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Chapter 214 Yashan Naval Battle
My charming and short-lived ancestor: Ahhhhhh! That is to say, Erfengniubi
I send my thoughts to the bright moon: I agree! Erfeng is really a good fighter

Who in the clouds sent me a brocade book: Yes, among the emperors, he is the best at fighting. The one who can fight better than him is not the emperor.
I can’t sleep at night (Guan):? ? ? What about Genghis Khan?

Even the mist is gone: Genghis Khan did not proclaim himself emperor

The pig came to the bowl quickly: I totally agree!

Su Yue also saw the comment and said: "I also think that among the emperors, Li Shimin is the most powerful in fighting! But now is not the time to praise Li Shimin. The next battle will be miserable! And it is said that there will be no Huaxia after this battle! It is the Battle of Yashan. !”

In the first month of the second year of Xiangxing (1279), Zhang Hongfan led the Yuan army to attack Yamen. The Yuan army arrived at Yashan one after another in mighty force, forming a three-sided siege on the Southern Song Dynasty.

Faced with tremendous pressure, Zhang Shijie thought hard day and night about strategies to defeat the enemy.

An aide suggested to Zhang Shijie that he should first occupy the exit of the bay and protect the retreat route to the west.

In order to prevent the soldiers from escaping, Zhang Shijie rejected the suggestion and ordered the burning of palaces, houses, and strongholds on the land. He also ordered more than a thousand Song Dynasty ships to be connected in a straight line in the bay with large ropes in the form of "serial ships", and arranged Zhao Bing's "dragon boat" was placed in the middle of the army.

The Yuan army carried flammable materials such as thatch and grease in small boats, and set fire to the Song ship in the wind.

However, the Song ships were all painted with mud, and a long log was placed across each ship to resist the Yuan army's fire attack.

The navy of the Yuan Dynasty failed to attack by fire, so it used the navy to block the bay, and used the army to cut off the Song army's way of collecting water and cutting firewood.

The Song army ate dry food for more than ten days, and those who drank sea water vomited.

Zhang Shijie led Su Liuyi and Fang Xingri to fight against the Yuan army. Zhang Hongfan captured Zhang Shijie's nephew Han, who tried to surrender to Zhang Shijie three times but failed.

On February 1279, Guiwei in the second year of Xiangxing (), Zhang Hongfan was preparing for a fierce attack. Someone in the Yuan army suggested using artillery first. Hongfan believed that artillery would disrupt the Song army's one-line formation and make it easier for them to retreat.

Tomorrow, Zhang Hongfan divided his army into four parts. One army was stationed on the east, south and north sides of the Song army. Hongfan himself led an army to be within a few miles of the Song army, and played music as a signal for a general attack.

First, the Northern Army took advantage of the tide to attack the northern side of the Song Army and failed. Li Heng and others retreated with the tide.

The Yuan army pretended to play music. After hearing this, the Song army thought that the Yuan army was having a banquet and relaxed a little.

At noon, Zhang Hongfan's navy launched a frontal attack, and then used cloth to cover the shipbuilding that had been built in advance and where the ambush was laid, and used gold as a signal to attack.

The ambushes were lying down with their shields on their backs, and they approached the Song ship under the rain of arrows. The ships on both sides approached, and the Yuan army ordered the troops to retreat and fight, destroying seven Song ships in a row. The Song division was defeated, and the Yuan army fought all the way to the center of the Song army.

At this time, Zhang Shijie had already seen that the situation was over, so he mobilized his elite troops, and had already led the remaining ten ships with Su Liuyi to cut off the big ropes and break out of the encirclement.

On March 1279, the second year of Xiangxing (), the Battle of Yashan ended and the Song Dynasty was declared destroyed.

Zhao Bing's ship was in the middle of the army. Seeing that he could not break out, the 43-year-old Lu Xiufu jumped into the sea with eight-year-old Zhao Bing on his back. More than 100,000 soldiers and civilians accompanied him also jumped into the sea.

After the war, more than 100,000 corpses floated into the sea.

Zhang Shijie hoped to find a descendant of the Zhao family of the Song Dynasty in the name of Empress Dowager Yang (Concubine Yang Shu), and then try to succeed her. However, Empress Dowager Yang also went to the sea to commit suicide after hearing the news of Song Emperor Bing's death, and Zhang Shijie buried her at the seaside.

Not long after, Zhang Shijie unfortunately drowned and died at the foot of Pingzhang Mountain in a heavy storm (about the sea opposite Hailing Island southwest of YJ City, GD Province today).

One day after the Yamen naval battle, that is, on the morning of February 10, corpses were found floating on the sea.

Lu Xiufu's body was found by the people and buried; while the body of the young emperor Zhao Bing was found by the Yuan army. A handsome boy wearing a dragon robe, a crown on his head, and a jade seal hanging on his body was seen.

Yuan Bing handed the jade seal to Zhang Hongfan. Zhang Hongfan confirmed that the child was Zhao Bing and sent someone to retrieve it. However, Zhao Bing's body was missing.

It is said that it was buried by the people in Chiwan Village, Shenzhen, Guangdong, and it still exists today.

After the Yashan naval battle, the Song Dynasty fell. Zhang Hongfan, a general of the Yuan Dynasty, ordered his people to carve twelve characters on the cliff of Yashan: "General Zhang Hongfan of Zhenguo destroyed the Song Dynasty here."

In the 1486nd year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty (), Xu Mao, the censor, hated the twelve characters on the strange stone and ordered them to be removed. He wanted to change the inscription to the nine characters "Song Prime Minister Lu Xiufu died here".

Chen Baisha believes that when the Song Dynasty died, tens of thousands of people died, not only Lu Xiufu. It is appropriate to write, "The Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty, Lu Xiufu, was buried under this stone in spite of the emperor."

Because there was no debate, it was never completed.

There is a legend that when Chen Baisha went to pay his respects at Yamen, he added the word "Song" on the head of the monument, which became "Zhang Hongfan, the general of the Song Dynasty, destroyed the Song Dynasty here". (This legend is untrue. Chen Baisha knew that although Zhang Hongfan was Han, he had never been a Song general.)
At the beginning of liberation, the original carved stone was blown up by the waterway department. In the autumn of 1964, the Xinhui County People's Committee asked Comrade Tian Han to write large cursive characters "The Young Emperor of the Song Dynasty and the Prime Minister Lu Xiufu died here" and engraved them on the strange rocks near the shore.

Finally, this monumental monument was erected.