In 1256 AD, on the golden list of the Southern Song Dynasty, two heroic teenagers who had been glorious for thousands of years were born. One of them was named Wen Tianxiang and the other was named Lu Xiufu.
When the heroic teenager of the Southern Song Dynasty was born, mongolia in the north also rose day by day. In 1271, Kublai Khan saw that the surrounding small countries of Western Xia, Western Liao, and Jin were all in vain, and the Yuan Dynasty's hegemony of unifying the north was basically completed, and he could not help but turn his greedy eyes to the Long-coveted Southern Song Dynasty.
In 1272, the Yuan army marched south by land and water, and came to Xiangyang in a mighty wave, and the Battle of The Mongol (Yuan) song began.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" >01 Battle of The Mongols and Song Dynasties</h1>
In Xiangyang City that year, there was no Guo Jing Huang Rong who was stuck in the isolated city, and there were no fireworks for Guo Xiang's 16-year-old. As far as the eye can see, there are only the endless killings of the Yuan army, as well as the scorched earth and broken walls left behind after the city is broken.
The news of the destruction of Xiangyang City soon reached Lin'an, but the Yuan army seemed to attack faster than the battle. Before the Southern Song Dynasty could react, it heard the Yuan army attack Ankang, and the soldiers pointed directly at Lin'an.
The city of Lin'an was immediately in chaos, and the courtiers who were full of loyalty and filial piety and righteousness in their daily lives did not turn their heads and left the 5-year-old Song Gong Emperor to run away, and the empress dowager Xie Daoqing specially rebuked the officials who ran away:
"For more than three hundred years, I have treated the scholars with courtesy. Now I have suffered mondo with the new king, and none of you, the great and small courtiers, have come out to save the country. What do we have to be sorry for everyone? Your courtiers and rebel officials have left, and the local guards have ordered the city to abandon the city... What is the promise of reading the books of the sages on weekdays? But at this time, when this measure was made, how could he be born to face people, and how could he die to see the emperor? ”
The Song Dynasty is about to die, and everyone knows it. Even if the empress dowager righteously condemned the officials, she could not stop officials at all levels from abandoning their officials and fleeing for their lives.
The court of the Southern Song Dynasty was suddenly empty. At this moment of crisis, Wen Tianxiang, then the governor of Ganzhou, suddenly stood up. He scattered his family wealth, pieced together from east to west, organized an anti-Yuan army of tens of thousands of people, and marched towards Lin'an to serve the king.
A friend advised him: "What is the difference between the Yuan soldiers and the three roads directly approaching Lin'an, but you are taking a ragtag crowd of more than 10,000 people to hit the stone with a pebble, what is the difference between this and driving a flock of sheep into the tiger's mouth?" ”
But Wen Tianxiang said: "I don't know that this little bit of manpower in my hand is not enough to see at all, but now that the country is in danger, no one has ridden to defend the country, I am powerless to change the status quo, and I can only fight for the country's life." ”
Unfortunately, Wen Tianxiang's enthusiasm could not be exchanged for a miracle after all. The anti-Yuan army he led encountered a frontal battle with the Yuan army at Yuqiao, Jiangsu, where Wen Tianxiang was defeated and his men were slaughtered by the Yuan army and had to retreat to Yuhang.
At such a point, Wen Tianxiang still wanted to do one last part for Great Song. Therefore, he put aside his personal life and death, as a negotiator of the Southern Song Dynasty, and went to the Yuan army camp to negotiate with the commander of the Yuan army, Boyan.
As a result, Wen Tianxiang was unsurprisingly detained by the Yuan army, and only ten days later, the Southern Song Dynasty gave up its last resistance, and the widows surrendered to the Yuan army with the 5-year-old Song Gong Emperor.
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Three months after the fall of Lin'an, another hero of the Southern Song Dynasty, Junjie Lu Xiufu, ascended the throne in Fuzhou at the age of 7, Zhao Yan, known in history as Emperor Duanzong of Song. After the Yuan army discovered that the Southern Song Dynasty had established a new monarch, it stepped up the pace of destroying the Southern Song Dynasty, and Fuzhou, where Song Duanzong lived, soon fell under the attack of the Yuan army, and the Southern Song monarchs had to go into exile.
Song Duanzong and his party originally wanted to flee to Leizhou by boat, but unexpectedly encountered a big wind and wave at sea, and Duanzong's imperial boat capsized, causing Duanzong to fall into the water and become ill, and soon he died suddenly.
After Duanzong's death, Lu Xiufu and others embraced Duanzong's younger brother, Zhao Fu, who was also the only surviving bloodline of the Southern Song Dynasty, as emperor, and led 170,000 soldiers and civilians to retreat to Xinhui, Guangdong, and launched a final battle with the Yuan soldiers.
The great war broke out on the sea surface of Yashan Mountain, and thousands of ships of the Song army lined up in a row to form a series of large arrays to protect Zhao Fu's imperial boat in the middle, and the Yuan army sent small boats, full of thatch and cream and other flammable materials, to sail to the Song army by the wind, preparing to burn the Song army warships.
However, the Song army had already smeared wet mud on the ships, and also placed a long log on each boat, crushing the Yuan army's fire attack plan in minutes. The Yuan army failed to make a plan and immediately switched to ambush warfare. They pretended to play music and feast, secretly sent a ship building buried with ambush soldiers to approach the Song army, and then suddenly attacked, killing the Song army and defeating it, destroying countless warships, and the sea surface was stained dark red by the blood of the Song soldiers.
Seeing that the general trend had gone, Lu Xiufu sadly told the little emperor: The country is already like this, and it must not be humiliated again.
After speaking, Lu Xiufu resolutely picked up the 8-year-old little emperor and turned and jumped into the rough South China Sea.
Heaven and earth are sorrowful, the sun and the moon are weeping together, and the mountains and rivers are whimpering. After the martyrdom of the little emperor, the remaining more than 100,000 Southern Song Dynasty soldiers and civilians followed the little emperor to jump into the sea and commit suicide, and the history records: "The floating corpses came from the sea more than 100,000 people."
Cliff mountains and seawater, 100,000 loyal souls. Under the waves of the Angry Sea, the last strand of blood of the Southern Song Dynasty was buried, and the entire Chinese civilization was buried.
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Wen Tianxiang, who was detained on the ship of the Yuan Army, witnessed the whole process of the destruction of the Southern Song Dynasty, and he wrote sadly "February 6, the great war at sea, the state affairs are not good, the lone minister Tianxiang, sitting in the north boat, weeping to the south, for the poem.")
On the enemy's ship, watching his own country destroy, this is too ironic for Wen Tianxiang, who destroyed his family to relieve his difficulties.
But the Yuan army did not think so, they saw the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, they felt that Wen Tianxiang should surrender, so they sent someone to lure Wen Tianxiang down: "You have fulfilled your loyalty and filial piety to the Southern Song Dynasty, and now that your country is dead, you might as well surrender to the Great Yuan." ”
After hearing this, Wen Tianxiang said with tears in his eyes: "The death of the country cannot be saved, and those who are subjects of human beings have more than one sin in their deaths, so how can they betray the country and not live and die with it?" ”
The Yuan army did not die, took Wen Tianxiang to Dadu, and then arranged for Emperor Gong of Song, who had already surrendered, to persuade Wen Tianxiang to surrender. When Emperor Gong of Song appeared in front of Wen Tianxiang dressed in a Mongolian costume, Wen Tianxiang hurriedly knelt down and said, "The subject cannot protect the Great Song, causing His Majesty to be deeply ashamed today." Holy driver please return, holy car please return! ”
Emperor Gong of Song cried back, and Kublai Khan realized that Wen Tianxiang and the Southern Song officials who rushed to surrender were not at all the same people.
Out of respect for Wen Tianxiang's backbone, Kublai Khan still wanted to fight for it again, he personally interrogated Wen Tianxiang, and when they met, he asked Wen Tianxiang: "Do you have any wishes?" ”
Wen Tianxiang said, "May the death of one of the bestowals be enough!" ”
Kublai Khan suddenly understood that he could conquer the lands of the Southern Song Dynasty, but he could never shake Wen Tianxiang's loyalty to the country.
Kublai Khan waved his hand wearily, and several Yuan soldiers pushed Wen Tianxiang to the execution ground. Before being executed, Wen Tianxiang first knelt down and bowed in the direction of the Great Song, and then calmly went to death.
The butcher knife fell, at that moment, Wen Tianxiang did not know what he remembered, was it the first rain of apricot blossoms that year, his high school was full of vigor, or the battle of Yashan, the land of China fell to foreign tribes?
When the wind suddenly rose, the two young heroes under the gold list that year completed the road of their lives, and also used the choice of no regrets in this life to tell the world: even if the lone minister is in danger and difficult to support, he should do his best to defend his homeland. Even if it is defeated, it should be defeated to be loyal and courageous, and the arrogance will last forever.
Author: Guest author Zhu Yingyuejiang
Reference: History of the Song Dynasty