Meng Gong (1195-1246), with thick words, was originally from Jiangzhou (now Xinjiang, Shaanxi) and was an outstanding strategist and commander in chief in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Meng Gong was born into a noble family. Great-grandfather Meng An is the ministry of Yue Fei, and grandfather Meng Lin is also the subordinate of Yue Fei. He went to Suizhou with the army and settled in Zaoyang (now Hubei). Father Meng (? -1223), the word Telford. In the second year (the sixth year of Jin Taihe, 1206), during the Northern Expedition, Kathy led a righteous man to wage guerrilla warfare against Jin and was appointed as the magistrate of Zaoyang County. Later, he was promoted to the military post of Jingxi Road and stationed in Xiangyang. In April of the 10th year of Jiading (the first year of Jinxing 12 17), Jin Jun attacked Xiangyang in the south and surrounded Zaoyang. Meng, Hu Zaixing, Sean and others led the troops to attack, defeated Jin Jun in a row, and rushed to rescue Zaoyang. Zaoyang was cleared, so it was also authorized to make Zaoyang Army (promoted by the chief). In February of the 11th year of Jiading, General Bajin Army refused to lead tens of thousands of troops to attack Zaoyang. With the cooperation of reinforcements Hu Zaixing and Liu Shixing, Zaoyang Army made Meng fight for three months, and Bajin Army retreated. In February of the 12th year of Jiading, Jin Jun attacked Zaoyang again. After fighting in many ways in Meng, the 8 Jin Army was losing ground. Meng was also ordered to attack Huyang County in Jin (now Huyang Town, Tangxian County, Henan Province). "A drum a pull, burn product, scattered, captive and back. Jin people naturally dare not peek at Xiang, Han and Zaoyang. " Later, Jing and E were in charge of Zaoyang Army, and they were all officials to right doctors, state defense envoys and general Zuo Wuwei. In the 16th year of Jiading (1223), he died in Zaoyang. Later, he was given the surname, Yong Guogong, and loyalty.

In the tenth year of Jiading (12 17), he joined the government with merit since his father Meng Kangjin. In the fourteenth year of Jiading (122 1), he was the captain of Huaxian County (now Laohekou). In the first year of Baoqing (1225), he was promoted to the position of commander-in-chief of military forces in Zhou Xia (now Yichang) to inspect the city. In three years, he served as the fifth deputy governor of Jingxi, and returned to Zaoyang with the potential of the army. When Meng was alive, he recruited more than 20,000 strong men from the Tang Dynasty (now Tanghe, Henan), Deng (now Henan), Cai (now Runan) and other places, and made them into "Zhongshun Army". After Meng's death, he came to power and the military situation was unstable. At this time, Meng Gong was in charge of Zhongshun Army. Meng Gong divided Zhongshun Army into three armies, and the military situation was settled. In the first year of Shaoding (1228), Pinglu weir was built in the west of Zaoyang City, and 65,438+10,000 mu of farmland was irrigated, which was divided equally by Zhongshun military and civilian households. At the same time, Zhongshun army was ordered to raise horses for each family, and the official provided millet, so the grain was abundant and the number of horses increased. The following year, he was promoted to be the fifth commander-in-chief of Jingxi, stationed in Zaoyang Army, and took charge of this army and the three armed forces stationed in Zhongshun. Later, he was promoted to the governor of Jingxi Road, and later to the commander of military forces.

Less than six years (Jin Tianxing two years, Mongolian Wokuotai Khan five years, 1233), Jin Aizong fled to Cai Zhou, and Jin generals Wu Xian, Wu Tianxi and Dengzhou Shoujiang moved to stab Dengzhou (Yuan) to attack Guanghua. In May of the following year, Meng Gong was ordered to beg for help, annihilate Wu Tianxi's men, and kill Wu Tianxi in one fell swoop. The Shoujiang of Jindengzhou stabbed him with a knife and surrendered. In July, he defeated Wu Xian in Shixue Shanzhai, Zhejiang Province (now south of Xichuan, Henan Province). Meng Gong was promoted to vice governor of Jiangling Prefecture in Ezhou and became a general of abstemious side. 10, was ordered to attack Cai Zhou, the capital of the rulers, with the Mongolian army to follow the military system of Zhongshun, west of Beijing.

In the first month of the first year of Duanping (1234), the Mongolian army attacked the north, and Meng Gong and his men attacked the south gate in Song Jun. "Go to the Golden Pagoda and set up a ladder, so that all the troops can enter as soon as they hear the drums, and Ma Yi will go first, and Zhao Rong will follow, and everyone will compete." At that time, Jin Aizong was passing the throne to the last emperor, Wan Yan Cheng Lin. Just after the ceremony, "the Song flag has been set up in the south, and in a short time, all sides are shouting loudly, and the defenders in the south abandon the door." Song Jun first entered the city, when the Mongols were still fighting the 8 Jin Army outside the northwest. Meng Gong Song Jun opened the west gate, put down the suspension bridge and took the Mongols into the city. Cai Zhou was captured by the allied forces, and Jin Aizong set himself on fire. Later Jin was killed by the rebels, and Jin died. Meng Gong was promoted to be the commander-in-chief of the army of Jiankang Prefecture by virtue of his achievements, and he also had the right to guard Ma Junxing as a secretary.

In June, the Southern Song Dynasty ignored the Covenant and failed to March into the Central Plains, and the war with Mongolia began. Meng Gong was retained by Shi Song, the governor of Jinghu Lake, and stationed in Xiangyang, under the control of Zhenbei Army (later changed to Loyal Army). The following year, Meng Gong moved to Huangzhou (now Hubei) and served as Gwangju (now Henan) and Huangzhou Zhizhou. In the third year of Duanping, the Mongolian army attacked the Song Dynasty, and Xiangyang Prefecture and Suizhou (now Hubei Province) fell one after another. Jiangling is in critical condition. Send Meng Gong to save it. The Mongolian army fabricated rafts in Zhijiang (now Jiangnan) and Jianli (now Hubei) and prepared to cross the river south. Meng Gong "changed the flag, changed its color, and went back and forth, lighting the handle at night and touching the river for dozens of miles", and even broke 24 Mongolian villages and burned more than 2,000 boats and rafts. The Mongols were forced to retreat.

In March of the first year of Jiaxi (1237), Meng Gong was promoted to be the appeasement envoy of Jingxi Hubei and the magistrate of Jiangling. In autumn, the new Ezhou army controlled it. The Mongols attacked Hanyang, and Meng Gong attacked Dunkou in the southwest of Hanyang. Mongolia * * * attacked Huangzhou and prepared to cross the river. Meng Gong led his troops into Huangzhou and tried his best to fight it. After more than a month, the Mongolian army could not capture the city, and there was no hope of crossing the river, and finally retreated. At the beginning of the second year of Jiaxi, Meng Gong was promoted to the control of Jingjiang Prefecture in Ezhou, and was promoted to deputy governor. Jingxi Hubei Road appeased and set up an agreement, and Songzi County (now northwest of Songzi) was set up; He was also known as Yuezhou (now Yueyang, Hunan) and sent troops to recover Yunzhou (northeast of Jingmen, Hubei) and Jingmen (now Hubei). In the spring of the third year of Jiaxi, he sent his troops to recover Xinyang (now Henan), Xiangyang and Fancheng, and Meng Gong was promoted to Tang Dynasty, while Ezhou was the prefect. In December, Kuizhou (now Fengjie, Chongqing) was recovered. In February of four years, Jiaxi was promoted to Ningwujun as our ambassador, and served as the ambassador of Fu Xuan in Sichuan and the ambassador of Kuizhou. Soon, he became the special envoy of Jinghu appeasement, taking full charge of the defense of the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

In the spring of the first year of Chunyou (124 1), Meng Gong was appointed as the envoy of Jinghu appeasement system and Kuizhou Daoism system, and was later appointed as the founder of Handong County. In the spring of the fourth year of Chunyou, he was also the magistrate of Jiangling and the military supplies of wasteland. In the sixth year of Chunyou, from spring to autumn, Meng Gong applied for five times to resign due to illness and rest in the palace, but none of them were allowed. In addition, Fan, a Mongolian province in Henan, secretly wanted to surrender to the imperial court, but he was not approved. Meng Gong sighed: "Thirty years have cleansed the heart of the Central Plains, and today's ambition cannot be delayed." His illness got worse, he became an official in early September with our time, and then he died. At the age of 52. After that, he got a special gift: a surname, a duke of Kyrgyzstan and a loyal servant.