Cause & Context
In early Southern Song, the Jin army crossed the Yangtze defense line continuously and looted, half of the realm in critical danger. The state urgently needed a strictly disciplined, fiercely combat-capable national defense military iron force to stabilize the defense line.
Epochal Overview
recruited refugees to build the strictly disciplined Yue Family Army and at Battle of Yancheng with infantry crushed the Jin's flagship cavalry. He continually recovered lost lands, vowing to drive straight to Huanglongfu, but was forcibly recalled by twelve gold tablets and killed.
Civilizational Impact
The Yue Family Army's resistance defense definitively shattered the myth of the Jin invincible steppe cavalry and successfully secured Jiangnan society's development safety. also became the Huaxia nation's paramount symbol of loyal-courage moral integrity and state moral integrity.
Key Figures
was an outstanding national hero of serving the country with pure loyalty, lofty martial virtue, called the god of war. Emperor Gaozong and Chancellor Qin Hui out of partial-state private interest and fear of military power jointly killed the loyal good as the culprits.