Chapter 452 The Southern Song Dynasty fell.

{In fact, both Kublai Khan and Ariq Böke were orthodox. The four khanates supported Ariq Böke because they opposed Kublai Khan's sinicization.}
{Afterwards, Kublai Khan defeated Ariq Böke and founded the Yuan Dynasty and the Mongol Empire. The four khanates were dissatisfied and declared independence. Thus, the Mongol Empire was divided, and the Yuan Dynasty was not recognized as the orthodox status of the Mongol Empire.}
{It was not until 1304 that the four khanates that had split off nominally submitted to the Yuan Dynasty again and recognized the Yuan Dynasty's legitimacy.}
{Kublai Khan, with the strong support of a group of northern Han people, fought all the way from Hebei to the Mongolian base camp and captured Ariq Böke.}
{The Han people at that time were divided between the north and the south for a long time, and the Liao and Jin dynasties had both ravaged the two Song dynasties. They were generally different from the people of the Song Dynasty. They strongly supported Kublai Khan's establishment of the Yuan Dynasty.}
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Big man.

"Song Chao...you really are..."

It can make the people in the north despise it to this extent.

How can you have the nerve to call yourself orthodox!
wrong……

The Southern Song Dynasty was no longer a unified country!

Liu Bang looked at the sky.

"It all depends on how the Song Dynasty ended."

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Song
Zhao Kuangyin knelt on his knees and prayed devoutly.

"The king dies for the country... The king dies for the country..."

Zhao Kuangyi woke up slowly and looked over here.

Half crazy...

We have to find a way to get him to go out and fight the Liao Kingdom!
Zhao Kuangyi looked at his bandaged right arm.

If he stays any longer, I will be tortured to death by him!
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Great Jin Dynasty - King Sejong
Wanyan Yong looked at the sky.

The capital of the Jin Dynasty...

After calming down, he began to think about something.

Should we destroy Song first or sweep the grassland first?

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Great Mongol Empire
Temujin looked gloomy.

"It seems that my descendants have forgotten my teachings."

“No one cares about the four words ‘work together’.”

There was total silence in the big tent.

"Let them come to me."

Temujin looked at Yixiangge, who was sweating profusely.

"Let Ogedei, Tolui and the others come to see me immediately!"

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[In 1261 AD, Liu Zheng, the garrison commander of Luzhou in the Southern Song Dynasty, surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty with households and counties under his jurisdiction, because he was punished by Jia Sidao for "planning to collect military money and food."]

[Kublai Khan appointed him as governor of Kuifu and concurrently as pacification envoy.]

In 1267, Liu Zheng came to the court and offered advice to Kublai Khan: "The ruler of Song is weak and the ministers are rebellious. The country has been established in a corner. Today is the opportunity to unify the country. I am willing to serve you like a dog and a horse. I will first attack Xiangyang and remove the enemy's defenses."

【Further persuasion: "Since ancient times, the emperors who did not treat the whole world as one would not be orthodox. The holy dynasty has 17 or 18 parts of the world, why do you ignore a small corner and abandon the orthodoxy?"】

[In June 1268, Kublai Khan appointed him and Marshal Ashu to lead the army to launch an offensive against the Xiangyang area.]

[In July, in addition to the original Henan and Shandong military headquarters, the East and West Sichuan Military Headquarters were re-established, with Liu Zheng as the commander-in-chief, and he discussed military affairs with the commander-in-chief A Shu.]

[He also established military farms in Henan to provide for the military.]

【Liu Zheng then built forts at Baihekou and Lumen Mountain east of Xiangyang City to cut off its connection with the Handong area and cut off Xiangyang's food supply route.】

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The period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty
"Traitor! You deserve to die!"

What Liu Che hated most was people like Zhonghang Shuo!

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Ji Han.

Sun Quan showed off his home advantage.

He gestured on the desk and said:
"The Yuan Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty were in a stalemate along the Lianghuai, Xianghan and central Sichuan lines."

"The Huaidong area has many rivers and deep currents, which are not conducive to the Mongol knights' operations."

"Huaixi controls the Huai River and has stationed heavy troops to support Huaidong."

"In the Sichuan and Shu regions, there are mountain cities that are tenaciously defended, and the Yuan army is eager to find a way to capture them."

"In comparison, the Xianghan region is like the soft underbelly of a thousand-mile-long snake."

"Xiangyang and Fancheng are isolated and exposed on the front line, making them vulnerable to attack."

"If the Yuan army captures Xiangfan, Ezhou, an important town in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, will lose its protection."

"If Ezhou is not defended, the Southern Song Dynasty's thousand-mile river defense will be breached from the middle, cutting it in two, and the connection between Sichuan and the imperial court will be cut off."

"To the east, there is the opportunity to go along the river, and to the south, the gateway to Hunan and Xiang is also wide open."

"This is called Xiang, the backbone of the southeast. Without Xiang, a country cannot be established."

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[In 1269 AD, the Mongolian army built a long siege, starting from Wanshan Mountain and surrounding Baizhang Mountain, making it impossible to connect the north and the south.]

[They also built a city in a straight line between Xian Mountain and Hutou Mountain, connecting the various forts and cutting off the roads to Xiang, Fan, Qiao and Su, as a plan for a long-term siege.]

[A new city was built west of the Han River, completing the encirclement of the two cities. ]

[In 1270 AD, a ring city was built to trap Xiangyang. At the same time, a fort was built at Wanshan to cut off the traffic to the west of the Han River, and a fence was built at Guanzitan to block the passage to the east.]

【Xiang and Fan have become isolated cities surrounded by the Yuan army. 】

[The Song army tried to rescue them many times, but they all failed and retreated.]

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On the canopy.

South Gate of Xiangyang City

The Yuan army was adjusting a catapult. A moment later.

"boom!"

There was a loud bang, as if the ground was cracking and the mountain was collapsing, and most of the watchtower collapsed.

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[In November 1272, the outer wall of Fancheng was breached, and Kublai Khan sent giant catapults from the Ilkhanate to be placed under the city of Fancheng. The cannonballs weighed kilograms.]

[“It takes little effort and the strike reaches great distances.” “When the machine is fired, the sound shakes heaven and earth, and everything it strikes is destroyed, penetrating seven feet into the ground.”]

[In the first month of 1273, Fancheng was captured, and the defending general Niu Fu "led hundreds of soldiers to fight in the streets, with countless casualties." ]

[Finally, he was severely injured and died in the fire by hitting his head against a pillar.]

[General Wang Fu saw Niu Fu die in the line of duty and sighed: "The general died for the country, how can I live alone!" He "also went to the fire and died"]

[Lü Wenhuan, who had been trapped in Xiangyang for five years, was eventually defeated and surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty. ]

[Fan Tianshun, the commander-in-chief of Jinghu, sighed to the sky: "I was born as a minister of the Song Dynasty, and I will be a ghost of the Song Dynasty after I die."]

[He was hanged to death immediately at the place where he was guarding]

[At this point, the Battle of Xiangfan, which lasted for more than five years, ended with the defeat of the Song army.]

[Ezhou also fell, and the twelve prefectures and states along the Yangtze River, the main defense strongholds, surrendered one after another.]

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{It is indeed remarkable that the Southern Song Dynasty could resist the Mongols for so long. The Song people deserved the Emperor Zhao. The Zhao family brought the Jingkang humiliation upon themselves. The rise and fall of the Song Dynasty were all caused by the suffering of the people.}
{The Song court really let down these loyal generals. Many brave generals were not used because of the Song court's exclusion and even defected to the Mongols.}
{The Song people really did their best for the Zhao family. They were able to resist the Mongols for decades even though the Mongols mobilized all the resources from the northern Han areas to the Eastern European grasslands. This was already the strongest record during the Mongol conquest era.}
{How should I put it? If Jia Sidao had not implemented the military planning method, he would not have been able to raise military funds. Jia Sidao collected money from both civil officials and military generals, and the civil officials also implemented the public land system. This is why he was criticized like that.}
{It can only be said that it is really powerless to fight against Mongolia, which rules most of the known earth, with only a small corner of the southeast. Everything you do will be wrong.}
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The period of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty
"The people suffer when the country is prosperous or destroyed..."

Liu Heng stared at this sentence in a daze.

"It is truly a wise saying."

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The period of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty
"How many loyal ministers and generals sacrificed their lives for this weak Song Dynasty."

Liu Qi shook his head.

"It's not worth it!"

Little Liu Che stared at the "Huihui Cannon"

I wonder if this thing can be used to fight the Huns?

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Great Sui.

Yang Jian twirled his beard.

"At this time, the Southern Song Dynasty can only rely on crazy investment in the fort system and delegate military power to each other to recruit soldiers."

"If there were more forces like Diaoyucheng, the tug-of-war between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty could have lasted a long, long time."

"At least there is no big problem with the current confrontation between the North and South Dynasties."

Dugu Jialuo rolled her eyes at him.

"It's easy to say, then all kinds of calculations can be made."

"It is obvious that the Southern Song Dynasty's finances have collapsed."

"Where is the money?"

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[In March 1274 AD, Kublai Khan led an army of hundreds of thousands to attack the Song Dynasty]

[In July, Boyan and Ashu took Ezhou, Hanyang and other places from the central route, and went east along the Yangtze River to take Huangzhou, Qizhou, Jiangzhou, Anqing, Chizhou and other places.]

[In the same month, Emperor Duzong of Song died, and his son Zhao succeeded him at the age of four, known in history as Emperor Gong of Song]

[In February 1275, he defeated Jia Sidao's army at Dingjiazhou, captured Taipingzhou and Chuzhou, and conquered Jiankang. He also surrendered Zhenjiang without a fight.]

[In July, Ah Shu defeated the Song general Zhang Shijie and his fleet on the waters of Zhenjiang. Since then, the Song people have been "no longer able to fight"]

[In September, Bayan took the route to Yidu and joined forces with the Huaidong Commander-in-Chief Boluhuan to capture Huai'an City, break through Baoying Army, capture Gaoyou, besiege Yangzhou, and return to Jiankang.]

[In the first month of 1276, the Yuan army approached Lin'an. Countless high-ranking officials of the Song court, from the prime minister down, abandoned their posts and fled privately, leaving the court empty.]

【The Empress Dowager Xie Daoqing of the Southern Song Dynasty led Emperor Gongzong of Song Zhao Fengbiao to surrender. 】

【The Fall of the Southern Song Dynasty】

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Later Zhou Dynasty: Emperor Shizong's reign
Guo Rong let out a long sigh.

"A country is won with orphans and widows, and a country is lost with orphans and widows."

"Every sip and every bite is destined by heaven, isn't it?"

Zhao Kuangyin, who was standing aside, looked gloomy.

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Great Song.

Zhao Kuangyin had a complicated expression.

"Just like that...died?"

He looked dazed.

"It's better to die..."

"So as to avoid further torture..."

But there is the precedent of the Jin Dynasty...they are still inferior to others in terms of death...

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Song Taizong period
Zhao Kuangyi stared blankly at the sky.

"The Song Dynasty...is dead."

(End of this chapter)

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