There is a city on the south bank of the Jialing River, 5,000 meters east of the city in Hechuan District, Chongqing, called Diaoyu City.
This place is the mouth of Jialing River, Qujiang River and Fujiang River, controlling the three rivers, the total area of Diaoyu City is 2.5 square kilometers, three mountains towering, three rivers confluence, mountains and rivers embraced, there are many places of interest, relief inscriptions, excellent scenery, and the history and culture of this place is quite thick.
Immersed in it, it seems that you can see 10,000 years at a glance.
Diaoyu City, also known as Bashu Fortress since ancient times, is the military stronghold where the northern army goes south to attack Bashu, and once it breaks through here, Bashu becomes a bag.
But it is not an easy task to take this city, after all, the terrain is difficult to defend and difficult to attack, and it is difficult to succeed without spending a lot of money to attack from the bottom of the mountain to the top.
Some people may think of Ma Chen in the Three Kingdoms period, he stationed his troops on the top of the mountain, but was cut off from the water source by the enemy army from the bottom of the mountain, which then made the army distracted, and finally lost the advantage of the terrain and was beaten to pieces.
If you use this method to deal with Diaoyu City, shouldn't it also end up like a horse losing the street pavilion?
It's really not, because Diaoyu City is not a street pavilion, Diaoyu City has its own water supply on the mountain, and other products on the mountain are also very rich, so there is no need to worry about being trapped in the mountain.
It is worth mentioning that Diaoyu City also caused losses to the Mongol army that swept the world 800 years ago, and this war was the Battle of Diaoyu City between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Mongol Empire.
At the beginning of the war, the Mongol army besieged Diaoyu City, and the defender Wang Jian led 4,600 people to fight to the death against hundreds of thousands of Mongol troops, and also let the Mongol Khan Meng Ge die under the city, and then held out for 36 years, and finally saved half the world.
It is worth mentioning that after the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Diaoyu City was still not conquered, and it also became the last spiritual pillar of the Southern Song Dynasty, until Kublai Khan surrendered the abandoned city of the defender Wang Li on the condition that he would not harm the people in the city.
This city is legendary, let's take a look together.
War is imminent
In the sixth lunar month of 1251 AD, a grand Khuritai Congress was held on the banks of the Mongol Zheng River, at which the Mongol kings and ministers jointly supported Meng Ge to the throne, and the Mongol Empire entered the Mongo era.
Menggoda Khan is the grandson of Genghis Khan, and his father is Genghis Khan's fourth son Torre, which means that since Mengge, the succession of the Khan throne of the Mongol Empire has been transferred from the second generation of the Wokotai family to the Torre family, which in turn caused a division within the Mongol Empire and laid the groundwork for the complete division of the later Great Mongol Empire.
After Meng Ge succeeded to the throne, the Zong King of the Wokuotai family refused to recognize his legal status and naturally did not obey Meng Ge's command, so Meng Ge carried out a bloody suppression of the Wokuotai clan king, which stabilized his rule.
Meng Ge's personality was similar to Genghis Khan's, and he was very keen on foreign conquests, which further expanded the territory of the Mongol Empire.
In 1252, Meng Ge sent his brother Kublai Khan south to conquer Dali, and two years later, the city of Dali was conquered, King Duan Xingzhi surrendered, and the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau was incorporated into the Mongol Empire.
In 1253, Mengko sent his brother Xu Liehu to lead an army to the west, and along the way, he conquered the Lur regime in southern Persia, the Murazi state in western Persia, the Abbasid dynasty in Baghdad, the Ayyubid dynasty in Syria, and most of Asia Minor.
In 1258, the Choi clan regime of Goryeo collapsed and the King of Goryeo surrendered to Great Mongolia.
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In less than ten years, Meng Ge brought the glory of the Great Mongolia to many places in the world, especially after the destruction of the Jin Dynasty, Meng Ge even set his sights on the remote Southern Song Dynasty.
How can a bed allow others to sleep soundly?
Meng Ge understood Song Taizu's words very thoroughly, so Meng Ge decided to lead hundreds of thousands of troops to personally march, in addition, he arranged for Kublai Khan and Wuliang Hetai to lead troops separately, and the three-way army attacked the Southern Song Dynasty in a mighty and massive manner, but Meng Ge did not expect that the seemingly stable war would kill him.
The war is raging
Meng Ge led the main army south to attack Sichuan, and was invincible all the way, conquering most of Sichuan successively, all the way to the city of Diaoyu.
In Mengge's view, although this city occupies all the geographical advantages, their Mongol army is not vegetarian, naturally did not put this small city in their eyes, as long as they take this city, the land of Bashu can be fully pocketed, and the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty is only in the evening.
It's just that the spirited Meng Ge did not expect that Fishing City would completely tear his dreams.
As early as 20 years ago, during the reign of Emperor Lizong of Song, Peng Daya, deputy envoy of Sichuan, sent people to garrison Diaoyu Mountain in order to resist the Mongol army, and later built Diaoyu City on this basis.
In 1254, the Southern Song court appointed Wang Jian as the defender of Hezhou, and he saw that the Mongols had a strong desire for the Southern Song Dynasty, so he began to build a large-scale fortification of the city, gradually turning the place into an impregnable iron barrel.
The people of southern Shaanxi and northern Sichuan also moved into Diaoyu City, which also became a large fortress with tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians.
Faced with Meng Ge's invincibility in Sichuan, Wang Jian knew that one day, the Mongol army would definitely come to attack Diaoyu City, so he ordered people to stock up on food in the city that could provide for the people in the city to live for decades.
After everything was ready, Wang Jian began to wait in the city, but he did not expect that the 4,600 soldiers he led would wait for Menggoda Khan and hundreds of thousands of Mongol troops.
In 1259 AD, in the face of the blockage of the siege, Meng Ge rushed to Shizishan, he personally supervised the siege of the city, but the war was fought for three months, and the places that could be attacked were attacked, and the fishing city was stunned.
Meng Ge Khan was very angry, and the vanguard general Wang Dechen was very anxious, and once again increased the intensity of the siege of the city, but was still repelled by Wang Jian wave after wave of attacks, and even Wang Dechen died because he was seriously injured.
Do wonders
Since the conquest, Meng Ge had not suffered such a nest, he was angry, so he led his army to personally attack the city, but was hit by a large stone thrown by the Song army, and Meng Ge was seriously wounded and dying.
Not long after, Meng Ge died in the army, and the Mongol army was confused and had to withdraw, and the Battle of Diaoyu City ended with the victory of the Southern Song army.
After Wang Jian, Ma Qian, Zhang Yu, Wang Li and others successively pacified Hezhou and continued to guard Diaoyu City for 36 years, during which the Mongol army attacked this place many times, all of which were defeated, and Diaoyu City became a miracle city.
Because Meng Ge died too suddenly, the position of the Great Khan was vacant, so that many people were ready to move, Kublai Khan and Ali Buge fought for the Khan throne, the two sides fought for five years, and the strength of the Mongol Empire was also weakened, even if Kublai Khan later won and established Dayuan, the scenery of the Mongol Empire gradually drifted away.
Mengko's death actually had a fatal impact on the Mongol Empire, and even affected the division of the entire world.
When Meng Ge attacked the Southern Song Dynasty, Xu Lieqiu had been frantically marching west, destroying many regimes along the way, and the territory of the Great Mongolian Kingdom was expanding step by step.
By the time of Mengko's death, Xu Liehu had already occupied Syria and Palestine, and was directed at the Mamluk dynasty in Egypt.
According to the combat effectiveness at that time, Egypt was naturally not an opponent of the Mongol army, but with the death of Meng Ge, Xu Lieqiu knew that there would be turmoil in the DPRK, so he sent the vanguard cowardly Buhua to lead less than 10,000 Mongol troops to garrison Syria, and then returned east.
The Mamluk dynasty took the opportunity to conquer Syria and kill the cowardly Buhua, and this western expedition ended hastily.
It can be seen from this that if it were not for the sudden death of Meng Ge, the Mongol army would have expanded all the way to the west, but there is no if, it can be said that the battle of Diaoyu City saved half the world ...
References: "Yuan History", etc.
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