The Battle of Yashan was a war with great influence on China, and many netizens mentioned this battle and said bitterly that the country did not exist after Yashan. Some experts have analyzed that in fact, the Song and Yuan battles, including the Battle of Yashan, were actually a fight between two brothers of the same ethnic group, Zhang Shijie and Zhang Hongfan.
After the Battle of Jingyashan, the Song Dynasty completely collapsed, and Chinese history entered the Yuan Dynasty period.
Zhang Shijie was a Han Chinese, but was born in the Jin Kingdom, which defected to Zhang Rou after the fall of the Jin Dynasty by the Mongols, and unfortunately fled to the Southern Song Dynasty because of his guilt. After arriving in the Southern Song Dynasty, although there was no foundation, fortunately, he was full of talent, and later because of his repeated military achievements, he was reused. Together with Wen Tianxiang and Lu Xiufu, he was known as the Three Masters of the Late Song Dynasty.
Zhang Hongfan and Zhang Shijie are brothers of the same lineage, and Zhang Rou, whom Zhang Shijie defected to, is his father. Zhang Hongfan is a Han Chinese, but he is a Han Chinese living during the Mongol rule, and since his father, he has served the Mongols and has regarded himself as a Mongol in his bones. He was highly successful in battle and trusted by Kublai Khan, and was appointed marshal of the Mongol Han army.
Some people had opposed Zhang Hongfan's leadership of the Yuan Army, and even Zhang Hongfan himself had the intention of resigning. However, Kublai Khan's intention was very firm, and he also praised Zhang Hongfan's family for being loyal to the Mongols since Zhang Hongfan's father, Zhang Rou, and finally gave Zhang Hongfan a set of sword armor.
At the Battle of Yashan, Zhang Hongfan was the commander of the Mongol army, and under his leadership, the Mongol army won a complete victory, completely crushing the last hope of restoration in the Southern Song Dynasty. After the war, Zhang Hongfan carved on the cliff with great spirit "The great general of the Zhenguo State Zhang Hongfan destroyed the Song Here". During the Ming Dynasty, Chen Xianzhang, the founder of the study of mind, deliberately added a "Song" character to this sentence to satirize his chaotic and thief-like behavior.
As early as the Yuan army was about to march to Lin'an City, the Southern Song Dynasty building would fall, and Zhang Shijie and Wen Tianxiang both wanted to fight a battle. However, according to the situation at that time, a major battle with the Yuan Army was an extremely unwise choice. Although this can save the integrity in their hearts, the end will only be the total destruction of the army, then there is no hope of restoration.
This proposal was rejected, and Zhang Shijie later advised the emperor and empress dowager to flee to the sea in the south to avoid the Yuan army and leave a glimmer of life for the Song Dynasty. This proposal was still opposed, and some ministers said that it was better to occupy a city, take a corner, rest and recuperate, and then seek great things when the time was ripe.
In the midst of several arguments, the Iron Hooves of Mongolia struck. In the canghuang emperor, Zhang Shijie and Lu Xiufu could only escape with two children, "Song Duanzong Zhao and Late Song Emperor Zhao", and fought and retreated according to their own plans, all the way south, and finally reached Yashan Mountain. His brother Zhang Hongfan, as the commander of the Mongol army, also pursued to Yashan.
As a fellow clan, Zhang Hongfan initially wanted to persuade Zhang Shijie to surrender, and sent Zhang Shijie's nephew to lobby Zhang Shijie, but was ruthlessly refused, and Zhang Shijie was determined to coexist and die with the Southern Song Dynasty.
Zhang Shijie's heroic integrity can be sung and wept, but his command and combat ability is still a gap compared to Zhang Hongfan,Because of his deployment mistakes, the sea outlets at both ends of the cliff mountain were controlled by the Yuan army, and the Song army was wrapped in dumplings by the Yuan army, and finally collapsed under the attack of both sides. Seeing that the general trend had gone, Zhang Shijie originally wanted to escape with the young lord Emperor Song, but was rejected by Lu Xiufu.
Lu Xiufu knew that he was powerless to return to heaven, so he first pushed his wife and daughter down to the sea, then put on a dragon robe for the little emperor and committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea with the little emperor on his back.
Hearing that Emperor Shao of Song had been killed, Zhang Shijie had no intention of fighting again, and the generals advised Zhang Shijie to go ashore first, zhang Shijie shook his head and refused to mourn: After the death of a king and the establishment of a king, and now Another death, I have done everything that Zhao Shi can do, I am alive because I want to establish a new lord and start again, but the matter has come to this point, it is all providence. Zhang Shijie then drowned in the sea with the wind and waves.
In fact, at the beginning, the Song army was still expected to overturn, and on the whole, the Yuan army had a total of only 20,000 soldiers and horses, and also parted ways to carry out the southern expedition. Zhang Hongfan as a pioneer, that is to say, in fact, in Zhang Hongfan's hands less than 20,000 soldiers and horses. In the Southern Song Dynasty, there were a total of 200,000 people, but unfortunately, some of them were the families of soldiers and administrative officials who had no combat effectiveness.
This is actually very unfavorable for the use of troops, because the speed of the march will be much slower. However, if these people were not taken into the run, the soldiers would naturally not agree, and they were afraid that the military would be uneasy or even mutinous. Therefore, this is really a helpless move.
In addition, Zhang Shijie's decision-making still has mistakes. At that time, it was proposed to occupy the bay first so that there would finally be a way to retreat westward. Zhang Shijie was greatly angry after hearing this, believing that this was a soldier who was afraid of the Yuan army and wanted to abscond. Therefore, he destroyed the palace with fire, forcing all the people to fight to the death.
Zhang Shijie's move was to cut off his own way of life alive, give up the sea outlet, and did not prepare enough water resources. How could a soldier without water fight a good battle, Zhang Hongfan took advantage of the weakness and fatigue of the Southern Song Soldiers to attack on a large scale and take Zhang Shijie's seven warships at a time.
But just like Wen Tianxiang's "Crossing zero Ding Yang", who has not died since ancient times, keep Dan's heart to take care of Khan Qing. Zhang Shijie's bold loyalty has always been recorded on the monument of history. Zhang Hongfan, who was of the same clan as him, was insulted by his descendants, accusing him of being a shameless person, and the blood on his body was in vain.
Zhang Hongfan died of illness in his early forties, and his grandsons took the wrong side in the struggle for power, and all five grandsons and their clansmen were executed. Some netizens said that this may be retribution, Zhang Hongfan himself was deeply trusted by Kublai Khan and made a miracle for the Yuan Dynasty, but was exterminated by the Yuan Dynasty royal family.
But now it seems that it is nothing more than each seeking its own government and each being its own master.