Why did the Yashan naval battle lose?

Why did the Yashan naval battle lose? To answer this question, we need to know about the Yashan naval battle first. During the Battle of Yashan, only the ideal Yashan City was left in the Song Dynasty, and only 200,000 troops participated in the Battle of Yashan. At that time, the Yuan Dynasty had unified more than half of China, and only Cliff Mountain was not captured.

Many people in the past dynasties have been discussing the reasons for the defeat of Yashan naval battle. There were 200,000 troops and 1000 warships in the Song Dynasty, and more than 20,000 people and 400 warships in the Yuan Dynasty. It stands to reason that the strength of the Song Dynasty is far greater than that of the Yuan Dynasty, but why did the Song Dynasty suffer a crushing defeat?

Although there were 200,000 troops in the Song Dynasty, these 200,000 troops were mixed, including civil servants, eunuchs, ladies-in-waiting and families of soldiers. I wonder how many soldiers there are. Therefore, not many of the 200,000 troops in the Song Dynasty were able to serve as soldiers.

In the Song Dynasty, only Cliff Mountain and Hainan Island were left, and the troops concentrated in Cliff Mountain were soldiers who fled from all over the south. These soldiers gathered from all over the country and did not fight together, so their cooperation was not good. This reason can well explain why the Yashan naval battle in the Song Dynasty was defeated.

To discuss why the Yashan naval battle failed, we should also consider the situation of the Yuan Dynasty. There were 20,000 troops in the Yuan Dynasty, of which 2,000 were Mongols, and the other soldiers were Han Chinese, Khitan, Xixia and Jin people. Although the ethnic composition is complex, these soldiers are elites of all ethnic groups. Although this is a naval battle, in the battle, the ships of both sides collided and the soldiers of both sides fought hand-to-hand on the ship. In hand-to-hand combat, the army of the Yuan Dynasty had great advantages. [Page]

How many people died in the battle of Yashan?

The Battle of Yashan is an extremely rare large-scale naval battle in the history of ancient military operations in China. How many people died in Yashan? There are different versions in different historical materials, but there are two versions of the main number of people who participated in the war: 300 thousand and 500 thousand. There is no detailed record of casualties in various historical materials of the Mongolian army, and there is also controversy about the casualties in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Let's talk about the number of people who participated in the war. The Southern Song Dynasty is in danger of extinction, so some people say that the number of people involved in the war in the Southern Song Dynasty is about 200,000, including those who followed the Southern Song army and the family members brought by the Southern Song army. According to historical records, there were only tens of thousands of troops capable of fighting in the Southern Song Dynasty, including about 65,438+10,000 ships. These ships were not all ships, but only about 700 ships were capable of fighting. There are nearly 200,000 Yuan troops, of which only 1000 are Mongols, but these 200,000 people are all capable of fighting. From this point of view, the Yuan Army has a huge advantage in numbers, but Mongolia has always been a nomadic people, so it only gathered more than 400 ships in the naval battle, but there is still a certain gap compared with the ships in the Southern Song Dynasty.

In the Battle of Yashan, the Yuan Army began to try to attack with fire, and after failing, it began to use crossbows until the final hand-to-hand combat. In the end, it ended in Song Jun's failure. So how many people died in the Yashan naval battle? According to historical records, there are more than100000 floating corpses at sea, and the number of people killed in this battle should be around150000. Because there is no historical record, the number of losses of the Mongolian army is unknown.