The Death of the Way

On the 21st, Jia Rudao was demoted to the deputy envoy of the Gaozhou regiment and exiled to Xunzhou on the Guangnan East Road. If you don't have any money, you can set off on the day!

Is this still too light on the face of it? But the person who escorted Jia Rudao on the road had a very insider story: Zheng Huchen, the county lieutenant of Huiji!

County Lieutenant Zheng's father was once assigned to the army by Jia Rudao, and he had already wanted to take revenge! This time, his wish came true, and the imperial court actually named him to do it, he was so happy!

Zheng Huchen happily rushed to the Kaiyuan Temple in Jianning Mansion and began to carry out the escort mission! first expelled Jia Nidao's concubines, and then removed the sedan chair that Jia Nidao was sitting on, and the poisonous sun in the southern summer suddenly hit Jia Nidao's head! Just like that, he went all the way to Xunzhou. Along the way, the sedan chair men and miscellaneous servants "sang Hangzhou songs, each of them reprimanded like a road, and the embarrassment was doubled" but Jia was unmoved, insisting on not dying for nearly 2 months...

At the beginning, Zhang Shi was an outstanding soldier, and Wang Gong once played "Chen, stay in the two phases, it is advisable to have one person to supervise Wumen." If neither of them wants to go, then although the old minister is powerless, he is willing to serve the death to seal the territory" This piece was suppressed by Chen Yizhong and not reported. Now that Zhang Shijie's troops have defeated Jiaoshan, he asks the imperial court to increase troops and fight again. Wang Gong and Chen Yizhong had another contradiction. Wang Gong played again: "Now Chen, Liu, and the two prime ministers are also the governors. On the military side, the minister could not predict. The great enemy is in the territory, and the court is infighting. Zhang Shijie was also defeated by the centrifugal generals! What else does the minister do? It's better to resign," but Empress Dowager Xie didn't allow it.

And Beijing student Liu Jiugao and others wrote a letter to impeach Chen Yizhong for abusing power and misleading the country. On the 22nd, Chen Yizhong, who was enraged, said goodbye without saying goodbye. Empress Dowager Xie sent envoys to recall her four times, but Chen Yizhong ignored them. The helpless Empress Dowager issued an edict on the 23rd: put Liu Jiugao in the Lin'an Mansion Prison and depose Wang Gong for the important military affairs of Pingzhang. Go and ask Chen Yizhong to return to the court...

On the 24th, Xia Gui was crowned as the deputy envoy of the privy council, the ambassador of the two Huai Xuanfu and the governor of Luzhou, and ordered him to exchange with Zhu Huan, the deputy envoy of Huaidong and the governor of Yangzhou. He also summoned Li Tingzhi to return to the court. Xia Gui did not obey the edict, and Zhu Huan still returned to Yangzhou. Li Tingzhi can't either. On the same day, Wen Tianxiang was appointed as the secretary of the military department. The signing of the Privy Council member Gauss had to be dismissed. On the 26th, Chen Wenlong was appointed as a member of the Privy Council with the same signature. On the 27th, the imperial court pursued Shi Songzhi. Cut it off.

This month, after Chengdu Fulu pacified Zan Wanshou and lowered the yuan, the two Sichuan counties lowered the yuan one after another, and Zhang Jue, the defender of the Dudiaoyu City, stuck to Chongqing Mansion on Kuizhou Road and resolutely did not surrender. Kublai Khan ordered it to be besieged heavily...

This month, Boyan arrived in Shangdu. To the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, Kublai Khan, asked to enter the army, and Kublai Khan named Boyan as the right prime minister. Boyan said, "Ah Shu has a lot of merit, and the ministers are good at living", so Ah Shu was appointed as the left prime minister...

After the Battle of Jiaoshanshui, the war situation was clear. The Southern Song Dynasty no longer had a mobile force to stop the Yuan army. Kublai Khan issued an edict that "if the Song monarch and ministers come to attach, the Zhao clan can be safe, and the temple will be as promised" The Yuan army divided labor again: Boyan led the main force to Lin'an, Ashu still attacked Huainan, Ali Hague took Hunan, Song Du Muda, Wuxiu, Zhang Rongshi, Li Heng, Lv Shikui and others took Jiangxi. The focus is always on Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty!

The main force of Boyan's Yuan army swept across the land south of the Yangtze River like a whirlwind cloud, attacking all along the way, and surrendering all of them. Witnessed the legendary paradise-like beautiful and rich peach blossom stone world, and reveled in the light-hearted attack like chopping melons and vegetables... Kublai Khan told him to kill carefully. What else are you killing? This time I came, I saw, I conquered... Until Changzhou City, which is close to Liangzhejiang West Road!

On August 1, Mao Xianzhong led the Qinwang army of Quzhou on the East Zhejiang Road to arrive. On the 4th, Right Zhengyan Xu Zhifang said goodbye without saying goodbye. Li Fu was crowned the ambassador of Nanzhenfu on Jinghu South Road and the governor of Tanzhou. On the 7th, Wu Jiming recovered Pingjiang County, Yuezhou, Jinghu North Road, and was sealed as a messenger on Jinghu North Road. On the 19th, Zhang Shijie was crowned as the commander of the four compartments of the Dragon Shenwei. Soldiers of the Governor's Palace. On the 12th, Liu Shiyong regained Lucheng Town, Zhenjiang Prefecture, Liangzhejiang West Road. On the 20th, the seal and the state defense envoy.

On the 26th, Wen Tianxiang arrived in Lin'an. Shang Shu Jian yƬ "This dynasty cut down the feudal town due to the rebellion of the five seasons. But it was overkill. Therefore, if the enemy reaches a state, a state will be broken, and a county will be broken, and the Central Plains will be sunk, and how much regret will be made! Now I request that the whole territory of the Song Kingdom be divided into four towns: the Marshal's Mansion in Changsha with Guangxi Yihunan, the Marshal's Mansion in Longxing with the Yijiangxi in Guangdong, the Marshal's Mansion in Fanyang with the Yijiangdong of Fujian, and the Marshal's Mansion in Yangzhou with Huaixi Yihuaidong. After that, Changsha was ordered to take Hubei; Longxing takes Qi and Huang; Fanyang takes Jiangdong; Yangzhou takes two Huai. Only by making a strong presence on the ground can we resist the enemy. The enemy's armament is divided into many forces. Will be exhausted. And my hero, and out of it, so it is not difficult for the enemy to be the enemy, but "It's a pity that the prime minister of the dynasty, Liumengyan (Chen Yizhong has not come back yet), thinks it is broad." Drove Wen Tianxiang out of the imperial court. He went to serve as the prefect of Pingjiang Prefecture on Liangzhejiang West Road.

This month, Lian Xixian compiled the people of Jingnan, and set up a school, selected instructors, and placed scriptures. The news spread to the land of Bashu, Kuizhou Lusizhou Tian, Banzhou Yang and Southwest Xitong, all crossed the border and asked for surrender. Kublai Khan sighed when he heard this, "In the past, it was impossible to obtain a place with troops, but now Xixian can make thousands of miles away to cross the border, and its governance can be seen."

On September 2, Chen Yizhong, who was already at home in Wenzhou on Liangzhejiang East Road, was appointed as a scholar of the Guanwen Palace, an envoy and an attendant of Liquan, come back quickly! But Chen Yizhong still ignored it. On the 12th, Chen Yizhong begged for coastal defense, but the Empress Dowager Xie did not allow it. On the 19th, Wen Tianxiang was crowned as the Counselor of the Governor's Office, and the general third route soldier.

Besides, Zheng Huchen escorted Jia Rudao along the way. When he arrived at the bleak beach in Jianzhou, south of Fujian Road, Zheng Huchen said, "The water here is very clear, why don't you throw yourself into it and die" Jia Rudao shook his head, "The Empress Dowager promised me not to die" This is difficult to do, disobeying the holy decree to kill the court officials, this is a capital crime. But Zheng Huchen didn't care, he was determined to let Jia Rudao die, at any cost!

When he walked to the Zhangzhou Kapok Nunnery on Fujian Road, Jia seemed to have dysentery, and he had dozens of ejaculiation a day, making him dying, but he still didn't die! Zheng Huchen was on fire, he broke into the thatched house, grabbed Jia Rudao on the tiger (toilet) and punched and kicked him! After some exercise, I found that Jia Yidao was still not dead... Strange and depressed, Zheng Huchen raised the tiger and smashed it on Jia Yidao's head! This time, his wish has finally come true!

On the 19th, Jia Rudao died. Did he die in the righteousness of the country? Or will he die on personal vendetta and revenge? This is there for all to see! By the way: Zheng Huchen also died not long after, and was rushed to Fuzhou by Chen Yizhong, the real mastermind behind the scenes, to kill people and kill people!

When the country is in danger, the murder of traitors is so black-box operation, which is inferior to the farce of killing six thieves in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty!

Many people attribute the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty to Jia Nidao, and more people raise their hands in agreement: Jia Nidao is dictatorial and misguided the country, Jia Nidao kills military generals, and Jia Nidao ignores Xiangyang... How? Verify it with the words of the enemy!

In the same month that Emperor Gong of the Song Dynasty descended to the Yuan Dynasty and King Yi Zhao Yu established the first government-in-exile of the Southern Song Dynasty in Fuzhou, Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, summoned some important generals of the former Southern Song Dynasty in Dadu and asked him a big question that he did not understand, "Why did you surrender so easily?"

The generals were full of anger and collectively scolded "Jia seems to be a dictatorship." The courtesy of the scribes and the contempt of our generation, the ministers have been uneven for a long time, so they look forward to the wind and surrender"

What kind of person is Kublai Khan, who is wise and brave, and is never under the founding monarchs of the Central Plains, how can he be put down by a few regular-level sycophants? He laughed, "Jia Rudao really looks down on you, even so, it's just his fault." Has the Lord of the Song Kingdom ever owed you a debt? Why did you live up to Song En so lightly? In my opinion, Jia Rudao looks down on you, and he really should "break through the root of the word in one word!" Even though Jia seems to be bad, it can't cover up and erase his early achievements. You can't pay for other traitors and traitors! Everyone has their own things, how can Jia Rudao lead the entire Han nation to decline?

Du Shizhong and He Wenshu, who were sent by Kublai Khan to Japan for another mission, arrived in Dazaifu in April. After that, we went to Kamakura, the seat of the shogunate. On September 7th, Hojo Tokimune beheaded more than 30 people at the mouth of the dragon on the outskirts of Kamakura, and beheaded the outside of the castle! Only 4 Goryeo sailors were released to report back to China... Kublai Khan was furious! But in order to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty, Yuan Shizu endured!

Kublai Khan's second expedition after the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty is strictly beyond the time frame of this book. However, the Yuan army's conquest of Japan was a rare fiasco in the history of the Yuan army's war, and the author still wants to roughly write about it:

On February 6, 1279, the Battle of Yashan was held, and the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed. Kublai Khan, who ruled the world, once again sent Zhou Fu and Luan Zhong as envoys to Japan to recruit surrender. On July 29, Hojo Tokimune beheaded the two envoys at Hakata on the island of Kyushu (just look at the names of these poor headless envoys, they are either Han Chinese or Korean). Not the Mongols at all! In fact, Kublai Khan sent a large army to attack Japan twice, and the main forces were the Southern Song Dynasty and the Goryeo. There are very few Mongol soldiers who are actually planted in it) killed the Yuan envoy twice, completely igniting the anger of Yuan Shizu, so another big war inevitably happened...

February 20, 1281. The Yuan army set out in two ways: the 40,000 troops of the Eastern Route Coalition were led by Xindu and Hong Chaqiu (the Goryeo Army was commanded by Jin Fangqing) and sent troops from Hepo in Goryeo with 900 ships in early May. The 100,000 troops of the Jiangnan Army (Southern Song Dynasty Army) were led by General Fan Wenhu, bringing all the agricultural tools, rice seeds and other tuntian utensils, and set off from Qingyuan Mansion on the East Road of Liangzhejiang in the Southern Song Dynasty with 3,500 ships. With the Yuan army's veteran general A Rahan as the commander-in-chief of the two roads, he set off with the Jiangnan army. Attack Hakata Dazaifu on the island of Kyushu together! The 'Battle of Koyasu', as it is known in Japanese history, has been fought again more than 6 years after the 'Battle of Bunei'!

May 21. The Eastern Route Army soon occupied Tsushima Island and Iki Island. According to the pre-war deployment, they should wait here for the Jiangnan Army to come to join the division. But Xin Du decided to attack alone! On June 5, the Eastern Route Army reached Hakata Bay. After turning around, it was found that the stone walls along the coast were delayed, and the Yuan army, which could not land, turned to attack the two islands of Shiga and Noko in Hakata Bay. However, these two islands were far less large than Tsushima and Iki, which were not conducive to the operation of large troops, and the group tactics of the Yuan army were completely useless. Battles were fought in the manner of individual duels that were customary for Japanese samurai. The Yuan army suffered several defeats, and Hong Chaqiu was almost captured. The two sides held each other for a week, and the Yuan army made no progress. At this time, counting from the departure of Goryeo, the Yuan army had been living on the sea for nearly 2 months, and there was an epidemic of epidemics. Xin Du saw that the shape was not good, so he had to withdraw to Iki Island, wait for the arrival of the Jiangnan army, and then try to forge ahead. In order to deal with the night raids used by the Japanese samurai, Xin Du ordered the warships to be connected with iron locks for ten miles to defend each other. In a little more than a month, he will pay for this decision again!

In addition, the Jiangnan Army was supposed to set out in May and arrive on Hirado Island in mid-June to join the East Route Army. However, Arakhan fell ill unexpectedly, and on June 26, Kublai Khan ordered Atahai to replace Arakhan as commander-in-chief of the two armies. But Fan Wenhu felt that he could not delay any longer, and on June 18, he ordered the whole army to set off! In late July, he joined forces with the Eastern Route Army on Hirado Island. At this time, Xin Du was already waiting. One day, Xin Du once asked Jin Fangqing, "The Jiangnan army can't wait for a long time, and we have run out of food on the ship, what should we do?" More than 10 days later, Xin Du asked again. Jin replied: "When we came, we brought enough food for 3 months, and now we have 1 month left, so let's wait for the Jiangnan Army." The two armies will meet, and it will not be difficult to fight again."

After the two armies met, the Yuan army's attack on Shikashima was still unfavorable, and it was not good to ask Kudu Hath to sacrifice his life. The Yuan army then moved to Hizen Kuniga Island to Hizen Kunigama. On July 30, the Yuan army completed its assembly on the coast of Eagle Island. On this day, there were many strange phenomena in the sea: fish turned out of the sea, and the sea smelled of sulfur. This is actually the harbinger of the storm. But how did the commander of the Yuan army have sailing experience and how to deal with it? Of course, there are not no generals who understand. Zhang Xi, the general of the Jiangnan Army, once gave a warning. But he was so soft-spoken that he could only order his men to abandon their boats and go to Hirado Island, and the ships under his jurisdiction were anchored 50 miles apart.

In the middle of the night on the first day of the seventh month, the catastrophe came! Suddenly, the mountains shook and the sea roared, thunder and lightning flashed, and huge waves were monstrous! Even if the warships of the Yuan army are connected with iron locks, how can they resist this great force of nature? In an instant, the Yuan warship was destroyed and drowned, and the corpses of the 100,000 yuan army even blocked the harbor! More than 200 of the more than 4,000 warships remained undestroyed. The loss of 140,000 troops was 4/5. The commander of the Jiangnan Army, Fan Wenhu, was also destroyed when he sat on the ship, and he was rescued by his subordinate general Zhang Xi while drifting with a wooden plank. Fan Wenhu, who was already frightened, decided to flee. Zhang Xi objected: "Although most of the soldiers were killed and wounded, those who could survive were elite soldiers." There is no way back. It's better to fight against the water! If you put it to death, you will be able to live in the future" Fan Wenhu refused, "I am the coach." I order to withdraw! After going back, if His Majesty blames, I will bear it, and it has nothing to do with you" Zhang Xi could not disobey the military order, so he could only organize a retreat. At that time, there were still more than 4,000 soldiers on Hirado Island who had no ships to ride. Fan Wenhu ordered to abandon it! Zhang Xi couldn't bear it, and abandoned all the 75 war horses on the ship into the sea, in fact, he let the 4,000 soldiers ride on the horses and resign themselves to fate...

After Fan Wenhu fled, there were still nearly 30,000 abandoned Yuan troops. Everyone elected Zhang Baihu as the commander and prepared to cut down and build ships. But at this time the Japanese army began to attack! The Yuan army had just suffered a catastrophe, and the commander fled without a fight, and the combat effectiveness can be imagined. (To be continued......)