History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
Ancient people paid attention to fortifications, and defense was as important as attack in the cold weapon era, when the enemy was superior in numbers, the defenders only needed to strengthen the city walls, they could buy time for the subsequent reinforcements, so as to get the siege.
In the defensive force is the most important reinforcement of the city wall, the strong city wall is a very important part of a city, but also a very strong military fortress, when the two armies fight, strong, good defense is equal to half of the success, everyone hopes to strengthen the city wall to achieve the purpose of indestructible city.
The attacking sides also hated the strong walls, which would deplete their armies and cause unnecessary casualties, while the Han were the best at building fortifications, which made the Mongols very resentful.
At that time, the Mongols attacked the Southern Song Dynasty for more than forty years, which was the longest time, why? The Southern Song Dynasty was good at building city walls, which made the Mongol cavalry suffer a lot, even if they put up a ladder, the rolling stones would fall and kill the soldiers, and it is conceivable that the Mongol cavalry suffered casualties.
Genghis Khan's descendants were brave and good at war, but they were only unable to move forward on the small city wall, so after the Mongols destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, they went to the whole country to demolish the city walls and demolished the walls of major Cities in China.
The Yuan Dynasty was the dynasty that demolished the city walls the most cattle, and the "History of the Yuan" recorded the violence of the Yuan Dynasty, destroying Chinese buildings and cultural relics, countless and very brutal.
This wall demolition storm spread to the south, too many buildings were destroyed, but the demolition of the wall also had an end, although the Yuan Dynasty officials were keen to demolish the wall, but when demolished to a small city in Zhejiang, they still did not dare to demolish it, because the city wall was built very strangely.
This city wall is in the ancient city wall of Linhai, Zhejiang, with a long history and important geographical location. Surrounded by mountains on three sides and the sea on the other, the city wall has high strategic value, but this alone does not explain why the brutal Yuan rulers and lackey officials were discouraged from the city wall. In fact, there are deep reasons.
They clamored to tear down all the walls built by the Han Chinese, but when they reached a small city near the sea in Zhejiang, they were stagnant.
Of course, related to their own economic interests, this city wall is built on a dangerous cliff, not only has the function of resisting enemies, but also has the function of flood control, and half of this city wall is built along the LingJiang River.
The location of fucheng is exactly at the entrance of the Lingjiang River, the river is undulating, and there are tides, it is easy to let the sea flood the ancient city, but if there is a natural embankment such as the ancient city wall, the sea cannot spread.
History, in history, this ancient city often has, especially in the summer and autumn seasons, flash floods, water will spread up, the ancient city wall near the sea is the guardian deity of the entire ancient city.
This ancient city wall also has 8 urns, all of which are circular in shape, which can alleviate the impact of water flow, and the person who designed the entire ancient city wall must be a genius. It shows that the Han people are smart and have more skilled craftsmen.
Therefore, although the Yuan Dynasty hated the clever minds of the Han people, in the end it had to use the things built by the Han people, use the Han man-made characters, read the books written by the Han people, and govern the country with the ideas of the Han people, so the Yuan Dynasty was a Sinicized dynasty in any case.
Behind all conquest is conquest.
If you want to conquer something, you have already been conquered by it in the first place, all the forces are relative, and the conquest and enslavement of the Yuan Dynasty ultimately domesticated and changed themselves, not the Han Chinese.