In the second year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1279), a major armageddon broke out between the Song and Yuan dynasties in the sea near Yashan Mountain, which determined the survival of the Southern Song Dynasty. The result of the decisive battle was that the Yuan Dynasty's water division won more with less, and the Song army was completely destroyed. After the defeat at Yashan, Lu Xiufu committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea on his back, Zhao Fu, the young emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, and many loyal subjects followed him, and 100,000 soldiers and civilians jumped into the sea to martyr the country.
After this war, the Southern Song Dynasty fell, and the Yuan Dynasty eventually unified the world. But did you know that more than a hundred years before the Battle of Yashan, a great armageddon broke out between the Song and Jin dynasties in the waters near Tang Island that decided the survival of the Southern Song Dynasty. However, the result of this battle was that the Song army won more with less, and the Jinshui Division was completely destroyed. After the victory at the Battle of Tang Island, The Jin plan to destroy the Song Dynasty was a complete failure.
After the Shaoxing peace talks, a brief peace between Song and Jin ushered in. Because the rulers of the Jin Dynasty were not satisfied with the Southern Song Dynasty just cutting up the land and claiming vassals and the silver silk of The Gongna, they actively prepared for war and deliberately planned to eliminate the Southern Song Dynasty in the southeast corner of An'an. This dissatisfaction of the Jin Dynasty completely broke out with the self-reliance of the lord of Yan Liang.
In the nineteenth year of Shaoxing, Yan Liang killed Jin Xizong and established himself as emperor. In order to satisfy the desire of the ruling class of the Jin Dynasty to eliminate the Southern Song Dynasty, and in order to divert internal dissatisfaction, Yan Liang began to launch a war to eliminate the Southern Song Dynasty after he established himself.
In order to achieve the goal of eliminating the Southern Song Dynasty, Yan Liang's successor first moved the capital Yanjing to The capital of Bieliang, hoping to attack the Song with Bieliang as a forward base. At the same time, Yan Liang recruited troops on a large scale, built warships, extensively recruited horses, grain and grass, and frantically prepared for war. After everything was ready, Yan Liang officially began his grand plan to defeat the Southern Song Dynasty in the thirtieth year of Shaoxing.
In order to create an excuse for the war, Guanyan Liang sent emissaries to insult Emperor Gaozong of Song in the Southern Song Dynasty and forcibly claim the Huaihan region. In the face of threats, Emperor Gaozong of Song, under the influence of Tang Sihui, the remnant of Qin Juniper, still hoped to compromise in exchange for partial security. Emperor Gaozong of Song's concession to Tang Sihui provoked unanimous opposition from the military and the people, and eventually Emperor Gaozong of Song had to dismiss Tang Si from his post and prepare to resist with the main war faction.
Seeing that the threat was not successful, Yan Liang had to launch a large army to invade the south to attack Song. In the thirty-first year of Shaoxing, Yan Liang launched a four-way army and advanced in an all-round way on the frontal battlefield of thousands of miles from the sea in the east to Shaanxi in the west. The strategic deployment of the Golden Army is:
The road is divided into three roads: east, middle and west. The western road attacked Dashanguan to capture Sichuan to contain the Song army; the middle road out of Jingxiang and covered the main force from the flank; the main force of the eastern road was led by Yan Liang himself and directly took Lin'an. Su Baoheng led a fleet with 600 warships and 70,000 sailors from Jiaozhou Bay, coastal south, straight to Hangzhou Bay, attacking Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty. Such an arrangement of parallel sea routes was really vicious, and it was aimed at destroying the Song Dynasty in world war I.
Although the army on the road to Complete Yan Liang was huge, in the view of the Battle Song, the real killing move of Completed Yan Liang was still the sea route commanded by Su Baoheng. At that time, most of the main forces of the Song army had already sailed to the Jingxiang and Huaihan fronts, which was bound to cause Lin'an's defense to be empty. If the Jinshui Division suddenly landed in Hangzhou Bay while the two armies were fighting fiercely on the Qianli front, then the Southern Song Dynasty could only draw elite troops from the Jingxiang and Huaihan fronts to support Lin'an. With the return of the main force of the Song army, the Jin army is likely to make a breakthrough in the Jingxiang or Huaihan regions. Really to this point, even if Yu Yunwen could block Yan Liang in the quarry, it would not help. But thanks to the appearance of a person, the Song army eventually annihilated the Jin Dynasty water division on Tang Island.
This man's name was Li Bao, and Li Bao had been a subordinate of Yue Fei in his early years, and he had made many military achievements in fighting against the Jin Army. At the end of Yan Liang's large-scale invasion of the south, Li Bao served as the deputy commander of the horse infantry army on the two Zhejiang West Roads and also led the fleet to guard coastal defense. Faced with the pressure of a strong enemy, he took the initiative to ask Emperor Gaozong of Song to lead a fleet of only 120 warships and 3,000 sailors to the coast to meet the Jin army. In order to express his determination to fight to the end, he folded his arrows in public and swore an oath, and also left a suicide note in his own handwriting, and even arranged his own affairs. Inspired by the commander Li Bao, the morale of the Song army was greatly boosted.
When the Song fleet led by Li Bao marched to Shiusu Island (near present-day Rizhao, Shandong), it happened to encounter hundreds of Han sailors of the Jin fleet who had come to surrender, thus accurately grasping the enemy's situation. On the basis of this timely and reliable information, Li Bao analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of both sides, formulated a correct operational plan, decided to adopt a pre-emptive strike, burst into the enemy's position, surprised him, and attacked the enemy with fire, and was determined to attack and annihilate the enemy's powerful fleet with his own weak fleet.
In the early morning of October 27, the thirty-first year of Shaoxing (1161), the south wind suddenly rose, and Li Bao quickly seized the fighter and personally led the highly morale of the fleet to march at full speed to TangDao, riding the wind and rushing towards the Jin fleet. In the face of the sudden arrival of Li Bao's fleet, the Jin Army's naval division was in chaos, and it was in a hurry to fight, and the ships were crowded together. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Bao attacked the Jin warship with a gunpowder arrow (with incendiary material attached to the arrow), and because the sails of the Jin army were made of tarpaulin, they were ignited in case of fire, so the Jin fleet was soon caught in a sea of fire. Subsequently, Li Bao led the fleet to completely eliminate the remaining Jin Army warships by relying on the jump gang battle, and won a great victory.
After the victory at the Battle of Tangdao, the Song army also blocked the Jin army's attack at Dashanguan and Jingxiang. At the same time, because Yan Liang was blocked by Yu Yunwen, he was unable to cross the river, and for a time the morale of the Jin army was low. However, Yan Liang was still not dead-hearted, and he also forced the army to enter. In the end, Yan Liang's perverse behavior provoked a mutiny, and Yan Liang was killed in the mutiny. After Yan Liang was killed, the Jin Dynasty retreated and asked the Southern Song Dynasty for peace at the same time. After that, Song and Jin entered a long-term state of peace.
If it were not for the victory in the Battle of Tangdao, the tragedy of Yashan would probably have been staged more than a hundred years in advance.