"Don't Give in an Inch of Ground: Records of Boundary Demarcation and Assassinations in the Late Song Dynasty"
Mass graves on rainy nights, boundary markers crooked, and blood-soaked rubbings.
The civil servants were busy with their inkstones. Their hands had no strength to tie the chickens, but they only held a hidden-edge ruler to determine the boundaries. They did not recognize the power of officials, but only recognized the territory. What he digs is not the monument, but the flesh and blood of the Song Dynasty; what he keeps is not the ruler, but the livelihood of the people.
Unexpectedly, a border demarcation led to a series of assassinations. The black stele tower poisoned the short thorns and killed people, the court's traitors framed the enemy, and the Mongolian cavalry broke through the border. A subordinate officer sacrificed his life to block the sword, a young man shed blood in the forest, and a vengeful heroine died on a monument.
The foreign righteous Yelukan, with his scimitar as thick as snow, uncovered the Mongolian annexation plot, abandoned his glory and guarded the isolated city, and his words "The Khitan territory must not be trampled on" shocked the border.
When the linen uniforms of civil servants are stained with blood, when the hoe of the border residents hits the mace, when the word "Song" on the boundary monument is stained red with blood and tears——
Shen Yanzhi held the monument and was hit. He was blinded and still screamed: "If this monument does not fall down, the Song Dynasty will not be destroyed!"
Three feet for demarcation, one inch for the soul of the family and country.
This was a battle to defend the territory in which civil servants fought to the death and border residents spilled their blood. It was also a song engraved on a broken monument, the song of the backbone of China that refused to give in an inch of territory!
