Although the defending war in Xiangyang lasted for a long time, the defenders in Xiangyang were all the whole army, while the defenders in Changzhou were mostly rebels composed of spontaneous people and a few regular troops, which was particularly valuable under the siege of the elite Yuan army. After the Yuan army broke the city, it slaughtered the city. Only seven people survived by hiding under the bridge. Now there is an alley in Changzhou called Gucun, formerly known as Eighteen Villages, which is said to be the place where survivors live.

1February, 275, Yuan soldiers were divided into three roads from west to east: all the way into the sea along the river to take Jiaxing Huating; All the way to attack Juniper Pass; All the way to the gates of Changzhou. Zhao Rujian, the magistrate of Changzhou, abandoned the city and fled to appease Dai Zhitai, a native of Changzhou.

Yao Chen

At that time, my mother was at home, and immediately took a boat from Yixing to Wuxi. She organized a raid with her friend Zhao Chen, captured Dai Zhitai and recovered Changzhou.

Yuan army attacked Changzhou with an elite of 200 thousand, known as one million. The defense forces are more than 20,000 volunteers with no combat experience and thousands of Huai troops. The two sides fought fiercely until June 1 1, and Liu and others were covered with wounds. When the war was fierce, Liu shouted: "My city is broken, and Jinshan is long." In other words, even if Changzhou city is broken, the Korean family will grow! The Mongols forced the people outside the city to carry dirt, and even people piled it up into siege mounds, "killing the people and frying the paste to get oil for guns" to burn the gate village on the city, and let the foot soldiers cover the arrow stones with ox and horse skins to attack the city desperately. Bo Yan led the army to attack violently, and his men planted the red flag of Zhang Zhongjun in the city. Yuan soldiers thought they had entered the city, and their morale was greatly boosted. They all fell to the south gate.

Song monks Wan 'an and Mo immediately led 500 monks and soldiers to fight in the south gate, but nothing happened. Yao was exhausted and set himself on fire. Zhao Chen fought to the death. He was told that the east gate of the city could escape to Changshu, but Zhao Chen refused, to the effect that this was the place where I died, so he died. His Gui Bao led the army to fight in the street, was captured, cursed Bo Yan and was killed. Hu, a subordinate, was captured alive. Yuan Bing Yuan Shuai Suo asked Yan Ying: "You said that you killed many of my distribution personnel." Hu noodles replied without changing color: "I want to kill you, I hate it." He was killed. Wang Anjie made the double-edged sword fight unyielding and his arm was injured. The Mongolian asked who the warrior was, and he replied loudly, "I am the son of Wang Jian in Shouhe Prefecture." After being captured, he was killed and buried in the east of the city, and later called Wang Shouyan.

The city was broken, and Liu Xiang fought, killing dozens of Yuan soldiers from the east gate sector to the north gate. Instead of taking the gate, he pulled out the defensive fence to break through. His younger brother fell off his horse and couldn't jump. Liu raised his hand to bid farewell to his younger brother, galloping at Pingjiang with eleven riders, and died of old age many years later.

Many years later, Bo Yan mentioned Changzhou to others, and also lamented the "paper city iron man".