In the process of the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty by the Mongol Yuan, a large number of Han generals played a key role in it, for example, in the Battle of Yashan, it was the Han general Zhang Hongfan who completely eliminated the main force of the remnants of the Song Dynasty and destroyed the Song Dynasty. However, compared with Zhang Hongfan, the role of another Han general is more critical, he not only led the formation of the Mongolian Yuan's water army, but also put forward the key strategy of "to destroy the Song Dynasty, first take Xiangyang", which is the greatest contribution to the cause of the Mongolian Yuan and the Song Dynasty. This Han general was also the Song Dynasty general Liu Quan.
Liu Zhenben was a native of the Jin Dynasty and later defected to the Southern Song Dynasty
Liu Quan was originally a Han Chinese born in the Jin Dynasty, and later fled to the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty due to war, and served in the Army of Zhao Fang, the envoy of the Jinghu System and the Governor of Xiangyang Province, starting as a small soldier, and gradually rising to an officer with extraordinary courage and strategy. Liu Zhen Shen Yi has wisdom and is good at riding and shooting ("Whole Shen Yi has wisdom and is good at riding and shooting. Golden chaos, into the Song. See "New Yuan History, Vol. 177, Liechuan Seventy-fourth"), the ability is far superior to that of his colleagues, so that Zhao Fang will inevitably be jealous in addition to appreciation.
Before his death, Zhao Fang told his son Zhao Kui that Liu Quancai was full of talent and was afraid that he could not control it, so in order to avoid leaving hidden dangers, it was best to kill him. Unexpectedly, Zhao Kui either cherished Liu Zhen's talents or despised him too much, and finally did not listen to his father's last words ("Fang Linjian, called his son Kui Yue: "The whole talent, the Ru generation can not use, it is advisable to kill it, do not stay as another day's disease." "Aoi doesn't listen." Ibid.).
Li Cunxiao was known for his bravery, and Liu Zhen was stronger than him
After Zhao Fang's death, Liu Quan turned to the famous general Meng Jue and followed him in attacking the Jin state of Xinyang. In this battle, Liu Quan acted as a forward, and led Twelve Xiao Yong to raid Xinyang at night, capturing the defender in one fell swoop, which surprised and delighted Meng Jue when he heard the news. The famous general Li Cunxiao of the fifth generation once led eighteen horsemen to attack Luoyang, but Liu Zhen only led twelve cavalry to attack Xinyang, so Meng Jue believed that he was more courageous than Li Cunxiao, so he was called "Sai Cunxiao".
The whole attacked Jin Xinyang Prefecture from Meng Jue, as a forward, and led twelve brave men to cross the city at night, attacked and captured the Jin general, and returned the report. Jue was horrified, thinking that Tang Li Cunxiao led eighteen horsemen to pull up Luoyang, and now that the whole xinyang would be even less, it was written that his banner was "Sai Cunxiao". Ibid.
Liu Zhen served in the Jinghu Battlefield for many years, participated in the destruction of the Jin Dynasty, the defense of Mongolia and other wars, and made great achievements. In the second year of Baoyou (1254), Li Zengbo, the envoy of Jinghu, was transferred to the Sichuan Xuanfu envoy, so he went with Liu Zhen with his love. Liu Zhen resisted the Mongol invasion on the battlefield of Sichuan, and because of his many achievements, he was gradually promoted to the prefect of Luzhou and the deputy envoy of Tongchuan Road, in charge of the civil affairs and military affairs of the fifteen military states of Tongchuan, and as a high-powered border defense general, he was placed high hopes by the imperial court.
Lü Wende did everything possible to frame and exclude Liu Zhen, making the latter extremely resentful
Due to the continuous internal strife in Mongolia at this time, there was no time to look south for a while, and there was no major war on the Song and Mongolian borders for more than ten years, and according to the law of "idle and infighting", the "nest fighting" within the Southern Song Dynasty also began. Although Liu Quan from the north had outstanding military achievements, he was soon jealous and ostracized by the southern generals, especially Lü Wende, who was the envoy of Sichuan. Lü Wende's exclusion of Liu Quan reached an almost crazy level, and the latter's plan would be denied, and once there was merit, it would be concealed, thus making Liu Zhen extremely depressed.
Not only that, after Lü Wende was transferred to the Jinghu system envoy, he also recommended Liu Quan's "nemesis" Yu Xing to take over as the Sichuan envoy, and "relayed" to exclude Liu Quan. At this time, the traitorous minister Jia Xiangdao was in charge of the country and had a close relationship with Lü Wende, and Liu Zhen gradually became suspicious because he had no way to appeal to the imperial court. After the generals Xiang Shibi and Cao Shixiong, who were good friends with Liu Quan, were successively killed by Jia Xiangdao, Liu Zhen, in order to avoid following in the footsteps of the two, led his people to surrender to Mengyuan in 1261 AD.
Liu Zhen was forced to lower the Yuan and claimed to be the vanguard of the Song Dynasty
The whole people in the north, the merits in the west, the generals in the south of the Jiangnan are all out of it, Lü Wende is jealous, the strategy he draws is depressed, the merit is hidden but not white, and there is a gap between Yu Xing and the whole, so that the system is placed in Sichuan to rectify. The military will be called up, but it will not be done, and it will be falsely constructed. The rectification envoy sued Lin'an and could not be reached. And Xiang Shibi and Cao Shixiong saw the killing, and the whole benefit was not self-protective, but the plot was attached. In the summer of the second year of the Central Unification, the entire fifteen military states and households fell to 300,000. Ibid.
After Liu Rectifier lowered the Yuan, the Sichuan defense line was opened, and the losses for the defense work of the Southern Song Dynasty were extremely heavy. Not only that, in order to repay the trust of Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, Liu Zhen proposed the key strategy of "destroying the Song Dynasty and taking Xiangyang first", which was adopted by the imperial court. A few years later, Liu Quan turned to the battlefield of Jinghu Lake, and while besieging Xiangyang, he seized the time to build 5,000 ships and train 70,000 sailors, and this water army became a "fresh force" to destroy the Song Dynasty in the future.
Road map for the destruction of the Southern Song Dynasty by the Mongol Yuan
After the capture of Xiangyang, Liu Quan was transferred to the huaixi battlefield, and was promoted to the position of general of the Hun Cavalry Wei and Zuo Cheng of Xingzhong for his merits. In the first month of the twelfth year of Zhengzheng (1275), the Yuan army launched a general attack on the Song Dynasty, and Liu Zhen was eager to take the lead in crossing the river, but was stopped by the commander Boyan. Soon, the good news of Boyan crossing the river to attack Ezhou came, and Liu Quan was full of grief and indignation, and soon died of illness under the city of Wuwei in Huaixi, at the age of 63. The year after Liu Zhen's death, Emperor Gong of Song surrendered, and the Song Dynasty was effectively extinct. In another 3 years, the Battle of Yashan ended and the Southern Song Dynasty officially perished.
In the first month of the twelfth year, zhao rectified the general's troops out of Huainan, and the whole tried to cross the river, and the province stopped it, but did not do it fruitlessly. Xiang Xiang Boyan entered the e, Jie Zhi, and lost his voice: "The first marshal stopped me, so that I succeeded in future generations, and the good author did not have to be good, sure enough!" "It was Sunset, angry and died, at the age of sixty-three. Presented to General LongHuWei, Zhongshu Right Cheng, and Yu Wumin. Ibid.