In the sky of 1273, the smoke was everywhere, the Mongol iron horse swept across the Eurasian continent, the blade pointed to the place, all invincible, in March of the same year, the town of Xiangfan was attacked by the Yuan army, and the late Southern Song Dynasty was even more crumbling under the cold north wind.
In 1274, the Yuan Emperor Kublai Khan issued an edict to march on land and water to destroy the Song Dynasty. Yuan Cheng Xiang Boyan led an army of 200,000 and invaded all the way south, pointing his sword at Lin'an.
At this time in the Southern Song Dynasty, Song Duzong fell ill and died, the traitorous minister Jia Xiangdao monopolized power, supported the 4-year-old Zhao Xian as emperor, originally wanted to claim a vassal to the north, in order to seek Gou An, but yuan refused to negotiate peace, continued to invade the south, the Southern Song court had to issue a royal order, but under the powerful offensive of the Mongol army, the Song Dynasty, which had been weak for a long time, was already a building, the Song officials fled one after another, the Song Dynasty was in a depression, and the Song Dynasty was about to fall.
In 1276, the city of Lin'an was a miserable storm, at this time, above the Great Song Dynasty, there were only 6 people who came to the dynasty, and at this time, the Yuan army had already approached the city, the Yuan army once again refused the Song's proposal, Boyan entered Lin'an, and then captured the song dynasty's empress dowager north, and the Great Song Dynasty, which ruled for three hundred years, was declared dead.
The Southern Song Dynasty perished, but the soldiers and civilians everywhere who were not willing to be slaves to the country continued to persist in the battle against the Yuan Dynasty, and countless anti-Yuan heroes emerged, like Zhang Jue who guarded the Shu land in the town, with their own actions, showing the backbone of the Song people and drawing a beautiful chapter of the Great Song Dynasty with blood.
Zhang Jue, who joined the army at the age of 18, was promoted to the commander of the Chinese army because of his many military achievements, and was known as the "Sichuan General", who spent his life fighting against the Yuan Army, and finally reported the country with great strength, which made posterity sigh.
In 1258, the Mongol Great Khan Möngke launched a war of aggression against the Song Dynasty, intending to capture the Shu lands, and then marched eastward to capture Lin'an.
At the beginning, the war situation was as the Mongolian army wished, driving all the way down, the Song army was gradually defeated and retreated, and Sichuan was becoming more and more critical. However, in the attack on Hezhou, it encountered hard stubble.
At that time, the defender of Hezhou was Wang Jian, and the general was Zhang Jue, and the two of them were in Hezhou Diaoyu City, fortifying and defending.
First of all, he killed the Jin national treasure sent by Meng Ge to persuade him to surrender, so that the army's voice was greatly enhanced, and the people's hearts and minds were unified. Later, with the Meng Ge army in Diaoyu City, launched a fierce offensive and defensive battle, which lasted for five months, trapping the Mongol army under the city, it was difficult to move, so that the morale of the Mongolian army was low, and then in the battle, the commander Möngke was wounded, and Möngke returned to the camp and died of his wounds, and the Mongol army had to retreat.
Möngke's death left the Mongol throne vacant, and In order to compete for the throne, Kublai Khan had to return to the north. The victory in the Battle of Hezhou reversed the entire situation, allowing the dying Southern Song Dynasty to escape the crisis of the subjugation of the country.
In 1266, Zhang Jue, who became the commander of the Song army, sent shi Zhao and Wang Li to lead fifty brave soldiers to enter from the west gate with axes and retake the city of Pingshan and Huxiangshan.
In April of the following year, the Mongol Pingzhang Saiqu Chi raised tens of thousands of troops to break through the Chongqing defense line, taking the road out of Hezhou City, Zhang Jue moored his boat in the river at The Dragon Creek, cut off the river surface to build a water city, resisted, and once again thwarted the offensive of tens of thousands of Mongol troops.
Since then, Zhang Jue has stabilized the situation, and at the same time formulated policies to prepare for long-term resistance to the enemy, one is to use the army to protect farming, and the other is to teach the people to reclaim fields and store grain in the inner education, and in less than two months, the public and private uses are sufficient.
In 1271, Kublai Khan changed the name of the country to Dayuan, and the following year, he issued an edict to launch a war against the Song.
At this time, Zhang Jue had already built a city in Yisheng Mountain, which was across the river from Diaoyu City, to strengthen the defensive ability of Diaoyu City.
In the first month of 1273, the Yuan army stabbed into the Diaoyu City, and after Zhang Jue got the news, he devised a strategy and attacked the rear road of the Yuan army with his troops, "so "Zhang Suspected Soldier Jiaqukou", and "submarine division crossed the Pingyang Beach", attacked the second city, burned the Money and Grain Equipment of the Yuan Army, crossed the village for seventy miles, burned the shipyard, and the Yuan army commanded Zhou Hu to die in battle. Not only did it defeat the Yuan army's attack, but it also broke the Yuan army's plan to build a city in the second place and control the mouth of the river in an attempt to take Hezhou.
In 1275, the Yuan army invaded on a large scale, occupying luzhou, Xuzhou and other cities, and then jointly attacked Chongqing, they set up floating beams in the Yangtze River and Jialing River, blocked foreign aid, besieged Chongqing, and Chongqing aided and ran out of food. Although Zhang Jue was still guarding Hezhou, he did not give up on Chongqing, "repeatedly entering the city with dead soldiers, Xu Yi to help, and drawing a royal plan for it."
In order to relieve the situation of Chongqing's long-term siege, Zhang Jue sent his troops to attack Qingju City, where the Yuan army's Marshal's Office was located, first sent Zhang Wan to rush into Chongqing from the waterway with ships and ships to reinforce the Chongqing defenders, and then joined forces with the Chongqing army to attack Luzhou, and befriended the Luzhou warriors Liu Lin and Xian Kunpeng as an internal response, Zhang Jue recaptured Luzhou, the Yuan army was forced to gradually retreat from Chongqing, and the siege of Chongqing was lifted.
At this time, the Southern Song court, led by Emperor Gong of Song and Empress Dowager Xie, had surrendered to the Yuan army.
In 1276, Zhang Jue, as the deputy envoy of Sichuan and the prefect of Chongqing, led troops into Chongqing and began the final struggle of his life.
At the end of the same year, the Yuan army attacked Sichuan again, and soon began to besiege Chongqing in five ways and besieged Chongqing.
At this time, the grain in Chongqing city was exhausted, and the Yuan army repeatedly advised Zhang Jue to surrender, but Zhang Jue refused. However, his subordinates Zhao An and Han Zhongxian wanted to surrender, and they opened the west gate of the town at night to introduce the Yuan army.
Zhang Jue led his troops to fight in the alley, the strength was not enough, went back to ask for the wine to drink, but the people on the left and right hid the wine, helpless, could only use a small boat to carry his wife and children east to Fuzhou, halfway indignant, wanted to use the axe to cut the boat and plan to sink himself, the boatman took the axe and threw it into the Yangtze River, Zhang Jue jumped up again and wanted to throw water, and was held by his family and could not die. The next day, The Yuan soldiers pursued him to Fuzhou, captured him and sent him to the Beijing Division, and chongqing fell from then on.
On the way to the capital of Yuan, passing through Zhao Lao'an in Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, Zhang Jue, who was deeply angry about the fall of the country, took off his bowstring and hanged himself in the toilet, and martyred himself.
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