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Do you know the other two "Three Masters of the Late Song Dynasty" in addition to Wen Tianxiang?

At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Yan, the King of Yi, who escaped from Lin'an City under the pursuit of the Yuan army, was proclaimed emperor by Zhang Shijie and Lu Xiufu, known in history as Song Duanzong, in order to avoid the pursuit of the Yuan Dynasty general Liu Shen at sea, Duanzong, who was hiding in Guangzhou Bay, fell into the sea and died of excessive illness, only ten years old!

The country could not be left without a monarch for a day, and Zhang Shijie once again supported Duanzong's younger brother Zhao Fu as emperor, that is, the historical Song Huaizong, who was only five years old when he ascended the throne, and fled to Yashan in Guangdong under the escort of Zhang Shijie, preparing to resist the Yuan army at Yashan.

Wen Tianxiang led his army to resist the Yuan army's attack in Guangdong and Jiangxi, and soon after being captured by the Yuan army at Wupoling, the Song army at Yakou became the only remaining anti-Yuan force! After being cut off by the Yuan army, there was only a desperate attempt to break through, and finally Zhang Shijie broke through with the remnants of his soldiers to escape!

The defeated Song army made Lu Xiufu desperate, and the difference in strength between the two sides also made him aware of the inevitable defeat of the Song army, fearing that Song Huaizong would be taken captive to Mongolia after surrendering to the Yuan army, so he carried the seven-year-old Song Huaizong and jumped into the sea.

Zhang Shijie, who broke through and escaped, was disheartened after learning the news of Song Huaizong's death, and was soon swept into the sea by the typhoon and killed!

In order to commemorate the loyalty of Zhang Shijie, Lu Xiufu and Wen Tianxiang, posterity referred to them as the "Three Masters of the Late Song Dynasty". Since then, the Song Dynasty, which has lasted for more than three hundred years, has died!

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