The Song Dynasty was incompetent, the emperors were taken captive, and the concubines, princesses, and female officials were sold to the enemy for money, but they saved the whole of Eurasia.
The Battle of Diaoyu City changed the direction of world history in one fell swoop, and Wang Jian, a general of the Song Dynasty, single-handedly choked the throat of the Mongol Empire.
The Mongol Iron Cavalry is invincible
At that time, it was not the Song Dynasty that lost to the Mongolian iron cavalry, but the whole world was under their feet. The Mongols fought all the way to Italy and Egypt.
The Pope of Rome was horrified that the Mongols were God's whip to punish the sinful world, so that no one in the world could defeat them.
The Mongols left the steppe and arrived in one strange city-state after another, and it was an exciting journey of conquest for the blonde and blue-eyed Westerners to kneel on their knees.
The Mongols fell in love with this feeling, and the desire to conquer was surging in their blood. With each country, they would come to the highest point of the city-state and look farther away.
They have no goal, they want to go all the way to the end of the world, to go wherever the horse's hooves can tread, and to truly conquer the whole world. Mongolia's territory is even more incredible.
The Mongols have long since lost their sights on Europe. They aimed at Egypt, preparing to unify the Middle East, and went in to see the pyramids of the pharaohs.
The Mongols said they would do it, and they immediately took Iraq and Iran. While the Egyptians were trembling, the Mongols withdrew themselves.
Unexpectedly, it was the Song Dynasty that contained the entire Eurasian continent and defeated the Mongol cavalry. At that time, the Great Khan of Mongolia sent his younger brother and son out to Europe on an expedition to the west.
He was personally in charge of the war against the Song Dynasty. It can be seen that in the eyes of the Mongols, only the Song Dynasty in the whole world is worthy of their vigilance. And the Song Dynasty did not live up to expectations, capturing the thief first and capturing the king first, and directly killed the Mongolian Khan Meng Ge.
As soon as Möngke died, the pattern and history of the whole world changed. As we all know, the Song Dynasty emphasized literature over military force, and its combat power was very rubbish. So how did they kill Möngke, and if they had the ability to kill the Mongols, why were they defeated by the Mongols?
Mönggo
How powerful Meng Ge is
Möngke was the grandson of Genghis Khan and the elder brother of Kublai Khan. His father did not succeed to the throne of the Great Khan, but he was appreciated by the then Great Khan Yuan Taizong Ogedei.
Yuan Taizong Wokotai adopted him by his side since he was a child and let his queen raise him. Later, when Meng Ge competed for the throne, the people of the Ogedai family were very unconvinced, and Meng Ge and his younger brother Kublai Khan joined forces and took the throne.
忽必烈
I have to say that Wokotai is very discerning, and Meng Ge is indeed better than all the boys on the grassland. After he ascended to the throne, he established a provincial system in Möngke.
It was the establishment of a centralized system that allowed the Mongol army to march all the way west. Because they have a systematic income from food and taxes, they can supply the army in a steady stream.
Not only was Möngke militarily strong and capable of fighting, but he was also politically wise more than most. If Meng Ke could survive, the Yuan Dynasty might have a better lifespan than Kublai Khan's rule.
Meng Ge did all the great things that no one on the grassland had ever done, and he turned the originally nomadic tribal alliance into a country with a court. He not only understood military and political affairs, but he also controlled the entire Central Plains region ideologically and culturally.
The Song Dynasty as a whole advocated Taoism, and he expanded and propagated Buddhism to combat the ideas of the Han people. The Taoist church erected statues for generals who fought against foreign races, such as Yue Fei and Guan Yu.
Meng Ke hated this as a foreigner, and the Han people worshipped their ancestors, which was not conducive to his rule. Buddhism preaches patience and suffering in silence, and cutting off the earthly edges, which can reduce the resistance of the common people, so that they are more obedient.
So Meng Ge found the most powerful monks in the country and the masters of various Taoist temples, and asked them to start a big debate between the two sides. Finally, Möngke declared the victory of Buddhism.
Meng Ge asked Taoism to unconditionally give 400 Taoist temples to Buddhism and turn them into Buddhist temples. At that time, the Buddhist representatives felt Meng Ge's malice and did not want the Song Dynasty to kill each other, so he only wanted 200, and the remaining half was returned to Taoism.
From Möngke's actions, we can see the terrible nature of this man's thoughts. Compared with him, Kublai Khan really "only knows how to bend the bow and shoot the eagle". If Möngke had survived to the end, he did not know what cunning means he would have used to rule China.
The person who defeated such a cunning opponent as Meng Ge, killed this future overlord halfway, and changed the fate of the entire world was Wang Jian, the general of the Song Dynasty!
Wang Jian's 36 years of perseverance
The king held the city for 36 years without being breached, which is a miracle in the entire history of warfare. Wang Jian, a native of Hubei, began serving as a soldier at the age of 21.
At the age of 40, he was stationed near Wuhan, and the Mongols cut trees and built ships on the other side of the Yangtze River in preparation for an attack across the river. Wang Jian waited patiently for the other party to prepare.
When the Mongolian soldiers got on the boat, he directly performed a play of Zhuge Liang's burning of Chibi, which made Meng Ge suffer a big loss, and Wang Jianyi became famous from then on.
In the years of war with the Mongols, the Song Dynasty had already practiced a set of strategies against the enemy. Although everyone thinks that the Song Dynasty is very weak, Meng Ge does not think so.
Meng Ge found that the Song Dynasty people set up defenses along the Yangtze River, and they were flexible and maneuvering with each other and taking care of each other. When a position is attacked, the soldiers in front and behind the shore can immediately come by boat, faster than horses.
The Mongols were not good at water warfare, but they made many expeditions, tried to transport soldiers by ship in Korea and the Mediterranean, and trained a large number of Mongol soldiers who were skilled in building ships and driving ships.
Meng Ge first trained his hands with foreigners, and found that the Mongolian sailors could also assist and could transport cavalry well. Who knew that their little thing was completely inadequate in front of the Song Dynasty naval army.
The shipbuilding skills learned in Europe and Korea were also very backward, and they could not compete with the warships of the Song Dynasty at all. Möngke decided to abandon crossing the river from the north, and instead used land warfare, which cavalry excelled, to make a detour from Yunnan.
Meng Ge's mind is really not to be underestimated. This plan was really successful, Dali, Yunnan, Chengdu, one city after another, and the land of the Song Dynasty fell.
However, Wang Jian is more powerful than him. After being captured by the Mongols, the people scattered and fled for their lives, and Wang Jian called on everyone to go to the Diaoyu City in Chongqing, where he was stationed.
The Song generals also cooperated with Wang Jian to fortify the infantry along the rugged Sichuan Mountains and push the Mongols to the dangerous location of Diaoyu City. Diaoyu City has a special terrain, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Wang Jian gathered nearly 100,000 people in the town behind Diaoyu City. He organized the people to resume farming and prepared for a protracted war.
At this time, the other Mongol army, which was responsible for attacking Hunan, also failed. The Mongols were tormented by the miasma of Hunan and died of many diseases, and the Song army in Hunan took advantage of his illness to kill him, killing only a few thousand Mongol soldiers.
And Kublai Khan, who was strong and strong, fell into a political struggle, and he, who had always cooperated with Meng Ge, began to contradict and secretly pull Meng Ge's hind legs. He also failed to invade the Song Dynasty. At this time, the anxious Meng Ge himself went to the front.
Wang Jian is not only wise and brave, but he also knows people well. The location of Diaoyu City was chosen for him by two strategists. The generals under him are also loyal.
The Diaoyu City strategy that has been inherited for three generations
In fact, as early as decades ago, a prefect named Peng Daya saw the strategic value of Diaoyu City.
The reason why Wang Jian was able to hold on to Diaoyu City was because Peng Daya's city wall was built specifically for the Mongol cavalry. The walls are not only high, but also deliberately muddy on the exterior of the masonry.
As long as the Mongol soldiers can be forced to dismount, in the siege battle, the Song army will win. The Song Dynasty was weak because of the small number of cavalry, the Tang Dynasty had a vast territory, and the horse farms were all in the grasslands of the Western Regions, and in the Song Dynasty, the horse farms were controlled by opponents.
Therefore, the Song Dynasty was dominated by infantry, according to records, the average weight of the infantry in the Song Dynasty was about 32 kilograms, and the weight of heavy equipment was 40-50 kilograms, while the most elite special forces today carried only 30 kilograms.
This also caused the Song soldiers to have the characteristics of poor mobility although they had high individual soldier quality, and most of the battles with foreign races were routs and could not fight annihilation wars.
The alien cavalry will fight if they have fought, run if they can't fight, and concentrate again when they turn back, and they can't destroy the living forces without a war of annihilation, which will lead to a prolonged war!
Compare Huo Quai, who came and went like the wind, and Su Dingfang, who used his troops like a god, which was not a quick victory! However, once the Mongol soldiers were forced to dismount, the Song Dynasty could win both land battles and water stations.
Wang Jian stubbornly stopped the iron cavalry of the entire Mongol army, and forced Meng Ge, the Great Khan, to go to battle in person. Peng Daya was not as lucky as Wang Jian. After being impeached, he was demoted to a concubine and died of illness on the way to exile.
After Peng Daya's death, Yu Jue took over the work of guarding Sichuan, and he further expanded the Diaoyu City, according to which the Diaoyu City could guard the Sanjiang. He set the strategy of "keeping the point but not the line, connecting the dots to form a line".
The whole of Sichuan began to build cities on the mountains, forming the Sichuan Eight Pillars, and successfully resisted the invasion of the Mongol army with a special mountain city defense system.
However, Yu Jue also followed Peng Daya's back path, he was framed, a generation of loyal and good generals, and finally could only take poison and die unjustly. Wang Jian is Yu Jue's subordinate.
Wang held the city until the last moment of the Song Dynasty
Wang Jian installed cannons and bows and crossbows on the city wall, and there were people on his back to provide food and clothing, which was very tenacious and victorious. The Mongols once took the opportunity to break through the gates at night.
Who knew that Wang Jian was very iron-blooded, and immediately took his own soldiers to meet the battle, and faced the enemy and beat the Mongols who entered the city and fled.
Meng Ge was angry, digging tunnels, building towers, and doing his best. Wang Jian was calm and relaxed, and sent soldiers to insult and stimulate Meng Ge.
When Meng Ge climbed the tower and wanted to observe Diaoyu City from above. Wang Jian's side fired 10,000 cannons, bombarding the Mongolian watchtower, and directly killing Meng Ge.
The Great Khan of the Mongol Empire died, and all of Europe was saved by Wang Jian.
However, Peng Daya died, Yu Jue died, and countless capable ministers died under the rule of the Song Dynasty, and half of the demise of such a dynasty was due to strong enemies on the outside, and half on internal decay.
Twenty years later, Kublai Khan came here and promised not to harm the lives of the people of Diaoyu City. Wang Jian saw that the general trend had gone, and Kaecheng surrendered. He and all the generals who defended the city committed suicide and martyrdom.
The Song Dynasty perished, but we must not forget these people who defended the country, nor can we simply think that the Song Dynasty soldiers were incompetent. If we think about it this way, how is it different from the mediocre emperor of the Song Dynasty.
A small Diaoyu City unjustly killed Peng Daya and Yu Jue, the entire Great Song Dynasty, I don't know how many generals are like this, and there are countless Yue Fei and Wang Jian that we don't know.
The Song Dynasty did not die from the weakness of the army, but from the corruption and mediocrity of the imperial court. Even so, he is a well-deserved world power with the first economy and the second most military.