Yashan
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The Battle of Yashan was a famous battle that affected the course of Chinese history. In 1279, the Mongolian army and the Southern Song Dynasty army launched a large-scale naval battle on the sea in Yashan, Xinhui, Guangdong. In the end, the Southern Song Dynasty army was defeated, and Lu Xiufu threw himself into the sea and died for his country in the face of the last emperor Zhao Bing. This book uses twelve place names in history (Caizhou, Diaoyu City, Ezhou, Shangdu, Yidu, Luzhou, Xiangyang, Dadu, Dingjiazhou, Lin'an, Yashan and Lingdingyang) as clues. It starts from the "Duanping Enters Luo" in 1234 and continues to the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty in 1279, which spans nearly fifty years. The book is divided into two main lines. One line explores the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the other line explores the rise of the Yuan Dynasty. At the same time, from multiple perspectives such as politics, diplomacy, culture, and military, it vividly describes the entire process from the Mongolian Song Dynasty's destruction of the Jin Dynasty to the Battle of Yashan, the fierce battle in Xiangyang, the surrender of Lin'an, the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, and finally Wen Tianxiang's death. The description is magnificent and tragic. The author uses careful and delicate writing to describe the fate and choices of many historical figures such as Kublai Khan, Meng Ge, Wang Wentong, Ahema, Lu Wenhuan, Jia Sidao, Liu Zheng, Wen Tianxiang, etc., Striving to restore a true historical situation. Beyond Yashan lies a larger China.
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