline. He guarded the house for a Mongolian official in Henan. Later, when this guy got into trouble, he simply went south to join the Southern Song Dynasty and became a general of the Southern Song Dynasty.

On the third day of the first lunar month in 1276, Empress Dowager Xie and the six-year-old Emperor Gong of Song in Lin'an City had not eaten a hot dumpling yet, and the news that the garrison commander of Jiaxing Prefecture opened the city gate and surrendered was delivered here.

At this time, there were only a handful of people in the Southern Song Dynasty who dared to speak out. Prime Minister Chen Yizhong, Baokang Army Chengxuan Envoy Zhang Shijie, Minister of Rites Lu Xiufu, and Lin'an Prefect Wen Tianxiang were basically the last family of the Southern Song Dynasty.

The country was about to fall, and the fate of several people was also different.

First of all, there was the pigeon king Chen Yizhong, who was promoted and attached to Jia Sidao in his early years, and eventually became the prime minister because of "overthrowing Jia". Now that the Yuan army was approaching the city, facing the situation that the left prime minister Liu Mengyan ran away, Chen Yizhong and Empress Dowager Xie and others finally asked Empress Dowager Xie to move the capital after sending envoys to negotiate peace with the Yuan army and being rejected.

Even if the country was about to fall, moving the capital was a big deal. Empress Dowager Xie finally agreed after Chen Yizhong's persuasion. As a result, when the date of moving the capital came, Chen Yizhong simply and decisively let the Empress Dowager dove, which made Empress Dowager Xie furious and said, "I didn't want to move at first... Are you deceiving me?" The matter of moving the capital was abandoned, and everyone waited for death in Lin'an City.

Soon the Yuan army entered the northern suburbs of Lin'an, and Empress Dowager Xie sent people to surrender again. At that time, the Mongolian commander Bayan said that surrender was fine, but the prime minister should be sent first. When the agreed date came, Chen Yizhong regretted it again and simply ran to the countryside. Empress Dowager Xie had no choice but to send Wen Tianxiang and Wu Jian to surrender, but this group of envoys choked Bayan and the two sides soon broke down. In less than two months, the Mongolian army broke through Lin'an City and captured thousands of royal family members and went north. The Southern Song Dynasty had actually perished at this time.

But the Zhao family still had a trace of blood, and the officials who were still resisting formed a maritime exile government. Chen Yizhong was invited back to serve as prime minister again, but he disagreed with Zhang Shijie during the escape. In the end, Chen Yizhong fled to Champa and was not recalled several times. Zhang Shijie continued to move towards Yashan.

In addition to Chen Yizhong, Zhang Shijie, Lu Xiufu and Wen Tianxiang were known as the three heroes of the late Song Dynasty, but they were not of the same mind.

Before the fall of the Song Dynasty, Lu Xiufu was basically a typical scholar and councilor. As fewer and fewer people fled to the court, Lu Xiufu, who remained loyal, took on more and more positions. The military expenses and labor services required by the small court to garrison Yashan were basically managed by Lu Xiufu alone.

There is no need to elaborate on the Yashan naval battle. At that time, Zhang Shijie wanted to bring the then-respected King Wei, who was regarded as the lord of the Song Dynasty, to his ship to plan a breakout, but Lu Xiufu refused for fear of being betrayed. After Yashan was finally broken, the ministers fled on their own. Seeing that there was no way out, Lu Xiufu pushed his wife and children into the sea and then carried King Wei to the sea and died.

Zhang Shijie's resume was very characteristic of the Song Dynasty. He had to face both the fierce Yuan army and the fierce backstabs of his teammates.

After the Battle of Dingjiazhou, only Zhang Shijie briefly recaptured a few cities, but they were soon lost again, which did not help.

In the relatively critical Battle of Jiaoshan on the eve of the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, Prime Minister Liu Mengyan and Chen Yi Zhong both held back their troops from advancing along the originally planned four routes, which ultimately led to Zhang Shijie's defeat. The Yangtze River became an inland river of the Yuan Dynasty, and the Yuan Dynasty was completely powerless to reverse the situation.

Similarly, Zhang Shijie's military talent was indeed mediocre. His decision to defend Yashan caused the Song army to lose water and was somewhat like Zhuge Kongming's favorite disciple.

However, Zhang Shijie himself defended this, believing that his subordinates had already begun to disperse, and if they did not fight to the death with one heart, they would only lose faster.

But looking back, in fact, no decision was important. When Kublai Khan decided to use the power of the whole continent to destroy a country, it was already decided. The Southern Song Dynasty, which failed to defend Xiangyang, would struggle in vain no matter what it did afterwards. Yashan was just the last casino chosen by Zhang Shijie who did not want to drift on the sea.

And we all know the ending of Yashan chosen by Zhang Shijie. After Lu Xiufu jumped into the sea, many people died. "In seven days, more than 100,000 corpses floated out of the sea."

After hearing the news, Zhang Shijie, who had successfully escaped from Yashan, refused his subordinates' request to let him go ashore as he watched the typhoon approaching in the distance, leaving only "If it is like this now, is it God's will!" The final record left was "The hurricane destroyed the boat and drowned at the foot of Pingzhang Mountain".

The fall of Lin'an marked the demise of the Southern Song regime. After Yashan, the last breath of the Song Dynasty had also dissipated, and the Song Dynasty had completed its 319-year history.

Among the feudal dynasties since the Qin Dynasty, its national life was second only to the Han Dynasty. 】