In the final struggle of the Southern Song Dynasty, there were two people who could be said to be the mainstay.

One is Li Tingzhi, a Southern Song Dynasty minister who moved closer to Jia Nidao in order to implement his ambitions, and the other is Zhang Shijie, the last famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Compared with the Southern Song Dynasty court of these two people, the Yuan Dynasty can be said to be star-studded at that time, and the ministers are like rain.

Although Zhang Jiashi admired Wen Tianxiang and Lu Xiufu's discipline, there is no doubt that the two of them have made great achievements in military affairs...... Hehe.

Although Li Tingzhi said that his experience was a little flawed, it cannot be said that Li Tingzhi took the initiative to take refuge in Jia Nidao. And from the perspective of Zhang Jiashi as a traverser, this happens to be more than Wen Tianxiang and Lu Xiufu, the two Southern Song Dynasty Sanjie, who are full of discipline and loyalty.

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Li Tingzhi's origin has some Shinto legends: when Li Tingzhi was born, there was a Ganoderma lucidum growing on the roof beam of his house, and people in the same village gathered to watch it, thinking that it was an auspicious omen for the birth of a boy, so they took it as a name. He was particularly bright in his youth, reciting thousands of words a day, and his wisdom and knowledge often came from the elders and the elderly.

Wang Min was appointed governor of Suizhou, and Li Tingzhi, who was eighteen years old at the time, told his uncles, uncles, and fathers: "Wang Min is greedy and cruel and does not sympathize with his subordinates, and his subordinates have many complaints. Uncle, uncle and father reluctantly listened to him and moved their families, and less than ten days after the move, Wang Min was really held hostage by his subordinates to launch a rebellion, and many people died in Suizhou.

Strictly speaking, Li Tingzhi can be said to be a person who knows how to repay his kindness.

In the last years of Jiaxi, the defense of the Yangtze River was very urgent, and Li Tingzhi could not get the township, so he wrote to Meng Heng, the general of Jingzhou, and asked to serve the country. Meng Heng is good at meeting people, and at night he dreamed that Li Shangshu came to pay homage to him, and Li Tingzhi arrived the next day.

Meng Heng saw that he was in a burly figure, and turned back to his sons and said, "I have met many people, and there is no one like Li Tingzhi, and his reputation will definitely surpass me in the future." "At that time, there was a military alert in Sichuan, that is, Li Tingzhi temporarily served as the magistrate of Jianshi County in Shizhou. After Li Tingzhi arrived, he trained the peasants, managed military affairs, and selected strong men to teach them martial arts in the official army. After more than a year, the people knew how to fight and defend, they were good at fighting on horseback, they carried weapons to plow when they had nothing to do, and when the soldiers arrived, they all went out to fight them. The generals of Kuizhou also implemented this method in his jurisdiction.

In the early years of Chunyou, Li Tingzhi left Jianshi County, participated in the imperial examination, and was admitted as a jinshi. Served as Meng Hui's staff, in charge of confidential and written matters.

After Meng Heng's death, the last cousin recommended Jia Nidao to replace him, and recommended Li Tingzhi to Jia Yidao. Li Tingzhi was grateful to Meng Heng as a confidant, so he helped his coffin to be buried in Xingguo County, and then abandoned the official and returned to his hometown to mourn Meng Heng for three years.

Jia Rudao guarded Jinghu, Li Tingzhi initially served as a senator of the Establishment Division, and later moved to the town to guard Lianghuai, and discussed with Jia Rudao to set up the five estuaries of the Zhaqing River and add 120 Huainan beacon towers. Then, he served as the governor of Haozhou, and set up a city in Jingshan to prepare for Huainan. It's all to the point. In the first year of Kaiqing (1259 AD), Jia Rudao served as the envoy of Jinghu Xuanfu, and left Li Tingzhi as the governor of Yangzhou temporarily. Soon, because the soldiers were in the Bashu area, he was asked to serve as the governor of Xiazhou to defend the exit of the Yangtze River in Bashu. The imperial court appointed Zhao Youxu as the envoy of Huainan and Li Yinggeng as the senator. Li Yinggeng commanded the two route troops to be stationed in Nancheng, and tens of thousands of people died of thirst in the heat. The Mongolian general Li Pu observed that he had no strategy, captured the three cities of Lianshui, crossed the Huai River and captured the southern city.

The Ezhou soldiers relieved the siege, and Li Tingzhi resigned after his mother's funeral. The imperial court discussed the choice of generals stationed in Yangzhou, and Song Lizong said: "There is no one who can compare with Li Tingzhi." So the director of the two Huai systems the secretary. Li Tingzhi defeated Li Pu's army again, killed his general, Marshal Li, pacified Nancheng and returned.

In the first year of Jingding, Li Tingzhi defeated Li Pu in Qiaocun and captured Donghai, Shipu and other cities. In the third year of Jingding, Li Pu surrendered and migrated the people of the three cities to Tongzhou and Taizhou. He also broke through Qi County and killed the defenders.

At this time, Li Tingzhi's ability to defeat Li Pu is enough to show his military ability.

Because Li Pu can be said to be a person who is not easy to deal with:

Li Pu was one of the biggest rebels in the early days of the Yuan Dynasty.

Before his move, the court was aware of his intentions.

Gluing Nanhe and Zhang Hong and others, they had made a statement to Shizu in advance, saying that Li Pu would be opposed. Due to the lack of appeasement in the north that day and the emptiness of the garrison in the Central Plains, Shizu could only use his special measures of appeasement and appeasement, and remained silent on the surface.

Between the two or two years of Zhongtong Yuan, Yuan Tingjiapu was the governor of Jianghuai, giving more than 60 gold and silver talismans, and the rewards were repeated repeatedly. All kinds of special encounters are actually to stabilize him temporarily. At the beginning of the third year, Li Yanjian fled back to Shandong, and Shizu immediately summoned his adviser Yao Shu to the opponent and asked him to predict Li Pu's movements. It can be seen that the imperial court has always maintained a high degree of vigilance against the situation in Yidu.

According to Yao Shu's judgment, after Li Pu raised the incident, he had three strategies to choose from: "It is the best policy to make Pu take advantage of the provocation of my northern expedition, to smash Yan Yan along the sea, to retreat to mediocrity, and to be frightened; to make peace with Song Lian, to bear the burden for a long time, and to disturb the border several times, so that I can stop running to the rescue, which is the middle policy; if we send troops to Jinan and wait for the Shandong princes to help, this will be a catch." Kublai Khan asked, "The thief will be safe today", and Yao Shu replied categorically: "Make a decision." ”

The development of events has completely confirmed Yao Shu's view.

On 3 February, when Li Pu was in turmoil, he himself seemed to be in trouble on the front line of Lian and Hai. Although Pu had sent people to pay money to the Southern Song Dynasty in advance, it was not until the first day of February that the letter was handed over to Lin'an. Song Ting thought that "love and hypocrisy are difficult to rely on", and asked Li Pushi to offer ripples and seas to show integrity.

Li Pu wrote to the Song court in the first ten days, guaranteeing that "the intention is true", around this time, the Song Dynasty officially received the Lian and Haizhucheng, and then on the 24th, Li Pu was enshrined as the envoy of the Baoxin Ningwu Army, supervising the military horses of Jingdong Hebei and other roads, and the king of Qi County. This negotiation shows that Li Pu did not have any definite contact with the Song before the open rebellion, and that he hurriedly led his troops north to Yidu and Jinan after the uprising. From the end of February to May, the border armies of the Song and Huai took advantage of the rebellion of Li Pu and frequently attacked on the front lines of Teng, Xu, Pi and Su. Li Pu also did not move his troops south, in order to lean on the back of the Song army.

It can be seen that he paid money to Song, but he was still playing the old trick of "blackmailing the enemy country to get the imperial court", and he did not seriously consider the strategy of "making peace with Song Lian and lasting the burden".

On the other hand, soon after Li Pu returned to Yidu, he entered Jinan, and then marched to Jinan for two months until he was surrounded by the Yuan army. It can also be seen that he did not rush to Yanjing at all, refused the division of the Northern Expedition of the Yuan Dynasty outside Juyong, and took advantage of the undecided hearts of the people in the Central Plains to seek change with chaos. What he adopted was exactly what Yao Shu called the "next strategy", that is, to send troops to Jinan and wait for the Shandong princes to come to their aid.

After Li Pu raised his troops, he immediately went to Yidu from Lianhai. On the eighth day of the first month, Pu entered the capital and sent the treasury to reward his generals. On the 17th, the Yuan court ordered all parts of Shandong to build demolished city walls to protect Li Pu. At this time, although the armies of the princes of Hebei and Shandong from the north had returned to the south, it seemed that it was too late to return to their original stations. Therefore, the Yuan court had no choice but to order them to "do everything possible to manage the people and prepare for the army". At the same time, he ordered Zhang Hong, the main force of Jinan Wanhu Zhang Hong, Guide Wanhu Di Hu, and Wu Wei Army Gunner Marshal Xue Junsheng to meet Bin and Di to cut off the connection between Li Nanshan, the son of Li Pu, who served as the chief manager in Pingluan, and Shandong.

The Navy Wanhu Xie Cheng, Zhang Rongshi, the Daimyo Wanhu Wang Wenguang, and the Dongping Wanhu Yan Zhongfan Department gathered in Dongping.

On the 20th, the Yuan court ordered the troops gathered in Bindi and Dongping to move closer to Jinan from the north and south respectively, in order to block Li Pu on the East Shandong Road. However, Li Pu arrived in Jinan before the Yuan army. Zhang Hong defended the city with less than a thousand soldiers, so he had to abandon the city with his grandfather Zhang Rong. On the 26th, Li Pu occupied Jinan.

Zhang Hong encountered the Pu Yuan army on the way to the Beijing Division, so he returned to Jinan as a forward. Confrontation on the front line of Yidu. Although he also repeatedly attacked the Yuan army, his overall strategic intention was to use the main force to hold Jinan and wait for the response of the northern princes. As a result, in the most critical dozens of days, he made no progress militarily.

Since the Mongols replaced the Liaojin, the concept of taking the Song dynasty as the right thing has been indifferent in the north for a long time, so it is difficult for the call to restore the Song dynasty to have much political appeal; the Han princes saw with their own eyes the combat capability of the Mongol army, and also realized the complex situation of balance of power and mutual containment among the princes, so they were often satisfied with the real power and status of the party under the great khan's reign; in the Mongol supreme ruling group, Shizu was indeed regarded by them as the most suitable candidate for the monarch to implement the Han law.

Therefore, although these Han warlords may have slanderous remarks about the government in their private conversations, they are absolutely unwilling to easily raise troops to rebel against the Yuan court if they are not fully sure. Li Pu said that after the chaos, he immediately spread the word to all roads, but only Li Yinuge, the governor of Taiyuan Road, Daluhua Chidai Quxue, and Pizhou Wanhu Zhang Bangzhi responded. The others not only supported him, but also led troops to participate in the encirclement and suppression of him under the supervision of the Yuan court. Li Pu completely bets on success on unrealistic fantasies, and as a result, he can only lead himself step by step to a dead end.

While Li Pu was waiting and watching, the Yuan court gradually completed the military deployment of the siege of Jinan. At the beginning of April, the suburbs of Jinan had gathered the "Seventeen Roads", and the Goryeo army was also dispatched to assist.

The Yuan army began to dig trenches and besiege Jinan. At the end of April, Shi Tianze, the prime minister of the edict, went to Shandong, and all the generals were subjected to moderation. Shi Tianze accepted the suggestion of Song Zizhen, the senator of Zhongshu Province before the army, and agreed with the front-line commander Zong Wang Hebichi to increase the deep ditch and high fortress sharply, and "kill it with years".

At the beginning of May, the Yuan army further built a ring on the basis of the original siege fortifications. In the middle of the month, Jinan was completely trapped to death. Since then, Li Pu has been trapped in a lonely city and has never recovered. At the beginning of June, the Song army marched north by sea to attack Cang, Binhai and other prefectures, with the intention of responding to Li Pu, but it was unsuccessful. In addition to Jinan, Yidu and other large cities, most of the East Shandong Road was quickly restored by the Yuan army.

Not to mention the results of Li Pu, what can be said is that if it were not for the relative advantage of the army under Shi Tianze, Shi Tianze might not be able to level Li Pu if he was on the same level of strength as Li Pu.

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In the winter of 1269, the Southern Song Dynasty court ordered Li Tingzhi to send an ambassador to Xiangyang as an ambassador and supervisor from Jinghu. When Fan Wenhu heard that Li Tingzhi had arrived in Xiangyang, he sent a letter to Jia Rudao: "I led tens of thousands of troops to attack Xiangyang, and I can win the enemy in one battle, but don't let me obey the orders of the Jinghu envoy, and the credit will be attributed to Enxiang." Jia Rudao was pleased with this, and appointed Fan Wenhu as an observer in Fuzhou, and his army was also under his command.

Fan Wenhu takes a beautiful concubine every day and plays the ball in the army. Li Tingzhi wanted to enter the army many times, but Fan Wenhu replied: "I sent someone to get the order and haven't returned yet." ”

In June of the following year, the Han River flooded, and Fan Wenhu had no choice but to send troops, and the army fled halfway before it reached Lumen. Li Tingzhi personally impeached him many times and asked him to replace him, but he did not approve it, and as a result, he lost Xiangyang. Chen Yizhong asked Fan Wenhu to be killed, but Jia Rudao protected him, and only demoted one level to serve as the prefect of Anqing Prefecture, and degraded Li Tingzhi and his generals Su Liuyi and Fan Youxin to go to Guangnan. Li Tingzhi dismissed the official and lived in Beijing.

And it can be seen from here that although Li Tingzhi is also a member of Jia Nidao's faction, compared to Fan Wenhu, who does not learn and has no skills, Li Tingzhi is completely dispensable in Jia Nidao's heart.

In October of the first year of Deyou, Prime Minister Boyan entered Lin'an, leaving Marshal Ashu to garrison Zhenjiang to contain the army in Huainan. Ashu attacked Yangzhou for a long time, so he built fortifications to besiege Yangzhou for a long time. In winter, the city ran out of food and the streets were full of dead people.

In February of the following year, the famine became even more severe, and hundreds of people committed suicide every day in Haoshui, and there were dead people on the road, and everyone rushed to cut his flesh to eat, and it was over in a while.

The Song Dynasty fell, Empress Dowager Xie and Duke Yingguo persuaded him to surrender for the edict, Li Tingzhi climbed the city wall and said: "I was ordered to defend the city, and I have not heard of an edict to surrender." ”

After that, the two palaces entered the court, went to Guazhou, and ordered Li Tingzhi to say: "Recently, the edict ordered you to pay money, and I haven't heard your return for a long time, don't you know what I mean, or do you want to insist on being a prisoner? Now that the prince and I have surrendered to Yuan, who are you going to guard Yangzhou for?"

Li Tingzhi did not answer his words, and ordered the arrow and crossbow to shoot the envoy, killing one person, and the rest of the people retreated. Jiang Cai sent troops to recapture the two palaces, but he did not win, and closed the city gate to garrison. In March, Xia Gui surrendered on Huainan West Road, and Ashu drove the troops to Yangzhou City to let them see, and the flags were all over the field, and there were words to test Li Tingzhi among the guests, and Li Tingzhi said: "I only have one death." ”

Ashu's envoy came with an edict to surrender, and after Li Tingzhi opened the door and let him in, he killed him and burned the edict on the city wall. Later, I learned that Xu Wende of Huai'an Prefecture, Zhang Sicong of Zhixuyijun, and Liu Xingzu of Zhisi Prefecture all fell because of food exhaustion.

Li Tingzhi also collected the people's grain and millet to supply the army, and after the millet was eaten, he ordered the officials to produce the millet, and the millet was eaten again, and the generals and colonels were ordered to produce millet mixed with cowhide and bran crickets, and the soldiers had to cook their own son's meat to eat, and they also went out to fight hard every day.

In July of the second year of Deyou, Ah Shu asked for pardon for Li Tingzhi's crime of burning the edict, and asked him to surrender, and the edict was sent together. Li Tingzhi did not accept it either. King Yi sent an envoy to recall Li Tingzhi as Shaobao and Zuo Prime Minister, and Li Tingzhi ordered Zhu Huan to garrison Yangzhou, and Jiang Cai led 7,000 troops eastward to the sea to Taizhou, and Ashu led troops to encircle and suppress him. Zhu Huan surrendered to the Yuan with the city, expelled Li Tingzhi's soldiers, wives and children to the city of Taizhou, and the deputy generals Sun Gui and Hu Weixiao opened the door and surrendered.

When Li Tingzhi heard that there was chaos, he jumped to the lotus pond and did not drown because the water was shallow.

Then Li Tingzhi was captured and sent to Yangzhou, Zhu Huan asked for instructions: "Since Yangzhou used the army, there are piles of corpses and bones all over the ground, this is caused by Li Tingzhi and Jiang Cai, what are you waiting for if you don't kill them?" So he killed him. On the day of his death, the people of Yangzhou shed tears of sadness.

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