Hangzhou is surrounded by the Mongol Yuan army, and is soon to fall. When the child-emperor and the Empress Dowager are taken captive, it will fall to the last two princes of House Zhao to flee to the islands and archipelagos of the Deep South, if they’re to stand any chance at all of keeping the flame of the Song from guttering out forever.
Time Period Covered:
1275-1279 CE
Southern Song:
Grand Empress Dowager Xie
Empress Dowager Chuan
Emperor Zhao Xian (Gong of Song) [r.1274-1276, d. 1323]
Emperor Zhao Shi (Duanzong) [r. 1276-1278]
Emperor Zhao Bing [r. 1278-1279]
Chancellor Chen Yizhong
Mongol Yuan Dynasty:
Khubilai, Mongol Khan & Emperor of Yuan
General Bayan, Commander of the Southern Campaign
General Atzuhan
Admiral Dong Wenping
Lt. Menkhutai
Lt. Fan Wenhu
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