During the Two Song Dynasties, the Han regime has been deeply affected by the northern nationalities, a "Jingkang Revolution" made the Northern Song Dynasty into the Southern Song Dynasty, and the famous anti-Jin general Yue Fei of the Southern Song Dynasty appeared in this period, but because Emperor Gaozong of Song did not want his father and brother to return to China to replace him, he was jealous of Yue Fei, and finally Yue Fei was killed on trumped-up charges.
After the Southern Song Dynasty killed Yue Fei, who had changed the color of the Jin people, it was even more unscrupulous, and the southern Song Dynasty's suicide did not give the Southern Song the slightest advantage, on the contrary, it also attracted the More ambitious encroachment plan of the Jin people, and the Jin Dynasty produced an ambitionist at this time, which was the famous Jin tyrant Hailing King - Guanyan Liang.
In fact, Guanyan Liang was a very assertive and talented king, but it was not honorable for him to come to power, he had taken the throne by usurping the throne and killing Jin Xizong. In fact, this made the people of Jin Guo's heart unstable, not to mention that Guanyan Liang was still an extremely fanatical king of Sinicization.
Yan Liang carried out great reforms in the country, politically imitating the Han system, on the other hand, he was still moving south to Yanjing, such a drastic advance was like the Sui Emperor in history, although to a certain extent stimulated the development of a certain aspect, but the intensity was too big and too urgent to make people rebel.
The strategy of completing Yan Liang's military deployment to the Jin Dynasty makes people know his intentions at a glance, in fact, he is deliberately making various preparations for attacking the Southern Song Dynasty, and Yan Liang spent ten years to complete the domestic reform and strengthen his centralized power, and finally in order to transfer domestic pressure, Completed Yan Liang began his own offensive against the Song Dynasty.
After Yan Liang was strategically prepared, he began to provoke and look for an opportunity to attack the Southern Song Dynasty, and in 1160 the Jin State built many ships from the surrendered Song people and prepared them along the Lu River, while the Song Gao Sect sent Li Bao to prepare for the defense at Pingjiang. In fact, Song Gaozong also had to fight against jinguo in the wave of national condemnation of Jinguo.
The Jin State launched a large-scale attack on the Southern Song Dynasty, investing 600,000 troops, 600,000 troops attacking in four ways, and Land Yanliang divided the western, central and eastern three-way armies, of which he personally led the Eastern Route Army. On land and sea, a navy of 600 warships and 70,000 sailors was sent to attack Lin'an from Jiaozhou Bay to Hangzhou Bay.
The Song Dynasty made a tense deployment for this, and the person responsible for attacking the sea and land was Li Bao, a general under Yue Fei, nicknamed Li San, who was the deputy commander of the horse infantry army of the two Zhejiang West Roads at that time, Li Bao took the initiative to ask Miao to go to the sea to defeat the enemy, but compared with the size of the Jinguo's team, his own team was much smaller, with only 120 warships and 3,000 sailors.
Li Bao's water army was not a crack general, it was a temporary recruit of archers from watery places in the south such as Fujian, Zhejiang and other places, and at that time, it also encountered bad combat weather, and the ships hit by the big waves were frantically up and down, but Li Bao was determined to resist Jin, and wrote a suicide note, and the entire Song Dynasty navy regarded death as a homecoming.
As mentioned above, Yan Liang's rule was unpopular, so when the Jin soldiers went to attack the Song Dynasty, Wei Sheng rebelled in Haizhou, and Yan Liang was dumbfounded, and there was chaos in the rear, how to manage the front line, so he had to dispatch 100,000 people to suppress the rebellion.
Li Bao saw that at this time, he quickly cooperated with Wei Sheng to fight the Jin Kingdom, and he sent his team to the East China Sea to support Wei Sheng's army, and completed two major defeats of the Jin soldiers in Haizhou, which gave The Song bing's military heart a shot in the arm, and immediately Li Bao was even more determined to go to Jiaoxi to attack the Jin bing maritime base camp.
In September 1161, a fleet of the Jin navy was planning a sea battle against Lin'an on Tangdao, and the deployment of the Jin soldiers was learned in advance by Li Bao, who had encountered Han soldiers in the Jin army who surrendered to him when he was heading north, and they had been abused by the Jin soldiers for a long time, and saw the Song Dynasty sailors rushing to surrender and reveal the enemy situation to Li Bao.
Of course, Li Bao knew that his team was small, but he also knew his advantages, the Jin soldiers were all northerners with poor water quality, and it was easy to panic in the big war, and many of the Jin soldiers were Han fishermen, and it was easy to rebel. So Li Bao decided to attack with fire. Li Bao then took advantage of the favorable south wind on October 27 to rush to Tang Island.
Sure enough, as Li Bao predicted, the Han people among the Jin soldiers quickly tricked the Jin soldiers into the cabin when they saw the Song soldiers and assisted Li Bao in attacking the Jin people, and because of the time and the people, Li Bao threw the prepared firearms and gunpowder arrows onto the Jinguo ships, and the oil cloth on the ships made the Jinguo ships burn in pieces, and the Jinguo water army immediately collapsed.
The death of the Jin soldiers, the wounds of the wounds, the team has long been out of shape, Li Bao launched an attack on the main ship. For the ships that did not touch Mars, Li Bao led his troops to jump on the enemy ship and fight with the Jin soldiers, at this time there were also Han soldiers on the road to block the way to escape the Jin people, 70,000 Jin soldiers were completely annihilated in this naval battle, and the Song army that completely annihilated them was only 3,000 people.
It was the fiasco of this naval battle that made Guanyanliang, who was also defeated by Yu Yunwen, give the order to cross the river within three days, and could not do it, at this time, the contradictions between the Jin people intensified, and Guanyanliang was killed by the rebels, at this point, the threat of annihilation of the Song Dynasty was temporarily lifted.
This is the Battle of TangDao, one of the 100 most influential wars for mankind in the British list, which has produced an important battle for the world's navigation process. After that, the Southern Song Dynasty opened the era of China's great navigation, opening up the sea route of trade with the West.
[References: History of song", "Battle of Tangdao", "History of Jin"]