Diaoyu City

In 1259 AD, the Mongolian Khan Meng Ge personally led an army of 100,000 into the Sichuan Gorge Fourth Road. In order to imitate the method of the Western Jin Dynasty to destroy Wu, he first took the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and then the navy followed it. Go east of the Yangtze River and cooperate with the land route to pacify the south of the Yangtze River. However, his eagerness to unify China unexpectedly ended at a Diaoyu City guarding the Jialing River with an area of ??only 2.5 square kilometers. Meng Ge, who was seriously injured due to a cannon stone and died of injuries, left a last edict before his death: "If we defeat this city, we will cut the Zhe City red and kill it with all our strength." After the death of Meng Ge, various Mongolian armies returned to the grassland in order to compete for the throne. This extended the history of the Southern Song Dynasty for another 20 years, and also brought the climax of the Mongolian Western Expedition to an end.

Battle of Diaoyu City

In 1259 AD, Mongolia claimed to besiege Diaoyu City with hundreds of thousands of troops, but could not conquer it. During the war, even the Mongolian Khan died under the city. The defender, General Wang Jian, can be described as a Chinese hero. It was not until the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty that the situation was over, and Kublai Khan promised never to harm the people in the city. Then the guard Wang Li abandoned the city and surrendered in 1279 AD. After abandoning the city, no one begged for mercy. The 32 (some say 36) generals who defended the city all drew their swords and committed suicide. They can be said to be loyal and loyal throughout the ages. From the beginning of 1235 to the end of 1279, the war of resistance between the army and the people of Sichuan in China actually lasted more than 40 years!

Construction background

Diaoyu Mountain has been a place for official and civilian banquets since ancient times, and is one of the "Eight Scenic Spots of Hechuan" "One of them - "Yucheng Misty Rain".

In the fourth year of Jiaxi in the Southern Song Dynasty (1240), Sichuan appointed deputy envoy Peng Daya and ordered Ganrun to build a city on Diaoyu Mountain as a place for Hezhou soldiers and civilians to avoid the Mongolian troops.

In the third year of Chunyou (1243), Yu Jie, the minister of the Ministry of War, the envoy of Sichuan, the prefect of Chongqing, the general consul of Sichuan, and the transfer envoy of Kuilu, adopted brothers Ran Jing and Ran Pu, the wise men of Bozhou (now Zunyi, Guizhou). It was suggested that the Ran brothers be sent to rebuild Diaoyu City and that Hezhou, Shizhao County and Xingyuan be placed in charge of it. The name of "Diaoyu City" was first spread to the world.

In July of the second year of Baoyou (1254), Wang Jian, the magistrate of Hezhou, transferred his subordinates to Shizhao (now Hechuan), Tongliang, Bachuan (now Tongliang), early Han Dynasty (now Wusheng, Sichuan), 170,000 soldiers and civilians from five counties in Chishui (now Hechuan) overhauled Diaoyu City and further improved the city construction.

In the sixth year of Baoyou (1258), Meng Ge Khan took advantage of the power of his western expedition to more than 40 countries in Europe, Asia and Africa, and divided his troops into three groups to attack the Song Dynasty. A group of troops led by Meng Ge personally invaded the Yuchuan area, and in February of the following year they arrived at the Diaoyu City in Hechuan, Chongqing. Meng Ge's cavalry marched east and west, but due to the tenacious resistance of Diaoyu City's general Wang Jian and his deputy Zhang Jue, they could not cross the thunder pool even half a step. In July, Meng Ge was injured by artillery on the city's Naoding slope in the south of the city, and later died in Beibei Hot Spring Temple. The imperial edict of the Southern Song Dynasty awarded him "Jieyi is the best among the Shu countries". Meng Ge's death prompted the Mongol Khanate to withdraw its troops from the Eurasian battlefield.

In the fourth year of Jingding (1263), Zhang Jue, then the magistrate of Hezhou, built the city for the fourth time.

From 1243 to 1279 AD, Diaoyu City defended Diaoyu City for more than 36 years and experienced more than 200 battles. It wrote a rare example in the history of Chinese and foreign wars in which the weak defeated the strong. Therefore, Diaoyu City was called It is known as the "Mecca of the East" and "the place where God broke the whip".