What was the most difficult battle in China's ancient military history?

What was the most difficult battle in China's ancient military history?

The Battle of Feishui: The Peak Battle of the Elite Northern Government Army, the strongest ancient war.

In the history of China, almost every dynasty has a world-famous power. Under the disintegration of the Western Jin Dynasty and the strong pressure of the northern minorities, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which is only half of the country, seems to be just surviving, but why did it persist for more than 100 years and did not die at the hands of foreigners? The key lies in this northern government army.

Most of the soldiers known to the world come from the memory of the Battle of Feishui. In this decisive battle that decided the life and death of the Han regime, tens of thousands of northern government soldiers fought against hundreds of thousands of Qin Jun. In the case of more than a dozen people, they crossed the river and attacked, which washed away the large array of Qin Jun and killed Fu Jian, resulting in the disintegration of hundreds of thousands of troops. It's not fierce.

Everyone knows the process of the Battle of Feishui, so I won't explain it here. At least there are famous idioms such as fear of trees and grass, fear of wind and trembling, stopping whipping and making a comeback. The result of the Battle of Feishui was the collapse of the former Qin Empire, which opened the history of the Southern Dynasties for more than 270 years. Without the northern government soldiers, the Eastern Jin Dynasty would probably die in a foreign country.

The Battle of Fishing City: A 20-year-long battle of God's Broken Whip in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Compared with the battle of Feishui, the battle of Fishing City may not be widely known, but its difficulty is no less than that of Feishui, and its significance is even more extraordinary. It has changed the world pattern to some extent.

The fourth Mongolian Khan Mungo cleared the obstacles and inherited the status of Khan. 1258, led a personal expedition of 40,000 troops, trying to take Bashu first, and then combined with Kublai Khan and other three armies to take Lin 'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty.

If we jump out of the territory of China and look around the world, then the situation at that time is like this: the Mongolian empire reached the peak of expansion at that time, and the descendants of the golden family inherited the unfinished business of Genghis Khan and continued to expand and conquer in all directions. In addition to Kublai Khan going south to Xiangfan, Mengge went to Bashu himself, and Mengge's younger brother Xu Liewu began to travel west at the same time. His route is in the direction of West Asia and Africa, and his goal is directed at Egypt. If these two routes go well, Mongolian fighters will point directly at Africa and unify the Central Plains, which will probably be a disaster for Europe, Asia and Africa at that time.

At the beginning of February, 1259, together with other armies along the way, has reached more than 100,000 Mongolian troops, pulled down other fortresses in front of the fishing city, and the Mongolian army has arrived in the fishing city.

On the third day of February, the angry Mongo Khan ordered the siege. The dark Mongolian army drove the civilians away and launched an attack on the fishing city gate. Under the calm command of Wang Jian's adult, Song Jun stepped down and stubbornly resisted.

Due to the geographical advantages of fishing town, traditional siege equipment such as trebuchets, scooters and car washes are useless here. Mongols can only use the most traditional way of "attaching ants" to attack forward. Look at the picture below, and you will understand how difficult it is to attack under the fishing town.

The Mongolian army fought in the south and the north, and it had rich combat experience, but after three months of fighting, the casualties of frontal attack were really heavy. So we used other methods to open the gap, such as death squads, night raids, tunneling, diving, and the methods available in the cold weapon era, and made some progress. For example, some soldiers led by pioneer Wang Dechen even broke through the inner city, but they met reinforcements led by Wang Jian himself. After a desperate battle, Meng Jun was driven out of the city by Wang Jian. Since then, Meng Jun has been helpless to the inner city.

In a blink of an eye, the siege has been going on for five months, and the fighting has been going on from February to July. The hot weather in Chongqing made Mongolian soldiers accustomed to the cold weather in the north extremely uncomfortable, and the epidemic began to spread.

Some people have suggested that since you can't fight, don't fight, just go around. Operationally, this method is feasible. In the case that the defense system has fallen, a small fishing town with limited troops can't be overturned, as long as some troops are left to monitor and contain it. But Meng Gehan's pride made him reject the proposal.

This is not because Mungo is hot-headed. The gold family has always regarded the success or failure of the army. As a descendant of Tuo Lei, Mongo urgently needs the army to prove himself after finally settling the descendants of Wokuotai, Chahetai and other departments. This is also the reason why he initiated personal expedition. If a small fishing town can make his army walk around, how can he give orders in front of other gold family members who are eyeing up? This will be his stain.

Under such psychology, Mongo insisted on capturing the fishing city. However, the reality is that haste makes waste. Even Wang Dechen, the pioneer of the Mongolian army, was seriously injured and died when he was persuaded to surrender.

Brother Meng still refuses to give up, getting more and more angry, even ignoring his own safety. He went to the front to supervise the war and was finally injured by flying stones. After returning to the camp, he died of serious injuries. Of course, there are two theories about the death of Mongo. One is that he died of illness, and the other is that he was injured by the wind of Song Jun's artillery and died of serious injuries. It doesn't matter which one is right. The important thing is that Mungo really died, in the fishing city. For the soldiers and civilians in the city, all persistence is worthwhile.

On August 1259, 1 1, Mungo Khan died in Fishing City. Last words: "My baby's illness is this city. If I speak frankly, I will kill the city. "

After Khan's death, the supreme power of the empire was in a vacuum, and the Yuan army naturally did not want to fight. After 20 years, the fishing city can't hold on. In fact, Kublai Khan, who succeeded Khan, later had to change his strategy, avoid Sichuan, avoid fishing city and take Xiangyang directly from the middle road. This led to the siege war of Xiangyang for six years, and Xiangyang finally fell under the bombardment of high-tech weapons. Xiangyang fell, Daimon Masaru opened in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Lin 'an, the capital, could no longer keep it. However, after the fall of Lin 'an in 1276, the fishing city was still not abandoned. Until 1279, on the eve of Song Jun's last struggle on the cliff mountain, in order to save the people in the city, he finally opened the city to lower the yuan.

Therefore, the small fishing city is also known as the Oriental Mecca City, where God breaks the whip.

From the perspective of the world, the unexpected death of Mongolian Khan left a vacuum in the supreme power of the Mongolian Empire. Xu Liewu in the Western Expedition, Ali Buge who stayed behind, and Kublai Khan who went south, the most important thing became the Li army fighting for Khan's position.

Egypt in danger will be saved. Otherwise Mamluk may not have a chance to defeat it, because brave soldiers can fight well, and Egypt will be trampled by Mongolian iron hooves.

The Mongolian army's last expedition to the west ended hastily, and Europe and Africa were pulled back from the brink of destruction by fate.