Zhāng Hóngfàn 張弘範 (1238–1280), zì Zhòngchóu 仲疇, posthumous shì Xiànwǔ 憲武, posthumous title Tàishī Huáiyángwáng 太師淮陽王 (Prince of Huáiyáng), native of Dìngxīng 定興 in Yìzhōu 易州 (modern Héběi). Ninth son of Zhāng Róu 張柔 (the principal founding general of the Mongol-Hàn-army auxiliary system, posthumously Rǔnán Zhōngwǔwáng 汝南忠武王). Rose through the Hàn-army officer corps under Kublai Khan to Zhènguó shàngjiāngjūn 鎮國上將軍 and Měnggǔ Hànjūn dū yuánshuài 蒙古漢軍都元帥. The principal Yuán naval commander in the conquest of Mǐn 閩 (Fújiàn) and Guǎng 廣 (Guǎngdōng) from 1276; commanded the Yuán fleet at the catastrophic 1279 Battle of Yáishān 厓山, in which the last Sòng emperor Bǐng 帝昺 drowned with the loyalist Lù Xiùfū 陸秀夫 in his arms, ending the Southern Sòng dynasty. Erected the famous (and contested) inscribed monument on Yáishān reading “Here Zhènguó dàjiàngjūn Zhāng Hóngfàn destroyed the Sòng” 鎮國大將軍張弘範滅宋於此. Died on the army’s return in 1280. Studied in his youth under Hǎo Jīng 郝經; befriended Dèng Guāngjiàn 鄧光薦 (the captured Sòng Lǐbù shìláng), whom he honored as his son Zhāng Guī 張珪’s tutor. His surviving 120 poems and 30+ cí are collected as the Huáiyáng jí KR4d0423. CBDB person 17111. Yuánshǐ j. 156.