Battle of Cliff Hill
In 1278, the Southern Song Dynasty was already in turmoil, and Lu Xiufu and Zhang Shijie, the prince of Zuo, escorted Zhao Fu of Wei to yashan (崖山镇, in present-day Xinhui, Guangdong) to ascend the throne. In the first month of the following year, the Yuan army surrounded Yashan from three roads, and the Song army, led by Zhang Shijie, lit up the palace and houses, and lined up the ships to resist the attack of the Yuan army. The two sides confronted each other for more than two months, the Song army ran out of food, drinking seawater for a living, the Yuan army set up artillery to attack, the Song army was finally defeated, until March 19 the main force was lost, and the Battle of Yashan ended.
After the defeat of the Yashan army, Zhang Shijie led 11 large ships to break through and leave, Lu Xiufu jumped into the sea with Zhao Fu on his back and died, and more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians accompanying him saw that they could not break through, and they also jumped into the sea with Lu Xiufu, and the water surface of the Pearl River was filled with it. The yuan general Zhang Hongfan was overjoyed and ordered people to carve on the rock wall of the cliff mountain "Zhang Hongfan, the great general of the Zhenguo State, destroyed the Song Here". A few months later, Zhang Shijie drowned in the waters off the Pearl River, Wen Tianxiang was captured in Nanling, imprisoned for three years and vowed not to surrender, and after bowing to the south, he calmly became righteous, leaving behind the "Song of Righteous Qi" before his death.
In the Battle of Yashan, Shenzhou sank, the entire territory of the Huaxia people fell to the hands of foreign tribes for the first time, the splendid land south of Jianghuai was also stained by fishy, the acres of crops became a place for foreign tribes to graze cattle and horses, and the descendants of Huaxia were slaves for generations. However, whenever the Huaxia people were in crisis, there were always brave people who stepped forward to expel the foreigners and restore China. In the Battle of Yashan, a soldier surnamed Chen was lucky not to die, and 89 years later, his grandson Zhu Yuanzhang raised an army in Huaisi, swept through the Central Plains in several years, chased the north, chased the Yuan army in the North Sea, restored the clothes of Huaxia, and was the first person in history to recreate China.
Yang Wang is real
According to Zhu Yuanzhang's "Yang Wang Xingshi" and "Tribute to the Ancestor Yang Wang Wen" written by Zhu Yuanzhang for his maternal grandfather, the name of the soldier surnamed Chen has been lost, and the Weiyang people are soldiers under the command of the great general Zhang Shijie. In the Battle of Yashan, soldiers surnamed Chen jumped into the sea without dying, and drifted to the shore with the survivors to feed on dead horses. One night he dreamed of a man dressed in white, and told him not to eat horse meat, and tonight there were ships docked. In the middle of the night, sure enough, a ship docked, and a man dressed in purple told him that "the ship is coming" and that when he woke up, the man was already on the boat, and it turned out that the former commander had rescued him.
At that time, the commander had already surrendered to the Yuan army, and the Yuan general ordered him to throw the later vassals into the sea, and the commander could not bear it, hiding the soldiers surnamed Chen under the ship's board, and leaking food from the crevices every day. A few days later, the whereabouts of the soldier surnamed Chen were exposed, and while he was panicking, the ship encountered a hurricane at sea, circled left and right, and could not advance. The soldier surnamed Chen pretended to be proficient in witchcraft, and immediately looked up to the sky to pray, and the wind and waves suddenly stopped. Yuan will be overjoyed, avoid his death, and send him to the shore.
After returning to his hometown of Weiyang, the soldiers surnamed Chen settled in Xuyi Jinli Town, made a living from witchcraft, gave birth to two daughters, the second daughter was Empress Chun, and after marrying Zhu Shizhen, she gave birth to four sons and two daughters, namely Zhu Xinglong, Zhu Xingsheng, Zhu Xingzu, Zhu Yuanzhang, Princess Taiyuan and Princess Cao Guochang.
Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition
In 1367, Zhu Yuanzhang swept across Jiangnan and conquered Sichuan, and wrote the book "Zhongyuan Tan", declaring that "expelling Hu Yu, restoring China, establishing Chen Ji, and relieving Si Min", ordered Xu Da to be a general who recruited the enemy and Chang Yuchun as a deputy general, and led a 250,000-strong army to the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains. The Ming army first took Shandong, then entered Henan, captured Tongguan from Shangluo Road into Guanzhong, cut off the wings of the Yuan army, and then swung its division directly to Dadu. In July 1368, 89 years after the end of the Battle of Yashan, various Ming armies met in Tianjin, and in August they captured Dadu, and the Yuan Dynasty fled north from Juyongguan to Shangdu, thus restoring the old view south of the Great Wall of China.
Zhu Yuanzhang not only leveled the world, imitating the former dynasty to build temples to worship ancestors. He was born in Hanmen, and his ancestral relatives had been lost in the war, so he ordered a search everywhere, posthumously crowning his grandfather Zhu Chuyi as Emperor Xizuyu, his grandmother Wang Shi as Empress Yu, his father Zhu Shizhen as Emperor Renzuchun, his mother Chen as Empress Chun, and his maternal grandfather as King Yang, and personally made a memorial to him. Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestors were all commoners, which is extremely rare in history, and the lack of wise figures in the ancestors was not honorable to the founding emperor, so the status of King Yang was even higher. After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, he wanted to return to Weiyang to pay tribute, but due to busy official duties, he did not make the trip, so he sent his nephew Li Wenzhong back to his hometown to pay tribute.