Japan is probably the most powerful people in the world.
If you are humble and tolerant of her, she will feel that you are weak. If you press her to the ground and rub it, she will admire you.
In the last issue, Jie Ge talked about the war of the Tang Dynasty, which made Japan submit to China for a thousand years.
Giant Tang Dad who crushes everything
During the Ming Dynasty, Japan began to be restless again.
In this issue, Jie Ge will tell the story of 400 years ago, the ancestors of the Chinese nation once again pressed Japan to the ground.
(Like to watch the jacko video version of the point here)
Jacko himself dubbed the video version of "Only if the Japanese are defeated, she will serve you - 3 encounters in the history of China and Japan"
Borrow the Road to Vaming
In 1591, the Ming dynasty of Korea, precisely because of the party strife between the East and the West, caused chaos in the government and the government, and the smoke miasma was black.
King Li Fu (Yan Ersheng) is struggling with the problem of party strife, and an even bigger problem has fallen from the sky. This is a letter from a Japanese named "Toyotomi Hideyoshi":
"Toyotomi Hideyoshi of Japan, I would like to answer the foot of the King of Joseon. The various paths of our state have been separated for a long time, the gangji has been abolished, and the emperor's orders have been blocked. Hideyoshi was indignant about this, and he fought hard and fought in the west and the east, and within a few years, he decided more than sixty kingdoms. Hideyoshi despised people, but when he was in the womb, his mother dreamed of the day, and the occupant said: "When the sun comes, it is not thorough, and when it is strong, it will be dazzling." 'Therefore the battle will be won, and the attack will be won.' Now the sea is ruled, the people are rich and wealthy, and the imperial capital is prosperous, and the ancient times are incomparable. Lady's residence, less than a hundred years old since ancient times, Can Ann live here for a long time? I want to pretend to be your country, to transcend the mountains and seas, to enter Yuming, and to make its four hundred states full of customs, so as to administer the king's government in the year of billions of people, and it is Hideyoshi Sushiya. All the overseas clans, those who have been served are not released. Your country first repaired the envoy coin, the emperor is very jiazhi. On the day Hideyoshi entered the ming dynasty, he led the soldiers and soldiers to the barracks, thinking that I was the leader. ”
Toyotomi Hideyoshi means that Lao Tzu was invincible in Japan's eastern expeditions to the west. Because when she was still in her womb, she dreamed of the sun in her arms, and the fortune teller said that this son would become a great instrument in the future. Now that I have wiped out more than 60 countries (according to Chinese standards, it should be called more than 60 cities), I am already the bearer of Japan. The small island of Japan is no longer enough to accommodate my talents.
Therefore, I plan to land from your Korea, cross the mountains and seas, and attack Daming, and in the future, the four hundred military states of Daming will belong to me. Hurry up and pack up, and prepare to be the vanguard of my attack on Daming!
Li Fu thought to himself, Oh, how many dishes to drink like this? Attack Daming and still want Korea to be the vanguard?
So Li Fu also spilled back a letter, which actually meant one word: "Roll!" ”
This back-and-forth letter opened the prelude to the second confrontation in the history of China and Japan - the Wanli Korean War.
As Jie Ge said in the previous episode, the large island peoples naturally have the idea of skimming the mainland. Britain through Europe, the key grasp in Belgium, Japan wants to pass through the East Asian continent, the best starting point is naturally the Korean Peninsula.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a legendary figure in Japanese history, born as a farmer, who followed Oda Nobu's Long March for many years and rose through the ranks of battle. After Oda Nobunaga's unexpected death, he decided to kill and in fact seize and inherit Oda Nobunaga's power, and eventually unified Japan. He is the only figure in Japanese history to unify the country from a low-class background.
After the unification of Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi wanted to use troops against Korea and Daimyo for two reasons:
He has admired Chinese culture for a long time, and in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's worldview, if he admires it, he must conquer and destroy it, which is the highest respect; don't be surprised, the Japanese often have a lot of magical brain circuits, and will talk about it later.
Practically speaking, after the reunification of Japan, there were 400,000 elite soldiers in the war, and in such a small place in Japan, many meritorious generals could not get enough land, so Toyotomi Hideyoshi hoped to export contradictions and let the generals go to Korea and Daming to grab territory;
In fact, Toyotomi Hideyoshi did not know much about China, for example, he believed that Chinese long sleeves and could not take weapons, so the Japanese elite attacking the Ming Dynasty should be to hit the egg with stones.
Hideyoshi's plan was to take three steps, first, to capture Korea, and second, to swallow the Ming Dynasty. Then the emperor moved to Beijing and garrisoned Ningbo himself. Why are you stationed in Ningbo? It was to prepare for the third step, the conquest of Tianzhu, which is now India.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi had delusional attempts to conquer India
Jacko thought he was so arrogant that he wanted to conquer India. How could an open country be conquered?
The first step is to conquer Korea.
In 1592, the Japanese army gathered 150,000 troops, suddenly landed from Busan, the Korean army lived up to expectations, a thousand miles, the Japanese army in less than 20 days to capture Busan, Kaesong, Wangjing, Pyongyang and other four major cities. The rebellion officially began.
The Japanese army was in a state of flux, and the smoothness was a bit exaggerated. For example, in the Battle of Longin, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's close associate Yasuharu (one of the seven guns of Mt. Takashi) led a thousand Japanese troops to attack, and 60,000 Korean troops collapsed without much resistance, which is simply incredible.
Because the defeat was too quick, King Li Of Joseon decided to leave Shizi and his ministers to insist and defect to the Ming Dynasty himself. The ministers desperately tried to keep it, but he still wanted to defect to Daming in an appraisal manner, and before leaving, he said, "I will definitely come back." ”
Jacko found that this sentence is very useful, and the people who said it seem to be able to do it.
Gray Wolf, every time he says what he says, he does what he says
Cross the Yalu River
The Ming Dynasty did not immediately send troops after receiving the Korean call for help. First, after the death of Zhang Juzheng, the super CEO of Daming, the Wanli Emperor looked at no one well, had a cold war with the ministers for many years, and began to indulge in wine. Second, the military department found that North Korea's request for help was a bit strange:
"Since your country has asked for help, why has it not mentioned the fall of the road in a few months and days, what battles took place, how many soldiers and horses were lost, who killed the generals, who died of the courtiers, and so on?"
The Korean envoys could not answer, so some people suspected that The Dprk was colluding with Japan to lure the main force of the Ming army and then invade Daming.
Jie Ge thought about it, and the North Korean envoy could not answer, which was understandable. If the difference in strength between the two warring sides is too far, this situation is prone to occur. Hundreds of years later, the South Korean puppet army was crushed by the volunteer army, and when they were asked how they lost, they could not answer. You can't let people say that we are too good to be true, and we will collapse in one dozen, and we have no idea what is happening.
The Ming Dynasty first sent local troops from Liaodong to test it, and found that the Japanese army was very strong, much stronger than the Koreans said. So I realized the seriousness of the problem.
The Ming Dynasty debated for a long time, and finally came to a conclusion:
"The map of Korea by the Wokou means that China is real, and the salvation of Korea by our soldiers is really to protect China."
This sentence profoundly clarifies the significance of the Korean Peninsula to China: to save North Korea is to save China. Jie Ge couldn't help but complain about the later Americans, as long as they looked at China's history a little, they should know where China's bottom line was, they wouldn't want to hit the Yalu River, and there wouldn't be tens of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers who made senseless sacrifices.
Back in the Ming Dynasty, Daming finally decided to send 43,000 elite troops across the Yalu River to support Korea.
At the same time as the troops were dispatched, the Ming Dynasty sent a civilian official Shen Weijing to negotiate nominally with the Japanese army, one was to probe the japanese army's false reality, and the other was to wait for a general, that is, Li Rusong, a famous young general at that time, who was putting down the rebellion in Ningxia.
Li Rusong, a famous general of the Ming Dynasty, was a national hero. His father was Li Chengliang, a ming dynasty general who guarded Liaodong for many years. Li Rusong followed his father in the conquest from an early age, made many military achievements, and presided over 2 times of the three major conquests of Wanli. As soon as Li Rusong put an end to the ningxia rebellion, he rushed to Liaodong and went out to Korea.
The Ming army under Li Rusong had 3 forces:
The Liaodong Army, mainly cavalry, Li Rusong's cronies
The nine-sided Great Wall garrison, mainly cavalry, had just followed Li Rusong to pacify Ningxia
The Southern Army, mainly infantry, was formerly known as Qi Jiguang's Qi Family Army, with strict military discipline and strong combat effectiveness
These three are the absolute main forces of Daming, and although the strength of the army is only more than 40,000 people, the combat effectiveness is extremely strong.
The elite cavalry of the Ming Army basically crushed the Japanese army in the field
Li Rusong's first major battle in Korea was to retake Pyongyang, a battle that gave the Japanese generals and Toyotomi Hideyoshi a glimpse of the ming army's elite terrorism.
The defenders of Pyongyang were 20,000 men of the Main Japanese First Army, and Governor Konishi was 38 years old and a close associate of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. To the east were Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 23,000 men in Kato Kiyomasa's Second Army.
The Ming army had limited troops, and in order to avoid a two-front battle, Li Rusong decided to make a quick decision and attack Pyongyang.
Before the siege of Pyongyang, Li Rusong wrote: "Give the Korean Capital Hugh To Make Yoo Sung-long"
Raise troops to Ganggan at night to say that the three Koreas are not safe
Tomorrow Sunday hanging festival report, Wei Chen night release wine glass rejoicing
Spring is still murderous, and the atmosphere of this demon is already cold
Talking and laughing dare to say that it is not a chance of victory, and in dreams I often recall crossing the saddle
The Battle of Pyongyang fully demonstrated the gap between the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army and the Ming army:
First it was poisoned rockets, and it stuned wokou
Then fire rockets, set fire to the houses, and drive the Wokou out
Finally heavy artillery bombardment
The Japanese had never seen this battle. Less than an hour after the battle began, the Ming army broke through Pyongyang, killing 12,000 Japanese troops and killing more than 2,200 Ming casualties. The ratio of losses was 1:5.
After this battle, Japan understood that it was not an opponent of the Ming Dynasty at all. The Japanese generals in Korea told Toyotomi Hideyoshi not to fight The idea of Daming, and the brethren wanted to live for a few more years. Toyotomi Hideyoshi also understood that the strategy changed from "conquerIng Daimyo" to "How to end this war.".
Li Rusong was like a broken bamboo, but his teammates really did not give strength. North Korea was not only unable to provide food for the Ming army, but also saw victims everywhere. For example, North Korea should use 10 pine needles and 1 point of white rice to cook porridge and give it to the people. The Ming army really couldn't bear to look at it, and often took out the only military food to distribute to the Korean people.
Moreover, the war horses were not satisfied with the soil and water, and when they reached Pyongyang, the Ming army had lost 15,000 horses of 30,000 horses.
The army was short of food, and Li Rusong planned to attack Wangjing (Seoul) and seize the granary.
Outside Wang Jing, the Ming army's forward Cha Da was ambushed by the Japanese army with five hundred horses, Li Rusong led three thousand soldiers to respond, the Japanese army sent the main force, and the Battle of Bihouguan began.
Shortly after the two armies engaged, 20,000 Japanese troops led by Takakei Kohayakawa and Motoyasu Mori suddenly appeared, and another 20,000 Japanese soldiers and horses led by Hideya Uchita and Nagamasa Kuroda were arriving. At this time, the Ming army should have a total of about 5,000 people, Li Rusong held the position, the two sides fought until dusk, the Ming army received the arrival of troops, and the two sides withdrew from the battle.
There are several versions of casualties on both sides, the Ming Dynasty recorded 8,000 Japanese casualties, 1,000 casualties on its own side, North Korea recorded hundreds of casualties on both sides, and the Japanese recorded that it was called an exaggeration, and some said that more than 10,000 beheadings were beheaded. Japan's war history, like a sponge, squeezes and there is moisture.
Jie Ge's analysis, the battle of the Bi hoof hall, the two sides should have fought a draw, casualties are about two thousand. Why, the evidence is Japan's own record: there was a famous general in the Japanese army, Tachibana Muneshige, tall and mighty, who until now is the protagonist of various Japanese games. Toyotomi Hideyoshi commented that he was "unparalleled in the Western Kingdom", as well as titles such as "Valkyrie" and "Flying General", which is somewhat similar to the role of "Japanese Zhao Zilong". The top brass of the Japanese army believed that the Tachibana family's combat strength of 3,000 people could reach 10,000 other families. The Battle of Bihouguan was when his troops rushed to the front to fight the Ming army. Japanese historical records record that after this battle, Tachibana Zongshibu was reduced from 3,000 to about 1,000 people, and basically lost its combat effectiveness. Therefore, the reduction of two thousand Japanese troops is already the most conservative estimate.
"Japanese Zhao Zilong", Tachibana Muneshige
The key to this battle is that tens of thousands of Japanese troops besieging the Ming army and thousands of people cannot eat it. Seeing Tachibana Muneshige fight like that, Kohayakawa Takaaki, Ukita Hideya, these Warring States bigwigs are not stupid, and no one wants their troops to die.
Since then, the Japanese army basically did not dare to fight a field war with the Ming army.
Li Rusong saw that the Japanese army had a large number of troops, and there must be insufficient grain and grass, so he sent elite troops to raid the Japanese army in the granary of Yongsan and burned hundreds of thousands of stones of the Japanese army. The Japanese army was short of food and grass, withdrew from Wangjing, and withdrew all the way to the busan line near the sea.
Less than 4 months after Li Rusong entered the DPRK, he recovered 3 major cities.
At the same time, the Korean water army was fully opened, and the commander of Jeolla Province, The Korean national hero Lee Sun-sun, appeared:
Battle of Yupo: Sank 26 Japanese warships, and only 1 Korean sailor was wounded;
Battle of Sacheon: 13 Japanese warships were sunk, 3 Korean sailors were wounded, none were killed, 26 Banya ships and 1 turtle ship were intact;
Battle of Tangpu: Most of the 21 Japanese ships were sunk
Victory on Idle Hill Island: More than 60 Japanese ships were sunk, the Japanese suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, and not a single ship of the Korean Marine Division was sunk
Seven battles and seven victories, controlling the sea control, threatening the Japanese logistics supply line.
Why are there so many differences in the Navy? Because the level of shipbuilding is far from the same. Don't watch "One Piece" and think that the Japanese Navy has always been very good.
At that time of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese Navy was the level of the pirates in the village, relying only on muskets, while the Korean naval army and the Ming Dynasty naval army already had naval guns. The range of the Ming artillery can reach up to 3000 meters, while the Japanese army is only 100-200 meters. Although the Korean naval division was not as good as the Ming Dynasty, it also learned a lot of shipbuilding and artillery technology, so the naval battle crushed Japan.
Li Shunchen also developed a kind of guy called "Turtle Ship", with thick skin and thick flesh, specifically to attract enemy fire in the front. The Japanese army was terrified.
Li Shunchen turtle ship restoration map
Therefore, the Wanli Korean War was not only dependent on the Ming Army, but also the Korean Marine Division played an important role. Li Shunchen is a well-deserved hero.
Under the land and sea offensive of the Ming Dynasty's combined forces, within a year, the Japanese army was reduced from 150,000 at the time of landing to 53,000. Unable to fight any more, the Japanese army requested peace talks.
After the two sides temporarily truce, most of the Japanese army withdrew to The country, and Li Rusong also led the main force of the Ming army to withdraw to Liaodong. The whole of North Korea is grateful to Li Rusong, and even built a "living shrine" for him, that is, you will be sacrificed when you are still alive. You feel it.
Ding You's mess again
After the withdrawal of troops, China and Japan began to negotiate, and Daming proposed 3 conditions:
The Japanese army returned to Korea
Return the two princes of Korea
Toyotomi Hideyoshi apologized
In exchange, the Ming Dynasty enfeoffed Toyotomi Hideyoshi as King of Japan
Toyotomi Hideyoshi proposed seven conditions:
Princess Daimyō married the Emperor of Japan as a consort
Resuming trade between China and Japan
The ministers of China and Japan exchanged unchanging oaths
Korea was divided in two, and the southern part of Korea was divided into four provinces to Japan
The Korean prince and his ministers went to Japan as hostages
The Japanese side returned the second prince of Korea
The Minister of Korea submitted an oath to Japan never to betray
This first one is certainly not possible. The Ming Dynasty had a characteristic, never talking to people, and never getting along. Such a powerful enemy as Mongolia was not qualified to negotiate peace with the Ming emperor, let alone Japan. After several back-and-forth talks, japan finally compromised, basically illuminating the conditions of the DPRK, and made an additional request, asking the Korean prince to come to Japan as a hostage.
Daimyo agreed, so he sent an envoy to Osaka to crown Toyotomi Hideyoshi:
"By the decree of heaven... Wei'er Japan, far away from the whale waves, used to be knighted by the previous dynasty, and Zhongnai carried himself in the sound religion. Erping Hideyoshi was able to unify his people, Mu Yi became the wind, began to falsely say in Korea, failed to achieve, and then returned to the name of Que Xia, ready to see sincerity. Chi Messenger above the table chapter, gan belongs to the clan for the request, obedient so, the heart of Jiazhi. He dispatched Li Zongcheng , the governor of the capital of the military capital , and Yang Fangheng , the right deputy general of the five military battalions , and was given the title of King of Japan, and Tin was appointed with the official service of the Golden Seal. The large and small subjects of the kingdom of Versailles, listening to the orders of the teachings, plotting together to suining, growing up to be the fence of China, forever laying the foundation of the sea state of Li Shu, scrupulously obeying the orders of the emperor, and conquering the heavens. ”
When Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a farmer, he admired Chinese culture to the extreme. Although he was unable to defeat Daming this time, Emperor Daming was very happy to crown himself king of Japan.
According to the Japanese canonical history, the Ming envoys presented the official clothes of The Great Ming, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi was very happy, and the next day he put on the official clothes of the Great Ming to feast on the envoys of the Great Ming.
Later, some Japanese netizens believed that accepting the canonization of the Ming Dynasty was a great disrespect to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, so they falsely claimed that Toyotomi Hideyoshi tore up the Wanli Edict on the spot. Please, the edict and Toyotomi Hideyoshi's official uniform are all on display at the Myō-in-Court in Japan.
Wanli gave Toyotomi Hideyoshi a kirin suit, which was exhibited at the Myōkyo Court in Kyoto, Japan
We Chinese bar spirits generally like ambiguous things, such as whether the tofu brain is sweet or salty. The Japanese bartenders can deny even the obvious evidence. Therefore, we still have to humbly learn from Japan.
Among Toyotomi Hideyoshi's seven demands, the core appeal is two:
A Ming princess married the emperor
The Prince of Joseon came to Japan as a hostage
If these two articles could not be satisfied, Japan would cede Korean territory. Now the first one is definitely not satisfied, so the second is his bottom line. However, Korea did not send a prince over, so Toyotomi Hideyoshi was furious and invaded Korea again in 1597.
This is the second half of the Wanli Korean War: Ding You's chaos again
This time, Japan was more prepared, landing 120,000 people at a time, plus the original stay in Busan, a total of 140,000 people.
Daimyo also realized that the canonization of Toyotomi Hideyoshi would not satisfy his ambitions. This time, the Japanese problem must be completely resolved, so the main force of the Ming army was assembled again and prepared to enter the DPRK.
The Japanese army was in a state of flux, and the Korean army was once again on the verge of collapse.
The main force of the Regrouped Ming Army had not yet crossed the Yalu River, but fortunately, the King of Joseon had left about 10,000 Ming troops. While the Japanese army in the north had 100,000, the defender Magui ambushed the Japanese forward at Jishan, Kuroda Nagamasa's Third Army, and the bloody battle was 2 days, and the Japanese army could not advance. Then the Ming army took the initiative to retreat, and the Japanese army did not know the truth and did not dare to advance.
The Battle of Jishan bought time for the main force of the Ming army to enter The Dprk.
After the main force of the Ming army arrived again, it was not going to be polite to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The Ming Dynasty sent a famous letter to Toyotomi Hideyoshi himself through the Korean military service Yang Ho. The gist is that before you were crowned king of Japan and the Ming army withdrew from Korea, that was to give you face and treat you as a decent person. You're in your 60s, and you're not even 10 years old. You can't take the baby at home and send soldiers to do things. You don't want to think, you sent Kato Kiyomasa and these military generals, holding a large army in Korea, in case one day you kick your legs, will your little son be able to hold them?
The Ming Dynasty's "Book with Toyotomi Hideyoshi" scolded Hideyoshi for not taking the baby well
Now in the north, our 100,000-strong army of Daming has crossed the Yalu River toward Busan, and in the south, our 100,000 water army of Fujian and Zhejiang has also crossed the sea. Since you are not decent, then help you decent.
This article talks about Toyotomi Hideyoshi's biggest pain point, and his son can't stop the warriors and daimyo below.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, most of the courtiers were daimyōs who later defected
Toyotomi Hideyoshi came from a peasant background, and he fought in the world by himself, and many noble daimyo defected to him for temporary benefits. Instead, his rival, Tokugawa Ieyasu, had a group of loyal vassals for generations. Which day Hideyoshi hung up on his own, the lord shaochen doubted, how could these meritorious warriors and noble daimyo serve a 10-year-old child?
The rest of the story is indeed based on this script. Most of the conquests in Korea were the concubines of the Toyotomi family, and the strongest Tokugawa Ieyasu was in the east, and basically did not send troops to participate in the war. Tokugawa Ieyasu was 6 years younger than Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and the greater the toyotomi family's military consumption, the more favorable it was to him.
Back to North Korea.
This time, the Japanese army entered the DPRK and learned to be much more obedient than before. Knowing that the field battle was not an elite opponent of the Ming army, the Japanese army retreated to the front line of Jeolla Province and Busan, built several large cities, and spent most of the time in the city to spend time with the Ming army.
So this time, although it seems that the Ming army is still suppressing the Japanese army, the advantage is not as great as the first time.
Jie Ge probably counted that in 1592, Li Rusong led his troops into Korea for the first time, and the Chinese and Japanese troops were about 1:3, and the battle loss ratio was about 1:3.
In the Second War in 1597, the Strength of The Chinese and Japanese Troops was about 1:2.5, and the battle loss ratio was about 1:2, and the Ming Army sometimes forcibly attacked the city, and the battle loss ratio could reach 1:1.
Therefore, some people on the Internet explained that the army had finished bombing the Japanese army, and Jie Ge did not agree. After the explosion of the Japanese army, it is appropriate to say that the first war commanded by Li Rusong is appropriate. In the second war, I think the Ming army was still dominant, while the Japanese army shrank its defense, and the two sides faced each other for a long time.
In the late Warring States period, Japan was a crack soldier in a hundred battles, and the Japanese musket was leading the world and was not so vulnerable. Moreover, the Japanese army's construction of the city is highly skilled, and the Ming army's artillery cannot be opened.
At the same time, Japan also used counter-tactics to make li shunchen, a general of the marine army, unjustly imprisoned. The Dprk learned from the Ming Dynasty very deeply, and even learned the party struggle and infighting.
When the Japanese army attacked again, the Korean king really could not win the battle, so he released Li Shunchen. By this time, the main force of the Korean naval division had been annihilated by the Japanese in a place called Kigawa Beam, losing 188 ships and all the turtle ships were gone.
Li Shunchen almost reached the beginning of a bowl, the other side of the flying dragon riding face situation.
Battle of Mingliang
When Li Shunchen went out of the mountains again, the main force of the Korean water army was gone, and the Ming reinforcements had not yet arrived. The Japanese Tengtang Gaohu led more than 300 warships to press forward step by step, and Li Shunchen only had 14 warships in his hands. Therefore, it was decided to fight a battle in a strait with rapid currents, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and to block the Japanese army. This is the famous "Battle of Mingliang".
Relying on the terrain and hydrological advantages and Lee Sun-sung's superb command ability, the Korean naval forces sank 33 ships of the Japanese forward, and their side was almost unscathed. He also killed the Japanese one Piece, ah no, admiral Shima Tsunori, which was the only Daimyo in Japan to be killed in the war.
The Battle of Mingliang was of great significance. Not because of the rich results of the battle, but because Li Shunchen blocked the advance of the Japanese army without the support of the Ming Dynasty's water division and the extreme disadvantage of the troops, and prepared for the follow-up counterattack of the Ming Dynasty's combined forces. Therefore, this battle, the South Koreans should also blow it.
Incidentally, Chen Xuan, the chief soldier of the Ming Dynasty's marine division, and Deng Zilong, the deputy commander-in-chief, fought side by side with Li Shunchen. They all held Li Shunchen in high esteem, and Chen Xuan also hoped to introduce him as a general of the Ming Dynasty and lead the army for the Ming Dynasty. Mr. Lee said he preferred to stay in North Korea to defend his country. It can be seen that his ability is highly recognized by the Ming Army.
Hideyoshi died and the Japanese withdrew
In 1598, Toyotomi Hideyoshi died. As predicted by the Ming Dynasty, once Hideyoshi died, his 6-year-old young son, Toyotomi Hiderai, could not stop the daimyo and military generals, and each of them began to accumulate strength and want to move. The clever daimyo knew that it was not realistic to defeat the Ming army, and there were still tens of thousands of elite Japanese troops on the Korean Peninsula, so it was better to quickly transport them back and prepare for civil war.
By this time, the Ming allies had recaptured most of the Korean Peninsula, and the Japanese army was shrunk in several cities near the sea in the south. To the east, Kato Kiyomasa's troops soon ran away by sea. In the west, Governor Konishi was in trouble because the Ming coalition had blocked the coastline to the west.
At this time, there were differences within the Ming coalition army. Chen Xuan of the Ming Army believed that the Japanese army was desperately trying to escape back, and our army would suffer great losses in blocking the attack. Li Shunchen believed that japan had been in chaos in Korea for 7 years and that they must pay the price. In the end, Chen Xuan agreed with Li Shunchen's opinion and prepared to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army at the Luliang Strait.
The Battle of Luliang was the last battle of the Wanli Korean War, and the Ming dynasty coalition army almost completely annihilated the Japanese army Shimazu Yoshihirobu, but also paid a price.
At the Battle of Luliang, the Ming dynasty coalition army almost completely annihilated Shimazu Yoshihiro's troops
Let's look at the course of the war. Konishi's 13,000 men were in Suncheon City, blocked by the Ming dynasty's combined forces.
In order to rescue Governor Konishi, the Japanese army in the east, Shimazu Yoshihirobu, marched westward, and zongyizhi and other units joined in the way, with a total of 14,000 people and 500 ships.
There were about 20,000 people and 148 ships on the side of the Ming Dynasty's combined forces, of which Chen Lu led the main force to ambush at Shuimendong and intercept the Japanese army head-on, Deng Zilong led 3 giant ships to cut off the Japanese retreat, and Li Shunchen led the Korean naval division to attack on the side of Guanyinpu.
Shimazu Yoshihiro entered the Luliang Strait in the direction of Shuimendong, defeated the main force of the Ming army led by Chen Xuan, and went south to Guanyinpu. Finding Li Shunchen ambushing his troops, he turned around and headed north, where he was intercepted by Deng Zilong.
During the battle, Deng Zilong, a 70-year-old veteran general of the Ming Dynasty, was surrounded by Japanese troops. Deng Zilong was shot in his left leg, two shots in his right leg, one shot in his small belly, one shot in his left hand, and one bullet in his chest, and he died heroically.
When Deng Zilong was surrounded, the North Korean sailor Li Shunchen led his troops to rescue him, but was hit in the chest by stray bullets and unfortunately died. Li Shunchen ordered his nephew Li Guan to keep it secret and command the battle in his place. Li Guan obeyed Li Shunchen's last words and continued to command the Korean marine division to fight heroically.
"The war side is urgent, be careful not to say that I am dead" - Li Shunchen's last words
At the time of the scuffle between the two sides, Chen Xuan led the main force of the Ming army to arrive. Under the attack of the 3rd Ming Dynasty coalition army, the Japanese army was completely defeated. Of the 500 warships, more than 200 were sunk, more than 100 were captured, only more than 100 fled, and thousands suffered casualties. The Ming Dynasty coalition army only suffered more than 500 casualties, but unfortunately, Deng Zilong and Li Shunchen, two outstanding generals and national heroes, were martyred in this battle.
To this day, there is still a "Martyrdom Park" on the shore of Guanyinpo in South Korea, the site of the Battle of Luliang. Standing are statues of two generals, Li Shunchen and Deng Zilong, quietly telling the story of the two generals, as well as the soldiers of China and the DPRK, joining forces to fight against the invaders.
Lee Sun-sun Martyrdom Park, Kannonpo, South Korea
The remaining Japanese troops fled back to Japan, and the Wanli Korean War ended. Since then, Japan has not dared to spy on the Korean Peninsula for 300 years.
Summarize the impact of this war on China, Japan and South Korea.
North Korea:
Heavy casualties, gratitude to The Great Ming, hatred of Japan
North Korea, of course, is the most miserable. At the beginning of the war, Japan invaded Wangjing and plundered the gold and silver treasures of Korea. Then seven years of fighting, killing and wounding millions of people, a depression, and unable to recover for many years after the war.
In the Seven Years' War, the Ming Dynasty twice sent large armies into Korea to save Korea from fire and water. North Korea was grateful to the Ming Dynasty, and even after it was conquered by the Manchu Qing, Korea still secretly supported the Ming Dynasty.
Japan, on the other hand, has since become a feud with North Korea. Until now, Koreans still talk about Japanese people with that expression.
Japan:
Toyotomi perished, Tokugawa Kaifu, and Confucianism gradually progressed
This war greatly affected the trajectory of Japan's history, directly leading to the destruction of the Toyotomi family.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi's troops suffered heavy casualties, while tokugawa Ieyasu, the old turtle to the east, remained unscathed and continued to gain strength. After Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death, the 6-year-old Toyotomi Hideyoshi could not suppress the meritorious warriors and daimyōs at all, and two years later, Tokugawa Ieyasu launched the Battle of Sekigahara, effectively replacing the Toyotomi family. Since then, Japan has entered the Tokugawa shogunate era for more than two hundred years.
Tokugawa Ieyasu was much more sober than Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and immediately negotiated peace with the Ming Dynasty, and from then on, he regarded the Ming Dynasty as its suzerainty and once again humbly learned from China. During the Tokugawa shogunate period, Confucian schools such as Theory of Song Ming and Wang Yangming's "Heart Studies" were widely spread in Japan.
Oh yes, and a little story. After the war, Daming still did not allow Japan to pay tribute, so Japan desperately invited Chinese smuggling merchants, or "pirates", to come to Japan to do business, and also provide food and accommodation, women and so on. One of the pirates, Named Zheng Zhilong, married a 17-year-old Japanese girl, Tagawa, to Hirado, Japan, and had a son named Zheng Sen. This is the later famous national surname Ye Zheng Chenggong.
The story of Zheng Chenggong, the nightmare of the Great Voyage of East Asia, the national hero, and the nightmare of the Dutchman, Jacko will definitely tell a period later.
China:
Stabilizing the frontier and submitting to North Korea will do more good than harm
This is a war that Daming "must fight and must win." Because if Japan were allowed to conquer Korea, there would be a military power like Goguryeo in Northeast Asia. Why did the Sui Dynasty destroy Goguryeo with all its might, because this place was a great threat to the Central Plains Dynasty. Either, it becomes a part of you, or you become a part of it. In the south, the Dali country and the toe country are more Nice, you don't mess with him, he doesn't mess with you. But the guys who rose in the monster rooms of Northeast Asia are extremely strong in combat effectiveness, and naturally have a tendency to develop southward, and the Liao, Jin, and Manchu Qing are examples.
This battle laid the order of Northeast Asia for the next 300 years for the Ming Dynasty and even the Manchu Qing Dynasty, korea submitted to the Central Plains Dynasty, and Japan nominally recognized China as its suzerainty, and did not dare to spy on the Korean Peninsula.
Some people say that the Wanli Korean War depleted the national strength of the Ming Dynasty and led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty. This view, Jacko does not agree.
The Three Signs of Wanli:
The "History of Ming" says: "Ningxia used troops, and the cost was more than two million. In the winter, North Korea used troops, the beginning and end of the eight years, the cost of more than seven million gold. Twenty-seven years, Bozhou used troops, and spent another two or three million dollars. The three major signs are heeled, and the state uses the big shortage"
Zhang Juzheng's reforms left the Wanli Emperor with a surplus of several million taels, and the Ming Dynasty's revenue was also several million taels. Ningxia spent 2 million yuan, North Korea spent a total of more than 7 million yuan in 7 years, and Bozhou spent 3 million yuan, which is indeed a big expense. But this was by no means the root cause of the ming dynasty's demise.
For comparison, after the rise of the Manchu Qing, the Ming Dynasty's Liaodong defensive line was endlessly conquered, spending no less than 3 million yuan per year, and at most 6.1 million taels. Before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the total cost of fighting against the Manchu Qing was about 60 million taels. Japan, by contrast, is a younger brother.
Li Rusong's younger brother Li Rumei also said that the combat effectiveness of the jurchens is ten times that of the Japanese army.
Li Rumei not only participated in the Wanli Korean War, but also commanded the battle against Houjin. His evaluation should be more reliable than some of the network thugs.
In general, the Wanli Korean War has done more good than harm to Chinese history.
Think of danger in times of peace, and do not forget your ancestors
Jie Ge's circle of friends used to see that friends traveled to South Korea, all of which were various girl group thigh dances and food.
Girls Day, never get tired of watching
After watching Jacko's video, everyone will have the opportunity to go to South Korea in the future, and the hot dance will still be watched. However, if you pass through Busan, you can also go to Lulianghai where Deng Zilong and Li Shunchen fought, which is where the ancestors of the Chinese nation fought.
Over the past 400 years, as long as a foreign enemy invaded the Korean Peninsula, There would certainly be Chinese soldiers who crossed the Yalu River and fought side by side with the Korean people to defend their homeland.
The stories of these heroes, the descendants of China, should never be forgotten.
Friends who like history, please pay attention to Jacko and listen to Jacko tell the most interesting history!
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