 There was Zhao Zhong who served as his personal guard.Therefore, among the accomplishments in defeating the Yuan [i.e., Mongols], Nhật Duật had the most.”

Southern Song Chinese military officers and civilian officials left to overseas countries, went to Vietnam and intermarried with the Vietnamese ruling elite and went to Champa to serve the government there as recorded by Zheng Sixiao.Southern Song soldiers were part of the Vietnamese army prepared by emperor Trần Thánh Tông against the second Mongol invasion.