1, defending Suiyang, one after another, patrolling Suiyang is the most outstanding and tragic battle in history. There are only a few thousand defenders, and the rebels reach more than 200,000 at most, including the most elite Hu Bing130,000 people in the Anshi Rebellion. Suiyang soldiers and civilians stayed in Gucheng for 10 months without reinforcements outside the city and food and grass in the city. During the ten-month defense war, the army and civilians in Suiyang experienced more than 400 bloody battles, killing enemy soldiers 1.2 million, 300 enemy generals and more than 60 rebel generals. Finally, because of the lack of food, he was forced to kill horses, dig rats and catch birds to satisfy his hunger, but these were far from enough. At the critical moment when a large number of foot soldiers starved to death, in desperation, Xu Yuan killed slaves and Zhang Xun killed my concubine to feed the foot soldiers in order to fight to the death. At the end of the battle, there was a tragic scene of cannibalism in the whole city. More than 30 thousand people were eaten, and only 400 hungry soldiers were left in Suiyang, and the city finally fell. Zhang Xun prevented the Anshi Rebellion from going south, which preserved the rich Jianghuai area and the tax towns in the Tang Dynasty. In addition, it contained a large number of rebels and won valuable time for Tang Jun to organize a strategic counterattack.
2. The Defence War of Xiangfan-In the third year of Xianchun (1267), Kublai Khan sent troops to attack Xiangyang and Fancheng, and the soldiers and civilians in Xiangfan resisted tenaciously, starting the Defence War of Xiangfan, which lasted for six years and affected the fate of the Southern Song regime. At the gate of Xiangfan, the Mongolian land and water division reached more than 200 thousand at most, such as dark clouds covering the sun. However, the soldiers and civilians in the Southern Song Dynasty were not intimidated by the Mongolian iron hoof, but stubbornly repelled the repeated attacks of the Mongolian army, and even the people spontaneously organized insurgents to rescue them. Zhang Shun and Zhang Gui, the leaders of the Rebel Army, led 3,000 militiamen to risk their lives to break through the defense line of the Yuan Army to support Xiangyang. The soldiers and civilians in the city were overjoyed at the arrival of reinforcements, and their courage doubled, but Zhang Shun was gone. A few days later, they saw his body appear, with four swords and six arrows and a bow and arrow. It turned out that Zhang Shun had died heroically in the battle, and Zhang Gui later died in the battle with the Yuan Army. The tragic and touching deeds of Zhang Shun and Zhang Guiyuan inspired the soldiers and civilians in the Southern Song Dynasty to fight against Yuan. After the failure of the Zhang brothers, Xiangfan was completely isolated from the outside world and the situation was even more difficult. Finally, in the first month of the ninth year of Xianchun (1273), Fancheng broke the city, and the garrison commander Fan Tianshun struggled to resist and surrendered. Commander Niu Fu led 100 soldiers to fight in the street, eager for blood and continuing to fight. After killing many Yuan troops, Niu Fu was seriously injured and threw himself into the fire. In February of that year, Xiangyang city ran out of oil and lights, and the garrison commander Lu was slaughtered to avoid the city being broken and decided to surrender to the Yuan army. At this point, the epic battle of Xiangyang Fancheng, which lasted for six years, ended.
The failure of Xiangyang Defence War was the inevitable result of corrupt politics in the Southern Song Dynasty and Jia Sidao's surrender policy. The reason why the defense of Xiangfan can last for six years depends entirely on the bloody battle of Xiangfan military and civilians. The fall of Xiangfan opened the door to the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Yuan army was able to go south and perish the Southern Song Dynasty.
3. The Battle of Fishing City-Yu Jie, yu zhang and Wang Jian led 20,000 soldiers to stick to the fishing city for more than 20 years, killing Khan Mungo of Mongolia, and making the Mongolian army on an expedition to Europe lose ground. Xu Liewu, who originally planned to lead the main force to attack Egypt, the last big country in the Islamic world, also led the main force (the remaining division was defeated by Mamluk) to retreat to the Mongolian headquarters to help Kublai Khan compete for the position of Khan, and the Mongolian aristocratic group immediately began a long-term internal war, never again. The battle of Fishing City changed the history of the world forever. Europeans call Hechuan Fishing Town "the land where God breaks his whip", while Arabs regard it as the holy city to save the Islamic world and call it "Mecca of the East". The soldiers and civilians in Fishing City have been unable to obey the king's orders for three years, and they are still risking their lives to defend East Sichuan. The Southern Song Dynasty has perished, but the flag of Song Jun at the head of Fishing Town is still flying high! This loyalty and persistence to the nation and the country has made the world sit up and take notice.